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VOL. XLVI. 14,331. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVE3IBER 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NO. 14.331. PORTLAND. OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVE3IBER 13, Mi TURNS ON WM MOODY Scandal at The Dalles Land Office, REGISTER ATTACKS RECEIVER Resigns and Makes Charges Against Miss Lang. TELLS TALES TO MOODY Accuses Her of Giving Confidential Information to Her Friend. Weary of Wrangling, He Gives Vp Office. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Nov. 12. The resignation of Michael T. Nolan, register of The Ialles Land Office, has bewn- accepted to tako effect upon the appointment and confirmation of his successor, who wiil probably bo named soon after Congress convenes. Mr. Nolan did not resign through the General Land Office, but sent his resignation direct to the President, accompanying it with charges of official misconduct against Miss Anna M. Lang, receiver at The Dalles. The resignation and charges, instead of being turned over to the General Land Office, where they prop erly belong, have been side-tracked in Secretary Hitchcock's office. . Friendship Changes to Enmity. Mr. Nolan and Miss Ling were ap pointed land officers at The Dalles March 3, 1901, the day before Malcolm Moody retired from Congress. They were both appointed on Mr. Moody's recommendation, the President not even consulting Senator Mitchell in the mat ter. Though Mitchell was displeased, he did not light the nominations, and both were promptly confirmed. The .friendship that existed between Mr. Nolan and Mr. Moody four years ago appears to have died out, for Mr. Nolan now regards Mr. Moody as his per sonal and political enemy. However, in tendering his resignation, he ex presses regret at being obliged to make charges that involve the man to whom he owes his position. Says Moody Gets Secret Pointers. Mr. Nolan's charges, which are set forth at length, in effect allege that Miss Lang has kept Mr. Moody in formed about the business of the office and has frequently supplied him with advance information about prospective action and about land that was to be opened to entry, as well as about other ' matters that he says should be con fidential. He cites one ease whore a tract of valuable . land in The Dalles district was to be restored to entry and be fore the cancellation was entered on the records, says Mr. Nolan, a friend of Malcolm Moody came in and asked to cover that land with scrip. Mr. Nolan declares that this scrip filing was made for Mr. Moody and charges tnat Mr. Moody. could not have known this land was to he restored unless informed by Miss Lang. Mr. Nolan asserts that Mr. Moody and his friends have frequently been able to make profitable use of inside information furnished them by Miss Lang. Because he, himself, has refused to become a party to these transactions, Mr. Nolan says, his life in the office lias been made burdensome, and he wishes to retire. Mr. Moody was called up at his office in The Dalles over the long distance telephone last evening and told the contents of the foregoing dispatch. "It is all news to me," he said. "I had heard nothing about the filing of such charges. I have nothing to say with regard to Mr. Nolan's action at this time." Mr. Moody declined to discuss the matter further. HAIRY INTERESTS PROTEST. Get Promise of Change in Pure Foods About Milk. ORKGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Nov. 12. On behalf of Oregon and AYashington dairy interests' Senator Ful ton today lorlsed a protest with the Agri cultural Department against the new pure food regulation which fijees the standard of condensed filk. This regula tion stipulates that condensed milk, he fore it can enter interstate commeive must contain "',2 per cent of butter fata and total solids amounting to 82 per cent. ' Oregon and Washington dairy men object to this standard, claiming that its enforcement will entirely stop the manu facture of condensed milk on the Pa cific Coast. It is claimed by them that the milk produced in Oregon and Wash ington is much richer than the average and condensed milk made In these two states, in order to contain 28 per cent fwllds, would necessarily have from 9 to 10 per cent butter fats. Condensed milk made from this milk would therefore exceed) the purity standard, and it is estimated that this excess would repre sent a loss to manufacturers of condensed milk of 20 cents per 100 pounds, enough to make business unprofitable. Dr. 'Wiley, the Department Chemist, and Assistant Secretary Hays both as sured Senator Fulton that they would recommend a change In the regulation, elemlnatlng the requirement of 2$ per u. solids and insist merely tint con densed milk shall contain 7 per cent butter fats. If this recommendation is carried out, the wishes of coast manufac turers and dairymen will be fully com plied with. Senator Piles, who Is Jointly interested in this matter, recommended the appoint ment of Elton W. Fulmer, chemist at Pullman agricultural college, as special agent in Washington to analyze dairy products and make a study of climatic and other condition affecting the dairy Interests in order that he might make a snowing which would justify a change In the regulations. Assurance was given Mr. Fulton that Mr. Fulmer will be ap pointed tomorrow. If Dr. Wileys recom mendation is adopted, there will be no oc-ca.-slon for prolonging Mr. Fulmer's appointment. ROAD COMPANY" GETS IAVD Supreme Court Decides Against Sherman County Settler. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, "Wash ington, Nov. 12. The United States Su preme Court today affirmed the decision of the Supremo Court of Oregon in the case of "William H. Andrews vs. the East ern Oregon Land Company. Involving title to a small tract of land in Sherman County. Andrews claimed title as a pre emptor. but the Eastern Oregon Iand Company, successor to The Dalles Military Wagon Road Company, claimed title under a patent from the United States. The land was patented as part of a grant made in 1SS7 to The Dalles Wagon Road Company. The court says that decisions of the T.and Department on matters of fact are ordinarily conclusive in courts and the Land Department having patented this land to the Eastern Oregon .Land Com pany, the decision of the Oregon Supreme Court sustaining that patent is affirmed. Fulton's New Committee Clerk. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Nov. 12. Senator Fulton has ap pointed Dennis C. Pillsbury. of Portland, uu r.arr of his enmmitteee. to succeed W. D. B. Dodson, of Portland, who re-' signed to engage in business in the orient. EMBRACE COSTS HIS LIFE STRANGE EXPLANATION OF DOUGHERTY'S DEATH. Hugs Unwilling Girl and Needle In Her Dress Pierces Him to Heart, Causing Death. SCRANTOX. Pa., Nov. 11 Tonight, after a day spent in investigating the death of Thomas Dougherty, of Dunmore, who was killed by being pierced in the heart by a long needle, the local police and County Detective Phillips decided to withdraw the warrant that had been Is sued for the arrest of Katie Burke, the girl who was suspected of having caused .Dougherty's death. The authorities are of the opinion that the girl is Innocent of murderous Intent. She'savs that she had been mending her brother's clothing with a long needle, used hereabouts in mending miners" heavy out er clothing, and that on going down town in the evening, she stuck the pin in the bosom of her dress. Dougherty, who had been her sweetheart, hailed her and asked her to take a walk with him. He attempted to embne her, and the point of the needle that was in her dress caught in his vest, while the "eye" or blunt end rested against her corset. In the embrace the needle was forced into his bodv through the fifth rib and into the cavity between It and the pericardium. Hemorrhage resulted, which caused death. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TOPAT'S Occasional rain; cooler; westerly winds. TESTKRDAT'S Maximum temperature, 84 degrees; minimum, "!. , I'orelgn. British and French warships to make demonstration attainst Morocco. Page a. Czar has firlHnB times In struggle wlttt courtiers. Page 4. Moscow chief of police kills man who throws bomb. Page ritormy session of Reichstag expected. Page. ' National. Government derides on plan of procedure against Standard Oil. Page 3. Metealt completes report on Japanese boy cott. Page 3. Register Nolan. or The Dalles, makes rharges against Miss Lang and Malcolm Moody. Page 10. Politics. Hearst speaks at banquet and proud ot bis cause. Page 5. Hoch's election conceded in Kansas. Page u. New York Republicans appeal to court to examine detective ballots. Page 3. Gompers satisfied with Labor Federation's political campaign and will continue It. Page 1. Colorado weary of women in politics. Page 1. Domestic. Many Immigrants killed and burned in rail road wreck. Page 1. Reign ot terror In Pittsburg causes vigil ance committee to organize. Page 2. General Shatter dies. Page 3. Joint committees orepare plan for elastic currency. Page 3. V Krie railroad Bremen vote to strike. Tige 4. Villareal, leader of Mexican rebels, to be ex tradited as murderer. Page 4. Ptrange story, of Dougherty's death. Page t. Bandits hold up train In Nevada and tight battle with posse. Page 1. Pacific toast. Judge overrules Robnett's demurrer In Idaho land-fraud case. Page ?. Seattle coal shortage becoming alarming. Tin " " " Seattle Republican legislative candidate will demand a recount. Page 7. Northern Pacific eo,mplies with Oregon law and tiles report with State Auditor. Page James D. Phelan elected president of Cftll , fornia. Red Ctoss, defends relief work. Page 6. Fortland and Vicinity. Orlando S. Murray kills Lincoln C Whitney, his sister's betrayer. Page 10. Two Portland churches robbed. Page 9. School Board makes plans for added room and equipment for manual training; in city schools. Page 10. Willamette Valley shippers plan to ask Legislature to pass law Imposing demur rage penalty on railroads for failure to supply freight cars. Page 11. Agent of rival company tells Retail Gro cers' Association that scales in use here give short weight. Page 10. Board of governors and executive pommit tee of Commercial Club vote to raise f'J.VOOO for Northwest publicity work. Page 11. East Side business men form social and commercial organization. Page 11. Commercial and Marine. Eastern brewers may have boycotted Ore gon hops. Page 17. Wheat eaes off at Chicago. Page 17. Calling of loans causes stock liquidation. Page 17. Shipwrecked hunters rescued by Harvest Quua. Cm 1A. FEDERATION WLL STAY IN POLITICS Gompers Says Policy Already Succeeds. MANY CONGRESSMEN PLEDGED Says Bitter Things of Cannon to Convention. FIGHT BEFORE CONGRESS Condemns Roosevclfs Policy on Chi nese Exclusion Will Resist Wage Reductions and Stand by :. Anti-Injunction Bill. MINNEAPOLIS. Nov. 12. The fea ture of the opening session here today of the twenty-sixth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor waj the exhaustive annual report of President Samuel Gompers, in which. hedetailed the progress of .the labor movement throughout the country, laying special stress on the advent of unionism in the political arena and recommending that this course be strictly adhered to.' A strong plea was made for the emplpyment of. American labor on the Panama canal. At the conclusion of Mr. Gompers address the annual report of . Secretary Frank Morrison -was read, which showed "the Federation to be in not only splendid financial condition, but also stronger in membership than. ever before. There is 1113,540:60 in the treasury. .. During -the- year- there were $87 strikes, in which 91,530 persons were involved. Of that number 68,812 were benefited and 11,183 not bene fited. The total cost of strikes during the year was $3,982,865.66. The convention opened with 303 del egates present, including several from the British Trades Union Congress and about 20 women. The most Interesting part of Mr. Gomp ers' report comes under the head of "la bor's Political" Campaign.'" Of this he says: Much interest has been aroused regarding . IS LABOR THE . ana 4JWtli r-J-eyV ' DMi . n . . 1W T & i K.i t ' i. v. .-r-f rr;;-o-cr ui -x3V,v sS f va--v.; the active campaign inaugurated and carried on by the American Federation of Labor in the recent p&st.. Labor's opponents' as sumed to regard our actions as an unwar ranted invasion of their domain, that the working people have no right to exercise their sovereign power of citizenship to pun ish politically those who are hostile or in different to our rights and interests, or to stand in advocacy of those who have proven themselves as friends and who have sympathetically supported the measures we deem requisite to secure the enactment of laws having for their purpose the abolition of inequalities and Injustice and the pro tection and promotion of those rights to which labor Is so Justly entitled. They ac cuse us of "threatening" Congressmen with our political ill will, as though people of other Interests do not advocate and support the election of those who favor those in terests, and threaten with political defeat those .who are opposed to them. Evidently, It Is not understood that the ballot In itself Is the weapon with which the consti tution has invested the citizen, not only to threaten, but to carry that threat Into ex ecution. We are not unmindful of . the fact that laws in the Interests of labor Stave been en acted, but these have been fragmentary in character and of insufficient importance. t x i r frir 3Iortlmer IHrrand, Retiring Brit ' Ish Ambassador to United States. When . we contemplate the alacrity with which our Congresses respond to the de mands of special interests, by the prompt granting , of charters, franchises, .immuni ties, special privileges and special and class legislation, that are winged Into enactment by- legislative flights, while any measure In the interests of the tolling masses pro gresses, as If with a leaden heel; that par ticularly In recent years slower progress has . been made than heretofore; that the toller's appeals and petitions are treated with indifference and contempt, it is not surprising th'at the men of labor throughout the country have 'become impatient and have manifested that" impatience. The American Federation of Labor has often declared and often emphasized that as our efforts are centered against all forms of industrial slavery and economic wrong, we must also direct out utmost energies to remove all forms of political servitude and party slavery, to the end that the work ing people may act as a unit at the polls of every election. Non-Partisan Labor Tote. That the American Federation of Labor most firmly and unequivocally favors the In dependent use of the ballot hy the trade unionists and workingrnen. united regard less of t rt;. tit it . v-c may elect men from our own ranKs'"lo make new laws and ad minister them along the lines laid down In (Concluded on Page 4.) OEDIPUS WHO WILL SOLVE THE i n ''OTW'TO , ...I .'' i f, . ' i 1 1 ' Kt - I WIS - 1 x 1 - - IMMIGRANTS DIE IN1RNNEGK Only Two Bodies Re main of 47 Killed. SURVIVORS LOSE EVERYTHING Fugitives From Russia Escape Into New Horror. . TWO TRAINS MEET HEAD-ON Harrowing Scenes at Chicago, Where Relatives Await Xew Arrivals. Pathetic Joy of Husband' . . Over Blind Wife. I CHICAGO, Nov. 12. More than half the passengers on an immigrant train on the Baltimore &'Ohio Railroad were killed or injured in a collision today between the passenger train and a freight near Wood ville, Ind. One hundred and sixty-five passengers were on the train, and of these 47 were either killed outright or were burned to death in the fire which broke out in the wreckage immediately , after the collision. The names of all the dead will probably never be known, as 45 of the bodies were consumed in the flames, or were so badly burned that identifica tion is Impossible. Thirty-eight people were injured, and several of these will die. Eighty others escaped unhurt, but lost nearly all their baggage and cloth ing. The disaster was caused by a blunder of some employe of the railroad company, but just where the blame lies has not been determined. Come Together Full Speed. The passenger train, which was loaded with Russian Jews, Servians and Poles, all of them recent arrivals in this country and bound for Chicago or places in the Northwest, was the second section -of a through train from Baltimore. The en gineer of freight train No. 9(5, on Instruc tions received at McCool. Ind., waited at a siding .at Babcock. Ind., to allow the immigrant train to pass. One report is PROBLEMS ? mil!' a - t -wc ism T that the engineer of the freight train had not been Informed that the passenger train was running in two sections; the other is that the first section of the pas senger train carried no lights or signals of any kind indicating that a second sec tion was close behind. As soon as the first section of the im migrant train had passed the switch at Babcock, the freight train,- in charge of Engineer Burke and Conductor Moste, started eastward. A light snow was fall ing, which increased the darkness of the early morning, and, as the freight was rounding a sharp curve just west of Yvoodvillc, the second section of the im migrant ..rain came in sight a short dis tance away, tearing toward Chicago at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The two trains came together with unslackened speed, and in the crash six passenger coaches and several freight cars were knocked into kindling wood, and, together with the locomotives, went rolling down the embankment. Kire Consumes Living With Dead. Fire 'broke out almost immediately in the wreckage, and, although a number of the injured were saved by the desperate efforts-of the train crew and 'surviving passengers, the greater proportion of those who were pinned down in the debris were burned to death. The flames spread through the wreckage so rapidly that it was impossible to save a number of peo ple who were but slightly hurt, hut were held fast by the timbers. These were burned in plain sight of the throng, which stood around the scene of the disaster ut terly unable to lend assistance. The lire continued until all of the shattered cars were entirely consumed, and of the 47 people whose death followed the collision. 45 were burned to ashes. Relief trains were at once sent out from South Chicago and from Valparaiso, Ind., with every available provision and every possible aid was given to the injured. Frantic Grief of JJelatives. A large number of the relatives of the passengers on the ill-fated train were in Chicago awaiting its arrival, and when the report of the catastrophe was received the scenes around the Baltimore & Ohio station were harrowing. Men were there who had come to this country to escape the massacres hi Russia, and who, after months of hard work, had saved enough to pay the passage of members of their families, and their grief when they be came aware that possibly all their sacri fice and effort had resulted only in the death of those whom they had sought to bring to them was pitiful. Crowds of Russians and Poles waited around the depot all day for news from Woodville and, when late In the afternoon, a train came In bearing the 38 Injured passengers, it was with the greatest difficulty that the police were able to open a passage way for the wounded. Several of the foreigners became so excited that they attempted to attack station attaches whose uniforms led them to believe they were employed by the Baltimore & Ohio road. Joy Defies All Authority. Among the wounded who were brought to Chicago was Mrs. Anna Chyza, who had come from Warsaw to meet her hus band, who had been working here for six months. Mrs. Chyza is blind and her husband recognized her as she'was being carried through the crowd by two police men. Before the ofticers could stop him he fell across the stretcher, carrying it to the ground and kissing his wife repeat edly. She recognized his voice and they clung to each other so desperately that it required the efforts of both policemen to force them apart. Chyza struggled so fiercely that it was necessary to place him under arrest. lie was released after being taken out of the station. Others whose relatives were among the injured begged to be allowed to take them to their homes, but the police were in exorable, and all of the injured were taken to the hospital, where it Is believed they will receive better care than their friends might bo able to give them. At the hospital tonight, it was said that It would for some time be impossible to predict the result in the cases of several of the Injured. ENGINE DASHES INTO DEPOT Smashes Building, Kills One Man, Injures Three. DETROIT. Nov. 12. One man was killed and several injured, three of them badly, today when a Michigan Central Railroad freight engine ran away and crashed into the Third-street depot, tear ing down a large section of the struc ture. The dead: George R. Booth, Detroit. The severely injured: Donald Thomp son, assistant district superintendent, of the Pullman Company; Karl S. McEuen, cashier Pullman office; Bert Haney, De troit, a Michigan Central conductor. The engine was switching in the yards a mile from the station when, it is said, the crew saw a passenger train approach ing from behind, thought a collision was about to occur and jumped from the en gine. It was running at good speed and unchecked, dashed into the station, tear ing out a section 2o feet wide. The sec ond and third floors over this section collapsed. Booth was killed In a parcel-room, near which the engine struck. Haney was on the third floor and fell with the wreck age. Eleven Passengers Injured. CHICAGO. Nov. 12. Two coaches and a sleeping car on the Missouri Tacit'ie fast mail train from Kansas City were thrown from the track and turned over near Eureka. Mo., early today, and 11 passengers were injured. The most seri ously Injured are: G. A. Brown, inter nally, and Rev. Manley J. Braker, in juries to back, both of St. Louis. CONSIDERS COAL STEAL Salt I,ake Grand Jury Busy With the Union Pacific Affair. SALT LAKE CITY. Nov. 12. A Federal grand Jury was impaneled here today and will begin its sittings tomoarow. Rumor has it that presentments will be made of evidence gained by the Interstate Com merce ("omipissinn during its recent in vestigation ''of Union Pacific coal hold ings anil developments in connection with the Government suit to recover land ac quired by the Utah Fuel Company, but no official information is forthcoming. Even the names of the wilnesses sub poened have not been divulged. 1 11 IN THEIR POL T GS Colorado Parties Weary of Farce. FEMALE CANDIDATES BEATEN Few Who Have Gone to Legis late Did Nothing. NINE HAVE BEEN TRIED ltelic of Populist Days of Waite Is Equal Suffrage Fad, and Now All Want Women Elimi nated l'rom Politics. DENVER. Colo.. Nov. 12. (Special.) It was said this morning by leaders of both parties that no woman would again be nominated for a legislative office. They say theyare in touch with the public pulse and women are not wanted for of fice. These same leaders assert that equal suffrage in Colorado is rapidly becoming a farce, in spite of peppery assertions to the contrary, and the rank and file of citizens, women included, wish the fair sex eliminated from the political game. Four women ran for the House of Rep resentatives recently. Three of them were on the Democratic ticket and one on the Socialist ticket. All were defeat ed by decisive majorities. It was during the administration of the Populist Gov ernor Waite, in 1S93, that woman suffrage was granted in Colorado, and since then nine different women have been elected to the House and Mrs. Evangeline Hearts served twice in 1897 and in lSt9 and in 1303 Mrs. Ruble was the only representa tive of her sex in the lower branch. Pueblo is the only county outside of Den ver that has furnished any women legis lators for Colorado. Only One Woman's Bill Passed. Mrs. Heartz. during her service in the Assembly, introduced about a dozen bills, most of them relating to union labor and most of which never became laws. Arbi tration and employers" liability measures were the main ones. An age of consent bill introduced by a woman became law. Never within the history of Colorado has a woman been elected to the State Senate, and no woman ever will be, ac cording to party leaders. The Legislature In 1SS5 bad three women members of tho House Clara Cressingham and Florence S. Klock of Denver and Carrie Clyde Holly of Pueb lo. These were the first women legisla tors in the state. Mrs. Holly, a Repub lican, Introduced and had passed the now well-known age-of-consent law. Two years later the lower house had two women members Martha A. B. Conine and Evangeline Heartz whila in 1M9 there were four women members Mrs. Frances S. Lee. Mrs Harriet G. R. Wright and Mrs. Heartz. all from Denver, and Dr. Mary F. Barry of Pueblo. In 1!V3 Mrs. Alice M. Ruble of Denver was the only woman member of the legislature. Since then no member of the fair sex lias suc ceeded in winning a scat in the Senate or Assembly hall. Not the Place for Women. A well-known Republican leader said today: "Unless the signs of the times arc deceptive, no woman will ever again bo elected to the Legislature. The Repub lican parly has long since come to the conclusion that women were out of place in sucli a position and have refused to nominate them. The Democrats now feel the same way. The State and County Superintendents of Schools may properly be women, but any other office no." It Is amusing, the stories tiiat are told of some of these women legislators. It is related as an actual fact that in 1S99 a certain woman representative (we wilt call her Smith) registered at a Denver hocl as follows: "Hon. Mary A. Smith arid husband." It got so that the poor men folks were looked upon with pity. People would say: "That is Mrs. Jones' husband," or "Here is the husband of the Hon. Elizabeth Erown, member of the House." " T BUTTLE HOLD t'P OVERLAND IN NEVADA AND POSSE I'OKMS. Hundred Shots Fired in Bloodless Eight Deputy Sheriffs Hot on Robbers' Trail. REXO. Nov. 12. Armed bandits held-up the Southern Pacific Overland limited westbound at Carljn Saturday night and escaped with the suit cases of passengers and the money sack of Conductor Conn. The railroad men at Sparks state that they secured about J1W) in all. A posse was formed and a pitched battle took place at the edge of the town, 100 shots being lired. No one is known to have been injured. Southern Pacific detectives and deputy Sheriffs are now hot on the trail of th(5 robbers I