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VOL,. L. NO. 15,488. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TUFT KEEPS GLEAR OF STATE POLITICS CHURCH CUSTOMS UPSET BY JOHN D. FIRST CALIFORNIA WRITER'S SON DIGS UP TREASURE BOX GIRL WITHHOLDS TRAGEDY'SSEGRET CLUBMEN GUESTS AT BANDIT LUNCH MINING DISTRICT E SWEPT BY FLUMES OIL KING IS LATE TO BIBLE CLASS BIBLE XOT CSED. BOY WHOSE FATHER WAS STE VEN SOX'S STEPSON, FINDER. MYSTERIOUS FEAST SERVED BY POET OF SIERRAS. PRIMARY RAG President Emphatic in Stating Position. NOT HIS PLACE TO INTERFERE Hands Full Enough With Con gress and Pledges. OHIO SITUATION IS CAUSE Executive, Asked to Take Part in Fight There, Says Under No Cir cumstances Will He Express a Preference for Candidates. BEVERLY, July 17. President Taft today stated -with striking emphasis the position he Is taking on Republican state platforms and candidates. The President doe not think he should be called upon to write the party declarations in the different commonwealths or to name men for any of the elective offices. A President, it was Intimated, has a pretty big Job on his hands when he under takes to fulfill all the pledges In the National platform and to bring Congress around to the same way of thinking. As to planks in state platforms indors ing the Administration, the President feels that unless they can be written upon what he has said and done since taking office nothing he could add in a personal way would help matters. President Trusts Delegates. The Ohio conferences the last three days have served to bring out the Presi dent's attitude. He was Informed of the general tenor of the platform to be adopted at the Columbus convention the latter part of this month, but he did not fro into details of planks. Under no circumstances would the president express anopinion as to candi dates. The fight this' Fall Iri Tffilo. It Is gen erally acknowledged, will be a hard one. but Mr. Taft has been told that none of the avowed candidates, Carml Thompson, Warren G.- Harding and O. B. Brown, has a majority of the votes. This has led to the opinion that a com promise candidate must be found. Garfield After Nomination. The friends of James R. Garfield are hopeful the delegates may turn to him, but the state leaders who are friendly to the Administration and who will write a strong indorsement of Mr. Taft and all his acts in the platform, de clare Mr. Garfield cannot be nominated. The only other candidate much talked of is Representative Nicholas long worth. It is said, however, Mr. Long, worth much prefers to remain in Con gress, and it will take great pressure to get him into the state fight. Judge R. Klnkald. of Toledo, spent an hour or more with the President to day. Judge Kinkald was strongly urged for the gubernatorial nomina tion some weeks ago. but let It be known he preferred his place on the state bench. Taft Confers With Senators. Senator Burton is coming tomorrow. Senator Dick is still here, and "Wade H. Ellis, chairman of the Ohio execu tive committee, is within a few minutes- ride. They all expect to have a .final word with Mr. Taft tomorrow. The President today consented to make three speeches In Maine at East port, Bangor and Rockland during his ten days' cruise in the northern waters. The Maine elections are held Septem ber 12. Mr. Taft will speak at Eastport next Tuesday, at Bangor on Saturday and at Rockland on TuesdaJ- the 26th.. Senator I,odge. of Massachusetts, lunched with the President today. , There was an amusing incident in Beverly this morning as the President was about to enter the First Parish Unitarian Church. Guiseppe de Ven ceso. recently naturalized, became ex cited over seeing the President and set off a firecracker. There was some ex citement among the people near Gui seppe. but the man was not molested. "HIGHER UPS" ARE WANTED Immunity to Be Granted Subordi nates In Beef Trust Probe. CHICAGO. July 17. (Special.) Fifty subpenas will be served tomorrow morning on officers and employes of meat concerns to appear before the Federal grand Jury In the "beef trust" investigation. Officials of the National Packing Company. will be visited first. Despite the lid that has been clamped tight on all matters relating to the in quiry, it leaked out today that the Gov ernment plans to extend immunity to a number of packing officials In ex change Tor the evidence they may be able to give to the grand Jury. Who these officials will be was not made public. It is known that subpenas have been issued for officials qf the National Packing Company. In summoning these officials it la shown that the Government does not care for convictions unless those gath ered In the net are the men "high up" in the companies. Judge Landls . In bis instructions to the Jury asserted that only the real malefactors. II such exist, should be dealt with. Stagnate Bases Talk on "Optimist's Good Morning"' and Uses Selec tion by Arthur L. Weatherby. CLEVELAND, O., July 17. (Special.) John D. Rockefeller upset a few tradi tions at the Euclid-Avenue Baptist Church tills morning.. He was late in arriving, he removed' his automobile coat inside the church, did not stop to greet his friends, took the front steps to the Bible classroom, took a rear instead of a platform seat, and, lastly, read from a secular volume rather than the Bible. The oil king based his sermon on "The Optimist's pood Morning," choosing a se lection by Arthur I. Weatherby. "I want to read distinctly," he said. "I want you all to understand, to grasp the meaning. We should derive great benefit from it. It should help us as medicine, almost immediately on taking." -His voice became tremulous as he read: "Our Father, who art ever with us, help us this day to reveal thee through our common tasks, our relations "with one another; this is thy most beautiful world; may we not mar it by our selfish ness, but by the gentleness and sweet ness of our lives make it more beautiful.". NO SEAT, FARE NOT PAID Passengers Interfere to Prevent Putting Family Off Train. MOCLIPS, Wrash., July 17. (Special.) Because William Reinie, a prominent citizen of Hoquiam, could not find a seat in a passenger train to Moclips today for Himself and family, he re fused to pay his fare, and trouble re sulted when the conductor threatened to put them off the train. Reinie said the company advertised an excursion to Moclips and should provide ample accommodations. He was obdurate and it looked as if the con ductor would stop the train and put them off, until the other passengers took the family's part. TAFT WRITES TO MIKADO President Thanks Emperor of Japan for Cordiality to Dickinson. "' BEVERLY, Mass.. '" July 17. Presi dent Tatt today -sent - a. message of thanks to the Emperor of Japan for the cordial welcome extended to Secre tary of War Dickinson, as follows: "I wish to express to your majesty my deep appreciation of the generous and courteous hospitality extended to Secretary Dickinson and his party while in Japan. The expression of cor dial welcome evoked strengthens the bond of friendship between the. two countries." YOUNG DREXEL IS SECOND Frenchman Defeats American in Eu ropean Aeronautic Meet. BOURNEMOUTH. July 17. Leon Merane, the French aeronaut, has been formally awarded the first prize at the meeting just ended for speed, altitude, seaflight and general merit. J. Arm strong Drexel, son of Anthony Drexel, was awarded second place, while Gra ham White, the English aviator, takes third place. Merane reached an altitude of 4100 feet and covered 18 miles around the Needles lighthouse and return in 25 minutes. Boyle, who was injured yesterday. Is In a dangerous condition today. He has suffered concussion of the brain. THREE PROMINENT A If IK AM JOHSO, OF L1XCOL.N Candidates for Gover nor'Are Many. BITTERNESS MARKS CAMPAIGN Possible Split in Republican Ranks May Help Democrat. ASPIRANTS ALL ACTIVE Contest UiVder Xew Law Results In j Vigorous Word-War Between San Francisco Xewspapers 5 Fac tions Represent One Party. ( SAN FRANCISCO, July 17. (Special.) The entries for California's first elec tion under the direct primary law closed last night at midnight and the race for the nomination for Governor of the state is on between five Republicans, one Dem ocrat, one Prohibitionist and one Social ist. In the Republican- ranks, the contest will finally narrow down to three candi dates, Alden Anderson, of the "stand pat" faction of the party; Hiram John so, of the so-called "insurgent" or Lincoln-Roosevelt faction, and Phjl A. Stan ton, of Los Angeles, whose claim for the nomination is based on the plea that the southern part of the state should have the office for the next term. Bell Has Chance. Theodore A. Bell, the one candidate for the Democratic nomination, is con ceded to have a chance of election, pro viding the three-cornered split in the Republican ranks causes sufficient dis satisfaction in the party to cut down the vote for the candidate who is finally se lected at the Republican primary elec tion. Another thorn In the side of the regular Republican faction is the candi dacy of Charles Currj:, who is going to the primary as a fourth Republican can didate, backed solidly by union labor. On account of these many factions into which. ' the Republican party is divided, many politicians freely predict the final election of the Democrat candidate. Bell. Campaign Is Bitter. While the different candidates have been carrying on a vigorous stumping campaign from one end of the state to the other, the San Francisco newspapers are engaged in a bitter warfare of words extolling the virtues of their chosen can didates and denouncing the enemy in the strongest language at the command of their editors. Each candidate has covered thousands of miles in reaching the ears of the voters of the state. Stanton, of Los Angeles, has spent 10 weeks touring the state in au automobile, during which time he traveled over 3600 miles. The other candidates have used every mode of conveyance. from special trains to buckboards, and are still at it The stumping campaign is about over and the candidates will from now on devote their energies to converting the big cities- about the bay. CANDIDATES FOR REPUBLICAN .!y- ' II y.7 r - ROOSEVELT LKAGIE PHILIP A. STASTOX, SPEAKER OF ASSEMBLY ALDEN ANDERSON, STATE SUPER- I.VTKDET OF BANKS. Lad Hams Verse From "Treasure Island" as Tiny Spade Strikes -- Valuables, Hidden in Sand. SAN FRANCISCO, July 17. When little Louis Osborne, 8 years old, the son of Lloyd Osborne, novelist, and stepson of the late Robert Louis Stevenson, armed himself w-ith his midget shovel and went out on a sandhill to dig yesterday, he had visions of finding a treasure. This is not an unusual thing for the lad, for he had not heard his father's illustrious stepfather talked about without getting some of ,' the spirit . of adventure of "Treasure Island" fixed in his mind. So while Louis dug he hummed:. Fifteen men on the dead man's -chest. To, tio. ho. and a bottle of rum; "Drink and The lad stopped digging, because his shovel had encountered an obstruction Tested carefully, the thing that resisted proved to be metal. Then Louis dug more furiously than ever. In a few moments the lad unearthed a metal box. And, sure enough, it con tained treasure. Opening it hastily, the lad found 2600 shares of valuable mining stock, some deeds to city property, other valuable papers and several empty ring boxes. The papers belong to Augustus F. Im brie, a wealthy man, whose house is closed and who is out of the city. Police think robbers have, ransacked the Imbrte residence, and, after taking money and jewelry from the box, buried It. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weatber. YESTERDAY'S -Maximum temperature,. 68 degrees; minimum, 54 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; Tuesday fair 1 and continued warm; northwesterly winds. Foreign. British "Suffragette" leaders, coming to America, may be beard on Pacific Coast. Page -2. Politics. Senator John L. Wilson denies he seeks con trol of bench. Page 5. Thirty-one Oregon counties have chosen as sembly delegates. Page 0. President Taft declares emphatically that he will not take part in state politics. Page 1. Elmer B. CoVwell appointed United States Marshal. Page 14. National. Pinchot and Garfield plan busy campaigns. . Page 2. Harlan may be named as Chief Justice Page 3. Domestic Joaquin Miller serves Mexican, bandit lunch. Page 1. Son of Lloyd Osborne, stepson of late) Robert Louis Stevenson, digs up hidden treas ure. Page 1. Rockefeller, upsets traditions of church. Page 1. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: . Oakland 2, Portland 1; Los Angeles 5-2. Vernon 2-2; Sacramento 3-0, San Francisco 3-4. Page 10. Sports seek to revive prizefighting in inilder form. Page 11. Oregon's state tennis tournament opens to day at lO o'clock. Page 10. Yacht Sparrow- victor in fast race on river. Page lO. Pacific Northwest. Great fire raging in Coeur d'Alene forests. Page 1. Foreman of construction crew killed by discharged employe. Page 3. Folk address weil received at Albany Chau tauqua. Page 5. Big shoplifting plot bared by Sheriff. Page 1. County tax levy will depend on mortgage assessment. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. Portland starts campaign for 19i2 G. A. R. encampment. Page 8. Acting Governor Bowerman to visit York town; naval militia favored. Page 8. Suicide's body found in City Park. Page 7. Benefit fund for Marjorie Mahr, Injured chorus girl, reaches $357.17. Page 14. Union of Irish societies planned by Hiber nians. Page 8. Danish dairy expert says Americans do not know cows. Page 8. PRIMARY NOMINATION x'OR GOVERNOR OP CALIFORNIA. is .:.:.? Chicago Police Cannot Solve Riddle. INSPECTOR EVOLVES THEORY Mrs. Deufex' Silence Will Be Construed as Guilt. STORIES DO NOT AGREE Miss Wilson Caught In Seeming Mis statements Hospital ' Authori ties Prevent Examination of Wounded Woman. CHICAGO, July 17. (Special.) Miss Mary Wilson, whose reticence In the RIgdon tragedy nas baffled every ef fort of the police to solve that mystery, today spent more than an hour in con ference at St. Luke's Hospital with Mrs. Emma Deufex, the woman who was shot by RIgdon In the offices of John C. Fetzer, before he shot himself. What passed at this conference is un known, for the hospital authorities have adopted a policy of silence as Impene trable as that of the principal figures In the tragedy itself. Aside from her physicians and nurses, no other person except the Wilson, girl has been allowed to enter Mrs. Deu fex' sickroom. Even Inspector Lavin has been denied access to Mrs. Deufex' apartments, although at the very time he was In the hospital Miss Wilson was In the sick woman's room. Police Are Discouraged. Baffled In their every effort to solve the riddle which lies back of the shoot ing, the police were not encouraged to day when they learned that the two persons who knew most about It bad been allowed for. several days to. hold secret conferences. "A fine chance for a frame-up," was the way one detective 'expressed the general feeling of the' men who are working on the case. "It seems strange that if Mrs. Deuxfex Is strong enough to see the Wilson girl she should be too weak to talk to a policeman. -1 un derstand that the hospital, people have even given the Wilson girl permanent quarters there." The hospital authorities, however, in sist that what they are doing is best for Mrs. Deufex. They deny that the two women have been allowed to talk over the incidents that led up to the shoot ing, and say that the Wilson girl is un der instructions not to mention that subject to Mrs. Deuxfex. Girl's Action Suspicious. The police recall that after Miss Wil son had got through the ordeal of her examination in Inspector Lavin's office she insisted on being allowed to see Mrs. Deuxfex again that night, and that it was she who proposed that she be allowed to go to the hospital to live in stead of to a hotel while she was wait ing for the police to release her. Inspector Lavin was Inclined today to (Concluded on Page 3.) lllllllilpilllli : :-::x:::'.V::::--::;:-";:;:-:-:-:-:o;:: ::-: :':v iiiiiiiia liplllllllipii ' - . - 1 vV - '4 - - . ' ' ' -'-v ' - - - ? Joaquin Miller Leads 60 Members of Sequoia Club to Moses' Pyra mid and Browning's Tower. SAN FRANCISCO, July IT. (Spe cial.) Joaquin Miller, poet of the Sierras, gave a Mexican bandit lunch yesterday to 60 members of the Sequoia Club at his home on the heights back of Oakland, where Fremont first saw the bay of San Francisco and named its entrance the Golden Gate. There was much speculation over the mysterious lunch, but It opened with cocktails mixed by the . poet, who claimed the recipe came from Fremont and Walt Whitman. Then came the barbecued beef and the bacon and onions In Mexican style, all washed down with California claret served in large three-gallon demijohns. After lunch Miller told of bis first visit to the present home, when he sur prised a black bear eating the carcass of a cow that It had killed. - This looked like a promising place for the poet, who wished to lead the simple life, so he bought two acres. Since ho has added many acres and planted thou sands of trees. He has raised a pyramid to Moses, built a Browning tower of rocks and a monument to Fremont. Poet Miller, before he led his guests up to the hill to these monuments, warned them that no one who had vio lated any of the ten commandments could climb with him to the Moses pyramid. But everyone went up the trail. MAN WEARS SUIT OF ARMOR Individual Captured in Montana Is Protected Like Battleship. BOZEMAN, Mont.., July 17. (Special.) Under-Sheriff George Butenfelder and Deputy Horace Bell this afternoon cap-, xured near Belgrade a man whom, from Ms suspicious actions, they believe to be a refugee from justice and probably a desperate criminal. When searched he was found to be al most completely protected with a home made suit of steel armor. The front of his body, his right forearm and the front of his cap were all protected with steel plates. Those on his arm and chest were joined together by being sewed between cloth padding. The man had a 38 Colt's automatic pis tol and about .70 rounds of ammunition and also a hunting-knife attached to his wrist.- He. gave two names, Jesse And erson and Albert Ross, and said he was glad the police had caught him. When he' became aware that ' the officers did not know him, however, he refused to talk further. PORTLAND COMES FIRST James 3. Hill May Turn Down Con servation Congress. ST. PAUL, Minn., July 17. (Special.) James J. Hill returned today from his annual fishing trip off the coast of Labrador. The veteran railroad builder in discussing the conservation congress to be held In St. Paul in September, said he would be unable to comply with ex President Roosevelt's desire that he speak at. that time, owing to the de mands made upon him from Portland people. , "I will speak in Portland. Or., early in September, probably during the time that the conservation congress is being held in St. Paul," he said. "If I do speak, however, at the St. -Paul meeting, I will epeak straight from the - shoulder and will not mince matters." NORTHWEST TO BE COOL Reaction From High Temperatures Predicted at Washington. WASHINGTON, July 17. According to the Weather Bureau forecast. In the plains states and the Northwest this week will open with high temperatures and there will be warmer w"eather during the mid dle of the week In the Mississippi Valley. By Monday night or Tuesday there will be a reaction in the extreme northwest ! to lower temperatures. High tempera . tures are indicated for the southwest, j In the Northwest and Pacific States ' and in the plateau region the weather ' will be generally fair, while there will ' be showers in the Middle West about Wednesday. ' BRIBERY HEARING IS SET House Committee to Hear Gore's Charges In Muskogee, August 4. PIERRE. S. D., July 17. Representa tive Burke, chairman of the House com mittee aDDOinted at the last seralon of I Congress to investigate charges of bribery i in legislation dealing with the sale of In- dian lands, made by United States Sen , ator Gore against William McMurray, of McAlester, Okla., has notified members ; of the committee to assemble at Musko gee. Okla., on August 4. The investiga . tlon will begin on that date. -! Senator Gore has agreed to be present at the meeting of the committee, ac cording to Representative Burke, who has returned from Mankato, Minn., where he held a conference with the Senator. MONTARA AGAIN AGROUND , Pacific Mail Liner, Once in Trouble, j Repeats Experience. i YOKOHAMA. July 17. The Pacific mail steamer Montara, from Hongkong to San Francisco, which ran ashore yesterday off Shimoda and was floated without damage, has gone aground again. Settlers Flee to Save Their Lives. SEVEN FIGHTERS HEMMED Widespread Destruction Oc curs in Coeur d'Alenes. ONE MAN DRIVEN INSANE Valuable Mines Destroyed, Other: Threatened, Homes AVped Out and Timber Burned in-Fire Sweeping to Kellogg Peak. WALLACE, Idaho, July 17. (Special, if Flames are tonight racing toward Kel-I logg Peak fester than a horse can run after having destroyed the homes of a half dozen settlers, ruined thousands ofl dollars' worth of rich timber near Pinel Creek, driven one man insane and en- gaged more than 200 men In an all-night fight to save the buildings of several large lead-silyer mines of the district. Starting from a surveyors' camp early yesterday morntng, the flames gained rapid headway and have been burning fiercely, wiping out all the buildings of the Dalnatia Mining Company, seven miles west of Kellogg Peak, on Pine Creek. Rich Mines in Path of Fire. Directly in the path of the flames arel the large buildings, of the Nabob. Sur prise, Highland Chief and Little Pitts burg mines, and reports from the dis-l trict brought to Kellogg by settlers who! have brought their families to safety to I escape the flames, say that these build-1 lngs will be destroyed if the fire fighters I fail to check the flames. The homes of Frank Brooks, Arthur Wade and William Gilbert have been wiped out, their stock cremated in the stables and their families forced to flee. Relief Call Sent Out. Three square miles of the finest tim ber in the Coeur d'Alene mining district have been destroyed and the flames con tinue unchecked. Every available man in Kellogg and Wardner has been sent to the scene -end a call has been sent to Wallace for reinforcements. The fate of seven fire fighters whose escape was cut off by a shift in th wind Is unknown. An unknown settler whose home was wiped out in a twink ling by the flames is said to have lost his mind and stumbled through the tim ber raving mad. He is a new man In the region. Settlers in the burned dis trict are flocking to Kellogg tonight with, their loved ones end such belongings as they were able to carry. CANADIAN FORESTS BURNING Fire Loss Will Be Millions Unless Rain Brings Relief. CALGARY, Alberta, July 17. Forest fires are assuming alarming proportions. They are raging in several places in the foothills country of the Rockies south west of here, and unless heavy rains fall Immediately millions of dollars' worth of standing timber will be lost. Fire is raging southwest of Prlddle today. Chief of Dominion Free Rangers Margher left Calgary Saturday night for Priddle with a gang of 100 men. WOMAN RACES- BLINDNESS Wreck Victim Is Threatened With Loss of Sight. " RAPID CITY, S. D., July 17. In a desperate race against probable total blindness, Mrs. Edward A. Setter, wife of the vice-president of the Third Na tional Bank. Cincinnati. O., Is en routs to Omaha tonight as fast as a special train will carry her. Mrs. Setter was among the injured in a collision yesterday on the Rapid City, Big Bend & Western Railroad. When extricated from the wreckage, it was found that the broken lenses of her glasses had been driven Into her eyelids, mutilating the muscles and nerves controlling the lids and It is feared the eyeballs. After a night of suffering she was taken to an Omaha hospital, where an operation was de cided upon. HAY DEMANDS COURTESY Governor AVould Protect Delegates to Conservation Congress. SEATTLE, Wash., July 17. Governor M. E. Hay today declared that until h received positive assurance that the Washington delegates will be accorded fair and courteous treatment, he will decline to appoint any representatives to go from this state to the. National Conservation Congress to be held in St. Paul this Summer. Governor Hay said that last year Federal Judge Cornelius H. Hanford. who was appointed a delegate to the ' Congress which, met In Seattle, received, discourteous treatment from the other delegates because he read a paper criticising the conservation policy ad vocated by the congress and expressed himself as favorable to less stringent regulations.