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TRY BOOTH ON
the Republicans would be liable to
censure for the failure of the Republican
Congress to provide some legislation to
cope with such a contingency. Business
conditions, however, are good throughout
the East and the people are extremely
optimistic and are not at all alarmed
that another Industrial depression will re
sult. An unusual interest is being manifested
all over the East, says Mr. Neuhausen.
in the Oregon election. It is a fact
that "all eyes are turned on Oregon.
says Mr. Neuhausen. The Republicans In
state convention having declared for
Taft for President, public intertest in the
outcome of Oregon's popular vote for
Senator next Monday is the more intense
and the result of the contest between H.
M. Cake and Governor Chamberlain will
be awaited expectantly.
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Ex-Receiver of Roseburg Land
Office to Appear Before
Court Tuesday.
THE MORNING OREGON1AN. THURSDAY, 3IAT '28, 1908.
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BECKER WILL PROSECUTE
Neuhaasen to Assist Booth Accused
of Accept! ng $800 From Kribs
tor Advance Information About
Opening of Timber Lands.
The trial of J. H. Booth, ex-receiver
of the Roseburg Land Office, charged
with hribery, whlcn will begin in the
United States Court next Tuesday,
promises to add another Interesting
chapter to the Oregon land-frauds. The
specific charge alleged In the Indict
ment Is the acceptance by Booth, while
In the employ of the Government, of a
check for $800 from Frederick A. Kribs,
said to have been Booth's compensation
for furnishing Kribs with advance in
formation relative to the availability
of public lands for settlement In the
Roseburg land district. Tracy C.
Becker, special assistant to the United
Htates Attorney-General, and Thomas
H. Neuhausen, special Inspector to the
Interior Department, will conduct the
prosecution. This trial will be fol
lowed by others of the untried score of
cases In which Indictments were re
turned over three years ago for alleged
complicity in the land steals in this
state.
In 1898 Booth, who was then secre
tary for the Booth-Kelly Lumber Com
pany, was appointed Receiver of the
Roseburg Land Office. In that capac
ity Booth was In a position to render
his former employers valuable Inform
ation regarding the timber lands of
that section of the state and the Booth
Kelly people were taking steps to ac
quire several thousand acres of valua
ble timber lands as a permanent source
of supply for their' lumber manufac
turing business.
Smith Demands Share.
About this time, or early in 1900, C.
A. Smith, the Minnesota millionaire
lumberman, began his operations in
this state. Seeking timber lands in the
Roseburg land district, he discovered
that he was conflicting with the inter
ests of the Booth-Kellly people, but he
was not to be bluffed out, and the Gov
ernment officials from an investigation
that was made subsequently are re
ported to have been satisfied that an
agreement was reached by which Smith,
by his financial agent, Kribs, was al
lowed a fair share of the most desira
ble lands while the Booth-Kelly com
pany would content itself with what
was left.
Later, and before the two-handed
game had been worked very exten
sively, it is charged by the Government
that A. B. Hammond, another timber
land speculator appeared on the
scene with the result that a fur
ther distribution of the lands was
arranged, to the end that each in
terest might be served without
conflicting with the territory allotted
the other. In other words, the three
Interests agreed to a division of the
land district much after the plan that
would be adopted by three stockmen
In distributing a grazing preserve, say
the Government officials. With this
satisfactory adjustment of the situa
tion and with the assistance of Booth
in the land office, it Is said the three
monopolists acquired practically all the
most desirable lands to the exclusion
of the Individual applicant. The suc
cess of the scheme. It Is alleged, was
made possible from advance informa
tion regarding the opening of the lands
to settlement, with which Booth is
charged with having furnished.
Check for $800 the Pay.
It was in this connection and in ap
preciation of his services, that Booth is
charged with having accepted the check
for $800 from Kribs. who was the per
sonal representative of the millionaire
Mlnnesotan, and who directed the land
grabbing operations of his employer.
The examination of further witnesses
before the grand Jury in connection
with the Umatilla land -f rands was re
sumed yesterday by District Attorney
McOourt- The deliberations of that in
quisitorial body, however, are being
guarded with greater secrecy than that
of any other Federal grand Jury in
years. Both the district attorney and
the members of the Jury have been ad
monished by United States Judge Wol
verton zealously to guard against di
vulging any of the proceedings of the
jury's investigations. The admonition
Is being observed religiously and not
the slightest inkling in allowed to es
cape from the grand Jury room as to
the progress of the investigation.
The task of examining the 118 wit
nesses that have been subpenaed Is a
tedious one and probably another week
will elapse before the Jury will be
ready to make a report. As they are
examined, many of the witnesses are
excused and they leave at once for
their homes, the great majority of them
being residents of Umatilla county,
where the alleged frauds were perpe
trated. T. B. XEVHACSEX KETl'RXS
"Will Aid Tracy C. Becker In Prose
cution of Oregon Land Frauds.
Thomas B. Neuhausen. special inspector
to the Interior Department, has returned
to Portland from Washington and will
assist Tracy C. Becker, special assistant
to the Attorney-General, in the prosecu
tion of the Oregon land-fraud cases
when they are resumed next Tuesday.
Mr. Neuhausen has been at the National
capital for six weeks assisting the Gov
ernment to present Its evidence In the
prosecution of the Benson-Hyde case. As
soon as the Government had closed its
rase. Mr. Neilhausen, under instructions
from the Attorney -General, boarded a
train a few hours later for Oregon.
As special representative of the Secre
tary of the Interior, Mr. Neuhausen col
lected mut-h of the evidence on which
Senator Mitchell. Representative William
son, S. A. D. Puter and various others
of the land-fraud operators were con
victed. He aLso gathered much of the
evidence that will be used by the Govern
ment against the several defendants who
are awaiting trial on Indictments that
were returned over three years ago.
Judge Becker and Mr. Neuhausen arc
now arranging that part of the evidence
that will be used in the trial of J. H.
Booth, on a bribery charge, when the
case is called Tuesday. The Government
at that time expects to be ready to pro
ceed with the trial.
Mr. Neuhausen reports that the people
in the Bast are gene-rally very much dis
appointed at the failure of Congress at
this session to enact some currency leg
islation. He says that a majority of the
people are disposed to regard this omis
sion by the lawmaking body a serious
matter. For instance, should another
flurry occur such as that of last Fall,
O. R. & X. Will File Indemnity Bond
W. W. Cotton, chief counsel for the
Harriman lines in this territory, and J.
N. Neal, attorney for the Oregon Rail
road Commission, yesterday reached an
agreement by which the O. R. & N.
Company will file in the United States
Court an indemnity bond for $50,000 for
the protection of shippers pending a
final decision by the courts. The case
involved Is that In which the O. R. & N.
is seeking to restrain the Railroad
Commission from enforcing Its recent
order for a reduction In distributive
rates over its line between Portland
and points east of The Dalles In Ore
gon. The bearing has been set for July
6 in the United States Court.
BURGLARY BY WHOLESALE
ELEVEX PLACES ROBBED BY
TWO MEX AT OAKLAND, OR.
Town Marshal Gets Bullet In His
Shoulder In Fight With Robbers.
Escape, Leaving No Clew.
ROSEBURG, Or.. May 27. (Special.)
The town of Oakland, 18 miles north
of Roseburg, was the scene of a series
of burglaries last night, which result
ed in II business houses being robbed
and the wounding of the Town Marshal,
John W. Beckley. Oakland has no
night watchman, and the burglars
worked without Interruption until they
were forcing an entrance Into the gen
eral merchandise store of Grubbe &
Pielsticker, When they were heard by a
woman sleeping next door. She im
mediately gave the alarm and Marshal
Beckley, accompanied by Herman
Stephens, interrupted the robbers in
their work and cnased them toward
the Southern Pacific Depot, where the
burglars, two In number, took refuge
behind a pigpen and opened fire upon
the officer and his companion. In the
four-cornered duel which followed
Beckley received a bullet through his
shoulder and soon retired from the
fight. The robbers fled and so far no
clew as to their identity has been
found. Their booty consists of a mis
cellaneous assortment of general mer
chandise and hardware, but the exact
loss to the merchants has not yet been
determined.
TO RUN AS INDEPENDENT
Nome Mass Meeting Will Indorse
Thomas Cale for Congress.
SEATTLE, May 27. A cable to the
Times from Nome. Alaska, says that a
mass meeting has been called for Friday
night, at which time the Congressional
candidacy of Delegate Thomas Cale on
an independent ticket will be given In
dorsement. John W. Corson, of this city, is the
regular Republican nominee for Congres
sional Representative and John Roman,
of Fairbanks, is the Democratic candi
date. Cale always has been popular here
and as he was named by the Republican
seceders at Ketchikan, he is expected to
make a good race next August.
DROPS DEAD IN HOTEL
V. H. Harrison, Expert Accountant,
Dies at Baker City.
BAKER CTTY, Or.. May 27. (Special.)
W. H. Harrison, manager of the Saga
more Hotel, dropped dead here this even
ing at 7 o'clock. He had been in the best
of health up until late this afternoon.
-Mr. Harrison came to Baker City last
December as an expert accountant, and
letters in his possession indicate that was
his former business. Little is known of
him before he came to this city except
that he was married and has a daughter
named Maud in Spokane. He had been
heard to mention that his wife lived in
Canada. In searching through his per
sonal effects there was some evidence to
show that at one time he went under the
name of W. H. Tuggle.
ROBBERS' WORK IS FATAL
Freeman, Wash., Man Shot by Des
pcradoce Is Dead.
SPOKANE. Wash.. May 27. W. M.
Maekey. of Freeman, -Wash., died today
Ht Mica, as a result of a bullet wound
over the. heart, inflicted Sunday in a
fljrht with desperadoes at Mica.
Mackey had been searching for the
robbers who had raided a hardware
Wore at Spangle Friday night. He lo
cated them near Mica and called ' on
them to surrender. They opened Are' on
him and one bullet struck him below the
heart. He gave chase to the fleeing rob
bers, but finally fainted from his wounds
and they escapeU-
Charfccs Against Lawyer Iyafferty.
Commissioner Dennet. of the General
T.and Office at Washington, has filed with
Register A. S. Dresser, of the Portland
Land Office, an official communication de
tailing charges of Irregular practices
aealnst A. "W. Lafferty. a lawyer of this
city. These charges originally were pre
ferred against Lafferty to special agents
of the Interior Department by persons
whose names are not known and by the
special agents reported to the depart
ment at Washington. Mr. I-afferty is now
in Klamath County on business, but will
be given an opportunity to answer the
charges when he returns. For several
years Mr. Iafferty has been engaged In
practice before the Iand Offices In this
state, invariably appearing as counsel for
the settler whose claim had been con
tested by some of the land-grabbing mo
nopolies that are still operating in this
state. The friends of Mr. Lafferty are
convinced that the pending charges have
been brought by the interests he has been
opposing professionally because of his ac
tivity in defending the rights of Individual
settlers against further encroachment by
the timber barons.
SPECIAL.
Silk Petticoat sale
RoyaL One-fifth off.
ton st.
at Le PataU
375 Washing-
Chambrrlaln rallv. Hear the Gov
ernor at the Empire Theater tonight.
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SHIPS TO SEPARATE
Four Vessels Leave for San
Francisco Today.
TACOMA RECEIVES FLEET
Original Plan to Sail by City of
Destiny Modified and Stop off
Twenty-four Hours Is
Substituted.
TACOMA, Wash., May 27. The Atlan
tic battleship fleet today completed an
other leg in Its memorable cruise and
anchored In the blue depths of Com
mencement Bay. the furthermost inland
water of Puget Sound. In view of thou
sands' of people looking down from the
precipitous amphitheater extending from
Point. Defiance to the center of the city.
There was no point of vantage not cov
ered with an admiring throng.
At 11:30 o'clock the flagship Connecti
cut poked Its white nose around Brown's
Point, leading the other vessels, advanc
ing the regulation 400 yards apart. Th
flagship continued due west, followed by
the Kansas, Vermont, Louisiana, Geor
gia, New Jersey, Virginia, Rhode Island
and the hospital ship Relief, reducing
speed from 10 knots to slow and keeping
perfect distance.
When the last ship had rounded
Brown's Point the fleet turned and came
into port by a movement of the left
front line, and, as eight bells were sound
ed, came to anchor.
In leaving Seattle this morning the
Georgia had trouble raising her anchors
and was delayed nearly half an hour,
but she caught the fleet long before
Brown's Point was reached, coming up
the Sound at increased speed, the spray
from her bow glittering in the sunlight
and with a long ribbon of foam in her
wake. Off Bremerton the Illinois, Kear
sarge and Minnesota left the line and
put into the Navy-yard.
Rear-Admiral Sperry will remain in the
harbor until tomorrow morning, when the
flagship, followed by the Kansas, Ver
mont and Louisiana, will sail for San
Francisco to prepare for the voyage
across the Pacific.
The Georgia. New Jersey, Rhode
Island, and Virginia, under the command
of Captain Richard Wainwright. will re
main in Tacoma harbor until Saturday,
when they will go to Bremerton to be
docked in their turn.
It was originally planned that the Con
necticut, Kansas. Vermont and LouifK
lana would enter, circle the harbor and
proceed out towards San Francisco with
out coming to anchor, but a local request
that they should make a brief stay was
granted by the Navy Department.
There were no formal functions tonight,
the officers ashore being privately enter
tained. 142 Sailors Left Behind.
SEATTLE, -Wash., May 27. One hun
dred and forty-two men were reported
missing from the various vessels of th
Atlantic fleet when they sailed this
morning. The names of the men were
registered at the police station, and
they are to be arrested as stragglers
and returned to their ships. The list
of massing sailors submitted to the po
lice included: Virginia. 25; Louisiana,
7&; Georgia. 10; Kearsarge, 7; Kansas,
19; New Jersey, 6.
KREBS CAN PAY DEBTS
With All Obligations Met, Company
'Will Be Worth $80,000.
SALEM, Or.. May 27. (Special.) In
the Circuit Court yesterday Judge Gal
loway took testimony in the case of
Krebs Hop Company against T. A. L4v
esley & Co., the Issue involved being
the solvency of the Krebs Hop Com
pany. The principal evidence in the
rase was the testimony of Joseph
Baumgartner. cashier for the Ijtdd &
Bush Bank, to which Krebs transferred
all his property a year ago. Baumgart
ner testified that the property was
transferred merely as security; that it
was worth $180,000, while the debt is
only J67.000, and that with all obliga
tions paid the Krebs Hop Company
would be worth about $80,000.
"PERQUISITES' GO TO STATE
Secretary of State Takes In $66,-
591.98 In Fees During 1907.
SALEM. Or'., May 27. (Special.)
Records in the office of Secretary of
State F. W: Benson show that that of
ficial paid into the state treasury dur
ing 1907 the sum of $6.581.98 in fees
collected by him. This amount in
cludes fees aggregating $12,643.13 which
Powder
formerly went to the Secretary of
State as "perquisites," but which is
now paid into the state treasury. Re
ceipts for the first four months of 1908
Indicate a slight Increase in fees over
the previous year. The sources from
which the money was received are as
follows:
Insurance licenses and fees $12.56A.3'.S
Corporation fees 45.054.81
Attesting and sealing commissions 2,816.30
Registering; trademarks 12i-50
Automobile certificates 70S.OO
Sales of session laws and court re
ports 3.816.92
Miscellaneous 1.498.13
Total 66,S91.8
MARSHAL SHOT BY MISTAKE
Colvllle Official Mistaken for Rob
ber and Fatally Wounded.
SPOKANE, Wash., May 27. Mistaking
J. S. Wright, of Colvllle, for one of the
thugs who had attempted to hold up his
brother. George Rush shot the officer
down early this morning and inflicted a
fatal wound. Wright has refused to
have Rush arrested, as he states the
shooting was the result of a mistake.
Jack Rush reported to the officers that
two men had attempted to hold him up
and that, when" he fled, they fired two
shots after him. Officers went to the
Rush home and, after shouting through
the door, were surprised by the brothers,
one of whom pulled open the door, while
the other fired a rifle, fatally wounding
Wright.
The brothers thought the highwaymen
were coming to the house to commit rob
bery. More Fish Being Caught. ,
ASTORIA. Or.. May 27. (Special.)
The catch of fish during the past few
days has been slightly better, owing to
the greater amount' of, gear out and
the fact that the fish average larger.
The pack at the present time is fully
50 per cent better than that of the
corresponding date last year, and then
it was considered poor. ,
NEED OF FIRE HYDRANTS
IiANE SAYS 1000 SHOULD BE
BOUGHT AT OXCE.
Mayor Declares It Is Injustice for
Consumers to Bear Cost of
Fire Protection.
In a message to the City Council yester
day afternoon, Mayor Iane took occasion
to point out the need of many additional
fire hydrants. He also requested th'at the
appropriations made at the beginning of
the year be so changed that the money
be made available for the purchase of
such appliances.
The Mayor declared that the law. as it
applies at present to the Installation of
new water mains, is not just and im
poses a fine upon the small home builder
while those who hold their lands in idle
ness and wlie are more able to meet the
expense, get off much easier.
The Mayor suggested that the money
for fire hydrants be taken from the gen
eral fund and offered his assistance and
co-operation to the Council.
The message follows:
To the Honorable City Council Gentle
men: I again at this time wish to call
your attention to the urgent need for a
large number of Are hydrants In this city,
and to request that you readjust the ap
propriations made at the beginning- of the
year In such manner that the money may
be ittade available for the purchase of such
appliances.
I feel that I am safe In saying that there
Is need for at least lOOO fire hydrants, and
Ire spect fully request that you authorize
their purchase.
There are not sufficient funds collected
from water consumers to expend for this
purpose, and if such moneys axe taken
from such funds it cn only be dn bv
an act of injustice to the water consumers,
which will be apt to seriously cripple and
hamper the service.
A the law now applies to the Installa
tion of new water mains, it fixe a fine
upon the man who builds a home and
offers a bonus to those who hold their
lands In idleness, fnp the reason that all
of the costs for the installation of such
mains are paid by the consumer of water.
This is unfair, also It is equally unfair to
compel the owners of small homes without
fire protection to pay for fire hydrants for
others better protected In that and other
respects. By taking the moneys for this
purpose from the general fund you will
distribute the cost in a much more nearly
Just and equable manner, and I hope you
will take the matter up at an early date
and settle It In this way.
Any assistance that which T can render
you is hereby cheerfully tendered to you.
Respectfully. HARRY UNE. Mayor.
BRICK BUILDING .MOVED
Five-Story Structure In Seattle Suc
cessfully Changed.
SEATTLE. Wash.. May 27.- (Spe
cial.) The rather difficult feat of
moving; a five-story brick office build
ing was completed today. The New
York blotk really consists of two
separate blocks, one on Third and the
other on Second avenue, with an alley
between. When Third avenue was
widened It waa thought necessary to
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COMPLETE-H0U5E-FURni5HER5ei
tear off the front of the New Xorlc
block. Finally, however, it was de
cided to cut a section out of the cen
ter and move back the portion facing
on the street. The bull din ft was cut
ok
01e SKjarsen
there never was a full-back,
like him six feet six,
weighed two-twenty in his
Adam clothes, built like a
bull and a pile-driver and a
thirteen-inch projectile and
an automobile all merged
into one harmonious whole.
You saw his picture in
the papers, of course that
one with his hair down over
his nose-guard, and his ear
pulled down over his
shoulder.
With Ole at full-back,
Siwash College had beaten
six State Universities by an
average of seven touch
downs, two goal-kicks, a
rib, three jawbones, and four
new kinds of yells.
But Ole StrueK!
" ent play futhall des year.
I ban strike."
And there follows the
most hilariously engaging
college story you ever read
-The Bk striKe at
Siwash. Be sure to read
it, in this week's SATUR
DAY Evening Post, and
get acquainted with the
membersof the Alfalfa Delts,
the Sigh Whoopsilons, and
the Eta Pies, not to men
tion Bost, the coach, who
put in a cash register and
rang up touch-downs on the
side lines.
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At the Newsstands, 5 cacitm.
$1.50 the year br mail.
Thb Curtis Publishing Company
philadelphia
0r Boy Ar lTrywkr
More BoyB wanted to act as agents,
apply to
JAMES C. HAVELY, JR.,
315 East 1Kb Street. Portland.
becoming damp. Besides
l AJ III
ill!
loose from the Inundation nnd the per
pendicular slice taken out. Then steel
plates were placed under the building,
the rollers were Introduced and. with
the aid of Jackscrew power, practically
the whole buildintr was moved nine
Walter Darnrosch
-and
New York Symphony
Orchestra
Armory, June 3 and 4
SEAT SALE
Opens This Morning at
erman, day & Go.
OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE
Darnrosch Prefers and Uses the Steinway Piano
wins!
He is usually the fel
low with the fine
clothes, fitted perfect
ly by a skilled tailor;
the chap who has se
lected the material at a
shop where the latest
patterns and weaves
are exhibited; the man
who is as particular
about the clothes he
wears as he is of the
food he eats. It is the
well-dressed, well-tailored
and discriminat
ing dresser that wins.
The chances are all in
his favor if he is tai
lored by Columbia
workmen. A first
class business suit at
any price from ?20
to 50.
0u?C9
Grant Phegley, Mgr.
Seventh and Stark Sts.
feet, without breaking a pane of glass
or throwing the structure out of
plumb.
Bif? Democratic rally tonight at the
Krrmire Theater. The Governor speaks.'
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