7 VOL. XLVI.-XO. 14,407. PORTLAND, OREGOX, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. r A FUEL TO FLIES OF THAW ANGER Wife Tells How White Persecuted Her. SOUGHT TO RENEW FRIENDSHIP Incited Her to Make Charges Against Lover. HUMMEL'S SHARP TRICKS Vsed Mrs. Thaw's Information to Blackmail White Incoherent Love Letters of Thaw Jerome Tender of White's Character. NEW YORK,. Feb. 8. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw again today was the central figure at her husband's trial. She was still on the Btand, her direct examination un finished when the usual week-end ad journment until Monday morning -was taken. Picking up the threads of her story where she had dropped them on Thurs day, the girl-wife of the defendant, always, she declared, telling her story Just as she had related it to Harry Thaw from time to time, brought the narra tive down to her wedding in Pittsburg on April 4, 1905, and their return to New York, following a honeymoon trip in the West. She declared she had heard White call to her on the street once after this and that on another occasion, when she passed him In a cab, she noticed his cab turn around and follow her in the direction of a doctor's office where she was going to have her throat treated. Will Finish Story Monday. Mrs. Thaw had taken up the story at the time of her return from Europe In October. 1A03, following her refusal of Thaw's offer of marriage on the ground which she related yesterday. On Mon day she will be called upon to finish the relation of the events which, it Is alleged by the defense, brought on the- explosive Impulse in the diseased brain of the defendant and caused the killing of Stanford White. While today's testimony lacked the personal quality which made yesterday's recital so dramatic, impelling, enthrall ing and pathetic, it served to clear away (some of the doubts and inferences which remained from the Incomplete details as to the full extent of the revelations she Fays she made to her husband. There were repetitions, too, at the suggestion of counsel, and incidents which had not been gone over in the first years of Mrs. Thaw's acquaintance with Stanford White were brought out in completion of the life story. Jerome Flares Up In Anger. District Attorney Jerome, who had throughout silently listened to the young wife's statements, sent a thrill of excite ment through the courtroom late In the day by vigorously protesting against "this defamation of the dead." "Is there no limit?" he exclaimed," to the aspersions that are to be cast upon this man? Your honor well knows I can not, under the law, controvert any state ment this -witness might make against the memory of Stanford White." In the most bitterly sarcastic vein, Mr. Jerome spoke of "this battle of the tenderloin" and declared the court had the right to limit such testimony "until com petent evidence has been adduced here to show that this man is, or was, of un sound mind. We don't know whether this defendant ever was Insane," he con cluded. The question which called out the vehe ment protest from the District Attorney was addressed to Mrs. Thaw by Mr. Delmas and its purport was whether or not Harry Thaw had at any time told her about "other girls who had met a fate similar to yours at the hands of this man." "What man?" snapped Mr. Jerome. "Stanford White," replied Mr. Delmas with the coolness of voice and manner characteristic of him, and then he added, still in the same low tone. "Who else?" Justice Fitzgerald held that the District Attorney's suggestion was a good one and he thought the defense should lay a broader foundation to show insanity be fore proceeding along the lines suggested by Mr. Delmas question. We will proceed to do this as soon as possible," announced Mr. Delmas. White Repeatedly Sought Her. Mrs. Thaw declared today that Stanford White, during the year which followed. her experience In the room of the mir rored walls, repeatedly sought to have her visit him alone. "I told Harry," she said, "that Mr. White had begged me, had pleaded and cried and scolded and done everything he could to make me come to see him alone. I refused and he told me I was cruel and that I was cold as a fish and not a human being. I told Mr. White I did not care to trust him." After the return from Europe and dur ing the months she would not see Harry Thaw, "because of the dreadful things Mr. White and his friends told me about him." she declared Thaw accused her of improper relations with the architect. "I told him It was a lie, and I had not." she testified with an emphatic snow of feeling. The defense had Mrs. Thaw tell of her acquaintance, with Jack Barrymore, the actor. Mr. Barrymore was In the court room one day during the early part of the trial, at the instance of the District Attorney, It was said. Mr. Delmas asked Mrs. Thaw today to tell what she had told Mr. Thaw of her acquaintance with the actor. She said she had met Mr. Barrymore at a party given by Stanford White the year following her introduction to the architect. "I thought him very nice," she frankly said today, "and one day at Mr. White's studio he said, 'Evelyn, will you marry me?" I said, 'I don't know.' He asked me a second time and again I said, 'I don't know," and everybody laughed. Mr. White told me I would be very foolish to marry Barrymore, and my mother said so, too, and we all quarreled, ana the upshot of the whole thing was that Mr. White said I ought to be sent awa to school, and I was, to New Jersey." After leading the witness to tell in chronological order of the incidents of her wedding with Thaw in Pittsburg, Mr. Delmas asked her if she had seen Stan ford AVhite after her return to New York from the honeymoon trip. White Follows Her Vp. "I passed Stanford White one day on Fifth avenue. I was in a cab. He saw me and I heard him say, "Evelyn,' just r .o -& -. f i ' Jnmew J. Hill, President of the Great Northern Railroad, Who May Double-Track Railroad to Pacific Coant. like that," and Mrs. Thaw raised her voice as if to call someone. "I went back to our hotel and told Harry, and he said: " 'The dirty blackguard. He had no right to speak to you.' "The next time I saw him I was driv ing to Dr. Delavan's office to have my throat treated. Stanford White was atso in a cab. He just stared at me this time and stroked his moustache. I turned Into Thirty-third street and as I alighted at the doctor's door I saw Stanford White coming. I rang the bell and a maid came to the door and then I got so nervous and flustered I told her I would come back again, and I ran down the steps, got into the cab and drove to the hotel. where I told Harry what had happened. He got very excited and bit his nails." These were the only two instances, Mrs. Thaw said, that she told her husband that Stanford AVhite had approached or attempted to speak to her. There was a big crowd in the courtroom today, every available bit of space being occupied. The dramatic thrills of the day before were not there, however. The day began with a continuance of the reading of the let ters from Harry Thaw to Mr. Longfel low, written after Evelyn Nesbit's revela tions to her suitor in Paris. There were others, too. which Thaw had sent the attorney to deliver to Miss Nesbit, who at that time would not see him. Cooked Vp Charge Against Tbaw. Mrs. Thaw followed these with a reve lation of her experience with Stanford White and Abraham Hummel concerning the alleged affidavit which she made, charging Harry Thaw with having taken her from her mother against her will and with gross cruelty. Mrs. Thaw told how she had been induced to answer some questions about herself and Mr. Thaw at the time and had been toW the stories about his "cruelties to girls." Stanford White had told her, she declared, that it was necessary to take drastic measures to protect her from such a person and that Harry Thaw must be kept out of New York. She denied ever signing any papers in Hummel's office, but said she remembered having signed some papers for Mr. White in his office, the contents of which she did not know. When she got frightened about the papers and de manded to see them, she said Mr. Wrhite took her to Hummel's office and there they burned a paper which had her name at the bottom of it. She was not allowed to see what the paper contained before it was destroyed. Blackmail Paid, by White. Mrs. Thaw's testimony was made amusing at times by her Interjections of the names which Harry Thaw had applied to the lawyers and Mr. White's agitated questioning as to what she had told Hummel about him. She de clared she had told the lawyer nothing. " Well,' said Mr. White to me, There is something wrong somewhere. He has just squeezed a thousand dol lars out of me and the Lord only knows how soon he will squeeze an other.' I then remembered having told Mr. Hummel, when he threatened things about Mr. Thaw, that he had better be careful, for Mr. Thaw knew a lot of terrible things about Stanford White." The defense endeavored to get into evidence the wills of Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, executed the night of their wedding In Pittsburg. There were so many Interlineations, additions and erasures that Justice Fitzgerald held the documents were Inadmissible until they were proved. Mr Delmas said he would later en deavor to do this, as the wills and the interlineations and a codicil by Harry Thaw had to do with the proof tending to show the insanity of the defendant. It came out in the discussion of the wills that the name of Stanford White occurred In Thaw's testament. Mrs. Thaw will go on her direct examination Monday morning. Just what will be the nature of Mr. Jerome's (Concluded on Paso 4. T GREAT NORTHERN Either That or Parallel Line, Says Hill. TO CARRY GROWING TRAFFIC Building or About to Build 3000 New Miles. HAS LINE ACROSS CANADA First Step In Doubling Road Will Be Line From Fargo to Ml not. Hill's Latest Utterance Startles New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. (Special.) The Wall -Street Journal tomorrow will say: James J. Hill said it an open ques tion with him whether to double-track the Great Northern 4r build a new rail road. Mr. Hill's propensity for blazing the way through a new country with a locomotive headlight is pretty well known, and it would not be surprising if this is the course he will follow now in relieving the congestion on the Great Northern Railway. This does not necessarily mean that a new transcontinental road will be built from St. Paul to Puget Sound, but the idea is tantamount to the same thing. The proposition would depend very largely on the future growth of business in the Northwest. New Line Across North Dakota. The first step in the application of Mr. Hill's idea for relieving the congestion on the Great Northern will doubtless be a new line to connect St. Paul with the main line of the Great Northern at the western end of North Dakota. The most congested portion of the Great Northern is between Grand Forks, on the Red River of the North, around the north of Devil's Lake to Mlnot. A new line from Fargo to Mlnot would not only completely relieve the congestion, but also open up a new country. It will surprise most people to know that J. J. Hill and the various roads which he dominates have under construc tion or projected today not less than 3000 miles of new railroad in various parts of the country between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Coast. Aside from any new lines now contemplated, the Hill lines have about S000 miles under construc tion, projected now or completed since the last fiscal year. Rival to Canadian Pacific. Of these the most important item is, of course, the new transcontinental road building in Canada. The line Is already practically done from Vancouver through the Rocky Mountains. It will be pushed across the prairies of Alberta, Aesinibola and Manitoba to Winnipeg, which will be SECOND RACK the eastern terminus. The new line will be about 1500 miles long, and should be finished within the next two years. This new transcontinental road will be owned by the Great Northern. ,Its im portance to the Hill system can hardly be overestimated. It will" be directly com petitive to the Canadian Pacific from Winnipeg to Vancouver, and is retaliation on a gigantic scale for the temerity with which the Canadian Pacific built down to Spokane. SAVE WHEN OUGHT TO SPEND Railroads Cancel ' Car Orders and Defer Improvements. CTHICAGO. Feb. 8. (Special.) Should this year's crops be anything like as large as those of last year, the car scarcity from which the entire country has suf fered for months Is likely to be greatly acoentuated. Owing to present conditions In the money market, a number of roads that are in sore need of equipment have not only ceased to place additional or ders, but It is stated that they are actual, ly trying to get rid of some of the orders they have already placed. Several of the Eastern trunk lines are said to be In negotiation with Western roads to take the new equipment they have ordered and. if these succeed, the trunk lines involved will worry along through the year with supplies they now have on hand. What the effect will be on the general prosperity of the country it is easy to conceive from the experience of the last 12 months. Nor Is It in the matter of car supplies alone that fresh expenditures of money are to be curtailed greatly. A careful in. vestlgation of the entire situation by some of the leading executives has led to the statement that the annual budgets of the roads entering Chicago alone have been pruned to the extent of $25,000,000. The managers of the roads admit that there Is urgent need of the expenditures and that failure to carry out the im provements as orlginaily planned will be detrimental to the interests of the roads themselves as well as to those of the country as a whole. The money will not be spent simply because the roads cannot get the money to spend on anything like the terms that would justify 'them in in curring the fresh debts. One of the roads mentioned as having thus cut down the estimates for its year's expenditures Is the Burlington. It Is cred ited with having pruned its estimates by $20,000,000. It will satisfy itself with car rying to completion the improvement work now actually in progress, but will rest there for the present and new work not actually begun will be allowed to wait for a more convenient season. Other lines are in much the same state of mind. This economy will be felt keenly by every line of industry in the country. PUT VETO ON FAST SERVICE Harrlman and Santa Fe Called Down Clark's Road. LOS ANGELES, Keo. 8. Franklin K. Lane adjourned the Interstate Com merce Commission hearing at the conclu sion of today's session, to meet again in New York, on February 25, when the in quiry into the Harriman merger will be again taken up. Several railroad offi cials and officers of fruitgrowers' organ izations testified today. Many new facts of Importance were gained, chief among them the admission by R. E. Wells, general manager of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, that after his company had in stituted a fast six-day freight service to Chicago for the benefit of the fruit industry of Southern California, the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe companies made objection to his road and the ser vice was discontinued. Fruit men testified that the growers were making no money owing to exor bitant freight rates, and that the crops were greatly endangered by the car shortage. THE TEMPTER j BIG STICK TO HIT PRIVATE PENSIONS President to Call Halt on Growing Evil. CONFER WITH MEN IN CHARGE Will Warn Them He Will Veto Bills in Future. SERVICE PENSION ENOUGH Investigation Convinces Roosevelt Methods of Passing Private Pen sions Are Bad House Rushes Action Before Club Falls. WASHINGTON1. D. C, Feb. 8. (S-pe-dal.) Private pension legislation, car ried to an extreme within the last few years and Increasing at every session at an astounding rate, has fallen under the ban of President Roosevelt. Within a day or two the President has laid plans to call a halt, and tomorrow he will have a conference with Senator McCum ber, of North Dakota, chairman of the Senate committee on pensions and Repre sentative Sulloway, of New Hampshire, chairman of the House committee on In valid pensions, for the purpose of get ting their Judgment on the question of a proposed sweeping reform. May Veto Future Pension Bills. However, the lawmakers directly inter ested may feel about it, the President, it is understood, will feel constrained not to sign any more private bills, now that the service pension measure has become a law, unless particularly urgent reasons are presented to him in connection with each individual case passed upon by Con gress. Careful investigation of the private pension question at the White House led to the conclusion that the system, as it has developed during recent sessions of Congress, is an almost unmitigated evil; that methods which scarcely will stand scrutiny prevail In both Houses with re spect to passing private measures, and that in most instances the enactments fail to accomplish the real purpose for which pensions are Intended. Dodging the Big Stick. This afternoon the House of Repre sentatives passed 723, private pension bills. This is the highest record ever made "in a single day, and the large number of bills, coming right upon the heels of the passage and signing of a service pen sion measure, may have been due to the wafting of a zeyhyr from the White House to the Capitol premonitory of the swinging of the big stick upon future legislation of the kind. If the stick is to swing, members want to get the most possible before it strikes. It was only a few days ago, when batch of some 400 private bills was laid upon his desk ready for his signature. that the President seized the opportunity to convey his views upon the matter to the most responsible agents of private pension legilatlon In both Houses of Congress. HOUSE RAILROADS PENSIONS Passes 725 Private Bills, and Takes Fp Naval Bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. A new high record in the way of passage of private pension bills was made by the House to day, when 725 bills were passed In an hour and half. The naval appropriation bill, carrying J!5. 425,000, was taken up and under the order of general debate speeches were made by Lamar of Florida on the rail road rate bill, Higgins of Connecticut favoring the creation of the White Mountain and Appalachian forest reserves and Mondeil of Wyoming on the 'limita tions of Federal authority" and the with drawal of coal lands from entry. Charter for Alaska Railroad. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. The Senate committee on territories today authorized a favorable report on a House bill giving to the AJaska Railroad Company a Gov- Tom L, Johnson, Mayor of Cleve land, Who Question Motive of Rockefeller's 132,000,000 Gift. eminent charter for a road from the head of Cordova Bay to a point upon the Yukon River, near Eagle, Alaska. The railroad will enter the Alaskan copper fields. VENGEANCEOF BLACK HAND Justice of Peace Blown Up for Prose cuting Lawbreakers. PATTERSON, N. J., Feb. 8. Justice of Peace Robert C. Borteso was killed in his office tonight by the explosion of an Infernal machine sent him by express. The office was wrecked and the detonation could be heard for blocks. The Justice has actively aided the police in the capture of Italian law breakers recently. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER ForHfcn. Venezuela n rebela land, to begin revolt. Caatellane may appeal from divorce decis ion. Page 3. Personal feud may cause war In Central America, I'ao 2. Dome tic. Tom Johnson disr-unses motive of Rockefel ler b great Rift. Page 3. Hill says he may double-track Grat North ern P.allroad. Page 1. Harrlman says he may nteW Job on Inter state Commission. Page 2. Mrs. Thaw Continues her Ptory of White's persecution and Jerom protests apainat his being defamed. Page 3. Haskin on America's great internal trade. Page 1. National. Taft sava people favor contract trystem on canal. Page 2. Rooeevelt threatens to veto private pension bills. Page l. Senate dlecuapes railroads high rate for soldiers. Page 2. San Francisco delegation !n Washington to confer with Roosevelt on Japanese ques tion. Page 3. Cubans talk of fighting America because rural guard Is Increased. Page 8. ITulton proposes two dredges for Paclflo Coast. Page 2. roil tic. Murphy loses much money by tight on Mo Cletlan. Page 2. Oregon Legislature. House passes Freeman's hill revoking all perpetual franchises. Page J. Three members bolt joint railroad ooramtt toe. Page . Governor Chamberlain sends special mes sage to Legislature urging It to memor ialize Congress not to repeal timber and stone act. Page T. Baltey accepts Important amendment to di rect primary bill. Page 6. Bill to create Cascade County killed In Sen ate. Page 6. Banking law much amended In committee; original draft not approved. Page 7. Senator Hodges' anti-pass bill amended be yond recpgnltlon. Page 7. Pacific Coast. Olympla Senate declares National Admin istration has been unfair In forest re serve policy. Page 5. Rail communication with Inland Kmplre towns interrupted by washouts. Page 5. Idaho kills proposed local option law. Page 16. Commercial and Marine. Egfe market declines rapidly. Page 15. Selling weakens Chicago wheat prices. Page 15. Halting stock speculation at New York. Page 15. Steamship Gy merle breaks her moorings. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Executive Board takes up Mayor's fight against Council and orders that four captains of police be provided for. Page 11. Dr. C. W. Cornelius buys two lots at Four teenth and Alder for $40,000. Page 10. Cblef Campbell discharges eight members of Portland Fire Department for various offenses. Page 11. February freBhet is now subsiding and all danger Is probably -over. Page 10. Party of 113 'Washington Junketers will ar rive In Portland today. Page 10. O. R- A N. sends out first train for the Flast In the past five days; storm Iocs $500,000. Page 10. f -b . :t I GREATEST FIELD FOR FREE TRADE Some Facts on Vast American Industries. ERIE CANAL SURPASSES SUEZ Enterprise of Single State Equals World's Wonder. FACTORIES OF THE CITIES Troy Makes Collars, Grand Rapids Furniture, Minneapolis Flour, Peoria Spirits, Pittsburg SteeJ. and Portland Lumber. FT FTIEDERIO J. HASKIK. WASHINGTON. Feb. 3 (Special Cor respondence.) Nowhere else on earth is there ao wide a territory of abso lute free trade as In the United States. No other nation produces so much from the ground. No other nation manufactures so much, and no other nation has people who can afford to buy as much or as good things. And our commerce, biK as It is, is frrowlng an the while. To show the increase in trade it is not necessary to take up the big things. Do you know that we spent $15,000,000 for buttons last year? The statiistics show that five concerns in the United States which produce steel pens exclusively have doubled their product in the short space of six years. It now requires upward of $4,000,000 to pay even our annual bill for lead pencils. Erie Canal Costs More Than Suez. The internal commerce of the United States Is the largest trade movement In the world. This may sound big, but it Is easy to prove. All the na tions waited with suspense for news of the completion of the Suoz Canal, yet to enlarge and deepen the Erie Canal, New York State provided $101, 000,000 In a single bond Issue, moro money than was required to build the famed Suez ditch, and nobody outside of New York seemed to think much of It. When the Erie Is deepened and the capacity of its boats increased from 240 to 1000 tons, there Is already more commerce In sight for It than is now passing from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. This is a fact that you ought to cut out and paste In your hat. Furthermore, the estimated cost of the Penama canal, an undertak ing which one nation failed to com plete and which the United States Jibs shouldered. Is but little more than twice as much as it will take to com plete the Erie Canal, for which only one of 46 states will pay. New York is going to do all this to maintain the supremacy of the port of Buffalo as a recipient of grain from Western fields on its way to Now York City and the ports of the world. Troy for Collar Factories. Volumes would be required to give the details of the manufactures of this country, but there are somi instances In which particular cities excel. Troy, New York, manufactures nearly 90 per cent of the collars and cuffs mnde In the United States. There are 17,000 wageearners in that city who make their living by manufacturing our col lars for us. Troy owns the collar busi ness by the divine right of discovery. In 1829 Ebenezer Brown sarted there the first collar factory on earth. The early patterns were tied about the neck with a string. Six years later laun dering was begun in connection, with the business, and the stilt collar and "biled" shirt wore born Into the world of commerce. However, we Americans still use millions of shirts of the "hickory-" variety, which are forever innocent of a laundered collai. Grand Rapids, Mich., Is famed for furniture. Every polite and bowing salesman of household goods in the country has learned to say "Grand Rapids' as if it were a sacred word of magic, like the "open sesame" of All Baba. A unique feature of furniture-making and selling in the Michi gan city is the semi-annual fair which is held there each January and July. It lasts an entire month and Is attend ed by not only thousands of buyers from the different states in the Union, but from foreign countries as well. Grand Rapids owes its supremacy In this line to its proximity to the finest hardwood forests on the continent and to the fact that it "got there first." It has forty-three large factories, which give employment to IS. 000 skilled workmen. Another peculiarity of the Grand Rapids industry Is that most of the workmen are a second gen eration of skilled Dutch artisans who are so regular and orderly in their habits and ways of thinking that they cannot be induced to participate in strikes. Minneapolis for Flour. Minneapolis makes more breadstuffs than any other city in the world. There are twenty-two enormous flour mills In the Minnesota city whose combined dally capacity is equal to grinding the wheat from 26,000 acres of rich Ameri can fields. Their daily output amounts to 75.000 barrels of flour. Still more surprising Is the thought that It re- Concluded on Page 8.)