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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
THE PRESIDENTS VIEWS
OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
Says cortelyou and Conservative Busl-
ness Men Have Rendered InvaIu-
able Service In Checking Panic.

Washington. President Roosevelt
on Saturday congratulated Secretary
Cortelyou on his admirable handling
OF the present financial crisis. The
letter OF copgratulation, which was
made public at the White House.
reads
II congratulate you upon the ad'
mirable way In which you have
handled the present crisis. congrat
ulate also those conservative and sub
stantial business men who in this
crisis have acted with such wisdom
and public spirit. BY their action
they have rendered invaluable service
in checking the panic, which was
threatening to destroy the confidence
and credit necessary to the conduct
of legitimate business. No one who
considers calmly can question that
the underlying conditions which make
up our financial and industrial we'll
being are essentially sound and honest
Dishonest dealing and speculative en-
terprise are merely the occasional in
cidents OF our real prosperity. The
action taken by you and by the bust
ness men in question has been of the
utmost consequence and has secured
opportunity for the calm considera
tion which must inevitably producs
confidence In our business conditions
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
GERMANS ARE CONFIDENT.
Believe Now is the Time to Buy Amer.
lean Stocks.

Berlin.--The violent financial squall
In the United States is regarded here
as having passed as quickly as it came
up. The great Berlin banks are as
surirg their customers that the crisis
which for week has gripped New
York, Is relaxing and that conditions
In America are so sound that no deep.
seated consequences can follow. A
representative of powerful Holland
financial interests, who happens to be
here. has sent word to Amsterdam
that now is the time to invest In
American securities, and many Berlin
brokers in their letters to customers
advise ther 20 go in for American
stocks now, while .hev are under
pressure that probably is only tenn.
porary. 1t Is the large offers made in
Europe by American holders that have
caused American exchange to rise to
426, rate which the Vossische Zei.
lungs financial reviewer says is with.
put precedent.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
PLOT OF BOLD BANDITS
FOILED BY DETECTIVES
Seize a satchel Containing $4,000, But
Both the Men and Money Are Cap
tured by the officers.

Philadelphia.--O Of the boldest
attempts at robbery in a long time
occurred Friday, when two men tried
to get away with $4,000 which they
had seized from bank runner In the
United States sub-treasury. Both were
arrested and all the money was recov-
cred. The two men had been hanging
around the sub-treasury for several
days and were being watched by bank
detectives and sub-treasury watchmen.
p. j. Cronin, runner for the Frank.
lin National bank, was handed several
large bundles of money by paying
teller in the sub-treasury He placed
$4,000 in a satchel and walked to a
bench near by with the remainder.
amounting to $4,000. He laid the
money on the bench, intending to open
the satchel and place 1t with the other
money. At the same moment one OF
the men being watched, and who was
standing in front of one of the sub
treasury watchmen, raised news
paper as If he were looking for some.
thing and obstructed the view of the
watchmen. Then the other grabbed
the $4,000 lying on the bench and
started out of the front door. The
bank runner instantly gave chase,
raising the alarm as he did SO. The
The runner was close to the thief
when the man who held the news
paper stuck out his foot and tripped
him and tried to escape.
He had only gone a few feet, how
ever, when the watchman captured
him. Others In the sub-treasury
started after the man with the money
and he was soon captured.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
King Alfonso's Lungs At,ee..d

Madrid'-The alarming reports cir
~. tu.",ea earlier In the month regarding
she n health Of King Alfonso appear to
Se confirmed. The king, who vii, ~
D%te ns 1Huer the strictest incognito as
y,sit % - oi Ioledo during his coming
amin iI - ~ London will submit to the az.
iosis "tlon ION OF specialist in tuberon.
% S,sd IRON ron which disease his faths,
T,ee' ,hna The kings open air I,fe s hss
tiom mus Iar kept the hereditary disnos, ss
wss AZ aoeyance, and an operatjon
Son. ~s performed on him recently in tSs
tDms ~ y, enecking the growing symn
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
To Prevent eubonIc Plague.

Seattle.-Dr. NJ. j. White of the
United States marine service has re
ceived wire from Surgeon General
Wymans at Washington authorizing
DR.. White to carry out his recommen.
dation that all vessels on this sound
be fumigated at once. This applies to
ferry boats and every vessel large
enough to hold rat. The state board
of health met and notified all the
county boards of health to take strin.
gent measures to clean up their dis
triots and keep a vigilant watch for
suspicious cases.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
NEW YoRk's BLACK FRIDAY.
Several Trust Companies and One Ma
tional Bank Suspend.

New York.-Friday was another
nerve-wrecking day, but the financial
institutions of New York have shown
extraordinary power of resistance to
the pressure put upon them. While 1t
is true that several minor institutions
have been forced to close their doors,
yet two things should be said about
them.
First, that the amount involved was
not so great as to exert any marked
influence on the general situation, as
these banks were located in residen-
tial quarters and did not come into
touch with the larger financial insti.
tutions of the metropolis; and, second,
there is every reason to believe that
these banks and trust companies are
entirely solvent, and their difficulties
will prove to be only temporary.
The institutions which closed their
doors on Friday, with the sums due
depositors, were: The United States
Exchange bank, Harlem, $600,000; In
ternational Trust company, about
100000; the Borough Bank of Brook
lyn, S4,000000; the Brooklyn bank,
S1,S00000; Williamsburg Trust COM
pany, Brooklyn, $7,500,000, and the
First National bank of Brooklyn, $3,-
100000.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
Several Villages Utterly Destroyed
and the Death List Will Exceed
Five Hundred.
Two Hundred Bodies Have Been
Taken From the Ruins OF the
Homes OF the Victims-FIoeds
Follow the Earthquake
Shock.

Rome-Details OF the earthquake In
Calabria on Wednesday, just received
here, show that the damage was much
more extensive than at first reported.
while the death list is estimated at
500. Two hundred bolies have already
been taken from the ruins. Many OF
the villages are still cut off from COM
munication with Rome by the foods
and the destruction of the telegraph
lines and roads, and no word from
them can be had.
The first shock of the earthquake
fortunately brought most of the pop
ulation of the villages into the open,
many succeeding in making their es-
cape to the hills or open places, or
the list of fatalities would have been
larger. To add to the desolation
caused by the earthquake, It was rain
ing in torrents, which greatly in
creased the suffering among the home
less people.
Half the houses at Ferruzamo and
Brancaleone collapsed and many per-
sons were buried In the ruins; and
at Sinopoli and st. Ilario more lives
are said to have been lost. Panic pre-
vailed everywhere. Half the houses
of the village of Gerace are in ruins,
and similar conditions prevail in
number of other points in Calabria.
During the confusion caused by the
first earthquake the prisoners in the
Jail at Catazaro mutinied, and were
only subdued with great difficulty. The
female prisoners were particularly
alarmed, screaming, shouting and
beating the doors until the whole
place was in terrible uproar. The
prison officials did everything possible
to calm the inmates, but they broke
out afresh every time another earth
shock was experienced.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
Newlands Wants Conference Of Inter
ests Connected with Transportation.

Washington.-The summoning by
President Roosevelt of a national con.
ference of the various interests con.
nected with the transportation ques.
ton, with view to restoring the con.
fidence of investors. was suggested in
speech before the University club at
Washington by Senator Newlands. of
Nevada, vice chairman of the Inland
Waterways committee. Mr.. Newiands
has just returned from the trip down
the Mississippi with the president and
the commission.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
utes Again Troublesome.

Washington.-The tribe OF Ute In.
dams. which more than a year ago
wandered away from their reservation
In Utah and created trouble IN Colo
RADIO and Wyoming by threatening to
take the war path and raid ranches.
lie reported to have again broken out
ON the Cheyenne river reservation in
South Dakota, where the tribe was
given temporary quarters. At the re.
quest OF the secretary of the interior
the war department on Thursday Or
dered troops from Fort Meade, S. D.,
to the scene OF the trouble.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
Negro Lynched for Theft of rs Cents

Macon, Ga-Passengers on the Cen.
trail of Georgia train, coming through
Byron, Ca, brought an account of the
lynching of a negro named John
Wilkes. at that place Sunday night,
The negro robbed two small boys of
rs cents. When Marshal Johnson
made an effort to arrest him, the ne
gro attempted to shoot the officer.
Quick work prevented this, however,
and general mix-up followed. with
the result that the negro was arrest
ed and locked up. At late hour,
unknown persons dragged the prisoner
from the Jail, and after carrying him
a short distance, the body was riddled
with bullets. 1t was then burned upon
a log fire prepared for the occasion.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
Governor Sparks Comes to the Rescue
of financial institutions.

Goldfeld, Nev-A bank holiday
throughout Nevada was declared by
Governor Sparks on Thursday, to last
five days. All the banks of Goldfield
were closed on Thursday in conse-
Quence. The proclamation came as
great relief to local banks. The State
Bank & Trust company had already
closed Its doors. At noon Wednesday,
q big run was in progress at the Nye
& Ormsby bank, when banking hours
closed, and the run probably would
have continued had the bank opened
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
GRUEsoME EXHIBITS.
Skeleton to be Exhibited In the STEVE
Adams Case.

Spokane, Wash.-A special to the
Chronicle from Rathdrum, Idaho, says
the exhibits in the Steve Adams case
were on Saturday turned over to J
A. Foster, clerk of Kootenai county
by Clerk Fairweather, Of Shoshons
county to be used in the trial.
In the exhibits turned over are the
skeleton, alleged to be that of Fred
Tyler, the murdered man, letters ad
dressed to him and found in the cloth
ing, also the clothing, sack contain
Ing some canned goods and remains
of other edibles, picture Of Tyler
the hair of the dead man, and a
ledger containing number of names
that was exhibited at the former trial
at Wallace.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
New Workers Want a HOLIDAY.

Albany, N. Y.-Governor Hughes on
Friday received a number of tele.
grams suggesting. with more or less
urgency, the proplfety Of his declaring
by proclamation legal holiday, dur,
ing which the financial situation might
be relieved The governor acknowl-
edged the receipt of all these mes.
sages without indicating in any way
MS intention in the matter. He would
not discuss the question, but ther. ID
good reason to believe there is no inn.
radical step. '''''
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
Bank Cashier in Trouble.

Pittsburg.-Two indictments have
been returned by the grand jury
against J. b. F. Rinehart, former cash
Ter OF the Farmers and Droyers Ma
tional bank at Waynesburg, Pa. One
Indictment contains ninety counts
seventy-one of which are upon alleged
false entries in the books of the bank
and in the returns to the comptroller
of the currency. The failure of the
Farmers and Drovers bank involved
almost s2,000.000. For eight months
efforts have been made to reopen the
institution, but without success.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
insurance Man Convicted Of Perjury.

New York.-The first conviction IN
the cases based on the disclosures In
the legislative investigation Of insur.
ance affairs in 19O56 was obtained by
the district attorneys Office here on
Thursday, when a jury in the crimina,
branch of the supreme court found DR.
Walter r. Gillette, former vice presi.
dent OF the Mutual Life Insurance
company, guilty of perjury in the third
degree. The verdict was accompanied
with a Recommendation for mercy
The maximum penalty for this degree
OF perjury Is ten years imprisonment
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
Pesslmist Believes We Are on the Eve
of a Check to Our Prosperity.

Topeka, Kan.-E. K. Ripley, presi
dent of the Santa Fe, who was here
on Thursday to attend the roads an,
nual meeting gave out an interview in
which he said; Il do not claim TO be
a prophet, and / do not think | am by
nature a pessimist, but | am in DO
sition where cannot help seeing some
thing of the conditions which exist
over a considerable portion of this
country, and it has been perfectly evi
dent to me for some months past that
we were on the eve of check to our
prosperity"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
A Second Dreytus Affair.

far's'-The arrest of Ensign
CHARLES Ullmo Of the French navy at
Iouion on Friday on charge of be.
ing spy, and who later confessed 10
having abstracted secret naval sig
nal oook and the naval cipher code
was followed by the arrest at Ven
uome OF an officer named Burton, who
10 charged with negotiations with an
agent OF foreign power for the sail
ol military secrets. The arrests arc
creating great stir, and as U,,mo
no Is Hebrew. the papers term the
case a second Dreyfus affair
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
Plan to Rob Paymaster That Failed to
Work.

Pittsburg.-With four armed men
with Winchesters lying in ambush on
Saturday to hold up the paymaster of
the Crescent Coal Co., of this city,
at Pierce station and rob him of the
money, amounting to $4,000, Joseph
Arkwrlght, the paymaster, frustrated
the attempt by alighting from the
train at a near station and driving
thence to the mines. The plot was
known to the company officials, and
they say this was the second attempt
to carry II out
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
Japan Has No Kick Coming.

Washington.-"No such relations ex.
lists between America and Japan as
would make it improper 70 send the
American fleet into the Pacific. II
here were. the relations between
America and Great Britain. and the
relations between America and France.
which are the same, would forbid the
maintenance of the battleship feet in
the Atlantic ocean" This was the
reply returned by Secretary Root as
to whether Japan had entered any
protest against the dispatch Of the
eeet to the Pacific.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
Few Bank Failures,

Salt Lake City, Utah.-Salt Lake
has, since 1890, been particularly for
tunate In the stability of its banking
institutions, there being but two fall
ures In that time; and not even in
the panic of 1903. when banks In near
ly every city of Importance In the
country went under. did Salt Lake
bank close its doors. Managed by con.
seryative and public-spirited men, the
Salt Lake banks have weathered every
financial storm for the past seventeen
years, and the recent furry In Wan
street has not affected any of them In
the least.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
FLING OF LONDON PRESS.
Views of Leading WeekIies on the
American Financial Situation.

London-All the leading weekly
newspapers, discussing the American
financial situation, generally take their
customary attitude that it is due to
the unsoundness of commercial meth.
ods. The Statist says:
The lesson of the crisis is not that
American commercial honesty is less
than that of other countries, but that
the opportunities for successful dis
honesty are more abundant and more
tempting.
The Saturday Review describes the
situation as the bursting of the Amer
lean bubble.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
Two Thousand Men Discharged by the
New York and New Haven.

New Haven, Conn.-The New York,
New Haven and Hartford company
has announced that Immediately more
than 1000 hands upon the steam sys.
tenn will be laid off, besides several
hundred more In the Rhode Island
trolley service. Work upon large
number of improvements will either
be stopped or largely curtailed. The
curtailment is indefinite and depends
somewhat upon the general financial
situation. 1t is largely precaution.
ary measure.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
FRENCHMEN NERVOUS.
Think the Whole Fabric of American
Credit Has Been Endangered.


Paris.--The "house-cleaning In Wall
street. is having a sentimental rather
than practical effect here. The pa
pers are devoting much space to 'the
Wall street crash" and the slaughter
of American millionaires," and opera
tors on the bourse are closely watch
ing the situation. They consider that
American financial conditions are
sound at the base, and regard the New
York crisis as being the inevitable
elimination of an era of intense com
mercial activities and over specula.
ton, helped along by the revelations
of improper methods of finance and
the position assumed by the authors
ties at Washington. Some of the
French bankers think President
Roosevelt has gone too far and that
the whole fabric of American credit
has been endangered.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
BRYAN HAS A PLAN.
Would Tax the Banks to Raise an
Emergency Fund.

Emergency Fund.
New York.-The best way to pre-
gent q recurrence of present financial
conditions, in the opinion of William
J. Bryan, would be to provide a guar
sntee fund, raised by taxing the banks
themselves, which could be used in
emergency to satisfy demands of de.
positors. But the bankers" said Mr..
Bryan, "are the very men who fight
such plan because they object to the
tax" Mr.. Bryan said he thought a
general panic would not result from
the present conditions in New York
City. He is not inclined to hold Pres
ident Roosevelt responsible for the
present conditions.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-12-05

Let American timber land owners
take leaf from the book of Mexico
company-old Mexico, erstwhile one
of the Latin-American countries not
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-12-05
CHARLES Il. HUGHES.

AS a possible recipient of the NOM
ination for president by the republic
can national convention, Charles e.
Hughes grows in strength. That
growth is not the outcome of Or
ganized effort in his behalf; nor of
a movement of any kind or under any
guisc having the favor, the sympathy
or the aid of Governor Hughes
There is absolutely nothing of can
didacy in the attitude of the governor
Hence the use CT the word "recipient"
rather than that of candidate"
No Misrepresentation ought to exist
as to the governors position. He has
been explicit He has not trifled or
flirted with the situation. Neither
coyly reticent nor shyly bidding for
support, he has come into the open
directly and emphatically and said
his say sincerely. AS governor he
will not perform an act nor withhold
the performance of an act with re-
ference to it's influence upon conven-
tions selecting delegates to the
nominating conventions; nor which
must be taken as having bearing
upon the course of chosen delegates
There will be no reprisals from the
executive chamber at Albany for any
act of delegate. Therefore, dele
gate is as free to express his choice
as is the wanton wind to go where
it listeth. Finally, he refuses to per-
NIT his friends to act in his name
and, refusing, discourages them. But
as an American citizen, recognizing
the obligation such citizenship i'm
poses on the individual, he will obey
a call to duty if the demand is gem
uine and unmistakable.
This is not politics. 1t is contrary
to known methods. Indeed, from a
party standpoint it is unwise. But
it is the sincere expression of man
who believes an expression of his po-
sition is due to the people and that
declaration will permit him to go
on unhampered and undisturbed by
political considerations, being COVER
nor of the state of New York. 1t will
be easy to oppose him as a nominee,
for he will not obstruct opposition.
1t will not be easy to attempt to ad-
vance his name, for he will do
nothing to aid. But nothing will do
SO much to bring organized effort for
his nomination into existence as
direct antagonism to him.
Despite MS position, he is growing
in strength Not with the politicians,
nor with the leaders, but in the hearts
and minds of the great rank and file.
What the man has shown himself to
be is what is making this growth
And in 1t will be found enthusiasm to
take the Mace of nOlitiral skill and
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-12-05
THIS DISTRICTS COPPER.

The improvement in the copper sit
uation is good to note and better to
hope for continuation of. If, as au-
thorities now appear to think, the
first of the year witnesses the gen
eral resumption of output, with the
metal advapced to a price enabling
such resumption at profit, Robinson
district will have occasion for double
happiness. For while producticn ,an
be commenced here as soon rs he re-
duction works of Cumberland Ely
and Nevada Consolidated are ready
to take the ore, with profit regard
less of whether the present price of
copper continues or advance is made,
it will of course be much more salts
factory to everybody to start at a
higher figure.
In this respect, as the News has
pointed out at various times, Robin
son district stands foremost among
the copper possessors of the country.
It's great mines need have fear at
no time of metal slumps. With the
reductions works of Cumberland Ely
and Nevada Consolidated going these
two great mines alone in the district
will make pay roll of half mil
lion dollars or more per month within
short time, and while about this will
make profits in dividends for their
stockholders at rate that will repre-
sent excellent interest, whether cop
per is selling for 10, IL, 10 or even
less. No two stocks available to the
public offer greater opportunity for
safe and profitable investment at this
time than do these.