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N0.J241. VOLUME LXIII.
ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1907
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CALL HIM
SESSION
President Being Urged
to Act.
LACK OF CONFIDENCE
practically l Bitot their supply of cuh
lost din ing the past week. ;
Even tin divergence of a largo Amount
to oliter cities will itlll leave th bulk
of gold arriving to go into Lite New
York banks and will probably result la
in lncroiio iu the reserve being shown
next week. Reports from various part
of tlit country Indicate that the ytem
of meeting payrolls by check Instead of
I currency U bo lug largely adopted with
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GOLD WILL
FLOW BACK
Necessary Legislation Is Needed
to Restore Public Faith In
Business Methods.
EQUEST OF CONSERVATIVES
Boosevslt Amu red That Oreat Industrie
Would Wot Oppose Eia Ideal of Fed
eral Control to the Extent to Which
ha Bat Expounded Them.
WASHINGTON, D. 0. Nov. 2-dt waa
learned today from undoubted aourcee
that President Roosevelt la now being
urged to oaU an extra session of con
yreea to deal with the financial situs
Hon. The request come from and rep-
retenle the judgment of the conserve
tire leaders In the financial world, who
, hav represented that the present iltua
tion Is one compelling an action of a
character that will eradicate all ground
lor suspicion of American Industrial
methods. The Preildettt has been as
eured from the moit reliable sources
that there will tie no opposition on the
part of Uie great industries of the
country to the enactment of the neces
sary lawa to carry out his Ideaa of fed
eral control to the extent to which he
has expounded them In his recent public
utterances. These assurances are made
t this time to avert what Las been rep
resented as the most dangerous situa
tion which has confronted the country
during an extended historlo period, that
Is, stemlng tha growing lack of confi
dence based on known Irregularities In
business methods in some quarters, and
no sure and speedy means of separating
good from unsound. To this end It Is
suggested that the President sot Con
frees to the task first, of making such
amendments to the 'financial laws as will
result in a maximum of flexibility with
a minimum of basic change in our pres
ent system, is noxt and perhaps the
most in importance that the president
will embody in his suggestion In the
succinct recommendations for its enact
ment Into law. In this connection at
tention has been directed to what ha said
at Provincetown, Muss., August 20 last
in which he advocated a national Incorp
oration law for corporations engaging in
interstate business.
, "Almost every big business concern,"
said the President, "Is engaging in inter
state commerce and such concerns must
not be allowed by dexterous shifting of
position, as has been often the
case in the past, to escape thereby all
roponibillty either to state or to na
tion." To meet his views the President has
suggested amendments to the Sliormnn
anti-trust law and the adoption of a
criminal clause to that and Interstate
commerce regulations. That the presi
dent has given the request for an ex
tra session careful consideration is In
dicated by those who have been asked
to lend their advice in the matter.
FISHERIES CASE TO HAGUE.
OTTAWA, Can., Nov. 2,-Tbe cabinet
has decided that tha fisheries case be
tweeri Canada and the I United States
in reipect to the Magdalen Islands be
submitted to the Hague arbitration
court, along with the Newfoundland
case, wbkb Involves similar interests.
Canada will send a special commissioner
to present the Canadian case. The cab
Inet has also decided to take over In i
few weeks from tha British admiralty
the Kqu!m!t naval station on the Pa
ciflo.
CARUSO HONORED BY EMPEROR.
BERLIN, Nov. 2,-Tbe Kaiser sum
moned Caruso to ths royal box after
last night's performance oX "Aids," and
conferred on hhn the Cross of the Crown
of Prussia.
VALUABLE CATCH.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.-Tbe whal
Ing steamer Jeanette, Captain Hoffman
arrived yesterday from the Artie with
a valuable catch.
More for the owners, In addition to
11,000 pounds 0 whstebone, tha Jean
nelte brought a lot of valuable furs In
eluding ISO fox skins and seven bear
skins. Among the skins was one of the
black fox, a pedes that is rapidly dis
appearing. This particular ekin is said
to be worth $1,000. Five whales were
killed during the cruise.
FOUND IN ROOM
The Government Plans Were In
Stenographer's Dwelling.
Wheat Payments Cause
of Stringency, '
PROSPERITY GENERAL
Governor Chamberlain Principal
Speaker at Banquet at
Commercial Club.
MONEY IN UNUSUAL DEMAND
Banquet in Honor of VL J. Roche, Pratt
dent Traveling Passenger Agents
Brings Together Body of Representa
tive lien.
SOLD SECRETS OF CASES
Arrest of Miss McLean and Gordee, Her
Sweetheart, Disclose Conspiracy to
Defeat Aims of Government's Prosectt
tion in Noted Federal Cases.
NO NOTABLE DEVELOPMENTS.
Stock Exchange in New York is Com
paratively Steady.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The flnnnolal
week came to end tonight without any
notable developments. The Stock Ex
Change was comparatively steady over
the day with but little activity. , Runs
upon banking houses seem practically
at an end and few important conferences
were held by financiers, The decline in
the. reserves of the New York Clearing
House banks was heavier than in any
recent experience but will be offset by
the arrival of gold next week. Actual
loss in oash was about $30,000,000 which
reduced the reserves on hand to about
$228,000,000. The total engagement of
gold for April no totals $29,150,000. If
CHICAGO, Nov. 2. The Inter-Ocean
today says:
Secret service operatives are working
to determine to what extent government
secrets In recent cases of National im
portance have been sold by Miss Etta
McLean and Alexander Gordee who yes
terday were held in $5000 bonds to the
grand jury on charges Of conspiracy and
the thoft of papers in the John B. Walsh
case.
Discovery of papers relating to the
Standard Oil triul in the room of Miss
McLoan has led to the suspicion that
she and her confederate may have JIs
i . .
ciosea government piuns not only, in
the Walh case, but in the case against
the Standard Oil, the Chicago and Alton
Railway and the School Book Combine.
Miss McLean's position was steno
grapher in District Attorney Sims' office
which she .held since April, gave her
ample opportunity to obtain copies of
the most valuable papers in all these
cases, luo fact that Ooruee. her sweet
heart, was able to live in idleness, din
ing at expensive restaurants, for the
past six months has made it apparent
he had some secret resources of income,
.While the government officials feel
confident they have unearthed a far
reaching conspiracy, they have yet to
learn its magnitude or to what extent
Its operations have injured government
prosecutions. In the prosecution of the
Standard Oil, the Alton and the Book
Combine was apparent at evenyi turn
that the defendants knew In advance
the government's moves, no matter how
secretly planned.
OBJECTS TO OKLAHOMA'S "GOV,"
: 'WASIIINGTOXNv. 2.-The Presi
dent today received number of protests
against the Approval of the Oklahoma
constitution. , Among the callers who
registered their objections were a num
l"ORTLAND, Nov. 2. The banquet at
the Commercial Club tonight, in honor
M. J. Roche, president of the American
Association of Traveling Passenger
Agents, served to bring together a rep
resentative body of business and pro
fessional men of the northwest, includ
ing visitors from Puget Sound and oth-
sections of the Paelflo Northwest.
Governor Chamberlain of Oregon waa the
principal speaker of the evening. His
address was devoted mainly to the pres
ent financial crisis. Governor Chamber-
lain spoke vehemently, for a spirit or
forcbearance on the part of the people.
He argued that there waa no occasion
for great alarm, especially in the Pacific
Northwest where prosperity never was
so general and where It was so certain,
owing to the natural physical advant
ages that the states of Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho offer. He said the
balance of trade was against this section
at this time fop the reason that it was
so prosperous, that it was shipping
80,000,000 bushels of wheat foreign
countries, that the wheat had to be paid
for, and the payment had left the banks
short of ready money at a time when
it was In unusual demand, but in six
months or after the delivery of the
grain to its foreign buyers, gold would
be flowing back to our banks in the
natural course of commerce. The gov
ernor pointed out that banks of this
section depended upon Portland banks
and that Portland banks equally depend
ed upon hanks of Denver, St. Louis,
Minneapolis Chicago, New York and
other financial centers and that a simple
spirit of forbearance on the part of
every individual would in itself set mat
ters aright.
W. W. Cotton, chief counsel for the
Hurriman Hues of t lie northwest echoed
Coventor Chamberlain's sentiments and
in addition introduced an argument in
favor of a more elastlo system of cur
rency In this country. He expressed the
belief than an elastic currency would
prove the savior of the country at such
times as the present.
Roche told of the work of the Ameri
can Association of Traveling Passenger
Agents and spoke in hearty endorse
ment of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacifio Ex
position to be held in Seattle in 1000.
Several other railroad men also spoke
of the commercial importance of the
Exposition to the Pacific Coast.
13. Walton, who had besn sentenced
four times to the penitentiary express
d his forgiveness of the court, aa well
as altant states Attorney Benjamin
J. Short, who demanded the death pen
ally in his trial. He expressed thanks
to Attorney Patrick Carey, who was
appointed by the court to defend him.
In his letter, Walton declared that he
would rather go to his death speaking
the truth by plealing guilty than to go
to prinon by telling a lie, because he
knew he caused the woman's death.
PROBABLY DEAD.
OAKLAND, Nov. 2.-Tbe police of
Oakland are looking for the body of a
tramp. They are confident of finding
it at or near the spot where the tramp
opened a valine stolen last night from
Y. 0. Peiserof. Presldof is a traveling
salesman, and he put his case down for
a few minutes. A little later he saw a
rough-looking man walking away with
the grip, but did not find it was his nntil
the fellow waa out of eight. The case
was filled' with samples of soap and het
is why the police expect to find the
body of the tramp.
BASHIEy
Plenty of Coin in San
Francisco Mint.
TRANSFERS MILLIONS
DISPUTE ACCIDENT RISK.
TROY. N. Y, Nov. 2.-Tho accident
insurance policy on the life of Fred S.
Fates of Lansingburgh has been held up
by the Commercial Travelers' Accident
Insurance Company. Mr. Fale died
suddenly at his residence. The rela
tives claim that death was due to a frac
ture of the skull. The company) holds
that death resulted naturally.
RUN DOWN BY FREIGHT ENGINE.
SUFFOLK. Vs.. Nov. 2--Mrs. Bettie
Wright and Miss Maud Wright, wife and
daughter of Frank Wright, a well known
politicians, were run down by a freight
train today while crossing a side track.
Mrs. Wright was killed and the daugh
ter badly injured.
JOHNSON I'llNS FIGHT
Action Is Result of Appeal by
Local Financiers to Secre
tary Cortelyou.
Colored Heavy-Weight Knocks
Out Jim Flynn.
FIGHT GOES ELEVEN ROUNDS
Colorado Fireman Outclassed by John
son, Who Toyed With Him Like
Terrier Plays With a Rat Arrange
ments Made to Match Him With Burns
MAY BE INSANE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The trial of
Frank H. Warner for the murder of
Esther Norling, a cashier in a haber
dashery shop in 2 West Forty -second
street which was belnir heard before
Judge Foster in general sessions has ad
journed in order" that alienists may in
quire into the sanity of the prisoner.
If adjudged insane Warner will be sent
to the Matteawan Asylum for the crim
inal Insane. -
EXPRESSES FORGIVENESS.
Renurkablo Letter From Negro Slayer
Received by Prosecutor,
CHICAGO, Nov. 2. Judge Bretano
receiver a remarkable letter yesterday
from Richard Walton, the negro slayer
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 2.-"You're a
clever nigger," were the last words ut
tered by Jim Flynn, the Colorado fire
man, in the scheduled 45-round contest
with Jack Johnson, the colored heavy
weight, at Colma, this afternoon..
A straight right, flush to the jaw, cut
off further speech and Flynn toppled to
the floor completely out. The finishing
blow waa delivered in the eleventh rouud
and it took fully four minutes to resus
citate the defeated pugilist. Through
out the contest Johnson toyed with his
antagonist as a terrier would a rat. In
the initial round he practically closed
the Colorado man's left eye and there
after made it a target for his unerring
left jabs. Johnson landed at will on
his man and seemed to have the contest
well in hand at all stages. He left the
ring without a mark and only once did
he receive a telling blow from his oppon
ent, The beginning of the end came in
the tenth. Near the end of that round
Flynn stepped to the mat from the
impetus of a misdirected punch. He
was up quickly and as he rushed in,
Johnson clipped him in the pit of the
stomaoh with a short-arm uppercut.
Flynn dropped to the floor and was car
ried to bis corner, the gong saving him
temporarily. In the eleventh Johnson
taunted him man and forced him into
close quarters. Then Johnson backing'
away, shot a riokJed straight rht,
flush to the jaw and Flynn sank to the
floor utterly helpless and completely
knocked out. ! Billy Roche, the referee,
saidi "Johnson is the better man and
outclassed Flynn in even- department
of the boxing game." Arrangements will
at once be made to match Johnson and
Tommy , Burns , for the heavyweight
ohampionship of the ' world. . In the
preliminary today, "Denver" Ed Mar
tin got the decision over "Spike".' Ken
nedy in the sixth, after the preliminary
and before the main event Jack "Twin"
Sullivan issued a challenge to Al Kauff-
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REASON FOR STRINGENCY
Frenzied Financiers Finding the Ave-
enues of the Country's Wealth Closing
to Them Adopt Strenuous Methods to
Get Peoples' Coin.
SAX FRANCISCO. Nov. 2. -The
United States government came to the
assistance of the San Francisco banks
yesterday announcing through telegrams
that it had taken steps to expedite the
shipment of com to the Pacific Coast.
This action was the result of an appeal
made by local financiers to Secretary
Cortelyou of the Treasury Department
A vast sum said to be in the neighbor
hood of $10,000,000 is to be transferred
by, telegraph for the use of the San
Francisco savings banks.
The government ' has coin in San
Francisco to the amount of $343,000,000.
Of this sum $303,000,000 is stored in the
Mint and $40,000,000 in the sub treasury.
An effort was first made to induce
the government to allow the local banks
to deposit their federal bonds with the
sub treasury here and obtain coin in
return, but the authorities in Washing
ton refused to consent to this plan.
An arrangement was effected later,
however, by which similar results may
be achieved by operating through the
New York aub treasury. The arrange
ment entered into between the San
Francisco savings banks and the govern
ment provides that such federal bonds
as the local banks have on deposit in
New York may be turned into the sub
ureasurr. there. Tho New York aub
treasury will then wire the San Fran
cisco sub treasury to pay out an equiva
lent in coin. The first of this money
will be transferred this 'morning. Dis
patches from Washington approving of
this arrangement were received by the
local savings banks too late to permit
them to take advantage of the offer yes
terday afternoon. - ,
The Portland Oregonian in yesterday
morning's issue, in a terse but vigorous
manner places before the public, through
its editorial columns, the real reason for
the present monetary disturbance, aa
follows:
"Step by step the plot of the money
pirates against Roosevelt and the coun
try develops. When the game opened
we were all on the alert and our com
bined common sense, was too much, for
the freebooters. But as time passed
vigilance began to drowse and they al
most got the better of the public.
"There was a step in the plot where
they caught the country napping. The
Wall street panics, made to order, hav
ing failed to frighten anybody, it be
came necessary to set a trap. Big in
terest rates were held out as a bait to
lure the money of the country to New
York. The bait took and thither the
money went. Then the pirates set up
their chorus, 'You're in, little mousie,
but how to get out' is a very different
question. Wall street got the money of
the; country and Wall street kept It
The banks of the west -were literally
disembowelled. Nobody feared trouble.
Why should we not profit by the neces
sities of the East? So we profited by
them. Then came another Wall street
flurry, failures and rumors of failures.
The Knickerbocker Trust vent down. It
went down just in the, mi k of time to
serve the purposes of tb pirates, and
since they controlled it. c le can easily
discern the reason for its failure. Con
fidence throughout the cowtry began to
totter a little and the vlst awoke to
the fact that its credit htj? in the air.
booters. It was exactly where they
wanted it, and we soon learned that
they intended to keep It there.
"All other means of creating a Na
tonal panic having failed, they tried
the trick of buncoing the interior banks
out of their funds and then refusing-to
return them. Their hope was that the
people everywhere would start on the
banks. If that had been done, nothing
could have saved the country from dis
aster. Nothing can save it now but
the steadfast exercise of common sense
and courage. Everybody should keep in
mind that the banks are sound, that
they are abundantly able to pay all
their obligations, and that the only
thing -which can endanger them Is
concerted ran. This is what the pirates
are looking for. It is what they are
working for. But ft if what the in
telligence and sanity of the country
should not permit This last blow of
the freebooters at the President and
the Nation was well prepared and skil
amy iieurem, bus u we keep our
heads wo can parry it as we save the
others. Tha question is, Are we going
to keep our heads or shall we fall into
a panic and play their game for themt"
DALTON PARDONED.
Noted Bank Robber Has Been ia Prison
Fifteen Yean.
TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 2. Governor
Hoch today issued a pardon to Emmett
Dalton, who baa been la prison for the
Coffeyyille bank robbery in 1892. The
governor called Dalton to his office by
telephone and w'oile talking to him
the lights suddenly went out leaving
the room in darkness. The governor fin
ished talking to Dalton, ending by hand
ing him his pardon, Dalton thanked the
governor and then said:
There ia some one in Kingfisher who
will be glad to hear of this." He was
referring to his aged mother. Dalton
did not say what he intends to do.
SEIOKE: BUT NO FIRE
MONDAY A
HOLIDAY
Governor Issues Procla
mation Last Night.
OTHERS MY FOLLOW
Portland Clearing House Banks
Ask Chief Excutive to
Continue Them.
TILL MONEY FAMINE IS OVER
Advice From Interior Bank Canse His
Excellency to Declare Farther Respite
From Possible Rani on Small Institu
tionsLegal Business at Standstill
PORTLAND, Nov. 2. Cover-
nor Chamberlain tonight issued a
proclamation designating Mon-
day, November 4, as a legal holi-
e day ia this state. Chamberlain
says he will declare each eonse-
cutive day a holiday until the
present money famine is over. '
Plaza Hotel in Chicago Burns
in Early Morning.
NO FATALITIES RESULTED
Fire Started in Laundry and Rapidly
Filled Hotel With Smoke Night Clerk
and Bell Boys Came Near Death. While
Warning Guests.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2. More than 400
guests of the Plaza Hoted, North avenue
and Clark streets, fled from their rooms
in confusion early today when fire broke
out in the basement of the hostelry. The
building was quickly filled with smoke
and many of the guests had difficulty
in reaching the street. About 100 men
and women fled down the fire escape to
the first floor from where they were as
sisted by firemen. The fire which start
ed in the laundry spread rapidly and
a few minutes after the alarm was
sounded the entire building was filled
with smoke.
The hotel is eight stories high and
has accommodations for about 1200
guests. There were about 500 guests in
the hotel at the time of the fire.
The guests, mostly , of them thinly
clad, sought refuge in stores near by.
Some of them had been slightly affected
by. the smoke. About 40 women, becom
ing exhausted were carried down lad
ders and fire escapes by firemen.
Mr. Thurhart, the night clerk and
two bell boys, nearly lost their lives in
warning the guests of their danger and
assisted many in reaching the street.
When the firemen reached the building
the fire escapes were crowded with
frightened men and women. Some of
them jumped from the second floor land
ings without waiting to be taken down.
Several were severely bruised. 'Mrs.
N. E. Stanger, the housekeeper, was
overcome with smoke while warning the
guests and had to be carried out.
Attorney William WSse, who with his
wife's eight-year-old daughter ocoupied
rooms on the fourth floor became sepa
rated -from them in the confusion. ; The
attorney was nearly overcome by smoke
while looking for them. The child suf
fering from smoke was found partly ex
hausted on the third floor and iwas car
ried 'out by firemen. Mrs. Wise also
reached the street safely. .;
More than 150 reseucs were made bv
the police and firemen. Thwe were gpy.
PORTLAND, Nov. 2. Portland clear-
ing-bouse banks have decided to ' ask
Governor Chamberlain to continue the
holiday season next week. ,No meeting
has as yet been held to that end, but
the bankers will hold a session some
time this afternoon, make such a recom
mendation and lay the matter before
Mr. Chamberlain, who has already an
nounced that he will recognize and grant
the request, for an indefinite period, if
necessary, though he will declare holi
days only from day to day, so that regu
lar operation may be resumed on short
notice, when conditions in the east war
rant it. -' '
last night's meeting of the clearing
house banks, at which time the' situa
tion both here and elsewhere was care-,
fully reviewed, practically convinced
the bankers that further extension of
time was altogether expedient if not
actually necessary, because of the ad
vices received from their correspondent
banks in the interior. A further indi
cation of the strain which the country
banks were still subject to, Governor
Chamberlain received, telegrams this
morning from a number of banks in
Salem, The Dalles, Albany, Pendleton
and other points, giving their views re
lative to a longer cessation of business,',
and the almost unanimous expression
was in favor of more time. The dis
patches indicated that readjustment of
conditions was going on, but hat in
order o play absolutely ' safe it was
deemed urgent that no attempt to re
sume normal operations be undertaken
at pit'sent. .
CALIFORNIA IS FOR TAFT.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-"California
is for Toft," declared Senator Flint when
he called at the White House today. "Of
course." he added, "if Roosevelt would
run California and the country at large
would be for him almost to A man, but
we believe out there that be will hold
to his original determination and stay
out or the race. Toft clubs are being
organized all over California,1 and their
membership is increasing 1 fast. Taft
represents more nearly the ideals and
policies of the President than any. man
in tne public eye, and we believe will
be chosen' to follow his footsteps into
the White House." '
DYNAMITE SHAKES CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2.-Wita a roar ths
ground in the neighborhood of Seventy
ware, street and Uregier avenue heaved
upward today. Houses in a radius of
several blocks were shaken and windows
broken, .The concussion was caused by
the premature explosion1 of dynamite in
the big intercepting sewer that is to
rim four miles out into tho lake. Law
rence Owens was killed and George Mc-