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SIPUBLISHK8 FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
33rd 'YEAR, NO. 105
ifORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1908
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THE PAPER
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John Norrls Continues His
Testimony
ON THE STAND ALL DAY
For a Short Time He Was Ex
' cuscd to Allow' General
Angus to Testify
MANUFACTURERS' CONTRACTS
Some PublUberi "Do Not Seem An,
ious to Attend the Hearing But
They Will be Forced to Attend and
Give Their Testimony.
WASHINGTON, April 30-A mass
of data bearing on what he charged to
be a combination of the paper male
era to raise the price and restrict the
production wan furnished today by
John Norria representing the Ameri
can newipapcr publishers' associa
tion to a special house committee.
Norris with the exception of a short
time was on the stand all day.
" During the time Norris was excus
ed, General Angus, of the Baltimore
American testified regarding his var
ious contracts with the paper manu
facturers and said that on January 1
lat he was forced to pay $12 per ton
more for paper than he did last year,
lie related the conversation he had
today with a representative of the
International Paper Company in
which he was told that if the tariff
on print paper was removed' he would
be given a reduced rate. At the close
of the day's session Chairman Mann
stated that apparently seme of the
publishers were not as anxious to at
tend the hearing as they had original
ly appeared to be but he said he would
force their presence and secure their
testimony.
FATHER OF BASEBALL DEAD.
Reminds Spaulding About Monu
ment in His Will
NEW YORK, April 30. "I remind
A. G. Spaulding of his promise to me
that a monument shall be erected over
my grave in Greenwood Cemetery."
That statement appears in the will
of Henry Chadwick, which has been
filed for probate in. Brooklyn yester
day. Mr. Chadwick, who died on
April 20 was known. as "The Father
of Uubchnll." ' Mis estate which it is
said in the will is valued at $500 in
real state and $500 in personal prop
erty i9 left to his widow.
DELEGATES NAMED, i
BALTIMORE, April 30-The state
republican convention today named
four delegates to the national conven
DIRECTOR OF METROPOLITAN ;
OPERA HOUSE EXPECTED
NEW YORK, April 30,-Guillimo
Gatti-Casazza, the new director of the
Metropolitan Opera , House, is to ar
rive tomorrow on the Lusitania, it
was announced last night at the opera
bouse. It has been expected .that he
would arrive on April 25 ,;and Mr.
Conriod waitd until after that date
in order to, meet him. ' Now, how
ever, the new director will not meet
NEW STEAMSHIP LINE.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul R. R.
Making Arrangements for
Oriental Traffic
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30Fred
A. Miller, general passenger agent of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul,
and Jas, 11. Ililand, traffic director for
the same roads, have returned from
Japan, They went there to make ar
rangements with Japanese steamship
companies for future passenger and
freight service connections at Seattle,
the western terminal to which the ex
tensions of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St Paul road is steadily reaching.
They practically completed a deal
with the Osaka Shosben Kaisha, a
Japanese Steamship Company, which
will put on the run to Seattle next
summer fix passenger steamships
which are under construction. This
arrangement was approved by the
Board of Directors of the Japanese
company and the promise made that
additional steamships including
freighters would be put on to as to
have a complete service in time for
the Japanese world's fair in 1912.
WIRELESS. . '
U. S. S. KANSAS, AT SEA, April
30.-At 5:30 o'clock the fleet was
about 30 miles from Port Harford,
steaming northwest in fleet column.
The fleet is maintaining its standard
of speed and is on schedule time.
TRANSMUTATION
Of Silver and Baser Metals Into
: , - Gold.
CAN PRODUCE FINER METAL
Secret Process of Rudolph M. Hunter
Who Saya he Will Manufacture 24
Karat Gold at the Rate of $100,000,
000 Annually.
CHICAGO, April 30.-The Record
Herald today says:
Eighteen months hence, Rudolph
M. Hunter says, he will be manufac
turing 24 karat gold at the rate of
$100,000,000 annually. Transmutation
of silver and baser metals into gold is
his secret and he declares he can
produce the finer metal in quality to
defy the government experts as to its
origin, and in quantity to keep the
Philadelphia mint busy the year
round.
Mr. Hunter is in Chicago attending
to the final details of getting a huge
plant, at Philadelphia into operation.
Behind rock walls, without windows
and with a single dopr to the tur
rcted and feudal like castle which is
to house a half million dollars worth
of delicately tuned machinery, this
modern wizard promises to revolu
tionize the gold crop of the world.
"We are now at the point of put
ting into commercial execution the
result of years of toiU thought and
experimenting," said Mr. Hunter, last
night. "The last demonstration has
been given that is necessary to prove
that my invention is scientifically and
commercially correct and the comple
tion of the plant which is to begin at
once, will mark the beginning a new
the old one as Mr. Conned sailed on
Tuesday? '''
Mr. Gatti-Casazza will have an op
portunity, however, of talking over
the operatic situation with Mr. Dippel
his co-director. As most of the plans
for next season are already decided
upon, his coming" at this time will be
mostly in the nature of a pleasure
trip. ... ,
TRAIN ROBBERS GET AWAY
WITH CURRENCY
THE EXPRESS MESSENGER WAS OVERPOWERED
The Robbery Was Committed Near Walker's Station,
a Particularly Lonely and Rough Section
. . of the Country
MESSENGER IS UNABLE TO
It is Known That the Four Bags Al 1 Sealed and Containing Money Were
Taken From the Car But Nothl ng is Known as to the Amount Con
tained In Any of the Bagt-The Train is One of the Most Important
on the Road and Carries Much C urrency. '
PITTSBURG, April 30.-Two
train robbers who evidently boarded
the New York and St. Louis express
on the Panhandle Railroad of the
Pennsylvania Railroad of Pennsyl
vania system at Union Station this
city when the train left at 10:50 to
night, overpowered the express mes
senger and got away with four bags
of currency contained an amount as
yet uriknown.
The robbery was committed near
Walker's Station, a particularly lone
ly and rough section of the country
about 11 miles west of this city. The
train, one' of the fastest on the road
which is not scheduled to stop bct
tween here and Steubenville, Ohio,
was brought to a sudden halt by an
emergency signal from the bell cord,
and when Conducter .Lafferty went
forward to learn the trouble he found
the Adams express messenger, N.
Goshen, bound and gagged in the ex
press car and so frightened that he
could not give any connected report
of what had happened.
Except that both the robbers were
white, the express messenger is un
FLEET AT SAN LUIS OBISPO
SAN LUIS OBISPO, April 30. The' Pecho range which sur
rounds San Luis Bay, was crowded with sightseers'at an early hour
this morning. The beach, public wharves at Avala and Port San
Luis and the house-tops were covered with a mass of "eething hu- X
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nanny. ncr waning several uuurs me sinoKe oi ine sixteen Daiue
ships wcr sighted shortly before noon. There was a great shout from
the crowd as the battleships maneuvered around a little gasoline
launch in San Luis Bay. At 2:45 the Connecticut, which was in the
lead turned her nose for Monterey, passing beyond the breakwaters
shortly afterwards. The last battleship passed the lighthouse at four
o'clock. '
epoch in the commercial history of f
the world."
Mr. Hunter is an inventor and en
gineer of standing in the scientific
world. During his career he has pro
duced and patented hundreds of
ideas, notably in the electrical field.
His patents cover the trolley, conduit
and electric accumulator system of
traction now in use.
The inventor, he said, to submit his
building plants to a select coterie of
Chicago business men, two of whom
are bank presidents, who, wth New
York and Philadelphia financiers are
furnishing the necessary funds for
the erection of the building and ap
paratus which is to turn a flood of
gold into the government at an orig
inal cost of ten cents on the dollar.;
UNINSTRUCTED DELEGATES.
PORTLAND, Me., April 30.
F.our delegates were today chosen by
the state republican envention to go
the Chicago convention. They were
unin'structed. Without attempting to
instruct the convention expressed it
self favorable to Taft for the Presi
dency. ,
HELP SECRET SERVICE FORCES
able to give any identification that
would aid the secret service forces of
the railroad and city and county de
tectives, all of whom have been
called out to work on the case.
The express safe was open ac
cording to information received here
and tne messenger was making up
bills for packages received from local
offices and the robbery accomplished
in a very short distance from .the
place where the robbers left the
train, report having seen the express
messenger at work in his car and the
two men on the platform on the out
side of the car. It is known that
four bags, all sealed and containing
money were taken from the car, but
nothing is known as to the amount
contained in any of the bags. The
train is one of the most important on
tne roaa ana carries mucn currency
and other express matter from New
York and intermediate stations to the
west. There is dense woods near
Walker's Station where the robbers
pulled the bell and left the train and
into this woods the robbers disap
neared. '.(
DECLINE IN TRAFFIC.
Idle Freight Cars Increase 70000 in a
Fortnight
' CHICAGO, April 30. A startling
decline in railroad traffic during
April is shown in the bi-weekly
statement of car surpluses and short
ages issued yesterday by the car effic-
iency committees of the American
Railway Association. The statement
which is regarded as a excellent busi
ness barometer portrays conditions
up to April 15 on 153 roads of the
United States and Canada.
During the fortnight following
April 1, the number of idle cars sud
denly mounted from 307,507 to 375,
770, the greatest total in the history
of American railroads. The figures
bear out the statements of railroad
men that during the month of April
business conditions have been at a
lower ebb than at any time during the
panic. . ' ' ' : '' '.'
The highest previous surplus figure
was on February 5 when it reached
what was then considered the im
mense total og 343,928.
LIFE LONG RULE.
Causes Suffering to Widow of a Man
Who Never Discussed His Affairs
CHICAGO, April 30.-A life-long
rule never to discuss money affairs
with his wife was, not broken by P. S.
Williams on his death bed at Wauke
gan, yesterday. Now Mrs. Williams
is wondering what her husband did
with his savings. It is known that he
invested in a stock of a coffee planta
tion. Its name is a mystery. Wil
liams, who was a foreman of air gates
on the Milwaukee branch of the Chi
cago and Northwestern Railroad had
been ill for several days. When his
condition became serious he seemed
to be trying to tell where his money
was. As a result of Williams' fixed
habit his widow is practically without
funds while she, knows that she
should be entitled to a considerable
sum of money.
FATAL CONFLICT.
f
Fort de France, Island Martinique,
April 30. A serious and fatal con
flict took place today between the
hostile groups of politicians in con
nection with the present municipal
campaign. A band of men led by
Vice-Mayor Labat engaged in an
armed conflict with another band
under the leadership of Mayor Severe.
The Mayor was killed and several
others also lost their lives and a
number of persons were wounded.
SUNDRY CIVIC BILL
Consideration It Resumed In
' ' .the House Today
NEWLAND'S WATERWAYS BILL
The Sub-Committee Which Has Had
, the Bill in Charge Has Cut Down
the Amount of the Appropriation
From $50,000,000 to $10,000,000. '
WASHINGTON, April 30. The
consideration of the sundry civil bill
was resumed in the house today.
Townsend of Michigan offered an
amendment of increasing from $30,000
to $350,000 the appropriation for the
enforcement by the interstate com
merce commission of that clause in
the Hepburn act directing the com
mission to cause examinations per
mit. The committee also gave some
consideration to Newland's Inland-
Waterways bill and decided to take
up that subject next Saturday.
The sub-committee which has had
the bill in charge has cut down the
amount of the appropriation of the
first year from $50,000,000 to $10,000,-
000. Originally it was calculated that
much of the money would be deriv
ed from the sale of water power but
if the action of the committee today
proves decisive, and Newland's bills
becomes a law, it will be necessary to
seek other means for carrying it into
effect.
SHOT BY SHERIFF.
GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 30.
According to a special to the Trib-
une trom uiasgow, rigeon-ioea
Brown, a notorious outlaw and horse-
thief, was shot today by a deputy
heriff.
DELEGATES GATHERING FOR
THE DRAINAGE CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, April 30. The
secretary of the National Drainage
Association announces that he has
received letters from all parts of the
U. S. indicating that there will be a
large gathering of delegates in at
tendance at the National Drainage
Congress which is to assemble here
on May 12 next. Not only have the
TESTIMONY
OF CROCKER
In the Trial of Abraham
Reuf,
WATSON ALSO WITNESS
Crocker Had Talked Over the
; Matter of a Trolley Fran
chise With Reuf
2 CHECKS FOR $15,000 EACH
The Prosecution Expects to Prove
That These Two Checks, Making
$30,000 Was Sum Demanded by
Reuf to Get Ordinance Passed.
SAN FRANCISCO, April M.
William H. Crocker, the president of
the Crocker National Bank' and the
principal stockholder in the Parkside
Realty Company and Douglas S. Wat
son, secretary of the company tes
tified today in the Ruef trial. Crocker
said- he had- talked' over' the matter
of a trolley franchise to both Ruef
and Schraitz and both favored grant
ing it Crocker said he had no
knowledge who Ruef employed as an
attorney for his company in the mat
ter of getting the franchise, and de
nied emphatically that Ruef ever de
manded any compensation for his as
sistance in the mater. On the con
trary the witness said Ruef had stated
he did not accept money for any
service he might render. Crocker was
not cross-examined. .'
Watson reluctantly referred to the
transaction by which he and Harry
B. Umbsen transferred two pieces of
property each receiving a $15,000
check. The witness testified to hav
ing cashed these checks at the
Crocker National Bank and of re
ceiving 30 $1000 bills.. The prosecu
tion expects to prove this was the
$30,000 demanded by Ruef to get the
ordinance passed.
BLIND MENDICANT.' !
Fined $30 and Costs Regains His
, Sight and Produces $80.
CHICAGO, April 30. A supposed
deaf and partly blind mendicant, who
had been arrested was fined $30 and
costs yesterday by Municipal Judge
Wells. As if by magic, the man's
hearing and eyesight were restored,
and he took $80 from one of his pock
ets and counted out the amount of
his fine. He was then searched by the
police and a bank book showing de
posits of $1452 was found. The man's
name is Thomas Cantanazaro and he
is 67 years old.
governors of the states been request
ed to appoint delegations but the-'
mayors of many of the large cities
have been asked to confer with the
boards of trade and chambers of
commerce of their respective cities
with the hope of having representa
tives from these organizations ap
pointed to attend the drainage con
gress here. ,