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Show TNOIAN BATTLE IK “WRECKED. SALORS VICTIMS BUILDING ] SOUTHERN UTAH OF WD MAN-EATERS Crew of Forty That Started for Philippines Probably Captured by Can- UP a ee FOUAL RIGHTS wn-------- Π IAPANESE CREDIT GALANCE | nibals of Terra Del Fuego. Products of the Farm Will Bring Foreign Minister Hayashi’s Views Three Red Men Killed in Encounter the Cash That is Needed to Restore Confidence. With Soldiers Who Had Gone to Make an Arrest. Chicago.—A special to the RecordHerald from New York says: Eaten by cannibals was probably the fate of the crew of forty sailors that took the big sailing ship Arthur 8S. Sewell out Disturbances Caused by Disinciination of Philadelphia April 3 on the start of Intrinsic Value of American Staples is Beyond the Reach of Financial her long voyage carrying coal to the of Navajos to Observe Regulations, Distruct, and General imPhilippines Their Actions Becoming so Word has just been received at the provement in Finances is Offensive That Soldiers maritime exchange that the vessel wad Bound to Come. Were Sent For. wrecked near Terra del Fuego, and all signs point to the survivors having in| been captured by the cannibals that New York.—The enormous Washington —In a battle between infest the islands in that vicinity. The fluence which American products are United States troops and Indians news of the wreck and the almost cer- | exerting in building up a credit balwhich occurred in southern Utah tain fate of the crew came from the anee abroad has been the most signal three persons were killed, and another | sealing steamer Fridthjkof. Since the development of the financial situation wornded, all said to have been InArthur 8. Sewell sailed, not one word this week. Reports from all quarters dians. The news of the occurrence was received regarding her until a show that the great American staples was conveyed to the Indian bureau in letter came on Thursday from the Nor—wheat, cotton, copper, tobacco, oll, a telegram from Superintendent Shel wegian sealer. meats—are on their way to Burope, ton, and was dated October 30 The Sewell’s first stopping point this being the season of the year The army command consisted of four | was to have been Seattle. The Fridwnen American products are marketOfficers, seventy-four men and three thikef reports that on August 29, ed abroad, The immediate effect of Indian scouts. The telegram to the while cruising near the southeast these shipments is to give the United Indian bureau, which was dated at headland of Noir island, half way beStates credit abroad, which can be Ship Rock, N. M., follows tween Capre Pillar‘ and Cape Horn, speedily converted into cash. These ‘The troops have returned from the lookout reported a derelict ahead. natural resources of the country southern Utah. They arrested Bylillie The derelict proved to be a four-mastpromise to exert even greater influand nine other Indians. Three others ed square-rigged ship that in every ence than the sale of American sewere killed and one wounded while way answered the description of the curities abroad. The latter have to shooting at the Indians. The Indians Sewell. As the wreck was evidently some extent suffered discredit under are quiet, and I don't anticipate fur very recent, the #ridthjkof’s captain recent pressure, but the intrinsic ther trouble.’ made an investigation, in the hope value of American staples used The officials of the Indian bureau of discovering some of the possible abroad, and their colossal aggregate assume that the killed and wounded survivors. On the shore of Noir at this period of the year, is beyond are Indians. island a landing party from the Northe reach of financial distrust. The Indians arrested are part of a wegian vessel discovered traces provRuns upon the banks of the eounband of Navajos from New Mexico ing that a considerable party from the try are practically over. Persors and eastern Arizona. A number of wreck had madeits way to that land. who present large checks and ask for Indians under the leadership of ByThe trall led away from the beach. their payment in currency are invited lillie have been creating disturbance to consult the bank officials. In cases The sailors from the Fridthjkof folbecause of their disinclination to obwhere their need for currency is evilowed the trail as far as they could serve reguiations. So offensive became dently legitimate they usualy receive make tt out, but finally abandoned the their actions that Superintendent it; in cases where it is sought for search, owing to the danger from the Shelton made a request that soldiers hoarding, they are usually convinced cannibals in that inhabit the island, that money is better off in the bank be sent to the reservation and troops The natives on the islands in that part or that they should accept certified I and K of the Fifth cavalry, under of the sea are cannibals of the flercest checks for deposit elsewhere. Captain Willard, were dispatched from kind, and shipwrecked sailors could Comparative calm reigns among Fort Wingate, N. M., to Arnetta Utah, have little hope of escaping from ! New York bankers. They all realize the 22nd inst. It was not intended at them. that the pressure for money is not the time that their presence should over, but they feel generally that unmean any more than a demonstration reasoning panic is at an end and they THOUSANDS BURIED ALIVE, with a view of quieting effect will be able to meet all reasonable Turkish Village Completely Destroyed demands for currency. These de | | Schjects of Mikede. London—Barbara Laponkhin, daughter of Alexander Laponkhin, Wil! Insist Upon Japanese Being Granted Rights Equal to Those Granted Subjects of the Other Powers. Tokio —A delegate from the Japanese residents of San Francisco interviewed Foreign Minister Hayashi on Sunday and fully explained conditions in that city relative to the prejudice existing against Japanese. He point- ed out that the feeling for exclusion by Great Landslide. Can’t Get Cars Enough to Move Their Grain, Tashkend, Russian Turkistan.—The little town of Karatagh, in the Hussar New York.—-Following the recent protest of the western grain shippers that it is impossible for them to get the trunk line shippers to move consignments of grain from Buffalo to New York and that in refusing to enter into contract for these export shipments the results were greatly hindering the grain export trade, it is learned that the New York Central, the Lacakawana and the Erie have temporarily discontinued the making of contracts on grain shipments, The cutting off of contracts on fu- ture shipments was due to the purely physical, condition of car shortage. It is believed that the roads will all be able alike to relieve the congestion in a few days and resume the acceptance of contracts. A MONSTER INFANT. a landslide that followed the earth- forts to obtain funds. quake of October 31, According to the latest reports of the disaster a majority of the inhabitants of Karatagh lost their lives. The first reports of the casualties were exaggerated, the death list being placed as high as 15,000, Karatagh has about 2,500 dwellers, and there is reason to believe that about 1,500 were burted alive. Among those who survived the disaster are the governor of Karatagh and his mother, Cannon Introduced as Our Next President, Springfield, Il.—After being intro- duced as the next president of the United States, Speaker Joseph F. Cannon of the national house of represent- Chicago.—A dispatch to the Tribune from Parkersburg, W. Va. says: A remarkable freak of nature is an infant of W. H. Banes, an employe of a factory in Matoaka. The babe, is named addressed the William Edward Mr. Cannon spoke of the great wealth of the United States and its great commercial and business affairs, which were all on the most substantial basis. The credit and currency of the country should not be disturbed by a little Wall street flurry, which Banes, is only 8 months old, and weighs 110 pounds. The babe at was not an evidence of disturbances of commercial business or lessened birth was of normal weight, but has financial ability of the country. There increased steadily in weight, until it is now a prodigy and weighs almost as much as its mother. Cutting Miners’ Wages. Seattle, Wash.—Grank Forks, B. C., miners and smelter employes of the Granby Smelter company will have their wages cut 50 cents a day. Word has been received from New York to this effect. This will affect all the miners in the Phoenix camp, as the British Columbia Copper company and the Dominion Copper company will make a similar cut. The Grand Forks labor union will decide as to whether the men will accept the reduction or go on strike. Much uneasiness is felt over the situation. Butte Banks Are All Right. ception of the State Savings ex bank, which probably will be reopened shortly, Butte banks are transacting busimess as usual. They are cashing checks as presented and have not cur. tailed depositors any way. The banks are in excellent financial shape and their managers say they will not be compelled to resort to methods now being employed elsewhere because of Deposits are in- ereasing and there are no unusual demands on the banks here. San Francisco Bank Closed. San Francisco.—The state bank commissioners on Thursday morning began their examination of the affairs of the California Safe Deposit & Trust company, which closed its doors on Wednesday for the announced reason that it was unable to obtain money for immediate use, no* being a member of the clearing house it was stated for the com*» ssioner: that they would not make any an mouncement until their investigation is completed. The general re fusal to pay cash for hoarding, in the west and south as well as in New York, it is believed, will prevent the undue absorption of currency and permit the employment of what is available in the most effective manner. AN INDIAN TERRITORY TRAGEDY Contractor Kiils a Relative, His Son and Himself. Tulsa, I. T.—W. E. Campbell, one of the wealthiest oil operators and capitalists of Indian Territory, and whose former home was in Winfield, Kan., was shot and instantly killed by D. H. Stockwelll, a prominent contractor of Tulsa, late Tuesday night. well went to the home of Campbell to remain until she departed for Cali- fornia. Tuesday night Stockwell went to the home of Campbell, and, calling him to the porch, without the slightest warning stuck a double-barreled shotgun in Campbell's face and fired, He then went blowing his head off. to the Stockwell home, and, going to the room of his son, who was sick in the bed, shot and instantly killed boy. His head was blown off. Stockwell then turned the gun upon him- as one of them carried a union card from Globe, Ariz. | Sandringham. The London populace displayed the greatest interest in the royal couple. Poisoned by Canned Corned Beef. Los Angeles—Five employees of the Berlin dye works are seriouslyill from ptomaine poisoning from eating the country, was the statement made by President William Dutcher of the National Association of the Audubon societies on Thursday. The public, declared Mr. Dutcher, placidly allows agricultural crops valued at $800,000, 000 to be annually destroyed by in- corned beef for luncheon Tuesday. Five others are also suffering from the polson, but are not dangerously ill, Those most seriously affected are sects, which destruction is cleaner, and Miss Ida Hurley, finisher. The food was purchased at a nearby entirely Insurance Broker Suicides. New York.—That Herman Potter of Doylestown, Pa., insurance broker, William Starr, shipping clerk; J. E. Cottle, engineer; Vincent Rice, nicht watchman; Thomas F. Gray, head dry rrocery store, and came from one ef the large packing houses. Wealthy Man Dies of Starvation. Jamestown, N. D.—Starvation, ex- who died Wednesday in front of the posure and exhaustion caused the Waldorf-Astoria, committed surerde, death of John Mooney, a wealthy land was the conclusion reached by the po- owner of Stuttsman county. In his lice on Thursday. The detectives are clothing when he was found dead on convinced of this by the discovery of the side of an unfrequented road were poison in Mr. Potter's room, by the $15,000 In certificates of bank deposstatements to the employes of the ho- its. The body was poorly clad, the tel, and by Mr. Potter’s note to his coat and overcoat being threadbare. wife, in which he coolly made arrangements for winding up his affairs. The bruises on the body are slight and old, Minister Hayashi replied that at present it was advisable to limit emi- gration to half that number. He further assured the delegate that everything will be done to protect Japanese interests and at the same time emphasized.the importance of stopping anything calculated to injure the traditional friendship of both countries. The government would hereafter, he said, supervise the kind of emigrants allowed to go out. When questioned if measures had been taken to secure the right of nat uralization for Japanese, Minister Hayashi repiled that as a minister of his majesty’s government μα will never encourage the alienizing of his subjects, but will insist on securing for Japanese rights equal to those granted subjects of other powers. Minister Hayashi, continuing, said that he hoped that after the return of M. Ishii, the commisisoner sent to America to investigate the subject, and the receipt of his report, definite steps would be taken to find a solution in an amicable and satisfactory manner. : GERMANS ARE CONFIDENT. Believe Now is the Time to Buy Amet ican Stocks. Berlin—The violent financial squall up. which for a week has gripped New York, is relaxing and that conditions in America are so sound that no deepSeated consequences can follow. A representative of powerful Holland financial interests, who happens to be here, has sent word to Amsterdam that now is the time to invest in American securities, and many Berlin brokers in their letters to customers advise them to go in for American stocks now, while they are under 8 pressure that probably is only tem porary. It is the large offers made in Europe by American helders that have vaused American exchange to rise to 426, a rate which the Vossische Zel- Mooney spent last winter, says the dispatch, in a room over a store, and boasted that his food cost him less than ten cents a day. He was about sixty-five years of age, ‘ out precedent. New York and New Haven. New Haven, Conn.—The New York, New Haven and Hartford company has unnounced that immediately more than 2.000 hands upon the steam sys fem will be laid off, besides several hundred more in the Rhode Island trolley service. Work upon a large closed between the disappeared in London, and all the resources of the Russian embassy and Steel Scotland Yard are being employed to trace her. summoning by nected with the transportation ques- tion, with a view, to restoring the confidence of investors, was suggested in a speech before the University club at Washington hy Senator Newlands, of Nevada, vice chairman of the Inland Waterways committee. Mr. Newlands has just ‘returned from the trip down the Mississippi with the president and the Aldwych theater, Oct. 24, and on coming out Barbara became separated in the crowd from her companions and has not since been seen, aithough the case was immediately reported to the police, and the foreign office, acting at the urgent request of tae Russian government, ordered that no effort be spared in the search for the missing girl. Since Miss Laponkhin disappeared the governess has received a note ip a handwriting which she recognizes as Barbara's, saying that she had been kidnaped outside the theater and was now a prisoner in the cellar of a house in the northwest part of London, the address of which she was unable te ascertain. The girl added that she was wounded and suffering so severe ly that she intended to poison herself M. Laponkhin has been director of the police department in Russia and Miss Russell suggests that revolutionists planned the kidnaping with the object of bringing her father within their reach. He is now on his way to London. WORST OF CRISIS IS OVER. Marked Improvement in New York Situation and Securities Are Higher. New York.—The principal events in che financial district on Monday indicated that the worst of the crisis was over and that conditions were settling down to normal. Thcre were no fur ther bank suspensions, and reports were favorable for the resumption of most of the banks which closed temporarily last week. The engagement of $18,750,000 in gold from Europe for importation to New York was followed by the sensational announcement of sales of American copper $25,000,000, This, with the rapid rise of good se- curities on the stock exchange, in some cases as much as 4 and 5 per cent, and the policy of the trust companies not to pay out currency for hoarding purposes, all contributed to strengthen the feeling in banking circles and among the public at large. So well was the situation in hand that there was no such scurrying abbut of leading financiers and hasty conferences as took place during the closing days of last week. Russian General Killed by Woman. St. Petersburg.—General sky, director of the department of prisons of the ministry of the interior was shot and killed on Monday. The general was the first responsible of- ficial connected with the Russian prison and it is supposed that this was the reason he was selected for assassination by the terrorists. A young woman who has not been identified, presented herself at the weekly reception of General Maximoffsky and remained quietly in the crowded ante- MEAT PRICES COMING DOWN. Reduction of 10 Per Cent is Made by the Omaha Packers. Omaha.—The packing houses of Omaha on Monday reduced the prices on all kinds of meats 10 per cent, and expect a still further reduction. Bdward A. Cudahy, of the Cudahy Packing company ,expressed the belief that the prices of all commodities would be reduced and that the present financial flurry would result in a general reduction of values, although he does not Ohio Bank Closed and Cashier Takes dation that all vessels on this sound be fumigated at once. This applies to ferry boats and every vessel large enough to hold a rat. The state board of health met and notified all the county boards of health to take stringent measures to clean up their districts and keep a vigilant watch for suspicious cases. : Few Bank Failures. Salt Lake City, Utah—Salt Lake has, since 1890, been particularly fortunate in the stability of its banking institutions, there being but two falilures in that time; and not even in the panic of 1903, when banks in near. ly every city of importance in the country went under, did a Salt Lake bank close its doors. Managed by conservative and public-spirited men, the Salt Lake banks have weathered every financial storm for the past seventeen years, and the recent flurry in Wall street has not affected any of them in the least. railway of Japan Three armed men held up a freignt The stockholders of the Norfolk & Southern railway have confirmed the plan of the directors to issue $25,000, 000 in bonds for the purchase of roll ing stock and other improvements What is knownas the “Little.Alton” case against tue Standard Oil com. pany of Indiana has been set for trial on January 6, by Judge Bethea of the United States district court at Chi cago. Miss Helen Gould was accorded tne honors of a general officer of the American army by the officers and enlisted men of Fort Leavenworth, Kans., in the review of troops last week. The British steamer Cape Corso and the schooner Albert Meyer, the latter sailing from Bellingham, Wash., were in collision Oct. 19, while off Cape Flattery. Both vessels sustained slight damage. A dispatch from Moji reports tnat the Japanese freight steamer Kokwo Maru, from Hongkong to Yokohama, went ashore in a storm off Rishma, and is a complete wreck. The crew was rescued in a life boat. The purpose of Secretary Taft’s visit to Subig Bay is to endeavo. to reconcile a difference of opinion between the army and navy respecting the continuance of expenditures on a large seale for the fortification of that bay. Seven foreign workmen were in- jured, four fatally, in an explosion at one of the blast furnaces of the Clairton Steel company, at Clairton, Pa. It is said that the accident was the result of a dynamite. premature discharge of Davis James, die of the owners of the Globe Electric Light & Gas company, was shot and probably fatally wounded at Globe, Arizona, by H. 8. Buckner. It is understood the reason for the shooting was trouble over min- ing claims. Mrs. Jonathan Culp received a telephone message at Oregon, Mo., saying her daughter, Mrs. Silas Allen, had been killed from a shock from an electric wire, and she dropped «ead. Mother and daughter will be buried in the same grave. Relentless war against the buboenie plague has been declared by the city and county boards of health at Bel- Maximoff-- lingham, Wash. To Prevent Bubonic Plague. Seattie—Dr. M. J. White of the United States marine service has re Dr. White to carry out his recommen: States Imperial les, wounded one of the train crew, robbed them of $250 and two watches and made their escape. The physicians in attendance on Emperor Franais Joseph have decided not, to issue any further bulletins, as they consider his convalc:scence is progressing satisfactorily consider conditions serious. Wymans at Washington authorizing the years old, was visiting London with her younger sister, in charge of an English governess. The trio went to the commission. ceived a wire from Surgeon General Umiced and train within five miles of Los Ange- room until it was her turn to enter the Washington—The corporation Miss Barbara, who is 18 general’s private office. When she was in his presence the woman drew a revolver and fired seven shots point blank into the general’s body. President Roosevelt of a national conference of the various interests con- A contract for steel rails amounting 15,000 tons is said ™ have been a Russian princess, has mysteriously ether Newlands Wants Conference of Inter ests Connected with Transportation. President Roosevelt has issued his Thanksgiving proclamation, through the secretary of state, naming the last Thursday in November, the 28th. ex-gov- be stopped or largely curtailed. The curtailment is indefinite and depends somewhat upon the general financia) situation. It is largely a precaution: ary measure. number of improvements will Four men were killed as the result of an explosion which blew up the two mills of the Atiantic Dynamite company at Ashland, Wis to The great Berlin banks are af’ to an aggregate of over surirg their customers that the crisis The steel plant of the United States Stee! corporation at Columbus, Ohio, pas closed down indefinitely, throwing ernor of Reval, and whose mother is in the United States is regarded here abroad which will further increase the as having passed as quickly as it came tide of foreign money to this country Two Thousand Men Discharged by the trcuble, and as a result Mrs. Stock- and the Spanish embassador to Great Britain, Senor Villa Urrutia. The viswas placed under arrest. He refuses {tors drove at once to Kensington palace, where they will reside until next to give the names of the dead men. It They will then visit King is belleved that the men are miners, | Monday. Edward and Queen Alexandria αἱ due to the rapid decrease in the number of insect-cestroying birds. and San Francisco. 8 married having Campbell's son days Some daughter of Stockwell. nad his wife and ago Stockwell did not partake of any of the liquor, ization of all the national banks in! est emigrants montily through Seattle tung’s financial reviewer says is, with and who was found near the scene, New York.—Because of the decrease in birds, the United States is losing yearly a sum larger than the capital: | He requested, on behalf of his campatriots, that the foreign office permit the emigration of 900 hon- The two men are related in marriage, self and blew his own head off. Drank Wood Alcohol. Tucson, Ariz.~—The bodies of four Spanish King and Queen in London, unknown méh were found by a railLondon.—The king and queen of road trackwalker on Thursday at MarSpain arrived in London ‘Luesday icopa. Investigation shows that death night. Jt was raining hard, but fn had resulted from drinking wood alcospite of the depressing weather, their hol stolen from a box ear. One mem- majesties were met at the station by ber of the party, who claimed that he members of the English royal family Failure to Protect Birds. Butte, Mont.—With the single currency shortage. was no occasion for such false notions. laborers. considerable whelmed and completely destroyed by Springfield men’s club on the stability of the country’s finances. 110 Pounds. are coming in amounts from the west and south in order to obtain money to move crops, and it is feared that the sections where the movement {8 largest may be more or less hampered in their ef- district of Bokhara, has been over- atives, on Thursday which mands employers welcomed honest Japanese NEWS SUMMARY | 800 men out of work. Belief Expressed That Revolutionists Pianned the Kidnaping in Order to Bring Girl's Fatrer Within Their Reach. as to Refusal to Naturalize directed against the undesirable | was immigrant alone and that American | TROUBLES OF SHIPPERS. RUSSIAN GIRL KOMAPED IN STREETS OF LONDOK What amounts to a ban on all vessels arriving from plague-infected ports, including Seattle, has been placed. Asserting that they could not make wages on the mileage under the twenty-five miles an hour speed Hmit recently imposed on the Missouri Pa- cific, the engineers of that read have complained to the state railway commission of Nebraska, The report of the board of inquiry iuto the cause of the grounding of the battleship Kentucky, fully exonerates from biame Captain Barry, the com. mander. It is shown that the acct. dent was due to the crowded condition of the roadstead. Herbert Parkin, a passenger on the steamer Baltic, which arrived at New York Saturday from Liverpool, leaped overboard last Sunday night and was drowned. Parker gave a fellow-passenger the address of a woman in Hull, England, asking that she be no- tified. The supreme court of the United States has declined to allow the Kansas vs. Colorado case to be reopened. The case was an attempt on the part of Kansas to prevent the state of Colo rado from using for irrigation pur poses the waters of the Arkansas river. rectors until after the funeral of Fred Boron, its cashier, who shot hims The unexpired portion of the sentence suspending from duty Captain William Swift, who was in command of the battleship Connecticut when it went aground on Culebra Island, has been remitted and the captain will be assigned to duty other than commanding a ship. while alone in his home on Monday. An investigation of his accounts is going on and a movement is also on foot On October 24, at Sterling, Ill, Hon. J. E. Henderson touched a gate, which thereupon raised, permitting the water His Own Life. Akron, O.—The Dollar Savings bank has been closed by orders of the di- to have the other banks of the city take this institution over. According to members of the directorate, a de ficit of $25,000 has been discovered. The sixty-day notice is enforced on all savings accounts in the Doilar bank. Uncle Joe Cannen im the Race. Chicago.—Speaker Joseph G. Cannon’s official campaign for the presidential nomination was started on Monday at a meeting of fourteen Illi- nois Republican congressmen at the Auditorium. It was decided to place Speaker Cannon in the race whether he acquiesced or not, but when the speaker was called in at the end of the three hours’ conference he sid: “Well, boys will be boys. Do as you please.” Five other Illinois congress men who were unable to be present are also back of the movement. to flow through the Illinois-Mississippi canal. This marked the completion of the work on the $7,500,000 governmem undertaking, which was started by Mr. Henderson twenty-five years ago. Sylvester Harrison, a noted character of southern Kansas, is missing from Wichita, and charges have been filed against him by Mrs. Kate Cathers, alleging that he has with him $10,000 of her money, secured from her in what she claims was a clever real estate swindle. A decrease of 18,600 in the number of pensioners on the rolls at the end of the fiscal year 1907, as compared with the year previous, Is the feature of the annual report of Pension Commissioner Warner, just issued. This is the greatest decrease in the bistory of the pension bureau. |