THE MORNING OKEGONIAN. FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 190S.
CONTEND CHECK
FIGHTING AT TABRIZ
TYPES OF PERSIAN SOLDIERS ENGAGED IN FIGHTING AROUND TEHERAN, SCENE IN THE
PERSIAN CAPITAL, AND PORTRAIT 0 F THE LATE SHAH, WHO LEFT TO HIS
COUNTRY A HERITAGE OF STRIFE
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AND DAMASKS
Persian
Scene
Factions Change
of Hostilities.
Booth Defense Hopes to Show
That Kribs Paid Only for
Timber Option.
SHAH'S LIFE IN DANGER
TRIAL DRAGS AT START
McCourt Outlines Case for Govern
ment, and E.-Keglster Bridges,
First Witness, Will Continue
Testimony This Morning.
That the check for $SftO raid to
James Henry Booth by Frederick A.
Krlbs, a Portland tlmberland broker,
was In payment of an option on a
valuable tract of Southern Orecon tlm
berland, will be the defense of the ex
Receiver of the Ttosebursr. Land Office,
who is on trial in the Federal Court
on a charge of bribery. This was the
statement of Dan J. Malarkey, of coun
sel for Booth, in his opening address
to the jury yesterday. Mr. Malarkey
further charged that Kribs was guilty
of numerous violations of the land
laws, and declared that Krlbs was pur
chasing his own immunity from prose
cution by becoming a witness tor the
t'rovernment in the prosecution of .the
case agrainst Booth.
Aside from the opening addresses to
the jury, which occupied the morning
seseion and a part of the . afternoon,
very little progress was made yester
day. .7. T. Bridges, who was Register
of tlfe Roseburg Land Office from July
1. 1898. to January 9, 1905. during the
same time that the defendant Booth
was Receiver of the same office, was
the first witness for the Government.
His preliminary examination by Judge
Becker, for the prosecution, had not
been completed when court adjourned
until 10 o'clock this morning. Judging
from the progress that Is being made it
is not at all certain that the case can
be concluded and submitted to the jury
before the end of next week. Consider
able documentary evidence was intro
duced during the afternoon and the prob
ability is that there will be as many ex
hibits in the case on trial as were of
fered at the John H. Hall trial last Feb
ruary. Kxplains Charge to Jury.
At the opening of the morning ses
sion yesterday United S'ates Attorney
MeCourt outlined the Government's case
to the jury in an address of SO minutes.
He first interpreted to the members of
the jury the provisions of the general
land laws as applied to the acquisition
of indemnity school land and then said
that the Government would show that
the information which was necessary to
enable Frederick A. Krihs to rile on cer
tain lands in the Roseburg Land Dis
trict during the Spring and Summer of
1903. prior to all other persons, was fur
nished Krlbs in advance by the defendant
Booth. The prosecution, he said, would
further be able to prove that the check
for $S00 that was given Booth by Kribs
was executed and delivered to the ex
Receiver as compensation for his valuable
services to Kribs.
As a result of the alleged irregularities
In the Roseburg Land Office, the District
Attorney declared that Booth and
Bridges. Receiver and Register, respec
tively, were suspended and removed from
office about a year 'following the Kiibs
Booth incident. In concluding, Mr. Me
, Court said that the defense probably
would attempt to show that the $S0O check
was in payment of an option the de
fendant had obtained for Kribs on a
tract of timber land. However, he said,
the Government would present evidence
to prove that the check included not only
the consideration for the option but com
pensation for Booth's services in furnish
ing the advance information as well.
Malarkey Scores Kribs.
Mr. Malarkey followed Mr. McCourt
and talked for nearly two hours. He
began by saying that the Indictment
against Mr. Booth was returned October
8. 1905. by Francis J. Heney and that
the only witness that had been examined
before the grand jury that reported the
indictment was Frederick A. Kribs. He
complained of the repeated delays in
bringing the case to trial and insisted
that the defendant had been ready any
day since the indictment was returned
to go to trial. Counsel was especially
pointed in his remarks concerning Kribs.
who, he said, was equally as culpable and
corrupt as Booth, if the alleged crime
had been committed.
Point Gained by Becker.
Among the documentary evidence of
fered by the Government while ex-Register
Bridges was on the stand yesterday
was the plan of the Douglas County Bank
Building at Roseburg. in which the Rose
burg Land Office is located, showing the
arrrangement of the various offices con
nected with the Land Office. Judge
Becker, for the Government, was suc
cessful In Introducing some of the early
applications of Kribs, dated May 1900,
for indemnity school land selections, and
which were canceled by the General
Land Office at Washington. Other pa
pers were also offered in the same con
nection, showing that these lands were
subsequently filed on as timber claims by
other persons before Kribs had learned
that they were available for entry. The
purpose of the Government in presenting
this evidence was to show that prior to
the time that Krlbs made the alleged ar
rangement with Booth for furnishing him
with advance information, many desir
able tracts of valuable land got away
from him and were filed on by other in
terests. Judge Webster, for the defense, object
ed vigorously to the introduction of all
such evidence, alleging that it was not
material or relevant. After hearing ar
gument. Judge Wolverton overruled the
objection . and held that the prosecution
had the right by the introduction of such
papers to show what was the regular
method of procedure in disposing of all
such rejected applications, even includ
ing the final disposition of the lands
involved.
The examination of Mr. Bridges will be
resumed by Judge Becker this morning.
BEND POSTMASTER SENTENCED
A. H. Grant Must Serve Three 1'cars
Six Months on McNeils Island.
Having confessed to misappropriat
ing over '$3000 of Government funds,
A. H. Grant, ex-postmaster at Bend,
was yesterday sentenced by United
States Judge Wolverton to serve three
years and six months in the Federal
prison at McNeils Island and to pay a
fine of 314.22. Grant is about 55 years
of age, and has a wife and one young
child.
When asked if he had anything to
say before sentence should be pro
nounced. Grant remained silent.
United States Attorney McCourt said
that che only extenuating circum
stance in the case was the fact that
Grant had a wife and one young child
w'iftf'J4cs M.r) i-
who would be obliged to suffer with
him the punishment he should receive.
In passing sentence. Judge Wolver
ton torr "nted on the fact that Grant
was a ,:i of mature years, and must
have known that he was doing wrong
when he appropriated the - funds in
trusted to his care as an officer of
the Government. On the first count In
the indictment, alleging the embezzle
ment of $3118.52, Grant was given a
sentence of two years and six months
at McNeils Island. On the second
count, charging the misappropriation
of $314.22, the disgraced postmaster
was sentenced to one year at the sum
prison, and was fined the amount of
the defalcation.
ROBERTS GIVES $1000 BOND
Accused Trying to Defraud Actual
Settlers of Their Lauds.
IndieteS by the recent Federal grand
Jury on a charge of perjury, Frank B.
Roberts, of Salem, appeared in the United
States Court yesterday and furnished
$1000 bonds for his appearance in court
whan his case is called. Roberts is
charged with having perjured himself by
swearing falsely in a timber and stone
land application for land in Douglas
County that recently was thrown open
to entry.
Several months ago a large tract of
public land in Douglas County was
thrown open to settlement. Under the
general land laws, settlers who had lo
cated on the lands and made improve
ments in good faith were allowed 90 days
in which to make filings on the particular
tracts on which they had lived and made
improvements. But before the original
settlers could formally file on the land,
several outsiders made prior filings. In
order for them to do so it was necessary
for each applicant to make affidavit that
the land applied for was not occupied
and had not been improved.
This is the plan alleged to have been
adopted by Roberts and by the same
method a large number of the original
settlers on these lands were about to be
defrauded of their rights. There were
numerous complaints of the kind and
several were brought to the attention
of United States Attorney McCourt. who
immediately presented the facts before
the Federal grand jury, which relumed
several indictments against the perjurers.
Roberts is the first of probably half a
dozen men indicted, who has reported to
the court and furnished bonds. He has
retained the services of James Cole, ex
Assistant United States Attorney, to de
fend him.
Mr. Roberts said yesterday that If he
has committed any offense against the
Government, it was done unintentionally.
He declares that he personally visited
the land on which he filed and failed to
find any evidences' of habitation or im
provements of any kind. He admits he
saw a cabin in the vicinity of the land
on which he made a filing, but so far as
he was able to determine, the structure
was outside the bounds of his quarter
section. LOEB CALLS IT LIE
President's Son Will . Not Be Steel
Trust Pet.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y., June 25.-Secre-tary
Loeb has made public a statement
In reference to the published report that
the President's son.' Theodore Roosevelt,
Jr.. intended entering the employ of the
United States Steel Corporation. The
statement indicates that the President's
son may not continue his studies at Har
vard. The statement of Secretary Loeb
follows:
"The statement as regards Its implica
tion Is a pure falsehood. John Green
way, who was in the President's regi
ment, has told young Roosevelt that he
will try him on a job simply as one of
the ordinary miners and exactly as he
tries hundreds of others every year and
la trying hundreds this year. Young
Roosevelt Is at this moment off seeing if
there is a chance at another job where
he was tolnl he mieht get employment,
having given up going on the Mayflower
to the boat races for the purpose of look
ing up this particular place, which is a
well-known manufacturing concern. He
probably will not decide for two or three
months which particular place he will
try."
ANOTHER GOULD DIVORCE j
Mrs. Frank J. Gould Serves Papers
on Her Husband.
NEW YORK, June 25. Papers have
been served upon Frank J. Gould in a
suit for absolute divorce brought by
his wife, who was M!s Helen M.
Kelley. When service was made at
Mr. Gould's office yesterday he de
clined to say whether he would defend
the suit.
Mr. and Mrs. Gould were married in
1901. The first rumors of trouble
came in 1908, when it was said a sep
aration suit was under way. A recon
ciliation was effected, but rumors of
dissension continued until the actual
parting last week, Mrs. Gould remain
ing at their Fifth-avenue home with
the two children, Helen, aged 5, and
Dorothy, aged 3 years.
Mrs. Gould has 20 days in which to
file her bill of complaint, and her hus
band a like period in which to file an
answer.
STABS JAPANESE TO DEATH
Cook Resents Torrent of Dishes by
Using Bread Knife.
STOCKTON, Cal.. June 25. R. G. Harr,
third cook at the Yosemite Hotel,
stabbed to death today Kanshlke Ishii,
a Japanese porter. According to eye
witnesses, the Japanese, after being
served with breakfast by the cook, threw
the dishes at him. The cook returned the
dishes and the Japanese grappled him
by the throat. Harr took up a bread
knife and stabbed the Japanese in the
shoulder and in the left side.
BOMBS THROWN IN CHURCH
Disturb Mass at Turin, but Injure
, No Person.
TURIN. June 25. There have been two
outrages in churches of this city in the
past few df ys and great excitement has
resulted. Yesterday a small bomb was
exploded behind the pulpit of the cathe
dral while mass was being celebrated.
Last week there was a bomb explosion
in the Church of La Consolate. No one
was hurt in either case.
WILL BE WED IN LONDON
Madame Gould and Prince to Be
Married in Church.
LONDON. June 25. Prince Helie de
Sagan. according to a statement made by
one of his friends today, has decided to
take up his residence in London for 15
days, and then be married to Madame
Anna Gould In a. church under an ordi
nary license.
MOUNTAINjTOP FRUIT.
E. V. D. Paul tells in the July Sun
set Magazine what enterprise and
brains are doing in the canons and
forest clearings of Mendocino County
in the way of raising fruit an article
well worth reading.
IInden Well Liked.
OREGON CITY. Or., June 25. (Special.)
The First Baptist Church of this city
has extended to Rev. John M. Linden
a call for another year. Mr. Linden came
here one year ago from Chicago and
has worked untiringly to build up the
church with unbounded success.
DRIVEN INSANE BY QUACKS
Youth Robbed of $8000 and Left
Mental and Physical Wreck.
SEATTLE, Wash., June 25. CSpecial.)
Ray Conway, 25 years old, was sent to
the County Hospital today with mind a
wreck and body twisted and bent with
rheumatism, the result, according to what
the police are able to learn from his
story, of treatment by a syndicate of
quack doctors. Conway fell into the
hands of the doctors about two years
ago. They treated him for rheumatism,
mostly by means of ' hypnotism and
eharms. They got him completely into
their power and relieved him of all the
money and wealth he possessed. In all
about $8000. Then he was turned loose
and the doctors left the city. Nothing is
known of their present whereabouts.
Defense .of the American Navy.
The third broadside from the pen
of Rear-Admiral W. L. Capps, in reply
to the criticisms of Henry Reuterdahl,
appears in the July Sunset. The author
deals in this, his third article, on the
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Proclaims Intent to Continue Parlia
' inent, but Bombards Houses of
Popular Leaders Demolishes v
Parliament Building.
ST. PETERSBURG. June 25. Press dis
atches from Teheran under today's
Lite say that order has baen re-estab-iphed
and that the city Is quiet. The
irincipal streets have been posted with
opies of a proclamation by the Shah
:inouncing his intention of maintaining
h principle of popular representation
nd the constitution. These proclamations
n practically identical with those is
ued shortly before the disorders broke
lit.
A dispatch from Tabriz says that the
fighting btwejn revolutionists adherents
-if the reactionary party, which began
arly Wednesday morning, continued until
nightfall. The combatants were called
to arms by trumpeters, who paraded
through the city and exhorted the peo
ple to resist. The Governor is panic
stricken and Is planning to flee to Tiflis.
The lower classes at Tabriz are pillag
ing freely.
An afternoon papar publishes a special
dispatch from Teheran denying the ru
mor that the President of Parliament has
b?en assassinated. The correspondent
says that the fire on Parliament during
the bombardment of Tuesday was unin
tentional and that only stray shots took
effect there. In the confusion hoodlums
stole the carpets from the buildings and
this constituted all the pillaging of Par
liament. Two mosques, however, used
as headquarters by patriotic societies
were sacked and destroyed. The looting
and pillaging throughout the city has
been the work of the regular troops and
hoodlums.
The correspondent says that Parliament
will be dissolved while order is being
restored. The lite of the Shah is in great
danger at the- hands of revolutionists.
The detachment of Russian troops un
der General Snarskie, that made the in
cursion into Persian territory six weeks
ago to enforce payment of the indemnity
demanded for the depredations of ban
dits, has been withdrawn from Belsuviar
to Lenkoran, the nearest Russian port to
Persia. This detachment constitutes a
mobile striking force if the detachment
at Teheran or Tabriz should necessitate
armed action.
STILL BOMBARDING REBELS
Shah Strikes Terror Into People by
Attacking Their Leaders.
TEHERAN, June 25. Looting and disor
der are not yet at an end at Teheran and
while the city is more quiet today than it
was Tuesday and Wednesday and' the
people and troops are more orderly, fur
ther encounters are. expected before
nightfall.
The Shah has appointed the Russian
Colonel of Cossacks to the position of
Governor of Teheran.
Santi-el-Dowley, Minister of Finance, a
member of the Parliament named Sadlo
Haeret, and Much!ier-el-Muelk, Secretary
of Parliament, accompanied by their fam
ilies, have taken refuge at the Italian Le
gation here.
The Shah has Issued orders that one
house be bombarded each day. He is
making use of a list of proscribed houses
belonging to persons opposed to him.
subject to complete pillage. The pillage of
the home of Ala-el-Dohel, who is absent
from Teheran, is appointed for today.
The members of the European colony
are indignant over the atrocities occur
ring before their eyes, although they
themselves remain unharmed. Represen
tatives of the various legations have sent
word to the commander of the British
guard expressing their condemnation of
the continued plundering of property and
the murdering of innocent people.
The Shah has given orders that the
Chancellory of Parliament again be
bombarded. Workmen are at present
engaged in demolishing the remains of
the Parliament building proper. Many
of the deputies took refuge at the Brit
ish Legation. When the minister of
finance and a number of priests and
others sought refuge at . the German
Legation, it was denied them on the
ground that their lives were in no im
mediate danger. The President of Par
liament has placed himself under
French protection. The Vice-President
is a prisoner. A deputy named
Ibrahim Rlhan has been killed by the
soldiers. It is now declared that threo
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BLOODY BATTLE AT TABRIZ
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