X if I ihOi I VOL. XLVI.-XO- 14,033. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY; NOVEMBER 1, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. if-l I i ROADS HIT BACK AT Refuse Shipments Un til Further Notice. NORTHERN PACIFIC'S EMBARGO Order' Follows Injunction Is sued by Federal Court. MEANS FIGHT TO FINISH Litigation 3Iay Continue for Years. State Iiaw Prevents Railroads From Resuming the Old Rates Without 30 Days Notice. BELLINGHAM, Wash., Oct. 31. No more lumber shipments will be re ceived by the Northern Pacific Rail road In the Northwest until further notice. "This Is the order sent out to all agents of the company last night. This move of the Northern Pacific is expected to be followed by all the railroads affected by the Injunction Is sued by the Federal Court In Seattle Thursday night, making It compulsory on the part of the railroads to charge the old rate of 40 cents on lumber shipments from terminal points on the Pacific Coast. The railroads had Issued a new schedule of rates that were to be effective tomorrow. This new sched ule was fought by the lumbermen and resulted In the Issuance of the tem porary injunction. The railroads have evidently found another method of combatting: the lum bermen. The latest move la the refusal to accept any shipments of lumber, at any rate. The roads figure they would be taking too great a risk to allow the excess freight to accumulate until a final decision on the. rate Is made, as they say that litigation will ensue be fore the matter Is settled, and many of the lumber firms may have gone out of business. Another contingency the rallorads have to face is the. la-ak. providing, that all rates nust be published and posted at least SO days before they become effective, so that in case they decided to go back to the old rate they cannot do it now without the 30 days' notice. HAXFOED SIGNS THE ORDER Federal Judge, After Ilourn of lie- 'at, Issues Injunction. PC rr !,';. "Wash., Oct. Scoria'.) t i' X '-Might, lifter thrie hours of ar- 'il uj-,i!.-r:r.n's attorneys. United States .i -ilo ;, H. . lianford signed an order temporarily restraining the Northern Pa cific, Great Northern, Burlington and the Harrlraan railroads from collecting freight rates on lumber and shingles shipped from the state of Washington to the East and Central West as provided by tho new tariffs filed more than 30 days ao, and which were scheduled to be ef feotlve tomorrow. The ink on the order signed by Judge llanford was dry Just 35 minutes before the stroke of 13 o'clock onight, one min ute after which the new tariffs would have gone into effect. Three hundred lumber and shingle men from various parts of Western Washing ten gathered here this afternoon and tonight to celebrate their victory , over the railroads. ' Late this afternoon the Southwestern Lumbermen's Association, which had not participated in the suit, and which num bers 00 of the largest mills in Lewis. Che halls, Cowlita and Thurston Counties, be came amalgamated with the PaclDc Coast Lumbermen's Association, which Institu ted the suit against the railroads. Prob ably 125 other lumber and shingle mills during the day joined the northern com bination, but there are yet fully 200 mills which have not been made parties to the suit and whose products may be forced to pay the higher rate. HEIRS SEEK LARGE SUM AYushlngton's Descendants Want the Value or Land Grant. WASHINGTON. Oct. 31.-(Special.)-Helrs of George Washington are' seeking to recover a large sum from the Govern ment on aocount of lands granted to him along the Ohio River and which subse quently were inadvertently given by Con gress to actual settlers. An administra tor of the undistributed assets of his estate was appointed today by the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia, on a petition of the heirs-at-law, Lawrence Washington and S. W. Washington. Robert K. Lee was appointed adrnlnls- trator. He is the grandson of General Robert E. Lee and great grandson of "Light Horse" Harry Lee, General Wash ington's Chief of Staff. AFRAID TO DIE HIMSELF Warden Confesses Aiding Wife to Execute Suicide Compact. NEW YORK. Oct. 31. After being con victed of manslaughter In the first de gree In aiding and abetting his wifeMo kfommlt suicide, James Wardell confessed foaay that he killed her and fired a bull- LUMBERMEN Into her dead body to give the Impression she had ended her own life. Wardell said his mind had been com pletely upset by his wife's misdoings and wheA he suggested that they die together she Jeadily agreed. He placed the gas tube in his wife's mouth, turned on the gas and when she was dead his own cour age failed and he dared not end his own life. Then he thought to shield himself by firing a shot into her brain to make It appear that she had committed suicide. After the confession Wardell said: "Try me for murder; that's what I want. That's what I wanted to do." KEEP LAND FOR NATIVES Governors of Samoa Forbid Further leasing to Whites. TUTUILA.- Samoa, Sept. 25. (via San Francisco, Oct. 31.) The Governor of Amerlcan Samoa has stated that he will not consent to any further leases of large blocks of land in Tutuila. The . land is to be reserved for the growing popula tion of the islands. The German government has arranged that all existing leases In German Samoa may be converted into freeholds. Fur ther leaseholds will not be granted by natives to whites. There is ample free- Maximilian Harden, German Editor Woo Exposed Secrete of Round Table. hold property, however, to satisfy all demands for some time to come. There has been great loss among the livestock on the Islands, owing to the continued dry weather, which is unus ual In this season in Samoa. GOVERNOR JOLTS BOOKMEN Publishers Must Meet Oregon Con tracts or Suit Will Be Instituted. SALEM. Or., Oct. 31. (Special.) Aoting in behalf of the State Board of Educa tion, of which he la chairman. Governor Chamberlain today telegraphed the American Book Company, of New York, Powers & Lyons, of Chicago, and the World Book Company, of New York, that they must .supply public school books in Oregon according to contract or suit would be brought on the bonds alven by them. I Contents today's paper The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 61 decrees; minimum, 60 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional light rain; southerly vlnds. - Financial Situation. Increased supply n money from gold and new bank currencey eases New Torn market- Page 1. Movement for currency reform strengthened by crisis. Page 1. California banks Ignore holldty. Page 4. San Francisco banks getting millions from Subtreasury and New York. Page . Montana, .banks do business under normal conditions. Page 4. Oklahoma banks to reopen Monday. Page 1. Foreign. Democratic leaders win Douma, election !n Russia. Page 8. No measures taken to relieve earthquake Sufferers at Karatagh. Page 8. National. How part of fleet may be retained on Paclrle. Page 5. Hostile Navajo Indians killed or captured by cavalry in Utah. Pags 6. Politics. Bnosevelt willing to support Root or Cortel you If stronger than Taft in New York. Page 4. . Commercial and Marine. J Growth of banana trade In Northwest. Page 19. TV"heat not so strong at Chicago. Page 19. Check given to rapid advance in stock prices. Page 39. Two French barks clear with full wheat cargoes. Page 14, Exports for October break all records. Page 14. Domestic. Bank cashier at Charlton. Ind.. leaves mes sage saying bank Is wrecked, then com mits suicide. Page 5. Great Northern and Northern Pacific rall . roads will not suspend construction. Page 4. Halloween raid by Northwestern University students on theological students. Page y Charles W. Clark accused of fraudulent , conveyance to Senator Clark by Mexican bank. Page 6. Raymond Hitchcock disappears and friends say blackmailers have murdered or kid naped htm. Page 1. Two arrests In Chicago for stealing records In case of John R. Walsh. Page 9. Sport. Portland defeats Los Angeles. In 32-lnnlng game. Page 7. - Pacific Coast. ' Northern Pacific issues order refusing to.. receive lumber shipments. Page 1. Third death In Seattle from bubonic plague. Page 1. Pacific University dedicates women's dormi tory. Page it. Juror In Adams case takes sick because he can't get. whisky. Page 1ft. Portland and Vicinity. All trade barometers show prosperity of raciflo Northwest. Page 1. Federal Court grants prayer of Oregon Lum bermen In railroad rate case. Page 12. Spectacular Are draws big crowd at Third and Ankcny. Page 12. Eastern landscape architect here to design park system for Portland. Page 13. Southern Pacific announces changes in pas senger schedules. Page 13. J.i hi V MYSTERY HANGS tin Friends Say He's Killed or Kidnaped. HOUNDED BY BLACKMAILERS Wife Confident of Innocence of Any Crime. SOME SUGGEST SUICIDE Missing Actor Believed to Have Been Spirited Away by Blackmailers Who Fear Exposure When the Indictments Are Tried. NEW YORK, Oct. 31 The disappear ance of Raymond Hitchcock, following his indictment by the grand Jury which had heard the stories of three little girls, was the absorbing topic today on Broad way. The actor's closest friends, who have energetically defended his name since he became involved In trouble, are divided in opinion. Many insisted today that, driven desperate by the "serious ac cusations, he had committed suicide. Others were satisfied that he had been spirited away and possibly murdered by men who had practiced blackmail on the comedian and who feared exposure If the case against their victim came to trial. Blackmailers Are Known. This theory was voiced by Herman Fromme, the missing man's attorney, and by Mrs. Hitchcock, who before marriage was Zabelle Mangassarlan of Chicago, whose stage name is Flora' Zabelle. Mrs. Hitchcock;, though near collapse through worry, has continued to play opposite her husband's understudy at the theater where both were engaged in "The Yankee Tourist," until yesterday, when Hitchcock failed to appear at the mati nee. Mr: Fromme said: "Hitchcock did not go away of his own aooord. He has been either kidnaped or murdered :by the band of blackmailers by whom he has been annoyed, ; threat ened and hounded for the past two years. "Six of these dozen men are known by name to me. Mr. Hitchcock has lived in a state of continual terror on account of their persecutions . for two years. Nevertheless he has not left his wife vol untarily. He Is an innocent man, and there is no proof that there is the slight est foundation for the accusations made against him. Has Been Trailed for Months. "Four men have been trailing him for months. Now it turns out that they are blackmailers. Last Monday Mr. Hitch cock was anxious to 'have the entire mat ter aired in court, but an adjournment prevented this. The case was called for this afternoon. I believe that he Is the victim of blackmailers who are not anxious to have, the case threshed out." While ' these theories gained some credence, , the police did not relax their efforts to locate Hitchcock, which be gan when a police alarm for his arrest was sent out last night. All outgoing steamers were visited and their passen f,eeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeieeeeeeeeeeeee--e.seeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeT THE REAL CAUSE OF ALL THE TROUBLE j ' : ' : " ' 1 ger lists scrutinized. A wireless message was sent to the Majestic, which sailed yesterday. T Xo Preparation for Flight. Mrs.' Hitchcock told Henry W. Savage, owner of ."The Yankee Tourist" Com pany, that her husband left the hotel where they were staying shortly before breakfast, saying that he was going to a Turkish bath and would Join her at the matinee. This Is . the last she saw of him. He had spent-a very restless night, she said. Mrs. Hitchcock, to whom he was mar ried two years ago, In St. Louis, Is the daughter of Dr. Mangassarlan, an Arme nian of Chicago, a , lecturer on ethical culture. - After the close of the performance last night Mrs. Hitchcock remained up all night, assisting in directing the search for her husband. She will not listen to any theory which included flight, insist ing that she believes he has been the victim of foul play. In support of her oontention she declares that Hitchcock made absolutely no preparations for flight, as he had only a few dollars in money and two or three rings with him when he left the hotel yesterday morn ing. As a result of Hitchcock's disappearance Wallace Berry, a young Western actor, who has been his understudy, has risen to the leading role In the popular Broad way piece at a single bound and Is likely to keep the place. THIRD DEATH FROM PLAGUE MRS. GEORGE OSBORNE VICTIM OF DREAD SCOURGE. - Attending Physicians Diagnose Case and Attribute Woman's Death to Bubonic Plague. BEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 31. (Special.) Mrs. George Osborne died shortly after midnight and the attending physicians state that they will assign the cause of death to bubonic plague. Mrs. Osborne was the wife of a member of the Osjborne family, in which there have been three deaths within the past two weeks, one of which was officially diagnosed as plague by the City Baoterlologlst and Board of Health. Mrs. Osborne died In the house in -which Patrolman Ernest C. Osborne and his sister died. If the diagnosis is confirmed in this case it will make three deaths from the plague In Seattle. PLANS TO STAMP OVT PLAGUE Canadian Health OMIcer Visits Se attle to Confer With Dr. White. SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 31. Dr. F. Montlzw.mbert, Director-General of Pub lic Health, of Canada, arrived here from Ottawa today and, aftr confer ence with Dr. M. I. White, of the United States Service, agreed .to adopt uniform measures for the suppression of bubonic plague along the Pacific Coast. The Canadian ports have al ready adopted many precautions sim ilar to those in force in Seattle. No new c9.6es of plague have developed. Hundreds of men, under the direction of Board of Health Inspectors, are en gaged in cleaning up the city's vacant lots and old rookeries, which may har bor rats are being condemned by the Health Board and destroyed. Where practicable, the structures are sur rounded by fences of wire netting to prevent the rats from escaping. ., Aberdeen Particular About Plague. ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 31. Active measures are being taken to enforce the quarantine regulations at this port. Some of the captains coming here are quite averse to taking the trouble required by the officers, but the law will be rigidly enforced. William E. Kindred has been appointed a special officer by Health Of ficer Chamberlain to enforce the regu lations in regard to. the .use of rat fun nels, and also to see that the vessels that tie up at the docks keep the regula tion distance from them. MOBEY SUPPLY SWELLING DAILY Acute Stage of Finan cial Crisis Over. BANKS ISSUE MORE NOTES Readily Accept Offer Made by " Controller. ASK CURRENCY REFORM Bankers' Association Will Again Urge Congress to Adopt Its Plan. Cortelyou Will Help the Cot ton Men With Deposits. FINANCIAL SITUATION. NEW YORK Gold Import arranged Increase to $23,750,000. Increase In -Bank of England discount rate from 4 per cent to 5 per cent does not affect gold movement. Bankers will increase currency $50,000,000. Gov ernment helps financing of cotton crop. Crisis revives demand for cur rency reform. Small investors buy 1100,000,000 In stock. SAN FRANCISCO All banks open except Safe Deposit & Trust, which Is In charge of State Bank Commleeion ' ers. Clearings for week decrease 14 per cent. Subtreasury puts $1,250,000 in circulation, bond salea in New T York will add $1,000,000, and much I Imported gold will come here. Sub- e treasury may lend money on Gov- f ernment bonds. LONDON Bank of England raises dla- J count rate from per cent to I per cent. CALIFORNIA CITIES All Ignore Gov ernor's holiday proclamation and keep banks open. MONTANA Helena. Butte and Mis soula all report ample cash In banks .. and do business under normal condi tions. OKLAHOMA and Indian Terrltonr Bankers agree to re-open next Mon day. PORTLAND Arrangements are being made to br'.ng $l.n0,00O in. specie from Ban Pranclfcco. Bankers will favor extension of holiday 'nest week, if necessary. ; NEW YORK, Oct. SI. Indications that the available supply of cash would be ma terially Increased within a short time with imports of gold and the increase of the banknote circulation, and that the move ment of cotton and grain oropa would be facilitated in every way possible, with the result of increasing our credits abroad, were the salient features of to day's financial situation. ' It seemed to be recognized everywhere that the acute stage of the crisis was over and that all that remained was to obtain sufficient currency to resume currency payments upon a broad scale and thu3 to restore conditions prevailing before the crisis. Increased" Gold Shipments. ' The engagements of gold made In New York, Chicago and elsewhere brought up the total import movement within the ivant week to $23,750,000. As the amount of gold will afford a bas4s of credit to four times the amount, or about $95,000,000, it will in itself afford much relief to the existing pressure. The action of the Bank of England in raising its discount rate from to per cent was in accordance with expectations in conservative circles. The fact that the Increase was not made to 6 per cent and that the English rate re mains 1 per cent below the German rate is accepted as an indication that the situ ation at London Is not considered acute. More Currency to Issue. The prompt response of the National banks through the country to. the sug gestion of Controller Bldgeley that they should employ United States bonds aa largely as possible to secure circulation and substitute other bonds for those pledged against deposits of public money promises a considerable Increase in the available stock of currency. The estimate of an Increase in the banknote circula tion of $30,000,000 Is considered well within the probabilities. It will require time, however. In some cases for the banks to obtain proper bonds to substitute for their United States bonds. Frank A. Van derllp, vice-president of the National City Bank, made the fruitful suggestion today that the Savings banks would at ouce Im prove the general situation and add to : i ti " -- - a ' V t l-.-iwa ' Tit t I Dr. Walter R. Gillette, ex-Vlre-PresI- , Dr. Walter R- Gillette, ex-Vlre-Presl-dent of Mutual Ufe Insurance e Company, Sentenced to Jail ' for J Perjury. their circulation If they would sell their holdings of United States bonds to the National banks. Even In cases where they do not care to sell, it is believed that they will lend the bonds to the National banks, as has often been done In the past. Financing the Cotton Crop. Interest is continuing to center in the movement of the cotton crop from New Orleans and other Southern, points, whnro it is so essential to provide hills againet the imports of gold. Secretary Cortelyou, according to Washington dlepatches today, was disposed to in crease deposits of public funds in the Southern banks as rapidly as such funds become available. This will sup ply the banks with tha stock of cur rency so much needed to handle the cotton crop, and will enable them to await with less embarrassment than otherwise arrival of their cotton bills In Europe and the bringing back of their gold. The committee of New Orleans bank ers, which is in Washington, has sug gested that the New York banks can ease the situation by giving the South ern banks credit for checks on for eign banks forwarded ,as soon as they receive telegraphic advices of the amounts. Thia.wlll enable the South ern banks to check against balances in payment of collections and In mak ing - remittances to interior banks throughout the country. - Currency Reform Revived. It is noted with Interest by leading bank ers here that the present scarcity of cur rency and the recourse which has been had to National bank circulation are arousing unusual Interest In tho plan for currency reform which has been indorsed by the American Bankers' Association. This plan was adopted in December of last year, after consultation with repre sentatives of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and was presented to Congress at that time. The plan did not receive the definite approval of the American Bankers' Association, however, until the meeting at Atlantlo City in September last, but at that time it was Indorsed by a nearly unanimous vote, after strong ar guments In its favor by A. Barton Hep burn, president of the Chase National Bank of New York, and Representative Charles N. Fowler, chairman of the House committee on banking. The committee which framed the measure was continued with authority to take further action. It has not held a meeting since the conven tion at Atlantlo City, but some of the Western members are strongly desirous that such a meeting be called at an early date, in order to bring the subject prop erly before Congress while publlo opinion Is aroused on the-subject. Buying Stock In Small Lot9. The Journal of Commerce estimates the dividend and "interest payments for No vember at $75,103,801, a new high record for the month, .as against $53,000,000 last year. . The enormous extent to which Invest ment buyers are taking advantage of the declines in the prices of stocks to buy up small lot? was Indicated today by the estimate of competent authorities that In vestment buyers have taken 2,000,000 shares of stocks out of the market within the last ten days. The average value Is estimated at $50 a share, making a total investment of $100,000,000. The run on the Trust Company of America is over. T T Comment on Roosevelt's New Bill. NEW YORK. Oct. 31. The reported in tention of President Roosevelt to recom mend in his annual message to Congress a ; iW placing trust companies under Fed-e-r iupervislon, the same as, National b ' .ks, was variously commented upon by i W Ynrk financiers today. - ' 1 ' STATISTICS PROVE CITY'S PROSPERITY AH Trade Barometers Are Rising. PESSIMISTS ARE ANSWEO Find No Comfort In Figures Indicative of Progress. RECORD WHEAT EXPORTS October 'Shipments Kxceed All For mer Marks Bank Clearings, Re ceipts of PostoTflce and ReaU ty Transfers Tell Like Story. FIOrnKS THAT SHOW PORT LAND'S PROSPERITY. Grain and Lumber. Portland breaks the record for one month's exportation of wheat, over 1,000.000 bushels, value, $1.0.12,600. Portland exports In October 230.063 bushels barley, vnlue, $162,342. Portland aends to foreign ports In October 1.1,000.000 feet lumber, value. $200,440. Record . Rank Clearing. Portland banks in til? month of Oc tober sent through the Clearlng - House checks and drafts repre senting $a.i6.'-..2:io.os. PoetofTlce Business. Portland Poetofflce receipts for the month of October were $.16,465.47, the largest month's postal busl &mj of the year. Building Permits Issued. Portland . contractors and builders took out permits during the month to erect houses valued at $65,035, making the values for the ten months this year $2,127, 040 In excess of whole of last - yean Real Estate Transfers. Portland realty continues to be re garded by Investors as the best offered anywhere, the transfers for to rn-Tr..,ntho Just past te ' Ins' within" $2,000,000 of last year's 12 months. "Figures do not He," Is a saying that students of economic condition in the Pacific Northwest, and particularly la Portland, may find evidence to prove in the summary herewith given of the busi ness done in this city during the past month, and for the ten months of tho year. What few pessimists there are in Portland will have to Invent a new phrase it they are to scoff at the fact that In the month closing yesterday over a million bushels of wheat were shipped to foreign ports for which Oregon farmers are the richer by over a million dollars. Other foreign buyers took of the prod ucts of Oregon's forests 13,000,000 feet of lumber, and over 200,000 bushels of barley were added to the total export of the month. Nearly a million and a half dol lars' worth of Oregon products set afloat In a single month makes a record i that would have been larger if the regular line Oriental steamships had been ready to sail, for two of them are loading with flour for the Far East and will depart Boon with about 100,000 barrels. Bank Clearings Larger. The varied business interests of the city are represented in the clearing-house transactions, and when it is observed that for the month of October, lacking three days of bunk holidays, nearly $37,000,000 In checks and drafts were deposited in the banks and by tltem cleared In the one month, it furnishes ample evidence of the growth and prosperous condition of the city and surrounding country. So far this year clearings have greatly exceeded any previous year's, the total for the year to date being almost $100,000,000 greater than for the ten months of last year. Transactions in the Postoffice also in dicate the growth and healthy condition of the people's business, the sales of stamps and money orders since the first of the year showing a large increase over the same period of last year. Postmaster Mlnto says this Increase in the receipts of the office can only be accounted for by the increased population and prosper ous condition of the people. Breaks Record of 1906. In real estate the tremendous business done for the past year or two Is keeping up, as records of transfers are above tno average. At the present rate, this year will exceed in total that of last year, which was thought tobe the record for some time to come. Up to date there has been invested this year In Portland nearly ?4.000,000 more in buildings than for the corresponding time last year, with no indications of a cessa tion. Work is progressing rapidly on several "skyscrapers" which will be added to those already occupied early in the year and others are projected. Portland broke all grain shipping records of the port for a single month when October wound up with a total of 1,119,654 bushels of wheat and 230,963 bushels of barley. The value of the wheat exported was $1,032,600 and of the barley J162.342. In addition more than 13,000,000 feet of lumber was cleared for foreign ports with a valua tion of $209,410. making trie total value of exports of grain and lumber aggre gate $1,404,382. Some Idea of the great increase In (Concluded on Page IS.) et 104.2