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4iff irsiiwfftrt- liSlli VOL. I-XO. 1.,GJ9. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. STATE OFFICIAL IS GRILLED INEPOHT Dr. Steiner's Request Ignored, Cut. TOO EXTRAVAGANT IS CHARGE Legislative Inquisitors Reduce Recommendations. KNIFE IS USED FREELY Item of $111,730 Is Other Appropriations One Half Feeble Killed and Are Cat . .Minded School MlfUM-d Is Charge. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or.. Jan. I. (Special.) Recommending wholesale paring of the appropriations asked by Superintendent Stelner. of the Asylum; declaring that the alms, uses and pur poses of the State School for Feeole Mlnded have been pervert-d and enter ing Into further recommendations as to the conduct of atate institutions In and around Salem, the legislative commit tee appointed by the last Legislature to make Investigations as to conditions and estimates, filed Its report In both bouses this afternoon. Dr. Steiner's recommendation that 112. 3TS be appropriated for the use of the Asylum during the biennial pe riod was put under the pruning knife and the committee recommends appro priations amounting to JS92.1S7.t Of this 110,000 Is recommended for mala tenance and the balance for Improve ments and new buildings. The request made by Ir. Stelner that 1141.750 be furnished for completion of the new wing of the receiving ward Is Ignored entirely both in the report and the appropriations bills as prepared by the committee. Appropriation Is Halved. Appropriations as recommended for the Asylum farm are sliced from S, 1T7 to S24.234.S0. The report states that there are de ficiencies of J2S.C00 at the Feeble-Mind ed School. After declaring that th uses, alms and purposes of this Instl tutlon have been perverted the report goes on to state that more of th pa tients now In the School for Feebie- Mlnded should be In the Asylum and that only such patients shoulj have been admitted to the school aa are of suitable age and capable of receiving Instruction. It la recited that 12.1 pa llents were transferred from tho Asy lum during the biennial period. Allegations of extravagance also are made relative to working of the farm Ing land In connection with the Insti tution. Members of the committee de clare that there are too many farm Imployes used for a well-managed far.n and that for the two yeara the test sf the farm help. Including board. IhouIJ not exceed j00i. This Is espe slally apparent, states the report, when It Is considered that many of tho in mates do farm and garden work. Deficiencies are shown of 1250 at the Blind .School: 117.713.70 at the peniten tiary, and 115.004 at the Asylum, this Jrflclency having Increased 11000 since the report was prepared. Very credit able mention Is made of the conduct of affair at the Mute School and Blind School. Coot Per ratlrnt Shown. Among other interesting data fur Itishrd Is a Statement shwing the cost per patient at each of the Institutions, this cost being as follows: Asylum. $;JJ; Deaf School. I2I.3S; Blind School. 2.75; Reform School. t2S.5; Penitentiary, fit: Feeble-Mlnded School. J4.7i Accompanying the report are two general appropriation bills which, will Immediately be printed. It also was decided In the Senate to furnish copies of the report for the use of the mem bers, this being done both !n tin House and Senate. The report follows: In accordance wltb the provisions of the Senate central concurrent resolu tion No. 2S. your committee met and selected as the three duly elected rep resentatives. Hon. J. IX Abbott of Mult nomah. Hon. L. T. Reynolds, of Marlon, and Hon. J. T. Mahoney of Morrow and Umatilla, to act with us and thereupon adjourned to meet at Salem on the second day of January. 1911. and take np the active duties Imposed by tho tald resolution. Two of these selected. Hon. J. T. Mahoney and Hon. L. T. I:enolds were unavoidably detained from actual participation In our work. On our visit to the State Penitentiary. Peaf-Mute School. Oregon Reform School, and State Institution for the Blind we found that tTie superintend ents of these several Institutions have maintained the same on the several sums appropriated by the last Legisla tive Assembly, except a deficiency of about 2S at the Blind School. At the State Penitentiary, according to the superintendent's report, there was a de ficiency on Decerpber 30th of I178S.70. and vouchers on file In the office of the Secretary of State for the quarter ending December 31st of about 1M.000, making a total deficiency at the State penitentiary of 117.73.70. Our observations at the Mute School lead us to believe that the relocation of this Institution In Its new quarters iConciuU.d a i'.ss Ci PULLMAN PROFITS SHRINK $1,500,000 V KEDl'CTIOX OF BEKTII KATES TO HAVE EjIYECT. 20 Per Cent of Hegular Prices for Sleeping Accommodations on. Trains to Be Stricken Off. CHICAGO, Jan. 20. (Special.) Work on reduced rate tariffs of the Pullman Company that are to become effective February 1, Is rspldty nearlng com pletion and will, it Is expected, be finished within the next few days. An nouncement to that effect was made today at the offices of the Pullman Company. It was first announced the change would be made today. The new rate schedules will mean reduction of 11.500.000 In tEe annual revenues of the company and Is the re suit of negotiations that have been pending before the Interstate Com roerce Commission for several months. Early In December officials of the com pany submitted to the Commission rough, draft of a revised schedule that meant a reduction of approximately fl.500.000. The reduction, which is country-wide, ill mean a cut of 0 per cent for upper berths and between 25 cents and II. or -0 per cent of the total, on Its lower berths. The new rates will be based on a charge of 3 for a 11-hour run. ex cept on some of the fastest trains, but the 30 per cent cut will apply to alt upper berth rates. The lines over which Pullman cars are operated Include all the main lines of the United States, excepting the New Haven roads, and the Great Northern and the Chicago, Milwaukee A St- Faul systems. JAIL FINISHES DOWNFALL Harry Maxwell Brooks, Spokane Lawyer, Clubman, Is Embezzler SPOKANE. Wash.. Jan. 20. (Special.) Harry Maxwell Brooks. lawyer, club man. Harvard graduate and Deputy Attorney-General of Washington until two years ago. was sentenced this morning to serve five months in the County Jail for embezzlement Brooks appeared In the court red-eyed, repentant and promising to make restitu tion of the money he confessed having taken, about CM belonging to a school teacher. Mrs. Nash. Sentence was passed by Judge Prater, of Seattle, who eiat as special Judge In the case. Brooks In originally from Massachu setts, where be married the daughter of a wealthy man. In an elopement. After coming West the parents of Mrs. Brooke sent her S1000 every Chrlstm as-time, but when her husband was arrested, Mrs. Brooks returned to her home In the EaK. It is charged that Brooks lost the money of his client, which 'was entrusted to hlin to pay off a mortgage, by shak ing dice In cigar stores. Brooks, at the time of hla arrest had bright pros pects. Proceedings are afoot to disbar him from practice. LIGHTING PLANT FLOODED Toledo Becomes Bark When Big Tide Meets Kiver at Flood Stage. TOLEDO. Or.. Jan. 20. (.Special. HJ water haa temporarily cut off the Loiter Yaqulna Valley from the outside world. Telephone and telegraph lines are out of commission. Several' slides and a bridge damaged at Eildyvllle on the Cor vallls & Eastern Railroad have put a atop to through traffic The company is operating Its line In two divisions be tween Corvallla and Taqulna, transferring at the damaged bridge. The ..ood coming down tlte Taqulna River met an exceptionally big tide blown' In from the ocean yesterday and as a result the electric light plant at Toledo was out of rommlsjion lust night and this city was In darkness. Water i said to be in the houses at Elk City at the conjunction of the Big Elk and laqulna rlvera. ALL METHODISTS TO UNITE Joint Committee Adopt Plan to Combine Threo Churches. CINCINNATI, Jan. 10. After ormu lating the plan that It believed would lead to the unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Epls copal Church South and the Methodist Episcopal rrotestant Church, the sub committee composed of three members from each adjourned today. It will re port to the general committee composed of nine members from each of the de nominations at Chattanooga, May 17. Bishop Cranston, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, tonight said: The subcommittee has succeeded In forming a working plan that It believes ill eventually result in the unification of the three churches." MRS. MANSFIELD WINS SUIT Actor's Widow Awarded $8781 Royalty on "Bean Brummel.' NEW TORK. Jan. 20. (Special.) Judge Ward In trie United States Cir cuit Court today directed that final Judgment for IST81.SS be entered against the American Play Company In favor of Susan IL. widow of Richard Mansfield unless the company within ten days i nswers the complaint. The widow alleges ahe agieed to turn over the manuscript and dramatic rights of "Beau Brummel" for two years from October 1. 1D08. for royal ties of at least 10.00o. she received ouly 11115-Ji, she said. GOODWIN S WEALTH IN HANDS OF EDNA $1,700,000 in Trus Before Wedding. HALF INCOME GOES TO WIFE Document Signed While Actor Maxine Elliott's Husband. HE HAS OTHER PROPERTY Testimony Taken Before Referee AMU Bring Out All Faets About Lavish Gift or Hair Interest In Lands, and Bonds. NEW TORK. Jan. 30.-JustIce Goff In the Supreme Court today named J Campbell Thompson, a lawyer, referee to take testimony In the suit for divorce brought by Edna Goodrich Goodwin, the actress, against Nat C. Goodwin. The suit promises to be productive of Interesting developments, not the least among which will be the bringing out of the story of the alleged $1,700,000 pre- nuptlal trust deed by which Goodwin turned a big share of bis wealth into trust fund, the revenue from which', it was provided, should be equally divided between the pair during their lives and the principal to go to the survivor on the death of either. Itcal Estate and Bonds Included. Hermann L. Roth, counsel for Mrs. Goodwin, said today that the property embraced in the trust deed Included real estate in California, a big amount of Government bonds, many New Tork state and city bondsi and a lot of equally valuable staple and other securities. The San Francisco real estate was the $250,000 Lafayette apartment-house, - for which the actor paid cash; other San Francisco residences and business prop erty and a number of orange groves. Several choice pieces of Los Angeles realty also figured in the list. Gift, Pure and Simple. ' Mr. Roth declared that the agreement by which all this was converted Into he trust fund for the benefit of Miss Goodrich was drawn up and signed while Ooodwln was still the husband of his hlrd wife, Maxine Elliott. 'It Is an Ironclad document.", .con tinued Mr. Roth, "and It will be Impos sible for Goodwin to break It. It Is not a pre-nuptlal agreement, as such agree ments are usually considered, for Mr. Goodwin, being then the husband of Miss Elliott, was not In a position to make a pre-nuptlal agreement with Miss Good rich. The transfer of the property was a gift, pure and simple." The lawyer Incidentally declared that the actor had plenty of other resources aside from the sum tied up In the trust fund. Mrs. Goodwin Is in New Tork awaiting the trial, but her attorneys would not disclose her address. v Attentions to Others Grounds. According to Mrs. Edna Goodrich Goodwin's attorneys the grounds - for her plea for divorce are the attentions (Concluded "n Psae 2- INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 40 degrees; minimum. 5 .degrees. , TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. Legislature. Legislative committer reports that Dr. Stelner. asylum head, is extravagant. Page 1. Washington Legislature adopts memorial .urging granting or legislative powers to Alaska, page 7. House: bill is Introduced to abolish Justices of peace In Portland and establish Xis . irict court, page e. Foreign. Three die from cold after ship burns at sea. page 2. roUtlcs. Eheehan in vain asks Dlx to break deadlock and Parker gets votes he does not want. Page 3. National. Pullman rates will be cut and company's proms snrtnK. page 1. ldo Issue may defeat resolution in Senate for direct elections. Page 5. New Orlesns wins in committee In exposi tion fight; Ban Francisco will carry fight to House. Page 1. Striking railwav mall clerks deride to re turn to work pending consideration of grievance. Page It. Taft refuses to withdraw Colwell's nomlna tlnn and Senate will probably reject mm. page 3. Government engineers report on Klamath project is made known, page 15. Secretary Norton will resign position. Page 4. Domestic. - Los Angeles matron gets 150.000 from father she never knew until a few months ago. Page 1. Federation of Labor charters Miners Feder. atlon when coal miners threaten to with draw. Page 14. Grand Jury In Vermilion County. 111., sum mons loo witnesses on vote-buying. Page 1. Carnerle donates $10,000,000 to "Carnegie In stitution or Washington. Page 2. Express companies announce lower rates. Page 3. Goodwin divorce suit revests that actor deeded hall or great Income to Edna (ioodfich. Page J. Election fraud outrages bared in New Jer sey, page 4. Paul Morton's fortune $1,300,000: Charles D. Norton may succeed nlm. Page 3. Sports. Walter McCredle jubilant at reversal of Judge Grahams Helling decision. Page 8. 'Special opening" of new Idea auto show set for tonight. Page 8- Commerclal and Marine- Hops bring good prices at auction. Page 19. Closing down of mills breaks wheat at Chi cago. Page 10. Sharp fluctuations in stock market. Page lu. Pacific Northwest. State Federation of Labor and employers may discuss compensation act. Page o. Torrent from bursting dam crushea house In path; occupants, sleeping, escape death. Page 7. Portland and Vicinity. Tillamook people renew efforts for harbor Improvement, page 12. Dr. Rosenberg acquitted by instructed ver dict. Page 12. Slletz settlers on 73 claims about to receive $700,000 for timber. Page 12. Employers and union men working together for new liability law. Page 11. Husband whose . wife shoots at him wins divorce, page IS. Automobile club holds annual banquet. Page 8. Jackson Club debater urges- single tax as substitute for tariff. Page 14. . HITTING SPEED TO DOUBLE British Warship's Test May Revolu tionize Naval Gunnery. LONDON. Jan. 20. (Special.) The Telegraph prints a report on the de velopment of naval gunnery, which may double the present rate of hitting of the newest, large armored ships. The new battleship Neptune will leave Splthead Saturday to make a erles of important gunnery trials in the Mediterranean. Officials refuse all nformation regarding the experiments. which, according to the Telegraph, are expected to lead to a revolution in gunnery. The nature of the reported develop ment is not Indicated more clearly than a suggestion that it is due to notable changes In the construction compared with original Dreadnoughts. ' princi pally in reference to the disposition of guns. On the result or the experi ments depends the future construction f battleships. BINGO! AGTION PROMPT ON VERMILION FRAUD Grand Jury Calls 100 to Tell of Vote-Buying. EXODUS OF HEELERS BEGINS Fear Shown Lest Witnesses Yield to Pressure. 1 SHERIFF DRIVEN TO STEAL Hardy AVhltlock's Salary Eaten Up by Buying Votes Lawyers Hold taw Giving Immunity to Vote Bayers Unconstitutional. DANVILLE. 111., Jan. 20. (Special.) One hundred subpenas for Vermilion County politicians were issued by the vote-fraud grand jury this afternoon dl rectly after six of the wealthiest bank ers of Danville had appeared. The sub penas were placed in the hands of Dep uty Sheriffs for service and were made returnable next Monday afternoon. According to reports about the Court house, where the jury is sitting, politi clans of botb parties and of both high and low standing in the community are named in the huge list. They will be made to testify regarding the alleged buying of thousands of votes in Speaker CannoaVs home bailiwick. ' Exodus of Suspects Begins. The action of Foreman Isaac Wood- yard and the Jurymen came like .light ning out of a clear sky. It had gener ally been believed that the grand Jury. would dispose of the 40-odd criminal cases now pending on the docket before taking up the inquiry ordered by Circuit Judge Kimbrough. Fear that pressure might be brought to bear on important witnesses to' prevent their testifying is said to have hastened the action. Already a general exodus of ward- heelers and the smaller fry of politicians has begun. Numerous witnesses wanted are on the missing list, while fully 100 alleged vote-sellers have applied to law yers for advice. E. X. Leseure, son-in-law of Cannon, and the Speaker's local campaign man ager, and five other bankers were be fore the grand Jury today. These bank ers, with Speaker Cannon and the late Wiley Fowler," were bondsmen of Hardy Whitlock, ex-Sheriff and County Treas urer, now missing, who was found short $37,600 in his accounts after his unsuc cessful race for Sheriff last Fall.-These bondsmen are said to have made good the defalcation. Vote-Buying Drives to Stealing. Whitlock's embezzlement is laid, di rectly to Vermilion County politics. His political ' fights broke him. Vote-buying and .heavy campaign expenses ate up his salary. It is rumored that the jury is consid ering another person in the Whitlock affair. George F. Rearick, a member of the County -Board, was also a wit ness. -Whitlock, according to the test! mony before the grand Jury, began em- (Concluded on Page 2.) FATHER,WIFE NEVER KNEW,GIVES RICHES LOS AXCELES MATROX IS LEFT $50,000 IX WILL. Hearing Rich Rancher Vs Father but Few Months Ago, Family of Attorney Gets Surprise. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Jan. 20. A for tune of $50,000 has been bequeathed to Mrs. Robert A.' Todd, wife of a promi nent local attorney and ex-City Coun cilman of Los Angeles, by Deitrich C. Mensing, a rancher of Covina, whom she did not know to be her father un til a few months ago. The wife of Mensing also was unaware that Mrs. Todd was his daughter and that she was to receive the greater share of the $70,000 estate, consisting of orange groves, other real estate and collateral. The bequest is the outcome of a ro mance of the old days in California, when the sanction of law was not so essential to the marriage contract. Men sing, who was a simple German farmer, met and lived with the mother of Mrs. Todd for 10 years. One day they mu tually agreed to separate, and the wo man and her baby daughter departed from the ranch". Later, Mensing married again, and his former wife became the wife of Ed ward Rinehart. The wife of Mensing never knew of his former attachment and issue, but the old German farmer never forgot, and remembered In his will, not only the daughter, but also Rinehart, who had become the husband of the woman he had first loved. PROJECT HELPS PORTLAND Seattle Displeased With Apportion ment of Irrigation Fund. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 20. (Special.) Asserting that virtually all of the $9,000,000 appropriated by Congress for irrigation work in Washington and Oregon will be expended in trade terri tory that will benefit Portland and will work to the detriment of Seattle, Otto P. Schwarzschild, a contractor of this city, and other property-owners In the Kittitas Valley, have taken up with Representative Huniphrey and will lay before the commercial bodies of this city a plan to effect an alteration in the Government's scheme which will re sult in the expenditure of some of the money in behalf of Seattle's trade terri tory. The Government's plan was for five irrigation projects in Washington all excepting one of which, it is asserted. Is "on or near the Columbia River, reached by railroad lines that will pour the wealth of the new districts Into Portland. . It Is charged that the present plan was carried out through Harriman nterests to benefit Portland, and not until the full measure ot Its Import, n diverting trade from Seattle's local territory, was- comprehended, it is as serted, was any action begun toward saving a portion of the appropriation for rich lands nearer this city. BIGAMIST PLACATES WIFE Bogus Divorce Papers Induce Her to Withdraw Prosecution. EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 20. (Special.) Unable to get J1000 ball, James B. Dyson who married in Oregon and again In Ta- coma, was brought to the County Jail last night to await the disposition of his case. Rose Dyson, the Tacoma wife, who married him in 1909, said today that she would not take any part in the prose cution of Dyson. Ho told her he was divorced and showed her papers to that effect, she asserted. It has developed that Dyson has been married three times and the Oregon woman Is his second wife. The divorce papers he showed her were for the first matrimonial venture. Mrs. Nellie Dyson, wife No. 2, has de parted from Snohomish, with her two children, and It Is considered possible she may v relent and fall to push the case against her faithless husband. Dyson in sists that he understood his second wife had secured a divorce as she had prom ised. LABORERS' BAN IS ON AX Grants Pass Faces Fuel Famine; Coal Is Ordered. GRANTS PASS. Or., Jan. 20. (Spe cial.) There Is a shortage of wood here because of a lack of woodchop pers. One local wood yard dealer has ordered coal shipped from the mines in Washington. Adjacent to this city .are thousands of acres of the finest kind of wood timber but laborers won't chop wood. The building of the Grants Pass and Western between this city and Kerby will open a vast field for contractors to furnish wood to this city and Medford. The towns up the valley have for years relied upon Josephine County to fur nish them wood. v CURSING TAFT COSTS $10 Seattle Socialist First Sentenced to 15 Days in Jail for Disrespect. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 20. (Special.) Joseph Billows, a Soffiallst, was sen tenced by Judge Gordon today to serve 15 days in jail for cursing the name of President Taft. Billows was arrested last night by Patrolmen Donlan and Barney Jones when he was heard to curse Taft and say, "Where I came' from they kill such tyrants." The sentence was later commuted to a HO fine, which wag paid. . FIGHT IS STARTED FOR. EXPOSITION Decisive Battle Will Be Fought on Tuesday. SAN FRANCISCO IS CONFIDENT New Orleans Wins in Commit tee, but West Is Solid. STATES BACK CALIFORNIA Through Aid of Chairman, .New Or leans Gets Favorable Report in Committee; Kahn Will i'ut Entire House on Ttccortl j WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. "Fight to the finish" is the slogan of the Cali fornia delegation in the House, which is engaged In a contest with New Or leans for the location of the exposition to be held in 1915 in celebration of the completion of the Panama Canal. San Francisco lost the first round today by the adoption of a majority report by the committee on industrial arts and expositions in favor of New Or leans, but the real battle will come in the House next Tuesday, when the re ports of the majority in favor of New Orleans and the minority in favor of San Francisco will come up for adop tion. ' The Californlans were not dismayed by the unfavorable action of today, for the 'opposition of Rodenburg, chairman of the committee, had prepared them for it. On the -contrary, they were nerved to continued effort by tele-, grams from the Legislatures of Ore-' gon, Washington, Utah, Montana in fact every state west of the Rocky Mountains. The Montana Legislature went so far as to suspend the rules for the adoption of a resolution endorsing California. The House committee decided by a vote of 9 to 6 to report favorably the Estoplnal bill recognizing New Orleans as the scene of the exposition, and au thorizing the appointment of a board of governors and the making of a Govern ment exhibit. The bill makes no direct appropriation in aid of the exposition, but will provide for an extensive Gov ernment exhibit to cost about $1,000. 000. A subcommittee is preparing tin bill and will report to the full commit tee on Tuesday, when the report to the House will be made. Kahn of California, who is leading the tight for San Francisco, will bring the question to an issue by calling tor action on his resolution, which was favorably reported by the committee on foreign affairs at the last seeajon, in viting the participation of foreign countries in the Panama-Pacific exposi tion to be held at San Francisco in 1915. The committee sidestepped th issue by also reporting the Estoplnal resolution inviting participation in the Panama exposition at New Orleans in the same year. Both measures are on the calendar awaiting action. The members of the committee who voted for New Orleans are Rodenburg, Illinois; Langley, Kentucky; Murphy, Missouri; Woods, Iowa; Khlnock, Ken tucky; Heflin, Alabama; Collier, Mis sissippi; Cullop, Indiana; Irvington, Maryland. The members who favored Sari Fran cisco are: Gardner, Massachusetts; South wick. New York; Steenerson, Min nesota; Poindexter, Washington; May nard, Virginia; Nelson, Wisconsin. TMON'TAXA INDORSES BAY, CIT1' Rules Suspended to Pass Vote State exhibit Proposed. HELENA, Mont.. Jan. 20. Montans paid California a high compliment today. The rules of the lower House of the Leg islature were suspended while a resolu tion, ' requesting Congress to recognize San Francisco as the exposition city of 1915, was submitted to a vote and passed, 01 to 3. The same measure had been previously passed by the Senate, and during the day there was introduced a second measure providing for an appropriation of $200,000 to defray the expenses of Montana's par ticipation in the Panama-Pacific Inter national Exposition and empowering the Governor to appoint a commission of five to do the work involved in such par ticipation. The memorial was signed by the Governor before the day closed. The interests of San Francisco were represented by ex-Secretary of Stata Charles Furdy, of California: ex-State Senator J. A. McKee, of Sacramento, and Robert B. Connelly, chief of the exposi tion bureau of publicity. SAN FRANCISCO. IS CONFIDENT. Action of Committee Only Prelude to Real Fight. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20. (Special.) The Panama-Pacific Exposition com mittee at a meeting called this after noon issued the following statement through Charles de Young to the peo ple of San Francisco: "We consider conditions at Washing ton most encouraging. The action of th committee was a foregone conclusion, as Rodenburg. chairman of that com mittee, was a strong New Orleans man atul was thought to control the commit tee. "The minority report of six shows the good work done by the Washington dele gation and encourages us to feel that, when the matter ia brought before the Hon. next week and tha real fight m4. Ea Frincltca will win,"