POHTLAXD. OREGON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL.. XL 111. NU. 14,i3. . - ' ; i . ' I TAFT AND CANNON ARRIVE AT CRISIS CARNEGIE TO TALK Oil STEEL TARIFF FROM OPERATOR CRITICS OF NAVY CRAWLS FOR MILES - WITH BROKEN LEG TERRIBLE XIGHT SPEXT BY CALIFORNIA OFFICIAL. GLORY GIVEN UP TORNADO ITEMS PATH IN ARKANSAS TO VICE-PRESIDENT SPEAKER'S FRIEXDS WARN PRESIDENT-ELECT. RAPID RISE OP DALY IX VAX DERBILT SERVICE. ROUNDLY WHIPPED BYMODEST JOHN D Seventeen Persons, Possibly More, DeadH SEVERAL TOWNS DEMOLISHED Ten or Twelve Dead in Settle ment of Piney. ABOUT THIRTY INJURED Five Killed Near Mulberry Towns or Wellrrton and Jessro Destroyed and Several Persons Are Killed There. LITTLH ROCK. Ark., Nov. 23. A dis patch from Russellvllle, Ark., says that ton or twelve persons were killed In a tornado which swept through the settle ment of Plney. ten miles west of that place, late today, and that about 3D others were Injured. Dispatches also report that the towns of Wellertown and Jessro. In Franklin County, were practically demolished and that several persons were killed In each place. The names of the dead and In jured are not known at Russellvllle. where only vague and Indefinite reports have been received thus far. The report states that the tornado crossed the Arkansas River Just south of Plney and that timber tracts and a num ber of buildings were destroyed. Plney Is located near London, where first reports stated much damage had been done. Ijiter reports from Berryville are to the effect that no one was killed there, but that three were Injured. It was reported at Van Buren that five persons were killed northeast of Mul berry and a number Injured. Because of the remoteness of these towns from the railroad and telegraph, only the most meager reports are available. OKLAHOMA HAS REMORSE Finds Stringent Laws Prevent the Building of Railroads. CHICAGO. Nov. IS. (Special.) A marked change in public tsentlment toward railroads and other public utility corporations Is reported In Ok lahoma. It has been brought about by a bitter experience, but tne lesBon learned thereby Is all the mor likely to be profitable and permanent. For nearly two years there has been an almost entire cessation of railroad building, so far as the trunk line sys tems are concerned. This condition haa hindered general business to such an extent that the Oklahoma Federa tion of Commercial Clubs has taken up the matter. A circular has been is sued by that body setting forth the facts In this regard. It has been demonstrated clearly to the satisfaction of the federation that new capital cannot be attracted . for Investment In the state until the laws are settled upon a fair and conserva tive basis, so that the capital invested may have reason to expect lerltlmate returns. BEARS CHILD IN PRISON Woman's Trial for Murder or Doctor Indefinitely Delayed. NEW TORK. Nov. 13 The trial of Sarah Koten for the murder of Dr. Martin W. Auspltz. which was sched uled to begin today, was Indefinitely postponed, on the request of counsel for the prisoner. Sarah Koten luted Pr Auspltx to On Hundred and Thlrty-nfth street on June 7 last, by requesting him by tele phone to csll on a pretended patient, and shot htm to death. She told a story of mistreatment" In Pr. Auspits' hos pital. While Miss Kotea was a prisoner she gave birth to a child. PERJURY IN HAIMS CASE Captain's Attorney Questioned Re garding Divorce. NEW YORK. Nov. 23 Walter C Percy, counsel for Captain Peter C. Hatns. Jr.. In his suit for divorce against his wife, went before the Queens County grand Jury today and was questioned at considerable length. It Is said the questions had no direct bearing on the charge of murder In connection with the death of William E. Annls. pending sgainst Captain . Halns. but that they referred to the do mestic affairs of the Halns brother and the possible prosecution of a cer tain witness for perjury. OHIO COUNTIES NOW DRY Buckeye Voters nock Ont 210 Sa loons by Big Majorities. COLOIBI'S. O.. Nov. 2S. By major ities respectively of 1700. 600 and 975. Jefferson. Sandusky and Clermont Counties today voted "dry." knocking out 210 saJoona- Huron County voted Rolls Over Precipice Into Creek and Struggles Along In Storm Till Rescuer Arrives. WEAVERVILLB, ,Cal.. Nov. 23. (Spe cial.) Leaving the trail over which he was riding horseback, near Douglas City, C. W. White, court reporter, of Trinity County, last " night dismounted in the storm and tried to find his way afoot. Coming to what he thought in the lark ness was a log. he stepped over it and tumbled over a precipice 75 feet high and rolled into the swollen waters of Brown Creek below, breaking a leg. He was miles from a human habitation In the hardest storm ever seen In the county. On hands and knees he crawled toward the trail all night and until 10 o'clock this morning, when Miss Made BiK-law, riding over the trail, which Is seldom traveled at this time of the year, discovered Mr. White lying below her on the mountain-side and sent for help. MAKE MERRY AT MANILA Sperry Rescinds Order and Men of Fleet May Land. MANILA. Nov. 23. Reassured by the reports that the cholera has completely disappeared from Manila, Rear-Admiral Sperry" has altered his determination not to permit the men of the Atlantic bat tleship fleet to land and has notified Governor-General Smith that the fleet Is prepared to accept the reception orig inally planned by the city, and that he will endeavor to carry out such portions of the programme as possible before the departure of the fleet for the Mediter ranean. The reception committee, composed of representatives of the Insular govern ment, the city and the army, will con fer with Captain Grant, aid to the commander-in-chief, 'on the flagship today, to settle the details of the programme, which includes athletic sports, boat races, a grand military hippodrome and receptions and entertainments for the officers and enlisted men. A house-to-house Inspection has failed to reveal a single case of cholera or sus pect In the last 24 hours. The case found Sunday has been the only one in six days. WIRELESS GRAMS SECRET Transmission Now Confined Be tween Two Stations Only. PARIS. Nov. 23. Bellini and TosI, two Italian scientists, who with the sanction of the French government have been conducting experiments In wireless telegraphy for the past 18 months on the coast of NormRndy. announce that they have solved the problem of Inde pendent wireless communication. - This result, they say. has been se cured by means of rectangular aerials fixed at right angles and so attached to the apparatus as to permit the trans mission of unequal currents. By a sim ple law of mechanics these two electro magnetic forces unite and produce an electro-magnetic field and the Hertzian waves are projected In a single vertical plane which can be alternated Instantly by means of the Bohlne device. The Inventors say they hare picked up messages at wll lfrom every English wireless station and from ships at,, sa. and that they have transmitted mes sages from Pourville to Havre and other points without the waves being percep tible at other stations lying Just off the line of transmission. MOVE TO PROTECT FISH Fish Commission Representatives Confer With Professor Jordan. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. Represent a tlves of Fish commissions of a number of border states held a conference here to day with Professor David Starr Jordan, the American representative on the In ternational Fish Commission- organised by the United States and Great Britain on a treaty approved April 31. 19". for the purpose of considering the drift of pro posed International regulations for the protection aTid preservation of the food fishes In the boundary waters of Canada and the United States from Eastport, Me., to Vancouver. Professor Jordan will hold a conference soon with Dr. B. B. Prince, of Canada, the representative of Great Britain on the Commission and an attempt will Be made to lay the proposed regulations be fore Congress for approval this Winter. RIPS - HOLE IN STEAMER Gleaner Damaged When Tide Causes Collision With Telegraph. SEATTLE. Wash.. Nov. 23 (Special.) Caused by tlie strong tide that was run ning at the time, the steamboat Gleaner, while making a binding this morning crashed into the stern of the steamer Telegraph and ripped a large hole in the .Gleaner above the waterline. The Tele graph was tied up at the wharf when the Gleaner attempted to enter the same slip. Captain H. H. McDonald, who is master and part owner of the boat, was not In the wheelhouse and Captain Henry Jones miscalculated the strength of the tine. The Gleaner swung Into the other vessel and the Telegraph's stern tore out a section of the side of the Gleaner. The Gleaner caromed off and was made fast to the pier. The Telegraph was not dam aged. RAILROAD MEN FEDERATE Per ham at Head of New Department or Labor Federation. DENVER. Nov. 23. The new rail way employes' department ofthe Amer ican Federation of Labor, organized in the city last Saturday, held a brief session In this city today, completing its organization and then adjourned to meet in Chicago the second Monday In January at the Kalserhof HoteL H. B. Perham.' president of the Or der of Railway Telegraphers. was made permanent president and P. J. Flannery. vice-president of the Inter national Association eX rtPlg-tl Hand ler, secretary. Says Flagler and Dodd Conceived Trust. HAD NOT ABILITY HIMSELF Promises to Find Missing Books of Trust. HIS MEMORY DEFECTIVE But He Remembers That Railroad Presidents Were Among Early Standard Directors Grows .. Weary of Examination. NEW TORK. Nov. 23. Credit for the creation of the Standard Oil Trust, which counsel for the Federal Government al lege. still exists as the Standard Oil Com pany of New Jersey, was given by John D. Rockefeller to two men Henry M. Flagler and Samuel C. T. Todd. To these master architects of the oil combine Mr. Rockefeller gave full credit In his testi mony under cross-examination in the dis solution suit, saying that he was sure it was not himself, as he did not possess the ability for so progressive a move. Mr. Rockefeller spent an arduous day on the stand, under the Incessant ques tioning of Ftank B. Kellogg, the Govern ment's counsel and, when adjournment was taken until tomorrow, he gave every evidence of delight that the day was done. Counsel hopes to conclude Mr. Rockefel ler's cross-examination tomorrow, when it is planned to place John D. Archbold, vice-president of the Standard, on the stand. Try to Find Trust's Books. Mr. Kellogg, who, with other Govern ment investigators, had been endeavoring for more than a year to locate the miss ing stock transfer books of the Standard Oil Trust, sought to do so today through Mr. Rockefeller, wuo promised to do what he cculd to find them. Mr. Rockefeller's examination today carried him through the period of the Standard Oil Trust and the years of Its subsequent liquidation, which lasted from KH3 to 1S99. Mr. Rockefeller's memory at times was not clear on -the definite de tails of this trust liquidation period, and he told counsel that he could not recall many of the Incidents and developments of that time. During the day Mr. Kellogg developed from Mr. Rockefeller that early In the in dustrial existence of the Standard the presidents of railroad companies, together with their, directors, were stockholders in the oil combination. Member or Brotherhood or Man. After adjournment tonight Mr. Rocke feller told an inquiring audience of re porters that there were better things In the world than making money and that since 1891 he had been gradually retiring from business. He added: "There Is more important work than (Concluded on Pas 2.) AND ALL THE KING'S HORSES AND ALL THE KING'S MEN CAN'T PUT THE POOR DONKEY TOGETHER AGAIN!" j . j t , niwwyuin u lUiMi.ii.nTQV.r. . r.i.ni ... ... " " " ' " Unh?ss He Agrees With Cannon, the Administration Will Be Legisla tive Failure, They Say. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 2S. (Spe cial.) Efforts on the part of the leaders of the House organization to pledge votes for the re-election of Joseph" G. Cannon, of Illinois, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, have led to representa tions being made to William H. Taft that the crisis of his administration haa ar rived and that, unless he can reach a sat isfactory agreement with Mr. Cannon, the coming Taft administration will be a legislative failure, including the tariff leg islation. It is well understood in Wash ington that Mr. Taft has been Impressed with the seriousness of the situation and Is bending his energies accordingly. But in the meantime friends of Mr. Cannon have not been Idle. Sereno E. Payne, chairman of the ways and means committee, and Representative H. S. Boutell, of Illinois, today gave out inter views intimating that there was no fric tion between Mr. Taft and Mr. Cannon and that there could be none. James A. Tawney, chairman of the House com mittee on appropriations, today declared that "for reasons unknown to me some body Is setting up a man of straw against Mr. Cannon to be knocked down later.' LEPROSY GRASPS MEXICAN Visitor to Los Angeles Mystified Be cause He Is Shunned. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23. Journeying all the way from Mexico to Los Angeles to learn what was the matter with him, Treneda Ortego, a Mexican, is today con fined in the County Hospital begging to be told what is his, ailment and why the people are shunning him. The physicians declare he Is a victim of leprosy. This makes two lepers In the County Hospital, Mrs. Elizabeth Wardwell, the other victim, having been brought here from Tombstone, Ariz. The hospital authori ties are quoted as saying that both will be deported to Mexico, that being the place where they contracted the disease. DISAGREE WITH CRITICISM Presbyterian Association Takes I'm- brage at Roosevelt's Ftterance. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. In a resolu tion adopted today, the Presbyterian Ministers' Association of this city ex pressed disagreement with President Roosevelt's statement in a recent let ter that refusal to vote for a candi date for high office because he is a Roman Catholic Is "narrow, unwar ranted bigotry." The ministers endorsed the letter sent recently by the New York Lu theran ministers to the President, dis senting from his view. FISHER TO BE RELEASED Freedom for American Who Has Spent Months in Russian Jail. ST. PETERSBLrtu, Nov. 23. Adolph Fisher, a naturalized American citizen who has been held for the past 11 months In Russian Jails on suspicion of being im plicated in a murder, will be taken from Jail tomorr6w and sent under guard to the frontier station at Alexandrova, at which point he will be released. Committee Summons Big Ironmaster. HEARS ABOUT LIME DUTIES Maine Company Dreads Ca nadian Competition. LOWER RATES ON POTTERY Wholesalers Say Cheaper Grades Cd'n Stand Reduction of 25 Per Cent Marble Men Want Pres ent Duty Retained. WASHINGTON. Nov. 23. As a result of the declaration of Andrew Carnegie in an article in the forthcoming number of the Century Magazine that the tar-ff sched ules on iron and steel should be reduced, the Ways and Means Committee qf the House formally invited Mr. Carnegie to night to appear before it this week to tell what he knows about the steel industry and the possibility of reduction of the tariff on irOT.and steel products. The committee desires him also to ap pear temporarily on Wednesday, when the iron and steel schedule will be taken up on the hearing now being held by the committee, looking toward a revision of the tariff. No reply had been received from Mr. Carnegie by the committee when it took a recess at 11 o'clock tonight, until to morrow morning, but as the telegram of invitation was not sent until late, no reply is expected until tomorrow. The members of the committee were a unit in refusing to discuss Mr. Carne gie's article, although all of them ad mitted having read it as published this morning. Lime Men Object to Reduction., Sitting In a long night session to consider the tariff schedules on titles, lime, cement, carbons and kindred arti cles, the committee put in full time at work today. In the course of the night session. H. L. Sheppard and Orin r. Perry, of the Rockland, Rockport, (Me.) Lime Company, were put through a grilling examination until they asked that the present duty of 5 cents a hundred pounds on lime be maintained. Mr. Perry asserted that his company was organized in 1900, when seven or eight lime plants were purchased. He admitted that the price of lime had advanced ever since. Chairman Payne asked why his firm was the only one that demands a duty. "ecause we are so near to the Canadian manufacturers and because ours is the best, in the United States," he replied. "Why we have the best In the world right in New York," declared Mr. Payne, with a show of state pride. "Yes we sell most of our product In New York." retorted Mr. Perry. Using figures furnished him. Repre- ( Concluded on Page 3.) In Six Years Climbs From Ranks to Vice-Presidency In Charge of Xew York. "Central Traffic. CHICAGO, Nov. 23. (Special.) From the position of telegraph operator to that of vice-president, in charge' of all traffic of the greatest railway system under one management in the world. Is the phe nomenal record which has been achieved by Charles F. Daly, of the New York Central lines. Official announcement that Mr. Daly's jurisdiction as vice-president has been extended over freight, mail and express traffic of the entire New York Central lines, effective tomorrow, was made today. Mr. Daly's promotion, advances him over a number of prominent traffic men who have been in the freight service of the company for a long time. . It Is. therefore, no exception to his eventful career of the past six years, during which his merit and ability have ad vanced him from the position of chief assistant general passenger agent of the Lake Shore road to ' his present com manding place. Mr. Daly's present pro motion is taken to indicate that a new avenue Is opened for. men in the passen ger service of railroads. DEMAND FRIENDS' BODIES Finnish Miners Refuse to Work Till Companions' Remains Recovered. BUTTE. Mont., Nov. 23. Until the bodies of the eix Finnish miners who lost their lives In the fire in the East Side coal mine of the Northwestern Improve ment Company at Red Lodge have been removed, the Kinlanders, who comprise 50 per cent of the working force at the Northwestern mines, refuse to resume work," declaring they would not be show ing the proper amount of respect to the dead were they to begin work now. The superstitious ferfrs of the foreigners are believed to be at the bottom of their re fusal to resume work. As there is slight chance of the bodies ever being recovered, the mine-owners be lieving that the remains of the six have long since been entirely consumed, the company is in a quandary. MONKEY ATTACKS CHILD Savage Simian Tears Little Girl's Hands to Pieces. SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Nov. 23. Ten-year-old Gretchel Hemmel is in a serious condition at her home in this city tonight as the result of an attack by a monkey at the Potter Zoo. One hand is badly lacerated and attempts are being made to prevent blood poisoning. The child was playing near the cage Saturday. Her sight Is not good. She placed her hand on the monkey's cage and- three of the animals grabbed it, tearing and gnawing the flesh. The child's hand was with drawn with difficulty by her mother. Had the mother not been present, the child probably would have been terribly injured. MAGNESS GOES TO PRISON Ilnsband of Late Senator's Daugli . ter Taken to Portsmouth. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 33. Charles G. Magness. husband of a daughter of ex L'nlted States Senator Gorman, of Mary land, recently convicted of desertion from the United States Navy, left the Phila delphia Navy-yard today for Portsmouth, N. H.. where he will serve a year in ,tiie Government prison. Magness was met by his wife who ac companied him to Portsmouth. Mrs. Magness will reside In Portsmouth In order to visit her husband as often as the rules of the prison permit. MANY STUDENTS WOUNDED More Than 150 Injured When Haces Clash at Vienna. , VIENNA, Nov. 23. The German and Italian students Attending the University of Vienna came Into serious collision in the University precincts this morning, and before the police drove them away re volvers had been freely used and 150 students were wounded. The trouble was occasioned by an Italian demonstration in favor of the establishment of an Italian University at Trieste. ARREST 832 MEN IN RAID Folk's Orders, However, Fail of Their Purpose In Police Court. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 23. As a result of a war on "clubs" In which liquor has been sold on Sundays and during the hours that saloons were closed, 61 clubs were raided today and S32 men arrested. When arraigned in the Po lice Court, most of the prisoners were discharged, their release heing greeted with cheering from hundreds of spec tators. The raids were ordered by Governor Folk. HUME IS VERY LOW. AGAIN Reports From Wedderburn Give No Encouragement. MARSHFIELD, Or., Nov. 23. (Spe cial.) The first word from R. D. Hume for several days was received today, tele phone wires to Wedderburn having been down since last week. Mr. Hume is reported, this evening to be very low. Dr. Mingus, of ilarshfield, is still at hla bedsiae. Admirajs at Banquet Expose Muck-Rakers. RECENT ARTICLES CENSURED Dewey, Schley and Evans De fend Battleships. WARSHIPS EQUAL TO ANY Officers Hit Hard at Magazine and Newspaper Stories Which Have Found Fault With America Fighting Giants. CHICAGO, Nov. 23. Critics of the Navy who condemn warships because of minor defects were answered publicly tonight at a banquet of the United States Naval Academy alumni of the East. Six Rear Admirals sat at the 'banquet board at the Auditorium Hotel and letters scoring recent critics and praising the Navy were read- from Admiral Dewey. Rer-Admiral Schley and Rear-Admiral Evans. The Rear-Admirals present were: Washington L. Capps, Chief of Construction In the Navy: Albert Ross, Wllliard H. Brown son. Francis J. Hlelglnson, French E. Chadwick and James H. Dayton. Opinions of Three Experts. Admiral Capps, after alluding' briefly to the development of battleships and de claring that the vessels of this country were fully abreast. the time, said: "I shall refer you to the opinions of three of the most distinguished Admirals who have ever commanded fleets in our or any navy. Each of their opinions was written in response to a request. One evening a short time ago I was walking along the street with a naval officer whose name 1b a household word from one end of the country to he other He made very pointed allusions to com ments recently contained In certain newspapers and periodicals respecting the condition of our battleships and their alleged faulty design. I asked him to put his ramarks into writing, which he did. He- was Rear-Admiral Schley." Admiral Capps then read the letters. Admiral Dewey's letter said in part: "Of the battleships designed during the last few j'ears I have spoken and shall continue to speak in the highest terms. The fleet of battleships now go ing around the world are of the older type and some of them have lived half the life, as commonly estimated, of a battleship in the first line. Battleship-building Is one of the most pro gressive of modern arts and old ships are not equal to new; but the vessels which have recently been received with such marked consideration in South America, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and China are the equals of foreign vessels of their date of design and completion and often their superiors. -There is probably nowhere in the (Concluded on Page S- INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY Maximum temperature, BO .6 decrees: minimum. 46.2 degrees. TODAY Occasional rain: southerly winds. Foreign. Pan-German I'nlon condemns Kaiser's med dling; in politics. Page 2. Servta linen up powers against Austrian ad vance in Balkan Peninsula. Page National. Rockefeller tells history of Standard Oil Trust in Government's suit. Page 1. Bonaparte appeals to Supreme Court on big nne against standard Oil. Page 3. Admirals Dewey. Schley and Evans defend Navy against its critics. Page 1. House committee summons Carnegie to tes tify or. tariff and hears potterymen's pleas. Page 1. Politics. . List of subscriptions to Republican National campaign fund. Page 2. Cummins to be elected Senator from Iowa today. Page 6. Cannon's friends say Taft must reach agreement with him or Administration will be failure. Page 1. Domestic Lathan testifies at Ruef trial, repudiating affidavit. Page 5 Lamphere's attorneys otter evidence that Mrs. Gunness burned house. Page 3. California crawls , through mountains all night with broken leg. Page 1. Telegraph operator rises In six yeans to vice-president of New York Central road Page 1. Sport. Y M C A. relay runners deliver message from New York to Roosevelt. Page S. Plans for Multnomah-Oregon football game. Page 7. Irvlngton beats Brooklyn In Grammar School League. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Strong demand and Ilrm prices In turkey market. Page 17. Wheat weak at Chicago on heavy offerings. Page 17. Check given to speculation In Wall street. Page 17. Trouble among longshoremen on waterfront. Page HI. Portland and Vicinity. H B. Miller. Consul-General at Yokahama, talks of trade conditions. Page lit Liquor license committee of Council holds stormy session. Page 11. University of Oregon team goes to Seaside to recuperate. Page 7. Mayor Lane vetoes ordinance increasing license of street peddlers. Page 10. Discrepancy of HO. 000 alleged in adminis tration of Calef estate. Pge 12. East Bide business men want work on Mount Hood road rushed. Page 10. Man accused of stealing cordwo.d from Government on trial. Page 18. Associated Charities resents Imputations of Mimtt. rus T.