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' . . y.na TORTLAM), OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 14, loll. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WILDE'S PROTEST TRAIN LATE, BRIDE WEDDED AT DEPOT DENEEH DENIES HE HOUSEWIVES GAIN BLAZE IN SEATTLE POINT SCORED BY BEFORE GOVERNOR BY POTATO WAR HELPED LORIMER OUT OF FIRE ZONE L WILEY'S TUBERS SEIX 40 POUXDS FOR EXTRADITION TO BE FOUGHT TO LAST DITCH. GIRIi BOOT) TO BE MARRIED OX MOTHER'S BIKTHDAT. QUARTER, WOMEN REJOICE. THOUSANDS MP BEYOND GDNTHO ENEMIES Foodxpert Is Accused by Committee. TAFT TO GIYE FULL HEARING Overpayment of Noted Phar macognosist Is Charged. FRIENDS ARE CONFIDENT Man Whoe Administration of law Hat Made. Many Enemies TelU Inquirers Not to Walt tTn til He Resigns. WASHTNGTOV. Ju!t 1. (Special.) In the attempt that la being made to oust Dr. Harvey W. Wiley from hla post aa Government pure food expert and rt.it t of tao Bureau of Chemistry, the Taft Administration la confronted by a situation that may develop aa much bttterne&s even aa the Balllnger-Pln-chot controversy. While the attempt to remove Dr. Wiley is bailed solely upon an alleged conspiracy to evade an appropriation statute. It Is apparent there la a desire on the part of the Department of Ag riculture officials to be relieved of Dr. Wiley's presence In that branch of the Government. The general complaint made about Dr. Wiley Is virtually the same as was made against Glfford Fln chot fiat 1 la running hli bureau In the Dertment of Agriculture In a high-handed manner over the heads of his superiors. The charge made against Dr. Wiley la that he conspired to Rive Illegal compensation to Dr. II. K. Kusby. head of the New Tork Col lege of Pharmacy. Columbia Univer sity, aa a Government expert. Expert Fro Are High. Dr. Rusby baa been employed for several years as a Government expert. Congreaa last year enacted a law pro hibiting the Department of Agriculture from paying any expert a greater sal- , ary than 11000 a year. It was found f that the aervlces of Dr. Rusby could not be obtained for leoa than $20 for laboratory Investigations and for ISO a Cay fur attendance in court, it Is aid. Attorney-General Wlckersham had beld that the law permitted the payment of only til a day .or the per diem of $4000 a year. Notwlthsta ling this law. Dr. Wiley and l F. Kebler. chVf of the division of drugs of the Department of Agricul ture, arranged. It is charged, for the employment of Dr. Rusby as an expert at a aalary of $1(00 a year, to be paid to him at the rate of $20 a day for ex pert service and $50 a day for service in court. It is said the effect of this arrangement was to engage Dr. Rusby at $1(00 a year, with the agreement ?!at be should be called upon to per form such services aa this salary would compensate for at these rates. Dr. Rusby s a noted pharmacognoclst and la head of the College of Pharmacy of Columbia University " Dr. Wiley has regarded him as a valuable aid in bla fight for pure food regulations. Other Discipline Suggested. Along with the suggestion that Dr. Wiley, because of these alleged irregu larities in the employment of Dr. Rus- . by. pe permitted an opportunity to re- i sign, the committee on personnel and the Attorney-General have recommend ed the dismissal of Dr. Rusby and the reduction of Dr. L. F. Kebler. chief of the division of drugs in the Depart ment of Agriculture. The committee ' further recommends that Dr. W. G. BIgelow. assistant chief ef the Bureau 'of Chemistry, also be requeated to re sign. President Taft has forwarded all of the papers to Dr. Wiley and will take no action until he receives a personal statement from hlra. It is known that the President has the highest regard for the pure food expert and for his administration of j the Bureau of Chemistry. Dr. Wiley has been attacked almost constantly since the pure food ll went into ef fect. Dr. Rusby received all the papers in the case several days ago and hla re ply had not reached Washington early today. In this reply, however, he la quoted aa saying he did not seek or desire the work In the Department of Agriculture. Kobi Regents Idea. Dr. rtusby said that he had no means of knowing that the arrangement made with htm was irregular In any way. He said he seemed to be regarded by -the department aa a conscript and resented the Idea that he could be dismissed In 'dlsgrac.' for reluctantly doing work which Interfered with his regular em ployment. Dexrtment officials were reluctant to discuss the case. In any form today. They declared that It had been sub mitted to the President for his final onsiiorstlon and determination. - Dr. Wiley haa not resigned and so far tilery has been no request for his resignation. While the Washington rrtend of Dr. Wiley disclaim any part I n makjng public the documents in the se. they appear to be glad that soma- outside of Washington took steps secure publication at thia time. I would not advise anyone to wait Great Northern, Tary, Reaches Seat tle IS Minutes Before Midnight and Tarson Is Hnrrled. SEATTLE. Wash- July 1 (Special.) On delayed Great Northern train No. I last night a young; woman peered from the windows and fidgeted. It wae her wedding night In Seattle the bridegroom, the minister and the County Clerk with the license wert waiting for her. It was not only her wedding night, but the anniversary of her mothers marriage day and birthday, too. Be cause of these two Important facts, the young woman and the man who was waiting to claim ber as his bride, felt it Imperative that the wedding ahould take place before midnight. The train crawled slowly, then stopped. A sympathetic conductor re ported that they had run over a dog. They moved slowly on and stoped again. A bridge had burned out. They were routed around the ob stacle. When Great Northern No. 1 drew at the King-street station too hands of the clock pointed to 11:15. That explain why Misa Mamie E. SchnelL of Evansville. 111., and Roy Lelch. late of Evansville, but now of Seattle, were married at the King street station, the minister racing against the hands of the clock. It was the first wedding in the King-street station, which has wit nessed every other Important event of life birth, death and tragedy. BIG'TRACTS TO BE OPENED Entry to Bo Allowed on 70,000,000 Acres of Government Land. SEATTLE. July 1. Seventy million acres of Government land now closed will be thrown open to entry upon the completion of investigations of 147 Gov ernment survey parties now In . Jhe field in North and South Dakota. Mon tana. Wyoming. Idaho, Washington, Oregon. C(ah and Colorado, according to W. C Calvert. Government geologist. who Is making a general inspection of work done by the geologists of the survey parties. Mr. Calvert said today that this land will be opened by the Interior Depart ment Just aa soon as the amount of coal In the land la ascertained. "The coal on these reservations is virtually the only thing that has caused them to be held np until this time. -The Investigations of the parties In Montana and elsewhere have borne out the department." said Mr. Calvert. "Considerable coal haa been found on the land, of a high grade, but not an thracite. In Montana there Is a large amount of bituminous coal. Upon coal bearing land, of course, the department will endeavor to affix a price accord ing to the value cf the coal before throwing It open to entry. The other lands will be opened witLout further delsy. "The survey parties are reporting the existence of more coal than we had known." MULTNOMAH WILL AID County Judge and-Commlostoners la Favor of Road to Salem. County Judge Cleeton announced yesterday that. he and other members of the County Court are in full accord with the movement for the construc tion of the Capital Highway between Salem and Portland. Assurances were given C. T. Prall. one of the membera of the Special Highway Commission appointed by Governor West, that the road to the Clackamas County line would be rebuilt and macadamized for the entire distance. According to members of the com mission the sentiment of Portland citi zens Is strongly in favor of the Port-land-Salem road and promises of as sistance have been received from vari ous sources. It is announced that Portland will give material aid to the project provided the citizens of Clacka mas County and Marlon County do their share by contributing funds and labor. The County Court ia interested in good troads and will co-operate with the Oregon Association for Highway Improvement and the Portland Automo bile Club In suppressing speeding on the varioua highways. It Is declared that the driving of cars at a rate above 30 miles an hour causes great damage to the roadbeds. TACOMA SOCIETY FOLK WED CouoItm' Sister Becomes Bride of Alberto A. Hilton. TACOMA. Wash, July 11. Special) Albertus A. Hilton, prominent and wealthy society man. club member and Pacific Coast manager of the Griffin Wheel Works, yesterday afternoon in the First Christian Church, quietly mar ried Mrs. Lucy Calkins Van Marter, sis ter of the Countess of Tankervllle. and daughter of Mrs. William H. Calkins. Mr. Hllton'a first wife was drowned in Lake Klllarney two years ago while on a European trip. After yesterday's ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Hilton departed upon their wedding trip East to Cin cinnati, where Mr. Hilton's son. Hoyt W. Hilton, on August 10 will marry Mlsa Marietta Davis, of that city. The new Mrs. Hilton was the widow of Dr. J. O. Van Marter. who died of fever while doing scientific work in Chile. South America. The Countess of Tankervllle was married to Lord Bennett in New York shortly after they met while slumming in the lower East Side of the Metropolis. Governor Flatly Con tradicts Hines. TAFT SUPPORT DISCREDITED Promised Message Through Aldrich Never Delivered. JACK-POr DEALS AVERRED Witness Believes Anyone Would Be Safe In Staking Reputation on ExistenceStory of Coun terplotting Told. WASHINGTON. July 13. Governor Deneen, of Illinois, today furnished a field day In the Lorimer election In vestigation by the Senate special com mittee. He declared that he did not assist in theelectlon of Senator Lori mer. as some of the Senator's friends assert, but fought against It to the last. He contradicted the version which Edward Hlnes. a Chicago lumberman, who la charged with having asked for a Lorimer election fund contribution, gave of the telephone conversation be tween the two on .the day Senator Lori mer was elected. May 26, 1909. Hlnes Story Contradicted. Mr. Hlnes had testified he telephoned from Chicago to Deneen that he "had Just come in thla morning from Wash ington and was on my way to Spring field to bring the message to you (Deneen) from Senator Aldrich. and the President, urging you to do all you can to assist in the election of a Sena tor at the earliest possible moment," and "that they understood that Lori mer could be elected If you will as sist." Further, Mr. Hlnes testified that he understood Deneen to say he would assist In Lorlmer's election and would see Lorimer In ten minutes. Governor Deneen testified today that Mr. Hlnes naked him If he received a report from the President in reference to Lorimer. Hlnea said that Taf'hsd aent a message to support Lorimer. Tatt Message Not Delivered. "I asked him." Governor Deneen con tinued. "If he had the message and he answered 'No.' He said that the Presi dent had sent It and that he had in tended to come to Springfield himself, but had missed the train by five min utes. "I asked him If President Taft sent thit message, for I thought it strange the President should tell me that. "He said. 'Why, It was aent through Senator Aldrich of course he would not send It to you directly v ho would communicate to you through George Reynolds, of the Continental Bank.' I said: -Very well" "Did you 'receive a communication from Senator Aldrich or Mr. Reynolds T" asked Attorney J. J. Healy, who was conducting the examination for the committee. "No. air." Deneen Denies Promise. Governor Deneen denied Mr. Hlnes version of the conversation In regard (Concluded on Para 5.) t Thrifty Folic Come W ith Big Baskets While Dealers Fight to Put In- trnders Out of Business. SPOKANE, Wash.. July 13. (Special.) The biggest potato price war in the hlstoftr of the City Market broke out Wednesday with 44 dealers bidding against each other, and the price of the new season's tubers hitting the record mark of SO pounds for a quarter of a dollar. Hundreds of 'wise housewives carried potatoes away by the basket load, while the dealers tore the atmos phere with their competitive prices. JCarly today, while potatoes sold six and seven pounds for a quarter at most places, every stall at the market had a sign. "Potatoes, 10 pounds for 25 cents." The war started Wednesday when Swarts Bros, brought in e, wagon load of the new crop and began selling them at 10 pounds for a quarter. Four other dealers put. their heads together. In 10 minutes they announced 12 pounds for a quarter. Swartx came back with 14 pounds, the combination went to 16; Swlrtx replied with 18, when the street went Into a ferment and scenes of excitement ensued that would put the wheat pit to the blush. BASEBALL CAUSES DEATH Policeman, Struck In Forehead, Dies From Injuries. SAN FRANCISCO. July U(Spe clal.) Patrolman Crowley, aged 50 years, died yesterday at his home, fol lowing a audden illness caused by being struck upon the head Saturday last by a baseball. Crowley was at tached to the Ingleslde Station and when walking through Balboa Park Saturday afternoon received the full impact of a batted ball, the missile strik ing him squarely in the forehead. He was stunned for a moment but kept on his feet and after a few moments walked home and thought no more of the In cident. Crowley went off watch yesterday afternoon and was shortly afterward taken 111 with pain in the head. The pain became more severe until this morning, when he lapsed into coma and expired. Examination revealed that a blood vessel had been ruptured, producing a bloodclot on the brain. IRISH TUBERS IMPORTED Shortage of Crop in United States Is Cause of Move. LAREDO. Tex, July 13, The first solid carload of Irish potatoes ever Im ported through this port from Mexico was received in Laredo and shipped north last night. Usually there ia a large quantity of potatoes exported to Mexico. The importation of them now Is due to the shortage In this country. 20,000 ELKS ON PARADE Portland Delegation Is In Sixth Di vision of Great Pageant. ATLANTIC CITT. N. J.. July 13. More than 20.000 "Hello Bills" from all parts of the country took part in the annual parade here this afternoon of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The parade consisted of ten divisions. The Atlantic City lodge headed the pageant. In the sixth division was Portland. Or. "PROVE Til" Horror of Ontaria Dis trict Grows Hourly. TRAILS STREWN WITH DEAD Three Towns Are Obliterated by Relentless Flames. DEATH LIST MAY BE 400 Burned Area in Porcupine District Is Estimated to Be 10,000 Square Miles Relief Trains Start for Stricken. Section. TORONTO, July 13. Reports tonight from Northern Oontarlo are that the forest fires which for several days have swept over a section of country extending 300 tallies northward from North Bay and covering a wide section east and west, either have been extin guished or are under control. The towns of Cochrane, South Por cupine and Pottsville have been oblit erated. The fire swept clean 4he town ships of Langmulr, Eldorado, Shaw, Deloro, Ogden, McAxthur and Cirpple Creek districts. Known Dead Are 12 2. The known dead total 122, the ma jority of whom lost their lives at South Porcupine. There are believed to have been many other fatalities and esti mates based upon unverified reports run as high as 400. A relief train left North Bay this afternoon for Porcupine with supplies. Plenty of funds have been subscribed in this city foa immediate help. - Refugees from the burned area say that it covers 10,000 square miles, com prising a district Inhabited by 20.000 people. From every quarter have come fugitives who escaped the flames, many of them badly burned. Many Flee In Terror. Scores are missing and are believed to have fled terror-stricken into the wilderness. They possibly survived the fire, but are believed to have died of exhaustion. Some of the survivors tell of stum bling over bodies of those who had run before them and died on the way. The first trainload of dead and in jured reached Cobalt today. .. The Mall and Empire's special cor respondent at Porcupine telegraphs to night from Cobalt as follows: "The horrors of Porcupine's great dis trict increase hourly." FIVE KANSAS CITY JIE.V ESCAPE Missouri Men Tell of Hoars Spent in Lake in Fire District. KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 13. Tele grams received here today tell of the narrow escapes of five Kansas City men from forest fires In Nortnern On tarlo. The telegrams tell .of their safe exit from the fire-swept district after hours spent in a lake. The men are Earl Ridge and W. Roy Ridge, mining engineers, and A. D. Williams, Jack A. Williams ana ijowen f. ADsnier, who were traveling through the coun try. A telegram from A. D. Williams at North Bay said: California Executive to Give Per sonal Hearing on Requisition for Man Wanted hy Oregon. SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 13. (Spe cial.) fhat Louis J. Wilde, of San Diego, will fight to the last ditch against returning to Portland to face a charge of alleged embezzlement is the assertion made to Governor John son's secretary by Edgar A. Luce and Charles A. Sumner, attorneys of San Diego, whose protest today went to the Governor, now at Berkeley. The lawyers were assured that Gov ernor Johnson will give a personal hearing on the requisition. This will not be for possibly a week or more be cause the executive is now presiding at a hearing of alleged incompetency and scandal in the State Home for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind at Berkeley. Representations made by Wilde's attorneys at the Governor's office where A. . F. Leonard, acting as the Oregon state agent, presented the requisition today, are to the effect that the sole purpose of extraditing Wilde to Oregon is to let many persons make him the defendant of civil actions which he declares are unfounded and would greatly interfere with his . ex tensive business Interests in San Die go, which require his continuous at tention. The lawyers contend that the em bezzlement charge arising from the sale of Omaha Independent Telephone Company stock in 1907 was for the real purpose of getting him within the Jurisdiction of the Oregon courts for civil litigation. BALLINGER ASKS LITTLE Ex-Secretary of Interior Charges Aberdeen $15 to Speak. ABERDEEN. Wash., July 13. (Spe cial.)' It cost Aberdeen just $15 to bring Richard A. BaUinger. ex-Secretary of the Interior, to this city to deliver the Fourth of July address at the late celebration here. That Is all Mr. Ballinger says he spent and that is all he would accept, returning $10 of the $25 sent him to cover his traveling and incidental expenses. In a letter to George J. Wolff, chair man of the general celebration com mittee, Mr. Ballinger, after acknowl edging receipt of the committee's check for $25, encloses his own check for $10, saying that his expenses did not total more than $15 and that he would not accept the additional $10. Mr. BaUinger, who was accompanied to Aberdeen by Sirs. Ballinger, spent two days here. The speech he delivered the morning of the Fourth was pub lished in many parts of the United States. - MOSQUITO WAR STARTED County Health Officer Will Pour Oil on Stagnant AVater. "I'm going out in an auto with a can of coal oil tomorrow," said City Health Officer C. H. Wheeler last night, "ana fix some of the mosquitoes that nave been plaguing the people of the city for the oast few weeks. The entire ...An, ,a V a mA m nr.' tha.il a few hour? if I can get plenty or coal oil. The stagnant pools in the low-lying portions of the East Side and the inlets along the waterfront furnish ideal breeding places for the pests, but a few pints of oil poured on the water soon puts an end to them and is a surA wav to secure relief. The oil-pouring expedition today Is only a temporary measure on the part of the health officer, however, snorts will be made in the near future to have the worst places drained. YOUNG MAY BE NEW CHIEF Laudenklos Xot to Take Examina tion Now Being Prepared. The Mayor appointed John F. Logan and P. L. Willis yesterday to frame an examination to be undergone by applicants for the position of Chief of the Fire Department and to determine who are eligible to take the examin ation. Acting Chief Laudenklos, of the fire department, said yesterday that he will not take the examination for Chief of the departmeht. "I am satisfied to be Assistant Chief," caM ho "and do not care to take the added responsibilities of the higher po sition." Tnhn Tnnnr. one of the battalion -htfa is helieved to be slated for the position. If he passes the examination. He is an experienced firefighter. JURY BLAMES CONSTABLE Coroner's Body Holds Death of Sol dier Was Caused by Shot. ASTORIA. Or., July 13. (Special.) The Coroner's Jury investigating the death of Private Jones, of Fort Ste vens, who was shot by Constable Sayer on July 10. today returned the follow ing verdict: "We, the jury empaneled to inquire into the death of Roy C. Jones, find that he came to his death by bloodpolsonlng as the result of the wound that was Inflicted by John Sayer in Astoria." Ex-Senator Fulton, of Astoria, rep resents Sayer. and Attorney Mullins, employed by officers and soldiers at Fort Stevens, prosecuted the case, with Assistant District Attorney Brownell and Judge Advocate-General Greer, of the Army. The case now goes Into the higher Hotel Burns, Business Section in Danger. HIGH WIND DRIVING FLAMES Fire Starts at Ninth and Pike in Frame Structure. FIREMEN ARE '-OVERCOME Airey Rooming-House and Fair mount Hotel Destroyed, Other Building Threatened Guests Thought to Have Escaped. SEATTLE. July 13. Fire which started tonight In the basement of a three-story frame building at Ninth avenue and Pike street has already destroyed' the ' building in which it started and is spreading to-adjoining property. Four alarms have been turned in. A strong wind is carrying sparks toward the heart of the uptown business district. When the first firemen arrived great volumes of smoke were pouring out of the basement, where a large quantity of furniture and paints was stored. The upper floors of the building in which the fire started were occupied by the Fair mont Hotel. It is believed that all the occupants escaped safely, as did those In a three-story . apartment-house ad Joining the hotel on the west. Fire Gets Beyond Control.' Although the firemen poured water from a dozen lines of hose into the basement, they were unable to make any headway, and after half an hour the en tire interior of the building burst Into flames, the fire leaping high above the roof. The blaze then jumped to the Airey apartment-house adjoinjsg the Fair mont. A three-story brick building at Eighth avenue and Pike street is threat ened. The upper floors of this building are also used as a rooming-house, and the occupants have been ordered to va cate. Many Firemen Overcome. Several firemen have been overcome by smoke, but es fast as they fell they were removed to a taxicab building across the street, and after a brief rest returned to work. The Fairmont Hotel and the Airejr Apartment are a total loss. It Is be lieved the loss on these two buildings, which are frame, and their contents, . will not exceed $100,000. The heaviest Individual loser will be the Munson Noah Furniture Company, which owned the furniture " stored in the basements of the burned buildings. The guests In the Fairmont Hotel and the Airey Apartment did not save any of their personal effects. BOYS INSURANCE CHIEFS Fourteen "Officials" Under Arret. Are Clerks and Messengers. PHILADELPHIA, July 13. Accord ing to Daniel E. Hunlhan. of the Penn sylvania state insurance department, the officers of the 14 fire insurance companies who were arrested in this city yesterday were clerks, office boys and stenographers. The officials said that a 19-year-old boy, who was paid $5 a week, was president of one of tho concerns. Three officers of the concerns, which were all operated from one office, were given a further hearing toda yand each was held in $5000 bail for trial. They are David Bolaty. Charles Weinberg A Tnh T. ATa lHohirlc. The latter 13 19 and his parents declare they never knew tie was an oincer ui uj tym pany, but that he had been asked by his employers to sign his name to pafers BANKS GET POSTAL FUNDS Depositories Named in Oregon, Idaho and Washington. nnrenvriV NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. July 13. The Postofflce De partment today designated the Tollow ing banks as depositories to receive postal bank funds from postmasters Oregon First National, Hood River; . First National. Corvallis; First Sav ings, Albany; First National, The Dalles. wo.hine-tnn Bank of Colvllle: Citi zens, Anacortes; First National. Sedro- Wooley; Colfax National, rarmers itate Bank, of Colfax; first national, ioi- vllle; Unltea states xvaiionai, eniranaj Commercial National Bank. Snohomish. Idaho First National Banks at Pay ette, Lewiston and Sand Point; Bonnet Pftnntv National, of Sand Point, and D. W. Stanrod & Co., bankers, of Black- root. PROPHET SEE IS GUILTY Jury Convicts After Being Out Little . More Than Hour. CHICAGO. 'July- 13. Evelyn Arthur See, founder of the Absolute Life cult tonight was found, guilty of the ab duction of Mildred Bridges, tho 17-year-old disciple of 1h9 cult. The Jiry was out little more than aj hour. . courts. , iCoaclosad ea rsge S-