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1 ' ; . pTTivn nTtFf.nv TTTFSTJAY. FEBRUARY 2, 1909. PRICE FIVE CKXTS. VOL. XLVIII. XO. 13,033. . PORTLAND, mti,uu3t mi, ' T CANAL JAIL PARS SAWED; BREAK IS STOPPED TWEXTX-FOTJR PRISONERS ARE ALMOST FREE. BUTLER MAY LOSE EVEN HIS MILEAGE CONTROLLER TRACEWELL- HAS CASE IX HAXD. MIXES HYPNOTISM IN HER ROMANCES CHICAGO GIRIi HAS WILD TIME WITH LOVES. BY FIRST OF 1315 MRS. STIRLING DID NOTHING 1010 1 - ' - ' I PARTIES LINED UP ON BROWNSVILLE TRAVERSE U. P. TO RUSH LINE TO GRAYS HARBOR Contract Is Ready to Be Signed. WORK TO BEGIN IN TWO WEEKS Construction Will Give Labor to 1000 Men. HEAD OFF ST. PAUL ROAD Harrlman Said to Be Anxious to Be First Into Grays Harbor Country, Which Offers Big Traffic In Lumber Trade. SEATTLE. "Wash.. Feb. 1. Special.) Within the next two weeks 1000 men will be at work on the Grays Harbor and Puget Sound Railway line, the branch of the Union Pacific This is the announce ment made bere today by "William "Win ters, one of the contractors for the con struction of the road. The contract which Involves about $1,000,000 for 40 miles of railway will likely be signed to morrow according to statements given out at Union Pacific headquarters here. The road will be 40 miles long, ex tending from Cosmopolis on Grays Harbor along the south bank of the Chehalis and the Junction of the main line of the projected Harrlman road be tween Portland and Seattle. Rush Order on Construction. Railroad men have been closely watch ing the progress of developments In the Harrlman camp. It became generally known at the time that bids were called for for the Grays Harbor extension of the Oregon St "Washington that Harrlman had Insisted that the contractor who obtained the award should be prepared to finish the line within six months. This was taken as evidence of Mr. Har rlman's determination to be first in the Grays Harbor country, which furnishes an immense lumber product tonnage, la possible competition with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, although stories have been in circulation that a "gentle men's agreement" between Harrlman and the Rockefeller road was being con sidered. Contracts Heady to Sign. Be that as it may. the announcement to day on behalf of the Oregon A Washing ton that the contract was ready for the signature of the officers of the road and the contractors was regarded as an event of the first importance. It will, take some time to establish the 20 or more camps on the south bank of the Chehalis River, as well as to dis tribute steam shovels, engines and cars along the route of the new line. Mr. Winters says he is having no trouble securing workmen. "While work will start at both ends of the line, the Cos mopolis end will not have as big crews as the Eastern end. as the work Is of easier character In the vicinity of Grays Harbor. NAME HARPER'S OPPONENT V. I. Stephens to Run for Mayor at Recall Election. LOS ANGELES. CaJ., Feb. 1. At a meeting of memUers of the Chamber of Commerce, Merchants' and Manufac turers' .Association and the Municipal League, of this city, called by the Mu nicipal League this afternoon, "W. D. Stephens was named to be a candidate In opposition to Mayor A. C. Harper, petitions for whose recall are now be ing circulated. More than two-thirds of the required number of names to bring about the tlectlon for the Mayor's successor htvo been placed on the recall petitions. TRUST CANT SUE DEBTORS Wall Paper Combine loses Claim to $50,000 Apainjt Dealer. WASHINGTON", Feb. L The case of the Continental "Wall Paper Company vs. Lewis Voteht, of Cincinnati, was today decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in Volghfs favor. The suit was brought by the company on a debt of JTiO.OOO, the payment of which was resisted on the ground that the paper company Is a trust. In effect the decision holds that an admitted trust organized contrary to the Sherman anti trust law cannot use the courts to col lect debts. SENTENCE DIAMOND MAKER Henri I Molne Given Ten Years for .Defaulting Earlier Trial. PARIS. Feb. 1. Henri Le Molne, the Frenchman whose claims that he could manufacture diamonds were recounted In the courts of Paris last Summer, has been sentenced to 10 years' Imprison ment In default. Le Molne fled Just be fore the final hearing of the case against him. He was being tried on charges of having secured money from an English diamond mlneowner on false pretenses by declaring that he was able to manufacture diamonds. Fairbanks' Revocation of Fine Il legal, and Electoral Mercury May Have to Pay. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Feb. 1. Presidential Elector R. R. Butler may yet be compelled to for feit J1000 for tardiness in delivering Oregon's electoral vote, notwithstand ing that Vice-President Fairbanks un dertook to waive this penalty. It seems Fairbanks has nothing to say about It, and to make matters worse, Butler may not be able to collect his mileage, approximating $750. "When he called on the disbursing of ficer of the Treasury to collect the mileage, Mr. Butler was reminded that he had not delivered the vote In the time fixed by law, and was asked to submit a written explanation of his de lay, which he did, along lines hereto fore given. His explanation has been submitted to Controller Tracewell of the Treasury for an opinion. Mr. Trace well is looking up the law In the case, and his decision, whatever it m.y be, will be final. If he finds that the vote brought by Mr. Butler cannot be count ed because of tardy delivery, and the copy of the vote sent by mall is used, he will be likely to hold Butler not entitled to mileage. "Whether or not Mr. Butler forfeits the 1000 wll depend upon the construction placed upon the statute. PRESIDENT IS VINDICATED Miss May Rhoades Denies He Struck Her norae, as Charged. "WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. For the first time making publio a disclaimer of published reports that President Roose velt, while riding in Rock Creek Park near this city, struck the horse ridden by a young woman who happened to ride near his party, the "White House today gave out a letter received from the young woman's mother, Mrs. Eliza beth M. Rhoades. It was dated at Los Angeles, Cal., January 27, and read as follows: "My daughter. Miss May Rhoades, whose horse, it has been widely re ported, you struck while riding in the park last Thanksgiving day, most em phatically denies any knowledge of such an occurrence, and as It Is deemed of such Importance as to be referred to In Congress, may I be permitted to ask you why you do not deny this story?" PROVE CASTRO ASSASSIN Ex-Dictator to Be Sued for Insti gating Plot. CARACAS, Jan. 29, via Port of Spain, Feb. 1. In accordance with instructions from Senor Alcantara, Minister of the Interior, the Attorney-General will bring suit in the High Federal Court against Cipriano Castro, ex-President of Vene zuela, on the charge of having instigated the attempted assassination of President Gomez. Minister Alcantara's communica tion to the Attorney-General was accom panied by a large amount of documentary proof. The Minister writes: "The documents show that the black, black conspiracy which happily was frus trated by the presence of the Supreme Magistrate, was the result of the sug gestions, advice and orders of General Castro." GATENS, ACTING. GOVERNOR To Conduct Office Until Chamber lain Is ure of Scnatorshlp. SALEM. Or., Feb. 1. (Special.) Robert Caples, of Portland,, correspondent and newspaperman, will be secretary for George E. Chamberlain In the United States Senate. This announcement was made from the Governor's office today. No Information was given as to the Governor's plan in relation to the Gov ernorship, but it Is pretty definitely un derstood here that William Gatens, pres ent private secretary, will conduct the af fairs of state for Oregon until Chamber lain's position In the Senate is definitely known. BUCKEYES FIGHT FOR JOB Morris Refuses to Yield Railroad Commisslonershlp to Sullivan. COLUMBUS; O.. Feb. 1. John Sullivan. Governor Harmon's appointee to the State Railroad Commisslonershlp. was sworn in today. He demanded possession of the office from J. C. Morris, the ap pointee of ex-Governor Harris, but Mr. Morrla refused to vacate. Mr. Sullivan said lie would bring quo warranto pro ceedings to get possession of the office. CREMATES 200 CHINESE Fire Breaks Out Among Flower boats at Canton. CANTON. China, Feb. 1. At least 200 lives were lost in a fire which occurred today in a fleet of flower boats. The charred bodies of 170 victims have already been recovered, but several others are still missing. ZIPFEL FLIES NEARLY MILE French Aviator Rises to Altitude of 60 Feet. BERLIN, Feb. 1. Armand Zlpfel, the French aviator, succeeded today in making a flight in his aeroplane of nearly a mile at an altitude of GO feet. RepublicanSenatorsAII With Foraker. PROPOSE COURT OF INQUIRY Democrats Solid Against Bill and May Filibuster. NEW CONFLICT PROBABLE Aldrlch Against Submitting Find ings to President for Approval, Thus Raising Question of Executive Power. "WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. In the Senate today Fgraker attempted to get consid eration of the Aldrich substitute bill pro viding for a court of Inquiry to pass upon the qualifications for re-enlistment of the discharged negro soldiers of the Twenty-Fifth Regiment charged with having shot up Brownsville, August 13-14, 1906, but postponed making a motion for that purpose in order that McLaurin might speak on the Brownsville affair to morrow. Forakeinnounced that after McLaurin's speech he would endeavor to obtalrtffctlon on the bill. On the Democratic side there is united opposition to the passage of any measure looking to the re-enlistment of the negro soldiers. Democrats expressed the view that, as several Investigations have resulted In a failure to determine the guilty men in the regiment, although it was found that men of the regiment shot up Brownsville, It would be mani festly impossible for any court of In quiry to act intelligently on the subject .unless additional evidence could be obtained. As consequence of the united Democratic opposition to any legislation at this session, it was evident that there would be much skirmishing to delay a vote. - On the Republican side the bill was made a party measure and It la said it will receive the full Republican vote, but a filibuster would carry the bill over until the next session beyond Forakers term of office. Culberson announced that he wished to amend the pending bill to provide that the finding of the court of inquiry Bhould be approved by the President and Aldrlch promptly replied that he would not agree. "The bill will go to the President for his approval," suggested Aldrich. Foraker said that whatever he bill provides, it will reflect the will of Con gress, which in his Judgment possessed the right to revoke an order issued by the President. Try for Vote on Postal Banks. "WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. Carter, in charge of the postal savings bank bill. (Continued on Page 2.) AN Eats Dinner With Stranger, Gets "Hypnotized" and Will 'ow Marry Second Choice. ALLENTOWN. Pa.. Feb. 1. (Special.) The difficulty of deciding between two rivals for her hand, and the appearance of a third man, who acted the part of a villain, she now says, are responsible for the peculiar state of health of Miss Alice Gerber, the Chicago girl who, phy sicians here believe, was hypnotized while on her way from Chicago to Boston to be married. Mlsa Gerber today made the following statement: "About six years ago, when I was 15 years old, I met Charles Barnett. of Boston. A year and a half ago I met Joseph Andrews, a buyer for a store in Chicago, and we became friends. My parents did not approve of Mr. Andrews, preferring Mr. Barnett. I soon learned to think their way, and several weeks ago decided to accept Mr. Barnett. - 'Then a trip to my relatives In Boston was decided on. In the train a young man helped me to close my wjndow. and then began a conversation. "We ate din ner together, and when I complained of feeling 111 he gave me something to drink which made me violently ill. I did not inquire his name and do not yet know it. I was not hypnotized and know now that a peculiar combination of love affairs and other circumstances has been re sponsible for my hysterical outbreaks. Mr. Barnett and I will be married with out delay." TEACHER FLEES FROM LASH Finds Half-Dozen Women AVith Horse-Whips Awaiting! SILVERTON, Or., Feb. (Special With horsewhips in their hands, a naai dozen wc :n, headed by Mrs. C. M. Phil Hps, lined up before the door of the Scotts Mill schoolhouse this morning in wait for J. C. Clarke, principal of the school, who last Friday whipped Toung Phillips, one of the students. Clarke saw the formidable array of skirts and horsewhips before he got close enough to feel the lash, and It is said made an undignified retreat in the direc tion of Salem, where It is presumed he went to lay his side of the case before the County School Superintendent, and to ob tain redress against the women who in terrupted his sc. ool work. There was no school at Scot. Mill today. Toung Phillips, 14 years old, had writ ten a note which reached the teacher's eyes, i Dr. Brooks, of this city, was called In by the boy's mother, and he is author ity for the statement that there were nu merous black and blue marks on the lad's back and arms. - WIRELESS IS NECESSITY France May Compel All Vessels to Install Equipment. PARIS, Feb. 1. The French govern ment, as a result of the use made of wireless telegraphy following the sinking of the steamer Republic off Nantucket, January 23 is studying the entire question of wireless communication with the Idea of Introducing a bill to oblige French navigation companies to install wireless apparatus on all their -ships above a cer tain tonnage. ASSAULT THAT'S ABOUT DUE ;.Aa-.JlAXJ.L iiumk .. - -- Goethals Predicts War ships' Feat. GATUN DAM SITE IS APPROVED Taft's Engineers Declare That Locks Are Feasible. VAST AMOUNT OF WORK President-elect and Tarty Visit Great Culebra Cut-Taft Plays Peacemaker Between Pan ama Factions. PANAMA. Feb. 1. (Special.) "Naval vessels will sail through the lock canal by January 1, 1916," declared Lieutenant-Colonel George "W. Goethals, chair man of the Isthmian Canal Commission and chief engineer, today. The fact that the present plan for the lock and dam at Gatun Is satisfactory to the visiting engineers has greatly encour aged people of the Canal Zone and fear jof, delay in the completion of the work has been relieved. The engineers do not conceal their satisfaction as to the feasi bility of the Gatun dam. Mr. Taft expressed the belief before hand that the opinions of the engineers on the Gatun site would be favorable. Their findings, " therefore, did not sur prise him. Today President-elect Taft and the en gineers accompanying him went to Cu lebra on a special train and carefully ex amined the 14 miles of Culebra cut. All were much gratified at the great amount, of work that has been done. Before the party arrived all dynamite was removed from the workings, to prevent any possibility of an accident. That Mr. Taft is acting as pacificator in the strong post-election factional feel ing in the republic of Panama is indi cated by the fact that both President Obaldia and Senor Arias, one-time oppo sition candidates for the Presidency, have been Invited to American Minister Squiers dinner and reception to be held tomorrow in Mr. Taft's honor. Mr. Taft called this afternoon upon ex-President Amador, who is ill, wishing to make plain that be desires to treat all parties alike. He will bear both sides of the com missary system controversy, but doubt less the commissary will continue, al though the so-called luxuries will be eliminated. Mr. Taft has expressed full confidence In the Judgment of Secretary Root in this matter. Costs 525 to Eat With Taft. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. L It will cost (25 to attend the Taft banquet here on (Continued on Page 4.) Jailers Hunter and Fhillipps Hear Saws Work and Set Watch Ob tain Steel From Shoes. As daringly conceived and as cleverly attempted as any criminal effort at lib eration in the history of Multnomah County was the pre-arranged Jail-break at the Multnomah County Jail, last night, that was frustrated only by the vigilance of Jailors Hunter and Phillips. A gen eral alarm was Bounded, but with the ar rival of Sheriff Stevens himself and a number of deputies the attempted lib eration was thwarted. Twenty-four county prisoners were In cluded in the list of those affected by the attempted break for liberty. The leaders of the attempt have not been made known. However, the list included many of the most desperate men now in confine ment at the Jail. When the discovery was made, the pris oners had succeeded in filing their way to liberty through eight heavy steel bars in the southwest corridor of the Jail. Saws had been made from the steel bands used as springs in two pairs of shoes. These Improvised saws had been aided in their work upon the steel by the chemi cal components of the formaldhyde that is used as a disinfectant in the bathtub of the southwest corridor. It heated the bars, rendering their resistance less pow erful. The bars of tlje window had been filed in that corridor. The first intimation of the attempted break was had two nights ago when Jail ors Hunter and Phillips heard the subdued, hushed workings of the blade upon the steel, but were unable to locate it until last night. At 10 o'clock it was discovered in the southwest corridor. At that hour all prisoners are supposed to be in bed in their cells. A rigid investi gation is being conducted by Sheriff Stevens. POORFARM INMATE SLAIN Dan Flynn Killed by Nathan Hamil ton Near Chehalis. CHEHALIS, "Wash., Feb. 2. (Special.) Nathan Hamilton shot and killed Dan Flynn at the Lewis County Poorfarm, four miles south of Chehalis, at 9 o'clock last night with a double-barrel shotgun. The killing occurred in the hallway of the building. Flynn is alleged to have slipped into the hallway In his stocking feet. Flynn was a coal miner and had been an inmate of the farm about two months. Sunday night he became abus ive and was ordered from the place after a revolver had been taken from him by Mrs. E. Dunston, the matron. Yester day he was under arrest, but no one would make complaint against him and Sheriff Urquhart ordered him to leave the country. When the Sheriff released him, Flynn agreed to go. Hamilton came to Chehalis about mid night and gave himself up to the Sheriff. He is a farmer, 23 years old, arid a wid ower. He is a son of Win Hamilton. Flynn was about 35 years old and a stranger in this section. The Hamil tons came here a few years ago from Wisconsin. At midnight Sheriff Urquhart, Coroner Stlcklin and a jury left for the scene of the tragedy. SKELETON WEARS PEARLS Necklace of Rare Gems Found on Remains of Warrior. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 1. (Special.) "While exploring the shifting sand dunes of bleak San Nicholas Island, C. B. Lin ton, of Long Beach, a member of the Southwest Archaeological Society, made one of the most Important and interest ing discoveries ever unearthed in that place of mystery. It Is a string of won derful pearls, still clinging to the skele ton neck of a chief of the extinct people who once dwelt there. The necklace would be almost priceless if well pre served, but the pearls are much decom posed. The pearls, which doubtless came from the now extinct Red Abalon, are the size of English walnuts and still lustrous, and a gem expert figures that when taken from the shell they were worth JIO.OOO. Small holes, through which a string had been passed, were drilled in them. Linton found the skeleton among 19 others. "With It were two large spears, five bone daggers, stone rings and many shells, beads and wampum. The back of the head had been crushed in, evi dently with a warclub. SECTION HAND NOW CHIEF William C. Brown Climbs to Top of New York Central, i NEW YORK. Feb. 1. William C. Brown, who began his railroad career 40 years ago as a section hand on the St. Paul Railroad at $1 a day, became presi dent of the great system of railroads of which the New York Central is the chief line today. Ralph C. Caples has been promoted to be general agent of the traffic department of the New York Cen tral lines. NEW CONSOLIDATION RUMOR Los Angeles Hears Sunset and Home Phone Companies May Unite. LOS ANGELES. Feb. 1. The Herald to morrow will say: Officials of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company are now in this city for the purpose of discussing affairs of the company, and that the question of the consolidation of the Sunset and Home Telephone Companies is one of the prin cipal topics of discussion. American Wife, Weep ing, Denies Charges. BUT INDISCREET AND SILLY Calls Husband's Accusations Villainous Lies. DID NOT KISS NORTHLAND Accuses Mr. Atherton of Intrigue to Monopolize Stirling Plain Speaking In Divorce Case, but Women Don't Wince. EDINBURGH, Feb. 1. Interest In the Stirling cross-suits f r divorce was re vived today, when Mrs. Stirling began her defense against her husband, who charges that she had misconducted her self with Lord Northland. Mrs. Stirling was Clara Elizabeth Taylor, an American show girl, before her marriage to John Alexander Stirling. The accused wife made a pathetlo fig ure. Several times she was overcome with tears and her denials of the charge! against her were most emphatic Kissing on Stairs. She characterized many of the asser tions of the husband's lawyers as villain ous lies, and sne replied to the allegation that she had been seen kissing Lord Northland on the stairs by saying that she was not a housemaid. She admitted that she had been indiscreet and silly, but she averred that there had been ab solutely no Improper relations between herself and Lord Northland. She accused Mrs. Atherton of Intrigue, to throw her in company with Lord Northland so she could monopolise Mr. Stilrllng herself. Gave Stirling Sloney , Back. Mrs. Stirling said, among other things, that at the time of her wedding, Mr. Stirling gave her J20.000, but at the end of 1307 her husband was in financial dif ficulties and she handed him the entire amount bac. She now had nothing. This case throughout has been notable, even among divorce cases, for its ex treme outspokenness, but the women in the audience have eat through the hear ings without winching. Today, however, the questions were so intimately delicate that counsel would not proceed until every woman had been cleared out ol court. CUT OUT DIRECT ELECTION California Senators Vote Down Ore gon's Great Fad. SACRAMENTO, Cal.. Feb. L The com mittee on elections and election laws of the Senate decided to eliminate from the Wright direct primary bill the feature providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the peo ple. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 01.8 degrees; minimum, 4:2.9 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; easterly winds. Legislatures. Portland employers appear before Multno mah delegation in opposition to pro posed 8-hour law. Page ti. Jaeger's bill for additional Circuit Judga stoutly opposed In Senate. Page 7. Rate law bobs up at Olympia, PaK 7. House adopts favorable report on antl tatement bill. Page 6. Initial skirmish in Senate Indicates hot bat tle on water question. Page T. Two sailor boardlng-houso bills before Leg islature. Page 8. House favors higher pay for Legislators. Page 7. Foreign. Russia breaks deadlock between Turkey and Bulgaria by novel scheme. Page 8. Mrs. Stirling testifies In defense at divorce trial. Page 1. Natlonal. House Committee votes to give San Fran cisco Hetch Hetchy water, page 3. Republican Senators line up with Foraker on Brownsville affair against Roosevelt's authority. Page 1. Anti-Jap loaders in California Legislature defiant towards Roosevelt. Page 4. Butler refused mileage as Oregon messen ger and may pay tine. Page 1. Taft's engineers approve Gatun dam and lock site and lock canal will be finished, lock Bite and lock canal will be finished by lufj. l'age 1. ' Whole American fleet gathers at Gibraltar. Page 3. Politics. La Follette declares against re-election of Stephenson while charges pending. Page Z. Domestic Giles tells how Mrs. Punphy robbed him after they had traveled together. Page 2. Skeleton of dead chief found in California with pearl necklace on neck. Page 1. Tobacco trust's suit against competition proves boomerang. Page 4. Governor Comer, of Alabama, attributes C'armack murder to liquor element. Page 4. Sports. Wrestler O'Connell posts forfeit of ."00 for match with Dan Sullivan. Page 11. Pacific Northwest. Lad of 13 shoots father-in-law at TTnlon; tragedy result of long quurrel. Page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Spicy suit of Noyes vs. Boilers for alienation of Noyes' wife's affections, on trial. Page 10 Grand opera season opens with singing of "Lucia." by Lambardl Company. Page 10 Month of January shows increase In all lines of business despite setbacks. Page 10. Rev A. J. Montgomery receives unanimous call from Oak Park Church In Chicago. Page 14 Vice-President Mann, of Canadian Northerns tells of his sew road. Pace 14