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J 3L VOL. XLIX. NO. 15,320. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1910v PRICE FIVE CENTS. TUFT WRITS UPON RAILROAD CHIEFS GAY CHAUFFEUR DEATH IN $250,000 GIFT HID AWAY BY PRELATE MORSE BITTER AS BOND ISSUE BEST, PRESIDENT SAYS ASKS KIND TAKES WILD RIDE FL000 HE STARTS TO JAIL fS KNOWN YOUTH CELEBRATES ARCHBISHOP GLESXOX IGNOR TAFT DISCUSSES IRRIGATION AVITH BORAH. YEAR'S BIRTH IN NOVEL WAY ANT OF ART TREASURE. J W WIP 'iijjf 12 NIGH GAYNDR 1H0SF SOUTHLAND OR MURPHY Interstate Commerce LawChangesonTapis. PRESIDENT DELAYS MESSAGE Anxious to Have All Interests State Position. 3. P. MORGAN ASKS HEARING New York Financier Requests Taft to Hear Opinions of Bis Railway Powers Congress Reoon venes on Tuesday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Six of the great powers in the American railway world will be in Washington tomorrow . to define to President Taft the attitude of the railroads toward proposed amend ments to the Interstate Commerce law. The President has delayed his-ines;. sage, pending this hearing:, as he is said to be desirous of giving: all interests an opportunity to state their position. The Bpecial message dealing with the inter state commerce and anti-trust law will be ready for Congress Wednesday noon. President Taft last week received request for a hearing by the railroad presidents and readily grafted it. Ha had already given . a hearing to the Shippers' Association and to the Inter state Commerce Commission. Big Men in Conference. j The conference will be held at the White Hftiue tomorrow morning, and will be attended by President Mellen. of the New York, New "Haven & Hart ford Railroad: President McCrea. of the Pennsylvania: "President Lovett. of the Vnlon Pacific and allied Harrlman lines; President Baer. of the Philadelphia & Reading: President Finjey. of the South . frn. and President Brown, of the New "York Central. Attorney-General Wick erKham will be present. J. P. Morgan's flying , visit to the White House last F"riday morning Is said to have been In connection with the re i quest of the railroad presidents for. i hearing. Congress will begin business in earnest this week. With, the Christmas holidays behind them and. with the preliminary ante-holiday plans completed, both houses , will start In with the intention of keep ing their hands to the plow. The Senate is not so forward with its work as the House and the former body may experience difficulty in finding some thing to do In the first few days of its Hitting. But tho House calendar is well llllnd. Respect to Late Senator Given Both houses will reconvene on Tues day, but both will adjourn for the day out of respect for the memory of the late Senator MoLaurln of Mississippi. Wednesday will he calendar day in the House and that body will again take up the Mann bill for the reorganization of the Panama Canal Zone. It is believed that measure will be disposed of in one day and. with it out of the way the House will attack the appropriation bills. The army supply bill Is already on the calendar and -by the time it is passed will come the fortifications measure, the urg , ent deficiency, the agricultural and the JCavy bills. Evon the sundry civil and the legislative bills are well blocked out in committee. Indeed, appropriation legislation is fur ther advanced in the Hoije than ordi narily at this season, and it is the opin ion of experts that supply bills will be turned out by the committee so rapidly that the House can give them almost continuous attention in- the next two months. The Senate committee on appropriations soon will begin the District of Columbia appropriation bill. Senate committees have not been as busy as Houso committees and the Senate calendar is barren. Senate to Adjourn Early Each Week. r or me present adjournments of the Senate every week from Thursday until Monday may be expected. Much Interest is manifested In both houses in the two announcements that the President's message on the Sherman anti-trust law and the resolution of Sena- tor Jones and Representative Humphrey asking for an Investigation of the Interior Department and the Forestry Department will be heard on Wednesday. There is division of opinion as to whether anything will be accomplished In the way of modifying the Sherman law this session, but everybody Is concerned over the terms of the President's treat ment of the subject, and his message will be read with unusual interest. On the other hand, it is generally under stood that the Jones and Humphrey reso lutions wlir be adopted and the investi gation will be entA-ed In short order. MEDF0RD RECEIPTS GROW Postofflce Business Third Larger Than lu Preceding Year. MEDFORD, Or.. Jan. 3. (Special.) The receipts of the Medford postofflce for 3 909 show an increase of 33 per cent over 1908. In exact figures the receipts for 1909 are shown to be 19,013. g. against $14,591.69 for the preceding year, a gain of 1442.99. Lone Man Circles San . Francisco Statue in Machine, Then Runs Through Plate Glass Window. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2. (Special.) Around and around the Native Sons of the Golden West statue, at Mason and Market streets, sped an antomobile with a hatless, wild-eyed youth at the wheel, early yesterday morning. About a circle, less, than 100 feet in diameter, a big red touring car. gashed at a speed that inclined some to believe Barney Oldneid might be after a record. As a culmination of a night of antics aimed to celebrate the birth of 1910, the automobllist did not attract the attention he would have done under ordinary cir cunistances. However, several dozen people gathered near and cheered on the reckless driver as lap after lap was cov ered in the wild race. The circle' about which the machine was being guided grew wider and wider, until with a crash, the car plunged across the Market-street sidewalk and Into the show window of the United Cigar Stores establishment on the corner. The big plate-glass window was shattered and cigars cigarettes- and smokers' sup plies flew in several directions. The au tomobile was also a wreck. The chauffeur leaped from the machine jumped on a streetcar and disappeared The machine had been left by its owner at the corner for a few minutes and the unknown man who steered it about the statue Jumped in and started on the wild rWe. 38,000 AID SUFFRAGISTS Oklahoma Women Gain Needed Sup port to Compel Submission. GUTHRIE, Okla., Jan. 2, The Okla homa Women's Suffrage Association has obtained a sufficient number of signers to its petitions to demand the submission of an amendment to the state consti tution under which women shall be al lowed to exercise all the privileges of the ballot enjoyed by men. Mrs. Kate H. Biggers. of Marlow, presi dent, and Mrs. Ruth Gay, of Oklahoma City, secretary, f the association, will come to Guthrie January 6 and file the petitions with the Secretary of State. The suffragists merely ask that the word "male" be stricken from the provision of the constitution defining who are quali fled voters. The petitions- bear a. total of nearly 38.000 names. The suffragists in Okla homa have had a long, hard fight. . , INDIANS TO BE FARMERS Instruction in Agriculture Designed to Make Wards Independent. LEWISTON. Idaho. Jan. 2. (Special.) In connection with the new plan for administering Indian affairs, the re nartment will ask for an appropriation of 1175.000 from jthe present congress with which to establish model farms on all of the reservations wnere agri cultural pursuits are practicable. It I nlanned to place these farms in th hands ill expert agriculturists ana nor tlculturists, who will Instruct the In dians in all branches or farming. The Department already has taken steps to deprive the Indian land-owners f direct control or tne money aerivea from renting their holdings to the white settlers, by requiring that this money be held in trust by the Indian Com missioner, to be turned over to the Indians for such improvements as are deemed advisable: This order was made to suppress the leasing system on reservations and to compel the Indian to cultivate his own land. 100 DAYS' WESTON'S LIMIT Veteran Pedestrian Will Start Across Continent February 1. NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Edward Payson Weston, veteran pedestrian, announced today that- he will make one more transcontinental walk, and that her will I get from ocean to ocean In JJ0 days. Weston will start from Los Angeles at 4 o'clock" the afternoon of February 1, and will be due In New Tork May 28. His hike from New Tork to San francisco early last Summer took him 105 days, but on that Journey he en countered a long series of storms and unusually hot weather. . it conditions are favorable this Spring, he Is sure 11(11 lu; I till Ul UBS lilt UIIIICU if 100 days. SHIPS COLLIDE; 12 DROWN Irish Channel Scene of Caused by Fog. Disaster LONDON, Jan. 2. The British steam ers Ayreshire. for Durban, and the Ar cadian, for Glasgow, collided In a fog this morning in the Irish Channel. The Arcadian sank in five minutes. All her crew scrambled aboard the 'Ayreshire but 12 Lascars returned to get their money and were drowned. - The Ayreshire had 200 passengers aboard. She was badly damaged, but tugs towed her to Holyhead. AGED WOMAN GETS COYOTE Brute in Cellar, She Closer Door, Re turns, Hills It. ASOTINvWash., Jan. 2. (Specials Confronted by a huge coyote in the cellar of her home hei-e, aged Mrs. Amelia Goft coolly, closed the door upon the brute and returning, killed it. This was the boldest attempt ,to-forage ever made by a lone coyote In this county. Mrs. Goff is the mother of Harry GofT, a prominent farmer of this district. Torrent Forms Isle, 4 Families Marooned. POSSE AND LIFE-SAVERS RUSH San Gabriel River Near Los Angeles Scene of Heroism. BRIDGES DOWN, RAILS OUT Wrecking Crews Defy Storm to Re pair Track. Metropolis Iso lated 4 8 Hours All Trains Stalled Damage Big. LOS ANGELES, "San. 2. (Special.) By heroic work on r, part of s Sheriff's posse and the Venice life-sav ing crew, during which Sheriff Ham mell nearly lost his life, 12 persons were rescued today from an island new ly formed by the flooded San Gabriel River In Los Nietos' Valley, two miles north of Downey and nine miles from Los Angeles. The . lifesavers had to battle their way through a roaring tor rent and over treacherous quicksands while heavy rains poured down on them. The persons rescued were Mrs. Bertha Armstrong and Mrs. Sarah Wells, widows and Bisters, and a son of Mrs. Wells, who lived together on a ranch near the river Mr. and Mrs. William Paxton and their two sons; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moulton and their three children. ' , One of those who distinguished them selves during -the night while efforts were being made to reach the endan-i gered persons was Mrs. Henr T. Gage, wife of the newly-appointed Minister to Portugal, who braved -the storm and waded througlf mud almost knee deep to direct the rescuers from the Gage ranch.,, " ' While piloting Mrs. Bertha Armstrong and her sister, Mrs. Sarah. Wells, through swirling eddies. Sheriff Ham mell was himself carried under thi water by the tremendous force of the stream. He was about 200 yards from dry land and for a time watchers on the banks thought he was lost. He re covered himself, however, and by grea exertion managed to reach shore and continued direction of the rescuers. Four Saved in Time. The party from the Armstrong dwell ing, composed of four, was talcen from the ranch house at a time when it had almost -given up hope. The lowe part of the bouse -was flooded and th place was entirely surrounded by storm water several feet deep. The curren had undermined the foundations of th residence, which was balanced on single support at one corner. The women are both widows. Their sons De Forest Armstrong, aged 17, an Howard Wells, aged 19, .kept- thei mothers alive during: the terrible night by their activity and courage, but the two women collapsed when brought ashore safely. In the midst of the rescue work word came to-the Sheriff of a murder in San Gabriel. Sheriff Hammel had to with draw his posse to hunt the criminal, r m..mm....o ... . .........4 Copies of Tissofs Life of Christ Paintings Presented at Jubilee Ordered Stored in. Clear. ST. LOUIS Mo., Jan. 2. (Special.) Archbishop J. - J. Glennon learned today that boxes labeled "pictures," which were received at his home on his recent silver jubilee and placed in a cellar, were world- famous paintings worth about $250,000. He made haste to order the treasures un packed and- brought to a place more worthy of their beauty "and value. The. boxes, which were sent to the archbishop by Herman C. G. Luyties, con tained 144 paintings by Lemercies. a Par isian artist of note . They are -copies of a series on the life of Christ which was finished by J. J. J. Tissot in 1S96. They were brought to America by Louis H. Horchitz, president of the Horchitz-Ho- berts-Sacks Publishing Company, who commissioned Lemercies to copy Tissot's entire Bible series, consisting of 296 Old Testament subjects and 144 from the New Testament. Mr. Horchitz kept the entire lot for several years and then sold the Old Tes tament portion to Jacob Solilff, of New York, who has placed them in the Astor Library. A short time ago the life of Christ pictures were sold to Mr. Luyties. LIVESTOCK RECEIPTS DROP Statistics of Seven Interior Markets Show Inbound Decrease WASHINGTON, Jan. - 2. There was notable decrease in the inbound livestock movement In the 11 months ending wTith November, 1909, as measured by the num ber of livestock cars unloaded at seven primary interior maxkets, compared with the same period of the two previous years, according to a bulletin issued by the Bureau of Statistics. In 1909 this period registered 616,614 qars, 30.000 below the record for the same period of 1908, and more than 52,000 cars below" 1907. Chicago was the heaviest loser, having radually declined in this respect since 1905. Of packing-house products shipped from Chicago in these 11 months, beef was the only item that increased over tne corresponding period of the previous years. , ' N. . There was n marked depletion In the stocks of meat in the five principal mar kets of the country.. Receipts of hogs hi these markets decreased 597,000 head. FLOOD ISOLATES RIVERSIDE Santa An a River Kamitunt, Rainfall Breaks Record. RIVERSIDE, CaL, Jan. 2. This city was completely cut off - from railroad communication from (the outside world today as the result of floods and wash outs. Soft roadbeds and 'spreading tracks prevented the movement of loca trains whenever attempts were made to operate. Tho rainfall to date for the season is IMa inches, Which is a new record to January 1 . The Santa Ana River is nearly ha! a mile wide and from eight to twelv feet deep. Hundreds of acres of Chi nese vegetable gardens are inundated. The county road between Riverside an Crestmore is under ten feet of water, and tne bridge or tne crestmore trolley line over the Santa Ana..' was swept away. GREEK STATESMAN QUITS Military League Wins Point Would Abolish Foreign Legations. ATHENS. Jan. 2. M. Triantaphyllakes, Minister of the Interior, has resigned, following a demand by the Military League and a conference between the King and Premier Mavromichalis. The league has demanded the abolition of all Greek legations abroad except that at Constantinople. Convicted BankerTries to Keep Grip. HE BELIEVES HE IS VICTIM Still Hopes "Inhuman Sen tence' Not Irrevocable. FAITH IN MEN REMAINS Overwhelming Tears, as He Says Farewell to Sons, Forbids Speech, but Statement Gives Chance for Sarcasm on Drunken Juries. NEW YORK.. Jan. 2. With a supreme effort to be cheerful, but with emotion occasionally getting the better of him. Charles W. Morse left New York today to begin a 15-year sentence in the Fed eral prison at Atlanta. Ga., for viola tion of the : National Banking laws. Before leaving the Tombs, where he had been confined for the greater part of the last year, Morse received his wife and two sons and then the newspaper men He was too affected to say any thing, but handed "out a carefully pre pared statement. Wife May Not Have Gone. The general understanding was that his wife was to acepmpany him South, but it could not be ascertained whether she was on the same train with him. Morse left at 10:45 o'clock in custody of Deputy United States Marshals. The party -occu pied a stateroom. Morse's statement is bitter and dra matic, x 'I am going)to Atlanta to begin penal servitude under the moat brutal sentence ever pronounced against a citijjen in civilized country," is his opinion of the sentence. ' Hopes All CVttto-ro Naught. T have hoed.' the statement con tinues, "with that hope which comes from a consciousness of my innocence, that I will not have to close out forever the light and liberty of - this world -under such an inhuman sentence. I have felt that the fact that I had paid, a fine of $7,000,000 and served a year in prison would satisfy the cry for a victim and I have steadily believed that the courts would be compelled to give me a new trial. "When I learned that the private de tectives of the prosecution were the keep ers of the jury, that the jury drank like men upon a jaunt or a holid;.-, rather than citizens engaged in a serious serv ice, and that as a result, tw'o of them were rendered unfit, I naturally hoped I would be allowed another trial by an other jury, free from these hostile influ ences. Morse Believes He Is Victim. "It seems, however, that the courts in tend to establish the practices which make rum-drinking a part of a jury service and private detectives as the custodians of a Jury a permanent institution. By this sentence and judgment I may be brought to ruin; but the damage done to me i not half as important as the Injury to t Concluded on Page 2.) If "Certificates" Must Be Provided, to Gain Votes, Guaranty Will Be-"vAbsoIute. OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU, "Wash ington. Jan. 2. President Taft today sent for Senator Borah and discussed with him various topics to be dealt jgMh in his special message on con servation. Stress was laid upon the plan for raising additional .money to hasten the completion of Government rrigation projects now under way. As Senator Borah was leaving, the Presi- ent said to him. 'The Administration is determined, so far as it is within its power, to se- ure sufficient funds to complete these rojects, and you will have the ear est and persistent support of the Ad ". ministration for that purpose. I, my self,t, believe that the proper way to dO4t is by a bond issue, as you have provided in your bill, but if it is found necessary, to satisfy some and in order to get it through Congress, to call them certificates, we shall attach to them the same guarantee of validity as bond would have, so that we can raise the money at no greater cost or rate, of interest than we would pay on a bond. In legal effect that is what they must be. I am determined that those settlers who have gone upon these projects shall not wait any longer for their nuvi man il 19 yuoumio IU Sl 11 IIICI C, The President also expressed the opinion that $30,000,000 would be need ed for this work. OIL FOUND IN ATHABASCA Secret Borings Show Inexhaustible Supply, Committee Is Told. OTTAWA. Ont., Jan. 2. (Special.) Evi dence of the value of the Athabasca oil fields lias teen given before the Domin ion Senate committee by Alfred von Ham meretetn. He stated that for the last eight years he had been exploring the field between 320 and '350 miles north of Edmonton, and that some of the wells had - revealed the presence of oil and gas in large quantities. The wells varied in depth from 2S0 to 1200 feet. He showed samples of naphtha oil and of oil collected in the sand. He declared that in the wells which lie was boring there were inexhaustible supplies of this material. Near the surface It was found In a hardened state, while 60 feet lower down it was found In a seml- liquld condition. ' His work had been carried on secretly. He declared that there was no foundation for the statement in the prospectus of the California & Alberta Oil Company that it had discovered oil on a 10,000-acre property 30 miles north of Edmonton. i JOHNSON "TAKES COUNT" Pugilist Loses Fight With Terre Haute Police, Who"Attadi Trunks. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 2. Jack Johnson refused to fulfill his contract to appear at a Terre Haute theater today, and the manager attached his trunks as he was about to board a train for Colum bus. jO. Johnson said that -the theater was too cold. When a constable served the writ on Johnson he mounted his baggage and said he would "hit the first man who touched it." The constable called the police and the fighter backed down when Captain Arm strong brought five men to take him to jail. Johnson later tried to engage a special train, but failed, and, when he saw his belongings dumped on a dray, told his manager he would stay here till tomorrow and fight the case. LOCAL DEALERS HELPED New Rules Governing Indian Snp plies Eliminates Monopolies. LEWISTON, Idaho, Jan. 2. (Spe cial.) The promised bulletin outlining the changes in the specifications rela tive to the delivery of contract supplies for the Indian reservations, schools and agencies, and providing that jobbers in all sections of the country may parti cipate in the bidding,, has been received at the Fort Lapwai agency. Under the new order the supplies are delivered to the agency or school where to be used, and the supplies for each place are purchased by separate con tract. This will permit wholesale deal, ers of Northwest cities to submit bids for the agencies and schools nearby and will largely eliminate the monopoly plan that has characterized the supply ing of Indian agencies and schools under the system which provided that all supplies be delivered to the Indian warehouses either at Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha or San Francisco. KINGSTON TREMOR SLIGHT Two Shocks Felt, but Mapunt Pelee Is Xot in Eruption. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 2.-Two earth tremors were recorded here to day. They were of slight intensity and not sufficient to cause damage or alarm. The stronger shock was recorded at 10:20 A. M., but showed "Only a small movement on the seismograph. PORT DU FRANCE, Martinique, Jan. 2. There has been no eruption of Mount Pelee and Soufriere is also in active. ST. THOMAS, Jan. 2. No earthquake has occurred here, or, so far as can be learned, in any other. West Indian island. Appointments Made in Waggish Vein. RiCH BACHELOR GETS PLACE 'Great Catch," Says Mayor in Naming Rhineiander Waldo. DEMOCRATS GET OFFICES Biographies Appended to Announce ments Give Ages and Social Con dition of Appointees Makes Fun of Rldder. NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Mayor Gaynor gave out tonight his list of appointments so far as he has been able to make them, and an account of bis relations with Charles- F. Murphy leader of Tammany Hall. The letter follows: When Mayor Gaynor was seen last evening he was found in his home library, deep in the perusal of a little book called "Wisdom of Benjamin Frank lin." When asked if the political leaders had been consulted in making appoint ments, he paid: M feel that there is one great act of justice which I should do. I was nomi nated without even a suggestion being made as to what I should do as Mayor. Since election Charles F. Murphylias called on me three times, each time ask ing me to appoint the best men to be found. His suggestions were few ; he urged nothing and kept saying that the responsibility was solely with inc. Murphy Has No Horns. I fear there are a. good many per sons m this city wno ao not Know Charles- F. Murphy. Some of them eeem to think he has horns and hoofs. I can only say of him what I have seen. He fully realizes that a political or ganization cannot survive and grow broader, on patronage alone, without po- 4 litical ideas and virtue, but must shriv el up and die of worse than dry rot. I would advise some good women and clergymen who are writing to me about Charles F. Murphy, and what they call the white slave traffic, to go up and see him and say a kind word to him. They may be surprised. ""Thou shalt not bear false witness is also one of the commandments; there are more vices than- one." The Mayor, in naming his appointees, appends also a brief personal and po litical biography of each. These com ments, some of. them waggish, some naive, it was announced later, were not to be printed as the Mayor's own, although he did not say they were is sued without his sanction. Some are conspicuous in a formal statement. "Rich Bachelor" Appointed. For instance, of Rhineiander Waldo, appointed Fire ' Commissioner, it Is noted that he is a "bachelor and a great catch, for he is rich." Of Herman Ridder, publisher of the Staats Zeitung, to whom has been of fered the position -of park commissioner for "Manhattan and Richmond, but who has not accepted, the statement says that on account of Mr. Ridder's con nection with the press ."he feels deli cate in the matter, as his work its a public official would have to be com mented on by the press, and should not be under constraint. The spec tacle of a newspaper proprietor run ning for office or in office, and being puffed up by his own newspaper is -nauseous to Mr. Ridder." Appointees Mostly Iemocrats. Most of the appointees are dyed-in-the wool Democrats, and the state ment is careful in giving the biog raphies, not only to mention those that are married, but also to specify that they have children. The Mayor him self has seven children. Among the appointments are ; Corporation Counsel, salary $15,H Archibald R- Watson, 40 years of age, married, Democrat. City Chamberlain, salary $12.000 Charles H. Hyde, 40 years of age married. Demo crat. Commissioner of Docks salary 57500 Calvin -Xomkins, married. Democrat. Commissioner of Charities, salary $7500 Michael J. Drummond, married, politics not given. Commissioner of Water. Gas and Elec tricity, salary $7500 Henry S. Thomp son, single, Democrat. With him is appointed Professor Edward Bemis as fl r t rifrtut v. RI4 1 ft rv & 5 Oft ft "f nrmT-l v n t Prhe head of the water department. Cleveland, O., which, it is conceded, he has made the model water department of the country." Commissioner of Bridges, salary . $7500 Kingley Martin, 32 years old, Democrat. , The seven tax commissioners, the -statement concludes, "will be appointed in a day or two." SHERIFF G0EST0 SALElU Woman's Funds Low, and Attorney Will Fight at Long Range. PE.i)LETON. Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) Sheriff Sappington, of Clark County, Washington, vrho hasxbeen here to take Mrs. Mary Johnson into custody, left today for Salem, which will be the ground, temporarily, ef the woman's fight for freedom. Judge James A. Fee, the woman's attorney, said this evening that his client could not afford to send him to Salem, and that he would be com pelled to maintain his side of the bat- tie at long range.