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RECOVERED MONEY HAS 3 CLAIMANTS j: Mew Orleans Administrator. I: American Bankers and Musicas in Fight. i POLICE fliOW HOLD CASH Total Value Is Xearly $200,000. I.' Family Contends That Part of t Money Is Personal Prop- ',1 erty ot Daughters. NEW ORLEANS, March to. A three cornered legal fight opened here to dav for possession of the money and valuables recovered yesterday from members of the family of Antonio Musica. the New York hair Importer, who la held In Jail with hia three sons and two daughters In connection with an alleged Invoice fraud aggregating almost Jl.000.000. Including almost $100,000 In cash taken from members of the family, the property which the police hold is estimated at close to J200.000. The public administrator filed a pe tition In the District Court asking that the money and valuables be delivered into his possession alleging that there is no claimant or known owner of the property. Attorneys for the American Bankers Association opposed the transfer of the property to the public administrator and will endeavor to have it trans ferred to New York. The Musicas employed an attorney to look after their interests and it is said the claim will be made that a part of the cash recovered by the detectives is the personal property of Grace and Ixmlse Musica. daughters of Antonio. Klghteen thousand dollars in cash was taken from Grace Musicas corset. srrsiCAS traced by trcvk ' Borrowed Article Gives Police) Clew to Whereabouts of Fugitives. NEW YORK. March 20. In connec - lion with the arrest of the Musicas in New Orleans. It was learned today '. that their flight from New York was traced by means of a brass-bound ' steamer trunk which Philip Musica bor rowed from a friend, rather than spend J 12 for a new one. A descrip- . tion of this trunk was telegraphed broadcast and resulted In detectives locating promptly the missing family. A dosen witnesses testliled before the vranrt turv today concerning the al leged frauds for which Philip and An .nnin i i . r,-o tinvA hppn Indicted. Ex perts gave evidence that they had ex amined 288 cases of human hair about IU IP'S HI' I rl'H UJ I .. . ........ . .. ...... found that the contents. Invoiced at J600.000. were "barber shop trimmings," "-worth not more than $150. On the invoices several banks had advanced - considerable sums. r COOS TO BE REPRESENTED ' ' Lead Taken by Marshficld Chamber In Securing Fair Exhibits. Coos County has taken the lead in the " ' matter of making a creditable exhibit t the Tanama-Paclne Exposition. Henry 4enpstacKen, oirector o mo . . Marxhrield Chamber of Commerce, came to Portland this week to get into touch with the Oregon Commission to the 1S.1S Fair In order to secure the neces- sary space and make preliminary ar- thowtng. "wnile nere, a committee composes of J. W. Bennett. C. R. Peck and my- . i r i.wiir ..li-a nt ic. nf thtt onnnrtullltv of seeing the United States engineers ' and asking for the assignment of an " engineer to supervise the expenditure of $I0.000 by the Port of Coos Bay. We propose, also, to spend about $100,000 in I tlredcing as soon as the money from ' bonds Is available, which will be in ! about JO to 40 days. Our request met with favorable action and the work will '. go aiiead. PRISONERS TALLY 2 OVER Witnesses Blunder Into Wrong Box and Are Detained. In their eagerness to follow up the progress of a cose in Municipal Court in which they were Interested, two aliens, ordered to be present as wlt- nesses. blundered into the prisoners' ' box and were locked up for more than an hour yesterday before the unlawful detention was discovered. Just as the two witnesses arrived the prisoners were being marched .from the Jail to the bov. and they Joined the current When Halllff John son discovered that he was two men "over. ' he started an Investigation and ' brought ahout the liberation of the now thoroughly frightened interlopers. The case was that of N. 1. Johnson, a salesman, who was arrested by Pa trolman Evans on a charge of attempt ing extortion by impersonating an offl cer. He was intoxicated .at the time, and paid a fine of $30 in court yester day. LONSDALE FIGHTS STORM Old Trump Turned Over to Japs Af ter Narrow Escape. Criticism of the dilapidated condition of the British steamer Lonsdale when she loft here in December for Japan, as she has been sold and is to fly the Mikado's emblem, appear to have been born out, for Chief Engineer King, of the vessel, who has returned here, says that two or three times on the way over the crew virtually gave up the ship. Her steering gear was damaged and her bow injured so bedding was taken from the forecastle and stuffed be tween the plates to keep out seas and thi men slept in the saloon. Lifeboats were smashed and the upper works s-jfrcrod generally. Mr. Kinu attributes the safe arrival of the ship on the oiher side to the seamanship of Cap tain Finley. formerly of the British steamer Orterlc. AUSTRIA CALLS FOR HALT Continued. From First PaKC- lie. but all asree that he refused to renounce his falta- The Austrian official account says hat the Montenegrins are trying to let-troy 'the town ot Scutari and that !ells. Instead of being aimed at the fortress, are directed against the town, where the citizens are in a state of panic, some of them taking refuge in J-.o cathedral. tiinadra Block Servlaaa. It is expected that ths Austrian squadron will prevent the Servian re inforcements, which left Saloniki aboard six transports yesterday, from landing on the Albanian coast. These troops have been dispatched to the as sistance of the forces around Scutari. The story of the molestation of the Austrian steamer Skodra is denied of ficially by the Montenegrin govern ment. She is an insignificant river craft, carrying a crew of eight men. according to the Montenegrin state ment. To the Montenegrin commanders. M. Popovitch says, it has been long known that the Franciscan monastery, the Austrian orphans' home, the Italian schools and other foreign private build ings in Scutari, which fly the Austrian flag, have been employed for military purposes, and it is not surprising, therefore, he asserts, that they have been fired on. The allegations of the 111 treatment of Catholics and of forci ble conversions he declared to be false. PUNT HAY BE BOUGHT MILWAUKIE COUNCIL WILL TAKE ACTION. Vnder Xew Charter Additional Mem ber Will Be Chosen and Woman May Be Named. MILWAfKIE. Or.. March 20. .Spe clal.) Auditor David P. Matthews said today that the Council will act at once on the measures which were adopted at the special election of March IS. and that a special meeting win te cauea for that purpose. The act for the establishment of a municipal water plant requires tne owners of the several plants to be notified of the desire of the Council to purchase these at a valuation to be decided by arbitration. If the com panies will sell them, the Council shall appoint two freeholders and the water companies two freeholders and the four shall select a fifth. The five shall constitute the board of arbitration, who will report on the valuation of the waterworks. There are three private plants In Mil wauo..e and they may be considered by the same or separate boards of arbi tration. Unless there is a remonstrance by 100 legal voters, the Council may purchase according to the terms of the arbitration Doara. .However, snuuiu there be a remonstrance, then the Coun. cil must condemn the property. A woman may bo appointed Councll- man-at-large at the next regular meet ing. The act providing for division of Milwaukie into two wards manes tne Council consist of five members. Until the next regular election in 1914 a fifth Councilman will act under appointment by the present Council. CASE MAY BE RE-OPENED MACnOLD'S FRIENDS RAISING FUND FOR REHEARING. Idaho Governor Offers to Name Judge Satisfactory to AH, to Pre side Over Insanity Trial. BOISE, Idaho.March 10. (Special.) With the view of reopening the case of Carl Machold. an ex-newspaper man who is confined in the insane asylum at Blackfoot. a movement Is under way to raise a fund of $1000 by popular sub scription. Governor Haines has offered to appoint any District Judge who may be satisfactory to the friends to bear the case. Th move followed charges made by Machold's friends that he was being wrongfully held as an insane person and it has become state-wide. Machold's case came, before the re cent legislature and the man was brought before a special toenate com mittee and examined by three physi cians. The physicians pronounced the man harmlessly insane and he was re committed to the asylum. Through the publication of a story written by Machold in which he bitterly attacked District Judge Stevens, of Bingham County, a libel suit was Insti tuted against the Pocatello Tribune and Machold was arrested and tried on a charge of insanity. The case went to the Supreme Court of the state and a commission was finally appointed, com mitting him to the asylum. The man acted as his own counsel in the hearings, and since his commitment several attempts have been made to show that he was prosecuted through revenge. INDIANS CARRY GIFTS WAR BONNETT IS PRESENTED TO SECRETARY USE. Petition for Expenditure of $400, 000 or Indian Fund lor Cat tle Is Granted. WASHINGTON". March JO. Crow In dian oratory was much in evidence about the Interior Department today, when the Crow delegation, which has been in Washington since the inaugu ration, made Its farewells. The In dians distributed their farewell gifts and left for the Wen tonight. Chief Plenty Coups, the head of the delegation, made a lengthy speech, presenting to Secretary Lane, of the Interior Department. for President Wirson. the war bonnet which the chief brought to Washington to wear in the inaugural parade. After Plenty Coups had paid his re spects to the "great white father," Chief Medicine Crowd presented to Sec retary Lane a bead embroidered to bacco pouch. Then the delegation de parted for the Indian Bureau, where Chief White Man Runs Him presented a pair of buckskin gauntlets to the wife of Actins Commissioner Abbott, of the Indian Bureau. Secretary Lane granted one of the petitions which brought the Indians to Washington, when he signed an au thority for the expenditure of $400,000 of Indian funds for the purchase of cattle for the Crow Reservation. NEGRO TR00PSMAY MARCH Soldiers May Take Part In National Review in Paris. r.VRIS, March 22 (SpeciaL) The Minister of War anil the Colonial Min ister are studying the possibility of in troducing a considerable portion of France's black army to the Parisians at the national review on July It. It Is proposed that " each regiment the Senegalese, the Madagascar troops, and others shall send a delegation, and that President Polncare shall pre sent each regiment with Its flag. The First Penegalese Regiment, which has Its flag already, will receive the insignia of the Legion of Honor, which decoration was recently gazet ted. France's black army has prac tically sprung into being in the last six years ilDEROilRDE RED DECLARES EDITOR Fugitive From Mexico Insists Deposed President Was Shot While in Palace. AUTO ATTACK HELD FARCB travel by streetcar to and from work. Whrt no other opportunity to smoke Colonel Alcalde Says Death Was at 9 P. M. and That News Was in Washington Before Time Given in Official Report. BAN" FRANCISCO. March 20 That Francisco I. Madero was shot to death in the National Palace and Jose Pino Suarez stabbed to death while In the same nlace and that the bodies of both men were later taken away to the prison in an automobile on the night of February 22 are statements which were made here today by Colonel Man uel Blanche Alcalde, publisher of a Mexico City paper. Colonel Alcalde as serts that he is in a position to prove his statements. The reported assault by the guard he declares to be merely a farclal ruse and a part of the plot. Colonel Alcalde further says his mis sion to this country will be to expose Diaz and his part in the plot The Mexico City publisher arrived in San Francisco on the steamer Acapulco from Sallna Cruz today. Colonel Alcalde asserted that news of Madero's fate was known in Washing ton before the hour named In the of ficial version as the time of the alleged attempt to rescue him. "As a matter of fact," said he, "Pres ident Madero and Vice-President Suar ez were killed between 8 and 9:30 o'clock, Mexico City time, on the night of February i-- The President was shot from behind and the powder burned his neck. Suarez was choked to death. His secretary, Fernandez de Reguera, saw the body two days later and there were finger marks on the throat. One eye had been forced from its socket and the tongue protruded." Wife's Fears Recited. Colonel Alcalde was positive in his assertion that Madame Madero had told him there was no hope for her husband, basing this fear upon an interview she had with American Ambassador Wilson on the afternoon of February 22. "Madams Madero and Madame Suarez went together to the Ambassador to Implore him to intercede for their hus bands' lives. I saw them when they left the embassy and they told me there was no hope. They said Ambassador Wilson had expressed to them his be lief that the President and Vice-President would be killed as the Huertists regarded their death as necessary 'for the good of the country." "General Azcarade was in command of the guard that night. I was told by another officer of the guard that It was he who slew Madero and Suarez." Bitter in his criticism of Ambassador Wilson, Colonel Alcalde declared the American diplomat had declined to in tercede to save him from arrest and death. Order for Arrest Follows. "I had protected 15 American families in my school, the Internado Nacional," said he, "where I commanded 300 soldiers, feeding th'e Americans and housing them during all the lighting from February to 18. After the Huerta coup, fearing arrest and execu tion. I went to the Ambassador and appealed for bis aid, in return for my protection of his people. He told me at first he could do nothing. Finally he asked me to write my name on a card with that of my brother. Soon afterward a friend of mine rushed to me with the Information that the American Ambassador had given a card on which were the names of my brother and myself to Secretary of the Interior Granados, and the latter had Immediately Issued orders for our ar rests. This friend had overheard part of a conversation between the Ambas sador and Granados, in which, he said, the Ambassador had said that my brother and I were In fear of arrest. Granados replied that we had escaped his attention, but he would attend to our cases at once and the order of ar rest was Issued. Flight Is Successful. "My friend hastened to me, gave me his purse and urged me to flee. I left Mexico City disguised as a track laborer at 10 o'clock that night. My wife and baby were disguised. Thanks to a friendly train conductor, we made our way to Sallna Cruz and embarked for San Francisco." Colonel Alcade says Mexico will know no peace for years to come. "Diaz wants to be president," he as serted, "but Huerta -will never quit the nalace until he is driven out by successful revolutionists. He tells Diaz there will be no election until ne nas restored peace throughout tho coun try. Huerta has not tho slightest in tention of carrying out his pact with Diaz and the other conspirators." Alcade asserts that papers that have been smuggled out of Mexico will as sist in proving his charges. These papers will reach him at Los Angeles, for which city he left tonight. SON'S EVIDENCE CONVICTS Father Who Told Lad How He Would Kill Wire Is Found Guilty. - -..,. vrtDV 91) With 12- . I. 1 ... ... ... .. - - ------ year-old Frank Spear as the chief wit ness against nis tawier m n . .-ti . v... vmnr nf hia wife, state's counsel brought about today the con viction or Alexander cpcai, old, tor muraer in tne tuai. Supreme Court Jury, impressed by the son's testimony that his father took t.i kt. IrnaA nn showed With the mm Ull ma - - - aid of a knife and an apple bow he would slash his wife's throat, delib erated less than halt an hour. . . V. ....1.. wftnaai fnf the sipear i a m? ...... - - defense. He laughed on the stand as he denied nis son s story. CLATSOP DAIRY FARM SOLD West Brothers Pay $25,000 for 700 Acre Tract. icmr r March 20. (Special.) WiU and Paul West, of Clatsop, to day closed a ceai ior mo 'vuniuic Meadow Green dairy farm, formerly n Kv th. Inrtn hrothers.' for $25.- 000. The land is situated about three miles south of Seaside, on tne iNecani cum River, and is one of the largest dairy farms in Clatsop County. For many years the Irwin brothers supplied Seaside and other nearby places with milk and beef. FIGHT ON SMOKING STARTS Tacoma Women Begin Campaign to Stop Practice on Cars. irirnwi traah . Vnroh. 20. (SDe- cial.) The Presidents' Council, com-j posed of presidents of all the women's clubs in the city and representing a membership of 4000 women, at its meet ing today unanimously adopted a reso lution to circulate petitions demand ing that smoking on streetcars in Ta coma be discontinued. Every club president will compose her own peti tion with the understanding that orig inality in wording is to be given tull play. A committee report also was adopted calling upon all the members opposed to streetcar smoking to telephone their protest to General Manager L. H. Bean, of the street railway company. The women recently ' were before the Municipal Commission urging that smoking be stopped, and the question was put up to Manager Bean, who in timated it would not be stopped unless the Commission compelled him so to do. Mr. Bean said that working men, , i ...1... 1.1. d!ian.A t n than on the cars and that be did not care to curtail their pleasure. The Commission declined to give the order and the women's clubs' campaign Is the result. PARK CAMPAIGN WAGED TWO AD-DRESSES MADE FAVOR ING BOND ISSCE. Economic Side Discussed by V. Vin cent Jones and Practical Neces sity by Jj. H. Weir. Advocates of the proposed $2,000,000 municipal bond issue for parks and playgrounds pushed their campaign in many directions yesterday and with flattering results. L. H. Weir, field secretary for the Playground and Recreation Associa tion of America, spoke before the gov erning board of the Peoples Institute and won the support of the members, while V. Vincent Jones addressed the members of the Woman's "Press" Club, securing an unqualified indorsement. Mr. Jones discussed the economic side of the plan, while Mr. Weir pointed out the necessities of recreation and playgrounds for the boys and girls. He emphasized the fact that the proposed park system will not be a vast stretch of pretty scenery with "keep off the grass" signs everywhere, but that they would consist of great public areas where the city's population can go and enjoy itself. "Until within Tecent years," he said, "the public park was considered as a kind of municipal parlor, a beauty spot desirable because it added beauty to the city and as a place to be seen and enjoyed by the people in a more or less passive manner. "The recreation and play park is a public park, but It represents an en tirely new view as to the uses of a park by the people. The recreation and play park is beautiful because there are trees and shrubs, bits of lawn, flower beds arranged in artistic and pleasing manner. But these parks are designed for something more than mere scenic beauty. They are. first of all, parks that can be used actively by the people. They are not only places where people may sit in the sun or shade or walk quietly about admiring flowers and lawns and shrubs, but also the playground for the children the games and sports place for the young people and the fathers-and the mothers the swimming center, the site of the evening recreation center for those who are employed during the day, the popu lar musical center, the festival place, In short, they are the places where that touch of nature, which makes the whole world kin, can be found and the place where this kinship of a people is bound together by actively engaging in plays, games,- sports and other ac tivities that people of all ages and both sexes delight In." TAX COLLECTIONS HEAVY More Than Two-Thirds of Total Levied Already Received. r-TiiririT.TS wh-. March 20. (Spe cial.) County Treasurer Arnold re ports tax collections for last year ao being unusually neavy. tne a per raui .... W... , ovnli-Alt ATn rfh 15. Uo tO that date it is estimated that payments aggregated close to half a miilion dol lars, which is more than two-thirds the total levied. tha haavtust num received from one concern was $147,000 from the Weyer haeuser Timber Company. The North- A-n PalHp nntH nn 1t lands $19,190.36. Other heavy payments on lands were by the aiiiwauKee woo iomiiiij, rht n i.n x nnn. nnrl the Carllsle- Pennell Company, which paid $10,000. The $147,000 paid by the Weyerhaeuser Company does not represent all the to-roct lovind ncrninst the lands of that concern. The O.-W. R. & N. Railroad Company tendered $5952.43 and was refused a receipt, tne assessment run showing that the company owes $6899.26. Freight Car Data Called Forj TTouT-iTnv Tnrrh 20- The In terstate Commerce Commission today called on all railroads of the country for information, which will form the basis of a practical census of freight cars. Tne torm lurniauea .. .i .... 1 1 .. in- t 1 1 act to cars owned 1 tl . . .1 . ll'l.' . . or leased by railroads and cars owned by private carlines, rates and mileage charged and the cost of handling re frigerator cars. Answers must be filed before April 20. For Easter Flowering Plants. We have a nice assort ment at reasonable prices, Lilies, Hyacinths, Hydrangeas, $1.00 to $1.25 per pot and up; Primroses, etc., 60c to 75e and up. Live Baby Chicks, Ducks and Rabbits Nothing -will please the children more. See them in our -window. Chicks, 25c to $2.50 per dozen; Ducklings, 50c each; White Rabbits with pinjc eyes, $1.00 each. TDAHF NOW Take advantage of this IRJWL HUH "Winter weather" and or der your Seeds, Plants and Garden Supplies now and be ready to plant them when the sun shines. Don't wait for the good weather and the busy days. Remember our 70c School Garden collection, 35c PHONE MAIN 5856, A 381 1 Hi U, 1UUTL - . HP SAMPLE- SHOE STORE 191 l?,Tr) St. TTPirt. Rn-10c-15c Store F- J- Glass Mfi- XUJb A UUiW. vwj 5 GOREANS GUILTY Conspirators Sentenced to Six . Years Each in Prison. FREEDOM GRANTED .TO 99 Chief Prisoner Convicted In Seoul Was Wealthy Before Estates Were Confiscated, and Is Ainerl- can University Man. rvrvm xrnrh 2ft.. Ninety-nine of the Coreans charged with conspiring against Governor-General uouni lerau chlk, of Corea, In 1910, were found not guilty by the court today, according to dispatch trom seoui. The Judges sentenced Baron Tun Chl-Ho, a former Corean Cabinet Min ister, as well as Tan 14-i-xaK, a Korean editor, and three others to six years imprisonment each. Convicted Baron Is Methodist. -v i 'Vi f t ft. nne of the best known English-speaking Coreans. He was at one lime .Minister ui ijuu......".. and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the o PnKii.t T-I I. fa n member of one of the most ancient families of Corea and has held at various times tne pui of King s J'rivy loudchiwi. u"" j i 1 .. . j To was formerly wealthy and devoted his time to farm ing his great estates, wnicn nno been confiscated. 1 1 j .. va.iiAHiaf in rAlicrlon and is held in high esteem by the members of his sect. He is a graduate oi bllt University, Nashville, Tenn. He .. n . Ana tima t thn head of the Corean Toung Men's Christian Asso ciation. He attended tne missionary conference at Edinburgh, Scotland, as a delegate trom corea. Prisoner In III Health. Baron Tun Chi-Ho is in ill health. He is said to be suffertng from lnclp- We have outgrown our present quarters "under the sidewalk" and shall move to that light, bright, airy room next to the 5c-10c-15c Store, Fourth street. Three Doors North of Our Present Location About April 10th As always, we shall l6ok out for your interests as to Fit, Quality and Price. The World's Best Shoes Men and Women TON lent tuberculosis and in the opinion of many of his friends. If be is incarcer ated, he will not live to serve the lull term of his long sentence. Yan Ki-Tak, at once time was editor of the vernacular edition of the Corean Dally News, formerly owned by Ernest Bethel, a British subject, which paper was suppressed in June, 1908. after having copied approvingly from a San Francisco Corean paper an article praising the assassins of Durham White Stevens, the Japanese agent who was murdered by a Corean in San Francisco In March, 1908. Early Electrical Apparatus. , London Tit-Bits. . Several pieces of electrical apparatus constructed by Volta during his early electrical experiments have been flls- Easter Gifts Easter Lilies, in bud and bloom $1.00 to $2.00 each Azaleas, a mass of color $1-60 to $4.00 each Hydrangeas, large pink globes $1.00 to $5.00 each Baby Roses, brilliant and lasting $1.00 to $3.00 each Rambler Roses, wreathed in flowers... $3.00 to $5.00 each Spireas, feathery white mounds $1.00 to $1.50 each Rhododendrons, grandest of all $3.00 to $7.50 each Hyacintho, sweetly fragrant $ .75 to $1.50 each Tulips, clustered in pans $ -75 to $1.50 each Lily of the Valley, dainty and sweet. .$1.00 to $1.50 each Baskets of Flowering Plants for effect. $2.00 to $10.00 each Fine Cut Flowers In addition to our immense display of plants we have an unusually large assortment of Spring flowers which we are selling at Popular Prices Early Ordering Advisable Free City Delivery. CLARKE BROS. Wholesale and Retail FLORISTS 287 Morrison Street, Between Fourth and Fifth. 3 rovered recently by Sir Henry Norman, a member of the British Parliament, who found the material in a little curi osity shop in an out-of-the-way sec tion of a small Italian town. The uncle of the shop-keeper was Volta's cook and body servant for 30 years. On the death of the scientist he left much of his experimental apparatus with his body servant, and they have since passed down from generation to gen eration. Tho collection comprises a cupboard full of old apparatus, a num ber of books, portraits, papers and let ters and some personal and domestic articles. Sir Henry Norman suggests that the collection be purchased and presented to the Royal institution to remain alongside Faraday's original apparatus. Elephants are becoming cheaper. FLOWERS For Easter The Holiday of Flowers A magnificent display of fine Flowering Plants in pots and baskets will greet vis itors to our Floral Shop all the coming week. Unequalled in quality and variety nothing finer or more " beautiful than these can be had for