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4 VOL. XLV.- NO. 14,086. POBTULNT, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUAUX 30, 1906. PRICE FIVE GENTS. E 1 SACRIFICE LIS Valencia Manned by an - incompetent Crew, LIFEBELTS SINK WHEN WET Discipline Is Lost When Strug gle for Boats Begins. LIFE-SAVERS SHIRK DUTY Steamer Queen Ignores Slum's for Help and Tuts to Sea .Tugs Sal vor and Czar Do Not Attempt Rescue. SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 29. .(Special.) Newspaper comment and the criticisms of the rescued passengers and members of the crew from the wrecked Pacific Coast steamship Valencia agree that there was rtoss negligence in connection with the disaster and attempted rescue. It is con ceded that Captain Johnson, running in a thick fog by dead reckoning, in the treach erous Japanese current that all navigators know upsets every calculation at times, mistook his position. He thought he was oft Umatilla Reef when he struck on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Passengers and crew disagree about Johnson's actions thereafter, but they all agree he carried a revolver. Some say he threatened immediately to commit suicide, others that he used the gun to try to bring back a semblance of order. But there is no difference of opinion in the statement that Johnson sent off at least two life boats shortly after midnight In a sea that dashed them to pieces. It may be that an excited passenger cut the falls and spilled the first boat, but both passengers and crew declare that. had Johnson waited until daybreak, the boats might have been landed safely, or at least a high percentage of saved lives " froplerly manned; that thcrew lLselfwas 1 not drilled; that the life preservers were filled with rushes instead of cork; that the Pacific Coast boat Queen Ignored cries for help and put off to sea; that the tugs Salvor and Czar did not attempt a res cue; that the passengers and members of the crew who reached shore made no effort to take lifelines these are all well substantiated charges. Manned ljy Inexperienced Men. It is conceded now along the water front that the Pacific Coast steamers are manned by longshoremen without experi ence at sea; that drills in handling the "boats are rare. It is recalled without con tradiction that Johnson was not an old man on the San Francisco run. and it is not disputed that, had the company been less stringent in demanding quick runs, the master might have felt safe in lying off the Straits until daybreak be fore attempting to come in. Sensational charges of lack of discipline aboard the Valencia and of poor lifesaving equipment have been made by Professor Frank F. Bunker, one of the survivors of the wrecked steamer, who lost his wife and two children In the terrible disaster off Cape Beale. The charges include the statement that there was no discipline aboard the Valencia among the officers and crew; that the lifeboats were not properly equipped,' and that the life pre servers were made of rushes which would not float, and not of cork. "Professor Bunker charges directly that Captain Johnson was negligent tn the manner or handling his boat: that boats loaded with passengers were aent Into the water without proper crews: that no discipline prevailed: that the wooden pins of the oarlocks would not fit; that rush instead of cork life-preservers were used: that the relief crew sent off by the Valencia made no attempt to send relief and that the Pacific Coast Company re lief boats made no attempt to rescue pas sengers and members of the crew, float ing In the water. Life Belts Sink Iilke Stones. Pacific Coast officials criticised Profcs sor Bunker's statements, particularly In sisting that the life-preservers were of Government standard. Today Professor Bunker telegraphed this answer: iteea me ueits, sucn as were in use on the Valencia, are buoyant for a short time only. The rushes absorb water and they sink. The day after the wreck threw life belts Into the water and they sank. Captains of several vesselB' whom I have Interviewed agree that such belts arc of no value. "Some of the Valencia belts were filled with pulverized cork from the stoppers of whisky bottles. This Is worse than rushes. 'Captains of vessels I have seen say that the only valuable belts are made of sheets of cork. "One of the crew rescued says that the crew of the City of Puebla, with the exception of the captain and first officer. .was. .transferred to the Valencia for this trip;, that they had no drIHs,of any kind statle-n." tanas uuara uvcr inc vcaa. Again, Professor Bunker alleges, bc cmW'C neither the Dominion , government the Pacific Coast Company provided the victims of the wreck, washed were despoiled by native. He tlf ?tood on guard three days to it the dead. MT fMkfik Rlchlcy, chief fireman, subetaa '.NM magL of the charges Hia.de by T. T, i ' Bunker, and says of condition that pre vailed aboard the Valencia whoti the boat struck the rocks: "Everybody rushed for the boats. I took my osItIon at lifeboat No, 2, and the men began to crowd In. I shouted and yelled to them to make wayfor the women and children.' A few of the men left the boat and some women went in. The boat contained 13 people. She lowered safely and was hurled out of sight. 1 found out afterwards that only seven of them reached shore. All the women were losL "There were no officers stationed at any of the lifeboats, and as far as I could'seo there were no officers or any of the crew put aboard any of the lifeboats to take charge. I repeatedly yelled for Mate Holmes to take charge of the launching of the; lifeboats, but he never responded. I never saw lilm from the time the Va lencia foundered." Get Ashore and Hun Away. "Why did everybody run away from us?" is the plaintive query of C Allison, of St. Paul. "The two parties that reached shore walked away without at tempting to reach us." Boatswain McCarthy charges the mem bers of the crew, many of them unfamil iar with boat drills, refused to volunteer to go off in the lifeboats. Captain Cousins, whom survivors of the wreck saw stand off and watch the Va lencia, then steam away, has charged the tug Czar with cowardice in failing to go in closer to rescue the drowning. MarinOsi on the Queen. Cousins boat, allege nc made no effort to send off small boats and from the rescued crew of the Valencia comes the charge that the Queen could have gotten within 200 feet of the doomed vessel, but did not make the attempt. S. Hancock, a members of the Valencia's" crew, says if the Queen had held her original position, instead of moving farther out. she could have saved many. Cruised Over Spot Where Vessel Sank A day too late to do any good the tug Liorne cruised over the spot where the Valencia sank. By that time the vessel had sunk with all on board. The pre vious day the tugs Czar and Salvor had not dared go in so close, the Pacific Coast stoamcr Queen had turned from the sinking boat and the Topeka had failed the passengers and crew. F. J. Campbell, a passenger, swore thb afternoon before an examining board that the lifeboats were not properly manned. Second Officer Patterson swore small boats from rescue steamers could have reached the doomed Valenclaand that if Captain Johnson had not sent off his own lifeboats until Tuesday or Wednesday their passengers could have been saved. All the men saved allege the women would not go off in the boats, but pas senger Campbell swears the men fought for their places. Caustic Comment onInvcstlgatlon. The newspaper comment on the wreck is very severe. In a sensational resume of the Valencia wreck the Star tonight says: Victor H. Metcal Secretary of the De partment of Commerce and Labor In Prwddent Roosevelt's Cabinet, owes his appointment to Senator George C Perkins, of California. Senator Perkins Is closely associated with the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, own er of the wrecked steamer Valencia. Senator Samuel H. Piles, one of the men at "Washington with whom Mr. Metcalf should keep on the most friendly term. Is the Se attle attorney for the Pacific Steamship Com pany. ' B. B. Whitney. Inspector of Hulls, and Robert A. Turner. Inspector of Boiler, are the appointees of Victor Metcalf. Messrs. Whitney and Turner are now hold- Inc an Investigation Into the .cause of the disaster to the Valencia, with the view of ascertaining If any blame can be attached to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company or Its employe for the wreck of the vessel and the great loss of life. Docs it not look to you, Mr. It cad or. as though there might be some Inclination on the part of Inspectors Whitney and Turner to give the Pacific Coast Company a MtUe the best of it? Crime Kests Upon Three. The News sums' up the oharge that proper precautions were not taken to save life by saying: The wreck of the Valencia last week, with the lows of over 100 lives, is a crime for which the Governments of the United States and Canada and the Pacific Coast Company are to blame. That It need never have happened Is the unanimous opinion of the general public after it has had the greater part of a week to consider the details as they came out. It Is a long time now since the feasibility of wireless telegraphy ha been demonstrated. Cape Flattery and Cape Beale should be equipped with wireless stations, and every ocean-going vessel "of the Pacific Coast Com pany or any other company that handles pas scngers should have apparatus and an oper ator on board. One hears It so often on the street that there must be some truth In the statement that the Pacific Coast Company gives Its of ficers to understand that the greatest sin they can possibly commit Is to bring one of their ships Into port behind time. The Post-Inttlllgenccr demands: The circumstances surrounding the wreck of (Concludcd on Page 4.) CHUM OF A LICK KOOSEVKL.T IX VITKD TO HER WEDD1XG. M!m Annie MeC&uley. Miss McCauley Is tho daughter or Colonel McCaulcy, U. S. A. She has been an intimate friend of Miss Roose velt since childhood, and will tx one of the young women who will stand In a group near the President's daugh ter at the wedding. Miss McCaulcy will be a bride during the Easter sea son, when she will wed O'Donncl Lee, of SaHtaMTC GAR OF DYNHIIE UM IN Does Not Explode in Rear-End Collision on Southern Pa cific at Grant's Pass. FIREMAN BARGER KILLED Drauiicatl Breaks and Freight Train Making Siding Is Hun Into by a Passenger Train From the South. GRANTS PASS. Or.. Jan. 23. (SpccIaL) Fireman J. G. Bargcr was killed. En gineer J. W-. Crocker had his anklo bad ly crushed and the passengers were bad ly shaken up In a rear-end collision at the yard limits cast of here this evening. -V car of dynamite was smashed and thrown into the ditch, which, if it had exploded, would have killed the 3M passengers and demolished Grant's Pass. Freight train No. 22. In charge or Con ductor Goldcns, was coming Into Grant's Pass just ahead of the passenger train. No. 16. In charge of Conductor E. Tynan. The freight was a heavy train, had two engines and was pulling In on the siding. when a drawhead pulled out and left the roar half of the train standing on the main track. The passenger train, an extra heavy one with twocngines, was coming at the usual speed behind. The distance was so short and with a down grade and slip pery track that It could not be stopped, and it crashed Into the freight train. Engine Thown From Track. The forward engine of the passenser train was thrown from the track, turned around and badly dismantled. En gineer J. W. Crocker was thrown from the cab and had his ankle crushed. Fire man J. G. Bargcr was caught under the wreck. He was horribly cut and many bones were, broken, and he died Just as the other trainmen got him out of the wreck. The second engine stayed on the track and was little injured. Engineer Frank, Kinney and FIremaniB. F. Ryan escaped' unhurt. The f ojgcvAhzU.iQZ tender ahead. Mail Clerks is. A, Am brose and Ernest Gordon were thrown to the floor of the car, but were not hurL The coaches stayed on the track and the passengers were not hurt other than being shaken up. Caboose Torn, to Fragments. The caboose of the freight train was ground to kindling and a car of dynamite forward of it was thrown on Its side and Into the ditch. It was a miracle that it did not explode. Had it done so. not a person on the train would have been left alive. Engineer Crocker was taken to the Grant's Pass Hospital and Southern Pa cific Surgeons Loughrldge and Findley set his broken leg. The body of the dead CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 48 deg.: minimum, 34, Precipitation. 0.34 of as inch. TODAY'S Cloudy, with occasional light rain. Easterly winds. Foreign. King Christian of Denmark dies suddenly. Page 2. Servla will soon dethrone Peter. Page 9. Mutineers In control of Vladivostok. Page 9. National. Heyburn attacks President's forestry policy. Page 1. Tillman calls for investigation of causes of Chinese boycott. Page I. House orders Inquiry Into Pennsylvania Rail road combination. Page 3. Governor Magoon defends canal manage ment. Page 3. Packers attorney testifies on claim to im munity, page 4. Domestic General Wheeler burled with military honors. Page 9. McReynolds. bankrupt elevator man, can't explain where wheat is gone. Page 3. Jerome prepares to prosecute Mann and cause Deuel's removal. Page 3. Two livestock associations will consolidate. Page 3. Ryans. the turfman. Joins Consldlne in thea ter business. Page 7. Standard Oil prepares to leave Illinois. Page 1. Sport. Frenchman runs auto two miles In less than a minute. Page V. Pacific Coait. Lives of passengers on Valencia - sacrificed to greed and fear. Page 1. Men on the Valencia shoved women aside In mad rush for lifeboats. Page 1. German steamer Mariechen, disabled off Cape Flattery, goes ashore In Alaska Bay. Page 3. North-bound passenger on Southern Pacific bumps Into rear of freight train at Grant's Pass. Page 1. Tramp finds broken rail near Aurora. Or.. and saves lives of .passengers. Page 5. Oriental limited andpassenger train tn col lision In Montana. Page I. Commercial and Marine Strong position of canned goods market. Page 12. Recovery In wheat at Chicago. Page 13. San Francisco egg market booming. Page 13. Sharp breaks in New York stock market. Page 13. " Protests are filed against ferry dolphins at foot of Randolph street. Page 12. Oriental liner departs with cargo valued at $300,000. Page IS Italian ship makes quick passage from San Francisco to Portiana. Jage ir. Fog on river delays San Francisco steamers. Page 12. rerUaad ad Vicinity. Indictment against ex-City Engineer Elliott Is dlsrnlsred. Page S. O. R. & N. and Southern Pacific locomotives will all use oil for fuel. Page S. Tom Richardson describes trip of Oregonlaas to California. Page 12. Record of a day's proceedings in the Mu nicipal Court. Pag 7. Two methods by which the gas graft aaay be stopped. Page 14. .Labor eM!tt hwy frajaitsg a trty I l&tfrau rage S TEH fireman was prepared for shipment to his home In Roscburg. where all the train crew reside. Fireman Barger was a young man and leaves a wife and two children. A wrecking' train was brought from Iloseburg and one also from Ashland. A track will be built around the wreck, and it Is expected the train will leave for Portland by 4 o'clock in the morning. Freight Wreck Ncar Hornbrook. i ASHLAND, Or.. Jan. 23. The south bound freight train. No". 22U leaving Ash land at 8:3) Sunday morning, left the track near Honujrook. and the Overland passenger train was delayed 11 hours by the wreck. Eight cars arc In the ditch. No one was killed or injured. A wash out Is said to have, been responsible. ORIENTAL LIMITED "WRECKED Meets Another Great Northern Pas senger Train Head-On. SPOKANEl Wash.. Jan. 30. The Great Northern Oriental Limited, No. 1. west bound, and passenger train No. 2. cast bound, collided head-on, one mile west of Columbia Falls. Monk. about.l0:C0 o'clock last night, A fireman on each train was killed and Conductor Qulnn was badly Injured. A great many others were In jured, but up to the present time (2 A. M.) no details arc obtainable, owing to the wires being down." GREAT FALLS. Mont., Jan. 30. Super intendent O'Neill, of the Kallspclt divi sion, has gone to the scene of the wreck from Whltcflsh with, a wrecking. "outfit and physicians. It is stated that No. 1 had orders to take the sidjng at Colum bia Falls adran by.' Ipfs believed that passengers on No. 2- were cither killed or injured, but nothing- has been learned concerning the results to passengers on No. 1. One report states that fire has broken out, but this Is not an official report. Up to 2:00 this morning: It Is known that at least four lives were lost and many more may have been killed or Injured. Both locomotives' were turned completely over and piled up together many feet from the rails. fcCC STANDARD PREPARES FOR SUIT BY EX-EMPLOYE. Division of Territory Among Com panies Will Be Attacked by Ma son, Who AVas Discharged. Company, of Kentucky, according to the Chicago Tribune, has made preparations to withdraw from Illinois after January 31. Mr. Maxon was for 20 years an em ploye of the Standard .Oil Company, but was discharged recently. In the suit that he has in preparation the Standard OH Company will be charged with parceling out the state among- the Standard OH Company, of Kentucky, and the Standard Oil Company, of Indiana, and two other companies In the western part of the state, which are supposed to be Independent, but which. It I9 alleged, are subordinate to the Standard OH Company. Auditors from New York are now checking- up the accounts In the territory of the Standard Oil Company, of Ken tucky, preparatory to Its withdrawal from Illinois February 1. ROCKEFELLER IS IX IHDIXG Richest - Man in America Dodging Server o'f Summons. NEW YORK, Jan. 29. A report, was current last night that John D. Rocke feller had sailed for Europe on January 25 to sec his daughter. Mrs. Charles A. Strong, who la 111 at Cannes. France. H. H. Rogers, however, said that he had heard from Mr. Rockefeller within the last week and that he felt quite sure he was still In this country. At Mr. Rocke feller's home here It was said he was in the South. Dispatches from Cleveland recently have said that Attorney-General Hadley. of Missouri, desired Mr. Rocke feller's testimony in the oil Inquiry, but had been as yet unable to get Into com rounlcatlon with him. CLEVELAND. Jan. 29. John D. Rocke feller has not been here since September. Inquirers are unable to learn his where abouts. George Rudd. Mr. Rockefeller's brother-in-law, received a letter from him recently, and says he docs not believe Mr. Rockefeller is in Europe. Apparently Mr. Rudd does not -desire to say where Mr. Rockefeller now is. ANOTHER GIRL STABBED Mysterious St. Louis Criminal Xovr Numbers Seventeen, Assaults. ST. LX)UIS. Jan. 29. While entering the Rcdemptorist High School today, Gcrtha Rude, a 13-year-old school girl, was stabbed In the. hip by an unknown man. The knife cut through her clothing-, but did not penetrate the flesh. This makes the 17th girl mysteriously stabbed within the past two weeks. None has been seriously Injured. The girl's description of today's stabber tallies with that furnished by the others who were stabbed. EIGHTY -FIVE - CENT GAS. Chicago Gas Companies Offer Com promise to Council. CHICAGO. Jan. 29. ISghty-flvc cent gas is provided for by an ordinance submitted to the City Council tonight and accepted by the local gas companies. Action upon the ordinance was deferred Indefinitely, the Council authorizing the printing; In pamphlet form of copies of the measure for distribution among the aldermen and those Interested "Jn it. Geologist for Each State. "WASHINGTON, JaR.- 29. The House committee aa mines and raining: today decided te make a favorable report oh the Martix bill te appoint- a greolgi3t im each JKate-te report oa the mjar&I wealtktaa miliar' Interests tlilCiS5, -,WAUleipaUri; the !mlcr suit in preparation by May wood Maxorr, of -Decatur, Illy thu' 8laiilai'l3WI BURN OPENS TIRE ON FORESTS Idaho Senator at Last Deliv ers Himself of the Harangue. SAYS PRESS ATTACKS HIM Idaho Senator Wants Congress to Control Forest Service, and Ac cuses Pinchot of Organizing Press Against Him. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Jan. 23. In a three-hour speech today Senator Heyburn assailed President Roosevelt's "forest reserve policy and the men cngago'dia putting that policy Into effect. He protested against further ex tension of forest reserves in his state and strongly urged the passage ot his bill giving, to Congress the sole power to crc- Sraator VT. B. Heybara of Idah. ate forest reserves. At the outset It looked as IC Heyburn would make a. tejnperatc. orderly speech, but he "was frequently In terrupted by Senators "who support the .President's policy and he -soon" became ruffled, at tlmesalmost. losing .control of his words and his temper. In" his objection' to forest reserves and their administration, Heyburn went over the same ground as he covered in his now famous letters, which were published last Fall and which were completely answered by the President and. Forester Pinchot. But Heyburn elaborated on his old objec tions, and. in order to make his objee tlons seem the more impressive, he ff und cd them on the rules governing forest reserves which he himself admitted were obsolete and no longer in force. Milk In the Cocoa nut. The milk In the cocoanut showed up when Heyburn urged the prompt passage of his .bill denying the President's right to create more forest reserves and de volving that power exclusively on Con grass. Notice has been served on Hey burn that "on or about February 7 the President will create the Shoshone forest reserve, toward which Heyburn has been especially hostile, as It lies against his home town of Wallace. He admitted. when prodded by Bailey and others, that his protests to the President and Pinchot had been of no avail, and acknowledged that the only way he can prevent the cre ation of reserves Is by act of Congress. From the little encouragement he re eelved today, he must be prepared to see the creation not only of the Shoshone re serve but various others soon to follow. aggregating In area nearly 6,000.00) acres Roasts Press Bureau. Heyburn was very severe in censuring the Forest Service for maintaining- press bureau, which he charged had been working In season and out to secure the publication in papers all over the country of matter ridiculing and injuring him. He declared this bureau had Inspired dis patches to The Oregonlan. one of which he quoted at length, declaring It to be a "silly statement, a tissue of falsehoods and misstatements." Bailey reminded Heyburn that this was a very grave charge to make against any Government bureau, and asked If he had followed It up to'secure the discbarge of the men who were treating hltn unfairly. "When Heyburn admitted he had not and did not Intend to. Bailey in effect asked why. he was making so much fuss In the Senate when he did not Intend to do any thlng about it. Heyburn took this as an excuse to cunningly declare that he had confidence In the President, that the Prcs ident would do the right thing and that no one could justly make It appear that any but the most friendly relations ex isted between himself and the President yet every time he censured tho Forest Service he censured the President, who Is in hearty accord with Mr. Pinchot and his policies. .Angry With Gooding. At no time in his speech did Heyburn show more venom than in thrusting- a Governor Gooding. Mr. Gooding; stood with Heyburn In opposition to reserves until last Fall, when he suddenly deserted Heyburn and entered Into an alliance with Mr. Pinchot and secured from Mr. Pinchot the assurance that the Govern ment would make an exchange of Gov ernment land. for. state school land which might be included In the. reserves. - Hey burn sneered at this deal, declaring that there was no - authority of law ua4er whlch'iuck a. traanetie coI4 be made. m as. Mr. Gooding was not. authorized to trade off statc land. and Mr. Pinchot had no authority to trade off . public land. Heyburn showed keenly, his resentment of Mr.- Gooding's desertion. . Ills Bill Sure to-Fall. The speech, which may be supplemented at some near day, served to bring out the friends' and opponents of the President's forestry policy. Nelson. Smoot and Bcv .cridge frequently came to the defense ot thtf Forest Service and the administra tion of forest reserves,.- while Fulton. Clark of .Wyoming and Teller, by inter jected remarks, showed that they disap proved of .forest reserves as they are being- maintained. But enough was said on both sides, to show the utter futility of attempting to pass Heyburn's bill taking away from the President the right to cre ate forest reserves. It cannot be done. CHINESE AND FOREST LAWS Senate Hears Tillman and Heyburn on Two Diverse Topics. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-By Associat ed Press.) The Chinese boycott and the administration of the forest re serves divided the attention of the Sen ate today. The Chinese question came up In connection with a resolution of Till man, directing an Investigation by the committee on immigration. Tillman mod ified the -resolution by omitting the major portion of the preamble, and, after con siderable discussion, it was referred to the committee on contingent expenses. Heyburn raised the question regarding the reservation of forests. He sharply criticised the methods ot the Forestry Bu reau and charged It with maintaining a press bureau for the purpose of attacking him. He'dccllned. however, to hold the President responsible for this course. He said that the course was calculated to re tard the development of the West. Dubois took a contrary view, defending the policy pursued and contending that It was In the Interest of the arid region. The House statehood bill was reported favorably by Beverldge. chairman of the committee on territories, by which the bill had been under consideration for" three days. Patterson gave notice that there would be a minority report. Cause of Chinese Boycott. The resolution of Tillman asking the committee on Immigration to Investigate the facts of the Chinese boycott of Amer ican goods was laid before the Senate Tile preamble, which alleged that "Wu Ting- Fang, ex-Chinese iintster to the United States, had been a leader In the movement, was objected to by Teller. Lodge and "Warren. The" latter Senator said Wu Ting Fang had explicitly denied the charge in conversation with the Sen ator when he was in China last Summer. Tllfman read from the President's mes sage on the harshness of the exclusion laws ifcbeMJRSjgoggrbttr for .the reso lution. Din tnougnt an investigation wuuiu not show that the exclusion laws had been too rigidly enforced. He said the boycott was confined almost wholly to the Canton district, which the Taft party, of which he was a member, was warned not to visit. A few of the party learned, he said, that the Japanese were back of the boycott. for the reason that, when American trad ers leave, the Japanese take their, place. ll the guilds In the Cantonese district. said Dubois, are back of the boycott be cause of the effort to keep coolies out of the United States. The coolies now here are from that district, he said. Both Dubois and Teller declared that the students and merchants were not back of the boycott, and that It originated with persons Interested In getting coolie labor Into this country. Dubois referred to the South and the demand for Chinamen to supplant negro labor, which remark provoited disclaim era from Clay and Tillman. The latter said the South had conditions bad enough now. without further mixing them up. Tillman struck out all the portions of the preamble to which objection had been made, thus modifying It so as merely to order an investigation. The resolution was then referred to tne committee on contingent expenses. Heyburn on Forest Service. Heyburn then addressed the Senate In support of his bill to compensate states for school lands taken possession of by the National Government for forest pur poses. He said that Congress had sur rendered Its Constitutional right to con trol the public lands within the forest reservations and that the administration of the reservations is of such a character as to force the conviction that the time has arrived for Congress to resume Its guardianship. Heyburn said the forest reserves In Idaho cover more than 23.C00 square miles (Concluded on page 3.) DAUGHTER OF MARSHALL FIELD RECEIVES BEQUESTS OF se.ooe.eeo. Mrs. David Beatty. Mr. David Beatty. only daughter of the late Marshall Field., ot Chl caso. by his will receives S6,0Od.OOe in three eests. Mrs. Beatty is how In Malta. - mHmW ?imV& missssssssH S OUT OF THE I Men Crowd Lifeboats of the Valencia. HO OFFICERS WERE PRESENT Delay Until Morning Would Have Saved Many Lives. SALVOR AFRAID OF BIG SEA Muster Knew Where Valencia Iay "Wrecked, but Would Xot Iieave Slieltcr In Barafleld Creek to Brave Danger. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 23. (Special.) "One of the passengers cut the ropes in the falls and allowed the boat to drop Into the water. "There were no officers present to pre vent the overcrowding- of the lifeboats. "No member of the ship's crew went off in the first boat, save one fireman, who could not speak English. 'There was nothing said about giving way to the women until my wife had just been placed In the boat, and then Officer RIchley dragged one of the men out of the boat. "The male passengers were badly ex cited; threw, crowded and pushed tho women aside and clambered into the life boats and upon the llferafts. If I had been carrying- a gun I would have stopped the men from, crowding their way into the boats at the outset." Wife Drowned Before His Eyes. These are some ot the sensational state ments made by F. J. Campbell, one ot the passengers aboard the Valencia who was rescued. He saw his wife sent off In one of the lifeboats and drowned before his eyes. In the Inquiry being conduct ed before the United States Inspectors. Campbell swore this afternoon that there was a lack of discipline and that the boats were not properly manned. According to the story told by Camp bell, one of the male passengers had to be dragged out of a lifeboat to make room for Mrs. Campbell. "When this man was compelled to give way the first considera tion was shown to the female passengers. Campbell verifies the statements of Frank F. Bunker, assistant superintend ent of the Seattle public schools, who de clares the life-preservers were Improp erly made. He says when he landed on shore he was too weak, to take the life- preserver he wore from about his body. Campbell alleges It was soaked with water and seemed to weigh 50 pounds. Ijlfe-Preservcrs Were Inspected. Thoueh not shown in today's evidence. General Manager W. E. Pearce, ot the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, today received verification from San Francisco of the claim that the preservers were in spected January 3 and 4. They bear such a stamp, and the records of the San Francisco office show the Federal in spectors were satisfied with the equip ment at that date. Today's hearing before the inspectors developed a great deal of sensational testimony, many errors of judgment be ing charged. In his testimony Boatswain T. J. McCarthy swore: "Had the small boats left the Valencia the morning after the wreck, instead of hurriedly and on the night it occurred, we could In all probability have saved every life aboard. "We could probably have got all the people away from the ship on the sec ond and big: Uferaft, had there been paddles instead of long oars, had we not been half dead from exposure, and had we carried reasonable loads. Iilves Could Hve Been Saved. "All the lives could have been saved IC anybody on shore could have caught and made fast a line. We had three more shots left with which to get a line ashore. "A properly rigged life-saving surfboat could have gotten safely- through the surf and with little risk effected the saving- ot many lives." Captain Turner questioned the seaman: "You tried to follow the beach back to the ship?" v "Yes, air; but the underbrush was so thlclc that we could not tear ourselves through-." "What did you do then?" "We took the boat- sail, an ax, a little Iron tank and some biscuits and started out. The beach was full of driftwood. We went just a trifle inland and came to a river. I tried to ford It first. It was fuir ot quicksand and I sank down dangerously. We started through the woods looking- for the head of the stream.. "We f6und an old trail, difficult to get through. We had not been five minutes on It before we came to the telephone wires. Just prior to that time we had run across a sign post, which stated that it was-three miles to Cape Beale. That was the first knowledge we had of the whereabouts of the ship." Xews or Wreck Sent by Wire. McCarthy told of how the party, ot which he was the head, followed the wires until Mrs. Patterson wife of the lightkeeper, was seen. As soon, as they approached the house Mrs. Patterson said: "You are a shipwrecked crew- I lv, been trying- to converse with you'" "I te4d her we had net tried to talic t Csaekidftd oa Pace 4.) IM WBUmm