VOL. XLIX. XO. 15,043. RAIHEY IS GALLED Lovering Adds Chapter to Canal Story. PLOT TO HOLD UP CROMWELL World's Charges Fathered by Gang of ex-Convicts. THEIR DEMANDS SCORNED Friend of Canal Lawyer Causes Sen sation In House hj Tteveallng Origin of Rainey's Charge. Rainey Promises Reply. WASHINGTON. Feb. 12. That Rainey of Illinois got from the New Tori 'World his Information regarding the Panama Canal affairs, which formed the subject of his recent speech, and that ex-con-vlcts invented the stories of fraud and corruption pertaining to the acquirement of title by the United States to the prop erty was the charge made in the House by levering of Massachusetts. -Maybe," he said, "the "World did not originate all the scandalous stories it published, but Its columns were public and we do know that the World .did give credence and circulation to them." Chapter of Blackmailing. Lovering declared that "the perpe trators of these false statements are known and the story of their doings re veal a chapter in the history of black mailing that is rare in thy annals of crime. "These gentlemen." he said, "are known. Their names are known; their aliases are known; their haunts are known: their plans are known." "Does the gentleman object to stating who they are?" inquired Burleson of Texas. Lovering protested that he was labor ing umfr great difficulties because of the absence of Rainey from the cham ber, lie admitted that he did, not no tify the Illinois member that he was to speak on this subject. Many Are ex-Convicts. "I want to say," he said, "that these men have been run down nnd brought to book, and it turns out that many of them are ex-convicts, and they ttand a good chance of returning to the peni tentiary." He was pressed by Shackleford of Mis souri for information as to who these convicts were, but Lovering would go no further than to state that before long they would be produced in court. Their names, he said, had been brought before the grand Jury, both at Washington and at New Tork, and at the proper time would become known to the general public. AVarm Friend of Cromwell. "How do you happen to be familiar with the secrets of the grand Juries?" asked Shackleford, but before he could answer Gaines of Tennessee inquired if he were not a warm personal friend "of William Nelson Cromwell. Lovering ad mitted that he was. Responding to. questions by Shackle ford, the Massachusetts member said he personally was not a client of Mr. Crom well, but that he was a member of a corporation that had retained Ills ser vices. He refuses to say how long Mr. Cromwell had been so employed. He merely stated that he was not putting himself in the position of being Interro gated by a court of Justice. Further referring to Rainey, Lover ing said: "This gentleman has been made a victim or he is too willing to asperse such fair names as those of Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson, William Nelson Cromwell, Roger Farnham and several others." Lovering Called to Order. It was, he said, a "shameless prosti tution" of the privilege of free speech which members enjoyed on the floor of the House. For this utterance, ' Lovering was promptly called to order by Lawrence, of Massachusetts, his colleague, who was in the chair. Lovering protested that he had men tioned no names except that of Rainey and those which had been spoken of In the House and in the public press. Calls Rainey to Hear. Upon the suggestion of Gaines, of Tennessee, that Rainey had been sent for and that the speech should proceed no further until he had arrived. Lov ering yielded the floor temporarily. After waiting a reasonable time and Rainey not returning to the chamber, Lovering resumed his remarks. He had not proceeded far when he was told that the Illinois member, who was scheduled to make a Lincoln speech in Baltimore, had been overtaken at the railroad station and was on his way to the House. Lovering again suspend ed his remarks. In a short time Rainey entered the chamber and stated that his Baltimore engagement would prevent his remain ing throughout Lovering" remarks, but that he later would make an answer should he find it necessary. Continuing, Lovering declared that the evidence was "complete and suf- CROOKS GATSPAW (Concluded on Page ) UNCLE SAM PLAYS ROLE OF NEMESIS TRACKS MURDERERS OVER EIGHT MONTHS. Two Filipinos "VVIjo Killed Agent of Forestry Service Finally Run Down In Wilderness. MANILA, Feb. 12. After months of tracking through mountains and dense forests In the interior of the island of Negros, a force of constabulary has filially run down and captured two of the murderers of H. D. Everett, assistant director of the Bureau of Forestry of the Philippines, and T. R. Wakeley, another Government forester, who were treach erously killed by a band of natives while surveying and mapping the Island last June. As an example to other hillsmen In the Island, the Government has kept up a re lentless pursuit of the band since the day that the two Americans were murdered, and after almost eight months of track ing the constabulary has succeeded in capturing two of the leaders. Pursuit will bo continued until the entire band has been hunted down. RAISE BAGGAGE-CAR RATES Theatrical Companies May Hare to Pay More for Transportation. CHICAGO, Feb. 12. (Special.) At the next meeting of" the Transconti nental Passenger Association, which will be held in Seattle n June, plans will be submitted to the members for an increase in baggage car rates to Pacific Coast points. There has been a move ment in this direction for some time, and several of the members have ex pressed strong opinions that the rates should be advanced. The chairman of the association is sued a communication to members to day notifying them of how the ques tion stands, and urging that each should go to the meeting prepared to discuss all phases of the matter. The atrical companies and Qlher like com binations will be the ones most direct ly Interested In the' final outcome. STARTS PANIC IN. THEATER Cry for Fire Chief Cause, Playing of "America" Cure, t TATj ;, X. D.. Feb. 21. With "the Fargo Opera-House packed to the doors today, a majority of the audience being school children and women, George A. Hadley. engineer at the theater, lashed from the stage through the audience, calling for Chief Sutherland of the Fire Department. In an instant the place was a veritable mob, with every one cramming for the exit, fries of "'fire" were all that could be heard. Cooler heads prevailed until a pianist was rushed to the Instrument on the stage and "America" was played. A chorus of voices on the stage took up the air and in a moment the audience Joined and order was restored. No one was seriously injured. PLOT TO DEPOSE SULTAN Cause of Cabinet Crisis In Turkey Made Known. BERLIN", Feb. 12. The recent changes in he Turkish Ministry are due to the discovery of a plot against the Sultan that had for its object his deposition, ac cording to the Constantinople correspond ent of the Frankfurter Zeltung. It Is reported that the Ministers of For eign Affairs and Justice resigned last night. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 12. It is re ported that the Ministers of the Interior and Justice have resigned. The Minister of Justice is one of the leaders of the Young Turks. NEED NOT AID BREWERIES Express Concerns Sot Compelled to Act 89 Collectors. WASHINGTON Feb. 12. That ex press companies cannot be compelled to perform "C. O.' D." services for the li quor traffic was held by the Interstate Commerce Commission yesterday in the case of the Royal Brewing Company against the Adams Express Company. The express company had established a rule against collecting for shippers the purchase price of intoxicating li quors. LAUNCH ROSA GOES ASHORE Passengers and Crew Taken Off by Lifesavlng Men. TILLAMOOK. Or.. Feb. 11 (Special.) The gasoline launch Rosa, Inbound from Astoria, went ashore on Tillamook bar Thursday morning. The life-saving crew from Garibaldi went to the rescue of the Rosa and took the passengers off and landed them on the beach and then re turned to the Rosa for the purpose of getting her off. UNKNOWN STEAMER SINKS Strikes Rock in Fog and Founders AYith Seven Persons. BREST. France, Fob. 12. A British, steamer, the name of which is unknown, during a fog today ran on a rock off Quassant and then slid off and sank in deep water. Seven persons were drowned, but the remainder of the crew took to small boats and later were picked up by a pilot-boat. . "1 ft. -B. v j. 9 - v . v ' n . ' -c . m a i 'msr.v. , m . v m.m, .a-- -a. ' I LITTLE HOPE, FOR Trimming ProblemToo Deep for Solons. $3,700,000 IS BOTTOM FIGURE $4,000,000 Estimate May Possibly Be Exceeded. SCHOOLS LIKELIEST GAME Will Be Singled Out as. Object of Onslaught if Any Is Made, and Normals Particularly Will Bo Center of Battle. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Feb. 12. (Special.) With an appropriation total of nearly 14,000,000 staring the Legislature in the face, the members are trying to de vise ways of trimming the budget, but not as yet with much success, since the trim ming must necessarily affect the pet items of somebody. From a week-ahead survey of the finish it appears that the total cannot be re duced below $3,700,000. It may exceed $4,000,000, 'but probably not. . . If any onslaught Is to be made, the ob ject of attack will be the Agricultural College, for which the ways and means committees have recommended $460,000 for the biennial period; the Monmouth, Ash land and Weston normal schools, for which the House has passed a bill con veying $106,000 each, under Instruction of the House; the Crater Lake road.jfor Which the House has passed a bill carry ing $100,000; the Seattle Exposition, for which the ways and means committees have recommended $25,000, and the pro posed new asylum at Pendleton, for which Eastern Oregon wants $200,000, but which will probably be reported adversely. Summary of Appropriations. The proposed appropriations may be summarized as fcliowsi .. -.- General bill ..: - $l.B19.180 Deficiency bill 104.206 Standing appropriations ......... 6:11.900 Other minis appropriated and recommended 1,842,800 Total $4,088,088 These Have Passed. Appropriations which have passed both houses are: Hermlston experiment station $ 6.000 Coast salmon hatcheries 20.000 These have passed the Senate: Water control, estimated $ RO.OOO Union-Baker experiment station ...$5,000 Irrigation experiment station In Washington County 8.000 Burns experiment station R,000 Columbia hatcheries 12.000 Cougar bounty, estimated 6.000 These have passed the House: Monmouth Normal jn.onr Ashland Normal KiB.noo Weston Normal - 106. nno Topographic survey $30,000 Snake River bridge at Ontario 10.000 Coyote scalp bounty 40,000 State printing plant 20.000 Soldiers burying ground 2,000 Protection of forests 8.000 CCcncluded on Page 6.) REDUCED BUDGET "EXCUSE ME FOR LAUGHING, OLD MAN, BUT YOU LOOK SO i r ,w.ixr . rrTrnr. W. VERRUARY 13. 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ; I 1 SEEKING HUSBAND, GIRL ROBS HOME rXCLE PROMISES PRIXCE TO POOR ITAilAX. Peculations From Family Sare Amount to $50,000 Plot ting Relatives Arrested. CHICAGO, Feb. 12. Special.) Because scheming relatives told 19-year-old Ange lina Schiavone that they would get her a rich and handsome husband who would house her in a palace If she. would give them money, the girl, who is a cripple and mentally deficient, stole over $50,000 from her ..father's safe. All day today the po lice have been searching for the money, but though the girl furnished them with a notebook containing the dates on which she abstracted the funds, in amounts varying from $50 to $500, the detectives have as yet been unable to discover any of it, or even to trace lis expenditure by her relatives. As a result of the peculations, of which Pasquale Schiavone often complained, but never suspected .his daughter, the uncle of the girl, Francisco Schiavone and five members of his family have been arrested, the girl's brother being the com plainant. The uncle and his family have been released on an aggregate ball of $21, 000 and will plead to the charges against them tomorrow. Angelina lived with her.- father and brother, the former conducting a small private bank and jewelry store; an em ployment agency and a steamship office all in the same building. He conducted his business In the simplest way and kept all his funds lnan old-fashioned" safe in his private office. To this the girl had free access, but the father never dreamed that she was robbing him. Finally the stolen amount became so large that his son notified the police, and they caught the girl In the act of removing $300 from the safe last night. Angelina is heartbroken, not at the ex tent of her crime, of which she fails to realize the seriousness, but because she fears now she will never see the fancied lover of her dreams and never Jive in a palace. BARS DIVORCE COLONIES Nebraska Makes Residence Term One Year. ' LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 12. The Senate today passed a bill Increasing the resi dence) period for' divorce applicants from six months to one year. The applicant must also announce an Intention to re side in the state. A large number of di vorce seekers have flocked to Nebraska and the bill Is designed to break up these colonies. GRAFT- IN RUSSIAN ARMY Quartermaster's Department Shy ' Over $1,000,000. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 12. Irregu larities amounting to more than $1, 000,000 have been discovered as the re sult of an investigation -which Senator Garln is making of the army quarter master. Several high officials are re ported to have been implicated in the irregularities. OPPOSE IRISH LAND BILL Land-Owners Want Parliament to Reject It, DUBLIN, Feb. 12. The Irish Land owners' Convention In session today attacked virulently Chief Secretary for Ireland Blrrell's proposed land bill and adopted a resolution demanding its re jection by Parliament. WHEAT SHORTAGE IS FEARED I EAST Belief That Supply Is Limited Grows. QUOTE CASH PRICE AS PROOF Premiums on Quick Delivery Rising Rapidly. LITTLE GRAIN IN DAKOTAS Forecast of European Demand Is Tending to Alarm Even Con servative Faction, Who , Blame Speculation.' CHICAGO, Feb. 12. (Special.) That there is an actual shortage of the world's wheat supply and that this, more than speculative manipulation, is responsible fcr the present phenomenal rise In wheat quo tatons, is the impression that is rapidly gaining ground here. While at the pres ent state of the market It Is difficult to form 'an aocurato estimate of conditions, many points are cited in support of this contention. One of the leading bits of evidence in support of this is the steady Increase in premiums that millers are being forced to pay for cash wheat; prem iums which have been advancing lately even more rapidly than have the quota tions for May delivery. Another Indication of the strength of the higher-price position Is the wide mar gin between May wheat and that for July and September. Latest quotations in the Chicago market show a premium of J2 cents for the May over July, and 17 cents over September. "With May $1.13 and a fraction, prices here have reached the highest level since the Gates deal in April. 1905. Millers Sufrcr Much. Millers who use red Winter wheat are getting a hard dose wherever the current necessities oblige them to go into the open market for that sort of grain. They are forced to buy it, onthe basis of the Chicago May delivery, and its premiums show a remarkable tendency to move up ward in practically independent fashion. Even the alluring prices prevalent have not coaxed the grain to the fore. Kansas City's supply of red "Winter wheat Is coming from Nebraska largely. Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and California are, buying wheat from Kansas City. Chicago has shipped wheat to St. Louis this week. Local elevators were drawn upon for sup plies by Indiana, Michigan and Illinois millers. In the Northwest a large quantity of wheat sold by the country in December for February shipment Is coming for ward. This has averted a decrease In stocks at Minneapolis, but that the visi ble supply is fast decreasing 13 the gen eral trade belief here. The milling trade may easily expand in the near future, as the flour trade seems on the verge of shifting from its holding-back policy. Interior mills of Kansas are paying premiums over the Kansas City market for their supplies. Receipts at Toledo continue small in spite of the values (Concluded on -Paw 4.) BLAMED RIDICULOUS. STEAMER IS LOST WITH 74 PERSONS PEXGCIX GOES lOWT OFF XEAV ZEALAXD COAST. Driven on Rocks by Storm With 100 on Board Boats AYIth Sur vivors Smashed. "WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb. 12. The Union Steamship Company's steamer Penguin, of Wellington, was wrecked last night off Cape Terawhite. It was 10 o'clock, last night and during a gale that the Penguin struck on the rocks off Terawhite. The passengers and crew, numbering nearly 100, boarded rafts and two small boats. The other email boats had been smashed when the steamer was wrecked.' " Twenty-six' persons reached the shore andi the remainder are believed to have drowned. The captain was the last per son to leave the vessel. He got on an upturned boat and was saved. Twenty six bodies already have washed ashore. One woman passenger lost her husband and four children. The Penguin is a total loss. The steamer Penguin was an iron vessel of 4S0 tons and was built In Glasgow In 1SS4. SEEK RECKLESS AUT0ISTS Xew Tork Police Looking for Party That Ran Down Aged Woman. NEW YORK, Feb'. 12. The police of Manhattan are bending every effort- to night to ascertain the identity of a party of automobillsts who are believed to have run down and killed Mrs. Edwin Stanton McCook, 69 years old, of Chicago, widow ft General E. S. McCook of the famous "Fighting McCook" family. Mrs. McCook. was brought to the house of a relative today in an automobile, In which were an unidentified man and wo man. Mrs. McCook had sustained several fractured ribs and also suffering from in ternal injuries. The chauffeur then scribbled on a scrap of paper a name; and an addres9 which was afterward discovered to be fictitious, and hurried away in the automobile. MRS. ATHERTON IS SCORED Et-n She Flushes at Arraignment by Mrs. Stirling's Husband. EDINBURO, Feb. 12. The Stirling cross-suits for divorce entered upon their final stage today, counsel addressing the court on behalf of their respective clients. Solicitor-General Uro opened the case by at once associating Mrs. Atherton's' name with that of Mr. Stirling and re calling the a'leged intimacy of the two while Mrs. Stirling was in America. Mrs. Atherton flushed slightly as the Solicitor-General spoke of her past. "Her record is not unimpeachable," he said; "her talent for intrigue Is great; her personal attractions are obvious and her virtue Is easy." RADFORD READY FOR TRIP Explorer Starts on First Stage of Arctic Journey. NEW TORK, Feb. 12. Harry V. Rad ford, the young explorer, started tonight on the first part of his long journey for the Arctic regions of the Pacific, leaving for Montreal. He will touch at the East Cape of Asia, but for the most part he contemplates exploring Northern Can ada and Alaska. From Edmonton, Alberta, Radford will travel to Nome, Alaska. On this Journey he will travel on snowshoes, dog sleds being used to carry his stores. His sole companions on this Journey will be In dians and Eskimo guides. WAVES DESTROY HARNESS Steel Pier of Wave Motor Company Swept Away by. Storm. REDOXDO, Cal., Feb. 12. The steel pier and 600 feet of approach of the 3tarr Wave Motor Company disappeared in the waves today during the storm. The structure went out like a lump of sugar dropped into water. The pier went first and then the approach, until not even a scrap remained except a small barge, which went ashore. No one was on the pier at the time. The pier cost $100,000, with the ma chinery, which had been designed under the Starr patents to harness the power of the waves. AUTO HURTS LINCOLN MAN Close Friend of Great President Is Struck by Buzz-Wagon. TOLEDO, O., Feb. 12. Colonel Isaac H. Morrow, aged 81, Inspector of Immigra tion and Chinese for Ohio, who was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln anil the first to lnrorm tne martyred presi dent of the destruction of the steam frigate Congress by the Merrimac in 1S62, was seriously injured last night as the result of being struck by an auto mobile. FERRY BARGE GOES ASHORE Canadian Pacific Boat Springs Leak and Is Beached. VICTORIA. B. C Feb. 12. The Ca nadian Pacific ferry barge Transfer, which was being towed to Prince Rupert with 500,000 feet of lumber for use in build ing sidewalks at the new Grand Trunk Pacific terminal, from "Vancouver by the tug Czar, is ashore in Plumpers Bay, Sey mour Narrows, where she was run ashore after springing a leak. LINCOLN'S CABIN IN GRANITE PILE Cornerstone Laid at His Birthplace. NORTH AND SOUTH PAY HOMAGE Roosevelt Speaks at Ceremo nies at Hodgenville. EX-SLAVE MAKES SPEECH To Assembled Host of Kentuokians President Declares Lincoln Ono of Two Greatest Americans. Nation Is Now United. HODGENVILLE, Ky Fob. 12 Hence forth the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln is to be marked by a pile of stone. The emancipator of a race and. more than that, the liberator of the thought of a Nation, bullded his own monument in the heart of the world, and apropriately the physical structure that has now found a beginning at the place where Lincoln first saw the light takes the sim ple name of a memorial. It Is to be -a simple but classic building of granite and It is hoped that It may be completed some time next Fall, when the then President, W. H. Taft. will officiate In dedicating it, as the President, Theodore Roosevelt, today officiated in laying its foundation-stone. Both Races and Parties Speak. The cornerstone-laying took place after appropriate forensic ceremonies were par ticipated in by the President, Governor A. E. Willson. of Kentucky; ex-Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, president of the Lincoln Farm Association; Hon. Luke E. Wright, Secretary of War, who Is an ex-Confederate soldier; General Grant Wilson, of New York, who repre sented the Union soldiers, and I. T. Montgomery, of Mississippi, a negro and an ex-slave. With one exception, the orators, representing not only the con flicting sides in the great struggle, but the present generation as well, the two great parties, the white and black races and the different sections of the country, spoke from the same platform and with the same flag, a splendid new specimen of the Stars and Stripes, fluttering over them. Six or eight thousand people were pres- i Concluded on Par 3 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 37 S degrees; minimum, 34 degrees. TODAY'S Rain, rossibly Part snow; brisk east to couth, winds. Lincoln Centenary. President Roosevelt lays cnrnerstnnn of me morial building at Hodgenville. Ky. Pago 1. Bo nn speaks on Lincoln as orator at Sprtng- fleld, 111. Face 3. jA"gislatures. Senate committee takes formal acting on hill to compel switching connections. rage 1. House passes bill placing State Printer on flat salary. I'ase 6. Senate favors water code hill. Page 7. Idaho anion makes charges of bribery In connection with fight on local option hill, rage 5. Little hope for reducing appropriations ai scheduled. Page I. Normal school appropriations pass In House. Pago 7. 1' nreign. King Edward's visit to Berlin results In agreement with Germany. Page 3. Britain Intervenes In Liberia and Republic may dio for lack of American ld. Page 3. National. Taft approves Senate plan of settling Knox muddle, but House has other plan. Page 2. Battleship fleet 2000 miles off shore and will arrive February 'SI. Page 8. Taft sncaKs at New Orleans and declares canal free from graft. Page 4. Lovering ssvs canal scandal invented by gnng of ex-convicts which tried to black mail Cromwell and gave story to world, page 1. Ilomffll 1c. Cloudburst overwhelms Mount Lowre pavilion and buries family; two members not found. Page 1. Crlpr-'Jcrl girl confesses robbing father at litigation of relatives. I'age 1. Patten wheat deal strengthened by market conditions and price may go higher. Page 1. Sport. Murphv accuses American League of con spiring against Chicago Cubs. Page 13. Intermountain League Is assured and man agers for x-arlous teams chosen. Page 13. Portland Y. M. C. A. basketball team beats Willamette 39 to 10. Page 13. Marathon race at Brooklyn may cause death of one runuer. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Sheriff Ptevens gets tip effort will be made to rescue Pole Stroll, alleged O. R. & N. robber. 'Page 5. Mrs. Shelton tells what she will do when the becomes acting Governor. Page 7. Oregon towns do homage to Lincoln. Page 5. Grand Jury will be called in Spokane to probo Supreme Court bribery charge. Page 5. Pnrtlnnd and Vicinity. Thrifty young man would wed step-mother. Page 18. Man wanted In Vancouver. B. C, for for gery caught as he Is leaving city. Pago 9. Lovelorn lass of Lovelock. Nev., wants hus band. Pago 18. Meeting of committees from Washington and Oregon Legislatures discuss Co lumbia River bridge. Page 7. Mayor Lane would closa half the saloons, and open the churches. Page 10. County Court may hold up bills for wood ordered Irregularly. Page 10. First Norwegian steamship of Portland Asiatic line to sail June I. Page 17. Sincerity marltR Lincoln celebration at the Armory. miia av. Lincoln banauet at Commercial Club . . ! tnA 111 Is Wife's detective work secures her divorce In Circuit Court. Page 12. Joseph Buchtel talks of his personal recol lections of Lincoln. Page 7.