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J . v K COVERS THC MORNINQ FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA NO. 258; VOLUME LXIII. ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1907 PRICE FIVE CENTS BLUE ABOVE CRIMSON Yale Beats Oldest Rival Harvard. - Magnificent defense Forty Thousand Persons View Hard Struggle Between Teams. CARLISLE DEFEATS CHICAGO IndUoi An Too Fast for Lake City Boyt-Multoomtb Wiu From WUUm ettt by Scon of 41 to o-Othr Games Playsd. rum and lint plunging, mad up for the ground gaining and loorlng abilities of th regutar quarterback. Houstr 14 work kowevtr wu with bit too. limiting tin o lino negotiated goals from placement with Hii lent I holding tin boll. Perfect weather brought out 27,000 en- thuiuutlo wltwes of ths game. . POltTLAXD, Nov. 23.-MuItnomsh walked over Willamette University to ily, winning by score of 42 to 0. Tht toot team outweighed . tit univerilty boy 20 pound to man and secured tbt first touchdown two minutes after the make-off. 1 ' ALBANY, Nov. 23.iaclflo University 5, Albany College 0. Vm MOINES, Nov. 23.-Anies 20, Iowa 14. . .;, , , ITHACA, Nov. 23.-Pennylvanla Frttbnien 26, Cornell Frethmtn 0. NOTltB DAME, Nov. 23,-Notrt Dame 17, Purdue 0. SOUTH BETIIUOIEM, Nov. 23,-JL. fayote 22, Lehigh 6. TJAUBRIDGE. Mate Nov. 23,-Yale Superbly maintained her football supremacy by defeating Harvard, ber ldet rival, U the t ad In if! today by a eons of 12 to 0. Without retorting ex eept on OctAslona to the,, to-called new plays, Yale scored a touchdown In each lialf on almirtt ..eonllnuoun.. i-luni' through Harvard's line. Either content with a aft lead, or weared by her effort in defeating lrlnctown a week am Yale today made no effort apparent 3y to roll tip a high acore. yet, when In very but minute of the game the crim son player, by a fortunate on side kick, carried the ball to within striking (lltanc of Yale's goal the sturdy line of Ell became adamant and Harvard was prevented from storing, It ha been .year slm'e such a magnificent defence lit been seen on the soldier's field. Nearly 40,000 persons aat In the Indian summer sunshine and saw Harvard struggle in vain against the superior prowe of the Yale team. It was not a particularly thrilling game for long and spectacular run wert miming, and there were few errors In the back field to give the oppoing si.!u material ad vantage. It not until the ftrt half -was drawing to a close that Yale' of fensive machinery bemn to work smoothly enough to carry the ball ateadlly down the field, From Yale's -40th yard line three rushes, an on aide kick and a clever executed forward pas, placed the ball on Harvard's nine yard line. The crimson player braced themselves for the onslaught but could not withstand Yale's plunges and three rushe carried the ball over. Captain Blgelow added another point by kicking a goal, the second score esme 18 minutes after the socond half had begun and again Yale started in her territory and carried the ball 70 yards without Ions to Harvard's goat line. From this time on Yale played entirely on the defensive and aub.Htituto were sent in every few minutes. CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-The Carlisle In dians defeated the University of Chi oi go eleven today In a fast and "Acs perately fought contest. The score was 18 to 4. Three field goals from place ment and a touchdown and goal ac counted for the Indians' points. Walter fiteffen, quarterback of the Chicago team scored by a drop dock from, the 30 yard line. In almost every department of the game, especially line plays, the Indian had the better of their rivals.' Chicago having won the championship of the Middle West, was expected to give the eastern players the hardest kind of batfde, but these hope were vain, Speedy attack, which had swept aside other western team was slowed up by the fierce play of the Indian guards and taokle. The Carlisle team wa without the services of Mount Pleasant, the spectaoular quarterback whose work has bothered Harvard, Pennsylvania and Princeton.1 The kick ing of Houser, coupled with his slashing PORTLAND MAN SELECTED. Trans-Mississippi Contrast Names T. B. Wilcox of Portland oa Committee. MUSKOGEE, Okla,, No. 22.-The transMisU!ppi Congreis adjourned to day to meet in San Francisco next November. A number of reaolutions were adopted covering a wide range of national affairs, anions tht most Im pwtant of which. !! one favoring a government appropriation not les than f300,000,ooO for the Improvement of rivers' Wd harbors, and favoring the separation of" fatfW fatltlj Trout' Under ground mineral od JmWfe lands, and sale to actual settler. Tht' executive committee was appointed with Thomas F, Wftlih, of Colorado, chairman, add a Congressional committee was appointed among whom Theodore Wilcox, of Portland. HOLIDAYS CONTINUED Will be in Vogue During Coming Week BANKS MAKE REQUEST Governor Chamberlain Decides More Respite is Necessary for Banks. RECEIVES MANY TELEGRAMS Messages From All Over the State De cide Chief Executive to Declare Boll days Until Sunday, December i-x press Reductancs in Making Known. even hopeful of till when he arrived at hi office this morning, but he found a number of Importunate telegrams from country banks and out-of-town busi ness concern which pleaded for another week, ' lie found local bankers and business men of two minds, some avow edly in favor of calling tbe holidays off, ome lukewarm and others gravely con servative and asking for another week's grace. H'hlt situation led Governor Chamber lain to bis decision. Next Saturday will bo the last day of November, and the Governor will insitt that no stone be left unturned by bankers and business men of the tat to assist him in his desire to wind up the holiday season with tbe pasting of the month. It is apparent even now that only tbe misguided insistence of timid depot! tors In continuing withdrawals from the banks that makes an addtional siesta neceary. When the depotltors withdraw tbe banks must bear down upon their debtors snd the result in tbe financial situation 1 a condition of un certainty whoe outcome, in case the holidays were called ofj, the financial and industrial (uteres do not feel themstlm prepared to cope with, par ticularly in the face of the continuation of holidays in other state, whose banks and business concern might continue a seriously deleting rald . , '' : There b scarcely the ahadow of a doubt but' that with the dawning of December the State 6 Oregon will at least b relieved of the holiday incubus If, indeed, it may toot be able to indulge in less recourse to scrip payment. CONFER WITH CORTELYOU J. Merpont Morgan Meets With Secretary. AFFXSM LEGALITY. CONFIDENCE PREVAILS Success of New Loans Heighten ed by Assurance of Im proved Condition. Supreme Court Holds That Fellow Serv ant Act is Constitutional. ; HELENA, Mont, Nov. 23. -Th su preme court today affirmed the constitu tionality of the fellow servant act. S. L. Lewi sued the Northern Pacific and one of its( engineers for heavy damages for loss of his left hand 'while in the employ of the railroad and tbys jury gave Mm judgment for $17,400, this amount was reduced by the district court to $10,000 on tbe ground that it waa ex- eeeive. Tbe railroad appealed, attach ing the eonstutionality of the fellow servant act under which the action wa brought. The court's opinion upholds the legality of the act and Lewis will thus receive $10,000. i CASE GOES TO JURY Adams Trial Finishedand Verdict - Awaited. INSTRUCTIONS FAVOR STATE Judge Wood States That Jurors Are to Pays no Aattentioa to Statement That Adams Was Influence! by Detectives Defense Emphasises Reasonable Doubt RATI (DRUM, Idaho, Nov. 23.1rfdge Wood finished bis instructions to tht jury in the cae of Wove Adams, on trial for the murder of Fred Tyler, at 8:30 o'clock tonight. They were in favor of the atate in that they stated should it be shown that special inducement had been offered , Adams by Detective Me-Par-land of the Pinkertons, it must be disregarded and a verdiot of guilty found. Not unless some worldly promise had been given Adams should the jury regard the prayer of the defense that Adam had been influenced. Judge Wood 'aUo instructed the jury if the confession as to the killing of Tyler had been made as incidental to the Steunen 1)0 rg confession a verdict should be ac cordingly found for conviction. , The de fense urged the "Reasonable doubt" construction in tht Instructions. The main arguments of the day were made by Clarence Dai-row for the defense and Janie H. Hawley for the State, CRUIZES ADMINISTRATION. Chairman of Committee on Currency Criticises Government. NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-Charles N. Fowler, chairman of the committee on ourrency and banking today gave out a statement regardjng the issue of Panama Canal bonds criticising the policy of the administration. The gen eral tenor of his statement is that when New York bankers on November 13 had successfully passed the crisis in the present currency panic the govern ment steps in and by issuing canal bonds has taken action that must be a mot disturbing factor; although the bankers of the country may be able to prevent any serious consequences. e nor Chamberlain announced to- . e jiay that the legal holidays would b continued during next week. This action was taken at tbe 4) argent request of bankers and business men throughout the 4) ft- tliUu ' ; '-' 4) With a reluctance' boru out of an tamest desire to take id step which shall further check or jeopardize the in dustrial and mercantile interests of ths state, Governor Chamberlain decided shortly after noon today that one more week of legal holidaye would be neces sary in order to clear the financial at mosphere of all menacing clouds. It was only after several hours of conference with the leading bankers and business men of the city, together with due recognition of the many telegrams, be baa received from banks and business men in the state outside of Portland that the Governor took thia involuntary step. Each of the four weeks that he haa been obliged, in the interests of the business and Industrie of the state, to prolong the stagnating suspension in all fields of endeavor, he has felt that he could scarcely be expected to continue to offer such protecting strictures upon the financial institutions, the courts and the mercantile" activity of the state, Without the clearest showing that the situation demand it. The Governor apent most of yesterday and practically all tbe forenoon today in arriving at the decision he has made. He was hopeful when he returned from Salem yesterday morning that the end of the holidava was at hand. He wa ANSWERS FIXED. J Illinois Central right Causes Pres of Many Papers. CUIUAGO, Nov. 23. The answer to demurrer and bills of exceptions to the injunction brought by Stuyvesant Fish, and others, in the Illinois Central im ornguo were wed today. Tbe answer of John Jacob- Ator, and associatea, which Is made joint, is the most import ant of the document's.' Numerous charges regarding Fish'a acts as presi dent Of the railroads were contained therein. The defendants atated that they voted for J. T. Harahan at the behest of Harriman, asserting that their action was taken because, f'The said Fish had misused funds of the Illinois Central and had used his power as presi dent of said company to further his personal interests. Also allege that Fish wa a director and a member of the executive committee of the Missouri Pacific, a competitor of the Illinois Cen tral in much of the latter'a territory while neither the Union nor the Southern i in any sense of tbe word a competitor of the Illinois Central. In addition thia answer the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Railroad Securities Com pany, filed demurrer asking that suit be dismissed. Edward H. Harriman, Robert A. Goelet, Charles A. Peabody and the I uion Pacific Railroad field bill of exceptions, LEADING BANKS CO-OPERATE Morgan Favors Modification of Existing Currency System But Does Not Insist oa Measure under Discussion Banks Bill Soon Resume Currency Payments. KILLED BY TRAIN. SAN JOSE, CaL. Nov. 23. Walte Truebenbach, aged 20, a native of Ger many, was instantly killed last night by the south bound Sunset Express of the Southern Pacific near Coyot Station On hi person waa found a membership card of tbe Portsmouth, Ohio, Y. H. C A., and an honorable discharge from the Germany navy, dated 1903, , COPPER DIVIDENDS. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. The United Copper Company today passed without action the semi-annual 3 per cent divi dend on $5,000,000 of 6 per cent cuniula tive preferred stock due November IS, f yUO "V' "MW.Nt 6HEGK -"W NOWIjmfTlflfTO M , ifefcii ' um X Mr WlASIIIXGTOx-, Nov. 23.j. pte7; pout Morgan had a short conference with Secretary Cortelyok lte today and at its conci'un kft or Sew York. Notfi'. ing was diKdose.a! to the object of the conference. Morgan seemed to be in the best of spirit The feeling Of confidence in tbe success of new loans pervaila in the treasury department and wa apparently heightened by assurances of Morgan of improvement in financial situation in New York. The visit Morgan is generally accepted to mean that the leading. bankers of New York intended to cooperate with the treasury department in making a success of the new loans. Morgan hat long favored some modifications in existing currency system but haa not undertaken to pre pare any detailed plan of his own. He found Cortclyou in accord with him that steps should be taken to give great er elasticity to circulation and restore confidence, but did not insist strongly on any one of several measures now un der discussion. Assurances were brought by Morgan from New York that en courage the belief here that the cor ner has been turned and that the banks throughout the country will soon agree to resume currency payments without restrictions. LARGE PAYROLL, Pittsburg District Distribute $15,000,000 ia Checks. i'UTSBURG, Nov, 23.-One of the largest, if not the verv largest payrolls in the history of .the Pittsburg district, will be made today by railroads, iron and steel plants and other industrial corporations." The grand total as esti mated by the leading bankers is $15,000, 000. Clearing-house checks will be used, generally, put uiis system is now so well understood and the checks are so nearly universally accepted since the advent of the $1 and $2 denominations and they occasion but little inconven ietnee. Banks accept them on almost the game' conditions as currency and check drawn against them when de posited, are honored almost without ception. SMELTER OVERWORKED When the "Script Money" Idea Get to Working Good. Denver People Cant Handle Shipments of Ores, DENVER, Nov. 23.-ffhe Times today says: 1 he inability of the American Smelting & Refining Company to handle all the orders offered has forced the com pany to take drastic measure to shut .' off some heavy shipments of ores from Nevada and' Canada. Twelve thousand ton of bullion, worth over four million are now on the way to Denver, Salt Lake Citv and Omaha, from Nevada. alone. This action waa necessary on ac count of the inability to turn the bul lion into money fast enough. It now takes- from 45 to 60 days to realize on bullion and the smelting" company will I defer payments until this is done. OPERATE OX XAISES. Affection Of throat Will Place German Ruler on Table, 'j S'ET; tORK. Xov. 23.-A London despatch to the Sun state the real cause of the Kaiser remaining in England after tbe termination of hi state visit to ths eourt it to crenare for an onera. tion, which will take VM few day. -i According to the despatch, the opera tion "wltt f through the ear, affecting the throat, ft laitei1 KaiMr'8 ori8 inal trouble there which" faVar4 " hereditary, but it is added, the opera0 is not a serious one. N l" IE SHOOTING When Discharged Editorial Writer Assaults His Employer. APPARENTLY SELF DEFENSE Richard Home, an Editorial Writer, Ser iously Wounds President of Publishing Company and Managing Editor Ser ious Results May Follow the Affray -IT KANSAS CITY. Nov. 23,-As an out- growth of his discharge today Richard Home, editorial writer on the Post, shot and seriously wounded O. D. Woodward the president of the Post Publishing Company and slightly wound ed H. J. Groves, manacint. editnn nf o o ----- that paper. Woodward is believed to be badly hurt. The shooting occurred in Groves private office. Groves, who was shot in the fleshy part of the hip is in a serious condition tonight Surgeons fear wiat wood poisoning may result. The friends of General Home tonight said that the shooting resulted from the threatening manner assumed by Wood ward and Grove when they entered Home' presence. ; These friends ssy Groves and Woodward greeted Horne ith abuse and threatened him with iolence before he used his pistol SECURE ART TREASURES. American's Obtain Possession of Famous .Paintings, NEW YORK, . Nov. 23.-According to published announcement today there no doubt that New York will get the most desirable part of the Kant Art Collection for which a Paris syndicate paid over $5,000,000. The principal art treasures of the collection have been purchased by J. P. Morgan, Benjamin Altman, the Huntington estate and P. A. B. WSdener. Mr. Altman secures the largest and most valuable part, including several Kem&randt's notably one of the best - examples of the master, the1 great painting "Pilate Washing Hia Hands." . ' :