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I. V l PORTLAND. OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LI XO. 15,847. !"J I AT BEATTIE 12MenTakeLessThan Hour to Decide. WIFE-MURDERER BRANDED Young Virginian Calm as He Gazes at Specter of Death. ELECTRIC CHAIR AWAITS Earnest Farmers Pray, Then, as In One Voice, Declare Prisoner Convicted In First Degree. New Trial to Be Asked. CHESTERFIELD COURTHOUSE, Va Sept. 8. Twelve Virginians, mostly farmers, knelt at dusk tonight In the obscurity of the small Jury room of Chesterfield Courthouse, prayed fer vently that they might pass Judgment aright on Henry Clay Beattle. Jr., In dieted for the murder of his wife, arose from their knees, deliberated nearly an hour and silently, one by one. recorded a verdict of guilty. The specter of death which stalked on Midlothian turnpike on July 18, when Mrs. Louise Owen Beattle was slain, stared hard at the young hus band, ready to claim its victim by elec trocution on Friday. November 24. But the prisoner returned the gaze, un swerving and unafraid. Kew Trial Will Be Asked. The Court of Appeals will be asked to grant a writ of error and a new trial. Young Beattle, cognizant of the legal weapons yet at his disposal, did not surrender. Instead, he consoled his broken-hearted father, and comfort ed him as he whispered. I have aot lost yet. father." After weighing carefully the mean ing of their decision, and once more on bended knees beseeching divine assist ance against possible error, at the end of E8 minutes the Jurors filed Into the hushed and crowded courtroom and. with startling suddenness, 12 voices. In stead of the usual one of the foreman. spoke the word, "guilty," In chorus. It was almost a shout. Brief Respite Takesw After the prosecution closed Its argu ment, a brief respite waa given the Jury, and at 6:28 o'clock It began con sideration of the case. For E8 minutes the Jurors were to gether in deep consultation and prayer. W. L. Burgess, a square-Jawed man with an earnest face, was elected fore man. The Jurors ballotted, and It waa no surprise, they afterward declared. that all voted alike. They prayed that they might not take a life wrongfully and they opened their consciences to one another for nearly an hour, so tkat they might go back to the courtroom firmly convinced of their duty and of one mind. PrloaieTe Lip Twitch. In the courtroom, meantime, sat Henry Clay Beattle, Jr., the sporting pegs of a newspaper spread before him. But he did not read long. He folded the paper and conoealed his face In It. Those who sat near the boy of Iron nerve observed a twitching of his lips as though moving In prayer as he sat with closed eyes, awaiting the return of the Jury. He raised his eyes for a moment, dropped them to the paper again, and began reading. Then ha whispered a few words to his father and brother. It was for them he felt, and to them he counseled cheerfulness. It was nearly dark In the courtroom when the Jury returned. Three oil lamps added to the gloom of the scene. The red rays of the setting sun streaked through the windows, On every sill rested a telegraph instrument and oper ators waited for the announcement of the verdict. Prosecutor Speech Ring. A thick mass of faces rising In an Incline to the shabby celling stared at the Jurymen. In the minds of the gaping crowd remained the ring of the powerful speech of the prosecutor who denounoed the man who "exchanged the glow of virtue for passion's feeble tapers." The court asked the prisoner to rise. He calmly stood up and waited. "Have you gentlemen agreed on a verdict?" asked Judge Watson. "We have," said Foreman Burgess, and almost at the same Instant that Judge Watson asked: "What is your verdict?" all u men yelled "guilty." Unversed In law and the forms of a murder trial, the Jurymen had not tpeclfled what degree of murder. Asked what degree, Mr. Burgess answered simply: "Guilty as Indicted." First Degree Determined Upon. Under Virginia pratclce, murder Is presumed to be second degree unless otherwise specified. It was lnoumbent on the Jury to fix the degree, so Judge Watson advised the Jurymen to confer again on the point. Seven minutes later they -returned with the verdict of "murder in the first degree." The prisoner stood erect and motion less. His face, in color a yellowisn-w 'green throughout the day, was Immo bile. The light 6f a lamp cast a (Conelodtd oa Pass A) GUILT! URDRS SOU CHINESE LOCKS -TO ADORN AMERICANS BALES OF ORIENTAL HAIR FOR YANKEE BELLES ARRIVE. Since Emperor's Edict Abolishing Queues, Celestials Are Selling Pigtails for Switches. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. g, (Special.) Tx i-tpn!v and valuable cargo on the Paclflo Mall liner Cores, which arrived in port today, were ten bales of human hair Chinese hair shorn from the heads of men and women. later to be combed, dyed and maae mio urit.iAa tnr American women. The large consignment of human hair which will later adorn tne neaae " i.riran n-lrv belles wa acCom nanled bv H. L. Ehrenfela. general agent at Hongkong for a concern halrcombers and importers. tv. ra.Tit edict of the Emperor of of China for the cutting off of queues has had a material effect on tne numan hair mark f t and has made the Indus tT-Tr .n important one in China. Chinese women, as well aa men. have taken to outtlng off their hair for sale and ex TortatlOTL t which arrived today will be taken to New York, wnere i will be classified, dyed and made up into .Trlt-h- The hair must undergo rigid examination before passing the health officers of both countries. PORTLAND BANKS LEAD ALL Clearings Show 14.7 Per Cent Gain, Best on Coast. Surpassing all other Paclflo Coast cities, Portland took a pronounced lead In the percentage of Increase In banJC clearings for the week ending yester day. Clearings for the week In Port land showed an Increase of 14.7 per cent over those of the correspond Insr week a year ago. San Fran cisco was the only other Pacific Coast city whose volume of business tor me week placed It on the credit side of the ledger. Its percentage of gain was 2.4 per cent. With clearings aggregating 19,482, 000, Seattle lacked 8.4 per cent of do In r th same volume of business last week that was reported by that city for the corresponding week last year. The aggregate of Portland's clearings was $10,052,000, or more than 8800,000 In excess of Seattle. The week's record shows a big slump In Los Angeles, which reports a falling off In bank clearings of 25.4 per cent For several weeks the Southern California metrop olis has been reporting increases of from 15 to 80 per cent weekly In Its clearings. For the week. Taeoma and Spokane kept company with Los Angeles. The percentage of decrease in their clear ings was 19 and 80.7 per cent respec tively. HEALTH IS BEST IN WEST Washington Leads in Low Death Rate, With Montana Second. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington. Sept. 8. Washington state leads the commonwealths of the Nation in healthfulness, according to a special statement Issued today by the Census Bureau. The Northwestern states' death list, per thousand population, in 1910, was only 10. That of the United States or those states Included In the ."registra tion area," the only ones covered In statistics, was 15. The Census Bureau's figures are based on a group of states whose population comprise 69 per cent of the total of all the states, and gives a fairly accurate idea of the health of the Nation. . . According to the figures, the North west Is the healthiest part of the coun try, Montana was second In the list of the least number of deaths, the returns showing 10.8 deaths per thousand In 1910. JEFFRIES' MOTHER DYING Efforts Being Made to Reach ex ' Champion, Who Is In Alaska. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8 (Special.) Mrs. Rebecca John Jeffries, mother of James J. Jeffries, is at the point of death at the family home In Cypress avenue. She calls continually for her son "Jim." It Is feared that the end is only a matter of a few days. She is 54 years old. Efforts have been made to commun icate with Jeffries, who is hunting big game in Alaska, but so far the tele grams have not been able to reach him. The ex-puglllst Is about 100 miles from Seward and runners have been sent to apprise him of his mother's condition, but they have not .been heard from. In the meantime the aged fath er and children are trying to keep the mother alive until he is able to reach Los Angeles. CRIES OF BABE SAVE HOME Mother Awakened and Neighbors Put Out Fire Started. PENDLETON, Or- Sept, ls-Cries of baby awakening the mother, Mrs. James Hayden, nipped an attempt at arson at an early hour this morning; when neighbors, summoned by the wo man's screams, extinguished a blase In the rear of the home, which had been started by an Ingenious lighted candle device In the midst of a quantity of oil- soaked material. No arrests have been made, and the motive is a mystery. BRIBE-TAKING IS CHAHGED TO MAYOR Five Councilmen Also Under Arrest. TRAP IS SET FOR OFFICIAL Man With $5000 Searched Be fore Entering Office. MONEY GONE ON' RETURN Dictagraph Said to Have Recorded Evidence Against Delinquent Officials Go-Between Is Also Caught. GARY, Ind., Sept. 8. (Special.) Charged with accepting a bribe of $5000 in connection with the granting of a heating franchise, Thomas E. Knotts, Mayor of Gary, a spectacular figure In a district of fast and furious politics, was arrested, with five of his Council- men, and a A. Willlston. Cijy Engi neer, today by Deputy Sheriffs from Crown Point. The arrest of Gary's municipal offi cials threw the Steel City into the wild est excitement, and added fuel to the flames of factional strife which char acterized Knotts political career. Those arrested axe Thomas E. Knotts, Mayor of Gary; C A. Willlston, City Engineer and .'Walter Gibson. Anthony Baukua, Dominlck Szymanski, Emerson Bowser, and John Slmlaskla, Alder men. Bolaf Slmlaskla, son of the Alder man waa also arrested as a go-between. Trap Carefully Laid. The taking Into custody of the offi cials was sensational. T. 13. Dean, re cipient of the heating franohlse under suspicion, went to the City Hall early In the morning, accompanied by two deputy sheriffs. Before entering the Mayor's office, Dean requested the of ficials to search h'm and discover whether he had any papers beside an envelope containing $5000 in currency. The envelope was found to be In Dean's pocket, and then he went Into the city executive's private office. Dean declares that when he entered the office Mayor Knotts arose, and taking him to a table near his desk, asked: "Is everything ready 7" Dean says he replied affirmatively. and that then Knotts turned to his desk end signed the ordinance which gave a heating service right to the Dean Heating A Power Company, of Louis ville, Ky. Money Paid Over. The money was then handed to Knotts, It Is charged, who placed the envelope in a pigeonhole In his desk. (Concluded on Far. 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TEBTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 68 degree; minimum, 57 aegreee. TODAY'S Occ&slonaJ raja; month to west winds. Dometrtio. Carpenter, who Is retired preacher, believes he will marry Astor. rage . Interesting aborigine frightened at sight of woman. Page 3. Crops still below average, though Improved lightly. Page 2. Noted Chinese diplomat In San Francisco on way to Mexico City Xo make China's demands for Indemnity. Page Ten bales of Chinese hair, to adorn heads of American women, arrive from Orient. Page 1. Gary Mayor and Councilmen arrested for bribery, page l. Man though burled surprises wife by ap pearing at home. Page 1. Jury finds Beattle guilty of murder In first degree. Page 1. Sport. Pacific Coast League results yesterday: Portland 7, fiacramento 1; Pan Francisco E. Vernon 4; Los Angeles 8, Oakland 2. Page 7- North western League results yesterday: Portland - 1, Victoria 0; Vancouver 6, Spokane 4: Beattle-Tacoma game post poned, rain. Page T. Trotting raoe for $10,000 purse will take place on Portland track today. Page L International tennis play opens in New York today. Page 7. Paclflo Northwest. Woman, for ten years common taw wife, reveals secret In suit for $50b,0OO estate. Page 6. Speed-boat hoodoo puts two more out of commission in Astoria races. Page 7. Leniency of Idaho's pardon board cause of lynchlngs, says jurist. Page 6. Paclflo Northwest manufacturers would com pete for lnter-mountain business. Page 5. Secretary Fisher forecasts legislation for Alaska he will recommend. Page 4. Commercial and Marine. Coffee prices higher than for 16 years. Page 17. Steady gain In business at leading centers. . Page 17. Stock market Is heavy and unsettled. Page 17. Bearish cables carry down wheat at Chi cago. Page 17. Site of Oregon City Canal not announced pending Inquiry as to cost of property of proposed route. Page 16. Fight for and against canal promises ex citement at Oregon City conference to day. Page 16. . Portland said Vicinity. Methodist bishop keeps tab on ministers by card system to nna wno are 'making good." Page 10. Completion of bridge on Grays Harbor branch to be celebrated at Aberdeen. Page 12. Postal savings bank opens In city .this morn ing. Page 10. - Mrs. Harry A. Cummlngs, of Paso Robles, cai., says fortiana woman or same name lays false claim as widow to $6000 In surance policy. Page 12. Prank T. Dodge, olty water superintendent, seriously 111. Page 9. . Bloodstains furnish no clew to murderer of woman and child near Scappoose. Page 6. . - Mayor urges consolidation of charter com missions to form one charter instead of two. Page 16. Portland's export of flour to Orient, 485,000 barrels, biggest m six years, page i. Oregon lumbermen plan big merger to fa cilitate marketing product. Page 4. HAND IN HAND BABES STRAY Policemen Shelter Wanderers Until Mother Comes to Rescue. Alelne Hlldebrand, aged 3 years, and Leon Murphy, aged 4 years, ran away from the Hlldebrand girl's grandmother yesterday in the park blocks and were picked up by Patrolman Baxter last night. Several hours after they had been taken to the police station, where policemen wrapped them In coats and kept them amused, Mrs. Hlldebrand ap peared In search of her offspring. She refused to give the police her name or address, and, with a child by each hand, left the atatlon. The little Hlldebrand gM and the Murphy boy were'ln tears as the two were hustled out of the station by the mother. N E FLOUR EXPORT IS BEST IN 8 YEARS Portland Cargoes for Orient Immense. 485,000 BARRELS ORDERED Short Wheat Crop in Far East Makes Demand Big. MORE STEAMERS NEEDED China and Japan Besiege Oregon and Washington Millers With Appeals for Cereal 1910 Record la Trebled. PORTLAND TO SEND 488,000 BAR RELS OF FLOUR IN" EX PORT TRADE. Barrela Strathlyon, September 14..... 60,000 Orterlo, September 30 66,000 Ryrll. October 20 65.000 Buveric, October 80 45.000 Extra steamer. October....... 50.000 Kumerlc, November IB. ....... 70,000 Lucerio, December A 95,000 Hercules. December S. ...... E5.000 Total 486,000 A short crop of wheat In the Orient has resulted in the millers of the North west getting more export flour busi ness than they have enjoyed for years. Importers of China and Japan have made heavy purchases of flour In Ore gon and Washington and the Quantity sold them to date is the largest for the last six years. Steamer space on all the Oriental liners is taxed to the utmost, the reser vations made up to the end of the year calling for all the available spaoe on every steamer sailing from Portland and P-get Sound. Negotiations are under way for the chartering of extra steamers to carry the surplus of flour to Aslatlo ports. Flour orders booked up to the present time for shipment from Portland be tween now and the end of the year aggregate '485,000 barrels. The nearest approach fo this in recent years was in 1907. when 428,895 barrels were des patched In the last four months of the year. The record Fall shipments were in 1905, when Portland sent 628.192 barrels to Oriental ports. The total shipments of flour' from Portland In the months of September, Ootober, November and December for seven years were: Barrela 1911 . .485,000 1910 1909 190S 1907 1900 1905 ..168.863 . .138.954 ..215,833 ..428.895 . .340.008 ..428.991 Sound Trade Also Grows. In addition to the large quantities (Concluded on Page 8.) SUPPOSED GHOST IS REAL- HUSBAND FTJXERAL FOR WEBER HELD IS ALL MISTAKE. Returning Spouse Dazed After Long Absence, Unable to Explain Why He Left -Home. BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8. (Special.) To be suddenly confronted by her husband after she had thought him dead and had interred a body which she had identified as hie, was the amaz ing and unusual experience of Mrs. George Weber yesterday. Garbed in clothes of the deepest mourning, the woman walked to the door in answer to the bell, and there, on opening the door, stood face to face with her husband. She screamed In terror and only slowly came to under stand that she had mistaken the body of a stranger dragged from the bay for that of her husband. Weber, who is a painter, disappeared from his home July 8. His wife began a search for him, but to no avail. An unidentified body was found floating in the bay July 18. Mrs. Weber, who kept In constant communication with the Coroner, was told of the finding, of the body. and. hastening to the morgue, was positive the body was that of her husband. Funeral arrangements were made, and on July 22 the body was Interred, and the name George Weber was in scribed on the headstone. Mrs. Weber continued her household duties. She was startled yesterday when she looked Into the face of her own husband. Weber was still dased and could not explain where he had been or what had befallen him. VISITOR IS RUNAWAY HERO Kansas City Man Saves Lives of Women and Two Children. OREGON CITT, Or.,' Sept 8. "It was nothing; it was my duty, and I would hate myself if I hadn't done It." de Clare d Walter Scott, of Kansas City, Mo., who risked his life and was bruised considerably hera today while stopping a rinaway horse which was attached to a buggy in whioh rode a woman and her two little children. Mr. Scott, with suitcase in hand, was waiting for a. car to Portland when he noticed the runaway coming down the street. The mother and her babies were screaming at the top of their voices. Hurling the suitcase aside, Mr. Scott ran into the street, and as the galloping horse reached him he seised the bridle. The hero was thrown from his feet and dragged for a half block, but final ly stopped the animal. His clothing was torn and his hat was badly bat tered. Ho immediately boarded the car for Portland as though nothing had happened. Mr. Scott had been a guest for several days of William Clark. The oooupants of the vehicle were unln lured. HEIFER BUCKS, CHILD HURT While Riding to Physician, Seoorrd Injury Is Sustained. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept 8. (Spe claL) When riding the family pet a two-year-old heifer, at the Allworth farm, at Cradford, today, little Gladys Allworth, eight years old, was thrown by the animal. The right arm of the little girl was broken and Mr. and Mrs. A A. Allworth started with the child for this city. , When three miles from the city, on the Main-street road, near the point where a man was killed by the over turning of a load of shingles recently, the buggy went Into the ditch, the horses ran away, and the little girl, already suffering from a broken arm, sustained further injuries. The accident occurred at the Ander son farm and Mr. Anderson assisted In getting the girl to the electric line, while one of his sons went to overtake the runaway team, which had destroyed the buggy. The child will recover, unless she Is injured internally. The parents are not seriously Injured. HOTEL DAMAGED; NO FIRE Floor Torn T7p In Search to Find Cause of Smoke. EUGENE, Or., Sept 8. (Special.) For over an hour tonight volunteer fire men sought the seat of a fire that was filling to suffocation the Smeede Hotel In the center of the city and threatened any moment to become dan gerous. After the floor of the dining room and a hallway had been torn up, the tire was found to be under the back room of Dillon's drugstore. De fective wiring may have caused the blaze. A telephone lineman had been at work yesterday rearranging wiring In the basement Damage to the hotel building by the firemen and by smoke and water will reach $1000. WORLD'S CHAMPION IS HERO Pendleton Runaway Stopped When i Cowboy Lassoes Excited Team. PENDLETON. Or., Sept 8. Bearing down upon a crowded corner of Main street a team of runaway horses was halted late today when Buffalo Vernon, world's champion steer bulldogger and cowboy of renown, leaped to his saddle and threw the noose of his lariat around their necks. In the general panic three other teams ran away on the main street. No seri ous damage was done. TROT IS BIG CARD TODAY Fast Steppers to Com pete on Track. BEST PROGRAMME OFFERED Portland Race Meeting Will End in Blaze of Glory. GREAT THRONG EXPECTED With Big Purse Cp and Speediest Horses Entered, This Afternoon at Track Will See Week'B Stellar Card. Portland day at the Portland Fair and Livestock Association's race meet ing will be celebrated at the Rose City Park track this afternoon, beginning at 1:30, when the final racing pro gramme of the 1911 season, which in cludes the banner stake event of the Paclflo Coast the $10,000 trot will bo presented to what Is expected to be a record-breaking crowd. But one other city west of the Rocky. Mountains has ever offered such a mu nificent stake as will be raced for in the second event this afternoon, and In this contest will be the premier trot ting horses of the Paclflo Coast cir cuit. In addition to the $10,000 competition the consolation race of the 2:08 pace, raced last Wednesday, will be held. This event will be for horses which failed to get in the money when the big raoe took place on that day, and la causing considerable rivalry among the horsemen. Two Running Races Carded. The third harness race scheduled for this afternoon will be the futurity trot ting event for 3-year-olds, and it prom ises to be an exciting contest Besides these races, the Oregon Derby and a three-fourth-mile dash will be Inter polated for the benefit of devotees ot running races. With such a programme offered, th stands are expected to be thronged when the first race begins today. The track was In splendid condition yesterday and the events were run In good time. Indicating that some speed marks are likely to be put up this afternoon. In the big stake event a number of the original entries have been withdrawn because of the horses having gone lame In trials raced In the mud during the early part of the week. Among these are the two McQuire en tries, Lee Crawford and Dan McKln ney, either of which was thought to .have a chance at the flrst money In this event Joe McGulre is greatly dis appointed at the Inability of his entries to compete. List May Be Augmented. Up to a late hour last night six en tries had positively been made, and this number may be augmented sev eral more horses by post time, for all ot the original entries are eligible to start and, if the horses work out properly this morning, it Is quite like ly that more than six trotters will face Starter McCarthy. All week this $10. 000 stake event has been talked of. Last year the first time the $10. 000 stake was offered, .Helen Stiles, owned by Colonel Durfee, of San Jose, CaU captured the event as well as the $5000 stake at the Salem State Fair. While this entry . is listed among the starters for the big purse at Salem next week, she is not among the entries for the big stake in Portland. E. B. Tongue, presiding Judge at the Portland meet, announced last night v.-. v,. rt nee this afternoon would be started promptly at 1:30 o'clock, which means that the first heat of the big race will be started at 2 o'clock. v,. .ni sta.rtinK hour of the races. The street railway company has ar ranged to put on all available extra cars to handle the big crowd. Cars will leave Fifth and Washington BtreeU every two minutes up to 2 o'clock. Contests Are Keen. vn.,arRv'ii events Droved more than ,,llv interesting. All the races were keenly contested and most of the start ers In the first heat competed mrougn- ,t the different events. rine ieatura race of the afternoon was the 2:12 pace. n4 In the first two heats of tne race the winning horse paced the mile in less than the class time. Lou Childs' bay mare, Blanche, by Avalon, going th mile in 2:11 In the first heat and took the second In 2:11 flat, while, in winning the third heat, sue was crea Ited with doing the distance in 2:12V. In this race Blanche was easily the class of the field, though Aerollght a bay stallion fc the famous Searchlight, owned by C. L. Clifford,- of Lewlston, Idaho, and d-'ven by C'.iadburn, dis played flashes of winning form at times, but was unsteady In his gait and this probably lost him at least one heat. Childs took his mount to the front almost at the start of each heat, and except for being pressed hard at the half and three-quarters by Tom Mar shall, the Murphy entry, and Aerollght the Spokane mare held the lead all the way. She especially demonstrated her speed and gameness on entering the stretch in each heat. On all three oc casions she was given a race up to (Concluded oa fag I.) 10 0