. n,,rrv irrn fgn A V WHTIX1 ATLV V7. 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XLIX. Q. 15.04(. ruiuiiAju, uiviuu.i, " , - TUCKER TOIL POLICE CHIEF IS LASHED BY WOMAN EXPENDITURES MAY DR. HOPKINS DIES AFTER LONG SWIM REVISE TARIFF Oil OYSTERS DEFEAT KEEP HALF NAVY If PACIFIC OCEAN ADMIRAL EVANS E usiness DUES EXCEED 84,000, EXHAUSTED BY EFFORT, EU GEXE CITIZEX SUCCUMBS. VICTOR OVER SPANIARDS VAN QUISHED BY BIVALVES. OFFICIAL OF SPARKS PUBLICLY WHIPPED FOR SLANDER. SPARED EXPOSUR 0 Senate Recommends Policy to President. EASTERN SENATORS CONSENT Flint Says It Will Keep Japs Out of California. COAST NEEDS PROTECTION Dixon Attacks Craft In Xavy-yards. JIarines to Stay on Hoard Ship. Size of Battleships Reduced. Powder Trust Is nit. WASHINGTON. Feb. 16. One-half of the United States Navy should be kept on the Pacific Coast at all times, in the opinion of the Senate. An amendment to the naval bill was agreed to tonight pro viding that in the discretion of the Pres ident one-half of the Navy shall be kept In Pacific waters, so far as practicable. The President already has the authority so to divide the fleet, but the amendment amounts to an expression of Congress In favor of such action. As the amendment was Introduced orig inally the division of the Navy was man datory. AYotild Keep Out Japs. Flint eaid he understood the people of the Atlantic Coast did not care for the fleet, and the people of the Pacific did. "Would half of the fleet on the Pa rifle Coast keep the Japanese out of California?" afked Nelson. "I think so." replied Flint. Urging the adoption of the provision, Fulton declared there are gTcat Interests on the Pacific Coast which need protec tion, and there Is more danger of attacks being made on that coast than on the Atlantic seaboard. At Hale's suggestion the provision was mended so as to leave the question of the division to the Secretary of the Navy, end later this was amended at Bacon's suggestion so as to give the discretion to :he President. Attacks Xavy-j-ard Graft. Dixon of Montana continued his stric tures of the plan of having many navy yards along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts Instead of three or four great naval bases. He declared millions of dollars were wasted annually by the scattering of the work through many navy-yards. He particularly demanded Information as to the necessity for a foundry costing JT5O.0OO for the Portsmouth Navy-Yard, which preclrttated a long discussion on the merits of several yards for repair work. Tillman taunted Dixon with being "a Senator from the Rocky Mountains who has come here to tell us how to build a Navy." "It Is," he continued, "easier to sit on a mountain peak out In Montana and read magazine criticisms of the Navy than to run the Navy." Replying to Tillman, who charged him with being prejudiced against the South ern yards, Dixon 6aid he was a South erner and had no such prejudice, and that, so far as he knew, Charleston might be the best place for a great naval sta tion. McEnery, of Louisiana, declared hos tility in the Navy Department against the navy-yards of Louisiana prevented any ship from being sent there for re pairs. Xo Muckraking, Says Tillman. Dixon Insisted that the naval committee was composed almost entirely of Sen ators who had navy-yards in their states, but Hale and TUlman suggested similar conditions In other communities. Tillman objected to bringing "muckraking" Into the Senate. Tillman declared that there was a "clique In the Navy Department who wanted to break up the Charleston Navy-yard." Dixon replied that he only spoke In favor of consolidation. "If I stood Indicted In this article," said Dixon, referring to a magazine ar ticle, "I would answer it. I think It Is a matter of self-respect that the Senate, Congress and the Administra tion should answer these charges, which are made openly. The people of the country believe these articles, whether we do or not." Dixon strenuously denied filibuster ing against the bill, contending he had the same rights as any other Senator, and feelingly suggested that he was willing to acknowledge Hale's leader ship in the J-'enate. Dixon declared that "we don't know where we are driving" In making these appropria tions and pointed out that "we are confronted by a deficit of 1150,000,000." Keep Marines on Miips. After an extended discussion upon the wisdom of keeping marines on board warships and upon the constitu tional power of the President to com mand the Army and Navy, the Senate adopted a committee amendment di recting that the appropriation for the marines should only be available In the event of their being Quartered on board the ships of the Navy, according to former custom. Many Senators discussed the power of Congress to int'-rfere in the command y the i resident of the Army and Navy. Kayner declared Congress had absolute Concluded oa Pas ) In Presence of Largo Crowd, Mrs. Tutt Thrashes Wees With Quirt and Fists. SPARKS. Nov., Feb. 1. E. M. Wees, assistant Chief of Police of Sparks, was publicly whipped In front of the Sparks postofflce today shortly after noon by Mrs. Irene Tutt, in the pres ence of a large crowd that gathered and eagerly watched every detail. Mrs. Tutt was armed with a cow boy's quirt about three feet In length. and struck Wees several stinging blows over the head and shoulders before he was nhle to wrest the weapon fro her. Then she struck him with her fist, knocklnir his nipe from his moul and was about to throw his watch Into the street when a, constable placed both under arrest. Mrs. Tutts said Wees had told her husband that she had stayed all night In a Reno hotel -with another man, ana this had caused her great anguish, so much so that she was determined to punish him. She declares that "he got what any man should get who tries to tear to tatters a woman's reputation." The whipping affair Is said to be the culmination of strife between the city and county officers of Sparks. STEPHENSON UNDER PROBE Wisconsin Senatorial Candidate Ex plains Expense Bill. MADISON. Wis., Feb. . 16. Senator Isaac Stephenson today submitted to a searching examination before the Wis consin legislative committee regarding the Senatorial primary last Fall. Mr. Stephenson told the story of his ex penditure of more than J107.O0O. This, he said, was spent through his agents, who called upon him whenever they needed money. Stacks of paid checks were placed In evidence. Checks for sums totalling more than J.000 were Is sued to J. A. Van Cleave, of Marinette, one of his managers, and $50,000 was placed In a Milwaukee bank for the use of his managers. Mr. Stephenson accounted for the spending of $11,000 for postage by stat ing that 30,000 letters were sent out by his managers in two days. Ho could not say how an Item of $16,000 paid to an advertising agency was spent. SUFFRAGETTES UP IN AIR Airship Loaded With Literature Gets Struck by Heavy Gale. LONDON, Feb. 18. Propaganda by airship Is the latest and most ambitious exploit of the militant woman suf gragists. An 80-foot airship hired for the occasion was manned by Perclval Spencer, the aeronaut, and Miss Muriel Matters, one of the heroines of the grille incident In the House of Com mons, ' went up at Hendon this after noon, coincident with the opening of Parliament and headed toward Lon don. Miss Matters was plentifully sup plied with suffragists' handbills, which she purposed throwing out to the peo ple below. The balloon, however, was not able to cope with the adverse winds and never got within sight of the House of Commons. It descended at Croydon. CALL SPECIAL ELECTION Los Angeles to Vote on Mayoralty Question in March. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 16. The City Council this afternoon called a spe cial election for March 25, to choose a successor to Mayor A. C. Harper under the recall act. The City Clerk finished checking the recall petition today and found more than the necessary 8000 names to cause : an election. Mayor Harper will be a candidate to succeed himself. George A. Alexander, a mem ber of the Board of Supervisors, will op pose him as the candidate of the Mu nicipal League, and other organizations which were Instrumental In recalling Mayor Harper. FOUR CAUGHT IN MINE Explosion in Ilinois Colliery Wrecks Airshaft, BHNTON, 111., Feb. 16. Shaft No. 16 of the Deering Coal Company, south of Benton, blew up tonight. The explosion wrecked and choked the main air shafts. It will be hours before aid can reach the four entombed men there. There Is little hope for their lives. NO BOYS TO BE "SPORTY" California House Forbids Seeing Cockfight, Prizefight, Horserace. SACRAMENTO. Feb. 16. The As sembly passed a bill today, by Grove L. Johnson, making It a misdemeanor for a minor to attend a cockfight, prize light or horserace and fixing a penalty of $:) fine or 25 days In Jail for lessees or owners of places where such contests are held, who allow minors to enter. 'ICEBERG' TO CIRCLE GLOBE Fairbanks Plans Trip Around the World, Going West. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks are contemplat ing taking a trip around the world short ly after adjournment of Congress. They probably will take a steamer at San Kranetpro. visit Hawaii and the Philip pines, then China and Japan, and return via- Kurope. House Stops Clock to Rppeivfi Rills. W W W a W w SEATTLE FAIR GETS $25,000 Eastern Oregon Branch Asy lum Given $200,000. PENSION ' BILLS SLASHED Pioneers Who Fought Indians Again Disappointed House Reconsid ers and Passes Two Appropriations. ADJOURNMENT ON SATURDAY. STATB CAPITOL.. Salem, Feb. 16. (Special.) Both houses of the Leg islature have adopted a concurrent resolution providing for final ad journment at 2 o'clock P. M., Satur day, February 20. .STATH CAPITOL, Salem.. Feb. 16, (Special.) Appropriations for $318,000 passed In the House today, and for J10.000 In the Senate. Yesterday the total In the House was $1,739,000 and In the Senate $726,0Q0. The House tonight reconsidered the vote by which the $25,000 appropria tion fnr tlie. Alaska-Yukon Fxnositlon was rfefeatod and nasseri the aooro prlation. At a late hour the House also considered and passed the $200,000 ap propriation for an Eastern Oregon asy lum. Appropriations for about $1,000,000 more have passed one or both houses, and con tinuing appropriations of past sessions amount to $500,000 additional, with allow ances made for Items In this session's budget. These figures show that the state expenditures for the next two years may exceed $4,000,000, and will probably not fall short of that figure. ' . House Grinds Big Grist. Today's Senate appropriation was $10, 000 for an Interstate bridge across Snake River at Ontario a House bill that will now go to the Governor. Appropriations passed In the House this afternoon were $210,000 for Improvements at the Agricul tural College, which sum will be addi tional to the $160,000 maintenance passed In the Senate last night, both being House and Senate bills respectively; $1000 for the Gres'nam Fair; $20.0 for tax equalization; $3000 for the Oregon Humane Society, and $19,000 for charitable institu tions. These bills will now go to the Senate. All Money Bills Are In. All appropriation bills have now been introduced. The live- ones have passed (Concluded on Page 6.) E. H. i ..fm AW A Heart Fails After He Has Performed Feat at Salt Lake; to Which Wife Dared Him. SALT LAKE, Utah. Feb. 16. (Spe cial.) Dr. Henry Hopkins, of Eugene, Or., aged 64, and a veteran of the Civil War, succumbed to heart- failure Just after emerging from a plunge in the sanitarium baths here this afternoon. Dr. Hopkins, accompanied by his wife and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mary Hop kins, arrived In Salt Lake this morning, on the way to Sallda, Colo., where his five Sons are interested In mining and where Dr. and Mrs. Hopkins expected to make their home. They stopped over in Salt Lake to visit another daughter-in-law, Mrs. Martha Hopkins, who Is an em ploye "In the sanitarium baths. This afternoon Dr. -Hopkins went Into the pool, his wife, Mrs. Martha Hopkins, and another woman sitting In the gallery watching him. Mrs. Hopkins dared him to swim the length of the pool. He did so, but was so exhausted that he clambered up the steps to rest. The women then withdrew. No one saw Hopkins when he left the pool, but it appears, that he went to his dressing-room and . was taking off his bathing suit when he toppled over In his death seizure. Men In adjoining rooms heard the fall, but could not gain en trance until an attendant clambered through the transom and found - that Hopkins had fallen forward, his head striking the door and forming the ob stacle. On the statement of the widow and others of the family that the doctor had been subject to heart trouble for a num ber of years, no Inquest will be held. The five sons In Colorado were notified by telegraph tonight and are now on their way here to attend the funeral. The Interment will take place in this city un der the direction of the Grand Army of the Republic. EUGENE, Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) Dr. Henry Hopkins, veterinary surgeon, had resided here about six years. He was a prominent member of J. W. Geary Post G. A. R. SOLDIERS BEAT UP POLICE Fort Wordcn Troops in Riot at Point Townsend. i PORT TOWNS END, Wash., Feb. 16. In a contltct between the city police and artillery soldiers on the street here to night. Chief of Police A. R. Barkley and Officer Charles Wiggins were beaten and badly injured by the soldiers. Both re ceived scalp wounds and bruises about the head that required their being re lieved of duty. The trouble was ended by the swear ing In of a squad of special police and the arrival of Captain R. P. Reeder from Fort Worden with a provost guard. Officer Wiggins had arrested an intoxi cated soldier.- Proceeding to the station, a crowd of 100 soldiers gathered, offering protests against the arrest and reviling the officer. With his prisoner confined, an attempt to disperse the mob resulted in resistance. This difficulty with artillery troops is the third of a like kind that has oc curred here within the past few months. Each has developed Immediately aftes. monthly payday. SAYS HE'S GOING TO OPEN Convention Says Com mission Only Way. MEN OF MANY MINDS AGREE Manufacturers and Politicians for Full Revision. SAY CONGRESS CAN'T DO IT Van Cleave Recommends Temporary Work at Extra Session AVith Commission to Gather Facts for Future Action. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 16. Business and Mlltical representatives Joined today at the first ssssion of the National Tariff Convention in denouncing the present tar iff as an unfair, unscientific and Illogical series of compromises and expedients. While views as to the functions of the proposed tariff commission varied, the epeakers were as one In asserting its Im mediate necessity. Chairman Van Cleave and ex-Governor Guild urged revision of the tariff from divergent standpoints, but were agreed on the position that present conditions demand the constitu tion of a" tariff commission atonce. Agree on Urgent Need. On ihe nature of the commission, whether it should be a permanent bureau and an adjunct to the Department of Commerce and Labor, an appointive com mission, one composed of experU only, or a body of business men empowered to engage experts, the speakers differed, but of the urgent need for it there seemed no dispute. J. W. VanCleave. of St. T.ouis. presi dent of the National Association of Man ufacturers, who was the permanent chairman, aroused the first enthusiasm by asserting that the tariff must be taken out of partisan polities. Congress man Fowler, of New Jersey, who is sponsor for the Beveriuge commission bill now before Congress, asserted that the tariff must cease to be the football of parties. Mr. Guild, spoke concerning the alleged combination of Chicago packers, the duty on hides, the alleged victimizing of the American farmer. Senator Brown, of Nebraska, did not except himself when speaking of the mystification of the aver age Congressman on the subject of the tariff and Henry R. Towne questioned vigorously the ability of the members of tho ways and means committee to deal intelligently with the subject. Mr. Van Cleve opened his address by saying: - Every C'itlEen Interestec. A question which touches the welfare f every man, woman and child in the coun try very closely has called us together at Indiana's Capital today. As a proof that this issuo has a large concern for the United Concluded on Page 4.) IT, They Penetrate His Armor-Belt, Drive Him to Port for Repairs, but He Wins at Finish. CHICAGO. Feb. 16. (Special.) Ad miral Robley D. Evans, who assisted In vanquishing Admiral Cervera and who later set forth at the head of the Amer ican battleship fleet on what has turned out to be the greatest cruise to date, lost his first engagement last night. His humble enemy was only a soup plate full of oyster scallops, but they penetrated his armor belt and for a short time made a sicker man of him than the waves of the ocean ever have. He struck his flag early In the even ing and took to bed, but even then his tiny opponents did not give up, but har rassed him considerably through this morning. By noon, however, he was able to sit up and take reinforcements of nourishment that soon restored him to his healthy, hardy self. Afterward he felt well enough to send down for his favorite brand of cigarette, and then chatted pleasantly of affairs, naval and otherwise, through the smoke. MONEY LEFT IN GARBAGE And Seattle Scavenger Drives Off With $200 Unwittingly. SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 16. (Special.) An unidentified garbage man carted away $200 in real money from a store on Second avenue yesterday and thus far he has not been found, and until he Is known the search for the missing money Is like looking for a needle in the hay rick. Through an oversight the money box was taken out of the store's safe and placed temporarily on the top of a filled garbage can. The incident was forgotten for several hours and when it was re called it was found that the garbage man had been around and had taken away the can and the money. He is not due back for a day or two and In the meantime the chances of recovering the strong-box and Its contents are growing slimmer. ARGUE LAND-GRANT CASE Becker on Way to Portland for Work In Court. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 16. (Spe cial.) Arguments in the Oregon & Cali fornia Railroad land grant case will be made on a demurrer in the United Sjtates Circuit Court at Portland on March 1. Tracy C. Becker, special assistant to At torney-General Bonaparte in the prosecu tion of the Oregon cases, has just re turned from the East and will leave to morrow for Portland. The case involves abotit 2,300,000 acres of rich Oregon land, said to be valued at about 540,000,000 at a low estimate. ' Mr. Harriman's California lawyers, W. F. Herrln and P. F. Dunne, will appear against Mr. Becker and B. D. Townsend, who Is associated with him. BUILD SCHOOLS IN RUSSIA Government Proposes to Create Ed ucation System in Ten Years. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb., 16. Tho minister of education today introduced a bill before the Douma providing for a building fund for the erection of 148,179 new primary schools through out the empire within ten years. These schools are to be built and maintained by the provincial authorities on gov ernment subsidy. A substitute providing for general compulsory education is to be discussed in the Douma as soon as the agrarian debate is terminated. if-nurs wnni n rcn ip m am Alfonso Determined to Fly With Wright, Defying Etiquette. MADRID, Feb. 16. A member of King Alfonso's immediate entourage says that the king several times ex pressed his determination to make an aeroplane flight with Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplanist, who Is con ducting a series of flights at Pau. The whole court Is opposed to the idea on the ground that It would be a breach of etiquette, but the informant added that, when his majesty makes ,up his mind to do a thlnng, nothing can stop him. POLICE CAPTURE BRUTE Gagle Confesses to Series of Degen erate Crimes. CHICAGO, Feb. 16. William Gagle. arrested here yesterday, confessed today, according to the police, to the! murder of 9-year-old Ella Schradcr, near Gary, 111. He said he tried to lure the child Into the woods, and when the latter refused he sprang at her and choked her to death. Gagle was Identified by Maud Wetland as the man who had lured her into the country near Gary. After a ter rifying experience, she escaped. A simi lar experience and story were given the police y Stella Urbanek. BARRETT WINS . ELECTION Reform Candidate Has Heavy Ma jority in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 16. Complete returns from yesterday's city election, received after midnight by the city com mittee, show the election of Richard W. Barrett, reform candidate for City Mag istrate, over George Hogg, regular Re publican, by 3000 votes. Evidence of Moral Obli ' quity Excluded. HE WILL GET FULL PENSION Much of Mrs. Tucker's Testi mony Irregular. MAY PROVE INTEMPERANCE But That and Other Immorality Is Merely to Show Cause of Disabil ity Failure to Pay Debts Is Xo Disqualification. TRY BLACKMAIL ON TCCKKR. CHICAGO. Feb. IS. An engineer and fireman, both employed in the Federal building, were taken Into custody today on a charge of at tempting to extort money from Colonel W. F. Tucker, who is en deavoring to be honorably retired by the Army Board in session here. The men, the police assert, procured from the waste sent to the boiler room to be burned personal letters sent to Colonel Tucker and then at tempted to sell them to him. CHICAGO, Feb. 16. (Special.) That Colonel William F. Tucker will not be tried by the Army Retiring Board for the moral offenses with which he is charged, became certain and that lie will be put on the retired list without military disgrace and pensioned on a basis of three-quarters of his full pay as an officer became a strong probabil ity today In the light of advices from Washington, which Indicate that much of the evidence of Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, the Colonel's wife, and of Mrs. John A. Logan will be excluded from the hearing. Don't Consider Moral Obliquity. 'According to these advices, a letter dispatched to Major-Genoral Fred D. Grant, president of the Board, by Adjutant-General Benjamin Alvord lays down a hard and fast rule for the con duct of the investigation and instructs the members of the Board that It Is not within their province to consider the alleged "moral obliquity" of Colonel Tucker. They must confine their de liberations solely to the physical cause of his incapacity. 1 This letter of Instruction quotes sec tions of an opinion in a similar case, rendered by the Judge-Advocate-General in May, 1S66, definitely limiting the authority of the retiring officers. (Continued on Page 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTKRDAY'S Maximum tpmperature, 58 degrees: minimum, 53.2 degree.. TODAY'S Occasional rain; cooler; southwest erly winds. Legislature. Oregon Legislature busy with appropriation bllle. Page 1. Medical trust bHWgets but one friendly vote In Oregon Senate. Page 5. Normal School lobby at wits' end. rage 3. Senate passes bill to cut salary of Malheur County Judge. Page .1. Olympla House passes S-hour law for wom en alter lively coiucm. rune i. Teeth pulled from bill Introduced by Seattle corporation. Page 7. Hnile rejects Orton's bank guaranty bill. rage 6- I'oreign. Death total in Acapulco theater fire may reach 3."KI. Page 3. Explosion In English coal mine costs ISO lives. Page 4. King Edward oi,ns British Parliament. Page 2. National. Attempt to revive anti-Jap school bill In California failed. Pate 3. rmy Retiring Board forbidden to inquire into Tuck-'r's morals. Page 1. Seriate recommends half Nay be Uep: in Pacific. Pace 1. roiitics. Tariff revision convention at Indianapolis demands Tariff Commission. rage 1. Domestic. Kansas City merchant bravely captures would-be robber armed with dynamite i bomb. Page '1. Woman whips police official at Sparks. Nev., for slandering her. rage 1. Admiral Evans defcited by dish of oysters. Page 1. Mrs. Carmack testifies at trial of Coopers. Pape 3. Searching Inquiry shows prejudice on part of two Calhoun Jurors. Page 3. plans for review of fleet on arrival at Hampton Roads. Page . Mrs. carmack and Mrs. Iiastham testify at trial of Coopers. Page 3. Sports. Baseball leagues meet without friction and postpone action on bribery. Page 14. Multnomah Club elects J. F. Ewlng as President. Pago 14. O'C'onnell and Berg ready for tomorrows contest. Page 14. Paclllc Northwest. Albany Elks have big liousewarmlng dem onstration. Page 7. Woodburn man prefers Jail to home. Page 7. Union Pacific buys interest In Milwaukee right of way in Washington, rage . Commercial and Mnrine. General demand for spot and contract hops. Page 13. Bulls lift wheat prices at Chicago. Page 15. Advance in stock prices Is checked. Page 15. Portland and Vicinity. Mrs. Henry Peterson, aged woman, hangs herself. Page 10. S. O. Reed files reply l Goode estate caso. Page 10. Saloonmn gets religion In Jail, preacher pleads with Judge, sentence abrogated. Page 9. Portland Railway, Light & Power Com . pany will spend much money In Port land. Page 10. Park Board recommends purchase of two tracts. Page 16. X