- 1 1 i F YOUAWant to SELL REAL ESTATE Advertise in THE V JOVBMAL. Journal Ads Pay Best The TVeathef Fair tonight and tomorrow; variable winds. , , PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1907. i SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. . OW TtAIVI A KB VXWt ' VOL. VI. NO. 144. TAX US, IIYI GSMTS GOVERNOR i TRYING TO ARBITRATE Chamberlain Sends Message v . Jesident Asking Him yto Appoint Board to Stop Union Men Standing Firm. UNABLE TO REALIZE 01 Chicago Board of Trade Is , Unable to Secure Weather Exports From Northwest to Gauge Market Say It Will Be Long Fight. . SECURITIES Temporary Embarrassmen Causes Closing of Doors o Oregon Trust & Savings Company Bank's Securi ties Are Good. (Special Dlapatcb to The. Journal) Salem. Or., Aug;. SI. Governor Cham berlain today ent the following tola gram to President Roosevelt: "The President, Washington, D. C I respectfully suggest your Intervention and the appointment by you of a board of arbitration In settlement of differ ences between the telegraphers and the companies throughout the country. "(Signed) j "GOV. GEO. E. 'CHAMBERLAIN." (Journal Special Rcrrlca.) Chicago. Aug. 21. The government weather service Is suffering as a result of the telegraphers' strike. But two Time Gained by Receivership Will Permit- Bank to Pay in Full Assets Ample to Realize Returns on De posits, Say Bankers. (Continued on Page Five.) Owing to Inability to realise on securl ties, the Oregon Trust ft Savings com pany, at the corner of Washington and Sixth streets, suspended this morning. Thomas C. Devlin was appointed re celver. It is said the bank Is only tem porarily embarrassed, and that with the time gained by a receivership Its as sets can be so disposed of that the de posltors wlU be paid In full. More than a week ago a drain on the bank's readv capital bearan and con tlnued until its officers foresaw that more money would be needed. An effort was made to realise on its negotiable paper, and President Moore hoped until yesterday that enough money would be (Continued on Page Five.) BANK IS S00 Women, Girls, Newsb6ys and Others Sorrowly Receive, , News That Jfoney Cannot Be Withdrawn Heavy f Losers , Joke Over Their Losses. It was a restless, nervous, despondent. cheerful, happy-go-lucky crowd which gathered about the bank as soon as the news spread that a receiver had been appointed. Here and there a tear stained face appeared, while a few feet away a group laughingly discussed the affair in an effort to determine how much they had lost Newsboys, shopgirls, clerks, me chanics, laborers, business men. wait resses and representatives from nearly every walk of life were present. Swedes Japanese, Germans, Italians and many other nationalities participated in the gatherings about the -bank doors. Tales of deposits made but yesterday, representing the savings of months, and In some cases years, were heard on all sides. One old woman who makes nor living by washing clothing for others sobbed over her loss of a little more then J50. while a few feet away a man who placed J78 In the savings depart ment last Thursday was bemoaning his loss. Standing next to him was a man who had several thousand dollars on de posit and who was laughing and chat ting with several friends who were equally heavy losers. Most of the depositors were On a cheerful frame of mind. They kept up good humored sally while about the bank, despite the worried looks on their faces. Optimism ran high and most of them nredicted that the- bank would be able to pay deposit In full as soon as its affairs were straightened out. One man offered to bet $10 even that the bank would be open for business by. Friday. No one took up his offer. The policemen detailed to preserve order and keep the crowd from block ading ine sidewalks had a compara tively easy time. There was no at tempt at violence and very little hostile tain, ine cmer irouDie encountered by the blue coats was In explaining to ner vous women that the bank had closed Its doors and that depositors could not draw out their money. One woman who read the announce ment on the door that safe deposits could be secured by entering at the Sixth street' door, could not be made to believe for a long time that the an nouncement did not refer to savings ac counts. She had her little deposit book In her Tiand and expostulated long with the policeman who was trying to tell her that she could not draw out her money. When she finally understood she could not get her savings she stood about vacant-eyed and seemingly dased as the truth of her losses dawned upon her. All sorts of rumors were to be heard from the crowd In regard to runs on the other banks, but the withdrawals at the other Institutions were only normal I SEE BY THE PAPERS-y T. E. Powers ,' (Copyright, 100T, by Amarlean-Journal-Eianilnar) ft jLp-5 lfo ' JURORS DO HOT LIKE Men Who Issued Indict ments Believe All Grafters Should Be Punished. (Journal Special Service.) San Francisco, Aug. 21. Members of the errand Jury rebelled against the Immunity contract system which dis trict attorney Langdon and F. J. Hensy have made the foundation of the pros ecution of the boodlers of this city. In dividual grand Jurors are now open In their criticisms of methods that per mit the punishment of a chosen few of the "gfafters" and the escape of others equally guilty. As a result of this expressed sentiment, a movement headed by Jurors Charles Sonntag, James E. Gordon, Dewey Coffin and F. G. San born is now striving to accomplish the indictment of all the old boodllng su pervisors -who have been granted im munity by Langdon, Heney and Burns. A meeting planned by recalcitrant members of the Jury last Monday for the purpose of threshing out the mat ter arid committing the Jurors Individ ually to declare their attitude concern ing the boodllng supervisors was avert ed by district attorney Langdon, who went around interviewing Jurors and succeeded In Inducing a sufficient num ber to stay away and prevent a quorum from assembling. But the end Is not yet and the matter will be pushed at a meeting to be held in the near future. Many lawyers take the view that the Immunity contracts given by Heney and Tjtnnlnn nr. va!i1 1 MINERS AT GOLDFIELD PREPARING FOR SIEGE Men Object to Change Room and Employers Refuse to Afcolish Feature. (Special Dispatch to Tba Journal.) Tonopah, Nev., Aug., 21. A long dis tance message from Goldfield says the miner's union last night Indorsed a walkout from the Mohawk mine. Thirtr five men walked out from the Combi nation mine, where tne change room has been finished. The Red Top change room will be completed in a week and it is expected that the men will walk out from that. The operators say they will not recede from their 'position ana this looks like another-long siege and may result in a general strike. SUES TO RECOVER PAWNED DIAMONDS (Special Dlapatch to Tba Journal.) Lewiston. Ida.. Auk. 21.-A story of misplaced confidence was told, yesterday by the filing of the case of Laura Ran kin vs. Sol Caldwell for the recovery of two diamond rings. The rings were in trusted by the plaintiff to Harry Noyes, who told Mrs. Rankin that he had loaned them to friends to wear and would return them. Before the rings were returned Noyes was arrested in Spokane for passing worthless -checks and is now serving a term at the peni tentiary In Walla Walla. Upon hearinir of Npyes' crime Mrs. Rankin began a searsli for her rings and round that they had been Dawned to Mr. Caldwell. against whom she has begun action for their recovery. sen SCENE IN COURT AT EDDY HEARING YW7;VW i M V' 'T iLi: I (JouraarrSpecUi Sarrlc..) " tfeWStV. 'V.W Yyly I Concort. N. H.. Aug. 21.lt :. ;lte ffl X item. - umM,W': rr . - vMUlUHrTfl V S!L W leader of the Christian Scientist dis- 'W , :HVl continued. This Is said to be the result tj 1 V - . ' , T- , . . . compromise. AGAINST CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LEADER DISCONTINUED CITY CAN CAR FRANCHISE Street Railway Company's Rights Can Be Declared Void, Says Kavanaugh. Compromise Said to Be Cause of Withdrawal of Case Against Ujs. Eddy. the Christian Science cult, and for the appointment of a receiver. The plaintiffs in this action, which ranked as one of the most important in legal history, were George W. Glover, the son and only child of Mary Baker G. Eddy, his daughter. Mary Baker Glover, and George W. Baker, a nephew of Mrs. Eddy. These plaintiffs declared that Mary Baker G. Eddy was mentally Incapable of managing; her business affairs and vast fortune, and that there was abun dant reason to believe that the vener able and mentally enfeebled woman was helpless in the hands of designing per sons who had wrongfully oonverted to their own uses large sums of money and ropertles of great value belonging to er. Who Defendants Are. William E. Chandler, former United States senator for New Hampshire and Concord's most distinguished" citizen. is senior counsel for the plaintiffs. With him were associated John W. Kel ly, of Portsmouth. New Hampshire, one of the leading lawyers of this state; Martin & Howe, or Concord, together with counsel in Boston" and consulting counsel In Washington, District of Co-I lumma. The defendants' names in this re markable action are: Calvin A. Frye. tne rootman-seoreiary in control or Mrs. Eddy's home. Pleasant View; Al- .... VJa -w. n .1 V 1 , 1 1 A mil. XIUU f KUUn. tAV.VU.l . V ucuu HJ. .1 1 U Lull and chairman of the Christian Science publication committee; Joseph Arm strong, publisher of the writings of Mrs. Eddvi Irvinar C. Tomllnson. heal er, teacher and trusted agent of Alfred Farlow; Ira C, Knapp, director ot the. mother church, in Boston; William B. Johnson, secretary of the mother church: Stephen A. Chase, treasurer: Edward A. Kimball, teacher, lecturer, and former noiaer ot copyright on Airs, jsq- dy's textbook of Christian Science; All franchises held by the Portland Railway, Light & Power company for the operation and maintenance of street car tracks in the city of Portland are defective and subject to forfeiture by the city council unless the company ad mits that the stipulations of the city charter of 1888 regarding the provisions for repair outlined in ttfe charter can be read into fhe franchises. This is the gist and point of an opin ion written by the city attorney today In answer to the request of the city authorities that he determine the power of the city over the actions of the com pany. Mar Declare Franchise Forfeited. Never before perhaps has a citv at torney of Portland delivered an opinion Involving a point of so much magnitude or of so much importance to the people of the city. It means, in brief, that the council nas power to direct the street railway company to make lmDrovements or alterations to its tracks throughout me cny wnenever tne council may deem them necessary at any time thought needful. It empowers the council at the same time to place a time limit upon the completion ot such work and. In event of failure or neglect of the com pany to comply with the directions, thereupon to forfeit the franchise of the company. The opinion of the city attorney is the result or tne investigation which has been conducted by the street committee and the executive board for some time past relating to the power of the coun cil to compel the company to follow the direction of the council in regard to street improvement. In various parts of the city contracts have been let for street pavement work and the company has been directed to prepare its tracks in accordance with the franchise provisions and the street grades. In most of these cases the company has not completed the repairs when desired by the city and for that reason the pavement work has been held up Indefinitely because of the fact that no work could be done 1)y the pav ing contractors until after the tracks had been repaired. In searching for a remedy It was POSTAL GETS ONE MORE OPERATOR Western Union-Is Having Trouble With Wires Run ning North and Soutlj. (Continued on Page Two.) AConttaued. on Page ivao. ROBBERY SIDE HUE DE CHEF OH DINER Negro Cook Arrested for Burglaries Committed Between Car Trips. (Journal gptela! gertlce.) Los Angeles, Aug. 21. The arrest of Charles Green, colored, which was made by a negro patrolman several days ago. proves to be one of the most important captures made la many months. Green is a dining car cook between here and Salt Lake and between trips he was engaged in robbing houses. The detectives discovered his room and at first were unable-to find any thing of value In it, but a more thor ough search and the removal of boards In the floor brought to light Jewelry of . all descriptions, worth easily 15.030. There were watches, tings, pins, brace lets and numerous other" articles, all proceeds of burglaries which have mys tified the police for weeks. Green has admitted that he has as much more stuff secreted In another Slace, but ' refuses to disclose its bld lg place, hoping to secure Immunity oc ft firoiolsa of a, lighter gentaaca, , "Nothing new" expresses the strike situation today. The Western Union office has the same number of opera tors as were at work yesterday, but it Is reported that one additional operator has been put to work at the Postal of fice. Who the man Is has not been dis closed by the officials of the company and the striking operators do not know. About the same amount of business Is being handled by both the Western Union and the Postal offices. On the Western Union trouble Is being experi enced in getting messages through those points where the wires run through railroad offices. Wire trouble south of Ashland In the Siskiyou moun tains still continues to shut out' com munication with the south, except at in frequent intervals. x A. O. Sinks, in charge of the railway telegraph offices. Is reported to have left for points along the Southern Pa cific on a tour of Inspection, caused by the continued interruptions to the Western union service by the railway operators. His mission Is supposed to be to tell the operators not to Interfere with the telegraph company in the transmission ot Its business. At the strllle headquarters today there was moreVctlve Interest displayed in the bank failure than in the strike. A large number of the operators had savings deposited in the shattered in stitution, and were busily engaged in discussing the likelihood of being able to secure a portion of their deposits. It was stated by President Bran in, how ever, that there was no change In the situation from yesterday. All the strikers are remaining firm, and main tain that sq far as local conditions go the comnanies are tied uo Just as tight ly as when the walkout first occurred. The messenger Doys aeciare mat an renorta to the effect that they have been considering the proposal to go back to work is a canard. Detectives still do the bulk of the delivering at the West ern Union office with no possibility of the messenger force returning to duty. The strike relief fund is still grow ing and the strikers are confident that If other points maintain the same front shown here success will crown their efforts. CAR STRIKE TO EDO JEJtT WEEK Supervisor Tveitmoe De clares Hours and Wages Will Be Regulated. J (Journal Special Service.) San Fr Jiclsco, Aug. 21. After heated meeting of the general strike committee which has charge of the car strike, Supervisor Tveitmoe, who Is a member of the committee, said: "Wm will all ride in a week. United Rail roads bond holders are affecting a set -tlement of the strike. A thousand men will apply for reinstatement on the cars on a day to be set soon. Recognition of the union will not be discussed. Hours and wages will be settled be tween the men and the company. The resignation of Cornelius Is gen erally demanded. The building trades council has contributed f 11.000 to the -strike fund. The labor council has con tributed but 127,000. The building; trades council feels that the labor coun ell will have to carry the financial bur den of the strike alone hereafter. Calhoun said he knew nothing ef the settlement, but the company would be glad to take back many of the men. STANDARD DECLARES ' IT IS NOT GUILTTi (Journal 8pecial BarrlcO New York, Aug. 21. Defense la made bv the Standard Oil company in a phamplet Issued since the 129,000,000 fine was imposed upon the trust by . Judge Land la In the Alton rebate ease. The Standard declares that It la ab- . solutely Innocent of any wrongdoing and that the higher courts will protect it. ; SULTAN'S TROOPS IN ' BATTLE WITH NATIVES (journal Special Service.) London. Aug. 21. According to dis patches from Tangier the sultan's troops were victorious over a great band of , natives in a pitched battle a few days ago. The natives have turned oat In and are looting and burning Til lages. tf'a FACTS REGARDING TELEGRAPH STRIKE Telegraphers are the most intelligent body of skilled workmen in the world, and the poorest paid. ' . '- 'i A first class man after years of perfecting: himself in his skill can look forward to a maximum of $21.85 a week for six days of nine hours each. As a rule he cannot hope; for better than $19.50 a week. ' s, Thousands of operators are employed in branch offices at from $7 to $10 per week. These are young operators. , - The companies give no vacations. Old age automatically de prives them of work. There has been no increase in wages in 20 years. . , ; ., The Western Union compels the public to pay interest on tens of millions of watered stock. If it were not for this it could af- .- brd to pay good wages. Both telegraph companies recently increased their tolls to the public an average of 25 per cent on gross receipts. An increase in . wages of 10 per cent was promised emoloves. but it was offset by the "sliding scale." f , c : v . , , The demands of the men are; An increase in wages of 15 per cent; this would not bring the wages of the highest paid operator up to $5 a day ; equal paV for equal work by women, now paid less ; typewriter machines to be furnished by the companies, recognition of the union, but not closed shop. Which. is the most important, good wages for workmm cr( dividends on watered stock? The strike is the only weapon of the employe, Ife must str!' or endure conditions dictated Durelv bv selfish personal reasons. The cause of the striking telegraphers is a jt:ft one, t.: r thex ask .the assistance of the pubi;; , - - r