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I THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1907. 13 flHId FINANCIER GOES TO RDCKP1LE Supposedly Destitute China man Punished for Deceiv ing His Countrymen. OLD MAN POSES AS PAUPER Induces Charitable Mongolians to liaise Relief Fund and Buy Him Ticket Home Then Get Drunk. For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the heathen Chinee Is peculiar. All of which has been said before and quoted numerously, but never has the thing been more fully exemplified than In the case of Ah Tom, supposedly a pau per. In reality a financier. Tom was In the Municipal Court yesterday, charged with being a penniless and worthless teggar, whereas the officials should, In reality, have been looking Into the meth ods of finance whereby he has amassed the fortune he possesses. That Is only Incidental, however. Some time ago Tom conceived the idea of returning to the land of his birth, that he might end his days in the happy land of his forefathers, far from the blighting- influences of Occidental civili zation. It was about this time that he first appeared In Portland from some little country town, saying he had been burnt out and had lost the fruits of a lifetime of work. Old, palsied, ragged, his plight was sufficient to arouse the latent sympathies of a highbinder. And when he went among his fellow coun trymen and spoke of the devils that pur sued him here, wailing to pluck the spirit from his body and carry it to per dition with the moment of death, their superstition as well as their sympathies were awakened. Why should this failing old man be denied the comfort in his old age of going back to the sacred land of Confu cius to prepare for the mysterious jour- too far. The arrest was made by Police Captain Slover. Wireless telegraphy is slow and pon derous compared with the way news of police doings travels In Chinatown. Even before the Captain had Instructed the jailor to search the prisoner, indignant Orientals began pouring into the station. As best they could they protested against the locking up of Ah Tom. He was soon to leave America. He was old and poor and a fund had been raised for him. It was not right to take away his chance of going back to sleep amid the bones of his fathers. "Search him and lock him up." said the Captain In a tone of finality, and there was a wail from , the sympathetic concourse of heathens. So they searched the poor, unfortunate old pauper. There was really no use searching him. for he was possessed of not a thing in the world. ' But it is a rule of the department to search all prisoners, and so they searched him. In his pockets there was nothing but a rusty knife and a set of dice. Then Jailor Ehdlcott got inside the coat and struck something hard. It felt like an old washer. He fished it out and it was $20 in gold. There was another washer of the same denomination and another and still another. Then It fairly rained money. Gold and currency, bank notes, certificates of de posit and checks. They counted out $-100 in gold and currency, while the certifi cates of deposit and checks indicated that Ah Tom was worth something like $350. The horde of big-hearted, charitable workers did not pause to learn how much money there was. They began thinning out when the first $100 was counted, and by the time the $200 mark was reached there wasn't a Chinaman remaining ex cept Ah Tom, who was hardly sober enough to properly represent his race. Out around the comer there was a noise like a Chinese indignation meeting. It went hard with Ah Tom In the Municipal Court yesterday. Judge Cam eron said drunkenness was no uncom mon or grievous crime; but the thing of supplementing an already comfortable fortune by appeals to charity was hein ous. So the Court said that before so journing to ante-mortem life of esthetic quietude in the Flowery Kingdom, it was only right and fitting that Ah Tom should do penance for his Occidental sins. This penance, it was decreed, shall take the form of 30 days at breaking of rock. FEAST OF HOLY J.' t t Mt iikee The poor qo C Wna f Chinaman !'r Ah Tom Bald H Was Dead Broke, t 4 ELABORATE SERVICES IX CATH OLIC CHURCH TOMORROW. 1 ney to the great unknown. Certainly he could not cultivate his soul here in the midst of a barbarian civilization, so far removed in distance and practice from all that is good. The result was a comfortable purse of something over $200. A tender-hear-d young Mongol who Is a Christian on Sunday and a pagan the other six days of the week acted as solicitor of funds. This kindly worker, Yom Wing by name, tised such of the money as was necessary In buying poor old Tom chop suey and roast pork, fish and such things as were needed to maintain the corporeal rela tionship between spirit and body until such time as transportation had been purchased. The programme included a passenger ticket to Seattle, thence to Vancouver, B. C, and thence to Hong kong by steamer. This paid, the ven erable and unfortunate pilgrim would have money enough to take him to the province of his birth, far up the Yang tse Klang. provided, of course, he didn't meet a few old-time friends and get mixed up in a sociable game of dollar limit fan-tan there in Hongkong. The fund completed, such citizens of Chinatown as had contributed to It were overcome by that righteous satisfaction which serves as the guiding Tight of public benefactors and charitable work ers generally. They had given from 4 to 40 cents apiece and they settled back to enjoy $4 worth of satisfaction. And it was while they were doing this and while Yom "Wing, custodian of funds, was on his knees before the Joss, asking safe Journey for his protege to the land of Yen Shee, that the trouble had Its beginning. True, Ah Tom had confessed suffering t . t c-" 'Be poor? I I You na mail I ? -ChinamarV i viA " ! The Golden Nmun From Out Tom's I i rocket. the contaminations of our civilization. Hut hla confosslon was Kenorftl and ho made no reforonce to the fact that the particular contamination comes from the product of our broad. prosperous, im posing corn-belt country. Even while head-benefactor Yom YinB "was making his oneslence before the great and mighty god of the storms and the sea. his ward. Ah Tom. was behaving in disgraceful Occidental fashion, over on Third street 2 waa inevitable that Ah Tom should go Dominican Fathers Will Celebrate Festival With Solemn High Mass in Their Parish. The Feaet of the Holy Rosary, one of the most folemn days of the Catholic Church, will be celebrated by the Domin ican Fathers at Holy Rosary Church, on East Third and Clackamas streets, tomor row. A special musical programme has been prepared by the Holy Rosary male choir. The services will begin with the distri bution of the blessed roses, after which a solemn high mass will be celebrated, with Rev. Father Shaw, O. P,. as cele brant: Rev. Father O'Brien, O. P.. dea con; Rev. Father Hunt, O. P., sub-deacon, and Rev. Father Lamb, O. P., di rector of ceremonies. Very Rev. A. S. Lawler, O. P., will deliver the sermon. A feature of the ceremonies will be the procession composed of the congregation and the various church societies, together with the fathers and brothers of the Do minican order. The statue of the virgin. which will form part of the procession, will be carried for some distance beyond the doors of the church. Upon re-enter ing the building the procession will termi nate at the main altar. The formation of the procession will be as follows: First division Cross bearer and acolytes. rosary banner and altar boys, banners of the five Joyful mysteries, carried by children in white and escorted by Junior and senior rosarians. Second division Banners of the five sor rowful mysteries, ladles of the Altar So ciety, of the Third Order of St. Dominic, and of the rosary confraternity. Third division Banners of the Ave glori ous mysteries, the Young- Men's Holy Name Sodality, men of the Third Order of St. Dominic and of the Rosary Confraternity, the statue of the queen of the most holy rosary, the fathers and brothers of the Do minic an Order. The following musical programme will be rendered: AsnerBres La Haehe Queen of the Holy Rosary. .Victor Hammerel ivyne iieison Jtiayattra fTrst Aias Gloria In Excelsis Hayden's First Man Violin solo Waidemar Lind Credo Oounod's Messe Solennelle Salve Reglna Michael Haydn Sanctua and Agnus Del Gounod's Messe Solennelle The O. C. M. March." compoied by the organ 1b t. Miss Marie Lailement. Holy Rosary Male Choir; J. H. Cass, director; Waide mar Lind, vloltnlet. Organist, Miss Marie Lallement. of the Oregon Conservatory of Music; tenors. Mes srs. J. P. Wlldman, J. Bell, D. A. Morris, J. . M alley. J. F. Barrett and A. Larsen; bassos, Messrs. E. J. Altstock, E. Atkinson, Dr. J. P. Goray, J. P. Brault. G. W. Larner. Dr. A. D. Walker. A. 1. Cain, B. Eder, G. Manning. B. Campbell and 1. Freeman. The extraordinary indulgence of Rosary Sunday, known as "Toties Quoties," may be gained as often as vksits are made to Holy Rosary Church (with prayers for the Pope's intentions-), between 2 P. M. on Saturday and sunset on Sunday; provided the sacraments are received worthily on Saturday or Rosary Sunday. The sacra ments may be received in any church in the city, but the visits must be made to or In sight of th rosary altar, which Is the main altar in Holy Rosary Church. JOKE WAS ON WRONG MAN Commission Merchant Accused of Having Elkskln in Possession. A huge Joke that was calculated for the sole benefit of Deputy Game Warden Greene, of Portland, resulted yesterday In a trial by a jury In Justice Reid's court of Herman Met2ger, a Front-street com mission merchant. He was acquitted in two minutes' time. Recently a hide was shipped from Lin coln County to Mr. Metzger. and was said to be a calfskin. Wishing to put up a "job" on the Deputy Game Warden here, unknown "Jokers" up In the woods wrote to Mr. Greene, saying that if he would Investigate a certain package of goods Just shipped to Metzger he would find an elk skin, possession of which is contrary to the law. Greene did as advised, and found the said hide. He arrested Metzger and the latter decided to fight the case. The case took up considerable time In Justice Reid's court yesterday, all the evi dence being laid before the Jury, which brought in a verdict of acquittal In two minutes. - Xcw Portland-Pendleton Train. The new local train service of the O. R. & X. between Portland and Pendleton goes Into effect tomorrow, Sunday, Octo ber 6. Train leaves Union Depot at 7:15 A. M. for all stations between Portland and Pendleton, and connects at Biggs, Arlington and Heppner Junction for all stations on the Shaniko, Condon and Heppner branches. This train takes the place of the Biggs local and starts three-quarters of an hour earlier. Don't miss your train. - STARTING FALL 1 BUSINESS TODAY GREAT SPECIAL SALE OF EW FALL FOR MEN AND WOMEN Cor. First and Yamhill Sts ! JOHN Dl Men's and Women's Complete Outfitter .-.A-P-:?'-, $10,000 Worth of Men's Suits, Overcoats, Cravenettes, Pants, Hats, and Furnishings and Ladies' Suits, Coats, Jackets, Skirts, Furs, Boas, Underwear, Hosiery, Furnishings and Notions Will Be Sold at ACTUAL WHOLESALE COST The 14th annual Fall Opening finds us in a new and larger store, supplied with a select, high-class and one of the most complete stocks of men's and women's ready-to-wear Clothing ever shown in this city. As this establishment is natur ally expected to do something out of the ordinary, especially on this occasion, we shall commence today, Saturday, and continuing seven consecutive sell ing days, place on special Fall Sale $10,000 worth of newest and choicest goods at actual wholesale cost or less. pppwiita AMaftifflllll Men's Fall Suits The standard of merchandise always sold by us allows no room for disappointment in style or quality. Q AC Wholesale cost on about 20 styles of double and single-breasted suits, in a complete assortment of colors, weaves and material. Regular retail price $13.50. J -I O OP Wholesale prices on 25 styles of handsome pl.OU single and double-breasted suits, in select materials and choice, colors' and patterns; hand-tailored throughout. Regular $18 suits. T -1 "7 OC Custom tailored, imported materials, in high 4 ' "OO class worsteds, cheviots, velours, etc; brown ish, grayish, checks, stripes and blacks or blues; natty in style; equal to the best custom tailor products, and golden retail values at $25. Overcoats - Cravenettes More than ordinary styles and qualities. Better than good qualities, because they are equal to the best. f7 AC We will give several styles in regular $10.00 to P xO $12.00 ones: dark and medium colors. (I1 -I QC Overcoats and Cravenettes, in plain and pJ lOJ fancy colors; coverts, worsteds and velour tops. Better than regular $16.50 retail values. 1 A Rt verv tomplete showing of our 30 kinds. pl.frO0 Dark dressy, to the latest novelties in colors and materials. You generally pay $22.50 for most of them. Pants Out of 5000 pairs, 200 styles, you will- find a style and quality to please you. $2.50 Special lot for opening sale; 25 styles; $1.00 saved. $3.50 Full tailor-made Fall styles of real $3.00 Pants. Men's Shoes Dellar Shoes are always best quality. The specials men tioned below are actually wholesale, and even a trifle less. &y rn And satisfaction guaranteed. The styles speak .OU for themselves. Equal to the best $3.50 shoe in this city, in box, velour and vici. Cfl Means just $5 in shoe value; patents, enamels, P5" calf, cordovan, velour and vici. Fall Hats We will mark over 1000 Soft and Stiff Hats at 25 per cent less than usual retail prices. CO ff Soft and Stiff Hats a little better than regu- tp.lTVS iar $2.50 Hats. Don't pay $3.00 for any Hat sold at retail in this city, for these are $3.50 value. $2.50 Men's Furnishings Two floors of men's fixings. You will find it at Dellar 's, when other stores have not got what you want. Underwear 50J Standard and derby rib merino; special values. 7i- Merino, rib and flats; easily $1.00 value. 551. OO quality here is $1.25 elsewhere.1 $1.50 to $3.00 Special big values in flannels, ribs, cash mere, angora and heavy Alaska goods. Immense stock of Dress or Working Gloves, 35J to $1.50 Shirts 50 Negligee, golf, etc.; 75c values, all new styles. 75- Very select; $1.00 qualities and styles. $1.00 You can expect us to give $1.25 and $1.50 values for seven days. Neckwear 39 for latest Tecks and Four-in-Hands ; 50c and 75c Ties. Jersey Sweaters Twenty styes, at actual wholesale prices. Suspenders and Sox 39 for President and other 50c and 60c Suspenders. 12V' for 20c values. 3 FOR 25 Best 12V1-C Handkerchiefs. Ladies' Department This store displays a most complete stock of women's goods in every department. Wholesale prices for this week, makes this the establishment for every thrifty buyer to get the latest and best, and make a big saving. Women's Suits We handle only high-class or standard qualities. These elegant suits sell at $lo.0U in every retail store, if not $20.00. Several colors and styles. t 1 f Atl For opening and introducing this department ) A 0i40 we will sell some of the nattiest and best $25.00 suits, in brown, black, etc. $13.85 $21 QC Better style and quality than is usually sold at $30.00, but we are going to give ladies a grand chance to save money at Dellar 's opening sale. Fur Boas g2.6r -Full, long; dark brown, etc.; $4.00 Boa. S3. 85 Special lot; white and dark natural color; $6 Boas. $6.45 Elegant $10.00 value ; long fur, heavy body. Feather Boas $4.85 White or mottled, Congo Yuma; $7.30 Boas. ' $12.45 Ostrich; black or novelties; $20.00 value. Waists We carry everything in new standard and high-class Waists, ranging in price from 75c to $15.00. Inspect the styles. Note the value we give at all times. $1.15 Cream, brocaded and fancy; best $2.00 value. $2.85 Imports in all colors of $4.00 and $4.50 Waists. $4.5 Special net and silk; real $7.50 value. Coats We will surprise you in quality, quantity and st vies we show; the prices are all in your favor. $7.45 Cheviots, etc., in dark and fancy garments, are better than any $10 coats sold in this city. , $11.85 hand-tailor'd facsimile de s i g ns of the latest high-class imported styles. Im mense variety. The kind you see at $18.00 in other stores. 818.85 French and L o ndon fashions, in the latest and most exclusive modes. The highest ch aracter of actual $27.50 garments.' Skirts This department teems with the real desirable kinds. $2.45 Choice of a big lot; best $3.50 values. $3.85 Very handsome dark and fancy colors of $5.00 and $6.00 skirts. $5.85 For tailor-made, $8.00 and $9.00; newest styles. $8.45 These are specially grand $12.50 values; lots o them. Silk Underskirts Qtl Full-size Spread, Malovah silk, aU shades and' P'"' colors; best $7.50 values in Portland. Dellar's Store Offers the best trading mart for men and women. The immensity of stock and high quality and styles of all merchandise sold by this store has made our name a stand ard of reliability for satisfactory dealing. Our prices will always be the lowest in the city on best-quality goods. Our guaran tee of satisfaction goes with every article purchased, no matter be it a pin or the highest-priced article in the establish ment. Store open Saturday till 10:30 P. M. Women's Shoes Dellar styles and qualities always please. Dellar's wholesale prices for this Fall Opening Sale means an actual saving. CO Ladies' Shoes, come in all leathers; r-" either dress or street-wear weight, that .are positively guaranteed; a peerless $3.50 value. DQ If) You save just $1.50 and get exactly the pJ.JJ tind of a shoe you want. Ladies' Hosiery This department of ladies' furnishings is complete in all its details, from pins to underwear. 12y2 Fast color, actual 20c value Hose. 25 For best quality black and fancy 40o Hose. R. G. Corsets 50 Drab and white, regular 65c value. '75i Dark, drab and white; $1.00 value. DEBTORS MUST PAY Mil KECEIVER DEVIIX WILL ALLOW NO EXTEXSIOXS. In Pursuance of Tills Policy Attach ment Is Levied on Property of Pullman Auto Company. Accounts payable to the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank are being pushed to settlement by Receiver Devlin as rapidly as they become due, and the receiver has notified debtors of the Institution that loans must be repaid at maturity or he will be compelled to Institute leg:al pro ceedings forthwith. In line with this policy the receiver filed an attachment yesterday on the property of the Pullman Automobile Company. at Sixth and Everett streets. In a suit to recover a loan of $13,000 due the bank. "In the reorganization scheme," said Mr. Devlin, "It will be necessary for the debtors of the bank as well as he credi tors to give us all the assistance pos sible, and we therefore have notified all borrowers to pay up promptly so that the assets of the Institution may be well In hand by the time the reorganized bank is ready to resume business." A. E. Reamea. the attorney In charge of the reorganization plan, said yesterday that about J450.000 of the telephone bond holdings of the bank had been signed for by depositors, and that depositors were calling at the rate of 40 or more a day for the purpose of signing for the bonds and subscribing for stock in the new bank. He said that if that proportion keeps up the requisite transfers and stock subscriptions will be made by the middle of December and tbe new institution be made ready to open for business. He ex pressed himself as sanguine of the ulti mate outcome, and as $300,000 in new capital is assured,' the capital of the re organized bank will certainly be $500,000 and may reach $750,000 at the rate stock Is being taken by depositors In the old Institution. One out-of-town creditor yesterday took $10,000 of the stock and expressed perfect satisfaction with the proposed plan for reorganizing the bank. A plan Is being formulated for the establishment of a bond department to be run by the new concern In which holders of the bonds taken by depositors of the old bank may place their holdings on sale. In case they desire to realize upon them, and Mr. Reames Is of the opinion that this de partment will have no difficulty In finding purchasers for the bonds on account of their strong position In the market. This department will charge no com mission for selling the bonds, -but Is to be maintained solely for the convenience and benefit of the holders that have taken over bonds in part settlement of their deposit accounts. STATEMENT TO DEPOSITORS Bank Reorganizers Say Work Is Going Forward Steadily. The Depositors' Association has Issued a statement saying that Its work is going forward steadily. The officials complain that the discouragement with which they meet comes from their inability to con vince a certain portion of the depositors that the plan adopted for the reopening of the bank depends for success on all Joining in subscribing for the agreed per centage of bonds held by the closed insti tution. "No syndicate of capitalists," 'they say, "will put up $300,000 for $2,300,000 to be swallowed up. within a few hours or at least a day. when the bank would be compelled to close again. The bank will not reopen unless tbe depositors wipe out one-half of the liabilities by subscribing for the bonds and stock." ' The following letter was received yes terday by the association bearing on the scheme for reopening. the bank: Dear Sir: I am not directly interested, as depositor or otherwise, in the affairs of the above-named bank, but In common with all other citizens of this city and state have an Indirect interest therein. At the instance of a client I have exam ined the reorganization plan proposed , by Senators Haines and Meyers and practi cally promoted by Mr. Moore, and also the assets on which the reopening of the bank is proposed. Having advised my client on the sub ject, he requested me to write you the substance of that advice, which is my excuse for now addressing you. I find the plan to be a good and prac ticeable one, and believe that beyond a reasonable doubt the interests of the de positors and of the city and state will be best served by a hearty and vigorous promotion thereof. If the business shall have to be settled by the receiver In the ordinary manner of receiverships, depositors cannot reason ably expect to realize one-half the amount pf their claims after years of waiting, and the city and state will have to carry the odium of a bank failure In their midst. If the proposed plan of reopening the bank shall be carried out I think the de positors who participate in it and take telephone bonds as offered, for their claims, can realize dollar for dollar there on with interest. For I feel confident that those bonds, with the accompanying stock, can within a reasonable time, be sold at or above par, and they will draw for the holder Interest on his money dur ing all the time he holds them. And if the bank shall be reopened, as proposed, the city and state will be re lieved of said odium, which Is a matter well worthy of consideration at this time. Hence I advised my client, as I would all other depositors, at once to accept the bonds offered and to assist In the promo tion of the scheme for rehabilitation. Very respectfully. P. !. WILLIS. The .bank will be open today from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. and from 7 to 9 P. M. The depositors' headquarters at No. 7 Lafay ette building, will be open all day today, from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. Goodman's for Diamonds, 2X1 Morris ofi. CHURCH RUN BY "SYSTEM" MIXIXG COMPANY HAS IT UNDER THUMB, SAYS PREACHER. Olympla Presbytery Refuses Further Support Until Business Affairs Are Conducted on New Basis. TACOMA, Wash., . Oct. 4. (Special.) Owing to conditions at the" mining town of Carbonado and the system now In op eration there, the presbytery of Olympla will not appropriate any more money from the mission fund for work there un til the business affairs of the church are under Its own control. Such was the statement made today by Rev. A. L. Hutchison. The report made to the presbytery by Rev. R. M. Jones, pastor of the Presby terian Church at Carbonado, as to the "system" by 'which the mining company dominates all the Interests of the place, including the church; and declaring that he could not continue his efforts there longer under present condifons, created much discussion. Rev. Mr. Jones says: "If the preacher assails the saloon he U Immediately warned by the superintend ent to stop. If he persists, off goes his head. The company pays the preacher's salary. The company owns the saloon and the superintendent Is boss of both." Oregon's Forestry Receipts. SALEM. Or., Oct. 4. (Special.) Con gressman W. C. Hawley has received from the Forestry Service of the Depart ment of Agriculture a notice that Ore gon's share of the receipts from Forest Reserves in this state for the past year Is approximately $1S,9S0.89. the total re ceipts having been $139,808.91 end, under an act of 1907, Oregon will receive 10 per cent of that amount. The money is ta be used for public school -and road-bulld-lng purposes in the counties In which the Forest Reserves lie. Pastors Meet at Roseburg. ROSEBURG, Or., Oct. 4. This morn ing the 42d session of the Columbia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South opened In this city, with Bishop James Atkins, of Waynevllle. S. C, presiding. The meetings will continue until Saturday, with morning and evening services. The afternoons will be occupied by the Woman's Home Mission Society, over which Miss Elsie Burkhart, of Portland, will preside. REMOVAUWTICE. Mason, Ehrman & Co. are now located in their new quarters. Fifth and Everett streets. KISEB FOR SOCVEN-IR PHOTOS. Northwest Scenerv Imperial Hotel. Our Silk Petticoat Sale Has them all skinned a block. The last dav $2.65, $4.15, $4.95. J. M. ACHESON CO.