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PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CRANE TO REPORT Ofl WEST TO TUFT YOUNG ROOSEVELT SPAIN MAY SOOFJ BREAK WITH POPE ALIENISTS DECLARE ; PAIR OF MYSTERY . NEAR TRIP'S END WEEKS OF TERROR E DEPENDS ON SELF CHARLTON INSANE HAVE QUEER END VOL. L,. 0. 15,499. IGCKOW HSFORM FPT EXCHANGE' Product to Be Sold in One Channel. LEARNING . CARPET BUSINESS SELF-CONFESSED WIFE SLAY ER'S ATTORNEY TALKS. WOMAN MISSING; JEALOCS NOW TAKES HIS TIME. FORMER HUSBAND FEARED. Senator Will Journey Across Continent PET WORK COMMENDS HIM .'resident Wants Accurate Po litical Data at First Hand. TRAVEL DATES CHANGED Engagements Cancelled AVIth View, It Is Said, of Avoiding Political Issues Appearance at St. I'aul Undecided. BEVERLY. Mass.. July 29. Senator fVlnthrop Murray Crane, of Massachu lette. who occupies in the Senate a posi- tion tsdmtlar to that of the Republlcjan "whip" in the House, was summoned to Beverly today by President Taft and had a long talk with the Chief Magistrate. Senator Crane was asked by the Presl 3ent to make a trip through the West In the near future, going as far as Se attle. He will inuire Into political con iitlons. The President Is said to desire this Information first hand. He has the utmost confidence in Senator Crane's political sagacity. Quiet Way Commends Crane. The Senator ia noted for the quiet manner In which he accomplished the most difficult tasks. In the last session rf Congress Mr. Taft relied absolutely upon the Junior Senator from Massachu setts and often made him Mie means of communicating the Administration's views to the upper branch of Congress In selecting Tan emissary to the West, the President naturally turned to Senator Crane. The Senator already has made a few quiet trips of observation and dis cussed what he had learned with the President today. The Senator's visit was surrounded with the greatest secrecy. Not until the Sena tor was seen was- It admitted at the executive offices .that he had been any where In the vicinity of the President's cottage. It wae denied that Mr. Crane's visit to the President had anything to do with the Ballinger-Pinchot contro versy. Bnlllnger Holds Confidence. It is said with authority that the Presi dent never' has considered and never will consider asking Secretary Ballinger to retire from the Cabii.et. Another significant move made by the President today and of almost equal Importance with the proposed mission of Senator Crane, was the an nouncement that Mr. Taft has can celled all of the engagements, tenta tive and otherwise, that he had made In different parts of the country for this Kali. Important affairs of the Ad ministration, it was said, would keep the President busily engaged at Bev erly and Washington until November. In November, it - was announced, the President will make a three-weeks' trip to the Isthmus of Panama to ob serve the progress of the work on the canal. Politics to Be Avoided. Whether the cancellation of the numerous engagements for the Kali means a reversal of the Fresiflent's travel policy or not could not be learned. Political consideration may have had & great deal to do with the Presidents decision. It would be dif ficult for the President to travel through the states in October without being drawn Into the campaign or at least having his speec.tes construed Into political utterances. In a speech at Rockland. Me., the other day Mr. Taft said he did not believe a President of the United States had a right to talk politics. In the list of wholesale cancella tions announced today there were three onimisions. The President will go to Provlncetown, Mass., on August 6 to review the Atlantic, battleship fleet and to speak at the dedication of the Pilgrims' monument. St. Paul Pate Left Open. He has left open the question whether or not he will speak at the National Consrvation Congress, which meets in St. Paul September 5-7. and at the unveiling of the Heed monument at Portland, Me., on August 11. . The chances are that the President will go to St. Paul. Whether Mr. Taft will leave for Panama before or after election day, November S. has not been decided. The rhances are that he will leave imme diately after. He probably will sail from Norfolk on one of the armored cruisers or battleships of the Atlantic fleet. Among the engagements officially cancelled today was the trans-Mississippi Congress, San Antonio, Tex.. No vember 23-25. RELIGION BILL -PASSES King of England Must Now Declare Himelf Faithrul Protettant." LONDON. July . The bill modifying the declaration of religion required by the King "upon accession passed the House of Commons on third reading to day by a vote of 2S4 to 42. In its final form the bill not only elim inates the phrases offensive to the Roman Catholic subjects of His Majesty, but it also makes tt acceptable to the Noncon formists by striking out the proposed statement of adherence to the established church. King Ueorpe is now required to declare mexely tear K. u a "faithful JtioutbtjUiC- Honeymoon Trip Over, "Teddy" Junior and Bride locate In Bay City Work Begins at 8 A. M. SAN FRANCISCO July 29. (Specials- Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., one son of a famous man who la not content to rest upon his latner s laureis, nas jusi ic- turned with his bride from Southern California and is preparing to begin the serioua work of carving out a reputation for himself. At Avalon Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt en joyed some good fishing, as well as the other sports of the island, and Mrs. Roosevelt captured a gamey tuna which made her the envy of some of the lessi fortunate fisherwomen. The young Roose- velts have taken a house at 1910 Pacific avenue, owned by Rudolph Spreckels, and there Mrs. Roosevelt is making ready to set up her household goods. It is an attractive residence and will make a charming setting for the many wonderful gifts which marked the wed ding of the, ex-President's son ami one of New York's belles. Mrs. Roosevelt is an attractive girl, so cially accomplished, and their home will doubtless be the center of much delight ful entertaining. Young Roosevelt will at once take up his duties with a large local carpet firm with whom he will learn the business. He will go to .work every morning at 8 o'clock. TWIG SAVES MAN'S LIFE Hunter Hangs on Face of Precipice for Six Hours. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., July 29. (Special.) Gus Lansdowne, a Monterey sportsman, clung to the sheer side of a bluff for six hours in Lytle Creek today before being rescued from the perilous position above a precipice, where he' had followed deer. Lansdowne attempted to pass on the outer side of a mass of rock and went sliding down the declivity to the edge of the precipice. He man aged to grasp a slender shrub and wedge his feet into a crevice, securing a pre carious hold. Fearful lest an effort to get a foothold would send him plunging over the precipice he remained motion -lss, shouting at times for aid. Howard Smithson and party six hours later heard occasional shouts and locat ing them 600 feet above espied Lansdowne clinging like a mere speck against the wall of the bluff. By a circuituous trail they hurried to the point above him and managed to let down a noose which .was adjusted" about his shoulders. He was then easily pulled to solid ground. ASBESTOS FRAUD CHARGED, Widow of Surgeon Causes Arrest of Columbia Professor. NEW YORK, July 29. On the charge of Mrs. William T. Bull, widow of the noted surgeon, that she had been de frauded of $35,000 in an investment in the stock of an asbestos company, John Qua ky and Harvey Wiley Corbett, officers' of the company, appeared in court today and heard Mrs. Bull tell the story of the alleged fraudulent transaction. The arrest 'of Corbett, who is a promi nent architect and the assistant professor In Columbia University, when it became known today, created marked surprise. The plans for the Maryland Institute in Baltimore, to cost $1,000,000, were of his drawing. After hearing Mrs. Bull's story, Magis trate Krotel adjourned the hearing until August 6 and fixed ball at $20,000 for each prisoner. REFORMERS ARE ACCUSED Sheriff Asked to Pick "Suitable" Jury In Bootlegging Case. LA GRANDE. Or., July 29. (Special.) The case of Adolph Newlln, charged witli selling liquor, will go to the jury early tomorrow morning. A- sensation has developed on ac count of admission by witnesses for the state that they tried to have the Sheriff summon a Jury panel that was "suit able" to the Law and Order League. Rev. Mr. Gray. W. A. Worstell and De tective Morgan have figured most con spicuously in the case for the state, having watched the detective while he was buying the whisky at the drug store. WIFE SISTER TO FRIENDS AVonian. Tiring of Masquerade, Brings Suit for Divorce. BUTTE. Mont., July 29. (Special.) Upon the unique charge that for more than a year her husband forced her to live with him as his sister and give her name to friends as such. Mrs. Helen Smith" Schofield started suit for di vorce against Prank Smith Schofield this afternoon in the District Court. It is alleged In the complaint that the defendant has been living with a woman known as Mar' Savinger, alias Marie Schofield. HEAT DRIVES TO SUICIDE Woman Drowns Herself in Shallow Water In Washtub. KANSAS CITY July 29. Mrs. Bertram Thompson. 47 years -old. drowned her self in three Inches of water in a wash tub at her home in Kansas City, Kan., today after hours of sleeplessness be cause of the heat. The husband found his wife in the morning lying face downward in a wash- i.tub in the rear' of. their borne, dead. King Recalls Ambas sador, to Vatican. CONDITIONS NOT ACCEPTED Premier Canalejos to Continue Anti-Clerical Policy. RESULT MAY BE SWEEPING General Feeling of Unrest in Mining Provinces Complicates Situa tion Clashes Between Factions Frequent. SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain. July 29. At the conclusion of a conference this evening between King Alfonso and Premier Canalejas, it was announced that Marquis Emilto de Ojeda, Spanish Ambassador to the Vatican, had been recalled. x At the same time the opinion was ex pressed that, a rupture with the Vatican was inevitable. Senor Canalejas told the King that the government could not accept the conditions of the Vatican's last note, and that the Vatican would bo so informed. Premier Depends on King. Premier Canalejas wjll continue his antl-clerlcal programme, 'counting ' on the support of King Alfonso. Don Jaime, the pretender, has issued a manifesto in -which he says he will lead the Carllsts in the battle which he Intimates is coming soon. The Vatican has declared that the negotiations looking to a revision of the concordat cannot be continued until the Imperial . decree permitting non-Catholic societies to display the insignia of pub lic worship has been withdrawn. Canale jas ha responded that he cannot can cel the programme which the govern ment has announced. Result May Be Sweeping. The general situation is complicated by the unrest among the miners In the Catalonian Provinces and the occasional clashes between the Catholic and non Catholic elements throughout, the coun try. El Mundo, discussing the threatened break between the Spanish Government and the Vatican, says: "The holy see has no reason to feel offended. It Is heading deliberately toward a rupture which will precipitate the opening of a rapid and energetic anti-clerical campaign." JAIME ISSUES MANIFESTO Pretender Ready to Lead Carllsts In Defense of Church. SAN SEBASTIAN, July 29. Don Jaime of Bourbon, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, issued a manifesto to day to the Carllsts in Parliament con gratulating them on their loyalty to the Pope and their defense of the church, and declaring: "I think the day is not far distant when my followers must rally to our flag. It will lead the battle." Lav-yer Says Tentative Report of Doctors Shows Murderer Should Be Placed in Asylum.' NEW TORK. July 29. (Special.) Edwin F. Smith, of Jersey City, counsel for Porter Charlton, who Is locked up In the Hudson County Jail, said over the telephone from his home today that a tentative report had been made by some of the alienists retained to exam ine the young man that he was men tally deranged and should be confined in an asylum for the Insane. Mr. Smith refused to tell which of the alienists subscribed to the report nor would he enter into a discussion of its details. He said a complete report of the physicians' examinations and ob servations of Charlton will be made public in Jersey City on September 29, when Charlton will be arraigned before John A. Blair. The alienists who were retained by Judge Charlton, the prisoner's father. are Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton, Dr. Dana and Dr. Fisher, of New York, and Dr. William G. Arlitz, of Hoboken. The latter announced, shortly after Charl ton's arrest, that the Belf-confessed murderer was a victim of confusional insanity of adolescence. Philippines Fight Consumption. MANILA, July 29. Jacob M. Dickinson. Secretary of War, assisted today at the organization of a national society to fight tuberculosis in the Philippines. Secretary Dickinson will leave soon for Northern Luzon to visit several of the non-Chris-tion tribes in that region. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 71 degrees; minimum, 5a degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. -Foreign. Spain recalls Ambassador to Vatican; rup ture predicted. Page 1. Inspector Dew Arrive at Father Point to arrest Crippen. Page 1. National. France irritated bj- Knox's note on Liberian question. Page 3. Foil tics. Roosevelt reiterates refusal to take part in nomination con teats. pane 2. Plnchot wants to be Governor of New York. Page 2. . Domestic Mining interests take up cudgel a gainst con servation. Page 2. - Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., takes up carpet business. Page 1. John F. Stevens to be president of North Bank road, St. Paul thinks. Page 3. Foul p'ay " feared -In disappearance of Los -Angeles woman.- Page 1.- SportH. Pacific Coast League result: Portland 3. San Francisco 2; Sacramento 5, Los An geles 4; Oakland 5. Vernon 4. Page 8. Commercial and Marine. Wheat farmers still demanding opening prices. Page 15- Light demand for cash grain and futures at Chicago. Page 13. Advance In stock prices is checked. Page 15. Trade better than Wall street depression would indicate. Page 15. Steamer Rlverdale, released from sunken pier, la towed - to North Bank dock. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Unhappy husbands have day in divorce - court, page t. Multnomah Club bond subscription is over $125,000. Page 8. Only six weeks remain for voters to regis ter. Pae 9. -Government sues to recover claims hear Ir- rigon; conspiracy charged. Page 6. County Commissioner Goddard says County Court will stretch powers to relieve drawbridge congestion. Page 9- Woodmen's convention Indorses manager's Investments. page 10. Charge of manslaughter may be lodged against Dr. Rosenberg. Page lO. Olds. Wortman & King will open new de partment store today. Page 10. Eight persons commit suicide in five days. Page 10. A BABE IN THE WOODS. Detective Is Coming to Arrest Crippen. MONTROSE CAPTAIN POSITIVE Inspector Dew Now at Father Point to Join Suspects. BOAT TO ARRIVE SUNDAY Scotland Yard Official Refuses to IMscuss Case Doctor and Sten ographer Have Xo Suspicion "They Are Vnder Watch. - FATHER POINT, Quebec, July 29. The man who holds the key to the Crip pen case. Inspector Dew, of Scotland Yard, arrived today on the steamship Laurentlc from London, and is waiting here to unlock the secret the steamship Montrose will bring to Father Point on Sunday. Dew is the English police officer who made an examination of Dr. Hawley H. Crippen's home in I.ondoD after the dis appearance of the doctor's actress wife, Belle Elmore. He made an appointment to meet Crippen later, but before the date arrived the cellar of the Crippen house unearthed the mutilated remains of a woman, and Dr. Crippen was a fugitive. Inspector Dew probably Is the only -man in America tonight qualified to say with certainty whether the two suspects who sailed on the Canadian Pacific liner Montrose from Antwerp on July 30, un der the name of John Robinson and John Robinson, Jr., are. Dr. Crippen and his typist, Ethel Claire Leneve. Everything Ready for Arrest. . He will board the Montrose when she stops here to take her river pilot, seek out the two persons . on board whom Captain Kendall- believes to be Crippen and Miss Leneve. and if he clinches the captain's suspicions, the so-called "Rob inson" will be arrested by the Canadian police officers, who are -waiting here with warrants charging Crippen with the murder of an unknown woman. His com panion will be held as an accessory. Chief McCarthy, of the Quebec police, who met Dew , here today, . says he is confident the suspicions of the Mont- ross's skipper will prove correct. The wireless station here resounded all day with messages between the Canadian authorities, the Scotland Yard inspector and the captain of the Montrose. . Red Tape Finally Unrolled. An immense amount of red tape had to be unrolled before the London detective could be landed here from the Laurentlc. Father Point has no quarantine and no -customs inspector, but Captain Jean Bap- tiste Belanger, of the tug which puts the pilots aboard Incoming liners, received orders from Ottawa authorising him to take Dew off. When the pilot boat left here at 3:30 o'clock she carried two physicians es pecially authorized to inspect the Lau rentlc. The long-expected detective proved to Concluded on Page g.) Mrs. William L. Sommers, of Los Angeles, Disappears After Series of Persecutions. LOS ANGELES. Cal- July 29. (Spe cial.) As the climax to weeks of ter ror of vengeance from a jealous for mer husband. Mrs. Wtlliam L. Som mers, of 176 " East Twenty-fourth street, disappeared from her home last Tuesday and is still missing. Her hus band said tonight that he has every reason to suspect that she has met with harm. Mrs. Sommers has been three times married. By her first husband, Fred erick Cross, she had two children, Fred and David, who live in Seattle. After the death of Gross she married John R. Stutzke. After a year he aban doned her. She filed suit for divorce, which was granted last March. A few weeks before this Stutzke re turned to Los Angeles, and, learning of the impending divorce, begr.n petty persecutions to secure possession of property he and his wife owned in common. On one such occasion, when he is said to have insulted her. he was taken to task by her son, 14-year-old David, and was badly beaten. . At the conclusion of her divorce pro ceedings the woman fled to Seattle to escape the persecution of Stutzke. Sommers followed, her, and they were married in that city six weeks ago. Sommers wrote to Stutzke, asking him to . make no disposition of the prop erty until their return to Los Angeles. Instead of this, says Sommers, Stutzke sold everything saleable, excepting an automobile. MOODY'S DECISION MADE Justice's Health Improves, but He Will Retire From Bench. MAGNOLIA, Mass., July 29. Associate Justice William H. Moody of the United States Supreme Court has definitely stat ed that he will announce his retirement from the .bench prior to the expiration of the enabling act passed in his be half by the last" Congress. This act ex pires the middle of November. In order that the President might be relieved, of any embarrassment due to conflicting reports of Justice Moody's in tentions, it is said the jurist some time ago informed Mr. Taft of his purpose to quit the bench. The President has twice been at Magnolia to see Justice Moody this Summer and on both occasions urged him to take all the time he desired in making up his mind. Justice Moody re plied that his decision was irrevocable. Justice Moody's health is improving, but he feels he will not be strong enough to assume the arduous duties of the com ing term, which is to be taken up with most serious questions. He will retire in the hope that a complete rest for a while, devoid of all worries as to his future status, may restore him to full strength. The President now faces the responsi bility of appointing two Associate Jus tices of the Supreme Court and designat ing a Chief Justice. Advices from Beverly are that the President has not changed his attitude with respect to the Chief Justiceship. Governor Hughes still appears to have the field practically to himself. BRITISH HARMONY NEARER Some Gulfs Between Lords and Commons Are Bridged. . LONDON, July 29. The conferees of the Liberal and Conservative parties, who are trying to settle the constitutional dif ferences of the House of Lords and the -House ol Commons, already have suc ceeded in bridging- several gulfs, and a statement made by Premier Asquith in the lower chamber this afternoon indi cates that the outlook for compromise is more hopeful, but little of an official character is likely to be heard regard ing the negotiations until Parliament reassembles, November 15. Mr. Asquith, after stating that the conferees in the course of 12 meetings had surveyed the field "of controversy carefully, said: "The result is that our discussions made such progress although we have not so far reached an agreement as to render it, In the opinion of all of us, not only desirable but necessary that they should continue. In fact I may go further. ' We would think it -wrong at this stage to break them off." The Premier added that if further deliberations showed no prospects of an agreement that could be announced in Parliament at the present session, the conference would be closed. BOYS IMPEDE WIRELESS Fleet Operations Checked by Work of Amateurs on Sbore. WASHINGTON, July 29. Rear-Admiral Seaton Schroeder. Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic fleet, in his report of opera tion for the fiscal year ended June 30. ur gently, recommends Government control of all wireless plants. The Atlantic fleet made a great record In wireless transmission, the Admiral re ports. The flagship frequently took 200 messages a day, but the work was need lessly interrupted by commercial opera7 tions and by schoolboys with amateur plants on shore. At times the wireless operations of the fleet were completely suspended. WARSHIP T0BE RAISED V .Board of Engineers Appointed to Rescue Maine From Havana Bay WASHINGTON, July 29. General Oli ver. Acting Secretary of War, has ap pointed a board of engineers charged with the responsibility of raising the bat tleship Maine, in Havana harbor. The board consists' of Colonel William M. Black, Lieutenant-Colonel Mason M. Patrick and Captain Hariey B. Fergu-aos MEETING IS HELD IN SEATTLE Men Prominent in Industry in Four States Organize. OREGON MAN IS PRESIDENT Co-ordination of Fruit Producing Interests of Pacific Northwest Is Aim of Organization R. H. Parsons Is President. . SEATTLE. Wash., July 29. (Special.) At a meeting of representatives of the fruit industry of the Pacific Northwest" today, in the offices of ePters & Powell, the Northwestern Fruit Exchange was organized. Its purpose is the co-ordination of the fruitgrowing interests of Washington. Oregon, Idaho and Montana and the centralizing of the handling and marketing of fruit grown in all the best districts in these states through one channel. - Today's feeting was attended by a num ber of prominent men connected with the fruitgrowing industry an dthe follow ing named were elected officers and di rectors : President, R. H. Parsons, president of the Hill-Crest Orchards Company, Medford. Or.; vice-presidents. M. Hor'an, president of the North Central Wash ington Development League, Wenat chee; W. N. Irish, president of the Yakima County Horticultural Union; secretary, C. R. Dorland; treasurer and general manager, W. F. Gwin. Direc tors R. H. Parsons, M. Horan, W. N. Irish. William Richards, vice-president of the Yakima County Horticultural Union; H. M. Gilbert, president of Richey & Gilbert Company. Toppenish. Wash.; Judge Fremont Wood, president of the Boise Valley Fruitgrowers'! Union, Boise, Idaho; A. C. Randall, president of the Talent Orchard Com pany, Talent, Or.; John S. Evans, for merly general manager of the Fruit Dispatch Company,. New York; W. F. Gwin, secretary-treasurer Kenmar Orchard Company, Eagle Point, Or. Head Offices in, Portland. It was decided immediately to locate general offices in Portland, which would be thoroughly equipped with sales, ac counting and traffic departments, in charge of experienced men. The exchange will under take th marketing of the best-known fruit con trolled by a number of the most , promi nent co-operative growers' associations in the Northwest, thereby eliminating to a considerable extent what is stated to be "costly and wasteful competition" which has prevailed heretofore between the principal competing districts, and avoiding the deplorable overeupply of the .larger markets and effecting a world wide distribution of the fruit handled. The. exchange proposes to operate through a system of branch sales of fices throughout the world. These of fices will be In charge of salaried managers, all of whom will be trained fruit salesmen. Each" branch office will have charge of a certain 'sur rounding: district, and the managers will be required to work the entire buying trade of their respective dis tricts every day. Orders will be taken at prices established by the exchange from time to time. Ofices in Al Market Centers. The exchange proposes to establish an office in every market center from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and to cover the South and Southwest and other dis tricts heretofore neglected, and provide a safe, dependable outlet for the pro duction, which is rapidly increasing in the Northwest. The exchange has formulated plans for the establishment of trade connec tions in all European markets and will immediately take up the exploitation of the markets of the Orient, including Hawaii. Russia, China, Japan, the Phil ippine Islands and Australia. TWO GO DOWN IN LAUNCH Soldiers' Boat Hits Bridge and la Swept I'ndrr Water. SAVANNAH, Ga., July 29. At least two persons were drowned and sev eral others had narrow escapes from death when a covered launch owned by the Government and used by the sol diers at Fort Screven was sunk in Lasarette Creek near the fort late today. The dead are Sergeant Oliver, Coast Artillery Corps, and the 6-year-old son of Sergeant D. Lake. A woman member of the party was caught by the tide and carried down the creek for several hundred yards, screaming for help until she lost con sciousness. Fishermen rescued he.' -and after a long time she was revive.1. Other occupants of the launch, it is believed, escaped in safety. The accident occurred where the Ty bee Railroad crosses the creek on m low bridge: The top of the launcb struck the bridge, the craft careened and was swept under water almost in stantly, ' .