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PAGES 1 TO 16 52 PAGES PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XXV-XO. 43. Nfc- ei it- ivm r turn e ia m ica t t i HENEY WILL FIRST PURGEGRAND JURY No Ruef Partisan Is to Hear the Evidence. lEIGHT ARE NOW ON THE PANEL Noted Prosecutor Confident of Winning Victory. lGRAHAM TO ACT MONDAY (Judge, It Is Reported, Will Oust the San Francisco Bos9 From the Office of District Attorney He Has Usurped. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 27. (Spe cial.) Francis J. Heney today dic tated the following message to the people of Oregon: "Through The Oregonlan I desire to assure the good people of the City of Portland and the State of Oregon of my appreciation of their inter est and sympathy In the work of ridding Pan Francisco of the graft ers. As the support of the people sustained us during the land-fraud trials In Oregon, so will It assist us In our task In California." SAN FRAXCISCO, Cal.. Oct. 27. (Spe cial.) The hour has grown darker for Abe Ruef. the San Francisco boss, who has usurped the office of District Attor ney in his desperate efforts to avoid in dictments for boodllng in the evidence gathered by Francis J. Heney and De tective W. J. Burns. The severest blow came in the public statement of Attorney-General Webb, of the State of California, that, if Ruef were sustained as District Attorney, Webb would consider it his duty to interpose and aee that the investigation were al lowed to proceed unhampered by Ruef. Then came the report, not officially made, I hut with every circumstance to establish Its authenticity, that Judge Graham Mon day would oust Ruef from office and de clare the removal of District-Attorney Langdon illegal. On top of this came a fiery statement from Benjamin Ida Wheeler, president of the University of California, denouncing Ruef and urging the formation of a new vigilance committee. As Ruef is an alumnus of the state university. Wheel er's statement carried added force. Ho Such Word as Fail, Says Heney Heney today was more certain than ever of his ability to send the men he lias accused to the penitentiary. "Mr. Heney." said The Oreganian rep resentative. ' is there any possibility that you may fall?" "We are sure of our cases." replied Mr. Heney with emphasis. Then empha sizing his remarks with his fist upon the table he added: "We cannot lo?e; we are certain to win." Honey's next move will be to clean up th grand- Jury. As it stands at present, it contains eight Ruef men. men who axe closely affiliated with him politically, men who have received favors from him and who might be suspected of bias. "These men must go," announced Heney today. trWe will not lay our evid ence before them. -We will interrogate each and every one of them and any one having bias for or against Abe Kuef will be removed. Ruef Is the man we are going for first. City Machinery in Ruef's Hands. Ruef refuses to a.imit the possibility ctf his belr.g ousted by the court. How. ver. he ha made plans in case of such contingency. He will try flliburtering tactics. He will challenge every grand Jury. He said today that before Heney could indict him it would be necessary to call up every man whose name appears in the directory Ruef has thrown the entire machinery ri Th Ortopus Visit he Northwest. tuflp Sam "How Shall I Handle That Uara Thins, Anyhow?" of the city, every tit of which he com pletely controls, to his own support. Even Judges on the bench are at his command and Heney recognizes that he must fight every bit of the way. The fact that Ruef was able to pack the grand Jury is but an indication of his vast powers He feels the net closing in about him and has appealed to the Union Labor party, on whose shoulders he rode to power, to help him. Accord ingly a mass meeting .is to take place tomorrow, at which all the labor leaaers of the city will speak. It is understood that Heney will be denounced at this meeting and the entire movement against Ruef scored as an anti-labor union wave. Ruef has received several threatening letters during the last few days. Today he secured a body guard. WEBB READY TO TAKE A HAD State Attorney-General Declares Ruef Shall Not Take Office. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 27. (Special.) There were no further developments in the municipal squabble today, ex cept a statement made by state Attorney-General Webb, outlining his posi- Judge Thomas F. Graham, of San Francisco, in Whose Court the Grand Jury Was Chosen. tion as to tho rights of the rival claimants of the office of District At torney. The general impression is that Abe Ruef, who. under charges of cor ruption, attempted to get possession of the office, has been checkmated in the game he has been playing against District Attorney Langdon and Francis J. Heney. Attorney-General Webb's statement is as follows: Yesterday 'from the papers I learned of the action of the Acting Mayor and the Board of Supervisors in the attempted removal of Dis trict Attorney Langdon and of the attempted appointment of A. Ruef. The question of the legality of these acts had not been determined by the courts, and tn the nature of things may not be determined for several days. Anticipating that both Mr. Langdon and Mr. Ruef would be In court. It was clear, under the law. that the Attorney-General of the State should be present during the em panelment of the grand Jury and any subse quent proceedings that might be taken, at least until the court had indicated which of the claimants would be recognized as District Attorney of this city and county. The court thus far has given no Intimation of which of the two claimants to the office it will recog nize, and the position of my office Is this: Leaving- out of consideration the legality or illegality of the action of Acting Mayor and Board of Supervisors in attempting to remove District Attorney Langdon. the fact is that Dis trict Attorney Langdon is in possesion and occupancy of the office and aa such, what ever question there may be as to the legality of the actions referred to, hie acta as the acting de facto District Attorney are valid and binding. If. then. District Attorney Lang don and his assistant. Mr. Heney. be by the court recognized and permitted to conduct the proceedings before the grand jury, there will remain nothing further for me to do. The Investigations will be carried forward and a full and complete investigation had of every charge presented for the consideration of the jury. On the other hand. It having been stated by Attestant District attorney Heney that his office intended to present- a charge of felony against A. Ruef. if the court should recognize Kuef as District Attorney it is apparent to all that he should not be permitted to conduct the investigation of charges preferred against himself, or any persona for whom he is act ing, and in eucb event it - Ib the Imperative duty of this office to take charge of such in vestigations and to the end that such charges be probed to the bottom, and that every item of evidence supporting such charges be fully and fairly presented to the grand jury. I will tender to Francis J. Heney the ap pointment ae Deputy Attoraey-Generai of this state, to enable him to prebent to the grand Jury all of the evidence in h! possession as to any nd every crime alleged to have been committed within this city and county, and in such case Mr. Heney will be free to act as his good judgment may direct. It will thus be seen that the course that win be pursued by me depends upon whether Mr. Langdon or Vr. Ruef is by the court recognized as Dis trict Attorney. In case District Attorney Langdon and. his (Concluded on Page 2.) :: l 'A 1 y 1 l :: f V -XVs w t MRS. BAKER EDDY SI TO BE DIG $15,000,000 Fortune Strangely Missing. "DUMMY" IMPERSONATES HER Christian Science Leader Is Victim of Plot. . HOW SHE MADE HER MONEY Secrets of Her Hidden Life and Con spiracy Against Her Revealed In Startling Fashion In vestigation to Follow. NEW YORK. . Oct. 28 3. A. M (Spe cial.) "Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, founder of Christian Science, is declared to be dying. It is also asserted that she is represented by a dummy when she is sup posed to be driving out in a closed car riage, and it is said that her fortune of JlS.000,000 has disappeared mysteriously." declares the World in a story printed this morning. 'A few days ago a note signed with Mrs. Eddy's name was sent to the Boston Herald saying: 'Another report that I am dead is widely circulated. I am in usual good health and go out in my car riage every day.' The publication of this note led the New York World to make an investigation and its conclusions are summed up in the following statement: Mrs. Eddy In Death's Shadow. "Reporters have seen and spoken to Mrs. Eddy in her guarded home at Con cord. N. H., within the last few days. She is very feeble and seemingly in the shadow of death. "Her palsied hand may have been guided in the signature that appears on her let ter, but for many months she has not left her room. "Her daily drive through the streets of Concord is a fraud. Ostensibly Mrs. Eddy makes this daily public appearance, dressed in velvets and ermine, to show her followers that sh is in perfect health. It is not Mrs. Eddy, but an impersonator, trained and costumed for the part, who appears in the exhibition - drive. "This impersonator is now known to be Mrs Farmelia J. Leonard, of Brooklyn, head of the Christian Science Church in that borough. "The city directory gives Mrs. Leon ard's home adress as 356 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn. This may be a technical Tact. Actually, however, Mrs. Leonard has been an inmate at Mrs. Eddy's home at Concord for the last three years. There she has perfected herself as understudy to Mrs. Eddy, and has impersonated the head of the Christian Science Church in the daily exhibition drives, when to move the real Mrs. Eddy from. her bed would have meant almost certain" death to the enfeebled woman. In the Hands of Conspirators. "Mrs. Eddy is powerless in the' hands of designing persons. They absolutely control her, and their employment of Mrs. Leonard's services is for a deep purpose. Just what that purpose is may easily be imagined. "The World has collected a mass of facts bearing directly upon the surprising conditions that surround the hidden life of Mrs. Eddy. These facts are quite apart from the tenets of Christian Science, so called, and will appeal as forcibly to fair- minded members of the cult as to the general public "Many millions of dollars Just how many the records fall to show have passed into Mrs. Eddy's personal posses sion since the founding of the Christian BMence cult. Millions of copies of her books have been sold, and each book has yielded her a royalty of $1. "From the mother church in Boston she yearly receives a great sum, contributed by devotees in all parts of the world in the form of annual dues. One of her clos est friends and followers estimates Mrs HARRY MURPHY SEIZES UPON THE WEEK'S SALIENT Eddy's fortune at $15,000,000, and her an nual income at 11.000,000. - Of this vast sum there is practically no trace. There is no public record of its investment, no clew to its distribution. "Her financial agent and cousin, Fred erick D. Ladd, secretary of the Loan & Trust Savings Bank, of Concord, while re fusing details, has said that Mrs. Eddy's estate is surprisingly small, she having (Concluded on Page 7.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 63 . degrees; minimum temperature, 53 decrees. Russia. Terrorists attack customs cashier and steal $20,000 of government funds. Page 14. Mutiny breaks out at Harbin. Page 15 Rumored attempt to assassinate Czar. Page 14. Trial of strike leaders becomes a farce. Page 14- Foreign. Duke and Duchess of Marlborough agree to separate. Page 3. Anarcny rampant in Morocco. Page 15. Count de Castellan fears publicity in di vorce trial. Pag 4. National. Foot assures Japanese of equal treatment with Europeans. Page 2. Roosevelt agrees to Indorse Seattle Fair In message. Page 4 Roosevelt and Root each have different job for Barrett. Page 4. politics. Hearst pours out tirade against New York editors. Page 2. Hughes points out Hearst's Inconsistency. Page 2. Taft's first speech In Ohio campaign. Page 3. Roosevelt strongly indorses Hughes. Page 2. Domestic. Principles of Point Loma colony explained. Page 10. Whole regiment in pursuit of XJtes. Page 4. Policy-holders expose methods of insurance I directors. Page 3. ! Mrs. Long worth's reception causes women to fight. Page 3. Mrs. Eddy dying, and. dummy parading in her place. Page 1. Robert M. Snyder, father of Carey Snyder, , killed In auto accident. Page 1. Sport. Multnomah defeats "Whitman, 0-0. Page IS. Princeton defeats Cornell in close football game. Page 5. Carlisle Indians defeat Pennsylvania. Page S. Oregon Agricultural College. 0; University of Washington, O. Page 5. Pacific Coast. Heney will purge San Francisco grand Jury; confident of success in prosecution or grafters. Page 1. Republicans expect victory in. Idaho ; but vote may be close, page i. Pacific Coast lumbermen find the car short age is growing worse. Page 7. Umatilla Indian woman accused Agent A. C. Edwards of bribery. Page T. Cashier of the Etna Bank at Butte has dis appeared. Page 7. Washington. Republican state committee will interfere in 24th district flgbt. Page 6. Football players the country over complain of new ten-yard rule. Page 19. Ring gossip of San Francisco. Page IS. Sam Berger a 10 to S favorite over Kauf man. Page 19. Commercial and Marine. Strong California demand for Oregon pota toes? Page 39. Hop market slowly advancing. Page 39. 3 Bears turn bulls in Chicago wheat pit. Page 39. Week closes strong tn stock market. Page 3S. Flow of money from New York to interior. Page 3S. Colonel Poessler returns from conference with pilots at Seattle. Page 13. Strikers and grainhandlers clash frequently in grain docks. Page SS. Two more gralncarrlers and lumber steamer arrive. Page 13. Portland and Vicinity. Cary M. Snyder's widow admits he was im plicated in Forest Grove bank robbery ; killed by his accomplices. Page 14. New corporation tax law will yield initial revenue of $25,000. Page 12. Oregon State Federation of Women's Clubs to meet in Portland Tuesday for sixth annual convention. Page 40. Russell Sewall, who helped settle grain handlers' strike, boomed for Mayor by some Republicans; local political gossip. Page 10. Activity In North End business property feature of week in real estate market. Page 20. Glfford Pinchot, head of Forestry Service, answers Oregon critics. Page 11. Feature and Departments. Editorial. Page S. Church announcements. Page 34. Classified advertisements. Pages 21-2S. Commercial life in Alpine valleys. Page 44, Ben Lindsey running for Governor. Page. 43. San Francisco in the rebuilding. Page 42. Old photographs of celebrities. Page 43. Scientific feeding of poultry. Page 47. New York' 8 1 esser theatrical syndicate. Page 46. Boy who composes music at the age of 5. Page 45. Never-changing Hallowe'en superstitions. Page 49. The John Dough mystery. Page 49. Ham Burr's fun. Page 50. Social. Paes 30-31-37. Dramatic. Page 32. Musical. Page 35. Book reviews. . Page 47. Household and fashion. Page 47. Youths' department- Page 61. A Trifle Groggy, Bat Still in the Ring;. IS Nomination Good Move by Republicans. CLASH OF FACTIONS AVOIDED Gooding the Logical Candi date for Governor. DUBOIS TRIES DISRUPTION Mormon Issue Taken Cp by the Democrats, and Strong Bid Made to the Disaffected of the Opposition Party. BOISE. Idaho. Oct. 37. (Special.) Were it not for the fact that there is a large Republican majority in this state, and for the further fact that the character of the Democratic campaign has alienated a large majority of the voters in the sis Mormon counties, ae would be a rash per son who would undertake to predict what the majority for the Republican state ticket will be, or that it will have a ma jority at all. While it may be put down as a cer tainty that the Republican ticket will be successful, the uncertain quantities of the problem render it impossible with any cer tainty to forecast what the figures will be. On the Governorship, very conserva tive Republicans talk of 5000 majority. while those , no may be classed as enthu siastic put the figure at 20,000. On the other hand, many of the Democrats claim the Democratic candidate for Governor will be elected, even though the conditions of the contest militate against his getting the normal Democratic vote in the Mor mon section. The campaign has waged directly about the Governorship and the Senatrrship. While ma-.y Democrats say Judge C. O. Stockslager will aeft-t Governor Frank Gooding, there are few who seriously maintain that Senator Dubois will defeat W. iJ. Borah, the Republican nominee for the position, the opinion being general that a Republican majority will be sent to the Legislature. There are some who hold the contrary view, but Democratic leaders in a great many cases auniir. privately that there is no chance for Dubois to suc ceed. The situation may have a surprise In store on that subject, but it is not likely. State Vote in 1904. A detailed statement of the situation may properly be premised with a state ment of . the vote in 1904. The vote on President, Congressman, Governor and Lieutenant-Governor will be sufficient, as the vote on the remainder of the state ticket ran about the same as that on Lieutenant-Governor. Results on the four offices named were as follows: President ' , Vote. Plurality. Roosevelt 47,783 Parker CD.) 1S.4S0 29.303 Congressman French (R.j 44,813 Clay (D.) . 20,146 24,667 Governor Gooding R.) 41.877 Heitfeld D 24.192 17.6S3 Lieutenant-Governor Steives (R.) 52.887 Harris (D.) 21.S3S 21.049 It will be observed that Governor Good ing ran some 4o00 behind his ticket in that contest. He was opposed by a man of great personal popularity, and there were some oter reasons that tended to lose him votes, these growing out of the ante convention contest. Still he had more than 17.000 plurality, while the Republi can plurality for President reached near ly 30,000. When the campaign of the present year approached, there was danger that the Governor and Borah would clash, but after a protracted contest that was often ticklish to the last degree, the two came together in the convention, and both were nominated. There was but very little op position to the Governor on the ballot by which he was nominated, and the nomina tion of Borah as the choice of the party EVENTS AS TOPICS FOR BORAH STRONG WITH IDAHO T for Senator was by acclamation. That ar rangement healed up sores, or threatened sores, wch would have exposed the party to great danger had the cause of friction continued through the defeat of either. Logical Candidate for Governor. Gooding was the logical candidate for Governor; he had: given the stare the best administration it has known, and. more over, he had been called upon to lend the aid of the state to the prosecution in the Steunenberg murder .ses, thus arousing an agitation which made it seem neces sary to a very large proportion of the people that he should be nominated to avoid the imputation of party repudiation of him in the midst of the prosecution of that case. Borah is very strong before the people; he has been a favorite for a number of years, and 4 considerable majority de sired to see him elected Senator the com ing Winter. The party therefore put its best foot forward and presented as good a front as was possible. It was certain that Dubois would re new his policy of righting the Mormons, appealing to nonMormons throughout the Torey L. Ford, of San Francisco, Counsel for the XJnited Railroads, a Corporation Which I Alleged to Have Paid 700,000 for a Franchise. state to give him their support. Up to the time of the Republican convention it was felt to be one of the possibilities that he would succeed in creating a stampede through division among the Republicans and disappointment of one faction or the other, but the result at the Pocatello convention caused most people to feel the Senator would fall in his effort to break the Republican ranks on the Mormon question. Duty to Renominate Gooding. Republicans knew that the Governor had some handicaps, but they felt it their duty to renominate him, both be cause of his excellent record and because of the fight being waged against him all over the country by the sympathizers with the men accused of the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg. With Borah nominated as the candidate for Senator, it was felt the party could be held to gether for the Governor. The latter had all that class against him who are at the heels of every candidate for re-election the class of disappointed ones who had unsuccessfully endeavored to secure ap pointments or other favors for themselves or their friends. The Governor is not one who goes out of his way far to conciliate those who elect to make war on him, and it was a foregone conclusion that the class re ferred to would continue their opposi tion. There was another class opposed to him simply because he had done his duty in numerous matters that conflicted with their supposed interests. Some sheepmen did not like his vig orous efforts to. eradicate scab from the ranges of the state, and others did not like his policy of jealously guarding the land grant3 of the state against private encroachment. Many of these have con tinued their - opposition, but it was felt at the time of the convention that every one of. these handicaps could be largely overcome, and that feeling is still enter tained by Republicans quite generally. The convention of the Democratic par ty met under ; the complete control of Senator Dubois. . It went so far in its oppdsltion to the Mormons that it un seated men appearing as delegates from Bear Lake County, though there was no contest. Jn the case of Fremont County, it summarily ousted the regular delega tion and seated a delegation representing the non-Mormon interests of the party in that county. This was followed by the adoption of a (Concluded on Page 6.) CARTOONS The Grainhandlers' Strike Is Settled. SNYDER KILLED IN OF Car Run Into Curb by the Chauffeur. TRIES TO MISS BOY ON WHEEL Millionaire Kansas City Man Thrown Against Pole. UNDER CHARGE OF BRIBERY Indictment Was Pending Against Man Whose Son Was Murdered in Oregon After Escape in His Home Town. KANSAS CITY. Oct. 27 Robert M. Sny der, millionaire capitalist of this city, who is under indictment in St. Louis on a charge of bribery, died at Agnew Hos pital, in this city tonight, as a result of injuries received in an automobile acci dent on Independence boulevard and Park avenue, a few minutes before. Snyder, in his own automobile, which was driven by Frank M. Schroeder, an expert driver, who came here recently from Cleveland. O., was riding eastward and just passing a moving trolley-car, when the chauffeur saw a small boy jump from in front of the car directly in the path of the machine. In an effort to save the boy. Schroeder turned the machine toward the curb, and as it struck, Snyder, who was in the rear seat, was thrown against an iron trolley-pole and his skull fractured at the base of the brain. The boy, whose name was Arthur Rodell, was knocked down and fatally Injured. Schroe der was not hurt. Boy Dies of His -Hurts. Mr. Snyder was taken to Agnew Hos pital nearby, but died without regaining consciousness. Young Rodell, who was 13 years old, sustained a fracture of the skull and internal injuries and died late tonight Shortly before 6 o'clock, Snyder left his office in the American Bank building. At the curbstone in front of the building his chauffeur was waiting. "Hello, Frank," was Snyder's greeting. "Rather chilly tonight; let's hurry home." The driver started and was soon going along at a good rate of speed to the Sny der home. They met another automobile and a race began. The boy on his bicycle was in the path of the Snyder car, and then followed the accident that ended the life of Mr. Snyder. Schroeder was taken to the police sta tion, where he made a statement of tho affair and was later released. Schroeder says that he was not driving overtea miles an hour. He claims to be an expert chauffeur and that he worked in an auto mobile factory in Cleveland before com ing to Kansas City. Robert M. Snyder was the father of Carey M. Snyder, who was murdered near Hillsboro, Or., several months ago. His body wa6 found about a month ago. He is believed to be one of three men who robbed a bank at Forest Grove, Or., and the Oregon officers were trying to ap prehend him for that crime. He was convicted of holding up and robbing a Kansas City pawnbroker of $6000 in dia monds in 1900. He did not go to the peni tentiary because Judge Woodford had paroled him. Young Snyder went to Ore gon after his parole. Snyder Married Three Times. Robert M. Snyder is survived by a widow and three sons, Robert 11., Jr., Boy, and Kenneth. Robert M. Snyder, Jr., 'lives in Independence, Mo. Roy Snyder is a student in Harvard College, and Kenneth is attending a military school near Boston. Mr. Snyder had been married three times. . When killed tonight he was going to his home on In dependence boulevard, near Gladstone, one of the finest residence sections of the city. . Notwithstanding Schroeder'e statement ( Concluded on Page 3. Perhaps the Price ! Too High. WRECK TO Oil 4 G: 106.