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THE MORNING OTtEGOXIATT. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1912. GORTELYOU DENIES PLATT INFLUENCE Ex-Postmaster-General Put on Defensive in Inquiry on Lewis Case. FORMER AIDE EXAMINER ank Madden Appear M l-WTrr for St. Louts Publisher Against Vbnm e-a-Cablnet Orflcrr Ise-ued rraad Orders. WASHINGTON. Feh. . OeorRe B. Cortelyou. es-Postmsater-General. ap pearinir before the Horn rommKIM on expenditures In the Postofllee depart ment today, denied that he had been In. (luenred by the late Senator Piatt, the express companies or any other Inter est In Issulne; fraud orders acalnst E. (i. Lewis, the ft. Iuls publisher and banker. In 1S and 107. Cortelyou was then Postmaster-General. A publishing- company owned by Lew. Is. and the I'nlted States Bank of St. l,ouls were affected by the orders. Prank Madden, who was Third Assist ant Postmaster-General under Cortel on. Is now counsel for Lewie. ;ortelyou said Madden had refused to Issue fraud orders against Lewis and that he had Issued them personally. Cor telyou denied that any extraneous In fluences" had to do with his action In the Lewis case. Piatt's Masse MeatleaeA. His attention was called by Third Assistant Postmaster - General Brltt to testimony taken In the Investi gation of the case auititestlns; that former Inlted States Senator Piatt and the express company Interests had soua-ht the destruction of the Lewis Companies bank, and that It was throurh Platfa Influence that Cortel you had been made Postmaster-General. "Pld former Senator Piatt or any ex press company or express trust." asked Lrltt. "either Influence you or attempt to Influence you In your action In this caseT 'Not In any way whatever." Cortel you replied. "Mr. Piatt never appeared In the rase at any time to my knowl edge. There was no such Influence In troduced thst I ever beard of." Reading from the record. Brltt re viewed testimony of Madden. In which Inferences were made that the express ' T i-om panics had sought to break up the Iewls bank because It did a mall bank- lac business which Interfered with the monev-order business, and that Sen ator Piatt had Cortelyou appointed to attack the bank and destroy it- All such Inferences. Cortelyou emphatically denied. That anything entered the case except the evidence before him through regular channels he also denied. Personal Aatsstsa Dealest. It was charged that Mr. Cortelyou waa behind an Investigation of the I-ewts matter made by Allen O. Gilbert, of Minneapolis, but then a Washington editor. The ex-Postmaster-Genera said he did not know Mr. Lewis personally and certainly had no personal animus towsrd him. Mr. Madden. In questioning Mr. Cor telyou. referred to a meeting in New York between the then Postmaster-General and Mr. Lewis, In which the for me was alleged to have said that If l.ewla would return with him to Wash In Tton he would find the atmosphere "very much changed." Mr. Cortelyou arknowledged meeting Lewis, but de al"! remembering the declaration. Mr. Lewis then questioned Mr. Cortel you. who aatd he Issued his fraud or der against Lewis' bank "In the Interest sf Innocent depositors." MAN'S FATEJS MYSTERY Monroe Frnton. Oregon Trunk Em ploye. Missing Week. THE PALLES. Or Feb. t. (Special.) Monroe Fenton. engineer of the Ore gon Trunk Railroad, has been missing since last Friday night, and friends and relatives who have been making search have been unable to find any trace of him. Fenton. who Is a member of Albany Lodge of Kike, and belongs to the Brotherhood of Railway Firemen, waa In The Dallee Friday night, departing for Fallbrldg at a late hour. He waa s-en at Celllo later, when he told a friend ha waa going to walk across the railroad bridge to Fallbrldge. That waa the last seen of him. Fenton waa a witness against Celllo bootleggers, who were recently convicted In court, and It Is feared be may have met with foul play. SON OF TALMAGE IS DEAD rhlladelptiu Pastor Victim of Heart Failure at 44. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. t. Rev. Frank P-eWltt Talmage died at his home here tonight from heart failure. He was 44 years old. Tils father was the famous Rev. T. DeWltt Talmage. Rev. Mr. Talmage was pastor of the Chambera-Wylle Presbyterian Church. He came from Los Angeles. CaL He also hsd occupied pulpits la Chicago snd Pittsburg. TEXAS BALKS MEXICANS f Crnt!nn 1 From First Page.) of Americans In Lower California, but it waa pointed out by the State De partment officials tonight that In the latter case a specific purpose was men tioned and understood. General Movesseat Cemtesaalatea. In connection with the proposed ex pedition to Juares. the State Depart ment heard that Mexico Intended not alone to replenish tha garrison oppo site El Paso, but to pass a host of troops Into Northern Chihuahua for a general military movement there. It was Indicated that while the rebels might not object to a re-garrlaoning of Juares, thus avoiding foreign compli cations, they might offer armed resist ance to a movement aimed generally at the trouble sods. DIAZ OFFICIALS ARE SAFE t.xtradltlon for Ordering Executions Refused by Washington. WASHINGTON. Feb. . Ilefuttee of nrlaJa of the Diss regime In Mexico cannot be extradited from the lnlted States for executtona or other acts which they may have ordered while holding positions of authority. Thia waa tha virtual meaning- of the Slate Department's position, made known today in the case of Andreas Uaxxa fialan and Nicador Valdes. who were ordered extradited by a 1'nlted States Commissioner at San Antonio, Tex. The State Department will reverse the ruling of the Commissioner on the ground that the offenses of Galan and Valdex. asserted by the present Mexi can government to have been "mur der." In rauslnK the death of Maderlsta sympathisers In the last rebellion, were in reality political In their nature and therefore not extraditable under the treaty with Mexico. Galan became conspicuous In the closing; days of the Ilax administra tion as a leader of the Clentlflco ele ment allied with the regime and was charged, shortly after JUdrro waa suc cessful in the battle of Juarez, with conspiring to assassinate htm. The cases against Dunne and Devllliers. the two Americans who figured In the alleged plot, had been dropped by the Mexican authorities, but efforts were continued to bring Galan before a Mexican tribunal. While advices to the War Depart ment still continue to report a condi tion of general disorder throughout Mexico, no orders have been Issued for the artusl Increase of the American force along the border. It was said at the War Department that there was no -a. - Governor Cola.nltt. of Texas. Wis Pretests Aaalnat Movement of Mexlcaa Troops Through Hla State. intention at present to Inorease the border patrol. MORE UPRISINGS REPORTED American Women and Children De part for United States. MEXICO CITT. Feb. I. Slight im provement In the revolutionary situa tion was Indicated today by such In formation as was msds public, but press dispatches add to the long list of uprisings. The most speotacular report today was from Boca Del Monte, where British subjects have large Interests, telling of the sacking of stores and residences. The town is in the State of Pueb la in the State of Coahutla the rebels are reported to be raiding haciendas and at Allende. a town on the Interna tional Railway. 44 miles south of Clu dad Pnrflrlo Dlas (Pledras Nlegrast. sharp fighting Is said to have occurred yesterday afternoon between the fiscal guards and rebels. The casualties have not been reported. The uprisings In the State of Mlcho acan have not assumed serious propor tions and President Madero believes they will amount to little. From a few cities have been reported the departure of many American wo men and children for the United States In anticipation of personal danger. Many are said to have left Uuanajuata last night. VAQCISTAS DEMAND REFUSED Commander at OJInaga Will Not Surrender Garrison. EL PASO, Tex, Feb, t. Messsges received today by Juares officials con firm reports of the demand by Vasquls tas for the surrender of OJInaga and the refuaal of General Do la Lux San chez, the garrison commander. Coyame. a small town west of OJInaga. is re ported In possession of the Yasqulstaa, Telegraphic communication between Juares and Chihuahua along the Mexi can Northwestern Railroad was re stored today, according to General Manager Harris. Many American and Mexican refu gees from the Interior arrived today on the regular train from Chihuahua. No serious outbreaks are reported. SWIFT CONTROL SHOW?. TELEGRAMS FROM PACKERS' CENTRAL. OFFICES READ. Government Contends Evidence Shows Prices Were) Fixed by Management in Chicago. CHICAGO. Feb. 9. Fifty telegrams sent by Swift ic Co. to their represen tatives in Eastern cities, giving in structions regarding shipments and margins, which the Government de clares tend to show that prices were fixed at the Chicago offices, were read in the packers' trials today. Many of the messages were In code and had to be deciphered by Lee M. Lester, assistant manager of the beef department, who was on the stand all day. Defendants' counsel objected to the telegrams, but Judge Carpenter al lowed the Government to put all of them In evidence. Many of the messages were signed or approved by Francis M. Fowler, head of the beef department of Swift ft Co also a defendant. Lester said the first step after the rattle were slaughtered waa to figure the test cost sf the dressed beef. After this, an aferage request price waa fixed and this waa aent with every car of meat shipped to branch houses. When the car reached its destination the branch house manager made an estimate of what the meat would ac tually bring and telegraphed the fig urea to the Chicago office. Iter tha actual sales were reported and an accounting made for the cash received. "The request price usually is lower than the test cost." said the witness. In response to a question. "If a certain branch house were get ting poor prices, would you cut down the shipments to that houssT" -That would be the usual practice, although there were exceptions made." Clark County Sheriff Busy. VANWl'VER. Wash.. Feb. . Spe elaLI During the month Just passed Sheriff Cress p and his deputies covered 1700 miles In serving papers through out tha county and In making areata. S3UE OF HALDAHE VISIT MOMENTOUS Britons Do Not Disguise Be lief War or Peace May Depend on Outcome. MISSION YET UNDEFINED Colonial Questions May Be Under Consideration Limit or Arma i ment Not to Re Specirio Topic for Present. LONDON. Feb. 9. Whether the over tures for the visit to Berlin of the British Secretary f War. Viscount Haldanr, originated In England or In Germany Is disputed, but It Is Impos sible longer to disguise the momentous character of the mission. There are those who believe that the Issue of war or peace depends on Its success or fail ure. The visit of Viscount Haldane Is largelv associated In the public mind with the speech of David Lloyd-George. Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the City of London Liberal Club. February 3, In which the Chancellor said the mo ment was auspicious for a discussion of a reduction In armaments, which waa considered as an effort looking to the conciliation of Germany. At pres ent, however. It Is impossible to define the subjects of the mission of Count Haldane. Political activity Is not confined to Berlin. Mr. Lloyd-Ueorse had an au dience with King George today and the King's secretary. Lord Knollys, wns busy botween Buckingham Palace and the Foreign Office and the resi dence of Premier Asqulth. According to some newspapers colo nial questions and the possible cession to Germany of Walflsh Bay. on the southwest coast of Africa, are under consideration. The Dally Telegraph understands that Viscount Haldane will not discuss specific proposals for a reduction in armaments and that no result Is likely to follow his visit to Germany except the creation of an atmosphere favor ably to the cultivation of more amica ble relations between Great Britain and Germany. RATE BALLOT PROPOSED jrEDFORD SHIPPERS CIRCULATE INTTLATIVE PETITION. Ttill to Go Before People Designed to Rnild Up Distributing Cen ters Outside or Big Cities. Mmmnn rtr r.K The Med- .11 Ijl '1 w 1 , -. w . - ford Traffic Bureau, composed of local Jobbers and shippers, has printed and soon will circulate for signatures an Initiative petition for submission to the people of Oregon at the November election for an act to provide for a uniform percentage In the relationship of the classification ratings and pro viding for the establishment of mini mum carload rates. The petition also aims to fix the maximum rate on a basis of the less than carload rate and the minimum carload weight that may be charged on carload shipments. The bill is designed to aid small town Jobbers and make possible the building up of distributing centers outside of Portland. It Is Indorsed by the Oregon Equal Rate Association, comprising the commercial organiza tions of the various small towns from Baker on the east to Medford on the south. The bill, which was prepared by Frank H. MeCune. the association's expert, la believed to establish a prece dent In distributive legislation as far as the regulation of rates Is concerned. ENGINEERS ARE BANQUETED Henntston Folk Dine Board Which Hm Been Working on Troject. HERMTSTON. Or.. Feb. 9. (Special.) A most successful banquet waa en Joyed last night at the Hotel Hermlston. when the guests of honor were A. P. Davis. E. G. Hopson. D. C. Henny, H. D. Newell and O. P. Morton, the board which is giving final consideration to the west extension. The tables were served by 11 of Hermleton's fairest young women, who volunteered for the occasion. The toasts started with a history of the movement for the west extension from Its lnceplton to the present time. One of the business men of Hermlston told why tha business Interests of the olty wanted to sea the extension built. The engineers cleared up several points on which the settlers were doubt ful, gave a history of the west exten sion from the reclamation side, and compared conditions as they exist here with other Qovernrrfent projects. Mr. Davis has from the first been an ardent supporter of the Umtllla project, and declared himself as well pleased with the way things are working out. and believes every olalm he has made Is proving true. FRESHMAN STEALS JEWELS Young Montana Stndent Traced by Ring Ho Gave Waitress. MISSOULA. Mont. Feb. 9. C. J. John son, 19 years old. formerly of Great Falls, Mont., a freshman at the Uni versity of Montana, has been arrested on the charge of having robbed the home of J. C. E. Baker, of Great Falls, of Jewelry valued at $2000. March tl. 1911. Johnson was arrested at Ravalli, on the Flathead Indian reservation, where he was visiting Ms mother and sister. He was brought here today and Is said to have confessed to the robbery and to have turned over a portion of the Jewelry to the police. Nearly all the remainder of the Jewelry has been re covered from Missoula pawnshops. Johnson was traced through a ring given by hhn to a waitress In Great Falls. WOMAN CAN'T GIVE BOND Case in Spokane Grows Interesting With Latest Developments. SPOKANE. Wash.. Feb. 9. When iUs, Anna Laxsen, complaining witness against C. T. Pfof ferkorn, who was brought to Washington from Califor nia to answer the charge of grand larceny, appeared in court today she was ordered to give a bond of $1000 for hr appearance at the trial or go to JatL Pfefferkorn Is alleged to have stolen diamonds and other Jewelry valued at J 1200 from the woman. Rumors that a settlement had been arranged out of court Is said to have prompted the Prosecuting Attorney to ask the woman be required to give bond. In explaining the case to the court, the state's attorney declared the defendant is charged with stealing the woman's Jewels from her room, that her husband, who Is said to be a wealthy resident of Edmonton, knows nothing of the affair and that when she learned that the defendant is going to tell stories that will compromise her. If they reach the ears of her husband, she would not appear. Her attorney declared that she could raise no bond as the rings represented her entire wealth. She offered to assign the rings as a bond, but It was not accepted, he has not yet given bond. She claims to lx from Idaho. LAWRENCE STARTS SOON CANDIDATE WILL BEGIN' SWING OVER STATE MONDAY. Governor Hay Expected to Announce in Few Days Ills Candidacy, Sup porters Already Organizing. OLTMPIA. Wash., Feb. 9. (Special.) John C. Lawrence, candidate for Gov ernor, leaves Monday for a tour of the eastern part of the state. He has Just completed a swing through the south west and a portion of King and Pierce Counties. Lawrence plans to go over the ground In Eastern Washington quietly, preliminary to a speaking cam paign which will be inaugurated later. "I expect to pass every day from now until the primary election In pro moting my candidacy for Governor," said Mr. Lawrence, "and I will make the race by appealing directly to the people. I am in this race to win and feel that I owe It to my friends, as well as to myself, to make the most aggres sive campaign possible. "I will not have the aid of any po litical machine and 1 will not be the candidate of any slate, but will work for my own election from now until the polls close on primary day. So far I am entirely satisfied with the outlook and In the sections I have visited the campaign Is progressing most .satisfac torily." Governor Hay Is expected to make the official announcement of his can didacy within a few days. His support ters are engaged In forming his or ganization, which will be headed by Pliny L. Allen. State Senator from King County, as campaign manager. Orvllle Billings, of Tacoma, Is afford ing much amusement In the campaign letters he is sending out. Although his candidacy has been Joked wherever it has had any mention, he announces that his "platform has received sucl a deluge of approval that he has been unable to keep up with his correspond ence." Robert T. Hodge, Sheriff of King County, has come out with the state ment that if elected Governor he will abolish the state militia and that not a single penny of state money will be appropriated for the "tin soldiers." The above In brief represents the de velopments In the Gubernatorial cam paign and it is considered doubtful If much noise will be made In the state campaign until after the Seattle city election. March S, as the Sound metrop olis In all probability will be the big battle ground. W. H. Paulhamus has definitely an nounced that he will make the race for Lieutenant-Governor, and Land Com missioner Ross will come out with the announcement of his candidacy for Congress before the end of the present month. Ross, has determined to run, but will not make an official state ment until he returns from a trip to Spokane next week. 10 CHIEFS GUARD CITY MAYOR DIMICK'S APPOINTEE NOT APPROVED BY COUNCIL. Police Department Executive at Ore gon City Has No Key to Jail. Sleeping Charges Arc Made. OREGON CITT, Or.. Feb. 9. (Spe cial.) Oregon City for the first time In its history had two Chiefs of Police today. E. L. Shaw, who has been Chief for more than a year, continued on duty and Charles E. Burns, appointed by the Mayor, went to work. Burns, Just after being sworn In, asked Shaw for the keys of the JalL Shaw said he would have to see the members of the Council, who have refused to ap prove the appointment of Burns. He saw the Councilmen In the morn Inr and earlv In the afternoon reported to Burns that he had been advised not to surrender the keys. If Burns should make an arrest he would have no place In which to lock his prisoner. Night Policemen Green and Frost, who are friends of Mayor Dlmlrk. have keys to the Jail and It la possible that they will let Burns use them. The Mayor announced today that he would make an Investigation of the charges that Green and Frost were taking turns about going home and sleeping when they should be on duty. The charge was made by Councilman Albright, who says he has Indubitable proof the men are guilty. BOY CONVINCES FARMER Young Student Shows Shallow Cul tivation, Is Best for Corn. MANHATTAN, Kan.. Feb. 9. It took a youth. 14 years old only a few min utes to convince a farmer three times his age that the old-fashioned method of corn cultivation was wrong, at Hlnervllle, near here. The boy, Wil liam Linscott. had been taking the work of the extension department of the State Agricultural College and waa explaining shallow cultivation at a community meeting of farmers. When he had finished a farmer arose and tcld that he always plowed hla corn deep' and demanded to know why the shallow method was better. On the blackboard William drew a croes-aec- tlon between two rows of corn. He showed how the roots were Interwoven and how deep plowing would injure them. Ills explanation was so clear that the farmer immediately accepted the new method as better than the old fashioned way. Pistol Shots Remarkable. Another set of phenomenal scores waa shot last night by the Portland Re volver Club at Its weekly practice shoot, the total for five men out of a possible 2600 being 2S21. The Individual scores of the night were: Armstrong. 472: Hackenev. 44: Craddock, 463; Hubpard, ana Wilson. 462, RATHLOUS Ifl JAIL "Count" and "Countess" Held at Colorado Springs. PAIR -ARE- KNOWN HERE Ex-Wife of Portland Man Shot and Killed by Second Spouse, With Her Husband Falsely Se cured Cash Alleged. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Feb. 9. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. Holsteln Rathlon. or Rathlou, arrested at Og den, Utah, recently and now In Jail here charged with securing money under false pretenses, say they belong to noble families in Denmark and Austria. . The man says he is Count Vlggo von Holsteln Rathlou, son of Baron C. F. E. von Holsteln Rathlou. of Rathlousdal, Odder. Denmark, and that, by morganatic marriage, his wife Is a daughter of a Crown Prince, son of the Emperor of Austria. They opened a "beauty parlor here several weeks ago and are charged with having left with money and Jew elry, given to them for Instruction, before the instruction courses were completed. In addition they are charged with securing goods from merchants on ap proval without returning the merchan dise or paying for it. When first wanted by the authori ties here, they were traced to Denver and then to Oregon. Evidently trying to throw the officers off the scent, they had their mall forwarded from Denver to Cedar Rapids, la., thence to Chicago and from there to Ogden. COUPLE ON" PAROLE HERE "Count's" and Spouse's Unpaid Bills Cause Arrest in Portland. "Count and Countess" Rathlou are now under parole from the Multnomah County Circuit Court for an offense similar to the one for which they are held- at Colorado Springs. They were arrested at Seattle in November, 1910, and were brought back here to stand trial for obtaining money under pre tense of teaching the art of the "beauty doctor" and for obtaining goods from merchants under false pretenses. They were convicted on the latter count. Rathlou Is a discredited son of one of the lower nobility of Denmark. His wife began life as a chorus girl in Des Moines, Iowa, and there she mar ried Dr. Roy A. Miles Collins and came with him to Portland. She fell In with Rathlou and eloped with him in 190S, going to his home in Copenhagen,' but waa repudiated by her husband's fam ily. Dr. Collins divorced his wife and married another woman, much older than himself. The return here of the Rathlous after their marriage caused Jealousy on the part of the second Mrs. Collins, who was an unsuspected lis tener at Interviews between the phy sician and his former wife. In a fit of Jealous madness three months after their marriage Mrs. Kate Collins shot and killed her husband at their resi dence on Flanders street, in 1909. She was held to be Insane. "Countess" Rathlou was much In the public eye during the proceedings fol lowing the murder, but soon after the case was closed she and her titled hus band flittfrd. leaving behind a large number of unpaid bills. Their renewed presence In this city at the time of the frauds of which they were con victed was not suspected until after they mSile their harvest, fled and were brought back. "Billy." son of Dr. Collins and the "Countess," was with the pair at that time. After receiving their parole Rathlou and his wife went to live in a shanty In the eastern outskirts of the city, where the husband did odd Jobs of kal somlninsr and other such work about M n 17 & - l Fl F1 ti r-r WiVa iiiaiini ' ,v-a IN THE THICK OF THINGS OR THE THIN OF THINGS? 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