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aflflF"ii .TtMSiTlh VOL.. XLIX NO. 15,308. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WALL STREET SEES BIG MONEY TRUST TOURISTS WARNED GETS HO BELMONT HOME IS PLEDGED AS BAIL OF POET AVIATORS' PRIZES WAGE INCREASE T J 75 ROADS WANTED OFF FROM CANTON WILL NET $80,000 JOB IS NEW THING AMI-FOREIGX FEELING IN RICH WOMAN, IN NIGHT COURT, LOS ANGELES MEET OUTDOES CHINA CAUSES ALARM. FREES GIRL STRIKERS. PRIOR COXTEST OFFERINGS. 9AYN0R INSANITY COACHING ' 7 Men of Millions Acting in Concert. MORGAN UNQUESTIONED HEAD Power Over Credits and Cash Assets Is Enormous. TERMS IN ITS OWN HANDS Government's Operations Could Be Crippled by Refusal to Finance Bond Issuer Promotions Under Control. NEW YORK. Dec. 8. (Special.) So close have become the alliance and amal gamations of leading financial interests In "Wall street during the last three months that almost the absolute control of the country's financial affairs is now centralised in the hands of a few men, who are acting 1 concert. A money trust has come into existence, with J. P. Alorgan at its head, the most gigantic combination of capital in the world. There Is no concrete definite organiza tion to thle latest trust; no legal incor poration, no elected directors, no list of stockholders. To use the descriptive phrase of the financial world, it is simply a "community of Interest." Morgan Unquestioned Leader. Representative members of this com munity of interest, men who would be directors of an Incorporated company, are: J. Pierport Morgan, private banker. Its unquestioned leader; George F. Baker, chairman of the board of directors of the First National Bank; James Stillman, chairman of the board of directors of the National City Bank; 'William Rockefeller, vice-president of the . Standard Oil Com pany; Henry C. FVick, capitalist; "William K. Vanderbllt, as representative of his family Interest. It ' would be Impossible to figure the total of direct and Indirect capital now centralized in this money trust. To begin witli. the banking firm of J. Plerpont Morgan & Co., being a private co-partnership, makes no public reports, yet current report places its deposits at J160.000.000, which Its directors can utilize to advan tage in financial operations. The assets of the three insurance companies con trolled by the group. Invested largely In bonds of railroad and industlral com panies, aggregata considerably more than i. 000. 000,000. Power Is Extensive. Hens are some of the things the trust eould do: It could call $300,000,000 of loana over Bight and ruin any adversary. It could reduce credits to such a degree as to cause extreme -money stringency and great commercial distress. It could tie up the cash, holdings of New Tork banks by demanding certification of checks for enormous amounts. It could deplete bank reserves In New Tork by causing shipments of cash to any part of the country. It could make money rate of Interest almost as it chose, from 2 per cent to 100 per cent on call loans. It could cripple the financial operations of the Government by refusing to pur chase any bond Issue. It could" dlrtate the financial operations of the great railway systems and expand ing Industrial concerns. It could, and does dictate terms and actions of every company promotion that is important enough to be financed in "Wall street. TOY STOVE CAUSES DEATH Christmas Gift Prove Fatal to Child Mother May Die. EAST ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19. A toy stove, which her father had given her today instead of waiting until Christmas, re sulted in the death of Minnie Coming, 6 years old. The girl's mother, Mrs. Cath erine Coming. Is not expected to live and Iher father was slightly burned. The child started! to build a fire in the etove. as she had often seen her mother do. by pouring on kerosene. As soon as a match was touched to the oil. the ch Id s clothes were enveloped In flames. Her mother. In trying to extinguish the flames, was burned so badly that physicians say her recovery Is doubtful. The father, Ed ward Coming, was burned while rescuing his wife. SHERMAN'S SON INJURED tieneral's Offspring Falls From Train in California. . SANTA BARBARA. Cal.. Dec. 19. Father Sherman, son of General "William Tecumseh Sherman, la In a sanitarium here, as the result of an accident which brought him close to death on his ar rival here two days ago. As his train came Into the station, leather Sherman was standing on the steps of the car. He lost his balance and fell underneath. Just before the wheels reached him a train man pulled him from tils perilous position. Father Sherman was badly bruised and shaken up and was removed to St. Fran kls Sanitarium,' Trip of American Globe-Trotters Cnt Short on Advice of Viceroy Who Fears Impending Riots. NEW TORK, Dec 19. (Special.) Frank C. Clark, under whose direction 660 citi zens of the United States are touring the world on board the steamer Cleveland, of the Hamburg-American line, took prompt steps today to protect his charges when he learned that anti-foreign feelings In China gave Indications of culminating in an uprising upon the occasion of the forthcoming visit of the passengers to Canton. Immediately upon ascertaining that the Viceroy had officially called attention to the danger attending the visit of the Americans, Mr Clark sent the following cablegram : "Herbert Clark, Care Packet Line, Manila: Herald cable announces anti foreign feeling Canton. Viceroy request ing Washington to prevent your visit, fearing riots. Take no chances. If the American Consul at Hongkong warns the slightest danger, substitute Macao for Canton. The "Celeveland Is at Manila, Philip pine Islands, today," said Mr. Clark. "The tourists are to reach Hongkong Thursday, December 23, and it was planned to run up the river by steamer to Canton. If there is any evidence of ill feeling I will see that the entire Can ton part of the trip is abandoned." LIKE BROTHER, MAN ROBS r Los Angeles Attorney Emulates Rel ative and Steals; Caught. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec 19. (Spe cial.) Emulating his brilliant brother, Lamar Harris, whose suicide In Chicago after robbing a bank several months ago caused a national sensation, Leslie Harris, attorney and mining man. was c&njrht In ' the nr of robbinsr the safe of the McFarlane Shirt Company in broai daylight this afternoon. He managed to get away and fled to an office building, where, it is alleged, he hid several hundred dollars of the loot. He was captured as he stepped from the elevator to leave the building. With the exception of 200, all " the money was recovered. He had thrown it into spittoons In the hallways and Over transoms. A boy who helped in the search found a package containing gold and greenbacks to the value of $200 and ran away with it. The police expect to catch him. Harris' wife, the daughter of Abner Rose, a capitalist of this city, only re cently returned from Europe, where she studied music. - - - FRENCH bAUD ROOSEVELT Newspaper Welcomes ex-President as" National Idealism Messenger. PARIS, Dec. 19. The Temps, extolling the election of Theodore Roosevelt as a foreign associate of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, pays high tribute to Mr. Roosevelt's political and moral creed and his Insistence that neither individuals nor nations have the right to shirk their duty. The Temps concludes: "Peace is praiseworthy, but Its desir ability has been unduly exaggerated, if inspired by fear. Mr. Roosevelt recalls to our age that 'war is an evil, but not the greatest of evils.' "Especially as the messenger of Na tional idealism, he merits the eminent dis ,tinction conferred upon him by the in stitutlon." ENGLISH POET. ALLEGED s " ' ' Mayor M'CJellan Gives No Helping Hand. ROPES ARE LEARNED ALONE New Head of New York Ready to Take Charge. LIBERAL POLICY EXPECTED Ex-Justice Interprets Llqnor Law as Meaning Closed Front Door, bnt Quietly Opened Side Entrance. His Chance One of Greatest. BT LLOTD F. LONEEOAS. NEW TORK. Dec. 19. (Special.) Ex Justice Oaynor has practically completed arrangements for taking control of the City Hall. He has selected the bulk of his cabinet, and outlined his policy in a number of speeches. The average cltixen Is now willing that he and his aides should have a reasonable time in which to make good. The shabby way Mayor McClellan has acted toward his successor has gained the latter much sympathy. For many years "courtesy" has been the watch word of outgoing officials. It has been the custom for the man who is stepping out to ask the "next fellow" to come in and get pointers. For example. Controller-elect Prender gast has been browsing around the finance department for several weeks learning everything he can about his new job. He has even attended meetings of the Board of Estimate, and been accom modated with a chair immediately behind that occupied by Controller Metz. The result Is that Mr. Prendergast has a good general idea of the duties of his office, which will prove of value when he steps In to take control. .. Sheriff Foley is a Tammany Democrat. His successor, John L. 8hea, la a Repub lican' district leader. But Foley has ex tended the right hand of fellowship to Shea, and the latter is row in a position to jump right In. He khows the ropes. McClellan Will Not Help. And it is the same story all the way down the line except in the Mayor's of fice.' ' For McClellan has utterly Ignored Gay nor, despite the fact that when he (Mc Clellan) went to the City Hall, Mayor Low extended him every courtesy. The Mayor has not found it convenient to observe the long-established custom. and send a letter to Mr. Gaynor, inviting him to attend the remaining sessions of the Board of Estimate and Apportion ment. Politicians are freely discussing the matter, but none is able to explain why McClellan has not followed the prece dent. He has refused' to make any state ment on the matter and Judge Gaynor is equally non-communicative.,. That the incoming executive has very little use for his predecessor is shown by the fact that when he recently desired information as to the city's debt limit, Gaynor sent a letter to Controller Metx. Many citizens are wondering why he did (Concluded on Page 9.) INSANE, WHOSE SPECTACULAR COURSE HAS REACHED CLIMAX IN DISAPPEARANCE, AND HIS WIPE MR. AS D . MRS. Mortgage of $100,000 Given to Help Shirtwaist-Makers and Suffragists. -JBW TORK, Dec. 19. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont demonstrated early today: that she has the interest of ' the working women at heart. Three o'clock " this morning found " her In the night court, awaiting the " disposition of the cases' of four women shirtwaist workers charged with disorderly conduct in connection with the strike. . Several lawyers were retained by Mrs. Belmont to defend the strikers, but with the approach of morning they had dis appeared, and, when the girls-were called to the bar, no one was present to appear for them. Mrs. Belmont here stepped into the gap and offered ball for the girls, tendering her home In Madison avenue as security. "Is your home worth $800?" inquired Magistrate Butts, in routine' manner and tone. "I think it is," replied Mrs. Belmont. "It is valued at 1400,000, ., but I think there may be a mortgage upon it for $100,000, which I raised to help the shirt waist strikers and the women suffrage movement." The seourity was accepted. COOK WITHIN EASY CALL Friends of Explorer Bejieve He Is at Chriotiansand, Norway. NEW TORK, Dec. 19. Intimate friends of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who are on pins and needles, pending the decision on his data at Copenhagen, said tonight that, intheir belief, Dr. Cook is at the home of a friend in Christiansand, Norway, within easy call of Copenhagen. It is thought that Dr. Cook left this country on the steamer United States, which sailed Thanksgiving day. Walter Lonsdale, the explorer's secretary, is known to have sailed on the vessel. NAPLES, Dec. -19. The rumor spread here today that Dr. Cook was aboard the steamer Saxonla and a crowd formed at the wharf to greet him. The captain of the Saxonla said he had been notified that Dr. Cook Intended to cross on his steamer, but was detained, and asked the company to transfer his ticket to the Carmania. SATOLLI SERIOUSLY ILL Relapse . Follows . Improvement and Symptoms Are Alarming. ROME! Dec. 19. Cardinal Satolli, who recently suffered a relapse from nephritis, was slightly .Improved this morning and insisted upon a chaplaiji celebrating mass in the sick room. He also took com munion. His condition this afternoon was much worse. ' Alarming symptoms developed and there was some delirium. Grave fears are entertained for the -cardinal's recov ery. Many telegrams of Inquiry have been received from America. - LINERS SWEPT BY GALES Hurricanes From Eastward Delay Voyages to Enrope. LONDON, Dec. 19. Incoming trans- Atlantic liners report terrific weather. The Carmania, New Tork and Amerika ar riving at Queenstown and Plymouth re spectively, today, were all greatly de layed. Four days out -they met hurricanes from the eastward, with mountainous seas, which continued until Saturday night. WILLIAM WATSON. ' ? . ''t . . V ' ... After Boer War Watson Broke Down. ' TWICE CONFINED IN ASYLUM Second Attack Follows Period of Storm and Stress. EGOISM - ALWAYS MARKED Like Nietzsche and Sjmons, Later Insane, Watson's Self-Confidence v Strong Characteristic Won derful Poem Follows Illness. NEW TORK, Dec. 19. (Special.) Will lam Watson, poet of genius, who, accord ing to his brother, Robinson Watson, is suffering from mental aberration, is still in seclusion, and all efforts to discover the place of his retreat, or incarceration, have been unavailing. Robinson Watson's declaration that his brother was unsound mentally has but confirmed the suspicion that has been gaining ground here steadily for the past fortnight. Vague whispers that the man who wrote the "Woman with the Ser pent's Tongue," that called forth a storm of protest for its violation of all the un written laws of English hospitality in heaping insult on the Asqulths, mother and daughter, who had entertained the poet in their home, became gradualy less vague that Watson was Insane. Aked Intimates Insanity. Dr. Charles F. Aked, pastor of the Fifth-Avenue Baptist Church, which Is popularly called "Rocke feller's Church," Intimated Insanity as a reason tor the famous poem. - Others, following his lead, took up the discussion, until it came generally to be believed that the rarely gifted man was laboring under a mild form of insanity that was responsible for the attack made, in his poenu . - Then Robinson Watson cams out with the admission that his brother once be fore had become Insane for a time after the stress of the great mental effort re quired In writing "Lachrymae Musarum," which he gave to the world on the death of Lord Tennyson, in 1892. Story of First Insanity Told. - The statement of his brother, Robinson Watson, of Montreal, that the poet was insane 17 years ago is borne out by the following account, in part, of his mis fortune, from the St. James Gazette of London of December's, 1892: "John William Watson, the poet whose "Lachrymae Musarum' upon the death of Lord Tennyson and other lyrical works have recently attracted much at tention,' was yesterday brought before Aldermen Wellman and Cantrell at the Windsor Guild Hall upon the charge of being a dangerous" lunatic' . Love. Affair Responsible. "About 12 years ago Mr. Watsonmet with a disappointment in a love affair and this induced for a time a strong suicidal mania. The care and attention of his friends, combined with a visit to Algiers, '(Continued on Page '4.) Winners During Aviation Week Will Divide Small Fortunes in Airship Contests. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Dec. 19. (Special.) More than SSO.0O0 in prizes will be awarded to winners of events during Aviation week. The prizes at the international aviation meet at Rhelms aggregated less than $40,000. ' The prizes have been apportioned by the merchants and manufacturers' committee. in charge of Aviation week, aS follows: For aeronauts. Including aeroplanes, H5.500; for spherical balloons. 122.500; for dirigible airships, 113,100; total, SO,800 Elaborate rules have been formulated lor the government of the Judges, but in general the following Classification will be made: There will be prizes for speed, for duration of time in the air, for high est altitude attained and for longest flights. These will apply particularly to aeroplanes. In the balloon division, prizes will be awarded on the basis of distance. This particular contest is likely to be as in teresting as any other, for most of the balloons entered should be able to clear the California stae line, and under favor able air conditions, may go as far as the Rocky Mountains. Dirigible balloons also will be judged largely on the ability of their operators to keep them going over a long distance. BOYS IN BLUE REMEMBERED Every Soldier and Sailor to Get Christmas Feast This Year. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. Every sol dier and sailor In the service of the United States will celebrate Chrjstmas at the expense of the Government. The Government will give the 17,000 sailors of the Atlantic battleship fleet an unusually fine spread at New York. Last year the fish of the sea cheat ed the bluejackets out of the dinner de signed for them. It happened that the Navy Department had sent out ahoard the steamer Republic a large quantity of cranberries, nuts, apples, turkeys and other Christmas dainties, valued at 61,191 for the battleship fleet at Gib raltar, then on its cruise around the world. - The Republic and the Christmas din ners sank after a collision. A policy has been adopted In the Navy of taking the bluejackets periodically to some big port where they may enjoy life to the fullest. The British navy of ficials, claim to have discovered that after such periods of hilarity the sailor Is more contented at sea. In the Army special dinners will be served at garrisons and posts. NEW FOOTBALL DISCUSSED Ios Angeles Man Would Combine Rngby and American Game. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dee. 19. (Spe cial.) A" new American football, which combines all the advantages of the Rugby and intercollegiate games now played in this country, is the Idea of Fat Kigglns, a well-known Los Angeles football star. Higgins Expects to organize two teams to play the new game, and by trying out all the combinations and plays which he has devised, to evolve a set of rules su perior to anything heretofore adopted. By demonstrations from actual play he expects to obtain an entirely new game that will solve the present foot ft! 1 prob lem. To bring thla plan to the attention of the intercollegiate rules committee, Higgins last night sent an Invitation to Walter Camp, Inviting a delegation to come to Los Angeles and Investigate the new game aijd co-operate in its development. If it proves satisfactory, Higgins antici pates united action by all football con ferences and associations. ELKS' CLUBCALLED BAR Twenty-Five Lawyers to Defend Brethren Arrested In Reno. ' ' RENO, Nev., Dec. 19. (Special.) There Is much comment concerning the trial of the Elks which will occur tomorrow af ternoon. Every lawyer In this city who Is an Elk has tendered his services to the Elks lodge and every effort will be made to have the Elks who were arrested declared not guilty. . More than 25 law yers will appear to defend H. J. Cosse, S. M. Sample and J. ; M. McCormick, the Elks who have been arrested on the charge of conducting a bar without license. One lawyer said today that the dispens ing of liquor In the Elks' Club does not amount to a sale, as all the Elks own the liquor, and what they pay for the liquor served to them Is used to replenish etock. City Attorney McDowell declares that he believes he will be able to convict the Elks and compel the club to pay a license. The action of the city has created an uproar. SMOKER BURNED TO DEATH Bathrobe Catches Fire as He Lounges in SitUng-Room. MEDIA, Fa., Dec. 19. Thomas Valen tine Cooper, a member of the Pennsyl vania Legislature from Delaware County and formerly collector "of the Port of Philadelphia, was burned to death at his home today. When smoking a cigar in the sitting roof of his home he either fell asleep or suffered a paralytic stroke. His bathrobe caught fire and he was dead before the flames were discovered by his family. Vote of Brotherhood Is Unanimous. RAISE IS 5 TO 40 PER CENT Lines Affected Employ About 75,000 Men. . COURSE IS NOT INTIMATED Railroads Have Been Expecting This Move and Are Preparing to Meet Demand When It Shall Be Made Larger Systems Hit. PITTSBURG. Dee. 19.-The Brother hood of 'Railway Trainmen Monday will serve notice on 75 railroad companies east of the Mississippi River, that an increase in wages wl"l be demanded of from 5 to 40 per cent. W. G.. Lee, National president of the brotherhood, tonight refused to intimate what action would be taken in case the demand is refused. It is said the recent refer endum vote of the trainmen regarding the demand for an increase resulted in a practically unanimous vote in Its fa vor. About 7S.000 members of the brother hood are employed on the railroads affected. ROADS PLANNING FOR TROUBLE Proposed Increase Demand Affects AH Large Systems of East. NEW TORK, Dec. 19. The acUon of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, -as announced in Pittsburg today, was not unexpected in New York. Knowing that the referendum vote was being taken, railroad heads are preparing to meet the situation, and several con ferences have been held within the last two weeks looking to a settlement of the difficulties.. ... Involving, as it does; all the great lines in the Bast, it will be Impossible to predict what course ' each road will pursue, but It is probable that the roads will stand together on the broader Issues at stake. TELEGRAPHERS FOR STRIKE r Big Four Employes Finish Referen dum Vote. CINCINNATI, Dec. 19. With a refer endum vote of telegraphers in the employ of the Big Four Railway completed to night, J. J. Dermody, fourth vice-president of the Order of Railway Telegraphy (Concluded on Page 5.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 40 degrees; minimum. degrees. TODAY'S Threatening wetner with light ram or snow; easterly ivinos. foreign. S v Jose Madrix acclaimed by people of Man agua; Estrada refuses landing; of peace envoy. Page 4. Fear of antl-foreisn riots in China drives away American tourists. Paga 1. King Leopold's body In state, thousands pay last homage. Page 3. fttcaragu&n Insurgents may demand pitched and decisive battle within week. Page 4- Chinese court In turmoil over efforts of two women to be Empress Dowager. Page 4. National. Senate awaits Taft's consent to begin Ba.ll-inger-Pinchot investigation. Page 3. Collector Loeb approves payment to Rich ard Parr of moiety in sugar fraud cases; may reach $1,000,000. Page 4. Domestic Frederick F. Kellner, Jr., -of Louisville, fol lows in vain clews of missing daughter. Page 2. Mrs. O. H. P- Belmont pledges 9400,000 home as bail for girls on strike. Page 1. Golden State Limited hits curve too fast in Arizona; two dead, many hurt. Page S. William Watson, English poet, saidi to be ' Insane; has been in asylum twice . be fore. . Page 1- ... New York sees gigantic "money trust" as outgrowth of recent alliances. Page 1. Runaway girl of 17 arrested with man of 40 after trip Seattle to San Francisco. Page 3. Cold wave covers wide area. Page 12. Employes of 75 Eastern roads will demand wage increase of 5 to 40 per cent. Page 1. Los Angeles will give $80,000 in prizes aviation week. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Fern Hill residents of Tacorai, In mass meeting, protest 10-cent fare. Page 5. Union Pacific to route freight through to Puget Sound after January. Page 12. War between Walla Walla and Pendleton, with photographs as weapons, outgrowth of anti-saloon campaign. Page 5. Body of woman severed by car found In Seattle lake; Coroner believes she was murdered. Page 5. Sports. DesoUe warning that he may be classed professional in future, O'Brien will boa. as scheduled, tonight. Page P. Portland boxer to go against fast San Fran cisco lad Tuesday night. Page 8. Baseball fans favor removal of Long as league secretary. Page 8. Portland and Vicinity. Portland I. W- W. members give money to aid cause In Spokane, page 14. Red Cross stamp sale reaches total of 700.000; $10,000 needed for work. Page 14. Evangelist at Silverton. says Ingersoll re canted, agnostics are wroth. Page 9. Police believe professional highwayman guilty of five of last week's dozen "hold up" crimes; Chief Cox offers personal re ward. Page 12. Vancouver completely changed in appear ance by building activity. Page 13- State Bacteriologist reports Salem water tmpurecausing fever epidemic. s Faga 0