' rilE SUSPAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 31, 1909. 5 audi wildcat -Bankers UNDER INDICTMENT Grand Jury Returns True Bills Against Officials of Oregon Trust & Savings Bank. LOWITT IS ALSO ACCUSED Manager of Golden Eagle Included in Llt of Alleged iCmbezzlcrs. All Furnish Bonds, Though Cashier Morris Has Trouble. Arrairninsr the various business "deals" and other manipulations carried on In the wrei-lipd Oreson Trust Savings Bank as shameless larceny and attribut ing to the otflcials or tne institution caso hardened" consciences, the erand jury N.niiara ttm flrini Tfnnrt unon the investi gation of the bank wreck yesterday afternoon and accompamea us atnuncn tion of the bank's officials with wholesale indictments. W. Cooper Morris, ex-cashier, was In riWnt nn 1? counts: Waiter H. Moore, ex-president, 'on 11 counts, while Klmer Lytle. Leo FTiede and Henry a. jiuuic, directors, were each indicted on six counts. In addition to these bank officials, Gus Lowit. who was formerly president of the Golden Easle Dry Goods Company, was indicted. The charges Involved are receiving funds in a bank knowing same to. be insolvent, embezzlement and lar ceny by embezzlement. Bench warrants were Issued by Judge Earl C. Bronaugh immediately and soon after the Jury had made its return several of the indicted bankers surrendered them selves in the courtroom and were released as soon as the papers for their bonds could be arranged. Gus Lowit has not yet been arrested. He is In Denver. Colo., and news that he has been taken into custody is hourly expected in Sheriff Stevens' office, the Denver authorities having been requested to arrest him. Heavy Bonds Kequlred. The bonds required from the various indicted officials, the amounts of which were set by Judge Bronaugh upon the recommendation of District Attorney Cameron, are as follows: W. Cooper Mor ris. $38,500: Walter H. Moore. JSi.500; Gus Lowit. HO.OC-O; Leo Friede. JGuOO: Henry A. Moore. SfiuOO; Elmer E. Lytle. ISuOO. All the indicted men in Portland appeared at the Courthouse except Mr. Lytle, who for some unknown reason was neither present nor represented by counsel. Walter H. Moore and his brother, Henry A. Moore, and Leo Friede had little dif ficulty in arranging their bonds, which were supplied immediately, approved by Judge Bronaugh. and they were allowed to go without having been taken into custody except for the formality of read ing the warrant to them inside the court room. Mr. Morris, however, experienced some difficulty in arranging bondsmen. A number of friends who had rallied to his upport hustled about in the rain for several hours to get bond while Mr. Morris was detained at the County Jail. After waiting until nearly 7 o'clock las; night Judge Bronaugh left. At this time Morris had secured J26.00O of his bond. The Judge returned again at 9:30 o'clock, when the remainder of the bond, amount ing to 112.500. was secured after vigorous skinnishiMT. Of this. John A. Jennings furnished J5000 and J. W. Hurley f7rt. I. tie "ot Served. As all the directors were out on $5000 bonds, given when first arrested and arraigned in Municipal Court, the failure of Mr. l.ytle to appear and cause his bondsmen to requalify is not re garded as significant. Mr. Lytle was at his home last night, and said the rea son he had not appeared 'was that he had not been served with any papers, inquiry at the Sheriffs office brought out the fact that some one in the court had overlooked requesting the service of the bench warrant for Mr. Lytle, as this document had not been sent to the Sheriffs office. True bills were found In each case. Mr. Moore and Mr. Morris are charged with feloniously embezzling and fraud ulently converting to their own use the $32,000 used ' in the Board of Trade deal: with larceny' by embezzlement of $80,734.74 In the Pacific & Eastern Kail road deal; with larceny by embezzle ment of $75,000 of their personal notes, and of the $50,000 which mysteriously disappeared; with embezzlement of the money allowed the Golden Eagle Dry Goods Company on overdrafts; with willfully, maliciously and feloniously injuring, mutilating and destroying the personal property of the bank in the case of the notes made by the Golden Eagle Dry Goods Company, aggregating $S6, 638.04. the names ef the makers of which were torn off. Mr. Morris is' indicted Individually for the larceny by embezzlement of $42,000 sunk into the rapacious financial maw of the insolvent Order of Wash ington. Gus Lowit was Indicted joint-' ly with Mr. Moore and Mr. Morris for embezzlement of the thousands of dol lars taken from the bank for the Golden Eagle. In the cases of the counts on the charge of having unlaw fully received deposits In an insolvent bank, the names of six depositors are cited. Each deposited in the bank on August 17, 1907. Their names and the amounts of their deposits are: Abe Henkle, $2000; Tom Paulous, $180; Min nie -Mltchel, $220; Marie Veal. $150; Gusta Rogers, $310, and Harry H. Bean, $18. Pitiful Cases Kecalled. Two pitiful cases among these are pointed out in those of Minnie Mltchel and Harry H. Bean. Miss Mitchel was a cTlpple, who was wheeled Into the bank at 4:'30 o'clock in the afternoon, after the bank had closed. She had a draft on a bank in Butte, Mont., for $250 all the money. she possessed. She had been 'recommended to the Oregon a drust clerk, now employed at Wood ard, Clarke & Co. Mr. Watts, who had known the invalid woman in Montana, took pity upon her unprotected condi tion here, and. thinking the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank one of the best institutions at the time, telephoned to the bank after it had closed and asked if they would receive any more money. Miss Mitchel received $30 in cash and deposited the balance. The case of Harry Bean, an old and poor veteran of the Civil War, aroused much sentiment among the grand jury at the time It was brought up. Bean had received bis pension by check, and went to the bank to get It cashed. After he had arrived at the bank he thought perhaps it would be safer to deposit it. and they took it, assuring him that theirs was an admirable place , to put it. Tom Paulous is the proprie tor of a small restaurant. Mrs. Veal and Miss Rogers are both residents of this city. It was after 3 o'clock when the Jury left the office of District Attorney Cam eron, where Its chamber is located, and walked up to the Circuit Court. Judge Eronaugh, Presiding Judge of the Cir cuit Court, received the report of the Jury and looked over the indictments. After reading the recommendations, he discharged the Jurymen. Before he did this, however, he complimented the Jury upon its work performed and its attention to duty., "I wish to thank all of you, gentlemen, for the manner in which you have discharged your duty," were Judge Bronaugh's words. "I know of no higher honor nor no more Important duty than at times fall to the lot of the grand Jury. The welfare of the community is largely in the hands of the men who are selected to comprise this Jury, and by their acts and decisions the. public had much at stake. I wish' to thank you again for the close attention, interest and con scientiousness shown in this investiga tion." Leo Friede's bondsmen were Henry Hahn and M. Baruh. who are associated with Mr. Friede in the firm of Wadhams & Co.. wholesale grocers, corner of Fourth and Oak streets. Bond for the two Moores was supplied hy Charles Hilton, ex-State Senator; H. Gersen. cigar manufacturer, corner of Sixth and Everett streets; B. F. Allen, president H. W. Wells, lumber and cattla dealer, I. afayette building: J. B. Laber, lumber dealer. Lafayette building: C. K. Coch rane, real estate dealer, Corbett build ing, and S. S. Hayes, a capitalist of this city. Personnel of 'Hondsmen. Those who supplied bonds for Mr. Mor ris were: John F. Shorey, president of the City Messenger Company and presi dent of the National LivestocK Associa tion; Arthur L. Finlty. of J. P. Finley & Son. funeral directors: Clayton Fallas saloonkeeper. Mascot Saloon, corner of Seventh and Morrison street, and Thad T. Sweek. a stock broker, brother of At torney Alex Sweek. Alex Sweek is one of Mr. Morris attorneys. The case against the directors brought In Municipal Court will not be dropped. The Information which had been filed at the. time was merely a precautionary move on the part of the Prosecuting At torney to prevent Mr. Morris' return to Tacoma, Wash., taking him outsiae tnis state, and to hold them under bonds until after the? final return had been made by the grand Jury and opportunity had been afforded to rearrest them. Tester day's action was the preliminary step In the case. Within a week they will be arraigned in Circuit Court and dates set for their trials. No statement has been given out by any of the defendants. It has been intimated repeatedly that one would be made as soon as it became known what charges they would have to face. Mr. Morris said last night that in case his attorneys would permit him, he would make a statement throwing some light upon the. transactions In which he is charged with crookedness. What will be the outcome of the search for Lowit is being speculated upon by the deputies in Sheriff Stevens' office. Advance Information to the effect that Lowit would be indicted and that his apprehension was t immediately desired was sent to the Sheriff's office yesterday several hours before the jury returned the indictments, with the hope that the authorities in Denver might receive the message and apprehend the man before nightfall. Ixro-it Xot Tet Found. One telegram was sent at 12 o'clock noon and another in a couple of hours and then a third, worded in very strong language, was sent before 6 o'clock last night, urging Lowit's arrest. Up to a late hour no reply had been received at the Sheriff's office from Denver and some doubt is now entertained about Lowit's presence In Denver yesterday. The in tention was kept a very closely guarded secret until yesterday and It is thought no one would have bad an opportunity to inform him. He submitted to arrest once before and was brought back to this city In connection with the affairs of the Golden Eagle. His indictment came as considerable surprise to his friends and to the officials of the bank indicted with him. In addition to its report on the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank the Jury draws attention to alleged cruelty meted out to patients at the Crystal Springs Sanitarium and recommends that It be placed under public official surveillance. - ONWARD MARCH OF PORTLAND STEADY Building, Banking and Postal Receipts for October Set New High Marks. . BIG PROJECTS HELP STATE GILLESPIE ASKS INVESTIGATION Says Grand Jury Has Done Him In justice In Report. Dr. R. L. Gillespie, of the Crystal Springs Sanitarium said last night he thinks the grand jury has done his Insti tution an Injustice in making its report without giving the charges made any In vestigation whatever. He says it has taken for granted the statements of a discharged patient, who is a self-confessed degenerate, and who recently wrote letters commending in the most exuberant terms, the kindness of the treatment he had received at the hands of attendants and officials of the institu tion. Dr. Gillespie, through his attorneys Carey & Kerr, notified the office of the District Attorney that he would be pleased to have the grand Jury at any time. Investigate the institution from top to bottom. This Invitation applies to any later grand Jury, which may wish to in vestigate the charges that have been made. Dr. Gillespie agrees with the grand Jury that it would be a good thing for the Legislature to enact a law as sug gested, which would have all private in stitutions for the insane Inspected by competent neurologists. In the case of the Crystal Springs sanitarium, How ever, this is done frequently by officials of the United States Government, who look carefully after the, treatment ac corded their wards who are kept in this institution. SUIT FOR $25,000 IS FILED Crystal Springs Sanatorium Sued by . Former Inmate. Suit for $26,000 damages for personal injuries was filed against the Crystal Springs Sanatorium In the State Circuit Court yesterday by Louis Turjon, a former inmate of the place, who alleges that he was beaten half to death and frequently maltreated while in the Sana torium. Turjon recites a long list of brutalities. Once ho was taken into a bathroom by brutal attendants and severely beaten and f kicked, he says. Another time, he declares, he was strapped down and pummeled until the blood ran from his noes and moutn. as a result of frequent chokings he has par tially lost control of his voice. It Is set up. By reason of the suffering that ensued from the alleged brutal treatment at the hands of hired attendants, Turjon con tends that he is entitled to an award of $20,000. Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, Dr. R. L. Gillespie and R. M. Tuttle are named as the owners aid proprietors of the institution. Ttrjon '.e one of several former patients of the place to complain of gross brutal ity and incompetence In the conduct of the Sanatorium, which is a retreat for f Insane people and sufferers from nervous disorders. Year Will Be Best in City's History and Business Men Predict Growth and Prosperity Will Know Xo Lull. (Continued From First Page.) yereoatfi BACK TO JfATTRE. Nature' supplies a remedy for most diseases, and when such a remedy Is found it should be used. Oregon Herbs (a tea) is a combination of herbs Dre- scrlbed by nature for kidney and blad der diseases, and should be used as nature intended her medicines to be used, namely as a tea. No alcohol to Irritate, no pills to dissolve and punish the system. Just a good old-fashioned tea. easily prepared and easily taken. All dealers should hav it. Price 60c. provement of buildings, aggregating? $1,711,675, were Issued from the office of. the Building' Inspector during: Octo ber, or more than double the amount f these permits granted in the same month last year, when the total was only $829,755. The previous high rec ords in building permits in the history of the city was reached last April when these permits aggregated $1,651,195. This record furnishes Irrefutable proof of the continued growth of Portland. While the activity in building opera tions has continued ever since the Lewis and Clark Exposition In 1905, few citizens, who had become accustomed to the wholesale erection of business blocks and residences In the city, sus pected that the record for the month Just ended over-stepped former records. Property Also Active. While the aggregate of considerations represented in the transfer of real es tate for the month fell slightly below the record for the same month in 1908, the actual value of the property chang ing hands exceeded that of the corres ponding month a year ago by approxi mately $1,000,000. This is explainable from the fact- that the consideration named In the deed, by which the Ladd estate sold Laurelhurst, and-which was filed during the month, was only $100. The consideration for which this prop erty was sold was $1,300,000. As it is, the records show that the aggregate of real estate transfers for October, 1908. was $2,446.1-84. as against $2,362,205 for the same month this year. For the reason that another day's sales are to be accounted for. Post master Young yesterday was unable to announce the total receipts from stamp sales for the month. Receipts from the same source during October, 1908, reached a total of $57,809.12. The rec ord for the same month this year will exceed that amount by not less than 10 per cent. It is estimated by Post master Toung that the total receipts from stamp sales for the 12 months ending June 30 next, will be not less than $750,000 as against about $680,000 for the year ending June 30 last. Puget Sonnd Ports Beaten. In the exportation of grain, the rec ords for the month of October show that Portland leads all Puget Sound ports by a comfortable margin. Re duced to a' bushel basis, these ship ments from Portland during October were: Wheat. 1,910.998 bushels; flqur, 175,288; barley, 121,891. This makes , a total of 2,208,177 bushels, representing a value of $2,044,614, as against 2.188,928 bushels from Puget Sound ports. In creased shipments from the Sound points for the month are due in a large measure to the burning of the plant of the Portland Flouring Mills Company which necessitated forwarding one' large cargo of flour from the Puget Sound cities. Shipments, foreign, of the same products from Portland for Octo ber, 1908. aggregated 2.157,682 bushels, of the value of $1,878,270. Coastwise shipments of grain from Portland to California for last month were: Wheat, 397.677 bushels; flour, 14.426 barrels. From Puget Sound, wheat, 367.320 bushels: flour 30.422 barrels. During the month ending to day, lumber shipments, foreign, from this port, aggregated 9,670,618 feet. value $107,034. In the same month the coastwise shipments of the same pro duct amounted to 10,154,000 feet. Heavy Exports to Continue. In grain shipments from Portland, the record for November Is certain far to eclipse that of the same month a year ago when approximately 750,000 bushels were forwarded from this port. Steam tonnage will enter largely Into next month's shipments and will carry approximately 1,000,000 bushels from this city, while the sail tonnage, al ready chartered will add another 1,000,000 bushels to next month's ship ments from this port. Approximately $2,000,000 win he ex pended by the City of Portland during the-, year 1910, as indicated by Mayor Slmon'a budget, now under considera tion by the ways and means committee of the City Council. However, tire mu nicipal tax levy for next year will be only 6 mills, as compared with 6.E mills for 1909, the Mayor having decided that every department can be properly con ducted by the revenue raised from auch levy. Aside from the expenses of operating the city, which Include all department work, salaries and maintenance, pur chase of new equipment for the various branches of the government and Inci dental Expenses, several large projects are to be undertaken, which will total large amounts. Among these are the Broadway high bridge, to cost approxi mately $1,250,000; the Madison-street bridge, now in progress, to cost $450, 000; the garbage crematory, to cost ap proximately $100,000, and improvement of the park and boulevard system. which will run into many thousands of dollars. City to Be Beautified. -Mayor Simon is planning a systematic campaign for a city beautiful, and Is bringing together the various forces at his command to push forward hard- surface pavements on a large scale. He is also arranging, through the proper committees, to have these pavements well cleaned dally, he having recom mended In his budget the employment of additional men and the purchase of extra equipment for the street-cleaning department. Several new fire department stations are to be built, and the police depart ment will be installed In the new Mult nomah County Courthouse, this seeming to be the best solution of the problem in that respect. It will effect a large saving to the taxpayers. There Is also the great expenditure to be made by the Water Board, under the direction of the Mayor, in Installing a second pipeline to Bull Run. augment ing the water supply. This will cost In the neighborhood of $1,500,000. There is an appropriation of $3,000,000 for the purpose, however,, but It is expected that it will not cost so much as that. The Board of Education, although not a part of the city government, operates within the citV limits. It will spend more than $1,000,000, it is expected, as ,iTi " (, r-1TWrrliifi,iirf.ii1i tgg. vS f I ' I A jt.K -fc, ft T- y w i 1 5 i - Jt i fit ?t' m if M ,ft 4' -K i t f -j i W 44 -p; m -1 u 1 i l X - v . , i hi b m it I Vh ;' 1 ""X fl, - f -5 f The trained t6uch of the Master Tailor is shown in every stitch and' hem of every garment we sell. They will give you more clothes comfort and satis faction than youvever dreamed possible in ready-to-wear clothes. Modestly Priced $15 to $40 Boys' Overcoats $5 tO $15 : Boys' Rubber Capes S2 qipif if iTjw; LEADING CLOTHIER the expenses of operation, maintenance and construction of new buildings are immense. Business Men Optimistic. Satisfied with the remarkable record which has been attained, representa tives of every class of business in this ..(.. --a ,nnv)n,rt that Portland is con fronted with an era which promises in creased activity in an lines oi Dusinesu. There is every indication, they unani mously agree, that this year's record Line -voIiittia fit business will not only be equaled, but surpassed, in 1910. jjiscusslng this subject, men promi nently identified with various phases of the city's, commercial life yesterday said: O. E. Heintz, president of the Manufac turers' Association and proprietor of the Pacific Iron Works Business conditions in Oregon, and in fact the entire North west, show a marked improvement over conditions existing at any time for the past two years. Good crops everywhere, with high prices, and the extraordinary Immigration from other sections of the country to the Pacific .Northwest, have combined to make this season an un usually good one for the manufacturers of the Pacific Northwest. The general prosperity of the entire country has loosened the purse strings and Eastern capitalists are sending millions of dollars into this region for investment and im provement purposes. The wonderful development of Portland has resulted in a tremendous call on the Iron and steel works of the city. The erection of skyscrapers, warehouses and large buildings of all classes has forced the manufacturers of all sorts of build ing materials to their utmost endeavor to keep abreast o orders. Nothing better Indicates the general prosperity of any community than the volume of building, and Portland at this time is making a wonderful showing in this and other di rections. 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For sale at all drug stores at 50 cents a box. my line, but on all others. The member ship of the Manufacturers' Association includes every line of manufacturing in dustry and without exception our mem bers report an unsually heavy demand, even for this season of the year, when business in most lines generally Is good. I look for even better conditions in Portland for 1910. 'The development of the country is in its inception, and, unless something unforeseen happens, next year Bhould prove to be the best year Port land and the Pacific Northwest ever has had. Old-established manufacturers are improving their plants and making bet terments in order properly to care for the heavy prospective business, 'and new establishments are coming to the city to "get in on the ground floor," as It were, of the upbuilding of the city and tributary territory. , E. "W. Wright, manager Merchants' Exchange Both in volume and value of business handled, all previous ship ping records for the month of October were broken in the month ending to morrow. Up to the close of business tonight, 146 vessels entered and cleared at Portland in October. These vessels carried outward more than 28.000.000 feet of lumber, 2.308,676 bushels of wheat, 121,891 bushels of barley and 53,629 barrels of flour. This is more than 200,000 bushels in excess .of the wheat shipments for October, 1908, and is nearly 600,000 bushels more than in any corresponding month prior to Oc tober, 1908. 'Gain in Lumber Greater. In lumber shipments an even greater gain is shown, foreign exports alone this month being nearly equal to the 10,000,000 feet sent coastwise and for eign in October, 1908, while the coast wise shipments this month were more than 18,000,000 feet. The destruction of the Portland Flouring Mills, which necessitated diverting a regular Ori ental liner to Puget Sound, cut down the flour shipments of the month more than 40,000 barrels, but, including on a wheat basis the flour which did go for ward, there was shipped from Portland during the month 2.550,000 bushels. An especially gratifying - feature of the coastwise traffic was the heavy in crease in inward cargoes, nearly all. of the coasters coming for lumber bring ing full or part cargoes of miscellane ous freight. Tonnage under charter or , available for grain and lumber loading in November is sufficient to bring ship "ments for next month up to even greater proportions than those of Octo ber. Crops Bring Good Prices. . Henry Hahn. president Wadhams & Co. Business is in a healthy condition. Crops of all kinds, especially grain and hops, are bringing good prices. The I market price for sheep and hogs Is good. In fact, it is only as to cattle that the market is not what it might be This is due, of course, to the dis position of farmers at this season of the year to unload their cattle onto the market rather than to keep them through the Winter. With this single exception, top prices are being paid the producer for everything. All lines of business are good and there is not the slightest reason why the present satis factory conditions should not continue with the possibility of a further im provement. Charles B. Merrick, secretary Retail Grocers' Association The Jobbers of this city never did a larger business than they are now enjoying. When the ' wholesalers prosper It follows' that the retailer naturally is sharing that pros perity. There is every indication of prosperous conditions among the re tailers. Collections are good, while the volume of business generally has in creased at an astonishing rate. 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