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ijf' il' , VOL. LI NO. 13,789. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CALM JUDGES SHY JOE DAY LODGED IN SEATTLE JAIL WAH YUT LONGS MERCURY 1 00, TAFT SPEAKS ALL DAY SUSPECT HIS CELL T NORTHWEST CRIES FOR 2-BIT PIECES F0RFL0WERYH0ME AT WOMEN JURIES SHOT IH BANKS ASK TREASURY DEPART WEALTHY CHINAMEN GIVES OLD CALAMITY IS FORETOLD IX MIXED-SEX VENTRE. MENT FOR SMALL CHANGE. MAX PASSAGE BACK. MURDER r.HSSiONARY S INVADES PORTLAND International Conven tion Begins Today. 6000 DELEGATES EXPECTED Noted Christian Church Lead ers to Speak. GOVERNOR WILL WELCOME Special Trains Bringing: Large Num ber of Person Arrive Here and More Will Come Today Pro gramme la Varied. That 00 delf gates -will register for the International Missionary ConTen tion of the Christian Church at head quarters In Grace Methodist Church. here this wee la the belief of T. X Picton. secretary of the Portland com mittee, who aald yesterday thla number would include these who have been at tending the State Convention, which closed last night at the Flrat Christian Church, and the delegation of SO from Southern California, that came In early yesterday on the steamer Roae City. The Cincinnati delegation, number ing ISO persons, came In yesterday on the first section of the Rose City spe cial, leaving- the train at The Dallea and completing- Its Journey by boat. An equal number la expected to come from Cincinnati on the second section of the special, which will arrive to day. Another special, com Ins; from Kanaaa City, reached Portland yester day with 200 persons. Other delega tions represent Alabama. Georgia and the Southern states. f Booths Are Made., Grace Methodist Church at Twelfth and Taylor atreeta will be the head quarters of the administrative and re ception committees during the conven tion. Booths for the registration and information bureaus, post of rice, head quarters of the various missionary so cieties and their exhibits, ladles" rest rooms, and the offices of the various committees have been fitted up. The meetings during the convention will be held In the White Temp'e an I In the First Presbyterian Church. It baa been arranged to hold services at these two place simultaneously. The speakers will interchange- pulpits and will repeat each of their addresses, so that those who are not able to gain access to one of the churches may hear the same address at the other church The dally sessions In the White Temple win h held In the main auditorium and the basement of the building will be given over to exhibits of various so cieties and publishing-houses. Committers Are Enlarged. Testerday was devoted to prepara tion for and to the reception of the Incoming delegates. "This work has as sumed such proportions." said Rev. Mr. Ghormley. "that we have been obliged to Increase the membership of each of our original 14 committees from four or five to between 30 and 39 members." The formal opening of the convention wi:i be held In the White Temple to night, the Joint Introductory aervlces being presided over by Rev. W. F. Reagor. pastor of the First Christian Church. Prominent men from the different Rational societies who arrived In Port land yesterday and who will take Im portant parts In the programme of the coming week are: A. McLean, presi dent of the Foreign Christian Mission ary Society; F. M. Rains, secretary, and K. W. A'.Ien. secretary, all from Cin cinnati: Grant K. Lewis, of Cincinnati secretary of the American Missionary Society, and Robert W. Hopkins, of Lexington. Kr, Bible school secretary in the American Society; O. W. Muck- ley, of Kansas City. Mo, secretary of the Board of Church Extension: A. L. Oreo 1 1, of Indianapolis, president of the Board of Ministerial Relief and treasurer of the American Temperance Board, and W. E. Jf. Hackleman. of Indianapolis, a hymn writer and singer of National prominence. Many Organizations Take Part. The organizations represented In the convention are: The American Chris tian Missionary Society, the Foreign Christian Missionary Society. the Christian Woman's Board of Missions, the Board of Church Extension, the Board of Ministerial Relief, the Na tional Board of Christian Evangelists. the National Benevolent Association, the American Temperance Board, the National Board of Christian Endeavor and the Council on Christian Union. The programme for the sessions to day and Wednesday follows: Tuesday morning. 10 A. M. Annual meeting Christian Women's Board of Missions; S P. M . annual meeting board of man agers Foreign Christian Missionary So ciety; 1 30 P. JI.. .VnuaI meeting board of managers American Christian Mis sionary Sclety; 7:3 P. M. sacred con cert C. H. Hohgatt. leader; 1:00 P. M, devotional service led by C F. Stevens, of Spokane. Wash.; t:2t P. M.. remarks by chairman W. F. Reagor; 1:30 p. address of welcome by W. B. Hlnson. D. D, of Portland; I 40 P. M.. address of welcome In behalf of the State of Oregon by Oovernor West: 00 P. M.. JCoaoluded ea S With Harvesting Season Here. They Are Shy on SIlTer Transporta tion Cost Stumbling Block. WASHINGTON. July 3. A famine of silver coins is threatened In the North Pacific States and banks In Oregon. Washington and Montana are appearing to the Treasury Department to ship dimes, quarters and half dollars to re lteve the situation. Congress has not made an approprla tlon for transporting the coin and Treasury officials say they cannot come to their relief unless Congress takes some action. The Treasury formerly paid for such transportation and saves about 3300,000 a year by not doing so now. -There always la a scarcity of silver In the banks of the Pacific Northwest at this season of the year." said J. U. Hartman. manager of the Portland Clearing-House Association, last night. "This Is doe to the fact that unusual demands are made on the banks for money for harvesting purposes and the need Is greater for silver than for gold or currency. "Our association has called this situ etlon to the attention of the member of Oregon's delegation In Congress In the hope that the Treasury Department be directed to prepay the expense of transporting to the Pacific Northwest banka sufficient silver to take care of harvesting our big crops. We ask this concession for only three months." TRESSES UPSET SAILBOAT Young Girl Drowns 'When Catches in Hair. Sail GRANTS PASS, Or.. July 3. (Spe cial.) After being capsized in a sail boat and when a rescuer was within a few feet of her. Miss Mabel Whipple waa drowned In the Rogue River here thla afternoon. The drowned girl's sister Mary Is engaged to Murray NeaL who was In the rescuing boat. Miss Whipple, in company with James and Murray Neal. were sailing on the river when a gust of wind hurt led the sail across the boat's beam, entangling the boom In the girl's hair. fhf craft upset and Murray Neal swam to shore and waa returning with a row boat when the Whipple girl sank. The body was recovered near the scene of tlx accident late this afternoon. BRITISH TO OBSERVE 4TH Two Warships to Participate In Honolulu Celebration. HONOLULU. July 3. His Britannic Majesty's cruisers Kent and Challenger will remain In port tomorrow and will participate In the Fourth of July cele bration here. The Brltiah ships will salute the American flag with due form and cere mony In the morning and their officers will attend the official public reception and ball given by Governor Frear. or flctals of the port and. American Army and Navy officers In the evening. It Is said that the salute of the Kent and Challenger will mark the first time In history that a British ship has par tlclpated In the celebraton of American independence. MOTHERS TO JUDGE CASE Jurist Invites Women to Determine Child Controversy. TACOMA. Wash- July 3. (Special.) Superior Judge C. M. Easterday has de elded to call three prominent club women of Tacoma to sit on the bench with him and hear the merits of a case that has been long In the local courts. The custody of an lS-months-oId child Is the stake for which Mr. and Mrs. Harper Trosper are fighting and Judge Easterday says he feels a mother could better decide whether Mrs. Trosper Is fit person to have the child. He will no; announce the names of the women selected until he has first consulted them to make sure each will consent to serve. LANE WILL TRY CASE HERE Questions Important to Transconti nental Carriers Involved. WASHINGTON. Jtly I. Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, departed today for Ban Francisco. He will be absent from Washington until October 1. Meanwhile he will hear cases at San Francisco. Lns Angeles and Santa Rosa. Cel.; Portland. Or., and Tacoma and Seattle. Wash. The cases Involve questions Important to all transcontinental carriers. They will not be determined until some time early In 113. CUPID HITS 16 IN DAY Walla Walla Marriage License Rec ord Broken Before Fourth. WALLA "WALLA. Wash.. July J. (Special. ) Records In the marriage license department of the office of County Auditor Sweaay went by the board today, when eight permits for wedding bells were Issued by Charles F. Dement, the official "Cupid" of the county. This Is the largest number of licensee Issued In one day from the office of the County Andltor and establishes a record that may endure for some time, aa five waa formerly the top number. Portland Dectective Runs, Is Caught. I00Q CHASE TWO SLEUTHS Hyde, Hidden Behind Ash Bar rel, Gives Self Up. GRAND JURY WANTS BOTH Visiting Police Members Hearing of Impending; Arrest as Witnesses Take to Heels Two Freed Under $2000 Bonds. SEATTLE, July Su Ex-Chief of Po lice Wappeaatela waa found anility to aight of having accepted a bribe of lOOO laat August for permitting Gldeoa Tapper and Clarence J. Gerald to oper ate tke Midway and Parts rrlbhouaea la the Old Klag-atreet vice district. The Jury reported at 10 o'clock, after being out seres and a half hours. SEATTLE. Wash, July . (Special.) Attention was diverted from Judge Ronald's courtroom, where Wappen- steln's trial is on. this afternoon short ly before the Jury retired, when word was passed that E. B. Benn. Wappen stein's brother-in-law, and Joseph Day and William H. Hyde. Portland detectives, who had been witnesses for the defense, had been placed In Jail. Two days ogo John F. Murphy, Prose cuting Attorney, received orders from Judge. J. V. ' Main authorizing the Sheriff to arrest Wappensteln's rela tive and the two detectives as wit nesses wanted - by the grand Jury. Word of thla had been whispered to Detective Day shortly before 3 o'clock. r.d Day, with his partner, Hyde, de cided hastily to leave the courthouse. Their actions were observed by Craw ford E. White, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, who had the orders for their arrest in his pocket. Sleuths Take Flight. White ran at top speed to the Sheriffs office, placed the orders In the Sheriff's hands and pointed out the fleeing detectives Just as they were Isappearlng down Seventh avenue to ward Tesler way. Deputy Sheriffs 8am Klein and Herbert Beebe were Instantly dispatched In pursuit. As soon as Day and Hyde saw that they were pursued they Jumped from their fast walk into a run, with the Deputy Sheriffs and 100 or so boys nd dogs In eharp pursuit. Down across Yesler way. through back yards and alleys, the detectives rushed at top speed with the crowd increasing to about 1000 and the deputies gain ing at every Jump. Hyde Abandons Day. Hyde, seeing that Day, handicapped by his age, was out of breath and waa sure to fall a captive to the younger and more fleet-footed deputies, started on ahead. The hue and cry had now led from the top of Profanity Hill, where the (Concluded on Pas 2.) TIME FOR Love for Child-Favorite of Oriental Colony Stays Pangs of "Whang Taj." SPOKAXE. Wash.. July 3. They call It a "whang tay" In Chinese and home elokness In English, the malady that is eating the heart and soul out of Wah Tut. aged 75, a Chinaman who spent his fortune, made in a commission house of Portland. Or., trying to make a success of a placer mine he thought he found on the Columbia River near Entlat Rapids. Tyo Gee, Ene Hong and other wealthy Spokane Chinese merchants, made up a purse to send the old man back home. They feared he would go Insane longing for the Flowery King dom and a glimpse of the old borne. He will not talk, eat and cannot sleep. They arranged with the Immigration authorities .at Seattle for his return passage and gave Wah Tut enough to take him home. Now the old man refuses to go, after his trunk waa packed and his ticket bought. The Chinamen say he does not want to leave little Mong Hong, the 3-year-old daughter of Eng Hong, the child-favorite of the Chinese .Quarter. She la the old man's best friend. He does not. want to stay In Spokane and will not go back to China. Arrangements will be made to send the homesick man to Portland or to a hospital. MARION HIGHWAY ASSURED Ex-Mayor of Salem Hopes Rail Lines Will Aid. SALEM. Or, July 3. (SpeclaL) "As far as Marlon County is concerned the proposed hignway from Salem to Port land is certain. If e can secure the co-operation of the other two coun ties." said ex-Mayor George F. Rod gers today, who is the Marlon County member of the committee aDDolnted by Oovernor West to promote the pro posed highway. The only difficulty that confronts us Is the question of transporting ma terlaL Otherwise the construction of such a road with the aid of convict labor Is a comparatively simple af fair. "My plan is to secure the co-opera tion of the Southern Pacific and Ore gon Electric to transport material at cost and as these roads strike the pro posed highway at a majority of its Important points, the difficulty may thus be materially decreased. In Bel glum railroads are required to trans port materials in thla manner as I found when there last year attending the International Roads Congress." REDMEN HAVE BIG REVIVAL Indians From Three States Travel to Unique Campmeetlng. LEWISTON, Idaho, July 3. (Special.) The biggest Indian campmeetlng ever held In the Northwest began yesterday near Winchester, Idaho. Under the leadership of Rev. James S. Hayes ef forts will be made to convert the red men to the Christian faith at a series of revival services. Most of the tribes of Idaho. Washington and Oregon, with a few from" British Columbia, have dele gations at the campmeetlng. The assemblage will be exclusively for Indians, and Indian ministers will preach. A year ago the Government gave the tribes 640 acres of timber land, which they were to clear and use as they saw fit. This they have done, making of the land the present camp ing grounds. Bogota Consulate Closed. BOGOTA. July 3. The American Con sulate here was permanently closed to day. Charles H. Small, of Missouri. ex-Vice-Consul In charge. has been transferred to Guatemala City. ANOTHER DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Heat to Sane Fourth Subjects' Range. INDIANAPOLIS IS HOST TODAY President Urges Three Pet Measures, at Marion. ARBITRATION IS BOOSTED Old Soldiers Hear Chief Executive Declare That Peace Plan Would Have Prevented Most Wars of Nation. MARION. Ind., July 3. With the tem perature In his private car above the 100 mark, for hours at a time. Presi dent Taft hurried through Ohio and Indiana today. He began speaking from the rear platform at Cleveland after breakfast and did not get through until 6 o'clock. He ended with two addresses at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers here. The President spoke of war, but more of peace and arbitra tion, to the veterans. To the bankers and editors of the 11th Congressional district, he talked about the Aldrlch plan of currency re form. He Is in Indianapolis Today. At Indianapolis tomorrow he ex pects to talk of the third the most im portant measure of the Administration reciprocity with Canada. On the way over from Cleveland, the President made nine rear-platform talks. Sometimes he talked about the heat and at others he argued for a 'safe anu sane Fourth," and once In a while turned to prosperity and Cana dian reciprocity. To the old soldiers, the President de clared that all of the wars waged by this country, except the War of the Revolution, and possibly the Civil War, ould have been settled without blood shed through arbitration. Intervention Is Cited. No less than five times, said the President, has the United States In tervened between South and Central American countries and by peaceable persuasion averted war. The speech to the bankers and edi tors was in the nature of a reiteration of his address to the New York State Bankers at Manhattan Beach. Mr. Taft is the first President to visit Marlon after his assumption of office, and thousands of people turned out to see Him. Veterans Hear Taft. In the conrse of his speech to the veterans, the President said in part: 1 am far from saying that war has not in times past accomplished much In the progress of the world. Whether the same progress might have been achieved in a more peaceable way. it Is unnecessary to discuss. Probably not. "It was by war that this country gained its Independence of Great Brit ain. If England had been better ad vised, war probably would not have ensued and we might now, as in the (Concluded on Pass 3.) Washington Jurists Stand Appalled at Thought of Trial by 1C Suffragists. SPOKANE, Wash., July 3--(Special.) Since Eve muddled up the Garden of Eden man has but seldom been given a harder problem to unravel than the women Jury tangle now before the Su perior Court Judges. The judicial calm of the five judges has been split by worry over what to do with the women who will be called to serve when court convenes next September. What provision shall be made to keep a Jury of men and women together in felony cases until they shall all agree? Will there be a battle if 12 women are selected to try a case and six disagree I wlth the other lx? the answer of Superior Judge E. H. Sullivan. Presiding Judge H. L. Kennan, who cracks almost 100 legal nuts a day for litigants In the Superior Court, is as silent as the Sphnx when it comes to the women question. Kennan smiled and opened the 1911 session laws "relating to service of Jurors in the Superior Courts." "It's all there as plain as print," he said. "Just read it." It read: "Any woman desiring to be excused from Jury service may claim exemption by signing a written or print ed notice thereof and returning same to the Sheriff before the date for appear ance, and If exemption Is claimed by reason of sex, no fee shall be allowed for her appearance." WOMEN SHOP ON PAVING Fair Vancouver Residents Seek Dis count for Prompt Payment. VANCOUVER, Wash., July 3. (Spe cial.) Bargain-counter tactics were hinted at the City Council meeting' here tonight when Mrs. John H. Jaggy, Mrs. Hammond C. Funk and Miss Ida Sohms Invaded the chamber to learn If a dis count would be allowed by the city on the paving assessments of East B street. The women Informed the Coun- cllmen that they had heard that 15 per cent would be stricken from the expense of the street surfacing If pay ment was made at once. Questions were volleyed at the May or, who referred the women to the City Engineer and the City Engineer In turn sent them to the City Clerk. Finally the City Clerk referred the women to the City Attorney, who read a section of the city charter and con cluded his remarks with a promise to take the fair petitioners out to the section of the street, which has al ready been paved, to prove his asser tion that the surfacing was up to standard. LINOTYPE RUN BY HAND Grindstone Furnishes Power Newspaper Plant. in VANCOUVER. Wash., July 3. (Spe cial.) Antiquated methods were resorted to here today when an afternoon paper. without electricity to drive its plant, pressed Into service William Bowes, pressman, and Lee Lewis, a reporter, to furnish the power with which to operate a linotype machine. A large-sized grindstone was secured from a local machine shop, a wheel was put on one end of the shaft and a large crank on the other. The Important news of the day was "ground out" in this fashion. At the regular time for the paper to go to press, the power com pany had succeeded in making connec- nulla Iii4 ui uauui auu cicuu iui LJf wy.3 turned on. Moving-picture shows were closed and business houses and hotels used candles. lanterns and a few lamps. HITCHCOCK "HIGH CHIEF" Postmaster-General Ranking Offi cial in Washington for Fourth. WASHINGTON. July 3. Postmaster- General Hitchcock will hold down the Government "lid" tomorrow. President Taft being away on his Indiana trop and the other members of the Cabinet spending the Fourth out of the Capital. The Navy Department, Rear-Admiral Twining, chief of the ordnance bureau. is acting as chief for the Secretary, for the first time, all of the officers rank ing him being temporarily absent. PANAMA MONEY COMES IN $18,000,000 Paid In on Bonds; Small Investors Get Share. WASHINGTON, July 3. Preceeds from the sale of the new Panama 3 per cent bonds are beginning to come Into the Federal treasury, about $18,- 000,000 of the $52,000,000 to be realized having been paid in today. Bond dealers and financial houses which took large blocks of the Issue are splitting them up and delivering to small investors. MAN EATS TORPEDO: DYING Resident of Chicago Mistakes plosive for Candy. Ei- CHICAGO, July 3. Mistaking an or nate Fourth of July torpedo for a piece of candy, Simon Fisher, 46 years old, began chewing It. The ensuing explosion blew away-his Jaw, Inflicting a fatal wound. Assassin Sends Bullet Through Window. ABANDONED RIFLE ONLY CLEW Missile Is Sped From Court house, 30 Feet Away. PARTNER THREATEND HIM Prisoner Held on Charge of Having Killed Two Little Daughters o Fellow Prospector While Bathing In Salt River. GLOBE, Ariz., July 3. Klngsley Olds, the prospector accused of mur dering Lulu and Myrtle Goswlck, the young daughters of his mining part ner, who were found drowned in the Salt River 30 miles from here June 23. was instantly killed at daylight today as he lay sleeping In his cell In the County Jail here by a shot fired from a window in the County Courthouse, 30 feet away. ' The murderer escaped, leaving th-e rifle by the window from which the shot was fired. Confusion reigned for some time af ter the shot rang out and when the officers finally ascertained its source, no trace of the assassin could be found. It was discovered that he had gained entrance to the building in the night with keys belonging to the Janitor. Brother to Investigate. The Coroner's Jury this afternoon could find no evidence as to who fired the fatal shot, which ranged down ward through the lung. A brother of the murdered man arrived tonight and. will begin an investigation. Olds was found on June 24 by cow boys with his Jaw shot away, making his way to Globe from the Salt River. He was unable to talk, but wrote that while in bathing in the river with the little girls, who had accompanied him to Globe from their latner s rancn, he had been shot by a Mexican or Indian. He had fallen unconscious, he said, and did not know what had be come of the girls. Their bodies were found In the river the next day. The posse louna no trace of the person alleged by Olds to have shot him. and It was believed that he had attacked the girls and drowned them to cover his crime. Vengeance Sworn by Father. The bodies, when found, however. were examined ty tne uoroner, mm bore no trace of violence and showed no cause of death save drowning. Weston Goswick, father of the girls. was disarmed the day of his daugh ters' death as he was coming to Globe with the avowed Intention of killing Olds. The latter was then in the coun ty Hospital, but wi3 that night re moved to the Jail for safety against possible mob violence. Later the charge of murder was placed against him. He then confessed that ne naa shot himself In an attempt at suicide. QGAN BERRIES COMING IN Rains Help Crop ear Gervais, Though Yield Will Be Short. GERVAIS, Or., July 3. (Special.) The Logan berry season has Degun and several small shipments have been made from this vicinity. The larger yards are preparing to begin harvest ing on Monday July 9. The 16-acre field of S. H. Brown, Just east of town. with several smaller tracts near Ger vals, will use an extra express car daily during the season. The yield will be good, but not bo many berries will oe narvesiea mis year as last. Hundreds of women and children will be employed in the fields to pick the crop. The late rains have benefited the late- sown grains greatly, and the prospects for a bumper crop in cereals was never better. While considerable clover and vetch hay wds cut before the rains, lit tle damage will result. The hop crop a short time ago lookej discouraging, but since the rains the vines have made a wonderful growth, and while the crop In this immediate vicinity will be short, it will be larger than was first estimated. Late potatoes are coming up in fine shape and a very heavy yield Is predicted. WOMAN LIGHTKEEPER DIES Mrs. Williams, 85, Who Kept Bea con Lit 40 Years, Dead From Fall. SANTA BARBARA, Cal., July 3. AftAr rIx voa rs of suff erlnc. the result f injuries received while tending the light which nightly 'for 40 years she had set as a beacon for mariners, Mrs. Julia F. Williams is dead at a hospital here. She was the first woman lighthouse- keeper appointed on the Pacific Coast and from the time she took charge of the lighthouse here in 1865 she was I on duty continuously until six years ago, when she fell off the tower. Mrs, I Williams waa 88 years old.