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VOL. XLVIII. SO. 14,-796.
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, . MAY I, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SCOURGED INTO
DOING SOMETHING
House Leaders Bow Be
fore Roosevelt.
WILL PASS DESIRED BILLS
Threats of Opposition Put
Fear Into Hearts.
THEIR SEATS IN DANGER
President's latest Message Causes
Panic Among Advocates of Inac
tion Fate of Bills In Sen-'
ate Remains Doubtful.
WASHINGTON, April 80. (Special.)
President Roosevelt's latest message
has taken effect in the House of Rep
resentatives. Entirely unexpected to
administration circles, a programme of
legislation embracing many of the fea
tures outlined by the executive has
been inaugurated by the House lead
ers. Fears for the safety of the Re
publican majority in the next Congress
and alarm for the welfare of prom
inent Individual members, if the do
nothing policy be pursued to its logi
cal end, have brought a sudden great
change of heart on the part of those
who control the machinery at the
popular end of the Capitol.
Threats Produce Action.
Intimations from the White House
that members who disregard matters
to which the Republican party vlrtu
, Rlly was committed by the election of
1906 need expect no aid from the
administration for re-election this
year, coupled with what have been con
strued as threats that those who open
ly obstructed the progressive legisla
tion demanded might look for actual
opposition from the same source, have
turned plans upside down. As a result,
the President is likely to get more
action out of the House than he anti
cipated, and possibly from Congress as
a' whole. . i,
In their sudden anxiety and zeal to
go before the country with a. record of
having done something in the House,
the leaders, after a quiet conference,
have framed the following programme:
Programme of the Leaders.
A rlzlng the ways ' and means
com..:.. ice to sit during the Summer re
cess and prepare for tariff revision
next year.
Passage of the Vreeland currency
measure.
Passage of a bill Introduced by
u Payne relative to Injunctions.
Concurrence In the Galllnger bill
1 regulating child labor In the District
'. of Columbia.
Passage of the McCall bill relative to
publicity in the matter of campaign
contributions.
Passage of a liability measure ap
plicable to employes of the Government
In mechanical work.
Strengthen Their Record.
The programme does not embrace
action on the amendments to the anti
trust law which have been urged, and
It does not taken into present consid
eration what the Senate may do with
all the measures outlined In the re
maining weeks of this session. But
the Republican members of the House,
seeing that the President Is keeping
his record straight, think they must
strengthen their own record to some
extent before again going before the
country.
Chairman Payne, of the ways and
means committee, presented a resolu
tion looking to preliminary work on
tariff revision this afternoon.
Injunction Bill Offered.
Two days ago. Just about the time
the President's message was on its way
from the White House to Congress, Mr.
Payne quietly dropped an Injunction
bill into the box, the fact not becoming
known until today.
In addition to these developments,
the administration won a pronounced
and significant victory this evening,
when the House, in committee of the
whole, knocked out the provision of
the appropriations committee for a beg
garly $50,000 to install the expert ex
aminers system of supervising the ac
counts of railroads and put an appro-
prlatlon of $350,000 at the disposal of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
MAY WORK DURING RECESS
Payne Asks Authority for Commit
tee's Tariff Inquiry.
WASHINGTON. April SO. Representa
tive Sercno E. Payne, of New York,
chairman of the committee on ways and
means, today Introduced a resolution au
thorizing that committee to sit during
the recess of Congress and to gather such
information through Government agents
or otherwise as it may see fit looking
toward the preparation of a bill for the
. revision of the tariff.
Discussing the resolution, Payne said
that its purpose was to enlarge the scope
of the powers conferred upon the ways
and means committee by a somewhat
similar resolution introduced by him last
December. "Today's resolution," he said,
"will enable the committee to carry for-
"ward with a freer hand the work already
undertaken in preparation for a revision
of the traiff next year. The committee
is now gathering preliminary information
from Government officials.
"The Intention is to continue this pre
liminary work during the remainder of
the present session and in the coming
recess, but it should be distinctly under
stood that no action on the tariff will
be undertaken until after the elections
next Fail." '
DEBATE OS FORESTS IiIKEIT
Senators Reserve Bone of Conten
tion in Agricultural Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 30. The Senate
had under consideration all of today the
agricultural appropriation bill. Practi
cally all of the committee amendments
were disposed of except those relating to
the forest service, which will be taken
up tomorrow and which are understood
to be likely to provoke debate.
The appropriation for the Bureau of
Soils was reduced by the committee from
$333,460 to $200,000, which is all that was
asked for by the Secretary of Agricul
ture. McCumber argued that the larger
amount was needed.
"I have great admiration for the Sec-
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T Ambaiirador to Turkey, Accuse
I of Suppressing Inaufry Into
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retary," said Teller, "but I venture to
say that his Scotch blood never re
strained him from asking for something
he needed."
The committee's action in reducing the
appropriation was approved.
The reading of the bill and the appro
val of the committee amendments con
sumed practically all of the afternoon.
The bill was then laid aside and will be
taken up tomorrow for discussion of
amendments for the Forest Service,
STANDS PAT NO LONGER
OASXOX YIELDS TO DEMAND OF
PEOPLE FOR ACTION.
Rumblings of Republican Revolt in
Housir Move Speaker Wood Pulp
Bill Causes War.
WASHINGTON. April 30. Representa
tive Townsend, of Michigan, has received
the assurance of Speaker Cannon; con
veyed through Representative Watson, of
Indiana,, the ' Republican whip in the
House, that the Speaker Is .not adverse
to action at this session on an anti
injunction law and a law to amend the
Sherman anti-trust act and . that bills
for the purpose wiil be reported within
a few days from the Judiciary committee.
This action grew out of a step taken
by Mr. Townsend to obtain the signature
of enough ' Republican members to call
a caucus to commit the majority favor
ably on such measures.
The statement was made today by a
prominent Republican ir the House that
a movement is on foot backed by be
tween 30 and 40 members of the majority
to refuse consent to the passage of any
financial bill at this session until assur
ance has been given that something will
be done toward placing wood pulp on the
free list.
MURDER FRENCH TROOPS
Natives Ambush and Kill Detach
ment in West Africa.
PARIS, Apri 30. A dispatch has been
received from Dagana, West Africa, say
ing that a detachment of troops was am
bushed by the natives, while on a march
to Noukchott. Every man in the detach
ment, with the exception of one officer,
was massacred.
CLAWED BY LEOPARDS
Animals Escape From Zoo and In
jure Baltimore Boy.
BALTIMORE, Md., April 30. During
the performance at the Zoo tonight two
leopards Jumped the barrier, landing
among the audience. A boy was badly
clawed about the face and neck and a
stampede of the audience barely averted.
Settlers Lose Fight.
WASHINGTON, April 30. An adverse
report was ordered today by the House
committee on public lands on the Senate
bill providing for four months' leave of
absence during the Winter for all home
stead settlers.
Two for Taft in Arkansas.
NEWPORT, Ark., April 30. Republicans
of the Second Arkansas District today
elected H. H. Meyers and Charles D.
Heney delegates to the National Conven
tion and instructed them for Taft.
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SETTLER'S HOME
1 TO
ATOMS
Family Stunned; Bare
ly Escapes Alive.
TRAGEDYNEARWARDNER.IDAHO
Dynamite Used With Terrific
Effect Cattle Killed.
SUSPECT FINN LABORERS
Whole Community Aroused and Ser
ious Trouble Feared When Ar
rests Made Posse Searches
' for Perpetrators of Crime.
WARDNER, Idaho, April 30. (Spe
cial.) With their home blown to at
oms by the explosion of a large quan
tity of dynamite, themselves cut in
many places and badly stunned by the
shock, and their hired man blown
many feet from the house by the pow
der and badly . Injured, E. A. Carlson
and wife have reached Kingston, eight
miles below Wardner, after a hard
journey down the river.
They relate a harrowing story of
their nearness to death at the hands of
would-be assassins. The Carlsons re
side on a ranch up the North Fork
River and had just completed a large
new house on their ranch. Last even
ing, just after retiring, a terrific ex
plosion of dynamite took place .com
pletely demolishing the house and fur
niture, and throwing the inmates many
feet through the air, injuring and
stunning them. The hired man was
found 50 feet from the house in a
dazed condition. All the animals In
the barn north of the house were
killed or injured and the barn torn
down.
Just who set the blast off has not
been learned as yet, though officials
are at work on the case and expect to
capture the parties soon. It is staced
that some Finns living in the woods
nearby have been making threats
against settlers, and the work of dyna
miting is laid at their door.
Great excitement Is felt all along
the river by the many settlers. Serious
trouble is looked for unless the officers
are strong enough to prevent a riot.
CAR DROPS OVER BLUFF
Conductor and Motomian Have
x Narrow Escape at Tacoma.
TACOMA, May L Car No. 17, in
bound, on the Jefferson-avenue line of
the Tacoma Railway & Power Company,
got beyond contra! of Motorman A. W.
Williams on a steep hill at South Twenty-seventh
street and Jefferson avenue
at 12:36 this morning and plunged oVer a
200-foot embankment, carrying with It
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Conductor H. J. Bond and E2. G. Gordon,
the only passenger aboard.
Mo tor man Williams, as the car failed
to take the curve near the foot of the
hill, was pitched out of the door at the
left side of the car and thrown violently
against a wooden blacksmith shop, but
escaped serious Injury.
-' The conductor and passenger remained
Inside the car as it took its plunge down
the embankment -and rested within a
few feet of the Northern Pacific, tracks.
Bond received ugly scalp wounds, a deep
cut near the outside corner of his right
eye and a terrible shaking up. Gordon
escaped miraculously with only a slight
glass cut upon . the hand. Both Bond
and Gordon were sent to a hospital. The
car turned over once in its descent. . A
wrecking crew has been sent out to de
molish the wreckage.
STEAL $5000 IX DIAMONDS
Tacoma Sneak-Thieves Work Clever
Trick on Frank C. Hart.
TACOMA. Wash., April 80. (Specials
Three clever sneak-thieves today en
tered the Jewelry store of Frank C. Hart,
960 Pacific avenue, and while the pro
prietor, his cashier and a clerk were busy
in the rear of the store, wrapping pur
chases for other customers, one of the
thieves stole about $5000 worth of loose
diamonds, emeralds and rubles that Mr.
Hart had Just placed in a table- drawer
in the display-room near the store en
trance. There were between 175 and 225
loose stones in the lot stolen. It was
the work of but a minute or two. When
Mr. Hart and his cashier returned to
the front of the store, the three men had
left. Mr. Hart immediately thought of
the wallet of gems and suspected some
thing was wrong. Hurrying to the drawer
where the diamonds had been left, his
suspicions were confirmed when he found
the wallet and diamonds missing.
SEIZES HONDURAN CONSUL
GUATEMALA CABINET MINISTER
INVADES CONSULATE.
Insults Flag of Uruguay and Forces
Representative of That
Country to Flee.
CITT OF MEXICO, April 30. It is ru
mored here tonight that Jaun Barrios,
Guatemalan Minister of Foreign Affairs,
at the head of a body of troops late yes
terday entered the Consul-General of
Uruguay's residence and seized Honduran
Consul-General Mlndenez :and his son,
who had taken refuge there during the
day. -
The Uruguayan Consul-General was
absent from home. As soon as he heard
of the arTali;. he fled to the American
legation, a'here he asked for protection,
and he Is now a refugee in the legation
of the .United States.
The capital of Guatamala is described
as being the center of turbulent scenes.
DYNAMITE PHOENIX CLUB
Infernal Machine Placed in Home
of Cincinnati Organization.
CINCINNATI, O., April 30. An at
tempt was made -shortly before mid
night to destroy the palatial quarters of
the Phoenix Club by placing in the main
entrance an infernal machine so con
structed that it would explode at the
time the door was opened.
Frank J. Buegel, a barkeeper, had the
greater portion of his left hand blown
off and the explosion destroyed his hearing.
WILD WEST WHYS
EXTENDING EAST
Train Held Up in Pitts
burg Suburb.
ROBBERS GET MUCH CURRENCY
Express Manager Bound and
Gagged by Them.
NO OBSTACLE TO ESCAPE
Only Eleven Miles From Heart of
Smoky City, Eipress Car Is
Looted Pour Bags of
Money Taken. .
PITTSBURG, April 30. Two train
robbers, who evidently boarded the
New York and St. Louis express, on
the Panhandle Railroad or the Penn
sylvania system, at the Union Station
in this city, when that train . left at
10:60 tonight, ten minutes late, over
powered the express messenger and
got away with four bags of currency,
containing an amount of money as yet
unknown. The robbery was committed
near Walker's Station, a particularly
lonely and isolated spot in a rough sec
tion of country about 11 miles west of
the city.
Too Frightened to Tell.
The train, one of the fastest on the
road, which is not scheduled to stop
between here and Steubenville, O., was
brought to a sudden halt by an emer
gency signal from the bell cord, and
when William Lafferty, the conductor,
went forward to learn the trouble he
found N. Roshen, the Adams Express
messenger, bound and gagged in the
express car and so frightened that he
could not give any connected report of
what had happened. " Except that both
of the robbers were white, the express
messenger is unable to give an identi
fication that would aid the secret serv
ice' forces of the railroad companies
and he city. and county detective force,
all of whom have been called out to
work on the case.
The express safe was open, accord
ing to information received here, and
the messener was making up bills for
packages received from the local of
fices, and the robbery was accom
plished in a very few minutes. Per
sons standing on the station platform
at Carnegie, a short distance from the
place where the robbers left the train,
report having seen the express mes
senger at work in his car and two men
on the platform outside the car.
Bags of Currency Stolen.
It is known that four bags, all sealed
and containing money, were taken
from the car, but nothing is known as
to the amount contained in either bag.
The train is one of the most important
of the road and usually carries much
currency and other express matter from
New York and intermediate stations to
the West.
There Is a dense wood near Walker's
Station, 'where the robbers pulled the
bell and left the train, and into this
wood the robbers disappeared.
TWO HURT IN SMASH-UP
Car Loaded With Rock Runs Away
and Strikes Locomotive.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 30. A heavy
Southern Pacific car loaded with, rock got
beyon. the control of the brakeman,
Charles Symons. while being switched at
Ocean View today and rushed down the
grade Into the city. At Twenty-fifth and
Valencia streets' it struck the engine of
an outbound San Jose passenger train
with terrlfio force. The car was wrecked
and the engine badly damaged. Brake
man Symona was severely Injured. Ex
press Messenger James Herrin, on the
passenger train, was hurt, but not seri
ously. Engineer George Reslng saw the run
away car coming and stopped his train
so as to lessen the force of the shock
ConcreMmsn Kdwsrd B. Vreeland,
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which he knew could not be averted.
Engineer Arnold and his fireman then
jumped for their lives. They escaped with
slight bruises. None of the passengers
were hurt. .
NO NEW CASES OF PLAGUE
Reports From La Guayra Are Now
Encouraging.
CARACAS, Tuesday, April 28. A bul
letin Issued by the Government today de
clares there have been no new cases of
the disease at La Guayra, supposed to be
the bubonic plague, during the past four
days.
. Many Flee From Plague.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. April 30. The
Red D line steamer Philadelphia arrived
here yesterday .from Puerto Cabello.
Twenty of her passengers were sent to
quarantine. The steamer brings reports
of alarming conditions in Venezuela.
Many people are leaving on account of
the plague.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 82
degrees; minimum, 60 degree.
TODAY'S Showers and cooler; southwest
winds.
, - - Foreign.
German Reichstag Insists on measures to
reduce national debt. Page 0.
Japanese warship explodes and 240 lives
are lost Page 6.
Asqulth Indorses Churchill's pledges of Irish
home rule. Page 6,
National.
Chanrj .nt programme for fleet's visit to
CMta cauees rumor of trouble feared.
Page 0.
Senate committee rejects Roosevelt's water
: power policy. Page 6.
Settlers warned off railroad land grant in
Oregon. Page 5.
Norrls continues attack on paper trust.
Page 4. '
Leaders In House agree to Roosevelt's leg
islative programme. Page 1.
Author of anonymous letters on submarine
boats confesses. Page 1.
House votes money to Investigate railroad
accounts. Page 5.
Cannon consents to anti-trust and antl
injunctlon bills when Republicans threat
en revolt. Page 1.
Politics.
Maine Republicans indorse Taft and send
uninstructed delegates. Page 5.
Maryland Republicans for Taft. Page 5.
lometlo.
Robbers hold up express car near Pittsburg
and secure large amount of money
Page 1.
Sports.
Coast League scores: Portland 9. San Fran
cisco 4; Oakland 8, Los Angeles 1
Page 7.
Attell knocks out "Brooklyn Tommy" Sulli
van. Page 7.
Premiums awarded by Judge Thomaa at dog
show. Page 12.
Horse sale end with best day of auction.
Page 14. ' .
Padflo CofMt.
Crocker testifies In Ruefs defenae. Page q.
Prosecution closes evidence in Ford trial
Page 6-
Settler's cabin in Idaho blown to atom:
family barely escapes. Page 1.
NIghtwatchman foils attempt to rob Bridal
Veil post off Ice. Page 1.
Man mourned as dead returns to wife at
Medford after five years. Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Willamette Valley wool drops to 11 cents.
Page 19.
Produce dealers abandon Board of Trade.
Page 19.
Oeneral decline In stock prtcea. Page 19.
Chicago wheat market strong and higher.
Page 19.
Grain exports for April far in excess of same
month of last year. Page 18.
Portland and Vicinity.
Bourne ' not likely to control state conven
tion. Page 12.
Portland excursion leaves tonight for Lewis
ton. Page 15.
Petitions for prohibition election on East Side
believed to be Illegal. Page 18.
Street committee warns contractors that city
work must hereafter be performed on
time. " Page 12.
Charity ball proves great success. Page 14.
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Author of Anonymous
Letters Found.
FRED B. WHITNEY CONFESSES
Official of Concern Rival to the
. Electric Boat Company.
PURPOSES WERE HONEST
(Lawyer Says His Idea Was to Keveal
Improper Methods Vsed by Com
petitor Admits a Lack of
Personal Knowledge.
"WASHINGTON. April 30. The investi
gation into the legislative methods em
ployed by the Klectric Boat Company,
directed by the House of Representa
tives, and a resolution introduced Febru
ary 20, last, by Representative George 1
Lllley, of Connecticut, is ended so far as
open sessions of the special House com
mittee which has been conducting it, ar
concerned.
The closing hours of the case were dra
matic. Frederick Brown Whitney, an at
torney at law, admitted that he was the
author of the anonymous letters of Feb
ruary 13 and February 15 to the repre-
sentatlve of the Detroit Free Press and '
State Senator Frank Edlnborough, of
Michigan, which have figured so prom
inently in the investigation.
In Form ot Affidavit.
The admission of Mr. . Whitney was
made in the form of an affidavit which
was read by his counsel, ex-United States
Senator Thurston, of Nebraska. Mr.
Thurston stated that Mr. Whitney is ill
in the Garfield Hospital In this city and
that it would be impossible for him to
appear before the committee.
In the affidavit Mr. Whitney stated
that from 1901 to 1!KM he was clerk to the
.committee of naval affairs of the House
of Representatives; that shortly there
after he became second vice-president of
the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, wHlch
position he retained until May 19, 1906;
that he is now vice-president of the Lake
Submarine Company, an independent or
ganization. Reasons for Action.
The reason for writing the anonymous
letters were given by Mr. Whitney as fol
lows: "That of his own initiative he under
took what appeared to him at that time
to be not improper methods to have
brought to the attention of Congress the
methods which he had believed had been
pursued by the Electric Boat Company
in their endeavor to secure through Con
gressional action what might be termed
exclusive legislation which vwuld shut
out competition and prevent the Lake
Torpedo Company from competing in th
United States for submarine torpedo-boat
construction."
No Personal Knowledge.
In conclusion the affidavit states that
Mr. Whitney has no personal knowledge
from which he could give any evidence to
sustain any of the charges of Repre
sentative Lilley.
OFFICER FOILS ROBBERS
SUKPniSES MEN IX BRIDAIi
VElIi POSTOFF1CE.
Cash Register Yields $6.10, but
Thieves Flee as Ntglitwatehman
Appears on the Scene.
BRIDAL VEIL, Or., May 1. (Special.)
An attempted robbery of the Postofftce
here was frustrated by Night Watchman
Braun, shortly after 1 o'clock this morn
ing. Two men had entered the store of
Aldrich & Linnett from a rear door and
had removed J6.10 from the cash register,
but had not reached the stamp drawer
and Postofflce safe, when Braun appeared
on the scene and the robbers took flight.
The robbers are believed to be the same
two men who stole a boat at Menominee
yesterday and who were arrested on.
their arrival in town late in the after
noon. The prisoners were confined in an
old apple house, which is doing duty as a
jail, but the men made their escape by
knocking a hole through the roof.
The men were desperate characters.
KILLS MONTANA OUTLAW
Deputy Sheriff Beats "Pigeon-Toed"
Brown on Draw.
GREAT FALLS. Mont., April 30. A spe
cial to the Tribune from Glasgow tells of
the shooting of "Pigeon-Toed" Brown, a
notorious desperado and horse thief.
Sheriff Small, of Valley County, and Dep
uties Calderwood and Bennett had been
hunting for Brown for three days. They
ran across him unexpectedly at a ranch
house, 65 miles north of Glasgow. Brown
knew Calderwood and when he entered
the door,. Brown grabbed up his gun.
The deputy was too quick for him, how
ever. Bending a bullet completely through
Brown's body and slightly wounding an
other occupant of the room. Brown, as
he fell, expressed a desire for paper to
leave some message, but died before this
could be given to him.
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