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Jlwiiiii Jj VOL. L. NO. 15,475. PORTLAND, OREUOX.. SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RATE-POWERS NOT TOBEUSED RASHLY Knapp Discusses New Law With Taft. RAILROADS' FEARS ALLAYED Commission Will Not Help "Bears" to Take Profits. PRESIDENT MUCH PLEASED Suspension Clause to Be Invoked Only in Exceptional Instances. Disposition of Reclamation Fund to Come Vp Soon. BEVERLY, Mass, July I. President Taft had a long talk today with Chair man Knapp, of the Interstate Com merce Commission, regarding- the ad ministration of the railroad rate law. At the conolusion of the Interview it was .made plain that the added au thority given to the Commission by the new statute Is not to be used arbi trarily to hinder the railroads in the conduct of their legitimate business. The power to suspend new rates, probably the most direct weapon placed In the hands of the Commission, is to be used only in exceptional cases. Chairman Knapp told the President that the Commission already had re fused an application under the new law for a suspension of Increased rates on horse vehicles and automobiles. Kates Not to Be Fixed. He said there was nothing on the face of things to show the new rates were unjust or unreasonable. The Interstate Commerce Commission will not attempt to fix definite rates for the railroads and the power of suspension will be applied only to rates when a preliminary hearing gives Indi cation that' they are excessive. From time to time since the new law went Into effect there have been indications that some of the big rail roads have been considerably worried as to the extent and the manner In wnlch the rate regulation clause of the new law would be employed by the Commission. Stock manipulators in Wall street, the Administration had been informed, were trying to trade upon this doubt. , New Law Not Club. It can be stated authoritatively that it was never intended that the new law should be a club or should be the means of profit-taking by "bears." The Commission will not "run amuck" and will do nothing to place the Interests of Investors in jeopardy. Mr. Taft was pleased to find that the Commission already had its plans well mapped out and that Its views of the new statute coincide thoroughly with those of the framers of the bill. It is felt it would be a great impedi ment "to the railroads to have every new rate suspended and put through the 11 months' period of deermlnation as to its reasonableness. Chairman Knapp discussed this feature of the law with the President, and cited the refusal of the Commission to suspend the automobile and vehicle rates as an indication that the power of sus pension is not to be used Indiscrimi nately. Defeat of Cobb Bill Regretted. President Taft today expressed re gret to Beveral of his callers over the defeat in the New York Assembly of the Cobb direct primary bill, which was advocated by Governor Hughes and publicly indorsed by Colonel Roose velt. President Taffs vacation will not tbegln until after his strenuous doings, July 4, when he will motor into Boston a.nd stop at several cities on the way. "When he is through with this engage ment he Is to go Into seclusion for 10 days. Mr. Taft will summon his cabinet officers from time to time as he reaches their affairs. The Navy and Interior Departments are first to be considered. The Interior Department subject under consideration is connected with the ex penditure of the $20,000,000 reclama tion fund. The President, with some friends, enjoyed a sail on the Sylph this after noon. BOTTLES SOLVE STUPOR Farmer Found In Dayton Streets as 'Dry" Law Takes Effect. DAYTON, Wash., July 1. (Special.) "Within 24 hours after local option went into effect here Wednesday. E. D. Sanders, a farmer, was arrested by Mar shal Dorr for drunkenness. Lying in a stupor with three large bottles of whisky in his pockets; he was found near Main street. He Bald he liad secured the liquor in Walla Walla. Dayton's three drugstores today re jected large numbers of prescriptions Issued under the old' law. Great Gas Fields Merged. TOLEDO. O.. July 1. Interests of the Ohio Fuel Company and the North western Ohio Fuel Company, valued at many millions in stocks and involving immense gas fields in West Virginia, have been merged. The purpose, as an nounced. Is to conserve the supply In the West Virginia fields. No advance in rates is contemplated, according to tho manager of the Northwestern. GOVERNMENT WILL KILL 8000 SEALS MALE CELIBATES TO BE PUN ISHED BY DEATH. Animals on Pribyloffs That Have Xo Mates Will Supply Fur Orna ments to "My Lady." WASHINGTON, July 1. (Special.) Commissioner of Fisheries George M. Bowers made .the estimate today that the Government will kill about 8000 male seals on the Prlbyloff Islands, his instructions being to allow only 10O0 bulls to remain among the herds. The Commerce and Labor Department will yet have to arrange for the sale of the furs. Secretary Nagel having made no plans. The slaying of the seals by a pri vate firm under contract with the Gov ernment was ordered stopped by an act of Congress last April, but the De partment of Commerce and Labor is given authority to dispose of the bulls that take no part In' propagation of the herds. The polygamous habits of the seals make 1000 males ample, and it was therefore decided to kill the others. This will be done by the special agents stationed on the Island. The Govern ment will take over the property of the private company and maintain the schools for the natives that it con ducted under its contract. FIGHTS LIVEN LACROSSE Players Wield Sticks and Spectators Throw Cushions. VANCOUVER, B. C. July 1. (Spe cial.) A poorly-played lacrosse game by Vancouver today against the New Westminster champions . was made rWilling to 6000 persons 'by a free-for-all fight in the field between the players and a cushion fight between those in the grandstand and several thousand persons in the field In front. During the latter, many women were struck by the flying seat cushions, hurled to and fro, and several score men were knocked down, one man be ing badly hurt. Rennie, of Westminster, started the other fight by trying to slug Godfrey, of Vancouver. Griffiths, the latter's team-mate, came to his rescue and floored Rennie with a blow from his stick on the head. All three men were ruled oft for the rest of the game. Westminster won by 9 goals to 0. 1,035,545 ALIENS COME Number of Immigrants Admitted During Year Shows Increase. WASHINGTON, July 1. An estimate that the total number of immigrant aliens admitted at all ports of the United States during the last fiscal year reached 1.035,545 was made by Commissioner - General Keefe today. This is an increase of 263,759 over the number admitted last year. The non-immigrant aliens admitted, that is, those coming to the United States temporarily, only reached 145, 421, which is a falling off of 47,028, while the total number of all persons debarred during the year was 24,200. Last year only 11,000 were debarred. The remarkable increase in the num ber of those debarred is looked on from different standpoints among immigra tion officials. Some say that the class of immigrants is not so high as it was a year ago. NORTH DAKOTA DIVIDED "Stalwarts'' and Insurgents Both Win in Primaries. FARGO, N. D., July 1. From returns received of Wednesday's primaries, the "stalwarts" announce that they have nominated P. J. McCumber for the long Senatorial term by 5000 to 6000 votes Over Thomas Marshall, insurgent. A. J. Gronna, insurgent, for the short term, won over Edward Engerud, "stal wart." by 3000 to 5000. L. B. Hanna, "stalwart," for Con gress, has 10,000 plurality and H. T. Helgeson has 3000 to 4000. For Governor, C. A. Johnson, "stal wart," defeated J. A. Buchanan by 1000. . Usher L. Burdick, for Lieutenant-Governor, -has a slight lead over his opponent, J. I. Sharp. AUTOS MIRE FREQUENTLY Road Between Portland and Astoria Has Bad. Places. ASTORIA, Or., July 1. (Special.) W. H. Warren and party arrived here about 30 o'clock last evening, having made the initial run from Portland to Astoria in an Automobile. They found several very soft places in the roads and three or four times on the trip the car wa so badly mired that assistance had to be secured to extri cate It. 0. A. C. GETS MISS WEBB Editor Wisconsin University. News Bureau Comes" to Corvallis. . MADISON. Wis.. July 1. (Special.) Miss Alice L. Webb, a. former Milwaukee newspaper woman and for the last five years assistant editor of the news bureau of the University of Wisconsin, has been appointed editor for the news bureau of the State Agricultural College of Oregon. She will go to Corvallis.' where the col lege is located, andv assume her new po sition in October. Her position here has not yet been filled. i GDMETO REND, IS ADVICE OF LONDON Novelist Would Not Be Any Other Flace. FIGHT TO BE LIKE NO OTHER No Such Two as Johnson and ' Jeffries Have Ever Met. NEGRO IS DUSKY WONDER Quite Unlike Him, but Just as Won derful Says Writer, Is Grizzly . White Giant Who Will Meet Wily Black on July 4. BY JACK LONDON. (Copyright. 1910. by the New York Herald Company. Registered In Canada In accordance- with copyright act. All rights re served.) RENO, Nev.. July 1. (Special.) I am glad I'm here. There was never any thing like this Reno at the present time, with the great Impending moment only three days away. I should hate like poison if some Croesus should offer to pay me to stay away from the fight, telling me to fix my own price. Sure ly, there is a money price that would keep me away from the fight, but the attempt to calculate the amount would be very fatiguing. t In lieu of the Croesus, all that I am afraid of now is that I'll be run over by a Reno electric car and miss the fight. However, when I consider the Reno streetcar, I take heart of courage and think I still have a fair chance. Xo One Should Miss Fight. Seriously, no man who loves the fighting game, has the price and Is within striking distance of Reno, should miss the fight. Viewed from every possible angle, there has never been anything like It in the history of the ring, and there is no chance for any thing like it to occur in the future at least within the lifetime of those alive today. Even if no more stringent legislation is passed against the game, even if every state threw itself wide open to prizefighting, still there can be nothing like this fight for a genera tion to come. In the first place, never have two men like these ever faced each other in the ring. In all the contests of its long history, no two comparable giants have ever locked in combat. And, in their own generation, there is no third man who approaches them. It has taken not only a generation but two races to produce them. Johnson Dusky Wonder. Johnson is a dusky wonder. For his size, there has never been so clever a defensive boxer. Nor has there ever been a coolerheaded boxer. This cool ness of his Is one of his most remark able attributes. So cool Is he that his fighting at times seems lackadaisical, while at the same time it never has the seeming of brutality. In action, there is very little hint of the fighting beast , (Concluded on Page 6. ) 'WHAT'S THE USE OF GOING INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 7 degrees; minimum, 66 degrees. - - TODAY'S Cloudy- and threatening without much. If any, rain; westerly winds. Jeffries-Johnson ' 'Fight. Abe Atell gives Jeff pointers about Johnson. Page 6. - . "Come to Reno.'" says Jack London. Page 1. New stars added to Reno's brilliant firma ment. Page 6. Official- roster for big fight announced. Page 7. Foreign. Arousing of popuiar interest among Mexican masses will make next six years most notable in republic's history. Page 3. Rational. Roosevelt not to be Taffs adviser. Page 2. Xomestlc AlaBka insurgents demand removal of Gov- . ernor Clark. Page 3. Western railroads consider abolishing all colonist and special low rates. Page 1. Government will kill 800 male seals and sell furs.. Page 1. Sports. Coast League results: Vernon 7, Portland 1; Los Angeles 9, Sacramento 4; Oakland 3, San Francisco u. Page 7. Auto records are smashed -at Indianapolis. Page 3. Riverside Driving Club to hold races today. Page 7. Comflaierelal and Marine. Growth of Portland's livestock market. Pago 18. Coast lima bean prospects. Page Evening up trades in Chicago wheat market. Page 18. Upward turn taken by stock market. Page IS. Year makes great change in entrance to Columbia River. Page 12. FaclOe Northwest. Governor Brady, of Idaho, would refuse . nomination on "wet" platform. Page 6. Kllngenberg charged with second-degreo murder for killing Hadberg. Page 8. Coroner's Jury blames Fuller for murder of Conductor Stewart. Page 5. Two prohibition initiative petitions are fllad. Page 2. Herder killed by another on Steen's Moun tain. Page S. "United States District Attorney of Idaho removed, for cause. Page 1. Portland Vicinity. . Two toys caught after chase of one admit -numerous daylight burglaries in Portland. Page . Stockholders entrenched in factory Touted by deputies. Page . 14. Park Commissioner Long will investigate Council Srest proposition. Page 9. Realty deals show quick profits. Page 12. Health Board recommends Isolation hospital for contagious diseases at cost of $15,000. Page 14. Oregon asserts title to disputed island. Page -12 Ten divorces granted by Judge Morrow; decision on peculiar case ' withheld. Page 9. LYNCHERS PLEAD GUILTY Three Accept Life Sentences, Fol lowing Caseday's .Conviction. PRAIRIE CITY. Or., July 1. (Special.) Bert Green and Earl and Emmett Shields, held for the murder by lynching of Ollie Snyder, have entered pleas of gujlty of murder in the second degree before Judge Davis. They will receive sentences of life imprisonment. Ben Hinton was taken to the Salem Penitentiary today. Joe Cascday. convicted of murder in the first degree, will be sentenced Tues day. An appeal has been made to the Supreme Court in the Caseday case. DR. HYDE TO VISIT WIFE Permission Granted on- Eve of Ex pected Birth of Child. KANSAS CITY. Mo., July 1. A petition signed by rr. B. Clark Hyde and his attorneys, asking that the imprisoned physician be allowed to Visit his home at the birth of an expected child, was handed to Judge Ralph S. Latshaw of the Criminal Court today. Judere Latshaw said the request would be granted. INTO AN ASSEMBLY AIN'T PROPERTY?" HEAT KILLS FIVE; SCORES FALL SICK Chicago Homes Feel - Like Bakeoven. DOGS GO MAD; BITE PEOPLE Water in Lake Becomes Too Hot for Bathing. SUN IS PARCHING GRAIN Damage to Wheat Crop in Middle West Already 30 to 50 Per Cent and Increasing Sally. Mercury Stands 0 0 Above, CHICAGO, July 1. (Special.) With the mercury up to 90 and no air stir ring, Chicago today became a great bakeoven. Five persons were killed by the heat' and a score prostrated. Dogs were driven mad in the streets and bit a number of persons.' There is ho prospect for cooler weather for two days. Tonight fire escapes and roofs are crowded with sufferers seeking a breath of air. The parks, bathing beaches and every open spot contains sweltering humanity. Residences have now become so thor oughly heated through by the long siege that no relief Is to be obtained Inside the houses. Death Takes Heavy TolL Today's dead: SOPHIE BOGUES, aged 24. TIMOTHY COFFEY, aged 35. HELEN FLAGLEY, aged 42. OLE JOHNSON, aged 25. MRS. IDA. NELSON, aged 34. Woman Dies in Waiting-Rooni. Mrs. Nelson was being taken to a hos pital following a sunstroke and she died in an .Illinois Central trainshed while awaiting a train. Her body was taken to undertaking rooms instead of the hos pital. ' Timothy Coffey was stricken by the sun while working on a roof. He fell to the ground and died shortly after reaching a hospital. Ole Johnson was stricken by the heat and fell down an elevator shaft three flights. Of the many prostrated fully one-half will die after illness of more or less lingering degree. Lake Water Too Hot for Bathers. Today for the flrstt ime the water in the lake was too warm for comfort to bathers. This Is the surf water, extend ing about 600 feet out. This strip of hot water nullifies the faint breezes off the lake. The continued hot weather is parching the grain crops of the Middle West and the most conservative experts in the fields today admlttted that all grains had been damaged between 30 and 50 per cent. Every day without rain will increase this ratio at a much faster rate. Wheat is being forced to ripen on stalks nearly a foot high and the grain is badly shriv eled. PUBLIC OFFICE MY PRIVATE BROWNE JUROR IS SUING FOR LIBEL STATE'S ATTORNEY DEFEXDAST IX $50,000 SUIT. Man Who Voted for Acquittal Charges He Was Slandered In Alleged Interview. CHICAGO, July 1. (Special.) Suit for $50,000 alleging slander and libel was filed by Charles E. Spare, one of the Jurors in the Lee O'Nell Browne case, in the Superior Court this after noon against State's Attorney Way man. The precipe alone was filed. The suit was filed by Attorney Max M. Grossman, who declared that a sub sequent declaration setting up the specific allegations would be completed within a few days. The action was brought as the re sult of alleged interviews given by the State's Attorney during the bal loting of the Jury, in which he declared that Spare alone was holding out for conviction, and that he had worked some of the younger members of the Jury over to his side. In one interview the State's Attor ney is alleged to have referred to Spare, who is a real estate dealer and lives at 3211 Douglas boulevard, as the "kingpin of them all." Spare was one of the four Jurors who stood- for ac quittal. FORT TO SUCCEED L0MAX Xew Position of Passenger Traffic Manager Is Created. CHICAGO, July 1. Gerritt Fort has accepted the position of passenger traf fic manager of the Union Pacific Rail road Company, with headquarters in Omaha. For more than a year he has been general passenger agent of the New York Central Railroad, with head quarters in New York. He will succeed E. L Lomax, who resigned as general passenger agent of the Union Pacific to become passenger traffic manager of the Western Pacific. The position of passenger traffic manager is a new one for the Union Pacific. Mr. Fort left the position of assistant general passenger agent of the Union Pacific three years ago to go with the New York Central. The newly-created office which Mr. Fort will occupy, that of passenger traffic manager, is an important one. It is in line with the change made In Portland last January when the office of traffic manager was created and R. B. Miller was made the apointee. While local railroad officials have re ceived no intelligence as to the future general passenger agent, it is con sidered probable that the office will be left to Mr. Fort to fill. Mr. Lomax left to become passenger traffic manager of the Western Pacific, to which road H. M. Adams, of Port land, has gone as general freight agent. Mr. Fort has visited Portland nu merous times in the past. His last trip here was when he personally conducted the President Taft party when it visit ed Portland the first two or three days of last October. So well did Mr. Fort acquit himself that the special on its 15,000-mile trip was not a minute late at any of its several hundred stops along the route. SOUTHERN PACIFIC FINED Eighteen Cases of Rebating Cost $18,000 on Pleas of Guilty. SAN FRANCISCO, July 1. Pleas of guilty were entered today by the South ern Pacific Railroad Company to 18 counts of the indictments charging re bating and discrimination in rates found by the Federal grand Jury on in formation gathered by the Interstate Commerce Oommir-ion, and fines ag gregating $18,000 were imposed by United States Circuit Judge Van Fleet. The defendants were fined $9000 for rebating on shipments of matting from Kobe, Japan, to points in the United States through this city, in connection with the Pacific Mail Steamship Com pany. On the charge of having given rebates to the California Pine Box & Lumber Company on shipments from Verdi, Nev., to Sacramento Valley points, a fine of $8000 was Imposed, and for concessions made In the shipment of wool by Miller & Lux, the fine was $1000. The settlement of these cases was agreed to by the Government through Assistant Attorney-General W. S. Ken yon, who instructed United States At torney Devlin to consent to a fine of $1000 on each of the 18 counts, distrib uted among the various indictments. CROP REPORT PROMISING Outlook Good on Line of S. P. and V. P. Railroads. NEW YORK, July 1. Julius Krutt schnltt, vice-president and director of maintenance and operation of the Har riman lines, says the crop prospects in Union and Southern Pacific territrvy are promising. No new extension work has been undertaken in the last two months. Kruttschnitt said yesterday that 85 locomotives recently ordered are pass enger locomotives and are absolutely indispensable because of increasing passenger traffic, but on account of the prohibitive prices demanded by the equipment companies, the Harrlman system will do without 150 freight lo comotives it needs pending a change in the price situation. HORSE. CRUSHES SOLDIER Man and Beast Topple Over 50-Foot Cliff in Bay City. SAN FRANCISCO, July 1. While en gaged in scout duty during military maneuvers on the Corbett road today, James E. Barton, private of Battery B, Fifth Field Artillery, rode too near a 60-foot cliff at Twenty-third street, over which both he and his horse were precipitated. The animal fell on top of Barton, whose skull was fractured and his body badly bruised. He was taken to the emergency hospital in a dying condition. Barton, who is a native of St. Louis, is' 21 years old, enlisted at Columbus Barracks, Ohio, and returned here from the Philippines last May. FEDERAL LAWYER OF DflHO OUSTED Grave Charges Made by Government. SENSATION CAUSED IN BOISE District Attorney Held Indis creet and Injudicious. ASSISTANT ' TAKES OFFICE Lingcnfclter's Handling of Beet Sugar, Timber Fraud and Bank Embezzlement Cases Said to Have Brought Discharge. . ' BOISE, - Idalto. July 1. (Special.) The offiiclal announcement here today, com ing from the Department of Justice at Washington, that United States. District Attorney C. H. Lingenfelter had been re moved from office, following charges ot incompetency, injudicious conduct and even graver charges, which the depart ment refuses at the present to make pub lic, broke like a bombshell among his friends and in Federal circles. Assistant United States District Attor ney S. L, Tipton will Bucceed Lingen felter and the official steps in making the transfer are now in progress. Mr. Lingenfelter is at present in Washing ton. , The charges filed against the removed District Attorney allege that he was in discreet In his handling of the so-called Great Western Beet Sugar Company land conspiracy cases, in which Messrs. Gar rett, Colthrop, Daniels, Howie and Grif fith were indicted by the Federal grand Jury on the charge of defrauding the Government. Immediate Trial Requested. The grand Jury insisted that an imme diate trial b9 secured and that it take place in June. Lingenfelter, ignoring in structions, is said to have entered into a stipulation with counsel for the de fendants by which the case was laid over until the September term of court. It is further charged that he criticised Special Assistant Attorney-General Pey ton Gordon, commissioned to prosecute the Kettenbach-Kester-Dwyer timber fraud cases of Lewiston, and declared the defendants were innocent. He also openly denounced the special assistant for indicting William F. Kettenbach, George H. Kester and Frank Kettenbach, former officers of the Lewiston National Bank, on charges of embezzlement, in ferring that he had indicted the wrong men. Attorney Is Disqualified. Lingenfelter had been disqualified to prosecute either 'the Northern timber fraud cases or the bank embezzlement cases and the Department of Justice took from his Jurisdiction the prosecu tion of the Barber Lumber Company cases, both civil and criminal. While the department has not made public .the . more serious charge, it is openly hinted in Federal circles that it accuses the deposed District Attorney with engaging in practice on land cases, which is strictly prohibited by the Gov eriment; that Mr. Lingenfelter was given a hearing before the department; that he was called to Washington a week ago, immediately following this hearing. .His Suspension Follows. He was suspended and upon a confer ence with the two Idaho Senators, it was agreed to appoint the assistant, Mr. Tipton. The appointment of Lingenfelter to the office of District Attorney followed the stirring scenes in Federal circles here in July, 1908, when the removal of N. M. Ruick. who held that office and brought the indictments of conspiracy against Senator W. E. Borah and Ruel Rounds, United States Marshal. Senator Borah succeeded in securing the removals and was instrumental in the appointment of Mr. Lingenfelter, then a prominent attorney of Lewiston and Northern Idaho. FOREST FIRE DAMAGE BIG Rangers Put Out Flames in Montana After Hard Fight. ANACONDA, Mont., July l.(Spe cial.) After several strenuous days of fire-flghtlng, L. T. Mason, supervisor of the Deer Lodge National Forest Serv ice, accompanied by F. W. ratten, assistant, have returned to headquar ters. All forest fires have been extin guished, but only after a stubborn struggle lasting day and night since Sunday. Damage was heavy, the fire at Woodville burning an area of 150 acres. At Welch's Spur 600 acres were de stroyed, while Jhe Boulder Mountain fire burned over, a tract of 200 acres. Fires were started by sparks from locomotives, and Supervisor Mason has put rangers on the different railroads to patrol the lines night and day. Eugene Postal Receipts Grow. EUGENE, Or.. July 1. (Special.) The postal receipts for June of thi year over June of last year at the Eugene postoffice show an Increase of 14 per cent. The receipts for the past month were $2380.33.