- . . VOL. XL VI C. 14,697. r PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY .15, 1908. : ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. . . . - 1 ' , - - .... . .. ... . - - - : - ' " GDRTELYOU OUT UNDER BIG CLOUD Asserts Claims as Ri val of Taft. RESIGNATION SOON TO COME Result of Stormy Interview - With Roosevelt. GRIPPE IS READY EXCUSE Keeps Him Away From .Treasury, N'ot From Morgan Will Be Pres- ' ident of Knickerbocker Trust. One Reason for Delay. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. (Special.) Secretary Cortelyou hits resigned. This is the announcement that came coupled with his return from New York tonight. The story current here Is that the presi dency of the Knickerbocker Trust Com pany has bej?n offered to him. As a matter of fact, the best Informa tion obtainable here is that Mr. Cortel you resigned at the close of a stormy private session with President Roosevelt following; on a Cabinet meeting some time Rgo. Mr: Cortelyou's tenure of office, in the Cabinet was made impossible" by the quarrel which he had with " the Presl dent following representations made to Mr. RooBevelt of Mr. Cortelyou's alleged interference with the Taft plan of cam paign. Immediately after that, Mr. Cor telyou left the Treasury Department and went home, explaining that he was sick of the grip. Since then he has recovered from the grip, but has. not been near the department. Claims Equal to Taft's. He ha attended Cabinet meetings, and after each of 'them has teled to persuade the President that he was as much entitled to the support of the administration for the Presidency as Mr. Taft. In each case he hus entirely failed. The result of his failure is his resignation. According to the story current to nght, Mr. Cortelyou resigned some time r ago, his resignation to take effect whenever the President should find a man suitable for the place. The premature publication of It tonight Is not authorised, and Is very likely to be denied. However that may be, the best of authority is that Mr. Cortel you's resignation has been in the President's lian'ds for some time. When Mr. Cortelyou was asked about it tonight, he made a general denial, but would not go Into particulars nor submit to 'cross-questioning. He di rected -the telephone company at 9 o'clock to call him no more until 8 A. M. It has not been possible tonight to get confirmation from the White House. . Well Inough to See Morgan. . Mr. Cortelyou has been absent from the Treasury Department since Decem ber IS. He recovered from Hie grippe so that he could attend a New Year reception, all the cabinet meetings and go to Brooklyn to make a speech. He also received visitors at his home. One of these was J. Plerpont Morgan, who called last week. Mr. Cortelyou de nied that Mr". Morgan's visit had polit ical meaning. It is believed the acceptance of Mr. Cortelyou'e resignation was deferred until he has answered the questions the Senate put to him. Tie is under fire for the methods used by the Treas ury to relieve the financial stringency. The information has been promised by ' noon tomorrow. PLAGUE CAMPAIGN ENDED Only One Xew Case Since Christmas In San Francisco. PAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14. The cam paign for the eradication of the bu bonic plague in San Francisco, whioh lias been conducted by Dr. Rupert Blue and a staff of 15D medical officials of lh United States Marine Hospital, Is almost over. Only one case of plague has occurred in this city since Decem ber 26, and it was a Japanese who was tnl;en ill after arriving from Stege, Contra Costa, where he is believed to have contracted the disease. The local health authorities announce that no further daily plague bulletins will be issued. Since the origin of the plague in this city last May there have been 137 veri fied cases. Of these 17 were verified hy dlnicHl examination and ICO by bacteriological investigation. Of the total number of persons who contract ed this disease, 74 died and 63 rccov ered. Only two cases remain under treatment, and at the Isolation Hos pital there still remain IS suspects under observation. While the plague has practically been stamped out, the sanitary cant' Vaign of Dr. Blue and the local health authorities will continue for some timo to come. MUST EXPLAIN OPINIONS t.oltl Tells of Attitude of Congrega tion to Dr. Hanna, ROME, Jan. 14. Cardinal Gotti, Prefect of the Congregation of the Propaganda, mftde a report today to the Pope of the meeting held yesterday. He declared that the failure to select Rev. Edward J. Hanna, of Rochester, for the office of Coadjutor Archbishop of San Francisco, did not assume anything of a personal nature against the candidate, even in the eyes of tliose who opposed his election. It being generally admitted that he deserves election, but, said Cardinal Gotti, it did not seem advisable, under present cir cumstances, when the struggle against modernism is being carried on so vigor ously, and when other ecclesiastics guilty of the same errors as Dr. Hanna has been accused of have been punished, espe cially in France and Germany. For this reason, he said.- it was deemed indispensable that Dr. Hanna publicly demonstrate that he is not guilty of the charges made against him, explaining his opinions with regard to what he wrote in the American Catholic Encyclopedia and the New York Review, and publishing C . "-, ... v. Cardinal Giro lain I Gotti, Prefect of toe Propaganda, Who Is Conduct ing Inquiry Into Charges Against Dr. Hanna. these explanations, not only in America, but In France and Germany as well. KEEP MIS AT HOME AOKI PISAPPROA'ES OF EMI GRATION' TO AMERICA. Opportunity in Asia, He Tells Hono lulu Japanese Editor Also Opposes Naturalization. HONOLULU, Jan.- 14. A local Japa nese newspaper prints an interview with Viscount Aoki, late Japanese Ambassador to America, in which Viscount Aoki is quoted as follows: 'I do not approve of manual laborers going to America. They, cannot expect, after Japan's Ion? Isolation, to establish, themselves in any Western country. "Destiny and opportunity are in Asia, in Corea and Manchuria." Viscount Aoki also expressed himself as opposed to Japanese seeking naturali sation in America, for the reason that citizenship is only needed by those who contemplate .permanent residence. Split in Japanese Cabinet. TOKIO, Jan. 14. The resignation of the entire cabinet was narrowly averted today. ' The Premier, Marquis Salon jl ten dered his resignation to the Emperor this afternoon at 4 o'clock, but His Majesty declined to receive it, while the alternative resignations of Toshlro Sakatani, Minister of Finance, and Tsadnre Yamagata, "Min ister of Communications, were accepted. Mashisa Matsuda, Minister of Justice, will combine the portfolio of Finance, and Keihara, Minister of the Interior, will combine that of the Minister of Com munications. This leaves the cabinet without any new element and removes the disputants, who have been the dis turbing factors some time past. . 5000 MILES; ONE SPEECH Russian Deputy Says AH He Wants Is Human Sympathy. ' NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Having traveled more than EO0O miles to present in a single address, the cause of popular government in Prussia, Professor Paul Milyoukov con cluded his remarks at 'Carnegie Hall to night with the ' declaration that all he sought on -this' side of the ocean was hu man sympathy. Judging by the applause which greeted these words, the mission of the distinguished legislator was ful filled, so far, at least, as the Civic Forum was concerned. . Professor Milyoukov Is a member of the third Douma for St. Petersburg and lead er of the Constitutional Democrats of Russia, and at the solicitation of the Civic Forum, came from his home to address it tonight upon the topic. "Constitutional Government for Russia." Professor 'Milyoukov arrived on the Car mania yesterday and intended to sail on his return to St. Petersburg tomorrow. He has delayed his departure one day in order that he may accept the invitation of Herbert Parsons, Congressman from J"ew York." to a dinner given in his honor in. Washington tomorrow night. The dinner will be followed by a reception. Secretany Taft and other members of President Roosevelt's Cabinet and a large represen tation from both houses of Congress, it is announced, have accepted invitations to the dinner, and reception. .Professor Milyoukov will sail on Thursday. DISCARDED, SHE KILLS HIM Housekeeper and Sweetheart Con fesses Murder of Ex-Employer. DENVER. Jan. 14. William Otto Shlrey-. Deputy Sheriff and chief clerk to Sheriff Alexander Nlsbet. was found dead "by his young sons this morning at his residence. 2800 Curtis street. Ho had been shot in the breast when Kneeling before a book case. Miss Beatrice Gordon, who was discharged yesterday as housekeeper for the Shlrey family, was arrested at Lafay ette, Colo., today on suspicion. She left the city on a morning train. Miss Gordon broke down this afternoon and confessed that she killed Shlrey when he returned home about midnight last niht. She said she concealed herself in the house last evening and awaited favorable opportunity. They had been sweethearts for six years, she said, and she killed Shirey because he had discarded her. Shirey was a widower. 45 years old, and was a native of Dover Hill, Indlaa. Miss I " " l : Kililllilllll V - - . V 7- : 1 r Gordon is 33 years old. BUILDIHG PROOF UF THAW'S INSANITY Littleton Succeeds De spite Obstacles. IRRATIONAL AS SCHOOLBOY Three Cousins and an Aunt in Insane Asylums. SCRAPE AT MONTE CARLQ Xurse Says He Wandered Away in High Fever Teacher Recalls ' His Peculiarities After a' Lapse of Twenty Years. NEW YORK. Jam 14. The attorneys for Harry K. Thaw, at his trial today, began relentlessly to build up the case of legal insanity which they interposed in. his behalf as a. defense for the killing of Stanford White. The two principal wit nesses of the day were Charles H. Koeh ler, of Winona , Minn., who acted as in structor to Thaw in the Wooster (Ohio) University, in 1S86. and Mrs. Amy Gro zette, of San Mateo, Cal.. who attended Thaw as a trained nurse at Monte Carlo, in 1897. They both told of the young man's eccentricities, and declared that his manner always was Irrational. Dr. John T. Deemar. of Kittanning. Pa., one of the Thaw family physicians, also was heard, as were the attendant physicians of three institutions for the insane where members of the Thaw family of botn the paternal and maternal sides were con fined. Shuts Out Much Evidence. District Attorney Jerome, by unexpect edly invoking the sacred privilege of physician and patient, blocked much of the testimony, as to unsoundness of mind in the Thaw family, but the calling of witnesses and the questions they were allowed by the court to answer, left the desired impression upon the jury. Mr. Jerome explained that the law compelled him to object to such testimony without an express waiver from the patient Even the nnrse : who attended Thaw wsie not allowed to testify until Thaw personally had made a waiver of the confidential privilege In open court. Thaw's Crazy Ancestors. Dr. Deemar. testified he treated Thaw for St. Vitus dance and measles. He re peated this testimony and told also of at tending members of the Copley family. the mother's branch of the defendant's antecedents. Dr. Deemar said a brother of the older Mrs. Thaw became an Imbe cile. Dr: C. G. Wagner, of BInghamton. N. Y, and Dr. Smith. Jeliiffe, two alienists of the- defense, were present. -Dr. Deemar was asked as to the pres ent mental condition and whereabouts oj John Ross, a paternal cousin of the defendant, but Mr. Jerome objected on the grounds that the doctor obtained his in formation while acting in a professional capacity and it would require a waiver from his client before he could testify. Justice Dowling sustained the objec tion over the protest of Mr. Littleton. On cross-examination Mr. Jerome drew out the fact that Henry Copley, while in capacitated for . mental work, was never confined In an asylum. . .. Dr. William S. Butler, of Roanoke. Va., former assistant physician at the Western Lunatic Asylum, Staunton,- Va., where .Horace Thaw, a paternal cousin of Harry K. Thaw, was confined, was asked as to Horace Thaw's condition up to the time of his death. Mr. " Jerome again objected Cyril Arthur Pearson, isni(U -news- 4 paper Macnate, Who Has Just I Secured Control of tlio London I Tftmee. and was sustained. The District Attorney also successfully objected to the intro duction in evidence of the commitment papers prepared when Horace Thaw was admitted to the asylum on the ground that It was hearsay. Mr. Littleton took an exception to the ruling. . Cousin iu Insane Asylum. Dr. L. 8. Foster, of Norfolk, Va., for merly of the Eastern State Hospital for the Insane at Williamsburg, Va., where William S. Thaw, another cousin of the defendant, was confined, next was called to the stand. Dr. Foster was asked to Identify the records of theaasylum as to the admit tance of William S. Thaw,, and did so. When the record was offered in evi dence, 'Mr. Jerome objected on the ground that it was incompetent 'estimony, and was sustained. t " Mr. Littleton here recalled Dr. Deemar, and succeeded. In circumventing the for mer objections of the District Attorney as to the case of John Ross. Dr. Deemar said he ceased to be Ross' physician after the latter had been committed to the Hope Institution for Feeble-minded. He was allowed to tell of Ross' mental condition, and declared it was unsound. Irrational as a Schoolboy. ' Mr. Koehler was asked to tell his im pressions of Thaw as a. boy of 16 or 17 years of age. Harry Thaw always had a nervous gait and walked jerkily, he said. "His eyes were striking, ' his complexion anemic His manner in the classroom was ab stracted and indifferent. His eyes usually had - a fixed, staring gaze. There was (Concluded on Page 3.) i ' I V J " - I 1-: X&Z J? f ? I 4 Luiiii iiniTiTMirili M7iriiiliiTfi'iftWiiiiiirriiiVii-r I I RETURNING JUSTICE LIFTS ALOFT TOIL DEAD 1 70 AT- DOYERTOWN Every Family in Com munity Mourns. HALF CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED Bodies Rapidly Recovered From Wreckage. TRUE ORIGIN OF THE PANIC Caused by Explosion of Calcium Lights of Moving Picture Show. Frenzied Rush to Stage Upsets the Footlights. BOYERTOWN, Pa., Jan. 14. When nightfall put a stop to the work of recovering the dead from the ruinj of the Rhoadeg Opera-House, where last night's holocaust occurred, the official roll 6f victims numbered 167. Whether any more bodies are buried beneath the ruins cannot be positively stated, but it is the belief of those who had charge of the grewsome work that all of the dead have been removed, and that the total list of victims will not go over 170. The ratio of women and girls to men and boys is about 9 to 1. Work of identification will not be begun until tomorrow, as most of the bodies are still lying in a confused Btate at the four Improvised morgues. Every Family Lost in Mourning. The population of the place is about ! 2500, and the disaster paralyzed the town, and the people are going about dazed. It is safe to say that everybody in the place, either lost one or more relatives or was intimately acquainted with those who died In the fire. In several cases, whole families were wiped out. It was almost daylight, this morning before the flames were extinguished and rescuers were able to enter the ruins to remove the dead. The morn ing was bitter-cold and by the time the benumbed and exhausted firemen began the task of disentangling the mass of burned beams and twisted iron the en tire ruins were coated with ice and there was danger of the walls falling. The work was slow at first and It was 7 o'clock before the first body was re moved. Recovering tlie Bodies. Coroner Strasser, of Reading, who reached the scene shortly after midnight last night, had a detail of men ready to tag the bodies and keep a record of the description of every corpse removed. Tlje bodies were so badly burned, however, that there was little to describe them by, 'and not half of the victims will ever be identified. The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad HER SCALE! " Company offered men to help, and soon had two carloads of laborers and carpen ters on the ground. The work of recover ing bodies then moved so rapidly that victims were being taken from the ruins at the rate of two every five minutes. Origin of the Fire. For several months thes Sunday school pupils of St. John's Lutheran Church had been rehearsing the "Scottish Reforma tion," and when the curtain rose at 8 o'clock the . opera-house was thronged with representative citizens of the bor ough.. There were about 440 persons in the house. Including performers. The drama was well played and the piece worked smoothly for an amateur produc tion. The second half of the play, in 1 F f "IB ' i Ex-Governor J. C. W. Beckham, of . .. Kentucky, Whose Election as Sena tor ! Blocked by Democratic Re volt. which the students from Glasgow Uni versity and the Puritans marched to Lelth to meet Queen Mary, had Just been reached. The people taking part had fin ished their songs, and. Incidental to the drama, a number of pictures were shown by a moving picture machine. This was operated by H. W." Fisher, . of Carlisle, Pa., who used calcium lights. While he was operating the machine there was a flash and a loud report, and the people sitting in the rear near the machine arose' in fright and ; rushed toward the stajfe. Their action caused a panic in the audience, and many others, thinking the building was afire, rushed toward the stage. The young people who were taking part in the' performance mo tioned to them to keep back and resume their seats, but the frightened spectators attempted to climb upon the stage. One of the young people on the stage, more excited than the others, made a motion as If to repel them, and in his excitement overturned a coal oil lamp. It fell with a crash Into the auditoruim and exploded. In an Instant the stage floor was 'ablaze and frightened people surged toward the rear again. The youthful actors fled from the stage and managed to escape, clad in their stage garments. Flames Start Stampede. The crowd in thj front of the auditor ium fled to the rear and was met by a crowd from . the rear, 'frantic to escape from the peril of the burning picture ma chine in the rear. The mob became panic stricken and strong men beat down women and children in their efforts to get out of the building. Frank Callen, a blacksmith, seized his (Concluded on Page 4.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 4 degrees; minimum, 39. TODAY'S Occasional ralo; southwest winds. Foreign. Member of German Reichstag attributes financial crisis to Roosevelt's attack on trusts. Page 7. Katlonal.- Tawney warns Washington delegation that Seattle fair bill will bo opposed. Page 2. Roosevelt fixes date for evacuation of Cuba. Pago 2. Senate turns down four Ohio postmasters at Foraker's dictation. Page 2. Taft gives new Teason for voyago of fleot. Pago 4. Officers of fleet feated at Rio. Page 4. Aoki opposes Japanese emigration Page 1. Polities. Cortelyou offers resignation after stormy Interview with Roosevelt. Pago 1. Deadlock In Kentucky Benatorshlp fight. Page 4. . . Domestic. " SDirks ooens Nevada Legislature with rec- . ommendation of garrison at Goldneld and State police. Page 5. . Ship Arthur Sewall given up as lost. Page 2. Much evidence of Thaw's Insanity given. Page 1. .. Girl's infatua'tlon for saloonkeeper ends In suicide. ',' P,age 2. National Woolgrowers' Association expected to denounce Roosevelt's policy' of ' leas ing range. Page 4. Total deaths by Boyertown disaster about 170. Paz 1. Pacific Coast. No decision reached on Ruef s Immunity, Judge Dunne refusing to sign agree ment. Pace 5. Idaho farmer turn erring wife and lover out into snow cioinea umj iu . ae robes. Page . Eugene wants 1100,000 for Federal building. Page 0. Heavy criminal docket In Umatilla County. Pase 8. Commercial and Marine. Condition of Eastern market for Oregon prunes. Pago 15. Wheat firm at Chicago on reports of small' reserve stocks. Page 15. Abundance of funds promotes .activity In stock market. Pago 15. Local exporters announce for charters for grain loading. Page 14. Portland and- Vicinity. Merchants National Bank will go into re ceivership If depositors do not promptly sign time certificates. Page' JO. State Horticultural Society buries factional rivalry in Interests of fruit culture. Page 14. O. R. 4 N. breaks up gang of "boxcar rat tlers." Page 7. T. C. Becker arrives to help prosecute Ore gon land-fraud cases. Page 11. United Railways may be permitted to oper ate cars In Portland before completion of Interurba'n lines. Page 10. Powers of the Port of Portland to be en larged. Page 1. Local bankers favor subtreasury bill. Pago 5. Heney refuses to deny rumors of confession and Immunity In Hall case. Page 11. PORTTO CONTROL PILOTSANDDUTIES LargerPowersPlanned for District. INITIATIVE IS TO BE INVOKED Present Commission's Author ity to Be Extended. MEASURE A SUBSTITUTE'. Instead of Creating Port of Colum bia, Port of Portland Will Bo Given Greater Latitude In Regulating the Service. Control of pilotage and towage between Portland and the. sea, to be vested. In the Port of Portland Commission, Is the purpose of an amendment to the charter . of the port district proposed by the navi- ! gation committee of the Chamber of , Commerce for enactment under the ini- tiative at the June election by the voters of the district. The Port Commission j row exercises only the function of itn- ; proving the river channel from this city j to the sea. Pilotage on the oar is con- trolled by an Astoria commission, ap-, pointed by the Governor. Pilotage in the river Is performed by pilots licensed by the United States. Ship towage on the bar and in the river is performed by : boats of the O. R. & N. The proposed amendment to the dls trict charter will consolidate control of J pilotage and towage, on the bar and in j the river, in the Port Commission, with- out abolishing the Bar Pilot Commission at Astoria, or attempting to repeal the I state law that ordains compulsory pilot-' age and fixes rates of pilot service. . . Abandon Port of Columbia. This plan of amending the port charter; Is & substitute for the creation of . the ; Port of Columbia, which citizens of Clat-' sop County defeated In the Supreme Court. The Port of Columbia was estab lished by an act of the Legislature, passed at the last Bession, and embraced Multnomah, Columbia and Clatsop Coun-1 ties. The Supreme Court held the act in valid, on the ground that the port dis trict was in the nature of a municipality ' which new amendments to the constitu tion forbid the Legislature to create. The Port of Columbia was to be gov erned by a commission of five members, i three from Multnomah, one from Clatsop, and one from Columbia. The Commission was to control pilotage and towage at t the mouth of the Columbia, but not be tween Portland and Astoria. This would : have abolished the State Pilot Commis sion, controlled by two Astoria members, ! transferred control of the bar pilots from I Astoria to Portland, and given control of bar towage to Portland, thus consolidat ing two services on the bar which are in timately connected, and which should be conducted for the aid of each.-other in the Interest of Columbia River commerce, centered In Portland. 9500,000 Bonds Authorized. The new plan is more desirable than the other, so far aa Portland interests are concerned, since unwilling Clatsop County will not be -yoked up with Multnomah. The powers of the Port of Portland are to be extended to the building, or purchasing, or leasing of river towboats, bar tugs and pilot boats. The port Is to be authorized to raise I50),000 for these purposes by the sale of 6 per cent bonds, which shall be paid within ten years, one tenth each year. The port commission is to be authorized to levy an additional -mlll tax, which will supply a reve nue of about $100,000 on the last assessment, and 'whatever other tax as shall be needed to pay interest on bonds and retire bonds in the annual installments. The equipment needed will be prob ably three river towboats, two bar tugs, and one pilot b.oat run by steam. The Port Commission wilt be author ized to fix a combined charge for pilot age and towage of sailing vessels between the sea and Portland; alio to fix a charge for pilotage of steam vessels, but this rate "shall in no respect exceed the charges fixed by the State of Oregon fori pilots upon the bar pilotage grounds and upon the river pilotage grounds upon the' Columbia and Willamette Rivera." TheJ Port of Portland w(U hot be authorized; to cut under the pilot rates now fixed by! law, but will be able to control pilotage by its authority over bar and river tow age. For these two classes of service the Port Commission will fix a combined rate.' Pilots to Use Port's Boats. The bar pilots will find it to their ad vantage to use the Port's tugs and pilot boat for approaching vessels. For this privilege the pilots now pay to the O. R.: & N. tugs one-tenth of their earnings, and it is believed they will pay the Port that much, or more. Or, the pilots may con sent to take salaries from the Port, in lieu of the fees which the law now allows them. After enactment of the amendment to the Port charter,, the Legislature will be called upon to repeal the laws fixing pilotage rates and ordaining compulsory pilotage. The bill will be initiated by signatures of not less than 1400 legal voters In the Port of Portland district, that number being 8 per cent of the vote cast by the' district for Supreme Judge in June, 1906. (Concluded on Pago 5.)