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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX. WEDNESDAY, JTJXE 9, 1909. RIVAL BALLOONS EACH GAIN HONOR University City Wins Prize for Distance, Indiana for Endurance. SOAR 14,000 FEET IN AIR One Winner Covers 37 5 Miles In 2 5 1-2 Hours, Other Air Craft Is Vp 4 6 Hours, but Only Travels 230 Miles. INDIANAPOUS. June 8. Cal G. Fisher, of Indianapolis, pilot of the bal loon Indiana in the National balloon race, has -won the trophy which he of fered to the balloon staying longest in teli air. Mru. Fisher said tonight over the tele phone from Nashville that he had land ed last night about miles from Tennes see City, Tenn. According to this In formation the balloon had been in the air 46 hours. The balloon I'nlverslty City has appar ently won the distance contest, having traveled about S75 miles, while the Indiana traveled only 230 miles. PT. LOUIS, June 8. Confident that he is the winner of the National balloon race, which began at Indianapolis Satur day, John Berry, pilot of the balloon Uni versity City, arrived home tonight, ac companied by his aide, P. J. McCullough. The balloon landed on Freestone Peak of Ijnokout Mountain at 7 o'clock Sunday evening. Berry was in the air 56 hours and 35 minutes, and he figured that he had covered 375 miles. The University City passed over Chat tanooga, Tenn., at 2:30 o'clock Sunday, and gained an altitude of 10,000 feet. Sunday evening the balloonists could not find favorable currents to the South, and after they discovered they were begin ning to go northward they made a quick descent. Mr. Berry said they could have evening. Berry was in the air 26 hours longer if the wind had been favorable. The exact time made by the University City is not yet known. The distance record is 852 miles, made in 1907 by the German balloon Pommern, starting at St. Louis and landing at Asbury i"ark, X. J. Carl Fisher, pilot of the Indiana, says the weather was delightful until they came near Xashville, when they struck a current of air which carried them to an altitude of 14.000 feet, and they had to resort to overcoats. Mr. Fisher said he did not understand the story that the balloon had landed near Goodlettsville Sunday. The Indiana was in the air hours. . was settled out of court tonight. The terms of the settlement were not made public. The plaintiff charged, in effect, that it had been driven out of business. Wit nesses testified that Adolph Segel, of J Philadelphia, controlling power of the r-ennsyjvama sugar tenning company, borrowed from Gustav A. Kissell ,250,000, for which he gave as security 26,000 shares of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Com pany, together with a voting trust certifi cate for the same, which was to run until the payment of the Joan. It is alleged that Kissell then installed himself and three of his clerks as di rectors and obtained the adoption of a resolution providing that the almost com pleted refinery, which is said to be one of the most economical ever built, should be not opened or operated until further orders. That resolution was drafted by John E. Parsons, counsel for the Aiisrar 1 trust, for whom it showed Gustav A. I Kissell also as agent. The complaint against the three clerks of Kissell was dismissed today. The de tails will not be made public until after ratification by the Pennsylvania court that appointed George D. Barle, Jr., re ceiver of the Pennsylvania Sugar Re fining Company. If such ratification Is not made, the case will have to be retried. ROUND-THE-WORLD RATES TO BE SET Western Transcontinental Passenger Men Take First Step in New Line. FARE ROUND GLOBE $800 WHITNEY HOT GUILTY SUPREME COURT REVERSES LOWER COURT. BALLOOX GRAZES STEAMSHIP Passengers on Potsdam Expect Col lision, but Are Disappointed. NEW YORK, June 8. Passengers on the steamer Potsdam, which arrived to day from Rotterdam and Boulogne, wit nessed a unique maneuver by a balloon off the Belgian coast. The balloon ap peared to be descending so rapidly that preparations .were made to lower a boat and rescue the occupants. The balloon swept down towards the steamer. As it was about to graze the mast a sandbag was thrown out, and the balloon rose slightly and gradually moving toward the Belgian coast was lost sight of. There were two men in the car. who made no intelligible response to efforts made to communicate with them. OLD INDIANS TO MARRY Buck Aged 80 to Take Squaw Whose Age Is Only 50. CHEHALIS. Wash.. June S. (Special.) An aged Indian named Atwin Stock man, and a squaw named Mary Spich archon were applicants through a friend here for a marriage license. Stockman is 80 years old. and his bride 50. .inn Mehl. of Toledo, wrote County Auditor nwoiinro. inai me couple had been living luftruicr mi- u iuiik wnue ana it was gen erally supposed they were married. Re cently, however. It developed they were not, although they had even given deeds for certain property. When the Toledo Justice made the startling discovery the Indians had never been legally married, he arranged for their wedding, and Just as soon as possible new deeds will pass for property heretofore transferred, title to which was clouded by the discovery that no marriage had ever been pre viously celebrated. NEW MASSACRE IN TURKEY Executions Provoke Fanatics to De nounce Sultan as Infidel. Bfc.RLlN. June s. The Tageblatts Aleppo correspondent states that the Turkish authorities last week exe cuted 12 of the ringleaders, including six Armenians, concerned in the Adana massacres. The energetic course of the government, the correspondent adds caused the populuce in the region be tween Alexandretta and the mountains to begin a new massacre, in which about 100 persons were slain. The Young Turk committee did everything possible to prevent the disorders but needs reinforcements, however. The situation occasions great anxiety the agitators denouncing the Sultan as an inndel. who has sold himself. RACERS REACH BIG MUDDY leading Cars in Guggenheim Cup Contest Cross Mississippi River. KANSAS CITY. Mo., June 8.-The two Ford cars that are leading in the New York -to-Seattle race reached here at 5-35 this evening. An hour later the Acme and Shawmut cars also arrived. The Ford cars were only a tew minutes ahead at Glasgow. Mo., but reached the Missouri River first and in consequence the other cars were delayed. The racers will leave for the West early Wednesday. The Italian car. the missing "fifth com petitor in the New York-to-Seattle race is lying on its side near Litchfield 111 ' with a wheel gone. ' ' SUGAR TRUST SETTLES UP Forced to Terms hy Receiver for Closed Refinery. N.EV .1" June 8- The J30.000.000 suit of the- Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company againet the American Sugar He fining Company, the so-called trust. Insane Woman Allowed to Keep Her Land Other Decisions of Higher Tribunal. SALEM, Or., June 8. Special.) The Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Justice Eakin, today reversed the action of the lower court, which found Dr. G. B. Whitney, of Forest Grove, guilty of the death of Mabel Wirtz. The case was tried before Judge J. B. Cleland in Mult- noman county and the doctor fnnnrt guilty of manslaughter. The Appellate uun nnas rne indictment was insuffi cient, inasmuch as it "does not charge involuntary manslaughter under section 1745, B. & C. Comp. i the pres ent case the indictment is confined to a charge of a violation of section 1746. with out alleging an unlawful act. Therefore une maictment Is insufficient to charge a crime under that section, and the de murrer should have been sustained, and it is unnecessary to consider the other questions involved." court ln an opinion by Justice McBrlde, affirms the case of Rachel J Lafferty, an insane person, by Dr. A. I. Buzzard, her guardian, respondent, vs. A. B. Davis, appellant. This is an appeal from Union County, where it was tried by Judge J. W. Knowles. It is an action in ejectment to recover certain lands in that county. Rachel Lafferty has been in the state Insane asylum since 1896, and during this time land owned by her was sold to Davis by the Sheriff at public auction, to se cure the payment of taxes. Justice McBride finds "the whole proceedings, from the assessment to the final sale, more or less irregular." Continuing; the opinion says: "The facts disclosed In this very case fur nish abundant Justification for the strictness required by the courts in re spect to tax sales. Here the plaintiff is a woman, who during: all the period allowed by law for the redemption- of her property was confined in an in sane asylum without a guardian, and while so confined the defendant, who owned adjoining property, purchased the county's certificate of sale, and now seeks to hold her property." The judgment is affirmed. tThe Supreme Court today affirmed the opinion of the Circuit Court for Lane County in the case of H. C. Mahon, respondent, vs. M. B. Rankin, appellant, in which the plaintiff, Mahon, sued Rankin for J39.692.15 as commission for the purchase of hvntis in Lane and ad joining counties. Justice Slater finds the errors were not sufficient to in validate the findings of the trial court and orders the judgment affirmed. The judgment carries with it interest on the amount at 6 per cent from January, 1907. Other cases were decided as follows: C. T. Oliver and Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Company, appellants, vs. Klamath Lake Navigation Company and G. H. Woodbury, respondents. Appeal from Klamath County, Judge Henry L. Benson. Reversed. Opinion by Justice King. J. T. McGee, appellant, vs. J. W. Buckley, respondent. Appeal from Douglas County. Judge J. W. Hamilton. Reversed. Opinion by Moore, Chief Jus tice. The State of Oregon, respondent, vs. John Minnick, appellant. Appeal from Union County, Judge Knowles. Reversed and remanded. Opinion by Justice Mc Bride. James Ferrari, respondent, vs. Beaver Hill Coal Company, appellant, and Daniel Maher, defendant. Appeal from Coos County, Judge Hamilton. Motion to strike out amended bill of exceptions. Per curiam. Motion denied. W". H. Flanagan, respondent, vs. Ed. Jones, appellant. Appeal from Josephine County; Judge H. K. Hanna, Motion to dismiss appeal. Motion allowed. Opinion by Chief Justice Moore. M. Barde and others, appellants, vs. J. T. Wilson, respondent. Appeal from Multnomah County; Judge Bronaugh. Motion to dismiss appeal. Motion al lowed. F. L. Litherland. respondent, vs. S. Morton Cohn Real Estate & Investment Company, appellant. Appeal from Mult nomah County; Judere Frazer. On motion to retax costs. Costs retaxed. Opinion by Justice Kakin. Fort Stevens at Practice. FORT STEVENS. Or., June 8. (Spe cial.) The opening shots of this sea son were fired by the mortars yester day. This target practice will continue until a total ox 65 18-pound sub-caliber shells, which completes the semi-annual allowance, have been fired. The sub-caliber practice will be followed by full service practice, during: which 19 shells, weighing 1046 pounds each, will be fired. Target practice has been greatly hampered by the presence of an unusual number of fishing; craft in the field of fire. The First Company, Coast Artillery Corps, of Astoria, will be at Fort Ste vens for instructions and drill Friday evening, June 11. This will be its first trip to Fort Stevens. Tt will be as signed to the 10-lnch rifles, which are in charge of the 160th Company, C. A. C. San Pedro Marine News. SAN PEDRO. Cal., June 8. The steamer Governor arrived tonight from Seattle with freight and passengers. Departures today: Steamers Admiral Sampson for Seattle via San Francisco Norwood and Chehalls for Grays Har bor via San Francisco, schooner Bertie Minor for Coos Bay, Meteor for Grays Harbor, Carrier Dove for Hoq.uiam. Hamilton Gets No Bail. OLYMPIA. Wash, June 8. (Special ) No effort was made today to furnish bail for Ortis Hamilton. The state therefore, filed no additional charges against tht. former Adjutant-General. Willamette Tent & Awning Co. mand I7 ..North Front- manufactures Willamette" couch hammocks. Com fortable, durable and ornamental. For sale by ail dealers. or Special Rates for Many Conventions Are Also Made at Meeting Just Completed in Seattle Meet Again in East. SEATTLE, June 8. For the first time in the history of a passenger association, "rqund-the-world" rates were taken un der consideration at the meeting of the Western Transcontinental Passenger As sociation, representing 40 railroads, here today. . After hearing a statement that a trip can now be made around the world in 41 days, the association ordered a table of schedules and rates for round-the-world traffic to be prepared. The rates will vary from $600 to $800 for the trip. The association also considered the question of checking baggage through from points in the United States to Mexi can points. It was finally decided to leave these checking arrangements in the hands of the individual railroads having terminals on the border. The question of uniform rates for park ing passenger cars af terminal points was left undecided, as was the question of rates on through baggage cars from Chi cage to Pacific Coast points. The next meeting will be held in Chicago. Wednes day, October 13. Considerable time was devoted to fix ing rates for conventions that will be held during the coming Fall and Winter. On the rates made the return limit is fixed at one month. A rate of $72.50 to Chi cago and $67.50 to St. Louis was made for the convention of the Church of Christ in America, to be held in Pittsburg October 11 to 19. Rates East of Chicago and St. Louis are left to the Individual lines. The date of sale for these tickets is from October 4 to 9. Rates from the Pacific Northwest axe $15 higher than from Cal ifornia. For the meeting of the American Asso ciation of Public Accountants at Denver, October 19 to 21, a rate of $55 was made from California points. Tickets will be on sale October 16 to 18. Rates from North CoaBt points to be made by the individual roads. For the National convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at Omaha, October 21 to 28, a rate of $60 from California points to Omaha and Kansas City will be made. Tickets will be on sale October 16 to IS. Rates from North Coast points are $15 higher than from California points. A rate of $55 from California to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo was made for the meeting of the American Street and Interurban Railway Association at Denver. October 18. Tickets will be on sale October 16 to 18. No rates were fixed for the fourth an nual Dry-Farming Congress at Billings, Mont., October 25 to 29, this being placed in the ha.nds of two committees, one from the Northwest to make rates for North Coast points, and one from the Southwest to make rates for California and Nevada points. Similar action was taken with reference to the second Annual Apple Show at Spokane. December 6 to 11. For the meeting of fraternal Order of Eagles at Omaha, September 14 to 17. a rate of $60 from California was decided upon. The tickets will be placed on sale beginning September 11. The rate from all North Pacific com mon points to Chicago during the meet ing of the American Bakers' Association, September 13 to 18, will be $72.50. It was decided to make the rate for the Ameri can Mining Congress at Goldfield, Nev., September 27 to October 2, conform to the Summer tourist rate. Passengers may purchase tourists tickets to the Coast and by paying the cost of the side trip from San Fran cisco or Los Angeles make the round trip by way of California and Seattle, giving them an opportunity to visit the Alaska-Yukon-Paciflc Exposition as well as the mining congress at a low cost. Limited tickets for attendants travel ing with partially loaded cars containing livestock and household goods hold good while with the equipment, even if the time limit expires before the end of the journey is reached. WTLTj TRY TO PLEASE ALL Great Northern Official Talks of Spokane Tangle From His Side. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 8. (Spi cial.) "The thing is badly mixed up and the dlfficilties which confront us in our endeavor to satisfactorily arrange the tariff seem to multiply as we proceed." This was the confession made today by a high official of the Great Northern, in speaking of the Spokane rates, which will be discussed at a hearing of the In terstate Commerce Commission in Wash ington today. Continuing, the same official stated that the principal object of the hearing was to afford Western shippers a chance to be heard before the new tariff pre pared by the railroads eroe into effect Referring to the tariffs prepared by the railroads concerned, which make some reaucpon In 200 commodity rates to Spo kane, in place of the heavy reduction in is rates ordered by the Commission, he said the tariff which the' roads desire to substitute for ithat ordered by the Com mission is tne practical and logical tariff "There are so many interests involved. we cannot hope to please everybody," he continued. "Railroads will put in what they believe to be a fair tariff and will stand by it." He added he hoped the problem would be solved at the coming hearing, but was not at all sure of it. Jule M. Hannaford. vice-president and general traffic manager of the Northern Pacific, will represent the Hill lines at today's hearing, and I. B. Miller, general freight agent of the O. R. & N.. the Harriman lines. BALTIMORE WILL AID COAST A. H. Devers Enlists Help of Eastern Shippers in Rate Fight. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 8. A. H. Devers. of Port land. Who is here to oniwgp V.f. i. T - 1 1' - . " o i iic in terstate Commerce Commission in the Spokane rate case, returned today from Baltimore, where he addressed commer cial organizations in the hope of enlisting their co-operation in protesting against the rates which the railroads propose to put into effect from Chicago and the East to Spokane territory. Devers made it plain to Baltimore ship pers that if the railroads are permitted to enforce the rates they recently pro posed. Baltimore and all other Eastern cities will be shut ou,U.of Spokane trade IF YOU WANT TO KNOW "WHAT SMARTLY DRESSED MEN WILL WEAR THIS SEASON ASK BEN SELLING WHENEVER EXTRA QUALITY, DISTINCTIVE STYLE, SMART DESIGNING ARE DESIRED WHETHER FOR FULL DRESS BUSINESS OR OUTING BEN SELLING CLOTHES ARE FAVORED MODESTLY PRICED $20 to $40 .E..J..J... fa W. C BOTHi LEADING CLOTHIER and all Spokane -" business will be con ducted with Chicago. as a result of this visit, Baltimore will be represented at tomorrow's hearing. SHE'S MRS. GUGGENHEIM (Continued From First Page.) Christian and he was afraid his family would not give its consent. They lived at the Hotel Manhattan, New York, until December 31, 1900. when Mr. Guggenheim, she says, told her that he had decided to leave her. as his family was unalterably opposed to their mar riage. The defendant then went to Europe. After many efforts to get Mr Guggenheim to return to her. the coml plalnant stated, she finally consented to sue for a divorce on the advice of Daniel Guggenheim, one of the defendant's brothers. It was suggested that she go to South Dakota for four months and file suit there, but she refused. It was finally decided that the suit should be filed in Chicago. After the decree was1 obtained, the com plainant says, she returned to New York and soon afterwards married Mr. Wahl. When she obtained an annulment of their marriage, she believed herself free to marry again. On consulting her attorney, she was advised that the Chicago divorce was void and that she was still Gug genheim's wife. Native Son Goes to Jail. SAN FRANCISCO. June "8. Charles H. Turner, ex-grand secretary of the Na tive Sons of the Golden "West, who pleaded guilty on Saturday last to em bezzlement of the funds of the order and was sentenced to three years Imprison ment, was taken to San Quent'in today to begin the service of his sentence. Girl Meets Accidental Death. MARSH FIELD, Or.. June 8.-(SpeclaI.) The Coroner's jury in the case of Miss Inez McDaniel. the telephone girl -who was burned to death yesterday, returned a verdict today that the death was accidental. Report Is Denied. VIENNA, June 8. Official denial was made today of the reports published in To-day the art of making good co coa is still a secret. You may never learn the secret but you can al ways get the co coa ask for mum Always pure and wholesome. Made from the best beans the earth yields. ont ask merely for cocoa ask for Ghirardelli 9 j - Cocoa. 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