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r- 1 " 11 ' .. " " . . 1 1 11 " " ' ' ' VOL.. L.-XO. 15,468. PORTLAND, ORESO.V FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HIGH PRICES LAID TO LI OF DEMAND CHICAG0HEATK1LLS; SNOW IN MINNESOTA BEAR NEARLY HUGS CHILD TO DEATH M E. CLOSE DEAL FOR THEATER HERE HYPNOTIC, WOMAN IS UNABLE. TO WED lUmifiGFIGHTBI FLUKE, RENO HAPPY PORTER CHARLTON MURDERER, CAUGHT Bank Clerk confesses to Killing Wife. TERRIBLE FATE s. AVERTED. BY. WOMAN'S TIMELY ARRIVAL. SIX. MORE DEATHS; MINNEAPO LIS LIKE WINTER. PORTLAND COUPLE'S - PLANS FAII AT OREGON CITY. I Population Moving Into Consuming Districts. BANKS AND STORAGE HELP Farmers In Better Position to Hold for Good Markets. COMMITTEE NOT AGREED Xemocrats, Dissenting From Repub licans on Senate Committee, to Employ Expert to Prepare Antagonistic Views. WASHINGTON, Juno 23. Republic ans and Democrats do not agree as to the increased cost of living? between 1900 and 1910. The majority report of the special Senate committee which has been In vestigating these questions was sub mitted to the Senate today by Senator Lodge, chairman of the committee. A meeting- was held prior to the presen tation of the report, and the minority members of the committee protested against the character of the findings. Minority to Employ Expert. After a long argument, the minority was authorized to employ an expert to go over the report of the majority and prepare the minority views for submis sion to the Senate. The report made by Senator Lodge was an exhaustive one, compiled from testimony given by 41 witnesses and frorw reports received from Consuls and from foreign govern ments. The majority of the committee found that of the many causes contributing to the advance in prices the following were most marked: Increased demand for farm products and food. . Shifting of population of food-pro-fluclng to food-consuming occupations and localities. ' Immigration to food-consuming lo calities. ... Land Becomes Exhausted. Reduced fertility of land resulting in lower average production or in In creased expenditures for fertilization. Increasing banking facilities in agri Cultural localities, which enabled farm ers to hold their crops and market them to the best advantage. It was found that this not only steadied prices, but liad a tendency to . Increase them. Reduced supply convenient to trans portation facilities of such commodi ties as timber. Cold-storage plants, which result in preventing extreme fluctuations of prices of certain commodities with the seasons, but by enabling the wholesal ers to buy and sell at the best possible advantage, tend to advance prices. Distribution More Expensive. Increased cost of distribution. Industrial combination. Organization of producers or of deal ers. Advertising. Increased money supply. Over-capitalization. ( Higher standard of living. The findings were gathered by meas uring the prices of 257 commodities in cluded in the price index number of the Bureau of Labor. The commodities were grouped and the advances noted tor the different groups during the period from 1900 to 1909 inclusive. The general wholesale price level in the unitea states advanced during that period 1.5. Only. Drugs Are Cheaper. The groups show advances as follows: farm products. 39.8: food, etc., 18.7; timber and building materials, 19.6; miscellaneous commodities, 14.7; cloths and clothing. 12.0; fuel and lighting, 6.9; house furnishing goods, 5.3; metals and Implements, 3.6. A decline was Shown for drugs and chemicals amount ing to 20.9 per cent. It was shown that the greatest ad vances nave taken place In the products of the soil. The committee criticised the use of forests by saying that there had been a large consumption without any par ' tlcular attempt to replace the timber. The report said that. In view of the fact that the Increases have been so much greater in products coming either directly or indirectly from the farms than in any other line, except products of the forest, the conclusion must be reached that the most important cause of the present advance is to be found in a study of farm conditions. Range Is Disappearing. Concerning the advance in the cost of iood the report says: "The supply of Government available land for general farming has been ma terially reduced, and the ranges are be ing rapidly cut up into homes for set tlers. The cost of producing livestock has materially increased with the dis appearance of the range, which necessi tates producing cattle on -domestic pas ture ana nign-pricea lands. Concerning retail prices the report shows that in the United States in the Spring of 1910 they were at the highest point in many years. As compared with the Spring of 1900 prices for bacon were more than 10 cents higher, ham 33 per cent higher, flour about 5 per cent (Concluded on Pass 2.) Nineteen Severe Prostrations Re corded in Windy City and Pour Persons Bitten by Rabid Dogs. CHICAGO, June 23. (Special.) Six additional deaths were reported today as the result of the heat wave, which has killed 43 persons in the last week. This does not take into account the nu merous children in the tenement dis tricts. There were also 19 severe pros trations today and four persons were bitten by rabid dogs. Professor Cox, of the Weather Bureau, says there is no indication that the heat wave will be broken for three more days at least, as there is no rain in sight, and points not touched by lake breezes are suffering more Intensely than . Chicago. Intense humidity accompanied the heat today, making breathing difficult and increasing the suffering. Today's dead: Sergeant Patrick Wynne, Irving Erickson, Frank Kirk, D. B.. Woods, C. Christlanson, James Rutford. A horse owned by H. Stern, driven mad by the heat, kicked Its way out of the barn and attacked its - owner, whom . it followed up a flight of stairs. There it became wedged in a, narrow hallway at the top of the first floor and was shot by a patrolman. MINNEAPOLIS, June 23. (Special.) Though for, the past week the mercury has hovered around the 95 point. It looks like Winter here tonight, with snow, which melts soon after falling. The snow is accompanied by a strong wind from the northwest. Rains early in the week in North Dakota broke one of the' worst drouths the state has ever ex perienced, and it is believed a cold spell has hit that part of the country and Min neapolis is getting the aftermath . in snow. ROBERTSON, POET, IS DEAD Greatest Work Produced While Suf ferer From Locomotor Ataxia. SAN FRANCISCO, June 23. (Special.) Louis Alexander Robertson, the poet. died Tuesday night at Buena Vista Sani tarium. A sufferer for 15 years from locomotor ataxia, Robertson produced his greatest verse during his Illness, . and died leaving a work upon which his name is certain to endure. He was a poet of remarkable depth and color, and his work is all the more re markable when it 4s considered that it was produced under such adverse condi tions. Robertson was born in St- John, N. Bt, in January, 1856, and was educated In his native land. After traveling exten sively, he finally became a ship broker in Liverpool and London and entered the same business here and in Portland. Ill- health caused him to abandon active business in ' 1887. HOT IRON SEARS TOPS EYE Mother, at Clothes Board, Stumbles Onto Creeping Babe. VANCOUVER, Wash.,' June 23. (Spe cial.) Accidentally, a mothter seared the eyeball of her 22-month-old babe today, when she was doing the family Ironing. Mrs. Samuel Walker, who lives near St. Johns, Wash., a few miles from Van couver, was ironing, and her baby, Ivy Bess, 22 months old, was toddling around on the floor. No particular attention was given the little one. Mrs. Walker lifted a flatiron from the stove and just as she was turning with the iron in her right hand at the height of the child's eye, she stumbled onto the baby. The hot Iron struck the left eye of the child and seared the eyeball. A doctor was called and he is of the opinion the sight of the eye may be saved. The burn Is a serious one, as well as being very painful. 0REG0NIANS WIN HONORS Two Rank High Among 800, Who Leave 'University ot Wisconsin. MADISON, Wis., June 23. (Special.) The State University commencement claps included two Oregon students, who rank high in honors, even if there are not many Oregonians on the roll of 800 graduates who finished their work at the institution today. The Oregon honors are Graduate School master of Arts, Ward Ray, B. A. (U. of O.), Deer Lick. Pa., University Graduate Scholar, D. Klanton Shangle, B. A., Uni versity of Oregon. TRAIN WRECK INJURES 17 All Cars but One Turn Turtle in Chicago & Alton Accident.' N CARHNVILLE, 111., June 23. Seven teen persons were injured, several seriously, and the Chicago & Alton Prairre State Express was wrecked a mile and a half north of Carllnvllle at 3:25 P. M. today. The locomotive, baggage car, smoker, day and chair cars and three Pullmans were derailed and all turned turtle ex cept the last Pullman. White Slaver Found Guilty. SEATTLE, June 23. Lucius Kate was found guilty of importing a woman into the United States for immoral pur poses by a jury in the Federal Court today. During the trial evidence was introduced to show that Katz brought a woman from British Columbia, tak ing her to Walla Walla, then to North Yakima, Wash., and then to Pocatello, Idaho, where they were arrested by the immigration authorities. Ten-Story Building to Be Erected. SITE IS ON MORRISON STREET Arrangements Made in New York, Wednesday. EDIFICE. TO OCCUPY BLOCK Investment Company Will - Begin at Once Razing. of Old Dekum Home and Building of Playhouse, to Be Ready- in Nine Months For Charles- Frohman, Klaw & Erlan ger a modern ten-story theater building is to be erected, on the old Dekum home stead on the block surrounded by Mor rison, Yamhill, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Btreets, by the Sweeny Investment Com pany. The contract for the construction of the building and its lease to the the atrical syndicate was . signed In New York Wednesday and news of , the ar rangement was telegraphed to The Ore gonlan yesterday. E. G. Cooke, representing Klaw'& Er langer, verified the telegraphic -report, when seen at the Portland Hotel late yes terday afternoon, and explained that the new theater would be rushed to comple tion as fast as money could accomplish It. Mr.- Cooke is of the opinion that the building will be completed at the end of nine months, if not before, as men will be worked in eight-hour shifts, three shifts a day, until the work is done. The new building will be modern throughout and will be the exact dupli cate of the theater to be built In Seattle for the same people, by the Metropolitan Company. Work to Be Rushed. "That the theater might be completed as soon as - possible," said Mr.. Cooke, "bonuses will be paid to the iron man ufacturers and to contractor to hurry it up. That does not mean that the build ing will be thrown together, but that it will" be rushed as . fast as possible, while care is being taken to make it the of the best buildings. In the city." Mr.. Cooke left last night for Spokane, where he is to arrange for a site and the construction of a modern theater in that city. He will probably return to Port land later to complete some details for the new building here! Concerning the press reports from New York to the effect that Henry W. Savage had deserted the syndicate, Mr. Cooke said that he had Just received a dis patch from that city " from a reliable authority, in which it was explained that Mr. Savage would continue his affiliation with the syndicate, although he had ar ranged for some one-night stands at places where Klaw & Erlanger have no houses. That Mr. Savage had affiliated with John Cort was denied by Mr. Cooke, who said that the press dispatch to that effect must 'have been engineered by Mr. Cort for the purpose of hampering the syndicate work in- the Northwest. Cooke Discusses Report. "Klaw & Erlanger have handled Mr. Savage's attractions since he became identified with the theatrical world, 15 (Concluded on Page 16.) PORTRAIT OK MRS. MAKV SCOTT. CH A R I. TO IS' SNAPSHOT OF HKR BROTHER, CAPTAIN SCOTT, U. . A. TWO . WOMAN WAS CRUELLY SLAIN AAU I.V WHICH HER EOUV WAS SUNKEN. 1 Justice Refuses1 to Perform Cere mony When Told Bride-to-Be Once Was Wed in . Hypnotic State. ..... i , . K OREGON - CITY, " Or., . June 23. (Spe cial.) Because she had ' been hypnotized and, when in that state, married a man In Vancouver, Wash., two years ago, Julia Gun'dilach, of Portland, , was unable to become the wife of 'James Kane, also of Portland, here yesterday, when Jus tice of the Peace Samson refused to per form the ceremony. Kane and his bride-to-be' secured a li cense ' here 'yesterday' arid Justice ' Sam son was to have performed' the ceremony, but when the young woman told the of ficial, of having wed a man by the name of Robins, ' Robertson or Robinson, she could not recall . which, in Vancouver, while .in a hypnotic state, . Samson wouldn't act. ; -. , ... Miss Gundilach told the Justice that shortly . after her previous marriage she learned that the man, supposed to be her ' husband,1 - had another wife.' She had him arrested and he was sen tenced, to serve three years in the peni tentiary on the charge of bigamy, but later was paroled. She says she con sulted her attorney, who advised her that the marriage was not legal and that she could marry - Kane. Being unable to find anyone to tie the knot that would make them man - and wife, the couple returned to Portland to day, determined to find someone there to wed them. Oregon Postmasters Named. OREGONIAN- ' NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 23. President i Taft today nominated Fred C. Ahlestron as post master at Lakeview, Thomas J. Monahan at - St.; Johns, and John M. Rentie at Walterville. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 75 degrees; minimum, o degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwest winds. National. Senate committee divides in fixing reason tor higher cost of living. Page 1. Census Bureau will - soon give out first re turns. Page 2. i Domestic. Heat kills six more in Chicago, and Minne apolis has snowfall. Page 1. Porter Charlton, arrested In New York, con fesses to murdering wife at Lake Co mo. Page 1. . ..' Sporting. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 4, Sacramento 3; Ban Kranelaco a. Vernon 8; Los Angeles 3, Oakland. 1. . Page . Winning flght on fluke, Reno happily wel comes world, says Jack London. Page 1. Jeffries' camp snubs John L. Sullivan at Reno. . Pace 8. Pacific-' Northwest. Phoenix. B. C. park zoo bear cub would hug child to death. Page 1. Ex-Governor McGraw dead at Seattle after four months' Illness. Page 7. Thirty fraternal and 37 old line Insurance companies In business In Oregon. Page 8. Ashland chosen for - next encampment by G. A. R. men in session at Astoria. Page 8. . Commercial and Marine.- " More buyers than sellers in local wheat mar ket. Page 20. Wall Street keeps eye on orop situation. Page 21. Wheat prices again climbing at Chicago. Page 21. Modern dock to be' built on the East Side. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Klaw & Erlanger close deal for new local theater. Page 1. Welnsteln still leads in boys' mayoralty race. Page 9. Oregon City man 'declares W. S. U'Ren is - misrepresenting Clackamas County senti ment. Page 12- Work on Baker Theater' stops, pending ap proval of plans. Page 13. Fugitive from Justice .caught at Seaside, . feigns hunger and escapes. Page 13. Railroad men say festival traffic broke all records. Page 15. Y. W. c. A. excursionists leave today for assembly at Long Beach. Page 14. VICTM OF HUSBAND VS WRATH, HER BROTHER, WoridF locks to Nevada, Says Jack London. CITY OF DIVORCEES WELCOMES Jeffries Sized Up as "One Man ! of Generation." BIG FELLOW NOT HAS-BEEN Oregonlan's Special Correspondent Sees White Champion at Work With Corbett Explains Why Men Fight. ' BT JACK LONDON (Copyrighted. 1910. by the ,New York Herald Company. Registered in Canada In accordance . with -the Copyright Act. All rights reserved.) RENO, Nev., June 23. (Special.) Reno has always been a live town but just now it is quickening to a greater and growing liveline'ss than any It has ever known. Every train" east or west brings in the sporting men, fight followers and the inevitable correspondent. It la to wonder. On the other hand there is no wonder about it. There must be a large remnant left of the large bloodedness of the English-speaking race, to evince such a tremendous Interest in the particular sport of sports which it originated and developed until it became stamped today into the crystalizatlon of many generations, the Marquis of Queensbury rulesi - Everybody on Way to Reno. Everybody is arriving in Reno. All the men whom one. has met in all the earth, he meets again here in Nevada's me tropolis. From all the lions of the old days down to the latest cubs, they are here, fight fans, grizzled and time-worn, who remember far beyond the aching 39 rounds at Chantilly, France, between Sullivan and Mitchell, down to the youngsters of yesterday who were not dry behind the ears yet when Corbett and Fitzsimmons fought their historic flght in Carson City. : Never in a war, at any one place, was congregated so large a number of writers and illustratorsL When the Japanese threw 50,000 men across the Yalu into the teeth of the Russians on the Manchurian shore, on the walls of Wlju, but 11 cor respondents watched. Newspaper Cover Event. Many men were killed and the fate of great empires and ancient dynasties hung in the balance, yet only 11 men were there to tell what they saw to the world. But here in Reno today, are ten tlraes that number of correspondents. Nor are they here to witness a bloody battle and see the deaths of thousands. They are here to witness two strong men, hearty and husky, who will not kill each other, but who will attempt by skill and wit, and gameness and endurance to outdo each other in a sport that calls to the uttermost for the exercise of all these faculties. For the man who would know life as it is, in all its naked facts, and not life as he surmises or dreams it ought to be, there is something of btg .and basic Importance in the contemplation of the (Concluded on Page 8.) AND PLACE WHERE TRAGEDY WAS ENACTED. Phoenix, B. C Park Scene of Acci - dent to Little 8-Year-Old Girl. Club '. Beats Off . Cub. VICTORIA. B. G, June 23. (Special.) Little Effie Larson, of the British Colum bia mining town of Phoenix, last week narrowly escaped the horrible fate of be ing hugged to. death. , , ; ESie is but eight years old and' there fore too young to have an athletic sweet heart. The hugger was a bear that has, for months past, been the especial pet of the little folks 'of Phoenix on the oc casions of their visits to the public park. Serious., wounds were inflicted on the child's, neck and shoulders, and but for the timely arrival of assistance the little girl undoubtedly would have been squeezed to death. And at that the bear was only in a playful frame of mind. The bear had been captured a year ago, when a cub, and is kept in a public square in the city as a per. The little girl was feeding it,' when the animal: playfully grabbed her with both paws and began hugging her. The screams of the child attracted the attention of v Mrs. Arthur Webster,-who beat the bear on the head with a club until it released Its hold of the child. The little girl was brought here today for treatment and Is now believed out -of danger, except for a grave possibility of blood poisoning. SKULL BROKEN; LAD LIVES Vancouver Boy's Fall From Haymow Doesn't Prove Fatal. VANCOUVER, Wash., June 23. (Spe cial.) Although he suffered a fractured skull, one fracture reaching from ear to ear," over the head, Johnny Johnson, 10 years old, is nbw able to walk around his room in ' St.. Joseph's Hospital. He fell from a haymow two weeks ago and suf fered such injuries that no hope of his recovery was entertained. At first he could not talk, then finally speech returned, but he spoke slowly. Now this impediment in his speech is going away and he can converse " more freely. He is a son -of Otto Johnson, who was so severely burned several months ago that he will not be able to work for nine months yet. . FISH WARDEN NOT CHOSEN Commission Cannot Agree and Post pones Action. SALEM, Or., June ' 23. (Special.) To. elect a successor to Master Fish Warden McAllister,' resigned, the State Fish Com mission met this afternoon, but after con sideration of several candidates, the choice of a new Warden was postponed until the first of the coming week. The candidates considered were: W. A. Mack and S. L. Rathburn, of Portland: E. E. Greenman, of the Bonneville hatch ery; R. C. Brown and C. C. Babcock, of Oregon City, and J. W. Berrian, of Med ford. GOULD FIXES LOCOMOTIVE Millionaire's Son Is Handy Man When Engine Breaks Down. PUEBLO, Colo.. June 23. The expe rience gained by Kingdon Gould, eld est son of George Gould, in the rail roaS shops controlled by his million aire father stood him in good stead today when the locomotive attached to the Missouri Pacific train, upon which he was traveling, broke down a few miles west of here. A message was sent to Pueblo for another engine, but young Gould pulled off his coat and repaired the damage before the relief locomotive arrived. VIEWS OX LAKE CO.MO, WHERE ARREST ON PIER DRAMATIC Dead Woman's Brother Re sponsible for His Capture. . . LAKE COM MYSTERY ENDS Callow Youth, Taken as He Steps From Liner After Army Officer's Remarkable Premonition, Tells Story ot His Crime. NEW YORK, June 23. The Lake Co mo murder mystery is solved. Porter Charlton, an American youth of good family, sought by the police of two con tinents, was arrested In Hoboken, N. J., shortly before noon today as he stepped from the North German Lloyd liner Prinzess Irene. In less than an hour he had confessed that in a fit of temper he beat his wife into insensibility with a mallet, jammed her body into a trunk and sank it in the waters of the Italian lake. She was Mary Scott Castle, of San Francisco, a woman 16 years his senior, divorced wife of Neville H. Castle, a San Francisco lawyer, and -a. beauty. Charlton is 21 and a son of Judge Paul Charlton, 4r officer of the Bureau of Insular Affairs at Washington. The boy married Mrs. t'aetle in Wilmington, Del., last Spring over his parents' protests. Fishermen Find Body. Ill-mated and both of emotional tern- perament, they sailed for Italy on their honeymoon. Her body was found by fish ermen, June 10. Fleeing from Italy under an assumed name, almost penniless and shabby of dress, Charlton on landing ran straight into the arms of Captain Henry Harrison Scott, U. 8. A., the- murdered wife's -brother. The prisoner was taken to po lice headquarters at Hoboken, where, aft er a pitiable collapse, so spasmodic that it produced extreme nausea, he regained, his composure and unflinchingly signed the confession. Tonight he is behind the bars in the Hoboken City Jail, pending the prep aration of papers of extradition brought about by his arrest. Foresight Is Keen. Captain Scott's foresight, directed u accurately that it falls little short of a premonition, resulted in young Charl ton's arrest. Stationed at Fort Wright, on Fisher's Island, off New London. Conn., Captain Scott obtained leave of absence at 1 o'clock this morning and went to Hoboken to scan the passen gers of incoming liners. Three Hobo ken deetcttves aided him. He accompanied the prisoner to Po lice Court, but did not hear the confes sion that poured from the young man's lips. Charlton, whose collapse after ar rest seemed due to fear of Captain Scott, refused to make a statement in the Army officer's presence and the lat ter left the room. In his confession Charlton said no one else had a hand in the murder. It was the old story of incompatibility and high temper. Story Is Condensed. After Charlton had told his story in a rambling way. Chief of Police ' Hayes condensed it into a typewritten state ment, which he asked the prisoner to sign. It was written on regular blanks used for affidavits. Filling out the blank, Charlton gave his age as 21, his birthplace as Omaha, his occupation "bank clerk," and his place of residence 204 West Fifty-fifth street. New Tork. Then followed his statement: "My wife and I lived happily together. She was the best woman in the world to me, but she had an ungovernable tem per. So had I. We frequently quar reled over the most trivial matters, and her language to me was frequently so foul that I knew she did not know the meaning of it. "The night I struck her she had been quarreling with me. She was in the worst temper I had ever seen her in. I told- her if she did not cease I would leave her and put a stop to it. She . stopped for a little while and started again. Mallet Is Weapon. "I took a mallet which I had used to do household repairs with and struck her three times. I thought she was dead. I put- the body in a trunk, into which I also threw the mallet. "About 12 that night , I brought the trunk to my house and dragged it down to a small pier and threw it overboard. I left the following night and went to Como, and from there to Genoa, whera I took the steamer Irene three 'days . later. "The room where I killed her was an outdoor sleeping apartment." As he appended his confession, Charlton remarked;: "There's a Russian, Ispolatoff. I see lie lias been under suspicion in con nection with this affair and I want to clear him. He was the only man of Intelligence in the neighborhood of our villa. The rest of those who cam to see us were cattle." Here the prisoner took a pen ane Concluded on Pane 0