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New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
WESTERN BANKS SOUND.
General Satisfaction Expressed
Chicago Situation Good.

Chicago, Oct 29.-The financial condition
throughout the West to-day was satisfactory
in general 10 the banks and to the majority of
business interests. In all the money centres
trade was the check and certificate plan and
the banks We're holding closely as possible to
their reserves of currency. The banks In Kan
sas reported themselves as In a particularly
strong situation. many having fully 30 per cent
in excess of the ordinary legal reserve.
AT Kansas City the wyandotte State Bank
with deposits of $5OOOOO was absorbed by the
Commercial National Bank The institution was
entirely solvent and will be kept open for sew
eral days for the convenience of customers.
James F. Downing, president Of the New Eng
land National Bank. of Kansas City and a
leading member of the Clearing House Associa-
tion. declared no trouble had been experienced
excepting in the case of the Bankers Trust
Company which closed yesterday to go into
liquidation. The restrictions In the payment Of
currency were accepted cheerfully by all Gus
toners
The Chicago banks began their second days
business under the check system, greatly en-
couraged by the manner in which the new
method was received by their depositors yester-
day. Out of four hundred thousand savings
depositors in the city only fifteen hundred made
application for the withdrawal of their accounts
Clearing House issued to it's members $S,O00O00
in certificates yet the debit balances which had
10 be settled with the certificates were far
smaller than usual approximating barely ST.
100000
John ]. Mitchell. president of the Illinois
Trust and Savings Bank. which has the largest
number of eavings accounts in the city, said
to-day:
I'VE are picesed and satisfied over the turn
of affairs yesterday. This bank received notice
from sos Ctpositors who wanted cash. AS an
offset to that we received $50 savings deposits,
aggregating sum far in excess of the amount
for which withdrawal notices were received.
Under the circumstances 1 think the situation
is surprisingly strong"
The da" opened quietly at the Hibernian Saw
ings Bank, which yesterday had the only trace
of excitement visible in the banking situation.
A few depostors were at the door when the
bank opened, but number went away without
giving notice of Il desire withdraw funds. At
all the other banks in Chi ago which have saw
ings accounts business appeared TO be entirely
normal there being more persons around
1-4an on an ordinary bankiGs day.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
PORTER HOME GUARDED.
Servants Hear Noise, Call Up Police,
Who Find No Trace of Burglars.

Several patrolmen from the Tenderloin station
were called out to investigate what was sup
posed to be an attempt to rob the home or Cen
oral Horace Porter at No 271 Madison avenue
last night General Porter and his family are
expected TO return from Europe in few days
and the servants under the direction OF Mrs
Emily De Treux. the hsusekeeper, are busy IN
putting the house in order. Yesterday a man
called at the house and said that he had been
ordered TO lay all the carpets. The housekeeper
knew that no one had been engaged to lay car
pets and said so. The supposed layer OF car
nets apologized for his mistake and went away.
Last night while the servants were grouped
in the kitchen they heard what they believed 10
be P noise made by some one walking across lhe
floor of the dining room. They called up Ponce
Headquarters and asked for aid. Half a dozen
patrolrnen were hurried to the house, but
search failed to reveal any evidences Of In
truders The housekeeper was unable to say
before she had made a search whether any
thing had disappeared. The police had the
house under surveillance last night.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
NEW AMERICAN RACE.
Professor Gordon Finds Hitherto
UnknOzcn I4Laskan PeoDIe.

Philadelphia, Oct 29-Dr. George B. Gordon.
curator Of the department of American archa-
ology OF the University of Pennsylvania, who
reached this city to-day after penetrating the
Alaskan wilderness for two thousand miles
the Mrs. c. c. Harrison expedition" reports
the discovery of a small tribe of aborigines
hitherto unknown to ethnologists. DR.. Gordon
calls these unknown American inhabitants
'Kuskwagamutes." He brought here collec-
ton of their clothing. arms. utensils. etc.
The tribe found about eight hundred
miles from the mouth of the Kuskokwim River,
and they were few in number. This people, Dr.
Gordon says. came of Athabascan stock, but
have been conquered by the Esquimaus and
have been almost absorbed by them. They re-
tain many of their ancient characteristics in
speech and dress. Instead of wearing furs like
the Esquimaus they make the skins of looms
and other great birds into robes for clothing.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
BEGINS WALK TO CHICAGO
T.. p. Weston, Sirty-nine Years old,
LeaUes Portland DE.

Portland, Me, Oct. 29-PIanning to duplicate
his feat of forty years ago, of walking to Chi
cago. a distance OF 1890 miles, in twenty six
days Edward Payson Weston started at
o'clock tonight from the Portland POstoffice
amid the cheers and good wishes of fully one
thousand persons who had gathered TO see him
start. He is sixty years old. Mr. Weston
was greeted by a number of friends. including
ex-Mayor James P. Baxter, who watched his
departure forty years ago. and was accompanied
to the South Portland city line by Joseph {.
Sterling who as police officer escorted him
over the same route on the first walk. Mayor
Clifford witnessed his departure and admin
istered an oath that the conditions of the feat
should be complied with.
Mr. Weston expects to arrive at the Chicago
Postoffice at p. m. Thursday, November %.
averaging fifty miles a day. He viii go by
wav of Boston. Troy. Utica, Syracuse, Bunalo'
Toledo and Cleveland There was an arrange
r,ent for Henry Schmehl. Of Chicago to start
AT the same time for Portland.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
GET ALLEGED SWINDLER.
j. Il. LytIe Sold Bogus Stock,
Police Say.

James f. Lytle, who has an Office at No. -
Pine street and apartments at the Hotel knicK-
erbocl<er was arraigned yesterday in the Iomos
court charged with selling fraudulent stock, and
held in $4,000 bail for examination on Thurs
day The police say that Lytle is wanted in
Minneapolis on a charge of swindling. Nelson
w Clark an insurance man in that city, is
said TO have committed suicide because he had
been ruined through Lytle's operations
According to the police. Lytle induced many
persons to buy stock in the Automatic Needle
Company of New York and the Self-Threading
Needle Company of Minneapolis, and then
pocketed the funds. Several letters of a sus-
picious character We're found in Lytle's pockets
the police say. Three weeks ago the Self
Threading Needle Company failed. S. 5. Smart
of No % Cortlandt street. who the holder
of $1,000 worth Of stock in Lytle's New York
company. brought suit through HonneCker &
Magen TO recover that amount. Magistrate
Walsh issued a warrant a few days ago. and
Lytle was arrested at his Office yesterday
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
L. u. MEN Laid OFF.
4nnual Reduction an Construction
Forces Earlier than Usual.

Omaha. Oct. 29.-The annual reduction in the
construction and Improvement camps of the
Western railroads began to-day when the
Union Pacific Railroad discharged several thou
sand workmen. The approach of cold weather
and the necessarily shorter hours caused the
action. which is similar to steps taken each
autumn here Vice President and General Man
ager Mohler of the Union Pacific declares there
is nothing out of the ordinary in this reduction
of track forces
We have been doing an exceedingly large
amount Of improvement work. explained Mr..
Mohler "and have put our property in the best
physical condition In which II has ever been.
Therefore the opportunity for reducing forces
earlier than usual has been acted upOn and on
account Of the present national conditions
wrong motive has been applied by some few
alarmists.
We are doing that which comes from natural
conditions and in line with the general practice
of all railroads at this season of the year.
I'VE are continuing all Improvement work
which can be done 10 advantage and which we
can utilize but work which cannot be carried
on at normal expense will be discontinued"
Salt Lake City. oct. DIV. II. Bancroft. vice
president and general manager of the oregon
Short Line. said to-day that all construction
work on that road will he discontinued at once.
This will delay the completion Of the Yellow
stone Park branch and stop the double track
ing Of the short line, The road is part of the
Hartman system
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
PANIC IN n CHURCH.
Mouing Picture Machine Erplodes-
TzcO Children TrampLed.

Through the bravery of the Rev. DR.. Adam
chamber and five of the ushers a serious panic
was averted when a moving picture machine ex-
nIoded during a lecture in the Harlem Baptist
church in East 123d street, last night. Four
hundred women and children in the audience
rushed toward the doors when the flames spread
TO some draperes rear where DR.. Chamber was
standing Shouting to the ushers TO maintain
order. Dr. Chamber pulled down the flaming ma
terial and was burned on the face and hands.
The audience would not be reassured when
the pastor mounted chair and said the danger
was past The ushers had difficulty in keeping
several hysterical women from hurling them
selves from the balcony.
Maud Engehart, six years old, of No. 2054
Second avenue and Annie Becker. the same
age. of Nc 1G6 East 122d street were tramped
under foot and after being attended by Or.
Ross. of the Harlem Hospital, were removed to
their homes The fire extin3uishcd before
the fireman arrived. The damage. is estimated
At 500.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
WALDORF DEATHPUZZLE
BODY FOUND IN ROOM.
Philadelphia Mans Skull Fractured
Held Up on Saturday.

Dressed in pajamas and lying face downward
in pool of blood, a thirty years old, who
registered at the Waldorf-Astorla Thursday
H B. Potter. jr.. of Philadelphia, was found
dead in mis- room the fourteenth floor of the
hotel last night at 1870 o'clock by a cham
bermaid. His body and face and head bore
marks of violence. as if he had been beaten
with a blunt weapon.
A letter addressed to his wife. Mrs. H. Brad
ley Potter, Doyetown, Philadelphia. showed
that the man was an agent of the Michigan
Commercial Insurance Company, of Lansing.
Mich
When the police were called to the hotel they
said they informed that the died
natural death but when Coroner Hamburger ar
rived to view the body at midnight he said
after hasty examination:
Il am convinced that the man did not die
natural death. Those two wounds on the fore
head. that one on the nose and the one on his
head could not have been seIf-inlicted."
After a more thorough examination of the
body Coroner Hamburger stated his belief that
the man had been murdered.
The mans skull was fractured and there were
a number of wounds on the body beside those
spoken of by Coroner Hamburger. There
deep one on the right ankle
Blood stains found on the vest and shirt
that he had Saturday night. Coroner
Hamburger believes that he died the result
of the fight in which he was robbed. He thinks
that kick a blow from some blunt instru-
ment fractured the mans skull. The marks on
the body showed that he had been beaten and
kicked.
Permission was granted an undertaken of No.
3J5 Fourth avenue to remove the body to that
address. Word was sent to coroners physician
OHanlon to perform autopsy this morning.
Potter. who arrived at the hotel October "A.
told the house detective that on Saturday night
he had been in fight and had been robbed of
his jewelry, watch and some money. He did
TO his room.
Potter also referred to the attack in letter
TO his wife in which he said:
Dear Wife: In the left hand drawer of the
bureau you will find in the tin box an envelope
In which are the names Of all the insurance
companies | represent Write to every of
them and ask them to appoint you their agent.
The letter then continued to state some pri-
vate family matters and closed as follows:
Goodby to you and the children. forgot to
say that on last Saturday night l put out
Of business while on my way to the hotel.
tackled by three touEhs and l had quite
an experience. I fought two Of them TO a stand
STILL but the third hit with "A Sandbag
the left side of my head knocking me out.
They took my watch. lOcket, cigarette case
ring and pocketbook. HERMAN.
Coroner Harburger advanced the theory that
Potter, after being attacked, addressed tho let
ter to his wife, that in case he died 1t would
be sent to her.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
LOST IN THE ADIR0NDACKS.
Hunter Has Been Missing Since Sunday
May Have Followed Bear.
LBy Telegraph To The Tribune J

Ogdensburg N ", Oct. 29.-Matthew Sher-
man. of Cherry Valley. a guest at the Mountain
View House in the Adirondacks. started Satur-
day afternoon for Ingram Lake. accompanied by
a party of five. The entire party started out
hunting Sunday morning. Mr.. Sherman was
placed on "a run" about mile and a half
from Ingram Camp and was last seen about
O'Clock in the morning. The entire party was
to report at the camp at noon, and when
o'clock arrived and Mr. Sherman had not ap-
peared a searching party was sent out, but no
trace of him could be found. Mr.. Boyce. one of
the party. saw a. large bear in the morning, and
it is thought Mr.. Sherman saw the same bear
and may have followed it and thus lost his
bearings. He is about ffty-fve years old.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
SEA TURTLE UPSET NEW YORKER.
Narrow Escape of Produce Exchange Man
Fishing on San Diego Bay.

San Diego. CAL Oct. 29-Word has been re-
ceived from Ensada of the narrow escape from
death of William ]. Forbes, commission agent
In the New York Produce Exchange, who is
guest of Walter Nordhoff at his home at Puenta
Banda.
Mr.. Forbes was fishing on the bay in small
boat accompanied by boatman, when their
line was taken by a turtle. The line held
and the turtle towed the boat for some distance
The fishermen determined to land the turtle IL
possible. In their efforts they overturned the
boat The turtle got away with the tackle. and
the fishermen were in the water for two hours
before they were rescued.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
eRosscuP DEPLoREs INDICTMENT.

Chicago Oct. 29.-Judge Peter s. GrossCup
was informed last night that he had been in
dicted by the Coles County Circuit Court at
Charleston, Ill. as a result of the fatal wreck
on the Charleston & Matoon Interurban Railway
last August.
This thing hurts me-" said Judge GrOsscup.
MY friends. I am sure know that have
tender regard for human life and suffering. and
a desire to deal justly with all men. In thirty
years I have never once been sued in civil
action. Beyond this. there is nothing that
say except that the accident at Charleston was
due to no defect in construction or ma, f.nery-
was due solely to human error in carrying
out orders-and that my sole connection with the
accident is that I was a director OF the COM
pany at the time 1t happened"
Bench warrants were issued at Charleston to-
day for the arrest of the persons indicted in
connection with the wreck. including Judge
Grosscup.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
PENNSYLVANIA REDUCTION DENIED
Railroads Traffic This Month IL Per Cent
Increase Over Last Year.

Philadelphia. Oct. 29.-Rumors that the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company would lay off between
twenty and thirty thousand men were denied to-
day by high officials of the company. The follow
ing statement given out az the company s
offices:
There is no truth in the statements that twenty
thousand men are 10 be discharged by the Penn
sylvana Railroad Company. Nothing OF the kind
has ever been discussed In view of the fact that
the traffic for October Is IL per cent greater tnan
for the same month last year. which Will make the
movement FOR the month the largest in the history
of the company any material reduction in the
forces would not be practicable.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
THE LUTTN AGAIN SUNK.
UnIucky French Submarine at Bot
tom of TOulOn HdrbOr.

Toulon, oct. 29-The French submarine boat
I.utin. which sank with all hands off Bizerta in
October 1906, had another accident to-day and
went TO the bottom second time. The Lutin
was raised recently and brought into Toulon to
be refitted. To-day she was in collision with
ferryboat in the harbor The Lutins bows were
smashed in and she sank No lives were lost.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
TAFT ACCEPTS BOSTON INVITATION
Will Attend Merchants Association Dinner,
He Says, "God Willing"

Boston, Oct. 29.-ID response to query whether
he would be present at the annual dinner of the
Boston Merchants Association, William H. Taft.
Secretary War. cabled to-day the following brief
answer from Manila to Secretary Erwin ii. Wal
colt: Yes, God Willing.
The dinner will be held on December 80. and Sec
retary Taft will be the chief speaker.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30
STEAMER SUNK; CREW ESCAPE.

Houghton. Mich, Oct 29.--At O'Clock Monday
morning, in clear weather, the steamer Spokane
of the Wilson Transit Company, of Cleveland, up
bound. with coal from Cleveland to Duluth, ran
on a reef Gull Island ten miles from the north
end of Isle Royale, in the direction of Manitou
Island and off Keweenaw Poirt.
The crew of eighteen men and Captain John Nc
Arthur got of safely in the ships boats TO Mani
tou. The steamer broke in half, and there is little
clance of saving her
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30

Louisville, oct. 29.-Louisvine fell into line
with the other large cities of the country to-
day. when the banks began the issuance of
clearing house certificates. Aside from this ac-
tion. the financial situation remains unaffected
by events in New York
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30

The Winter Time Table Of the LONG ISLAND
-AQHL
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30

AFTER AL, USHER'S THE SCOTCH
that made the highbaIl ramous.-Adyt
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30

GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER.
Its DuIlts has made IL famous. .'-Adyt
New-York tribune., 1907-10-30

Continued On second page.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-19
STOCK MARKET REVIEW.
Listless Indifference the Dominant Note
 Yesterday,

Yesterday.
 New York, June 1S.-Listless indiffer- ence was the dominant note in the tone of the stock market to-day. There was some extension in the early dealings 0 yesterdays upward movement, but by the expiration of the first hour all the buying orders in sight had been exc cuted and operators stood by and watched condition of practical stag nation. This exhaustion of the buying demand left the market easily vulner- able to subsequent reaction. The an- nouncement of an engagement of gold for export to Paris tomorrow also served to reinforce the warning of de- pletion of money market resources. A further outgo of gold on Thursday has been taken for granted, owing to the facilities of fast steamers sailing on that day. The anticipation of the movement by one day carried a sug- gestion of urgency which made a sem timental impression. Taken with the shipments of last Saturday and the ex- pected outgo on Thursday, to-day's en- gagement already points to a practical exhaustion of the surplus reserves of the banks before the week it out. Both the call and time money market were affected by this outlook to-day and ruled at higher rates, The vanishing surplus reserves with the eve of the seni-annual settlements approaching discouraged any disposition to extend marginal holdings in the stock market. Some disappointment was professed by operators in Reading over the action of the directors of the Central Railroad of New Jersey in declaring only the regular quarterly dividend on that | stock. This was accepted, apparently, as a definite refutation of assertions 1 that raise on the Reading dividend this week was in contemplation. A more probable index of the character | of the recent operations in Reading was l the rumor set afioat of buying in the | Union Pacific interest looking to the | formation of an ocean to ocean sys- tenn. This rumor seemed too grandiose to fit the extremely modest dimensions | of the days market and had much to do with awakening suspicion and | selling to realize. Reading [ and Union Pacific so far overshadowed i, the whole market In activity that their reaction carried prices, as whole, 
 The plan to distribute 200 per cent. in collateral bonds to stockholders of he Adams Express company caused !
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 murder of ex-Govarnor Steunenb.rg, Harry Orchard, maintaining, until yes terday, perfect comp )sure under the most searching examination, and deliv- ering his narrative of unprecedented rascality in calm. soft voice, has avowed himself guilt of these crimes
 l. Attempting to blow up the mill Of the Sullivan and Bunker Hill Mine at Wardner Occur d'Alene, and hang the superintendent. Two men were killed, but the superintendent escaped.
 ?. Helping to place the bomb in the Vlndlcator Mine at Cripple Creek which killed two men.
 3. Planning the assassination of Gov ernor Peabody of Colorado.
 1. Shooting and killing Deputy Lyte Gregory in Denver,
 5. Planning and helping to execute the blowing up of the railroad station at Independence Mine. Colorado, when fourteen men were killed,
 6. Attempting to poison Fred Brad ley. mine manager, then living in San Francisco, by putting strychnine in the family milk pitcher on the doorstep one morning.
 [ Arranging the bomb which blew Bradley from his doorway into the street.
 8. Setting a bomb for Judge Gab- ert, which killed another man.
 g. Planting a bomb, which never ex- ploded, before Judge Goddard's house.
 10. Lying in walt to kill Gen. sher- man Bell
 il. Planning the killing of "Andy" Mayberry, which was abandoned.
 These deeds. as well as his share in the attempts to murder Steunenberg, were undertaken by Orchard, accord ing to his story on contract" with no feeling of anlmoslty toward the vic t:ms. He has confessed as frankling to other crimes. We continue our enumer- ation:
 12. Setting fire to his cheese factory for the sake of the, Insurance money.
 IS. swindling farmers with fake" insurance against damage from hail. storms.
 II. Planning to kldnap the child of Paulson, former partner.
 15. Deserting wife in Canada.
 16. Deserting wife in, Cripple Creek. IT. Stealing sheep.
 IS. Breaking open a cash register and stealing $40.
 19. Stealing q trunk
 20 Burning a saloon at Independence for the insurance.
 To make his record complete, and round out tale of unmitigated crim- inality, Orchard has confessed that he deliberately betrayed to the officials of the Florance & Cripple Creek railroad a plot to blow up a train, because he had not been paid for work he had done. He says that he does not remeln- 4 Der if any crime was ever suggested to him that he was unwilling to commit. Orchard Is an anazlng creature, \ the like of whom is not to be found in written history. If any novelist had imagined such a parsonage, and put him in book the book would have been justly condemned as false to hu- man nature, which has never produced a prodigy so false to all our under- standing as Orchard. with it all he has appreciable intellectual force, a surprisingly good memory, and judg- ment and comprehension enough to keep him out of the traps set by clever lawyers. His emotional breakdown yes- terday was clearly due to nervous strain.-New York Times,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-19
NEW COURIER. WEDNESDAY JUNE 1s 1907

ten-point rise in that stock, but was without influence on the general list. Small declines resulted generally from the days business.
 Bonds were steady. Total sales par value sS14,OOo.
 United States bonds were unchanged on call.
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The Crimes of Orchard

Since June 5, his first day an the wit ness stand. in the trial at Boise, Ida ho, of William D. Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners for the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-19
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Reported over private wires of Prince Whitely, members of the new York and Boston Stock Exchanges, New York office 52 Broadway and l5 Center street New Haven Conn.
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