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titan; Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVI NO. 51. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 60 Pages TELLS JAPANESE OF THEIR FAULTS "Too Cocky" Writes Hawaiian Official. 'NUISANCE WHEREVER THEYGO' Letter to Consul Causes New War Incident. APOLOGY CLOSES INCIDENT President of Health Board Refuses Japanese Doctors Same Pay as Whites and Delivers Iecture on Brown Men's Presumption. HONOLULU. Dec. 21. (Special.) "Altogether too cocky." "Considered a nuisance wherever they go," "the source of serious trouble," and "aggressive" are some of the comments on the Japanese made in an official com munication to Japanse Consul-General Salto by L. E. Pinkham, president of the Hawaii Board of Health, a communi cation which caused somewhat of a dip lomatic crisis between the Japanese representatives and the Hawaiian of ficials and which, it is stated, has been forwarded to the officials at Toklo for cognizance as a new "war incident." Governor Frear took up the matter and demanded from Mr. Pinkham an apol ogy, which has been sent to the Jap anese Consul. Tries to Suppress Letters. Repeated Inquiries for the corre spondence have been made at the of fices of the Governor and of the Board of Health, but no information will be given out. Acting Governor Mott-Smlth stating that the affair is now a closed Incident. ' " v The Hawaii Jiyu Shonbun, a leading Japanese daily of Honolulu, supposed . to be closely in touch with the Japa nese consulate, publishes the following 0s being substantially the insulting let ter sent. A translation has been pub lished in the English papers of the city. The published letter is: Letter Which Caused Offense. "Consul-General Saito Dear Sir: In reference to your letter regarding the qlalm of the Japanese physicians for services at Alca, I think they are ask ing altogether too much. . They claim the right to be treated on the same footing with the citizen physicians. But they are aliens and they ought not to ask the same privileges that are accorded to citizen physicians. It is a fact that they were asked to serve this board for the benefit of their countrymen. They were promised pay for such services, and to ask the board for a letter of thanks for their serv ices besides is altogether too much. Says Japanese Are Too "Cocky." "Your countrymen are getting alto getl cr too cocky, and are getting to be considered a nuisance everywhere they go. tfCMssu of the trsnle tlioy cause. In any white man's country th.y ought to behave thjnuelves end b3 4at'sfled with the privll.jgis 'vhich r:ay be accorded them, and no;. ssK ilta sain rights and privileges eojoysd by the citizens. If they ask the same ri'ata and privileges,, it will be the source of st l leus trouble Oe'.wetn cc two countries. "I: is b;causo of your cou.itrymcis aggressivo demand of all the rights uni r rivilosrcs of citizens in the coun tries where trey may happen to be, fcirl in .itMltion c'alra privileges because of their race or numbers, that they are becoming disliked in every country where they have gone. However, in the present matter, I will pay whatever is due to ther.i -fr.r i "'o. Dear, There Is No Santa Clans." Ihelr services, and I wish you woi!I inform the Japanese doctDrs to preset, t their bill to the board direct." (Signed) "L. E. PINKHAM, President Board of Health. BOXNHEIM PRIZE TO JAPANESE In Annual Discussion He Distances American Competitors. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 21. (Special.) The J150 prize for the Bonnhelm Discus sion this year was awarded tonight at Stanford University to P. J. Angu, a Japanese student from Saga, who pre sented a strong paper on "The Ethics of National and Racial Exelusiveness." The Bonnheim Discussion prize is of fered every year by Alfred Bonnheim, of Sacramento, who aims to promote ethi cal discussions of the great problems of the day. This is the third discussion at Stanford and the first ever awarded to a Japanese student. Angu showed in his presentation a deeper study and wider knowledge of his subject than . his competitors. The de cision, however, was a close one, J. N. Carter, '10, being considered by many to have an equal right to the award. Angu Is one of the most prominent of the Jap anese students at Stanford. KLAMATH MAN MISSING W. J. Mills Believed to Have Been Murdered in California. KLAMATH FALLS. Or., Dec. 21. (Spe cial.) W. J. Mills, a real estate and ab stract man of this city and a member of the Wright Mills Company, has disap peared, and it is believed that he was the victim of murder near Redding, Cal., the latter part of November, when the body of an unidentified man was found in the woods, the likeness of which strongly resembles the Klamath Falls man. Mills left here about September's, vis ited his mother at Kelseyville, Cal., and departed for San Francisco about No vember 10. intending to return to Kla math Falls in a few days. No tidings have since been received from him. There is no reason known why he should disappear voluntarily, and his partner is of the opinion that he must have met with some accident or foul play. As a matter of precaution the partner has Instituted a suit in which the missing man and the Klamath Coun ty Bank are made Joint defendants to protect the funds of the firm. TAKES CHURCH PROPERTY French Chamber Passes Law Alien ating All Estates. PARIS, Dec. 21. After a debate cover ing several weeks, the Chamber of Depu ties today by a vote of 364 to 177 passed the bill providing for the devolution of church property, escheating the estate to departments and communes Under the separation law. One article of the new bill which raises the bitterest opposition limits the recovery of pious foundation funds, such as masses for the repose of the souls of the dead, to direct lineal descendants. Where there are only col lateral heirs, the bill provides that such funds shall go to charities. BUILD ENGINES OF WAR Maxims Constructing for Japanese Vessels to Carry Submarines. PARIS, Dec. 21. The Echo de Paris announces today that the Maxims are constructing for the Japanese a type of ship for the transportation of small submarine vessels to the scene of bat tle. The submarine vessels will be stowed in a species of tunnels in the hold of the vessel whence they can emerge unpercelved by means of locks. Trailing Train-Robber. SANTA ANA. Cal., Dec. 21. A resi dent of this city is in receipt of a let ter from W. F. Orr, of Sulphur Springs, Kan., stating that the latter has au thentic Information to the effect that Sam Powell, leader of the gang which robbed an Iron Mountain Railroad train near Olive, Kan., 14 years ago, is a res ident of Orange County, California, and is holding either a municipal or a county office. Orr is a deputy sheriff and one of the posse that pursued Pow ell, who escaped. No officeholder of this city answers the description sent with the letter.- , Sue Federal Judge for Libel. HONOLULU, Dec. 21. F. M. Brooks, an attorney of Shanghai, has sued Judge L. R. Whlfiey, of the United States Court In China, for $50,000 damages for an al leged HbeL' The suit had been brought in this city and Judge Whlfley has re tained A. G. M. Robertson as his attorney. HARRY MURPHY OFFERS A FEW APPROPRIATE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE YULETIDE SEASON Clad It Doesn't Comt but Ones a Tear. RICH ALL Bonaparte Scores the Big Rascals. THINK LAWS NOT TO BE OBEYED Similar Wail Goes Up From All Great Offenders. WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT? Attorney-General Warns Them, if They Want Laws Enforced Not to Choose President Favored by the Big Lawbreakers. CHICAGO, Dec. 21. Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte, wno passed the day in Chicago as the guest of the Illinois Athletic Club, was the principal speaker at a banquet of that organiza tion given tonight- in honor of its of ficers. Others who responded to toasts were Congressman Frank O. Lowden and James Hamilton Lewis, of Chicago, ex-Congressman from Washington. Mr. Bonaparte, after conveying the Presi dent's regrets at not being able to At tend, said that he spoke for no one but himself. 1 The subject of his address was "Ob stacles to the Execution of the Laws," and he. quoted from that pa.-t of the Constitution wherein it says: "He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." ' This part, he said, was by far the most important, and most cloarly vital to the people's happiness and (he safe ty of all the people, "but when the President seeks to fulfill it, a. stum bling block is placed in his path. If the faithful execution of the laws is made difficult or uncertain, in what ever manner or from whatever cause, the American people should be rlalnly told, that the American people may find and apply a remedy." Wails From Big Lawbreakers. Continuing,. Mr. Bonaparte said that it had been his experience as Attorney General that some people think or talk or write as if the law especially ex empted them. "In the Eastern states," he added, "any enforcement of Federal statutes forbidding conspiracy in restraint of trade or favoritism by common carriers is greeted by a chorus of wail3, as un settling business and breeding or keep ing alive panics. In certain Western and Southwestern states the prosecu tion of men who have acquired vast tracts of public land through fraud and perjury, in plain violation of the law and with enormous profits to themselves is fiercely denounceo. ea 'persecution of public-spirited citi zens.' Finally in some Southern states attempts to bring to punishment, un der the laws of the United .States for bidding peonage, those who virtually enslave helpless negroes, and no less helpless foreign whites, provoke a like outcry. Think Rich Should Be Exempt. "In all these cases alike, the idea un derlying the complaints, an Idea often more or less concealed by sophistry and falsehood. Is that laws, or some laws, are not really Intended to be really obeyed by some, people. These critics might per haps consent that some show of enforc ing such laws should be made. If after a tedious and expensive inquiry It has been shown clearly that a ' wrong has been committed, the culprit may.be called to answer for it; but when he shows, by way of answer,, that he is a captain of industry, or a generalissimo of finance. or at least a 'leading citizen' in other words that he is rich or otherwise influ ential theywouldhaye' him go unpun Memories. LAWLESS CLAIM IMMUNTY ished, or, at worst, escape with a sham penalty about as formidable as- burning with a cold iron. ' - "No! In our country neither the Presi dent nor any one else can execute the laws' faithfully, or execute them at all, unless the American people want them executed." ' Don't Let Wolves Choose Watchdog. After relating . Aesop's fable of the wolves persuading the 6heep to send away their watchdogs, Mr. Bonaparte said: "Just now the denizens of that great sheepfold, the American Union, are be ginning to turn their thoughts to the grave problem of choosing a head watch dog to guard them for four long years. I cannot help thinking it may aid them In this weighty task to establish first of all a negative test of fitness; whatever applicant for the job Is viewed with polit ical favor by the wolves may well be left In his home kennel; wolves can be trust- 3- Representative John W. Gaines, of Tennessee, Who Calls ea Congress to Throttle Wall Street Men. ed to know what they want what the sheep don't want. "In plainer language, no man can be safely trusted to take care that the laws be faithfully executed if his choice ' be longed for and urged by all or many of those who have obstructed the faithful execution of the same laws In the past and whose influence and resources are formidable obstacles to their faithful exe cution today." DEPARTMENT STORE BURNS Four-Story Building With Adjoining Structures Destroyed. 1 SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 21. A Are. which originated in the department store of the Johnston-Hatcher Com pany, at Seventh and Adams streets, this morning destroyed the four-story building occupied by that establish ment and also the four-story building adjoining, occupied by J. L. Jones fur niture store, and . two three-story buildings west of these. One or two persons .may have been burned to death in the Johnston-Hatcher Company's store. Loss about $150,000. FRUITS OF GRAND JURY Two Well-Known Citizens of Helena Arrested on Indictment. HELENA. Mont., Dec. 21. Among the 27 persons Indicted by the Federal grand jury yesterday, two were made public today with the arrest of O. C Dallas, chief clerk, and J. D. McLeod, at the head of the Survey Department in the office of the United States Surveyor-General In this city. The indictment alleges forgery and conspiracy to defraud the Government of the United States. Both are well-known citizens of Helena. PRESIDENT IN VIRGINIA Will Spend Christmas at the .White House and Holidays on Estate. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. The holiday plans of President Roosevelt contem plate a trip to Pine Knot, Va., the day after Christmas, and a stay at the Vir ginia estate of Mrs. Roosevelt for four or five days. - Christmas will be cele brated at the White House and the Presi dent will be back for the reception on New Tear's day. Santa From Several Points of View. WAR DECLARED ON SOCIETY SNOBS Wife of Philadelphia Mayor Opens Fight. WILL BETTER SOCIAL STANDARD Ignored by Most Exclusive Set of Quaker City. CAN'T GET BOX AT OPERA Accustomed to Deference at Wash ington,. Mrs. Reyburn Finds Her self, Outsider at Home and Opens Hostilities. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 21. (Spe cial.) Members of Philadelphia exclusive society, into which the Vanderbilts of New York have just succeeded in break ing, after five years' work to that end, are contemplating an appeal to the President for troops. It Is because Mrs. John E. Reyburn, wife of the Mayor, is giving a series of at-homes and giving out long interviews to the newspapers, in which she declares that she is going to promote better social conditions in this city. It appears that Mrs. Reyburn, who, as the wife of a Congressman, was promi nent in Washington society for many years and who was recently presented to the King of England, was much sur prised when she came to Philadelphia to find that no box was set aside at the opera for the Mayor's family. She gave out an interview saying it was a shame. Then the Mayor tried to buy or rent a box and couldn't. Declares War on Snobs. The result was that Mrs. Reyburn de clared war. She would "break up the Philadelphia snob society," she said, and she has set out to do it. "The office of Mayor is only tempo rary," she said, "and the Incumbent and hiB wife should be shown all honor, no matter how impossible they may be. Their former station should have nothing to do with It. I have stated my position, and am going to. stand by it. There Is no box at the Academy of Music for the Mayor of Philadelphia, but I claim there ought to be. I do not say call it the "Mayor's box," but let it be known as the "executive box," and at least give the Mayor an opportunity of subscribing for it, if he so desires, or even the Gov ernor of the state, if he wishes. "I came here to Philadelphia accus tomed to the honor and deference shown to officialdom in Washington, after many years' residence there, expecting to find the same obtaining here, and what do I And? The Mayor, practically. Is a servile nonentity. I am not speaking in regard to private entertainments, but such an Important paid-for function as a per formance of grand opera. Raise Social Standard. "I have embarked on a crusade against snobbishness, and during the four years my husband is in office I will not yield a jot in maintaining my position. I have no personal grievance against anyone In this city. Personally I have been well received, and graciously treated 'by tae people whom I have met, but I started out with the firm determination that I wlll devote all my rime while here to rais ing the social standard of official life, and Infuse into It some of the dignity that should accompany the conferring of position by the people." FATHER OF REVOLT IN JAIL Tschalkovsky's Wife Confirms Newj of His Imprisonment. NEW YORK, Dec. 21. A cable dispatch was received here today from Mrs The Ixmgewt Days. Tschatkovsky, giving the confirmatory information that her husband. Nicholas Tschaikovsky. known as the "father of the Russian Revolution," was imprisoned In the Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul In St. Petersburg. Friends of Mrs. Tschaikovsky have been at a loss to un derstand his imprisonment, and doubts were expressed that the prisoner was he. 'A cable dispatch from Mrs. Tschaikovsky reads as follows: "He is imprisoned in the fortress and wants me to come to the prison to ob tain permission for an Interview with him." SHOT SLEEPING IN BED Mother and Daughter Killed by an Unknown Hand in Missouri. MARYVILLE, Mo.. Dec. 21. Mrs. William O. Boatright and her grown daughter were fatally shot while asleep by an. unknown assassin, on a farm near Maryville, Mo., last night. The women were sleeping together and the husband and father knew nothing of the outrage until his daughter stag gered into his room and fell on his bed. Bert O. Tolbert, a young farmer who w,as In love with Miss Boatright, was arrested today on the charge of doing the shooting and is in jail at Mary ville. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60 degrees; minimum, 44 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rains; southerly winds. Foreign. Chinese view of foreign nations as revealed By scnoolbook. Section 3, page 8. Foreign society gathers at Monte Carle. Section 3, page 8. Revolutionary Intrigues ' in Portugal. Sec tion 4, page 1. King Victor fights suit of woman who tries to blacken King Humbert's memory. Section 4, page 1. Chief witness in Harden case discredited; Kaiser opposes compromise. Section 1, page 11. National. Secretary Taft tells of progrnss In Philip pine self-government. Section 1. page 1. Gaines makes sensational' speech In House against Wall street. Section 1, page C. Senate passes bill suspending miners' as sessment work law. Section 1, page T. Bonaparte speaks at Chicago on resistance of rich men to law. Section 1, page 1. Fleet to return by Sues Canal; Pacific squadron to reorganize. Section 1, page 2. Politics. Great meeting of ship-subsidy advocates. Section 2, page 2. . Ex-Senator Pettlgrew says Congress is con trolled by corporations. Section 1. page 4. Bryan attacks Roosevelt in speeches in Ok lahoma. Section 1, page 4. Hearst still works secretly for Presidency. Section 1, page 2- ' oincstie. Caldwell, principal witness in Druce trial, arrested for perjury on 'arrival In New York. Section 1, page S. New Tork bank statement shows recovery from stringency, Bectlon 1, page 11. First woman jury In Colorado decides against woman. 8ectlon 1, page 5. Gold field mlneowners plead for troop to re main; Sparks criticises Roosevelt. Sec tion 2, page 8. Toutsey's evidence in Powers case contra dicted. Section 2, page 3. Only 18 bodies recovered from Darr mine. Section 2. page 8. Wife of Mayor Reyburn declares war on snobbish Philadelphia society. Section 1, page 1. -Stuyvesant Fish gaining adherents In Chi cago. Section 2, page 2. Philadelphia streetcar men threaten strike. Section 1. page 4. Hawaiian official writes angry letter to Jap anese Consul, and Governor extorts apol ogy. Section 1, page 1. Pacific Coast. Carnegie library row at Aberdeen now up to the voters. Section 1. page a. Drunken fool pulls revolver and kills com- panlon in Lexington saloon. Section 1, page 3. Borah and Hawley well pleased with case against Pettibone. Section 1, page B. . -San Francisco preparing reception to fleet. Section 1. page 2. Sports. Multnomah Club will develop great track and field team. Section 4, page 6. Referee discusses need for college ath letic association. Section 4, page 6. Annual O. A. C. -Oregon football gams should be played In Portland. Section 4, Page 7. Oregon National Guard will tender rifle range In effort to bring battleships to Portland, fiectlon 3. page f. Real estate market between seasons. Sec tion 2, page 6. Commercial and Marine. Onlongrowers take steps to improve- the market. Section 4, page 9. Free selling prevents advance In wheat prices at Chicago. Section 4, page 9. Usual Saturday lull In stock speculation. Section 4. page 9- W. L. Jodon, Inspector of Customs, drowned from the ship Henry VUlard, In Portland Harbor. 'Section 4, page 8. Portland and Vicinity. Female friends of murdered Policeman Glttings Intrude at funeral. Section 2, page 12. Merchants National Bank to resume within 60 days. Section 1, page 8. , Inquiry by Railroad Commission Into cur tailment of service by Southern Paclflc Section 1, page 8. Oregon Historical Society holds annual session. Section 1, page 10. "BELIEVE IN SRNTR"? SYNTH'S OstlfvtS in M.n,iu WMRT Do.-YOU TKE ME 0 nFcCslL'N tU"'' saesfe. " OFTEN- y ,;Mm Kill,.. -....rr 1 I Santa a Myth? A Few Interviews. TALKS OF. ISLANDS, SHUNS POLITICS Taft Says Self-Government Succeeds. PEACE IS FULLY RESTORED Filipinos Enjoy Safety and Support Government. INDEPENDENCE IN FUTURE Secretary Favors Gradual Extension or Autonomy Until That Goal Is Attained Assembly Conserv ative Disappoints "Antis." ' WASHINGTON, Dec. H.-Secretary Taft's first day at his desk since his re turn to the United States -was a busy one. from beginning to end. He had a number of callers, among them Senator Fulton, of Oregon. If they talked politics, and some of them admitted they did, the Sec retary was not to be led into any discus sion of that subject with the newspaper men who wished him to talk about it later. In fact, he said to them very plainly that the subject was a forbidden one at this moment, but, if the proper occasion arose in the future, he would be glad to make a full statement on the sub ject He did admit, however, that he would attend the banquet of the Home Market Club, of Boston, and address that body on the night of December 30. His topio is to be the tariff, and might in one sense be regarded as political in its relation to tlM American tarlfT, though Mr. Taft will endeavor to have the projected removal of duties on- wood pulp Imported into America considered-, on a nonpartisan basis. Anxious to See Canal. Colonel Goethals, engineer of the Pan ama Canal; ex-Senator Blackburn, a member of the Panama Canal Commis sion, and R. K. Rogers, the law officer of the commission, talked with Mr. Taft about affairs -n the Isthmus. The Sec retary has yet to submit to Congress his annual report, one of the most lrrroortant chapters of which will deal with the ca nal construction. He very much desires to make a personal visit to the Isthmus to get the information he needs at first hand. Indeed, he was ureed to mnko thi visit especially by Mr. Blackburn, but, owing to the vast amount of business awaiting his disposition, he could not promise to make the trip before next Summer. .Will Confer With Vorjs. Mr. Taft found time during the day to repair to the White House and confer with President Roosevelt briefly about the situation in Goldfleld, the result of hia visit being an order to the Commander of the Department of California providing for the formal execution of the decision of the President, announced in his tele gram to Governor John Sparks yesterday, withdrawing the regular troops from Goldfleld on December 30. Arthur Vorys, the political manager for Mr. Taft, is expected in "Washington to morrow. As soon as he has disposed of the vast amount of departmental busi ness, which has accumulated during hia long absence, Mr. Taft will begin the preparation of an extended report on his observations in the Philippines. Ia an in terview tonight, Mr. Taft discussed at much length the situation In the islands. from both a political and material view point, and expressed himself as highly gratified with the progress that had been made in all lines. He said: - The whole situation, briefly, may be summed up In this way: Peace prevails throughout the Philippines today in a greater degree thaa ever In their history, either under Spanish or American rule. Agriculture Is nowhere im- (Coneluded on Page 3.) . ', I'll, ;- M'M, 'initial- HH- DoiNC Lm OF one fl, W ;JBD-(.. til MOOT, ksimi