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PUIUSHEt rULL AttOCIATKD PRKSS REPORT , C snil ... ' 7 COVERS THK MORNING FIEtO ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA VOLUME LXIII. NO. 400 fORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1008. PRICE FIVE CENT8 CURSE ON CAMPANIA Correspondent Associated Press Found Him GRANTED AN INTERVIEW Wat Shown London Papers Referring To Him As Having Fled From Creditors. COMING BACK IN TEN DAYS He Said be Had Sent Cablegrams to New York Concerning His Poaltloo Courteously Begged to be Ea cuied When Aiked His Destination QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 7.--A cor respondent of the Associated Press tonight boarded the steamer Cam pania and found Charles W. Morse of New York in the smoking room enjoying a game of cards. Without a moment's hesitation, Morse granted . i.rviow to the correspondent. He was shown extracts ffom the London papers referring to him is having fled from his creditors. Morse said there was absolutely nothing in the reports. He added that he'had sent cable dispatches to New York concerning his position and that he would rectify matters when he re turned there. He was traveling part ly on business and partly for pleasure for a week or 10 days, askcu wncre h. nrnhnuil oniiiii after he landed at Liverpool, Morse courteously begged to be excused from replying, ne ue i.;. iinv woVild not be prolong visit T " ed beyond 10 days and that he would then return to New York. . MONSTER PETITION. CHICAGO, Feb. 7-Thirtcen thou sand and 50 feet of signatures rep resenting the desire of exactly 168, 062 voters to pass upon the merits of the Sunday saloon question, have insured the appearance of a little ballot bearing this at the spring elec tion April 7. The great mass of petitions which have been circulated by workers for the United Societies gathered last night, making a formidable appear ance as they were prepared for the binder. Stacked together they make a pile six feet and eight inches high. The saloon adherent declare the vot ers which these petitions represent guarantee an overwhelming majority for an open Sunday. Today the petitions will be loaded on a dray and carried to the office of the election commissioners in the city hall. TROOPS TO BE WITHDRAWN. CARSON, Nev., Feb. President Roosevelt today telegraphed Gover nor Sparks that the troops would be ordered to return to their permanent stations on March 7. The President stat s it would be impossible for him against to defer the date for their return. , Sparks replied that he was certain of the police getting the force in6 shape as rapidly as possible, but the necessity of getting the equipment from the east was the principal cause of the delay. ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE. CHICAGO, Feb. 7. Headed by what promises to be hot ibmpaign in Springfield, Bloomington and De catur, residents of several Illinois counties will vote on the saloon question in ' the spring. Yesterday was the last day for filing petitions asking that the issue be submitted to the voters, and reports received from many counties indicate that the ant1 saloon adherents have been sur.ess ful, in obtaining enough signatures to allow the question to be balloted on at the polls. It is estimated that 1200 towns will take part in the con test Ernest A. Scrogln, attorney for the anti-saloon league of Illinois, and district superintendent declares' that reports received within the last few days it is certain that 90 per cent of the townships in the counties in his jurisdiction will vote on the question. WAGES ARE CUT. DENVER, Feb. 7.Notiees were posted yesterday a, the Globe Smel ter, owned by the American Smelting & Refining Company announcing a reduction in wages commencing Feb rnuary U. One of the company's smelters at Pueblo will also be shut down. The reduction affects 700 men and wages cut 15 to 25 cents per day. General Manager Franklin Culterman says that the reductions were made necessary by reason of the decreased production of the mines. Judge Hunt's Instructions Very Elaborate. WARFIELD GOINO TO LONDON NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-It is an- nounced that David Warfield, the ac tor, is to appeal in London in the fall. In addition to the plays in which he has been successful in America Mr. Warfield. his manager announces will be seen as Shylock. It is known that it has been Mr. Warfield's am bition to appear in Shakespearan roles. MILK CONDITIONS Expectations For Heated Session Not Realized. i SURPRISING DEVELOPMENTS Decided That the Pure Milk Commit tee Should Take Steps Towards Securing Modifications of State Law Which Dealers Pronounce Unfair. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7,-Not withstanding expectations for i heated session by some of those who attended the meeting of representa tives from bay countries commercial companies, the milk dealers associa tion, the milk shippers, the milk pro duccrs, the State Dairy Bureau, the Board of Health and the Pure Milk Committee from the California Wom an's Club at the Mission street Ma sonic Temple yesterday afternoon for a heart to heart talk on the status of the pure milk qticstion,the threatened storm failed to break, Instead, the dove of, peace hovered within easy calling distance through out, and the meeting adjourned with a declaration by both sides that they would willingly co-operate toward securing uniformly pure milk for San Francisco consumers. The most surprising development of the day was the statement by Mar tin Johnson, a milk dealer, that the milk handlers union were diredtly responsible for most of the impure milk conditions existing. He was vigorously applauded by other milk dealers, "Go to the unions," said Johnson to the pure milk committee. ("We can't do anything with them. If we ! order a man to keep clean and he doesn't want to, and we discharge him for it, in two hours we wouldn't have a man working for us. That's what we have to contend against. Before the adjournment it was de cided that the pure milk committee should take steps toward securing modifications of the state law which several dealers pronounced manifest ly unfair, They asserted" tlidt in the winter months of the year, when the grass in the pastures is 90 per cent water.i it was Impossible always to have the required amount of butter fat. ILL'S FATE j VBi THREE SEPERATE ACTS Expounded The Law On Subject Of Conspiracy Alleged Fencing And Statute Of Limitations. BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT Not Alone That a Conspiracy Existed But That Defendant Had Inten tionally Been Party to it Favor able to Prosecution is the Opinion. PORTLAND, Feb. 7.-The case of John Hall, charged with conspiracy, went to the jury at 10:30 tonight. Judge Hunt in the United States district court finished his charge and delivered into the hands of the jury at half past 10 tonight the case of the government against John H. Hall, former: United States district attor ney for Oregon. Before the jury re tired to deliberate, Judge Hunt order ed them, in case they arrived at an agreement tonight, to return a sealed verdict to be opened when the court re-convenes in the morning. Judge Hunt's instructions were the most elaborate ever given in a land fraud or conspiracy case. He lucidly expounded the law on the subject of conspiracy, on the illegal fencing of public lands and on the subject of the statute of limitations. In regard to conspiracy he charged that it remained with the jury to determine whether any conspiracy existed and whether there had been any overt acts in pursuance with this alleged conspiracy. The court said the government had introduced tes timony in attempt to show three specific overt acts had been commit ted. Judge Hunt went into the sub ject on illegal fencing and in addi tion read the statute on the subject. Further than this he declared that in addition to the mandatory char acter of the-statute, filing of an affi davit alleging a wrongful a,ct would be additional reason for a diligent and prompt performance of duty. He spoke of the wilful or intentional omission of duty and the part it played in a conspiracy, but he em phatically charged that the jury must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt not alone that a conspiracy existed but that defendant had inten tionally been a party to it. The gen eral opinion among those who heard the charge was that it was favorable to the prosecution. motor cars. The cost of the building is estimated at $150,000. Real estate circles were speculating yesterday as to what caused Mr. Van derbilt to undertake this building op eration, there being little reason to suppose that the structure is to be put np with a view to offering its ac commodation in the open market. The neighborhood is one of many fine residences, only a block away from the Vandcrbilt colony near Fifth avenue and Fifty-second street SHOT THE DOCTOR. CHICAGO, Feb. 7.-A dispatch to the Record Herald from Columbus, Ga. says: Alleging that for two years he has been pursued by the malign telepha tic power of Dr. L. F. Meyers, Ed ward Power, a merchant, went to the office of the physician last night and shot him twice, making wounds that will cause his death. 'i had to do it" said Power after the shooting. "Two years ago I be came Meyers patient and since then he has pursued me with his devilish telepathic power. Time after time this power has been entered up on me to make me do things that were wrong for the benefit of the doctor.'" UNIQUE BUILDING. NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-On two lots now occupied by stables, near Madi son avenue, on Fiftysecond street, Wm. K. Vanderbilt purposes building a structure unique even for this city of diversified types of buildings. Ac cording to the plans which Mr. Van dcrbilt filed yesterday, the proposed building, described in the plans as a dwelling, will virtually be an apart ment house, but with accommoda tions for only two families. Entrance hall, reception and billiard rooms oc cupy most of the first floor. The three floors over these will comprise one apartment with dining rooms, library, large and small saloons, half a doze.n bedrooms and , three bath rooms. This apartment is practically duplicated on three upper floors. In the basement is a garage with ele vator capable of handling the largest $417 FOR LANE COUNTY MAN. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7-The om nibus war claims bill passed by the. House contains an item of $417 for John K. Butler, of Lane County, Ore gon. CAPITOL SUMUL WILLIAMS OF MISSISSIPPI Introduces Minority Cur rency Chicago branch of the National Vigi lance Committee for the suppression of the white slave traffic. Dr. O. Ed ward Janney, of Baltimore, Md., or ganizer of the national body will ad dress the meeting and lay down plana for campaign. The meeting will be held under, the auspices of the Union Ministers' As sociation. The associations expected to strike the first blow in the state legislature. The passage of a new law covering the trafficing in girls has been recom mended by Speaker Shurtleff of the state legislature in letters to several preachers. This law, if passed, will annul numerous technicalities behind which the resort keepers take refuge. Contractor And State Officials Charged With Conspiracy. PENNYPACKER IMPLICATED Letters Were Written by all Con cerned to Dove-tail in Whitewash ing Each Other to Carson's Inquiry of the Capitol ScandaL . HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 7,-The trial of Contractor Sanderson and three former State officials charged with conspiracy in the furnishing of the new capitol, took a sensational turn today when Stanford B. Lewis, assistant to Architect Hueston de clared with dramatic earnestness that Hueston's letter to former attorney General Carson, explaining his part in the contracts, had been prepared at the suggestion of former Governor Pennypacker, former auditor general Snider and Mr. Carson and that it was misleading and intended to be a "white wash." - Lewis was being subjected to a severe cross-examination about the letter and demanded a right to ex plain the circumstances under which it was written. He declared when it became Hueston's turn to write an answer to Carson, Lewis was tele phoned to come over to Harrisburg by Pennypacker and Snyder and the letter was prepared at a conference with those two officials and the for mer Attorney-General to dove-tail with the others prepared by the state officers connected with the construc tion of the capitol. Lewis said the letter was written at a time when he had no knowledge of any of the in dictments as they had been brought to this court today. He said they were proud of the building and that the only purpose of the letter was more or less "white wash" to protect the great building which they had been instrumental in getting up in Harrisburg. The statements made in the letter were not in accordance with what they did. They were made to fit in with letters written by the other officials. The letter 'referred to was one of a series written in No vember and December, 1906, in re sponse to Carson inquiry into the capitol scandal. HARMONY CONFERENCE No National Bank Shall Loan More Than Seven Times Amount Of Its Capital Stock. PAY BANK EXAMINERS SALARY Fund of $15,000,000 is to be Created for the Payment of the Depositors of Failed Banks Emergency Treas ury Notes' Subject to Taxation. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 What is known as a minority currency bill, was introduced today by William of Mississippi The measure is the re sult of a harmonious conference of the , Democratic members of the House committee on banking. The bill repeals the laws permitting na tional banks to keep three-fifths of their reserves in the national banks of the reserve cities. It provides that not less than one-half of the reserves now required be kept in central re serve cities be held in gold or gold certificates. The bank examiners to receive salary instead of fees. The liabilities, exclusive of tb liabilities of its members not to exceed in any case 30 per cent of the capital stock. No national bank shall loan more than seven times the amount of its capital stock and unimpaired sur plus. Any national bank may keep 50 per cent of reserve in United States bonds or 25 per cent in state or municipal bonds but only munici pal bonds shall be acceptable of cities which have kept their bonds above par for six years prior, have been in existence 10 years and have never defaulted funded debt and whose indebtedness did not exceed 18 per cent of its taxable property. That part of the reserve kept in United States bonds may be kept in the near est sub-Treasury and such depositing bank shall receive in lieu, emergency treasury notes subject to taxation and redeemable at any time in legal tender. Fund of $15,000,000 is to be created for the payment of depositors of failed banks and a tax of one :! teenth per cent on deposits is au thorized to be imposed on banks who consent to be so taxed. Act also prohibits the officers of a bank from loaning money for stock gambling. MARK TWAIN HOME. . NEW YORK Feb. 7.-Samuel I Clemens (Mark Twain), who returned from Bermuda last night in the steamship Bermudian which brought in the crew of the wrecked schooner Mary C. Newhall, before going to his home in Fifth avenue, said that his brief visit to the warm south bad benefited him and he had lost there the severe cold that had confined him to his bed before he sailed. v MANY IDLE FREIGHT CARS. CHICAGO,' Feb. 7 An executive meeting of the American Railway Association is meetng here today, considering whether the present 50 cents per diem charge for freight cars should be changed. It was stated that as there are 350,000 idle freight cars in the country, some of the members of the association be lieve the charge should be lowered. ! TO BURY ITS DEAD CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-With complete harmony of action, a . joint caucus of the Republican Senators and members, was held in the cham ber of the House tonight, elected the members of their congressional cam paign committee. Representative Herman presided. Several states fail-, to submit the names of their repre sentatives on committee and a reso lution was adopted empowering the committee to name such representa tives in the event no selection is made by February 29. Among the list so far as made tonight is William E. Humphrey, of Washington. ' WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. CHICAGO, Feb. 7. The preachers of Chicago intend to wipe out the "white slave traffic" in "this city. Next Monday 300 ministers, repre senting all the protestant denomina tions, will assemble and' organize a Portugal Awaiting Final Tribute Of Homage. STREETS LINED BY TROOPS Everything is in Re dines for the March From th Mortuary Chapel Where the Belies Lie Through Two Miles of Jtreeta to the Church 1 LISBON Feb. 7.-A11 Portugal is awaiting the coming of the morrow and the final rendering of homage to their dead king and crown prince. Everything is in readiness for the long march from the mortuary chapel where the bodies lie through two miles of troop-lined streets to the church of San Vincente, where a sol emn requiem will be celebrated. V. CANNOT AGREE. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7.-A meeting this afternoon between the representatives of steam . schooner owners of San Francisco and the committee from the marine engineers over the question of wages came to naught today. The indications are that unless some agreement is reach ed early in the coming week, a strike will be called. The others unions may be drawn into the trouble. v MINE EXPLOSION. PORT HOOD, N. S., Feb. 7.-Ten coal miners, employed in the pit . of the Port Hood mine in this town, were killed by an explosion today. All of the bodies have been recover ed. There is ground for the belief that a charge of powder may have become ignited, causing the explos ion. The mine had previously been inspected and the lower level as well as other parts of the mine had been found free from fire damp. QUARRY EXPLOSION. CHICAGO, Feb. '7. Three men were fatally injured and several oth ers were seriously hurt as the result of an explosion . in the quarries of Doles and Shepard, in the suburb of Hawthorne, today. The tragedy was caused by carelessness.