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CONJUGAL JARS
WAONER 111S BY
HUSBAND FUMES
AND BRIDE FRETS
NE7ULY - MARRIED GOVERNOR
KIDNAPED BY FRIENDS.
LOSE TO
ROAD IS FINISHED
AFTER 27 YEARS
PARIS SHAKEN BY
BRIGHT LIGHT
OF DEAF MUTES
STATE
UNIVERSITY
TARIFF
WIFE SAYS HCSAXD CURSED
HER WITH FINGERS.
NEVADA, CALIFORNIA & ORE
GON ENTERS ALTURAS.
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CLUBMEN
NARROW MARCIN
MURDER
SCANDAL
HEARINGS
Van Cleave Shows Up
Standpatters.
WITNESSES ARE WELL COACHED
Committee's Questions Aimed
Against Revision.
ONLY FEW ARE CALLED
President of Manufacturers Says
They Want Honest, Not Bogus,
Revision and Voted for Taft
on Campaign Pledges.
ST. LOUIS. Mo, Nov. 2S. Concern
ing the tariff hearings before the ways
and means committee at Washington.
James W. Van Cleave, president of the
National Association of Manufacturers,
gave out this statement today:
"Several strange things connect
themselves with these hearings. I am
told that only about 100 out of the
heads of factories In the coun
try received notice to appear before
the committee. In most cases the no
tice they received was too short to
allow them to present carefully pre
pared statements, although all of them
have the privilege of submitting briefs
at any time prior to December 4. The
hearings, which will close on Decem
ber 4. will have covered only about
three weeks in the aggregate. The
i ue.it ions put by the leading members
f the committee to these manufactur
ers are admirably calculated to call
nut answers asking for retention of
the present rates of duties or advances
in them.
Coached to Ask for More.
" -I)o you not believe that your pres
ent dutirs should be maintained?' This
is tie usual qucr. Scarcely ever is It
put thus;
"'Iio j-ou tl.lnk your rates should
be reduced?'
"Kastern papers state that under this
seCucttve coaching one manufacturer
who has a duly of 30 per cent now on
Ms product and who acknowledges that
he is making a profit on It, asks to
have the duty increased to 40 per cent,
and wants tne duty taken off materials
which hfc uses In his manufacturing,
thus giving hiin a chance to swell his
profits in two directions. One or two
manufacturers who asked for lower
duties on their own products made my
friend Chairman Payne gasp.
Honest. Not Bogus RevisKin.
"I presume that the committee aims to
get. through these hearings, information
on which It can base a bill for revision
of the Dlngley law. In Us platform of
the Republican party declared for re
vision In a special session of LVngress,
to be railed by the next President Just
ufter Ills Inauguration. The country. In
cluding the National Association of Man
ufacturers, assumed that this mesnt hon
ei mid not bogus revision. On this pre
sumption I and a large majority of the
other members of tl-e association sup
ported Mr. Taft during the campaign.
iW U5ed nil the Influence which we could
exert In favor of his election.
I want to say here that as In Its
membership the National Association of
Manufacturers covers nearly all the crafts
cf the lourtrv. we have never urged any
specific changes, up or down, in any
particular seh-dules. As practical men.
however. e know what changes are
need.-.! in mnny esses, and that the
public imperatively demands them. All
that ask Is that the change be hon
est anil Im etiiltatle.
Hate Expert InveMignted.
"As theee hearings of the committee
on a tariff which includes over 4000
items will cover only about three
weeks. I suppose that my friend Payne
must have arranged for Investigations
by experts in all the leading Industrial
and commercial centers of Kurope and
Asia. Presumably these experts have
been busy ever since the long session
of Congress closed last Spring, and
they will continue their work until
the eve of the extra session. I have
seen no word yet In the papers about
the activity of these delegated Inves
tigators, buf Mr. Tayne knows the In
adequacy of his committee's inquiries
and he therefore must have provided
for this supplementary work In the
leading Old World centers of trade.
.crman's Thorough Methods.
"As shown by his speeches and Inter
views durin the, campaign. President
elect Taf; also interpreted this platform
declaration to mean honest revision. It
Is clear to me from things which some of
his cl'Ke friends have said about him In
the last few days that in his message to
Congress at the opening of the extra
session h will insist that the platform
promise of honest revision must be car
ried out In spirit and letter. It is like
wise clear to me that In making this de
mand he will have a large majority of
the s.flnp.OOO Republican voters In the coun
try wlih him.
"Mr. Payne's easy confidence in being
able to make a readjustment of the tar
iff schedules which will be satisfactory
to the country niust mean that he has
provided for scientific aid from the out-
tConcludcd oa race 7.)
Jligeins. Refusing Information, Is
Carried A way While Anxious
Wife Walls, Weeps, Wonders.
riTTSBL'RO. Nov. (Special.) It was
a mean trick that was played on Governor
J. H. Higgins. of Rhode Island, who. with
his bride, dropped Into the Smoky City
yesterday on his honeymoon trip. No one
about the Hotel Schenley knew that they
were married and the Governor was not
recognized until Governor Stuart, of Penn
sylvania, and Governor Swanson. of Vir
ginia, who had come to take part in the
celebration of the 150th anniversary of the
founding of Pittsburg, saw him in the
foyer.
Governor HigjJins was a trifle embar
rassed when they Insisted on knowing
what he was doing there.
He declared that it was a matter of
private business. So they proceeded to
talk to him for an hour, while his bride
wax waiting for him In the hotel dining
room, and they took him by main force
to a carriage, when he was driven with
them to Exposition Hall, where the ether
Governors made speeches.
Finally Governor Higgins said that he
must talk over the telephone, and what
he safd when he talked to his wife is not
known. However, the three Governors
and Mrs. Higgins eat down to a little din
ner after the speechmakiDg was over at
the hotel, and they all laughed or at
least Governor Swanson and Governor
Stuart laughed when Mrs. Higgins ad
mitted that they had been married but
eight days and that they had tried to keep
it a secret.
NOTED COWBOY ARRESTED
Arthur Sills aFces Charge of Forg
ery at Bellingham.
BEL.LIXGHAM. "Wash., Nov. 26. (Spe
cial.) Captain Arthur W. Sills, alias
"Wild Horse." the well-known scout, sol
dier of fortune and cowboy poet, was
arrested here today for forgery. The
complaint against htm is that lie passed
checks to the amount of signed with
the name of a prominent attorney, whose
signature he had secured through the
clever ruse of retaining him as counsel
in a will contest case. The imitation was
perfect, and his securing a large sum was
prevented by accident. He had several
forged checks on his person when ar
rested. Sills has had a romantic career. He
was a cowboy on the Texas trail during
the boom days of Dodge, and was a
friend of Bat Masterson, the famous mar
shal of the "toughest town on the
globe," He has been a member of Colo
nel Roosevelt's Hough Riders, and dur
ing the Boer war acted as scout for
the Stratcaim regiment of the British
Infantry. He was a Government scout
in the Apache war in Arizona, is a Cor
nell graduate and a newspaperman, and
has some ability as a poet.
TWO CLAIMANTS OF ESTATE
Body I'ouiul, Supposedly Identified,
Claimed by Another.
OREGON CITY. Or., Nov. 6. (Spe
cial.) Bernhardt Halst has filed a pe
tition for letters of administration in
the estate of the late Christian Halst.
Attorneys Hesse & Beckett have charge
of the matter. It Is stated that the
body of the man found near Spring
brook sehoolhouse. at Oswego last Au
gust was Halst. though Mrs. Effie
Kohlnson. of Ients Station, has very
clearly established the fact that the
body was that of her father, F. A.
Williamson. The petition of Barn
hardt Hnlst. who lives at 224 Caruthers
street, Portland, states that the de
ceased, who he believes was his broth
er, died August 1. 19ns. and that the
property consists of $i561 In gold. 3.80
in silver, a miner's lens and a pair
of spectacles. The money and these
articles were found upon the hody of
Williamson. The petitioner, Halst, is
74 years of sge.
WOULD STOP FOOTBALL
1 aroma School Director Says It Has
o Place in Schools.
TACOMA, "Wash.. Nov. 26. Specinl.
Director John T. Bibb will introduce at
the next mertlng of the Board of Edu
cation a resolution prohibiting football
in the High Srhewl next year. Director
Bibb at yesterday's meeting of the board
spoke of several caspa where students
have been seriously injured in football
games this season.
"As far as giving exercise to the stu
dpnts Is concerned, football is of no
value whatever, as over-exertion is not a
benefit to growing boys. To abolish this
game would not affect the general stu
dent body, for not one In a thousand
engage In It. I believe that this brutal
game, has no place among the sports, and
I have determined to introduce the reso
lution to secure its abolition in future
years."
MAY ARREST LYNCHERS
Humored Patterson Will Send
Troops to Tiptonvllle.
NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Nov. 26. A Tip
tonvllle, Tenn., dispatch says:
The rumors tiiat Gov. Patterson in
tended to send IV troops to take charge
of the situation and arrest supposed par
ticipants In the Wednesday night lynching
has caused great excitement here.
DEAN HOWARD IS DEAD
Well-Known Musician Passes Away
ill Pes Moines.
DES MOINES, Nov. 26. Dean Howard,
of the Musical College of Drake Uni
versity." died early today. He was well
known in Western musical circles.
Annual Game Goes to
Oregon, 10 to 0.
MOULLEN KICKS FIELD GOAL
Multnomah's Line Is Crossed
in Second Half.
GREAT HOLIDAY CROWD OUT
Contest Is Replete AYlth Spectacular
Features, but Is Marred by
Injuries and Charge of
Foul Play.
BT W. J. PETRAIN.
Outgeneraled In the first half, out
played toward the end of the second
half, and outklcked throughout the
game by the clever and agile football
eleven of the University of Oregon,' the
Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club
team went down to defeat for the third
successive time on Multnomah Field In
the annual Thanksgiving Day game
yesterday afternoon. The final score
of 10 to 0 was made possible by the
splendid punting of Dudley Clark, the
accuracy of Fred Moullen's goal kick
ing, and the quickness of Lester Means,
the freshman center of the University
of Oregon team.
The game was the occasion for the
gathering of a large crowd, and, while
the attendance was not so large as at
the Oregon-O. A, C. game last Satur
day, the enthusiasm was almost, as
great and the game much more spec
tacular. This was so because of the
practically dry field, the many punts
and running returns.
Clubmen Are Tired Out.
The varsity went Into the game with
Its usual spirit, and, while It did not
expect ,to win so easily, nevertheless
the players used all their Ingenuity
In- carrying out the different forma
tions. The boys had been coached to
hold Multnomah down and not to ex
tend themselves In the first half. In
this manner they hoped to tire the
clubmen out and eventually succeeded
in doing so, for, after showing a flash
of speed early In the second half, the
heavyweights of Multnomah lost ground
steadily until Oregon was rewarded by
a touchdown and a goal from field.
Multnomah apparently outplayed the
Collegians in the earlier portion of the
game, but It afterwards developed that
the Oregon men had simply saved them
selves for the second half. Little Earl
(Concluded on Pan 16.)
First Train Pulls Into Alturas Over
Long Delayed Track, Opening
Rich Section.
RENO, Nev.. Nov. 26. (Special.)
The work of building the Nevada, Cal
ifornia & Oregon Railroad from Reno
to Alturas. begun nearly 28 years ago,
was formally completed today, and for
the first time a train pulled into the
county seat of Plumas County, Cal.
For 'years the line extended to a
point about 60 miles this side of Al
turas. Obstacles have since hindered
the work from that point. Immense
tracts of rich agricultural land ' have
awaited the completion of this line for
development. They are to be placed on
the market at once, the aim of the
railroad being to co-operate in any way
to settle up the section and make It
one of the most prosperous in Northern
California.
WOULD SHOOT DOWAGER
Alleged Plot on the Life of Mother
of Czar Nicholas Discovered.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 26. Tele
grams received in this city today give
an account of the discovery of an al
leged plot upon the life of the Dow
ager Empress of Russia during her
recent journey from Copenhagen to
this city.
Shortly before the train on which
Her Majesty passed Ponderey, three
men were noticed acting suspiciously.
They were approached by gendarmes
and opened fire with revolvers. Two
got away, but one was arrested. This
Incident Is the basis of sensational
reports.
WANTS BAD RULES REVISED
Townsend Tired of Seeing Speaker
Whole Thing in House.
JACKSON, Mich., Nov. 26. Congress
man Charles E. Townsend, of this city,
today, discussing reports that he is to
be an active candidate for Speaker of the
next House of Representatives, said:
' "The only active change I have de
cided to start on reaching Washington
will be a revision of the House rules so
that the Speaker and his three party col
leagues on the committee on rules will
not be. the. whole thing."
HENEY TAKES AUTO RIDE
Enjoys Trip and Is Rapidly Regain
ing His Strength.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26. Francis J.
Heney celebrated Thanksgiving day by
taking an automobile ride in Golden
Gate Park. He was accompanied by his
wife. Dr. Beasley, Rudolph Spreckels,
William J. Burns and James Foley, his
bodyguard. Mr. Heney, who Is rapidly
regaining his strength, greatly enjoyed
the trip.
"HELD BY THE ENEMY"
Widow of Steinheil Ac
cuses Wolff.
SENSATION ENGULFS CITY
France on Verge of Exposure
Involving High Officials.
MRS. STEINHEIL ARRESTED
Woman Admits She Hated Husband
but Maintains Innocence Mys
tery Soon to Be Cleared With,
Startling Disclosure. ,
Development In the Steinheil mur
der case In Paris during the past 24
hours have gripped that city with
keenest excitement. Following a
confession yesterday by Mme. Stein-,
hell that her artist husband and
Mme. Japy, her mother, had. been
murdered by a man named Wolff, '
the police arrested the latter and
also took her Into custody. Stein
heil and Mme. Japy were" found mur
dered May SI. The woman had
been bound and gagged by the mur
derers. Paris now is wrought up
over the fact that the mystery which
has apparently baffled the police, is
not much of a mystery after all and
that the police have not been al
lowed to investigate the crime. It
Is expected that disclosures, hourly
anticipated, will connect some of the
highest officials of the republlo with
the most brutal crime of the year in
the French capital. Mme. Stein
heirs confession, a portion of which
Is already public, hints at start line
revelations soon to be made in con
nection with the murder.
PARIS, Nov. 26. Paris has been in a
state of intense excitement today over
the developments that have ccme thick
and fast since last night in the Stein
heil murder case, and the sensation has
made itself felt even in the Chamber of
Deputies, where many members declared
they would raise the question unless the
government undertook to probe the scan
dal to the bottom.
Confesses to Newspapermen.
Mme. Steinheil made a confession to
newspapermen last night. She declared
that a man named Alexander Wolff" was
the murderer of her husband. "Wolff was
arrested and examined by the authori
ties. He denied all guilt and said -he
was ready to prove an alibi. Madame
Steinheil then weakened and said if it
(Concluded on Page 6.)
,
Sues for Divorce and Husband Ac
cuses Mother-in-Law of Alien
ating AViXe's Affections.
MARYVILiLE, Mo., Nov. 26. Special.)
Mrs. Ollie MacKay came to Marj-ville
from Madison. S. D., to serve as a wit
ness in a suit in which her daughter.
Mrs. Mellat Klliott. was sulngr Oren M.
Elliott, editor of the Graham (Mo.) Post,
for divorce, and, while waiting for the
case to be called, was served with papers
in which Mr. Elliott sued Mrs. MacKay,
his mother-in-law, for $50,000 for alien
ating his wife's affections.
Both Elliott and his wife are deaf
mutes and have two children, a boy of 6
years and a girl of 6 months old, both
of whom are normal as to hearing and
speech.
Mrs. Elliott alleges in her petition that
Mr. Elliott cursed her in the deaf and
dumb signal manual and that he struck
and abused her. Mrs. MacKay, Mr. Kl
liott s mother-in-law, is the wife of Will
iam MacKay. a banker of Madison, S.
D. Mr. MacKay is Mrs. Elliott's step
father. Mr. Elliott is president of the
Missouri Silenum Society of Deaf Mutesr
He is wealthy.
ORDERS GJOA AUCTIONED
Vessel W hich Amundsen Took North
Will Be Sold.
FAX FRANCISCO, Nov. 26. Captain
Henry Lund, Norwegian Consul at this
port, yesterday received instructions
from Captain Eoald Amundsen, the ex
plorer, to sell at auction the sloop Gjoa,
in which Amundsen made his famous
voyage of discovery through the North
west Passage. . The sloop has been lying
at anchor at Mare Island Navy-Yard
ever since it entered this port after that
eventful trip. Consul Lund, who Is an
intimate friend of the explorer, is also
inform that the latter proposes to un
dertake a voyage in search of the geo
graphical north pole at some not dis
tant date, making the trip in the steam
er Fram, Captain Nansen's ship, now
the property of the government of Nor
way. Amundsen states that he will out
fit the voyage at this port, cruising to
the Siberian Islands and thence into the
unknown waters of the North in search
of the top of the world. Captain Amund
sen is now in Norway writing a book
telling of his travels and discoveries.
NO PLAGUE IN PORTLAND
Report Shows Rose City Has Never
Suffered From Bubonic.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. The plague
situation on the Pacific Coast is said to
have greatly improved within the last
few months, and the officials who have
been most active in the work of its sup
pression are encouraged to believe that
with continued vigilance its complete
eradication is probable. Dr. Walter
Wyman, Surgeon-General of the Public
Health and Marine Hospital Service, in a
report to the Secretary of the Treasury
concerning human plague and plague-infected
rats In San Francisco, Oakland.
Berkeley, Contra Costa County and Los
Angeles, Cal., and in Seattle. Wash.,
covering the period by months from May,
1907, to October 31, 1908, shows that since
this last-named date no case of human
plague or of plague-infected rats has
been discovered on the Pacific Coast.
In Seattle, three .fatal human cases
were reported in October, W07. but the
city has been since that date entirely
free from human cases.
INDIANS' GAME IS KILLED
Natives of Northeastern British Co
lumbia Are Starving.
VICTORIA, B. C, Nov. 26. (Special.)
Owing to the ravages of a pack of hun
gry wolves which have destroyed the
game, the bands of nomadic Indians in
habiting the northeastern portions of the
province are now threatened with starva
tion, and have appealed to the govern
ment for aid. The ferocious animals have
Invaded the territory in great numbers
and have killed oft all the game on which
the Indians depend for their sustenance.
The government has made arrangements
with the Hudson's Bay Company to fur
nish supplies to the destitute, and an ar
rangement has been completed between
the government and the company to have
the officials of the latter at the different
posts in the interior pay the natives the
bounty of $15 offered by the government
for each wolfs head brought in.
POPULACE IN UGLY MOOD
Demonstrations at Rome Against
Austria Still Continue.
ROME, . Nor. 26. The demonstrations
here against Austria, arising from the
attack in Vienna a few days ago upon
a number of Italian students agitating
for the establishment of an Italian uni
versity at Trieste, have not yet ceased
and the authorities still maintain a cordon
of troops around the Austro-Hungarian
embassy.
The continuance of the disturbance has
made necessary the postponement until
next Monday of the meeting of the In
ternational Institute of Agriculture, orig
inally set for today.
TRAIN STRUCK BY BARN
Two-Minute Tornado In Wisconsin
- Does $30,000 Damage.
STEVENS POINT, Wis., Nov. 26. A
two-minute tornado, which struck this
place last night, did damage to the ex
tent of about $30,000.
A passenger train was struck by a barn
which the wind carried through the air.
The engine cab was demolished and the.
fireman severely cut. Many persons werei
cut and bruised.
Auto Race Is Decided
in Last Minute.
FINISH IS MOST SPECTACULAR
Nazarro's Hope Blasted by
Bursting Tire. , .
ERLE HAS NOSE BROKEN
AVinner Sets New Record for Ameri
can Road Races, but Drives
Italian Car American Cars
Cannot Stand Pace.
SAVANNAH. Ga.. Nov. 26. A Flrt
car. sent piunu'ng through changing
fog and sunshine over 403 miles of
roadways by Uhe experienced hand of
Louis Wagner, won today the most
spectacular, the longest and the fast
est international automobile race ever
brought off tn this country.- Fate
played a game of hide and seek with
three grim and grimy hooded figures
that sat behind big steering wheels
and throttles and fought with, skill
and daring for an advantage of sec
onds at the finish of the more than
six hours of driving through the
stifling fumes of burning oil, into
storms of sand and gravel at risk of
life and limb Dor the honor ot a trophy
cup and a pun?e of gold.
Erie's Nosie and Jaw Broken.
The three diivers who crung together
from the very (start were shuffled about
like so many cards as the flying laps
were reeled away. For a time there
was a fourth 'figure in the leading col
umn, but whetn little more than a min
ute separated the first from the last
of the cars fin the whirring quartet,
a caprice of fortune sent one pitching
from the,, road!. Out of the mass of
wreckage Fritz Erie, who had been
driving the German Benz No. 19 was
taken with a; broken nose and broken
jaw.
Still the smuggle continued, and it was
not until- the' last minute of the last lap
that the tidel of victory turned to Wag
ner. Naxarro, the wonderful Italian driver,
holder of tvorld's records and winner of
countless contests, who had clung tena
ciously to a narrow margin of lead for
more than ta hundred miles, hesitated
long enouglv at the supply pits to change
a ieakBsnin& tire and lost. The treacher
ous robber tubing burst as he was about
to entea- the home stretch, and three min
utes ail delay that followed sent the grand
prize winner of last year and his Fiat
No. 6 from first to third place. Hemery,
with German Benz No. 8, favorite of the
followers of automobile racing, took sec
ond honors.
Wagner Has Narrow Margin.
It was not until the official time was
announced that the 'actual winner was
knovrn that Wagner had hurled himself
to victory by the slender margin of 66
seconds. Hemery was the first to finish
the 16 laps of the race and enthusiastic
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY Maximum temperature, 46
(Tieffrees; minimum. 33 decrees.
TODAY Fair; northerly -winds.
Portland and Vicinity.
Man tried to lead homes across railroad
brrldge and wrecks train. Pa e 12.
pacific Coast district only section of country
here appropriation for missions Is not
cut down. Page 13.
Householders route burglar with ehotgun
and pistol. Pag-e 0.
Choa-itable institutions enjoy Thanksgiving
dinners. Page 12.
Baby is 'deserted at night on step of res
cue home. Page 9.
Portland Railway, TJght ft Power Company
may lease Commercial building. Page 12.
Sport.
Vniversltv of Oregon defeats Multnomah
Club 10 to 0. Page 1.
Multnomah beats Rangers at Soccer. Page
17.
Washington defeats O. A. C- by score of 82
to 0. Page 10.
East Portland High wins from Eugene by
score of 10 to 0. Page 10.
Pacific Count
Rejected suitor kills successful rival and
himself. Page 11.
Advices at Victoria report Japanese boycott
to be continued by China, Page 11.
Domestic
Ftour persons drowned in steamer collision
off ?ndy Hook; one steamer sinks
Page 7. 'idrai'sSa
Boy kills stepfather In defense of mother.
Page 4.
Governors of Pennsylvania and Virginia
kidnap Governor of Rhode Island on
honeymoon trip, page I.
Troops keep peace at Perth Am boy. page 6-
RaiJroad in California begun 27 years ago
is completed. Page 1.
Lamphere con'icted of arson. Page .
Politics.
Roosevelt speaks at dedication of colored
Y. M. C. A. building on negro progress.
Pa ge 4
Carnegie's article on steel tariff angers
Pittsburg manufacturers. Page 1.
Fulton confers with Taft and Hitchcock on
Oregon Senatorial fight. Page 4.
Van Cleave denounces methods of tariff
hearings and demands honest, revision.
Page 1.
ftporU.
Ketchel knocks out Papke in 11 rounds.
Page 17
Wagner wins grand prize In Savannah auto
race, breaking record. Page 1.
Pennsylvania defeats Cornell at football.
Page 17.
Foreign.
Great scandal grows out of Steinheil mur
der in Paris. Page 1.
Wholesale executions cause terror In Uaytl
Page 6.
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