The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1907, Page 1

vads are of the first o The bundav age of electricity. i | ! ill appear in & i | Call Even forced to f these to 11 \ OLUME 1SC0, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1907. $ ! |' | | ! Roosevelt Boldly Defies Frenzied Financiers | Bank Pays Out $8,000,000 and Closes; Rich Firm Fails for $6,000,000 | BALLOGNG BREAK REGORD; UNITED | STATES Il lEAI] Aerial Pacevs Scattered and All Still Aloft at Last Reports FLY TO GREAT LAKES ! Major Hersey of Weather|: Bureau Seems Certain of Being Winner INTO CANADA PASSES French and Ger- Craft Remain Sight of the America English, man in LOUIS, Oct. 22.—Scattered the state of Ohio, with one ST. or 4 two balloons trailing in the vicin- y of the great lakes, and another last heard from in Chatham, Ont. all the big balloons participating e second international aercnautic cup races were still in the air tonight. ThrougHout the afternoon reports of balloons at various points in Ohio ve been coming in, while Detroit sent word of the contestant rd passed over the er and was last seen at nine of The of only four of the has been proved. McCoy and dentity jler first reported their presence Ohio. Their last message effect that—the '«Aumerica end on the borders of Lake vicinity .of robably in the &8d buunt T EE m. tonight as ust mnorth of | Lake Michigan ported to the| One of inéoubtedly was t Lotus IT and another the Isle de "he race between the four is ed with great Interest 4 ..... B e HOLDS ATTACHMENT VALID OAKLAND, Oct. 22.—T! be- tween Agt W. H. Chickering and | A. V. Men: 1all over a heary attach- \ ment filed by W. Raymond com- pany against the Alexander brick and ompany was® decided in | Tudge Ogden tos | tion. to quash the u“’ The brick com- was ached by Mendenhall in f of the Raymond company to a claim of $17,000 for machinery. France being wat | e contest the C terra cotta Mendenhall's favor by éay wher A a me ment was depied cover | NEWS BY TELEGRAPH »|enter 6eld as competitor of. Pacific gas and 5 18 e English bal- | recovery follows, | SOCIAL { INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL'S| | NEWS TODAY % ) THER CONDITIONS TERDAY clouds ; West wind: maximum | temp minimum, 52 FOR TODAY--Showers: light | Page 11 EASTERN the eife w corpora Page 7 bresk in tesd apd e Page 1 race all etill reports ceived FOREIGN Moorieh troo, neryow 4 br French after latt pe from ennihilation in ® Page COAST ' Shipment of Japaness labor from Hawaii into | which loaned menmer to might pass im loses it Page T $2.000.000 worth - of Page 7 to eject Maror Madigan of Valleis from iismissed Dbecause of failure orpers to deposit Canada; migmsts #yndi 0 they Semts Fe contracts for Hawstian timber for raflread ties office #a dence San fearing mob of deputr ons faF oxi Page 7 faun, | takes megro from far Bernardine sherif? seek wnsder Poge 7 mente votes in referendum gives West will rerenge Sa ern Pacific overswbelming victory Pacific Poor inventor begins sult sgainst Fresno capitalist over Sonthern Page 1| | Page 7 rescuing wifs and chiliren. Napa e-enters burning teschers gather in . Racramento apnual meeting of the associa- Page 3 Thousand for twelfth tion EDITORIAL Bome of barte: The Hearst bligh Remember the sai Page 8 Natiopal campaign funds Page 8| POLITICAL | Longshoremen cry. “We'll el Lang don speech by district Page 8 Page S | att grate | ze 2 us after sraf in_effort jon_fnes campeign tpeaks at poon dmd wigin | Page 3 ciaims of P 2004 goverdent | Tage 2| a0 issue I cam o _police chiet Le | Page 3 using red Page 16 | irect | be Onavcial | Page 4| cravisg for | Page 16 defensc and | e reveals lipses | Page 9| ve- | bowe to save miomer | ge 5| Eeferemium Hits S. P. Whispering Czinipaign,l?lan of | Sacramento Grants the Western| Princeton person who came fo be no more or less than a living, breathing crime in breeches, is therefore, the most despised and hated creafure hemisphere; his name is hooted; his figure is burned in effigy. i NEW Yorw, McKinley, bar one girthy in the and Trustees Blow Paclfic Franchise by an Overwhelming Vote Effort will orkmen. men. Injured dur Ing: James Miss Mand objecti 20d dfsregard ~ the parentsl one elope Maid at Francis for bomestr in retur: st hotel gains second wa money and vais- | after guests' de- | s found .in rooms gartire Page 3| SUBURBAN | Wit lap s | when gun los sbot is Tged LF accident Page 6/ lre of bay cities semrch for Berkeler hors | who are plariog pirates in launch bought with | moner one Iad took from father Page 6 Spow Mountain electric power company will | 1s ‘wbot to 8 with electric “in - Mepdocipe, Somoma’ and Marin Page 6 tes of Oekland's engineer for municlpal put cost between - $1,425, und 400 jeaious wrath of Olive Scully wi in murder trial SPORTS Carman stables will be strongest mumericaliy of 2l the outfits at’ Emersville racetrack vext winter. Page 10 Dan Murphy signs contract to coach St umiversity eight during comipg season. . Page 1o Members of Vancourer Ru; digoant ovs criticlsm of M amateur plaser Oaklend makes 10 runs in last th of game with Portland and’ wins b; A Greggains Bgoring on 3 match between x Moran for Novembér 26. Page 10| | LABOR The bar tenders’ union teports many admis sions to membership. - Page 9 ‘The janitors’ udlor will ask to look after the police stations Page 9 MARINE | Russisn steamer from Constantipople, | stormy vorage across Pacific,” |port sbort of fuel ama palrs. | MINING Southern Nevads mining stocks drop becanse of fipaneial troubles in Wall street, but psrtial Page 15 atter puts’in to this nesd of re. Page 11 in Many societr folks will attend informal hop at Presidip mext Friday evesing. Page 8 | of this city showed toc Southern | tranchises to the Western Pacific rail- | an ordinance provi id!ng for a bounty on Special bv Leased Wire to . The Call SACRAMENTO, Oct. he elector | t, they | the referendum. .'The given ~a hard could do with Pacific was blow. The board of trustees had refused way to cross the city from north to} south between Nineteenth and Twen- tieth streets and from east to west be- tween Q and R streets. The question | was referred to the ople and the north and south franchise carried 4,085 | to 177, the cast to west by 4,019 to 172.| i The ratio Is about to 1. There are in the city 9,058 registered voters.| R S CHINESE SAILORS MUST - HAVE PERMIT TO' LAND SEATTLE, Oct. 22.—One death hav- | ing occurred here from bubonic plague, Mayor Moore today formally requested Governor Mead to request the surgeon general of the public health and ma- rine hospital service to take charge of the prophylactic measures that may be necessary to stamp out the plague in Seattle, and Governor Mead imme- | diately wired the department at Wash- | ington. The city council has had prepamfl rats and the board of health today di- vided the city into sanitary districts for the pnrposes of waging a. war on rats and 2lso for the purpose of.cleansing the city. There are no cases under sus- picion at.present. Rat guards are be- ing Installed on the -hawsers of every vessel in port. OTTAWA, Ont, Oct. 22.-—Dr. Montl- sambert, director general of the public health, has been instructed by Sydney Fisher to leave for the Pacific coast and direct-arrangements for the sani- tary protection of the dominion against the bubonie plague. which is sald’ to have made its appeanance at Seattle, A health guard has already been organ- ized and port and frontier inspectors have been appointed by’telemph Bribers to Beat Langdon Fearing the Open, Prosecution’s Foes Try Tricks ofiS'tealth. and Fail 66 “J"HE one man whose election at this time would | ; seem to- he -absolulely indispensable-is Wil- liam H. Langdon. . He is the district attorney who appointed Heney - assistant district attorney and thus made the prosecution possible. Mr. Langdon, elected -before on.the labor ticket, was not. sure of- nomina- tion by any party at our time of gaing to press, but he will probqbly run somehow, and, if he does, the .whole. country . can krow by his success or failure | whether San Franciscans want the prosecution to proceed or: cease.”’—Lincoln J. Steffens in_ the \ American Magazine for Novembgr. 2 - =3 By George A. Van Smith District Attorney William H. Langdon and the graft prosecu- tion is the issue that the indictéd bribe givers and all the corporate {interests allied with them are making strenuous, if stealthy, efforts to hide from the people of San Francisco. Every hand in which the allied interests can place a knife is working day and night to cut down Langdon‘and elect in his stead. a corporatlcm attorney, whose platform- utterances, to say nothing of his public record, leave no doubt as to the pohcy he would pur- sue if by mxfichance he became district attorney 2 That William H. Langdon, nominated "on 'two tickets and backed by the honest support of the great majority of the people of San Franeisco, will triumph over the gum shoe whisperers of the indicted bribe givers has not servedg———= o o to abate but rather.to Increasa the|the most carefully srstematized and desperate efforts of the men who can|adroitly conducted guerrilia campaigns see trials for felonies and prison|ever waged in.San Francisco. Lang- stripes * for themselves In the don's very strength with the great ma- election of Langdon. jority of the people has been mu}e to “The covered fight against Tangdon|Serve a weapon against him—pas -.nd the graft proseeufion is one of! Contim on Page 2, Columm 1. re- stand, legislative Now, these policies of mine can doubt if these policics have had about the present trouble, but if they have it will not alter in the slightest degrec my determination that for the remaining 16 months of my term these policies shall be persevered in."— | | President Roosevelt. financial world during the past few months. | ment frequently has been made that the policies for Which I and cxecutive, are responsible for that trouble. tence. They represent the effort to punish successful dishonesty. I bt AR Czolgosz Hearst Is for Ryan—l S Ryan for Czol= { Trouble in Wall Street Will Not gosz Hearst? How Do Republicans ! . Alter Policy, Saxs President Roosevelt » Like the Combiflation 2 { | | 66 HERE has been trouble in the stock market in the high The state- be summed up in one brief sen- any material effect in bringing GORTELYOU 10 STEM PANIG Big Trust Company Pays Out $44,444 a Minute ; | Financiers Hold Tight | to Funds They Conirol ; NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Credit, the| foundation of all business, trembled | for a time today and bef¢re confi-| dence could be restored New York's second ~largest ' financial institution had emptied its cash vaults under the| pressure of the biggest run expe- | rienced here in a generation, a stock exchange firm had failed for $6,000.- 000, Wall street’s principal securities had settled from 5 to 8 points a share, call money had risen to-70 per cent and bankers, united to stem the tide| of distrust, had been forced to appeal | for “relief to the secretary of the| treasury at Washington. All Wis followed ‘the reassuring statements by the acting state su-| perintendent of banks thak the sus-| pected bank was solvent, the declara- | tions by prominent bankers that there was no true basis for alarm and as- surances from Washington that Cor- | telyou would not hesitalte to act promptly in any situation where legiti- mate business was threatened. Now that the first scare Is over and {the worst of the future discoun'ted, it | is believed that metropolitan danking affairs soon will adjust themselves. Secretary Cortelyou reached New | York from Washington at 9:30 o'clock. | He was met at Jersey City by Hamilton | Fish, assistant United States treasurer, | and the two were in earnest conversa- tion during the ferry trip to New York. | Upon reaching this city they went a:‘ PRESIOENTTO CONTINOE GHT Says in Nashv1lle Speech That He Stands Pat {Purpose Is to Punish Successful Dishonesty NASHVILLE, Oct. 22.—<Never be- fore has‘ Nashville so elaborately decorated herself as today when wel- coming President Roosevelt. Bunt- |ing, flags, banners and pictures of the president were on almost every house in the uptown section of the city, which was crowded with people from a radius of 100 miles. The special train entered the union ” | station amid the booming of cannon, ringing of bells, shrieking of whistles and the cheering of thousands. The street parade led by the chief execu- | tive was a continuous ovation. THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS Tn his address at the Auditorium in addition to the quotation given abowe the president said: “If to arouse that type of civie man< hood in our nation it were necessary to suffer any temporary commercial de- | pression I should consider the cost but | small. “All ‘we have done has been.to un- earth the wrong doing. It was not the fact that it was unéarthed that did the damage.” All T did was to turn on the lght. T am responsible for turning, on the light, but I.am mnot responsible, for what the light showed. “It was impossible to cut out a‘canger | without making the’ patient feel for a few days rather sicker than he felt before. No material well being can Co-fl-lled on Page 4, Column 1. | Continued on Page 4, Column 3 lmpertment Question No. n . tion—and the briefer the FIVE DOLLARS. " IMPERTINENT A cook. Give mie the same. . What 1 have not; above ‘all-= And that §5 prize to buy “The Call.” What Are You Afraid 0f? 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