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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-10-20

lngs; questions and answers.
1o:oO-Report Of Corresponding sec
retary: song. Press On, = from White
Ribbon Hymnal; introduction Of visi-
tors.
11:OO.-Report Of treasurer; report
Of auditor. Mrs. Ellen Kinney.
11:404-C Conservation service.
12:Oo-Noontide prsyet;. unfinished
business; announcements; adjouFn-
ment
Afternoon.
1.45-Music; prayer; reating min
utes: solo, Mrs c. NJ. Carlton.
2:OO-Presidents address, Mrs. r.
NJ. Steel presiding
Watchman, What Of the
Night?" music, Mrs. Louise p. Round.
Mrs. NJ. F. Fullllove. Mrs. Jane b.
Votaw. Mrs. Elizabeth V. Wilson.
Mrs. ~ f. Hoxter; "Our Cabinet and
It's Contents Presented for Our In
spection. Mrs. Ida Barkley. Mrs. Mary
N. Blair. Mrs Sarah c. Roberts Mrs.
Mary E. Aldrich. Mrs. Elizabeth P.
Maroon, Mrs. Jane II. Blair; music.
4:OO-Young woman's Christian
Temperance Union.
4:9O-Loyal Temperance Legion;
adjournment.
Evening.
s:O0-Music, congregation: devo-
tions. Rev. Davis Erritt; duet. Nellie
Parsons and Bessie Cornelius: ad.
dress. Miss Lillian Phelps. Canada;
The Old Old Story" Mrs. Jennie
solo, It Is Gods Way"
Mrs. "a J. Riggs; benediction. Rey.
II. A. Ketchum.
Picked Women Of the state.
This annual meeting brings together
he picked temperance workers Of the
state. and as fine a body Of women as
ever assembled for any philanthropio
purpose. Among the prominent work.
srs present are Mrs. II. L. Barkley and
Mrs. S. A. Keller. OF Portland; Mrs. ].
N. Poorman and Mrs. e. p. Morcom,
II Woodburn.
The members OF the Salem union
ire doing the hospitality act in a very
pleasing manner. serving a free lunch
zach day OF the convention, at noon,
N the hasomant of the churcb
The program this evening will be in
he auditorium OF the church, and
viii be attended by very large mum.
,er OF the best people OF the city.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-10-20

Goes 20 the White House lunch
counter a. noon. Open an hours Of the
day and night
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-10-20
"wednesday Morning.

9:OO-Hymn How Firm a Founda
ton" prayer; roll call Of officers. su.
perintendents and committees; re.
sponse by Scripture texts; opening OF
convention; appointment OF commit
tees; introduction OF new members.
9;45-Mlnutes OF mld,year meet
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most successfully. The experience was not a pleasant one to a man of Dr. Anna dor's years; but the incident goes to snow that the man who fostered the scheme for an independent nation on the isthmus has long labored most zeaiousiy in the cause he was finally permitted to lead to vic- tory. A&
 will Make Good President.
 The people of Panama know pr. Anna dor's record in this respect. and his ser- vices to Panama have given him claim upon the regard of the Panamanians stronger than that held by any other in- diyidual. It has never been said of him that he Is strong in initiative, or that he has any natural aptitude for the handling of large administrative problems. Panama does not. however, stop to weigh these thingr The people look upon pr. Amador as a patriarch; they know that he Is an educated thinker; that he Is conservative and safe in his views; that he Is con nected by birth or marriage, with all or the leading families on the isthmus; that he risked as a man of considerable
 wealth, probably more than did any other individual In forcing the revolution, and most insistently do they hold that nis motives were moro unselish and more truly patriotic than were those of any other member of the original band Of secessionists It is for these reasons, and because they deem themselves indebted to him for their independence that the Panamanians propose to make him the first President of the Republic.
 In that office Dr. Amador, while by no means a statesman, will almsot certainly serve the new nation well. He can Dc most determined when occasion requires determination; but he Is free from that arrogance, avarice and bumptiousness that
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prove the undoing of so many of those raised to be chief magistrates Of Latin- American republics. The surest guaran- tee that he will make good President TOT
 Panafha lies in the fact that he Is ever and always willing to accept advice. He is ready and eager to do whatever prom ises improvement i'll the conditions sur- rounding his people, but he seldom trusts to his own judgment. On the morning or the Sd of November when 1t was lea ned in Panama that the Colombian gunboat C,artagena had landed 450 men at Colon, pr. Amador did not hesitate Every other man of the company of original consptI a. tors disappeared as mysteriously and as completely as though the earth had swa1- lowed them up; nor were some of them found until late in the day. Dr. AmadOr sought advice of one man-H. G. Pres colt, assistant superintendent of the Pan- anna Railroad-and decided that the coup d etat for Isthmian independence should be executed at once. His felloW-conspi- rators had apparently deserted him; but he sounded the army, found it was still willing to go ahead with the scheme, and originated, under advice, the plan by which Generals Tovar and Amaya were enticed to Panama, away from their troops, to be arrested. All of that day Dr. Amadro was flying from place to place, agile as young boy. and inces- sant in his efforts. and when General Huestas effected the arrest of Generals Tovar and Amaya, Dr. Amador stood just behind the soldiers who made the arrest as the leader of an orderly mob of Pana- manians, whom he had melted to follow him and see that the job was done and the republic actually launched.
 If he were inclined to unscrupulousness, pr. Amador would be a dangerous leader for the Panamanians. Happily for them. however. his character Is Of the most sterling sort He is sufficiently weil-ei.- dowed with goods and chattels as to care little for any pecuniary profits that may accrue to him through independence. Ills
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FOUNDERS OF
 NEW REPUBLIC
Correspondent TeAgue Write.r of the Men Who Created the
 I.cthmian Nation.

in manner, he lives unostentatiously on the second and third floors of a building which fronts the Cathedral Plaza. The first floor of this building is occupied by a firm of bankers, and while Dr. Amador Is man of ample means, his disposition Is such that he has never endeavored to isolate himself from his fellow-Pan- amanians by maintaining domicile no part of which is devoted to commercial purposes.
 Tn his political proclivities. pr. Amador has always been a Liberal. He Is Cath olic communicant: but he has ever held all his views are of the advanced type that the church and the State should be independent of each other. He has, there- fore, always been active In furthering the revolutionary cause on the isthmus. his labors to overthrow the Conservative party having been so open and so strenu- ous that upon one occasion, not many years ago, he was forced by the dictates of self-preservation to have himself pack ed in lard barrel and shipped across
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reading public; but the Panama view of him is not without current interest. Dr. Amador is a practicing physician. the leader of his profession on the isthmus' and a man of decided opinions and stOrl- ing character. His acquaintance among the Isthmians Is very large, and being regarded as man of exceptional learn ing, he. is looked up to and esteemed as A natural-born leader. All Panama rev.
 erences his name, and so great Is the popular affection for him that while cer- tain individuals. chiefly found among what may be designated as "the Panama Railroad crowd" would like to see Jose Agustin Arrange made President of the new Republic, that distinction will surely 70 to Dr. Amador. Quiet and reserved
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posts of. leadership. Nobody knows this any better than does Don Jose Agustin, and so, when the first really formidable suggestion of Panamaian independence came from the Panama Raiiroad--as un- occasionally it did come--it issued to the railroads special agent, and found him not unmindful of the part he should play in the drama which was to be attempted. Never for a moment did 1t occur to him to make himself the leader in the move ment. That would have been most i'm polite, because it would have brought the railroad company more prominently to the front than 1t, was wise for 1t to be brought, and besides Senor Arrange knew his own shortcomings. He was, however, fully equal to the task of discovering the man best qualified for the responsible post of leadership. and he quickly pro- duced pr. AnaadoF. who instantly became the leader in the movement, and who Is fated to harvest its most substantial hon. ors Amador produced ATias, the third man let into the secret of the conspiracy, and these three working in perfect uni- son, but always under the advice which Arrange procured from Colonel 6haler, F. . G. Prescott, Captain J. R. Beers and -Aa- 1or W. M. Black actually produced the new republic.
 Working With the Road.
 From this it appears that the real busi- ness of the consplration found it's source in Arango, more skilled than any of the others in the art of manipulation; and that Arango is in reality the man to whom the lions share of the credit should be given is the well-su5stantiated asser- ton of his friends Senor Jose Agustin is, however. less ambitious for himself than his friends are for him. When the republic had been declared and the City Council of Panama had named the pro- visional governing junta, he was named as inc President of that body. and to him was intrusted the actual leadership under the new order of things. He immediately resigned his place as special agent of tho
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the treaty from the steamer City of Washington at Colon at o'clock yester- day morning, rush it by special tran to Panama, have it ratified by the Junta and the cabinet, rush it back to Colon by special train and send 1t back to Wash ington by the steamer Yucatan. which sailed at noon yesterday for New York. This was the railroads own proposition
 conceive in its eagerness to bring about a condition under which the Un4s1>. States rather than the Panamaians in power would become responsible for enc 1aaeo
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the isthmus in order to escape his ene- mics. Dr. Amador had played the revo- lutionary game so boldly and defiantly that the Government, then in the hands of the Conservatives. would gladly have spicuous Isthmians. Being fvarned of the designs against him. and Having no time to spare, the venerable Doctor did not hesitate to accept the avenue of escape offered by the lard barrel. It was empty;
 but had never been cleaned. Into 1t climbed the father of Panamanian inde- pendence. It was headed up. carted to the railroad station, loaded on freight car and sent across the isthmus to Colon.
 where Dr. Amador found refuge among his Liberal friends. The ruse worked
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and security of the new republic. It was stopped only by Rear Admiral Walker, who insisted that for decency's sake at least the treaty be considered for twenty- four hours before it was ratified. It waa considered for twenty-eour hours. and thie morning it was ratified, without so muck as the crossing of a st'' or the dottinN of an "i." the leaders in this republic re. fusing to take any further chances with a makeshift government composed nl- most entirely of inexperienced end mM qualifed o6iclaaa.
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BY MERnILL A. LEAGUE.

Letter No. 2.
 Panama, R. F., Dec. 1S.-It would be extremely difiicult to discover, in much more protracted search than it Is neces- sary to make here, a more varied assort- ment of characters than are embraced within the list of those who had to io with bringing the Republic of Panama tn- to existence. Panama Is a land of the most remarkable complexities in human nature. the population being thoroughly nondescript; and while among the original secessionists their counsellors and active aides pronounced types are common. the complex phases characteristic of the gen. eral populace are discoverable in moie or less certain measures.
 Foremost in the list of the independence conspirators stands pr. Manuel Amador Because of his recent stay in the United States. Dr. Amadors personality must we become familiar to the newspaper
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"On the Square"
CONFIDENCE.

Business is based on confidence: your business, ours: everybodys. There never was time in the Clothing business when confidence was more important to you than now.
 You simply have to pin your faith in somebody.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-02
Virgin 6 Faunce's Cotton Letter.

NEW YORK. Dec. i.-In the cotton future market today there was a great deal of ex- citeTnent. In fact, today was one of the most exciteable sessions in the history of the ex- change. The price variations were sensational and new high records were established in the active months. First prices. for instance. showed an advance of l26ie points, the ad- The weather map was regarded bullish by many interests and there was a flood of bull gossip regarding the crop. The short crop news was plentiful and it appeared at times as if every guesser was lowering his estimate. The feeling was general that the Government report will make Q very bullish showing. Pri- vate advices from Liverpool stated that large shorts were covering, while locally 1t was quite evident that the so-called Wall Street short interest was covering. There was a heavy flow of buying orders from the outside and commission houses had a better line of buy ing orders than for a long time past. On the bulges the recognized bull element was cred tied with taking profits on very heavy scale The selling at times representing some of the bull leaders was sensational, but shorts were too eager to get under cover. and therefore easily, All offerings were absorbed with amaz- ing promptness. in that on all little declines there was fresh line of buying orders. March cotton was especially strong at times, while July was also readily taken up on what looked to be specially arranged buying. At New Or leans Brown bid i.95 for 26.o00 bales of March delivery. Brown was also the heaviest buyer of January cotton and May. Consequent ly 1t is little wonder that shorts in the local ment and the sensational fluctuations continued in force up to the close. The estimated port receipts were 92ooo, against 56,l7 for the same day last year.
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New Orleans Spot Cotton.

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. I.-The spot cotton market was firm throughout the day. though the trading was light on account of very cloudy weather which was unfavorable for the inspec- ton of samples. Sales. 5.05o bales. including 3.025 to arive Quotations advanced 5-l6 in- huenced in part by the improvement both in Liverpool and New York and the continued up- ward movement in futures.
 At the opening futures were very firm and prices l3@l6 points higher Although there was heavy profit taking prices rose until they were 27@3l points above yesterdays close. Aside from the strong bullish sentiment the most potent feature in today's advances was the bullsh cables from Liverpool, where to- ward the close futures were from 22 to 26 points higher than yesterday. This stimulated fresh buying and put the market in a good position to absorb the cotton thrown upon it not only by satisfied longs, but also by shorts who as has been the case for the last few days. were looking for reaction. The wealth. CT was decidedly bad. the map showing cold weather and some snow, while late dispatches told of snow at Memphis and Little Rock and the forecast for tonight and tomorrow prom ised snow in many places. In the trading De- cember advanced 30 points to Il.73; January. 9I to t,5o; March. 3I to Ii.e7; May 3I to I2.o7, and July 27 to l2.lo. From these prices there was recession of from 10 to l points on the active months. The transactions were believed to be the largest of the season. The market closed firm the last showing net gains of I7a2i points.
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WALL STREET. REVIEW
INCREASE or ACTIVITY IN THE
 MARKET.
Generally Higher Range of Prices at the End of the y ie c Re- sult-Littls Actual
 News.

NEW YORK, Dec. l.-There was a consid- eraole increase of activity in today's stock market market and s sensrsily higher rangs of prices ment continued hesitating and somewhat ir- regular and the small net changes resulting in some of the more active stocks left . sus- picicn of professional manipulation. Specula- two sentiment over stocks was confused There was little in the actual news of the day to favor an advance in prices and some of the news was distinctly unfavorable. The re- port of net earnings of Erie for October showed decrease of S375.768. compared with the preceding year. This was without effect on the market partly becauge 1t had been fore told and was known to have been due to the loss and interruption of traffic by floods. It was partly offset also by the Reading state increase in net earnings of all the companies of S676,S79. The general tendency disclosed In other statements of earnings recently has mosti yor wholly wiped out by enlarge operat- ing expenses. The reports of gross earnings for the third week in November thus far pub thsn snow @ an @ incsass on the average Of less the coalers are not included and this group will compare with large earnings last year. The passing of the dividend on Republic Steel. although 1t had been feared. had not been fully assured and considering this the effect In the industrial list was slight That stock itself fell an extreme 2M. but recovered all price of copper in the local market. The money market continues firm, but the high rate of cali loans reached only 7h per cent compared with per cent yesterday. The expected transfer of si,ooo 900 by telegraph to San Francisco was made and in addition S2oO.- 900 was transferred to New Orleans. while New York exchange at Chicago fell to . slight discount. The price of gold rose in London and sterling exchange weakened Mere. but only $loo. 900 was secured in London for New York account. Announcement was made of about S75o. 900 of Japanese gold shipped for San Francisco. The factors in the advance in stocks were in the form rather of surmise. the old rumor of Gould d-Pennsylvania settlement figuring to a large extent The strength of Southern roads was attributed to general condi- tions such as the prosperity of the cotton belt and the harmony of railroad control as- sured by the recent seaboard Air Line deal. There was an attempt to convey the impress sion that large bankers and capitalists had been absorbing stocks in the midst of the prevailing depression of sentiment, looking be- yond the probable revival. The marktt closed firm.
 The bond market was broader, but rather ir- regular Total sales fpar value) were S3,S58,- 900. United States 2s advanced X per cent. on the last call.
 New York Stock List.
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Chicago Grain end Provisions.

CHICAGO. Dec. i.-Reports of excellent har- vesting weather in Argentina and bearish sta today and after a good advance early prices weakened, May closing %qhc lower. May corn was shade lower, oats were also off . shade and January provisions closed from shade to 7hc lower.
 The fact that there were practically no de- iivertes on December contracts created bullish advance of xc was made within the first hour The better prices brought out large realiz- Ing sales and the advance was lost May open ed unchanged to Ac higher at sI%@sl% and although this delivery received considerable support from the leading bull operator and not withstanding the sharp rally in December the prices held barely steady the early session due to persistent selling by local traders. Re- ports of fine weather in Argentina. compara- lively small clearances, lower outside markets and fairly large increase in elevator stocks in the Northwest, where decrease had been expected, combined to create bearish sentiment toward noon and the marekt yielded to the pressure. May declining to soh. Prices rallied somewhat near the end on renewed buying by prominent longs. but the close was lower with May off a@hc at SoB9si. December closed hg%c lower at elh. Clearances equaled 225,- 100 bushels. Primary receipts were ,62i 900, against ,32S 800 a year ago. Minneapolis Duluth and Chicago reported receipts of o60 cars, compared with l, ,oSs last week and I,- l03 a year ago.
 Corn ruled comparatively steady with no selling accounts manifested from any source. There was some scattered selling on the break t h MIeat, put tne ueIhaho rom commission houses was sufficient to prevent any decline. After selling between 42 and 42h Hay closed shade lower at 42Q42h. Receipts, BOA cars. 4 contract.
 The feature in oats was the liuuidation of May and the market had a tendency to fol- low wheat, although some local longs bought quite freely and prices were steady for De- cember. while May showed a small loss. May closed a shade lower at 35% after ranging between 35ss and 34 Receipts. 223 cars Larger receipts of hogs than expected and a decline caused heavy selling nf hu commission houses and the market ruled easier. Ribs were offered freely and buying was by packers. The close was steady at a small de- cline, January pork being of Sc at SIo.S7h: January lard a shade lower at S9 40 and ribs down 71sc at S5. oo
 The leading futures ranged as follows;
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SHOULD SELL SLOWLY ADVICE OF ATWOOD, vIoLETT &
 CO. sti~ s.- In This Way Only VIII Farmers Be Able to Realize the Best
 Prices for Their
 Cotton.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The results of our Investigations, which have been sufficiently extended over the cotton belt to arrive at an opinion as to what the census and bureau should say on the End and 3rd inst. are such as to make us feel thst our estimate of io.- 900. 900 will eventually prove to be the outside figure for the crop. Either or both reports may be sensational in their bullishnegs and we look for much excitement in the next few days. The advice we have been giving through this medium for several weeks we still offer. namely. to sell gradually only and in this way secure the very much higher prices which are to n,aterialixe this season.
 adv, ATWOOD. VIOI.ETT & co
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Daily Cotton Market.

NEW oRLEANs-steady; salss 5.o6o: or dinsry. 9 iS- le: good ordinary. ioM; low mid ding. lM; middling. lb; good middling U Ills; middliag fair. I2 I-i0; receipts l5. 5.6o2: stock. 3o0. .ee7. -. sales. 2. .sas: receipts. s7. .sos: stock, a7,.s4S. receipts. e74; stock. 45.ae3.
 SAvANNAH-Ftru; middling. ilk; saIes Sl9: receipts, ee42; stock. 94 le7.
 CHARLESTON-F1rm; middling, n; receipts. 55i: stock, ll,7eA.
 WILMINGToN-Steady middling, TX; re- ceipts, l.78e: stock. Io, ,o4D.
 NORFoLK-Steedy; mtddling. lI%; sales, 35l: receipts 3.e43: stock 21.799.
 BALTIMORE-Nominel: middling, n 50: re- ceipts. i.5oo: stock. 6,e62.
 BOSTON-Steady: middling. l.0H; net re- ceipts, 4o4: receipts. l,470.
 PHILADELPHIA-steady middiing I2.2o; receipts. I25: stock. 9e7.
 ST. LoUIS-Firm; middling. lIh: sales 2l4: receipts, 3,465; stock, l.349. NEW YORK-Quiet; middling. IT .e6; net re- ceipts. TO; gross. 7.632; sales, I3,7oo: stock,
 Total today-Net receipts, 74, 6s3; exports to Great Britain. 4o7eo: to France, 4,a66: to the continent. i6.62S; stock es6.766 Consolidated-Net receipts, 2IA I74; exporta to Great Britain. 7e.eeo; to France, sS 7el to the continent, 76,9 to Japan. l,6@7 Total since Sept ,l-Net receipts 1850 eSg exports to Great Britain, 'i.I23, 36e: to France, 427,436; to the continent, |, ,II0, 632: to "a. pan. TI,o7s; to Mexico. I6.S26