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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1909)
THE MORNING OREGOXTAN, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1009. OTHER OFFICIALS TEN DAYS' WORK EIPHEST WOMAN IN. AMERICA, HER DAUGHTER AND NEW SON-IN-LAW. . TO BE AHEAD FOR SOTO MewGoodsfor Investigating Probe Into Booth Company. to Go : l. Deeper. ; m Much Remains to Be Done Before Olympia Legisla ture Adjourns. prin DRAWN MORE BANKS ARE INVOLVED falsified Statements Extend Over Five Years and Catch 1'irst Na tional, Corn Exchange and Many Note Brokers. CWtC nn no rt, . . v ' " ' -rj. n. opeciai.j w. Vernon Booth, the indicted president of A. Booth & Co.. will appear in the crlm L?1 eourt rarrow to give bonds of '"l'v "n me charge of criminal Con spiracy. Frorlorl.lr TJ Tv.l. ; w .mii'iu.i, iui mer assistant treasurer of the defunct sea "uu corporation, named with Mr. Booth as co-defendant, returned to Chicago today, and also will furnish bail. That an earlv ffor-r n-ni k.. - - ..... w uiaug L' . aash the Joint indictment because of the error in naming W. G. Robblns as a party to the alleged conspiracy, was i"cultl oy a lawyer In touch with the situation. In tiiis event, though. State's Attorney Wayman will immedi ately seek the reindictment of the two men named in the bill. More Investigation Coming. It also is considered likely that the prosecutor will continue investigation into the affairs of the fish corporation and it was said today that additional indict ments involving certain other officials of A. Booth & Co., may be returned by the March grand 1nrv Attorney Henry S. Robbings, represent ing .111. Doom, says nis client will appear voluntarily and the same assurance was given by the indicted assistant treasurer a few minutes after his return from New Tork. "Mr. Booth has ben indicted and there fore it will be necessary for him 'to ap pear and give bonds," said the lawyer. "He will go before one of the judges in the Criminal Court in the. morning and the bond will be furnished by a surety company. I may add that Mr. Booth is not seeking to evade anyone, and the re port that he has 'tied- to escape service, is unwarranted and ridiculous." Other Banks Involved. It is pointed out by those who predict further investigation of the altair of the fish concern, that the J300.000 loan by the Continental National Bank upon which the present incident is baaed, is only one of half a dozen similar tran sactions. Other Institutions which ad vanced money to A. Booth & Company on the falsified statements are the First Xational Bank, $400,000; Corn Exchange National Bank, J2SO.O0O. Various note brokers also loaned about $700,000. Manipulted statements are said to have dated back to 1901. NEGRO HURRIED TO SAFETY Ottumwa Brute Confesses He Planned Iloscn Murder in Prison. DKS MOINES. Ia., Feb. 28. John Junkin. the negro, confessed slayer of Clara Rosen at Ottumwa, February 5 last, was brought here today for safe keeping, as threats had been made against him in Ottumwa. Junkin admitted that he made plans for the Rosen murder while he was in tho State Penitentiary serving time for having robbed a woman. He killed Miss Rosen a few days after his release from prison. FOREIGN LABOR MAY CLASH Trouble Between Austrians aiid Servians Looms at Pueblo. PUEBLO, Colo.. Feb. 28. The local situation between the Servians and the Austrians is rapidly approaching a critical stage. Ran Porubovith, editor of a local Servian paper, has been re peatedly threatened with death if he does not discontinue his remarks on the Austrian sovernmont. jVASHINGTON IS FILLING (Continued From First Page.) the Senate of the United States be con , vencd at 12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next to receive such communica tions as may be made by the Executive; now. therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of die United States of Amer ica, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the City of Washing ton, on the 4th day of March next", at 12 D clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. "Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at Washington the 27th day of February, in the year of our Lord. 1909. and of the independence of the United States the . one hundred and thirty-third. (Signed.) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT. ' "By the President: "ROBERT BACOX, "Secretary of State." TAFT TO CSE HISTORIC BIBLE Xo Changes to Be Made in Inaug ural Address Prepared. WASHINGTON. Feb. 2S. W H Taft will take the oath of office as Presl- fj -l,the F.nIted Stales on tha century old Bible which belongs to the Supreme KUrt the rnIted States and which that body keeps in custody. Mr Taft said today that had he been a member of the Supreme Court his oath would have been taken on identically the same book. During the last Yew days there have been many offers of Bibles to Mr Taft He has not declined the gifts, but his an . swer has been that it would have been impossible for him to receive them for the purpose intended. It has been tho custom of Presidents to use a new Or a historic Bible in taking their oaths of office and each has retained the book' thereafter. Mr. Taft will make ho claim on the Bible of his choice and it will go back to the archives of the court r'or which there are many evidences of a reverent respect and a lingering of fond ness on the part of Mr. Roosevelt's suc cessor. Precedent In another ancient inaugural : ' "- ' f - X t I - , ! i ... jJK - "s. K i ' IA j h $&sA : . . 1 1 Jf-XA 1 A ' - ' t I Sz s s" ' ' , 4 - , , " . ? y . , m 'a f . , - i , y .w ' , - : . : Ef .-- v; ' 's : . sx - v ;.- -. ,v v. - '-"v.-- ' a- r . "V - -.- -5 . -- . .' . "- . - . . ? . . ...... : i- j '. . - - s ' . 4 - . ; Mrs. Hetty Green. Matthew Alitor Wilkra. Sylvia Green MILr. detail will be broken Thursday in the Intention of President Roosevelt to go from the inaugural ceremonies at the Capitol direct to his train for Oyster Bay andi not return to the White House with Mr. Taft. ' Thus there will be a vacant seat in the Presidential carriage on its return to the White House and it is now pro posed to have this seat occupied by Mrs. "Tart., From morning church services at the Unitarian Church, of which he is a mem ber, Mr. Taft went to the White House today, where an hour was passed with President Roosevelt in going over that portion of Mr. Taft's Inaugural address which discusses what Is to be his policy respecting the foreign relations of the country. Mr. Taft said no material changes, If any, would be made in the address. He said he had previously gone over the whole document with Mr. Roosevelt. Senator Kittredge had an extended In terview with Mr. Taft respecting the 1)111 providing for a government for the Pan ama Canal Zone. The measure is In tended to give legislative authority for virtually the present system of govern ment tfiere, which was established by executive rather than legislative author ity. The measure is approved by Mr. Taft. who Is anxious that it become law. The proposed mail subsidy for steam ships was talked of between Mr. Taft and Representatives Overstreet and Lan dls of Indiana. These subsidies are ap proved by Mr. Taft. Mr. Taft said tonight lie had as yet given no thought to possible changes in diplomatic service of the United States and any speculation which had been made in that direction had no foundation as far as it might tend to represent his ideas. UPHOLDS HIS RULES Speaker Cannon Replies Magazine Attack. to HAVE STOOD FOR CENTURY TWO WEEKS TO PHY TUX PROPERTY - OWNERS WAITING LONGER GET NO REBATE. One-l'ifteenth or Total Roll Was Paid in During February to Sheriffs Office. Taxpayers have just 15 days more in which to take advantage of the 3 per cent rebate in taxes. After March 15 no rebate for this year's taxes will be al lowed. After collecting for one month, the Tax Department of the Sheriff's office has received J613.692.97. or one-fifteenth of the total taxroll. The total amounts to $4.5S1,497.18. The roll amounted to $3,226. 664.25 last year, and $506,022.55 was col lected during February, 1908. The amount collected was one-thirteenth of the roll. Tax receipts were issued last mo.ith to the number of 10.1M. while 9952 were issued in February, 190S. This year's personal tax amounts to tl. 032,378.73, while last year's was $900,263.40. Deputy Sheriff S. B. Martin will turn over to the county Treasurer today $177,- 314.40. Sheriff Stevens' rule is to turn the funds over to the County Treasurer each week. As the large property-owners usually pay their taxes just before March 15, -in order that they may have the use of their money as long as possible, the amount so far collected is made up almost entirely of small -sums. Deputy Martin says much time, and the annoy ance of a long wait in line, may be saved if taxpayers will write to the Tax Col lecting Department of the Sheriff's office, giving descriptions of their property by lot and block numbers, and asking for statements. Tho taxes this year will be distributed as follows: To the state, $I4S.756: state school. $354.2S0; county. $708,563: road, $229, 102: county library, $30,704: Port of Port land. $276,917: city. $1,424,520; school dis trict No. 1, $1.034,7S5. Property valuation, as distributed among the city. Port of Portland, county and school district No. 1. is as follows: City, $215,836,410; Port' of Portland. $230,764,752; county, $236,187,737; Bchool district No. 1. $220,167,160. CHINESE GETS HIGH HONOR Elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Cor nell University. ITHACA. N. Y.. Feb. 28; Tonfu Hu. of Wu Cheng. China, was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity at Cornell this week. It is the first time -in the history of Cornell that a Chinese has been elected to the highest honorary society. The people page 8. are for Gregory. See Laws of Procedure in Lower House Were Formulated by Jefferson and Madison and Are Still Good, He Says. . WASHINGTO-., Feb. 28. Incensed by an attack alleged to have been made upon himself and the rules of the House Dy Ldward E. Higglns. president of magazine publishing company. Speaker cannon made public tonight a letter vig orously aerenaing the rules. The rules may not be ideal." he writes, "but they have stood the teat among those who know them, in spite of half a century of denunciation such as Mr. Higgins puts forth. The foun nation principles were laid down more than a century ago. under the leader- snip of Jefferson and Madison. They have been perfected from year to year to, meet the needs of a growing represcn tation of a growing nation. Gets Many Letters, Speaker Says. "I receive letters from men who de nounce the legislative, the executive, the Judiciary, the law, the church and the rules of the House. One publisher makes it a point to denounce the narrowing in fluence of religion on our civilization and demands legislation that will destroy mis innuence. and denounces the funda mental law of the land and would de stroy the Constitution and the stat utes; a clever stock broker sends out bulletins attacking, the executive, and another advertises his attack on busl ness. air. mggins employs the same methods to attack the Speaker and the rules or the House. xie anacKs me present speaker as representing the interests' whatever that may mean. I confess I do not know uui. i nave noiicea ine use or the ex pression by those who. while ready to anacK men in public, still have a reeard for the libel laws and seek to discredit without assuming tho responsibility for simple .and direct accusations which they mignt nave to prove or suffer the con sequences. Mr. Higgins has this sama respect for the law while he apparently manes iree to insinuate unworthlness against lawmakers. li makes of the rules and the administra tion of them by the Speaker. I need but say that his letter shows he knows noth ing of what he writes. That will be evi dent to anyone who has ever studied the rules or observed carefully and hon estly their administration. A man who, without having studied the law or prac ticed in tho courts, should criticise and denounce indiscriminately the law and the courts, simply because he had heard the complaints of lawyers who had lost their cases, would receive from the com munity the attention to which hl3 Ignor ance and his presumption fairly entitle him. But it seems that any one. after having tat at the feet of persons dissat isfied with legislation, or disgruntled be cause of the failure of proposed legis lation, may bfT-ome a patriot and a molder of Opinion by denouncing the rules which adjust the rights and rela tions and secure the efficiency of a body of 391 members representing the com plex interests of 90.000.000 people." Northwestern People In New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 2S. (Special.) Peo ple from the Pacific Northwest registered at New York hotels today as follows: From Portland. J. D. Robinson, at the Albert. From Hood River. H. T. Hartscn, the Union Square. at 'As sgruntled Find Most Fault. to the criticisms Mr. Higgins PORTLAND, MAINE, CKILD HI, Weak and Emaciated, Ee stored to Health, by Vinol "Our little daughter, six years of age, after a severe attack of the measles, which developed Into pneumonia, was left pitifully thin, weak and emaciat ed. She had no appetite, and her stom ach was so weak It could not retain food. She lay in this condition for weeks, and nothing the doctor pre scribed did a bit of good, and we wera beginning to think she would never re cover. "At this tims we commenced to give her Vinol, and the. cCect was marvel ous. The doctor was amazed at her progress, and when we told him we were giving her Vinol, he replied, 'It is a fine remedy, keep it tip. We did bo, and, she recovered her health and strength months before the doctor thought she could." J. W. Flagg, Portland, Me. Vinol cures conditions like this be cause in a natural manner it increases the appetite, tones up the digestive organs, makes rich, red blood, and strengthens every organ in the body. Woodard, Clarke & Co., Druggists, Gregory emancipates See page S. 100 rent-payers. FEW BILLS UP TO GOVERNOR Important Measures Yet to Be Acted On by Lawmakers Criminal Code and Capital Code Before Senate. OLTMPIA, Wash., Feb. 2S. (Special.) Only ten working days remain of the Ilth session of the Washington Legislature and t he-present outlook is that It will not achieve a glorious record of the amount of work accomplished. Altogether 43 bills have been passed by both houses. 18 of which have been signed by the Governor. Amongrthe most important bills that have passed both houses is the anti-race gamb ling bill law, the equal sufferage bill, the act increasing the membership of the Supreme Court to nine, the Columbia River fisheries bill and the act creating Grant County from a portion of Douglas, all of which have been signed by the Gov ernor. Other bills awaiting his signature include the police pension and relief fund act. a similar measure for the benefit of firemen, the 'insurance reciprocity act, a bill permitting the dividing of counties Into Superior Court districts, the hotel Inspection law and the act refunding J200. 000 of illegal normal school warrants. Busy Days Ahead for So Ions. In addition to the bills accounted for as having passed both houses, the Sen ate has adopted 6J of Its own measures and the House has parsed 90 House bills. Many of these are of minor Interest. The Senate bills passed In the upper House include the school code and bills increasing the state highway tax to 1 mill. Increasing the penalty to $500 for selling liquor to minors, making the signing of ante-campaign pledges a dis qualification to legislative office, putting regulation of warehouses and telephone and telegraph companies under the rail way commission, and prohibiting brew ers from engaging In the retail liquor business. , The House has passed House bills re pealing the state aid. road law. prohibit ing bucketshops. making Issuance of false mining or corporation prospects a fel ony, permitting non-competing railroad companies to consolidate, and has pas.-ed the female eight-hour and the miners" eight-hour bills and the military code. The foregoing. Important bills nnd the many minor ones that have passed but one House are to be considered In the coming week and the Legislature finds Itself so congested with business that night sessions will likely be held every day. Night Sessions. The Senate Is wrestling with the voluminous criminal code designed to dis place all existing criminal statutes In this state and will resume that work Monday. About Wednesday It will take up the Capitol commission bill providing for the sale of the Capitol land grant and the completion of the II.uOO.OOO Capitol started In 1S96. The bill has passed the House and enough Senators have pledged themselves In Its support to pans It. The Senate will also have the military code, which has passed the House, to consider. The House "will be pretty well occu pied with tho war over the state fair deficiency, the $190,000 appropriation for the Venat'hce Hrl.lere. tho appro- In All Departments Today, Great Special Sales as advertised Sunday in Laces, Embroideries, Ribbons, Jewelry, Pictures, Suits, Waists, Millinery, Wash Goods, Art Needlework and Muslin Underwear. STRONG SAFE ScTRUST W. M. LADD, President S. P. L0CKW00D, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Mgr. Home Office Lumber Exchange Building PORTLAND, OREGON CONSERVATIVE f? T7 SMOKE A. Santaella. & Co., Makers, Tampa The Hart Cigar Co., Distributors prlatlon of $250,000 for the Lake Wash ington canal which passed the Senate, local option, the school code. and. If the Senate passes It. the criminal code. Kuch house has passed a local option bill which the other does not want to accept.- A measure that is claimed to be satisfactory to a majority of the Senate has been recommended as a sub stitute for the Senate bill. The two will be a special order In the House Tuesday and the House will likely toss the ball back to the Senate that daj-. and the Senate will have that burden also added to its week's troubles. TROPHY IS WON BY OHIO Slakes Best Cruise With L.cal Ve of Water and Coal. FORT MONROE. Feb. 2S. The battle ship Ohio sailed today for New York. AH the vessels of the third squadron that met the returning battleships at sea will sail tomorrow for Uuatitanamo. m-henc thry expert to bo nint on a West Indian cruise. The Ohio expects to reach New York tomorrow. She is the winner of the pteamlng tropiiy for the voyage n round the world. The announce ment of the award was made from the flagship Connecticut. The rules for the contest, which whs o:ie of economy in coal and water consumption for the en tire trip, were laid down soon nfter the ships loft Hampton Roads u months ago. The promise of a special award stimu lated the Interest of the men below dock as target practices at Maedalrna and Manila B:i did the men on deck. Naval circles here had a flutter of ex citement today when they learned of a mock marriage in the pxrlors of the Chamberlain Hotel late last night. In which Midshipman Robert S. Young, Jr.. of the armored cruiser North Carolina, and MIfs Margaret Conneil were sup posed to be the principals. The entire ceremony was a joke. Preparations were m.ide tonight to transfer to the converted cruis.Ts Iixle and Prairie and to the old Farragut flag ship Hartford tomorrow tho bluejacket who will purtii ipat- in tho inaugural pa rade in Washington. HAV TO MOVE $35,000 Worth of MEN'S SHOES SACRIFICED Take Advantage of This Sale $3.00 Shoes Now $1.95 $3.50 Shoes Now $2.45 $4-00 Shoes Now . $2.85 $5.00 Shoes Now $3.35 We Have Ordered An Entirely New Stock. For Our New Location, 144-146 Fourth Street G000TEAR SHOE CO., Store "No. 1 Fourth and Yamhill Streets, Y. M. C. A. Building Store "No. 288 Third Street, Opposite Chamber of Commerce THE Inc.
