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' PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1008. TWO SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. TJn 411,9 and kiwi
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Portland Market Will Not Be Affected
Officials Say .Concern Will Resume
Business High Price of Wheat and
Shortage of Crop Blamed.
Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 8. A petition for receivership was
made today for the great Pillsbury-Washburn company, one of the
largest flour-milling concerns in America. Officials of the cotn-
Sany appeared in court and presented the application. The failure
las caused a great sensation in business circles.
The application for a receivership was forced upon the Pillsbury-Washburn
company because of its lack of ready cash with
which to purchase wheat at the present high prices to fulfill ex
port contracts.
The mills will not be closed. A. C. Loring, C. S. Pillsbury and
A. C. Cobb, all of Minneapolis, were appointed receivers under a
joint bond of $500,000. They will hold a meeting with the creditors
of the company Monday. The unsecured liabilities of the company
are estimated at $5,000,000, and the secured liabilities at $4,000,000.
The ssetS--alresaMtO ggrefe$l 5,000,000. The application,
which was filed before Judge Purdy in the United States district
court, was signed by the Second National bank of St. Paul, the
Northwestern National bank, the Security National bank and the
Swedish-American National bank of Minneapolis, and John N.
Pillsbury, a shareholder. Most of the stock of the company is held
in England. One of the principal stockholders is Lord Roberts.
(fritted PTesa Leased Wtra.i
Minneapolis, Aug. S. Jacob Newman,
a Chicago attorney, who represents
banks throughout the west and north
west which are creditors, was present
at the proceeding. Claims represented
by Newman aggregate about $1,500,000.
The Pillsbury-Washburn company Is
capitalized at 1,000,000, being a British
corporation. The stock Is equally divid
ed, being half common and half 8 per
cent cumulative preferred shares.
The company operates five mills, with
an aggregate eapaoltv of 30.000 barrels
of flour dally.
The receivers this afternoon an
nounced that they did not believe there
was anything seriously wrong with the
affairs of the company and that the
complications soon would bo adjusted.
WHEAT SLUM!7"
AT CHICAGO DOES
NOT HIT OREGON
which was not loosened an lota by the
record prices bid for wheat, shows that
the grain growers of the far northwest
are fully cognizant of conditions over
the world with regard to the wheat sup
ply. and that they are confident of a
continued rine In wheat. It Is not be
lieved here that the failure of Pllls
bury & Washburn will act as a deterrent
In any manner against the farmers hold
ing their wheat. The flurry which the
failure may cause If any will bo only In
the speculative ninrkets of the world.
Locally there has been a feeling
among flour and wheat men for some
time that the big Minneapolis concern
might go under.
PLENTY OF WATER
MM FOB ALL
3Iayor Lane Says Bond Issue
Decision Has Cleared
the Way.
(Continued on Page Two.)
In the face of the slump In wheat
on the Chicago exchange prices at the
Portland wheat pit today reached the
highest point of the year and with
traders bidding In vain for September
at 81 Vi the market closed stronger than
ever. The decline In Chicago was a
cent and a quarter, but that affected the
local market not a wnit.
At the same time oats went ud from
11.10 reaterdny to $1.26 this morning
and not a cental changed hands. The
condition of the market here Is accepted
by local traders as a grattrying indica
tion that Portland and the northwest
re entirely independent of the eastern
market ns far as fluctuations there are
concerned.
The tightness of the market here.
B1G6Y BEHOLDS
POSSIBLE FINISH
Mayor Taylor and Folice
Commission After Him
Hums SJated.
That Portland taxpayers can have all
the water mains they desire and as
rapidly as they can be put in was the
declaration of Mayor I-flne, who said
this morning that the decision of the
state supreme court In the bond Issue
ease provides fur the Installation of
water mains on the same plan as sew
ers, namely that districts are set apart
and the property owners pay for the
mains instead of paying for them out
of the fund raised from the water
charges. Another result of the decision
will be to cut the water rates one half
and establish a meter system.
Mayor Lane denounced the practice of
taking money out of the consumers'
tolls and using It for lire protection
i.. to,i-,, lotrii !iril f.u- nrovld-
Thoodoro P. Wilcox, president of the jK mains for the wealthy , as a vicious
practice and said that it whs one that
he had prepared to fight against, when
the supreme, court's decision made such
a campaign unnecessary. Mayor Lane
had started the fight, however, when he
forced the city council to purchase BOO
hydrants out. of the general fund.
In discussing the problem for more
mains and more fire hydrants. Mayor
Lane reviewed the conditions from the
start and brought them down to the
present, when the little consumer Is
striving to provide the gnat growing
citv of Portland with an adequate water
and fire system from the little revenue
they pay in each month. He declared
such a plan preposterous and vicious
In ihe extreme and compared It with
the attempt of a small dealer trying to
Increase his stock of goods and store
building for a trade that Jiad grown
four-fold within a short time, on the
revenue he derived f:om his little es
tablishment.
Wot Practical and Unjust.
"To Install mains and fire hrdrants
out of this ftii.il." sail! the mayor, "Is
hlghlv Impracticable. It Is more than
that in that It is unjust Why should
the small water consumer out on the
edge of the city be fo reed to support
(Continued on Page Two.)
HUM-GOULD
COMBINATIONS
Map showing total Harrlman-Gould
system with its 47.S10 miles of track
age and ltB total issue of $3,488,000,000
of stocks and bonds. The heavy black
lines show the Ilarrlmnn system and
the light dotted lines show the Gould
system. Hotli systems become prac
tically as one under the latest Harriman-Gould
combination. Here Is the
schedule:
Gould lalnea.
ARMY OFFICERS
RIPE FOR MUTINY
Mileage.
Wabash 2.K14
Missouri Pacific .. 6,472
Denver ct R. (..... .544
Texas A Pacific . . 1 , 8 S
St. j. S-W 1.464
Inter. & Grt. Xo. . . l,U,i
Wheel. & D. Krie. 498
W Maryland .... B4;t
Wab. Pitts. Ter. . 03
IWest Ride Belt . . 22
West Side Belt . . 22
Stocks,
and bonds.
103,000,000
863,000,000
164,000,000
1 1 4,000,000
sn.ooo.noo
35,000,0(10
4 000, 000
Tfi.ooo.ono
60,000,(100
1,000,000
1,000.000
Deny President's Right, to
Force 90-31 He JJides and
50-Mile Hikes.
Total Gould lines. 18,404
entering
$1,118,000,000
wedges Into
Little Girl Who
Was Kidnaped
ll'nCrd trr bi Wtrr 1
San Francisco. Aug. - Following
severe grilling given him at the hands
cf Mayor Taylor and the police com
mission Thursday afternoon. Chief of
Police BSggy I today facing the pros
pects of losing his official head for
over-teal in im.ui mutters and alleged
incompetence in larger affairs
Persistent rumors, which hve not
been dented by those high In authority,
say that Piggy is to be dismissed The
change Is npfli after the primaries
of next Tues.in. th poitee commis
sioner preferring to an until, then to
take action
The Chinese six companies and th-
Chinese chamber of commerce sre to
file a formal complaint against th
chief of. police with the police com
mission next week. They allege that
the Chinatown Mutd acting under or
ders from the ehlf, has subjected Chi
nes to constant annoyance The mm
plaint, which has he rrepered. states
thst en agent of the rrmmber ef com
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A
Harrlman's
Gould system.
Uncompleted.
Lines In Which Harriraan Interest Is
Dominant.
Stocks,
and bonds.
46,O00,00O
61 8,000,000
241,000,000
461,000,000
Ssfi.000,000
65,000,000
Mileage,
Union Pacific .... 6.6S3
Southern Paciflo . 9.451
Illinois Central .. 4,377
Bait. & Ohio 4.2 5
Erie 2,883
Cent of Georgia... 1,913
San. Pedro, IOS An
geles & Salt Lake 512
St. Jos. & Gd. Is. 312
75,000,000
1 8,000,000
Total Harrlman .. 29,106 J2. 350, 000, 000
BOGUS OFFICER
DOFS HIS HOST
Also Weds Girl Who Con
siders Two Weeks Suf
ficient Court -hip.
mm made
CANADIAN MAD
Private Letter Lets Out
What the News Agencies
Kindly Suppressed.
(United Prem lsw Wire.)
San Francisco, Aug. 8. If the veiled
statement made here today by a lead
ing army officer can be taken as auth
ority, a general strike will soon be made
against the new riding tests Instituted
by President Roosevelt to prove effici
ency of the higher officers for service.
It is declared that the president's or
ders lack proper legal foundation. A
movement is reported to be under way
to bring the matter to an immediate
lest by the colonels and majors who
have been called upon to straddle horses
for 90-mile rides and wear out army
leather on 50-mlIe hikes.
According to tint eastern officers, who
are said to have raised the quest ion,
all orders "for tiie good of the ser ice"
have their origin in an act of congress,
and the wishes of the president, even
if couched In the form of an order, are
not to be regarded as entirely author
itative without the sanction of the leg
islative branch.
It is pointed out that If thn tests
are for the good of the service they
should affect all grades of the army
service Instead of being directed solely
at the higher officers.
The officers here say that the matter
will be carried to the highest authority
and that the Judge advocate general will
be called upon, if necessary, to give a
decision. .
Gaiie: That Escaped Funish
ment in Portland Is Now
Working the Smaller
Towns of Washington,
Giving Pad Xotes for Good
Stevens & Co., Chicago souvenir deal
ers from whom Wells, Doc Sheehan.
Cavlness, Saylor and Dorsey secured
defunct state bank notes and for tho
passing of which the five were Indicted
by a federal grand jury several months
ago, being released later by the court
owing to the fact that there Is no law
covering the offense, have been Indicted
by a T'nlted States grand Jury In Chica
go callod together to consider the case.
The indictments there are two of
them against Stevens & Co.. were re
turned upon the advices of the United
States district attorney's office In Port
land, the officials of which had worked
In conjunction with the postal Inspect
ors anil the secret service agents In
their endeavors to secure a conviction.
Still Passing Bad Bills.
It Is understood that the five men.
or some of them at least, according to
Information in the hands of the district
attorney, have been working the game
through Washington and other small
towns of (lie northwest ever since they
were released In Portland.
The notes In question are on the
Merchants' & Planters' bank of Georgia,
and thousands of them were purchased
veara ago by the Chicago souvenir
house. They sell them for 20 and 30
rents each, according to the denomina
tion. Some of them, when In use, rep
resented 5, $10t J20. $50 and as high
as $100.
Sheehan and the ol hers . could not be
prosecuted for counterfeiting, so thev
wer. eventually Indicted for using tho
mails to defraud. They were released
bv .judge Wolverton. however, there be
ing no statute to tover this particular
case. The court held that while the
bills were secured bv mall the govern
ment had not been made a party In any
wav when the men cashed the defunct
state bank notes for real money.
Found Maoiy Victims.
The men bought the bills by the hun
dreds anil passed Hum readily on the
iingiisi'tM'titlK pu.!i representing tn
Reformers Instigate Seces
sion of Province From
Persia and Neither Shah
Nor Sultan Dare Attempt
to Thwart the Act.
Ambition of This Xew Blood
Has Possibilities of a Po
litical Revolution Com
parable Only With the
Spread of Islam Itself.
(tTnltPd Prem Leased Wire.)
Constantinople, Aug. 8. TabrlS, h
seceded from Persia and declared he?
allegiance to Turkey, according to an-
thorltative dispatches received here to
day. The Turkish army is tiear the
Persian border, moving fast toward Ta
briz fora joint attack with, the revolt!
tionlsts upon the shah's army, pro
vided affirmative orders are received
from the lurktsh government.
It Is believed here that SuJtan Abdul
Hamld II will not dare to attempt to
check the pro-Persian movement of the
V'oung Turks, who are behind the se
cession of Tabriz from Persia. ThO'
new cabinet is strongly disposed to-
accept the allegiance of Tabriz and the
situation here Is strained.
If the Turkish troops aid the revolu
tionists the shah's soldiers will be over
whelmingly defeated at Tabriz, al
though it is thought that the Persian
ruler will not submit to losing th's
choice bit of territory without a lonff
and determined struggle.
The sultan is almost helpless in tho
hands of the young Turk party and all
Constantinople expects him to give the
word for the war, which will be im
mensely popular with the younff Turk
party. It will then have the distinction
of having started a movement for ef
fectual constitutional government in
Persia.
Younj? Turks Control Army.
Four weeks ago the sultan was re
ported to have sent a personal message
to the shah congratulating him upon th
abrogation of the constitution. The
Turkish army on the Persian border
was ordered to assist the shah's troops
in every possible way.
The trouble in Kurdistan began at lh
same moment as the Macedonian upris
ing and the sultan was forced by ths
young Turks to revoke his order to his
generals to help the shah stamp out
popular government In Persia.
ir developed that tne young runt par
UP FOP TEX YEARS;
GOT XINE-FIFTY
pres
his
Veronica Castidr, - li-rearK)14
daoirhter of Mrn. William Cassldy of
mere, who we collettn funds fer ih im Peoria tret. Chicago, who was
UP ana srebed on .Tic)on ' cf be; ,r ort " rr-cfntlr by a man he
ft r4dier of imtrT ju ! Th cht- Hevcd to have Nn F. J
Bee eev nts pnemrr wrrm eerr!wi arm
alfl letter ! tr the t-oltce
WUiie.se J Pme, et for the
f reft prerstion, le m Uwoe4
Blair, alias
Chart B. Hadler, and who waa at
nrvtertonalT returned to ber toma
tt nltl Pre Und Wire 1
San Francisco, Aug i -The police are
looking- today for Lieutenant' Thomas
Alexander Money Hartnett, mho has
dropped out of sight leaving a large
batch of unpaid bills, a large dash of
romance and the well-grounded sus
picion that he married a San Frsn-
clsi o girl in r-snta Mrtisra. ma jurso- i
ing as an officer In the I'nlted States!
army Manager Stewart of the Ste-i
wart ho'e , I' l.iv so:e ut a wcrrant I
for 'he s.'ft of 'i" n. f:."i army
man who, h mo. o him for sev-'
erl wks hKigir.g. I
I Hsrtn-tt arrived hr July 23 and I
took a sumptuous apartment at the
Start- He said b wbs a lieutenant
In the army and he was allowed to
get everything on credit.
Hartnett met Miss Kthel Newell Ix-t-of
this city at pussdens d married
ber two weejis after the first meet
ing Tby were married it Sam Bur
bam July ?R. th only ltns o the
r-rninJr t'ng Fl M Kllio? of N"w
Yp-'k. a friend of th brtd'froori
When Tlnrtne't d-ld not rtirn ti th!
city. twrt md Inquiries and found
thst the only Hartnett In the irmr Is
Curtain Hartntt N Is la the Phil
ippine Uitada - a& yremcb Tae war
raat toUawad.
(fnlted PrtM Ltu4 Win )
Ft. I.ouls, Mo!. Aug. 8.--A letter
j written by an Kngllsh woman to a
! friend In this city reveals lve Tres).
tlent Fairbanks In an uncomplimentary
iigltt at the- recent tercenterarv cele
bration at Quebec.
According to the letter the vice-
resident displeased tiie Canadians bv
failure on several occasions to ob
serve the proprllta of English eti
quette. W
He N accused of standing up In his
carriage and addressing the crowds dur
ing one of the pageants, of taking a
position shead of the host in the re
ceiving line at a ble function, and of
Quarreling with the major of the oltv
It is said these breaches were ki i t
out of the newspapers hv I'anqd .in
i fficlals. on account of ihe prominent
place Fairbanks occupied as chief rep
resentative of bis country at the celebration.
TnltPd It (tod Wlr
Victoria, 1!. . Am;. 8 Charls
White, a native cf Idaho, arrested here
for three highway robberies, was ves
tiuday sentenced to lu y-urt;' Imprison
ment at hard labor by judge Lampman
In the county court. The prisoner
pleaded guilty to the three robberies,
in which he secured J9 50 in all.
HOT WHIPPING
Ifi LABOR VOTE
Gompers Declares His Func
tion Only That to Observe
and Report.
tv had made astonishing Inroads upon
hills as real legal tender of the I nlted ''"' " ., , "i
Sta! s govern rnent Just pr.-vloiis to .' "'";
t. .,rn t of the men in Portland thoii-Mri Kurdistan and Macedonia, to do the
sands of tho bills were circulated anil j sultan's bidding.
'hundreds of persons were victimized out The secret knowledge that he could
of amounts ranging from $5 to J50. not rely on the army to help him out
(Continued on Page Two.)
(Continued on Page Two.)
FOREST FIRE SEEMS
CERTAIN TO REACH
CALAVERAS GROVE
Ft'Vkton.
alave- s IV
tl.- SOU
(rnitd Pr Ie.sed Wlw.)
I'rtl. Aug s The famous
HS
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r '. , )
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X -c.
:r." lut
ing la t
ng yes',
m os sage
i
and had approached to
Tri't-i. iil what is known
i ;ro loi a-'-d In Tuol
a re r-!l! Ihrrtriuil by
1 r-1 u 1 : , has t.een rac-
er Fir.'-e a week
ng t" a telephone
eiv.-d here from Angels
amp this morning the fire was raging
on both slues or tne ptaniFiR'.s river
wlth'.n three
miles of the main grove
Hu-.lreds "f men --e battling with
tiie flames, hut ar-- fthl-- to make but
l t-le headway and IT seems almost cer- '
" n trie i . r.- 'y-no t" ' iam-.us , tn the Angels r-. rvoir lier .ime verr
grove sn.l res..-t bef.-r- n-ghtfall low. and a water famine Is tnreatenect
The fire has already burned mrer a
strip 20 miles long and several miles
wide. It has lumped the Stanislaus
river several times.
The conflagration started a week ago
yesterd.iv at Camp No 9 of the Union
Construction company. Forest rangers
had it well under control several days
ago. but It broke out into new territory
when back fires got away from the
fighters.
The mines In Angels camp were closed
down for three dava, owing to the burn
ing of nine lengths of the I'tlca com
pany's flume, which supplies the town
with water. I .ant night a temporary
flume was completed arrow the gap,
and this mornins- 'tho mines resumed
operations. In the m.nntime the water
SATURDAY IS THE DAY
When one ought to hare the
.VSn o'rlork edition of The Jour
nal. Keeps you posted on all
the news of the day and I a
stepping alone to The Sunday
Horning Journal. lie up with
the time. Know all about the
news of the ball game, race,
ireneraJ telejrraph and local when
yon to home to dinner.
The .V TO o'clock edition will
fill the MM.
A$k for the 5:30 o' Clock
Journal
U nited ITMi L.ed WIr.
Columbus, Ohio, Aug 8. Samuel
Oorapers, president of the American
Federation of Ijibor. today gave out a
statement hre explaining his attitude
in the presidential campaign and de
nying that h Is trying to throw Ihe
I labor vote of the country to Hryan. Il
d'-rvo-d tiie report t' at he rn 1 is
i wav to ("hirago to -e lryn but ss id
that i: a er,:1'1- ; .'., thr
1 r.igKt n;-. t r- , .!--. k "i t- ir
, fu'ure lb- 'i -d
! The f. u.--,,' f- r i - rne as " agent
to tho c r. -1 1 us .t i".ir,,g.i and in
ver to ee ht: the Hf i-at irt:es
would do abi-i.t 'he a-,tl-lnJar,cUon
plarjt in frsm'ng their platfo-rrs
"I as r. elM-d with gr ir itm
ratrrv and frlendl'nes hr tbe rm.i-
cretlc party the srer.t of th f e- !
eration. I rer rt,i that fart hj k xo
the orgnii-t'"i
"I m nc tn 'lie T d!ctt to sny;
mi tow he ! o,, vto nor m I tr-
ing t" t'.ri W !k" lN-r r,'m to r1(t 1
I hae i. t ; i k ali or
tbe ceti tr 1 I up a ma - v
of tbem ty onlv object :- t rjTt
to the organisations of the American
Federation ef Labor whet my work
with th two parties waa and bow I
waa received fcr Uxm
Xw
! 'The Other Candidate" Described
Havlr.i
Prran and
g furnlshM readers with special articles on William Jennmge
d John W K 'rn it Is onlr nrorver that Willi. u T.ft
4 home life should be port raved In The Sunday Journal Msgsslne eolumna
:Rev. Pr Lyman Abbott has written an estimate of Mr. Tft a cltlsea
sh!p for The Sunday Journal, and the atory will appear tomorrow.
Other Big Features of the Magazine Are:
A detailed description of how the
Government prerenta their
'Smoking T'p In Frx-lety Ranka.
oplum habit has been growing.
"Why th Navajo Indians Mutinied
dances
bockelVbn WMow UeThtena Hr Mourning.- by Mrm. CkoRy Kalrker
fJummer Joys ef Honaeboat.
her in Portland?
Pertapa yoa ara enjoying tkaaa
Portland Man Telia Prrts ef th Besder." Jte4 t"a aew haa
t)-- fimoua bender murder eaeea,
PolH
Kvana toamtm for inn aMl a-l rim hmhi'i Mtika tsnii) Re
r i - mma aut u mi wertl. oriatuig M
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