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VOL. XLVL-XO. 14,297. PORTLAND, OREGOX, THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 4, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HUGHES 111 FIELD TO BEAT HEARST Says Decent Govern ment Is Vital Issue. CALLS OPPONENTS MASKERS Will Apply Roosevelt's Princi . pies to State. WILL YIELD TO NO BOSS In Speech of Acceptance, Republican Candidate Exposes Pretensions of Independents and Promises Government for All People. XEW YORK, Oft. 3. With the declara- tion that the Issue in the forthcoming campaign In the State is not to be one of . Republican principles or Democratic prin ciples, or a partisan issue at all, but the vital issue of decent government, Charles E. Hughes, of this city, tonight formally accepted the . nomination for Governor, which was brought to him by a committee from the Republican . State convention, recently held at Saratoga. The ceremony of the notification of Mr. Hughes and of the other candidates -was held at the Republican Club in West For tieth . Street, and followed a dinner at which Mr. Hughes met the members of the new Republican State Central Com mittee, which has been in session here today. Among the other guests at the dinner were ex-Governor Odell and ex Governor Frank S. Black, and they were among the . first to- . congratulate Mr. Hughes on .the conclusion . of . his brief speech. Inspiration From .'Roosevelt. Mr. Hughes spoke as follows: Highly appreciating the honor you con ferred and realizing keenly the responsi bility rv be assumed, I accept the nomina tion. As a life-Ion? Republican, as one loyal to the principles and best traditions of the party, I respond to the unanimous call of the convention. We enter upon the campaign inspired hr the example and fortified by the achievements of our great leader, Theo dore Roosevelt. The National Adminis tration, with a record of established re forms, has strengthened its hold upon the confidence of the people. The activities of Congress in the interest of all the peo ple has been attested by the passage of the railroad rate act, the meat inspection act. the pure foo4 act, and the employers' liability act. State Issues Paramount. ' In referring to this record of the Fed eral Administration I should not be under stood to imply that this is a campaign of National issues. The paramount issues in this campaign are State issues. But in the matrprp which I have mentioned we llnd a notable record of achievement which presents a striking contrast to the noisy pretensions of the hour. Our State administration has also ac complished many genuine reforms. Here Mr. Hughes enumerated the re forms with special reference .o life in surance companies. He then proceeded: 'What do we find in opposition to us? A masquerade. An Independence League whose independence has been betrayed, end a so-called but spurious Democratic party which has violated every principle of Democratic government. Parade in Virtue's livery. Vain is it for our opponents to parade in the livery of virtue. Empty are their professions and hollow their declarations and promises. ' If you would know the sort of adminis tration we would have in event of their success, look at the Buffalo convention; for there you will find their motives and their methods mirrored: their motive, selfishness, and their method intrigue. We test the sincerity of their indepen dence by their efforts to procure the Dem ocratic nomination. We test the sincerity of their appeals to American ideals by their despotic proceedings. We test the sincerity of their attacks upon the question of money !n politics by their use of money in politics. We test the sincerity of their devotion to the interests of the people by their efforts to foment disorder and exploit ignorance in jthe interests of selfish ambition. f. Decent Government the Issue. What then is the supreme issue of the campaign? It is not. an issue of the Re publican record. It is not an issue of Republican principles or Democratic prin ciples. It is not a partisan issue at all. It is the vital issue of decent government. The question is whether the unholy al liance that succeeded at Buffalo shall cap ture the State of New York. In my message to the convention I stated that, if elected, it would be mv ambition i to give the State a sane, efficient and honest administration, free from taint of bossism or of servitude to any private interest. This is my position in a nut shell. Will Recognize No Boss. It will be an unbossed administration. I believe in party organization in clean, efficient organization. I promise all mem bers of the party fair treatment and just consideration. No individual or group of individuals and no private interest will be permitted to dictate my policy. I shall decide and act according to my conscience and as I believe the public interest requires. I promise an honest administration. Tt will be my aim to make the administration of the govern ment efficient and economical. I am not committed to specific measures. I prom ise an examination, careful and impartial of all matters within the scope of my authority and such action as my honest Judgment shall approve. .every pracuc-ai measure ior the real benefit of labor will have my cordial support. Insurance Reform Effective. I shall spare no effort to make effective the reforms in the business of life In surance so 'essential to the interest of policyholders. I promise the enforcement of the law with equal severity and in equal justice to all. rich and poor, corporations and individuals. We make our appeal to the common tense of the American people, which has never failed to express itself decisively in a great crisis. We are pledged to achieve reforms in the American manner, in accordance with the genius of our in stitutions and with love of truth and even handed justice. Jt is in this spirit and with these pledges alone that I accept the nomlna tion. DENOUNCE BOSS OF THE STATE Rhode Island Democrats Name Hig' gins to Fight Aldrich. PROVIDENCE. R. I.. Oct. 3. James H Hlggins, Mayor of Pawtucket, was noml nated for Governor by acclamation by the Democratic state convention today. The ticket was completed as follows: Lieutenant-Governor, Charles M. Sisson, Providence. Secretary of State, William Palmer, Providence. Attorney-General. Edward M. Sullivan Cranston. State Treasurer, John K. Archabault, Warwick. . Mr. Hieeins. in his speech of accept ance, said that in Rhode Island "the money and rights of the people have been bargained away for individual pront ana the good name of the state dragged in the mire." and that "a brutal boss with warped conception of public morality and hideous disregard of even the outer forms of political decency has sold our laws and offices from an auction block in the State House." The platform adopted denounces the "Boss system." which it declares dom inates National and state affairs. "The Government of the state," it asserts, "has passed to the boss, has robbed Rhode Island of millions of dollars' worth of franchises and privileges and bestowed them on men who have contributed out of their ill-gotten wealth to the support of the system, not out of gratitude, be cause that system exempted from tax ation that wealth it has so corruptly given them. Under this system the people of the state have been deprived of a revenue from taxation of millions of dollars and a portion of this money so unjustly withheld from the state has been used to corrupt a controlling element in com munities where the forces of civic honesty could be overcome by the forces of organ ized corruption. The establishment of the eight-hour day for all state and municipal work is de manded, as are the calling of a constitu tional convention with representation based on population and the enactment of a corrupt practices law applicable to elec tions and primaries. The platform also favors the election of united States Senators by direct vote. Bryan Speaks at St. Joseph. ST. JOSEPH. Mo., Oct. 3 W. J. Bryan spoke in St. Joseph tonight to 10.000 per sons. His train was late In arriving and it was nearly 10 o clock before he began his address. Many sat five hours in the tent in which the speaking occurred, waiting to hear Mr. Bryan. The Ne braskan was introduced by C. F. Booher, candidate for Congress,- as the next President. He thanked the chairman saying the announcement was very pleas ing to mm. Bryan Starts on New Tour. LINCOLN, Neb.. Oct. 3. William J, Bryan started today on a tour of cam paigning which, with few interruptions. will continue until nearly election day After bis speech tonight at St. Joseoh. Mo., he will return to Nebraska and will make addresses Thursday. Friday and Saturday. The week following-, and nos- sibly longer, will be epent in Kansas, and from jnere the Central States will be vis ited. GUlttt Resigns Seat In Congress. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Oct 3. Con gressman James N. Gillett, Republican candidate lor Governor, tendered Gov ernor Pardee today his resignation as congressman of the First District. Governor Pardee will issue a procla mation tomorrow calling an election tor the purpose of electing- a Congress man for the unexpired term. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TODAY'S Fair and warmer: winds. northwest iwitjiUAit Maximum temperature, 63 deg. ; minimum, 51. Precipitation, .12 Cuba. Magoon appointed Governor and going in a hurry. Paeg 4. General Bell prdef-ed to command army of occupation, rage 4. Boot and Taft Induce Quesada not to resign. Page 4. Rebels readily lay down arms and marines guara towns, rage o. Yellow fever at Havana worse than reported Page 4. Foreign. Russian rebels hold up steamer on Black fcea- fage a. Abortive attempt to rob customs cashier In oi. .reiersourg. .f&ge 3. Strikers riot In Italy and force employes' surrender. Page 5. National. Roo6erelt and Ehonts agree on contract sys tem ior canal, rage . manges in meat Inspection rules. Page 15. Politic. Hughes makes speech of acceptance to Re publicans. Page 1. Hearst's letter cf acceptance to Independ- rase i - Roosevelt insists on fair count tn statehood election. Page 2. Domestic. Baby's body found in trunk in T. W C. A. building in Philadelphia. Page 4. Senator Piatt collapses at prospect of meet ing his wife;, she slugs a photographer. Page I. Explosion in Pocahontas mine entombs 75 men. Page 4. Transport Thomas on fire at Manila. Page 1. Sports. Sillco wins great race at Lexington, though fouled by The Abbe. Page 7. Chicago Americans win pennant. ' Page 7. Pacific Coast scores Portland 12. Los An geles 12; Seattle 8. Oakland 8; San Fran cisco 2, Fresno 0. Page 7. Pacific Coast. Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Asso ciation will sue the Northern Pacific Page 1. Steamship Santa Ana Is beached' at Neah Bay. after all-nignt light with waves. Page 6. Judge Chadwick upholds the Washington Railroad Commission. Page 6. Brisk contest at Newberg for the presidency of the Oregon W.-C. T. U. Page 6. Nitqually Indian elopes with the young beau ty of the Yakima tribe. Page 6. The Washington County Coroner recalls Jury in the Snyder case. Page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Wheat exporters will preserve city's prestige as grain shipping port in face of strikes Page 11. Big taxpayers appear before Equalization Board. Page 10. Association workers raise but $6300 for build ing fund. Paae 10. Fneasant hunters accuse game not enforcing law. Page 7. wardeas of Jewish Women's Council holds first meeting of year. Page 14. Platinum from Oregon mines brings higher price. Pase 14. Councilman Wills attacks City Engineer Tav. lor. Page 10. 1 y Council passes Portland 4s Seattle franchise over veto. Page 10. Many surveying crews ready to take the field on final locations of Oregon & Washington Railway. Page 11. Follce refuse to hold man arrested by Dis trict Attorney's office without warrant Page 8. Charles Sweeney, of Spokane, purchases an-plg-e's Dekum bulllljl tot about S150.000. HEARST TILTS AT BIG CORPORATIONS Calls Hughes One of Their Lawyers. WHAT HE WOULD 00 IF HE WON Writes Letter" of Acceptance to Independents. STANDS BY OWNERSHIP Promises to Clean Ont Banking and Insurance Departments laws for Honest Elections and Against Corrupt Practices. NEW YORK, Oct. 3. The Inde pendence League, which nominated William R. Hearst for Goverpr, today received from Mr. Hearst his letter accepting the nomination.' In his let ter he says: The great problem of the hour, the problem that the people must solve with their ballots and irr legislation, is to do away with corporation con trol of the Government. That control is now practically absolute. It rests mainly upon our system of partisan policies, directed bv boss rule and sub ject to trust ownership. 1 accept your nomination witn tne full knowledge that the Independence League and its candidate for Governor are pledged in nonor to tne extermi nation of bossism by putting into op eration throughout our state the sys tem of direct nominations and open primaries. The league has so aroused the peo ple ur-on the fundamental issues of government . by. trusts or by citizens that already ' they have called forth Democratic action by the masses of the Democratic party. Hugbea Corporation Lawyer. You see a eomoration lawyer nut forward as the standard-bearer of the Republican party in this campaign. You see corporation lawyers and vio lent partisans of monopolies held ud to you as the only men fit to select. your juages. 1 he people know that their enemies are the originators and managers of oppressive trusts. Thev know, that these trusts are in control of the ma chine of the Republican party in this state. Thev seSV Mr. fhel.lon chosen treasurer to raise and srjen.i the money for Mr. Hughes, the corpora tion attorney. And when they realize that Mr. Sheldon, director in 11 cor porations, notoriously connected with the collapsed shipbuilding trust. Is the financial reliance of the ticket which Mr. Hughes heads, they cannot look on mat tiCKet as promising much for the prosperity of the mas3 of the people. Inspect Banks Rigidly. In regard to the violation's of finan cial trusts and the uneasiness repeat edly caused by revelations of dishon esty in banks, trust companies, build ing and. loan associations, such a tha Merchants" Trust Company. the Ger man Bank, of Buffalo and h v York Building and Loan Association, there is no question that the public welfare demands drastic action. It Is' alarming that these instances of faith lessness and dishonesty 6hould occur without effective opposition or rebuke from the banking department, if not with its connivance. I purpose. if elected, to remove Kllburne, reorgan ize the department and have it admin istered so as to carry our both th letter and the spirit of the law. ine corporations have ini-i-u n.it-i the funds of insurance companies in open disregard of common honestv BUT THERE'S contempt for the penal code and for the . insurance law. There is incom petence in the state department cre- aiea tor tne especial purpose or de tecting and preventing these crimes and breaches of trust. I purpose. If elected, to remove tne present incum bent and reorganize this important de partment. I purpose.' if elected, to exercise fear lessly, with due regard for the princi ple or nome rule, the power or re moval given by the people to the Gov ernor. I purpose to end control bv the cor porations, not only in these state de partments, but in the county offices charged with laxity of enforcing the original laws of the state. I purpose to put a premium on the enforcement or tne law instead or encouraging its violation bv tolerating in office offi cials who grant immunity to powerful ana lniiuentiai onenaers. Honesty in Elections. I advocate makins: the public off! cials' term of office so short that he will not ha-e time or inclination to forget who it is that elected him and tnat ougnt to control him. In particu lar I favor undoing the mistake that lengthened the term of office of the Mayor of New York from' two to four years, and I advocate a material short ening of the terms of office for all judges. An honest election law. an efficient corrupt practices act and especially a measure that -will make it possible to nave a. juaiciai review or an election upon proof of fraud or mistake must be enacted as part of that campaign against corporation domination upon which the people haye entered so en- inusiasticany. I stand for Irreconcilable hostility to the appropriation by Congress of property belonging to the community. Stands by Public Ownership. I shall continue to work for the enactment of a statute empowering cities to acquire and operate all pub lic utilities at their option. Railroad rates must be reduced and New York must be placed In line with other progressive states that are en forcing a maximum rate of two cents! a mile to every railroad not specially chartered to exact a greater charge. I accept the nomination and pledge myself to . strive in the future, as I have in the past, to retain for the peo ple the rights they still have and to restore to them the power of govern ment which they have lost. WILL CAMPAIGN IX BOX-CAR Ownership Candidate Will Pursue Hearst Through State. NEW YORK, Oct. 3: The state and mu nicipal ownership party held a conven tion today and nominated a full state ticket, as follows: Governor, J. W. Cody, New York City; Lieutenant-Governor, C. Stienke. Buffalo: Controller, Herman Robinson. New York City; Secretary of State, George E Sands, Troy: Attorney-General. Fred W. Clifford Stapleton; State Engineer, Horace Sey mour, Utica; State Treasurer, Samuel Gress, Ithaca. Mr. Cody said he would make a whirl wind campaign in a boxcar, following closely in the wake of Mr. Hearst. TRANSPORT IS IN FLAMES CARGO OF THE THOMAS BE COMES GREAT FURNACE. Fire Starts in Vast Quantity of Hay and Steamer May Be Sunk to Save Her. MANILA, Oct. 4. The transport Thomas is on fire. The fire originated in the hold, where there are 650 bales of hay. The flames have spread to the bunKers. The hold of the vessel has been flooded. It Is thought that the only hope of sav ing the vessel Is in sinking her. The water at her dock is shallow. WASHINGTON, Oct 3.-The Thomas, on fire at Manila, is one of the half-dozen Belfast-built teel ships In the War De partment's transport service. She was formerly the British steamer Minnewas ka. She was first used in the Atlantic service, but six ytrs ago was transferred to the Pacific Coast and has been in reg ular service from there to the Philippines. She is of 3653 net tonnage and was built in 1S94. No word of the fire on the vessel reached tha War Department tonight. NOT A WORD ABOUT GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP TO SUE RAILROAD Northern Pacific Does Hot Supply Cars. DISCRIMINATION IS ALLEGED Washington Mills Are Raising a Large Sum. TO EMPLOY KEEN COUNSEL Interstate Commerce Commission Is to Be Shown How Manufacturers Suffer Heavy Loss Through Lack of Transportation. SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. S. (Special.) The Pacific Coast Lumber Manufac turers' Association will bring suit be fore the Interstate Commerce Commis sion against the Northern Pacific Rail road, alleging discrimination in the distribution of cars and holding the Hill line liable for business losses be cause the timber Interests have not had enough equipment to make eastbound shipments. It is alleged not more than 45 per cent of the number of cars re quired are being furnished by the Northern Pacific. A committee representing the mill- men is working quietly to secure a fund of $8000 to carry on the prosecu tion of the suit against the Northern Pacific. This was authorized at a re cent meeting of tha lumber association but the facts have been kept quiet pending the organization of tha fight. Lumbermen say that the Great Northern has plenty of cars and that the mills on this system have been able to ship promptly. But 80 per cent of the Washington "rail" mills are lo cated on the line of the Northern Pa cific, and prosperity on the Great Northern does not help them. Stock Jobbery Is Alleged. It was alleged today by mill Interests that the Greet Northern could relieve tha car shortage on tha Northern Pa cific if it would. Northern pacific offi cials have alleged they have sent as high as two tralnloads of lumber dally over the Great Northern, but the mill- men insist thay have figures showing the relief granted has not averaged 20 cars a day. It was said by a high official of the Lumbermen's Association that since the Great Northern and Union Pacific are fairly well equipped with cars, the mill interests now believe that the failure of Northern Pacific to furnish enough equipment is due to stock: job bing operations and a desire to keep down Northern Pacific earnings. The lumbermen say-they have inves tigated and can prove that during tha first eight days of September, when west-end officials of the Northern Pa cific refused to haul any new ship ments of non-perishables billed east of Spokane, plenty of cars were fur nished In the Coeur d'Alene and Pend d'Oreille lumber districts. This, it is LUMBERMEN charged, is a direct violation of the new railroad rate bill, in that it Is a discrimination in the distribution of cars. Plenty of Cars for Wheat. Lumbermen Insist that at present the Northern Pacific is gathering plenty or cars in Eastern Washington to handle the wheat shipments. The millmen de clare that wheat is not entitled any more than lumber to bs regarded as a perishable commodity, and that this action is discrimination under the rail road-rate bill. The bitterest pill in the railroad sit uation is the claim that Oregon lum ber manufacturers are getting plenty of cars, and that the failure of the Northern Pacific to provide sufficient equipment is resulting in orders orig inally offered mills in this state being placed In Oregon. Washington lum bermen say they are losing to Oregon a part of the trade they spent years in building up. Fight to Be to a Finish.. Because of the mora serious situa tion on the Northern Pacific, the fight before the Interstate Commerce Com mission is to be directed toward that road. It is said papers will be ready within a short time and that the con tributions of millmen are sufficient to carry through tha fight. Northern Pacific officials have an nounced heavy purchases of freight cars and locomotives, but the millmen disregard these announcements. EXTINGUISH OPIUM TRADE Chinese Minister Proposes Plan for Execution of Edict. LONDON, Oct. 3 Tha Chinese Minister at London sent an exhaustive dispatch to Pein last July advocating the abolition of the opium trade, and his proposals to this end may be taken as an indication of the shape to be given the regulations to enforce the recent governmental edict against the traffic. Tha Minister counseled the gradual diminution in the cultivation of the poppy by a system of registration and licensing. under which native cultivators would re duce yearly the area under cultivation un til the induirtry ceased entirely. He fur ther urged a system of permits to aged opium smokers, the limiting and gradual reduction In the consumption of the drug, the prohibition of smoking to the young. the closing of opium dens and shops, the concentration of the trade in the hands of a single company recognized by the gov ernment, whose shareholders shall be the chief drug merchants of the larger towna, and that this company's license be re newed yearly and its capital reduced 10 per cent a year in order to insure a cor responding reduction in cultivation. The importation of opium from India Is to be limited to meeting any deficiency In the supply. Provision is to be made in the government workshops for the care of an those suffering physicaly or mentally as a result of their endeavors to forsake the opium habit, while thosa declining to aoanoon smoking, after the prohibition comes Into force, are to be forbidden from taking any office under tiie goverr-mect or in any governmental institution. Germans Brutally Kill English Girl. ESSEN, Prussia, Oct. 3. A great sensa tion has been caused here by tha murder of Miss Madeline Lake, daughter of an English army officer, whose body, terri bly mutilated, was found Monday evening in tne uiiy .rark. Both the girl's temples were beaten in her throat was lacerated by the hands of her murderers, who evidently strangled her, in addition to beating her terribly about the head, and her arms and body were severely bruised. Miss Lake is reputed to have been re lated, distantly, to the British royal fam ily. . The brother of her grandmother, it is stated, married a daughter of Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, of Brunswick, divorced wire 01 lieorge iv or England. Pronounce Dreadnaught Success. LONDON, Oct. 3. The battleship Dread- naught today started a 30-hour consecu tive 6team trial. In several preliminary short trians she Is said to nave proved a distinct success from the point of view of handiness in maneuvering. This was in spite of the weather conditions, which were far from favorable. As the Dread- naught is the first example of the use of turbine engines in a warship intended to maneuver and fight in company with other units of corresponding power: her success is regarded with great satisfac tion in naval circles and attributed en tirely to her double rudders. Urge Soldiers to Desert. ROUEN. Oct- 3. A large number of posters were placarded on the walls here during the night, signed by the Anti-Military Association, summoning the new re cruits to desert from the army if they be lieved they were "unable to endure the insults, punishments and vexation of bar rack life." and concluding with an Invita tion to the women of Rouen to form an "International society of mothers to re sist the despots of the government, which, is still thirsting for human blood." The police tore down the proclamation shortly after daylight- Indians Raid Mexican Town. MEXICO CITY. Oct. 3. Indians in the eastern end of the Isthmus of Tehuan- tepec around the Town of Chinameca. having become disaffected with the status of land claims and feeling aggrieved, as sembled to the number of 50 and attacked the Town of Acayucan, in the State of Vera Cruz. The only damage done in the town was the. breaking of a few windows and some of the rural guards were hit with stones. The next mornine. October 1, a force of 100 troops arrived and citizens resumed their usual occupa tions, ine matter is being investigated. Polish Agitation in Posen. POSEN. Prussian-Poland. Oct. 3 The police today seized 10,000 copies of an ap peal, couched in fiery language, to Polish parents, urging them to make a demon stration October -17 against religious in struction being given .In, the German language in the schools here and in this vicinity. Measures have been taken to prevent any disturbance on that date. Roosevelt's Trip to Harrisburg. HARRISBURG,- Pa., Oct. 3. Thousands of visitors have already come to Harris burg for the dedication of the new State Capitol tomorrow. President Roosevelt and his party will arrive from Washing ton on a special train at 11 o'clock to morrow morning. He will be met at the railroad station by the Capitol dedica tion committee and Mayor Gross of Har risburg. The party will be escorted by the Governors troop to the Capitol, where Governor Pennypacker and dis tinguished Pennsylvanlans will receive the President SENATOR PLATT HAS COLLAPSED Carried From Hotel to Office by Son. WIFE'S RAGE GROWS COOLER By Smashing Camera and Punching Photographer, DELAYS TRIP TO NEW YORK Old Man's Terror of Her Arrival Comes Too Soon Denies He Will Resign or Mind Is Impaired. NEW YORK, Oct. 3. (Spec.Ial.Tt-. Senator Thomas c. Piatt, In a state of collapse, was borne out of the Hotel Gotham today and carried off to his suite of private offices in the United States Express Company's building an hour before the time of the expected arrival of his wife from the Piatt es tate, near Highland Mills, with the avowed intention of taking her place at the side of her aged husband. Mrs. Piatt's Wrath Finds Tent. But he might as well have stayed in bed, for Mrs. Piatt, abandoning her announced Intention of yesterday, did not come to town. She -was still at Tioga Lodge this afteroon. boiling mad, although she hud been able to take off some of the edge of her temper by smashing tha camera and punching the nose of a photographer, who tried to snap-shot her in the main street of Highland Mills. . Lawyer-Son Has Piatt in Charge. Mrs. Piatt's intention to rejoin her husband was supposed to have been due to the knowledge that Mr. Piatt had been disposing of his fortune, pos sibly to prevent her from forcing a big money settlement with him. and fa ex clude her from any substantial pecuni ary benefit In the event, of his death. Because of this state of affals, there Is probably significance in the fact that it was the Senator's lawyer-son, Frank H. Piatt, the son who has never noticed the former Mrs. Janeway since, she married his father, who took tha old Senator away from the Hotel Gotham. Does Not Intend to Resign, While Mr. Piatt was intrenched in his offices this afternoon, there arrived a correspondent for a Washington pa per, who had come here to investigate a report that the Senator had gone to pieces mentally, and that he meant to resign his seat in Congress at once. Secretary Howe carried in the Wash ington man's questions and brought out this answer: "The Senator has no Intention of re signing. The Senator says his mental faculties are unimpaired." EQUITABLE MUST ANSWER Court Says Waste of Funds Is Good Cause of Action. BALLSTON. N. Y., Oct. 3 Justice Van Kirk today dismissed the demur- rers of the defendants in the suit brought by Mrs. Mary s. Toung. as pol icyholder and stockholder, against the Equitable Life ,Assurance Society to compel a restitution of the funds of that society, which she alleges have been wasted. Justice Van Kirk decid ed an Interlocutory Judgment that tha allegations of the plaintiff constitute sufficient cause of action and that the demurrer of none of the defendants Is sufficient to entitle them to a Judg ment, , The court also ordered that, if the defendants do not within 20 days after service of a copy of the judgment an swer the complaint and pay the costs, final judgment may be entered. BURNED TO DEATH BY GAS explosion in Furnace at Pueblo Costs Five Lives. PUEBLO, Colo., Oct. 3. At an early hour today a "blow-out" of blast furnace D of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company's works in tnis city caused the instant death of two men and two others were so badly injured and burned that one died this afternoon and the other cannot live. The explosion is supposedly due to gas. A fifth man was believed to have been caught in the falling debris and crushed, but this has not been definitely establish ed. An eyewitness says he does not believe more than five persons were hurt. All the men are foreigners. SIGN OF RAILROAD DEAL Change in Chairman of Wisconsin Central Board. NEW YORK. Oct. 3 W. L. Bull, chair man of the board of directors of the Wisconsin Central. Railway Company, has resigned and has been succeeded as chair man by George M. Cumming. of this city, president of the United States Mortgage & Trust Company. John Crosby Brown. James C. Colgate and Gerald Hoyt re signed as directors, but no successors to them were chosen.