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GROWS BETTER BUODE BOB
Gov. Gillette Proclaims Holiday
for Today One Bank
Closes in 'Frisco.
SMALL RUN IN PITTSBURG
Foreigners' Depository "Weathers De
mands New York Slowly Re
covering Form Shock.
New York, Oct. 30. The financial
situation today was so nearly normal
that there were few new features of
importance. It yas stated hy bank
ers that calls for money from the
neighborhood of New York and tho
entire Bast appeared practically sat
isfied and such calls that there were
camo from west of tho Mississippi
river. These calls are being met as
fast as conditions permit. State
Superintendent Williams gathered
most of the cash in the suspended
banks today and deposited it in going
institutions thereby adding several
millions to available funds.
California to Have Holiday.
Sacramento, Oct. 30. At a lato
hour this afternoon, a message was
received from Governor Gillette who
is at Eureka, announcing that to-
morrow will be declared a legal holi-
day by proclamation and that a like
proclamation will follow each day
until confidence is restored in the
financial situation in tho state. The
proclamation will be issued in the
morning.
One Rank Closes in 'Frisco.
San Francisco, Oct. 30. With tho
exception of a Hurry caused by clos
ing of tho California Safe Deposit
and Trust company, this has been a
very quiet day in banking circles.
Tho plan of Issuing clearing house
certificates did not seem to cause
any inconvenience and small amounts
of coin were paid to various deposi
tors to meet payrolls. No attempts
were made to withdraw large sums
from any of tho clearing house
banks and business at savings banks
vas normal. Besides stating that
they were In no way. alarmed about
the situation, local bankers declined
to predict what would bo the effect
of closing of the California Safe De
posit and Trust company.
Pittsburg Resuming Business.
Pittsburg, Oct. 30. Interest in
the local financial situation was re
vived for a short time today when
foreign depositors of tho All Na
tions Bank started a run on the In
stitution while laboring under a mis
apprehension. The bank, which is a
small one, is perfectly solvent and
paid oft all depositors who applied
for their money. The stock ox
change remained closed again to
day and probably will all the rest
of the week. The clearing house
association reports that affairs are
fast resuming normal condition.
Tacoina Is Careful.
Tacoma, Oct. 30. Tacoma banks
were open for business today not
withstanding it was a legal holiday.
Pll checks up to $100, were paid in
cash.
Adopts the Certificates.
Salt Lake, Oct. 30. Owing to their
inability to collect from outside
banks, local bankers, through the
clearing house, today decided to use
clearing house certificates, and re
quire 30 days' notice of withdrawals
o! savings banks deposits.
Kidnapping Case Called for Today.
San Francisco, Oct. 30. Attorney
Schleinger asked for another day's
delay this morning on behalf of
Luther Brown and Porter Wilson
when they appeared before Judge
Dunne to plead to an indictment
charging them with kidnapping Fre
mont Older, managing editor of the
Bulletin. The judge granted a con
tinuance on tho understanding that
the defense will be ready tomorrow.
Illinois Operators Return.
Springfield, 111., Oct, 30. All
Western Union operators who went
strike returned to work tonight. All
Postal men decided to return to
work and made application for tbolr
former positions.
Ford's Attorneys To Prove
Money Was Sent East In
stead of Using it to Bribe.
ARGUMENTS BEGIN TODAY
Trap Set for Prosecution Did
Work Hanks Give Testi
mony. Not
San Francisco, Oct. 30. It is like
ly that arguments in the Tlrey Ford
case will begin tomorrow. Assistant
District Attorney Honey, today an
nounced that ho expects to close the
case for the prosecution tomorrow at
eleven o'clock. This means that Ituef
will not be called as a witness. The
prosecution today placed on the stand
a new and important witness in the
person of Robert H. Peters, assistant
to William J. Burns. He testified to
having shadowed Ituef to Ford's of
fice on August 23, 190G, the day on
which Ford withdrew from the mint
the last $100,000 of the $200,000
fund alleged to have been used to
buy tho trolley franchise. Represen
tatives of several San Francisco
banks testified to a non-deposit by
the United Railroads. Calhoun, Mul
laly, Ford or any of the ?2 00,000 in
issue
Adum M. Dahler, assistant
cashier of the corporation, gave the
offense an opportunity to explode a
surprise shell but though tho fuse
was lighted, the bomb did not go off,
being stayed until morning, when the
cross-examination will seek to prove
that the $200,000 was subsequently
sent to Brown Bros. & company, New
York in payment of matured cu-
on bonds instead of being expended
in bribery.
San Francisco, Oct. 30. Charges
of too much "Red Blood" and too
little of it, flung into each other's
faces by Francis J. Heney and Lewis
l Byington, former district attorney
and now of the consel for the de
fense, stirred up In the Ford bribery
trial today the bitterest court room
row since the general consel of the
United Railroads faced the jury.
Tho prosecution is nearing the close
of its case, spread consternation in
the camp of Its opponents and amaze
ment among the big crowd in at
tendance by suddenly calling to the
witness stand Ford's assistant and
co-defendant, Wm. M. Abbott, Earl
Rogers advised Abbott he need not
testify, which adyice he took. Then
ensued a long and bitter battle,
Heney trying with all his skill and
power to persuade Judge Lawlor to
rule that the only grounds on which
Abbott could baso his refusal was
that his testimony would tend to in
criminate himself. Attorneys for tho
defense, on the other hand, con
tending with equal vehemence that
Abbott as co-defendant could not
lawfully be put upon the stand by
the prosecution at all. Lawlor will
decide tho question tomorrow.
ENTERS COLLEGE AT
AGE OF FIFTY YEARS
Miner Will Fit Himself for Practice
of Law Wife Takes Elocu
tion. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 30. Mit
chell B. Haggerty, miner and an of
ficial of tho Western Miners' Federa
tion, has entered the law school of
Yale university, to fit himself for ad
mittance to the bar of Montana. He
expects to practice in Butte. Hag
gerty is about 50 years of age and
the father of two boys.
Mrs. Haggerty is hero with him,
and she, too, will study at Yale, hav
ing chosen elocution. Haggerty Is a
man of strong personality, of average
height, broad-shouldered, but of
rather spare of frame. His smooth
shaven features are Inclined to be
sharp, but his expression is frank and
friendly.
At the law school, JIaggerty re
fused to say anything about himself
or Mrs. Haggerty, save that they
hoped to study for further usefulness
In -Montana.
Annie Lursen Hero For Lumber.
Tho schooner Annio Larson was
brought to the upper bay yesterday
to ,oad lumber from the Johnson
milling milling Company of Coquille.
MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1907.
HIGH SCHOOL ELECTION
POSTPONED TO NOV. 7th
Dear Reader: The much exploit
ed high school election will not take
place this evening as the Times has
been stating for several weeks, for
the simple reason that the date was
changed by the board of education
on the ISth of October to November
7th. But it is hoped, nevertheless,
that the humble efforts of the Times
will not lose their potency simply be
cause the election is put off a week
or so. Now, of course it is the duty
of the Times to tell its readers and
especially those who are all ready to
o to the school house tonight and
put in a vote foi the now high school,
why the paper has been deceiving tho
public so long and has not said the
change had been made. In the first
place, the reporters should be
equipped with all . sorts of mind
reading abilities; they should havo
mental telepathy down to such a
point that they can look for such
changes as this school election and
detect them Immediately they are
made. It is natural enough to ex
pect tho date of an election to bo
changed, and of courso the news
gatherers might have been alert in
this instance, and known that the
former notices were not drawn cor-
j rectly and were not according to law.
And here Is another point where re-
porters should shine. They should
know whether a legal Instrument is
drawn correctly, and If not, in the
Mutinous Crew of Destroyer
Skory Put Up Red Flag and
Gallant Fight.
MEN WERE OVERWHELMED
Vladivostok Scene of Exciting Naval
Buttle One Captain and Two
Lieutenants Killed.
Vladivostock, Oct. 30. An ex
c'ting little naval battle took place
in this harbor today between
th0
mutinous crew of a Russian torpedo
boat destroyer and their comrades.
The mutineers' were finally sub
dued, but not before a number had
been ki'led or wounded. The mu
tnlous boat is the Skory and she
gave a fight to the gunboat Manes
cur, the destroyer Garscoz, Smely
and Zeri and the garrison of one of
the harbor forts. Tho Skory soon
was overwhelmed and she had to be
beached to save her from sinking.
This was not accomplished, however,
before her guns had done consider
able damage and several officers had
men on other ships either wounded
or killed. Tho crew of the Skory
were Incited by agitators, including
some Jews who had managed to get
on board and take charge of the de
stroyer. Sho steamed out into tho
harbor with a red flag flying and at
once opened firo on the town and
forts which responded and soon had
the Skory riddled with bullets. She
then turned and ran through the
surf and beached. Those members
of the crew who had not been killed
or injured by the gunfire were ar
rested as they made their way to
land. Among those killed wero a
captain and two lieutenants. Several
people In Vladivostok were killed
by shells from tho Skory. The town
has been In a state of siege.
MUTINEERS REMOVED
FROM FRENCH SHIP.
San Francisco, Oct. 30.
Trouble which started several
days ago on the French bark
La Tour D'Avergne ended this
morning only after Areinoud, a
mutinous member of tho crew
who had been placed In irons
for eight days, was taken
ashore by tho French consul
and Yves Lajau, another sea-
man, had been transferred to
tho French ship Helen Blum,
lying in the stream. The men
are accused of trying to incite
mutiny.
case of a school eleulon, they should
make a loud noise and keep tab on
the proceedings of the school board
which meets sometimes.
In an accidental way it was
learned yesterday from a member of
the board who had seen the mistake
the Times was making, that the elec
tion date had been changed, and the
paper is therefore able to give the
warning not to go' out tonight and
vote a high school on the city with
out permission or Invitation. The
zealous voter who wants a four
yc-ars' high school can wait another
week no doubt without any incon
venience and perhaps the Informa
tion may become more thoroughly
disseminated by the time Nomember
7th rolls around
It is never best
anyway, to be impatient in matters of
this nature, and, under the clrcum
s'ances, probably November 7th will
be as good a date as October 31st.
As a matter of precaution, to be cer
tain the date had not again been
changed, the ignorant newsgatherer
hunted up one of tho notices and
found it posted'on a saloon building,
where, perhaps, some people might
look for matters educational. But
, not many.
I You couldn't blame the reporter
could you for not knowing about tho
postponement when one member of
the board yesterday declared he
knew nothing about It?
Lumbermen's Suit Against
Railroads Opened in Seattle
Federal Court.
NOTICES NOT' SUFFICIENT
l,secutors Gather From Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana
To Demand Rights.
Seattle, Wash., Oct 30. In the
federal court today, the attorney
for the Oregon lumbermen attacked
' .. - . .
the suinciency of posting or the new
tariff on lumuer wnicn law requires
it should be placed conspicuously in
railroad stations in advance oi ln
augration of the tariff. This, it was
argued, has not been done in certain
places in Oregon. The railroads
were also attacked by consul for
l"mbermen on the grounds that new
tariffs were plainly to suppress com
petition and were illegal, unjust and
therefore should be enjoined. Lum
bermen aro gathered from Oregon,
Washington, Montana and Idaho.
Judge Hanford and Judge Wolver
ton are hearing the arguments.
APPLE PICKERS ARE
BUSY ON THE RANCHES
A crew of ton men have just fin
ished picking apples on the Stephen
Rogers' ranch on Coos River. They
tacked 1,000 boxes, 700 of which are
sold. The crow will go to tho Hod
son' place where there are 200 boxes
to pick, afterwards to tho Anson
Rogers and Jesse Smith places where
there are from 200 to 400 boxes on
onch place. Mr. A. Langley, of Port
land, was on the dock ono day as Mr.
Rogers was delivering some apples,
and wished to buy some, and asked
tho price. Mr. Rogers told him they
were selling for $1 a box. Mr. Lang
toy bought seven boxes and said ho
had paid this year $2.50 per box for
the same apples in Hood River.
Dr. Driver Dend nt Albany.
Albany, Ore., Oct. 30. Rov. I. D.
Driver, a pioneer Methodist minister,
and ono of the best known divines in
the Pacific northwest, died hero to
day, aged 83 years. Dr. Driver, be
sides being prominently connected
with Oregon history, was a theo
logian of considerable reputation. "
Controlling Tho Plague.
San Frdnclsco, Oct. 30. Follow
ing Is the official bubonic plague
statement to date. "Number of cases
to date, 78; deaths, 50; diminution
In relative number of deaths In
creases dally."
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Harriman Railroad Extension
Is Ordered Closed and Other
Forces Reduced.
O'BRIEN ISSUES ORDER
Heparin Road Would Have Ik-en
v-uniiilelcd by the lirst of Next
January. ''j
Portland, Ore., Oct. 30. Work on
all extensions in Oregon and Idaho
0f the Harriman system will bo
brought to a close November 1, and
thousands of men thrown out of em
ployment as a result of tho an
nouncement of General Manager J. P.
O'Brien, of the Harriman lines In
Oregon. O'Brien today issued tho
following statement: "Owing to the
unsettled financial conditions, r have
deemed it wise to withdraw forces
from the new construction work. In
general custom at this time of the
year by reason of weather conditions,
department heads aro returning their
forces to tho customary winter
basis." The order affects several
important pieces of work which wero
nearing completion. The Riparia
Lewiston extension of the O. R. & N.
would have been completed by Janu
ary first. This road would have giv
en a water level route from the Idaho
wheat belt to Portland. Tho two
other eastern Oregon projects, the
Vallowa extension, from Elgin to
Joseph, and the Umatilla Central,
from Pendleton to Pilot Rock, are
indefinitely postponed. In western
uregon, tho order stops work on
the Oregon Western, the Southern
"acific lino now being built between
Coos Bay and Drain, and on two
branches of the Oregon Eastern, one
it which wa3 to have run from Nat
ron to Klamath Falls and the other
front Natron to Vale.
MENELIK PLANNING
TO MAKE REFORMS
Ruler of Abyssinia Arranging for
Constitutional Form of Gov-
trument.
Adlsabeba, Abyssinia, Oct. 30.
King Menellk has taken an important
step In giving Abyssinia a constitu
tional form of government in issuing
a decree today providing for a cabi
net on European lines. Simultane
ously with tho publication of the de
cree his majesty announced the ap
pointment of five ministers, who will
preside respectively over tho depart
ment of foreign affairs, justice, finan
ce, commerce and war.
WOOD ALCOHOL DRUNK
KILLS PARTY OF FOUR O
Tucson, Oct, 30, Tho bodies
; four unknown men wero found
by a railroad trackwalker today
at Marlcopaur. An Investlga-
4 tion showed that death resulted
from drinking wood alcohol,
stolon from a box car. Ono
member of tho party, who was
found near tho sceno, was
placed under arrest. Ho refuses
to give the names of tho dead
4 men. It Is believed that the
men aro minors, as one of them
carried a union card from
Globe, Arizona. The name on
tho card was Fitzpatrlck.
Will Move Oregon Products.
New York, Oct. 30. Announce
ment of a week's holiday porclaimed
In Oregon did not disturb tho ofil
clals of tho Southern Pacific. "Closo
of tho Portland banks and proclama
tion of a week's holiday by Govornor
Chamberlain did not seriously dis
turb us," said E. II. Harriman. "Wo
havo machinery for moving tho pro
ducts of Oregon and we proposo to
uso It and v do anything wo can to
relievo tho situation."
THE WEATHER OUTLOOK.
Western Oregon, western
Washington, rain. Eastern
Oregon, eaatorn Washington,
Idaho, cloudy with occasional
rain.
No. 100.
KFPT 1!
SiLiI 0i!IHLL
Telegraphers of New York
Refuse Deposed President
a Hearing.
STRIKE ENDED WEDNESDAY
As Legally Elected President, Small
Declares Knd of Trouble and
Gives Terms.
New York, Oct. 30. S. J. Small,
recently deposed president of the
Commercial Telegraphers Union, ar
rived in New York from the west to
day and was refused permission to
speak before tho local union at a.
meeting in the afternoon and to
night sent out In a statement to the
public "Calling off" the telegraphers
strike. After reviewing his efforU
to bring about a settlement of the
troublo advantageously to the strik
ers and tho action of the union In
declaring his office vacant and elect
ing a successor, Small said; "I feel
It my duty as tho legally elected
president of the organization to is
sue this statement, declaring tho con
ditions existing within our official
ranks and further declaring tho
strike unquestionably the greatest
and cleanest fought battlo of the
century, at an end dating from
Wednesday, October 30, 1907, and on
tho following terms: 'All striken
will be reinstated without discrimin
ation, except those against whom
strenuous charges can bo substantiat
ed, the accused to havo a chance ot
making a defense in writing through
me, when their cases will receive
prompt and careful consideration.
Tho ten per cent increase granted.
March 1, 1007, will be strictly ad
hered to.' " Small says ho is will
ing to await vindication at the next
regular convention, to be held la
Mllwaukeo next year.
RED0ND0 WILL SAIL
SOUTH FROM COOS
Vessel Will Mnke Two Trips From
Portland to San Pedro Ik-i'oro
She Goes on the Regular Run.
(Oregonlan.)
A. M. Simpson, head of tho Simp
son Lumber Company and owner of
tho steamship Iledondo, has decided
to place that vessel on thu run South,
from Coos Bay. Tho first Balling
from Marshfield will bo December L,
Tho vessel is now loading at Tacoma.
for Portland. Sho will take two
cargoes from horo to San Pedro for
Simpson and will then proceed to
Coos Bay and go on tho regular run.
Since tho withdrawal of tho F. A.
Kilburn in Juno there has been no
Southern service from Coos Bay
points. ,
Tho Redondo was operated by
Schubach & Hamilton1, of Seattle,
between Portland and Sound port
for four months. Tho venture
proved a losing ono and as tho mer
chants of Portland would not come
to tho aid of tho steamship company
tho Redondo was withdrawn. She
sailed from hero 12 days ago on her
last trip.
Tho Redondo Is fitted with passen
ger accommodations and will bo a.
valuablo acquisition to tho fleet oper
ating In and out of Coos Bay. It is
now Impossible for a person to go
from Coos Bay to Eureka or Saa
Francisco, without first coining td
Astoria.
More Timber Reserved.
Washington, D. C, Oct, 30. The
presldont has ordored the withdrawal
of 34,905 acres of land In Trlnl-y.
Shasta and Glenn counties, Califor
nia, along the eastern border of the
Trinity national forest, and It is pro
posed to add this acrego to the for
est. Pottlbono's Trial Set
Bolso, Idaho, Oct. 30. Judge
Wood today set the Pottlbono trial
for Novomber 21, throo days latir
than tho date stipulated by the at
torneys Saturday. Wood announced
that if tho attorneys were not r ady
early in tho Novembor torm ho would
contlnuo tho case to January.
Stovos and ranges lor coo or
wood, Seo Ekblad & Son, Hardware.