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ar TTP.rsT o 1Q1H PRICE FIVE CENTS. if i if i i . a I I 1 1 it h.iri ill r, a ai;v uu v VOL. L,. NO. 15,507. ; w , . I 1 TO PLAY TRAGEDY, ALL TIMBER LAND IS KILLED WHEN ONEWOMAITSCRIME PROMPTS ANOTHER GUIS FILL UP WOMEN GAMBLERS BEG FOR SECRECY TAFT FOR FIGHT ILLINGTON GOAL "THE 3IEDIA," GREEK MASTER "THE MEDEA," GREEK MASTER- TRAINS COLLIDE CHICAGO HOTELS TO BE PROTECTED LAN OS CONSTABLE AT NARRAGANSETT PIER SOUGHT BY SOCIETY. DROWNING OF BABES ON CON TRA COSTA RANCH IMITATED. . I WILL INDIAN Prosecution to Reclaim Titles, Plan. "JOKER" IN LAW TO BE OFFSET Startling Conditions Bared by Department of Justice. BATTLE TO BEGIN IN FALL Government Will Trj Coup by Seek ing Receivers . for Tracts, to Insure' Benefits for Final Successful Litigants. BEVERLY. Maui.. Au7. . A vig orous prosecution to reclaim title to a sat anlount of Indian land in Okla homa Is being planned In the Depart ment of Justice for the coming; Autumn. One of the principal action In pros pert Is to overcome the effect of an Ingenious "Joker" written Into the In dian appropriation bill Just before that measure was handed to the President for his signature. The "Joker" wss dis covered by Solicitor-General Bowers, but It wss agreed between the Presi dent and Mr. Bowers that It was too late to send the bill bark to Congress and that a means of offsetting the "Joker" would be devised. This "Joker." which Is now a law. granted the right of appeal to the l otted States Supreme Court In a case Involving over 20.000 Indian contract, which had been decided In favor of the Government by the Court of Ap peals of the Eighth Circuit. As the matter had been taken into the Cir cuit Court on a demurrer, the defen dants had no right of appeal to the Supreme Court. Delay Primary Object. It Is the belief of the Government of ficials that the authority to appeal was secured, not with any Idea that the rase might be won In the court of final resort, but simply to gain a delay of a year or 18 months. This belief Is based on the fart that the lands Involved In this case are practically all coal and oil lands and every day that passes they are feeing stripped of their natural resources ss fast as the coal can be mined and the oil pumped. A year and a hairs de lay means millions of dollars to the claimants. The plan to offset this move is to apply to the United States Court In Ok lahoma for a receiver for the lands Just as soon ss the Autumn term begins In this way the court will exercise full control over all the operations and make secure the benefits for the final suc cessful litigants. Startling Conditions Found. In investigating the contracts by which It Is contended the Indians have been de frauded of the lands granted to them by the Government. It Is said the Depart ment of Justice has unearthed a startling condition of affairs. Involving many well known persons. The Government Is fighting the cases hard for the Indians and once the lands are reclaimed. It Is proposed further to protect them If Con gress ran be prevailed upon to do so. The defendants In some of the actions that are pending have offered unique legal propositions to be met by the Gov ernment. In the first place, they claim that having granted the land to the In dians, the Government has not the con stitutional right to restrict this land. The Court of Appeals decided against this claim, however. . Right of Congress Questioned. It Is argued in another case that the Indians have been granted cltisenshlp and have become cttlxens of the state and Congress ha no right to act respect ing them. The Government Is preparing a novel answer to this suit. It will me con tended tha while Indians may have been granted th right of citizenship under the United Stats, they do not be come citizens under the the 14th amendment providing that persons born In and under lb Jurisdiction of th United States or naturalized were cit izens of th eUnlted States and of the state In which they resided. Government Has Defense. It will be claimed that the Indians were not born under the Jurisdiction of the United States, but under the tribal Jurisdiction. The United States deals with the tribes, but never with th Induvtduals. The outcome of this contention will be watched with Interest. President Taft has told several of his callers recently hat he was fully acquainted with Vice-President Sher man's attitude as toth Indian cases in volved In tb pending Oklohoma Inves tigation, and that he knew the Vice President was strenuously opposed to allowing the big fees to attorneys in connection with whlcb the alleged at tempt at bribery occurred. French Steamer In Distress. STPN'ET. X. S. W Aug. . nte French steamer Salazlc ts reported in distress 32 miles off Jovers Bay. a port S miles from Sydney. A stesmer was today dispatched to her assistance. The Salazlc plies between Marseilles and Australian ports. Woman Recently Released From A)lum Throws Two Children In Bathtub, Hangs Herself. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 8. (Special.) A domestic tragedy so Identical with that which occurred on the Milo ranch in Contra Costa County last week that It must have been taken as a guide occurred today In Point Richmond, across the bay from San Francisco. Mrs. William IVestman. aged 38 years, who recently returned from the Napa hospital for the Insane, drowned her two little children in a bathtub and then committed suicide. The woman came back from the asylum about a month ago and doctors said she was cured of melancholia with suicidal ten dency. Today she sent her 14-year-old boy. Fred, to play In the yard. As soon ss he was gone she took the 1-year-old girl. Hllma. and an 8-year-old boy. Claude, and drowned then In a bath tub. Then she slashed her wrist, but missed the artery, so she went to the attic and hanged herself. The young boy found the dead chil dren and summoned his father, who Is employed In a local Ironworks be longing to the Standard Oil Company. SHIP'S TRIAL TEST BEST New Battleship Delaware Makes Great Showing on Trip. NEWPORT. R. I- Aug. 8. The new battleship Delaware returned from her trial trip along the coast to the Brad ford Coaling Station tonight with one of the happiest crews In the service over the showing made by the big fighter. In addition to the records re ported from Washington today It was learned tonight the "Dreadnought" held one satisfactory test of steaming 20 knots an hour for 24 hours. Captain Charles A. Gove expressed his keen pleasure, not only over the bruising ability of his ship, but over her fighting qualities. All her turret guns were discharged simultaneously and. then the whole battery of ten and l!-lnch guns were fired at once. This supreme teat of a battleship's "offensive power" the new ship met excellently, wireless reports said to night. SWIMMING DEER LASSOED Captain W. X. Beyer Makes Capture From Launch. u-hii Mntni down the Columbia River yesterday afternoon in his i.n The Dli. CaDtaln W. L. Beyer captured a full-grown deer, which was attempting to swim across to tne Washington side. Seeing tne aeer in th. distance. Captain Beyer headed his launch to the opposite side and Anally got close enough to lasso tne aeer. The first throw was successful and for several minutes there was a tug-of-war of an exciting nature. The deer finally subdued and hauled on deck. Captain Beyer came on to Port land, arriving last evening with his prize. CaDtaln Bever announced that ne would present the deer to the city and will take It to the City Park today. OREGON MIDDY HONORED H. A. Roesch Escapes Court martial and Gets Fine Berth. WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. Special.) Pie-eating contests are expected to be come popular at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Midshipman H. A. Roesch. of Pendleton. Or., who escaped a court martial for refereelng one. has been as signed to the new dreadnaught Dela ware. When Roesch umpired the con test. Superintendent Bo wen wanted him court-martialed. The Navy Department held the thing was too trivial for notice, as Roesch had merely supervised it, and It was not an attempt at hazing. His graduation, which was being held up. was immediately allowed and his assignment to the biggest battleship of the Navy followed today. Roesch is the crack rifle shot of the Army and Navy. FIRES ARE UNDER CONTROL Around Orofino 1000 Acres of Tim ber Are Destroyed. LEWISTON. Idaho. Aug. 8. Governor Brady, who Is now at Grangeville. has Joined in ssking for Federal aid to ex tinguish forest flree where necessary. Reports from the National forest on Sell way and Mlddlefork are to the effect that forest fires are burning in the timber but forestry officials are maintaning ample protection thuei far with a large patrol of men. The situation in that district ts not now considered serious. Re port are meager owing to no telephone connections. Word received from that dis trict this morning, however, is that there is no rause for serious alarm. From Orofino word comes that in all 23 fires have been burning which have de stroyed practically 1000 acres all told. These fires are all under control. WRECK RESTS ON REEF Princess May Passengers Now on Way to Vancouver. JUNEAU. Alaska. Aug. 8. The steam er Princess Beatrice sailed for Vancou ver today with the passengers of the wrecked steamer Princess May, whlcb went on the reef on Sentinel Island ear ly last Friday morning. Advices received from the scene of the wreck today say that the vessel has set tled easily on the reef. There has been Itttle movement since the steamer foun dered, and It Is believed that there Is no danger of the steamer breaking up as long as the weather remains fair. City's Visitors Number 250,000 30,000 WILL PARADE TODAY Honors Are Paid Earl of Eus ton and Lord Athlumacy. TRAFFIC . IS . SUSPENDED Crowds Surge Out of Templar Way and Flood Whole of Hotel Loop. Two Million People Are Expected to Set Parade. CHICAGO. Aug. 8. (Special.) Two hundred thousand Knights Templars and their friends arrived in Chicago to day. AH day the streets thrilled with the blsre of bands and the tread of marching escorts. Tonight every train entering the city bore Its contingent of Knights and their followers. Tomorrow. It Is confidently predicted, 350,000 strangers will have arrived in the city to form a living background to the parade of from 30,000 to 60,000 Knights, mounted and afoot, which, promptly at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn ing. Is due to march northward to the downtown section. All the hotels In the loop have long since been filled. The hostelrles In the outlying district are crowded, and boarding-houses, even on the out skirts of the town, have their share of visitors. Even private homes have been called upon to provide shelter for the pilgrims. When the grand rush comes every available bedroom that money can buy will have Its occupant Rooms Secured In Homes, Tonight the crowds In State street and Michigan avenue shattered all records. It was the great crowd of Sunday night swollen by many thou sands of newcomers. Traffic during the evening and indeed during the greater part of the day, was almost out of the question. The throng, Jostled and jammed out of Templar Way and Michi gan boulevard, flooded the whole loop. The sidewalks were Inadequate to hold It. The sightseers, swept along by the irresis table current, filled the hotel lobbies, eddied Into the streets, pre empted the restaurants and jammed the theaters. Titled Delegates Arrive. Distinguished among the hast of dis tinguished arrivals of the day came the Earl of Euston. Lord Athlumaey and the delegation from the great priories of England and Wales. In civilian dress not yet having donned their resplendent Templar regalia, more gorgeous than any worn by the American comanderiesi they descended from the special train to be received with honors and to be escorted to the Congress Hotel by a bodyguard. cond only in slxe, and brilliancy of ac coutrements to that of the deputy an acting grand master, W. B. Melish, him self. Chicago has msde admirable prepara tions for the great parade tomorrow. All r Concluded on Page 2.) Publicity Dreaded by Leaders of So ciety Caught In Raid on Se cret Gambling-House. NARRAGANSETT PIER; R. I., Aug. 8. There is consternation tonight In the higher society circles of this fashionable Summer reeort because of the fear that Constable John G. Cross, who conducted the gambling raid at the Narragansett Pier Club Sunday, may make public the names of the society men and women who were on the premises at the time. Prominent matrons, personally. or through emissaries, have besought the officer all day not to give out their name. Constable Cross thus far has complied. There were upward of 30 society women In the crowd about the roulette wheels and other games of chance at the time of the raid, according to Mr. Cross. As an aftermath of the raid four men appeared in court today. Constable Cross, who led the raid, was arraigned on the charge of assault but discovered that the warrant was invalid, not bearing the signature of the complainant, John H. Powers. He moved the case be squashed and the court sustained him. George I Cutting, of Worcester, and Policeman John G. Cullen brought cross suits against each other, Cullen charg ing Cutting with assault and carrying concealed weapons and Cutting charging Cullen with assault. Each case was con tinued two weeks. When the regular police appeared during the raid, Cullen attempted to ar rest 3. Y. Ivlns, of New York, a deputy, and Cutting interfered and is alleged to have struck Cullen on the head with the butt of his pistol. Ivlns escaped. The ball of William Annold, who waa charged with maintaining a gambling place, was increased from $600 to 83000. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Wthr. TODAY'S Fair and cooler; westerly winds. ' Death of Mr. Scott. Men of National prominence pay tribute to memory of Mr. Scott. Pare 10. Story of how Mr. Scott abandoned Intended career In law to become editor of The Oregon tan. and incident of hli early lire, ptga 11. Body of Mr. Scott expected to reach Port land Saturday, but funeral arrani-ementi have not been completed. Page 10. Foreign. Spain fears Carl lata and Clericals are work . v Ing together.. Page- 3-- --- 'tiotiaV' Regular soldiers to fight fires In private and National forests, page 1. Taft will fight to reclaim titles to Indian lands. Vage l. Politics. Chairman Woodmff confers with Taft and says President and Roosevelt are in ac cord on direct primaries. Page 3. Domestic Railroad wreck In California kills 13, In jures 12. Page 1. President of Chile can't sleep on feather pillows. Page 5. Representative Creager accused of soliciting bribe In McMurray land contract case. Page 2. Calhoun's lawyers still out of Jalt Page 5. Sport. Portland opens week's ball series today with Sacramento. Page 7. . Pacific Northwest. Acting-Governor Bowerman declares Oregon bankers must cease promoting outside companies. Page 6. Oregon troops reach American Lake. Page 6. Victim of shooting dies, slayer charged with murder. Page 6. Margaret lllincton-Bowes to present great Greek tragedy. "The Medea,' In open air. Page 1. Portland and Vicinity. Judge Bean declines to rule against Oregon child-labor law In llnsurance risk. Page IS- Wife burns strop because husband shaves before window. Page 18. Each delay to vessels by closed draws will be basis of suit, says Major Mclndoe. Page 12. Mayor Simon wants decisive action taken on so-called Grills. Page 12. Hongkong business man belittles danger of "yellow peril." Page 12. THE VACANT CHAIR. Forest Officials to Con trol Fight.. RELIEF AT CRITICAL TIME Private and National Woods to Have Use of Soldiers. CO-OPERATION IS PLAN With 17,000 Regulars Fires Will Be Stamped Out- President's Order, First Misunderstood, Relates to All Forests. FOREST FIRE SITUATION. President orders commanders of Army posts la Pacific Coaat and Northwest to hold troop, la readi ness to aid forest service. Forest officials near scene ordered to call on Army (or aid. If needed, and to adopt emergency measures. Tlmberowners at present fight fires with independent patrol, but their forces are almost exhausted.' Fires well under control in Orofino district, but continue smouldering. .Aberdeen threatened with destruc tion by raging fire. Clearwater district fires burst out anew, fanned by strong wind. Colvllle forest still biasing on all sides. When President Tatt ordered the 17,000 troops of tha Regular Army now in the Pacific Northwest to respond to calls for aid in fighting forest fires, the protection waa Riven to the entire forests of the Western country and was not limited to the National forest reserves. Officers of the -Wtem-ForestTy Conservation. Society were at first disposed to question the efficacy of the order because of a possible conflict of authority, Message Is Ambiguous. This arose from a somewhat ambiguous telegram from Associate Forester Potter which appeared . to say that the troops should be subject to the call of the Forest Service only. Mr. Potter's mes sage follows: Washington, r. C, Aug. 8. The War De partment has directed commanding officers of all posts In Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California, upon application to them by forest officers, to lend every assis tance possible in suppression of forest fires. The order contemplates co-operation. Where neceseary to transfer troops, railway trans portation to be furnished from Washington. POTTER,. Associate Forester. Blanket Order Issued. That the soldiers are to be used for the handling of forest fires on lands held under private ownership as well as Na tional reserves, although under direction of the Forest Service, appears from later advices from Washington which say that President Taft Issued the order authoriz ing the employment of the soldiers for this purpose in response to calls for aid from the Western Forestry & Conserva tion Society and from the Western Pine Manufacturers' Association. Immediately Concluded on Page 3.) Like Maude Adams, Margaret Illlng-ton-Bowes Will Give Great Pro duction In Open Air. TACOMA, Aug! 8. Announcement was made Iti Tacoma today of a project that will interest in an unusual degree literary and dramatic circles. Some time next Summer Margaret Iillington (Mrs. Erward J. Bowes) will head a company of players presenting for the first time In modern times "The Medea," the Greek tragedy of Euripides, in the stadium. It so happens that the story of "The Medea" fits ideally into the setting fur nished by the stadium with the lat ter's background of blue water. Maud Adams' presentation of Joan of Arc In the stadium at Harvard and her appearance in "As You Like It" in the open-air theater at Berkeley, were given widespread attention. The performance of "The Medea" will be on an ambitious scale and will have a literary and dramatic Importance that will attract literary and classical stu dents as well as lovers of the drama. Margaret Illlngton Is now deeply en gaged In preparing her new play, "Un til Eternity GREYHOUND JOINS COYOTES Tame Pet Hears Call of Wild and Responds to It. A once tame greyhound, owned by Martin Smith of Sandy, has become wild and now consorts with the coyotes it formerly chased In the surrounding hills. It has been three years since this greyhound heard and responded to the call of the wild, and It has never ventured back to his old home In Sandy except to come to the outskirts to steal chickens from hen-roosts. The companion of this sreyhound Is a coyote, and they have frequestly been seen together running through the outskirts of Sandy. Several per sons have tried to get photographs of the strange couple, but have failed. The greyhound has lost all desire to return to his former home, and has become even more wild than his com panion. The animal has quite a his tory, having :een raised from a puppy in the neighborhood. But one day he disappeared from his home and several weeks afternwards was seen with, the. coyote which has been his constant companion ever since. GAMBLER LEFT $1,000,000 Nurse, Who Wedded Dying "Big Jim" Kennedy, Gets Fortune. NEW YORK, Aug. 8. "Big Jim" Kennedy, it was known, made a good thing out of his clubs here and In Chicago, but until today the trained nurse he married on his deathbed nev er dreamed that her share of his es tate would be one-third of $1,000,000. The highest estimate of friends was $500,000. As filed today, the will shows that it was drawn on the day of the mar riage, Juyl 1, alst, four weeks before Kennedy died, when he knew that he could never recover from a lingering illness. An appraisal list shows $100, 000 in stocks and bonds and the rest in gilt-edged realty. Kennedy's property in Saratoga, ac quired late in life, he intended to make a rival of Canfleld's, but his title, he found, prohibited any use of the house other than for residence, and "Ken nedy's" was never opened. . - WITNESSES jARE CAPTIVES 'Murderer Holds Up Streetcar and fries to Escape. OMAHA, Neb.. Aug. 8. After slaying two companions near South Omaha, Mike Arlllk, an Austrian, a section hand on the Northwestern railroad, captured a streetcar yesterday, placed on it the only two witnesses to the double mur der and made a fast run to Omaha. The police arrested Arllik after a chase. Arilik killed Antone Carrner and Jose Nlcllcitch with a knife, after a quarrel about a woman. Two section men saw the act and started for a telephone to report to the police. Arilik forced them at the point of a revolver to board a car with him. He told the motorman to run with all speed through to Omaha or he would shoot the witnesses. The motorman did so, but the two witnesses Jumped from the car on the way. NO BROWNE JUROR CHOSEN Frist Week of Trial Sees "ot a Man Ready to Serve. . CHICAGO, Aug. 8. At the close of the first week of the secondtrial of Lee O'Neil Browne, minority leader in the State Legislature, charged with buying votes to elect William Lorimer to the United States Senate, not one juror has been accepted. Questioning of the second venire of 100 was ended today. Nearly all plead prejudice. STEVEDORES WILL STRIKE Hamburg American Line Workers to Join Mechanics. HAMBURG. Aug. 8. The stevedores, ship cleaners and painters employed by the Hamburg-American. Steamship Com pany voted today to strike. Already 8000 mechanics connected with the shipbuilding companies are on strike and It is the announced intention of the companies to lock out 15.000 other work ers, beginning August 11. Smoker Crumples and Men Are Mangled PASSENGER HITS WORKTRAIN Ignacio Scene of Wreck on Northwestern Pacific. ENGINE MEN ARE VICTIMS Presence of Work-Train in Path of Regular Is Xot Yet Explained. Men In Smoker Crushed as , They Sit in Seats. SAUSALITO. Cal., Aug. 8. Thirteen are dead and 13 injured In a wreck on the Northwestern Pacific at Ignacio tonight, according to the figures just furnished by the dispatcher. . The majority of those injured were rid ing in the smoking car of the passenger train. They were residents of Petaluma, Santa Rosa and other nearby towns and several. It is reported, were delegates to the state convention of the Red Men, which meets at Santa Rosa tomorrow. Trains Meet In Curve. The wreck occurrred at a curve a mile and a half south of this, place. The pas senger train was traveling at a speed of 0 miles an hour and the special, com posed of an engine and a caboose of a work train, was also going at a fair speed. It is a mystery as yet how the work train happened to be in the path of the regular evening train. At the office of the ' dispatcher of the Northwestern Pa cific Information was given out that one of the conductors had made a mistake in his orders and failed to take a siding. Suddenly the passengers were Jerked forward by"""tlie quick shutting down of the brakes and at the same time there came a terrific impact and the sound of escaping steam. The two engines had plunged Into each other's throats and the ewight of the passenger cars had crushed the baggage car and the smoker together so that two-thirds of the smoker was telescoped. The engines were on end, snarling. When the dazed passengers made their way out of the three rear coaches, which were unharmed, they found a pathetic scene. It was light enough to see plain ly. From the huddled smoking car came shrieks and groans and the waving of blood stained arms. It seemed as if the passengers in the smoker between 25 and 30 men had been caught in a sitting posi tion and those who were not killed were penned in so by the weight over their legs that they were unable to help them selves or their neighbors in misfortune. A few men made their way out of the panic-stricken throng to the forward end of the smoker where the greatest damage had been done. They had no tools but they tried by unaided strength to pull away windows and Jumbled timbers. In that maes of wood and flesh, however, there was little movement. Mangled Bodies Found. Work on the rear half of the smoker was easier. Some of the rescuers scat tered to nearby houses to telephone for help, while others sought to get the in jured out of the wreck. . One man was lying by the side of the track with his head gone. Another can was sitting in a window of the smoker, dead, an expression of mingled wonder and paid on his face. The messenger, a young man of the name of Emerson, was found dead. Engineer Reynolds of the passenger train was Injured and a quick examination of the wreck of the freight cab showed the dead bodies of the en gineer and the fireman. F. A. -Myers, of Petaluma, was one of the passengers. He was in a rear coach and was unharmed. - - He said that he had two friends on the train who went forward to the smoker a short time before the collision, : and that he was unable to find them. They were William Poehlman and George Riley, of Petaluma. HATTERS TAKE APPEAL Judgment of $22,000 for Injury to Trade Will Be Fought. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 8. Ths famous suit of D. F. Locwe and Chief of Police Danbury. against Martin Lawler and others, in which the plaintiffs al leged that 200 members of the Hatters' Union conspired to injure their trade, has been appealed. The defendants appealed from a judg ment of $22,000 given by a Jury in tha United States District Court. JAILBREAKERS ARE CAUGHT Men Starved From Hiding Places In Mountain Fastnesses. LONDON, Ky., ' Aug. 8. Officers re turned today with Francis Gilreath and Charles Walker, who escaped from Jail here Friday last, overpowering the Jailer and driving back Sheriffs and citizens. The men were chased into the moun tains near Wilton, Knox County, and surrendered last night after being sur rounded and kept from obtaining food or drink for several hours.