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60 Pages Pages 1 to 12 VOI,. XXVII NO. 3. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY .MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BEE IS BUZZING 1 HUGHES' GAP Governor Not so Very Great a Sphinx. EAGER TO ADVANCE IF HE CAN Has Not Been Ehtirely Silent About Presidency. OPPORTUNITY MAY BE LOST Antithesis of Roosevelt, He Makes Associates, but No Friends Is Stubborn, Rather Narrow, Very Strong . . and Very Able. BT WALTER WEL.L.MAN. NEW TORK. Jan. 18. (Speclal.)-Gov-rrnor Hughes Is a very ambitious man. From personal friends of his who have recently talked with him during his pres ent visit to this city I learn that the Governor is, to use the colloquial phrase, "beginning to sit up and take notice." He wants to be President. The busy little bee -which stings so many public men has visited him and left its mark. He is not indifferent. His assumption of indifference Is more or less a mask. He is eagerly watching the Presidential game. He wants to get Into it. He is not sure that lie can get into it. But if there Is any chance at all, he is will ing to try. Spblnx Talk Sometimes. The New York papers, most of which have done, everything they could to press the Hughes movement, are fond of rep resenting the Governor as a sphinx, as a public official who attends strictly to his public duties and refuses even to think of politicis. But this Is not quite ac curate. He refuses to talk politics for publication. He refuses'to- take political leadership. But he does not stop think ing. He does not stop aspiring. To his close friends he talks. They understand very well that he is eager to go up higher, if ho can. As generally understood, his attitude is that ho will have nothing whatever to do with ways and means of making him President. But he lias not boen alto gether consistent In that role. Ho wrote a letter asking the state committee not to pass a resolution indorsing him lor Frcsklrnt. He asked his friends not to press a similar resolution before the Brooklyn committee, which met last night, because he knew it would be a blunder, as the resolution would be laid on the table. And now he comes to the metropolis, makes a number of speeches and holds various political conferences, among them one with Senator Crane, of Massachusetts, whose ambition It is to be the Mark Hanna of 19"8 to some man's McKlnley. Has Let Opportunity Slip. If Governor Hughes Is really ambitious, it Is high time he were rousing himself. All the probabilities are it Is now too late; he has waited too long and the golden moment appears to have slipped by. Under existing conditions it does not seem possible for him to get his state behind him in an effective way. While he was waiting and his friends were dawdling, other Influences were at work, and at work very effectively. New York public opinion is largely for Mr. Hughes, but Taft sentiment is growing here and growing rapidly. 'In all this talk of Governor Hughes one fact a tan da out conspicuous. Here in New Tork men favor him for President on the ground that he 1 the antithesis of Mr. Roosevelt. Out West the people have been told that Mr. Hughes would be a good man to put in the White House be cause he is "Just like Roosevelt." Obviously ene or the other of these theories is false. Does Nat Make Friends. Governor Hughes is said to be a man without any Intimate friends. ITe does A Good Friend, bat Oat f Job. not make friends. He has associates and acquaintances, nothing more. I asked one of Hughes acquaintances for an esti mate of his character and his reply was interesting. 'I have been associated with Mr. Hughes in a professional way for fifteen years," said this gentleman, "but I can not say that I really know him; I do not know any one that does know him. His brother-in-law, who is supposed to be his most intimate associate, frankly con fessed that he does not know the Gov ernor, and that he stands a little in awe of him. He is one of those men who cannot 'warm up' to other men, and for whom no' man can acquire warmth of feeling. Mr. Hughes can be genial, suave and smiling, but only for a minute, then it stops. After that It is ousiness and nothing else. Sticks to His Opinion. "His mind is a bit narrow, as is often" the case with men of his temperament. He is very -stubborn. What he believes in, he believes is right, and everything elso is wrong. He takes his own point of view and hangs to it; he cannot take the other fellow's point of view. He has no broad sympathies, but within his limitations he has great strength of character and great ability." Whether or not Mr. Hughes, if elected President, would carry out the Roosevelt policies or anything like them, no one knows. Nor Is any one likely to know till Mr. Hughes gets ready to tell, and he may never get ready. ITS HIS PARTY UNITED OTHERWISE BRYAN WILL NOT ACCEPT NOMINATION". Surprised at Strength of Rivals Re vealed by Hoii.se Cauvass, He Declares Himself. WASHINGTON. Jan. 18. (Special.) Information has reached Democratic lead ers here that William J. Bryan will not permit his name to go beforethe National Democratic Convention at Denver unless he is assured that he is substantially the unanimous choice of his party. The In formation reached them, it is stated, through a Democrat known to enjoy inti mate political relations witli Mr. Bryan. ' Prominent Democrats in Congress have been given to understand that Mr. Bryan expressed surprise over a recent canvass of House Democrats, which disclosed that there are other Democrats In the" field who have a respectable following, innu merably speaking. Mr. Bryan is repoj-ted anxiously to await reply as to the accuracy of the poll and to have declared that, if real, re spectable Democrats oppose his nomina tion, he will not bo a candidate. In re ferring to the comment upon the poll, to tile effect that, should the states vote at the convention as their delegates in Con gress voted, ho would not have the neces sary two-thirds required to nominate, Mr. Bryan is quoted as saying: "It will not require the votes of a third of the delegates at the convention to pre vent my nomination. I do not want any more Parker campaign?. A candidate should be selected who can command the earnest support of an' undivided party. I do not want the nomination if it will split our party. I would much rather see some one else nominated. "There are several spoken of as candi datesGovernor Smith of Georgia: Gover nor Johnson, of Minnesota, and Senator Culberson, of Texas any one of whom I could heartily Indorse for the Presidency and actively support." CORTELVOU STILL CANDIDATE Disagrees' With Roosevelt, V ho Ad mires Him lor Saying So. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. (Special.) All through the week the trumpet of trouble between Secretary Cortelyou and Presi dent Roosevelt has been sounded. Mr. Cortelyou, however, will stay in . the Treasury Department until the regular order of events shall call him out. He lias no more intention of resigning than he had six months ago, before the first whisper that he was at odds with his chief found echo , In print. Mr. Cortelyou still is a candidate for the Presidency. He has told Mr. Roose velt flatly tnat he does not agree with the belief that It Is possible for the chief executive to favor one candidate to such an extent that the people of the country shall get the impression that the candi date is the Presidents choice first, last and all the time. There Is no question at all about the fac that the Secretary of the Treasury (Concluded on Page 2.) Of Court, the io Want Peace All the Time. RUEF FORFEITS MMUNITY CLAIM Langdon Says All Ne gotiations Over. TRIAL WILL BEGIN MONDAY Sought Full Immunity After Schmitz Decision. BROKE FAITH WITH HENEY Refused to Testify Against Ford and Therefore Agreement for Partial Immunity Is Annulled The Curly Boss Sheds . Tears. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. IS. (Special.) It was announced late tonight that the graft prosecution had determined to dis continue all negotiations with Abraham Ruef, the central figure in the graft cases, in the matter of granting him im munity. It was further stated that on Monday the prosecution would demand that Ruef be put on trial before Judge Dunne on one of the many charges of bribery for which he has been indicted. This . determination of the prosecution came at the end of several days' fruitless negotiations with Ruef. It is said that some time ago the prosecution promised Ruef partial immunity, in consideration of his taking the witness stand and truth fully testifying in full to all his transac tions with public service corporation of ficials ' to be tried on the charge of -bribery. Ruef Holds Out lor Liberty. When the District Court' of Appeals rendered its decision declaring void the indictments for extortion against ex Mayoi "ScTifnTtZ; t6 which Ruef had al ready pleaded guilty, it is charged that Ruef, realizing that the decision placed him In an advantageous position, de manded full Immunity. This the prose cution would not consent to grant and there followed a serios of conferences in which Ruef endeavored to secure better terms. A statement was given out by Dis trict Attorney Langdon tonight, which is in part as follows: No New Immunity Contract. "Since the recent decision of the Dis trict Court of Appeals in the Schmitz case, holding that levying blackmail on French restaurants does not constitute the crime of extortion under the laws of California, many statements have appeared in the press about alleged negotiations between the District At torney and Abraham Ruef looking toward a contract of immunity in his behalf. I desire to say that since that decision iio new agreement or con tract of any kind has been made. "A written agreeme.it was made with Ruef in May of last year before he plead ed guilty to indictment No. 305. charging him with extortion in one of the res taurant cases. This is the same indict ment in which Schmitz was Jointly charged with Ruef in the case just decid ed on appeal. A separate trial was de manded by Schmitz, and the District Court of Appeals has now decided In the Schmitz branch of the case that the crime to which Ruef pleaded guilty was no crime at all. Former Contract Annulled. "The discussion between Ruef and my self the past week had reference to whether or not Ruef had fulfilled the agreement on his part, and whether the agreement, so far as it required anything to be done by the District Attorney, was such that it could be carried out com pletely under the law or without the con currence of the trial judges. Some time prior to the execution of this agreement Dr. Nieto and Dr. Kaplan, accompanied by Francis J. Heney, called on Judge Dunne and Judge Lawlor separately con- LAST WEEK'S tm tho Jury ffcrstem a Pathrref One Mia Wbe Mnks Sow cernlng applications by the District At torney for clemency to offenders who be came witnesses for the state. "But for. good and sufficient reasons this contract has been annulled and is now at an end. It has been kept on my part. . Ruefs case will be set for trial Monday in Judge Lawler's court." Broke Faith lu Ford Trial. Then follows a copy of the "partial immunity contract" with the signatures of Mr. Langdon, Mr. Heney and Ruef. It provided that Ruef, in consideration of a full confession, was to be given immunity on all charges except that of extortion, to which he had pleaded guilty. When it came to a showdown, however, Ruef refused to testify in the Ford trial unless given complete immunity. In doing this he violated aillllBSlBIBlli : i : I ? Edmund t'larrnrr Strdmin. the J Poet-Banker. Who Died Ye 4 terday. the terms of the contract and will now be prosecuted to the limit. Ruef Weeps and Asks Mercy. Ruef broke down today after he saw that his last opportunity had gone. With tears in his eyes he begged to be allowed another chance, but Mr. Langdon refused to reopen the matter. STORY OF LOADED DICE SOCTILERN JUDGE DRAWS PAR ALLEL WITH .-JURY.'. After Fifth , Disagreement, Court Locks Up Jurors Tells Them He Expects Verdict on Monday.. LAKE CHARLKS, La., Jan. 18. Somewhat of a sensation was created in the Slate Circuit Court here today when the sixth jury in the contest case to remove Sheriff D. J. Reld from of fice reported that, like its five prede cessors, it .could not agree. The case has now been extended over a period of four years. When this report was made to Judge Lee by the jury, he declared he was surprised that after 72 hours of de liberation they were unable to bring in a verdict. "It reminds me," said Judge Lee, "of a story I once heard related by Judge White. He says that if a man throws two sixes In a crap game, it is not surprising; if he throws three times in succession, it - is rather cu rious. If he throws tiiem four times successively, it is a little remarkable. If he throws them five times hand running, it ' is wonderful, but if he throws them six times there is noth ing either curious or remarkable or wonderful about it -'the . dice are loaded. - - "Gentlemen, retire to your room. Mr..' Sheriff, adjourn court until 9 o'clock Monday" morning. I hall ex pect a vordict by that time." The judge's story created a sensa tion. PORTLAND BOY ELECTED Kennlc Fern ton Chosen President of Senior Class at Stanford. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 11 (Special.) Kennie Fenton. of Portland, has been elected president of the senior class at Stanford ITniversity. Fenton has won honors on the football and baseball field. He will be field coach at Stanford during the next football season. EVENTS, VIEWED BY But Perhaps MY. Heney Conlda't Pieue Tham Any Better hr Try ins Them AU mt Once. CALLSSETTLERSTO PROVE CONSPIRACY Slow Progress Is Made by Prosecution. END MANY DAYS DISTANT Testimony So Far.Not Damag ing to Hall and Mays. STEIWER TO BE A WITNESS Absence of Co-Defendant From the Courtroom Taken - to Indicate Fact Greene Iietter Ruled Out by Judge Hunt.- Neither Prosecutor Heney nor the lawyers for the defendants will hazard a .prediction as to the time" that will be required to conclude the Hall-Mays conspiracy trial. One week already has been . consumed and the Government has scarcely made a beginning, only one of its many im portant witnesses having been exam ined. More than 70 witnesses for the Government are In the city, summoned to testify against one or more of the 12 defendants named in the1 indict ment, but since the prosecution has decided to try- only Hall and Mays at this time. Mr. Heney says he may not call all of the Government's witnesses.- - - In this way the trial may be short ened somewhat, but if all of the wit nesses take the stand, the case will drag along for weeks. There is little doubt that between two and three weeks more at the least will be re quired to complete the introduction of testimony and submit the case to the jury. Thus far the testimony has not been damaging, to- Hall or Mays. When the trial is resumed tomor row morning, D. M. Walton, who was on the stand when court adjourned yesterday, will conclude his testimony as to the alleged fraudulent character Of the homestead entries bordering on the Butte Creek pasture. . He will be followed by a number of other set tlers who will' tell ' of threats that were made by representatives of the Butte Creek Company by which set tlers were Intimidated and prevented from gaining access to the unlawful-ly-fenccd-ln Government land. Settlers 'to Testify Next. The settlers who filed on the home steads will then be called, and will testify that they acquired these lands for the purpose of transferring them to the Butte Creek Company as soon as patents had been issued. They will tell the jury that they were influ enced in their action by the Butte Creek Company, which afterward took the land off their hands and con. structed the remaining line of fence that was necessary to complete the enclosure of the vacant land. W. W. Steiwer. ex-State Senator and president of the Butte Creek Land, Lumber & Livestock Company, will undotbtedly be called as a witness by the Government some time this week, after the men who proved up on the alleged fraudulent claims which were bought by Stelwer's company, have told their story. When asked yester day when Steiwer would probably be called to testify, Mr. Heney merely smiled and would neither confirm nor deny the report that Steiwer would be one of the Government's witnesses. But It Is considered practically cer tain that Steiwer will go on the stand and tell all he knows, including the details of the alleged understanding between him and his associates and Hall, under which they were granted immunits' from prosecution. '. Steiwer Quits Courtroom. That Steiwer will be . a witness is further indicated by the fact that al though during the opening days of the HARRY MURPHY Baakwreekera: "ProMente T With Evidence Gathered During the Holi days? Absurd f trial he was a constant and interest ed spectator in the courtroom, he has not been in attendance since Judge Hunt requested all witnesses to ab sent themselves from the courtroom until after they had given their tes timony. Steiwer is still in the city. Mr. Heney's perennial smile broad ened perceptibly when he was asked if he intended to call George C. Brownell as a witness in the case on tjial. "I am not giving out advance in formation as to the plans of the prosecution," replied the Government's prosecutor; and that was all he would say. . ' When court convened yesterday morning, Judge Hunt announced his decision as to the letter . of instruc tion from Secretary Hitchcock, of the Interior Department, to Special Agent (Concluded on Pave 2.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 50 degrees; minimum, 41. TODAY'S Rain and cooler; southwesterly winds. Foreign. j Revolutionary agitation In India. Section : 4. page 1. National. Admiral Evans thanks Brazil for hospi tality: sure fleet can pass Straits. Sec . tion 1, page 6. Brownson'a argument for line officers to t.ommand In Navy. Section 1. nag 7. Russian naval officer following fleet on voyage. Section 1, page 6. Politics. Hughes now desires Presidency, hut oppor tunity may be past. Section 1, page L Cortelyou's difference with Roosevelt does not sever friendship. Section 1, page 1. Bryan will refuse nomination unless it comes from united party. Section 1, page 1. Old" line Democrats move for conservative platform. Section 1. page 2. California Republicans oall state primary on Presidency. Section 1. page 2. Senator Borah opposes Aldrlch currency bill. Section 1. pago 7. Dome tic. New York hanks have surplus over- legal reserve. Section 1, page 7. John P. Walsh convicted on 54 counts, one Juror weeps on announcing verdict. Sec tion 1. page 1- Buried Nevada miners near ttberty. Section 1, page 5. E. c. Stedman, the poet, dead. . Section 1. page 3. Fatal fight on board naval training ship. Section 1, page 3. Italian lumbermen fight Black Hand gang and start to lynch survivors. Section 1, page 2. Remarkable attack by Southern Judge on jury. Section 1, page 1. Pacific Coast. Langdon annuls immunity contract with Ruef and will try him Monday. Section 1, page 1. California shippers will drive Railroad Commission to make real inquiry into re- bates. Section 1,- page 2- Calil'ornia naturalist denounces Roosevelt as nature faker. .Section 1, page 2- Big real estate deal by Mrs. Oelrlchs. Sec tion 1, page 3. Patrons of Hood River rural phones demand donaxramoj)th service. Section 1, page 4. Corvallls Agricultural College will devote more attention to industrial arts. Sec tion 1. page 3. Judge Snell excluded from Gubernatorial rare because of constitutional provision; other candidates. Section '1, page 4. Mayor Rodger?, of Salem, makes a single handed raid on gambling Joints. Section 1. page 5. Sport. Call Issued for college athletic conference. Section 4, page 6. Portland takes to booming game. Section 4, page 6. George Kilcr on the career of Dixon. Sec . tion 4, nage 7. Athlete wins without training, and credit Christian Science. Seotlon 4. sage 7. Few racetrack plungers now. Section 4, page 7. Commercial and Marine. Oregon onion stocks reduced to 78 cars. Section 4. page 9. Slump of over 2 cents In wheat prices at Chicago.. Section 4. page 9. Fine bank showing helps stock prices. Sec tion 4, page 9. French bark Eugenie Erautrel chartered to ring cement from Antwerp to Portland. Section 4, page S. Portland and Vldnlty. Slow progress made in Hall-Mays case; settlers called to prove conspiracy. Sec tion 1. page 1. Grand nest of owls ends- first annual con clave; Gus C. Moser. of Portland, new head of brotherhood. Section 1, page 10. Democratic State Central Committee In dorses Bryan for Presidency; convention to elect National delegates; choose elect ors In primaries. Section 1, page 30. Young girl debauched In saloon confesses revolting facts. Section 1!, page 10. Neighboring states aid Portland in cam paign to secure sub-treasury. Section 2, page 10. Mayor favors leasing of streets to Inman- Poulsen Company; opposes vacation plan. Section 3. pago 7. Class of 54 Initiated Into Mystic Shrine. Section 1. page 8. Rival acts proposed by warring salmon factions. Section 3. page 10. State Editorial Association elects officers and adjourns. . Section 1. page 10. Commercial Club holds annual meeting. Section 2. page 5. Colonist movement to Oregon this year promises to eclipse 1907 record. Secrfon 2. page 10. Sand trust quits business. - Section 8, , page 10. Bcheubel: "Who Would Ha-re Thought They'd Come Baekf " JUROR WEEPS, BUT CONDEMNS VH Chicago Banker Con victed of Fraud. DRAMATIC SCENE IN COURT Member of Jury Does Duty Against His Will. WALSH SEEMS' UNMOVED lYund Guilty on 54 ponnts and Iylable to 540 Tears' Sentence, He Says the Fight Has Just Begun. '. CHICAGO, Jan. 18. John R. "Walsh, ex president of the Chicago National Bank, which closed its doors in December, 1905, was found guilty today on 64 counts of the indictments charging misapplication of the bank's funds. The verdict was re turned by a jury in the Federal District Court here. Walsh was permitted to re main, at liberty under the bond furnished by him after the indictment had been returned one year ago to & day, pending the hearing of arguments on January SS on a motion by his counsel for a new tria. The penalty fixed by the statutes for the offense of which the aged financier was convicted is Imprisonment for not less than Ave years nor mora than ten for each count upon which his guilt was established. This makes the minimum penalty 270 years and the maximum pen alty 540 years. Juror Weeps Over Painful Duty. The reading of the verdict was followed by a scene intensely dramatic. When the jury was polled at the request of John S. Miller, of counsel for the defense, Elbert Palmer, a Juror from Harvard, 111., was overcome by emotion and wept as he sls lnfied his acquiescence in the finding. He sat with head bowed upon his hands dur ing the preliminary proceedings and failed to rise to his feet, as the others had done, to reply to the Interrogation by the clerk: "Was this and is this now your ver dict?" A bailiff touched his arm when his turn came to answer. He apparently had not heard the question and it was repeated. Mr. Palmer rose and stood unsteadily, with eyes downcast, -and muttered some thing unintelligible to the court and at torneys. Under prompting by Judge An derson, the Juror then replied with appar ent effort and while the tears coursed down his cheeks: i "Yes, under the instructions as I under stand them." When the poll was completed,. Mr. Palmer was questioned further by the court at the request of Mr. Miller, and in answer to the question previously put to him, replied: "I have to say 'yes.' " It developed later that Mr. Palmer was largely responsible for the long delibera tion of the Jury. So insistent was he that Walsh be acquitted that he forced his fellow-jurors to take separate bal lots on every one of the 150 counts in the indictment. Palmer Pleads, Walsh Is Unmoved. "He is such an old man over 70 years," is said to have been, the constant plea of Mr. Palmer. "He was technically guilty, but none of his depositors lost, and what is the use of sending an old man to prison?" h is quoted as having, urged upon the other Jurors time after time. Ha is said to havs wept at times in the Jury room as he begged the others to consider the age of the . defendant and have com passion. Walsh, the subject of his compassion, who sat at a table surrounded by his at torneys, appeared less . moved by the re sult of the long trial than almost any body else concerned. He was Immediate-; (Concluded on Page Thre- Washington Fisherman: MGo Tt, Boys, and (Aside) I'll Just swipe Tour nh." i