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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-30
THE 100 PLU7OCRATS WHO
RULE AMERICAN FINANCE

mercialized politics, serving the
New York Central railroad; and so
on through the list
These are the men to whom a
great proportion Of the S0,000,000
of people are paying tribute. They
are the men for whom the pro-
Queer produces, and the toiler
tolls. These men keep their hold
on the instruments and tools of
production. They work to keep
possession (exclusive) of the
mines, of the public carriers (rail-
roads,, of the factories, the smil-
tiers, the lands, the oil wells, the
pipe lines and all such other
things as tend to give the few a
control over the services of the
many. And SO long as they keep
this control it matters not who
seems to rule the country; they
are its uncrowned kings.
1t is to be observed that each
of these kings and groups of kings
rests his throne upon some privi-
lege granted by law. These mill
lions are built upon the right to
fix the price of food and fuel, eth
err through monopoly in production
or in transportation charges.
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AUBURN, N. Y, March 30
Chester Gillette, the young slayer
of Grace Brown, one time sweet
heart of Gillettes and whom he be-
trayed, deserted and finally killed,
paid the penalty this morning in
the electric chair
Gov. Hughes heard the last APP
peal for review and communication
of sentence Saturday when he lis
tened to the evidence of additional
witnesses whom attorneys for Gill
lette said would throw new light on
the case. All day Sunday the gov
ernor studied over the matter and
announced Sunday night he would
do nothing to stop the execution.
Almost with his last breath the
boy confessed to his spiritual al
visors, Rev. Henry McIllravey and
Chaplin Herrick that he was guilty,
They issued the following state
ment after the execution:
Because of our privileged rela-
tons with Chester Gillette we deem
it unwise to make any detailed
statement of what we learned from
our talks with him, but we simply
wish to say that no legal mistake
was made in carrying out the ends
of justice"
AS the boy was strapped in the
chair he called McIllravery. Tell
mother that | am prepared to meet
my God" he said in calm voice.
Tell her | have no hard feelings
against anyone and am only filled
with sorrow for the anguish
caused her Good bye"
Gillette entered the death house
at 6:12 a. m. His face ashen but
he was not nervous and walkeJ to
the chair unassisted, and settled
in a comfortable position with a
sign Of relief. Chaplin Herrick re-
cited the 23rd psalm. Gillette sat
quietly with bowed head until the
conclusion when he made his state
ment to McIllravey.
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the parched democratic machine.
Douglas will need no advertising,
for his picture has been appearing
in the papers in the country for
years. When he ran for governor
of Massachusetts he took advertis-
ing space in all the papers of the
state and set forth his ideas in
plain. direct language, thus reach
ing, in his own way, every newspa-
per reader 1t was a novelty in
politics, and was rewarded by ire
mendous success.
Massachusetts, claims to be the
best governed state in the Union,
and to have a number of competent
public men. This year she is de-
termined to step up and be noticed.
One trouble with the Douglas
boom, however, is that his press bu-
reau over in Washington, which is
booming him for the presidency, is
saying some pretty rough things
about Bryan.
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GILLETTE CONEESSESAND
PAYS PENALTY Of CRIME

The cap was adjusted and the
switch turned on. A current Of
1900 volts was applied for 80 sec
onds. Only one contact was made
and at $40 he was pronounced
dead.
During the execution, the father,
mother, two sisters and a brother
awaited near the prison in the Sal
walton Army headquarters. When
told it was all over Mrs. Gillette
tainted.
So ends the pitiful tragedy Of a
pallid, covering boy and simple
country girl who loved unwisely,
perhaps, but with pathetic con-
stancy. The boy, faced by a situ-
alton he could not master, killed
her to avoid disgrace.
The daughter Of poor but re-
fined family living on farm, Grace
Brown went to work in shirt fac
tory at CORTLAND, N. Y. There she
met Gillette, nephew of the owner
and an employe in the Office of the
factory. His attentions made her
envied of all the girls in the fac
tory.
One day she left for home taking
with her an awful secret. In the
murder trial that followed her let
tiers to Gillette were published and
portrayed in simple language the
story of a broken hearted girl who
asked him do justice to her unborn
child. p
Finally he came to her and on
pretext that he was soon to marry
her took her to a hotel on Big
Moose lake. On the third day they
went canoeing. In a lonely spot
he struck her over the head with
tennis racquet and pitched the
body into the water. He then up
set the canoe AMI asserted that an
accident caused Grace to drown. He
was arrested a few days later and
put up a stubborn fight for almost
two years.
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OLIVER WILSON VICTIM OF
BLOW FROM EN- DOF HOSE
THAT MAY NECESSITATE OP.
GRAFTON TO REMOVE BRAIN
DERANGEMENT.

Owing to an accident at the Bar
Der Asphalt works fire on Mallon
av. at o'clock this morning,
Oliver Wilson, fireman with No.
station, was peculiarly afflicted as
the result of blow received at
the base Of the brain.
The first the other firemen knew
that Wilson was injured was when
they saw him laying upon his back
near the hydrant of the Humane
Society barn, to which he had run
with the end of the hose to make a
coupling, The loose end of the
6Ase whirled up ami struck Wilson.
It's the first case Chief Myers ever
heard of.
When his companions assisted
him to his feet he could hardly
stand. There was bump at the
base of his skull. In answer to
questions as to how the accident
happened, the firemen were as
founded to hear Wilson say, Lake,
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HELLO GIRLS SAIL
IN SAVAGE and
win THEIR STRIKE

LEWISTON, March 30.-"Old
cat! Take that! Hussy! Let go
of my hair, you mean thing!
Smack" Fill this in with sobs
and screams and jeering, and you
have an idea of what happened
when Supt. Reynolds. of the Pa.
cific States Telephone Co. arrived
here Saturday night with six strike
breakers from the Spokane office.
The girls here struck for eight
hours and the entire town was be.
hind them. They and all their
friends met the superintendent and
his girls at the depot and the well
come extended was something
fierce. Hats ami hair flew, and
Reynolds had the time of his life
for few moments. Linemen
threatened to strike in sympathy
Supt. Reynolds returned to Spo-
kane today. The trouble was set
tied by conceding the girls the
hours they asked for, it is reported
from Lewiston.
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HAYWOOD LAUNCHES
PRESIDENTIAL BOOM

CHICAGO. March 30.-W. d.
Haywood took occasion to criticize
Roosevelt, Gov. Gooding and other
public officials in speech deliver
ed here last night
incidentally, Haywood launched
boom for his candidacy as presi-
dent of the United States on the So
cialist ticket Resolutions were
passed calling for the withdrawal
of troops at the Treadwell mines
Speaking of the bomb throwing
in New York Haywood said:
when some poor, deluded NOR
tai is trying to take by force what
by justice belongs to him. we call
1t outrage, But out in Wyoming
20 men were killed in a mine ex-
plosion. That was murder by the
mine owners"
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BY gibson GARDNER

WASHINGTON, d. c., March 80.
Just who are the country's rulers
by virtue of their ownership OF
the country's business, and tools
for doing business-has been
shown in the list of ''financiers"
compiled by Senator LaFollette,
from the directories and stock
holding boards of all the principal
corporations doing business in the
United States.
1t has been announced that the
control of all tho great utilities, the
railroads, steamship lines, the
banks, the coal mines, the iron
mines, AMI smelters, the manufac-
ture of agricultural implements and
the manufacture of all the great
necessities of life-the control OF
all these utilities has been gathered
into the hands Of a few corpora
tions, whose control has been gath
cred into the hands of few banks,
whose control has been gathered
into the hands of a few individuals
possibly less in number than 25-
who are the real plutocrats (frOm
two words meaning wealth and
power, and meaning persons who
WELD a governing power by virtue
of their wealth.
Senator LaFollette's list of the
hundred plutocrlts of the republic
is interesting in two ways. 1t is
interesting in the names which are
fn r,,ilia,. in those hinh n pn
not. There are many men in this
list who are found to be on scores
of directing boards, who never have
been heard of by the average news
paper reader. In many instances
they are mere pawns on the finan-
cial chess board, moved about by
the Rockefellers AMI Ryans.
After the nawns have been
eliminated the real control is found
to vest in list of men who are
gradually becoming better known
to the voting pablo. These men
are found to lie associated in
groups, but each group has direc-
tors in the other groups, and so
the various groups are more or less
closely knitted together by ties of
common interest.
Among the names, in this list
of 100, not so familiar to the pub
lie are these: Edwin Marston,
Samuel Sloan, Moses Taylor, C.. II
Dodge, j. II. Post, p. A. Valentine,
c. S. FairchilG John w. Sterling,
Stephen S. Palmer, 7. H. Hub
bard. Adrian Iselin, jr., Brayton
Ives, G. w. Oal:man, G. w. Young.
G. F. Baker. NJ. Taylor Pyne, c.
Ledyard Blair. V. z. Snyder II. II.
Vreeland, John Claflin, Chas.
Lanier, Woodbury. Langdon, A. d.
Juillard, Jas n. Jarvie, G. G. Haven,
Frederick Cromwell, c. A. Peabody,
C. II. Allen. A. w. Krech, S. b.
Shipley. p. d. Cravath. Henry Wal
ters, j. T. Coolidge, Nathaniel
Thayer, Samuel Rea, Edwin Haw-
ley, John r. Hegeman, d. o. Mills,
A T.. Orr, Chas. Steele. II. Nick.
Trombley John |. Waterbury, L. +.
| c. Young, Thos. Dolan, John II.
Converse, This list contains 40
names.
In the following list the names
are more familiar. These men, in
most cases, control or are the ac-
tive managers for the men in the
former list:
The Morgan group: J. Pierpont
Morgan, Thos. +. Ryan, August
Belmont, Jas. j, Hill, Jacob Schiff,
f. II. Gary, John f. Dryden. ]. b.
Duke, Levi p. Morton, Paul Nor
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O0UBLECHARGE
Of K|ONAP|N

A double charge of kidnapping is
to be made against James Boyle,
the crippled tramp, who when cap
tured week ago in Butte had lit
tie Jimmie Lemieux, 13, begging
for him, and was also teaching
Charley Jacques, age IS, who was
also with him but not at the time
of the arrest, to be a beggar
The parents of the boys have
held frequent sessions with Deputy
Prosecuting Attorney Kizer and
Police Chief Rice, and yesterday
it was determined to bring Boyle
back to this city. Both the Jaques
and LemiouX boys are now with
their parents. They tell about the
same tale of the stories of life on
the river boats on the Mississippi
told them by Boyle In getting them
to run away from their homes and
go with him to Butte.
The three beat their way along
and We're forced to put up with
considerable hardship, which would
have been severe had not the
youth of the two boys made it an
easy thing for them to beg food
and shelter. Most of the time,
however, their shelter was a box
car
Boyle is crippled vagrant
known as Grip, the newsboy." He
is no win Jail in Butte, having been
sentenced for vagrancy in order to
hold him until it was known just
what Spokane authorities intend
ell to do in the matter.
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JOSEPH CANNON
KILLED BY DRUG

SAN FRANCISCO, March 90
Whether the death of Joseph Can.
non, cashier of the Northwestern
National bank. Philadelphia, was
the result of morphine or other I'M
natural causes is problem the
coroner and deputies are trying to
solve today.
Cannon died yesterday at the
Stewart hotel. He arrived in the
morning and was found in a dying
condition late in the afternoon. A
doctor was called, but the man died
in about an hour. The physician
reported that he believed death was
due to morphine poisoning. A chest
of drugs was found in the room.
Cannon came to California a
month ago, first staying in Los An
geles, An autopsy will show the
real cause Of death.
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DEAL FIXED UP TO
PUT LID on SUNDAY
LID PROSECUTIONS

Altogether some deep schaming
has been done by cigar store men
who have been bothered more than
plant of the Main av. clothiers,
who, because they were forced to
close up on Sundays, sought to
close everyone else amenable to
the law and Swore to numerous
warrants. Last Saturday it is
claimed that final agreement was
reached wherein the clothiers
promised to drop their cases on
condition only that the Sunday or
dinance be repealed.
Cigar store men, however, could
not guarantee the repeal OF the or
dinance, so solicited the aid of the
saloon men in bringing pressure to
bear on the democratic majority in
the council. The republican mem
bers, particularly Estep. have
tried unsuccessfully for several
weeks to repeal the ordinance, but
every attempt was frustrated by
the democrats.
1t is stated now that the ordi-
nance will be repealed without
further hinirance.
However, it is said that the
agreement between the clothiers,
cigar dealers and saloon men, will
have nothing to do With the pas
sage of a new closing ordinance
against saloons. The new council.
which takes office May Is, is seven
republican and three democratic.
1t will probably be left to deal with
the new ordinance.
AS a sort of political football the
Sunday law seems to have one mis-
sion in life, at least.
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SEVENTY SEALED
IN FLAMING TOMB
No Hope of Saving Victims of Union
Pacific Mine Explosion.

HANNA, Wyoming, March 30
Hope is abandoned of saving any
of the remaining II miners en-.
tombed in the Union Pacific coal
mine here who may be in the burn
ing mine. Flames render it impos.
sible to enter the workings.
Help Is coming from other towns
Agonized relatives cluster about the
shaft hoping that something could
be done, but they are doomed to
disappointment.
In the list of lost are Supt.
Briggs and three bosses. With
them a crew of IA men was sent
into the mine to fight fire Satur-
day. They were below the tenth
level when the flames reached gas
In the mine and an explosion fol
lowed that shook the earth.
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KAISER AND TOWER
BOTH QUALIFY FOR
THE ANNANlAS CLUB

WASHINGTON, March 30-The
Hill-Tower incident has now reach
ed a point when 1t looks almost
certain that the doors leading to
the reception room of Roosevelt's
Ananies club, or the ''In Bad" or
ganization, would soon fly open to
welcome either Kaiser Wilhelm or
Ambassador Tower, or both
From the confused, mudiled con-
dition of affairs at Berlin, contra
dlctory statements and lack of def
mite information, it looks as il GER
tain that Hill was the victim of a
bad job of diplomatic knitting.
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GRADE SEPARATORS
WILL MEET TODAY

The grade separation committee
appointed by the mayor to take up
City Engineer Ralston's scheme
with railroad representatives, will
meet in Mayor Moore's Office at
O'Clock this afternoon to effect or
ganization and discuss the proper
manner in which best to interest
railroad people.
Mr., Ralston's plans are for a
common right of way for all rail-
roads through the city, including a
tunnel through Cannon hill and a
union depot near the present loca-
tion of the Northern Pacific freight
depot.
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The bodies of the first party are
undoubtedly burned to ashes.
Charles Harris, colored miner,
managed to escape the destruction
that overlook the first party and
went back in with the rescuers.
These were led by State Mine In
spector Elias. They were in the
mine making desperate effort to
save the first party, when a sec
ond explosion ended the effort and
the lives of the rescuers together,
the mine inspector losing his life
with the rest. Alfred Campbell
had come the surface bringing two
dead bodies and this saved him.
The mine is a mankiller with a
record of 800 deaths in 20 years.
In June, 1908, 1863 miners were
killed there by gas.
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ANNA GOULD TAKES
De SAcAN AND HIS
$5,000,0 DEBTS

NEW YORK, March 30.-Anna
Gould, it is positively stated, will
marry Prince de Sagan within a
month, defying her brother George,
who advised against such step.
She will give George three days to
sanction the marriage and If he
then refuses the ceremony will be
performed abroad.
Last night de Sagan and Nine.
Gould dined at the Gotham hotel.
He appeared wholly unaffected by
dispatch that the Marquis Castel-
lane, father of Count Boni, had
stated de Sagan was already S.
100000 in debt and that no honest
door in Europe would open in well
come to him.
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MUzzlE BLOWS
OFF BIG GUN

WASHINGTON. D. c.. March 80
The first accident of a serious
nature that has befallen Evan S
fleet since leaving Hampton Roads
occurred today when the muzzle of
a broadside gun on the Missouri
blew out. tearing away one half
of the gun.
The crew was uninjured. The
cause of the eccident was not given
in the dispatch. A board of inquiry
has been ordered to investigate.
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ton, A. N. Brady, C. M. Schwab,
George w. Perkins, P. A. B. Widen
err, e. ]. Berwlnd.
The Rockefeller group: John d.
Rockefeller, VIM. Rockefeller, Jas.
Stillman, E. II Hartman, Geo. J,
Gould, Henry M. Flagler, H. H.
Rogers, d. Guggenheim, Victor
Morawetz, Daniel G.. Reid.
The Vanderbilt group: John
Jacob Aston, w. d. Vanderbilt, W.
S. Webb. Chauncey Depew, Jas. M.
Fargo, w. X. Vanderbilt.
: The Chicago group: j. Ogden
Armour, John J. Mitchell, l.. F.
Swift, Chas. G. Dawes, Jas. Forgan,
Oliver Ames, Cyrus Mccormick
In this list there are 3S names,
all quite famiiarffi but some more
SO than others The names in this
list have been arranged in four
groups, according to their business
affiliations. For, as Senator La
Toilette pointed ont, there are
principal and subsidiary groups
all, however, more or less knit to-
gether by the common interest of
doing the people.
There are II leading spirits in
the so-called Morgan group. All are
less rich and powerful than Nor
gan. Many are little more than
employees of his. So, in way, it
may be said that all this group of
Is may be embraced in the single
name of Morgan, for he is it's con-
| troll.
The 10 men in the second group
all are really controlled by John
ID. Rockefeller. This group is gen.
orally antagonistic to the Morgan
group, but both groups get to-
gether on the common platform of
a desire to siietrack Roosevelt and
his policies, and to name some man
they can control. They have the
country's business; they want it's
government.
group Is that known as the Wander
bilt group. Depew is hardly more
than the political and business rep
| resentative of the Vanderbilt
money. Webb is son-in-law, Far
go suggests express interests, and
| so 1t goes.
In the Middle West a subsidiary
group has risen in late years, born
of the vast wealth produced by
the meat packing business, the
making of harvesters organizing
gas companies, running department
stores and lending money. In this
are the Armours, Swifts, McCor-
ricks, Fields, etc.
Many of the names in these
groups bring their own suggestion
of the particular commodity con-
trolled. Everybody knows Z. H..
Harriman's activity in railroads;
the public Is fairly well informed
as to Ryan's m!smanagement of
traction and insurance concerns
AMI his tobacco trust; Duke is
synonymous with the tobacco trust,
Dryden is the Prudential Insurance
Co.. A. n. Brady is Morgans
handy man." Schwab is his repre-
sentative in the steel trust along
with Gary; Rockefeller means oil
and railroads fnd banks, Gould
means railroads, Flagler means
railroads, oil and the state of
Florida, Stillman stands for gam
| blers' banking for stock brokers in
Wall St, Berwind is part of the
Pennsylvania coal trust, Rogers Is
copper, etc, Cuggenheim is the
smelter trust, MorawetZ is the
Rock Island and legal brains for
| Hartman, Depew stands for COM
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FORTUNE WATTS
WHALEY GIRL

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30
Police have been asked to find
former Rev. Jere Knoie Cooke and
Floretta Whaley, so that the latter
can come back to her home on
Long Island to appear in court and
settle up an estate belonging to
her. The estate is worth about
$4,000.
When last heard from here Cooke
and the girl were in straitened cir
cumstances. They eloped, Cooke
deserving his family.
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MAJOR GWYDLR PRESERVES
CITY FROM YELLOW PERIL

License Inspector Gwydir had a
merry chase after an unlicensed
Chinese peddler named Lewis
Gong about o'clock this morning,
and although the CELESTIAL outwitted
him on the start. the major came
off on top at the finish. AS Gong
was lei away to the dungeon he
followed the majors retreating
form with. "Majoh, him heap
foxy man.
Gong and his unlicensed business
of peddling vegetables have es-
capped the major for the past
month, and today for the first time
the major got upon the trail with
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some prospects OF effecting a cap.
ture. Gong got a wireless or
telepathic communication perhaps,
and set OFF on a trot for the North.
side, The major, being afoot, was
soon distanced, but kept doggedly
on.
Gong circled around and return.
ed to the city hall, where he took
out license for April. He awaited
the majors appearance, then with
the license extended and his yellow
teeth showing in grin, he said,
"Maioh, you not muchee smlart."
The major read the license, saw il
was tor April, then pincheI Gong
for March.
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SPOKANE, WASHINGTON. MONDAY, MARCH 80 1908
DEAD
TOGETHER

CLEVELAND, March 30.-Lying
side by side on the road with bull
lets through their hearts, the
bodies of Carl Bernthaler, music
teacher, and Lena Ziechman, pupil,
were found today. The position
of the bodies indicates that Bern
thaler shot the girl and then kill
ed himself.
1t was discovered later that
Bernthaler was married ami had
been secretly meeting the girl for
six months. When Mrs. Bern
thaler asked to look at the remains
of her husband she collapsed.
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MURDERED WITH RATCHET
BY SUPPOSED FRIEND

The officers are convinced that
the messenger was killed by a
blow with a Ratchet, and believe
thar the robbery of the express
safe was the work Of an old rail-
road man who was familiar with
keys and markings on packages.
Nothing was disturbed but the
money and jewelry packages.
The officers believe Bailey adj
mitted a friend into the car and
that the latter struck him in the
head when his back was turned,
effected the robbery and left the
train at Newton. A reward of 81 900
has been offered for his capture.
At least this amount was stolen,
and probably a great deal more.
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POLICE CONVINCED WELLS
FARGO CRIME WAS WORK
OF MAN EXPERIENCED IN
EXPRESS BUSINESS.

KANSAS CITY, March 30.-Of-
ficers today visited the home of
o. A. Bailey, Wells-Fargo messen-
ger who was murdered in his car
on a Santa Fee train yesterday be.
tween Newton and Florence,
Kansas. They sought list of the
murdered mans acquaintance in
order to trace any out of employ
ment who might have entered the
car under the guise of friend and
then did the fatal work.