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The Cceur d'Alene Press.
VOLUME 2, NUMBER 66
COEUR D'ALENE. IDAHO. WEDNESDAY fifvENINO, OCTOBER 28. 1907
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WESTERN BANKS
ARE STRONG
Flurry in East is Not Feared by
Western Banks
Portland, Ore., Oot. 23.—J. L.
Hartman, manager of the Portland
Clearing Honae association, made the
following statement to tbe Associat
ed Press regarding banking condi
tions in Portland:
Tbe financial situation in Portland
is remarkably good. Tbe banks of
Portland bare more money on hand
than at any time in their history.
There is scaroely a bank in this terri
tory that is not prepared for any
emergency. Very few big loans are
being made except to wheat and wool
buyers. The banks of Portland are
careful and eoservative, and operate
on an individal basis. Portland is
oat of debt and is a loaner and not
a borrower. Tbe wisdom of Port
land's ultra-conservatism could not
be better demonstrated than at this
time. "
SEATTLE IS FIXED.
Seattle Wash., Oot. 23. —C. B.
Vandell.secieary of the Seattle cham
ber of commeroe, says:
There is only one depressing ele
ment in tbe local financial aitation as
it exits today. That is tbe tendency
toward reaotion as a result of too
much speculation is realty daring the
past 18 months. Otherwise busi
ness is just as brisk as it has been
for the past five years.
"Bank deposits have increased
since January 1 from $60,0 00,000 to
$72,000,000. There is more money
to loan today than ever before. In
fact,there Is such an excess that large
sums are being sent east for call
loans.
"The volume of trade with Alaska
generally is on the increase. Tbe
same is true with all commerce. ''
TACOMA BANKS.
Tacoma, Wash., Oot. 23.—Ta
coma's financial condition has not
been so substantial in years as at tbe
present time. Heads of the banking
institutions are unanimous in the
statement that a better situation
could not be asked for. Recent fig
ures show that great increases in tbe
savings department, while general de
posits are steadily growing. Recent
baok statements reflect unusual so
lidity. Farmers and fruit growers
are getting unheard of prices for their
products. Agricultural vales all over
tbe state are enjoying unusual pros
perity. Lumber cutting is on a proflt
abe basis and wages are good.
HAVE CURRENCY.
San Francisco, Cal., Oot. 23.—I.
W. Helman, president of the Wells
Pargo National bank and of tbe
Union Trust company, discussing tbe
financial situation this morning.
Bald.
"'There is abundant currency in the
banks here for ail purposea, and we
are accommodating our regular
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SEATTLE HAS PLAGUE
Seattle, Wash , Oct. 23. —Mayor
Moore yesterday formally requested
Governor Mead to request tbe surgeon
geperal of the puolio health aud ma
rine hopsital servioe to take charge
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THE M'KINLEV MAUSOLEUM,
["he noble mausoleum at Canton
flch waa erected as the resting place
r the bodies of President McKinley
d hia wife and children was built at
»st o t over half a million dollars.
olients as though nothing bad hap
pened, making the usual advance*
for the moving and forwarding of
orope, of which large shipments are
In motion now. 1 do not think any
thing la to be feared on account of
any of the Sen Francisco commer
cial, aavinga and trnat banks. They
are in the bands of conservative
bankers, not speonlartora, and are all
doing a legitimate baknlng business
In the various branches. My own
banks are not interested in eastern
stocks. ' '
"The western country banks," be
said, "are creditors of the New York
banks, and when they make calls on
them, it la for their own money.
That is a truth 1 have argued 50
times to tbe New York bankers, bat
they fail to recognize It."
FINANCIAL CHEER.
Halt Lake, Oct. 23.— Baukera here
aay the financial condition In this
city has never been so g >od. All the
banks hold large reserves and none of
them are apprehensive as to the out
look. Tbe volume of business here
shows a large increase over last year
and tbe amount of money in circula
tion, as shown by clearing house re
ports, is considerably larger than at
this time last year.
Tbe flnaonial news from the east
was reflected on the mining exchange
here. Stocks showed a decline of 2
to 13 cents per share. Conservatives
were in no rash to sell and this tend
ed to steady the tone of the market.
ROAD DISOBEYS COMMISSION
0. R. & N. Pays No Attention to
Orders of State.
Kahlotua, Wash., Oct. 22.—The
O. R. A N. company, in the face of
the order from the railroad comuis
sion to make connections with tbe
Nothern Pacific at Connell, has re
fused to even let the contractors trana
fer their freight at Connell, aa they
will not famish oars. All supplies
and material coming into Kahlotua
from the Northern Paeiflo aie either
switohed onto the O. R. <k N. tracks
at Garfield or Walnla- This is a
shrewd move on the part of th» O. R
A N., as it gives them a chance t<
load Northern Paoiflo cars back t<
Albina with wheat. While freight
was being trausfered at Connell the
O. R. A N. had to furnish their own
cars to haul the supplies from Con
nell to Kahlotns. They now get more
money foi freight, besides getting
the use of th» oars. It is favorable
to the grain companies, as it gives
Kahlotua twioe as many empty cars
for loading wheat to Albina.
of the prophylactic measures that may
be necessary to stamp oot bubonic
plague in Seattle, and Governor Mead
immediately wired the department at
Washintgon Tbe city counoi. bad
prepared an ordinanoe providing for
a bouDtv on rats, and tbe board of
health yesterday divided the city into
sanitary districts for the purpose of
waging a war on rata and also for the
purpose of cleaningMip the city
The Chinese and Japanese colonies
through the leaders of each, have
volunteered cooperation with tbe
health efflcere in tbe work of extermi
nation. There has been bat one
death from the plague in Seattle, and
there are no oases under suspicion st
present- Tbe entire campaign is
prophylactic, aDd Dr. E. E. White of
tbe public health and marina hospital
servioe. stationed here, is already
practically in charge of tbe work.
Rat guards are being installed on
the hawsers of every vessel in port,
and tbe city ordinance for tbe ex
termination of rata is being enforced,
City county nnd state henlth officials
ars working together, and eltiiens of
all nil----are cooperating with them,
No apprehension ia felt here con
earning the spread of tbe plague, nnd
evsry city of Puget sound Is taking
d roper raasuroa to prevent Its nppaai
HUNTEB IS INJURED
Alone In the Woods Seven Days
Without Food.
Bntte, Mont., Oot. 23.—Pete 0*1
lan, a well known Bntte man, who
went into the mountains on a haunt
ing trip with Captain Day Stivers
several weeks ago and who waa re
cently reported aa lost, la safe and la
now at Drummond recuperating from
hia rough experianoe of aevan day*
in tha billa without food or shelter.
This information waa brought to tha
city by Captain Stivers and hla
party, who arrived home thia morn
ning.
The party oonsiited of Captain
Stivers, A. T. Morgan, Jaek Gille
spie, Pete Callan and George Wil
liams. all Bntte basincM men. "We
bed our beaqdoartera on the 8 un
river on the summit of the Continen
tal divide," said Captain Stivers,
in talking about hia trip. "The mis
hap to Callan oame about in thia
way: One morning Pete strolled out
from the camp and abont 10 miles
away he oame across e fine specimen
of ball elk. Pete brought him down
all right hot tba bull jumped him
aud knocked him in tbe head. He
i rendered noconaoioua, 1 guess,
for a time and as he did not return
to camp we gave op all idea of look
ing for game and began to search for
him.
"Jack Gillespie and 1 had our ef
forts rewarded by finding him jnat
about at the point where he shot the
elk. He waa alive and that waa all.
He had been without nourishment of
any kind for seven days. We put
him on a pack boras and brought him
to camp abont 10 miles away. It was
a close call for Pete."
COMMISSION MEETS
The sewer oommisaon met today in
the council chambers. The com
mission allowed bills, presented by
John P. Gray, tbe apeoial sewer at
torney, by the members of the com
mission and by the oontracor, ag
greagting about $11,000, $9,727
being tbe estimate for tbe past month
of the contractor.
The laying of tbe Foster street
sewer waa discussed. It will be re
membered tbia is beyond the eewer
ditrict, however, the contractor laid
a sewar there in acoordanoe to tba
plans of tbe oivil engleer. The
citizens are not obliged to pay tbe
BISHOP JOLTS BROKERS
"What Would Jesus Do in Wall
Street."
New York, Oct. 21.—Standing In
the open air in front of tbe old Cus
tom bouse with 5000 Wall street men
jammed about him, tbe Right Honor
able and Right Reverend Arthur Fol
ey Wiuningtou Ingram, lord bishop
of London, preached a sermon yester
RIGHT REV. A. F. W- INGRAM.
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And when be bad finished there
was a pretty general Impression among
51 , bearers that he had warned them
metaphorically that there ia much
more visible reason for potting faith
in God than in watered stock,
since no lord bishop ever spoke in
Custom House square before, and be
most of Wall street bad never
j has id a lord bisbop speak anywhere,
the throng that gathered about tbe
where tbe Rev. Wilkineon, tbe
W *j| treat chaplain, usually preaches
at noon, was very curious and con
taioed representatives of every bank
ing an d broking house In the street,
Bisbop Ingram nrrivnd in un nnto
: mobile just ns Mr. Wilkinson pre
sen ted n handsomely bound Bible to
i blushing Police Captain Hogan, for
AFTER SMELTER TRUST
Unele Sam Hay laveattgate
Federal Company.
Washington, Oot. 23.—There la
exoelient authority for the assertion
that the government will proeeed next
against tba smelter trust by seixurs
of Interstate routed oar* of ore, if
anooeeafnl in the case against the to
bacoo trust at Norfolk, Va., where
8,750,000 cigarettes were seized
under the Sherman anti trust law.
Inaamnoh as the Federal Mining
and Smelting j company, operating
In the Coear d'Alene mining relgon,
la a constituent of the Guggenheim
waiter trust, the traffic controlled by
the Federal company In western
states will likaly oome under the ban
in further proceed inga.
A department of juatios officially
speaking of the matter, gave such
strong intimation of the foregoing
that no other oonclusion is lett aa to
the government'* intentions.
"If the government Is ancee sf nI in
the tobacoo trnat seixurs case will it
proceed against othar trusts?" ue was
saked.
"Tbe government will nut be
limited ss to sny other trust,'' be re
plied.
"Will it proceed against the
Standard Oil and smelter trusts?''
"1 aay sgain it will not be limited
as to any other trusts."
It is known that the investigation
of tha smelter trust, going on for
months, has esabltsbad beyonddoubt
that tbe Federal la part of tbe smelter
tiust. If successful in tbe tobaoco
case, the government may legally
seize every oar of interstate ore
which is controlled by the smelter
trust or any constituent company.
bill. Tbe aewer comm lesion did not
determine ita action, leaving tbe
subject open for the attorneys to de
oide.
The eommmiaaion accepted a deed
of easmeot from Wright & Steele and
from the Granite Investment com
pany. This sasmsnt permits the
sewer to be laid through block U,
rather than to be ran down Third
street to the lake and then to follow
tbe eleotrle line. This) deed will
allow the sewer to be laid where the
alley would have been, had it not
been vacated. It is said to be better
and no more expensive.
eflloient guard work at previous bear
lags. Then bs presented another to
tbe lord bishop, which the letter said
bs would cherish very mnoh, coming
as it did from a wall street eoogrs
gat ion.
WATERED STOCKS.
Then he got down to the watered
stocks immediately by way of a pret
ty parable.
"1 saw a boy In a London fog
banging onto a string,*' aaid the
bishop, "and wheu I asked him what
he had be replied, 'a kite.' And 1
asked him how he kuew he had a kite
when he couldn't see it, and he re
plied, '1 know 1 can't see it, sir, bat
1 can fsel it's pall.' "
"That was the auwaer to all peopls
who won't smbrace religion because
they mu not see God with their own
eyes," tbe lord bishop said- "We
won't believe in God because we
ean't see him, yet we believe Impli
city in things of life which we never
see—and some of these things do not
exist. Is it tbe miracles that pat
God without your range of real
Then tell me how ycurBouday dinner
becomes n part of your body that same
day. Or tell me the difference be
tween n live body and a corpse
"But of God there Is ample evid
enee. There's the well-ordered world
nnd millions of sans floating In tba
anu minions 01 suns Doming in ine
circles through infinite spaoe—the.. j
Jnat as tang ibis to every man as tbe
puli to the little boy's kite."
"WHAT WOULD JEHUS DO?"
Then tbe lord bishop finished
abruptly with a question anenwMred
are the infiuite things of everyday Ilfs 1
— there's tbe pall at tbe conscience,
and sn admonition that may have
been caustic or 00 L
in Wall
"What would Jaeo* do
street?" be asked suddenly. Then, I
with a wave of hi* hand : "Yon My 1
yon believe In tbe teeobiugs of Jmus
Christ, but what have you done to j
spread bis kingdom? What are you
doing to spread his teachings In your
busineM and in your borne?*'
Tbe sermon was received in silence
but Dr. Ingram shook hands with
Mversl hundred ot bis bearers he
fore leaving tbe street.
NATIONAL
POLITICS
Congressional Committee is After
President Roosevelt
Washington, D. O., Oot. 18.—
Special Correspondence—President
Roosevelt will find upon his return
hers from his bear hunt, that n revolt
against hia politicos will naed hla at
tention. A desperate loUrueoinsl fight
la Impending In the ranks of the Re
publican leaders or control of the
party organisation. Tha praaidency
and congreaa la at staka. Legislation
In the coming congress depends upon
the preliminary skirmish. Tbs re
moval of the headquarter! of the re
publican congressional commits#,
from New York to Washington aa tbe
first open step taken to notify Praai
dent Room veil that hla anticipated
effort to dominate congraM at tha
coming cession aa ha did at the last
ion will not be tolerated by the
Mders. An evidently inspired arti
cle in tha Washington Post outlines
tbs plans of the reactionary republi
can leaders and states their ultima
tarn to the PrMident and their threats
to thoae republican congressmen who
are Inclined to take tips from the
White House instead of from tbe
speaker- Briefly stated tbe main
points sat forth are:
Tbs campaign for tha election of
Republican members of congress ia to
bs entirely distinct from the cam
paign for president, especially In col
looting and disbursing campaign
funds.
The status of thorn members of
congress who side with President
RooMvelrt for more radical legists
tion "will be taken account of by tbe
oongreMionnl committee In Its future
dealing with these same members
when they become candidates."
Corporations and trusts "that
prosper beet when Republicans ars lu
power and wbsn republican policies
prevsl" are nullified they mast oon
tribute to the congressional 00 m
mittee, nnd that sny contributions
they may make to tbe republican
national commute will not count,
when favorable legislation Is asksd
for.
This announced policy of the repub
lienn leaders to out loose from the
president Is n politics] game for high
stakes, and tbs oongessional players
evidently don't intend to be short of
cash if tbe fat can bs fried out of the
corporations. As President Roosevelt
said in dealing with Harrimnn for
osmpign contributions "we are prsa
Goal ineu" and these congressional
republican* are equally practical lu
their ideas of rising a fund.
It will be iutereattng to democrats
to notice bow tbe republican mem
ber* of ooogreae will line np on these
propositions- How many will sdhers
to the president's side and who will
rally around tipMker Cannon and the
other reaoi ionary landers. The re
publican members of tbe seriate, of
JAM TO SEE PRESIDENT
Chattanooga. Tenn., Oot. 23.—
Probably,' 30,000 people were in
danger of injury last night at the
neutral station when PrMident Roots- j
velt's specie) train roiled into the
shed at 6 : 10 . It was a surging mss
of humanity that coaid not be 000
trolled. Tbe demonstration was *<
great that it was imposstbls for the
president ts speak. He made many
attempts, but finally gave up
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cheer* wMalmo* incessant, and Inthr
wild rash to get close to the prasi
dent's oar women were carried off
their fret and had to fight back the
svaianebe of humanity
Presently the cheering ceased for a
little while Then, with all bis vo
cal power, Preeident RooMvelt Mid
"My friends aud fellow citizens;
Be a. quiet a. you c.o, and I'll tr,
to My a few wuida in appreciation of
this magoifieent oration. Thia U tbe
I moat enthusiastic crowd and tbe
1 largest one that baa greeted my arrival
lu any eity oa this trip through the
j southland."
Then the crowd began to surge,
Tbe president held np a warning
hand. "Don't, don't, don't! My
God, people remember there are worn
en and children in tbe crowd- It's
dangerous. Try to be quiet"
' Tbe prasdeot tried vainly to spank.
course, will be divided on similar
linen, hut perhaps fortunately for
them they will not be compelled to
show their hands until tbe republi
can* of the bouse have exposed
theirs.
There is one feature of thin fight
that may drew the democrats into it,
although on tbs general prlnalple of
lotting the enemy fight It oat and
then whip tha survivors, it were bet*
ter to keep aloof from an tangling
alliances with either faction, but try
and fores tbs enactment of legisla
tion neoaaeary for the best in U r se ts
of the whole oountry. President
KooMvelt may soak alliaa Id the
democratic oamp, who, added to hia
own frlande In oongraas, would 00 m •
poM a majority. But after the as
perlauoa of tbe democrats of the sen
ate wbsn tbe railroad rata hill woe
being manipulated, dstnucraU will be
vary wary of any overtures from
President Room veil, for fMr of again
being left ia the lurch
This puts tha corporations between
the upper and the nether millstone.
It should result in any dscant trust
or corporation magnate deciding to
rsfoM to be bled by either faction.
If there are any honest trusts It may
iuduoe them to Am from such repub
lican plundering and to rely upon
their constitutional righto and boned
government for protection againat tha
virtual oonfisoatioa of tbsir assets by
the two republican factions which
control different braoobM of the
government.
The beet play PrMident Rooacealt
oan make against this revolt, would
be to have hla frienda announce c
rival candidate for speaker againat
tbs arob conspirator Cannon, and lot
U bs known that rather than aaa
Cannon sleeted be would favor the
election of John Hbarp Williams, the
democralo loader, aa spMker. The
republican reactionary leaders would
ba helpless without the spoils of the
bouse sod tbe president should he
able to oontiol the votes of enough
lepubllaen members, who, added to
the democrats, would moke a majori
ty. It woold only require Just 80
republican*, tariff reformers and
rt tiers to do the trlok.
Tbe above ia so Interesting and lm
portanl that even democratic news
must be subMrvleot to it this weak.
Next week, however, there msy be
equally Important information about
democratic matters; for it Is report
ed by tbs Bryan literary bureau In
this eity that Mr. Bryan will la a
few days make announcement of hla
future plans. Whether he will de
clare himself a candidate for tbe
notuiuatioo for president, or decide
that he does not oonaider himself tbe
most avallabls candidate Is the su
preme question.
ROBERT MILLER.
.The few ssntsocea he had ottered had
consumed 19 minutes, end at 6:31
tb« train was signaled to Imvu. Aa
It rolled away the president waved a
response to ebrers that followed him
s* long os bs was in sight.
Much Building:.
J. H. Green has secured several
contracts tor tbs erection of build
logs recently,sums of whkeb are near
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w|1| M ^lUomTir hia
dense at Lakeside and Tenth, In
which he resldM. Mrs. Emels, a sta
tes in law of James Roche, will build
at Hevectb sod Wallace a fit 180 real
denes, late which she expects to
more. Dr. F. D. Watts will coa
st root near Seventh and Indiana, a
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Lakeside sad Math tod K S. Mat
thews be* about CO untrue led a resi
dence for rent near Montana and
Seventh- Mr. Green has all t here
con 1 recta.
Micbeal Forkm, who waa killed
yesterday in a logging camp at Mien
bay wm buried today in tba tinman
Catholic cemetery, Rev. Father T. J.
Purcell officiating He had no rela
tivM la this locality.