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No. 273. SALEM OREGON, I'll ID AT, Al OUST 23, 1912. VOl. XXII. lw IT POT UP MEY FOR Archbold Tells Senate Commit tee of Standard Oil's Contri bution of $100,000 to 1904 Roosevelt Campaign Fund. BUT HE FORGOT IT IN 1905 In Answer lo (fucstlnn us to Whether Itiioseielt Ever Thanked Him or the Company (or the Contribution, He Replied: "No, He Concluded that Another Course Would He .More I'ouplitr Shortly After His Election." I UNITED IMIICSS I.lOiSED WMH. Washington, Aug. 23. That Theo dore RooBevelt attempted political ex tortion on the Standard Oil company during Iila second administration, be cause the trust fulled to follow up an alleged" $125,000 contribution with second and larger contribution In the campaign of 1904, was the substance of testimony given the senate cam paign contributions committee here to day by John D. Archbod, president of the Standard OH company. Archbold'g denunciation of the former president was extremely bitter, the witness op enly asserting the attacks waged on the Standard Oil company by Roose velt, which he said were unwarranted, -directly resulted in the deaths of Hen . t" H. Rogers and Henry Tllford two of the company's directors. Archbold freely admitted that his company had contributed $125,000 to the republican national campaign in 1904, but .he stamped as a wilful and malicious forgery letters published In certain magazines and newspapers purported to have passed between himself and Senator Boise Penrose, and In which It was intimated that $25,000 waB paid Penrose to secure favorable :Standard Oil legislation. Threatened the Company. Archbold testified that he had every reason to believe that Roosevelt knew and approved of the contribution made by the Standard Oil company In 1904, Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the republican national committee In 1904, Archbold declared, told him that Mr. Roosevelt had been told of the contrl- ROOSEVELT TO BE HERE FOR AN HOUR Arrangements have been completed liy Geo. F. Rodgers and others inter ested In the Roosevelt campaign by which It will be possible to have Mr. Roosevelt make a trip to Salem Sep tember 11. He will arrive by special train from Portland at about 9:30 or 10 o'clock for an hour's stay during which time it la planned to have him n'ake a speech at some convenient point In the city. He will then leave immediately for Portland, where lie will participate In a monster meeting In the metropolis. M AM liEO. r. KOIKiF.KS 10 Itl'X EOK COXGKESS A petition signed by a large number of the Roosevelt progressives of Al bany hag been forwarded to George F. Rodgers of this city, urging him to be come a candidate for representative in congress and pledging him their hearty support. Matters In this connection will as sume more definite shape next Mon day, when a meeting of the Roosevelt progressives of Albany and vicinity has been called for organization ana u is expected that Mr. Rodgers will be present at this meeting. It Is not probable that a third coun ty ticket will be put out In Linn coun ty, as sentiment is against such a move since many of the other candi dates are favorable to the Roosevelt progressives. Schooner Is Wrecked. Marshfteld, Or., Aug. 23. A message received here today from Florence Bays the gasoline schooner Wllhelmlna which was driven ashore on the beach at the entrance of the Siuslaw river will be a total wreck. The Unip- qua live-saving ntatlon rescued crew of the Wllhelniina. button nnd would bo pleased with a second and larger contribution. Arch' bold Bald he regarded HIIss as an en. tlrely reliable and truthful man. Ijiter, Archbold said, when Standard Oil directors refused to further loosen their purse strings, BIIsb again called at his New York office, and advised him that It would be for the good of the Standard Oil company to make, an other larger contribution. Archbold said that $150,000 was the amount suggested, This, he said, was taken up with Standard Oil directors and the request voted down. Then Arch bold alleged that Immediately after Roosevelt's election he started hlB at tacks on the Standard Oil company, Archbold's Jaw Bet hard when he reached that stage of his testimony. "There Is nothing like it," he snap ped, "In the annals of American his tory. Nothing has ever occurred In even darkest Africa to compare with it. We have all the available data concerning these attacks, and some day the inside facts will be given to the world." Perseiutod Company. In an effort to prove his contention that the Standard Oil attacks Inaugu rated by Roosevelt were unjust, Arch bold cited the case of the Vacuum company of Buffalo, a Standard Oil subsidiary. The federal district attorney at Buf falo, he said, notified the department of justice at Washington that there was no merit In the case, and that it was doubtful if a conviction could be secured. Archbold alleged that this word was then flashed back to the government's Buffalo representative: "Damn the merit; go ahead and get a conviction."- Archbold then told the committee how he and Henry H. Rogers, now dead, had paid a visit at the White Hoiibb to Colonel Roosevelt. While Roosevelt, he said, made no direct rtf erence to the 1904 contribution, he was extremely polite and affable. "There has been ome criticism," he alleged Roosevelt told them, "but that Is always to be expected." Before the committee adjourned to moet again at 2:30 o'clock this after noon, Archbold asserted that the $100, 000 contribution alleged to have been made to Bliss or the $25,000 given to Penrose had never been returned. He said no request for Its return so far as he' knew had ever been made by any of the interested parties. When the committee resumed Its In vestigation this afternoon. Senator Penrose was questioned by Chairman Clapp and other members. Penrose testified that he say Arch bold in September, 1904, and told him that money was needed to keep the wheels moving In Pennsylvania. "Archbold said," continued Penrose, that the Standard Oil directors would not contribute unless assured of se crecy, and that It would be received by. Roosevelt and Cortelyou In the proper spirit. Roosevelt's name waB specifically used." COMPANY GIVES BOOST TO SALEM AND VICINITY The Cbapln-Herlow Mortgage and Trust Company of Portland, with tranch offices in this city. In the I'nlted States Bank building, has Just ibsued Its monthly bulletin. It Is prac tically all devoted to Salem and sur rounding country. It contains much valuable Information and represents a great deal of hard work in compiling. It has cuts showing typical Salem scenes. This bulletin Is a novel feature and has been issued by the Chapln-Herlow company for sometime. It Is a very expensive publication to get up and each Issue is devoted to the upbuilding of some section of the country. The company shows great enterprise In is suing a publication Buch as this. I'irks Some Slindy Ones. tOKITSD rRl UUM W1KH J Washington, Aug. 23. President Taft sent to the senate today the nom ination of Major B. Ray V. S- A., to be deputy paymaster general with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Major Ray's career in the army was recently the subject of Investigation by the war department VI It.. THE GOVERNOR TELLS STORY TO THE GRAND JURY AFTER UE LEFT Jl'ltY ROOM, SAID HE WAS DETERMINED TO CLEAN IP PORTLAND, EVEN IF HE H AD TO DECLARE MARTIAL LAW. IINITID PIIESS M1J8PIU WII1I.1 Portland, Or., Aug. 23. Much sig nificance Ib attached to the appearance of Governor West nB a witness before the county grand jury today. While no definite Information could be oh tallied as to the matters on which the governor testified, It was believed his testimony was relative to the Immoral condllons and lawlessness which Gov ernor West declares exist here. After he left the grand jury room Governor West declared he had not changed his attitude as regards his proposed clean up of Portland, which ho declared Beveral days ago he would accomplish, even if It should prove necessary to declare martial law to do It. "I am going to clean up Portland, Bald Governor West today. "I don't knoy how long it will take or whether It will be necessary to employ state troops to do it, but the city is cer tainly going to be cleaned up." Later It was stated Governor West had been before the grand Jury at thac body's request to testify regarding Im moral and lawleBBness conditions In Portland. He arranged for a confer once to he held late tills afternoon at the Mayor's office to be attended by himself, Mayor Rushlight, Chief of Po lice Slover, Sheriff Stevens and Dis trict Attorney Cameron. At this con ference It was stated the moral prob lems confronting Portland would be discussed and remedies considered "This 1b the parting of the ways for the people of Portland," declared the governor this afternoon. "They can fight with me against tho corruption that Infests Portland or they can lino i'P with the grafters the degenerates who live from the earnings of fallen women and the other rotten elements that are disgracing Portland. "Conditions here are deplorable Grand Jury after grand Jury has been 'duuble-croBsed' by officials who hav broken the faith with the people and refused to enforce the law. Now if necessary we will have now officials. If the grand Jury wishes I will ap point a special attorney to proBecute crime here and special officers to en force the law. "This is no grandstand play. I am not a candidate for re-election. But the laws of the stato of Oregon will be enforced In Portland and Multnomah county If It takea state troops to do It." COMMISSION TO EXAMINE INTO LABOR CONDITIONS Washington, Aug. 23. President Taft today signed the bill which pro vides for an Industrial commission to Investigate labor conditions through out the country and to recommend liglHlatlon seeking to establish more amicable relations between, capital and labor. The president also signed today a bill making effective the Alaska fur treaty between the United States and , Great Britain. He Worked the Judge. rniMTBD PRMH TXARSn WIRI.l Moosejaw, Sask., Aug. 23. Louis Praubell, 18 years old, was sentenced to 18 months Imprisonment last night for obtaining $380 from MaglBtrate Dun last October. Praubell, after bank hours one day got the unsus pecting local Judiciary to cash a worthless duplicate draft on the Bank of France. He was captured In Fer nle, B. C by the mounted police a few days ago. I TV 11; A it ' A ' J ' RODERTS GRANTED A REPRIEVE H. B. Roberts, convicted in Portland In July for the murder of Donald Stewart, escaped the noose today for Governor West at 11 o'clock. Just an hour before the time of execution, Is sued a reprieve. The governor gives as his reason the same as is given In all other cases where he has Issued reprieves that the people of the state are going to vote on abolishing capital punishment In November. In the event that they should vote In favor of abolishing it, Roberts and a number of others will escape hanging. It they vote agalnBt it they must all pay the death penalty Roberts Is an ex-convict. When he committed the murder he was endea vorlng to hold up an auto party who were out riding, for the purpose of robbery. He killed Stewart outright and wounded one of the other occu pants of the car. MRS ANKENY TOOK POISON BY MISTAKE Mistaking a bottle of carbolic acid for a tonic which she was In the habit of taking each day, Mrs. Robert An keny today swallowed a portion of It, and while she Is suffering intense pain at the Willamette sanatorium, physi cians at noon today declared that she would recover. The two bottles were standing on a dresser In her bedroom, and this foro noon when she felt In need of her tonic she picked up the carbolic acid bottle. Realizing her mistake at once, she screamed for rsslstance, and wus hurried to the hospital. Mrs. Ankeny has a wide clrcte of friends In the city who will grieve to learn of the accident. Medforil Man Kills Himself. DK1TKD 1'IIF.HS I.KARKI) Wlllfl Medford, Or., Aug. 23. Dr. C. II Dennlston, who came to Medford three years ago from Crookston, Minn., com mitted suicide here today about 11 o'clock. DennlBton, who has been suffering great pain from stomach trouble, pur- j chased a revolver at a locnl gun store and went directly to a hotel, whers he j rented a room. The bellboy who showed DennlBton to his room had scarcely returned to the office before a shot wag heard. Hurrying to the room ho tel employes found Dennlston dead, the man having placed the gun barrel Id his mouth before firing. The bullet came out back of the right ear. Dennlston Is survived, by a widow. I K. j ' Si ! - u ... . i. - V 4f -kiWW LA'.'- SETTLERS WILL GET THE LANDS Settlers cm 4000 aeroB of land In Klamath county will now have clear sailing towards acquiring them as homesteads', for the state land agent wag advised today that the commis sioner of the generul land office had decided agalnBt tho Btate In Kb actloi: to acquire them uudor the swamp land act. The lands were formerly In the Klamath Indian reservation, but by a treaty entered into In 1864 and ap proved in 1870, the Indians ceded them back to the government. The slate then laid claim to them under the swamp land act, Feeling con vlnced that the state could not ac quire them, settlers took up much of the land. As the commissioner now decides against the state, the settlers will likely bo alilo to acquire them as It Is not believed that the Btate will prose cute nn appeal. II INK CLERK SWIPED MORE THAN' 12(1,0(10 Idnitid nm i.mscD wins.) Toronto, Ont Aug. 23. Over $20, 000 Is the amount that Arthur Rich mond, teller of the Kim street branch of tho Hank of Toronto," Is now said to have taken to use for betting on the ruees. This morning the charge of stealing $500 from the bank wus amended to read "did steal $28,087.03 from the Bank of Toronto." The bank officers and the police huve been busy since the arrest of the young clerk and they have come to the conclusion thut tho bank has been robbed of this n uch money. It Is now the Intention of the police to get after the handbook men, who are blamed for the trouble which both young Richmond and Ro land Harris, of the Htundard Dank, are now In. Officer Threaten to Strike. fltNITKI) PHKHS IT.ASKtJ WlllB.l Umdon, Aug. 23. The culminating strike of the series which has crippled British carrying business during the pact two years Is threatened by tb" (.Iflcers of the Mercantile Marine. The movemn'it. began yesterday when the newly former union of shipmasters and mates tried to prevent the Canadl rn Pacific liner Mount Royal from sailing. The chief officer had been dismissed and tho union demanded his lelnsiatement. A substitute was ob tained by the company, however, and tfio vessel left port. The officers are well organized. They are violently discontented and they propose to put forward before the end of the year what they consider their legitimate demands. Failure to meet these on the part of the ship owners will be met with a strike "which may starve the nation." mm- s UNIVERSITY MEN ARE AT WORK Oil THE BIG BRIDGE STRICTURE ACROSS THE WIL LAMETTE HERE TO BE HUSHED TO COMPLETION AS FAST AS MEN AND MONEY CAN DO IT With the gravel gang, the shovel crow and most of the common labor being porformed by students irom Stanford and California universities the plors which will support the new bridge of the Portland, Kugene & Eastern railway here are rapidly emerging from the wuter, and will be ready for the steel structure within' the next few wookB. The bridge Is to be finished as rapidly as possible In ordor to afford Salem business Inter ests direct communication with Dal las and the rich hop and fruit district of the Lucklamute vulloy. All summer have the young men from the California universities been eugnged on the groat 1000-foot struc ture. Brown as berries, and In per fect physical training, they will soon return to their Institutions to resume tholr Btudleg In engineering. T. J. Spellman, Clay Brlggs, E. J. Cullcn, If. 8. Chanman, R, R. Bluse, R. W. Brown, E. P. Campbell, F. K. Fran cheschl and D. J. Rutherford constitute the Stanford crew, Fred Armstrong and William Dunn are representing California, and Howard Durgess Is a student from the Stockton high school. The students came north with the bridge contractors for the purpose of gaining practical experience in tholr profession, and have not hesitated to perform any of the lubor necessnry to be pushed forward. They have ac quitted themselves creditably with surveying Instruments, working on the drawings and plans or when manipu lating the business end of a shovel. The new bridge over tho Willamette will represent an expenditure of $350, 000 when completed. Since the con struction of the Salem, Falls City & Western railroad It has been neces sary for passengers to patronize the local hackmen In reaching the station of that road on the west Bide. The building of the bridge was one of the first pieces of construction undertaken by tho Portland, Kugene & Kastern electric road after It purchased the Salem, Falls City & Western. (,EO. A. WELDON AND FAMILY TO LEAVE SALEM (ieo, A. Weldiiu, who has been con nected with the Hammond Lumber l o. (or some time iuh, has severed hi) enured Inn wit h that firm and will Btarl on a trip this evening to Seattle on buslncHH. He will be gone but a few days, alter which be will go to Kan Diego, California too look for a ne'v location. He expects to make a trip along Ihe coast of California itf entire length studying the condition" there with a view of locating In our ulster state. Mr. Weldon lias shown himself to be u good booster for Salem during Ills stay here and has won an enviable repuluilon for honesty and Integrity. IIIh family will lie greatly missed in social circles. An Immense Avalanche. ruNiTr.ii i iiusk l.Ksnni WII1K 1 Valparaiso, Aug. 23. KIght men were killed and 40 wounded In u ter rific avalanche which b.'irled several gangs of workmen on the Andean rail way today. It will require four months to repair the damage done. , Does Not Know Him, Medford, Or., Aug. 23. Mrs. Wells U)iinsberry, wlfn of a rancher living near Jacksonville, Or., whose name appeared on aa envelope found In the pocket of a train robber at Topeka, Kansas, today disclaims any knowl edge of the Identity ot the robber. IS A Lll SAYS TEi The Colonel Waxeth Hot Over Charges that Archbold and Standard Oil Contributed to His Campaign Fund. ; ARE ALL LYING ABOUT IT. He Says "the Reason I'enrone and 111 Allies are Opposing the Only Man Seriously Endangering the Kule of Corruption, Is Because They Could Not I'se that Mim When Ha Was President' Penrose, the Colonel! Says, "Is a Bad One." Now York, Aug. 23. Regarding the charge by Senator Penrose ot Penn sylvania that an enormous fund hod: been rainod by George W. Porklns to secure for Colonel Roosevelt the reg ular republlcun nomination at Chicago and letters and telegrams Instructing) Chairman Cortolyou In 1904, to rofuse campaign contributions from the Stan dard Oil company, Roosevelt Issued today the following statement: Senator Penrose would do well not to attribute to others the baseness which actuates his own acts. Tha statement that George W. Perkins un derwrote a primary campaign fund for $3,000,000 or any fund remotely re sembling that Bum is a dellbernt falsehood, which he knows to be si falsehood when he makes It. It Is a Lie. "The statement that my letters and' telegram to George D. Cortelyou lo. 004 were written only for the pur pose of gutting them Into the record and that they were not genuine Is at dulberate and wilful falsehood, which. he knows to be such when he makes It- "Until Senator Penrose spoke the othor day I had never hoard Arch bold's name mentioned In connection1 with any contribution. Penrose's attitude in tills matter symbolizes his habltunt attitude, whlcni Continued on paae IlveJ FKEE! FKEE! One suit of clothes bought at our store Saturday will entitle you to the selection of another one of equal value FREE OF CHARGE. This includes any of our SPRING PATTERN SUITS One day each year we hold a 2 for 1 sale, Two suits for the price of one. Bring in your son, brother or friend you can both' get a suit for the price of one, This year it will be better than ever, as our stock includes many of the heavy weights, Regular prices $10 to $30 Saturday, two suits for the one price Remember, you don't have, to take suits alike or of same size; choose what you want, Salem Woolen Mills Store