GEORGE BUSSE IS
UNWITTING SLAYER
Brother of Chicago's
Mayor Kills Woman.
PISTOL ACCIDENTALLY FIRED
Bullet Pieces Two Windows
and Crosses Area. '
BUSSE IS NEARLY FRANTIC
Victim AVas Daughter of General
Glrard, Itetlred, Who Says He .
Will Not Cause Arrest, Believ
ing Shooting Accidental.
CHICAGO. Jan. 81. (Special) Mrs. Lu
chia C. Tuckerman, aged 33 years, wife of
frultdealer at Milton. New Tork, -was
hot and Instantly killed at 7 o'clock
thia evening In a most peculiar manner.
George Busse, brother of -the Mayor of
Chicago, was handling a revolver when
It was discharged. The bullet crashed
through two windows, crossed an area
way and pierced the heart of Mrs. Tuck
erman. She was the daughter of General A. C.
Glrard. retired, who resides in the Walton
apartments, a fashionable residence build
ing at 305 North Clark street, on the
North Side. George Busse lives in the
- same building, occupying a fiat separated
from the Girard home by a twelve-foot
area way.
Mr. Busse was planning to leave the
city on a business trip and was explain
ing to a maid. Bertha Lambke, how to
use the revolver, one of the new maga
Blne weapons which shoot with great
force. His brother, the Mayor, was pres
ent at the time.
Basse Driven Frantic.
In some manner no one Is able to ex
tlaln, the weapon was discharged. For
m. time the extent of the damage was not
known. Then the brothers went to the
broken window and noticed tho excite
ment In the Girard apai'ment. They ran
to the home of General Girard and
learned of the death of Mrs. Tuckerman.
George Busse was driven frantic by the
accident and no ono has been able to
converse with him since he learned he
bad killed his neighbor. Mayor Busse
summoned physicians from every direc
tion and also notified the police.
George Busse has not been arrested,
and General and Mrs. Girard say they do
Hot wish his arrest, for they are con
vinced the shooting was purely acci
dental. Mrs. Glrard, mother of the victim, says
tier daughter was standing In front of
. a dressjr in her bedroom, arranging her
hair, when the shot came through the
window. She staggered to the door and
called to her mother, saying she had
- been shot, and then pitched forward
upon the floor, expiring Immediately. The
General, his wife and Mrs. Tuckerman
were the sole occupants of the Girard
home at the time of the shooting, the
ervanta having departed for the even
"lng. Family Very Prominent.
Mrs. Tuckerman Is the wife of Lucius
C. Tuckerman, who has an estate at
MIlton-on-Hudson, Ulster County, New
Tork. She was the mother of three
children. Her husband was notified by
wire tonight of the fatality and has
started West to take the body home for
burial.
General A. C. Girard. the father of
llrs. Tuckerman, is widely known In
Army circles. For many years he , was
connected with the Medical Corps of the
1 United States Army and formerly was
In charge of the United States General
I -(Hospital at the Presidio, In San Fran-
Cisco. After long service there he was
retirea ana came 10 inicago 10 reside.
He is at present superintendent of the
medical division of the John Creerar
library.
a-ICTIM KXOTTS FX BAY CITY
Airs. Tuckerman There Met and
Married Lieutenant Bush.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Lucius C Tuckerman,
who was killed in Chicago, was well
known In this city, where she spent
considerable time during her father's
service at the Presidio. She was one
t three beautiful sisters, all of whom
were popular in military circles. Miss
Glrard, as she was then, was married
ta. Lieutenant Bush of the 24th Infan
cy at Fort Douglas before the Span-lsh-Aroerican
War.
Gereral Girard was stationed at this
jiost from 1S99 to 1902, and his three
daughters, ail of whom, married army
officers, were here a great deal of the
time. They were popular and promi
nent In loclety. and became well
known In San Francisco. Mrs. Bush
afterward went to the Philippines
with her husband. She remained In
. Manila while he was ordered to the
Interior.
Tuckerman was in Manila at the
time and waa reputed to be erfgaged
In the mining; 'business. Mrs. Bush
and her husband wire not congenial
and they did not live together after
his transfer to the Philippines. She
afterwaid established a residence in
JCevada and secured a divorce in Reno
n the ground that her husband was
oo religious. L
EMPLOYE-WANTS
$45,000 IN TIPS
ALLEGES HOTEL DEPRIVED HIM
OF EMOLUMENTS.
-
Exposure of Tipping System in Lon
don Coming Through Suit
Against Carlton.
LONTiON. Jan. SI. (Special.) An
other exposure of the tipping system
in London hotels Is promised shortly.
when the Carlton hot.il will fight a
suit brought against It by one of its
discharged employes, formerly a cloak
room attendant. It is understood he
is basing his suit, not upon the dam-
ape accruing from wrongful dismissal
but on the claim that he is entitled
to a proportion of the tips of the
cloakroom, which instead of going into
his pockets went into the coffers of
the hotel company. The hotel com
pany has retained Rufus Isaacs, a
brilliant and expensive lawyer, to
fight the case.
Tho suit bears a close resemblance
to the action brought against the Carl
ton hotel in 1904. which resulted in
a verdict for the plaintiff, and much
undesirable 'advertising for the system
of tip distribution, which obtained at
the Carlton. That trial brought out
that the Carlton company benefited
by tips given to servants in restau
rants and cloakrooms and to porters
to the extent of over $45,000 in 15
months.
FRAUD CHARGES OUTLINED
Witnesses in Oklahoma Town Lot
Scandal Are Arriving.
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Jan. 31. Wit
nesses from Nashville,' Tenn., who are
called to testify before the Federal
grand jury in the .alleged town-lot
fraud" investigation, began arriving in
Muskogee today Attorney Sylvester
R. Rush and District Attorney Gregg
held a conference tonight with all the
witnesses now here.
The conspiracy to defraud allega
tions, it is said, will be based upon
three propositions: First, connivance
of Government representatives when
the lots were scheduled to "dummies";
second, knowledge of "dummies" of the
use being made of their names; third,
conspiracy limited to the few who
scheduled names of "dummies," and
subsequently tried to have all the lots
quit-claimed for their benefit. .
SHIPMENTS WITHOUT BILLS
Adjustment of Transcontinental
Freights to Be Made.
CHICAGO, Jan. 31. (Special.) A
question of unusual Importance which is
scheduled for consideration by the Trans
continental Freight Bureau, when that
body reconvenes tomorrow, is the pro
posed adoption of uniform rules cover
lir the delivery of reconsignments with
out the surrender of bills of lading of
east-bound shipments of fruits and veg
etables from Pacific Coast points.
These goods are of a perishable nature
and must of necessity be handled quickly.
On reconsignments It Is said to be im
possible at times for the final consignee
to obtain his bill of lading. As a re
sult some rule is needed -which is satis
factory to both east and west-bound
lines and which also fulfills legal require
ments. ILL-FATED BOAT MYSTERY
Xo Clew to Identity of Steamer
Sunk Off Diamond Shoals.
NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 31. Hidden be
neath the turbulent waves that roll
over Diamond Shoals, 14 miles off Cape
Hatteras, N. C-, the secret of the iden
tity of the mysterious steamer which
went doi there early yesterday, prob
ably with all on board, remains untold.
No clew to corroborate the testi
mony of those few aboard 'the Diamond
Shoals lightship who witnessed, help
less to aid. this latest tragedy of the
well-named "graveyard of the Atlan
tic" was obtained today. When dark
ness fell upon the scene tonight not
a piece of wreckage had been found.
LISBON REPORTS TEMBLOR
Montreal Also Reports Earthquake
Shock, But Xo Damage.
LISBON1, Jan. 31. Slight earthquake
6hocks, accompanied by subterranean
rumblings, have occurred in the region
near Beja. No damage has been done.
MONTREAL, Jan. 31. A slight earth
quake shock was felt In this city at
about midnight. No damage has been
reported.
POLICE WOUND SOCIALISTS
Clash Occurs at Protest Against
Election Laws.
HANOVER, Germany, Jan. 31. So
cialist demonstrations held here today
In protest against the Prussian election
laws resulted In a collision between the
Socialists and the police. Between 40
and 30 persons were wounded.
SIGHT OF DOG KILLS CHILD
Three-Year-Old Boy "Dies of Fright
Jn Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31. Albert J.
Winn. 3 years eld. died here today of
fright caused by seeing in the street a
Jdog which bit nim seven eeks ago.
HEIRS OF Y
ADUINA
GRANT LAY CLAIM
After Title to 9126
Acres of Land.
BILL NOW BEFORE CONGRESS
Assigns of Yaquina Bay Wag
on Road Co. Behind Move.
FAIR EXCHANGE IS ASKED
Willing to Yield Claim to Patented
Land if Given Lieu Selection
in State Congressman Haw
ley . Ia Asking for Facts.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Jan. 31. Another Oregon land
grant has bobbed up, demanding Con
gressional attention. Thia time it is the
Corvallis and Yaquina Bay wagon road
grant in Benton and Lincoln counties.
But in this instance it is not the settlers
who are appealing to Congress, but the
road company, or rather its assigns, and
the appeal la made ostensibly in the in
terest of settlers on. lands within the
limits of the grant.
Just what the actual facts of the case
may be is yet to be disclosed from an
examination of the records, but on Its
face the proposition has the appearance
of being both legitimate and proper. It
will be thoroughly examined Into, how
ever, before any action Is taken by Con
gress. State Cedes Land Rights.
The bill in question was introduced by
Representative Burnett, of Alabama, and
in its preamble sets forth briefly the
history of the grant, and explains the
grounds upon which legislation- is asked.
It seems that the act of July 4. 1866,
authorized the grant to the State of Ore
gon, "to aid in the construction of a
military road from Corvallls to Acqulna
(Yaquina) Bay," of three alternate-odd
sections per mile, said lands to be not
more than six miles from the road, and
said lands "to be applied exclusively to
the construction of the road."
It was stipulated that the lands so
granted should be disposed of by the
Legislature of Oregon. The Legislature,
on October 24. 18G6, designated the Cor
vallls and Yaquina Bay Wagon Road
Company as beneficiary of the grant, and
for the purpose of securing the construc
tion of the road, transferred the state's
right to the lands to the company.
Title Granted to 90,240 Acres.
This company constructed the road, and
according to the land office records, lt
is alleged, became entitled to 90.240 acres
of public lands. . On July 18, 1874, Con
gress passed another act directing that
patents for the land above granted should
Issue to the constructing company. The
Corvallls and Yaquina Bay Road Com-
(Contlnued on Page 2.)
OREGON MEMBERS OF' OREGON-WASHINGTON FISHERIES CONFERENCE, WHICH
- HAS AGREED AT SEATTLE UPON UNIFORM F2SHING LAWS FOR TWO STATES
-Mit4--'""","' .... .... . .,i jmMtiaatmiummmtua
Senator I. H. Bingham.
Representative J. C. Smith.
I tiM ' ';:;(fvr; y II: ;v ...v
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KING GIVES AND
TAKES NO CREDIT
BRIDGE BETS MUST BE SET
TLED PROMPTLY.
Has Been Visiting Loyal Subjects,
Who Entertain Him at His.
Favorite Game.
LONDON, Jan. 31. (Special) King Ed
ward last week visited Lord Alingston;
the week before that he visited , Lord
Iveagh, the millionaire brewer. The court
circular. Issued at Buckingham Palace,
did not tell all that the King. did. The
King is an inveterate bridge player and
none but the very wealthy can afford to
entertain him.
The King bets heavily at bridge, is a
skillful player and plays to win always.
Those who play with him do their best
to win, as His Majesty would not tolerate
a toadying player who deliberately tried
to lose.' "V
The Marquise de Soveral. the Por
tuguese Ambassador, books all the win
nings and losses at the King's table and
settles them , next day. The King pays
promptly, as must his fellow-players,
women as well as men. There Is no
credit in the royal game. The King's
bridge game is stiff. Ordinarily His
Majesty plays to win or lose an average
of J 75 a .rubber.
The King one night at Eleveden Hall
lost $5600. Some of the King's side
beta are as much as $500. He bet the
players at the other three tables and
with onlookers. The King is a "game
loser," and. never displays any temper,
losing as cheerfully as he wins.
T. R. OFFERED CIRCUS JOB
Inducement $300,000 and Stenog
rapher For Exclusive Use.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 31. (Spe
cial.) President Roosevelt has been
offered $300,000 for an engagement of
SO weeks to head a Rough Rider show
in opposition to that of Buffalo Bill.
The man making this offer is James
Atlas, once champion heavyweight
wrestler. Besides $300,000, there will
be two private cars and a stenogra
pher for the exclusive use of Mr.
Roosevelt The letter reads:
"Will you accept anengagement of
$0 weeks at a salary of $10,000 a week
($300,000 in all), commencing the first
day of May, 1909, to head a Wild West
exhibition entitled, 'Theodore Roose
velt's Congress of Rough Riders?"
"An early reply will be appreciated'
RAILROAD SHOPS REOPEN
Canadian Pacific Prepares for Big
gest Tear in History.
WINNIPEG, Jan. 31. The railways
have given orders to start the Canadian
Northern and Canadian Paclflo shops
tomorrow morning with increased staff
preparatory to the biggest railroad
year in Western Canada's history. -
TURKEY WANTS TO KNOW
Asks ir Bulgaria Is Going to Re
sume Negotiations.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 31. The
Grand Vizier. Kimiel Pasha, dispatched
to Sofia today an energetic note demand
ing to know definitely whether Bulgaria
intends to resume negotiations.
Fish tVardea H. C. McAllister.
Representative It. S. Farrell.
INTER-STATE FISH
WAR SOON TO END
Treaty Agreed To by
Joint Committee. -
SAME LAWS OVER COLUMBIA
President's Signature to the
i Agreement Proposed.
BINDING FOR EIGHT YEARS
Members of Commission Reach
Conclusion Which Before Seat-'
tie Sleeting Had Been. Re
garded as Impossible.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 31. (Special.)
.As a result of the joint meeting of the
legislative committees from Oregon and
Washington in this city today, re
garding salmon fishing in the Columbia
River, an effort is to be made to have
the agreement in the form of a treaty
raSfled by the United States Senate and
extended to six or eight years, so that
quarrels and hostile legislation from
either state over the boundary rights
cannot in future upset the peaceful rela
tions which have now been established
for the first time In the history of the
two states.
This was the outcome of the feeling
at the Joint committee meeting according
to Joseph R. Burke, of Wahkiakum
ftauntv. who was a member of the House
committee from Washington at the Joint
conference.
Factions Are Ignored.
With identical laws on the salmon fish
ine Industry along the . Columbia, Mr.
Burke said it was the evident purpose of
the majority of the members of tne joint
committee to preserve these relations far
Into the future, during which the fric
tion between the up-river and down-river
Interests will have been forgotten.
Mr. Burke, who is a warm friend of
this measure, says that the members of
the committee who were approached on
the subject expressed their desire to take
some 6teps that would preserve peace,
and to put it beyond the power of fac
tions to break it. This, he said, can be
accomplished only through ratification
by Congress. His plan is to have the
Legislature of each state authorize the
treaty, secure the signature of the Gov
ernors, and forward it to Congress,
where, after ratification, the President's
signature will make It a compulsory law
from six to eight years. Put through
In this way, Mr. Burke declared, the
powers of each state to resort to the
Federal Courts would be clearly defined
and understood.
Gillnetters May Block: Move.
The only objection to this treaty plan,
he added, would come, if it came at all,
(Concluded on Page 8.)
Senator W. T. cholfleld'.
Representative John C. HcCue.
MOTHER SEES LION
EATING HER CHILD
HORRIBLE SIGHT GREETS HER
AS SHE ENTERS TEX?.
Slonster Congar Has Body of Tvo-Year-Old
Boy Torn to Pieces
and Is Devouring It,
BALBOA, Cal., Jan. 31. Her 2-year-old
boy killed and his little body terribly
mutilated by a montter mountain Hon, and
the fierce beast devouring one of the
leg3 which it had torn from the socket,
was the sight that Mrs. Chris Brown
beheld when she entered the family tent,
four miles from the Hotel Delmar, after
a short walk yesterday evening.
When the mother realized what had
taken place, she screamed and almost
threw herself on the lion, which growled
savaselv and backed slowly out at a
rear entrance of the tent, carrying a
mouthful of the human flesh in its teetn,
and disappeared.
The Browns arrived from Delaware two
weeks ago.
LOST HUNTER IS CANNIBAL
Mystery of Chiboogamoo District. Is
Cleared Tp.
OTTAWA, OnL, Jan. 31. (Special.)
The discovery of a Belgian trapper
named Grasset badly frozen and half
Insane in a wildcrne'ss near Fort Al
bany, may clear up the mysterious
cases of cannibalism discovered last
Summer In the Chiboogamoo district
of Quebec province.
Grassot. with a French trapper
named Bernard and a guide, a French
Canadian named Lemieux, left Rober
val, Quebec, with the intention of hunt
ing and trapping in the Chiboogamoo
district Last May a party of hunters
found the body of Lemieux with all
the flesh carved off, Indicating that
the missing parts had not been eaten
by wolves. An inquest confirmed . the
belief that the flesh had all been cut
away with a knife. Natives in the
Chiboogamoo district hinted at murder
and cannibalism. A few weeks later
the body of- Bernard, filso denuded of
flesh in the same manner, was dis
covered. All trace of Grasset had been lost
until he was found at James Bay.
GOVERNOR BACKS BELMONT
Chamberlain Aids Movement For
Publicity of Campaign Funds.
PARIS, Jan. 31. Perry Belmont, as
president of the National Publicity Or
ganization in the United States, announces
that he has received a large number of
letters from Influential members of the
association In various states, among
whom were Governor George E. Chamber
lain of Oregon, Governor Dawson of West
Virginia, President David Starr Jordan
of Leland Stanford University, President
Andrews of the University of Nebraska,
and Professor C. N. Gregory of the Uni
versity of Iowa, stating that they have
written to the Senators from their states
urging them to support the bill relating
to the publication of campaign contribu
tions which is now pending In the Senate.
These letters are now being transmitted
to Senator Johnson of the committee in
charge of the bill.
FIND NO FAULT WITH DAM
'raft Party Inspects Gatun Plana
and 19 Satisfied.
PANAMA, Jan. 31. The engineers ac
companying President-elect Taft spent to
day at Gatun with the chief engineer of
the canal. Lieutenant Colonel Goethals.
They had no fault to find with the na
tural foundations for the dam and re
garded the plans for safeguarding the
dam as being complete. They will make
a report to President RoosevelJ.
They will Inspect Culebra cut tomorrow.
Mr. and Mrs. Taft attended the Episco
pal Church today and later the President
elect received the British Minister.
The new Pacific channel to the canal
will be used for the departure of a
steamship for the first time tomorrow.
LEWIS ADOPTS NEW TACT
President of United Mine Workers
Stops Filibuster.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 31. Presi
dent Lewis, of the United Mine Workers
of America, will Institute a strictly busi
ness programme at tomorrow's session
of the convention and stop filibustering as
far as possible. Tellers who tabulated
the vote for the National officers will re
port tomorrow. President Lewis is said
to have been re-elected by a majority of
16,26914.
ABRUZZI' HAS QUIT NAVY
Proposes to AVed Miss Elktns as
Prince or Private Citizen.
TURIN, Jan. 31. Notwithstanding of
ficial denials, It Is still asserted that
the Duke of the Abruzzi has resigned
as an officer of the Italian navy. It
is said also that he has expressed his
determination to marry Miss Katherine
Elklns, either as a royal prince or a
private individual after his expedition
to the Himalayas.
PLANS 46 NEW SCHOOLS
Chicago School Board Announces
Many Extensions.
CHICAGO, Jan. 31. The Chicago
School Board has made public its plans
to erect within the next two or three
years 46 new school buildings and ad
ditions at a total cost of $8,873,000.
VARSITY WOULD
GET FROM UNDER
Hoodlums Said to Have
Mauled Japanese.
PRESIDENT WHEELER REGRETS
Not Certain Students Are
Guilty, He Says.
KENEK0 IS OF HIGH CLASS
Pending Legislation In California
Would Xot Apply to Him Ef
fect of Incident on Eastern
Thought Greatly Deplored.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 81. (Special.
President Wheeler, of the University of
California, is evidently much perturbed
over the assault on the young Japanese
student, Kenjl Keneko, Friday night, on
the University grounds, and feara that it
will injure California In the estimation of
the East and of Japan, leading them to
believe that there is a bitter race hatred
against the Japanese even among Univer
sity students.
What makes the case worse ia that it
is uncertain whether the assault was made
by University students or by Berkeley
boys who were on the University grounds.
President Wheeler inclines to the latter
view, because the president of the stu
dent body has had no reports of the
matter.
Vice-Consul Takahashl seems to regard
the attack as a trivial Police Court case,
but the Berkeley Japanese Association, Tif
1000 members, proposes to investigate the
matter and secure some redresa for the
insulted student.
Keneko High-Class Japanese.
One report says Keneko followed after
the boys and provoked the trouble, but
those who know the man say he is a gen
tleman, and the fact that he is a mature
graduate student and came from the Im
perial University of Tokio, goes far to
discredit the report. Keneko himself gives
a clear, straightforward account of the
matter. He eays:
"I was passing the building where Pres
ident Jordan was lecturing on 'Evolution,'
when I noticed several young men about
the door talking about the Japanese and
the new anti-alien bills now before the
Legislature. I etopped a moment to hear
what they had to say. As I passed into
the trail under the trees I heard one of i
them eay, There goes one of those Japs .
now," and without warning three of them
rushed at me, Btruck me over the head,
knocked off my hat and threw me off the
trail, all of them kicking and striking at
me together.
"Wheeler Has Jfo Official Notice.
"I stood my ground and, while fighting
them off, demanded If they were students
of the University. They hooted and
laughed, and spat at me, and then walked
away, and I followed them and saw them
out of the Center-street entrance to tho
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY Maximum temperature.
43
degrees: minimum. 3H degrees.
TODAY Occasional rain; southerly winds.
Forelcn.
Opium Conference holds nrst aesalon at
Shanghai. Fags 4.
Atlantic fleet anchors off Gibraltar. Page 4.
National.
Asslgne of Yaquina Bay Wagon Road Com
pany lay claim to uregon lands. Page 1.
Secretary Root may figure la libel euiti
against World. Pago 3.
Much speculation as to personnel of com
mittees of next House. Page 3.
President Roosevelt offered $300,000 to head
Wild West show 30 weeks. Page 1.
Roosevelt advises California on proposed
anti-Japanese measures. Page 2.
Political.
Btpehenson's managers bring home pressure
to awing legislators la line; count on six
more votes, page 2.
Employe sues London hotel for $45,000 In
tips taken from him. Page 1.
Domestic.
Mother finds mountain lion devouring her
child. Page 1.
Brother of Mayor Busse, of Chicago, acci
dentally kills woman. Page 1.
Japanese vice-consul at Saa Francisco belit
tles attack on Berkeley student. Page L
Insular.
Philippine General Assembly opens at Ma
nila. ' Page 3.
paclflo Northwest.
Action of Joint fisheries committees at Se
attle paves way for settlement of inter
state disputes. Page 1.
Report made on rich fruit land tn Jackson
County. Page 12.
Sports.
Dan 6ullivan, former world champion mid
dleweight wrestler, wants match, with
O'Connell. Page 12.
North Pacific Fair Association will meet In
Portland Friday.S Page 12.
American" horsemen will make entries oa
English circuit. Pago IS.
Portland and Vicinity.
Will Morris may found vaudeville circuit oa
Pacific Coast. Page 8.
Employers' liability bill will come before
Legislature this week. Page 5.
Richard Clinton, past exalted ruler of Elks,
and veteran theatrical manager, dies
. suddenly. Page 7.
Cost of living not much higher than lat
year, but greatly Increased over five years
ago. Page 12.
City ofTialals opposed to present method of
extending water system. Page 8.
Brougher and Heppe disagree on new relig
ious movement. Page 9.
Dr. Ghormley supports "What Would Jerus
Do?" movement. Page B.
Rev. A. J. Montgomery recslves call to
Chicago ohurch. Page 4.
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