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i i TAFT GETS Ofl WESTERN TOUR Train Leaves Boston, Passes Albany. FIRST SPEECH AT SYRACUSE Enthusiastic Demonstration Is Feature of Departure. THREE GUARDS GO ALONG Railway Men to Jfumbor of Jiearly 50,000 Will Be Concerned With Transportation of Party on Its Long Journey. TTTKERAKT Of rRFSTDETCT TAFT O! Tlir THBOl'GH t4 STATES. Mlltiw Approximate 1r 1 . Espenee Estimated. 118k. Mvtratw J Leve Beam. S-plmber 1 Syracuse. September 1 Detroit. Sadnaw. Br cur. September It Bault 8e Merle. Marquette. September 30 Varqoette. t.plember St Orand Rapids. Bat tle Creek. Kalunuoe. S;wbr II Peoria. St. Ixrola tfercemoer : Kuiu City. SCo. fptember JS Coffervllle. Kan Ind-pndencaw Mo. September M Hutchinson, Kan, Meptember S7 To pea a. Atchison. September T Conncil Bluffs. Frt Dodse. Waterloo. September If Des Moines, Ot carnws. September tt Mooerly. Somalia. Kansas Cur. October 1 Omaha. October i Lincoln, Hastings, October t Lenver. October 4 Cheyenne, Laramie, RawUna. October a Salt Lake CUT- October t Poeatello. Boise. October 7 Walla Walla. Spokane. October Elleosburs. Tacoma. October S BelUOf ham. Everett. Se attle. October It Seattle. Taooma. October 11 Olrmpla, Vaoooover, Portland. October 1 SaJem. Oetober It Bacraaento, Baa Freji etaee. October It Los ABSelea. October II Salt Lake City. October It Butte. Jrnnsston. Bit lla October 10 Bsartdan, Olllette. New- October n Doailwcwid. Lead, Rapid City. October SS Pierre. October IS Huron. Aberdeen. October 14 Minneapolis. October 2i 81 Paul. October Its Oreea Bay. Applet on, Oshkoeh. Fon da X-ac October IT Milwaukee. Raeroe, Keaoaba. October St Chlcase. October 11 Pittsburg. November 1 -Washington. BOSTON. Sept It. President Taft jeft Boston tonight en Ms Ions: speak ing tour of 13.000 miles, which Is to unbrace It states and contlnua until November 1. ills departure In tbs spa tial train prepared for bis party was signalised by an enthualaatlo demon tratlon from several hundred persons fathered to bid btm godspeed. When the special train left orer the Boston at Albany Railroad the Presi dent's Immediate party consisted of Secretary miles. Major A. W. Butt, military aide, and Major Thomas L. Rhodes, United btatrs Army, tba Prea Idsnt's physician and three secret serv ice) guards. During the entire trip the train will carry superintendents. trainmasters and other operating officials on the various lines over which It moves and It is estimated that between 45.000 and JO. 009 railroad men will be di rectly concerned In transporting the Presidential party. President Tart will deliver bis first act address at Syracuse. N. T, at the tate Fair. ALBANY. X. T-. Sept. 1. A special train, with iTesldent Tart and party, arrived here at 1:40 A. M. r.VFT CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY President Gets .Many Congratula tions on Hlh Anniversary. BEVERLT. Slats.. Sept. IS This was President Taffs Sth birthday anni versary. Congratulatory messages poured Into the Executive offices here from all over the world. One from iking George of England read: 1 have great pleasure In sending yea my most hearty congratulations on the anniversary of your birthday and trust that the friendly relatione exist ing between our two countries may ever continue. The President played golf today. MIKADO TO HONOR JORDAN Decoration to lie BeMowed Vpon Educator Today. TOKIO. Sept. IS. David Starr Jordan. prrmnt of Leland Stanford. Jr. Uni versity, will be received In audience by te Fmperor tomorrow morning. The Mikado a 111 decorate his visitor. WEALTH IN SIGHT FOR POTATO MEN JAPANESE GROWEH WILL- HAVE HALF MILLION PROFIT. Callfornlans Benefit Largely by High Prices of Tubers 40,000 Acres Are Planted. STOCKTON. Cat. Sept. 16 (Special., Those who have been keeping a close watch upon the potato market and the acreage planted In San Joaquin County declare that George Shims, the japan ese potato king, will clear about 000 fhl season, even If tubers part of the. lma sell for less than $L At pres nl th.v are elllna: for Sl.lf to 11.15. and they have ranged as high as S3 Th Idaho eroD will not ready to ship for two weeks yet and the Southern and Middle States trade win he fliieA exclusively by Ban Jtwnutn fnuntv Arms. The estimated acreage planted In potatoes In the San Joaquin delta sec tlon this year Is 40.000. Some of th' early potatoes wore frosted and twi or thrM rrane were damasred. No break In the prices for weeka to come Is expected. There are many other large growers in addition w Shlma who will make fortunes from thair vMstAtoea. as they can be grown at a profit at SO cents a, sack. The commission men and shippers are aendlnsT out from 1 to 40 canoaa daily and In some Instances as high at 0 cars have been moved from thlt section in a day. 3 POISONED BY SALMON Men Recovering but Girl Weakens and Friends Fear Outcome. MEDrORI Or, Sept. 15. (Special.) Following the eating of a lunch of which canned salmon and straw berries were a pare the three grown children of Walter Chapman are suffering from a severe attack of ptomaine poisoning. Th. two hnva. Rrrt and Percy, are be lieved to be out of danger, but the daughter. Ollie. 18 years old. is suu under the care of Dr. Klrchgeasner. Prlends and relatives are worried aa to the final outcome. with their narents. the three children went to the Crater Lake district. fifteen miles northeast or rrmpem. Tk wr, homeward bound when they met friends and had lunch on the bank r.in rrik All ate heartily of canned salmon and directly afterward were taken violently 111. They were hurried to Beagle postofflce. where physicians were called. Doctors worked over the stricken children all that day and the following night. The boys, aged 2 and 15. showed ability to resist the poison, but from the first the daughter weakened ana re mained In a precarious condition. It Is believed that the canned salmon was the direct cause of the poison, the cold water from Union Creek Intensifying Us effect. BANK IS CUPID'S ALTAR Preacher-Financier tarries Pair In Front of Steel Safe. DtiRT ORCHARD. Wash Sept IS. (Special.) The Astor-Force , nuptials . no closer suggestion of money than the wedding performed here to day, when L A. Bynum, a business of Rremertoa. Wash., and Miss Ida Madeline Braedleln. of Vallejo, CaL. were atatloned In front or a man ganese steel safe and united In mar- iae-a nv Assistant Cashier Pitcher, of the Kitsap County Bank. Mr. Pitcher Is also a regularly ordained pastor or the Christian Church. When Mr. Bynum and his bride bad obtained the necessary license they were led by a friend Into the Kitsap County Bank. They found the Interior artistically decorated and the banker-pastor mar ried them before they realised where they were. The clerks quit figuring bonds and compound Interest long enough to wish the newjyweds a big capital stock of happiness. JOHN D., JR., ENDANGERED Eon of Standard OH Kins; Narrowly Escape Death by Accident. TARRTTOWN, N. T, Sept IS. (Spe cial.) John D. Rockefeller. Jr, es caped death by a few Inches this aft ernoon when five workmen were seri ously Injured. A bundle of steel gird ers, being raised to the second story of his father's house, which Is being remodeled, fell on the mud. Rockefel ler was on the ground watching the workmen hoist -the bundle of steel by a derrick. When It reached the second etory It caught In a cornice, the tie rope broke and the man fell to the ground. Rockefeller gave warning, but the men were unable to escape. One man received a fractured skull, while the other four were more or leas seriously Injured. A temporary hospital was set up tn i garage and physicians and trained nurses rushed to attend the injured. Rockefeller himself aiding In giving first aid to the injured. MAN, 96, WALKS TO TEXAS Visit to Children Before He Dies Aim of War Veteran. STrLLWATER. Okla. Sept. IS. Walking from Pocatello, Idaho, to Aus tin. Texas, to see his three children be fore he diet, Marcus Go ft. S years old strlved here todsr. He Is a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars and took part In a number of campaigns sgaintt Western Indiana. PRESIDENT HOLDS WILEY BLAMELESS Sympathy Is Expressed for Food Expert. GOOD LAW BEING ENFORCED Work Especially Essential in Formative Period. BROADER ISSUES RAISED Letter Indicates Store Radical Action 3Iay Follow Keblcr Repri manded Rnsby at Fault in Another Instance. WASHINGTON. Sept. 15. President Taft today reversed the recommenda tion of the personnel of Board of the Department of Agriculture, with Its In dorsement by Attorney-General Wick ers ham with reference to the case of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry and the best known food expert In the country. The Attorney-General had advised "con dign punishment of Wiley. President Taft softens the reversal of his ad viser's finding by saying that If he had had the full record before him he probably would have held differ ently. Next to the vindication of Wiley It self. Washington la most Interested in the paragraph of the President's let ter. In which he says that "the broad er Issues raised by the Investigation, which have a much weightier relation than this one to the general efficiency of the Department, may require much more radical action than the question I have considered and decided." Department to Be Reformeo. This la taken to presage a "shake up" in the Department. While there Is no Intimation either that Secretary Wilton will resign or that he will be aaked to leave. It la believed that the President will Insist upon a thorough "house-cleaning." Affairs In the De partment of Agriculture have been known for some time past to be In a confused state, particularly with ref erence to the loyalty of the rank and file to their respective chiefs. Meas ures are to be taken to bring this sit uation to an Issue and end the trou ble, so far as possible. The President finds that in securing the employment of Dr. Rusby as an ex pert at a fixed salary, with the pro vision that he should do only work enough to make his pay equivalent to S70 a day. Dr. Wiley was actuated by a high motive and sustained by the precedent of the employment of the Remsen Board and by other preced ents. He finds, however, that Dr. Kebler, in hie seal to persuade Dr. Rusby to accept employment with the Government, was disingenuous, and that Dr. Blgelow was orerxeatous and should be reprimanded by the Secre tary. He finds that Dr. Rusby's action In securing the employment on the (Concluded on Page X) INDEX OF TODArS NEWS The Weather. TEPTERDArfi Maximum temperature. 04 degreea: minimum, 66 degrees. TODA "TS Showers. warmer; westerly winds. 1 Foreign. ' Missions will be looted tf Chinese besiegers win: missionaries may be spared, rase a. Premier Stolypln. shot by aaaasaia. haa good . . chance of recovery. Paso S. National. President exonerates Dr. Wiley. Page L Taft begins long tour. Page L Domestic Mrs. Qerashty refuses reconciliation with parents unless - "Jack" la Included, l-age 3. California potato growers amassing rtonea. Page 1. Colonel Roosevelt sits in Juvenile Court. Pace 1. Governors win study rate case. Page 1 Roosevelt sits In New Tork Juvenile Court. !' 1. t Sport. Pacific Coast League results yesterday Portland 1. Vernon 0 (game called In third- does not count In rating): Oakland 10. San Francisco 4; Sacramento 4. Los Angeles 4 igame called la 21st Inning). Page 7. Northwestern League Oil games postponed) rain. Pags 7. Pans will give testimonial to Buddy Ryan. Page 7. Junior Dan Patch upholds sire's fame m fast pace In Slate Fair races. Page 7. Jim Flynn bests "White Hope" Morris In fierce ten-round bout. Page T. 1'ariflo Northwest. Bank of Montreal branch at New Westmin ster. B. C looted for 315.0ou. Page 1. J. v. Ferguson succeeds bam Koxer as State Insurance Commissioner. Page 6. Attorney-General rules against filing on bal lot of U'Rtu'i single-tax petition. Page a. Nature backs up Round-U'p's unprecedented success. Page 6. Commercial and Marines Oregon hop markst opens at 83 cents. Page 17. Wheat trade drags at Chicago, buyers await ing Canadian reciprocity vote. Page 18. Fluctuations In stocks are narrower. Pags 17. Shipments of grain promise record for. month of beplember. Page IS. Portland and Vicinity. Insurgents In Methodist church may attack bishop's appointing power at tialem con ference. Pago 9. ghoproen. In statement, file their side of controversy with Harrlman lines. Page 10. Witnesses In Prim Weeks' trial testify that man elain made threats. Page 10. Mrs. Charles Hubbart gagged and tied to .chair by burglar when he falls to get 'money; babe saves her. Pace 10. Joe Morale, of unsavory record, latest of Mayor Rushlight s political supporters to get Job In public service. Page 12. Portland business men to go to Aberdeen next Saturday to attend celebration at opening of O.-W. R. A N. bridge. Page 4. New Hotel Carlton baa auspicious opening. Psge 4. A. J. Pender. Scappoose rancher, arrested at Independence and brought to Portland as suspected slayer of Mrs. Wshrmaa and babe. Page 1. Grand Jury will Investigate alleged "leaks." . Page 12. HOMESTEAD BRIDE LONELY Isolation, Illness and Ltazy Husband Lead to Divorce Court. SEATTLE, Wash.. Sept. 15. (Spe cial.) Annie C Frazter, an April bride, began her married life by mov ing to an Oregon homestead, where she found her nearest neighbors were 6E miles away. In the divorce court today the told Judge Myers that one of the first things that happened to her In her new home was a case of ap pendicitis. When her anxiety rose at the pros pect of being ill so far from civiliza tion and medical aid, her husband told her, she averred, that whenever any body In that district became 111 they generally turned over and died rather than start after a doctor. KETTENBACH IS ACQUITTED All Counts In Case Against Lewis ton Banker Absolved. BOISE, Idaho. Bept. 15. A Jury in the United 6tates District Court today returned a verdict of acquittal on all counts In the case of Frank W. Ket i.nWh. the Lewlston banker, charged with having made false reports to the Controller of the Treasury MR. PRESIDENT, OUR CONFIDENCE IN T0U IS n c7 RANCHER HELD FOR E A. J. Pender Is Arrested at Independence. MAIL CLEW AGAINST HIM Prisoner Calm While Undergo ing Close Questioning. SUSPECT IS IN JAIL HERE Kvidcnce Against Columbia. County Farmer Is Only Circumstantial. Wife of Accused Insists Stout ly He Is Innocent. Arrested yesterday afternoon at Independence, Or, by Sheriff Thomp son, of Columbia County, on suspicion that he Is the murderer of Mrs. Daisy Wehrman and her 8-year-old son Harold, whose mutilated bodies were discovered in a lonely cabin near Scappoose on September 6, A. J. Pender, a Scappoose rancher, was put through a long and searching cross examination in the office of Sheriff Stevens last night. Those present were Sheriffs Stevens and Thompson and L. L. Levlngs. a detective, who con ducted the crost-examtnatlon. The arrest was made on the as sumption that Pender was the man who took a paper addressed to the Wehrman family from the Scappoose postofflce Monday. September 4, Labor day. Pender admitted that he and a neighboring rancher named Llndloff rode to Scappoose together on the morning of September 4 and be also admitted that he asked for the neigh borhood mail and that Llndloff did not ask for It. He denies, however, that he asked for the Wehrman mall. Paper la Cine to Crime. This paper, together with, a piece of stenciled muslin wrapped in brown paper, which was placed In the cross roads mail box by Mrs. George Bates .-.. j .e.nnnn were found un- Dftiuiu; - opened In the Wehrman cabin when the bodies were discovered oy Thompson and Deputy Sheriff Grant. The theory has been held all along .- m,n who took the paper from the postofflce and the murderer are Identical. The mall box Is within a few rod of the tent in which Pender has been liv ing and closer to a house which he has been building on the tract. The the ory la that the man who committed the irr, tnnk the muslin from the box and used it and the paper as an excuse to visit the wenrman noma. It has also been the theory of the officers that the man made improper ..in a XT WhrmAn. which UUD. - ' were resented, and that she reached for the hatchet. It was wrested from her and she then reached for the revolver, the officers believe. She was known as a determined woman and a good shot and it Is supposed that when she pointed the revolver at her murderer It was a case of one or the other's be- (Concluded on Page lg-) UNIMPAIRED. DOS 1 COLONEL SITS IN JUVENILE COURT KOOSE11XT ADVICE GIVEN FREE TO DELIXQCEXTS. Plea Iade for Mischievous Young ster, "With Warning That He 3fay Be "Sent Away" TEW TORK, Sept 15. (Special.) A court attendant at the Children's Court, according to the custom of his kind, prepared to knock the black sombrero off the man who hurried Into the room 10 minutes after court had opened today. He paused, because the hat belonged to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, who finally took it off and spent two hours beside Justice Hoyt on the bench listening to cases, quil ling Juvenile delinquents and their parents and giving gratuitous advloe In most instances. At noon, when court adjourned, the Colonel dropped hints that the columns of. Outlook would presently and . surely mention the Children's Court. Among the cases heard was that of William Flohr, 15 years old. Flohr had been caught by an Interborough railway special agent on the platform of. a Second avenue elevated train. Indulging In the pastime of spitting at heads whenever they came In range on the street. "Give him another chance, whis pered the Colonel to Justice Hoyt "But," he added to the boy, as the Justice suspended sentence, "If you're ever brought up again, he'll send you away; send you away'' PARTY JN JTTORM'S GRIP State Officials With Explorers In Mount Rainier Blizzard. TACOMA, Sept 15. Exposed for eight days to terrific thunder and snow storms raging alternately in the foot hills of Mount Rainier, members of an exploring party, including the State Engineer and his assistants and County Commissioners from Pierce and Yakima Counties, have experienced great hardships, according to a story brought here by Assistant Engineer Jameson, who was forced to turn back because of conditions. He said that they were compelled to go two days without food, most of the time on the glaciers which they were attempting to cross despite the bllz- sards that were raging. Commissioner Peterson, of Pierce County, broke down completely and it was necessary to procure a horse to carry him. Peterson expected to re turn to this city yesterday, but no word has been heard from him. What la- said to have been the largest snow cloud seen over the mountain in years, was visible above the peak yes terday. Local county officials fear for the safety of the party. VOICE LEADS TO WEDLOCK Idaho Jliner, Blinded, Falls In Love With ITurse; Married Here. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept 15. (Spe cial.) Falling In love with the sound of a girl's voice, when he lay blinded on a cot In a Wallace, Idaho, hospital, Kenneth Calsholm, master mechanic at the Lead Silver Mine, proposed to his pretty nurse Miss Ruby Hull, as soon aa he regained the use of his eyes. The romance resulted in the wedding of the couple at Portland, Or., Thursday. A year ago Chlsholm was brought to the hospital with both eyes badly In jured. A shower of steel filings from a lathe had entered his eyes and for a time it was doubtful If he would regain his sight For days he lay with his head swathed In bandages. During this time Miss Hull cared for him. Recently the two decided to get a homestead. Miss Hull went to Portland and filed on land south of that city. They will live there. ACQUITTED MAN GUILTY Following Verdict Judge Says So and Defendant Admits It, SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 15. After the Jury in the grand larceny case of the state against John Falettl had brought in a verdict of not guilty in Jndge Gay's branch of the Superior Court today, the court in astonishment told the Jury that the verdict was a miscarriage of Justice and that the man was plainly guilty. Then the prisoner, who had fought the case desperately, rose to his feet and assured the Jury that the Judge was light I appropriated the 1150," he said. T needed It and so retained it" After the Jury had directed the man was not guilty and the prisoner had acknowledged his guilt, he left the courtroom a free man. FARM FAR AB0VE SEA WINS Pilot Rock Man's Products) Carry Off Big- Fair Ribbons. PENDLETON, Or Sept 15. (Spe laL) Stanfleld and the reclamation project surrounding the town carried off high honors at the District Fair here, taking two diplomas for the largest and best display of fruit and the largest and best display of vege tables. The town is particularly proud of Its exhibit of potatoes and the fact that the district drew 30 first premiums and has the only ripe strawberries on the vines. In the sweepstakes Charles Ogllvy, of Pilot Rock, with his ranch 3223 feet above the sea and 72 varieties of products on display, car lied off the ribbon. MASTER YEG6MEN NETS315,000 HAUL New Westminster, B. C. Bank Made Victim. CASH LOST BIGGEST KNOWN Money on Hand for Financing Salmon Packing. ROBBERS ESCAPE IN AUTO Skilled Workmen, in Early Morning Hour, Help Themselves to Savings Institution's Funds After Gag ging and Binding Caretaker. - NEW WESTMINSTER. B. C. Sept 15. What Is believed the largest cash bank robbery recorded in police annals of the world occurred in this city at an early hour this morning, when Bkllled yeggmen carried away loot totaling 315,000. from the branch of the Bank of Montreal, making their escape in an automobile. Though the safe was blown, no ex plosion was heard in the early morn ing stillness, owing to the fact that the robbers had carefully and cleverly planned their work by muffling the nltro-glycerlne and safe door in the bed-clothing belonging to the bank's night wltchman, who yesterday started on his annual vacation and for some reason or other, no one was in the bank at the time the robbery oc curred. It was close to 4 o'clock when the Chinese Janitor of the bank, who has been in the service of the institution for the past 10 years, made his usual entrance by the front door, prepara tory to cleaning up the office. Robbers Gag Janitor. 1 Hardly had he gained entrance when he was seized by a big, burly man, who, aided by two others, bound and gagged the Oriental and carried him to the basement of the building, there tying him to a post Disposing of the only individual who, they apparently thought had attempted to interfere with their Job, they proceeded to gath er up their loot and -make for parts unknown. It was fully an hour after the thieves had left the hank, according to the Chinaman, that he was able to release himself and run to police head quarters, but a few yards from the bank, and sound the alarm. Although the police of New West minster and Vancouver profess to have no trace of the men it Is believed they are in Vancouver. It would not have been possible for them to travel any great distance be fore the police were notified of the robbery. It will be difficult for the thieves to pass the bills of large de nominations. Not only are the bills new, but it is said that their numbers are on record and any person offering them would soon be under suspicion. Skilled Men In Deal la Belief. Evidently the robbers knew the' bank had the money on hand for financing the salmon packing and shipping. One theory is that a gang of skilled men came from the East to do the one Job of safe-blowing. The five men entered the bank by the front door, broke through the thin metal coating of the vault blew the safe by charges of nitro-glycerine and got clear away with their booty without being seen, except by the Chi nese caretaker. There was in all $350,000 In the bank's safes. Chief of Police Brad shaw believes the men would have taken it all if they could have carried it As it was, they took all they could carry away, leaving all the silver and notes of small denominations as well as damaged ,500 and 1000 bills lying around the floor and tables of the room of one of the clerks. Trick Done Thoroughly. The first known of the robbery was when the Chinese caretaker appeared at the police station at about 5:30 o'clock and g-ve the alarm. Chief of Police Bradshaw hurried to the scene and all of the available officers were pressed into service, but the only clew obtainable was that given by the Chinaman. From the thoroughness of the Job and the tools with which the work was done the local officers be lieve the same gang that has recently been at work in Vancouver turned the trick here. It is impossible to say Just when the men effected their entrance into the bank, but it is presumed that it was somewhere about 8 o'clock for when the Chinese Janitor arrived shortly after 4 o'clock to clean up, he found that the men had been doing a little cleaning up on their own ac count, and before the Chinese could give the alarm he was sandbagged, gagged and tied to a chair. Then the ; robbers proceeded to collect the gold T and bills from the vault and left the building some time before 5 o'clock, taking fully a quarter of a million dol lars with them, and leaving about $100,000 in the vault behind them. That the robbers are still in the vi cinity is apparent by the finding of 4 powerful automobile stolen from T. J. (Concluded on psge 2.J.