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Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVIII. NO. 12. PORTLAND. OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SICK SENATOR CAN BREAK DEADLOCK COLTUCKERTURNS T TARI FS nN WIFF I RIVALS KINDEL. WINS LONE WH1TLA BOY SOON . TO BETAKEN HOME BEVERIDGE NOW CLEMENGEAU MAY FIGHT FOR RATES BOSS OF INDIANA S'TOCA UNLOAD SI MYAfl DENIES CHARGES IN HER DI VORCE SUIT. DENVER MAN WARRED ON FAIRBANKS RETIRES FROM ROADS SINGLE-HANDED. POLITICS COMPLETELY. 66 Pages wo NEW FQRHQPK m California Senate Divid ed on Primary. TWENTY ARE ON EACH SIDE Issue Is Vote on Senator by Districts or at Large. SPECIAL TRAIN FOR BLACK Senate Sends Doctors to Examine lllm and Sergeant-at-Arms May Escort Him to Sacramento If Health Permits. SACRAMENTO, Cal.. March 20.-f(Spe-rlnl.) Senator Marshall . Black will bo brought from I'alo Alto by special train so that he may vote upon the direct pri mary measure Monday unless a special committee of physicians named by Lieutenant-Governor Porter decides that he Is physically unfit for the trip. Such Is tho purport of a resolution adopted by the Senate this afternoon. Meanwhile tho deadlock between the backers of the district vote plan and those who stick for a state-wide expres sion of sentiment In regard to the United States, continues. With the exception of Black, every Senatorial seat was filled when the direct primary special order was reached. Senator Weed, chairman of the public morals committee, and one of the unflinching stayers on the Wolfe Leavltt side for the district vote. Imme diately Introduced the resolution provid ing for a special train to bring the absent member to the fold. Protests From Black's Friends. There was a chorus of Indignant pro tests from Black's friends, for the reso lution was. they said, so worded as to cast reflections upon his motives and to place In doubt his own statement of hit condition. Walker went so far as to say that the resolution was an In sult. He wanted to know If the Senate was willing to imperil Black's life for the sHke of Including the district vote provision In the Wright-Stanton bill. Camlnettl questioned the authority of the Legislature to name physicians to pass upon the cc-litlon'of a member, and he and the Lieutenant Governor became engaged In a dispute which was more heated than parliamentary. Por ter declared that he would not sit still and hear him self adversely reflected upon In regard to the kind of medicos he would name. Camlnettl said that he would not submit to bavlng the chair tell him what he should do as a. Sen ator. Result Hinges on Black's Votes. As It Is understood that Porter will vote with Wright, Leavitt and Wolfe in favor of the district plan, if ever the whole Senate can be gathered together with 20 votes on a side, the selection of a phy sician was a Question nearly concerning the eventual fate of the measure. Wright's men Insisted that they meant no disrespect to Black, but merely wanted to ascertain when he would be able to return, and to provide easy transporta tion for hhn when his health returned. Xhe resolution was so amended as to take from It all suggestion that the Sen ator had voluntarily absented himself. It was then passed by an almost unani mous vote. Doctors to Examine Black. Eddie Wolfe went so far as to say that in view of the rumors which had been put in circulation the passage of the resolution was a favor to Black. Porter said that he would appoint Dr. John Galloway and Dr. Howard Mor row, of San Francisco, to examine Black. If their report is favorable the Sergeant-at-Arms will escort the Senator from Palo Alto to the Senate Monday afternoon. Meanwhile no fur- (Concluded on Page &. I 1 ( J I ".."iK?. Vai.? H.! H.! Smartr Fl to. I - - Look. LHie IlgtoB.. Kow, Really, I. It Bad .. TkU T Speal ot Abolishing Zo. ITncle Sam That Dent Can Is Too U.welcome New. - Fellow's." ' Big lor That Kind of Foolery. - ' ' ' - ' M -.. - r - - 1- - i.rv.-j.-..-..v.T.-1-.-A.T.T.T.-.-.-.i.ij.t.i.i.i.i.i !.. ..... . ...... Objects to Paying Counsel Fees and Says Spouse Is by Far Richer , Than Himself. CHICAGO, March 20. r (Special.) Colonel William F. Tucker -turned the tables on his wife today when he filed an answer to his wife's petition for divorce and attorney fees. He asserts that he is innocent of the charges of desertion and drunkenness which she has placed against him, and declares that It was her who deserted him and subsequently remained away from the home that he had provided for her. The colonel admits that his home was far from happy. He says that his wife, Marj- L. Tucker, frequently Indulged in violent sallies or passion, and con ducted herself "with great austerity of temper." He answers her request for solicitor's fees by saying that she has four times the income which he re ceives, exclusive of his. Army pension, and that her possessions of real estate are valued at more than 1100,000. The colonel substantiates his state ments by recalling her expenditures in her attempt to have him dishon orably discharged from the Army. The expenses, all told, he charges, amounted to thousands of dollars. SEEK PETROSINO'S SLAYER Palermo Police on Trail Shipment of Body May Be Prevented. PALERMO. March 20. Signor Geola, tho head of the local police, said in an Interview today that the authorities were doing everything possible to apprenend the slayers of Joseph Petrosino, head of the Italian Bureau of the New York Po lice Department, who was killed In this city March 12. The activity of the author ities has been extended to Naples, where Petrosino spent three days before coming here. The authorities think that the plot was hatched in Naples. The statement that the body of Petro sino was placed last night on board the steamer Slavonia for conveyance to New York, was an error. It has not yet been decided by what vessel the body will be sent home. The police have been warned that an attempt may be made to prevent embarkation. MRS. TAFT GOES SHOPPING Rides on Omnibus and Mixes In Bargain-Counter Crowds. NEW "YORK, March 20. Unrecognized by the people In the streets, Mrs. Taft. the wife of the President, spent a busy day making purchases of her Spring and Summer apparel. Accompanied by Miss Mabel Boardman, of Washington, Mrs. Taft rode on top of a Fifth-avenue omni bus and waited her turn at crowded counters. Later she and Miss Boardman received friends at the Hotel Bucking ham. They will return to Washington tomorrow. LIBEL CASES TO BE TRIED Panama Canal Suits Not to Be Dropped by Administration. WASHINGTON. March 20. There will be no abandonment of the Panama libel prosecution by the Administration accord ing to a high Administration official to day. Attorney-General Wickersham's in vestigation of these cases. It is said, has satisfied him that the Government should procs?d with the prosecution. Whether he has advised President Taft of his at' titude is not known. MODJESKA STILL VERY LOW Physician Says Noted Actress May Pass Away Any Time. ' LOS ANGELES, March 20. The con dltion of Mme. Helene Modjeska, who Is lying very low at her country home near Santa Ana, remains practically unchanged. Dr. J. P. Boyd, who is attending Mme. Modjeska, states there has been no change in the condition of his patient for the past 24 hours, though death i might come at any time. HARRY MURPHY Lowden and McKinley ' Both Enter Race. BACKED BY CORPORATIONS Traction Companies Against Trunk Line Railroads. EACH MAY KILL OFF OTHER As Hard to Land Either as Hopkins, but Effort to Crush ex-Senator Will Be Made Old Guard Is for McKinley. CHICAGO, March 20. (Special.) Trac tion companies and puolic utility corpora tions are bidding against the trunk line railroads In an effort to break the Sena torial deadlock In Illinois, accordtne to a story that leaked out today from authoritative- sources. Congressman Frank O. Lowden, who is at the Auditorium Annex, is an active candidate for the toga of Albert J. Hopkins, with the backing of the railroad interests, say Lowden ad herents. Congressman William B. Mc Kinley, of Champaign, Is the- candidate looked upon with favor hv tho companies, and public service corpora tions, assert men who are knenine- r-lniA to developments at Springfield. Both After Hopkins' Votes. The Dlan of namnnicn Wh ,1 t which the big interests are Involved is to convince Hopkins' loyal supporters first mat It Is Impossible to land their man Then it is the game of the Lowden people as wen as tne McKinley followers to come out In the open and fight hard to pick off the Senatorial plum. - - Mr. McKinley It was who rieveinnct th ill inois traction system and for the last few weeks, it Is said. Postmaster Weir, of Rantoul, Champaign County, has been at tne state capital keeping his. ear to the ground and letting the Champaign man know Just how the land lies. An ef fort is to be mae next week to crush Mr. Hopkins out of the race. The inter ests against the ex-Senator are said to be ready to move hard to accomplish this. Hard to Land Either Man. Political prophets are fleurine- that the opposition to Mr. Hopkins should be successful in pounding down his vote so as to eliminate him, it will be just as hard tp land either Mr. Lowden or Mr McKinley. Well informed men in Illinois pontics say that if the contest should narrow down to a contest of strenirth he tween these two men. the traction mar, would receive substantial support from members of the old Senate organization Those ' who are usually informed on no. lltical happenings assert that Mayor hsusse. Postmaster Campbell, State Sena tor Corbus P. Gardner, Stanton C. Pem berton and otiiers of the old sruard who were a power In the State Senate, would take the , McKinley end of the fight against Mr. Lowden. Congressman Will iam Lorimer is classed with the Lowden interests. Deneen Takes No Sides. Governor Deneen, it is figured, would not advise his friends to rally to either Mr. McKinley or Mr. Lowden. This sit uation, it is contended, would result in failure to break the deadlock. State Senator Ldward C. Curtis broke the McKinley ice last week, when he switched from Mr. Hopkins to the Cham paign Congressman. btories that come from Springfield are to the effect that the McKinley movement Is being carried along under the surface more completely than the Lowden manipulations. Italian Noble to Wed Miss Thaw. ROME, March 20. Miss Thaw, daugh ter of Alexander Blair Thaw, of Pitts burg, will marry Marquis Teodoli, member of one of the best-known and oldest Roman aristocratic families. FINDS VARIOUS THINGS Brought Score of Suits Before Inter state Commission and Was Long Regarded as Mere Joke. CHICAGO, March 20. (Special. Oae of the proudest citizens of the United States today is George E. Kin del, of Denver. After a strenuous bat tle lasting nearly 20 years, Kindel has won an important victory over the combined railroads of the West and has ceased to be regarded by his fellow citizens as a Joke. Kindel is the man who brought suit before the Interstate Commerce Com mission against more than a score of the greatest railroad corporations in the country and compelled thereby a reduction in Denver freight rates from all points east of the Missouri River, and from Denver west to Utah and Colorado points. The victory was a sweeping one, and was practically won by Kindel single-handed. He had amassed a comfortable fortune in the manufacturing business In Denver, and he neglected this in his mad hunt after rate justice." INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 45 v, III tU 111 U III, JO. TODAY'S Rain; brisk southerly winds. French government may throw over Slra- aiir itiiftcrs. . eecuon i. Panic in Britain about increase of German navy. Section 1, pare 3. German steamer Ella held up by Nicaragua - biiico tana arms. sec tion 1 nao-A A Zelaya'a cheme to Invade Salvador and fV j-.uctuM, lunea ny American diplomat. Section I. page 4. Taft announces several Important diplo- ""'V JiJVJiin.iit3t. DcLion x. page z. Cuban reciprocity may trause tariff war -- ... w uonuus. oi:iiun x, pa.se . Government will eeek no more land-fraud Section l, page 3. Domestic. Both Coopers guilty of second degree mur- umi , uui on Dan penaing appeal. sec tion 1, paee 5. Colonel Tucker eays wife tried to disgrace 4iim. Section 1- usee 1. Roosevelt admits mistake in denying Tie pmnugiopn m raas ana f ancies. Section 1. Dare 3. Harper and Kern will refuse to testify on fan. uotui o Rran a jury. section a, page 5. S41 her of Whitla boy meets kidnaper at "D,ll"ui tu pay ransom, bection v page V. 1 ' Polities. Lowden and McKinley rivals for Hopkins' scat in acnaio. section 1. page a. Fairbanks retires from po lit res entirely. Section 1. page 1. Beveridge becomes Indiana boas. Section ! page 1. .California? Senate sends for sink member to D, aeaaiocK on direct primary. Sec tion 1, page 1. Faciiic Xorthwettt. Prairie city bank, unable to meet pay ments. rlARAM HnnrR 1 r U.UIS , ja e o La Grande farmers organize co-operative 11 loiiipauy. cecuon l, page 0. Municipal ownership again chief , Issue in Section 1. nas-r T Acting Governor Hay vetoes special-privl- ouuuttjf liquor law. section 1. page 7. Spokane center of extensive railroad con struction. Section 4. page S. Ontarlo preparing for 500 delegates to vicguu-mano industrial congress. Sec tion 1, page 6. feports. Activity In rowing circles will begin today. Section 4. page 6. Portland Northwestern Leaguers begin practice at Medford this week. Section 4. naEe 7. X. M. C. A. will undertake to form ama teur Daaeoau league, section 1, page 10. Willamette Valley Fair Circuit announces dates for Summer meets. Section 4, Mcintosh says Jeffries will return to ring. Section 1. page lo. Features and Iepartments. Top grafting old apple trees. Section 6, page 2. Japanese school boy's letter. ' Section 6. page 3. Gold medals for victories of peace. Section 6, page 6. Famous preachers who are more than that. Section 6, page 4. Shorty McCabe. Section 6. page 3. Changes In Spring styles. Section 5, page 5. Household department. Section 5, page 4. Book reviews. Section 5. page 7. Portland and Vicinity. Lodd estate will erect building at Third and . Washington streets. Section 1, page 8. Experts find Madison-street bridge to be bad wreck. Section 2, page 12. Fire cuts off Pacific telephone service on West Side. Section 1, page 8. Prohls plan to vote state dry next year. Section 4. page 10. Republicans seek about in party for Mayor alty candidate. Section 4, page 10. Definite plans made for launching 5O0.000 movement. Section '3, page 8. Citizens tell what half million population will mean to city. Section 3, page 12. Oyer 1000 children expected to join Poultry Association. Section 2. page 12. Realty transfers average more than flOO,- 000 dally. Section 3, page 6. WORTHY OF RECORD Father Meets Captors Near Ashtabula. TO PAY RANSOM IN MORNING Pittsburg Detective Success ful in Tracing Lad. SLEUTHS WILL PROSECUTE As - Soon as Fattier Recovers Son, Officers Will Arrest Men Who Have Held Boy and Law Will Take Its Course. CLtEffVET-ANIL. O.. March 21. According to a report given circulation here at 3 o'clock this morning J. p. Whitla, of Sharon, Pa., father of Willie Whitla. the kidnaped boy, is in Ashtabula with the $10,000 ransom. It is reported he is closeted with one of the kidnapers nego tiating for the payment of the money and the return of his son. Detectives are said to be In the vicinity to take up the thread after the deal is closed. HOT 03f . TRAIIi Of LOST BOY Pittsburg, Detective Thinks He lo cates Whitla Near Cleveland. CLEVELAND, O.. March 21. The Cleveland Leader says: The Whitla kidnaping case seemed near solution at 12:30 o'clock this morning. Detective Perkins, of Pitteburg, who came to Cleveland at midnight, it is un derstood, said definite information was that the boy was uear Cleveland. Chief Kohler said at 1 o'clock that de velopments were expected at any mo ment. The Leader telephoned for Mr. Whitla at 9haron, father of the boy, at 1:45. Mr. Schilling answered the call. He would not say whether Mr. Whitla had made arrangements to go to the place at which it was expected "Billie" would be found. CLEWS ALSO POINT EASTWARD Missing Boy Thought to Be at Buf falo by Some. SHARON, Pa., March 20. With his eyes filled with tears, and showing every indication of the terrible strain ' that he has been under, but not yet devoid of .hope, James S. Whitla said tonight that there were absolutely no new develop ments in the search for his child, Willie. This statement was made after he, Frank H. Buhl, the lad's millionaire uncle, and Chief of Police Martin Craig had held a conference at the Whitla home. " What was discussed there was not given out, but information from a close friend of the family was to the effect that new developments were expected shortly in the neighborhood of Buffalo, and that no let-up would be made in the efforts to secure the child's safe return. That is all that Mr. Whitla wants, and he says he is ready to pay the $10,000 reward and ask no questions if only his boy is brought back. Uncle Leaves Cleveland. Frank H. Buhl, the millionaire uncle of the kidnaped boy, returned late today from Cleveland, whither he went last night to investigate reports that the boy's abductors had been captured in that city. He said that the reports wore untrue. Brought to Cleveland by the statement that the boy had been seen there, Mr. Buhl upon arrival was taken in an automobile, accompanied by police offi cers, to various addresses furnished the detectives by a man giving the name of Harry Ball. Disappointment was . the only immediate result, for after three (Concluded on pare 4.) BY A FEW STROKES OF New State Chairman Will Be Named and Beverldge Will Dictate Appointments. INDIANAPOLIS. March 20. (Special.) The announcement is made by friends of Charles W. Fairbanks that he has re tired completely from politics for the present, and that after an extended tour of Europe he will settle down to the practice of law. On the heels of this announcement comes the report that a new chairman of the Republican State Central Committee is to be chosen in the near future to succeed James P. Goodrich, who for eight years has been recognized as Mr. Fairbanks' manager in Indiana, and out of it, too, when there was need of his services. It Is known that President Taft will make a number of changes In the per sonnel of Federal officers in this state, and that these changes will be made on the recommendation of Senator Bever- ldge. With changes in the State Central Committee and a complete change of the Federal officers. It would seem that Mr. Beveridge is to be the supreme power in the state organization, a posi tion that Mr. Fairbanks held for more than 15 years. BALLOON UP IN MOUNTAINS Sails Over Sierras and May Have Trouble Descending. PASADENA. Cal., March 20. The big balloon America, piloted by Captain A. A. Mueller and having as passengers R. C. Halsted. L. C. Gillian, Sidney Gray, Har old A. Parker and J. Dobbins, business men of Pasadena, went bp at Tournament Park at 3 o'clock this afternoon and was seen an hour later passing over Sierra Camp, high in the mountains above Pasadena. The balloon took a northerly course when it first went up and was sent to a very high altitude. Later it was seen to drop and then it disappeared in the clouds: It is feared that the aeronauts were compelled to descend in the mountains and that they will have a hard time get ting out. No word of the balloon or its passengers has reached here up to mid night. CZARINA NERVOUS WRECK Czar Expresses Anxiety Has NoH Recovered From Yacht Wreck. BERLIN. March 20. The Kreutzer Zeitung states on the authority of a distinguished personage, who was re cently received in audience by Emperor Nicholas, of Russia, that the Emperor expressed considerable apprehension regarding the condition of the Empress. Her majesty has been unable to re ceive visitors, the Emperor having asked her to follow the advice of her physicians in this regard. In explanation of the Empress' con dition, the Emperor said that since the accident to the imperial yacht in Finnish waters her majesty had suf fered greatly from nervousness and had been unable to regain her normal composure. BABE MADE MILLIONAIRE Dr.- Lawrence Bequeaths Estate to Three-Months-Old Girl. ST. LOUIS, March 20 Josephine Law rence Bennett Hopkins, the 3-months-old granddaughter of Dr. J. J. Lawrence, a former resident of St. Louis, is willed the Lawrence homestead In Nash County North Carolina, and with her possible future sisters and brothers is made sole residuary legatee of the Lawrence es tate. The eBtate is worth $1,000,000 or more. NELSON -FINDS DOUBLES Two Men Swindle Hotels, Banks and Theaters in His Name. CHICAGO, March 20. Battling Nel son, the lightweight champion, com plained to the police tonight that two mn had been using his name in New Mexico and . Texas in swindling hotel keepers, banks and theaters. HIS HUMOROUS PEN Throw Minister Over to Quiet Strikers. MANY ABUSES ARE EXPOSED avoritism in Telegraph Serv ice Due to Politics. 00D SUPPLY AFFECTED Paris Can't Get It. Because Imposo Bible to Send Payments Social- j lsts Hall Strike as Harbin- -ger of Emancipation. PARIS. March 20. The government is sued a reassuring statement tonleht eon.. cerning the strike, in which the situation was said to be notably Improved, many, of the strikers, especially the telephone) girls, having returned to work. Th strike leaders, on the other hand, wera loudly proclaiming war to the hnt nA there are disquieting rumors of railroad and other co-operative strikes. May Make, Slmyan Jonah. The belief prevails that there will b important developments over Sunday; through the elimination of M. Bimyan, L nder Secretary of Posts and. Telegraphs, whose presence has been tha chief ob- stacle to a settlement. It is openly Inti mated that the government, having se cured the indorsement of th nhmhr Deputies, is not anxious, longer to ahoul- uci- mx. onnyan a unpopularity. Disclosures in connection with ti, strike indicate that the abuses and fa vorltism charged have been largely dua j me xact that politics have had much to do with the administration of the post ana. xeiegrapn service. Expect Break This Week. At a late hour tonight the situation was practically stationary, hut th... was a growing impression that the first of the week would see the return of many of the older employes in response to the -circulation of a seml-offloiui in timation that M. Simyan would resign ana mat tne government would under take a serious consideration of h. grievances ot the men. By the return oi tne older employes it Is hoped to Dreatt the backbone of the strike. Some evidence of the growinar Ht- lessness is found In the fact that prac tically no strikers responded to a pall for two big meetings this evening. Nevertheless, the strike committee still maintained that the movement was strong throughout the country and had even made notable progress in the val ley of the Rhone. The organization for the protection of the rights of trades unionism has called meetings of every branch of industry and commerce, when it will be nrmmuH tn. join them unless the government finds a quick solution. The organization voted, J1000 to aid the cause. Another serious indication is a small contribution from the Paris police. Famine Threatens Capital. ' The lack of food In the capital, an out come of the impossibility of .forwarding payments, is making itself felt today, and provision dealers declare that If there is no improvement the city in a few days ' probably will be confronted with faminer conditions. The lose to business in Pari a alone is variously estimated at fro mi $600,000 to $1,200,000. Only a few wires to day connect Paris with Europe and the) outside world. The government has formally noti fied the strikers that 48 hours of grace will be allowed them to return t ' work, after which their dismissal will btt irrevocable. No attempt yet has been, made to re store the money order and the registered mail service in Paris. The paralysis o - - (Concluded on Pa if e 4.) IS t