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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION TWO Pages 1 to 12 BUCHANAN WILL ONE OF ALL J VOL. XXVIII. ' PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY, 3, 1909. XO' 1 1 . : " '. iaaamsaHaanl I I HT" . PROMINENT FIGURES IN THE PITTSBURG GRAFT SCANDAL. "xssassssssssB bssssssssWsMbbssssssss111MMssssssss Mmmn WUHbl HENEY 01 VENEZUELA Lipman-Wolfe's Big Two-page Announcement of January Clearance Sales will be found on Pages 6 and 7 First Section Goods Reduced in Every Departme't LIpman, Wolfe & Co. All Suits Reduced All Muslin Underwear All Waists Reduced All Cloaks Reduced All Furs Reduced All Skirts Reduced All Infants' Wear Reduced All Jewelry Reduced All Millinery Reduced All Pictures Reduced All Holiday Goods Reduced Goods Reduced in all Sections Special Envoy Has Froved Ex pert at Latin-American Diplomacy. GREAT WORK HE HAS DONE Reconciled Chile and Argentina, l"n ravclcd Panama Canal Tangle and Now Will End Dis putes With Venezuela. WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. William I. Buchanan, who ha Just arrived In Ven ezuela as Special Commissioner of this Government to adjust relation with the new government of Venezuela, whs a dealer In crockery LJ years ago in Siouxx City. Since then he has become the fore most expert in practical diplomacy in the I nlted States. He has founded a new profession, that of business diplomacy. He has settled more rows, prevented more wars, made friends out of nations that were predisposed to be enemies, than any other man. perhaps, of his time. His career is really one of the finest examples that can be found anywhere of the possi bilities of the public service In tills coun try for the man who has brains and cour age to use thorn Mr. Buchanan has had a career entirely unique. He became a public character as general manager of the Corn Palace expositions, some 20 years ago, in Sioux City. In that capacity he demonstrated a large measure of executive ability, and the expositions became famous. As a re sult. Governor Boles, of Iowa, made him commissioner to the World's Fair In Chi cago. In l.M3. and he was placed In charge of tiie department of agriculture and for estry of the exposition. Grover Cleveland named him to be Minister to Argentina. Triumphs as Arbitrator. Mr. Buchanan developed the Idea of pushing commercial relations: he became a general agent for American enterprise in South America and presently had be come the most popular diplomat In Latin America. Argentina and Chile were on the verge of war over a boundary ques tion. Mr. Buchanan was made the umpire In an effort to arbitrate their differences. His work steered that difficult and comm plicated arbitration to a successful con clusion. It was the first great triumph of arbitration as a means to settling vital international difficulties without resort to arms, and In South America and among the powers of Europe It Is still one of the great recognized achievements of Its kind. At Santiago and at Buenos Ay res alike they look upon Buchanan today as the man who contributed most largely to rescue South America from the chaos of petty conflict which had so long arrested Its development. As a direct result of that arbitration there exists today between Argentina and Chile the world's model disarmament treaty, and under It the two Governments, once bit ter rivals, have reduced their military and naval establishments a.-d their people have come to look on war as being as Impossible as it is undesirable. Settled Big Business Disputes. That was 11 years ago. While Minister to Argentina Ruchanan negotiated one of the best reciprocity treaties ever formulated for this country: but it went the -way of other treaties of Its charac tersmothered In the Senate commit tees. Appointed Minister as a Democrat, he was retained under a Republican Admin istration, finally retiring voluntarily to become a sort of diplomatic agent for a large life Insurance company In Its big business relations with the South American countries. The company had a great case pending In Argentina, which required skillful and diplomatic manage ment. Buchanan took It and won for his client. Then he was sent to Brazil by the same company and did some more equally effective international cmfwyp rPdMm effective work. Later the Westfnghouse Interests. International In scope, wanted hla services, and for a time he served both concerns. The Pan-American Exposition, at Buf falo came on. and Buchanan was selected to be director-general. His work for the exposition marked him as a man of great affairs. Smoothed Out Panama Affair. Next came the Panama revolution in 1903. and the development of that maze of complications of Colombia, Panama. France, the canal and the Washington Government. It was a very practical question and President Roosevelt turned to Buchanan, who became Minister to the Republic of Panama. From that time till the present he has divided his time be tween the big business enterprises with which he Is associated and the special service of the department. Whenever he Is needed the State Iepartment borrows him. and he always produces the results. Two yeans or so ago he went on a mis sion to Mexico, the exact character of which Is not yet known, but It Is generally understood to have related to effecting ncreement between Washington and Diaz for the settlement of conditions In Central America, the ending of a war there and restoration anil maintenance of stable government and relations among those warring little republics. Again the mission was a success. When the Pan-American Congress was held In Rio. and Secretary Root went from Washington to preach the new gos pel, on high authority, of the community of interest among the Americas, he select ed Buchanan as one of his delegation; and once more Buchanan proved himself use ful. Now comes the tremendous task of straW?htenlng out relations between Venezuela and the 'world. The Washing ton Government wants peace preserved and. Venezuela restored to speaking rela tions with the other memo.' of the fam ily of nations. Likewtse, It wants Vene zuela required to do Justice to all, and It wants to be sure than no Injustice is done to Venezuela. The whole Intricate prob lem of the Venezuelan concessions, the ancient treaties, the responsibility of the new government under Gomez.the respon sibilities of the United States under the Monroe doctrine these questions are ap parently all In the hands of Buchanan as the practical man of affairs for the American Government; It Is the greatest and most difficult mission he has ever undertaken. But he was the one man to whom the Administration turned when the task required expert services: and It is fully expected by the people who know the former successes of the ex-crockery merchant that he will once more succeed. if v- :i - h r ; i r vt vw r O TO-AWoH JQS-C WASSOK ' J OW- JOHN LiN f :W-v-c 1 ' ' H J :. 7. tt' fv;ps... -...-.I. - I i v y&t'-;f . y:' K y : . POISON IN Hilt ' y- ''A . HOBS MAILS Two Families in Denver Get Mysterious Packages. POLICE ENTIRELY AT SEA Both Boxes Contain Similar Deadly Sweets, but Addresses Are Writ ten by Different' Senders Three People 111. DENVER. Jan. 2. The police of this city are mystified by the reports coming into headquarters from two separate sources of the receipt of poisoned candy sent through the mails, and declare their entire lack of definite theory as to the Intent of the person or persons respon sible for its sending. Developments came with tho report that three person. Mrs. Marie A. Smith and her two children, were lying In a critical condition from eating candy re ceived in the mails. Mrs. Smith is the divorced wife of A. C. Smith, a mer chant of Miles City, Mont. I.ater the police were notified that Mrs. Dniiia Wltwer. IMng in the same neigh borhood had received a box containing hoaie-made candy, similar to that eaten by the Smiths. Having read the ac count of the experience of the Smiths. Mrs. Wltwer reported the matter to the police. Investigation showed that the contents of the two packages were Identi cal as to appearance, and the authorities decided tohave a chemical test of the candy made. Reports on this test are expected tomorrow. fcjxpert examination of the handwrit ing used In the addresses on the two packages disclosed they are widely dif ferent, indicating that the addresses were not wrlten by the same person. REVENUE INCREASES AGAIN Canal Causes Apparent Deficit, but December Gain la $3,000,000. WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. The monthly statement of Government receipts and expenditures shows the excess of expen ditures over receipts for the month of December. 1908. to have been $10,251,593 and for the six months of the current fiscal year a deficit Is shown of $34,201,400. December receipts from customs amounted to $24,519,153 as against $21,744. 672 for December, 1907. From internal revenue the receipts aggregated $22,529. 592, a gain over December, 1907, of about J1.714.O0O.. The miscellaneous receipts were $3,249, 71, as against $4,723,931 for December, 1907 The total receipts were $i0.31S,507, a gain of nearly $3,000,000 over December of last year. The total expenditures were $60,570,100. as against $.".5.S1S,S73 for the correspond ing month In 1W7. There has been an in crease In expenditures on account of the War Department of $3.40n.0oo and over $,l,rt).000 on account of public works. The Navy shows a decrease of about $1,300, ooo and the civil and miscellaneous ex penditures were reduced by about $1, 250.000. Canal Increases National Debt. WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. The public debt statement issued by the Secretary of the Treasury shos that at the close of business December 31. 1908, the debt, less cash In the treasury, amounted to $997,349,750, which Is an Increase for the month of $7.91.190. accounted for by the Issue of $30,000,000 Panama ca nal bonds. - The cash balance In the treasury is $319,S01.41J. The total Government receipts for the month were $50,318,507. and the expenditures were $60,570,100- John.H. Grabel Dead. HILLSBORO. Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) John H. Grabel, aged 35 years, died at his home near Newton, this morn ing, from heart trouble. Deceased was prominent as a Knight of Pythias and a Woodman of the World, in which order he carried $2000 insurance. -He was a son of J. N. Grabel. a prominent Hillsboro capitalist. A widow, former ly Miss Elizabeth Bigham, .and . a daughter, aged s'years, survive. h, ys:yyfy- .-fJiA T. O. Atkinson. James C. Wasson, Captain John Klein and-Hugh Ferguson are members of Pittsburg's City Council accused of grafting. Mayor George W. Guthrie ordered the arrests made when evidence secured by the Investigat ors was laid before him- W. W. Ramsey was president of the German Na tional Bank, and was arrested, accused of illegally using the funds of the bank. A. Leo Well is the attorney for the Civil League and has taken a lead ing hand in the prosecution of the grafters. THUG RDB5 LONE WOMAN MRS. P. LARSEX HELD CP. AND RELIEVED OF PVRSE. Robber l"ses Big Revolver to Intimi date Seamstress, Wlioni He Stops on Dark Street. Mrs. P. Larsen. a seamstress em ployed by H. B. Litt. 351 Washington street, was held up and robbed on Twentieth street , near Overton at 6:50 o'clock last night. A thug armed with a big revolver halted Mrs Larsen and, threatening her life, demanded her purse, which was given to him. It contained only a few cents. The scene of the robbery . Is beside a vacant, lot snd the spot is very dark. The thief sneaked up behind the woman, who was alone, ani, thrusting the revolver up close to the hack of her head, com manded her to halt and put up her hands. After grabbing her purse out of her hand he commanded her to pro ceed. Mrs. I-arsen exhibited great bravery and presence of mind for one in such a trying position. She walked half a block north and, turning, found that the robber had vanished. Then for the first time fright overcame her and. growing faint, she applied at the first house she ome to for a drink of water and assistance. Albert Bingham, of 282 Twentieth street. North, took her Into his residence and called the police by telephone. Sergeant Goltz and De tective Craddock were sent to the scene. One of the officers escorted .Mrs. larsen to her home. 489 Twenty third street. North. Mrs. Larsen said that the assailant wore no mask. but. owing to the dark ness. sh a3 unable to distinguish either his face or his clothing clearly. He was about 5 feet, 10 Inches tall, was slender and wore a soft black hat and dark clothes. His theft netted him 32 cents, a key and an old English half penny. No trace of the robber was found. SEATTLE ISSUES' FIGURES City Business by Water Approxl , mates $122,000,000. SEATTLE Wash., Jan. 2. During last year Seattle's total business by water approximated $122,000,000. More than 1S50 deep water vessels arrived and departed, with a net tonnage of more than 3,500.000 tons. Passengers entering and leaving the port by water numbered 2.S31.S10. A summary of Seattle's commerce shows total domestic Imports worth $34.359.8U5; domestic exports $46,682, 402; foreign exports $18,598,291: for eign imports $22,290,052 Merchandise shipped to Bering Sea was worth $4,495,463, and . to Southeastern Alaska $7,246,298. ECHO OF POOR FAILURE Receiver Appointed for Southern Road Which Boston Men Backed. ATLANTA. Ga.. Jan. 2. J.udge Pardee, of the Circuit Court, appointed President H. M. Atkinson and Vice-President P. S Arkwritvt receivers for the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad today. BOSTON, Jan. 2. Holders of bonds of the Atlanta. Birmingham & Atlantic Rail road In this city were notified today of the appointment of receivers for the road. Interest on the bonds was defaulted yesterday. The company, which was in corporated In , Georgia In 1905. controls several transportation companies In the South and also steamboat lines from Brunswick. Ga.. to New York. The capi- tal is $C5,COO,000 and about $8,130,000 of an authorized issue of $30,000,000 In bonds are outstanding. The corporation is largely financed by Boston interests. The bonds were underwritten by H. W. Poor & Co., the Boston and New York firm which assigned last week. TO WALLACE POLITICIANS TAKE TRAIN FOR BOISE. Give Out Story That Mormon Church and Harrlman Seek Senator's Defeat. SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 2. (Special.) Answering a hurry-up call and hur rying to Boise to aid In re-electing Heyburn, eight leaders representing the Republican party organization of Sho shone County passed through Spokane today. They took the first train out. The paity Included A. H. Connor. ex Legislator; Walter Hanson, former Shoshone County Attorney; A. H. Featherstone, Legislator-elect; John P. Gray, law partner of Heyburn; August Sutherland, ex-Sheriff; Harry McKln ley, merchant and chairman of the Re publican County Central Committee; A. B. Coggswell, cigar dealer and politi cian; Thomas MoCabe, assistant cashier Wallace National Bank; F. F. Johnson, president First National Bank, all of Wallace. From Wardner, Al Page, a hotel man. Joined the party. , The story left In Spokane by the Heyburn supporters from Wallace Is that dignitaries of the Mormon Church and the political power of the Harrl man system are back of the antl-Hey-burn movement, which combination would make hard sledding for Hey burn. TEN MILLIONS IN GOLD Nevada's Output for Nine Months of 1908 Reaches Huge Total. RENO. Nev., Jan. 2. According to the Incomplete report of State Bullion and Tax Collector Haley, the gold output of Nevada for the nine months ending Sep tember 30, 1908. was $10,019,730.54. He esti mates the mineral production of Nevada for 1908 at $21,000,000 as opposed to the mineral production of 1907 as shown by official figures of $17,591,486. The gold bul lion output for 190S is $13,261,730, as op posed to $12,099,455 for 1907. City of Mexico Sends $2000. MEXICO.CITY, Jan. 2. Ten thousand lires lias been cabled to the Italian Premier as the contribution by the City Council of Mexico to the quake relief fund. Every City Council in the Repub lic has been ordered to contribute. George Cochran, 10 Years Old, Caught in Act. ENTERS THROUGH CHUTE Confesses to Theft of Brooch From Station A, on Vnion Avenue, and Is Seen by Superintendent En tering the Office Again. George Cochran, a 10-year-old boy, was caught last night in the Station A postofflce, corner of Union avenue and East Alder street, in the act of rifling the registered mail. The boy gained entrance to the room by crawling through the chute provided for papers and large packages. He was caught by Superintendent W. S. Halvor. of the station, and his assistant, Elmore Mc Kenzie, who were on the watch. On the night of December 31 a pearl brooch valued at $20 or more was stolenrom this office. From the traces left l" the thief the superintendent Judged It was the work of an amateur, and lie and his assistant took turns watching the office at night. Last night both men saw the Cochran lad crawl through the chute. They tele phoned the police station, and Detect ives Price and Tennant were sent out and made the arrest. Before the office was closed for the night the boy was hanging around and watching everything going on in side through the windows. Superintend ent Halvor stated. Later he was seen to enter through the chute. When taken to the station youn? Cochran, who Is said to be a bright lad, at first denied everything, but later confessed to stealing the rooch on the night of December 31. He told where he had hidden it, under a wood pile in the neighborhood, and It was later found there. Young Cochran lives with his mother, who is employed In the Grand restau rant on Grand avenue, at 1U8V4 Union avenue. On the woman's promise that she would produce the boy In Juvenile Court Monday morning he was allowed to go home with her. The police think that young Coch ran is the tool of a gang of robbers and are trying to locate some suspi cious characters they have had under surveillance. MILLINERY IS SCORCHED Blaze in Washington Building Does Damage to Extent of $7 00. Fire, supposed to have been caused by faulty insulation on the electric light wires, broke out last night at 11:45 o'clock In the millinery establishment of Florenca Evens in rooms 36. 37 and 38 of the Wash ington building, 370'4 Washington street. Damage to the extent of about $700 was done. $200 to the building and $500 to the stock and fixtures of the milliner. The blaze was quickly put out. Web Harring ton, who conducts a cigar store at the corner of Fourth and Washington, and I tJ. Apperson, a draughtsman, who was working late In his offur In the building, both discovered the fire. ' The blaze had gained good headway and the heat caused the windows frontnlg on Washington street to burst and fall to the sidewalk. Harrington turned In the alarm from box 13. VANCOUVERTHIEF BOLD Smashes Windows . on Crowded Street and Steals Diamonds. VANCOUVER, B. C. Jan. 2. (Special.) At the busiest time and on Cordova street, one of the busiest thoroughfares, a nervy thief tonight broke a plate-glass window, seized a tray of diamond rings and made good his escape, though' most of the booty was dropped in a hasty get away. Lyttleton, the proprietor of the jewelery ctore, made a rush for the robber but was blocked by two accomplices: The thief la badly cut and he whole police force Is now on a still hunt for a man with a wounded arm. Prosecutor Declares Under Him Come Herrin, and Then Frisco Bosses. LINE OF DESCENT TRACED San Francisco Graft Scandals De scribed From Inside by Mr. He ney, Who. Draws .Moral for Phlladelphlans in Talk. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 2. Speaking be fore the City Cluli here today. Franc to J. Heney, oi San Francisco, declared that B. H. llarriman, through his control of tho Southern Pacific Railroad, was re-spons-ible for the graft and corruption that has been found hi the Golden Gate. City. With Abe Ruef and Harrlman was linked the head of the United Railways corporation of San Francisco by Mr. Heney, but the real boss, he said, sits In New York and has one of ills agents in California. W. F. Herrin, genera coun sel of the Southern Pacific Railroad. "San Francisco is no worse and no better than the average American city," Mr. Heney said. "With the single ex ception of course, of Philadelphia,, and even here you have nothing like what we unearthed in my city. But tho causes of corruption are the same in all cities. In San Francisco we found two elements at work. Coming from one source waa the public service corporation, and from another was the saloons and dives, while behind our backs these forces Joined hands. "In this alliance the boss was the con necting link, but he was simply the agent of the real boss the big business man. who wonted to exploit the public service corporation. The political boss was really the small duck In the pond. Behind him was the public service cor poration and the Southern Pacific Rail road. "According to my deductions," the head of the legal department of the Southern Pacific Railroad, W. E. Herrin. was the boss behind the apparent boss. But I am convinced that Herrin was, after all. the tool of the actual boss Harrlman." CHIEF FALLS; SHOOTS MAN Anaconda Youth Accidentally Rilled While Escaping Arrest. ANACONDA. Mont.. Jan. 2. (Special.) William Rockefellow. a well-known young man here, was shot and probably fatally wounded by Night Chief of Po lice Harvey Green, early this morning. Rockefellow had been arrested for triv ial fighting, together with several other young men, and was being taken to tho station, when he broke and ran, evident ly to avoid the notoriety of being ar rested. Chief. GroTTl fired several shots In the air to frighten the man Into stop ping. The officer then slipped and fell, his gun being accidentally discharged, the shot passing through Rockefellow's groin. SLAYDEN'S CHANCES GOOD Confident He Will Be Chosen as Speuker at Olympla. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 2. (Special.) According to the reports received at the meeting of members of the Fierce County legislative delegation, the prospects of J. W. Slaydcn for landing the Speaker ship of the next House are brighter than ever. Letters from a number of unpledged members of the House brought addition al promises of support for Mr. Slayden, and he 13 more confident than ever that his candidacy will win. J. M. Hayes was Indorsed by the Sena tors for the position of Sorgeant-at-.Vrms of the Senate. TRIMBLE TO BUY AIRSHIP President Seattle Aero Club Goes East to Make Purchase. SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 2. (Special.) William Pitt Trimble, president of the recently organized Seattle Aero Club. Is going East soon to Investigate the var ious models of aeroplanes and dirigible balloons, and If he Is able to find an air craft that he can learn to navigate him self will purchase It and bring it to Se attle to enter In the races and test flights to be held during the A.-Y.-P. Exposition. Mr. Trimble is also authority for the statement that at least one other mem ber of the Seattle Aero Club will purchase an airship if his report on his Eastern investigations is satisfactory. ' SALTON SEA AN OVERFLOW Body of Water Said to Be an Accu mulation From Former Floods. WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. That the so- called Salton Sea is not a sea at all. but an accumulation or waste water in the bottom of a depression 200 or more fe.t- hoinw sen level, is the statement of F. B. Newell, director of the United States Reclamation Service, appearing i the annendix of the report of the Smithsonian Institution. "The recent overriow or tne, coio la nnt a new thine." said he. "hut a revival in historic times of what has probably occurred frequently in geo logic history. - VOTERS RAISE SCHOOL TAX Increase Joseph Directors' Recom mendations to 6 Mills. tncirDtT Of .Tnn 2. (Sneeial.) At a iiuiiui ... v.., .- - special school meetlni; the ' directors nmm,nHcd n. tai of four mills, but the voters raised It to six and instructed the directors to increase tne numoer ot teachers by two the coming season, and Viol committee anoointert to act with the directors In taking immediate steps ror a new Dries, scuooiuuuuing to be built this coming Summer.