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TITE MORNING ' OREGONIATf, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1910. INDIAN OFFICIALS UNDEB SUSPICION P1NGHQT OUT, WAR OF SOLONS HALTS UNCLE SAM'S IDEA OF HIMSELF SINCE HE STARTED THE, CANAL AND GOT ACQUAINTED !4- WITH SECRETARY KNOX. . The great duet from "Aida" Ballinger Suspends Superin This Week in Congress to De cide Whether Conflict Will Continue. Gadski tendents of Five Tribes and Three Trustees. 4 I OTHERS MAY BE INVOLVED TAFT MAY BE INVOLVED Photo l&lMs'33r Afcs;M ' V VI ; I (Ctriotm -I; 1 r i ' . r, i Jlisracefnl Condition," Affecting Moral and Material Welfare of Schools, Said to Have Been Disclosed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Secretary Ballinger, of the Interior Department, today suspended from office Superin tendent John D. Benedict, of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma, and three supervisors, after an investigation that had disclosed a "disgraceful condition" affecting the material and moral wel fare of the schools. As a result of the Investigation which the. Interior Department has been carry ing on for some time, and which will be continued, other officials of the In dian Service may suffer a like fate to that of Superintendent Benedict and the three supervisors suspended today. Others Are Implicated. The investigation that resulted In today's action was begun because of re ports charging the officials already sus pended, as well as others, with activ ities improper for Government em r.inves. The suspended supervisors are '.Calvin Ballard, of the Choctaw Schools at McAlester; J'reaencK n. umuuiu, the Chickasaw Schools at Ardmore, and Walter Falwell. of the Creek Schools at Muskogee. t)fra anv further action is taken -1 -In their ' cases, the four men will be allowed to answer the charges before the Secretary of the Interior. From the report it appears that Superintendent Benedict is connected with certain business interests in Okla IThoma that have dealings with the In dians. This relationship, it was be lieved, was wholly incompatible with his servioe as superintendent. Jieglect of Duty Charged. He had permitted the schools, it was ,. reported, to fall into a disgraceful con- dition and the supervisors have neg lected their duties- in matters affecting the material and moral conditions of the schools. Oscar H. Tipps. supervisor of the Indian schools, who was sent to Okla " noma, reported that he had relieved Superintendent Benedict pending the result of the investigation. The duties of the suspended supervisors will be performed temporarily by detailed clerks of the Indian Office. Superin tendent Benedict has been connected with the Indian Service ten years. : J. M. BARR1E IS HAGGARD Friends of Noted Author See Great Change Since His Divorce. LONDON, Jan. ' 9. (Special.) J. M. . : Barrie's health Is giving his friends . serious concern. He was never robust, r- but recently he has been looking worn ''and aged. A few evenings ago he was dining alone in the grill, room of the Savoy Hotel, sitting at a table in the middle of the room. His appearance attracted general attention, and even b. persons unaware of his identity made :. remarks about his looks and attitude as suggestive of a man completely : broken down in health and spirit. Since his divorce suit, Barrie has v' been about London much less than r: formerly, and acquaintances are shocked 't by the change in him. Barrie's . only solace nowadays is found in the com pany of children, of whom he always has been very fond. He delights to gather a number of them and take . them to the theater. A few nights o ago - he entertained a party of young sters at the Duke of York's Theater, where his "Peter Pan" is being played. SHACKLET01M TO TRY AGAIN Lieutenant Says lie "Will Head South lole Kxpeditlon. BERUX, Jan. 9. lieutenant Krnest Shackleton announces lie will head an other Antarctic expedition. Shackleton on his last expedition got within 111 miles of the South Fole. WAR MADE ON INSURGENTS (Continued Krom First Page.) for opposing the re-election of insurgent Republicans is that Mr. Bryan and Dem ocratic Senators advise "that no Demo cratic nominations be made aginst cer tain insurgent members," the committee nssertlnp that this position is taken be cause "the insurgents are at heart and by voice and vote good enough Demo crats." 'Insurgent Senators and Representa tives have openly boasted," the commit tee declares, "that they 'would have their own way even if it put the Democratic party in power. In one state, at least, the insurgents are trying to defeat the Republicans in every Congressional dis trict and will be supported by the Demo- crats in this attempt." House Prerogative Assaileil. Representative Fitzgerald, of New York, the only Democratic member of the House who, on Friday, voted against the Demo crat and "insurgents" in the fight that took from Speaker Cannon the power to appoint the House members of the joint committee to investigate the Pinchot -Ballinger controversy, said today tht should the Senate return the joint reso lution amended go as to provide for ap pointment by the Speaker of the House members of the committee, he would of fer a resolution to return it, "on the ground that the action of the Senate is nn invasion of the constitutional preroga tives of the House." 'Impertinence" Is Resented, "personally he added, "I favpr the appointment of all committees by the Speaker. In this instance, however, the House in the exercise of its unquestioned rights has decided that its members' of the joint committee of investigation shall be elected. For the Senate to attempt to dictate the manner in which the House shall select its committees would be not only nn Invasion of the prerogatives or the House, but an inexcusable Imperti nence, to be resented in a dignified and orderly way.'- 1. - , GIBBOUS HONORED Catholic Prelate Gets Ovation in Washington, D. C. EVERY FAITH REPRESENTED Foreign Diplomats and American Statesmen Take Part in Cere monies on Cardinal's Annual Visit to St. Patrick's Parish. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Cardinal Gibbons made his annual visit to St. Patrick's parish In Washington today and the greeting given him went far beyond a purely Catholic ceremony and became an official function at which prominent men. of every faith sought to honor the distinguished prelate. Diplomats and American statesmen took part in the ceremonies which con sisted of early mass, high mass at 11 o'clock, followed by a reception at the rectory and a luncheon. St. Patrick's Church was filled long before 11 o'clock and --a great crowd gathered on the sidewalk and in the street. A reception at the rectory at 12 o'clock was attended by several thou sand persons. The guests at the luncheon included the Italian Ambassador, the Ministers from Sweden. Chile, the Netherlands and Spain, Speaker Cannon, Senators Klklns, Aid rich, Beveridge, Carter, Overman and Taylor, Associate Justices White and McKenna of the Supreme Court, Repre sentatives Goulden, Fornes, Fitzgerald and Olcott of New York, and Ramsdell of Louisiana, T3r. M. F. Egan, Ameri can Minister to Denmark, Charles W. Russell, American Minister to Persia, and Army and Navy officers. RODGERS GOING TO EUROPE Salem Mayor Expected to Resign at Next Council Meeting. SALEM, Or.. Jan. 9. George F. Rodgers, Mayor, in all probability will resign his office at the next meeting of the Council and leave on January 112 for a four months' tour of Europe with E. J. Daly, of Portland. The Mayor has been planning a trip abroad for some time, and, although his arrangements are not yet complete, he hopes to get his affairs in shape so that he can make the trip. this Win ter. Mr. Rodgers says, however, that if he resigns his office it will not b primarily to make the European trip, but because his private business af fairs compel him to be absent so much that he feels he cannot do justice to the affairs of the city. DAVIS REPRESENTS U. S. State .Departjnont Sends Army Man to Pan-American Meet. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. The fourth Pan-American conference to be held in Buenos Ayres in July, is now occupy ing the attention of officials of the State Department and others interested Jn the meetings. The United States committee has elected Major General George W. Davis, United States Army, retired, as one of its members, and appointed a committee to urare upon Congress a proper appro priation for the participation of the United States. ' ' BROOKS WAS BOLD OUTLAW Citizens' Posse Made Sensational Capture at Shedds. ALBANY. Or.. Jan. 9. (Special.) Harry Brooks, the ex-convict who was killed by Patrolman George E. Croxford in the Last Chance saloon in Portland Friday night, was committed to the State Peni tentiary from Linn County, M a rc h 31, 190S. for a term of two years. His cap ture preceding this prison term was- as sensational as the episode in which he met his death Friday night, and his in carceration was accomplished in quicker time after the commission of the crime than in any previous case in this county. Brooke and his partner, James Ward, were captured early in the morning of March 31, 1908, while robbing the general merchandise store of Davis, Shedd & Davis, at the town of Shedds, 14 miles south of Albany. At 2 o'clock on that morning a man sleeping in the store ad joining the one in which the robbers were at work heard them. He notified C.J. Shedd, one of the proprietors of the store, who quickly formed a posse and estab lished a guard at both the front and back doors of the store. When the robbers started out they saw the guards and retreated Into the etore and refused the order to come out. Though the robbers made threats to shoot, the citizens courageously stood ther ground for almost two hours, and it was almost daylight when the robbers made a break. The first man who came out was held up at the point of a gun and surrendered, and the second man walked out with his hands in the air. C. J. Shedd and Constable J. H. Daw son brought the men to Albany on the first train after their capture. Within 11 hours after their capture and within six hours after their arrival in Albany they had been arraigned, pleaded guilty and been sentenced and. were on their way to the state prison, where they slept that night. The terms of Brooks and Ward would not have expired until March 31 of this year, but were shortened somewhat by good behavior at the Penitentiary. WIFE SLAYER 13 GUILTY IDAHO JURY, OUT 11 HOURS, COSIES IN AT 5 A. M. Man Who Beat Spouse to Death With Rifle Kails to Make In sanity Plea Hold. SAND POINT, Idaho, Jan. 9. (Special.) "Guilty of murder in the second de gree," -was the verdict reached by the Jury in the Joe Vigue murder case after being out 11 hours. At 5 o'clock this morning, foreman of the jury, C. W. TTlrich, announced the jury had reached a decision, and five minutes later court adjourned. Judge Woods will sentence Vigue Thursday. The case will be appealed. The only comment that Vigue made upon" learning the verdict was. "Well, that is pretty hard." None of his rela tives remained in the city until a verdict was secured, and they have in other ways shown their disregard of their kinsman's fate. Vigue murdered his wife by beating her Cardinal Gibbon, Who Received Oration at Nation's Capital Yesterday on American Visit. over the head with the butt of a rifle. He then threw the body Into the cellar, through a trap-door. The deed "was wit nessed by their three children. His de fense was Insanity. SIXTEEN MEN FACE DEATH Mexican Court of Last Resort Af firms Sentence. EL PASO. Tex., Jan. 9. News was re ceived by the authorities in Jaurez today that the court of last resort had affirmed the sentence of death passed upon Jose Lugo, formerly of Jaurez, and 15 others' who engaged in a riot at the town f Viesca in ' the State of Chihuahua last June, killing and wounding several per sons and looting tne postoffice, telegraph and revenue offices. r IK" ' ". ' : f : ) 1 r y'Jhil ! A.. HOP SINGS TO FIGHT Notice Served on Yee Family Truce Will Be Broken. YEES TO ASK AID OF LAW Twelve Highbinder Tongs Sign Peace Pact and Violation May Bring About Their IJissolution by Courts Yees Want Peace. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal Jan. 9. (Spe cial.) Chinatown is excited tonight over the report that the powerful Hop Sing Tong today served notice to the Yee family that hostilities would be opened next Thursday if certain con ditions, which the Yees refuse, are not complied with. The 12 fighting tongs of Chinatown, or the highbinders, ar ranged a 'truce last Thursday, and if thf Hop Sing breaks this the Yee men threaten to bring the quarrel into the white men's courts and have all the highbinder tongs dissolved by law. The present crisis was produced by the identification by Yee men of the Hop Sing gunman who murdered one of the Yee family at San Jose. Hop Sing directors were greatly enraged by this voluntary identification and issued an ultimatum that if the Yees didn't stop their efforts to identify their men, they would renew the blood feud. The head man of the Yee family said tonight: "We have decided to do. all In our power to help convict any feud murderer. "We will not submit to any more blackmail, and after March 1 we will expose the actions of the black mailing tongs and the white men who are behind them." MILLIONS POSTAL GAIN POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT REV- E-NCE, $203,562,383. Increase Over 1908 Is $12,083,720, or 6 Per Cent Advance. Year's Report Made., "WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Aa a business institution, the Postoffice Department next to the United States Treasury, is the greatest in the Government Accord ing to figures submitted today by Charles P. Grandfield, First Assistant Postmaster General, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, in his annual report, the gross- revenue or the postal service reached the enormous total of $203,562,383, an increase of $12,083,720 or 6.31 per cent, over the preceding year. There were 60,144 postoffices- in opera tion on June 30, 1909. During the year 1626 postmasters were appointed at Presi dential offices. At fourth-class offices 9161 postmasters were appointed. Concerning the routine of his bureau, Mr. Grandfield says: "The retention of fourth-class post masters during satisfactory service, has become the -established practice of the department, and the policy of recommend ing the reappointment of Presidential postmasters who have proved efficient has been followed consistently, with highly beneficial results. - "It is recommended that the law be so amended as to provide for the advance ment of an office of the fourth-class to the Presidential class whenever the com jensation of the postmaster amounts to J1000 and the gross annual receipts to $1900 for four successive Quarters." Mr. Grandfield makes a strong argu ment in favor of 30 days' annual leave of clerks and carriers in first-class and second-class offices. Pacific Company to Compete. M'MINNVILLE, Or., Jan. 9. (Special.) The Pacific States Telephone Company, which it was expected would effect a trade the first of the year with the Mo Minnville Local & Long Distance Tele phone Company for a division of the patronage in this section, has formally accepted an offer made by local parties for the erection of a building at the corner of Second and D streets, to be used by the company as an office. Today is positively the last day for discount on West Side gas bills. Read Gaa Tips. Deposefl Forestry Chief Has Advo cates in Both Houses, but Party Harmony May ' Bir Inter ventionCase Critical. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 9. The present week probably will determine whether there will be a prolonged con flict, involving the President of the United States, within the ranks of tha Republican party in Congress. Con ditions have tended in that direction for some time, but instead of adding to the impulse, the dismissal of Mr. Pin- chot apparently has caused a halt. There Is no denying, however, that in some respects the situation remains critical. Mr. Pinchot has a large num ber of personal friends in both houses of Congress who would be inclined to take up his cause if favorable oppor tunity should present itself and if they could do so without endangering the peace of the party. On the other hand, many are saying that the personal for tunes of Messrs. Ballinger and Pinchot are of little importance compared to party harmony and are urging the necessity of preventing any sharp con flict in Congress on the differences be tween the Secretary of the Interior and the former Chief of the Forest Service. This Week Will Tell. Whether the conservative counsel of this element prevails will depend upon the course of events in Congress during the next few days. There is no doubt that the investi gation of the Interior Department and of the Forestry Service will proceed along the lines indicated by the Jones Humphrey resolution but it will be competent for the investigating com mittee either to broaden or to narrow the inquiry. If the advice of many leaders is followed this inquiry will be restricted as much as possfble, es pecially as Mr. Pinchot is eliminated from the dispute as an official factor. The question will receive its next attention on the floor of the Senate. The present situation is: The House has adopted the resolution providing for the appointment of its members of the committee by the House itself, rather than by the Speaker, as was originally provided. Without awaiting official notification as to the action of the House, the Senate committee on public lands has decided to report the resolution in such a form as to authorize the selection of the House members by the Speaker. This action was taken with the inten tion of complimenting the Speaker and it will be reported to the Senate. Cannon Won't Override. Speaker Cannon, it is said, feels that it will be impolitic for him to take advantage of this condition and over ride the expressed order of a major ity of the House, and it is probable therefore that the Senate will steer clear of a controversy with the other chamber. It is now said that the Speaker would prefer that the House elect the committee. In case this course prevails the Republican mem bers probably will designate their members in caucus and It is said, in that event, the insurgents would par ticipate In the caucus proceedings. No matter how the general situation shapes itself, the controversy between the Secretary of the Interior and Mr. Pinchot is expected to be the principal topic in Congressional circles during the week. Officially the question wiU not come up in the House until the Senate acts. The Senate committee on public lands will report its resolution Monday. So great is the interest in the case that it is not thought that the resolution will be adopted without an animated and personal debate. Every effort will be made to pre vent the investigation of the Admin istration in a too general way. The Senate calendar is still lean, and aside from the Ballinger-Pinchot resolution, the prospect for the present week is not favorable to any legislation of im portance. The House will proceed with the consideration of the Army appro priation bill and it is thought that measure will be before it until Tuesday night. By that time the fortifications bill will be reported and will be taken up at the first opportunity. LEOPARD'S TAIL SAVES LIFE Woman Trainer Attacked by An gered. Beast Assistant Rescues. NEW YORJC, Jan. 9. The sharp teeth and claws of Clayton, a trained leopard, nearly cost the life of Mrs. Pauline Rus sell, his trainer, today, but the length of his tail saved her. Clayton was ugly and would not per form. Mrs. Russell prodded him with an iron bar and called to her assistant for aid. As she turned her head to call for aid. the leopard leaped upon her and bore her to the ground and stood over her growling and lashing his tail. The quick-witted assistant reached Into the cage, grabbed Clayton's tail, took a double hitch around the bars of the cage with it, and rescued Mrs. Russell in safety. The woman was badly torn and at the hospital it was said that her recovery was doubtful. The attack occurred in private training quarters. Idaho "U" Head Goes Last. MOSCOW, Idaho, Jan. 9. (Special.) (President James1 A. McLean, of the Uni versity of Idaho, left yesterday for Den ver, Chicago, "Washington. 3D. C, and his old home in Montreal, Canada, on his annual visit to the East- . While on his vacation he will attend a 'session of the presidents of universities and will look after matters generally for the Interest of the Idaho Institution. Arct Lilght Ordinance Vetoed. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Jan. 9. Mayor B. R. Job has vetoed the ordinance passed Monday night by the City Counellj increasing the arc light service for a pe riod of five years. He made no state ment. Only One "BBOMO QFIN1 VK." That Is LAXATIVE BROMO QUIXINE.IxJOk for the signature of E. W. GROVE. ITsed the World over la cars a Cold In One Day. 25o- sung by Gadski and Caruso A marvelous rendition of what is perhaps the most intensely dramatic and melodiously beautiful of all of Verdi's writings. Never was this duet sung with more thrilling effect. Never was any operatic selection recorded with such absolute fidelity. 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