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VOL. XL, VIII. XO. 14,817. PORTLAND, OEEGON, TUESDAY, MAT 26, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. COMPLETE LINE ELGIN TO JOSEPH OKLAHOMA CITY WANTS ROUGHER T PRINCESS ELOPES -WITH AUTO MAN AMELIA IiOCTSE, OF BOHEMIA, SHOCKS VIENNA. ESSIE MRS. VANDERBILT GRANTED DIVORCE HUSBAND GUILTY OF MISCON DUCT OX RAILROAD TRAIN. EXPRESS RATES FOR METHODISTS GURRENGY BILL OREGON TOO OFFERS PORTLAXD PREACHER BIG INCREASE IN SALART. - 1'iO JEW BISHOPS HIGH Orders to Push Work . With All Speed. RICH COUNTRY THROWN OPEN Will Make Profitable Feeder for 0. Ft. & N. $450,000 IS SET ASIDE This Amount Estimated Necessary to Complete Jtoad from 3Iouth of Ivookiug GLass Kiver Into Jo seph Farmers Are 111 a ted. WORK RESUMED ON HARMMAX LINKS. Haniman projects in h state are bHng taken up again after betas? dropped laet Fall, whan the financial stringency occurred. Work baa already been resumed on the following line: Umatilla Central, Pendleton to Pilot Rock, 15 miles, completed ' and In operation. Ilwaco Railroad Company, Megler Lending, on liower Columbia, to Il waco, 15 mllea, under construction. Rlparla-Lewlstoa extension of O. R. fc N.. HI par la to Lewi 8 ton, Tl mllea, sow being completed. Rebuilding- of main Una of O. R. A X. between Trout dale and Bonne ville, 23 mllea, now under construc tion. Wallowa extension, Elgin to Joseph, 63 miles, work to start Immediately. Orders -were issued yesterday by Gen eral Manager O'Brien, of the Haniman lines, tn this territory for the Immediate . resumption of construction work, on the Wallowa extension, the railroad under way from Elgin, in ta heart of the, Grande Ronde Valley, to Joseph, in Wal lowa County. The engineering1 depart ment was Instructed to assemble forces of workmen immediately ami-rush the work with all possible speed. It U ex pected that the line will be in operation into Joseph within the coming three months. The line Into the mountains of the Wal lowa country was started over two years tvgo, but owing to the difficulties of con struction and the fact that little could be done in Winter, together with the re cent financial stringency, the work has been delayed from time to time until the people of the section to be opened up despaired of ever realizing: any ben efita from the projected line. The road Is hard to build and is expensive, much of the grade having to be constructed across mountains. Swift streams along the route that rise suddenly, washing out the grade already built, have added to the difficulties encountered by the en gineers. $-150,000 to Complete Line. But General Manager O'Brien says the road will now be completed without 'de lay. It is estimated that $460,000 will be required to finish the line into Joseph, and this sum has been placed at Mr. O'Brien's disposal. Weather conditions are such that nothing need be feared from that source any longer during the season, and there will be no interruptions until trains are running into Joseph. About $t00,000 has been spent already by the Ilarriman interests on the Wal lowa extension. The grade has been prac tically finished for the greater part of the way and 16 miles of the track is being operated. The extension will be 63 miles long. The principal work that remains to be done Is to lay the track for the remainder of the distance, build a comparatively small amount of grade and put in a number of bridges. The rails were laid to the north of Looking Glass River when work on the line was ordered stopped last Fall. "We shall, put on between 300 and 400 men." said 5eneral Manager O'Brien, "depending upon the number we can work on the job to the best advantage. Forces now engaged in finishing up the new Rlparla-Lewis ton line will be taken over to the Elgin work, as there is but little more to be done on the Riparia cutoff. The Klgin extension will be com pleted this Summer. Opens Up Rich Country. The road into the rch Wallowa coun try follows the Grande Ronde and Wal lowa rivers for almost the entire dis tance from Blgin to Joseph. The new line will reach the cities of Lovely, Wal lowa, titter prise and Joseph. The ex trusion will be one of the richest feeders uf the O. R. & N., of which It is a branch. It will enter and develop a splendid country, which is now given over .to stook raising almost exclusively on ac eyiuit of the impossibility of getting ag ricultural products to outside markets, l attle, sheep and hogs are raised In large numbers In the valleys of Wallowa t'ountyand are driven out to the rail roads. But it Is impossible at present ti market the grain and other products that can be raised tn that fertile region if an outlet were only given. With the completion of the railroad from Blgin, the hopes of the farmers of that country for years will be realised. tensive agricultural sections will be opened up and Wallowa County can sup port many times lis present population. Its remoteness from the outside world lias long acted as a handicap in keeping settlers out, but with this last bar to Its development removed It will become one of the most productive sections of ' the whole state. But Pastor of White Temple Is Loyal to His Present Congre gation. OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla.. May 25. (Special.) Dr. J. 'Whiteemb Brougher. pastor of the "White Temple, in Portland. Or., may receive a call to Oklahoma City. The pulpit or the White Tem ple in Oklahoma City Is soon to be- va cant, ttev. W. B. Hlnson, the" present pastor, is to so to San Diego, Cal. Dr. ; - ' , - ; . - 4 j-jf sr : 1 m St " I Rev. William A. Quayle, of Chi cago, Elected Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Chan-elk Brougher has been approached by influ ential members of the Oklahoma church and offered a call at almost double the salary he gets In Portland. He preached Sunday night in the First M. EL Church. Oklahoma City, to an audience that packed the great auditorium to its doors. In introducing him the pastor. Dr. Urcha, said "I came near being pastor of the Grace M. B. Church, Portland, Or., once. Bishop McCabe notified me that I was booked for that field, and I signified my willing ness to go. But by a turn of our ecclesi astical machinery I was sent here and Dr. Clarence True Wilson was sent to Portland, Or. If I em to . have Dr. Brougher as a co-laborer, we will have to Join with the Baptists in setting him to come to Oklahoma City. If I had the ap pointing power, I would make him pastor of the White Temple here, for I like his way of doing tilings ana Oklahoma City needs him." In responding Dr. Brougher said: "I appreciate these kind words and all the courtesies shown me by the people of Oklahoma City, but to me there is no greater place on earth than Portland, Or. It is a beautiful city with magnificent possibilities. I love my work and my people there. I see no reason why I should make a change. I hope you will all become Baptists next year and come out to Portland with the Northern Bap tist Convention in May. 1909." Rumor also connects Dr. Broughers name with a. great church in New York City and another in Boston, both of which pay $10,000 a year salary. ASSAILS SEATTLE r FAIR Texas Congressman Says Country Is Weary of Expositions. WASHINGTON, May 25. The confer ence report on the sundry civil appro priation bill today was . agreed to by the House in its entirety. The rjort furnished the text for a ndStber of speeches from the Democratic side, charging extravagance in apprecia tions. The appropriation of $760,000 for the Alaska-Yukon-Paclfic Exposition at Seattle was particularly attacked by Slayden, of Texas, who said that the people were suffocated with exposi tions. They were, he declared, but" a trans parent effort to boom real estate at the expense of the United States. He pointed out the international exposi tion held annually at San Antonio, which, he said, was supported entirely by private subscription. WHITELAW SHEDS TEARS Denies Killing May Sapp and Says It 'Was Suicide. IOLA, Kas., May 25. Samuel White law, testifying in his own behalf in his trial on the charge of murdering Miss May Sapp, today denied positively that he killed the girl, declaring that she had committed suicide because he had told her their relatons must cease. Later he, for the first time during the trial, showed emotion, tears coming to his eyes as he swore that when he pre pared his first written statement it was to protect his name and his family. PRISON FOR BLACKLISTING Oklahoma Legislature Puts Ban on Open Shop and Pinkertons. . GUTHRIE, Okla., May 25. The House and Senate today passed a bill which provides for a penitentiary term for any employer who refuses work to an employe on account of the tatter's Be longing to a labor union. The bill also prohibits Plnkerton de tectives from working in the state. Quayle and Smith Are Elected by Conference. PAGET LOSES LIQUOR FIGHT Anti-Saloon League's Meth ods Gain Approval. . PROHIBITION GIVEN SNUB Appeal Allowed in Famous Heresy Case Bishops to Be Grand Jury. Black and White Scretarles of Freedmen's Aid. BALTIMORE, Md., May 25. Rev. Dr. William A. Quayle, pastor of St: James Church, Chicago, and Rev. Dr. Charles W. Smith, editor of the Pittsburg Chris tian Advocate, were chosen bishops on the tenth and twelfth ballots respectively in the M. E. General Conference today. A 18 th ballot was taken and the result is said to have been no election. The majority report of the committee on temperance was adopted. It was the recommendation in the majority report Indorsing local option and the anti-Saloon League as the only means to reach the desired, result that caused the division in the committee and brought out two reports. Governor J. Frank Hanley of Indiana, chairman of the temperance committee, led the majority forces with P. A. Baker, National superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League,, and J. K. Shields, of Chicago, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois, as his chief lieutenants. All three made stirring speeches favoring local option. Only 19 for Prohibition. Rev. Dr. A. B. Leonard, from the Cin cinnati conference, and Chancellor J. R. Day, of Syracuse University, stood in the front rank of the advocates of the mi nority report, which was offered by B. Lee Paget, of Portland, - Or. Finally the minority was tabled and the majority 'recommendations overwhelm ingly adopted amid tumultuous applause. The minority vote was 19. A matter of importance in which there is widespread ' interest will be laid be fore the conference by the court of last appeal in the Methodist Episcopal Church in a report of the Judiciary committee sustaining Professor Hinckley G. Mitch ell, who was declared a heretic by the Central New York Conference, of which he was a member, and was for the same alleged reason deposed from the chair of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis In the Boston University School of The ology some time ago. Professor Mitchell ranks high among Hebrew scholars, and his trial on charges of heresy was a noted one. Condemned Without Hearing. The charges grew out of certain pub lished writings of his, more particularly his book. "The World Before Abraham." A committee of the Central New York Conference instituted the charges, re ported Professor Mitchell guilty, and the report was adopted by- the conference, without, it is said, the accused having been given an opportunity to defend him self. From this action of his con- (Continued on Pass 3.) l WHERE IS SENATOR BOIRXEI " . HERE HE 1ST I . .'........... ... 4 Is Sister of Prince Ela von Furstcn- v. I burg, Head of Koenlgshof Branch-of Family. :. t -1 VIENNA, May 25. The Austrian Princess whose elopement a few days ago caused a great sensation in Vienna, Is said here to be Princess Amelle Louise, sister of Prince Ela von Furstenburg, head of the Koenlgshof "branch of the Furstenburg family. It is declared that she' ran away with a man named Nozian, the local agent of an automobile company. The police are actively at work trying to lo cate the fugitives. The Princess is 24 years old. The family has large hokltag ih Bohemia - and a residence Jn. Vienna, Kosian was formerly a cavalry lieu tenant in the Austrian army. The cou ple met at CaT-lsbad in the Spring of 1907. The princess has a large fortune in her own right and as she has at tained her majority, the family cannot prevent the marriage. HITS STATE COMMISSION Interstate Board Declines to Recog zine Rules of Ohio. COLUMBUS, O., May 25. In letters addressed to general traffic managers and general freight agents of the various railroads operating In Ohio, the Inter state Commerce Commission has declined to recognize as lawful the car-service rules promulgated by the State Railway Commission. The Interstate Commerce Commission advises the railroads that some weeks ago it Issued an order that it declined to permit state commissioners to take jurisdiction over demurrage and car service on Interstate business, and, as the Ohio rules contain orders relating to the waiving of car-servtoe delay by reason of strikes, washouts, etc, on in terstate shipments, it must decline to recognize them as lawful, and the roads are requested to re-issue their car-service schedules in regular form. CALLS DOCTOR; KILLS SELF Seattle Woman Sends Daughter on Errand, Then Uses Pistol. SEATTLE, Wash., May 25. (Special.) Mrs. Clara DeHaven Folley, 42 years of aa-, committed suicide at her home, 201 Fi-st John street, this afternoon by shooting hrself . tiirough - thS head with a revolver. Four weeks ago Mrs. Polley was stricken with nervous prostration resulting from continued insomnia. Mrs. Polley is a widow and is survived by one daughter, Florence, 18 years of age. This afternoon Mrs. Polley called her daughter Florence and sent her to town to make some small purchases. On her way to the city she was told to call on a physician and send him to the house. The doctor went to the house at 2:30 o'clock. Hearing no response when he rang the bell, he walked in. He went to Mrs. Policy's room and found her dead. MINER BLOWN TO PIECES Experiment With New Explosive Proves Deadly to Morris Power. ROSSLAKD, B. C, May 25. (Special.) Morris Power, a mine ' foreman, was killed in the Center Star Sunday. Power and three working-men were engaged in experimenting with a new kind of pow der, the Armstrong, which must be made up Into sticks or charges at the mine. Power had placed one stick in a hole and was placing another in and tamping it, when the charge exploded. Power was killed instantly. His body was ter ribly mangled. The other men received injuries. SENATOR BOURNE'S STRENUOUS WORK IN Drastic Measures Are Adopted in Congress. BUILDING BILL IS HELD UP Leaders Try to Force Recalci trants Into Line. COMPROMISE IS ARRANGED Leaders Agree to Combine Bond-Se. cured and Asset Currency, but Opponents Threaten Filibuster. Bartholdt Uses Big Stick. WASHINGTON, May 25. Currency leg islation was the chief topic among lead ers of the Senate and House today. The revival of the discussion came unexpect edly and led to all sorts of rumors of probable agreement between conferees on the Aldrlch-Vreeland bill looking to the enactment of a measure at the present session. . - Many Republican members of the House do not seek to disguise their fear that, if Congress should adjourn with out passing an emergency currency bill, the failure to take action would be dis astrous to the majority. This fear was emphasized by ' Bartholdt of Missouri, chairman of the House committee on public buildings, who declared that he would not submit his conference report on the omnibus bill until financial legisla tion had been assured. His action holds the buildings bill, in which 316 members of the House and many Senators are in terested, over the head of any "recal citrant group or faction" that may be op posed to an agreement on emergency currency. Many members of both branches of Congress believe that the impression given out by many leaders that there is no hope for action at the present ses sion, is for the purpose of arousing the country to demand action before adjourn ments If such a demand 'should come now the result would be in doubt. Combine Two Systems. Elarly in the day the report was cir culated in the House that there was a movement on foot to dovetail the Aid rich and Vreeland bills, retaining the principal features of each. The effect of this course would be" to permit Indi vidual banks to take out emergency cir culation on Government, state, county or municipal bonds, or as an alternative proposition to take out emergency cir culation on commercial paper to be guar anteed by banks of a clearing-house as sociation, as provided by the Vreeland bill. It was the idea in the House that this provision could be amended so as to be acceptable to the Senate by denning the character of the securities, such as proscribing that they shall have two endorsers and not run more than 90 days. It was suggested further that the emerg ency circulation measure, should not operate for more than three years and that in the meantime there could be a general revision of. the currency and banking laws. No sooner had this scheme for a com promise reached the Senate than the Democratic leaders served notice on Sen Continued on Page 10. WASHINGTON. Court Allows Wife, .but Not Hus band, to Marry Again No Pro vision for Alimony. NEW YORK. May 25. Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbllt was granted an in terlocutory decree of divorce from Al fred Gwynne Vanderbllt by Justice O'Gbrman in the Supreme Court pn the report of the referee. Justice O'Gor man confirmed the report of the referee that Mr. Vanderbllt had been guilty of misconduct, and directed that Sirs. f iiitism L Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbllt, - Granted Absolute Divorce From Alfred t; wynne Vanderbllt. Vanderbllt be granted a Judgment of absolute divorce. The divorce decree provides that Mrs. Vanderbllt may marry during the lifetime of Mr. Vanderbllt, but pre vents him from marrying during her lifetime. The custody of William H. Vanderbllt, the only child of the mar riage, was awarded to Mrs. Vanderbllt. No provision was made for alimony In the decree, nor was the subject allud ed to in the report of the referee. The referee's report developed that testimony had been secured from Mr. Vanderbllt's valet concerning the mls .conduct of his employer on a railway trt.in last October in Virginia. Mr.'- Vanderbllt was Miss Elsie French, daughter Of the late Francis Ormond French, president of the Man hattan Trust Company and a director of several railroads. She wag married in January, 1800, to Mr. Vanderbllt, who had inherited more than $60,000,000 from his father, the late Cornelius Vanderbllt. The crisis developed on April 1, when Mrs. Vanderbllt filed an action for di vorce. The couple, it was reported, had not been living together for sev eral months. Mr. Vanderbllt Is now In England. UNRULY TONGUE PUNISHED Arizona Miner Goes to Prison lor Tirade Against Court. PRESCOTT, Ariz., May 25. District Judge Sloan today sentenced Albert Ryan, secretary of the Jerome Miners Union, to one year in the penitentiary for assaulting Frank Burns, a Jerome mining man, with a pistol.. When asked why sentence should not be passed, Ryan arose and charged the court and jury with being controlled by capital. Judge Sloan said that if Ryan had not indulged,' in his tirade, he would have let him off with a fine, but after such an arraignment, he declared, the dignity of the court and Jury must be protected. BANKS FOR NORTHWEST. Will Be Opened at Harrisburg, Or., and Mabton, Wash. OREGONIAN' NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 25. The application of A. T. Carlson, J. C. Sander, William Lemay, T. W. Howell and S. P. Flower to or ganize the First National Bank of Mab ton, Wash., with $25,000 capital was to day approved by the Controller of the Currency. , The First National Bank of Harris burg, Or., has been authorized to betrin business with $25,000 capital. John Som- merville is president; W. H. Dale and J. G. Sanders, vice-presidents, and G. J. Wilhelm, cashier. The Controller has approved the con version of the Bankers & Lumbermen! Bank of Portland into the Lumberman! National Bank of Portland with $250,000 capital. ACCEPT A CUT IN WAGES Quarter of Million English Workmen Agree to Return. LONDON, May 25. A general ballot of men Involved in the shipbuilding strike which began In January was held to day and resulted in favor of accepting the terms asked by employers. Work will be resumed May 29. Fully a quarter of a million workmen were Indirectly Involved. The men were opposed to a reduction of wages. Meat Inspectors Confer. CHICAGO, May 25. More than 100 meat Inspectors were present today at the opening of a conference which considered the enforcement of the new meat lnspc tion law. Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson Is directing the deliberations of the conference, which is expected to con tinue for three days. V mmvm I - "A t pail iiiiiisiiiiiii I Railroad Commission Gathers Statistics. Will DEMAND A REDUCTION Mass of Evidence Against Two . Express Companies. SCALE OF CHARGES UNJUST Statistics Gathered by Rate Clerk Miller Show That Oregon Shtp pers Pay. Double What Is De manded in Other States. RATKS IN OliKOON AJiU IX OTHER STATES. Or. Mo. Tex. Well-Frgo Bxprera merchandise rate for 250 mllea $2.TS $2-015 $2.00 Pacific Gxpreea Co. rate for 400 mllea. a. 00 2.10 2 30 SALEM, Or., May 25. (Special.) Upon its own initiative the Oregon Railroad Commission has collected information dis closing excessive rates charged by ex press companies in this state, and it is practically certain that proceedings will be started soon to compel reductions . Rate Clerk Miller, who has had the de tails of the work in charge, has procured a mass of evidence which will form the basis of the proceedings against both the Welta-Fargo and the pacific Express Com panies. The Wells-Fargo Company oper ates on the Southern Pacific and the Pa cific Express Company does business on the O. R. & N. Figures Tell the Story. As an instance of the character of rates charged, it is shown that Wells-Fargo charges $2.75 a hundred for merchandise carried from .Portland to lskiou, 258 miles. For the same distance In Missouri the same company charges $2.05 a hundred and In Texas $2. Tet the Wells-Fargo rate over the Southern Pacific is low, compared with the Pacific Express Company's charge over the O. R. & N. The rate from Port land to Baker City, the same distance as to Siskiyou, is $3.76. The rate on merchandise from Portland to Huntington,- 404 miles. Is $4, while the rate in Missouri is $2.10, and In Texas $2.30. The statistics also show great varia tions In Oregon. The rate to The Dalles Is 60 cents, but the rate is doubled im mediately after passing The Dalles and Continued on Pag-e T. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60 degrees; minimum. 47 degreese. TODAY' S Fair and warmer; northwest wind. Fore Jen. Anna Gould and Helie de Satan not yet married, but toon will be. Page 4. Bohemian Princm dopes with automobile agent. Page 1. President Fallleres arrives in London to vlait King Edward. Page 4. National. Desperate efforts In Congress to pass cur rency bill by holding up public build- -ing bill. Page 1. Senate blocks action on Government liabil ity bill by wasting time. Page 3. Democrats In House attack Seattle fair. - - Page 1. - Domestic. Judge declares Thaw still insane, but he will try to avoid return t Ma tteawa n. Page 2. Great debate In ' Methodist, conference on increasing Episcopate. Page 3. Maytel McNamara's letters to S.nell Iden tified. Page 5. Divorce granted Mrs. Alfred Vanderbllt. Page 1. Presbyterian Assembly will seek eloser union of Presbyterian churches. Page 4. Methodists elect Quayle and Smith H shops and indorse Anti-Saloon League. Page 1 Dr. Brougher -offered paatorate at Okla homa City. Page 1. Last of Custer's scouts dies In Montana. Page 4- Woman thwarts holdup of bank clerk on New York street. Page 2. Twenty-one lives lost In Texas and Okla homa Hoods. Page S. Snorts. Portland should take series from San Fran cisco, page 10. Pacific Coast. McComas describes killing ot Mrs. Koyes. Page 8. Prohibitionists hope to overcome 800 Ad verse majority In Umatilla County. Page 6. St. Helens man kills own son. mistaking him -for crane. Page 6. Express rates In Oregon excessive: Rail road Commiston expected to demand re duction. Page 1. At Pendleton, 800,000 pounds of wool are sold. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Prospect of potato shortage on Pacific Coast. Page 17. Wheat price lifted, by srtorm report. Page 17. Decline In stock prices arrested. Page 17. Cruiser Charleston will be moored a,t Vic toria dolphins. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Federal Grand Jury takes up Investiga tion of Umatilla land frauds. Page 7. Orders given to rush work In Elgin and Joseph branch of the O. R. N. Page 1. Over MM vehicles to be in line In Rose Festival parade. Page 16. Family discussion over possession of store lead to Police Court, page 16. No more black sidewalk to be laid. Page 18. Martin pleads not guilty to murder of Nathan Wolff. Page 4. Mrs, Helfrfch seeks divorce because hus band would not take her to ball game. Page 11. Reports on condition of Oregon fruit crop. Page 1). Meier & Frank Company to start work July 1 on ten-story annex. Page 11. Tracy C Becker arrives to take up prose cution of Oregon & California. Page 7. v