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Newspaper Page Texti f r I 1 ' TA. - A ' fcrv v A A A jST A A A - i-S?! A. JLV l A v A AA. A Ax , A A... ' I 58 Pages PLHf 11 13110 MIS 01 WjOMItHTL Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVII NO. 7. PORTLAND," OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 16, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TAFTSUREWINHEn. SAYS WELL M A TJ Probably Be Named on First Ballot. MAY BE ROOSEVELT ERUPTION Political Weather Forecaster Gives Figures. ' HOW STATES WILL VOTE I'inds AIJ Kcpublican States Which Have "o Favorite Sons Are for Taft Roosevelt Sentiment Is the Only Doubtful Element. WASHINGTON', Feb. 13. (Special.) Wiring: to the Record-Herald tonight, W'Hlter Wellman says in part: So great Is the probability of W. H. Taft's nomination for President by fhe Chicago convention that we are almost, If not quite, justified in regarding it as a foregone conclusion. There is a great probability that the nomination will be made on the first ballot. The one element of serious doubt as to the outcome. lies In the possibility of an upheaval for President Roosevelt for Bccond elective term. If Not Taft, Then Roosevelt. Fairly full and accurate Information s to the political situation in all parts of the country, secured during my re cent Western tour and since returning to Washington, strengthens the belief formed two months ago hat Taft Is to win; but that, if Taft for any reason Is not nominated, the President will be. That there is no opposition to Taft and to the President we all know. I have made diligent inquiries as to the facts which led the opponents of the leading candidate to believe he can be beaten, and the result is not re assuring from their standpoint. Their claims do not stand scrutiny. Their generalizations are strong, but their details are weak. For a clear understanding of -the sit uation as it is seen today, let us look at the country geographically. We have certain well detined political areas. First, New Knglund. six states with 82 votes in the Republican National Conven tion. Second, The states with "favorite sons," hw in number. New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, with 255 votes in t he convention. Third. Tin: Southern states, almost cer tainly Democratic at the election, omitting Maryland and Missouri, 12 in number, Willi 2tt votes in the convention. Knur, The remainder of the North, West and Coast states and the territories, 23 stales ill all, including Maryland and Mis souri, with 3SS votes in the convention. Total number of states, 46; total num ber of votes in the convention, 992; neces sary to nominate, 497. ; Sure Votes for Taft. ' Information of trustworthy character as to the choice of the delegates from the states in this great belt, sweeping from ocean - to ocean, and beyond the two oceans, sums up as follows: Total Probably fc Votes, for Taft. w Jersey . .... 1'4 l'O Delaware . 6 Maryland 1 10 We.t Virginia 14 14 Ohio 4 40 Michigan js i4 Minnesota '22 2rt North lakota 8 8 Houth Dakota 8 S Iowa 2fi 20 Nebraska ..... DO . IB Missouri 3ft 30 Kansaa 20 20 Oklahoma 14 10 Colorado Hi JO Wyoming o I'tali i r. Montana H i; Nevada ! 't California 20 It OreKon 6 o I nclc Sam Make Other Frirnds Beside the Jap. 10 6 2ti Total 3S8 304, The well Informed friends of Judge Taft believe he will get every vote from the states and territories named in the foregoing list, or 388 in all. But wo shall surely be within reason if we assume that on the first baljot this great National belt of Republican, or probably or possibly Republican states, gives him 350 votes. He would still need about 150 for the nomination. AVhere TaTt Will Get the Rest. Iris welT known that much more than one-half of the South Is for Taft. In fact, he is to have nearly all of it. Florida, South Carolina, North Caro lina, the greater part of Georgia and Alabama, all of Tennessee and Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas are for Taft. Kentucky is for Fairbanks. There will be many contesting dele gates from the South. . Wre are therefore justified in assum- W 1 mmmi T I B Thomas I.. Lewis, Sen President of I'nited Mlneworkers of America. ing that on the first roll-call fully 200 of the 266 oouthern delegates will vote for Taft If only one-half of them do so, a second ballot will not be needed. With S75 votes from, the great cen tral belt and New England combined, Taft needs about 125 more to win. The distinctively Southern states have 266. The five states with favorite sons have 256. If Taft could get only one-half of the South added to the foregoing estimate, he would have enough with out encroaching upon the favorite-son states or, In other words, on the first ballot. Of the 34 votes from Connecticut he is pretty sure of ten, and may have all. Of the 32 from Massachusetts he may get 10 or 12 on the first ballot. Of the eight from New Hampshire, he already has five. Vermont usually lands "with, the winner," and there are eight votes which may come to Taft. Maine and Rhode Island are now uncertain. At least the friends of Taft count upon 25 to 35 of the 88 votes from New England, and hope for marty more. Gets Some Favorite-Son Votes. But suppose a second ballot should be necessary arid always assuming that the Roosevelt earthquake, of which men talk so much, fails to erupt. In the natural order of things, the columns of votes 26' strong, held by the five favorite sons, must dissolve sooner or later. The point is, that, if the opportunity should arise, all of these 256 favorite son votes cannot be delivered to any one of them. ' The moment the 256 votes In the favorite-son column begin -to shift, the leader In the race, almort a winner, inevitably gets enough votes from one or other of the states to push him over the line. There Is small probability that it will come to this. . STEP TO JEWISH FREEDOM Russia to Allow AVives to Emigrate If Husbands AVrite I'etters. ODESSA, Feb. 15. The . Governor General has announced that in the fu ture the wives of Hebrews who have emigrated to America may obtain pans ports upon presentation of an authentic letter from their husbands Inviting them to join them. This decision is welcome to the Jewish women, who up to the present time have not been per mitted to emigrate without authoriza tion from their husbands in person. . HARRY MURPHY GIVES -A Hnghesi "I WUh Ther Wonld Stay Away; Tbey Make Me IV c irons." Washington lO Idaho Territories 26 PUT SLEUTHS ON BANKERS' TRAILS Depositors Learn About Their Habits. HAVE CEASED TO BE TRUSTFUL Detective Causes Account to Be Transferred. SHADY DIRECTOR EXPELLED Exposure of Frenzied Banking Dur ing the Panic Produces Caution. Methods and Associates of the Bankers Under Scrutiny. NEW YORK, Feb. 13. (Special.) Within a few weeks, in the wake of recent financial developments, detectives of New York City have found a new branch of their busim?sp' developing in learning the reputation, and, as far as possible, the character of Wank officers and directors. It is nothing new for a bank to want to know something about the men with whom it is doing business, but now' the depositors are getting more particular and are becoming deeply inter ested In the men who handile their money and want to know their associates, haVits of life, and general business method?. Learned Truth, Changed Bank. "It wasabout a month ago that my at tention was called to this," said a mem ber of a Lower Broadway detective agency. "A large depositor of one of the banks in this section came to me with a list of its officer? and asked me to learn all I could of their habits, methods and associates, both business and social. "In two weeks I made my report. In consequence of which he changed his ac count to another bank, on which I like wise reported." It has been learned that this same sort of thing Is going on In many directions and that depositors in the banks of the metropolis are more than ever Interested in the personnel of the banks with which they are transacting business. Director Forced to Resign. Another detective told of a group of seven depositors, who had Joined and re tained him to report on the directors of the bank where they did business. About a week after he bad reported that there was one questionable man in the direc tory, who was engaged in doubtful trans actions, the man resigned and the bank took particular pains 'to give the matter the broadest publicity." In another case a depositor who carries an average balance of VXiO.OOO said: Public Has Been Too Lai. "Why shouldn't we be particular about this matter? The fact is that the general business' public has been entirely too lax in this direction. We have been gov erned entirely too much by bank state ments, capital, surplus, dividends and all that sort of stuff, when we didn't know what the men inside were really doing or what, from their characters, they were likely to do." ARREST MORSE OX ARRIVAL Detectives Will Take Him From the Steamer at Quarantine. NEW YORK, , Feb. 15. Detectives at tached to the District Attorney's office were given a warrant tonight and in structed to arrest Charles TV. Morse when the steamer Etruria arrived. The Etruria Is expected tomorrow morning. Two officers will go down the harbor on the United States revenue cut ter and meet the steamship at Quaran tine. Arrangements have been made to take Morse from the Etruria's pier di rectly to the home of Justice Dowling, who will fix the ball. It is understood A FEW PICTORIAL snltsi of Turkey l "Stop That Darned Racket!" that counsel for Morse have arranged to have a bondsman on hand when he is arranged. From the disclosures made as a result of the writ of attachment on Charles W. Morse's property which was served on every bank and trust company in New York, as well as upon many brokers and other individuals, a : schedule wag pre pared today. This makes public for the first time a practically completed list of Morse's securities pledged as collateral and the amount of loans he has out standing against them. Loans to a total amount of $2,532, 500 are shown In the schedule and against them are placed not only the securities pledged with banks and In dividuals but all the real estate stand ing in Morse's name. Included in the list, but not sepa rately named, are loans obtained from a large number of banks, trust com panies and individuals outside of New York aggregating $138,000. LAWRENCE, Feb. 15. An attach- ( Concluded on Pnee 3.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY Maximum temperature, 54 . degrees; minimum, 43. TODAY Rain; increasing southerly winds. Foreign. Britain alarmed at growth of German navy. Section 3. page S. Chinese Noah building ark for' flood he pre dicts. Section 4, page 1. Shamcfuf grafting on Italian earthquake fund. Section 4. page 1. Boycott causes reign or terror in Ireland. Section 4, page 10. National. Government begins suit against Southern Pacific for rebating. Section J. page 1. House committee adopts new rates of pay for Army. Section 1, page 4. House refuses to Increase Surveyor-General's pey. Section 1. page 5. Torpedo flotilla at Talcahuano brings ac count of fleet s trip through etraits. Section 1, page 2.. Politic. Wellman predicts Tart's nomination on first ballot. Section 1, page 1. Taft sure of nomination, but working to win . on first ballot: Section 3, page . Speech by Taft at Hartford. -Section 1, page Domestic. Japanese clven franchise Jn Hawaii and many central Islands. Section jace Great floods in Pittsburg, Ohio Valley and Buffalo. Section 1. cage 4. Theodora Shonts man lea Due de Chaulnes. Section 1. page '2. New York- bank depositors employ detectives to watch bankers. Section 1. cage 1. Morse to be arrested on arrival In New York. Section 1. page 1. Letters of Elna Hamilton to Snell, Section 1, page X Vanderbllts oJsgusted at publicity of at tempted loan from Hetty ttreen. Section 1. page 2. Seven perrons killed in railroad collison at Toledo. Section 1. naee 3. Sports. Dugdale nearing end 'of rope in Northwest ern league. Section 4. page S. English bulldog growing in favor. Section 4. age 8. Old New :iayen stars will help Forbes cofch Oregon. Section .4, page 8. Annual election benefit to Multnomah Club, bectlon 4. page 7. Henry Wemme says automobile Is life saver. ' Section- 4. pace 8. Whitman conference will put college ath letics on higher plane, says referee. . Section 4, page 6. Multnomah beats Oregon 32 to 9 at basket ball. Section 1. page 10. Paclnc Coast. . ;. "Baby John" Martin makes full confession of arson ilot. Section 1, page 6. Mayor Taylor has flght with Supervisors over vetoes. . Section 1. page 2. Democratic Club Indorses Judge Dunne for t condemning grafters. Section 1. page 4. Governor Mead accused of playing politics in suggesting special session of Legis lature. Section 1. page 6. ' Oregon hopmen renew efforts to form union. Section 1. page 0. Railroad Commissioner West comments on Forest Grove wreck. Section 1. page (i. Washington editors scheme to get money from political candidates. Section 1. page 7. California warned fleet will shun her ports unless plague Is exterminated. Section 1, page 7. Commercial and Marine. Liberal sales of onions prevent advance in prices; Section 4, page 9. ' . Better feeling In all American and foreign wheat markets. Section 4, page 6. Profit taking causes decline In stocks. Sea- tion 4. pago 9. Small changes shown by New York bank statement. Section 4, page g. Norwegian steamship now In port wax a - blockade-runner during Russian-Japanese war. Section 3, page t. .Portland aad Vicinity. Joe Anderson convicted of killing Harry Logan In holdup. Section 1, page 1. Harriman manager orders construction of railroad to Swift packing-house plant. Section 2. page 10. Taxes coming In at Sheriff's office at record rate. Section 1, page 8. California arrested on charge of securing woman's affections by fraud. Section 2, page 10. Committee declares war on quack medical practitioners. Sct1on 1, page A. 6chool children will plant roses In the park blocks. Section 1, paga 8. Country Club will make Portland great livestock center. Section 4, page 1X IMPRESSIONS OF SOME Heey "Do I Hear Anybody Dr " manding a Trial t" PROSECUTE THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC Governmentto Take Action for Rebates. LANE PREPARES BIG REPORT Takes Exhaustive Testimony of "Special Inside Rates." JUSTIFIED BY BUSINESS Railroad Makes Claim That Prac tice Was 'Necessary to Secure Ship ments District Attorneys to Begin Proceedings- Soon. ; . WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Prosecutions, are to be instituted by the Government against the Southern Pacific Company and against certain officials of that rail way organization o.n allegations that they paid rebates to shippers. Information which is to be a basis for .these prosecutions was obtained by Franklin K. Lane, of the Interstate Com merce Commission; last Autumn, in the course of an . extensive- inquiry made by him into- the affairs of the Southern Pa cific Company. ' By direction of the Interstate Com merce Commission Mr. Lane" visited the Pacific Coast and for several weeks con ducted his Inquiries into the alleged charges of rebating which had reached the Commission. Mr. Lane's report ol his Investigation, including a transcript of the testimony taken by him in a formal hearing, as an Interstate Commerce Com missioner, was made public today. The report has been approved by the Commis sion and a transcript of the report and the evidence adduced at the hearing has been transmitted to the De partment of Justice for "such prose cutions under the law as. may be war raBted." , Collateral with the proposed action by the Government, the Railroad Commis sion of California has been furnished, at its own request, with a transcript of the report and evidence, and has indicated to the Interstate Commerce Commission lt purpose to prosecute alleged violations of the California law that may be shown by the report. Voluminous Testimony Taken. The testimony taken by Commissioner Lane Was voluminous and in the courfo of the report references to the verbatim testimony are made as a basis for the several paragraphs of the report. . One of the particularly interesting feat ures of the evidence was developed just at the conclusion of the formal hearing, when Mr. Lane refused to place on the witness-stand W. G. Luce, general freight agent of the Southern Pacific Company. The request that Mr. Luce give sworn testimony in the case was made by P.-F. Dunne, counsel for the Southern Pacific Company. Mr. Lane declined to adminis ter the oath to Mr. Luce because he frankly stated he did not wish to accord Mr. .Luce, by administering an oath to him and taking his testimony, Immunity from prosecution for violations of the law. He offered to receive a statement from Mr. Luce respecting the rebate practices of the Southern Pacific Com pany and enter it as a part of the record in' the case, but he made it clear that this statement was not to be made under oath. In the course of his report Mr. Lane says that his inquiry was conducted in San Francisco, October 3, 1907, and that from the evidence adduced he finds: Findings ot tlie Report. The existence of an extensive system of preferential rates granted certain shippers on Interstate business by the Southern Pacific Company. The record discloses a list of 106 firms, corporations and individuals who enjoy what are known as "special inside rates" less than the rates published to the general OF THE NEWS HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK The Joke! public on the movement of certain des ignated traffic between points within the state of California. That shippers paid the full rate pub lished in the first instance and were al lowed the refund on claims which went through the auditing department under instructions from the traffic department that such special rates should apply upon Interstate shipments without tariff authority. - That such refunds amounted in vari ous months of the years liKMi and 1907 to from $,0Otf to J.V.mK per month. That such refunds given to one firm amounted to the sum of $23,994 during the period from April, W (the date of the San Francisco fire, when all previous records were destroyed!, to September 23, 1907. and such refunds to other ship pers ranged in amount from $13,690 to $22,251. Rebates of Long Standing.-' That such refunds, or discounts from the regular rates have been continuing for a long period and up to the date of the hearing in October, ; 1907. . That many of such state shippers to whom such" refunds were allowed were large interstate shippers. That one of the shippers admitted at the hearing that the granting of such in side rate on the stated movement in fluenced routing of nubsequent interstate V 'it r Joe Anderson, Convicted of the Murder of Harry Logan. shipment of such traffic over the rails of the Southern Pacific Company. That in one instance the general freight agent of the Southern Pacific Company provWed by voucher, dated July 1, 190t, for the payment to an in terstate shipper of one-halt of the local rate, which such shipper had paid to 'an other railroad for the movement from point of origin to a Southern Pacific terminal where the traffic hegiin its journey over the Southern Pacific lines. That there existed for years an under standing between the Southern Pacific Company and the Santa Fe Company and certain shippers of dried fruits that the traffic which moved into points of connection for transcontinental shipment should be entitled at the end of the ship ping season to a refund of one-half of the local rate charged at the time of the original movement. Justified by Business Obtained. That the voucher books containing the so-called refunds on state shipments also contained records of refunds given npon the interstate shipments. That some of the refunds upon inter state, business were paid bv the special written instructions of freight officials after the claims had been denied by the auditing department. The justification offered by the of ficials and representatives of the South ern Pacific Company for tiiese practices revealed was that in general they were made necessary to secure traffic which shippers would move otherwise were such rebates not granted. In view of the foregoing, it is decreed that a copy of the transcript of the testimony- in this matter be forwarded to the District Attorney of the I'nited States for tire several judicial districts wherein offenses against the act to regu late commerce, were committed as shown by this record, and that such officials be requested to Institute such prosecutions under the law as may be warranted. Cases Already Taken I'p. It is known that by Instruction of Attorney-General Bonaparte, the District Attorneys already have taken up the cases to be instituted for the .purpose of beginning the formal proceedings as soon as possible. Names of the officials against whom the prosecutions will be directed are not known, and probably will not be, until indictments of the Fed eral grand juries have been returned. It is indicated as likely that the proceedings of the Department of Justice will be di rected not only against tf!e Southern Pa cific Company and officials of that com pany, but also against shippers who have enjoyed, according to tho allegations made, rebates from the railway company. So Kun on State Bank. BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 15. The State Savings Bank, which closed its doors last October, today resumed and a petition for a receiver, long pending In the local courts, was dismissed. F. A. Helnze has retired from the board. There was no run today and many new deposits were made. Traffic and Federal Court. Decisions Follow Nature's .Highway. ad. - i i IDERSOil GUILTY EN FIRST DEGREE Convicted of theMurder of Harry Logan. JURY OUT ONLY HALF AN HOUR Highwayman . Takes Verdict With Utmost Coolness. WILL DEMAND A NEW TRIAL1 Contention of Defense That Chain of Circumstantial Evidence Was Manufactured by Police, With the Aid of "Stool Pigeons." - Joseph Anderson, liighwayman, was placed in the shadow of the gallows last night when a State Circuit Court Jury convicted him of tb,e murder of Harry Logan, a locomotive engineer, who was shot and killed whilo resisting a footpad in South Portland last November. ( Guilty of murdeV In the first degree, was the jury's verdict, returned in little, more fhan half - an hour after retiring1 last night, Anderson, hardened criminal, heard the verdict without the slightest show of concern. There was a murmur of suppressed excitement in the roomful of spectators, but 'Anderson, the man most concerned, appeared the least af fected. Barring new and unexpected develop ments which may secure him a new trial,: Anderson can hardly bone for anything short of death for his crime. Killed in a. Hold-up. The murder was committed wbiie An derson was plying liis trade of thhg. He t-hrust a revolver in Logan's face on tho Fourth Street bridge and demanded' money. The victim showed fight and: Anderson killed htm. After his arrest Anderson -confessed to a cellmate having. killed. Xogan, .as well as having been an accessory In the mur der of Conductor Nervins, on tho Rose City Park carline, prior to the Logan murder. All yesterday 'was taken up with argu ments In the case, and it was not until after 9 o'clock at night tlvnt it went to , the jury. , Deputy District Attorney Adams summed up the evidence for the Slate. Admitting that the evidence was chiefly circumstantial, be maintained tliat tho circumstances w re so clean- as to leave no room for doubt. Ho refened to the mur derer's confeswirtii to Jacob Hilt, ami said that tills confession siiow-i Anderson lit the light of a menace to society such as every decent citizen would have need to fear should tho man be acquitted. W. G. Hall asid 12. J. Jeffries, attorr neys for Aniien.on, spoke in behalf of their client, asserting that thi State had failed to comieat the prison, rr with tho murder. The' presented Anduusoii in the guise of a friendless .unfortuiutio selected by the police as a victim to tit the locau charge. The plan was made and lairied out by Detectives Tichenor and Jones, with the assistance of "stool pigeons." Jeft ris said. Following Judge Bronaugh's charge to the jury, the 12 anen who were to decido Anderson's fata withdrew. Obviously they had strong convictions as to Ander son's guilt on lejaving the room, for the verdict was promptly secured. The courtroom was jammed when the jury returned I?s verdict. As soon aa Anderson was ' brought up by Sheriff Stevens and Daputy Sheriff Bulger the verdict was received and read by Deputy Cpunty Clerk Lounsbury. Anderson Is Vnconccrned. Anderson stood easily and unconcern edly until he heard guilt had been fixed on him, then he tunned to talk to his law yers, asking them to work for a new trial. Thirty days was allowed in which to, present a formal motion for another trial. . 1 In view of bis conviction. Anderson was placed "in solitary confinement by Sheriff: Stevens, and will be kept closely guarded,' as ne is Known to ioe a dangerous man Precautions are being taken to prevent him from committing suicide, as he id known to have said he would kill himself; rather than be ihanged. ( Officers of the Rom Bank Say Tbey Cannot Be Pnnlirhed for Misappro priating; Public Money Because They Are Not Public OfflcinU.