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VOL. XLIX.-XQ. 15,153. PO RTLAXD , OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1909. pKIE piVE CEyTS FIVE MIOSES LOSS IS KNOCKS CARS OFF TRACK NEAR URAL, MONT. MEN BARELY -ESCAPE CREMA TION ON LIXXTOX ROAD. COLONEL WILLING TO ADMIT DESERTION' OF WIFE. n rr hi i v r ui h rrnr i-1. 1 i u my u l ml lu 130 00 I Ul I UJILII UUI I Senate Has Plan to Adjourn. PUT HOUSE OUT OF ACTION Hay Will at Once Call Another Session if This Is Done. PROBE REPORT IS FLAT No Recommendations as to Schively Will Re Made Findings Will Be Given to Governor Hay for His Advice In Message. OliTMPIA. Wash., June 21. (Special.) 'The legislative Investigation commit ter will recommend neither impeachment of Insurance Commissioner Schively nor abolishing of that office." said Chairman Allen, of that committee, today. 'The committee will report to the Governor only what facts it has discovered, and it will be up to the Governor in his mes sage to determine what course the Legis lature will be asked to pursue. "The committee matters were all pre sented today and an executive session held which framed up the close of the report. This was delivered to Governor Hay. and. with the portion of the report heretofore submittted, has been deliv ered to the printer to prepare copies for Members of the committee and the Governor positively refuse to discuss the scope of the report or the message until both have been presented to the Legislature. Tonight there Is a report here that promptly when the Senate Is called to order. President Ruth will entertain a motion to adjourn sine die. The mo tion Is not debatable, and It requires hut a majority to carry. Adjournment of the Senate, of course, will put the House out of business Should any- such move be made suc cessfully. Governor Hay will probably lssu another call for a special session, returnable the same day. No delay for notice would be necessary with the members all here, and he could continue to call special sessions as fast as ad journments were had until the Senate transacted the businecs for which the legislature is called. That such a suggestion Is really tak en seriously by some legislators, causes worry to those who had been hoping for a short, clean-cut business session. The suggestion is taken as an Indica tion of bad blood, which may result In a prolonged and bitter session. Senator Rosenhaupt arrived tonight from Spokane. He says his friends as sure him he will be elected President to succeed Ruth. HARTLEPOOL IN COLLISION Identity of Steamer That Rammed Red Star Liner Is Known. SOUTHAMPTON. June 21. It will take two or three weeks to repair the damage to the Red Star lino steamer Zeeland. that was in collision Saturday night east of Dover with an unknown vessel. All the saloon passengers and most of the sec ond and third-class passengers will be transferred to the Oceanic sailing June 23. the remainder will come on the St. Paul on June 26. SHIELDS. June 21. The British steamer Hartlepool arrived here today, badly damaged. Her starboard bow had been cut down to the water's edge af ter collision with an unknown steamer, probably the Zeeland, off Dover, Saturday. V PUBLIC TO BUY AIRSHIP? Rritons May Purchase Aerial Craft for Home Government. LONDON. June 21 The idea of a pub lie fund for the purchase of an airship is being strongly supported by Secretary Haldane. who says the War Office will accept the gift. A large list of sub scriptions Is already announced. It Is stated by the Defense Commission that a project is on foot to sail from Paris to London this Summer a powerful airship now approaching completion. The ship has two propellers and two motors, each of 220 horsepower, and la capable of carrying 26 fwssengers. It can make between 35 and 40 miles an hour. FAST RIDERS ARRESTED Kelso Lads Are Given Severe Repri mand by Police Judge. KELSO, Wash.. June. 21. (Special.) Two boys. Guy McDonough and Leslie Thome, while riding horseback last night on the new road east of town, set up uch a pace that they almost ran over several women and children. The night Marshal arrested the boys for fast riding and placed them under $50 bail. This morning they were brought before the Polio Judge, who gave them a good rep rimand, warned them not to repeat the occurrence and dismissed them. First Reports Say 30 Passengers In jured Several Cars Are Burned. WHITEFISH, Mont.. . June 21. The Great Northern westbound Oriental Lim ited passenger train went Into the ditch this morning near Ural on the Kootenay River. Thirty passengers were Injured, but none killed. The express and bag gage cars were burned. A landslide was the cause of the accident. Traffic Is blocked "by the wreck and trains are being transferred at Ural. It is known that a number of the coaches in the train were broken up. Heavy rains during the past week brought down the. avalanche, which derailed the train. ST. PAUL, June 21. Transportation officials at the Great Northern Railroad headquarters here, tonight said that In the wreck at Ural. Mont., today, only three persons were Injured, none seri ously. Passengers were transferred to other equipment and proceeded. The landslide had been cleared away and traffic resumed. RECORD TIME TO LONDON Journey From New York Made In Five Days and Eight Hours. LIVERPOOL. June 21. The Cunard Line steamship Mauretania has estab lished a new world's record for passage between New York and London. She arrived here at 10:15 tonight and thus accomplished, for the first time, the feat of disembarking her passengers on Mon day night after leaving New York on Wednesday. Trains were In waiting, so that the actual time between New York and London will be five days and eight hours. The Mauretanla's time from New York to Queenstown on this trip was 4 days. 17 hours and 21 minutes, which Is 60 minutes better than her best pre vious record. DUMPCAR WRECKS HOUSE Dunbar Residence at Astoria Is Badly Damaged. ASTORIA, Or., June 21. (Special.). The residence of Albert Dunbar, at the corner of Eleventh street and Irving avenue, was wrecked In a peculiar man ner about noon today. Heckard Bros, are Improving' the street at that place and use a dump car running on rails to carry the dirt away. Shortly before noon as a loaded car was running down the Incline, it Jumped the track and plunged through the side of the Dunbar residence; go ing as far as the dining-room, where its load of earth was dumped. The damage will amount to fully a thousand dollars, not Including the breaking of many articles which can not be replaced. , CROP 37,000,000 BUSHELS Grain Inspector Armstrong Esti mates Washington Harvest. SEATTLE, June 2B. C. Armstrong, the newly-appointed State . Grain In spector who has Just taken office, to day made the statement that the Wash ington wheat crop this year would be not less than 37,000,000 bushels, and may go as high as 40,000,000. This Is about 10,000.000 bushels more than the 1908 crop, and Is greater than the heavy crop of 1907. Mr. Armstrong estimates that at least 2,000,000 bushels of the new crop will be tributary to the newly-opened line of the Chicago, Milwaukee ' & Puget Sound Railway. Harvests this year will be two weeks later than usual. FINDS HIS CHILD DROWNED Montana Irrigator Loses Second Son Same Way as First. VIRGINIA CITY. Mont.. June 21. (Special.) While John S. Banterman was working on his Irrigation ditch Just in the rear of his house at Alder yesterday, he heard something pounding against the head-gate of the ditch. He paid no at tention to It until Mrs. Banterman told him their 16-months-old child had disap peared. Then he reached in the water at the head-gate and pulled out the lifeless form of the child. Seven years ago the Bantermans lost another 16-months-old child In the same ditch and much In the same manner. LONG TERM FOR JAP FIEND He Assaulted Woman and Forced Husband to Witness Crime. FRESNO, Cal., June 21 G. Yasuda, a Japanese who several weeks ago at Fowler assaulted a woman of his own nationality, after tying her husband hand and foot and allowing him to witness the crime, was today sentenced to spend 20 years in San Quentln. TAFT MEETS DEFEAT AGAIN President and .General Edwards Continue In Bad Luck at Golf. WASHINGTON. June' 21 President Taft and his partner. General Edwards, were again defeated on the Chevy Chase golf links today; Vice-President Sherman and Senator Bourne, of Ore gon, winning by two uj. Friends and Servants Come" to Defense. 'AFFABLE, RESERVED, MODEST' Never, Never Drank Too Much and Said No "Bad Words." COCKTAIL BEFORE DINNER Little Light Wine With Meal Was Extent of Bibulations, Says Mrs. Bankhead, Dashing Lady's Intimate Friend. MBS. GOULD'S NECESSARY EX PENSES. Samples of "necessary expenses de tailed by Mrs. Gould In her suit: Paid $2720 for three dresses and $900 for a wrap. Paid $25,000 for a diamond pen dant. . because she had seen Mr. . Gould buy a similar article for an other woman. Paid $400 for the pocketbook carried daily at the trial, and $2500 for the pearl necklace she wears. Paid $2500 a month for a taxicab. Paid $300 a week for a bedroom, bath and sitting-room at the Bel mont. Gave waiters in th restaurants fees of $5 and gave handsome presents to the bead waiters. At Christmas gave "captains' or snb-headwaiters from $25 to $100. Paid $700 for a black caracul skirt. Tradespeople. said Mrs. Gould, charge persons of known wealth more than they do others. There Is no limit to their chances. NEW YORK. June 21. Sensation seekers and the curious who have at tended dally the sessions of Katherlne ClemmonB Gould's suit for separation from, her husband,' Howard Gould, were disappointed at the resumption of the hearing before Justice Dowllng today, when It was announced that the de fense rested and that Howard Gould would not take the stand. Clarence J. Shearn, counsel for the plaintiff, ap parently -was greatly surprised. Mr. Gould seemed relieved and Mrs. Gould seemed annoyed. "Since the recess of last Friday, your honor," said Delancey Nlcoll. counsel for Howard Gould, "my associates and I have decided that the testimony we offered is so complete there is no necessity for going further, therefore we have decided to rest," Rebuts Charge of Drinking. Mr. Shearn led off the rebuttal with testimony designed to show, he ex plained, "the falsity of the charges that Mrs. Gould was continually and habitually Intoxicated from 1902 to the present date." He produced many be-low-stalrs witnesses whose testimony was followed by the reading of deposi tions of guests and friends, who swore (Concluded on Page s.i LOOK Gasoline Tank Bursts, Oil Trickles - to Generator Machine a t Total Loss. Three men narrowly escaped crema tion on Llnnton road yesterday after noon in the explosion of the gasoline tank of the automobile in which they were riding. Leaping from the sides and the rear of the machine, which was ablaze In an Instant, they escaped with out a scorch by their agility. Adding Irony to the near-death experience of the trio, the car was on a trial trip, two of the men being prospective purchas ers, and the third, the driver, being.the owner, buoyant , with anticipation of selling the machine. The automobile was 'completely destroyed and repre sents a loss of J4000. , minus ?1200, the amount of- its Insurance. O.'L. Chapel, owner' of the machine, Harry Hunter and Peter Peterson were the men who experienced the miracu lous escape. Chapel, after remodeling the machine, which "was of 1905 make, was taking a spin to test the merits of the machine in the presence of Hunter and Peterson, who intended to buy it- When within 100 yards of the Lakeview! roadhouse the gasoline tank burst, a stream of oil trickled to the generator and instantly the machine was enveloped In flames. Chapel, In Jumping for his life, gave the wheel a twist, heading the automobile for the side of the road, where it burned until Irreparably destroyed. Last Sunday night, the machine, lees than a day before Its sudden destruc tion, bore several elderly women along the same road. They, said Chapel, would undoubtedly have been burned to death under the circumstances that confronted him and his companions. YALE TEACHES IMMORALITY Catholic Prelate Raps Big JTonsec tarian Colleges In Address. NEW YORK, June 21. Harvard, Princeton and Yale are teaching immor ality, and disrespect for all mankind la being taught at these colleges, said Bishop James A. McGaul, of Trenton, N. J., in his address tonight to the gradu ating class of St. Francis Xavler Col lege. He condemned what he said was the desire of Catholic parents to get their children into society through their associates in the great . non-sectarian universities. , . STRIKEBREAKERSGO FAR Sugar Plantation Bands From Porto . Rico Travel to Hawaii. NEW ORLEANS, June 21. Seventy five laborers from sugar plantations of Porto Rico passed through New Orleans today en route to Hawaii, where they will take the places of striking planta tion laborers. Similar parties, it is said, will follow. MOB ATTACKS NEGRO BRUTE Greeks. and Hungarians In Pittsburg Rescue White Girl. PITTSBURG, June 21. A mob of 1000 Hungarians and Greeks late tonight beat into unccnsclousness Joe Brown, a negro who attacked a 17-year-old white girl! Her screams brought help and she es caped unharmed. The negro was rescued by the police.- OUT, MR. HENEY, YOU'LL LOSE , ,',,'' ....... ......4 Expulsion Made After Stormy Session. MYERS' VERACITY DISPUTED Chief Antagonist of Professor Returns to Charge. SHOUTS ABOVE HISSING Controversy About Divinity of Christ Develops Display of ; Human Passion In Chicago Bap tist Conference. CHICAGO, June 21. Professor George B. Foster, of the University of Chicago, whose denial of the divinity of Christ in a recent book stirred Chicago Baptists to a high pitch of resentment, was dropped from the Baptist ministers' con ference of Chicago today. It was the stormiest session ever held by church men in this city. Speakers who had been howled or hissed down sat with flushed, indignant facees while the chair pounded for order. McLaurln Hissed Down. The insistence that Dr. A. C. Dixon, of the Moody Church, that Professor Fos ter be dropped brought the fight around to himself, the real object of the meeting being disregarded for a time. Dr. D. D. McLaurln started trouble by asking for a committee to. investigate Dr. Dixon's right to membership In the conference. This motion was hissed down and Dr. Dixon explained that he joined the Bap tist Clurch in new York. Defender Is Squelched. Dr. M. P. Boynton said: "We are not getting at this matter right. Foster Is as good as Myers "or any one here, -and" His voice was drowned. The Myers referred to--is Dr. Johnston Myers, one of the chief assailants of Professor Foster. Dr. Myers shouted above the din: ' ' "It is no worse - to hiss than-to. have those present denounced as Dr. Boynton is doing. The hisses should not be stopped unless Dr. Boyton is stopped." Myers' Veracity Questioned. Dr. Myers attempted to introduce a resolution to drop Professor Foster, whereat his veracity was assailed by Dr. A. H. Harnley. "This matter was decided for good and all last week," he shouted. "Dr. Myers promised on his honor that, if he did not get his resolution through then, he would not again bring it up. Now he is doing exactly contrary to his promise." Myers Makes Denial. "I deny the statement," responded Dr. Myers coolly. "I promised not to reintro duce that particular motion, because my motives had been questioned. Specific charges were wanted and that Is what I have here today." After four hours the preachers adopted the resolution dropping Professor Foster. THEM. Alimony Is Still Subject of Discord, Wife Holding Out for Money. CHICAGO, 111.. June 21. (Special.) It is probable that the domestic affairs of Colonel William F. Tucker and his wife. Mrs. "Dolly" Logan Tucker, daughter of General John A. Logan, may be settled quietly. Colonel Tucker allowing his wife to obtain a divorce without opposition. It is said the Colonel will consent to this arrangement, providing Mrs. Tucker limits her charges in her bill of particulars to desertion, the two having been separated longer than the period legally required for such action. It Is reported that Mrs. Tucker, while desir ous of such a settlement, still demands that her husband make suitable alimony provision for her. If an agreement can be reached, it is likely that Mrs. Tucker will come qui etly to Chicago from Washington and appear before Judge Barnes,' on whose calendar for July the case is entered. Both Colonel Tucker and his attorney, Leo J. Doyle, today refused to deny that such a settlement is imminent. MINING CAMP IS WRECKED Dam Breaks In Atlin District, Doing $75,000 Damage. SEATTLE, Wash., June 21. A special cable to the Post-Intelligencer from Skagway. Alaska, says that the dam of the North Columbia Gold Company, on Lake Surprise, at the head of Pine Creek, in the Atlin district, gave way Thursday, causing heavy loss to mining companies, sawmills and roads In the district. A. wall of water- eight feet high rushed down Pine Creek Into Lake At lin. sweeping all before it. The $25,000 bridge of the British-American Dredge Company was wrecked, the sawmill at the James Clark half-way station was swept away, and the flumes of the North Columbia Gold Company and other mines were carried out. The loss to the mining companies is estimated at J75.000. TAFT AND DIAZ MAY MEET Mexico's President Anxious to Talk -. With American Executive. MEXICO. June 21. The Medical Herald says: Replying to a communication from the White House a. Washington, through the Mexican Ambassador today. Presi dent Diaz has expressed his desire to meet President Taft for a personal In terview, which will take place at one of the points on the boundary line between Mexico and the United States some time during the latter part of the year. The announcement of the preliminary nego tiations looking toward ' this Interview were made at the Foreign Relation of fices yesterday. SETTLE ISLAND DISPUTE China and Japan Get Together Re garding Pratas Island. TOKIO, June 22. There Is good reason to believe that the disputed ownership of Pratas Island, a cluster of rocks lying in the China Sea, of the Philippine group, has been amicably adjusted between China and Japan. The basis' of the agremeent is thought ' to be that Japan yields all claim to ownership, and in re turn China agrees to purchase the in terests of Nlshlzawa, a Japanese settler on the island. A commissicn will be ap pointed to fix the value of Nishizawa's holdings. CULTS PROTEST ON DRUGS Homeopath Declares New Methods of Healing Work to Same End. DETROIT. June 21. "Christian Science, the Emmanuel Movement, soul cure, os teopathy, mental healing and attempts fo cure by the laying on of hands are loud, emphatic protests against the abuse of drugs." Thus declared William Foster, of the American Institute of Homeopathy, in his annual address tonight at the 66th annual meeting of the institute. Western doctors are trying to have Los Angeles chosen as the next meeting place. RAILROAD BONUS RAISED Baker City and John Day Valley Towns Pledge $10,000. BAKER CITY. Or., June 21. (Special.) All of the 10,000 bonus has been raised for extension of the Sumpter Valley Rail road, the last being reported from the John Day Valley today, following which David Eccles ordered construction crews into the interior to begin work of grading and laying track. The road is expected to be ready for business by Thanks giving. GRAND RIVER RAGES AGAIN Floods Lowlands, Carries Away Bridges, Stops Traffic. GLEN-WOOD SPRINGS, Colo., June 3L Rapidly melting snow in the mountains today caused the Grand River to reach a new high record when It reached the 12-foot stage on the official gauge. Low lands are flooded, bridges are reported carried away ana railroad traffic Is delayed. Two Blocks on Mt. Ta bor Fiame' Swept, GARDEN HOSE SAVES DISTRICT Nearest Fire-Plug Mile and Half Distant. ORIGIN COMPLETE MYSTERY Blaze Starts in Unoccupied House and Quickly Spreads to Adjoining Buildings Four Families Are Burned Out of Homes. .... ................. . LOSSES IN MOUNT TABOR F1KK. I. Corser $13,000 f Mrs. J. E. Robblns 6.5O0 I N. C. Poppleton 2.500 L. K. Miller 2,000 Prunedrler stored with fur niture 3.000 D. W. Deaver 1.000 Miscellaneous damage 2.000 Total '. J30.0U0 But for the garden hose in the neigh borhood, rustled up in a hurry by J. B. Robinson and attached to a faucet in the kitchen of Dr. Robert L. Gillespie, - East Sixty-ninth and East Morrison streets. two blocks away, the whole of the Mount Tabor district surrounding the Crystal Springs Sanitarium might have been de stroyed by flames early this morning. As It was, the block bounded by East Sixty ninth, East Seventieth, East Stark and East Washington streets was practically burned over, and four families were ren dered homeless, entailing a loss of about $30,000, partly covered by insurance. Fire Starts In Corser Residence. The fire started in the residence of Irv ing Corser. 94 East Sixty-ninth street, about ll:16"b'clock last night. The build ing was unoccupied and not yet com pleted. Mr. Corser wan working at it himself, and had been thus engaged in the afternoon. He was putting up a $10, 000 house, and this was entirely burned. It was partly Insured. About $1000 worth of tools and an automobile were stored in the structure and were burned. The flames spread to and destroyed the residence of F. E. Robblns, a contractor, whose loss is about $6000. This house communicated the blaze to that of N. C. Poppleton, a salesman of the Portland Seed Company. This building' is owned (Concluded on Page 5.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 69 degrees ; minimum, 52 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwest winds. National. Trust -Senators predict evasion of corpora tion tax, but Taft will guard against it. Page 4. House continues rivers and harbors appro priations unexpended at end of year. Page 3 Senate restriction on census appointments passed by House. Page 3. Senate debates hide duty. Page 3. Government insists on Americans' right to subscribe to Chinese loan and suspects Germany of playing double. Page 2. Senate begins inquiry into Perrin case. which m.y drag Roosevelt into scandal. Page 4. Domeetic. -Witnesses for Mrs. Gould deny charges of drunkenness and profanity. Page 1. Baptist Conference at Chicago asks Foster to resign after, uproarious se salon. Page L Colonel Tucker may compromise with wife ' by letting her get divorce. Page 1. Harriman healthy and happy In Vienna while rumors of illness excite Wall street. Page 5. Ex-Governor McCord, of Arizona, ' accused of bigamy. Page 3. Date for second trial of Calhoun Is set. Page 2. Chung Sin arrested for Slgel murder; an other suspect proves not to be Leon Ling. Page D. Lumber cut of United States In 1908. Page 3. Sport. Coast League: Sacramento 6, Vernon, L Page 11. Northwestern League scores: Portland O. Vancouver 1; Spokane 5, Aberdeen 1; Se attle 8. Tacoma 4. Page 11. Pacific Northwest. Bitter fight promised at special session of Washington Legislature. Page 1. Ford car No. 2 has uarrow escape from destruction at Prosser. Page 6. Btubblefield will contest - reopened at Pen dleton. Page 7. North Coast to use electric power In carry ing trains over cascades. Page 7. Knights of Pythias gather at Pendleton for grand lodge convention. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. New California barley offering In local mar ket. Page 17. Wheat strong at Chicago because of weather reports. Page 17. Heavy selling In stock market causes slump. t Page 17. Designer Hayden, IT- S. A., arrives in Port land to make plans for reconstruction of Dredge Chinook. Page 13. Portland and Vicinity. R. T. Dickerson murders Harry A. Garrett on grounds of unwritten law. Page 12. Mayor-elect Simon takes oath Page 18. of office. Rock Island-Frisco official praises recent railroad compacts. Page 10. Engineers wrestle with bid for new Madison-street span. Page 16. Portland bankers ana bank clerks attend convention in Seattle. Page 10. Plans take shape for Northern Baptist con vention. Page 12. R. L. cabin elected director Portland Board of Education. Page 10.