VOL,. XLVI. ISO. 14,440.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HEKEY HAS
G IS
IN TRAP
Bay City Grand Jury
Is Now After the
RUEF IS ONLY SMALL FRY
Mayor Schmitz and Curly Boss
May Go Free if They
Tell It All.
SOCIETY WOMEN INVOLVED
No Chance for Schmitz to
Escape Conviction.
CONFESSION ONLY HOPE
Men Yho Gave Hundreds of Thou
sands In Bribes Klock About
Heney in Effort to Esrape
Penalty Sensation Coming.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 19. (Spe
cial.) Following the wholesale con
fessions of members of the Board of
Supervisors before the grand Jury yes
terday, there was a scramble today of
bribetakers "and bribegivers to get from
under. The rush to Hency's office be-K-an
with dawn and continued far into
tlie night.
The greater part of the volunteer
army was turned away, but a few who
were able to throw new light on some
of the bribery Bcandals were allowed to
pour, forth their tales of degradation.
Before the night was over, Heney had
anew the complete story of the tight
trust which paid 20,s0 to the admin
istration for the exclusive privilege of
holding pugilistic contests.
Indictments were prepared today by
the grand jury against one of the most
prominent officials of the Pacific Coast
Telephone Company and against Abe
Ruef and Mayor Schmitz. They will
be followed by indictments against
many of the best known millionaires
In San Francisco.
Immunity Is Promised.
It may be stated at the outset In pos
itive terms that District Attorney
langdon and Assistant District Attor
ney Heney will grant Immunity to
those Supervisors who have confessed.
It may also be stated that every mem
ber of the original board, with possi
bly two exceptions, have confessed.
With equal posltiveness it may be
stated that the ultimate object of the
prosecution is not the conviction of
Mayor Schmit and Abe Ruef. If Ruef
and Schmit will reveal the full de
tails of 'their nefarious transactions
and make conviction of the millionaire
bribegivers doubly sure, they will
either be pardoned after conviction or
will be allowed to go free.
Kuef 300 Years in Jail.
Should they refuse to confess the evi
dence at hand will be used against them,
and It is sufficient to send them both to
jail for the rest of their lives. Convic
tions can be obtained against Ruef which
will result in a total penalty of 300 years.
Kach time Ruef bribed a supervisor he
laid the foundation for a fresh indict
ment, and he bribed 15 of them time and
time ag:i!n.
The District Attorney's office was
plHced In communication with Mayor
Schmitz today. Through personal friends
of the Mayor the information was con
veyed to him that tile evidence was over
whelming. Tlie personal friends were
allowed to see enough to convince them
that it would be folly for Schmiti to at
tempt to resist. They told Schmitz of
the situation and the Intimation was giv
en, not officially, however, that he faced
the alternative of a confession or a long
term in prison.
Schmitz Is Thinking Hard.
Schmitz replied that he discussed his
case lth his attorney only, and did not
take even his Intimate friends into his
confidence. He will be given an oppor
tunity to " think further on the matter,
and later In the week his friends will
again call upon htm.
Sensational revelations were made to
day In connection with leases of private
property to the city. Exorbitant prices
are being paid by the city and a rakeoff
has been going into the pockets of city
officials. The persons Involved In these
transactions are among the best known
socially and financially in San Francisco.
Society Women Involved.
Among them are women whose names
are familiar throughout the state as so
ciety leaders. One of the persons thus
Involved has secured the services of At
torney D. M. Deimas, now defending
Harry K. Thaw.
Rnef Is "Mysterious Man."
There were most sensational develop
ments before the grand jury today. One
was the revelation that the "mysterious
man" whom Ruef told the United Rail
roads officials It would be necessary to
pay 585,000 before negotiations could be
opened was Ruef himself.
The second sensation was the testimony
of Dr. Ferdinand Butterfleld, who repre
sents the United States Independent Tele
phone Company. Butterfleld testified that
while Ruef was taking pay from two
telephone companies he was trying to
open negotiations with a. third. Butter
fleld said ' his company rejected all of
Ruefs propositions.
Supervisor Sanderson has come home
from Arizona, where he went for his
health, and has reduced his confession to
writing for Heney. Sanderson Is expect
ed to testify before the grand jury to
morrow. He Is so -111, however, that it
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W. D. Haywood, Secretary Western
Federation of Miners.
may be Impossible for. him to. leave his
bed.
SCHMITZ CASE ON APRIL 8
Trial of Major Postponed by Con
sent of Both Sides.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 19. The
Schmitz cases were continued to April 8
in Judge Dunne's court this morning by
consent of- both sides. Schmitz was pres
ent in court during the proceedings, which
were brief. He declined to make any
statement regarding the confessions said
to have been made to the grand jury by
members of the Board of Supervisors.
Secret Service Agent Burns has made
the following statement regarding the
prosecution of the cHy officials and oth
ers accused of corruption:
"The evidence that we now have in
legal form is the same evidence that was
in our possession months ago. It reaches
to every department of tlie city govern
ment and includes the trolley deal and
the transactions between the Supervisors
and the two telephone companies."
Maggie Harold Dies of Broken Heart
NEW YORK. March' 19. Mrs. Margaret
Harold Savidge. for many years known
in theatrical circles as Maggie Harold,
died suddenly today. Her son. William
T. Savidge. was arrested Saturday night
charged with having shot Rosalie D.
Wilbert, a trained nurse, and the shock
of the young man's trouble is said to
have aggravated a disease of the heart
from which the mother had suffered for
several years.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 46
degrees; minimum. 4'Z.
TODAY'S Showers; winds mostly southerly.
Railroads.
Roosevelt will propose check on overcapi
talization and soon will declare policy.
Page 1.
Rockefeller says railroads are overcapital
ized. Page 3.
Mellen confers with Roosevelt. Page I.
Finley makes speech on relations of public
to railroads. Page 4.
To reign.
Roumanian peasants begin crusade against
Jews and drive them Into Austria, Page
4.
Stolypln gives programme of reforms to
Douma. Page 5.
Radical electoral reforms for France. Page
o.
Nicaragua threatens to loot Honduran cities
Americans in danger. Page 2.
National.
Stockmen to be prosecuted if they trespass
on forest reserves. Page 8.
Dietrich probable Judge in Idaho. Page 8.
Domestic.
H ask in on historic- churches. Page 8.
Evidence in Thaw trial to be completed to
day. Page 2.
Renewed excitement on Wall street. rage S.
Loo mis gives evidence against Hermann.
Page 3.
Mayor Becker to lecture on good roads on
auto tour. Page 4.
Trainmen of West vote to strike. Page 1.
Pacific Oast.
Eastern Oregon farmers rejoicing over re
cent rain. Page 6.
Wlnlock citizens soundly punish brutal wife,
beater. Page 6.
Heney 's graft net has caught big bunch of
Bay City millionaire. Page 1.
Floods in California are receding. Page 3.
Portland and Vicinity.
Lumber mill strikers continue to lose
ground; 30 planing mill employes walk
out. Page 10.
State Circuit Court in dire need of Jurors.
Page 16.
Ad men give highly successful banquet.
Page 10.
Candidates slow to declare themselves under
direct primary law. Page 12.
Streetcar turns on side. Injuring; three. Page
13.
Itinerary for business men's excursion to
Boise is complete. Page 11.
Commercial and Marine.
Steady buying reduces surplus .of potatoes.
Page 17.
Wheat gains cent at Chicago. Page 17.
Stock market has another bad day. Page IT.
Captain changes testimony at hearing of
damage suit growing out of sinking of
liwhtKA taailc Vitri a T- rx 1A,
WILL PUT CHECK
ON HIGH FINANCE
Roosevelt Forming
New Railroad Policy.
PREVENT WATERING OF STOCK
Plan Is to Condone Past Sins,
Prevent Repetition..
PUTS ALARMISTS AT REST
Conferences With Mellen and Others
Give Him Information With
holds Declaration Till Ready
to Declare Policy.
WASHINGTON, March 19. (Special.)
In making his plans for the physical val
uation of railroad properties and National
licensing of stock issues, President Roose
velt Is not contemplating action that will
impair bo as to amount to practical con
fiscation stock issued in the past and
now in the hands of innocent purchasers.
Gradually the mystery surrounding the
understanding between the Administration
and the railroads that will give assurance
to investors that there is no design of
assault upon them is being cleared away,
and the latest development concerns
stock dividends, bonds and securities in
general, which have been involved in the
talk about over-capitalization.
Will Condone Past Ofrcnses.
The sins of the past on the part of rail
road exploiters are not to be visited upon
Innocent holders of questionable stock is
sues. But it is planned that there shall
be legislation which effectively shall pre
vent the exploiters from practicing their
peculiar methods of high finance in the
future. . .
. The railroads are coming by degrees to
Mr. Roosevelt's support assuming that
he needs their support with regard to
prevention of overcapitalization in the fu
ture ancj supervision of securities which
shall assure the purchaser and the pub
lic of the exact purpose for which every
dollar Invested is to be expended. Until
now the magnates of course with the
interests of their stockholders solely at
heart have had a vague fear that Mr.
Roosevelt intended to wipe out of exist
ence some hundreds of millions of dollars'
worth of stock values. A rectifying of
the misunderstanding probably will re
lieve a great deal of distress, reflected
largely in "Wall street.
Mellen Talks of Valuation.
President Charles S. Mellen. of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad,
had a conference with Mr. Roosevelt to
day. It was of short duration scarcely
more than 30 minutes and what was said
is largely a matter between the two par
ticipants. Mr. Mellen is one of the four
managing directors of prominent railroad
systems named by J. - Plerpont Morgan to
present the railroad side of the pending
problems to the chief executive of the
Nation.
Mr. Mellen. before going to the White
House, had a talk with, members of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
It is understood the question of physical
valuation of the railroads for guidance in
remedying evils of overcapitalization was
discussed. Jn the not distant future Mr.
Roosevelt probably will restate his ideas
regarding action that still is necessary to
perfect railroad regulation by the Na
tional Government. .
AOOSEVELT GETTING POINTERS
Will Declare on Policy on Regula
tion of Railroad Capital.
WASHINGTON, March 19. The inter-
Charles H. Moycr, Prenldent Wertera
Federation of Miners.
view between the President and Charles
S. Mellen. president or the New Y"rk.
New Haven & Hartford Railway Can
pany, recently arranged for the. purpose
of discussing the railway situation, took
place at the White House today. It
lasted more than 35 minutes. No state
ments of the discussion were made. Mr.
Mellen said he did not expect to again
visit the White House for a conferences
with the President unless he was sent
for. ,
Mr. Mellen's visit was the outcome of
a call arranged by J. P. Morgan with
the President to discuss the present situ
ation relating to the railroads." It fol
lowed the conference he 'had a few days
ago with Presidents McCrea. Newman
and Hughltt, of the Pennsylvania, New
York Central and Chicago & Northwest
ern itailroads respectively. These four
were the names suggested to Mr. Roose
velt by Mr. Morgan. It is not known at
the White House whether Messrs. Mc
Crea, Newman and Hughltt will visit Mr.
Roosevelt. The President will see them
if they come.
Hear Railroad 3Ien's Opinion.
During the past three weeks Mr.
Roosevelt has had visits from half a
dozen well-known financiers and railroad
men, with . whom he had discussed vari
ous phases of the railroad situation.
These include J. Plerpont Morgan, James
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TRAINMEN HAVE
VOTED TO STRIKE
May Tie Up All Rail
roads West of Lakes.
ANOTHER CONFERENCE IS DUE
Managers' Offer Overwhelm
ingly Rejected.
OPPOSED TO ARBITRATION
Railroads Offered Advance of 10 to
18 Per Cent or Arbitration.
BoilerjnaJters. . on , , Harriman
Lines Threaten to Strike.
CHICAGO. March'-19. (Special.) Train
men and conductors on all Vallroad sys
tems running west of Chicago have by arf
overwhelming majority rejected the ad
vance in wages offered by the railroads
and have voted to strike, if necessary, to
enforce their . demands. This information
reached this city tonight, in advance of
the official canvass of the vote, which
will begin Thursday, but will not be offi
cially announced before the beginning of
next week.
Unless the railroad managers recede
from their position and make further
concessions, a strike of 50,000 men,' which
would practically tie up every road in
the -West, -appears imminent. .
When the conferences between the rail
road managers and the representatives of
the trainmen and conductors terminated,
February 27, It was with the understand
ing that another conference would be
held after the men had taken a vote on
the offer made by the general managers.
This conference,, it is expected, will take
place here next week. - '
Anticipating an unfavorable vote, the
railroad managers offered to submit the
entire controversy to arbitration. f The
men are not In -favor of arbitration and
have made no secret of their position In
that direction, but whether they can call
a strike that wouid paralyze traffic in
the face of an offer to arbitrate is some
thing, which, they must determine next
week.
The offer made by the railroad man
agers before the conferences broke up
was a flat increase of 10 per cent to men
in the freight service of all the roads.
In the passenger service the conductors
were offered an increase of $10 a month,
the baggagemen J6 a month and the
brakemen and flagmen $5. Overtime on
the- basis-of 15 -miles an hour at the rate
of 35 cents an hour for conductors and
20 cents an hour for other trainmen was
offered. On work trains, which constitute
a small portion of the men In the service,
the increase offered amounted in some
Instances to as much as 18 per cent.
The men cylginally asked an increase
of 15 per cent with an eight-hour day
on through freight trains, but later
these demands were reduced to an in
crease of 12 per cent and a nine-hour
day. It was explained to the men
when the vote was started that a ver
dict rejecting the offers of the railroad
managers would carry with it a strike
vote.
ILTIMATIM GIVEN HARI11MAN
Boilermakers on All Lines May
Strike Within Two Days.
CLEVELAND, March 19. A meeting of
the executive board of the International
Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders'
Union was held at Lorain, O., this aft
ernoon. and after the meeting a report
was given currency that the committee
had issued an ultimatum to E. H. Harrl-
man and associates - of the Harriman
lines. The parties o the conference to
day, as given out from Lorain, were
G. P. Dunn, Kansas City, president; J.
A. Franklin, Kansas City, first vice-president;
Louis Weyland. Cleveland, second
vice-president; J. J. Galvin, Indianapolis,
third vice-president; Ed II. Grant, Sparks,
Nev.: J. H. Doheny. Chicago; James
Spear, Boston, and William Kellas, New
Haven, Conn.
Mr. Dunn was quoted as saying that a
strike of boilermakers on the Harriman
lines would be called within 48 hours
in the e'ent favorable action is not taken
between now and that time on the de
mands made some time ago by employes
of the , Chicago & Alton Railroad, and
which are still pending.
The members of the executive commit
tee which met at Lorain, where a strike
Is In progress at the shipyards, left that
city tonight for Cleveland, according to
reports, and it has been impossible .so
far to obtain an authoritative statement
from any of them.
MUST REINSTATE OLD MEN
Boilermakers" Demand Grows Out of
Alton Dispute.
CHICAGO. March 19. A strike in shops
of all Harriman railways scheduled to
begin yesterday was held pending the
outcome of negotiations in Chicago be
tween officials and the International
Boilermakers' Union. It is said the dan
ger of a tie-up has not been passed.
President George D. Duffy, of the union,
held a conference with President S. M.
Telton, of the Chicago & Alton road. At
night the executive board of the boiler
makers' organization -met.
It was announced that the union will
demand the reinstatement of the men
who struck a month ago. In the Alton
shops at Bloomlngton. The strike was
declared off. but the company refused
to restore all the strikers to their posi
tions. Mr. Felton holds that the walkout
is a closed incident.
HARRIMAN IS NOT INFORMED
Demand Not Yet Made, but Rumor
Has Been Busy.
NEW YORK. March 19. So far as could
be learned in this city tonight, no formal
demand has been made by the boiler
makers In the Chicago & Alton upon the
executive officers of that road.
E H. Harriman was informed tonight
of the reported action of the executive
board of th International Brotherhood
of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders at
Cleveland today, but said that he had
heard nothing about it.
A representative of other than Harri
man lines stated that he had understood
that there was talk of a request being
made by the boilermakers and iron- ship
builders in several lines for an advance
in Wages and shorter hours, but so far as
he knew no formal demand had been
made.
GREW OUT OP ALTON STRIKE
Cleveland Discredits Talk or Strike
on Harriman Lines.
CHICAGO, March 19. Rumors of a
strike of the boilermakers on all the
Harriman lines probably grew out of a
strike of the boilmakers In the shops of
the Chicago & Alton Railroad at Bloom
lngton, 111. This strike occurred about
six weeks ago and it is said the places
of the striking boilermakers have all been
filled. The management has refused to
reinstate the strikers and a threat was
made to call out all the other men on the
Harriman system. Reports from the
West, however, declare that the men on
the Union Pacific Railroad and otner
Harriman lines would not obey a strike
order, as they say they have no griev
ances. . No Thought of Strike on V: P.
OMAHA, March 19. It was announced
today by. an official . representing . the
Boilermakers' Union that the boiler
makers of the Union Pacific had no
thought of striking.
Slaughter on Siberian Railroad.
HARBIN. March 19. As the result of
a collision today between a passenger
train and a freight train at Turushiche
station, 17 persons were killed and 35 In
jured. . . .
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Tlie T.ate Thomas Bailey Aldrtch.
EARLY GHUHGHES
OF THE REPUBLIC
Closely Linked with
History of Nation.
FIRST PROTESTANT BUILDING
Built by John Smith on Island
in James River.
KING'S CHAPEL IN BOSTON
Where Royal Governors Worshiped.
San Louis Key Mission In Cali
fornia St. Paul's, "Sew York.
The President's Church.
BT FREDERIC J. HASKIS. .
WASHINGTON. March 14. (Special
Correspondence.) To tell the storjr of the
old churches of the United States Is al
most like recounting the history of Amer
ica Itself, so Inseparably are the two
linked together. The early pioneers to
this continent were missionaries, zealous
for the redemption of the souls of the red
men of tlie newly acquired territories of
New France or New Spain, or. devout
colonists eager to find freedom to wor
ship God. The first chapels, churches
and plain little meeting-houses, that we're
built with great difficulty and often at
great personal sacrifice, have become
valuable milestones on the great road of
history. Kings and regicides have wor
shipped in them; "Presidents and slaves
have knelt at the same altars; prayers for
principalities and republics have ascended
from the same congregations ; battles
have been fought and won over the grave
stones fcnd through the very doors of the
sanctuaries In border churches; and in
vading armies' have used the floors for
stables and the pews for mangers.
First Protestant Church.
A bit of ruined tower on an island In
the lower James River is all that is left
of America's first Protestant church.
This cornerstone of the world's greatest
nation stands on the spot where John
Smith and. the good "Master" Hunt
placed logs for seats, tacked an old
sail overhead for a roof, and instituted
the first religious service In English
speaking America. . A log church was
built as soon as the men had time, and
later one was made of brick, the ruins
of which may be seen today.
Soon the congregation scattered out be
yond the river banks and pierced the
wilderness beyond. The island was low
and unhealthy and in 1705 the capital was
removed to Williamsburg. The wind and
the rain and the waters from the river
came to take tribute of the old church,
and by the beginning of the nineteenth
century" it was a deserted ruin. Acorns
that fell In the old graveyard when the
timid Princess Pocahontas was a captive
In Jamestown have grown to giant trees.
One of these has forced Its way through
a great stone slab, shattering it to bits
and raising a portion of it in a crotch
of the tree far above the earth. The
tombs of the Lees, the Amblers, the
Blairs and the Jacquelines are there, and
"Dame Frances Berkeley" sleeps far
from her stern old husband, who died of
a broken .heart In England, scorned by
the King he served. The large silver
chalice and paten used by this congrega
tion and the silver alms basin which Gov
ernor Andros gave them in 16&4 are pre
served by the Episcopal convention of
Virginia, while the silver baptismal font
has reverted to the heirs of the donors,
the Jacquelines.
Ring's Chapel, Boston.
King's (Chapel, Boston, was the first
Episcopal Church In New England, though
over a hundred years ago the minister
and the whole congregation turned Uni- .
-tarian. The first building was put up In'
1689 and the present one in 1749. The fur
niture was given by William III and by
George III. When the Tory preacher,
the Rev. Mr. Caner, returned to England
at the outbreak of the Revolution, he
took the plate back with him, deeming it
too sacred for rebel uses. Royal gov
ernors sat In a certain high-backed pew
thfre under the royal arms still on the
walls and, when Washington was there
as commander-in-chief of the Colonial
forces, he, too.' sat- in this same pew.
When the Revolutionary War had closed,
the members declared the name "King's
Chapel" unsulted to a republican country,
but the name was finally retained when -it
was suggested that it might be inter
preted as referring to the King of Kings
and not to the ruler of a country under
whose dominion the church was no long
er held. A row of pipes from the old.
organ which Handel himself selected is
still In use. and carvings from the front
of the organ which Queen Anne gave are
preserved among the church's treasures.
California's Oldest Church.
The timbers for the San Luis Rey
Mission in California were cut from a for7
est 20 miles from the site of the churclt
and, after being blessed by" the prtestM
where they were hewn, were not allowed
to touch the ground again until they were
placed on the walls. The weary Indians
who were made to carry these timbers
sometimes rebelled, and at Santa. Bar
bara they were locked fast in a stockade
at night to keep them from going back
to the happier existence of the savage.
The Santa Barbara garden is always
closed to women. The priests reserve this
for their own private enjoyment, and
walk and meditate there undisturbed.
Only two women have ever been al
lowed to enter. These were Princess
Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, who
spent a winter in Santa Barbara, and Mrs.
McKinley. Dolores Mission In San Fran
cisco was founded in 1776 and, when a
newer edifice was built nearby a few
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