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: i . TnnTi ami rT?T-rrw VTMl) V XOVE3IBER 27. 1908. PK1CE FIVE CENTS VOT- XIYVIII. NO. 14 76. - " " - . . - CONJUGAL JARS WAONER 111S BY HUSBAND FUMES AND BRIDE FRETS NE7ULY - MARRIED GOVERNOR KIDNAPED BY FRIENDS. LOSE TO ROAD IS FINISHED AFTER 27 YEARS PARIS SHAKEN BY BRIGHT LIGHT OF DEAF MUTES STATE UNIVERSITY TARIFF WIFE SAYS HCSAXD CURSED HER WITH FINGERS. NEVADA, CALIFORNIA & ORE GON ENTERS ALTURAS. - : i f . . , 1 CLUBMEN NARROW MARCIN MURDER SCANDAL HEARINGS Van Cleave Shows Up Standpatters. WITNESSES ARE WELL COACHED Committee's Questions Aimed Against Revision. ONLY FEW ARE CALLED President of Manufacturers Says They Want Honest, Not Bogus, Revision and Voted for Taft on Campaign Pledges. ST. LOUIS. Mo, Nov. 2S. Concern ing the tariff hearings before the ways and means committee at Washington. James W. Van Cleave, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, gave out this statement today: "Several strange things connect themselves with these hearings. I am told that only about 100 out of the heads of factories In the coun try received notice to appear before the committee. In most cases the no tice they received was too short to allow them to present carefully pre pared statements, although all of them have the privilege of submitting briefs at any time prior to December 4. The hearings, which will close on Decem ber 4. will have covered only about three weeks in the aggregate. The i ue.it ions put by the leading members f the committee to these manufactur ers are admirably calculated to call nut answers asking for retention of the present rates of duties or advances in them. Coached to Ask for More. " -I)o you not believe that your pres ent dutirs should be maintained?' This is tie usual qucr. Scarcely ever is It put thus; "'Iio j-ou tl.lnk your rates should be reduced?' "Kastern papers state that under this seCucttve coaching one manufacturer who has a duly of 30 per cent now on Ms product and who acknowledges that he is making a profit on It, asks to have the duty increased to 40 per cent, and wants tne duty taken off materials which hfc uses In his manufacturing, thus giving hiin a chance to swell his profits in two directions. One or two manufacturers who asked for lower duties on their own products made my friend Chairman Payne gasp. Honest. Not Bogus RevisKin. "I presume that the committee aims to get. through these hearings, information on which It can base a bill for revision of the Dlngley law. In Us platform of the Republican party declared for re vision In a special session of LVngress, to be railed by the next President Just ufter Ills Inauguration. The country. In cluding the National Association of Man ufacturers, assumed that this mesnt hon ei mid not bogus revision. On this pre sumption I and a large majority of the other members of tl-e association sup ported Mr. Taft during the campaign. iW U5ed nil the Influence which we could exert In favor of his election. I want to say here that as In Its membership the National Association of Manufacturers covers nearly all the crafts cf the lourtrv. we have never urged any specific changes, up or down, in any particular seh-dules. As practical men. however. e know what changes are need.-.! in mnny esses, and that the public imperatively demands them. All that ask Is that the change be hon est anil Im etiiltatle. Hate Expert InveMignted. "As theee hearings of the committee on a tariff which includes over 4000 items will cover only about three weeks. I suppose that my friend Payne must have arranged for Investigations by experts in all the leading Industrial and commercial centers of Kurope and Asia. Presumably these experts have been busy ever since the long session of Congress closed last Spring, and they will continue their work until the eve of the extra session. I have seen no word yet In the papers about the activity of these delegated Inves tigators, buf Mr. Tayne knows the In adequacy of his committee's inquiries and he therefore must have provided for this supplementary work In the leading Old World centers of trade. .crman's Thorough Methods. "As shown by his speeches and Inter views durin the, campaign. President elect Taf; also interpreted this platform declaration to mean honest revision. It Is clear to me from things which some of his cl'Ke friends have said about him In the last few days that in his message to Congress at the opening of the extra session h will insist that the platform promise of honest revision must be car ried out In spirit and letter. It is like wise clear to me that In making this de mand he will have a large majority of the s.flnp.OOO Republican voters In the coun try wlih him. "Mr. Payne's easy confidence in being able to make a readjustment of the tar iff schedules which will be satisfactory to the country niust mean that he has provided for scientific aid from the out- tConcludcd oa race 7.) Jligeins. Refusing Information, Is Carried A way While Anxious Wife Walls, Weeps, Wonders. riTTSBL'RO. Nov. (Special.) It was a mean trick that was played on Governor J. H. Higgins. of Rhode Island, who. with his bride, dropped Into the Smoky City yesterday on his honeymoon trip. No one about the Hotel Schenley knew that they were married and the Governor was not recognized until Governor Stuart, of Penn sylvania, and Governor Swanson. of Vir ginia, who had come to take part in the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of Pittsburg, saw him in the foyer. Governor HigjJins was a trifle embar rassed when they Insisted on knowing what he was doing there. He declared that it was a matter of private business. So they proceeded to talk to him for an hour, while his bride wax waiting for him In the hotel dining room, and they took him by main force to a carriage, when he was driven with them to Exposition Hall, where the ether Governors made speeches. Finally Governor Higgins said that he must talk over the telephone, and what he safd when he talked to his wife is not known. However, the three Governors and Mrs. Higgins eat down to a little din ner after the speechmakiDg was over at the hotel, and they all laughed or at least Governor Swanson and Governor Stuart laughed when Mrs. Higgins ad mitted that they had been married but eight days and that they had tried to keep it a secret. NOTED COWBOY ARRESTED Arthur Sills aFces Charge of Forg ery at Bellingham. BEL.LIXGHAM. "Wash., Nov. 26. (Spe cial.) Captain Arthur W. Sills, alias "Wild Horse." the well-known scout, sol dier of fortune and cowboy poet, was arrested here today for forgery. The complaint against htm is that lie passed checks to the amount of signed with the name of a prominent attorney, whose signature he had secured through the clever ruse of retaining him as counsel in a will contest case. The imitation was perfect, and his securing a large sum was prevented by accident. He had several forged checks on his person when ar rested. Sills has had a romantic career. He was a cowboy on the Texas trail during the boom days of Dodge, and was a friend of Bat Masterson, the famous mar shal of the "toughest town on the globe," He has been a member of Colo nel Roosevelt's Hough Riders, and dur ing the Boer war acted as scout for the Stratcaim regiment of the British Infantry. He was a Government scout in the Apache war in Arizona, is a Cor nell graduate and a newspaperman, and has some ability as a poet. TWO CLAIMANTS OF ESTATE Body I'ouiul, Supposedly Identified, Claimed by Another. OREGON CITY. Or., Nov. 6. (Spe cial.) Bernhardt Halst has filed a pe tition for letters of administration in the estate of the late Christian Halst. Attorneys Hesse & Beckett have charge of the matter. It Is stated that the body of the man found near Spring brook sehoolhouse. at Oswego last Au gust was Halst. though Mrs. Effie Kohlnson. of Ients Station, has very clearly established the fact that the body was that of her father, F. A. Williamson. The petition of Barn hardt Hnlst. who lives at 224 Caruthers street, Portland, states that the de ceased, who he believes was his broth er, died August 1. 19ns. and that the property consists of $i561 In gold. 3.80 in silver, a miner's lens and a pair of spectacles. The money and these articles were found upon the hody of Williamson. The petitioner, Halst, is 74 years of sge. WOULD STOP FOOTBALL 1 aroma School Director Says It Has o Place in Schools. TACOMA, "Wash.. Nov. 26. Specinl. Director John T. Bibb will introduce at the next mertlng of the Board of Edu cation a resolution prohibiting football in the High Srhewl next year. Director Bibb at yesterday's meeting of the board spoke of several caspa where students have been seriously injured in football games this season. "As far as giving exercise to the stu dpnts Is concerned, football is of no value whatever, as over-exertion is not a benefit to growing boys. To abolish this game would not affect the general stu dent body, for not one In a thousand engage In It. I believe that this brutal game, has no place among the sports, and I have determined to introduce the reso lution to secure its abolition in future years." MAY ARREST LYNCHERS Humored Patterson Will Send Troops to Tiptonvllle. NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Nov. 26. A Tip tonvllle, Tenn., dispatch says: The rumors tiiat Gov. Patterson in tended to send IV troops to take charge of the situation and arrest supposed par ticipants In the Wednesday night lynching has caused great excitement here. DEAN HOWARD IS DEAD Well-Known Musician Passes Away ill Pes Moines. DES MOINES, Nov. 26. Dean Howard, of the Musical College of Drake Uni versity." died early today. He was well known in Western musical circles. Annual Game Goes to Oregon, 10 to 0. MOULLEN KICKS FIELD GOAL Multnomah's Line Is Crossed in Second Half. GREAT HOLIDAY CROWD OUT Contest Is Replete AYlth Spectacular Features, but Is Marred by Injuries and Charge of Foul Play. BT W. J. PETRAIN. Outgeneraled In the first half, out played toward the end of the second half, and outklcked throughout the game by the clever and agile football eleven of the University of Oregon,' the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club team went down to defeat for the third successive time on Multnomah Field In the annual Thanksgiving Day game yesterday afternoon. The final score of 10 to 0 was made possible by the splendid punting of Dudley Clark, the accuracy of Fred Moullen's goal kick ing, and the quickness of Lester Means, the freshman center of the University of Oregon team. The game was the occasion for the gathering of a large crowd, and, while the attendance was not so large as at the Oregon-O. A, C. game last Satur day, the enthusiasm was almost, as great and the game much more spec tacular. This was so because of the practically dry field, the many punts and running returns. Clubmen Are Tired Out. The varsity went Into the game with Its usual spirit, and, while It did not expect ,to win so easily, nevertheless the players used all their Ingenuity In- carrying out the different forma tions. The boys had been coached to hold Multnomah down and not to ex tend themselves In the first half. In this manner they hoped to tire the clubmen out and eventually succeeded in doing so, for, after showing a flash of speed early In the second half, the heavyweights of Multnomah lost ground steadily until Oregon was rewarded by a touchdown and a goal from field. Multnomah apparently outplayed the Collegians in the earlier portion of the game, but It afterwards developed that the Oregon men had simply saved them selves for the second half. Little Earl (Concluded on Pan 16.) First Train Pulls Into Alturas Over Long Delayed Track, Opening Rich Section. RENO, Nev.. Nov. 26. (Special.) The work of building the Nevada, Cal ifornia & Oregon Railroad from Reno to Alturas. begun nearly 28 years ago, was formally completed today, and for the first time a train pulled into the county seat of Plumas County, Cal. For 'years the line extended to a point about 60 miles this side of Al turas. Obstacles have since hindered the work from that point. Immense tracts of rich agricultural land ' have awaited the completion of this line for development. They are to be placed on the market at once, the aim of the railroad being to co-operate in any way to settle up the section and make It one of the most prosperous in Northern California. WOULD SHOOT DOWAGER Alleged Plot on the Life of Mother of Czar Nicholas Discovered. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 26. Tele grams received in this city today give an account of the discovery of an al leged plot upon the life of the Dow ager Empress of Russia during her recent journey from Copenhagen to this city. Shortly before the train on which Her Majesty passed Ponderey, three men were noticed acting suspiciously. They were approached by gendarmes and opened fire with revolvers. Two got away, but one was arrested. This Incident Is the basis of sensational reports. WANTS BAD RULES REVISED Townsend Tired of Seeing Speaker Whole Thing in House. JACKSON, Mich., Nov. 26. Congress man Charles E. Townsend, of this city, today, discussing reports that he is to be an active candidate for Speaker of the next House of Representatives, said: ' "The only active change I have de cided to start on reaching Washington will be a revision of the House rules so that the Speaker and his three party col leagues on the committee on rules will not be. the. whole thing." HENEY TAKES AUTO RIDE Enjoys Trip and Is Rapidly Regain ing His Strength. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26. Francis J. Heney celebrated Thanksgiving day by taking an automobile ride in Golden Gate Park. He was accompanied by his wife. Dr. Beasley, Rudolph Spreckels, William J. Burns and James Foley, his bodyguard. Mr. Heney, who Is rapidly regaining his strength, greatly enjoyed the trip. "HELD BY THE ENEMY" Widow of Steinheil Ac cuses Wolff. SENSATION ENGULFS CITY France on Verge of Exposure Involving High Officials. MRS. STEINHEIL ARRESTED Woman Admits She Hated Husband but Maintains Innocence Mys tery Soon to Be Cleared With, Startling Disclosure. , Development In the Steinheil mur der case In Paris during the past 24 hours have gripped that city with keenest excitement. Following a confession yesterday by Mme. Stein-, hell that her artist husband and Mme. Japy, her mother, had. been murdered by a man named Wolff, ' the police arrested the latter and also took her Into custody. Stein heil and Mme. Japy were" found mur dered May SI. The woman had been bound and gagged by the mur derers. Paris now is wrought up over the fact that the mystery which has apparently baffled the police, is not much of a mystery after all and that the police have not been al lowed to investigate the crime. It Is expected that disclosures, hourly anticipated, will connect some of the highest officials of the republlo with the most brutal crime of the year in the French capital. Mme. Stein heirs confession, a portion of which Is already public, hints at start line revelations soon to be made in con nection with the murder. PARIS, Nov. 26. Paris has been in a state of intense excitement today over the developments that have ccme thick and fast since last night in the Stein heil murder case, and the sensation has made itself felt even in the Chamber of Deputies, where many members declared they would raise the question unless the government undertook to probe the scan dal to the bottom. Confesses to Newspapermen. Mme. Steinheil made a confession to newspapermen last night. She declared that a man named Alexander Wolff" was the murderer of her husband. "Wolff was arrested and examined by the authori ties. He denied all guilt and said -he was ready to prove an alibi. Madame Steinheil then weakened and said if it (Concluded on Page 6.) , Sues for Divorce and Husband Ac cuses Mother-in-Law of Alien ating AViXe's Affections. MARYVILiLE, Mo., Nov. 26. Special.) Mrs. Ollie MacKay came to Marj-ville from Madison. S. D., to serve as a wit ness in a suit in which her daughter. Mrs. Mellat Klliott. was sulngr Oren M. Elliott, editor of the Graham (Mo.) Post, for divorce, and, while waiting for the case to be called, was served with papers in which Mr. Elliott sued Mrs. MacKay, his mother-in-law, for $50,000 for alien ating his wife's affections. Both Elliott and his wife are deaf mutes and have two children, a boy of 6 years and a girl of 6 months old, both of whom are normal as to hearing and speech. Mrs. Elliott alleges in her petition that Mr. Elliott cursed her in the deaf and dumb signal manual and that he struck and abused her. Mrs. MacKay, Mr. Kl liott s mother-in-law, is the wife of Will iam MacKay. a banker of Madison, S. D. Mr. MacKay is Mrs. Elliott's step father. Mr. Elliott is president of the Missouri Silenum Society of Deaf Mutesr He is wealthy. ORDERS GJOA AUCTIONED Vessel W hich Amundsen Took North Will Be Sold. FAX FRANCISCO, Nov. 26. Captain Henry Lund, Norwegian Consul at this port, yesterday received instructions from Captain Eoald Amundsen, the ex plorer, to sell at auction the sloop Gjoa, in which Amundsen made his famous voyage of discovery through the North west Passage. . The sloop has been lying at anchor at Mare Island Navy-Yard ever since it entered this port after that eventful trip. Consul Lund, who Is an intimate friend of the explorer, is also inform that the latter proposes to un dertake a voyage in search of the geo graphical north pole at some not dis tant date, making the trip in the steam er Fram, Captain Nansen's ship, now the property of the government of Nor way. Amundsen states that he will out fit the voyage at this port, cruising to the Siberian Islands and thence into the unknown waters of the North in search of the top of the world. Captain Amund sen is now in Norway writing a book telling of his travels and discoveries. NO PLAGUE IN PORTLAND Report Shows Rose City Has Never Suffered From Bubonic. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. The plague situation on the Pacific Coast is said to have greatly improved within the last few months, and the officials who have been most active in the work of its sup pression are encouraged to believe that with continued vigilance its complete eradication is probable. Dr. Walter Wyman, Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, in a report to the Secretary of the Treasury concerning human plague and plague-infected rats In San Francisco, Oakland. Berkeley, Contra Costa County and Los Angeles, Cal., and in Seattle. Wash., covering the period by months from May, 1907, to October 31, 1908, shows that since this last-named date no case of human plague or of plague-infected rats has been discovered on the Pacific Coast. In Seattle, three .fatal human cases were reported in October, W07. but the city has been since that date entirely free from human cases. INDIANS' GAME IS KILLED Natives of Northeastern British Co lumbia Are Starving. VICTORIA, B. C, Nov. 26. (Special.) Owing to the ravages of a pack of hun gry wolves which have destroyed the game, the bands of nomadic Indians in habiting the northeastern portions of the province are now threatened with starva tion, and have appealed to the govern ment for aid. The ferocious animals have Invaded the territory in great numbers and have killed oft all the game on which the Indians depend for their sustenance. The government has made arrangements with the Hudson's Bay Company to fur nish supplies to the destitute, and an ar rangement has been completed between the government and the company to have the officials of the latter at the different posts in the interior pay the natives the bounty of $15 offered by the government for each wolfs head brought in. POPULACE IN UGLY MOOD Demonstrations at Rome Against Austria Still Continue. ROME, . Nor. 26. The demonstrations here against Austria, arising from the attack in Vienna a few days ago upon a number of Italian students agitating for the establishment of an Italian uni versity at Trieste, have not yet ceased and the authorities still maintain a cordon of troops around the Austro-Hungarian embassy. The continuance of the disturbance has made necessary the postponement until next Monday of the meeting of the In ternational Institute of Agriculture, orig inally set for today. TRAIN STRUCK BY BARN Two-Minute Tornado In Wisconsin - Does $30,000 Damage. STEVENS POINT, Wis., Nov. 26. A two-minute tornado, which struck this place last night, did damage to the ex tent of about $30,000. A passenger train was struck by a barn which the wind carried through the air. The engine cab was demolished and the. fireman severely cut. Many persons werei cut and bruised. Auto Race Is Decided in Last Minute. FINISH IS MOST SPECTACULAR Nazarro's Hope Blasted by Bursting Tire. , . ERLE HAS NOSE BROKEN AVinner Sets New Record for Ameri can Road Races, but Drives Italian Car American Cars Cannot Stand Pace. SAVANNAH. Ga.. Nov. 26. A Flrt car. sent piunu'ng through changing fog and sunshine over 403 miles of roadways by Uhe experienced hand of Louis Wagner, won today the most spectacular, the longest and the fast est international automobile race ever brought off tn this country.- Fate played a game of hide and seek with three grim and grimy hooded figures that sat behind big steering wheels and throttles and fought with, skill and daring for an advantage of sec onds at the finish of the more than six hours of driving through the stifling fumes of burning oil, into storms of sand and gravel at risk of life and limb Dor the honor ot a trophy cup and a pun?e of gold. Erie's Nosie and Jaw Broken. The three diivers who crung together from the very (start were shuffled about like so many cards as the flying laps were reeled away. For a time there was a fourth 'figure in the leading col umn, but whetn little more than a min ute separated the first from the last of the cars fin the whirring quartet, a caprice of fortune sent one pitching from the,, road!. Out of the mass of wreckage Fritz Erie, who had been driving the German Benz No. 19 was taken with a; broken nose and broken jaw. Still the smuggle continued, and it was not until- the' last minute of the last lap that the tidel of victory turned to Wag ner. Naxarro, the wonderful Italian driver, holder of tvorld's records and winner of countless contests, who had clung tena ciously to a narrow margin of lead for more than ta hundred miles, hesitated long enouglv at the supply pits to change a ieakBsnin& tire and lost. The treacher ous robber tubing burst as he was about to entea- the home stretch, and three min utes ail delay that followed sent the grand prize winner of last year and his Fiat No. 6 from first to third place. Hemery, with German Benz No. 8, favorite of the followers of automobile racing, took sec ond honors. Wagner Has Narrow Margin. It was not until the official time was announced that the 'actual winner was knovrn that Wagner had hurled himself to victory by the slender margin of 66 seconds. Hemery was the first to finish the 16 laps of the race and enthusiastic (Concluded on Page 7.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY Maximum temperature, 46 (Tieffrees; minimum. 33 decrees. TODAY Fair; northerly -winds. Portland and Vicinity. Man tried to lead homes across railroad brrldge and wrecks train. Pa e 12. pacific Coast district only section of country here appropriation for missions Is not cut down. Page 13. Householders route burglar with ehotgun and pistol. Pag-e 0. Choa-itable institutions enjoy Thanksgiving dinners. Page 12. Baby is 'deserted at night on step of res cue home. Page 9. Portland Railway, TJght ft Power Company may lease Commercial building. Page 12. Sport. Vniversltv of Oregon defeats Multnomah Club 10 to 0. Page 1. Multnomah beats Rangers at Soccer. Page 17. Washington defeats O. A. C- by score of 82 to 0. Page 10. East Portland High wins from Eugene by score of 10 to 0. Page 10. Pacific Count Rejected suitor kills successful rival and himself. Page 11. Advices at Victoria report Japanese boycott to be continued by China, Page 11. Domestic Ftour persons drowned in steamer collision off ?ndy Hook; one steamer sinks Page 7. 'idrai'sSa Boy kills stepfather In defense of mother. Page 4. Governors of Pennsylvania and Virginia kidnap Governor of Rhode Island on honeymoon trip, page I. Troops keep peace at Perth Am boy. page 6- RaiJroad in California begun 27 years ago is completed. Page 1. Lamphere con'icted of arson. Page . Politics. Roosevelt speaks at dedication of colored Y. M. C. A. building on negro progress. Pa ge 4 Carnegie's article on steel tariff angers Pittsburg manufacturers. Page 1. Fulton confers with Taft and Hitchcock on Oregon Senatorial fight. Page 4. Van Cleave denounces methods of tariff hearings and demands honest, revision. Page 1. ftporU. Ketchel knocks out Papke in 11 rounds. Page 17 Wagner wins grand prize In Savannah auto race, breaking record. Page 1. Pennsylvania defeats Cornell at football. Page 17. Foreign. Great scandal grows out of Steinheil mur der in Paris. Page 1. Wholesale executions cause terror In Uaytl Page 6. V