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PORTLAND. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LI NO. l.",932. LORIMER DENIES HE PAID FOR HIS SEAT GIRL SUES SKIPPER, ALAS, FOR $51,000 GERTRUDE MACFARLAN ASKS DAMAGES FOR ALLEGED JILT. WOMAN JUROR NOT GIVEN OWN ROOM HOLD OF FEDERAL LAW IS TIGHTENED JONES DECLINES TO BECOME JUDGE SERTS BANK OF ARE HIS EQUITABLE DEFKXSE INSISTS THAT JL'RY BE XOT SEPARATED. SENATOR TJNAVTL-LING TO SUC CEED DONWORTH. AN AS HISTORIC HOME IS BURN 6 Dead, 12 Hurt; Money Loss $6,000,000. HARR2MAN BKGRA'HY IS LOST Records of Railway System May Be Saved. VAULTS HOLD MILLIONS lrlcelc Libraries DeMroyed In lire Ilcplrlc Willi Sensational In cident Itatlalion Chief Is Among Dead. NEW YORK. Jan. . The ImmraJ narbl and granite hema of the Eqult Me Life Assurance Society. covering Mock In lower Broadway, an hlatorle landmark of New York s early period of skyscraper balldltiKi and ona of the city's Important financial centers, was destroyed by flra today with a Iom of six Uvea and probably M.000.- enn In property. Twelve peraon were Injured. The tire started In the kitchen of a restaurant In the basement of the building. Valuable records. Including- the bl- nirraphy of K. II. Harrlman. and two priceless libraries which cannot be re placed, went up In flames, and the fate of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of securities, stored In safe de posit vaults, was In question tonight. although It was believed that fireproof construction would save them from damage Maar rorporatleaa la Bolldlaa. The great structure, which besides containing the main offices of the Kiiuitable Ufe Assurance Society, was the home of the Mercantile Trust Com pany, the Equitable Trust Company, the banking- hot.ee of Kountse Broth ers. August Belmont ft Company, the Harrlman Railroad lines, the Mercan tile Safe Ix-poslt Company, the Law yers" Club and many of the city's most prominent law firms, stand tonight a shell of lt-e-coated stone. The Intense cold caused a thick coat ing to form on the facades of sky scrapers adjacent and on the pave ments for blocks around. The bulwark of modern fireproof structures nearby, according to Fire Commissioner John inn, protected the entire financial dis trict. The damage, except by water, was confined to the Equitable struc ture. Tare- Jump. Three other Bsraes. Of those who lost their lives, three employes of the building were killed bv jumping from the roof to which they were driven by flames. Battalion Chief Walsh dropped In a whirl of smoke and flame when a cave In occurred on the third floor. Two other men, William Campion, captain cf the watchmen In the Mercantile Safe IepO!lt Company vaults, and Frank J Nelder, a special officer, whose bodies have not been recovered, com plete the list of dead. s far as known. Several persons. watchmen and others, who were In the structure when the fire broke out have not been ac counted for. but are believed to have escaped. The death total, however, may not oe fixed until the fire, which was burning tonight, has been extin guished and the ruins cool. Dir Nnrsed Krrai Yaalt. Among the injured Is W. J. Glblin. president of the Mercantile Safe Ie p5lt company, whose rescue from the basement vauits, where he was Im prisoned, after two houra' work by firemen, was one of the most sensa tional episodes of the fire. He had gone Into a vault to save securities and accidentally locked himself In with an employe who had accompanied him. Their cries were heard by the firemen, olio had to saw through the steel bars i f a door leading to the street before t-iey could rescue the Imprisoned men. Mr. Glblin was taken to a hospital, suffering from the effects of smoke. One man In another vault of the Mer cantile Safe Deposit Company, believed to be Campion, could be seen from the street with his legs pinned down by a n ass of debris, but could not be res i ued because steel doors barred the way. Through the smashed window of the doors the last rites were adminis tered by Chaplain McCean, of the Fire lVpartment Just as h was swallowed from view by the Jcr.se smoke. Others He sorted MlaalM. Spectators at the window of nearby skyscrapers told of seeing other dis appear in the flames when the roof caved In. but the authorltlea believe the casualty list Is not likely to be Increased. Some estimates of the loss run as high as .15.000.000. but more conserva tive authorities tonight thought the damage would not run over K. 000,000. The property was assessed by the city at 113.000.000. a larger valuation, with one exception, than that on any other building In the financial district. The greater part of the valuation, how ever. Is based on the value of the ground. An K'lUltahle official said the socie ty's own loss probably would not amount to more than KOO.OOO. covered bv Its own contingent Insurance fund. iCwciuacd ea J'ags 2 j Seattle Judge Itnle Mr. Doddridge May Sleep Behind Screen In Apartment With Men. SEATTLE. Wash, Jan. . Speclal Whether the sex of a woman Juror renters her Ineligible to sit In a mur der case may be passed upon by the Supreme Court .through Judge J. T. Ronald's ruling today In the case of the state against Detective Joseph Blanchl. charged with manslaughter. Attorney John F. Miller, defending Blanchl, called the court' attention to the law requiring that member of Ju- rle In murder case be not eperated and Insisted that the law be complied with literally. The Blanchl Jury In cludes one woman. "The defense Insist upon this," said Mr. Miller. -We ask that thl Jury be held together as a body not only through the day, but through the night.- Judge Ronald ruled that the Jury should be held together so far as con ventionality would allow, but that the law would be tempered and Interpreted to met 20th century exigencies. Mrs. Retta Doddridge, the woman Juror, will be separated from the re mainder of the Jury In the sleeping quarter by a screen across the end of a large room and .will have the attend ance of a woman bailiff, who will oc cupy an adjoining couch. HOME BECOMES FIRETRAP Three Children Locked In House by Mother Horned to Death. BOISE. Idaho. Jan. . (Special.) Locked In their llttlo home at Buhl, Idaho, last night by their mother, who left to go down town and attend a revival meeting, three children aged S, t and C. respectively, of Mr. and Mr. R. McGee. were burned to death. Neigh bors made frantic but unsuccessful ef fort to save them. It I thought that the children ob tained matches to plav with and these started the fire. When neighbor ar rived attracted by the house burning and the screams, ef the children, the scene was a pathetic one, for the chil dren tried the windows and door to escape. The two older children died within the burning home. The 3-year-old child was taken from the building af ter a herolo effort on the part of sev eral men. but died from Its burns a hort time afterwards. DEMOCRATS ARE GRILLED Hill Say They Fall at Constructive legislation. WASHINGTON". Jan. 9. In an attack upon the Democratic party for Its rec ord In the extra session of Congress last Hummer, Representative Hill, of Connecticut, a Republican member of the ways and means committee, de clared In the House today that the ex tra session had demonstrated the In ability of the Democrats to do con structive legislative work. Mr. Hill especially attacked the Democratic tariff record. He Insisted that the free wool advocates, though greatly In the majority when the tariff session began, had surrendered to those v, ho favored a duty n wool because tho wool duty force wa strong enough to combine with the Lepublleans and secure a majority of the House. HAMILTON ASKS PAROLE Convicted Adjutant-General of Washington Model Prisoner. WALLA WALLA. Wash, Jan. . (Special.) After serving two year In he State Penitentiary for embexzllng thousands of dollar of the state's funds while Adjutant-General of the Washington National Guard, Ortls Hamilton has asked the State Board of Control for a parole. Even If tho Board recommends a parole fit must also receive the official sanction of Governor Hay. Hamilton Is at present In the stew ard's department at the prtaon and the officials of that Institution say he 1 a model prisoner. He is serving an In determinate sentence of from one to 14 years and Is now eligible to parole. WOMAN LEAPS FOR LIFE Matron Jump From Second-Story Window to Escape Man She Helped. MILWAt'KEK. Jan. . Mrs. Breau. seed S3, was attacked at her home In Wauwau Tosa, a suburb, today, by a man who asked admittance, saying he was freezing. He dragged her by the hair, but she leaped through a second-story window and evaded him. falling unconscious outside her house, while the man fled. A posse Is In pursuit. TAFT NAMES CRONEMILLER Appointment of Receiver of Lake view Land Office Is Made. OREGONIAN NEWS BCRKAl. Wash ington. Jan . The President today, on the recomendation of Representa tive Hawley and National Committee man Williams, sent to the Senate the nomination of Fred P. Cronemiller as receiver of the Lakevlew land Office. He lpo renominated William Balder ston as register of the Boise Land Office. States Must Retire if Conflict Arises. DUTY CF CARRIERS DEFINED Commerce Commission Para mount, Says High Court. LUMBER CASE IS DECIDED lu Minnesota and North Carolina Litigation, Ruling Is That When Nation Speaks, Then State Must Be Silent. WASHINGTON. Jan. . The grip ef the Interstate Commerce Commission over the commerce of the country was tightened today In decision of the Su preme Court. The principle was laid down that shippers suffering from civil injuries from railroad must go to the Com mission before rushing to the courts for relief. The paramount authority of the Commission In reasonable rate making was upheld by the court's decision that the Federal District Court of Minnesota wa wrong in preventing the enforce ment of the Commission's reduced rates on lumber from the Pacific Coast, Ore gon and Montana points o St. Paul, Omaha and Chicago. Federal Aathorlty Asserted. The legislative field touching the ac ceptance of goods by railroads for in terstate shipment was marked forever as Federal territory and states were warned to keep off. The supremacy over state laws of similar import of trr Federal "hour of service law," the enforcement of which is confided to the Commission, was up held. The fight over the lumber rates had been the most exhaustive. The Com mission's rate eradicated substantially all the increase in rates from the Northwest proposed by the railroads in 1903. After a long consideration of the attack upon the Commission's order. Justice Lamar concluded that the court could not say that the order was made because of the effect of the advance on the lumber Industry, as suggested by the railroads, or that there was no evidence to support the Commission's rates. Dividends Not Safe Basis. The court laid down the principle that railroad dividends were not to be a sole basis for Judging the reasonable- (i'onol urtd on Paga2.) v : . ' ' j i - r ncKED AGAnr- l 'ocos Wishes Made Known to Taft In Con ference Boyd J. Tallman Ap plies to Poindexter. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Jan. 9. Senator Jones, of Washington, declared today that he is not a candidate to succeed Federal Judge Donworth, of Western Wash ington, and further said that he would not be appointed to this office. As Senator Jones conferred with the President today, it is presumed that he explained to the President his pref erence for the Senatorshlp, and thl wlU take bl name out of the list of eligi ble. He oould have had the appoint ment, however, had he desired It, for the President would willingly have named him. - There are several appli cants In the field, but no indications as yet as to who will be appointed. Senator Jones would not discuss can didates or say what transpired at his White House conference. Senator Poindexter today received an application from Boyd J. Tallman, of Seattle, for the appointment to succeed Judge Donworth. Poindexter has made no recommendation. DUNCANS SH0CK PARIS "Reign of Prudery" Wages War on Scant Draperies In France. PARIS. Jan. 9. (Special.) The anti-scant-drapery movement now sweep ing over France has struck Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Duncan, who are being prosecuted and will be evicted from their apartments. The "reign of prud ery" began at Nice, where Reglna Asadu. the beautiful Paris danseuse, appearing In a production by Pierre Louys, Is being prosecuted for "ex cessive nudity." After this, detectives were put to watch Isadore Duncan, and last night her brother, Raymond, and his com panions were warned of tho same fate. Duncan and his guests are living In apartments In the Avenue Charles Flouquet, lent him by Madame Sturges. Notwithstanding the bad -weather. and with the cold so Intense that a man died from It today on the Rue de IUvoll, Duncan and his companions continued to wear attire that would be considered highly appropriate lor a seashore bathing resort in July. PEOPLE ACCLAIM REBELS Ecuadoran Province of Canar AVon by Revolutionists' Victory. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. Jan. 9. Af ter a battle which ended In favor of the troops from this city who are support ing the provisional government pro claimed at Guayaquil. December 28, by General Pedro Montero, the inhabitants of the Province of Canar announced their adhesion to General Montero's cause. The troops from Quito under General Plasa continue to occupy the heights near Alausi and Garanda. Senator Is on Witness Stand First Time. AID IN CAMPAIGN IS REFUSED Story of Breach Between Hop kins and Deneen Told. DEADLOCK WAS PLANNED Illinois Governor Said to Have Feared People of State Would Misunderstand If He Him self Were to Run. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. United States Senator Lorimer today began testify ing In his own defense. It was the U linols Senator's first appearance in the witness chair since the Senate ordered an Investigation of his election. The first question put to Senator Lorimer by Judge Henecy, his counsel, was blunt and leading. "Did you ever pay anything of value to anybody for your election: no uo manded. "I never did." Senator Lorimer re plied. T..rio- v-TenArv repeated the question In different forms, and each time Senator Lorimer replied: "I never did." Contribution of 300 Returned. Lorimer told how when he was run ning for Congress in 1908. F. M. Blount, campaign manager for Senator Hop kins, had sent him a campaign contri bution of 3500, which he returned, say ing: t hom nM all mv election expenses myself, at both the primary and the polls, without accepting a cem anybody and therefore I cannot accept yours." . - can ntnr T,orlmer's testimony was of conversations with Governor De neen about the Senatorial election in the Illinois Legislature, and he brought out the breach between Deneen and Hopkins. Deneen Against Hopkins. "When I met Deneen by appointment In January, 1909." he said, "he felt that he had been treated harshly in the state committee meeting by Senator HoDklns. Mayor Busse and Postmaster Campbell, of Chicago. He felt the pri mary had originated with them, and he did not want to return to the 'soap box' system. He was afraid Busse (Concluded on Page 8.) San Francisco Woman Says Captain Greene, of Oriental Liner, Prom ised to Marry Her. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 9. (Special.) Miss Gertrude MacFarlane filed suit In the Superior Court today against Captain William W. Greene for 151,000 heart balm, for failure to marry her October 14 last, after their engage ment had been announced and the marriage license had been procured. Miss MacFarlane says in her com plaint that she became engaged to Captain Greene, commander of the Cht To Mam, August 12, 1911, and the wed ding date was set for October 14. All of this was duly announced in the newspapers. The marriage license was procured October 13. She avers that she had prepared an elaborate trousseau at an expenditure of $1000. She says that she has suf fered $50,000 worth of distress and humiliation. Captain Greene's vessel Is now In this port, due to sail for the Orient tomorrow. Miss MacFarlane Is a member of a prominent Sausallto family, but has lived in 6an Francisco for the past 20 years. When the Chi To Maru docked she was on the dock to greet him and, as he walked down the gangplank, she ran forward and threw her arms about him, regardless of the merriment of the bystanders, and the evident em barrassment of the captain.. Then came rumors of a rift In the lute. Friends of the plaintiff say the captain thought Miss MacFarlane had money, and friends of the captain as scrlbe the same mercenary motives to Miss MacFarlane. BOON SOUGHT FOR COAST Humphrey Would Make Chinese Come in at Pacific Porta Only. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Representa tive Humphrey, of Washington, intro duced a bill today asking that Chinese shall enter the United States only through a Pacific Coast port. He said the Government discriminated against American railroads in favor of the Canadian Pacific Railroad by main taining an Immigration station at Van couver, B. C. The bill, Mr. Humphrey said, would abolish immigrant stations on the Canadian and Mexican borders, main tained almost exclusively for the ex amination of Chinese. LIVE WIRE KILLS YOUTH Storm Contributes to Death of Gene Graham at Pendleton. PENDLETON, Or, Jan. 9. (Special.) Gene Graham, aged 22 years, a na tive of Weston, was instantly elec trocuted in the basement of the Jar man store in that town about 2:30 this afternoon, by coming In contact with a live wire. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAFS Maximum temperature, 43 degrees; minimum, 48 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rain; south to west wind. National. Senator Lorimer denies on witness stsnd that he paid for election, rage i. Supreme Court holds Federal laws superior to state laws in raliroaa cases, rage i. Senator Jones, of Washington, declines to become candidate lor federal juagsnip. Page 1. Packers' trial checked by defense'a objection to documentary evidence oirerea. rase a. Polities. Democrats adopt "permissive" primary plan: convention to be held in Baltimore June 25. Page 2. Domestic. Member of theosophtcal "Inner circle" denies Mrs. Tlngley's testimony in will contest. Pasre 3. Girl sues sea captain for $51,000 for alleged lilt. Page 1. Detective witness for state In Conners trial says he duped accused aynamiters wnue plotting. Page 2. Six dead and 12 hurt In $8,000,000 Equitable fire in New Torn, rage l- Pastor Richeson's counsel to appeal for com mutation of death penany. rage o. Cleveland society Interested In divorce suit of Mrs. Stallo. Page S. Han arrested In Chicago claims bank rob beries in Canada and Panama and several murders as his. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Attorney A. E. Clark, special prosecutor in Wilde case. Is shot at twice by would-be assassin at Salem. Page 5. Trial of Vancouver policeman who shot es caping prisoner opens. Page 4. Oregon City Mayor declares Schuebel, ac cusations are false. Page 4. Rising temperature brings lighter hearts to Northwest cities, rage a. Woman Juror In Seattle murder trial not to be given separate aieeping-room. rage x. Sport. RTtltlon of Giencfce case may lose two players to Kick Williams' team. Page 7. Multnomah Club to take charge of lnter- scholaetic track and field meet. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Winter hides are offered and market Is weaker. Page 17. Wheat lower at Chicago on large Increase In world's supply. Page 19-Sava-ge attacks by bears on stock market. Page 17. Six steamers chase raft of logs from South Portland to St. Johns bridge. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. C. G. Murphy, head meterman, discharged by Weter Board for selling material to Junk dealers. Page 10. Nearly lno men thrown out of work by $60.- 000 fire at Oswego. Page 10. Destitute laborer appeals to authorities to aid him in collecting bill long overdue from Board of Education. Page lo. Vice commission in first report declares city's condition as to venereal disease is alarm ing. Page 12. More than 200 Democrats attend Jackson Club dinner. Page 6. Few changes made In banks at annual meetings of National and -state concerns. Page 7. Portland Trust Company elects O.-W. R. & N. president director. Page . Flood danger follows melting of ice and snow. Page 12. j Suspect Says He Stole, Fought and Killed. CANADA TO BOGOTA IS TRAIL Prisoner Declares He Was in New Westminster Job. LIST HAS FOUR MURDERS Chicago Police Doubt Story of Pick pocket Who Boasts of Crimes. Panama Case Is Cited His Accomplices Not Named. CHICAGO, Jan. 9. Bank robberies In Canada and Panama, murdera in Co lombia, South America, In Panama, Tulsa, Okla., and St. Louis, MO, and other crimes were "confessed to" and admissions of a further crime record were promised here today by Frank Holloway, 32 years old, who has been arrested as a pickpocket. He has many aliases. His story is doubted by the polioe, who are investigating. Nearly $500, 000 is involved in the thefts he told the police he had taken part In, and he said If he "felt like it" he would give details of still other robberies later. Many Crimes Claimed. Following is the crime record whioh he claims: Aided "many other persons" in rob bing the branch of the Bank of Mon treal at New Westminster. B. C, last September, getting 3375,000 In gold and paper money. His share was nearly 385,000. Was one of a gang of six who "busted" the safe of the Panama City Banking Company at Panama in Feb ruary in 1910; got 3S4.000 all told. Killings Confessed To. In a gun fight with fellow robbers near Panama, shot and killed one Schaefer In a quarrel over the division of the spoils of the bank. Shot and killed Kdward G. West when the latter "double-crossed" him In a later division of the proceeds of the same robbery. This was in Bogoto, Colombia. Killed a "notorious bank robber," Frank Starr, In Tulsa, Okla.. five years ago when the latter "crowded him" for a "split" of the proceeds of a small robbery. St. Louis Shooting Mentioned. Shot 'Bob" Reynolds and two men named McGlveney and Smith, who were working for him in St. Louis during the World's Fair, when he kept a sa loon there. Of this he said: "The three men were trying to put me 'out In the cold' and we had a row. I shot' all three of them and later Reynolds died. I was 'pinched' but worked out of the case." Forfeited a bond at Fort Worth, Tex., where he had been arrested, charged with a bank robbery at Harold, Tex. Was questioned by Burn's detectives in Portland, in connection with an other matter but eluded them. He said he had 354,000 In Canadian money in a Chicago hotel "and lots more hidden elsewhere," but said he would not disclose where it was. He refused to name others implicated in the crimes he enumerated. Family Prominent In Texas. Holoway. after adding many details to the description of crimes he was re lating, including a tale of how a bur row under the Panama Bank took two months to dig and how, of the 3210,000 in gold they found, only 384.000 of It could be carried my them because of Its weight, told the police of his family. S He said his home was In Vernon, Tex., where his mother, brother and . sisters still lived. His father, he said, was the late Captain Frank Holoway, well-known Texas criminal lawyer. He called himself the black sheap of the family. He said he served In the Span ish-American War in the Second Mis sissippi Infantry and formerly had a hotel In Memphis. Telegrams confirming the story of the Harold Bank robbery were received today from a Texas sheriff. HOIXOWAT'S. STORY DOUBTED Detectives Are Looking for Albert Anderson as Member of Gang. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 9. With John McNamara under arrest In New York and Charles Dean held at Los Angeles, charged with the robbery of tho New Westminister, B. C, branoh of the Bank of Montreal, last September, the detectives are directing their ef forts to the capture of Albert Ander son, alleged to be the third member of the gang and to the recovery of the 3230,000 of the loot unaccounted for. The fact that the robbers hid 325,000 of the stolen notes under a sidewalk near the bank leads the detectives to believe that more of the rr.oney may have been cached in New Westminster. Seattle detectives who have done most of the work of trailing the bank robbers place no credence in the state ment attributed to Frank Holloway, under arrest In Chicago, that he parti cipated in the New Westminster rob bery. They Investigated Holloway's (Concluded on Page .Two.)