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SOI CROQKED DEALINGS
Cashier Scriber Arrcste
For Embezzlement
FORGED NOTES FIGURE
The Erring Cashier is Said to
to Have Made Two
Confessions
TO BE TAKEN TO PORTLAND
Scriber li Said to Have Admitted Ir
; rtjularltiei Amounting to $24,500
Examiner Cotch Hat Little to Say
of the Affair, .
LA GRANDE, Or., Oct. 16. J. W.
Scriber, cashier of the Farmer' &
Trader' National . Dank o( thi city
was thi morning placed under arrest,
charged with embezzlement of $12,
225.2S of the fund of the bank. It
Is alo thought nsiing sccuritki and
papers will largely increase the
amount of the defalcation.
The arrest was made by United
State Marshal Reed in person.'' Mr.
Scriber wa taken in custody at his
home, and will be brought to Tort
land thi evening.
A complaint wa filed in thi case
by United State Attorney John Mc
Court, after he had received a pre
liminary report of the condition of
the bank from Claud Gatch,' National
Hank Examiner, who has been on
the ground for some time, and after
he had held a telephone conversation
with Deputy United State Attorney
Evans, whom he sent to La Grand on
Wednesday last. ,
"It's the tame old story, an ingen
ious cashier, a board of directors that
neither knew its duty nor did it, and
over-confident bank examiners."
These few words are all that can be
wormed from the lips of National
Bank Examiner Claude Gatch of Sa
lem, who has been in charge of the
suspended Farmer' & Traders' Na
tional Bank since last Tuesday morn
ing. V ' :! ';-' '"'' ;""
Scriber is a widower. He has three
sons, ranging from 12 to 23 years of
age. One i in Salem and the other
two In La Grande.
ROOSEVELT WRITES
LETTER ON LABOR
Says if Taft is Hot Elected Labor Will Suffer,
Host of AH a Letter is Answer to T: f. Dolan
CHICAGO, Oct. 16.-T. J. Dolan,
general secretary and treasurer of the
International Brotherhood of Steam
Shovel and Drcdgenien, today made
public a letter ; from Roosevelt, an
swering one sent by Dolan in which
Dolan declared that his organization
was proud of Taft's honorary mem
bership in the brotherhood. Roose
velt's letter points to Taft's record on
behalf of organized labor at the
Isthmus and says for himself that he
never opposed labor when he thought
it right, nor hesitated a moment to
oppose organized labor when he
thought it wrong. Roosevelt -concludes;
"I do not believe the laboring
men of this country have ever had in
office a stauncher friend than Taft.
He. resented the attack upon him by
( FAILURE SIIOl'l
PREMATURE PUBLICATION.
PARIS, Oct. 16. Oflicial circles re
gard the publication of the proponed
program in advance of its communi
cation and acceptance by Turkey and
other lignatoriet of the Berlin treaty
a particularly unfortunate and likely
to embaras subsequent negotiation.
FAIRBANKS TALKS.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 In a round
of republican rallies held in widely
separated sections of the city Vice
President Fairbanks addressed en
thuiatic : audience ; aggregating
many thousands of persons. The ad
dresses covered every phase of the
political issue of today.
A CRISIS III SUGAR
riEARLY REACHED
PRODUCING AND REFINING IN
TERESTS ARE AT, WAR '
IN BRAZIL.
SUGAR TRUSTS EXIST THERE
Modern Machinery Adding Sfuch
to Profit Shipment of Brazilian
Sugar to American . Will be Much
Increased in Future.
' WASHINGTON', Oct. 16. -The
sugar industry hat reached the most
critical period of its history and is
now the center of a great conflict in
the Brazilian business world, in
which producing and refining inter
ests are at war, writes Consul Gen
eral Anderson at Rio to the state
department here. Even if the present
high duty is maintained, he says, the
market will dwindle until it will not
suffice to support the present volume
of the industry. Without artificial sup
port many sugar concessions will
have to stop business. The present
co'ntest is between the .planter-factory
as the producing interests, and the
refiners. There is a very high import
duty and largely decreased consump
tion and a coming bumper crop. Be
side, a sugar trust exists in Brazil,
not for importation and domestic
sale of sugar, but for the control of
the domestic market by controlling
the country's sugar exports, to Brazil
certain self-constituted political lead
ers of organized labor; for these men
are trying to persuade .the people of
the country that organized labor has
interests apart .from any that are hos
tile to the interests of the great mass
of the American people, and such at
titude, if persisted in inevitably in the
end will result disastrously to organ-
iized labor itself. I believe, they wll
1 fail, in this effort to misguide their
followers and to do wrong to the
'American people; and it is above all
things for the interest of organized
labor that they should fail. If Taft
is not elected the chief sufferers from
the .chaotic business conditions that
j would follow would be the working
'men; all our citizens would benefit by
'Taft's election but workingmen most
of all."
EJECTS PilOFOSa FO
sot nm
Government is Willing Only to
, Purchase Oriental Hallway
SOFIA, Oct. 16. Members of the
Bulgarian cabinet-who yesterday ac
companied Czar Ferdinand to his
hunting lodge in the Riolo Mountain
returned today and announced that
the cabinet had decided to reject the
proposal emanating from London for
the payment of indemnity to Turkey
as a condition of recognizing Bul
garia's independence. A note to that
effect will be sent the powers. The
only question the government is will
ing to negotiate is to purchase the
rights of the Oriental Railroad Com
pany. .!
and directly affects American mar
kets because certain amounts of Bra
zilian sugar are likely, to be forced
upon the American markets at any
price. ., .
The planter and factory people
who have bought modern machinery,
mostly from the United States, sre
making profit without support of
any aid. The shipments of Brazilian
sugar to the United State will be
much increased in the near future, it
is predicted.
A SECRET ORGANIZER.
FLAUQUMINE, La., Oct 16. S.
Cooper, a prominent planter of Mar
ingouin, this parish, has received a
letter from "Determination" whom
detectives are now tracing as an or
ganizer of night riders. The. letter
differs from others written by the
same individual to other persons in
this state in that it commands Cooper
to organize a band of night riders
among his neighbors and calls upon
him to "immediately call together a
few of your trusted neighbors and
have this notice posted on all gins."
fll'S FATE IS l THE US
OF JDH OF HIS PEERS
The Case Submitted at 2:30 Yesterday Afternoon
and No Decision Arrived at Yet
THE JURY WAS LOCKED UP FOR THE NIGHT
Deputy City Attorney Fitzgerald Hakes a Strong Argument Ajainst
the Accused Man and Attorney Jeffcry Pleads
Eloquently for the Prisoner
PORTLAND, pet. 16.-The Mar
tin case w.ent to the jury at 2:15
o'clock this afternoon, following,, the
instructions given by Judge Cleland.
According to these instructions, three
verdicts, if the defendant be found
guilty, are permissible, murder in thi
first degree, murder in the second
degree and manslaughter, according
as the jury may decide from the evi
dence. " " ' "," '.' ,
i Counsel for the defense .made ob
jections" to certain features of the j
courrt's instructions which were al-
lowed', but the exceptions to the in
structions as a whole were not al
lowed. The jury took with it all the
material evidence submitted during
the trial.
For a half hour yesterday afternoon j
and for a little more than two and a
half hours this morning, Martin was
forced to listen to a drastic arraign
ment by Deputy City Attorney Filz-
gerald, whose address ended at I'.oon. '.
mm eciiKi
innrinn 'it ftftnrvr
Presented to Emperor and Em
press cf Japan Yesterday
TOKIO, Oct, 16. The official visit
of the American commission to the
Japanese exposition ended today
when the members of the commis
sion, Secretary John C. O'Laughlin
and Chief Clerk W. A. Ncwcombc
and the ladies of the party were pre
sented to the emperor and empress
of Japan by Ambassador Thomai J.
O'Brien and Mrs. O'Brien. Tomor
row the commissioners will be guests
at a dinner given by Baron Mumm de
Schwartzcnstein, the German am
bassador. The party will remain in
Tokio until the arrival of the Amer
ican fleet and then will, visit points
of interest in the interior.
., -f- , ,
AERIALIST BUSY.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-A. M
Herring, who made the delivery of
his aeroplane to the aeronautical
board of the signal corps at Fort
Mycr last Tuesday, is busy at work
on some minor parts of his machine
in his Broadway shop. When asked
where he would make his prelimin
ary flights, he said he had given no
thought to the selection of suitable
grounds for trial flights.
"I do not expect to fly for at least
two weeks," said Mr. Herring. "Then
if everything goes right, my prelim
inary flights may not require more
than two days and under those cir
cumstance I may complete my of
ficial tests at Fort Mycr in one day.
The merit, of my machine will be
shown very quickly when it is ready
to be tried out."
. , ..
BURNED TO DEATH.
HURST, Mich., Oct 16. Henry
Kemps, wife and two children were
burned to a crisp in a fire which de
stroyed their home last night. An
other child is missing and is believed
I to have met a similar fate.
Generally Martin stood the ordeal
well, though there were times when
his face showed the effort he was
making to avoid showing emotion,
and once or twice he glared fiercely
at the prosecutor when the latter
turned and pointing a .forefinger at
the defendant denounced him as the
assassin.
For almost three hours yesterday
afternoon Attorney Jeffrey pleaded
eloquently in the effort to save his
client from conviction. In the intro
duction he reminded the jurors that
they were sitting in judgment on a
human life, and should be swayed by
no outside cosideration' or issue er
roneously dragged into the case.
Attorney Jeffrey was congratulated
by his colleagues on his effective plea,
and has since been complimented by
the state's attorneys.
The jury tonight were unable to
agree upon a verdict after eight hours'
deliberation, and was locked up for
the night.
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llll II011E DEATHS
POWDER EXPLOSION.
NANAIMO, B. C, Oct. 16-An ex
plosion in the powder house of the
Cumberland Mine today injured four
men. two severely. .The boarding
house 20 yard from the powder house
wa blown to matchwood, the inmates
fortunately escaping injury.
WIPED OUT.
MARINETTE, Wis.; Oct. !6-For-
est fires wiped out the twns of Pack
ard and Pound last. night.
RETURNED TO WORK.
LYNN, Oct. 16. More than one-
half of the 1500 operatives employed
in 67 shoe factories in th:s city re
turned to work today.
THE AUK! FLEET
A BAD SMI
SEAS WASH OVER THE VES
SELS AND SEVERAL LIFE
BOATS SMASHED.
MEN ARE WASHED GYEHSCAnD
One Man Drowned And Two Are
Rescued Gunner's Mate on the
Battleship Missouri Dies of Heart
Disease.
TOKIO, Oct. 17 (9 A. .M.) The
delay in the American battleship fleet
arriving at Yokohoma is due to a tre
menduous storm off the north coast
of the Island of Luzon of the Philip
pine group. The storm began on the
morning of October , 12th and con
tinued until the afternoon of the 13th.
One man was drowned and some
damage resulted to the fleet. These
details were communicated to the As
sociated Press at Tokio by Wireless
Telegraph from the Connecticut
through the special courtesy of the
Japanese government The fleet will
arrive at Yokohama at 9 o'clock on
the morning of October 18th.
Additional advices by wireless from
the Atlantic fleet show that the ves
sels had an extremely rough time, the
seas constantly washing the decks;
life boats were smashed on. several of
the vessels. William Fuller, gunner's
(Continued on page 8)
BRYAN SPEEKS AT
CONVENTION HAL3
Discusses Questions of the Campaign on the
Streets and in Auditorum-Great Crowds Out
DENVER, Oct. 16.-Bry'an was the
guest of this city several hours to
night meeting with a cordial recep
tion. In spite of the threatening storm
and fitful rainfalls great crowds lined
the streets through which the candi
date rode in an automobile to the au
ditorium where he delivered the prin
cipal speech of the evening. En route
Bryan halted thrice to address crowds
at designated points. Fourteen thou
sand people assembled in the auditor
ium to listen to the Nebraskan's dis
cussion of questions of the campaign.
He demanded that the republican na
tional committee follow the example
of the democratic national committee
in publishing particulars regarding
campaign contributions. He discuss
ed the Philippines, the popular elec-
UiMIIES HI
Relief Train is Wrecked
;d Cars Burn
FIRE SWEEPS TOWNS
The Town cf f'etz, Michigan is
Wiped Out and Inhabi
tants Fie 3
CAUSED BY FCHEST FIHE3
Relief Train Carrying Refugees is
Ditched While Running Through
Flames and Fleeing People Are
Cremated Women and Children.
ALPENA, Mich., Oct. 16.-Fifti.en
people lost their lives last night in
the burning . of the . Detroit and
Mackinaw relief train which was car
rying inhabitants of the village of
Metz, 23 miles north of here, to safe
ty from forest fires which are sweep
ing away their homes. The ill fated
train was ditched by spreading rails
at Newyki Siding, a few miles south
of Metz and the terrified refugees
were forced to abandon the cars and
rush for safety either down the track
with burning forests on either side or
(into ploughed fields near the siding.
Eleven of the victims are women and
children who were unable to escape
quickly enough for a gondola car
which they were occupying. Charred
bodies were found there today when
rescuers reached the scene. Two of
the men victims- were members of
the train crew.
Four additional fatalities occurred
in the neighborhood of the wreck last
night. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wagner
died of heat exhaustion at their farm
near the scene of the wreck and Mr.
and Mrs. Nowicki, Jr., lost their lives
by the burning of their house near the
siding. Following is the list of dead
in the wreck:
WILLIAM BARTLETT, brake
man. '
ARTHUR H. LEE, fireman.
JOHN KONIECSNY, wife and
three children.
MRS. GEORGE CICERO and
three children.!
(Continued on page 8)
ton of senators, the trus and the tariff.
KID McCOY IN LIMELIGHT.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16. -Kid Mc
Coy easily defeated Jim Stewart in a
six-round bout here tonight. '
ANOTHER BALLOON IN SEA.
BERLIN, Oct. 16V The North Sea
still continues to give up the balloon
victims. Word was received tonight
that the German balloon ' Plaucn and
its occupants were picked up by a
fishing vessel 240 miles from Spurn
head and landed tonight at Hull,
England. The Hergezell is still un
accounted for,