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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1911)
j ! nt. IXL o.-,.. , I BAUiji, uittuoj, MfcD.MUAi, AIGI ST 9, 1911. vr, A (J lo9 M8LT0H HOTEL, LOfJDOH, BURNING MAJORITY OF GUESTS AMERICANS gESTS WERE DRESSING fOR THE EVENING AND FLED ONLY PARTIALLY CLOTHED Accommodations Were Secured at Other Hotels and the Din ner Parties were ueciared Off, as the Guests Had No Clothes, Not Being Able to Save Their Effects There Were Many Narrow Escapes, But No Fatalities At 8:30 This Evening the Fire Was Still Uncontrolled and Many Fine Residences Were In Danger. London, Aug. 9. The Carlton Ho- ttl, Mecca of Americans visiting Lon- Is burning. With the entire up- jer portion of the structure in flames, ike guests were driven helter skel- ter Into the streets. It is not yet town whether there wefe any casualties. Many guests had narrow escapes. Most of them were dressing for din aer or the theatre, and so rapidly did lie flames spread that a number were tomifclled to flee to the street In neg ligee attire. None were able to save ur of their effects. Within an hour after the flames trst broke out, the entire block, Thich contained many fashionable residences along Pall Mall and Charles street, were threatened with destruction. - Spectators . were im pressed as the firemen's aides, and did much toward helping In the work of rescuing servants and others who had been hemmed In by the flames. At 8:30 p. m. the Arte was still be yond control. A majority of the guests were Americans, but few names were ob tainable, as the register was not re moved from the building. Accom modations were secured at neighbor- i ing hotels, and many, who were with out clothing, retired at once. Others, clad In dressing gowns, stood in the street and watched the Are. Ill FLYING RECORDS AUEAUAIV BROKEX ICSIIBD muss LKED wimd.1 Etampes, Fiance, Aug. 9. Jules Yedfines, winner of the Paris-Madrid flight, broke all records here to day for the number o.f miles covered In continuous flight. He made 590 mam seven hours and 20 minutes, ani hi (till flying. Vedrines ai re lad broken the 570-mile rec all at Reneaux this week. At.lSi.t COl'PER SHIPPED TO EUROPE frNlTKD r-JESS LEASED WtnB.f oeattle. Wash Anr o Tk - ... I A I1C Ml SI u-... v.i niaaaou UUpper IOT WOne is hplno- lnaHd , W rrotes ana hiiuj . tt i On (, "incu iui rcuiiiuurg. i iZ'8imu lona ot metaI valeudat i e copper is fro m the Guggenheim HE GOT LIGHT AND HIS WIFE WATER Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 9. Be cause a letter directed to Mrs. Cecil O'Brien was sent to her husband's Dusiness address by mistake, O'Brien became so angry that he turned the nose on nis wire s room. Now a di vorce suit has been filed. o TIlO RiltflH Kiianpnilnil Washington, Aug. 9. The inter state commerce commission today suspended "the proposed advances in rates for the transportation of sheep and cattle over the Western trunk lines until December 13. He Touched the Emperor. Washington, Aug. 9 Keen disappointment is felt In admin- istration circles here today be- cause of the Mikado's reply to President Taft's address of wel- come to Admiral Togo, given out ac tne vvnite" House, contains no reference to the president's invitation to Japan to enter In to discussion regarding an arbi tration treaty between the United States and Japan. t ine emperor's message read. "The splendid welcome which you have accorded Admiral Togo and the friendly sentiment expressed In your address have touched me deeply. Accept this assurance of my most cordial appreciation. Mexican Credit Good. , ; New York, Aug. 9. Arrange- ments for a loan of $10,000,000 to the Mexican government were completed today by Speyer & Company, of New York. The loan Is represented by gold notes of the monetary conimis- slon of Mexico Issued under the authority of the government, and endorsed by the Banco Neccienelp of Mexico, the gov- ernment official bank. Speyer & Company disposed of all the bonds, which draw 4 per cent, without difficulty at private sale. They were taken in blocks of from $50,000 to $1,500,000 by New York and Chicago financiers. The readl- nesa with which the Issue was disposed of Indicates the conn- dence of the new Mexican re- gime. I THE POPE'S CONDITIOY IS MUCH WORSE TODAY IFFICIALS TO ATTEND THEBANQUET While enroute to Eugene where 118 evenin? than ,m . Oust I n J aneuu it oau- or thl'u ,Brlen. general manager ' the Harr man iin.. i . tnwfhn- , IU lUlO oiaiu, i , ; uuiuiuiB oi me l0, paid a visit in h it- hfcSS nJ beSideS .di8cussing with " Mai attorney. Gen. THno-hnm th ovemems that the road contem- lle3 making ln u- . . ... ZTll !hls city. inspected Instal l . lere the 8Purs be 5 fr ann,d, the 8treet where me The lan,C'llse wIU Plre soon. UrTftf J0"4 street and 1 wlllex- tnnanv - lemDer- Whether the uoMn aSk for a renewal of tpr slJn Was not announced, but a a flv w5 The comPany m now franchlse on Trade street . now nas an onniiratin. a, ""ore tha - iiruuing tnlid a c ,unc" for a franchise to foliate T o0m lts track ac ciatlon T "e Salera Brewery asso- "fiiinanro ma'or ve-toe(i this Jrst ftttchl L h, raSSed' anting this C ,buut another was Intro- wunoli and u aSt meetins of the reading; come UP for a third s at ti,e next meeting. tthlle I (,S,,'h Hostility. Hated ,rkil,S over the contem- 8o,S'T'e?ems' tlle officlal9 ,ke tSi I 1Parn the reason for ) , h03tile feeling existing rs of Z r"m'1any by some mem 4taa4 Erlnc11- When the first .panv nting a franchise to the ta vetoed ,f Spur on Trade street 'he or', in W8S ,on the ground mon Zt m not cntain a und thi vLlause and on this nncu. 0 Was sustained by the oSfonnyiS PP0Sed t0 lns-ert-,ranchis" 2 ?t user clauae m the uch a 17 reasns. To begin ni a tram au,se la impracticable " injur , uP0,nt of view-does d p laoa t " g00d: and 1,1 the 1 court Ju.dge olverton of the ?io rece"', at Portland in a de CnmJ6 a that the State "r to "'ion had not the it i, ce 8ueh danse be- commPr.0ntrary to the inter Ht5d to to," afL The decl9ion re" S. i ita,te trafflc and wnlle tr. oe legal as to lntro.at ""'l be nl 0 8ma" that the clause ot no Bpeclal benefit Eight Yenrs, No Money. New York, Aug. 9. Eight years In congress and no money or bank ac count was the statement made today by Representative Daniel J. Riordan of the Eighth New York district when testifying in legal proceedings. o . NOT A GERMAN BUT SHE WANTS ' CHANCE AT JOB Declaring that though she Is not a German that for all that she Is a lady and that she believes that she has all the qualifications entering Into the composition of a house keeper, Mrs. H. Palmer, of Vancou ver. Washington, has written Secre tary of State Olcott saying that she Is anxious to obtain the position of housekeeper for J. Fisher who through the Dayton Commercial Club recently made an appeal to the office of secretary of state to supply him with some good woman to take care of his home. Fisher's wife died recently and loft him with a baby six months old. Feeling the need of a housekeeper, he started out in search of one and falling to accomplish this, he through the Dayton Commercial club directed a letter to the state employment de partment of the state asking Its as sistance. Now there Is no such de partment in the state of Oregon and the letter was referred to the secre tary of state who advised him that he was not engaged in supplying help for the public. Today a letter came from Mrs. Palmer, saying she would like the position. She says she Is 25 years of age, and that while Fisher insists that his housekeeper must be a Ger man and a lady, that while she can not fill the first qualification, she can the latter and all others, and wants the place. The letter has been for warded to the Commercial Club at Dayton. THE STYLE OF GIRL FOR THE AUTU.MX SEASOX New York, Aug. 9. T,he autumn girl will be corsetless but slim, arti ficially pale, but with shadowed eyes and wearing a tight narrow dress and small hat pulled down well over her closely coiled hair. Such Is the creation evolved in the New York fashion plates soon to make their ap pearance. ' WIU Answer This Week. Portland, Ore., Aug. 9. Louis Wilde, indicted San Diego banker, expects to appear In the state circuit court some time this week and for arraignment on a chargeTVof embezzlement fUNITED PRESS LEASED WIRB. Rome, Aug. 9. The intense heat today increased the weakness of Pope Pius, and reports from the Vat ican are very disquieting. Prof. Marchlafava does not attempt to con ceal his anxiety regarding His Holi ness' condition. The patient's gout symptoms were much worse today. Both feet and both hands are badly swollen and much pain is suffered. The temper ature of more than 100 today caused bis physicians to have the pope, who was very restless, removed to a larger room. o Young Murderer Cumtlit. t UNITED MESS LEASED WIRE. Yreka, Cal., Aug. 9. Elmer M. Mitchell, charged with the murder of Barry Rhyne at McCloud, Sunday evening, who fled Immediately after the shooting, was captured today In the forests 20 miles from McCloud. A lynching Is feaTed if Mitchell were kept in McCloud over night, and the prisoner is being hurried to the jail here for safe, keeping. But Cant Buy Brains. UNITED PRESS BEARED WIRE. Tien Tsln, Aug. 9. The young em peror of China will (take his first Jessons In school in September. The authorities have spent $100,000 in furnishing a class room for him and providing the Imperial text books. o To Stop Opium Smoking. 1 UNITED PRESS LEASED '.'IRE. J Tien Tsln, Aug. 9. Prince Su de clares that opium smoking In China will be prohibited after January next. Thereafter persons found smoking opium' will be arrested. " Negro Race Dying Out. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. . Richmond, Va., Aug. 9. That the negro race is dying out and will be totally extinct In America In the twenty-first century, Is the declara tion of Health Officer Dr. E. O. Levy. OLnS" ASTONISHED AT GROWTH DR. W. K. SMITH, NOW 85, AXD kj;mij.m; i Portland, i:k. calls some salem histopy of mohe than fifty years AGO. PROSPECTS DELIGHT THE COAST Determination of S. P. to Build Causes General Rejoicing Newport Thronged With De lighted Visitors. JOHN !'.'. GATES, TYPICAL DIES LEAVIOG $40,000,000 ESTATE AH INVETERATE GAMBLER HE ADVISED OTHERS, "DOfi'T" AND HE MADE U. S. STEEL QUIT Nincty.Thn Drown. ' A i Gibraltar. Anir 9 Sinking like a plummet, after she was rammed by the British steamer Sllverton, during a dense fog In the Straits of Gibraltar today, the French mall steamer Emir carried down with her 93 of her passengers and. crew. immediately after the crash the Sllverton lowered all boats, but, hampered by the fog, they wem only able to rescue 23 of those on the Emir, which sank within five minutes after the vessels collided. The bow of the Sllverton wal stove In. by the impact and only the hardest pumping enabled her to reach the harbor with news of the disaster. A THOUSAND HERE SUNDAY Newport Growing by Leaps and Bounds ,and Is to Re the Great Const Resort FIsIHiir nml Hunt ing Both Fine Vandals Shoot the Birds and Also Wontonly Kill the Sea Lions and Should lie Vigorous ly Prosecuted. When Dr. W. K. Smith. 54 years ago, entered business here, he prob ably little dreamed that it would , grow and develop Into the metropol-, itaij city that It Is today. Anyhow, 1 whether he dreamed that it would or or not, u nappenen, ana toaiy the aged physician, who Is now located at Portland, visited the city and en deavored to locate a few of the old landmarks, and was profuse in the ex pressions of astonishment at the rapid growtn of the city since his last visit three years ago. A I'ioneor Druggist. Dr. Smith came to Salem from Cal ifornia In 1854. He had been lured to the latter state by the gold fields. He had a brother, J. S. Smith, who, with Dr. Wilson, a pioneer physician and druggist, was identified with the Willamette University, and it was the brother who Influenced the doctor to come to Salem. Shortly after his arrival here he purchased the drug store of Dr. Wil son, wnich was tnen located near the fiver bank on the sit where now stands the Southern Pacific depot. 'In connection with the drug line he handled a stock of merchandise, and from the beginning he did a thriving and prosperous business. Buys Out Rival. For 15 years he engaged In busi ness In the city, and during that time he bought out every man who at tempted to enter the drug business In the city. Dr. Wilson owned the (Continued from Page ,5.) Newport Aug. 8. The most de lightful weather has prevailed here the past week. Soft vapors roll In from the sea tempering the glaring sunlight. Then about noon the clouds break away and the sky Is the most perfect baby blue and the air Is soft and clear and so pure that your lungs just want to drink in oceans of It. Cm Sunday about a thousand peo ple came over on two trains and the , hotels were chock-a-block with excur sionists. A happier better-dressed and a better-behaved crowd you nev er saw. Hundreds carried picnic bas kets and lunched on the beaches. The steamer Anvil took several hundred out to sea. Yesterday the new steam- I er Tillamook came In. ; I was delighted to hear of the final I determination of the Southern Pacific to build Into Coos Bay from Eugene, via Sluslaw and down the1 coast. There is one of the brightest moves ever made on the railroad checker board. That line will tap three fcar bors any amount of summer resort property endless masses of timber, a great coal field and fine cities. The whole region traversed Is one grand every foot of it, and have held some of the finest booster meetings ever held on Coos Bay and the very first ever held at the mouth of the Slus law. I shall live to take a Pullman car at Salem and get breakfast at Coos Bay. Everybody on Yaqulna Bay is happy over the good fortune for the coast country south of here, because it means more commerce for all the coast cities. If the Southern Pacific should build the ferw remaining miles of track to connect the end of its line at Yaqulna with Newport there would be a citv of 5000 people down there Inside of two years. Newport cai jnow enter tain 2000 people as easily as it could 1000 a few years ago. All kinds of property is looking up here and I know of no better place to make a little Investment right now than New port, unless it Is Salem. There is a large Salem colony here at present It seems as if half the town were here. Three boats are making dally trips for deen sPa fish ing, furnishing tackle and the ride for 50 cents. And they get quanti ties of fine fish. The markets are supplied with fresh Linn codfish, the rock cod and the big red grouper. Tom cod are running and caught In great- quantities. The cnndle-fish, really the finest fry fish in the ocean, Is being netted and plenty of flound ers and perch in the bay, with kelp off the ror ks. , There should be a law to protect the flounder., whirh is being netted and the small fish used for crab bait. The flounder Is the richest food In the bay, and it Is a pity to see. them exterminated. They are fine ang ling, not as sporty as trout or sal mon, but .good fishtvig for men, wo men and children, and the finest kind of eating. I do hope the fish warden will put a stop to the destruction of the flounder. The effort of Game Warden Catena to enforce the law Is bearing good fruit. Deer are more plentiful, and the trout streams are being restocked I have never caught a fish since the enactment of the fishing license law. I do not like the Idea of going to the county seat before being allowed to catch a fish, although the law does not apply to salt water fish, except salmon. The law does not prevent the fish-hog from gettng a license, and fishing a stream perfectly clean of fish. There Is one kind of barbarian haunts the beaches I wish there were some law to restrain the man who comes over here armed with a pump gun or repeating rifle or revolver and walks the beaches, shooting at every thing he sees in the water or the air. One of these heathen walked ahead of us from Newport to the lighthouse the other day, and fired at the gulls and surf ducks the whole four miles, kill ing some and wounding others. One gull dropped dead at our feet on the beach, and soon seevral hundreds of these gregarious birds were flying In circles over whore It lay and scream ing over the outrage. We picked up the bird and tried to overtake the fellow, but he had gone, up the coast. We got a good enough desrlptlon of him, so that If he ever comes back to Newport he will be Identified and prosecuted. Another class that should be dealt wlht are the men who go down to seal rocks, and kill the sea Hons, just for the fun of the thing. They fire hundreds of shots into the herds on the rocks, and are driving all this kind of animal life away. from these beaches. The beaches without bird life and animal life wlll.be desolate to the lovers of nature, and laws should be passed to put' an end to such barbarous sport and vandalism. No man or woman should be allowed to carry a gun on the summer resort beaches any more than) they would In a ballroom. Here are thousands of women and children, walking the sands, In bathing, and a ball from these modern projectiles will carry seevral miles, and shooting here Is al ways dangerous to some one. Why human beings should want to kill add so much to the) enjoyment of life, add so much t othe enjoyment of life, Is a mystery. Mrs. A. B. Croasman is cnertaln Ing her sister, Mrs. Crane, and Mrs. Carried a Check for a Million and a Quarter Around in His Pocket and Forgot to Cash it He Also Failed to Remember What Became of $26,000,000 Worth of American Steel and Wire Company's Stock U. S. Steel Undertook to Down Him, and He Bucked That Company in the Stock Market and Made It Eat Out of His Hand. (Continued on Page S.) o ARRANGING TO ATTEND SALEM PAY BIO MEETING AT BOARD OF TRADE BOOMS TOMGHT TO AltltAMGE FOK VISITING AS. TOltIA SALEM DAY, AUGUST 1". The regular meeting of the Board of Trade this evening will be a dou ble affair, as the Husiness Men's League will participate In it and hold their meeting at the same time and plare. August 17th has been set aside by the Astoria Centennial as Salem Day, and an effort is being made to secure an excursion with a special train for that occasion. Tills matter will be considered at the Joint meeting to nlKht as well as some special attrac tions, .which are to be presented in conjunction with the State Fair this fall. Every member should come out and help this movement. Souvenir postal cards will be distributed to, all present. Railroad men will be jrresent at the meeting to, help ar range details for one ot the biggest excursions that ever went out of Sa lem, and representatives of the As toria centennial will also be there to present the subject of their celebra tion, i It Is understood that Col. John Ja cob Astor. scion of the great Astors who founded Oregon's beautiful city by the sea. will be In Astoria at the time of the excursion and welcome the visiting guests in the name of that great old family. There should be a good attendance at this unusual meeting of the Board of Trade and the Business Men's League tonight. Other matters of vital interest to the people of Salem are coming up and every member Is urged to be present. John W. Gates, famous the world over as "Bet-you-a-iuil- Hon" Gates, the best advertised "Gamblln' Man" In America, on December 15, 1909, astound- ed the seventh annual con.ven- tlon of the Gulf Division of the Methodist church, at Port Ar- thur, Texas, with the following spectacular "Don'ts:" Don't bet on horse races. Don't speculate in Wheat. Don't speculate on the stock exchange. Don't throw dice. Don't shirk honest labor. Don't gamble; once a gam- bier always one. The ministers agreed these don'ts were all right, coming, as they did, from a man whose heavy betting on horse races roused the Jockey Club In New York to warn him to modify his wagers; whose spectacular gambling at draw poker and bridge are famed In song and story; who matched pennies ior ?iuuu a throw, who cornered corn and who bucked Standard Oil and U. S. steel "off the boards " In the stock exchange. Paris, Aug. 9. John W. Gates, the American financier, died at 6:10 thlB morning In the arms of his wife and his son, Charles O. Gates. The end was peaceful, and it seemed as If he was falling asleep. The usual restoratives failed in the last crisis. The death of "Bet-You-a-Mlllion" John W. Gates, perhaps the best ad vertised multl-mllllonalro In Ameri ca brings to an end a financial and personal career that probably has never been equaled. Worth probably $40,000,000 at the time of his death, John W. Gats, "The Forgetful Man," who stood not In awe of Morgan or Rockefeller, or. In fact of the whole combined "street,' wanted the world to know he hud money. He wasnt ashamed of It. Once he had his private sec retary write to the New York Herald, "Let It appear In your financial uajce that during the late rise In railroad stock J. W. Gates has made between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000, principal ly In Baltimore & Ohio and Union Pa cific, both great favorites of his." Gates was born in what l now South Chicago on May 8, 1855. He was as poor as poverty. But, If tra dition be true, ho was an early finan cier. He farmed "on shares," and usually bought out his partner. He was a most excellent "boss swapper." When he was 18 he was married to a farmer's daughter, After running a small hardware and grain business in Turner's Junc tion, 111., Gates became a drummer, and, he admitted himself he was a "peach." He traveled for Isaac L. ElWOOd. founder of tho hnrhaH o.-ti.tt industry, and introduced the wire In Texas. I hadn't traveled long before I found that more money could be made manufacturing wire than sell ing It at$100 a month, he said. With seven others he invested $2500 In a wire manufacturing company and cleaned up 50 per cent profit a week. By 1892 Gates had consolidated all his holdings into the Consolidated Steel and Wire company, with $4, 000,000 Capital. In 1895 he put $700,000 Into the Illinois Steel com pany and was elected president. In 1898 the Illinois went Into the Feder al Steel company, and Gates sold out at a large profit. After he had formed the American Steel and Wire Company of New Jer sey, capital $90,000,000, Gates went Into the market. From 1897 to 1901 was his prime. His profits have been swollen by rumor. Gates was a "grand stand performer," a self-advertiser of the deepest die, but never the less he had to rent a good many safe deposit vaults to hold his secur ities. Gates as really forgetful, so he said. Once he carried a check for a million and a qunrter around In his pocketbook until requested to cash It, so the books might be balanced. Of the $90,000,000 stock of the Ameri can Steel and Wire mnnv - 000,000 disappeared, and Gates had "forgotten" where it went. He nev er remembered. Gates alwavs claimed credit for hA' lng the master brain who evolved the United States Steel company, whose bitter enemy he later was. He ap peared recantlv hefnro tho Htnw steel Investigating committee of the house of representatives, In Washing ton, and laughed as he told how Mor gan and others had been forced to turn to him for support In organizing the billion-dollar concern. Gates ad mitted that he received $46,000,000 In preferred stock for $40,000,000 preferred stock in the American, com pany, and between $50,000,000 and ou,uuu,ouo or common stock. Of late Onten and lila unn nhnriia Invested havlly in Texas oil .fields ana were Ducking the Standard Oil. Gates was one of the heaviest stock holders in the Republic Steel and Iron company, which has remained aloof from the steel trust, and fought It consistently. Gates was a thoroughbred sport. He loved horses and horse racing, and his bets were always In the thousands He plnyed poker for Immense stakes, and was reputed to have lost $25,000 on one trip between New York and Chicago. Gates Is survived by one on, Charles Gilbert Gates, who, It Is said, Inherits the larger portion of his father's vast estate. f Clothing Special! Bishops' Ready Tailored Clothes Reduced 25 Per Cent in Price This Week : In order to get our stock reduced quick- ly we are offering this opportunity for t one week. Don't fail to take advantage of these. Regular Prices $10 to $35, Sale Prices $6 to $25. Salem Woolen Mill Store Dry Cleaning and Pressing a Specialty.