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Show FOR ADDITIONAL BANK CIRCULATION EMPLOYERS’ LABLITY ACT. HENZE WAS LOST CONTROL PETTIRONE TRL IN RIOT OF THE RENTERS - DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL OF MERCANTILE. NATIONAL ENDS IN ACQUITTAL PREAT WESTERN RALROAD | MANY HEADS ARE. BROKEN IN HANDS OF RECEIVERS Road Was Unable to Meet its Obliga tions, Which Amounted to Several Striking Tenants of Tenement Dis Common Carriers Are Not Responsible tricts in New York City Engage in For Battie With the Blue Coats. Million Dollars. Jury Refuses to Credit Confession of Orchard, Federation Official Being Given His Freedom. Measure Introduced in the Senate by Senator Aldrich Intended to Cure Financial Ills. St. Paul Judge Walter J. Sanborn ' ef the United States circuit court on Wednesday rnointed A. B Stickney both resiand Charles H. F. Smit | dents of St. Paul, receivers for the A Provides for an Additional issue of Chicago Great Western railroad. Bank Circulation of $250,000,000 B. Stickney is now president of the The firm of Kellogg & Severon Bonds, including State and road. ance of St. Paul was appointed attor Municipal Bonds in Approved Cases. Washington The financial bin which has for some time been in preparation by leading Republican members of the senate committee on finance, was on Friday printed and given to the public, The bill provides for an additional issue of bank circufation which shall at no time exceed $260,000,000 on bonds other than those issued by the government, tn- cluding state and municipal bonds in approved cases, the currency is The comptroller of given discretion ip jJasuance of the proposed currency, and is authorized to decide as to the time and amount to be awarded to any banking institution. It is provided that increased circuSation shall in no case exceed 75 per went of the bonds deposited ; Senator Aldrich introduced in the senate soon after convened on Tuesday. a that Dill body neys for the receivers. fol vers The appeintment of recei lowed inability of the company to obligations falling due in 1908 | eat and failure to secure an extension of Loss as a result of the obligations the boiler makers strike of last fall is given as a partial cause of the It was financial straits of the road. also pointed out in the proceedings that during the last ten years the road has spent $19,000,000 in reconstruction A petition for a receivership was filed on behalf of the stockholders and the finance committee by John A Humberg of Minnesota, George P Meyer of New York and Ward Cum mings and Alexander Wallace of Great Britain LABOR LEADERS OPPOSE TAFT. Denounce Candidate for President as Exponent of Capitalists. Concord, N. H.—Opposition to Secretary William H. Taft as a presidenHEINZE UNDER ARREST. tial candidate was embodied in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Federal Grand Jury Charges False executive committee of the state Certification of Check. branch of the American Federation of || Labor. The : ; statement says, in part: New York.—Indicted by the federal “We, the executive committee of grand jury for over-certification of the New Hampshire branch of the checks representing in the aggregate American Federation of Labor, in senover $400,000, and drawn by the firm ef Otto Heinze & Co. on the Mercan- timent and sympathy with union memin this Augustus | bers of all) political parties tile National bank, Ε, Heinze, the copper magnate and for- | country, hereby declare ourselves un mer president of the Mercantile Na- alterably cpposed to the nomination tional bank, surrendered himself to || of William H. Taft, secretary of war, United States Commissioner Shields | for the presidency; that we recognize on Tuesday and later was released on in him, throvgh his public utterances $50,000 bail. and judicial decisions and opinions, The indictment by the federal the arch enemy of organized labor; grand jury which has been inthat he 13 the instrument and the exvestigating the Mercantile and other ponent of capitalistic power; that the banks identified with the Heinze and Charles W. Morse interests is the) writ of injunction which he upholds, aftermath of the collapse of the j never was intended, and never should Heinze pool in United Copper and be permitted to deprive honest induswhich brought about the suspension try of its personal riguts; that we obof Gross & Kleeberk, stock brokers, ject to his methods of campaigning and resulted in the resignation of F. A. Heinze from the presidency and the retirement of the directors of the Mercantile National bank after an examination of the institution had been made by the clearing house, Commissioner Ballinger of the General Land Office Resigns. Washington.—Richard A. Ballinger, commissioner of the general land office, has tendered his resignation of that office to President Roosevelt, and it has been accepted to take effect March 4. Fred Dennet, assistant commissioner, commissioner. has been appointed On March 4 Commis- sioner Ballinger will have completed practically a year of service in the office. It was of Mr. Ballinger that the president said he had got a $20,000 man for a $5,000 salary. Country Banks Turning Money Loose. Chicago.—That the movement of currency back from the country has reached fair proportions is shown by the figures on the shipments and receipts of the principal Chicago shipping banks in December. Their re ceipts in the month from country points aggregated $5,593,320, the largest for any month in the year 1907, excepting January. This figure compares with receipts of a little more than $1,000,000 in November, 1907, and with receipts of $3,963,000 in December, 1906. Sals President Talks too Much, as any one man’s man, however ex- alted and influential may be his master or widespread his own support and endeavor, and that we are determinedly and irrevocably candidacy.” opposed to his Bill. Washington. — Representatives Hayes and Kahn of California on Tuesday discussed with President Roosevelt the Japanese immigration question. It is understood the presi dent will later listen to an extended presentation of this subject from M1 Hayes. The Hayes bill for Japanese exclusion will be pressed by the Cali fornia delegation, although it is un derstood that the president has not changed his attitude of discourage ment of this measure in view of the pending diplomatic negotiations. Conductor Routed Robbers. Kansas City —Four men attempted to rob the passengers on a Missouri Kansas & Texas passenger train standing in the Union station here Tuesday. They were frightened off without securing any money or valuables, but carrying away two grips belonging to German immiTwo of the robbers showed grants. revolvers, and pointing them at the foreigners, commanded them to give up their valuables. H. W. Drew. the conductor, hit one of the robbers in the head with his lantern and they fied. by the police called from reserves, which several precincts, were many out the affected district. | murder in by the tenants and other strikers, who honse, and he called the police. Hardly had order been restored at this point when the police reserves probably be finally disposed of. Simpwere hurried to East Twelfth street, | kins, a member of the executive boara where striking tenants were making a of Western Federation of Miners, who demonstration against a landlord who is charged with complicity ,in_ the had objected to the flying of red flags crime, is a fugitive from justice, and over his property. The crowd failed and was set upon with night sticks. One woman, it is reported, was rendered insensible during the fight, in which the wives and daughters, as well as the fathers and sons participated. The police tried to gain en- cases against Dr. Magee and C. W. Aller, charged with perjury by reason of testimony given by them in the Haywood case, was also dismissed Although the Pettibone jurors agreed that their deliberations should be kept secret, it has been learned that on the first ballot the vote was 8 to 4 the majority being for acquittal. The trance into the tenement, but the strikers barricaded the door, and a semblance of order having been restored the officers withdrew. Ambnlances were summoned to care for the injured, but the strikers declined to admit the physicians, stating that they would call their own doctors. second ballot 9 to 2. PRESIDENTSCORES BROWNSON. Makes Public His Attitude on The third ballot was 10 to 2 and so it remained all through Fri | day night. Controversies, from Colorado friends. Washington.—President Roosevelt's attitude on the question of the com-| mand of hospital ships in the navy, | which resulted in the resignation of Rear-Admiral Willard H. Brownson| and resulted in a vote of The two holding out for conviction were finally won over. Pettibone and Moyer received many Naval | telegrams of congratulation, chiefly incidentally some caustic obser- vations on that incident, and the controversies among the naval officers and their adherents as to details of naval construction and methods of training, were made known Surkiy son, declaring it tec be unseemly and improper. Regarding the controversies in the navy, the president admits there always was and always will be defects, both in the construction of the ships and in the organization of the department and in the actual drill of the fleet. It is well, he says, that these defect be pointed out, but it is alse well that they should be pointed out without exaggerations or malicious Pettibone, al though very ill for the past two weeks walked to the local headquarters o! the Western Federation after the an nouncement of the verdict. GOLDFIELD MINERS WORKING. Many of the Men Renounce Allegiance to Western Federation. Goldfield, Nev.—It is believed in Goldfield that the strike is practically won by the mine operators and that within ten days or two weeks every mine in the district will be in ful] blast. Several mines started up Saturday morning with miners formally affiliat- ed with the Western Federation, but who signed cards renouncing such allegiance. The most hopeful sign of an early settlement is the formation of a new union among the miners, which is to become a state affair, independent of the Western Federation. BOMB EXPLODES IN BANK. THREEISSUES PARAMOUNT. Will Die. Kansas City, Mo.—An explosion in Bryan Says That Tariff, Trusts and Foremost. the beautiful marble building of the First National bank here Saturdayaf. ternoon was caused by dynamite or Kansas City.—In an interview here Sunday night, William J. Bryan said some other high explosive. A piece of pipe, believed to have been part of that the trusts, the tariff and railroad a bomb, was found in the wrecked basement. Railroad Regulation Are First and propriations. Washington.—The annual report of first Assistant Postmaster General Srank H. Hitcheock has been made public. The revenues collected through the postoffices during thefiscal year 1906 amounted to about $168,00,000, a gain of more an $15,000,000, and the report states that this growth was continued in 1997, when the aggregate was $183,000,000. In. order to meet this continuous growth of his bureau, Mr. Hitcheock makes an appeal for larger appropriations, Canadians Want Oriental Ten people were injured by the ex. plosion, but none fatally. The loss is placed at $10,000, confined entirely tc the basement. Chinese the head. Murdered. Then they dragged the body to a back room used as a bed room, broke open the cash drawer with an ax, and rifled a trunk. Quarters Searched for Weapons. Merchant Nogales, Ariz.—Wing Ling, a Chi nese storekeeper forty-five years of age, in business here twenty years was murdered Saturday night by two Mexicans. The men went to the door of the store, and when Wing appeared struck him with iron bars in the face and the back of the head, felling him to the floor, when they cut his throat with a knife, almost severing Lil- Chieago.—Five hundred residents of Shicago’s. ghetto formed a tenants’ though badly decomposed, the body was identified by the fatuer of the girl. He believes she was mur dered and the position of the body supports this theory, it having the ap pearance of having been dragged to the place, thrown in a hollow and Meet Horrible Death While Playing at Shingle Mill. Bellingham, Wash—Earl Musselman, aged 14, was killed and Clyde Damaske, aged 13, fatally injured Sat- rised the members of the new organization to refuse to pay the present boy was uninjured. mands for jower prices. Washington.—In an opinion by Justice White, the supreme court of the United States on Monday held te be unconstitutional the congressional en- New tution on Wednesday, actment of June 11, 1906, known as The decision of to meet pay- F. Augustus Heinze Jost control of the Mercantile | National bank, the conduct of which, | as its president, had brought about his the “employers’ liability law,” making railroads and other common carriers responsible to employes in ac cidents due to the negligence of fellow servants or to ineffective appli- ances. Yerk—Unable ments due on his stock in the insti- ‘arraignment in the United States cireuit court earlier in the day on |charges of over-certification. the lower | One year ago Heinze bought a con| trolling interest from the Goulds, with The decision was in the suits for |whom he pledged his holdings as se courts was affirmed. damages-—one being the case of the | eurity for his premise to pay for them widow of Will Howard, a man who | in full within one year, This loan of was killed in an accident near Mem- | $1,200,000 was due on Wednesday to phis; the other that of the mother of | Morris S. Brooks, a fireman killed on | the Southern Pacific in Nevada. The | Howard cuse was tried in Tennessee | Edwin Gould and William Nelsen Cromwell, who was a member of the Gould party in the bank before the Mercantile was added to the Heinze|Morse-Thomas chain of financial with Judge McCall presiding, and the Brooks case in Keatucky with Judge /houses. Up to the last moment alWalter Evans on the bench. | lowed him Heinze struggled to meet The railroads obtained a verdict | his obligations, and so to retain his against the complainants on the ground of the unconstitutionality of | banking interests. His failure was chronicled by the the law, Judge Evans and Judge Mc.| Call both held that the law was in- following statement, issued by Mr. valid on the double ground that 8: Cromwell after an afternoon's confercongressional enactment could not be | ence of the parties concerned: made applicable to interstate com“The Heinze stock in the Mercanmerce, as they claimed was under- tile National bank has been acquired taken in this law, and that protection | by Mr. Gould in a satisfactory arof the accidents in the interstate Mr. Heinze was given commerce could not be construed as rangemeat. any part of “commerce” of any kind. every possible chance to pay for the Both the Kentucky and Tennessee stock, but because of his inability to decisions were affirmed by Justice do so in the time agreed upon, we White’s opinion on the ground that the have been forced to take it over.” law is not confined to the regulation Later Mr. Cromwell added that the of the business of interstate carriers, Gould interests would assume their but undertakes to regulate their deal- proper place in the bank board at the ings with their employes. meeting on January 14. This implies, of course, that the so-called directors will then retire. DECISION IN LAND FRAUD CASES Probable End of Prosecutions in| Heinze FARMERS TO MEET IN ZION. Western States. Trans-Mississippi Washington.—The case of former Congressman J. N. Williamson, of Oregon, charged with unlawfully cutting timber on the public lands in Crook county, Oregon, in conspiracy with 100 others, was decided by the supreme court of the United States on Monday, in favor of Williamson. Dry Farming Con- gress to be Held in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City—An open letter, which has just been issued by the president cf the Trans-Mississippi Dry Farming congress to the people of Utah, calls attention to the great advantages of the coming congress to The United States circuit court for the state and urges upon the people Oregon imposed a fine of $500 and the utmost interest in order to make sentenced Williamson to prison for the affair as successful as it should ten months, but the supreme court rebe. Arrangements are being made by versed that decision. Unusual sig| the management for a meeting to be nificance is attached to the decision, held in Salt Lake City that shall fitly in that the decision is expected to | represent the importance of the dry apply to proctically all of the prose- cutions brought in arid land states by the department of justice for al- | farming movement to the state of Utah and to those states of the inter- leged violations of the regulations of | mountain region in which there are the interior department in timber and | large areas of semi-arid land, which, stone cision cision States and coal land cases. The devirtually sustains the recent de-| of Judge Lewis of the United | court for the district of Colo- it has been demonstrated, can he reclaimed from its desert condition and made to produce crops of all kinds. Many experts of the agricultural derado, dismissing the indictments partment at Washington, D. C., have brovght under the timber and stone | signified their intention of being presand coal jand laws. ent, and prominent men who are interested in the movement are expected THAW AGAIN ON TRIAL. | from other states. Every day letters Legal Insanity to be Sole Defense of and telegrams are received from men Slayer of White. declaring their intention to be presNew York.—At the close of three ent and agreeing to read papers dealing with some particular phase of the court sessions which marked Mon|dry farming movement with which day, the first day of the second trial they are familiar. Harry K. Thaw for the alleged murder of Stanford White, nine tentative jurors had been selected out of fifty-seven talesmen examined by District Attorney Jerome, for {Πο prosecution, and Martin W. Littleton, for the defense. NEW POSITION FOR LOEB. Will be Made Manager of Washington’s Street Car System. Washingion.—Investigations in local Legal insanity at the time of the | financial circles by Representative tragedy is to be the sole defense. This | Smith of Michigan, chairman of the was made clear at the very outset cf | house committee on the District of the proceedings, when Mr. Littleton Columbia, warrants him in saying that formally served notice that the for- there is t6 be a consolidation of the mer plea of not guilty was amended | street car companies of the District by the specification that the defendant of Columbia and that William Loeb, was insane when the homicide was Jr., secretary to President Roosevelt, committed. is to be given the active management | of the consolidated properties. Mr. Reducing Wages at Goldfield. Goldfield, Nev.—The Nevada-Califor- Smith has been making inquiry into the street car situation, with the view nia Power company, which furnishes | to getting legislation authorizing the light and power to Goldfield, has construction of lines to the new Union adopted a new scale of wages, which station. He had a conference with goes into effect January 10. On and Mr. Loep at the White House on after that date $6 per day will be the Wednesday. maximum wages paid to electricians, While rot denying the statements which is $1 a day less than the com- which have been made regarding his pany has been paying. The telephone prospective change of occupation, Mr. company Will pay the same seale, and Loeb indicated that he is not as yet neither corporation will bar non-union ready to make a statement on the subject. men in employing the force needed This scale is $1 a day higher than the House Holds Dull and Perfunctory scale adopted by the Mine Owners’ | Session. association. Killed by Street Car. business was transacted in the house on Wednes- Bartenders Refuse to Pay Assessment thicket on the outskirts of the city on Saturday, by a surveying crew. Al- urday evening in the bolt flume at the Manley shingle mill, five miles south of this city, by a heavy shingle bolt tates, which were deciared exorbitant, interests. Boys teriously disappeared from her home amion, on Sunday night, with the avowed purpose of forcing landlords of the district to reduce rents $2 a month. Leaders of the movement ad: and to force the landlords to take all legal steps and pay all court costs in vase the latter refuse to meet the de Goes Back to the Gould partially buried with leaves. on May 27,last, was found in a dense Residents of Chicago's Gretto Want Cheaper Rent. Notes That Fell Due and His Stock ] day. A rule giving the bill to revise, codify and amend the laws the right of way along with other preferred Measures, was adopted. The bill was struck by a Hollywood street car | immediately taken up and upon the while riding at Prospect park on Sun- conclusion of its reading was laid day, diei on Monday of her injrries. aside to permit Mr. Gaines of TenShe was terribly hurt, sustaining com- | hessee to address the house in favor pound fractures of both legts, a frac- of an appropriation for the HermitJackson, ture of the skull, besides lacerations age, the home of Andrew Adjournment and cuts. The horse which she was | near Nashville, Tenn. was takep at 3:47 until the following riding, a very valuable animal, belonging to Mr. Clark, was instantly killed. day. says that Chief of Police Chamberlain ot Vancouver has refused a demand made by the Asiatic Exclusion league the board of supervisors, devoted considerable attention to the subject of that the Oriental quarter be searched an auxiliary water system, discussing | ‘or firearms and other dangerous it in detail and recommending it high- weapons. The chief admitted the ly to the new board as a splendid gravity of the situation, but urged thing for the city. He also dwelt strongly against hurrying a possible upon street improvement and urged crisis in the Japanese question by any the rapid rehabilitation of public drastic action such as the one sugbuildings gested. Copper Magn=te Was Unabie to Meet Negli- Washington.—Liittle of lian Pratt, aged twenty-two, who mys- to B. by Clearing up Mystery. Tacoma, Wash.—The body the C., Portland, Ore—A special Dregonian from Vancouver, Caused gence of Fellow Employes. of Ten Persons Are Injured, But None Postmaster General Wants Larger Ap- To Turn Light on Sugar Trust. the charge against him wil! stand. At the request of the state, the to obey the police order to disperse, Human Pin Cushion is Dead. New York.—Publicity in the affa’>s of the American Sugar Refining company will be the policy favored by W. B. Thomas, acting president of that company, according to an announcement which he made at the annual meeting of the stockholders, On that point there have been several contests by the stockholders. Claus Α. Spreckles declared that he was determined to discover what property the company owned and where the property of the company ends and the estate of H. O. Havemeyer begins. The case of Orchard, the self-confessed assassin of Steunenberg, is in The regulations would be the paramount issues in the campaign of 1908. Mr. Bryan said it was impossible to determine at this time what the one paramount issue would be. Taylor, in his address of welcome to Steunenberg, striking tenants resented the appear ance of theofficers, and in the clash the hands of prosecuting attorney Van that followed the reserves used their Duyn, of Canyon county. No state aight sticks vigorously, Five protest- ment as to the future procedure in tng tenants, somewhat battered, wero that case has been made, but it will arrested, The offending decoration | probably be called during the next was removed term of court at Caldwell, when it will act of blowing open the safe of the Brown, Gosney company's store at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, William McVey, Thomas Nolan and William Kellogg, the latter two miners from Goldfield, engaged in a running pistol fight with Deputy Otto Bodie and John Conault, employees of the store. After the robbers had apparently escaped, they were traced to a lodging house and arersted.. Most of the money has been recovered, San Francisco.—The last remnants of the Schmitz administration was cleaned ont on Wednesday, when the officials elected last November took charge of the city government. Mayor ex-Governor tibone, in a few days to Denver were holding a mass meeting in the untruthfulness. the of The most serious trouble occurred | with the exception of the cases of on East Eleventh street, where a | Hiavey Ovehard and Jack Simpkins, landlord who had been unable te col- came on Saturday, January 4, with leet rent ordered his tenants to re | the acquittal of George D. Pettibone. move the Socialist flags with which Charles Moyer, president of the West strikers had decorated the buildings ern Federation of Miners, was formal. The landlord was hooted and jeered ly released and will return, with Pet Reduction of Wage Scale at Goldfield May Result in More Trouble. Searchlight, Nev.—Caught to Denver Together. freely, but there was no way to obtain addressed to him on these subjects. In the first of these letters President Roosevelt condemns in unmeasured terms the act of Admiral Brown- Caught Robbers Red-Handed. tibone and Moyer Will Return the number of injured, as they hurried away and were cared for by friends. Boise, Ida—The end of the prose The disorders were general through- | cution of the men charged with the CARPENTERS MAY STRIKE. Goldfield, Nev.—The carpenters’ union is dissatisfied with the reduction in the wage scale made by the Mine Operators’ association, and especially with the open shop proviso, and may strike. The central labor body, to which the carpenters and electricians belong, has issued an open letter to Governor Sparks, asking for legislation making arbitration of wage disputes compulsory. Case Against President Charies Η, Moyer is Dismissed and Petti- combatants were injured and five were arrested. The police used their clubs when Secretary Metcalf gave to the press two letters from the president New York.—Mrs. Mollie Desmond Washington.—Representative Wil who attempted to commit suicide son of New York, in the course of eighteen months ago by swallowing some rewarks on the financial ques a package of 144 needles, died on tion, on Tuesday, charged the presi Monday, after physicians had made dent with not being a sensible man wenty-five surgical operations upon | and with having characterized the but a dozen heads of great industrial institutions her and removed all needles Domestie troubles induced as dishonest, thereby bringing on a Desmond to try this extraor condition of lack of confidence among | Mrs. the people and ultimately a panic | dinary method of suicide in June, 1906, The trouble with President Roosevelt, j when she swallowed a set of needles | he said, was he had not been turn varying in size from a darning needle ing on the light, but turning on the to the smallest used in fine sewing. gas, and that we have had too much talk from him. Last of Schmitz Rule. Japanese Exclusion New York —Inciplent rent riots broke out on the east side on Sunday as a result of the tension between the landlords and the striking tenan's, | and before the disorders were quelled | Accidents which crashed into them. A third The boys were playing in the flumes, not knowing that timber was being sent down from the mountain side above. back was hroken. Musselman’s He lived several hours after being struck, Los Angeles.—Miss May Duffy, a young woman residing with the fam-_ ily of W. A. Clark, Jr, son of ex United States Senator Clark, who was | Deposed From Ministry. Salt Lake City.—The trial of James union has levied an assessment of 10 | B. Eddie, formerly dean of St. Mark's Goldfield, Nevada.—The Miners’ per cent per month on the bartenders, cooks, waiters, teamsters and all labor organizations affiliated with vhe I. W. W., of which the federation is a part, to sustain the organization, and is meeting with opposition in col lecting the money. It is understood that the bartenders, of which probably sixty men are members, hare cathedral of this city, on the charge of immoral conduct, culminated Wednesday afternoon in the deposition of the former dean from the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church. The case, which has covered a period of two years, has been marked by many sensational details. The opinions of the people connecied with the church here have been sharply di] held a meeting and voted to refuse to | vided over the affair, the friends of | pay the assessment. These bartenders | ae Eddie alleging that he had been tre paid from $6 to $8 per day. greatly wronged. |
