VOL. XL VI XO. 14,633.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HONOR OF A CITY
HANGS
BALANCE
Graft vs. Anti-Graft Is
sue in Election.
SANFRANCISCOVOTESTUESDAY
Success of Dr. Taylor Depends
on Labor Union Vote.
M'CARTHY'S NASTY FIGHT
Hopes to Win on Platform Opposed
to' Prosecutions Ryan Has
Fallen Into Hands ot Old
Republican Machine.
BT P. A. SIXSHEIMER.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 3. (Special.)
On Tuesday, November B, the voters of
Ban Francisco will go to the polls to
decide an Issue which has awakened the
Interest of the entire United States. A
full city ticket is to be elected, but the
battle is waging about the Mayoralty
and the District Attorneyship. The is
sue that has commanded the attention
of the country is the graft prosecution.
Two candidates for Mayor, Edward R.
Taylor and Daniel A. Ryan, are pledged
to its continuance. One. P. H. McCar
thy, has denounced It. McCarthy Is run
ning on the Union Labor ticket, Ryan
on the Republican and Taylor on the
Democratic and Good Government. As
the representative of the prosecution,
William H. Langdon Is a candidate to
succeed himself as District Attorney1.
The Democrats, Republicans and Good
Government League have indorsed him.
Frank McGowan, nominated by the
Union Labor party to oppose Langdon,
says that he desires to continue the
prosecution, but his alliance with Mc
Carthy has cast doubt upon his words.
Hurling Mud With Zest.
The fight has grown warmer and warm
er, until it has become exceedingly tor
rid. The campaign He has done diligent
service. Mud has been scraped from the
gutter and hurled with zest.
Although Ryan Is pledged to the con
tinuance of the graft prosecution, his
candidacy has not assumed proportions
to make him a figure In the betting. The
conservative forces of the city have re
garded Ryan's action in taking the nom
ination from a convention which he ab
solutely controlled as a blow to the
movement for good government. Senti
ment was overwhelmingly for the In
dorsement of Taylor. Ryan is In the
- race, however, and his candidacy must
be reckoned with, not so much as to any
chance of Its successful outcome, but in
relation to its effect upon the contest
between McCarthy and Taylor.
Machine Embraces Rjan.
TVhen Ryan captured the Republican
primaries, it was as the head of a
movement against the corrupt influence
of the Republican machine, which la an
other name for the Southern Pacific. Af
ter accepting the nomination, Ryan cast
about for support. The reform Repub
licans repudiated him. Then it was that
Hearst took him up. Now, at the end of
the campaign. Ryan Is allied with the
Republican machine, the very organiza
tion he fought at the primaries. There
is no question about this. George A.
i Knight has taken the stump for Ryan
and Knight Is one of the organization
stalwarts. On the platform at the Ryan
meetings have been seated those old
warhorses of the Republican party who
for years have served as the mask be
hind which the Southern Pacific has op
erated. Betting Favors Taylor.
During the entire campaign Taylor has
been a distinct favorite in the betting.
Beginning at 10 to 8. Taylor's popular
ity has steadily increased, until today
he Is a 2 to 1 favorite. He has made
a dignified campaign, using as his dom
inating note a plea for the spiritual re
generation of the city. His scholarly
instincts and high-mindedness have
made his speeches free from personal ref
erences. He has. spoken 111 of no man. He
has come from the luxury of his library
into the battle not because ho desires
office, for in truth he has no liking for
It. but simply because he believes that
he had no choice In the matter but to
obey the call of duty. He has been sub
jected to abuse, but he has not faltered.
He has been subjected to ridicule. They
have called him in derision a poet and
a dreamer.
"They call me a poet," said Dr. Tay
lor. "Well, there are worse things in
the world, and besides. If you elect me
Mayor, I won't have time to write any
poetryi"
McCarthy Shouts Conspiracy.
P. H. McCarthy has made a vigor
ous campaign. He has spoken at eight
meetings a day. His usual method Is to
denounce every leading man of wealth
In the community and to charge that the
capitalists are in a conspiracy to elect
Taylor and to cut wages. Since the
financial flurry, McCarthy has advanced
the argument that Taylor Is to blame
and that such a thing could not have
happened under a labor administration.
It Is generally understood that an un
derstanding exists between McCarthy and
ex-Mayor Schmltz. now in the county
Jail. McCarthy is particularly violent
against the graft prosecution. He never
misses an occasion to denounce Francis
J. Heney.
Taylor has the support of a large part
of the labor community. It is on this
point that the election hinges. If Tay
lor is to be elected, the Union Labor
voter must do It. If the Union. Labor
vote should go solid to McCarthy, then
McCarthy would certainly be elected.
The labor vote will not be solid by any
means, but It is still a question if Taylor
can pull enough labor votes to swing
the result. Several of the best known
labor leaders have done everything in
their power for Taylor. One large union
of carpenters has pledged its entire
membership for Taylor. Large organi
zations of iron workers have done the
same. The longshoremen are generally
for Taylor. P. H. McCarthy is president
of the Building Trades Council and na
turally has . the support of a large pro
portion of the men employed in the
building trades.
Heney Active In the Fight.
The registered vote is 77,000. It is fig
ured that about 58,000 votes will be cast.
The labor vote is estimated at something
between 20.000 and 25,000. If Taylor can
secure 7000 Union Labor votes, he should
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Anthony Comstock, Whose Attack on
the Late Robert G. Iogeraoll was
Answered by a Woman.
win. Otherwise the result would appear
to be doubtful.
Although Frank McGowan has a large
following, It does not appear to the
writer that he can by any circumstance
be elected. Langdon has been exceed
ingly well greeted In every section of the
city. Heney has made several speeches
for Langdon and on each occasion has
been accorded an ovation. Both Heney
and Langdon are keeping free from the
Mayoralty fight. They are confining their
efforts to the office of District Attorney.
MOB THIRSTS FOR BLOOD
Ohio White Man Narrowly Escapes
Lynching for Assiult on Girl.
MARIETTA, Ohio, Nov. 3. John
Sweeney, a married man, 35 years old.
narrowly escaped lynching from a mob
seeking revenge for his assault on
Anna Koon, a 14-year-old girl,' this
afternoon. Sweeney, who is the father
of Ave children, was caught with the
child in one of the buildings on "the
Fair Grounds, which is situated in the
residence district, where a crowd
quickly collected, and binding him with
a rope, started for the Muskingum
River, bent on throwing him In.
The police arrived in time to rescue
him and fought the crowd back to the
police station, where order waa re
stored by level-headed citizens. The
girl is in a precarious condition.
Skull Fractured at Football.
OMAHA. Neb., Nov. 3. Jay Shestaka,
playing the position of left tackle on the
Dietz Athletio Club football team, during
a game today with a team from Missouri
Valley, Iowa, suffered a fractured skull.
ana is m a critical condition.
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EXPLOSION KILLS
SEVEN LABORERS
Hurls Mangled Bodies
Into Columbia.
PICK HITS HIDDEN POPER
Workmen on North Bank Road
Victims of Blunder.
FIVE OF DEAD ARE HINDUS
Seventy-five Kegs of Explosive Hid
den in Rock Cut, and Forgotten,
Explode The Luckless Work
lngmen Had No Warning.
LTLE, Wash., Nov.- S. (Special.) Seven
men were blown to pieces last Friday by
the accidental explosion of a big blast
on the Portland & Seattle Railway con
struction work near this place. The
names of the victims of the accident are
Henry Hunkelor, a Finn; Charles Kefed,
a Swede; and five Hindus, Halem Singh,
Zebla Pongdo, Chunda Din. Namga Dass
and Gunga Doola. Five other Hindus
were injured. All are laborers who have
been on the work for some time. One of
the party is supposed to have driven his
pick into a missed coyote hole blast, con
taining 75 kegs of black powder.
The mine powder that was set oft is
supposed to have been left there last
Summer by contractors, as it failed to
explode and the workmen who laid it
never knew that it remained Intact.
When a number of blasts are set off to
gether it occasionally happens, workmen
say, that in the roar of the explosions,
count is lost and some of the blasts are
left unexploded. The seven laborers must
have been right above the deadly mine
of explosive, for the blast tore them to
atoms and hurled the dismembered bodies
into the Columbia River, a short distance
away.
The dead men were all employed at the
grading camp of Cochran & Wolson. sub
contractors on the North Bank Road.
They had been on the work for several
months and were accustomed to handling
powder. No other explanation of the
terrible accident can be found except In
the theory of Btriklng an old blast that
had missed fire. Every appearance of the
ground bears out this explanation.
Herman Schroder, who was employed
at the same camp at the time of the
accident, was in Lyle yesterday and ex
presses the belief that a big charge of
black powder had been left by contractors
who worked on that section of the road
during the Summer. It is known that
blasts known technically as "coyote
holes," containing 75 kegs of powder each,
were exploded in the rock cut where the
seven men were killed. It is likely that
one of these blasts remained unexploded
and was left by the workmen, who did not
know it had not been flred.
The party of men had been sent out
from the camp Friday morning to work
in the deep rock cut with pick and shovel.
While thus engaged, one of the men must
have swung his pick into the blast, a
chance spark from his tool firing it. The
men returned to the camp for lunch at
noon, going again to their work,
which was about three-quarters of a mile
from camp. The fata! explosion was
(Concluded on Page 3.)
EVENTS OF COMING WEEK.
Elections in Twelve States.
Tuesday's elections in twelve states
take precedence over all other news
events of the week in point of im
portance. President Hoosevelt will
leave Washington for Oyster Bay on
Monday night In order to vote.
Voters in 12 states will cast their
ballots on Tuesday In Massachusetts,
- Rhode Island. Maryland, Mississippi,
and Kentucky for a Governor and
other state officers; In New Jersey,
for a Governor only; in New York,
for two associate justices of the
Court of Appeals; in Pennsylvania,
for" a State Treasurer, and in Ne
braska for a Railroad Commissioner
and two regents of the State Univer
sity. Municipal officers will be se
lected In Ohio. Utah and California,
while In New York County a number
of Judges and Sheriffs will be elected.
Keeping Vp Reform Work.
The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe
Railroad will be sentenced for re
bating at Los Angeles Monday.
The Metropolitan Street Rail
way investigation will be resumed
' on "Wednesday in New York.
The National Reform League will
meet at Buffalo on - Thursday and
Friday.
The 27th - annual meeting of the
National Civil Reform League will
begin in Buffalo on Thursday. Dan
iel C. Gilman, the president, will de
liver the principal address at the
opening session 'and the meeting
will conclude on Friday.
Taft Will Leave Manila.
Secretary of War Taft's recent
change of plans for the remainder of
his world-ctrcllng itinerary provides
for his departure from Manila on
Saturday of this week instead of
Monday, November 4, as originally
arranged.
The anniversary on Saturday of the
birth of King Edward of GreatiBrlt
aln will be marked by the presenta
tion to him on behalf of "the people
of the Transvaal of the great Cultlnan
diamond, the value of which 4s ap
proximately $800,000.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The TVeather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 50
degrees; minimum, 35
TODAY'S Increasing cloudiness, probably
followed by rain; southerly winds.
Financial Situation.
Charles Fowler, chairman Congressional
banking committee, explains workings ot
clastic currency. Page 3.
Inflow of European gold restores confidence
in New York. Page S.
Chicago Federation of Labor expresses con
fidence in integrity of "Windy City'
banks. Page 3.
Foreign
Many crowned heads will be guests at Wln
sor Castle this month. Page 4.
Domestic.
Montana labor unions drop out of State
. Federation because, of unpopularity of
Telephone boycott. Page 3.
Anthony Comstock's criticism of IngersoU
answered by woman preacher. Page 2.
Secret service man shot dead by miner In
Colorado. Page 2. -
Feud between Lieutenant-Governor Bands
and Donelson Caffery. of Louisiana, at
, white he t. Page 2.
American heiresses spend $900,000,000 for
foreign titles, which affects money mar
ket. Page 8.
Sport.
Los Angeles takes double-header from
Beavers In last game of season. Page o.
" Pacific Coast.
Oraft vs. anti-graft chief issue In San Fran
cisco Mayoralty contest. Page 1.
Seven men meet death in powder explosion
at Lyle. Page 1.
Towns of Southern Oregon up in arms at
-the order to remove trains 11 and 12 from
Southern Pacific schedule Page 1.
Man at Napavlne fatally wounds wife with
gun through Jealousy. Page 2.
Port land and Vicinity.
Banks will Issue clearing-house certificates
to supply demand for circulating medium.
Page 1.
Better feeling prevails In regard to financial
situation. Page 9.
Pastors preach on financial stringency.
Page 13.
Benjamin Fay Mills lectures on Emerson.
Page 8.
Police arrest four saloonkeepers who dis
pose of liquor on Sunday. Page 8.
Japanese celebrate birthday of Mikado.
Page 14.
SOUTH OREGON
1NT5
ITS TRAINS
Southern Pacific Road
Loudly Condemned.
REMOVAL OF II ANO 12 MISTAKE
Innumerable Hardships Will
Be the Result.
PETITIONS BEING FORMED
Various Towns Affected by Order
Are Up In Arms and Will Fight
to Keep Present Train Service.
All Business Is Affected.
EFFECT 0 SOtTHIRX OREGON"
OF REMOVAL OF TRAINS
JfOS. 11 AND 12.
ASHLAND A demoralized mail serv
ice and the neglect of express and
passenger business.
GRANTS PASS Inability of doctors
to visit patients In the county. In
convenience to lawyers and business
men desiring; to so to the mining
districts.
GLENDALE Difficulty In getting to
county seat. Further Injury to
lumber Interests after raise In
rates.
JACKSONVILLE Failure of Rogue
River Valley train to connect- with
Southern Pacific.
MEDFORD Further crowding- of
trains left on schedule. Delay In
malls and -no fresh newspapers In
the morning.
ROSEBURG Delay In rural mall of
from 24 to 40 hours. Failure to
connect with star route deliveries.
MYRTLE POINT Further crippling
of already poor service.
SOUTHERN OREGON IN GENERAL,
Delay In malls and newspaper
service. Inconvenience to traveling
public, further crowding of already
overcrowded trains and results on
very branch of industry.
ASHLAND. Or.. Nov. S.-(SpecIaI.)-Dis-continuance
of Southern Pacific passen
ger trains Nos. 11 ana 12, without radical
changes In the time schedules of the other
mail-carrying trains between Portland
and San Francisco, will demoralize the
mail service particularly In this section of
Oregon and the northern part of Cali
fornia. These two trains carrv th nHnimt
malls for this region, including all Eastern
x-oruana and San Francisco
morning newspapers now reach here 24
hours after they are Issued. On the
present schedule of the other trains they
could not be delivered here until nearly
36 hours after publication. '
Ashland Up in Arms.
Citizens of Ashland generally condemn
the proposed curtailment of train service
by the Southern Pacific not only on ac
count of the demoralization of the mail
service but of the very best of the pas
senger and express service as well.
The difficulty In handling the heavy
traffic over the road with the present
service Is the principal cause of the trains
being hours late day after day for months
past. How the company expects now to
take off one train each way and handle
the traffic with the remaining trains,
which are already overloaded. Is more
than the men in the railway train service
or the public either, can figure out.
Done to Spite Commission.
The idea Is advanced by some here that
the action of the railroad management
is to spite the State Railroad Commission.
If that Is the case the people of this end
of Oregon do not like the idea of being
forced to hold the sack. It is pointed out
that from the San Francisco end of the
Southern Pacific a daily passenger train
is run north as far as Dunsmuir, which
is In addition to train service afforded
the territory between Dunsmuir and
Roseburg by. the Southern Pacific. In
stead of curtailing the train service the
people here think the Southern Pacific
ought to Increase it to keep pace with the
growing traffic on the Shasta route, for
some of the present, passenger trains are
so long that they have to be divided every
day Into two and three sections.
MEDFORD FINDS SIX TOO FEW
With Two Trains Taken Off There
Will Be Untold Inconvenience.
MEDFORD, Or., Nov. 3. (Special.)
Time was when one train dally through
"Boss" Murphy, Who Will Dispense
(75,000 of Tammany's Money
Among the "Faithful" Today.
the Rogue River Valley was sufficient for
the needs of the population thereof but
with the rapidly Increasing population
came the demand for service, both freight
and passenger," and at the present time
three trains dally each way find a con
gested condition of passenger service, de
layed malls and express.
The residents of the entire valley are
united in their opinion, for it means an
other 24 hours delay to those living on
the rural routes. .........
The traveling men And trains Nos". " 11
and 12 an advantage and only yesterday
a prominent veteran traveler was heard
to remark that in traveling from Rose
burg to Medford on No. 11 he was com
pelled to stand during part of the trip
on account of the crowded condition of
the cars.
Some of the leading citizens were asked
If it would make any difference If the
express were to be 24 hours later reach
ing Medford.
P. J. McMahon, of the Hotel Nash(
said a very material difference with the
traveling public In every line of business
would result and every one should be
loud in his protestation against the re
moval of these trains from the present
schedule. Beyond anything else the in
convenience would be felt If the night
trains were dispensed with.
Mr. Vawter, of the Jackson County
Bank, stated:
"We will find it a very serious Incon
venience to have the night trains be
tween Roseburg and Ashland discon
tinued." George Fawcett, "W'ells-Fargo agent
said:
"With the new schedule the news
dealers find that no resident of the Rogue
River Valley may sit at his breakfast
and enjoy the luxury of a fresh dally,
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BANKS WILL ISSUE
THEIR Oil PAPER
Certificates to Serve
Public as Cash.
CLEARING HOUSE SO ORDERS
Plan to Supply Need for Circu
lating Medium.
BASED ON GOOD SECURITY
Products of Pacific Northwest Will
Bo Behind Every Dollar Paper
'Will Be Redeemable in
Cash February 1.
FIAT MONET IN SEATTLE.
As a result of ths conference
among the bankers of the North
west at Seattle, the Seattle banks
have agreed to adopt clearing-house
certificates and to stop cash pay
ments except In small amounts. They
did not desire to do this at first, but
were persuaded by the bankers from
the other cities.
In order to supply the temporary need
of currency and furnish means for mar
keting the crops of the state, the Port
land Clearing-House Association has au
thorized the issuance of bank checks in
denominations of to, $10 and $30 for gen
eral circulation. These checks, or
Clearing-House certificates, will be based
upon deposits of notes, bills of exchange
and other negotiable instruments that
are secured by wheat, grain, canned fish,
lumber actually sold, and other market
able products or paper approved by the
committee that has been appointed by
the association and by which the certifi
cates will be issued.
These certificates or emergency bank
notes will be Issued through the Port
land Clearing-House Association to the
extent of two-thirds only of the valuia of
the securities. The certificates will be
redeemable in cash February 1, 1908, and
will be used In all transactions the same
as currency. They will be received by
the banks in payment of all obligations
and will circulate the same as gold, sli
ver or paper money.
Northwest Cities Agree.
This plan for providing a temporary
circulating medium was adopted at a
conference of the representative bank
ers of the cities of Portland, Tacoma.
Spokane and Seattle, held in the last
named city yesterday. A supply of this
emergency currency is now on the press
and if the work of the printer is not de
layed, the first installment will be placed
in circulation tomorrow.
Through the plan that has been adopt
ed by the local Clearing--House Associa
tion the necessary medium of exchange
is assured for marketing the enormous
crops of the state. Aside frbm lumber,
wheat is the state's principal product,
and with the price for this cereal rang
ing from E8 to 90 cents In Portland, the
old saying "good as wheat" is especially
applicable to the local situation, since
this crop will be the principal securlty
that will be offered and on which the
certificates will be Issued and circulated.
Will Move All Crops.
This crop will not only furnish the
main guarantee for the issuance of a
temporary circulating medium, but It
will at the same time afford the very
means for transporting it and the other
crops to the markets of the world, re
gardless of the condition of the money
market.
Portland alone will export this year
about 20,000,000 bushels of wheat,
worth over $17,000,000, only a small
portion of which has been shipped. The
lumber output of the state approxi
mates 2,000,000,000 feet annually, repre
senting a revenue of $30,000,000. The
system of finance that has been devised
will allow the handling of both these
products, along with the other crops of
the state, at a time the market Is
strong and when prices are high.
Products that will be covered by these
certificates will bo shipped direct to
the markets of the world and sold.
Proceeds Will Come Here.
If in the meantime the situation has
not been relieved locally, the proceeds
of these crops will be shipped direct to
Portland and used for redeeming the
certificates by which the movement of
the crops was facilitated.
"This la merely a plan for providing
a temporary currency for marketing
crops, paying wages and affording a
circulating medium for all lines of busi
ness," said J. C. Alnsworth, president
of the United States National Bank,
last night. "It is not a new plan, for
it was employed during the panic of
1893-4 and San Francisco, Denver and
other large cities of trie country have
adopted it to relieve the existing
stringency. The certificates are guar
anteed by the best security and will
pass as currency In all avenues of the
business world. They are perfectly
good and would be worth their full
value, even if every bank in the coun
try should suspend."
"The banks will apply for these cer
tificates," said William A. MacRae,
manager of the Bank of California.
(Concluded on Pago 5.)
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