Jtturtmtj ill tf)mtiminn. VOL. XLVI.-NO. 14,222! PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. r . 1 1 i : 1 7. t ' BIG GIT! THRIVES ITI San Franciscans Get Away From Habit. NO DRINKS FOR THREE MONTHS Vice in All Forms Almost En tirely Eliminated. MEW LICENSE IS HIGHER GreatMRush of Applicants for Per mits, Although the Figures Are Raised From $84 to $500 a Year. RELIEF WORK SITUATION. Complaint department Instituted by three men In charge Is cumbersome and expensive. Sewing circles organised by society women cannot work In harmony with new committee. Policy of committee is to force refugees to stand on their own feet as soon as possible. Barely enough to sustain life Is doled out at soup kitchens. Card system introduced tends un duly to humiliate the needy. People still sleeping without blank ets, while supply depots are piled high. Men In charge of relief work are drawing enormous salaries. Ten thousand in dally bread line, dependent on the cfty for food, cloth ing and shelter. Thirty thousand more are homeless, living In camps, but able to pay for food. BT P. A. SINSHEIMER. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., July 5. (Spe cial Correspondence.) The saloons of San vFrnn:!co were opened today and the pre dicted riot ani1 rascality did not mater ialize. The police had made extensive preparations to handle a large crowd at the temporary jails, but the cases of in ebriety were not' in excess of the average for the past weeks. The only explana tion is that the people have gotten away from the drink habit during the enforced dry spell of three months. For the first few weeks there was con sternation in the ranks of those who re: gardod the bottle as their best friend, but gradually the complaints ceased and no one missed the saloons. It is pretty safe to say. however, that it will not take San Francisco long to fall into its old ways. It has been proved beyond the slightest possibility of doubt that a large city like San Francisco can thrive without the liquor traffic. It was a unique experiment and the result has been worth any trouble which It may have cost. The freedom from crime here has been a source of gratification to the municipal authorities. Vice In all of its manifold forms, was almost entirely eliminated. The writer, who has been about the city more than the average citizen, has not seen over half a dozen Intoxicated per sons on the street since April IS. RtMh for Saloon Licenses. In placing the license at $500 a year the Supervisors were under the impression that they would reduce the number of sa loons to about 1000. but already permits have been granted to 1000 applicants, and as many applications are still pending. Before the fire 3300 saloons operated in the city and paid only $S4 a year each Into the treasury. The new order of things -will help out municipal finances. Reports have been circulated in the Eastern press that a sinister form of vice had been forced upon the friendless women remaining In the city. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Pub lic sentiment has been the strongest pro tection for the women. A large percentage of the new saloons have located on Fillmore street, but scores have preferred to resume at their former locations in the burned district. It ha been an unwritten law of the city to keep saloons from Van Ness avenue, and the Supervisors are inclined to con tinue this practice. The effect of the San Francisco dry spell has been far-reaching. In the smaller cities of the state the liquor li cense has been generally advanced. In Porterville it has gone up to 11000 a quar ter, which is. of course, prohibitive. The one phase of the saloon question which reflects discredit upon the city is the action of two members of the Police Commission. These men are Dr. Joseph F. Pohelm and Alexander L. O'Grady. Before the earthquake Poheim was a practicing physician and O'Grady was an attorney. Since the earthquake, how ever, they have organized a company which deals in glassware and bar sup plies. In addition they are reported to be members of a company organized to sell liquor at wholesale. When it is known that all liquor licenses are granted by the Police Commission. It will be un derstood what sort of a scheme these men have entered Into. Their names appear boldly on the cards of the supply com pany, but the liquor establishment is conducted In the name of a third party, who whispers into the ears of applicants for saloon licenses that It will be to their Interest to purchase their liquor from him. The attention of Mayor. Scomlu has OUTUOUOR been called to this brazen form of graft, but no official action has yet been taken. At the time Poheim and O'Grady were ap pointed on the commission it wa9 under stood that they were union labor sympa thizers, but union labor has repudiated them and asked for their dismissal. Red Tape in Relief Work. The new relief committee has not found Its task the long sweet dream which $6000 salaries might indicate. At the outset It has been found necesary to institute a complaint department and this is the busiest part of the bureau. 'The system devised by the three men in charge is cumbersome and expensive. Moreover, It works with such friction that in operat ing relief workers have been antagonized. The local Red Cross has been counted out and the various sewing cir cles instituted by society women are un able to work in harmony with the new committee. It is getting to the point where there Is too much organization and not enough relief. While no statement has been made as to policy, it is clear that it Is the plan of the committee to force the refugees to stand on their own feet with as little de lay as possible. The same policy is being pursued in the camps at the Presidio which are under military control. At the soup kitchens just enoush food is given each individual to allow him to subsist without feeling the pangs of hunger. When complaint was made to General Greeley he said : "If you don't like it, get out." This method In general is recognized as the one best calculated to hurry nor mal conditions, but when indiscrim inately applied is likely to work great hardship in quarters where the distress is very great. Humiliation of the Needy. Another method to force people from the relief camps has been the introduc tion of the card system by which every person receiving aid of any sort must answer a set of questions, which become a permanent record and tend to humil iate a sensitive person. Even after all these forms have been gone through, there is a mas of red tape to be unraveled before supplies can be distributed. There are still persons in the camps who sleep on the ground without blank ets, while in the supply depots the blank ets are stored in piles towering to the ceiling. The relief committee has intro duced this rigid system to prevent im position, but it has served In many cases to keep aid from the deserving as well. The local Red Cross bureau work ed on the theory that it was better to be imposed on in a few cases than to allow any case of distress to go unre lieved. As these two methods were Incompat ible the break had to come and the local Red Cross has withdrawn from the field, contenting Itself with administering such funds as have been placed In its hands. "Professional" Spirit Developed. The spirit of relief work has become professional, local workers are crowded out and much graft is present. The cost is enormous. It was first estimated at $103,000 per month but has been reduced to $75,000 per month but the people are still dissatisfied. Dr. Devine at the head of the work receives $6000 a year from the people of San Francisco, besides salaries from the Associated Charities in New York and an Eastern University, E. F. Moran, a local relief commissioner is drawing a double salary amounting to $9,000. At the present time there are about 10,000 persons in the bread line. These are the people who have absolutely noth ing and are dependent upon the city for food, clothing and shelter. In addition to these 10,000 there are some 30,000 per sons who are homeless and live in camps. These 30.000 persons are able to pay for their food but are unable to rent houses. In the meantime they form with those of the bread line, an army of 40,000 living under canvas in the city parks and the Presidio. Sanitation Is Expensive. The most important feature is the health of the camps. The sanitation cannot be conducted as is the sanitation of a well ordered city. It must be rigid in the extreme, with inspec tors constantly on the watch. All this costs money. The cost of the disinfectants alone amounts high into the thousands. So far the work of sanitation has set a new mark in the medical history of the world. The fight is by no means over. If the city can emerge from the crisis with a clean bill of health then all the triumphs of these trying days will fade into insignifi cance before this. Nabob Row a Business Street. It Is believed that Van Ness avenue, formerly the home of Jack London's "second generation of nabobs," will be come a business street. The Southern Pacific has purchased a big warehouse and grounds at the foot of Van Ness and indications point to a terminal be ing erected there. San Francisco wants to boom and It is succeeding fairly well, but the labor troubles are seriously Impeding pro gress. The appeal still continues for more men. The United Railroad says It could use 3000 laborers. In nearly all branches this shortage continues. As the primaries approach it is feared that the vote will not demon strate the will of the people. Only 6000 voters arc registered, as against 90,000 before the fire. The Governorship Is at stake and the vote of San Francisco will probably decide it. It Is estimated that 5900 of the 6)00 are followers of Abe Ruef. and that he will dominate Repub lican politics in California. TRAGEDY AT PRESIDIO Refugee AVounds His Wire and Shoots Off Top of His Head. SAN FRANCISCO. July 8. In a domestic quarrel last night. E. V. Lurppy, a refu gee at the Presidio, shot and slightly wounded his wife and took his own life by shooting off the top of his head. Kaiser Wilhelm II Reported. SABLE ISLAND, July S. The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II, from Bremen, South ampton and Cherbourg, for New York, was 70 mile, southeast of Sable Island at 7:1 P M. BLIND FOLKS ARE NOT AN IDLE CLASS Large Percentage in United States Are Engaged in Gainful Occupations. MANY IN THE PROFESSIONS Proportion of Sightless Males Is Much Greater Compared With the Females, According to the United States Census. BLIND AND DEAF IN UNITED STATES. Total blind S5.365 Partially blind 29,398 Total 64.763 Blind men 37.0S4 Blind women 27,709 Totally deaf 37,826 Partially deaf 51,853 Totsl. . : 89,079 WASHINGTON, July 8. About one person in every 1200 was blind and one in every 860 persons was deaf in the United States in 1900, according to a spe cial census report on the blind and deaf bulletin Just issued by the Census Bu reau. The Inquiry was conduoted under the direction of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who determined the scope of the investigation and wrote the text of the report on the deaf. The total number of blind in the United States in 1900 was 64.763, of whom 35,365 were totally blind and 29,398 partially blind. These figures, however, the re port says, cannot be only considered as the minimum, as an unknown proportion of the blind were not located by the enumerators. Of the total blind, 37,054 were males and 2709 females. The blindness is chiefly a defect of adult life, almost 65 per cent of the blind becoming so after 20 years of age. About one-tenth of the total number of blind were born so. The number of blind per 1000 of population was greater among the negroes than among the whites and greater among the foreign born whites than among the native whites. Parents of Blind Were Cousins. In about 5 per cent of the cases of blindness reported, the parents of the blind were cousins. Of the blind whose parents who were so related 25 per cent were congenltally blind, while among the blind whose parents were not cousins the proportion congenitally blind was 6.8 per cent. Of tlhe blind at least 10 per cent were engaged in some gainful occupation. The percentage of persons engaged in profes sional pursuits, trade and transportation and In manufacturing and mechanical industries are larger among the totally blind than among the general population. Deafness, on the whole, the report says, is more common in the Northern part of the United States than in the South ern, and there are more deaf males than females. The total number of deaf in the United States is given as 89,679, of whom 37,526 were totally deaf and 51.863 partially deaf. From the latter classes are eliminated those merely "hard of hearing." The census report of 1890 gave the number of persons deaf as 121,178 and the opinion is expressed that the returns for 1S90 are undoubtedly exces sive while those for 1900 are deficient. Greater Percentage of Male Deaf. Of the totally deaf 52.5 per cent were males. Negroes constitute 11.6 per cent of the general population and only 5.2 per cent of the deaf. That the negroes seem less susceptible to deafness than the whites, the report says, is particular ly due in part to less complete returns from the negro deaf. Of the totally deaf 91 per cent were so from childhood (under 20 years of age) and 36 per cent from birth. Of the 89,679 persons returned as deaX, 55,501 were able to speak well, 9417 Imperfectly and the remainder not at all. The report pre sents figures to show that the schools for the deaf are doing excellent work in teaching articulate speech. When the subject of deafness Is con sidered from the point of view of con sanguinity, it may seem heredity has played an important part In producing congenital deafness and the deafness oc curred in adult life; whereas deafness occurring in early childhood, after birth and under age of 5 is probably to a large extent adventitious. Of those at least 10 years among the deaf 38.5 per cent were gainfully employed as compared with 50.2 per cent among the male popu lation. Of the deaf who were gainfully employed, 89.7 per cent were found in occupations in which perfect or even par tial hearing is not essential. WILL STRIKE AT BIG MEN Action of Government in Interstate Commerce Cases in Rebates. CLEVELAND, Ohio. July 8. Federal officials announced today that G. J. Grammar, traffic manager of the New York Central Lines west of Buffalo, would not be called as a witness before the grand jury which meets tomorrow to ferret out violators of the interstate com merce laws. The announcement that Grammar would not be called was accompanied with the statement that the Government would not be put in a position where any high rail way official could claim immunity from prosecution on the part of the Govern ment because he had been compelled to give testimony before the grand jury. Service was secured today on N. H. Anspach, head of xhe tariff and schedule EVENTS OF COMING WEEK Secretary Wilson at Stockyards. Plans for putting into effect the new Federal meat intsrection law will be discussed in Chicago this week by Secretary Wtlaon, of the Department of Agriculture, and superintendents of inspection from various packing--houses. The Secretary may vlelt other cities to look into the methods to be pur sued In enforcing the new law. Dewey Soon Due at Manila. The steel floating drydock Dewey is due to reach Manila July 12, when she wilt have covered a distance of something like 12,000 miles. The Dewey, which ut destined to dock the largest ships of the American naval force in the Far East, started from Solomon's Island, Mi, December 28 last. Championship Golf Tournament. The National amateur golf cham pionship will be decided on the links at Englewood this week, with H. Chandler Egan, of Chicago, who won the championship two years in suc cession, as one of the contestants. Others who will play are Waiter J. Travis, who was American champion three years; Jerome D. Travers, of Princeton, the Metropolitan champion; D. E. Sawyer, of Chicago; Harold Webr, of Toledo, and A. L. White, of Boston. Canadian Sharpshooters in England. The Blsley rifle tournament will open in England tomorrow, when the Queen's Westminsters will be pitted against a strong Canadian team. The latter includes members from all over Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario, and the great Northwest and even British Columbia is represented. bureau of the Lake Shore Railway. Anspach will be asked to bring tariff sheets running back a number of years. The action of today reveals definitely the plans of the Government officials to strike at some of the biggest and most influen tial railway men In the country. E SMART APPEARANCE PRESENT ED IN SHANGHAI STREETS. Volunteers to the Number of 400 0 Were Trained Within a FeAV Months. SHANGHAI, July 8. An unprecedented and spectacular spectacle was witnessed here today when 4000 Chinese volunteers who have been drilling assiduously for the past few months, paraded through the flag-decked .streets -T the sottLem" The men were oresed in khaki and pre sented a smart appearance. Only the of ficers wore swords. After the parade the soldiers were entertained at the Yamen of the taotai. THAW READS THE PAPERS Then He Attends Services With the Other Prisoners. NEW YORK, July 8. Harry K. Thaw spent a quiet day in the Tombs today. He had no visitors. He arose at 7 o'clock and remained in hie cell reading the Sun day newspapers until 10 o'clock, when he attended the prison services conducted by Chaplain Wade. After services he exer cised with other male prisoners in the Tombs yard. Assistant District Attorney Garvan was at hie office today working on the Thaw case. Shortly before 5 o'clock he was visited by Miss Edna MoClure, an actress playing at present in a Broadway produc tion. She was accompanied by her moth er, and the three were closeted together for nearly an hour. Mr. Garvan refused to discuss what was the subject of the con ference or what information had been obtained. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 82 deg-. ; minimum, 55. TODAY'S Fair with nearly stationary tem perature. Northwest winds. Political. La Follette begins Presidential fight by at tack on Senators who opposed his amend ment to the railroad, rate bill. Page 1. San Francisco. San Francisco saloonkeepers make great rush for licenses raised from $S4 to $500 per annum. Page 1. Forty thousand people are without shelter and 10,000 without food or clothing. Page 1. Domestic. Utah business men fall easy prey to pro moter with dazzling schemes. Page 1. Interesting statistics in the deaf returns from Census Bureau. Page 1. Double life of Kansas City man disclosed by his sudden death. Page 3. National. Cruiser Charleston makes record run to San Juan with Secretary Root's party. Page 2- Speaker Cannon takes sides with the West against the Hansbrough swamp bill. Page 2. Russia. Rain comes too late to save Russian crops and peasants are fighting for food. Page 3. FlrFt paragraph of proposed agrarian law Is agreed upon in the house. Page 3. Foreign. Emperor William arrives at Trondhjem and is greeted by King Haakon. Page 3. Amnesty to be proclaimed at christening of heir to Hohenzoilern throne. Page 3. Sport. Garvin takes revenge by nearly shutting out old team-mates at Seattle. Page 7- Multnomah and University of Oregon want to send Kellv to the big A, A. U. meet In Chicago. Page 5. Pacific Coast. Holv Roller would succeed to leadership of Creffield and take fanatics to British Co lumbia. Page 2. If Judge Emory recovers, Chester Thompson may escape term in prison. Page 4. Fine flow of artesian water struck In a Rogue River orchard. Page 4. Decision of Idaho Supreme Court In Day divorce case has bearing on Steunenberg murder case. Page 4. Portland and Vicinity. Dr. Small of the First Unlversaiist Church flays dogmatic clergy. Page S. Governor Cutter of Utah welcomes Orego- nlan contest girls to Salt Lake. Page 7 Hundreds hear the opening band concert for the Summer at the City Park. Page 8 Woman suffragists will try again, for th ballot. Page 12. LA FOLLETTE OUT E1ENCY Opens Campaign of Attack on Senators Who Opposed Rail road Rate Amendment. FULTON IS ON THE LIST Tactics Followed With Great Success in Wisconsin Will Be Vsed in Ad dresses Before the Chautau qua Assemblies This Summer. MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 8. (Special.) Senator Robert M. La Follette has be gun in earnest his open fight for the Presidency. He has opened a campaign against every Senator who opposed his amendment to the railroad rate bill. In cluding among the leaders Senator Ful ton, of Oregon. The Senate stood out against the La Follette amendments as being too radi cal and so ragged in a technical way that they would vitiate the measure if at tached to it. Senator La Follette, how ever, has determined upon his revenge and will take the risk of incurring the undying enmity of practically every Re publican Senator by a series of open attacks, naming the leaders in the Senate in his new campaign. In taking this step he is taking a leaf out of the book of Wisconsin politics, which contains the story of his fight for the Governorship of Wisconsin. It was his custom to assail by name in their home districts those Assemblymen and State Senators who failed to vote as he directed. This is his method to be adopted against Senator Fulton and Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania. In his Chautauqua address La Follette declares that the corpora tions and railroads corrupted Congress, and concludes by dramatically reading the names of those who voted against his measures. He has already done this bit of campaigning four or five times, most notably at Evansville, Ind.. and will re peat the system when he lectures in the West. HEARING BY COMMISSION Postal Matters Will Be Considered in Sew York, October 1. WASHINGTON, D. C. July 8. Henry H. Glauste, secretary of the commission to inquire into and report to Congress its conclusions concerning the laws relative to second-class mail matter, to day issued an announcement that the first session will be held at the Holland House, New York, October 1. The an nouncement in part follows: The report of the Postmaster-General for the fiscal year ending June 30, 19D0, shows that the cost of maintain ing the entjre postal service for that year was approximately $167,000,000 and that the revenue from all sources was approximately $153,000,000. Second-class matter constituted ap proximately two-thirds of the matter handled, while it yielded but $6,186,467, or about one-twenty-fourth of the rev enue derived from postage. Not only has the postal revenue suffered by reason of the undue expansion of this class of matter as compared with other classes, but in dealing with the matter itself, the postal service is hampered at every step by differences and perplexities of administration. The system as a whole, the report says, lacks uniformity and is confusing to publisher and official alike. The report says the inquiry will be especially directed towards determin ing whether the revenue from the second-class mail matter should not be made commensurate with the actual cost of the service rendered in handling It; if not, what limitations should be placed upon the matter which may properly be embraced in that class. Owing to the great number of pub lications concerned, the committee deemed it impracticable to extend the privilege of the hearing to individual publishers. Each National organization will be heard orally by not to exceed three representatives designated by the organizations, and those classes of pub lications not having regular organiza tions will be heard through persons who may be regarded as fairly repre sentative. PLANNED A REVOLUTION Cabrera Induced Dr. Alfaro to Enter Into a Plot. MEXICO CITY, July 8. Documents are being published by which it is claimed it will be proven that President Cabrera, of Guatemala, in 1903, entered Into negotia tions with Dr. Pxudencla Alfaro, who had been Vice-President of Salvador, whereby it was agreed that Alfaro should organ ize a revolution in Salvador against the administration of President Thomas Re gal ado. One of the most important documents in the case is a letter from Alfaro to President Cabrera, dated June 9, 1903, wherein Alfara says that on the estab lishment of a new government in Salva dor, an alliance, offensive and defensive, shall be entered into between Salvador and Guatemala. It is charged that two years later, or in 1906. President Cabrera grew suspicious of Alfaro and feared he would publish these compromising docu ments, and it was only through the ef forts of the American Consul that he could leave Guatemala. The explanation of Cabrera's change of purpose is that he was afraid to carry out his Presidential campaign alone. Enter Vnited States by Mexico. MEXICO CITY, July 8. A large number of immigrants from Europe, classified as "Turks,'' but often Armenians and Arabs, have recently been arriving by German and Spanish steamers at Vera Crux. A large portion of them come here and go north Into the interior to work on rail-. ways, and not a few of them eventually cross over into the United States. During the past six months several thou sand so-called Turks have reached this country. Many of them are said to be of the class likely to be rejected at American ports, and take this way of getting en trance to the United States. Salvador Will Give Right of Way. MEXICO CITY, July 8. Reports from Salvador indicate that the Pan-American Railway will soon be granted a conces sion and a subsidy for the extension of the line through that country. J. M. Neeland, vice-president and general man ager of the road, is in Central America He has received every assurance that the concession asked from the Government of Salvador will be granted as soon as the present disturbance in Guatemala is settled. Kurales Quartered at Cananea. FORT WORTH, Tex., July 8. As the result of labor riots last month at Can anea, Mexico, the mining camp of W. C. Greene has been converted into a military stronghold, and hereafter 1000 Mexican ru rales will be quartered there. This ac tion was taken by the military Governor of Sonora to serve as a precaution against further outbreaks. NOT A DRINK WAS SOLD DRYEST DAY IX THE HISTORY OF NEW JERSEY. Law Passed by Legislature Made Penalty Too Heavy "to Take a Chauce.' JERSEY CITY, K. J., July 8. (Spec ial.) The best ambition of the temper ance reform has at last been attained and for the first time in its history the entire state of New Jersey was "dry" today. There was not a glass of intox icants sold in a regularly licensed saloon in the state during today, according to advices received tonight and the victory of reformers is a most complete one. The cause was the enforcement of tHe new Sunday-closing law, enacted at the last session of the legislature, and which went into effect today for the first time. Under the law. the entire interior of all saloons must be exposed to public view and any saloon-keeper violating it for feits his license. Not only that, but it is Impossible to obtain a license for t$e same place for a period of a year and this latter penalty is one that assured the saloon-keepers living up to the law. "With large sums of money Invested In bar fixtures, etc., they were not willing to take a chance, so they Just let matters rest and those who like to drink once in a while and who failed to lay in a supply on Saturday either went thirsty or went to New York. CAUGHT UNDER ENGINE Fireman Is Scalded to Death In Wreck Near Flagstaff. FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, July S. Pas senger train No. 4, the limited, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, was par tially derailed at 2 o'clock this morn ing at a point four miles west of here. None of the passengers were injured. Ed Hillsbury, the fireman, was caught under the engine and scalded to death. Engineer Goldsworthy was scalded about the legs and was injured in the chest. The accident was caused by a front truck on the engine leaving the track. The engine turned over on its side and a composite car and a dining car slip ped over the crest of an embankment. The three Pullman sleepers remained on the track. The presence of mind of Engineer Goldsworthy probably prevented ad ditional fatalities. He applied the brakes and remained at his post until the engine started to turn over, when he jumped. TOPEKA, Kas., July 8. According to advices received here, the only pas senger injured in the Santa Fe wreck at Flagstaff was Mrs. Roberts, of Oakland, Cal., who sustained a severe sprain of the ankle. ENGINEER BURNS IN WRECK Freight Trains In Collision Seven Miles From Chattanooga. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. July 8. In a collision between two freight trains on the Western & Atlantic seven miles south of this city early today four trainmen were killed and four others slightly in jured. The dead: W. P. HAMILTON, engineer. H. F. PINSON. fireman. ROBERT ATKINSON, engineer. A. O. GENTRY, fireman. Fire broke out. consuming two cars. one of which was laden with cattle, and burned the body of Engineer Atkinson. Panic In Coney-Island Car. NEW YORK, July 8. Fire following a collision m coney Island today between the elevated railroad express train and a local trolley car, caused a panic in which six persons were injured, three severely. by being trampled upon. Bound for Coney island, and going at high speed, the ex press had just turned the curve In the road near the Sea Beach Palace, when just ahead the motorman saw the local stationary, and passengers alighting from it. He was unable to stop his train and it crashed Into the local. By the force of the Impact a fuBe of the local was blown out' and flames threat ened the car. The passengers fought fiercely with each other to escape. Killed in Machine Explosion. BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio, July 8. In the factory of the Portland Cement Com pany today a coal-grinding machine ex ploded, killing John Scott, the superin tendent and an unknown man and badly burning M. D. Thomas, a workman. MOB CHASES A NEGRO Black Had Murdered His Wife in a Crowded Indianapolis Street. INDIANAPOLIS; July 8. Aaron Morton, a negro, shot and killed his wife on a crowded downtown street tonight and was pursued several blocks by a mob of 1000 persons, bent on lynching him. Morton succeeded in reaching a police station, where he was given protection. Just as the mob was preparing for an assault on the building a detail of police rescued the negro and he was taken to the City Jail. During the pursuit a num ber of tie mob fixed at the officers. VICTIMS DAZZLED BY BIG SCHEMES Mormons Give Money With a Smile. PROMOTER HAS DISAPPEARED Beresford Hope Said He Was Going for British Capital. OFF FOR GREENER FIELDS Letterheads Bore the Names of Ti tied Englishmen and Letters Written by the Bunco Man Him self Put His Credit High. SALT LAKE, Utah. July 8. (Special.) Salt Lake and Ogden business men would be glad to hear some sort of explanation, from Beresford Hope, a man who rep resented himself to be an English gen tleman, and who, by presenting creden tials which looked good on their face, succeeded in "promoting" several schemes In which they were financially interested. Hope was suave in his manner and plaus ible with his credentials. The result waa that he succeeded in relieving Utah's dominant church members of sums of money that' may run into thousands o dollars. Just how much money was advanced to the alleged scion of nobility, on hia various schemes, is not known, because of the natural reticence of his victims la discussing a subject so delicate. The green fields in which he is now located are in the city of culture, Boston, Mass. Hope worked on a large scale. Hia were no petty schemes. He came to Utah with a letter from the 'British American Securities, Limited, London." The letter-head of this concern, believed now to be fictitious, set forth that tho company was capitalized at 10,000,000, or approximately "fiO.OOO.OOO. It had aa ita directors, among others, Lord Rothschild, who bore the title of treasurer; Lord Deerhurst, the chairman; Rt.-Hon. Lord Vaux, Lord Talbot, Lord Vincent, Sir Alexander McKenzie and some more prominent in the world of finance. Gave HlmseU Large Credit. London does not know of such a com pany, a fact which was learned by the investors hereabout, only after they had made their investments. Hope's letter from the "British-American Securities" was to the effect that hia credit was good up to $500,000. It helped blm so much that, according to an inter view here today with his former stenog rapher, he used to dictate letters ad dressed to himself on the letter-heads of this company, with Boston date lines, and other men's signatures affixed. All of these letters were most encour aging, as they gave him carte blanche in the matter of investing the money of tha company. "Go ahead and we will back you" was the purport of the letters writ ten by Hope to himself on the letter heads of the fictitious "British-American Securities." Used Name of Mormon President. With this as a working basts, Hope be gan to talk to people about his schemes. He found many willing ears. Among thosa who listened to the scion's tale wera many prominent Mormons. President Joseph F. Smith, the head of the church,, was approached and his name was used by Hope as director of one corporation. President Smith repudiates Hope. David Eccles, a Mormon millionaire of Ogden, went sponser for Hope in one of his enterprises, vouching for him on. others. The enterprises which Hope pro moted aggregated in their entirety over $100,090,000. Principal among his concerns was the Great Western Coal and Iron Company, capitalized at $5,000,000. Tha purpose of this organization was to ac quire coal deposits K't miles square in, Chihuahua, Mexico, and to build a rail road through this coal belt. While get ting Salt Lakers interested in his scheme, Hope represented that John Hill, a mil lionaire of Colorado Springs, Colo., was his "warm friend" and would "go in." He then spoke of a trip he had just made to Colorado Springs and showed a check for $75,000 with the name of John Hill in tha. place where the signature should be. Denounces Signature as Forgery. Hill now avers that he does not know Hope and that the signature was a rank forgery. In the meantime, however, Hopa had advertised Hill as president of the company and each prettily engraved pleca of stock that went out to speculators, bore the alleged signature of Hill. This also was a forgery, according to Hill. It was for the purpose of obtaining money from the British American Securities Company that Hope left Salt Lake for Boston recently. Before he left he had stated to various people Interested that he would secure money for the following purposes; For the financing of the Intermountain Railroad Company, $24,000,000; this is a, company without Assets. For the sale of improvement bonds for the Ogden Rapid Transit Company, con trolled by David Eccles, $500,000; this Is a bona fide enterprise, for which Hope prom ised to provide additional cash. Some Schemes Were Bona Fide. For the Western Iron and Coal Com pany, with necessary railroads, $5,000,000; X Concluded, oa Psg. 2-X