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COEUR D'ALENE EVENING PRESS
VOLUME 2, NUMBER 88
OOBUR D'ALENE, IDAHO, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18. 1907
PRICE FIVE CENTO
WILL ISSUE
GREENBACKS
Government to Increase Circula
tion $150,000,000
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Secre
tary Cortelyou last night made the
important announcement that as a
means of affording relief to the finan
cial situation, the treasury would is
sue $50,000,000 of Panama canal
bonds and $100,000,000 certificates
of indebtedness, or so much thereof
as may be necessary. The certifi
cates will run for one year and will
bear 3 per cent interest. The secre
tary's action in coming to the relief
of the financial situation meets with
President Roosevelt's hearty approv
al, and the plan is the outcome of
the several conferences which have
been held in the White House within
the past Tew days, when the financial
situation was under consideration.
Secretary Cortelyou says that the
Panama bonds will afford substantial
relief, as the law provides that they
may be' used as a basis for additional
bank circulation. He also states
that the proceeds from the sale of
certificates can be made directly
available at points where the need
is most urgent, and especially for the
movement of crops, which, he says
"if properly accelerated, will give the
greatest relief and result in the most
Immediate financial returns."
The secretary calls attention to
the attractiveness of the bonds and
certificates as absolutely safe invest
ments.
Secretary Cortelyou adds that
these relief measures will enable him
to meet public expenditures without
withdrawing any appreciable amount
of the public moneys now deposited
in national banks throughout the
country.
Two treasury circulars, one invit
ing proposals for the issue of bonds
and the other asking for the certifi
cates, will be sent out under date of
November 18.
Currency Measure Promised.
In his letter to Secretary Cortel
you approving the treasury plans.
President Roosevelt states that he
has been assured that the leaders
in congress have under consideration
a currency measure, "which will
meet in permanent fashion the needs
of the situation and which 1 believe
will be passed at an early date after
congress convenes, two weeks hence."
The president also calls attention
to what is needed most at this time
is that the people should "realize
how fundamentally sound business
conditions in this country are. and
how absurd it is to permit themselves
to get into a panic and create
stringency by hoarding their savings
instead of trusting perfectly sound
banks."
BROWNSVILLE CASE UP AGAIN ;
Senate Investigating Committee Holds
Session
Washington, Nov. 18.—The sena
torial committee on military affairs
met here today to resume its consid
eration of the Brownaville affair and
win attempt to come to some decision
in respect to the vexed question. It
is probable that one of the first mat
ters to come before the senate, when
congress meets next month, will be
that of the dismissal of the negro
•oldiers concerned in the affray. Sen
ator Foraker, the champion of the
colored troops, announces that he
desirese to call two or three more
witnesses, but it is expected that
there will be determined opposition
to a reopening of the case for the pur
pose of taking testimony.
The town of Brownsville. Tex., was
"shot up" on night of August 14,
1»0«. Responsibility for the affair
was immediately laid at the doors of
the colored soldiers of the Twenty
fifth infantry, who were stationed
at Fort Brown, adjoining the town.
An investigation by the officers of the
war department did not result in the
incrimination of any particular sold
er or soldiers. It was then alleged
that the members at Companies B.
C and D had entered into a coasptr
acy of silence to shield their guilty
comrades. After investigation. Pres
ident Roosevelt issued an order dis
missing all the soldiers of these
three companies from the service of
the United States army, "without
honor."
This order of President Roosevelt
created a great sensation and was
denounced by colored people all over
the country. Prom an idol of the
negroes, the president became in
moment their greatest "enemy." The
action of the president led to numer
ous debates in the senate, directed
mainly to a discussion of the presi
dent's power in making these whole
sale dismissals. A feature of the dis
cussion was the bitter clash of Senat
ors Tillman and Spooner, who engag
ed in a fiery controversy on the race
question. -
A resolution providing that the
committee on military affairs make
an investigation of the facts con
nected with the shooting was passed
late in January. In this committee
as on the senate floor. Senator For
aker of Ohio—animated, it is allged,
by bis desire to secure the support of
the negroes in his presidential cam
paign—espoused the cause of the col
ored men. Senator William Warner,
of Missouri, represented the Roose
velt administration at the hearing.
With only a few Interruptions, the
committee held almost daily sessions
for four months, examining 156 wit
nesses in all, including many of the
negro soldiers who had been dis
missed from the service. Other wit
nesses were army officers, gun ex
perts and city officials and residents
of Brownsville.
A majority of the committee were
apparently convinced that the shoot
ing was the work of the black soldiers
and that the president was within
his constitutional rights in ordering
their dismissal without honor. The
committee adjourned on June 14 un
til today.
The administration supporters, it
is certain, will oppose the calling of
additional witnesses, unless Senator
Foraker is able to convince them that
the witnesses he desires to call will
be able to supply great light on the
subject.
It is believed that Senator Uulke
ley of Connecticut, will Join Sena
tor Foraker in a minority report.
This report, it is likely, will be con
fined to a declaration that the pres
ident exceeded his authority in dis
charging the troops. The majority
report will assert that the president
did not overstep his legal rights in
ousting the offending soldiers from
the army, and this report will be
concurred in by all the democratic
members of the committee, all of
; w jj 0 m are from the south
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OSCAR ERBSLOEH
German aeronaut, who t
James Gordon Bennett cap In tbe in
ternational balloon races at 8t. Lrah
by fats flight of 870%, mUea in tbe bel
th*
TRANS-MISSISSIPPI
Prominent Men Who
Part
Muskogee, Okla., Nov. 1$.—Musko
gee blossomed out today with elabor
ate decorations in honor of the hun
dreds of distinguished delegates who
are pouring Into the city for the
eighteenth Trans-Mississippi con
gress. All of the streets of the Fast
Oklahoma metropolis have been deco
rated in s lavish style and the prep
arations tor the entertainment of the
visitors have been made in an un
precedented scale. This convention,
representing as it does, the commer
cial interests of the entire country
west of the Mississippi, is by far the
most important ever held In Oklaho
ma, and the recent admission of the
twin territories to statehood makes
it especialy significant
The opening tomorrow, which will
be held in the magnificent new con
vention hall just completed, will be
of the nature of a statehood celebra
tion. Addresses will be delivered
by C. N. Haskell, Oklahoma's first
governor,
CONGRESS
Will Take
D. R. Francis of St. Louis I
and many other well known men.!
The program for the entire session
is the most imposing in the history
of the congress, the speakers includ
ing Governors Hoch of Kansas. Folk
of Missouri, Pindall of Arkansas,
Cummins of lawn, Sheldon of Nebras
ka, Blanchard of Louisiana and Mead
of Washington; Vice President Fair
banks, Hon. Gifford Pinchot, Hon.
John Barrett, director of the bureau
of American Republics, and others
equally prominent.
MURPHY AND KEYES
Glove
Arrangements Completed for
Contest.
NEW \ORK, Nov. 18.—All ar
rangements have been completed for
the contest Wednesday ulgbt between
Tommy Murphy and Bert Keyes.
They will engage in a six round bout
at tbe stag of the Sharkey Athletic
club. Great Interest is manifested
in the battle, as Keyes has showt
great Improvement since he last box
ed the pride of Harlem.
WILL MOVE WHEAT CROP
SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 18.—At a
meeting held here in the Bank of
Commerce between representatives
of tbe bank, wheat exporters and
wheat growers of the Inland Empire
arrangements were concluded which
assure the financing of the move
ment of the wheat crop of the north
west. Immediately following the
meeting orders were sent out to ac
tually set the wheat in motion at
once.
As a result the immense wbe»
crop of the inland Empire—conser.-1
atlvely estimated to be worth
OUO.OVO—will start on its way to tbe
markets of Asia, Africa and Europe.
From the Inland Empire there will
begin a flow of the grain to the ports
of Puget sound and the Columbia
river which will cease only when all
the wheat has been drained from the
fields and warehouses.
Little Brown Men Get to the Front j
JAPAN'S COMMERCIAL GROWTH
With Busineas.
While all the rest of Asia is treated
as so much territory to be exploited
commercially, Japan has herself en
tered the arena as an exploiting na
tion. and even enterprising America
has to confess that in it* trade with
that country the trade balance stands
in Japan's favor. Last year we sold
Japan $38,500,000 worth of goods,
while Japan sold us $51,500,000.
And the Japanese are carrying their
goods in their own steamers, built
and manned so cheaply that they are
I driving American shipping from the
I Pacific.
Japan's commercial advance has
1 attracted the attention of Alfred
Stead, who writes a series of articles
on it in The Hindustan Review (Al
lahabad). In spite of the fact that
her treaties forbid Jspsn to carry
out such an extensive scheme of
trade protection as has enriched the
! United States, he says, she has set
us sn example In some particulars.
Japan not only feeds her people from
\ her own soli, as we do, hut she also
has what ws have not—a merchant
navy that distributes her exports
among foreign customers without
calling in the aid of "freighters'
ADMIRAL MOW RETIRES
Commandant at Boston Hatry Yard
Since 1904.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—Rear
Admiral A. S. Snow retired from act
ive service today, being the third
officer of that rank to leave the navy
this month, by operation of the age
limit. The others were Rear Admir
als H. W. Lyon and Asa Walker.
Rear Admiral Snow will be succeed
ed as commandant of the Boston navy
yard by Captain William Swift. Cap
tain Swift was only recently restored
to duty by order of President Roose
velt, after having been under suspen
sion for six months on a nine month's
sentence for allowing the battleship
Connecticut to run on a rock off Cul
ebra.
Albert Sydney Snow, who today
leaves the service of Uncle Sam's de
fenders of the seas, was born in Rock
land Me., November 18. 1845, and
graduated from the naval academy
In 1865. He served in the expedi
tion to Corea and the attack on Core
an forts. He has been Commander of
I the Badger and the New York. Prior
to becoming commandant of tbe Bo- •
ton navy yard. In February, 1804, he
was for four years commandant of
the New York navy yard.
FIGHT SUGAR TRUST
Pennsylvania Company Wants Dam
ages of 130,000,000.
NEW YORK. Nov. 18.- Damages
for $30,000,000 are asked by the
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining com
pany In its suit against the American
Sugar Refining company, known
the "sugar trust," which came up for
trial today before the United States
court for the southern district of New
York. The plaintiff is represented by
former Governor Frank S. Black, of
New York. Associated with him are
Battle 4k Marshall, of this city, and
Joseph De F. Junkln, John C. Bell
and other attorneys of Philadelphia
Attorney Black is confident of succeai
in the case, which, in amount of dam
ages asked, is among the most Im
portant ever brought against a trust
from the outside world. As Ibis
writer puts it:
"Warned by the example of the
United Statees, they avoided the mis
take made by tbe Americans, of de
veloping their industries and export
trade without having any mercantile
marine available, in this way,
enormous amount of American money
left and still goes out of the country
In the Bbape of freight charges to
forelgn-owned vessels. Nothing shows
tbe Japanese thoroughness to better
advantage than the way in which
prepared tbelr merchant service
p re para tor y to acquiring the goods
to load the vessels with.
"Visitors to Japan at the end of
the nineteenth century must have
seen the number of Japanese
lying In the harbors waiting for ern
ploy men t. Then it seemed to be
waste and miscalculation, but time
has shown that it was only foresight
Slowly, year by year, the proportion
of the Japanese vessels grow larger
j larger, and a corresponding pro
portion of money stays in tbe coun
try. In tbe pursuance of ths
dent development of this side of aa
tional life, the Japanese have ac
quired a merchant marine which
ranks ninth In the world, a conclu
sire proof of the value both of the
idea actuating them and of their
method of accomplishing It And the
Japanese thoroughness did not stop
at the mere creation of the fleet. It
developed the means of building tbe
vessels, so that yet again Japanese
capital might remain In Japanese
hsnds rather than pass into those of
the shipbuilders on the Clyde or the
Thames. Wbersa* formerly the
whole supply of new vessels of tbe
great Japanese shipping companies
was brought abroad, it is now doubt
ful whether there will be anv so pur
ctaaed. 1 be shipbuilding «arde o'
Japan hare been developed ug to the
point where they can supply the
needs of the Japanese merchants, sad
henceforth Japanese ships will be
built in Japanese yards. This pro
ficiency is not confined to the mer
chant vessels, for the same 1s true
of the government aavy yards,
where first-class war-ships are be
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FRANK PRICE IS
WILLING WITNESS
Testifies as to the Time Adams
Left the St. Joe
KATHDItl'M. Idaho, Nov. 18.—
The trial o|! Steve Adams, charged
with the murder of Fred Tyler, In
the Marble creek country in 1904,
moved alon|[ slowly today.
O. M. Told a homesteader of the
Mica creek district and a surveyor of
tbe upper 8t. Joe country, was called
to the witniMW stand. He was exam
ined concerning tbe lay of the land
and the conditions of the trails la
1904.
Mrs KIllicit was called anil testi
fied that h|»c wits a homesteader of
1905 and saw Orchard and Simpkins
that year. Her evidence was valua
ble only on account of proving Or
chard waa there.
Frank Price waa called and prov
ed to lie a willing witness for the de
fense. He now live* In Spokane but
formerly hOmextended In tbe Mat tile
creek dlstrik-t in 1904. He kept a ho
tel and store about three fourths of
mile from Mason's and was well
acquainted with Simpkins and Other
people coming and going. His des
cription of Simpkins did not tally
with the Other witnesses' evidence
He said thL jumpers tame armed to
the teeth With rifle and revolver
He said Phillips and Griffelh came
later. In some of his answers, the
proasrutlot's attorneys desired the
emnt to cifll him down which Judge
Wood did, threatening to have hint
held for contempt of court. His evi
dent* corroborated o H, Todd as to
the bad tip I Is and rougbnesa of the
country. He claimed he saw Adams
and Glovef at the Mason cabin on
August 6. On August 7, he stated,
bn WSRi to St. Joe where be remain
ed over nlflht He says he registered
at the hofei, th# rsfftotei of which
verified bin statement. On Augn'd
8, he clalilned Adams ami Glover ate
with him at the hotel and that later
they walked to the water's edge to
take the steamer Spokane. He never
saw Admits after that time. He
claimed he heard of Houle's death on
the river near Mason'a cabin. He
tnet Andrew Bloom who told him of
Houle's d«uth Continuing up the
river, he saw Mason on tbe shore
when he exclaimed that Houle waa
dead. He said he was arrested In
Coeur d'Alene anil proceeded to relate
his troubles when be was admonished
to tell nolle of them.
Attorney Knight asked Did Mason
go Into the Marble creek country
to his homestead, quite often during
the summer of 1904 7" "Yes. the
jumpers kept him pretty busy,
the reply. Tbe court admonished him
to be careful with his answers
Knight asked, "Did he have a large
prominent nose, a* prominent as my
nose?" "I never aaw a none quite so
prominent as yours."
Minnie B. Hansen, wife of a home
steader was called. She aeld she ete
breakfast at the St. Joe hotel on Aug
8 when Adams, Price and Glover were
also present.
This afternoon Detective McPar
land was called. Attorney Harrow
ALGERNON SARTOR IA
Gramku-n «>f General U. 8. Grant,
who bag been appointed secretary qfl
legs ties st Montevideo. Uruguay.
asked if he did not endeavor to cat
Mason to nalp hunt Simpkins for the
state and receive a portion of the
$4000 reward This to said to have
occurred at Wallaea. Attorney Knight
objected to the question and waa
sustained.
Frank Price «u recalled and
Knight naked "you felt pretty good
when you heard of iioule'a death?"
"You bet 1 did." "And you feel m
yet?" "Well, I am not grieving over
IL"
Captain Laird who waa running
the steamer bpokaae on Aug. t, 1194,
stated, when placed upon ths stand
that he came out of the woods with
Adams who was oa his way to Spok
baving a ticket to that point.
ATTRACTIVE RIVERSIDE PARK
Sixty Lota Wan Sold in New Addi
tion.
Many persona took advantage of
the free excursions to Riverside Park
addition yesterday sad look ad the
property over. It wae the first day
of the sale under the easy payment
plan and sixty persona took advan
tage of the opportunity to invest in
the Iota. The addition I toe along the
river front with n gentle elope from
Hm northern boundary to the water
giving an excellent drainage and
making the location healthfaL The
lota are priced from $1$ to $100, pay
able $10 down and $10 each month
until paid for. A number of the
purchasers yesterday will build human
while others bought aa a speculation,
expecting to dispose of the property
later at aa advance. Free excurs
ion* will be run dally during the
week to the property leaving the city
at 11 o clock a. m. and S p. m. The
sales ere handled by Kemp A LeDeou
and Hobson A Barker of this city.
The Consumer* company to under
contract to extend Its mains to this
addition.
CHARLESTON'S FESTIVAL
Opens for n Weak of Unrestrained
Merriment.
CHARLESTON, 8. C- Nov. l$.~
Charleston's annual fall festival was
Inaugurated today, sad already hun
dreds of visitors ars gathered In the
fatuous old city by the see tor a wash
of uuieetraiaad merriment. Many
novel, unique end fantastic pageants
and other amusement* have been ar
ranged for the week and there to
every probability that the celebration
will be the moat successful of it*
kind ever held here.
Entertains With Mnaionl
Mrs. V. i. Brel ion entertained
about 100 of her friends at a music
al. Three gpokaae artists, Mrs. Dstt
rick, soprano; Mr. Frasier, ptaaoiet;
and Mr. Griffin, violinist, gave the
musical treat.
The home was hesutlfally decorat
ed with ei ml lax car nation*. Oregon
grape, evergreen, cbrysaalhemuax.
klunlklnic and violets. Tbeae were
tastefully arranged producing excel
lent reeulU and artistic effects.
The bishop of tandem, who has bean
vtetUng several American etttoe, ban
eetabilslMxt a new p recedent by fall
lag to compare any of them wtt
"Crime blindness" to a new disease
discovered by n Berlin profaaeer Be
baa evidently I wen observing some at
our American souvenir banters en the
Job.
In the matter of that **■* te Che
north pole in n sledge drawn tv polar
bears the bears have yet to be tw
Perhaps Roosevelt p assed by seeing
ef nature fakes In the I m tola an Jan
gle and held hie load for rani "bar."
The delegatee to The Hague Me wear
$800,000 worth of d l nn a re and yet ad
journed peacefully.