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PORTLAND, OliEtiON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ANTI-ROOSEVELT
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Accuse Him of Prepar
ing War With Japan.
ORGAN OF INTERESTS SPEAKS
Conspirators Confirm Predic
tion of President.
AIM IS TO UNDERMINE HIM
Made Desperate by Being Brought
to Justice, Lawless Rich Start In
Bldlous Campaign to Pestroy
Rooscvelt's Popularity.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (Special.)
.. Administration circles are greatly agi
tated today over a new movement on
the part of reactionaries to undermine
President Roosevelt's popularity and
prevent his Influence from aiding in
securing the nomination of a progres
sive candidate to succeed himself as
Chief Executive. The conspirators. It is
declared, are at work in earnest, the
present object being to Impress the
people with the idea that the Presi
dent is trying to force the country into
a war with Japan.
A prominent New York newspaper,
which has been cultivating a bitter en
mity to the administration for several
months, printed a three-column Wash
ington dispatch this morning declaring
that the Government is making ready
to fight Japan, that being the -chief
reason for sending the Atlantic fleet to
the Pacific Coast. The paper in ques
tion Is generally regarded as being
closely Identified with a leading group
of the great financiers and captains of
Industry of America. It Is a paper
that seldom runs to black type In Its
headlines, but on this occasion It add
ed this feature to the scare carried in '
the body of the article.
All Panoply of War Brought Out.
It is set forth with much artistio
verisimilitude of detail that the fleet is
to go to the. Philippines and stay there;
that big guns and mines are being
rushed to the defense of Subig Bay, the
new Philippine naval station; that sup
pressed war excitement pervades the
State. War and Navy building and that
preparation for a hostile emergency Is
occupying the time and attention of the
Army and Navy authorities to suchan
extent that all other work has been
suspended In somo branches of the
two services.
s Purely Political Move.
Were the President at home today. In
all probability there would be -a White
House statement of some kind to meet
the veiled and in some cases open charges
that war Is being aimed at by those now
In control of the United States Govern
ment, and something Interesting is ex
pected when the Executive returns next
week. In the President's absence high
officials of the administration have
Jumped Into the breach to declare the
publication purely political and to Inti
mate that it is only the beginning of a
carefully prepared movement to push the
campaign against Mr. Roosevelt, the
Roosevelt policies and the succession to
the White House of a man of the Roose
velt iype.
Conspirators Show Hands.
Mr. Roosevelt declared last Spring that
a conspiracy had been formed to ruin him
In the confidence of the people and pre
vent the nomination of a successor of his
own type. He intimated that it would
disclose Itself in time, and that the re
actionaries, backed by millions of dollars,
would hesitate at nothing to accomplish
their ends.
It Is a fact well understood here that
. financial interests, which previously have
ruled the commerce, the Industry and the
politics of the country without regard for
any law except the law of the, might of
corporate wealth, have become desperate
over the administration ot Justice that
compels them to observe the laws.
FEVER IN MILDER FORM
Emperor Francis Joseph's Condition
Not So Satisfactory, However.
VIENNA, Oct. 17. The condition of
Francis Joseph this evening is as follows:
The catarrhal affection Is slightly bet
ter, yet the coughing Is frequent, dry and
violent. The recurrence of the fever has
taken a much milder form and now
amounts to almost unnoticeable changes
in the temperature of the patient.
In spite of these improvements, how
ever, the general condition of His Majes
ty Is not quite as satisfactory because he
has expectorated more than he did yes
terday. HER DEATH DUE TO SUICIDE
Maglll Says Wife Took Chloroform
in Despondent Mood.
DECATUR. 111., Oct. 17. The early
part of today's session of the trial of
Fred and Fay Grahfim Maglll, charged
with having caused the death of MagiU's
first wife. Mrs. Pet Gandy Magill, was
occupied with the reading of the seven
letters Identified by Magill's daughter,
til
SHOW
HAND
Marguerite, when she was on the stand
yesterday," as having been written by
her deceased mother while the latter
was propped up in bed previously to
her death.
After the reading of the letters, Ma
gill himself was placed on the stand,
the first witness of the day. Maglll
told of his first wife's despondency and
said he saw her propped up in bed
with pillows, writing letters. He told
of the incident testified to yesterday
by Marguerite, when a veterinarian
was called to chloroform a horse, and
said that Mrs. Pet Magill stated upon
that occasion that she wished the
chloroform was intended for her in
stead of the horse. Ho said that Post
master Davidson, of Clinton, had told
him that Mrs. Maglll had told the
postmaster that she was taking chloro
form, and that Davidson had told the
witness that he said to her:.
'.'l'ou had better get a gun and kill
yourself Instead of taking chloroform."
He said that on the night Mrs. Magill
died, she had requested Marguerite to
telephone to Fay Graham not to forget
the promise, whatever it was, that Fay
had made to Mrs. Magill.
Just before he retired that night, the
witness said, his wife requested him to
get her a bottle of beer. Ha gave her
a bottle from the lcechest and then re
tired. In the morning, when he smoke,
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Mrs. , Arthur Herbert Osborne, m
Mrs. Samuel Clorkson, Formerly
Miss Helen Maloney, Heroine of
Klopement Mystery.
he saw that his wife waB not In the
room. He made search of the house
and found her in' 'the spare room," lying
down, with a blanket wrapped tightly
around her. He spoke to her, but got
no reply and, upon examining her, he
found that she was dead. Maglll said
he detected the odor of clijoroform. :
BLAZE IN HOTEL CARLETOf.
FIFTY GUESTS BRlVEX HUR
RIEDLY FROM THEIR BEDS.
Police Rescue Men and , Women
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Scantily Clad Fire Smothered
In Furnace-Room.
The lives of the BO guests of the
Hotel Carleton, at Thirteenth and Alder
streets, were endangered by suffoca
tion from the thick smoke caused by
a fire in the furnace room in the base
ment of the hostelry at 2:3$ o'clock this
morning, and many of them, scantily
clad, were rescued by the quickness and
presence of mind of the firemen and
police who responded to the alarms.
The flames were discovered by Night
Clerk C. J. Carroll, who immediately
telephoned Are headquarters and ran up
stairs, arousing the slumbering men and
women occupying rooms. As he reached
the top of the last flight of stairs he fell
to the ' floor, almost suffocated: By a
heroic effort the brave young clerk man
aged to reach each door, and after re
ceiving assurances from tty guests that
they had awakened, he hastily made his
way down the four- flights of stairs and
sank, completely exhausted, on the front
porch of the hotel. In which position he
was found by the firemen and qolrkly re
vived.
In the meam.me the fire fighters
commenced the work of getting the ex
cited inmates down the fire escape and
directing them to places of safety. In
this work the firemen were assisted by
Patrolmen Glttings, Tennant, Edgerton,
Bewley, Arnold, Sherwood and Suitter
and Special Policemen Fitzslmmons,
Maher and Hemsworth, the latter run
ning all ' the way from Twentieth and
Everett streets to the scene and turn
ing In the box alarm calling out more
apparatus, than' had responded to the
telephone call. '
The actual loss by the fire will b
small, for aside1 from the damage done
by -smoke to the-upper apartments the
loss. is confined to the basement.
This s the fifth time the Carleton
has been threatened with destruction
by Are, but with one exception the
flamee were nipped in time to pre
vent them spreading to the upper por
tion. The exception noted was about
two years ago,' when the hostelry was
partially consumed by a fire which
started in the laundry in the after
noon. .
INCREASE COAST SERVICE
Two More Steamships to Run Be
tween Seattle and San Blego.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Oct. 17. C. Du
nann, general passenger agent of the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company, is
authority for the statement that with
in 30 days the large steamers Umatilla
and Senator will be put in operation
between Seattle and San Diego.
It is proposed to build at once two
fine turbine steamers, to cost $1,200,
000, each, which will be placed on the
run between San Francisco 'and San
Diego. The new steamers will carry
only passengers' and express matter.
FIGHT FOR MAYOR
VERY UNCERTAIN
Unlike Other Three
Cornered Contests.
M'CARTHY CAMPAIGN OF ABUSE
Calls Graft Prosecution Plot
-to Drive Down Wages.
TAYLOR AND RYAN ALIKE
Both Stand for Clean Government.
Taylor Is in Uttec; Contrast to
Labor Candidate) Ryan Counts
on Young Men's Vote.
' SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 14. (Special
Correspondence.) With a registration of
77,000 as a basis .upon which to figure,
the political prophets have begun to fore
cast the result of the approaching elec
tion. In many ways It may be said to
be the most important in the history of
San Francisco. Of course the figures can
be twisted by partisans to suit their, in
terests, but there are certain definite
lines which may be followed with the as
surance of accuracy.' It has been the
history of all three-cornered fights n
San Francisco that the Labor candi
date ,has won by a comfortable margin.
It has also been the history of these
three-cornered contests that the Demo
cratic candidate has rum third. It may
be asserted with a great degree of cer
tainty that in the approaching election.
Dr. Taylor, the Democratic nominee, will
poll a much larger vote than Daniel A.
Ryan, the Republican candidate. The
usual order, therefore, will not prevail.
This it is which is giving i;ipe to the
friends of Dr. Taylor. In fact, one hears
bo much Taylor talk in the hotels, in
the shops and on the street that, he is
apt to forget that the great army o toll
ers, "though It has little to sayy is-., lor
he most part bound to P. H. McCarthy,
the Labor nominee.
McCarthy's Demagogic Talk.
The campaign is well under way and
the alignment of forces is clearly visible.
For Dr. Taylor there is the conserva
tive vote, Democratic and Republican;
for Mr. Ryan the vote of the . young
men in politics and his large personal
following; for Mr. McCarthy the Labor
host. Dr. Taylor and Mr. Ryan are run
ning practically upon the same .latform.
They both declare for a continuation of
the prosecution of the grafters, the bribe
givers and the petty larcenists whether
they be millionaires, bankers, traction
magnates or common laborers. Mr.
McCarthy has made his ttght a
class fight, an appeal that teaches
labor that every ,one who Is not
a member of a labor union Is Its
enemy. Mr. McCarthy is most, vitupera
tive when denouncing Francis J. Heney
and the men who are assisting him .In
WHILE THE CRAZE FOR CHANGING NAMES IS ON, VARIOUS VALUABLE
CONTRIBUTORS CALL ON THE EDITOR
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1 "I want the name of Portland changed to Mule-t-no-man because onr posterity will Uke It better." -5
"Bull linn offecds my aesthet lc sense. Please change It to Bovine Perambulator."
S "I want1 Mllwaukie changed to
I bear you're changing- names. Would you please put in' an advertisement for
1 don't like Chaninoeg. It sounds like a haircut. Make It Champagne." -
6 "I want Willamette changed.
the graft prosecution. Mr. McCarthy also
paints to his followers a picture of a
gigantic conspiracy on the part of capi
tal to hoard all the money in the city
and to drive down wages. Here In sub-s
stance Is a sample of Mr. McCarthy's
appeal:
'This so-called graft prosecution Is a
plot to seize the reins of government and
walk on the neck of the workingman.
Is Rudolph Spreckels, that sweet-faced
millionaire, a friend of the working man?
Spreckels wants to get hold of the city
government so he can drive wages vdown
and then get cheap labor for his enter
prises. They tell you that if I am elect
ed Mayor the banks will lend no money
Do you see the plot? It Is a vast s jeraa
on the part of Spreckels, 1 helan, De
Toung and their crowd to hoard all the
jnoney in the 'banks and force the labor
ing man to work for their price. When I
am elected mayor,. I am going to investi
gate the relief fund and make these mill
ionaires give back what they plundered.
I tell you this whole thing is a conspir
acy against the working man. If you
want your wages hammered down to
one dollar a day, go ahead and vote for
this crowd. But If you wish your pres-
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Arthur Herbert Osborne, Who Claims
Heh-n Moloney as His Wife.
ent standard of wages maintained, you
can ' only do It by electing a labor ad
ministration. "V .
Mr. McCarthy Is abusive to a uegree
that even Mark Twain could not contem
plate when he wrote" his famous sketch
on "running for office." Mr. McCarthy
refers to Dr. Taylor as "a m.-.n who
walks the streets to save funeral ex
penses." Taylor's Lofty" Sincerity.
Against this is the appeal of Mayor
Taylor lor a lofty conception of . civic
duty. Dr. Taylor is not a magnetic r.ian.
He is not a spell-binder, and he is new
at the political game. But in place of
these qualities he has a loftiness of pur
pose and a convincing sincerity that com
mand a peculiar reverence. Dr. Taylor
is In his sixty-ninth year. He Is not
older than his years and hardly can it
be said that he is younger He is a well
preserved man with faculties as acute as
those of a man of forty. Above all, he
is the scholar, the thinker. .No greater
contrast could be conceived than that of
fered by Dr. Taylor and P. H. McCarthy.
It Is not to be supposed that there Is
to be a clean-cut division between labor
and capital. Such a supposition would do
wrong to the strong men in the labor
movement, who through the trying days
through which the city has passed, have
constantly fought to rid- the movement
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Foro - o polls because Mliwaukle suggests beer
Ita second syllable rhymea with a shockingly
V
HEINZES DRIVEN
E
Troubles Cause Butte
Bank to Close.
F. AUGUST QUITS N. Y. BANK
Turns Over Presidency to Con
troller Ridgeley.
COPPER DIVIDENDS CUT
Collapse of United Copper Corner
Causes Succession of Sensations
on Wall Street, With Reflex
Action In City of Butte.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17. Sensations fol
lowed each -other In rapid succession in
the financial district today as a result of I
the collapse of the. projected corner in
United Copper and the suspension of a
prominent projeerage firm yesterday. The
firm of Otto Heinze & Co. was suspended
on the Stock Exchange. F. Augustus
Heinze, the Butte copper magnate, re
signed the 'presidency of the Merchantile
National Bank of New York. The Amalga
mated Copper Company, at its directors'
meeting, cut its quarterly dividend from 2
per cent to 1 per cent The directors of the
Boston & Montana Copper Company de
clared a quarterly dividend of tS In place
of a former dividend of $12. The failure
of Haller, Zehle & Co., prominent bank
ers of Hamburg, Germany, with liabili
ties that may reach $7,000,000, was an
nounced. The State Savings Bank, of
Butte, Mont., of which the Helnzes are
the principal stockholders, suspended.
As a result of these sensations, the
stock market was halting and irregular,
but there was apparent feeling that the.
break of the attempted corner In United
Copper had cleared the atmosphere some
what and the market rallied before the
close.
Helnjse's Firm Suspended.
. The suspension of Otto Heinze & Co.,
of which firm Max M. Schultze is the
Stock Exchange member, was based on
a complaint to the exchange made by
Gross & Kleeberg. the Stock Exchange
firm which failed yesterday. In a com
munication to the president of the Stock
Exchange, this firm charged Otto Heinze
& Co., wlt.i refusing to accept 3211
shares of United Copper said to have been
"bought on an order from the Heinze firm.
This act. Gross & Kleeberg state, was
responsible tojf their failure. Attorneys
tor this firm stated today that the
amount owing to the firm by the Heinze
firm aggregates $600,000. '
The Heinze firm announced that It is
perfectly solvent and that all its legal
obligations will be met. The attorneys
say that the suspension by the Stock
Exchange was accepted by the firm In
orler to give the latter an opportunity
to sift Its legal obligations for
and It shocks me. Sec?"
some gentleman to change mine?"
profane word."
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enormous claims which- have been made
against It and which, it Is alleged, the
firm Is not legally obliged xo pay. The
official notice said the suspension was
"imperative under the rules, inasmuch
as he had time and opportunity to noti
fy the exchange of his Insolvency, and
had failed to do so."
F. A. Heinze Quits Banking.
The resignation of F. Augustus
Heinze from the presidency of the Mer
cantile National Bank, it is said. Vas
decided on at a midnight meeting at
the home of C. W. Morse, who is,
largely Interested In the. bank. It was
announced this morning, Mr. Heinze at
the same time giving out a statement
In which he said that his resignation
was due to the fact that he wished to
devote all of his time totraighten
lng out the business of his brother's
firm. He stated positively that he had
not disposed of his holdings In the
bank and that the control would re
main where it had been and that he
would continue. as a director.
William B. Rldgley, at present United
States Comptroller of the Currency, has
been tendered the office of president of
m
William Ii. Kldgeley, Controller ot
the Currency, F. A. Ifelaze's
Probable Successor as President of
the Mercantile National Bunk of
New York.
the Mercantile National Bank, but has
not decided whether he will accept.
The low price of refined copper,
which dropped even lower today, and
the disorganized condition of the metal
in the market Is the reason given for
the reduction of the dividends of the
copper companies. The announcement
of the Amalgamated quarterly divi
dend of 1 per cent came as a surprise.
Ileinze's Bank-Is Solid.
William A. Nash, president of the Corn
Exchange Bank and acting chairman of
the clearing-house committee, stated to
night that the committee with tbe full
co-operation of- tne officers of the Mer
cantile National Bank, made an examina
tion of Its condition after the close of
business tonight. The examination was
very thorough and was not completed
until a late hour. Mr. Nash and his as
sociates said they were convinced from
the results of the examination that the
bank Is perfectly solvent and able to
meet all its debts. The capital of t3,000,
000 is intact and there is a. lame surplus.
Fallurer of the Butte Bank.
The failure of the Hamburg firm and
the Butte bank both followed closely
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60
degrees; minimum. 44.
TODAY'S Fair; northeaiit winds.
Slump In Copper.
Otto Helnxe A Co. suspended from Stock
Exchange. Pace 1.
Augustus Heinze resigns bank presidency
and Ridgeley may succeed htm. Page 1.
State Savings Bank of Butte closes to
avoid run. Page 1.
Big copper companies reduce dividends.
Page L
Foreign. .
Francis Joseph's condition not Improved.
Page 1.
Helen Maloney and Clarkson In London;
- seek to have marriage legalised. Page 6.
Politics.
Progress of San Francisco Mayoralty cam
palgn. Page 1.
Conspiracy of Interests accuses Roosevelt
of seeking war with campaign. Page 1.
f Dementi.
Marconi begins regular wireless telegraph,
business. Pace 4.
Maglll testifies that wife committed sui
cide. Page 1.
Attempt to kill Mexican In Chicago who
refused to betray re bet comrade, page .
Harriman pleads for co-operation of press
In ending anti-rat Iroad agitation, but
says panic la not coming. Page 1.
Episcopal , convention electa bishop for
m Eastern Oregon. Page 4.
Extensive paving frauds In Indianapolis.
Page a.
Fabnt's granddaughter Inherits his fortune.
Page 6.
Six' police dogs to hunt New York murder
ers. Page 4. -
Telegraph operators' officials settle differ
ences; many strikers surrender. Page 4.
" Sport,
San Francisco defeats Portland, 2 to 0.
Page 7. . '
Faclflc Coaat.
Balem hop dealers bring $."0,000 damage
suit against Paul R. U. Horse Page 8.
Seattle ' boy commits suicide durlny Holy
Roller services. Page 5.
Canby 'saloon men bound over to Circuit
Court. Page 8.
Second trial of Tlrey X Ford begins.
Page 5- ...
Commercial and Marine.
Steps taken to bring hop pool to a head.
Page 19.
Eastern and foreign wheat markets slump.
Page 19. ,
Anxious day In Wall street. Page 10.
British steamship Redhlll clears for St.
Vincent with wheat. Page 18.
Portland and Vicinity.
Oregon Trunk flies maps 'of proposed route
up Deschutes Valley. Page 15. .
Terminal site bought by Harriman near
Astoria not to be utilized at once. Page
'12. , ,
Seeks to enjoin rival from paying attentions
to his wife. Pace 14.
Puts buildings at disposal of Rose Society.
Page 12.
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FLOW OF
Mil
CHECKED BI FEAR
But Harriman Predicts
No Money Panic.
TIME FOR CO-OPERATION COME
Propose Open Conference on
Railroad Question.
STOP ATTACKS ON CAPITAL
gays Wall Street Has Already Liqui
dated and People Will Iarn
Apprehension Which Causes
Unrest Is Groundless. -
CHICAGO, Oct. 17. "Money la like a
liquid the moment you place an ob
struction in front of it it causes a
diminution of the flow."
This is one- of the new financial
aphorisms to which Edward H. Har
riman, who came to Chicago to battle
with Stuyvesant Fish, gave utterance
when asked to express his Ideas upon
the future of the country.
"This obstruction," he said, "has
been placed In front of the' liquid
stream of money, and It has already
caused a serious check In Its flow.
This obstruction is the apprehension
which has run like a prairie fire
through the land and has permeated the
minds of the people. It has been caused
partially, if not entirely, by the agita
tion against corporations In general
and railroads in particular, and it
will last until the people awaken to
the fact that we must have a saner
comprehension upon these Important
subjects."
No Fear of Money Panic.
Asked if he looked for any eerlous
effect from the rapidly changing con
ditions in the financial and railroad
world, Mr. Harriman replied:
"No, I do not. I think the country
Is too great and too prosperous to have
a money panic."
Mr. Harriman was asked If he really
thought that the alleged difficulty in
raising capital was not largely In the
Imagination of those who gave ex
pression to the thought.
"By. no means," he replied. "The
difficulty In raising money, hot only
for railway enterprises but in all lines '
of business, is a real and not a fancied
one. Ask any merchant whom you
should chance to meet why It is that
he Is not carrying such a large stock
of goods as was his custom, and he
will reply that It is because of his
Inability to raise sufficient capital to
carry a larger stock. There Is a gen
eral lack of accommodation every
where In the United States, and It la
not confined to this country.
Time Come for Co-operation.
"I do not fear any serious result,
however, because it Is claimed- that
liquidation practically has taken place
on M'all street and people after a time
will realize that a large part of their
apprehension is groundless and that
they will realize also what Is of vitally
more Importance, that the time has
come for co-operation between the
National Government and the railroads
and other corporations, and also bet-ween
the state governments and rail
road and other corporations."
Publish Both Sides Together.
"While the meeting of Illinois Central
stockholders was waiting for word from,
the committee on proxies, Mr. Harriman
picked up his chair and, carrying it to -the
end of the press table, sat down
with the remark:
"I think you gentlemen can do more
to settle this railroad situation than any
body else."
When asked for an , explanation, ha
said:
"You can do it by refusing to print
one side of a proposition until you have
seen the man on the other side and let
him have his say at the same time. I
am sick, and most other men are sick,
ot continued attacks made on the rail
roads. When charges are made against
a railroad, the proper thing to do is to
refrain from publishing them until the
party bringing the charges and the rep
resentatives of the railroad have had a
conference, with representatives of the
press present. As such things are now
run the charges are printed in the papers
and the public receives a wrong Impres
sion, because the railroad side of the
question is not given at the same time.
First Impression Counts.
"It is the first impression that counts.
Very often a railroad is not able to make
a reply for -several weeks after the
charges -have been made, and the denial
is not then noticed, because the matter
is no longer fresh news. The way to
settle such things is to get together at
the outset and let the charge and denial
go before the public at the same time.
This would do away with much of the
ill feeling that is now created against
the railroad.
"An instaice of where the Southern
Pacific was guilty In a sense of a viola
tion of the -law and In fact was entirely
guiltless Is found In the trouble we had,
when the Colorado River broke over Its
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