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a . m -mi - i . s v a . . - . PATTEN SQUEEZES Sends Wheat Up Notch and Worries Them. BEARS BEGGING FOR MERCY Many Riding in Autos Will Soon Not Have Dollar. SCALPERS LOSE $2,000,000 Many of Them Wiped Out and Ele vator Lose Mucli Patten Is Hailed as Greatest Speculator, Owning All Cash "Wheat. CHICAGO. Feb. 27. (Special.) James A. Patten, manipulating the lever of the wheat market of the world, today sent May wheat to $1.19 a bushel, and con fronted Reginald Vanderbllt. William H. Moore. Jesse Llvermore, J. Brant Walker and other well-known New York opera tors with a situation that will mean the loss of millions. But the Wall -street coterie were not the only ones bitten. The bears In the Chi cago pit who hare been selling; short for weeks In the hope that a flaw would be round In Patten's armor have practically given up hope, and are now preparing to beg for mercy. May wheat Is now held more securely than It ever vaa by "Old Hutch." John W. Gates or "Joe" Lelter when they were engineering their famous comers, and Mr. Patten is hailed as the greatest wheat operator the world has ever known. He predicts that he will send May wheat past the high-water mark set In Feb ruary. 190S-the black rust year, when It went to . a bushel. It will go to $1.26, perhaps higher, he says. New Yorkers Grow Anxious. When Mr. Patten began his operations on the Board of Trade this morning there was a flurry In the pit, as white-faced brokers began feeling out the market "Reggie" Vanderbllt, Judge Moore and the New Tork plungers who were lured Into the market by Sidney C. Love, were watching the market in New Tork with eager anxiety, for wheat now means millions of profit or loss to them. They did not have long to wait. a. May wheat opened at Jl.lStt. and then went steadily upward to 51.19. Then there waa a re action to the opening price and more fluc tuations, the market finally closing at Confidentially and to a few V friends only. Mr. Patten ha. stated that aa yet there have been no private settlements of any moment between himself and the "shorts." However the coming week, it is predicted, will witness many busy scenes In Mr. Pat ten's private office in the Western Union building. "There are a lot of men living in man sions now and riding around in big li mousines who won t have a dollar two weeks from now unless Patten wants to show them mercy." remarked one Board of Trade man to another at the close of today's trading. -Well, 'Jim' Patten has been in deals berore and never squeezed anybody more than they should have been squeezed." was the reply. "If a man comes to him and says. 'Jim. I want to buy 000,000 bushels of wheat; I have gone short on the market." Patten will sell the whole lot to him at the market price and not make the unfortunate speculator rush into the pit and send its price up by trying to buy enough to cover his contracts." Many Scalpers Wiped Out. It was said today that the "scalpers" en the Board of Trade had lost $2, 000.000 on the Patten deal and that many of them had been wiped out en tirely Besides individuals, a large number of the elevator interests are short on wheat and face heavy losses. 'Patten is the greatest of them all." aid a speculator. "Patten now owns all the cash wheat in the country and has options on everything else In sight. To Illustrate his shrewdness, he, as all other speculators, knew of the pure food law. recently passed, prohibiting the bleaching of flour by peroxide." HARRY WORK SHORTS G0LDENR0D GOWN FOR INAUGURATION MRS. TAFT WIMi WEAR NATIOX AIj FLOW ER. Woven Into I;ace and Cloth, Design Is Patriotic Emblem for New "First Lady of Land." WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. (Special.) All feminine Washington is eager for details of the gown which Mrs. Taft Is to wear at the Inaugural ball. Those who have seen It are unanimous in pro nouncing it one of the triumphs of the modiste's art. In her choice of the toi lette In which she is to appear for the first time as the "first lady of the land." Mrs. Taft has shown not only exquisite taste in dress, but patriotism as well, for the design In which the beautiful costume Is richly embroidered shows America's National flower, the golden rod. The embroidery in silver appears not only on the chiffon overdress, but on the long court train as welL The foundation of the gown is of heavy white satin, cut In a Princess effect. Over this chiffon is draped with consummate skill, giving the effect of long, straight lines. The sleeves are formed of rare point lace. The golden rod design is also woven in the lace. Mrs. Taft will wear her hair rather high, with a pompadour. A single dia mond spray will decorate her coiffure, and she will wear no other jewelry, ex cepting the pearl collar which Is her favorite ornament. GHOST TO WAIL NO MORE Indian Phantom Tarns Out to Be Whistling; Buoy Adrift. VICTORIA, B. C. Feb. 27. The light house tender Quandra. which returned today from a cruise to northern light houses, spoiled an Indian ghost story told in many villages, by the recovery of the missing Stenhouse Bhoal whistling buoy behind the reefs at Nichols Bay, Prince of Wales Island. Early In January eight Haldah Indians, three men, three women and two children, were wrecked In a small schooner on the reefs at Pow Island when bound from Skldegate, the mainland, and a party of Indians went to endeavor to recover the bodies. They made a camp near the wreck of the schooner at dusk, when prolonged wails, louder than could be made by any human being, ware heard beyond the reef. The Indians launched their canoes and fled in great fright, and the tale of ghosts .. that wailed and moaned terribly loud, was told in many northern villages. When the Quadra towed the buoy away the ghosts were laid low. HIGH SCHOOL FRATS UNITE Meet to Devise Means to Continue) ' Their Future Existence. SCHENECTADY. N. T., Feb. 27. The first inter-fraternlty convention ever attempted met here today with dele gates present from all of the leading high school secret societies of the country. The convention was called for the purpose of devising means of pre venting the oppressive legislation which now threatens the existence of high school and preparatory school se cret societies. TWO CRUISERS SAIL SOUTH Go to Watch Developments Where W'ar Cloud Looms in Honduras. PANAMA, Feb. 27. The cruisers Cali fornia and Pennsylvania, of' the United States Pacific squadron, now here, will leave tomorrow for Amapalia, on the west coast of Honduras. The cruise fol lows Instructions believed to have been received from Washington because of the troubled condition of affaire In Cen tral America. POPE SUFFERS ILLNESS Pontiff Abandons Audiences, but Condition Is Not Grave, ROME, Feb.27. The pope was indis posed today and felt so ill that he was obliged to suspend further audiences. The attending physicians do not con sider his sickness grave, and believe that his Indisposition is often largely due to the frequent suddent changes In the weather. MURPHY PUTS IN rORTLAXf), OREGON, OREGON ASSURED iOTHERJDGE House Agrees and Ful ton Will Get Job. CONSTITUTION NO OBSTACLE Taft's Friendship Makes Ap pointment Certain. ELLIS LEADS HARD FIGHT Shows Crowded Condition or Federal Court and Cost of Travel Froin Remote Sections Oppo- . nents Won Over. OR-1X30NIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Feb. 27. Late this afternoon the House of Representatives by a vote of 140 to 66 agreed to the Senate amendment to the Washington Judicial bill, authoriz ing the appointment of an additional Federal Judge In Oregon. This assures the final approval of the bill,- which will be sent to the President for signature early next week. Senator Fulton will be the new Judge. Of this there is no longer any doubt, for his Intimate relations with the incoming President and Mr. Taft's known regard for Mr. Fulton's legal attainments are ample assurance that Mr. Fulton will be offered the Judgeship, and It la also known that the appointment would be very acceptable to him. Moreover, con stitutional lawyers who have been look ing Into the case are now agreed that Mr. Fulton will be eligible for appoint ment to this Judgeship after the expira tion of his term in the Senate. Ellis Shows Judge Needed. The adoption of the Oregon amendment was accomplished in the House only after a hard fight. Representative Ellis, who made the principal speech in support of the amendment today, prepared data showing the overcrowded condition of the present court and pointed out that some relief ought to be granted the people of Oregon. It was unfair, he said, that men should rest under indictment four and five years without being ,ble to get the speedy trial that the Constitution guaran tees them. He said it was also unjust that litigants and witnesses should be compelled In attending court to go from remote corners of Oregon to Portland at great expenditure of time and money. The amendment provides for a term of court each year at Medford and Pendle ton, as well as at Portland. Opponents Become Friends. A remarkable thing about the debate was the fact that the men who hereto fore were most bitter In their opposition to this amendment were today its most outspoken advocates. The principal ob jector today was Representative Mann, who opposes everything on general prin ciples. His attack was bitter and force ful, but met with little response. Repre sentative Hawley closed the debate with a brief speech In support of the amend ment. Section 6, article 1, of the Constitu tion of the United States has this pro vision: "No Senator or Representative shall, durlnir the term for which re was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased, during such time." It would seem, then, that if Senator Fulton shall be appointed by President Taft to the Judgeship after March 4, 1909 (the expiration of vthe term for which he was elected Senator), his title to the office Just created by Congress will be clear. It Is the general assump tion that the constitutional provision prevents the appointment by the Presi dent of any member of ingress to any office created by Congress during the Incumbency of the member; bu1: strict construction would seem to Justify an other interpretation. In any event, 'that Is the interpretation evidently placed on this provision by Senator Fulton and his friends. PICTORIAL FORM SOME OF SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1909, SACKVILLE'S SON SHOWS SKELETON CONTEST FOR ESTATE AND TI TLE DRAWS WITNESSES. Peer's Son by Spanish Dancer Says He Is Lawful Heir, but Uncle Springs New Marriage. PARIS, Feb. 27. Over 100 witnesses have been summoned to appear in the case of Ernest Henri Jean Baptiste West, claim ant to the Sackville peerage and estates, against Lionel Edward Sackville-West, his nephew, to whom the estates have passed, which comes up for trial Monday. Ernest Is the son of the late Lord Sack ville, and he was born at Arcacbon, In the Gironde, June 24, 1863. His mother was Josephine Duran do Ortega, a Span ish dancer. The , case hinges upon the legitimacy of Ernest. No attempt will be made to deny that Lord Sackville lived with Josephine de Or tega as his wife, and that he formally legitimatized his children by her, but Lionel will contend that the dancer in 1831 contracted a marriage with a Span iard named Olivia, and that consequently Lord Sackville's legal recognition of his children is nullified. He will produce copies of the register of the church In Madrid purporting to Bhow the marriage of Ernest's mother to- Olivia. The out come hangs upon the validity of the marriage of 1851. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 48 decrees; minimum, 42 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rain; variable winds. Foreign. Rioting- against royalty in carnival week at LlBbon. Section 1, page 8. Great assemblage of witnesses for trial of contest for Lord Sackville' s estate. Sec tion 1, page 1. Japan grows calm on learning true American sentiment on exclusion. Section 1. page S. Powers find difficulty in Balkan Intervention. Section 1, page 4. National. Heney's fees for prosecuting Oregon land frauds. Section 1, page 1. Statehood bill klllled in House committee by charges of corruption and boss rule m New Mexico. Section 1. page 2. Commission's plan for reorganization of avy Department. Section 1. page 2. House passes bill for re-enltotment of Browns ville troops. Section 1, page 2. Cannon becomes enraged' at insults from Gaines. Section 1. page 4. House passes Oregon Judgeship bill and Taft will appoint Fulton. Section 1, page 1. Sailors of fleet parade at Norfolk, Va, Sec tion 1, page ?. politics. What Roosevelt's tennis cabinet will do. Sec tion 1, page 1. Description of Mrs. Taft's Inauguration gown. Section 1, page 1. Arrangements for Taft'a Inauguration. Sec tion 1. page 6.. Domestic. Governor Patterson testifies In defense of Cooper. Section 1, page 8. Booth and Robbing, beads of fish trust, in dicted for defrauding bank. - Section 1, page 1. Harrlman to address Texas Legislature on railroad laws. Section 1, page 6. Patten forces wheat up to 1.1 and cause agony among New Tork shorts. Section 1, page 1. . One arrest and eeveral Indictments rot great sporting swindle. Section 1. page 4. Murderer of Clara Roien confesses. Sec tion 1, page 5. ' Sport. Basketball season will soon be thing ef the past. Section 1. page 10. Portland to have Marathon race under j aus pices of Y. St C. A. Section 1. page 10. Ball players go Into training quarters. Sec tion 4, page 6. . Jack King supports charge of fake In wrest ling bouts. Section 1. page lo. All-English team beats Americans at soccer. 1 to 0. Section 1. pace 10. Clubs begin to prepare for aquatic sports. Section 4. page 6 Irvington Tennis Club plana to expand. Section 4, page S. Arrancementa nearly complete for auto mobile show. Section 4, page 8. Pacific Korthwes1. Benson to asrame duties of Governor Mon day. Section 1, page 6. Vancouver Commercial Club's matrimonial bureau ge-s many replies from East. Section 1. page 6- Defense begins in Peacock case at Cath lamet. Section 1. page 7. Dam to bold 10.000 acre-feet of water to be constructed In Umatilla County. Section 1. page 7. Speaker Meigs complains that anti-local optlonists have made threats to kill Yakima fair bill. Section 1. page 8. Real Estate and Building. Work starts on new $14.".00O cold storage plant on East Side. Section 8. page 8. February building permits break record for month. Section 3. nage 8 Hotel men are not fearing future. Sec tion 3. page 8. Manv streets are being paved In East Side districts. Section 3. page 9. Portland and Vicinity. Vessels run into Burn side-street bridge, put ting it out of commission. Section 1, page 8. Dr. S. K. Johnston dies in Italy. Section - 1. page 8. Adjutant-General Finier appoints military staff. Section 1. page 8. Business men declare there Is no need of state-built railroads. Section 4. page 8. Wills declares he had no ulterior motive In North End raid. Section , page 7. Portland youth raving maniac as result of . i T7s,o-n, suction 1. naze 8. I OUfiK ' " " I Funds made available to found Reed In- statute. Section 2. page 12. THE WEEK'S EVENTS IN . T.TX-1-C I ' l X'lIS- FISH TRUST KINGS ilCCUSED.OF FRAUD Booth and Bobbins In dicted for Conspiracy. G0T$3,00Q,000BYFALSEH0GQ Bolster up Tottering Trust at Bank's Expense. SECRET CONFESSION MADE Founder of Big Business Was Sim ple Fisherman, Son Who Ex panda It Into Trust Is Noted as Good Polo-Player. CHICAGO, Feb. 27. W: "Vernon Booth, president of A. Booth & Co., the so called fish trust, whicn went into the bands of a receiver last September, and F. Bobbins, ex-asslstant treasurer of the company, were Indicted today. They "with others to the grand jury unknown" were charged with entering Into a con spiracy by which they secured "wilfully, maliciously and feloniously," etc., the sum of $300,000 from the Continental Bank of Chicago. The two men are jointly in dicted In one true bill, which contains only three counts, none of them differing substantially. Father Fisherman, Son Polo-Player. W. "Vernon Booth inherited from his father what is said to have been the largest fishing business in the world. The elder Booth was a hard-working business man who to his last day could and would clean a fish or handle a sailboat with any of his employes. His son. W. Vernon, upon his accession to power, was one of the best-known polo players in the coun try, and was socially prominent. Under his leadership, A. Booth & Co. branched out and several years ago the company had grown to proportions which attracted the attention of the United States Gov ernment. The firm was brought to trial for accepting rebates and pleaded guilty to one count of the indictment. The case Is still undflr consideration. . , Assets Padded $2,000,000. A search for assets was Instituted be fore Master in Chancery Harvey Booth, in behalf of the creditor banks to which the company is alleged to owe large sums. The liabilities were estimated at over 16,000,000, but the assets dwindled as the investigation proceeded, and have unofficially been estimated as low as $3, 000 000. This investigation has not been concluded. , Sensational testimony, however, was ad duced by F. R- Bobbins, who was in dicted with Booth today. The witness told a startling story of false statements presented to the banks to bolster up the tottering credit of the firm. These state ments, by reducing the figures showing liability and increasing the assets, Rob bins, said were 12,000,000 away from the true condition of affairs. Told Banks Truth Secretly. The statement of duly 19, alleged to have been presented to the Continental Na tional Bank, forms the basis of today's Indictment. Bobbins said that when Booth learned that the statement had been made to the banks and that It was false, he Insisted that the banks be properly In formed of actual conditions. This was done at a secret meeting in the Continen tal National Bank, when, the witness said, "the whole fabric of the alleged conspiracy was laid bare," and the fu ture of the great fishing business thrown on the mercy of the bankers. For a month the secret was kept from the public. Bonds were fixed at $25,000 In each case, but capiases were Issued but not formally served. The Indicted men have informed the State's Attorney that they will appear in court Monday. Ohio River Still Rising. CINCINNATI. Feb. 27. While the Ohio River here continues to climb to- , . v n 1 1 will not en above ILliX Y , lb o - - - 60 feet. THE HOPE OF EXCITING THE RISIBILITIES OF THE "TENNIS CABINET" FOR SIMPLE LIFE RETIRING SECRETARIES PI.AX NEW WORK. Cortelyou to Head Gas Company, Newberry to Build Ships and Bonaparte to Seek Obscurity. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. (Special.) With but two of its members getting pink transfers to the Taft Cabinet, the remaining advisers of President Roose velt are rapidly completing plana for business and. recreation after March 4. Not only will the traditional Cabinet be scattered, but the very effective and much advertised "tennis"Cablnet separates. There is no mystery about the plana of Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou. Mr. ' Cortelyou will be president of the Consolidated Gas Com pany of New York. Truman H. Newberry, Secretary of the Navy, will go to Detroit and earn a living by directing half a score of big business enterprises and wit t which he Is identified. "I shall return to my ' pristine and congenial obscurity," Is the character istically humorous answer of Attorney General Bonaparte to a request for a dim outline of his plans. "Back to the practice of law In Cleveland, O.," is the message from Secretary Garfield. Secretary Straus has not defined his plans but he will undoubtedly return to New Tork. PACKERS SUED BY STATE Arkansas Wants Over $3,000,000 Each From Beef Firms. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb, 27 Suits were filed here today by the state against the Cudahy Packing Company, National Packing Company, Jacob Dold Packing Company, the Morris Packing Company, Swift & Co. and the Southern Beef & Provisions Company, asking penalties aggregating 13,300,000 each for alleged violations of the state anti trust laws, last week upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States In the case against the xiammond Pack ing Company. The state charges the companies with being in an unlawful combination to control prices and with discriminating against their competitors from January 19, 1907, until February 27, 1909. BERLIN NOT ENTHUSIASTIC Receives Roosevelt's Appeal on Con servation. With Cold Shoulder. CHICAGO, Feb. 27 Marked indifference characterizes the German reception of President Roosevelt's proposal of an in ternational conference for the conserva tion of natural resources, according to a cablegram to the Daily News from Berlin today. The dispatch adds that the proposal, however, doubtless will be accepted. A financial authority suggests that Roose velt Is "trying indirectly to. get back at the trusts, which are exploiting Amer ica's natural wealth." BEACH HARGIS IS IN JAIL Bondsmen Surrender Warlike Keni tnckian to Authorities. JACKSON, Ky., Feb. 27. The men on the bond of Beach Hargis, charged with the murder of his father. Judge James Hargis, surrendered him today to Breath itt County officers, and he was taken to Jail at Irvine to await his second trial In April. Hargis' recent outbreaks, In which he created a reign of. terror, are said to have caused his bondsmen to sur render him. The youth recently went to a dance and attempted to murder his cousin. MAKES RAISULI GOVERNOR Sultan Promotes Bandit Chief, Who Promises to Reform. FEZ. Morocco, Feb. 27. The Sultan has appointed Raisuli, the ex-bandit chief. Governor of the Province of Djebala. Rai suli has promised to renounce the ransom paid in behalf of Sir Henry McLean. The new Governor promises to fulfill the du ties Qf his office honestly, and not to op pose Europeans. X tV I V. I A J 1 - GOVE RNMENT PATS HENEY 565,000 Large Fees for Prose cuting Land Frauds. NAME IS STILL ON PAYROLL Retained to Advise Counsel on Pending Cases. TAFT LIKELY TO DROP HIM Payments as Special Attorney In Or egon Cases Extend From July, 1906, to January, 1909, but May Soon Bo Dropped. ORE IONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ingtoo, Feb. 27. Francis J. Heney haa been paid a total of $05,000 to date for his services In connection with the prose cution of the Oregon land fraud cases, these payments covering the period be ginning November 7, 1903, when he waa first .appointed "Special Assistant Attorney-General of the United States to as sist the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon," down to the begin ning of the present year. The last pay ment was made to Mr. Heney January a. 1909. From the Attorney -General it ia learned that payments to Mr. Heney have been made as follows: July 6, 1904 - 8 ?0 March 10. 1805 - J.S August 10. 1905 6.000 February 13, 1906 ...... i,5v August 24. 1006 7.0" August 9, ll07 - 5? Icember i. 1907 March 2, 1U08 - July 6. 190S - 10.000 January SI, 1909 Total to Jat $03,000 More Money Due Illm. It is evident, from a statement made by the Attorney-General, that Mr. Heney will receive lurther compensation, for, contrary to public knowledge, he Is still retained on the Government payroll, and paid out of special appropriations placed at the disposal of the Attorney-General. Since Air. Heney retired from the active prosecution of the land fraud cases, he haa been, says the Attorney-General, re tained in an advisory capacity to co-operate with and advise other Government counsel, in whose' hands rests the prose cutioa of th cases still untried. Taft May Drop Him. Whether Mr. Heney will continue on the payroll of the Department of Justloe after March 4, will depend upon the atti tude of the Incoming Attorney-General. Those who aro close to Mr. Taft freely express the opinion that the next Presi dent does not entertain for Mr. Heney that same regard that has been shown by President Roosevelt and, according to thsse authorities, the "advisory" serv ices of Mr. Hfney may bn dispensed with. DEATH IS WINNING FIGHT Lucky Baldwin Likely to Cross Di vide Any Minute. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27. A telephone message from the Baldwin ranch at 11:30 tonight says that E. J. Baldwin's death ia momentarily expected. For three days he hns been hysterical and entirely unbalanced at times. He hovered about death's door for an hour last night, but rallied about S o'clock. PISTOL DUEL ON STREET Detectives Kill Italian Thief and Wound Companion. NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 27. In a run ning fight between detectives and Italian thieves here today, one of the thieves was killed and another fatally wounded. Two other men alleged to be Implicated In the robbery were cap tured. PUBLIC. Til Ortalnly Remember Yom. 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