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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1910)
THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAN", TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1910. CLOUD OF STEAM WRAPS FIREMEN Men on Torpedo-Boat Hopkins Plunged in Scalding Bath by Explosion. ONE DEAD, ANOTHER DYING Fire Others Are Scalded, but "Will Recover One Man Kc pes Be ing Cooked Alive Hy Jumping ' Into the Coal Bankers SAN DIEGO, Feb. 14. One man Is read, five are badly burned, one of w hom jnay not survive, and two are painfully scalded about the face and Jiands as result ofa boiler tube blow Jng: out In the forward battery of the torpedo boat destroyer Hopkins at 7:30 . This morning;. R. K. Taylor, a first-class -fireman, is the first to succumb to the terrible burns sustained in the rush of steam "boiler -room condd escape. He died after 11 hours of agony. I B. Car let i 11 o, a second-class fire man, is nearly as badly burned as was Taylor, and his recovery is doubtful, following is the list of the others In jured; live I..ess Seriously Scalded. J. F. Hunt, chief watertender, Dligrhtly scalded on hands and face. K. A. Clary, assistant watertender, pcfllded on neck, arms, and shoulders. W. A. Ncave, first-class fireman, y scalded on neck, arms and shoulders. O. B. McNearlin. first-class fireman, scalded on neck,, arms and body. T. J. Brown, coalpasser, slightly "burned on the hands. C. L Davis, coalpasser, scalded on face and hands. Torrent of Steam Envelope Men. At the time when the accident oc curred the Hopkins was at apier on the Coronado side of the bay and was petlng up steam for a run with other vessels of the mldjjet fleet to San Pedro. There were but eight men in the forward engine room. Seven of them wereon the port side and one on the starboard side of the boat. When the tube slipped and the heated steam rushed h lssing from the dis lodged end, six. of the men on the port side scrambled up the ladder to the deck, giving the alarm. The water tender, pleary, who was on the star board side, followed, sounding the fire alarm, which instantly brought every officer and sailor to his station. The seventh man on the port side. Brown, did not have an opportunity to clamber tip the stairs, and saved himself from being cooked alive by Jumping into the coalbunkers. from which he emerged after the blowers had been started. TCcst of Crew Surprised. There was not sufficient concussion from the pulling ont of the tube and the escaping of the steam to jar the vessel and thus warn the officers and men that anything out of the ordinary had happened. The first that men above the deck knew thatan accident had occuerred was when they saw"a great cloud of steam rush upward from the hatch above the forward fire room. -The next moment the men who were in the room began appearing in the cloud of steam as they poked their "heads above the top of the hatch. Their cries of "Fire" startled the men aboard the Hopkins and the four other tor pedo boats which were alongside. The damage to the Hopkins is not ex-lensive. J 5 OILER TII1E WAS DEFECTIVE Accident Is Fourth of Kind' Within Few Months. L09 ANGELES, Feb. 14. The flotilla prrived oft Los AViffoles harbor at 9 o'clock after a. plow run from San Diego nnd anchored outside the breakwater. The flotilla is composed of the destroyers "Whipple-, flagship; Truxton, Hopkins, Stewart, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Perry, Preble- and Hull. Lieutenant Fredericks, commanding the 1 lopktns. fluid that the accident today was doubtless due to a defect in the boiler tube which burst. Three similar accidents of minor importance have hap pened aboard the Hopkins durirfg the past ten months. The board to investigate to day's accident will be named tomorrow Bnd the Investigation begun at once. STRICKEN FERNIE DUNNED '.overnmcnt Demand for $745 7 for Relict Aid Causes Indignation. VICTOniA. B. C-, Feb. 14. (Special.) The Department of Militia and De fense at Ottawa has forwarded to the Mayor of the city of Vernie a -demand for the payment of $7457 for blankets and camp equipment sent to the stricken city immediately after the Itreat fire of August. 1908. Some of the tents and other equipment were de stroyed or scattered and could not in consequence he returned to the Depart ment hence the bill. As the federal government did not contribute anything for relief after the destruction of the city by fire, and as it has on many other occasions sub scribed liberally for the relief of suf ferers abroad, the bill has occasioned much indignation in Fernie and among the miners of the neighbor communi ties. VALE HIGH AIDS RESIGN Women Teachers QuitCriticism of Principal Denied. VALE, Or., Feb. 14. As a result of the controversy between many of the patrons and the principal of the Vale High School, the four assistant teachers, all women, sent their resignations to the board of trustees. This action was a re sult of the alleged statement of two of the trustees. Xe-lson and Gilham, pub lished in a, Boise paper, that the rumors and insinuations against Principal Seeley were instigated by the teachers Many uf Professor Seeley's critics maintain that the ruetees should have demanded a public hearing of all the evidence on both side before thev issued this alleged statement. The trustees are making &n effort to secure the services of other teachers. New Firms Growing Rapidly. SAl.EM, Or.. Feb. 14. (Special.) .Articles of incorporation have been filed In the offti-e of the Secretary of State as follows: Green Point Land &. Water Company, rlo.ciui office, l'ort- land; capital stock, 95000; incorporat ors, Albert J. Capron, R. A. Maney and L. A. McXary. Sterling Gold Quartz Mining & Mill ing Company, principal office. Medford; capital stock. $1,000,000; incorporators, M. J. Love, A. P. Whitney and H. H. Lorimer. t. John Firemen & Amateur Ath letic club, principal office, St. John; Incorporators. F. W. Valentine, J. X. Kdlefsen, J. T. Murphy. Wynn Manning, John N'oce, C. J. Perkins and X. K Steichen. Trinity Land Company, principal of fice, Portland; capital stock, $4,998,000; incorporators, "W. E. Kiernan, J. J. Fitzgerald and Morris Senosky. The Keystone Company, principal of fice, Roseburg; capital stock, $1,000,000; incorporators, J. W. Perkins, R. E. Bell and A. Black. INDICTMENTS ARE JOINED , - Much Litigation In Ca.se of Alleged Idaho Land Frauds Avoided. BOISK. Idaho, Feb; 14. Judge Dietrich in the United States District Court has overruled a motion for . separate trial made by William F. Kettenbech, the Lewlston banker, charged with conspir acy to defraud the Government ont of timber lands along the Clearwater River, and has sustained the motion of the Government for a consolidation of the cases against Kettenbach, George H. Kester, William Dwyer and Jackson O" Keef e. Trial of all four defendants on an in dictment returned in 190ft will begin to morrow in Boise, a. change of venue hav ing been granted from the Northern di vi sion of the Idaho district. Kettenbach and Kester were until re cently officers" of the Lewlston National Bank. They are also under indictment for the alleged embezzlement of funds of the bank. Dwyer was a. timber cruiser alleged to have been employed by Ket tenbach and Kester, and O'Keefe was in dicted as an accomplice. IS RAYMOND WIDE OPEN? Sunday Saloon Question Stirs Mill Men to Action. RAYMOXD, Wash., Feb. 14. At the last meeting of the City Council, a com munication signed by the several mill companies of the city was presented in the Council. The communication recited that liquor is being sold In Raymond on Sundays to the great detriment of both the mill companies and their employes and unless the saloons strictly observe the laws regulating their business in fu ture, the mill men will take the matter Into their own hands and compel such observance. The Council has served notice on the saloons that all restaurants operated in connection with saloons must be closed or the saloon licenses will be revoked. DAMAGE SUIT WINS $14,000 Reynolds Lumber Company Is Vic tor Over Simpson Company. MARSH FIELD, Or., Feb. 14. (Spe cial.) In the $100,000 damage suit of the Reynolds Lumber Company against the Simpson Lumber Company, the jury returned a verdict assessing damages at SSrf.OOO. There was an offset of $14,00D al lowed the defendants for logs furnished the plaintiff, so the net damages al lowed was about $14,000. The Reynolds Company claimed a breach of contract on the grounds that the Simpson Company refused to take lumber, after agreeing to purchase a stated amount, and that the Reynolds mill consequently had to be closed. BUTCHERS ARE INDICTED Boise Grand Jury finds Combine and Also Short Weights. BOISB. Idaho, Feb. 14. Indictments were returned today against -William Xeal, agent of the Cudahy Packinpr Com pany, and against the Boise Butcher Company and the Idaho Dressed Beef Company for selling short weight lard, by the Grand Jury which has been prob ing Into the local trust situation. In Its report the grand jury finds that a combination of local dealers was formed to control prices, but that the agreement to increase prices was not carried into ef fect. The grand jury also found that there was a combination of meat dealers but not for the purpose of controlling prices, and therefore no indictments were returned. ROOSEVELT SOON ON NILE African Expedition Leaves for Cairo Early in March, i GONTOKORO, Soudan, on the fpper Nile, Feb. 14. Colonel Roosevelt and the members of the Smithsonian Insti tution African Expedition are expected here on Wednesday: The launch of General Sir Reginald Wingate. Sirdar of the Egyptian army. Is waiting to convey the party to Khartoum. The trip down the Bar-el-Jebel and the White Nile will be begun Thursday or Friday, and Khartoum should be reached about March 6. Three days later the voyage down the River Kile to Cairo will begin. AVIATORS REACH ALBANY Burkhart's Biplane Awaits Only Good Weather to Sail. ALBANY, Or., Feb. 14. (Special.) John C. Burkhart and William C. Crawford, who will conduct experi ments in aviation here this Rummer, arrived in Albany from Portland to day and will begin operations as soon as the Weather permits. Burkhart's biplane airship was brought here from Portland by boat yesterday. As soon as it is put together it will be ready for the tests. The building in Goltra Park which is to house the air ship is now almost completed. IMttsburg Graft Trial Begins. PITTSBURG. Feb. 14. The trials ' of Max G. Leslie, county delinquent tax collector; Max G IeMie, E. H. Je-nnings-and F. A. Griff en, bankers; F. F. Xichola, capitalist, and ex-Councilman Charles Stewart., each charged with conspiracy and bribery, were begun today in the Criminal Court. The trials are the out come of accusations against the five men that bribery was- employed in the election by the City Council of a city depository in 1908. Trust Company Will Resume. T.A GRANDE, Or., Feb. 14. (Special.) It is stated on pood authority here that the Eastern Oregon Trust & Sav ings Bank, which disposed of its busi ness about a year ago to the United States National Bank, will resume busi ness here shortly as a trust company. Oeora-e I Cleaver, of the La Grande National Bank, w:U manage the business GLAVIS DEFINES HIS BALLENGER CHARGE No Corruption Alleged, He Says, Only Misconduct and Bad Faith With People. GLAVIS BECOMES ANGRY When HeXearn. His lox in Seattle JIs Been Broken Open and bet ters of J .and Department Found, Cries "Frame-Cp." Continued From First Fajre. "The Whitewashing of Ballinger; are the Guggenhcims in Charge of the Depart ment of the Interior?" by L. B. Glavls. Are you rhe author of that article?" Tes. sir. I'm the author of the article but I am not responsible for the beading or the subheads explaining the para graphs." So Pay for Article. "Did you receive anything for that ar ticle?'" , "Not a cent." "You wrote it gratuitously?" "Yes. sir." "Your testimony before the committee then makes these statements of the facts as you understand them?" "Yes. sir.'V Glavis said be had presented the facts to let the people draw their own infer ences. "Old you intentionally refrain from making any charges?" "Yes. sir." "What did you think the facts showed ?" "They proved to me that I did not think the Interior Department was In safe hands." "I do not want your conclusions, but what definite misconduct on the part of any one' did the facts show?" -"There is no charge of criminality," replied Glavis. "You have to take all the facts together and form your opin ion. You couldn't take any one fact and form a right opinion." "Taken all together the facts then convinced you of what?" People's Interests Jeopardized. "That the land department was not In safe hands and that the people's Inter ests were not being protected in the Alaska cases." "What officers did you think were not protecting the people's interests?" "Ballinger and Dennett, and Pierce, too, rendering the decision interpreting the act of May 30, 190S. Schwartz took some action I could not." "You though the facts established misconduct on the part of Ballinger and Dennett?" "Yes." "Anybody else?" "Conclusively as to those two men. I had not formed an -opinion as to the others." "Whom did you want to accuse?" "Mr. Ballinger and Mr. Dennett." "You say Ballinger and Dennett and Pierce were guilty of misconduct but you make no charge of corruption." "'If I had thought the facts warrant ed a charge of corruption I would have gone to the grand jury Instead of to the President." "Then you did not believe there were any corrupt motives or conduct?" "No." "And the most you meant to say to the President and people was that you did not think the affairs of the Interior Department were in safe hands?" "Yes, sir." "And that was all you did mean?" "Yes, sir."' At the afternoon session Mr. Vertrees said: "Let us take up Secretary Bal linger. What constitutes your dec laration of improper conduct on his part?" Cliarges Summed Up. Glavis proceeded at some length to sum up the reasons which he declared convinced him Mr. Ballinger was "un fit for his office and unfaithful to his trust." He said: "The first I would cite is the appear ance of Mr.' Ballinger In the Wilson coal case. While that was a long time ago and people may have looked at things differently, his action or partici pation in the drawing up of an escrow agreement to turn over claims that should have been proved up and had not been proved up, as a matter of fact, was criminal. But the statute of lim itations has run and the evidence is not clear.. The record speaks for itself. "Another thing was Mr. Ballinger's expression In the Summer of 1907 to support Agent Jones when he knew there had been violation of the coal land laws; his statement that he was coming to Washington to see what Congress could do to help the claimants get patents. His next action one of the most im portant going to show that he is not loyal to his trust and not faithful to the people was this: After giving me the full right and instructions to make a complete investigation of all the coal cases, he personally took up an old re port by Special Agent Love a few days after and deliberately ordered the Cun ningham claims to proceed to patent. love Report Showed Fraud. "The Love report, to my mind and I have acted on a thousand or more reports did not In itself warrant a favorable recommendation. It showed there had been an Understanding among the claimants and suggested fraud rather than a compliance with the law. "Another evidence that Mr. Bal linger was not trying to protect the people's rights was his appearance be fore the public lands committee of the House In favor of the Cale bill, which carried out the statement Ballinger maae to Jones that ne would do what he could to obtain legislation which would have enabled these fraudulent claimants to get patents. If the Cale law had passed' it would have validated the claims. "The next step Mr. Ballinger took was his unprofessional action at least members of the bar regarded it so, and I know of no attorney of my acqualn tance who would have done it in de liberately going around and represent ing the other side after having beei Commissioner of the Land Office and having full knowledge of the character of the Investigation he had made. He did not actj alone in the Cunningham group, but in the Green group as well he took six affidavits. He also acted as arbitrator between H. It. Harrima and John Hartltne relative to the pur chase of some coal claims. Delay in Investigation Asked. "His next action consisted In asking me. in the F"all of 1908. when he was in politics and arranging for campaign contributions, to hold off any invest! gation of the coal cases. This showed he did not have the interests of the Government at heart." Represa4Uve Olmstead; "At this What to Do for a Cough Here is a home-made remedy that overcomes an obstinate -cough quicker than any costly medicine you could buy. Any woman can easily make it in five minutes. Granulated Sugar Syrup.-.13 oz. Plnex , 2V4 OS. I at the Plnex in a clean pint bottle and fill up with the syrup, made as follows: Take a. pint of Granulated Sugar, add H pint of warm water and stir for about 2 minutes. Take a teaspoonful every one. two or three hours. It tastes pleasant children like it. This simple medicine is also splendid for colds, whooping cough, bronchitis, incipient con sumption, chest pains, etc Pinex. as you probably know. Is the most potent form of Norway Wiilte Pine Compound. It Is rich. In all the well-known pine ele ments. None of the weaker pine preparations compare with the real Plnex itself. Your druggist has it, or will gladly get it for you. The full pint of this effective cough, syrup can be made for 64 cents. It keeps perfectly, and lasta a whole family a, long time. Strained honey can be used in stead of the syrup, and makes a very fine ' honey and pine tar cough syrup. Some of the best-known drug gists here, as Laue-Davis Drug Co. (distributors) and others think: so well of the above pre scription that they guarantee it to give perfect satisfaction or re fund the purchase price. time was Ballinger an officer of the Government?" "No, sir; he was on a committee to get campaign contributions. Another action which showed him unfaithful was the fact that after hearing at the conference of Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Dennett and myself that there was great necessity of having a construction of the law of May, 1908. and agreeelng with us that the matter was of such importance that the Attorney-General should act on It, and after instructing us to prepare a letter to the Attorney-General for him to sign, he de liberately changed his mind for some reason and turned the "matter over to a subordinate of his own department. Cowardly, Says Glavis. "None of these are things upon which a criminal charge could be predicated but, to my mind, it was far more cowardly for him to do Ihese things than If a man had actually stolen something for which "be could have been convicted. "In July, 1909, when I saw Mr. Ballin ger at his office in Seattle, and told him we had been ordered to proceed to an Immediate hearing, he knew the weak ness of our case. The greatest weakness was the affidavits he had himself pre pared for Cunningham. In spite of this he did not take any action to bring about a postponement of the hearing. t "These facts are all that I can recall that show him unfit, for his office, and unfaithful to his trust and not loyal to his people." Mr. Vertrees next questioned Glavis as to Incidents connected with the turning over of his office to his successor when Mr. Glavis was dismissed from the service. , Glavis said he had declined to give up some of the papers until he had made copies of them, because, he said, he was convinced that "mean and treacherous things might be done." Missing Letters Brought Up. Mr. Vertrees read a demand that Glavis successor had made upon him for certain letters that were missing. Glavis said he turned all the papers over. The ones that were said to be missing, he declared, ought to have been In his office. Mr. Vertrees then read some letters published recently in a weekly paper. Glavis said they were included in the list his successor had prepared as miss ing. "Didn't you furnish these letters to this paper?" asked the attorney. "No, sir; I did not." "Didn't you leave some of your ef fects In boxes in the grand Jury room at Seattle?" "Yes, some bear skins and camping outfit." "Now, isn't it a fact that you did furnish these letters to this paper, that you placed all the papers that had been called for by your successor in one of the boxes in the grand Jury room, which was broken open on the 8th of this month, and the letters and copies found therein?" "That Is absolutely false it Is a frame-up," cried Glavis, showing anger for the first time. "Those letters did not hurt me. Why did I want them? They hurt Ballinger." Glavis was Interrupted with a ques tion. Applause Is Squelched. "Walt," cried Glavis. "I want to finish. If I wanted to steal those let ters, do you think I would leave them where Federal officers could get them? It makes me Indignant to think that Government officials to gain favor with their superiors would stoop to such a thing." The crowd in the court broke into applause. Chairman Nelson said such another demonstration would result in the room being cleared. Glavis said the letters which ap peared In the weekly paper were those of which he had furnished carbon copies to the Forest Service. He had furnished these copies to the Forest Service as a further means of safe guarding the Alaska coal lands. "When did you first do this to safe guard the Alaska coal lands?' "After I saw the President at Beverly last September." The last hour of the afternoon session was taken up with an examination of the witness as to the construction he had placed upon the opinion rendered by Attorney-General Wickersham after Glavis had protested against the opinion by As sistant Secretary Pierce. Attorney-General Dragged In. "Didn't you say in an article you wrote in a weekly paper that the Attorney-General overruled Mr. Pierce on every point and sustained you and thus saved the Alaska coal lan?" asked Mr. Vertrees. "Yes," replied Glavis. "And doesn't the Attorney-General in his report to the President say that the memorandum submitted 'to him in the preparation of which you assisted, speci fically excludes any possible considera tion of .the Cunningham case?" "I was very much surprised that he would make that statement," replied Glavis, "because he had my report on the Cunningham claims before him and one of the questions we submitted to -him, I thought, covered the Cunningham class of cases." . The examination was proceeding along this line when adjournment was taken until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. . MISSING MAN FOUND DEAD lavid Cooper. Fisherman and Wood chopper Drowns. ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 14. (Special.) 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