The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1907, Page 1

to the earth. Will the astronor the mystery of the great red st the article about it in !_ The Sunday Cal | | . ———————— This is the month when Mars is closest mers solve ar? Read VOLUME teresting as his Wall street power. Both i are the subject of an article in The Sunday Cali Panic ns Reig i n Wall Stree t as Stock Prices Fall Unless Roosevelt Acts, General Wire Tieup Will Be Made Tonigh RYAN FOR MAYOR S THE CRY OF REFORM FORCES sublicans and Democrats| Mzy Both Nominate the | the morning; light southwest winds, changim INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS §gODAY WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY —Clear; 64; minimum, 54 FORECAST FOR TODAY —Fsir, with fog In £ to Page | | XL | | maximum temperature, | 2| Defer General Strike | STAIKERS AWNIT INTERVENTIONOF NTION'S RULER | President’ Small Decides to% | i Says Naval Movement! Will Benefit Us “Uncle” Joe Cannon in Favor of Sending Battleships to Pacific Coast Special by Leused Wire to The Call WASHINGTON. Aug. 14.— Speaker fresb west. “« » JE—— Boss Buster EDITORIAL c— , ‘“‘Hands off, Mr. Herrin," is republican ver dict Page 8 DOESN'T SEEK OFFICE| Ar esasperating “gentieman among va- tions.” Page § — The disease that rots republics. Page 8 ¥ . . GRAFT Victorious Leader May Find| & m Honor Thrust on Him, a trisl of Loui of the testimony promises to add msl case. However Iy EAGAN LABOR'S MAN President Roosevelt gemeral wire made tonight Page 1 inger defies state policeman and Unless acts, moking on transport swharf; bar — mmissioners refer meatter o Genera Funston, Page 16 Scl i il orl boare 54 o indorse fiile; Schmitz Will Probably Lend| Works voard refuses to toa legal pointme ade by tbe last boasl of super ort to His Faith- = ful Follower ‘ enr. 18 amors sre Page it rs strangely an tage in his accou mbine from acqu George A. Van Smith she That Daniel A. Ryan, i 1 Dr. P n pief esque lan; ader of the reform repub- |, g tas cans who smashed the Her- Is sy they n machine, and Chairman forces in both republican omas F. Eagan, who mar- 1 he union labor com- ttee’s forces, may be the saves busband from belng . . Page 2 candidates for of b and cor one of the possi- | maiy ose Page 2 SUBURBAN Wealthy m Berkeler to 1dsho rancher goes hter whbom e a’s son rung sway from home (n adventure on the seas. Page 7 to believed _ dled - ten not probabilities, 1e first day’s after- vears reme court upbelds tbe deci the famous = Van s | interceded with a request for ar-| Oakiand end fnds | 7| that President Roosevelt was not | . prepared to take an emergency | | Joseph G. Canvon, who fs here’ en | route to New York, s emphatically in | favor of President Roosevelt's plan to ] 2end tho battieship fleot to the Pacific. | " | Although he has had no communica- NIERCHANTS ALARI\{ED( tion with the president regarding the _|naval movement. Cannon regards it as | a natural development of our naval| Policy and unhesitatingly commends it. “Our navy will be of no benefit to ' said Uncle Joe, “unless the men | know how to handle the ships and how | to work the guns. Efficlency is more | important than any other consideration {ARMED MEN POSTED ‘ and It can be gained only through prac- | tice. Therefore, it is an excellent thing | that the ships should be sent by way Until Tonight | | fProspectjve Move of Union Chief Threatens All Fields of Trade | i | of Cape Horn to the Pacific coast as a Guards Are Placed Near; practice maneuver. If it strengthens ‘\V:Stern Union Buuding | our diplomacy to have the battleships in the Pacific well and good, but in West Oakland whether it does or not the benefits of |a long cruise are apparent.” | '“What will congress do next session The crisis in the tclegraphers'j for the navy?’ Cannon was asked. \ z | "It will provide for adequate man- strike will be reached by 12|ning of the force we have and for If by that time| |the federal government has noti improvement,” was the answer. Proposes Reforms in Postal Service Special by Leased Wire to The Call NEW YORK, Aug. 14—Far reaching | reforms and tmprovements in the postal both for New York city and national in scope, were advocated to- day by Postmaster General George von o'clock tonight. o . 1 .. .. | bitration, the strike will be made | general throughout the United | States. Messages received last| | Samuel | Small in Omaha brought the in-l < | service, formation that only governmfent | night from President intervention would prevent a call | P 1 ¥ £ % L. Meyer. As recommended by Meyer, . for a complete tieup:of the [ines| . propaseh efaran are nine xn\,mun-; -osecutions {of the Western Unmion and|ber. as follows: |the Postal. At the same time it {was reported from Opyster bay Renéwal of postal notes pavable to individual instead of “bearer.” as establishment of a domestic Is post, limited to 10 pounds; es- shment of a postal savings bank inereases in the rural deliv- tem: een con- develop , the neither party have at-| widrk | gl or program | gpect the leaders | ork | respective parties to w e nonpartisan plan can not That v ether this be Gioned h democratic and re- 1 be disposed r board for some supervisors the ranks of organized labor| entative men for their tick- | as too plainly indicated before | primary elections to be dismissed | the merc coincidence of sweeping victories for the factions that the conventions. democrats will nominate | than doubtful Taylor was drafted into the He has not given any| ication of a desire to serve the| as the hea f its government | ter the time wiitn a popularly se- Jected successor could be qualified. If| the democrats do not nominate Dr. Iavlor the republicans would scarcely be -expecled to do so. The fact that ¢ men who will make up an almost exclusive majority of the republican onvention seem to be committed to r is more s service Continued on Page 4, Colums 1. f a candidate ¢ ocrats and re- | K returns to Berkeley. bia wreck. Page 7 es fnto f many persons narr deat COAST Sensation ) fallure of the Pope n bile concern, ome of the petitions for appoln e aut e country, receiver. FOREBIGN Moor: e desperate attack on French for in Casa Blanes ven off onl b and are @ Survivors , tell of wreck on Lobos Isian rocks SPORTS Keene's crack colt Colin at Sarat defents n g e easfly beaten br Angels and eason decided champlonship fight at to promots Recreation Page 10 Articles are formall igned matching Al Kanfman and Mike Schreck for a fight in tie Auditorium Page 10 LABOR J. L Nolan of the loral molders’ union ix bonored by the international body. Page 9 MARINE aptain Friele goes eest to bring out steamer | City, which was bought by Harrimamia take e of lost Columbla. Page 11 MIN Panic in New York stocks causes a heavy selling movement of Goldfield Consolidates | which suffered losses. Balance of list rot affected. Page 15 SOCIAL Captatn and Mrs. J. Mslcolm Graham leave for Leavenworth, Kan., where Ca; will take year's course in Infantry school. {THE CALL’S| BRANCH OFFICES Subscriptions and Advertise- ments will be received in San Francisco at following offices: 1651 FILLMORE STREET Open until 10 o'clock every night. §18 VAN NESS AVENUE Parent's Stationery Store. 2200 FILLMORE STREET Woodward's Branch. 553 HAIGHT STREET Christian’s Branch. SIXTEENTH AND MARKET Jackson's Branch. 974 VALENCIA STREET Halliday's Stationery Store. 1108 VALENCIA STREET Blake's Bazaar. 2011 16TH ST. COR. MISSION STS. i International Stationery Store. 2712 MISSION STREET The Newserie. 1631 CHURCH STREET George Prewitt's Branch. weary | near | Iy escape | Page 3 Beavers in north. Page 10 | step. Both sides claimed gains last night, but situation was almost it was the d before wire between here and L became congested and mes ked up in the offices of the eastern cities as far as ies were in The Asso- out messages to the had been able to serve city with the exception of n. ARVMED MEN GUARD BUILDING guards have been posted 8 the Western T'nion building at | Oakland and have been given or- s to prevent the approach of any n identified properly. s said late last | financ The We | that the ion officials charge telegraphers have with the circuits. | Should the railway * telegraphers be {called out, the entire ~train service | of the land would he paralyzed. The | situation is fraught with the gravest | possibilities. The telegraph has come Ito be an indispensable feature of the life of the nation and it was pointed out yesterday by merchants that well | nigh incalculable losses must ensue from a general tigup. During the day and last evening both | sides to the controversy remained firM in their contentions. The telegraphers |assertea through their representatives that the companies could not hope to |been tnterfering |conduct’ their business without she | tnjon men. . The officials of the com- panies declared, however, that they | were receiving additions to their force |ang intended to break the strike. | At the main offices in San Francisco and Oakland only a few operators were on duty. “Broker” operators were at work during the day and leased wires |from the east were manned. SPEAKS FOR WESTERN UNION The following statement was issued {last evening by I. N. Miller Jr.. acting | superintendent of the Pacific division of | the Western Union company: ! “The situation in the Pacific division | tonight, as far as the strike of the inverators is concerned, is very much | improved, but we are still suffering from inconvenience from interference of our circuits in joint railroad offices, evidently due to the order of railway telegraphers' sympathizers. This inter- ference, however, 1s much less marked than on previous days, and the full distribution of the genulne messages sent out by Secretary Quick of the or- der of railway tou;-ra)phorl will un- Coutinued on Page 9, Column 3 =l had not yet been d the stock brokerag T rs. but that If necessary such action nldwbe taken. This action would | rtually tie up the mercantile decrease In the rates of foreign ents each half ounce for ntry having direct steamship ; adoption of stamp selling ma- ery: postage | levery < | servi chines throughout the United States: | extra aelivery at 8 o'clock in the even- I idential portions of Man- i to relieve the eariy morning de- se of the short service, extending it to the Cunard and French lines; extension of the pneumatic tube service. “I have been studying these ques- tions very carefully,” sald Meyer, “and make the desired reforms vself or whera T have no authority {to act rgcommend them to congress. “We the slot machines for stamps,” either will n are going to experiment with Meyer said. “and hope to have them so they | will sell 1, 2 and 5 cent stamps. They re.a success in Germany. We will try | them in New York and in Washington. If they prove successful they will ba installed all over the country. That will make it necessary to bufld a gov- ernment plant in which to manufacture them.” Taft Will Speak on Aariif Eevisiou Special by Leased Wire to The Call WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 —Secretary of War Taft returned to Washington this morning after a month’s vacation at Murray Bay, Can. He was at the | war department early this morning, but denied himself to all callers and de- voted his time to a revision of the speech which he is to deliver at Co- { lumbus, Ohio, next Monday. The speech is said to deal largely with the sub- ject of tariff revision, in favor of which the secretary of war takes ‘a strong position. \ Secretary Taft prepared the outline of his remarks before leaving Murray Bay and took & rough draft of the speech with him to Oyster Bay and read it to the president. It is said that the president gave his indorsement to the utterances of the secretary and added some suggestions 80 that it may be said the speech will reflect the views of the president upon the subject. —_— PRINCE UN YONG TO BE SUCCESSOR TO THRONE | Japanese Government Is Preparing to Notify Washington of Korean Nomination Special by Leased Wire to The Call WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Mr. Dodge, the American charge at Tokyo, cabled the state department this morning that he had been requested by the minister of foreign affairs to advise this govy- . ernment that Prince Un Yong had been nominated for crown prince of Korea on August 7. Ko A Factory of the Pope automobile concern at Hartford, Conn.; Colonel A. A. Pope (lower left), Pope, his son, mho was appointed receiver yesterday on petition of the company, the banks having refused to supply it with ready funds. — FRANTIC AAID 15 MADE ON MARKET fF ailure of Pope Co. for $22,000,000 Hits Shares |Forfunes Are Lost in | Rush to Sell Holdings president of company, and Albert 'Roosevelt Fails to | Issue Statement Expected | {Copper, Union Pacific and Smelters in Slump | Special by Leased Wire to The Call NEW YORK, Aug. 14— .| Panic reigned on the New honap&ie Speaks on Corporation Slump in the- Stock Market Is Not Due to Federal Work Special by Leased Wire to The Call WASHINGTON, Aug. 14— Attorney General Bonaparte made | a statement this afternoon to The Cail's representative regarding the government’s policy. - toward corporations. He said that the number of corporations and indi-| 5 { viduals to be prosecuted was| small, and pointed out that, while| the effect would be felt by specu-| lators, ‘it would not-operate to| undermine the seneral prosperity | of the country. In view of the general decline of} important stocks and a general| fear of: radical antitrust activity by the government which has pre- vailed in Wall street, Bonaparte was asked this question: “Is the business of the great corporations of the country gen- erally conducted on such' unlaw- ful ‘principles ‘that - the prosecu- tions deemed mecessary by the law department of the United States will ‘unseftle industial conditionis and / lessen our pros- perity " : Bonaparte replied: 3 “I know of no act which would justify any such statement. There have been violations of federal statutes by some _corporations and by some individuals, and, as far as this department can accom- plish it, the guilty corporations - P | York stock har during Big Auto Concern .. ins: hait hour today’ in Hands Of | when, on the news of the Receiver 1twenty-two million dollar | failusg. of the Pope manufac- turing company, brokers fought in a wild rush to get rid of stocks, apparently at Pope Manufacturing Company LflCl{jS any cost. Fortunes were R ({ Fosid lost when the most active eaay I"unas stocks dropped in value from $6 to $10 a share, while { the less active stocks could not find a buyer. A rumor that one of the big leather companies was about to fail increased the panic. Altogether it was such a day as hadl not been experienced on the stock ex- change for many months. Disappointment in regard to a statement which had ; : . been expected from Presi- £ oftgR PR Sy e e dent Roosevelt caused trad- banks. The receivers appointed | are ‘Albert L. Pope, a son of CoI-; ers to attack the market. onel A. A. Pope, president of the | The result was almost com- company, and A. T. Hamblin of| plete demofilizatiom N"‘{:"k' ‘?lt’f" L. Pope is vice| Tp the last five minutes of e company. - . pr’el'sl;eernetc;vershir?wzs éought. it ; trading o 4 S the decline some- | checked Contimued on Page 3, ¥idate cor. 3| what. The last figures were is'said, because of financial conditions;’ ‘Impertinent Question Special by Leased Wire to The Call HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 14. The Pope manufacturing com-| pany, one of the biggest concerns engaged in the manufacture of automobiles and bicycles in' the country, with headquarters here, was placed in the hands of a re- ceiver today. The application for| the receivership ‘was made yes- terday in New Jersey, where the company was ‘incorperated. The| application was made by the com-| pany itself Because of an inability | No. 12 Which Enjoy Life More, Men or Women--why ? “For the most original or wittiest answer to this ques- tion—and the briefer the better—The Call will pay FIVE DOLLARS. For the next five answers The Call will pay ONE DOLLAR each. Prize winning answers will be printed next Wednesday and the guilty individuals wiil be brought to trial, and, when con- victed, to punishment; but the number of each is small, and the vindication of the law can, in my |- opinion, have only a beneficial ef- fect on the prosperity. of the coun- try, although it may demoralize some speculators.” This interview was sent to Bona- parte tonight for verification or cor- rection if needed. Tt is published as finally approved by him. { The administration’ is adverse to| putting out official statements for the purpose of affecting the stock |! market, even to the extent nf-,l_ef‘pi.ng n a declining market to recover, and checks mailed to the winners at once. Make your answer short and address it to IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS, THE CALL. Prize Answers to “When Are You Happiest!” $5 prize to F. A. Wellman, Sants Cruz, Cal When I wake up and find it isa't se. $1 prize to S. Spicer, 2333 Cedar street, Berkeley. Cal. When the man who tried to do me and did it is being done. prize to G. M. Brown, 2140 Pine street. clty. On the night before the morning aiter. §1 prize to Clare Winter, 858 Broadway, Oakland, Cal. Just before the alarm clock goes off. 31 prize to A. J. Branagan, 168 Chattancoga street, city. ‘When you realize that life is.only a joke and forget that it is of the practical kind and is on you. ;. St prize to R. 0. Mason, 558 Ashbury street, city. 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