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THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXUX, J" RIDAT.! OCTOBEE 11, 1907. OLDER'S KIDNAPER AGAIN INDICTED Luther Brown Accused of In ducing Chauffeur to Per jure Himself. HENEY GETS CONFESSION Man Who Drove Car on Which. Ed itor Was Abducted Betrays Em ployer Union Carnfan Is Al so Under Indictment. I SAX FRANCISCO, Oct. 10. The grand jury today returned another indictment against Luther G. Brown, law partner In Los Angeles of Earl Rogers, and re puted to be "the head of the United Railroads" detective force In thla city. Brown, who was indicted recently with R. Porter Ashe on charges of abducting Fremont Older, managing editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, was today ac cused by the grand jury of subornation of perjury in procuring G. A. Wyman, a chauffeur, to testify falsely before the. Inquisitorial body while under examina tion as to the alleged kidnaping. Wyman drove the car in which Older was taken against his will to Redwood City, on the way to Los Angeles, to y answer a libel suit instituted by Brown In connection with the present bribery graft prosecutions. Wyman, according to th prosecution, was "cornered" by Francis J. Heney In the grand jury room and confessed that Brown had in duced him to perjure himself. Wyman was not Indicted. The grand jury also returned an in dictment against John E. West, a mem ber of the Electrical Workers' Union, ac cusing him of the penitentiary offense of phort-circuiting tho wires .of the United Itaitroutis. Brown's bail was fixed by Judge Coffey nt $10,000 bonds or $5000 cash. West's at $5000 bonds or $2500 cash. A bench war rant was issued for the arrest of each. MAY SOON TAKE CAPITAL Mului Hafig Advancing, Backed by Holy Men of Fez. " TANGIER. Oct. 10. The power of Mulai naflg, who his been proclaimed Hultan In the south, has been greatly strengthened In that part of Morocco by the declaration of the ulenms or holy men at Fez that he has more, legal and moral right to the throne than has Abdul Aziz, the Sultan of record. This, coupled with the approach of Mulai iang's army upon Fez, argues a speedy capitulation of the northern capital. ADVANCING ON CASA BXANCA Mului Hafig Prepares to Attack the Krench Invaders. - PARIS, Oct. 10. A telegram has been received from General Drude, commander of the French expedition ary forces In Morocco, saying that one of Mulai Ilaflg's armies has arrived 'within 20 miles of Casa Blanca. The Moors have with them four pieces of artillery. Moors Move to the Attack. CASA BLANCA, Oct. 10. One of the armies commanded by Mulai Hafig Is now reported to be advancing upon Casa Blanca. The strength of the force is not known. FOOTBALL TEAM COMING 1'niversity of Washington Squad to Play Multnomah and Salem. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Seattle., Wash., Oct. 10. (Special.) Seventeen members of the University of Washington football squad, together with Coach Victor Place, Trainer H. B. Conlbear and Manager William Rasmusen, will leave tomorrow after noon at 1:15 for Oregon to play Mult nomah Athletic Club in Portland Sat urday afternoon and Willamette Uni versity at Salem, Monday. 4 Tiie following men will make the trip: Matthews, end; Tegtmler, cen ter; Flaherty, guard; Reser, guard; Bantz. tackle; Grimm, tackle; Bragdon, end; Captain Bagshaw, quarter; Ward, half; Willis, full; Harris, half; Clark, half: Trott, half; Mac key. end: Todd, guard: Beck, center, and Parker, qunrter. Tegtmler has a sprained ankle and may be unable to play and both Bagshaw and Bragdon are in bad hapc. A student rally, in honor of the players, was held today. Student opinion favors Multnomah as winners In the annual contest. In practice this afternoon the team played poorly, for getting signals and lacking speed. OVER HALF PROVE FATAL Health Hoard Show s Deadly Char acter of Bubonic Plague Cases. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 10. Today's records In the office of the Board of Pub lic Health show the following bubonic plague .situation: Tutals to dat - Number verified caws r4 lfaths ;i ltornvrrteB 7 Rfttiaininpr under treatment 20 tiuiuerta under quarantine and treat ment at the city and county hospital 24 leat h rate, per cent 37.8 GOVERNMENT IS EXEMPT around Cape Horn, making the problem a serious one. Need Not Pay Dues on Coal lor Fleet on Pacific. WASHINGTON. Oct. 10. Foreign bot toms carrying coal for the United 8tatos Navy will not be compelled to pay the tonnage and light dues assessed under regulations of the Department of Com merce and Ibor. A decision to this ef fect was rendered today by Attorney iieneral Bonaparte, the question having been referred to him when the British tramp steamer Ferrenden, carrying coal from Newport News to San Francisco, protested against the paying of the charges after carrying a cargo of coal to the Bremerton Navy-Yard on Puget Bound. The enforcement of the tax meant that the Navy Department would be called upon to pay a higher amount for the coal used by the Atlantic fleet on the voyage LEARNS WESTERN LIVING COST Frank Hitchcock Investigates Dlf- flculty of Keeping Postal Clerks. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 10. First Assistant Postmaster-General Frank H. Hitchcock was in Salt Lake City several bours today on his way from Montana and Nevada. He has just tinished a tourv or inspection of Montana postofnees. particularly that in Butte, and he goes to Nevada on. the same mission. One of the objects of Mr. Hitchcock's visit to the West Is to ascertain he cost of living in this section as compared with conditions in the East. At the present scale of wages the Western postofflces find It difficult to secure and to keep sufficiently competent employes. Data collected by Mr. Hitchcock will be em bodied In a report , to be submitted te the next Congress. LIKE BLACK MO Bigelow Confesses Threats to Use Dynamite. Washington Rural Carriers. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU Wash., D. C, Oct. 10. Rural carriers appointed for Washington routes: Greenacres, route 1, John W. Simmons, carrier; Seabury, S. Brown, substi tute; LaCrosse, route 1, Oscar M. Greendahl, carrier; Carl Greendahl, substitute. OH OF JEM AT SEA STEAMER'S CARGO TAKES FIRE IX TERRIFIC STORM. Crew Labors AVith Hysterical Pas sengers While Fighting Flames, hut Wins Battle. NEW YORK, Oct. 10. The Austrian steamer Giulla, which arrived today from Trieste with 763 passengers, had a nar row escape from destruction by fire in mid-ocean during a violent storm on Oc tober 3. The crew fought the flames all day before they were extinguished, while the panic-stricken passengers prayed for help. The Giuiij, left Trieste September 14, calling at Pa-ferns and America. After passing Gibraltar September 25, the steamer encountered stormy weather with heavy seas. At daylight on the morning of October 3, while about 700 miles west of the Azore Islands, one of the crew discovered fire in the cargo at the bottom of No. 2 hold. The wind was blowing violently from the southwest and the Giulla was laboring heavily. Captain Cherubini ordered part of the cargo broken out, and water was turned into the hold, but the fire stubbornly resisted the efforts of the crew. In the meantime the passengers,- of whom there were 27 in the cabin and 736 in the steerage, learned of the danger. Many of them fell on their knees In prayer, while others became hysterical, adding to the cares of the harassed of ficers and crew when every effort was necessary to save the ship and her big company. The ship's boats were prepared to meet any emergency, but after the hold had been flooded and part of the cargo thrown overboard, the fire was extin guished about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. RUN ON MINNEAPOLIS BANK Farmers and Mechanics National in Good Shape, Though. MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 10. A run on the Farmers and Mechanics Nation al Hank of this city, which has been developing for several days, culminat ed today when about $200,000 was drawn out. During the week MOO.000 has been drawn out from a total deposit of $13, 000,000. .As a result of the run a statement was Issued by a clearing house committee stating that the bank is In excellent condition. The bank has 54,0)0 depositors. Falling Off in Nebraska. LINCOLN. Neb., Oct. 10. (Special.) A great falling off in the nu'-er of pas sengers carried in Nebraska during the year ended June 30, 1907, is shown by the annual report of the I nion Pacific filed with the State Railway Commission to day. The number of passengers hauled during the year was 3,078,538, as against 4.803,089 in the year ended June 30. 1906. The period covered by the report includes about eight months before the 2-cent rate law went into effect. In the same 12 months, ended June 30. 1907, the average price per mile paid per passenger was four-tenths of a mill less than 2 cents. The average price paid per passenger was $2.64, as compared with $2.76 In the preceding year. Cook Kills Manager of "Winery. FRBSNO, .Cal.. Oct. 10. D. J. Ellis, manager of the Lacjac "Winery near Reedley, was today shot dead by a man named Rollins. Rollins and his wife were cooks at the winery and from Rollins' In coherent talk it is presumed that the murder was the outgrowth of something said to the woman. The weapon used was a shotgun. Rollins surrendered himself Killed When He Catches Burglar. FRESNO. Cal., OcfT 10. L. C. Smith, a night watchman and pioneer of Fresno, was shot and killed by a burglar at 2 o'clock this morning when he intercepted the thief as the latter was crawling through a transom at the rear of the Opera Bar on Fresno street. There is no good clue to his murderer. UNLESS MONEY WAS PAID Railroads, Merchants and Post master of Denver His Chief Vic tims Dummy Package Sent, . hut Xot Claimed. DENVER, Oct. 10. Kemp V. Bigelow, the young clerk from Farmer, Ohio, who mailed dynamite packages last Monday to Governor Henry A. Butchel and sev eral other prominent citizens of Denver, confessed today that he was also the author of letters mailed on August 29 last to the Burlington Railroad, the Moffatt road, the Adams Express Com pany, the Daniels & Fisher Stores Conf pany, the May Shoe & Clothing Company and to Postmaster Paul Sours, demand ing amounts varying from $10,000 to $50,000 and aggregating $190,000. These let ters contained threats -that unless the de mands were complied with, passenger trains would be wrecked with dynamite and the Daniels & Fisher and May stores and the Federal building In -this city would be blown up and C. H. Day, local. a.Sent of the Adams Express Company, would be killed within 30 days. Bigelow' confession was made to Chief ef Police Michael Daley In the presence of Mr. Day and John F. Vallery, general agent of the Burlington road In Denver. The letters " contained Instruc tions for placing a different mark upon each package and demanded that it should be put in one bundle and thrown from a certain Burlington train as it passed the Denver stockyards on the night of September 30. A dummy pack age was made up and thrown off the train, as directed. Detectives were in hiding near the spot designated for leav ing the package of money, and kept up a vigil all night, but nobody appeared. The next morning the package was re turned to Mr. Day. Bigelow will be turned over to the Fed eral authorities and prosecuted on the charge of using the mails to defraud. PRISON LABOR FOR ROADS Illinois Considering Plan of" Using Convicts on Highways. CHICAGO, Oct. 10. (Special.) Prison labor will construct good roads in Illi nois, if the plans of the supervisors, county commissioners and county clerks who are here attending their twenty-first annual convention,, are carried out. A new plan, which is receiving serious consideration from the highway commis sioners, and upon which they expect help from the Legislature, is the construction of good roads without an increased bur den upon the tax payers by getting stone and gravel from stata prisons solely to accomplish this. The highway commis sion advocates the building of small sub prisons in the) various parts of the state to supply the demand. This plan would accomplish wonderful results, according to the chief engineer of the commission and would create a new state industry. Maglll Jury Is Complete. DECATUR. 111.. Oct. 10. The Magill jury was completed this afternoon. ; The first testimony will be heard tomorrow. CREDIT TO REYNOLDS' BANK Seattle Merchants Give Aid to Alas- kan Promoter. SEATTLE, AVash., Oct. 10. (Special.) The H. D. Reynolds Bank, at Valdez, yesterday closed its doors. Seattle bankers say the failure will not in jure Seattle's financial institutions and that the money Reynolds owes Seattle merchants will be paid. These have extended a line of credit to Reynolds amounting to approximately $50,000. Boston and New England capital, furnishe1 largely by school teachers, formed the basis of Reynold's first ex ploitation of Alaska. He had several mining enterprises a year ago, but fin ally determined to get into the trans portation business, John G. Brady, for mer Governor of Alaska, became in terested with him and allowed the use of his name in the New England states, and President Theodore Roosevelt de cided his usefulness as Governor of Alaska was at an end. BUILDING BOXDS SUBSCRIBED Walla Walla Commercial Club Con ducts Canvass. WALLA WALLA, ' Wash., Oct. 10. (Special.) As the result of an active can vass made by the members of the Com mercial Club today, bonds for the new building, amounting to about $30,000, were sold to local investors. These ' bonds, which had been refused by two Eastern trust companies on account of the strin gency of the money market and the low rate of interest which they bear, were patriotically subscribed for by the local business men to an amount sufficient to R' II mm ii Purity, Quality. Economy, in the Cocoa in the Yellow Wrapper. 32 BEKSi Com S. L. Bartlett Co. Importus, Boston. Ariu, Campbell A Gaolt. B Aaents. r mips ROYAL DUTCH EGBA insure the completion of the work at once. Up to yesterday the contractors hav ing the work In charge had refused to make any further expenditures on tiie buildings until some concrete assurance was given them that the money woula 'be forthcoming. The work will nw be vigorously prosecuted and the buildings will be ready for occupancy about Feb ruary 1. None of the large financial In stitutions of the city subscribed for the bonds in any large amounts, the bonds 'being taken by business men. TOM RICHARDSON OPENS FAIR Merchants' Fair and Industrial Ex position at HOquiam. HOQUIAM, Wash., Oct 10: (Spe cial.) The Merchants' Fair and Industrial Exposition was auspici ously opened tonight, Tom . Rich ardson, of the Portland Commercial Club, delivering the address. Over 2000 people attended the opening exercises, and Mr. Richardson was vigorously ap plauded during his speech. The display booths were artistic and effective, and while outside cities were represented, the chief interest centered upon the showing of products manufac tured at Hoquiam, . Aberdeen and other Grays Harbor points, as well as the lines sold by the wholesalers of the harbor cities. The music was fine, the people enthusiastic, and the fair is certain to be a success during its 10 days' run. Murderess Granted New Trial. SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 10. Spe cial.) Josephine Baruth, convicted by the Superior Court of Spokane County of the murder of her husband and sen tenced to ten years in the penitentiary, was granted a new trial by the Su preme Court today. The opinion states that the lower court erred in admitting the testimony of the dead man's friends as to the dying statements of the deceased. C. M. Baruth was a prominent, citizen of Medical Lake. He had been member of the town coun cil and was a friend of the adminis tration at the time of his death. His friends tried to keep quiet the facts of the shooting, but it finally leaked out. Manslaughter for Sawyer. PENDLETON, Or.. Oct. 10. (Special.) The jury in the case of James Sawyer, charged with murder In the first de gree for the shooting of Jack Meonee, at Juniper, after being out all night brought in a verdict of manslaughter. Sawyer will be sentenced Monday. October 14. , Convicted for Rioting. VANCOUVER, B. Oct. 10. John Reed was, today convicted by a jury and sentenced to six months for par ticipating in the recent anti-Oriental riots. To Pen for Forging Check. PENDLETON, Or., Oct. 10. (Special.) Pleading guilty to forging the name of David Nelson to a check,, William Jones was today sentenced to two years in the State Penitentiary. County Attorney Resigns. DAYTON, Wash., Oct. 10. (Special.) Prosecuting Attorney R. M. SturdK vant will resign November 1 and move to North Yakima to practice law. Sunday Schools Convention. SOUTH BEND, Wash., Oct. 10. (Spe cial.) The twelfth annual convention of the Pacific County Sunday schools will be held in South Bend, October 24-25. Pacific Journal Dismantled. SOUTH BEND, Wash., Oct. 10. (Spe cial.) The plant of the Pacific Jour nal, the oldest paper in Pacific County, has been dismantled and a pa,rt sold to the South Bend Journal and the re mainder taken to Astoria, where it will 5,;:-! THE STEAMER FRITHJOF AND TOVKIST SHIPS IX THE HARBOR AT DAWKS ISL.AD THE FRITHJOF IS THE VESSEL WITH SPARS. - mtsg. . OUR JUVENILE DEPARTMENT The most comfortable best lighted shopping place in Portland An entire floor devoted exclusively to Juvenile Attire offers the largest stock by far in the city MODEST PRICES always prevail here and shopping is made easy BEN SELLING Leading- Clothier A be turned into a job plant. The Jour nal was established some 25 years ago, but has been leading a spasmodic life the past few years. Low Death Rate In Linn. ALBANY. Or., Oct. 10. (Special.) Only nine deaths were reported in Linn County during the month of September, a rate of only iVt per cent. Bit Off Nose, Gets 00 Days. PENDLETON, Or., Oct. 10. (Special.) -T. J. Burton is a lucky man. l.e cit u.f the end of Mark Shackleford's nose in a drunken fight, for which he was charged with maiming with a .chance of a long prison term, but today the Dis trict Attorney changed the charge to as sault and basttery. Burton promptly pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ao days in the county jail! If It Can Be Done Optically Anywhere Leffert's Does It Lef f ert S . 272 Washington street, Portland, extends a cordial invitation to you to visit their ' Optical Department, which has been placed in charge of Dr. W. H. Vose, one of the foremost eye specialists in the United States. Noted Dr. Vose comes to Leffert's from one of the largest optical companies in the Ontirian East. He was trained at two colleges of high standing in his profession upucian and hag been engage(i -m tjje constant practice of optometry for the last fifteen years, being thoroughly up to date in his methods and appliances. The Leffert's Optical Department has been entirely refitted with the latest Latest and most costly appliances for the testing and correcting of eye defects.- These instruments in the hands of Dr. Vose make the Leffert's Optical Appliances Department take the front rank in that profession. , It is now a notable fact that everything that can be done optically by any- Better Done body can be done better at Leffert's in Portland. Everything can be done 3 Lef f erf S a Leffert's, from the accurate testing of vision to the perfect fitting of artificial eyes. . " Any lense can be duplicated at Leffert's, no matter where obtained or Supply whether the original prescription is preserved. Just bring in the lens or , Anv Lens the pieces and our optician will reproduce your glasses. . Perfect Nose Fit Perfect nose fit is a specialty of Dr. Vose.. He has made a study of nose comfort for years and can make your eye-glasses fit regardless of the failure of other opticians. Consultations with Dr. Vose are free. Everyone, whether with or without Consultations glasses, is cordially invited to meet him at Leffert's, talk over your eye troubles and make him your "family optician." 'It's just as necessary to Are Free have a "family optician" as it is a "family physician." ' Save Have your eyes examined or your glasses readjusted as regularly as you Y-ii 5iKit' ,snoum visit your aenust. i our eyes are worm more man your leein. negu I Our olgni jar testing of your eyes by a competent optician will insure good vision for old age, and may be the means of saving your sight. What is life without sight? Children's eyes have been made a special study by Dr. Vose. The eyesight Children's of the young is specially preeious to them. Every child should have his Glasses eyes regularly examined. Proper sight adjustment in youth is of ines- viiosscs timable value. Don 't delay having the children visit our optician and fitted with glasses if necessary. The correction of sight defects in youth often restores perfect vision. Dr. Vose is better qualified to do this than any other optician in the West. . peiSOnal Don't forget that when you go to Leffert's Optical Department you are ... certain to receive the personal attention of Dr. Vose himself. Leffert's Attention secured Dr. Vose because of his fame as an optician, and that is his special work in the Leffert jewelry and optical establishment. It's the Leffert way a specialist for every department. Everything That Can Be Done Optically Anywhere Can Be Better Done at LEFFERT'S 272 Washington Street, Portland, Or. t