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PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY : EVENING, NOVEMBER 0, 1907. TWO SECTIONS 18 PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. JJa'it"!'
VOL. VI. NO. 213.
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GOWERMOR-AMD-ATTORNEY-GENERAL
" :MM10ME S TEEUS REmSMMBi
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CONSULT AS TO
COURSE TO, P0R8UE
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' J, Thorburn Ross, T; T. Burkhart, John E. Aitchison, F. M. Warren, and George II. Hill,
officers and directors of the Title Guarantee & Irust company, are made defendants in a prose
cution for feloniously accepting deposits for an insolvent bank. Bail is fixed at $2,500 each.
Warrants are issued and Ross, Burkhart and Hill are arrested and released under $2,500
bail each.- J. C. Bayer, president Bayer Furnace company, and A.. Lindsley, department
manager Title Guarantee & Trust company deposit $5,000 bonds each as surety for Burk
hart and Hill. F. Quackenbush, president investment company, and A. A. Lindsjey deposit
$5,000 bond as surety for Ross.
Aitchison is in New York and Warren out of the city so no servjee could be had.
Clerk Hennessy refuses to accept bonds except for double the amount of cash bail.
Defense will probably contend that state banking law is not yet in effect and therefore
suit cannot be brought by district attorney.
STEEL WILL
Authorities Jlaiiitain That
He Had Xo Ial Hight to
Deimsit State Funds as in
the Case of the Title Guar-
- outee and Trust Company:
Shall proceedings be instituted
against State Treasurer George A
Steel for the purpose of ousting him
from office, because of his illegal
deposits of state funds in the Title
Guarantee and Trust bank?
That Is the grave question which
is occupying the attention today of
Governor Chamberlain and Attorney-General
Crawford. While neither
of them will discuss the matter for
publication, saying only that at this
time it would not be proper to mate
any public statement as to the
course they will pursue, both the
governor t and the attorney-general
have declared repeatedly that so
long as Mr. Steel remains in office
it will be exceedingly difficult if not
impossible for the state to recover
from his bondsmen the money
lost through the Title Guarantee
failure.
The state treasurer declares that he
will not resign hie office. If he per
slats in this determination the state
will undoubtedly be 'forced to commence
proceeding through the criminal courts
to oust him.
Section IV of article 7 of the state
constitution provides: "Public officers
shall not' be impeached; but Incompe
tency, corruption, malfeasance or "de
Unquency In office may be tried In the
' same manner as criminal offenses and
Judgment may be given of dismissal
from office - and such further punish
ment as may nave oeen prescribed by
law.
Acted J31erUy .
There can be no question that the
state treasurer acted Illegally in depos
iting the state school funds in the Title
Guarantee bank. In the opinion of some
attorneys he had. no right to place
school funds - In aity bank, but even if
they are to oe regarded in the same light
as other state moneys which come Into
the treasurer's hands, It was his duty
under the law to exact from the bank
securities to the full amount of the
deposit. The amount which Steel had
on deposit in the bank at the time of
tne raiiure was issu.ouu; ne received
from the bank tn the first place surety
bonds to the amount of 1100.000. and
It was not until a few hours before the
failure that he obtained the additional
security of timber land mortgages. It
Is the almost universal opinion among
lawyers that this last transaction will
be set aside, as an attempt to make the
state a preferred creditor.
In addition to the constitutional pro
vision above quoted, there Is a statutory
enactment wmc,n may cover tne case.
Section 1892, BelllngnrCotton, provides:
"If any. officer of this state or of any
county, town or other municipal corpor
ation therein - shall wilfully
neglect or refuse to perform sny duty
or service pertaining to his office
to the Injury of anyone, or the manifest
hindrance or obstruction of public Jus
tice or business, whether such Injury,
hindrance or obstruction was particu
larly intended or not, such officer, upon
conviction- thereof shall be punished by
Imprisonment In the penitentiary not
leas than six months nor more than one
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J. THQRBURN ROSS.
JAPS , SMUGGLED
ACROSS
BORDER
Ten Thousand Orientals En
ter Canada With Hope
of Beaching: States.
year, or bv Imprisonment In the county
Jail not ' less than three months nor
more than one year; i "by dismissal
from office with or without either or
any of such punishments." , -,
X - ..; Wkat Xw Xsqoirss.
There can be-. no accounting bV'-the
.state with the state treasurer until he
goes out of office, for'the law requires
(Continued on Page Three.)
(United Free Leated Wire.)
Vancouver, 'B, C., Nov. 9. Ten thou
sand three hundred orientals have ar
rived in Vancouver since the beginning
of this year. Of these. 8,600 are Japa
nese, 2,000 are Hindus, and 300. Chinese.
Two thousand of the Japanese have
crossed the boundary line Into the
United States, at .least 500 of them Ille
gally. One third . of , the Chinese who
have reached here have smuggled them
selves into the United States.
TO
BE
Warrants for J. Thorburn
Boss, Hill, Aitchison,
Burkhart and Others Is
sued by District Attor
ney's Office Law Quoted.
FINANCIAL
HORIZON
CLEARING
Portland Situation Shows
Greatest Improvement To
day Since Flurry Hean
Xew Certificates Keadily
Accepted and Help (iieutly
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SEE 1INII
OFF
Wheat Movement to Knr-
land Will IJrinjr Large
Balances Within Short
Time Today's Clearing
House J'eport Favorable,
Wsrranta for the arrest of J. Thor
burn Ross, president of the Title Guar
antee & Trust company; George H.
Hill, vice-president; John E. Aitchison,
secretary; T. T. Burkhart, treasurer,
and F. M- Warren, the fifth member o
the board of directors, were issued from
the municipal court this morning upon
a warrant charging the men with felony.
The specific allegation set out In the
Information which was filed by Deputy
District Attorney Haney - about 10
o'clock was that the men, ' being the
owners ana orncuus or tne Title uuar-
antee A Trust company, had accented do
posits arter tbey knew the bank to be
Insolvent.
This act. It is alleged. Is contrary to
section - is. oi onapier iss, or tire new
state banking act, making the accept
ance of deposits when an Institution Is
insolvent a reiony. punisnaoie bv
fine of not more than 11.000. or bv Im
prisonment in tne penitentiary for not
more than two years, or by both fine
nd imprisonment. Konds for the as-
pearanoe or tne rive oiricera ana atrect
ors were fixed by Municipal Judge
Cameron at $2,500 each, and officers
were sent out at once to serve the war
rants upon the defendants.
Ui. Manning Acts.
This action was brought by the dls
trlct attorney's office as a result of
the Investigation which Mr. Manning
nas oen carrying on ror the past two
days and in it C. K. lilmian, a real estute
man having an office at 9 FlrHt street,
appears as the complaining witness.
Mr. E.iinan swears In his statement ta
the district attorney that he took $560
(Continued on Page Three.)
Ii
OUR
EliePs Burglar Gets : Religion' at Revival Meeting and
Surrenders Himself Conscience Played Import
ant Part in Remarkable Career of Crook.
The mosL Improved conditions since
he beginning of the financial flurry
are visible in the Portland banking sit
uation today. At the various banks the
Ines of people waiting to make de
posits of money are as long as the lines
I of those with checks to tie cashed.
"AVIieat money" M In active demand
and certificates of small denominations
of wme dollar and upwards are being
Issued. The many details necessarily
attending their Issue renders the pro
cess clow and the- demand from banks
desiring them for clrcuatlon Is much
greater than the supply.
The usual Saturday activity Is ap
parent at the various counting rooms,
payroll checks being the principal cash
demand. The governor has continued
the holiday, and while It does not Im-
oe any notlceuble check on business It
s serviceable us an-absolute guarantee
of continued financial safety.
Wheat KOTementa Will But.
The local situation depends for
permanent relief upon the changing
conditions in New York, Boston
and other eastern centers. As soon a
they regain normal conditions an im
mediate response will be felt here, as
large cash balances of Portland hanking
funds curried in New irorK oanKs whi
become available and the coin can be se
cured within a few days by express
The wheat movement, which has tied up
n large amount of Portland cash. Is a
60-dnv transaction.
When a Portland bank cashes a draft
with bill of lading attached on a cargo
of wheat for Liverpool It is often more
than 60 days before the cash comes
from England. In ordinary times the
Portland bank can realize on the ex
change through New York, but at the
present time the New York banks are
not only keening an tne wneat receipts
thev aret. but are hanging on to the
ordinary balances carried there by the
coast Dunss. r
Clearings Show Increase.
"I retard the situation today as de
cldedlv Im uroved." said John L. Hart
man. secretary of the clearing house
"HuHlneAf Is going on nicely, the cer
tificate plan is working well, and the
banks are In satisfactory condition. The
clearing house is now issuing certifi
cates in denominations or )i ana up
wards, and cannot get them out fast
enough to accommodate all of the banks
today. The amount to be Issued will
denend unon the demand and tho
amount of approved securities avail
ahle We expect the situation here
and elsewhere to improve steadily from
this date forward.
As an nd cation or tne persistent
nrosneritv locally, und the facility with
which business Is transacted under the
unusual monetary conditions, today s
record at the clearing nouse snowed
clearings of 1914,212.91 as compared 'o
$a9,SS8.o7 ciearea tne same aay last
year. Today's clearing house balances
were $184,!3 .., as against (121,068.10
the same day a year ago. '
Portland Pastors Pelieve the
Words "In God We Trust"
Should Have Itoen Ieft on
the New Mintage of Gold
Coin.
Xo Reason Apparent for
Omission, as the Senti
ment Offers no Offense to
Any One's Religious Sensibilities.
MAY BE OUSTED
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ansswiiii jn.-ss Sfc ma - t
STATE TREASURER STEEL
(Doited Preit Leiied Wire.)
Chicago, Nov. 9. "Ellel'a Burglar" got
religion and surrendered himself to the
police of Chicago last night He admit
ted that he is the housebreaker who
helped ' himself to cigarettes, chatted
with Evanston millionaires as they lay
In their beds, kissed their pretty ba
bies, spared the little kcensakes of their
wives and departed witn a cneery -uooa
night" and their jewelry, diamonds and
money.
"Eliel's Burglar" walked Into the big
tent on the north side and heard Evan
gelist R. A. Torrey plead with men to
'get right with God" Then the bur
glar was converted and gave himself
up. xe is Anthony mitev. 43 years
old,, and carries the "distinction" of
being the most gentlemanly robber
Known in toe annals of the Chicago po
lice, Klltey won the title of "Eliel's Bur
glar" following the invasion of the home
of a wealthy insurance broker named
Eliel. who resides in Evanston.
MICHIGAN PROFESSOR
PROPOSES TO CROWN
AS KING
((Jotted Press lAfti Wire.
Ann Arbor, -Mich-, No vt 9. Joseph H.
Drake , of the law department of the
University of Michigan startled his
class by declaring that he would favor
electing Roosevelt king of this country.
The students at first took the statement
M i loke, but it was - reiterated. - and
Professor Drake asserted that -It was
given with all seriousness and sincerity.
The nomination of "the . president to
the throne of the United States eame
after a discussion- of the corporation
Eroblem of this country. Professor
irsks declared; that although an ttack
upon vested interests had been attended
with many dangers to the prosperity of
the nation, the president had wisely
handled the situation and as a final so
lution of corporation encroachments upon
the rights of the public could not be
reached before the passing of many
decades, ne favored, retaining Roose
velt at the helm through the thickest
of th fight
RAILROAD I'll
PAY ill
CASH
Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul to Circulate Million
Each Month in West.
(Special Diapttch to The Journal.)'
Spokane, Wash., Nov.1 S. The Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, in order to
keep business moving In the west, will
pay out In cash instead of checks dur
ing the next year several millions. The
road is building to the coast and has a
monthly payroll In this state of $1,000.
000. This information is given out by
a representative of the road, wm says
President Williams . of that company
gave him this information personally.
Oakesdale, Wash., Nov.. 9. There is a
great rusn of work on the Chicago, Mil
waukee &- St Paul railroad, and there
are plenty of men to push the work
along. The contractors expect to pay
all the men In cash from this on, in
stead of n checks, as has been hereto
fore the custom. The cash will be
shipped direct from the east. and. 100,
000 a month will be let loose in this
district for the next 10 months.
Does the omission of the words "In
God We Trust" from the new issue of
t'nlted States coins mean that the
country Is abandoning Its ancient faith
and going the way of Rome?
Pastors of the prominent Portland
churches are aroused over the omission
of the motto from the new gold pieces,
and may send a protest to Washington
against the innovation.
Some of them see in it a portent of a
general and wiaesprean agnosiisism
others read hito the ehanire a rana-l
feral of fnlth in Ood to a faith in gold.
None of them can see the necessity for
sush a move at this time.
Tho first gold pieces to be Issued
without the motto have had their ap
pearance this week. They were de
signed by the late Augustus St. Gau-i
dens at the Instance of President Roose
velt, It Is said.
Here ia what some of the Portland
pastors think about the omission of the
motto:
raith Is Graven Deep.
Rev. William Hiram Foulkes. D. D..
of First Presbyterian church Christian
raltn, even of a formal sort, Is graven
so deep In our civilization that It will
take more than the omission of a phrase
from a coin to efface It. We will still
have the formal oath in the name of
God and the words Anno Domini as the
seal and sign of commercial, and legal
transactions, besides being the calendar
of common life. As to the case in
hand I presume many are saying,
"GIvb us the gold and we won't worry
about It's superscription."
8lnce, however, confidence Is the basis
of business. It is a poor time to make
light of that age-long confidence which
STEEL DENIES
HE jlDED BANK
Admits Using Bad Judg
ment but Says He Did Not
Attempt to Save Ross.
CHILD'S CRY
0P1 GRAVE
OF SNYDER
M uitler and Strange, Matri
monial Life of Hillsboro
3fan Brought Again Into
Limelight by Suit of In
fant Son.
Six-Year-Old Roy Tliipugh'
Guardian, Contests Grand
father's Will Mrs. Sny
der Again Married and
Living in Detroit.
Through the' courts of Kansas City
the -year-old son of the late Carey D.
Snyder, of Hillsboro, this state, has
raised a feeble cry of protest against
he Inheritance of disgrace left him by
his father and the disinheritance re
sulting from the provisions of his
grandfather! will. Though a year has '
elapsed since the decomposed body of
(Continued on Page Three.)
Georg? A. Steel, state treasurer, de
nies most emphatically that he was per
suaded by President Ross to place a
larger amount' of school funds with the Carey D. Bnvder. the nrofltsate uin nt
Title Guarantee Trust company than . Kansas Cltv millionaire w.. fnnnrf
WftS ygualljajilec tnere. a anon iim i Hnsatindej-rowtlL jiea r milioWr.
before the suspension or wne Dana, in tlmB b.m not iii...nt lh. td, ,
order to line me. .iisiuuuon acruim I .-nsatlnnal uinn,-t th.
rianirernim srreirn nr ine Dreseni I ma n- I . . . .
i. i a th. t.nl in V.'"- auence mac naa
wh eh he now hnds hlniself through the K0" nVJ
fal
he
bad
wiin inn iinnM. iu iipcuiiic wr laiarj . . - . .
mo. hi.t that his motive and Intentions m"ny granaratner.
cannot be questioned. I aoa of Divorced "Wife.
"It Is absolutely untrue said sir. The child Is six years of age at the
Steel this morning, "that I was ever ni-esent time, hut wn, ,i..rt.,i K
n .1... I K,. u- I? iu a ftp nlhr nfrieiftl.iri.t . ' . - -
of the bank, either dli
to piace or leave lunus ; in "-- I Snyder. x from whom a divorce was .e-
lure of the bank. Mr. Steel says tnat 1" ,rr- -' v" ,.Vii
mav be criticised for having used f "'f;" W,V J.5rJf. unt11 .,u'1
Judgment In allowing the deposit " rL,u,k'" vi,
. 1- a h 1. A .i 1 " v cr. St. w a 1 Ta B L1IB Will Cll n I H
old" Mr" Ross lust few day. prior"' to "oon ' th. birth of th.
lnteendUX?o,Odra0w deWn'a'1 P.'rT of "the Vun to Oregon three.
Intended to draw aewn a part oi ine ytttrm At . t-
nennKit necausn or ine iac. -iiaL 11 nau i
irown too large to be carried" in one in- EE..f".i ",a? ,nIat wn? cme
stltution without additional security. - - l-wi!!ie v."A-,T;
"I do not remember, without consult- K"".- yJ" ':'.' i
Ine the records of the office at Salem. VP"" .hl" "lease they were mar-,
when 1 made the last deposit with th. " suggestion or tne young
hank nnr hnw mneh t niaceri ther arnh-1 man s father sought a retreat in the
emient to the failure of the Orearon country near. Hillsboro. The elder
Trust company. After that failure I
went to Mr. Ross and asked him for a
statement of his condition, and he told
(Continued on Psge Three.)
killed:
CARS
Two Men Who Look Exactly Alike Are Killed in Iden
tically the Same Way at Los Angeles and Are
Placed Side by Side in the Morgue.
Snyder spent $100,000 in Ms efforts to
reaeem tne young man.
xoung Hnyder and his wife lived lor
a year or more on the Orearon ranch.
During that time the Dlace became the
rendezvous for some of the most notor
ious crooks In the country, and was the .
place of recreation for many denlsens
of Portland's under-world. " '
Soon after- the robberv of the Forest
Grove bank, two years asro. Carey I)
Snyder dlsaDDeared. His bndr waar
found a year usro. near Hillsbora with m. '
fracture near the bise of the skull.
There was evidence' sufficient to causa
a coroner's Jury to return a verdict of
murder, and it was generally believed
that he had been put out of the war be.
cause he knew too much concerning the
bank robbery. No effort waa ever mad.
to apprehend the murderers. - .
The elder Snyder, father of Carev T.
Snyder, was killed in an automobile an.
cident in Kansas City a year ago.; !: .
film Bait to Annul win,: '
(I'olted Preaa lyaa Wire.)
Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 9. Two men.
both killed by streetcars in Identically
the same wav and exactly 12 hours
apart and who resemble each other so
closely that relatives of one could Iden
tify him from the other only by his
clothes, were accidentally placed side
by aide on slabs In the morgue.
H,acli sustainea a iranureu ivun uy
rtennine before a swift car. one last
night, the other this morning. Both are
46 years old, have a scrubby mustache,
gray eyes, gray tinged hair and are E
t ,
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breaker. , ' ' ..
WONDERFUL SWEEP OF THE PROHIBITION WAVE Is the nation '
making up Its mind to try prohibition as a remedy for some of th.
problems confronting It? ., ... .
POET PREPARES HIS TOMB Noted Italian believes prediction of for-
tune tejler that he ia soon to leave this , earth. . : , i , -
THE VOYAGE OF THE INSANIA A peep into the future which may
not be as improbable as It appears at first glance. .. . .
SKY PICNICS REQUIRE INGENUITY Balloon housekeepers find many
problems confronting them. ,
A Chance to Cheer Up
LAUGH AND GROW FAT The comic supplement of The Sunday Jou'rv
nal is a winner, Maud rescues Uncle Happy. Ambitious Teddy and
the Bears, Monkeyshines. No Wedding Bells, and many others to
make you roar.
UNCLE SAM ROBS SQUIRRELS Government plays bad ' boy , tricks to
perpetuate theforests. ' - .- .
THE LITTLE BROWN EYED WOMAN She mad. a t'nlted States sen
ator of a blind man.
THE CHURCH OF THE FUTURE -Will the rellgioua service undergo
radical changes soon? Phonographs ,may supplant choirs.
The will of th. late R. M flnvAer -
feet 10 inches in height. One is Peter capitalist, will be contested , In the cir
Mciilllnn nf thin rltv whose son ia CUiv court on behalf of his crnnrimn
firs assistant engineer on the steamer Stanley, the -year-old son of Carey D.
Santa Rosa. His dead double is James Snyder. In papers filed In the case in
Harvey, formerly employed on the Ton- the probate court In Kansas City It Is
opah A Tidewater railroad. . hinted that the "Influences and . condi-
Dr. Tanner, tho same police surgeon tlons'' surrounding Mr. Snyder at th.
who cared for the first man, cared for time he exeeuted'the Will were such' as'
the second. "My hair stood ud on end." to Justify proceedings to set-it-n.M. '
said Dr. Tanner, "when they brought I What these Influences were :1s not
that second man In. I was . almost I stated. : v 1
ready to swear that the first man had It la all the more ironical that'
come to life at the morgue, and they upsetting of the father's plans should
nun LriuuKm luin iMtk ui nnuw me? up uafv tuuw auuuc inrougn tne indirect '
not knowing when a man Is dead." agency of his son, Cary, always a
source or grier to ftira. - He had made
all the provisions he felt called on for.
on behalf of this member" of th famtIv. T
Now it-i. for Gary's 'sake -that the
structure Which he so carefully reared
a inreaienea.wun over throw.
My, Wttaaeat. Both.'
In his Will R. ' M: finvrter telt tina
to Cary and 1100. to Carr'a son. The
curator says that th boy's mother has
re marnea since v.uary's death and ;
now. living in JJetrolt; that the boy is
cared for by his mother's relatives and -that
h has no property or estate avail
able for his support or maintenance.
After - reciting his : Investigation (Sf
the episodes In the last years of Mr
Snyder's life and of the influence con
cerned Im the life and of the will, the
curator, says that he made an unsuc.
cessful attempt to induce the executor
and substantial beneficiaries of The will -to
make provision for the support and
education, of the grandson.
Was An Elopement, 4
- The boy's mother and father eloped
and were married January 12, 1S9S. '
ry Snyder , was then 1 years old ari l
his bride was 17. She was Kathleen
Ida ? Mott and 1 lived in Independent-.
They, eloped to Kens City, west
before relatives of either could lnf"f- ,
fere and were married by the Itev. H.
H. Comer. The ceremony i r""'
formed at the home of t!ie pa-tr ..
was witnessed by l-l J. I . : a -In-law
of lr. John M. i..u, f..f..-r
the girl. .- Csry's f.uii"i sk u
York at Ihe time.
Mrs. --Snyder, f'-r i':- ! 1 :.
son, procured a t;.i '
j-e.ir. fhe v.s j- i:r- t f
linrns' and .-i t t .
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