I ,T VT rirw irr-TrnnAV. PKRRIIARY 27. 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XLIX. '(). 13,0.3.. rum.M, vv,v., EATBOOSTED BY RESCUED, MARRIED WITHIN TWO HOURS 00T DENOUNCES BILL SUNDAY RUNS I AND SET GARFIELD WILL ASKS PATRONAGE FOR CHAMBERLAIN FROM HORSEWHIP POLICY OF INSULT PATTEN TO SI. 18 FOR ELDER GIRL FROM TEXXESSEE MEETS AFFINITY IX SEATTLE. MISSIONARY OBJECTS TO HIS "XAl'CHir WORDS." BOURSE STIRS CP ROW IX ORE GOX DELEGATION'. Gil BACK COOPER GIVE RIGHT DF WAY Route Open for Cen tral Oregon Lines. OBSTACLES SOON REMOVED Approval of Maps Promised by Secretary March 4. . HAS FUND OF $40,000,000 Construction of Deschutes Road to Connect AVIth Line From Cali fornia at Klamath Falls to Begin This Spring. OREGOXIAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Feb. 36. The Harriman railroad will be built up the Deschutes River to a connection at Klamath Falls with the road now building northward to that point and the right of way will be ap proved by Secretary Garfield before next Thursday. These facts were brought out at a hearing before the Secretary of the Interior today. It was stated by a representative of E. II. Harriman that out of the JS2.0nO.flOO raised by bonds recently floated by the Harriman system for new railroad con struction, 40".oeO had been set aside for tiie construction of a railroad up the Deschutes River into Central Oregon, ter minating at Bend and for an extension of the new Shasta division, now nearlng Klamath Falls, northward to meet the Deschutes road at Bend, thus completing a new route from San Francisco to the Columbia River. The construction of the Deschutes road will be commenced, it was said, as soon as the Secretary of the Interior approves the right-of-way application, and Secre tary Uarlltld said lie expected to do this before he leaves office next Thursday. He is waiting only the adjustment of a few minor details, as outlined yesterday, ar.d knows of - nothing; -that will likely de lay his action. All material obstacles that have here tofore delayed the approval of maps of location of the Deschutes road have been removed. LOSE XO TIME IX PHELIMIXARY Harriman Will Bopln Construction When Gets Right or Way. With the announcement from Wash ington by Secretary Garfield that he will approve the maps for the Harriman railroad up the Deschutes comes defi nite announcement from officials of the system in Portland that no time will be lost in beginning the preliminaries necessary before taking up actual con struction. With the maps approved the greatest obstacle will be out of the way, and It is evidently a question of only a few weeks whe,n the Central Oregon project will be under way. Both General Manager O'Brien and General Counsel Cotton, of the Harri man lines in the Northwest, gave as surance lust night that when word romes from Washington that the maps have been, approved, there will be no additional delay. With the work au thorized, as announced in The Orego nian of February 16. the officials are in a position to bend every energy to ward expediting the line. "We are prepared to send out right-of-way agents just as soon as we are advised that the maps have been ac cepted." said Mr. O'Brien last night. "The approval of these maps, of course, gives us right-of-way over all Govern ment land affected, and nothing will remain but to secure concessions from other owners, and this will not take long, we believe, although it is im possible to say just how much time this work will require. "Already we have secured the rec ords of ownership to all land over which the road will be laid, and after checking up these records, which will take but one or two days, our agents will take the field. When they com plete their task the last preliminary step will have been taken. "At the time our men are busy get ting rights of way we shall advertise for bids on the construction work. This will eliminate the delay that would be necessary for advertising and esti mating if we waited until all rights of way were granted. "Our representatives have been very busy at Washington for the past month and have been protesting against fur ther delay of the project-by the Gov ernment. We asked that our maps either be approved or disapproved, and In reply to this request we were as sured that a decision would soon be reached. In fact, we had telegraphic advices from Washington today which led us to believe that Secretary Gar field was ready to approve t"e maps." Neither Mr. O'Brien nor Mr. Cotton 1 ad anything to say about the exten sion of the Shasta line from Klamath Falls on to Bend, to a connection with the Deschutes road, as outlined by the above dispatch. The Portland general office is concerned only with getting the line built from the Columbia to Bend, they said. The Deschutes line will be 130 miles in length. It Is expected that its con struction will occupy from one year to a year and a ha;; Wants Hawley and Ellis to Carry Xonpartisanship Into Appoint ments They Object. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Feb. 26. Another row is brewing In the Oregon delegation over the control of Federal patronage after March 4. Sen ator Bourhe today Informed Congressmen Ellis and Hawley that he thought Senator-elect Chamberlain should be con sulted with regard to all Oregon appoint ments, save Postmasters, maintaining that there is and should be no politics in the selection of Federal officials. Both Congressmen very plainly in formed Mr. Bourne that .they disagreed with his views. They say patronage be longs to the party in power, and they have no intention of consenting to giving a Democratic Senator any voice in the selection of Federal officeholders under a Republican Administration. This cus tom Is not followed in any other state, and they will not consent to It in Oregon. If Mr. Bourne persists in this view. Mr. Ellis and Mr. Hawley will appeal t President-elect Taft. DEATH AT WEDDING FEAST Exuberant Youth With RevoWer Accidentally Kills Bride's Mother. SPOKANE. Wash., Feb. 26. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Mary Jank was almost In stantly killed during wedding fes tivities in a Russian settlement about 30 miles northwest of here last night. Odalia. the daughter of Ferdinand Jantse, was married to John Raugust at her father's home. Following the ceremony liquid refreshments flowed freely, and. as Is the usual custom, the guests went outdoors and began shoot ing. Henry Schnell. between 17 and 19 years of age, fired his revolver at the ground. The bullet glanced, striking Mrs. Janke in the abdomen, passed through the intestines and lodged In the spine. She lived but a few mo ments. She was married and leaves five children, one a babe only a few months of age. Young Schnell was arrested by Deputy Sheriff I. N. McCollom and was brought to Ritzville this morning. He will be charged with manslaughter. S0LCNS MAY AID NORMALS Special Session Expected to Provide Fund for Remainder of Term. SALEM. Or., Feb. 26. (Special.) One of the possibilities of the special session of the Legislature Is that the members will try to pass some of the bills that were vetoed by the Governor. In accord ance with the custom and rulings of the Attorney-General. Secretary of State Ben eon will not send the vetoed bills to the special session, but will hold them to be returned to the next regdlar session. But this will not prevent the members of the Legislature from re-introducing the same measures, passing them as new bills and sending them to Beneon as Governor for his action. It seems quite probable, too, that there will be an effort to pass bills appropriat ing money to carry the Normal Schoote through the remainder of the present school year. REDUCING RATES AGAIN Railroads Agree to Take Back Ad vances Made in January. CHICAGO, Feb. 26. Important reduc tions from the new schedules of trans continental freight rates which have been in effect since January 1 have been agreed -upon by the railroads, according to announcement made tonight after a conference of railroad officials in the Transcontinental Freight Bureau, which has been In session here since Jan uary 23. , The concessions are in many cases a restoration of rates In effect before the first of the year and amount to from 3 to 25 per cent. SENTENCE IS CONFIRMED Qualtrough Loses Ten Xumbers for Getting Drunk at Tangier. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. Secretary Newberry has approved that portion of the sentence of the court-martial which at Gibraltar sentenced Captain Edward Qualtrough, of the battlch.; Georgia, to a? loss of ten numbers In rank on charges of Intoxication and conduct un becoming an officer. The suspension of Captain Qualtrough for six months, ap proved by Admiral Sperry, required no action by the department. CHANTICLEER CAUSES ROW Le Bargy Secedes Because Turned Down Bernhardt Also Huffed. PARIS, Feb. 26. In consequence of the refusal of the directors of the Comedle Francaire to permit M. LeBargy to play in M. Rostand's "Chanticleer," M. Le- Bargy proposes to leave the organization. Sarah Bernhardt has announced that she will appear in the title role of M. Ros'.and's "Cyrano de Bergerac." She was disappointed at not being selected by M. Rostand to replace Coquelin Aino In the leading role of "Chanticleer." This was Impossible on account of her sex I Witness Says Revolver Was Not Fired. SELF-DEFENSE PLEA RAPPED State Proves Carmack Not in Reported "Ugly Mood." LAWYERS BATTLE FIERCELY Ninth Day of Murder Trial Is Largc Iy Given Over to Legal Argu ments Between Counsel and Judge Anderson. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 26. The ninth day of actual testimony In the trial of the Coopers and Sharpe. charged with murdering ex-United States Sena tor E. W. Carmack, was marked by bitter argument between opposing coun sel and closed with a decided advan tage for the defense. At the same time an interesting law point was de cided by Judge Hart. The defense offered proof that Colo nel Cooper was told by Edward Craig, whom the Colonel had sent to see Sen ator Carmack, that Carmack was In an "ugly humor." The case of the de fense was based really upon this one expression, for Colonel Cooper and Rob in both testified that they armed them selves because they were led to believe from the remark that Carmack might attack the Colonel. The state then of fered to prove by two of the defense's witnesses, Major Vortress and Assist ant Insurance Commissioner T. L. Thompson, that Carmack was not only not in an ugly- humor, but laughed at the Idea of trouble. Defense Makes Fight. The defense fought the admission of this testimony with more vim than has characterized any argument .since the trial began. Counsel declared the state could cross-examine only on such mat ters as should be gone over In direct examination. On the question of Major Vortress' testimony. Judge Hart excluded the Jury and permitted the state to ex amine Major Vortress for the court's benefit. He admitted all that the state said he -would; that Carmack. laughed at the Idea of trouble, said he had done nothing to provoke It, and that he wanted a revolver simply to satisfy his friends. The court held that the tes timony must be excluded. When T. L. Thompson was on the stand almost the same question arose. Judge Hart then said he would render final decision on the point tomorrow, but Intimated that unless the state had discovered some new authorities to support its contention, he would rule out the testimony. Revolvers played a prominent part Concluded on Faze 5.) Snatched From Front , of Moving Streetcar, Ellen Shellito Faints in Man's Arms. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 26. (Special.) Within two hours after he had saved Miss Ellen Shellito, of Crossvllle, Tenn., from being run over by a streetcar, Alex ander Mackel, of Butte, Mont., wooed and won her. The romance hsppened today on First venue, when Miss Shellito, a pretty lit tle woman, fell fainting into her rescuer's arms just as a car grazed her as she was about to step across the track. Tak ing his charge to a hotel to await her regaining composure, Mackel made des perate love and In two short hours the words were said that linked them to each other for life. "I knew I was fainting when I had a recollection of a powerful pair of arms around my waist. I "really don't believe I swooned, but when I looked up into the eyes of the man who had saved me from being run over, I looked Into the eyes of the man whom I had dreamed about as my Ideal," said Mrs. Mackel tonight. Mackel is six feet six Inches tall in his stocking feet, a prominent lawyer of Butte and a leading Elk of that state. He declared as he looked at his wife that this two-hour courtship was enough and that they. were born for each other. REVENUE CUTTER ASHORE Runs on' Hell Gate Rocks and Springs Serious Leak, NEW YORK, Feb. 26. The United States revenue cutter Mohawk, bound from New London for Tompkinsville, ran on the rocks la Hell Gate today and late tonight was still hard aground despite the efforts of tugs to move her. The cutter's bow Is resting on the edge of the rocks, which. It is feared, will tear a hole in her bottom. .The wire less telegraph brought news that the Mohawk Is leaking badly, but the pumps are keeping ahead of the flow. Three powerful tugs are standing by. An effort will probably be made early tomorrow, at high tide, to float the ves sel, but site Is In a bad position and the chances are unfavorable. HAS SUBMARINE WIRELESS Stanford Student Invents System Which Works Five Miles. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., Feb. 26. G. B. Dewitt, a special student in the civil engineering department, regis tered from Palo Alto, has perfected an apparatus for sending wireless messages under water and asserts that he has suc ceeded in his experiments for a distance of five miles. Dewitt will continue his experiments in Puget Sound this Summer and will ex hibit his apparatus at the Alaaka-Yu-kon-Paciflc Exposition. J. J. Seeley Asks Divorce. OREGON CITY, Or.. Feb. 26. (Special.) J. J. Seeley has filed a suit for divorce Trom his wife, Nellie M. Seeley, the plain tiff claiming that his wife deserted him September 1. 1907. The partes live In Portland. There are no children. Severe With Anti-Jap Agitators. ALSO CANAL MUGKRAKERS If We Desire Peace Must Treat Nations Kindly. ARMY ENGINE OF PEACE Banquet Celebrates Roofs Election to Senates Taft Says Root Should Have Been President, lie In Roofs Cabinet. NEW YORK, Feb. 26. The Peace So ciety of New York brought together at the banquet table at the Hotel Astor tonight a notable gathering of men prominent In National, state and city af fairs. The dinner was In honor of Senator-elect Elihu Root, of New York. Joseph H. Choate was the toastmaster. President-elect Taft, Governor Hughes. Ambassador Bryce, Earon Kogoro Taka hlra, Ambassador from Japan, and Joa quim Nabuco, Brazilian Ambassador, were the speakers and the guests num bered about S00. Brilliant Dinner Scene. Rarely has a more brilliant dinner poene been witnessed. The programme card contained miniature portraits of the speakers and. President. Roosevelt and the Emperor of Japan on India paper, together with brief expressions of peace from the persons portrayed.v Mr. Taft came in with ex-Judge Alton B. Parker and the guests arose and gave him an ovation. Mr. Choate was in his best humor. He had been commissioned, he said, "to lead the orchestra and draw all sorts of pleasant sounds from those who had been designated to speak." To tell all the good things Mr. Root had done would keep the diners a week. Mr. Root, he said, had done more for the peace of the world than any other man In our his tory. " Mr. Root was then Introduced and a remarkable demonstration ensued. He spoke on the causes that lead to war. He said: Army and Xavy Work for Peace. "I agree with Mr. Choate that there is no Inconsistency between the work of a Secretary of War and the work of a secretary of peace, because, as long as selfishness and greed and a willingness to do Injustice and brutality continue, in this world, we must have the policeman, and the international policeman, whose presence makes the use of his club un necessary is the army and the navy. "It rests with the army and navy to make aggression and Injustice unproilt able and unattractlce. It rests with you (Concluded on Page 2.) Sherman Potts Tries to Punish Evangelist for Language Used to Women and Girls. SPRINGFIELD. III.. Feb. 26. Evan gelist W. A. (Billy) Sunday, a former baseball player, was horsewhipped to night by a man at the Sunday tabernacle, where. In the presence of S00O persons, he was conducting a revival. While the evangelist was leaning against the pulpit during the singing of a hymn, his assailant, who said his name was Sherman Potts, sprang forward with a buggy whip and struck Mr. Sunday sev eral terrific blows. The evangelist leaped from the plat form and knocked his powerful foe down. The audience was on the verge of a panic, with women weeping and children screaming, while Potts and Sunday rolled and tumbled In the aisle. During the fight Sunday sprained his 'ankle. The chorister directed the choir and the audience to sing, and In a few mo ments calm was restored. Several men held Potts until policemen arrived. Potts said he was once declared Insane and committed to Jacksonville Asylum. He made the attack, he said, in defense of women who; he declared, had been criticised by the evangelist. SENTENCE WOMAN FORGER Mrs. Oottrell Will Appeal From Indeterminate Jail Sentence. SPOKANE. Wash., Feb. 26. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Maybelle Cottrell, of Boise. Idaho, was today given an Indeter minate sentence of 1 to 14 years In the penitentiary for forging the name of Colonel D. P. Jenkins, of Spokane, pioneer and millionaire, to a check for ?:.c. Judge Hinkle this morning denied a motion for a new trial. The check was passed at the Blakely Dry Goods store last June. The prisoner is the wife of a mining man at Butte, Mont., and on account of straightened financial conditions, she says, was obliged to seek employment. She was hired as housekeeper in Colo nel Jenkins' home for about six weeks. Attorneys for Mrs. Cottrell gave no tice In open court that an appeal would be taken to the Supreme Court. The defendant Is at liberty on a J2000 bond pending the appeal. ACCIDENT EXPOSES FRAUD Missent Letter Gives Officers Clew and Arrest Follows. COUNCIL BLUFFS, la., Feb. 26. A letter sent to a wrong address in San Francisco brought about the arrest of J. C. Maybray in Little Rock. Ark., on a charge of operating a monumental fleecing game, which gathered in victims from all over the country. The letter stated that "owing to a change of ad ministration, we have moved from New Orleans to Council Bluffs, where condi tions are perfect. We will be ready for business March 15, 1909. Send mail and telegrams to A. C. Kraft, Council Bluffs, la." The letter was sent to H. C. Craft, 1279 Golden Gate avenue. San Francisco, but reached E. G. Smith, 1209 Golden Gate avenue, who returned It to the postofflce. This gave the postoffice authorities the lead they were looking for and the ar rest followed. INS LET OUT; OUTS PUT IN Men Who Try to Release Prisoners Guilty; Prisoners Freed. BELLINGHAM, Feb. 26. Joseph Healy and Horace Richie this morning pleaded guilty to attempting a jail delivery at Mount Vernon and must get at least the minimum sentence of five years In the penitentiary. . Monday morning last they were cap tured while attempting to cut the bars leading to the cell occupied by James Kelley and Joseph Vecil, charged with passing counterfeit money, and admitted they belonged to a gang of counterfeiters and were attempting to release their pals. The Irony of fate Is shown In the fact that Kelley and Vecil were acquittted by the jury last evening. RECORD HUGE EARTHQUAKE Seismographs Register Temblor Probably In Central America. COWES. Isle of Wight, Feb. 26. Pro fessor Milne's seismograph on the Isle of Wight recorded a vast earthquake shock at 5 o'clock this evening, sup posedly 6000 miles distant. NEW YORK, Feb. 26. An earthquake which may have shaken Central Amer ica was registered in the Government observatory in Havana today, according to a special dispatch. The seismograph began to register at 11:21 o'clock this morning and the disturbance continued Intermittently for 40 minutes. The area affected seemed to be 1700 miles away. ASHAMED OF EATING P0I Hawaiian Legislature Indignant at Moving-Picture Show. HONOLULU, Feb. 26. The House -of Representatives of the Hawaiian Legisla ture, is highly incensed over the. moving pictures purporting to represent pol-eat-lng in the islands. The House today adopted a resolution strongly condemning the pictures. Price Highest Since Spring 1905. TREND STILL EVER UPWARD Both May and July Prices Up' Near Record Marks. GENERALSHIP IS PRAISED Brokers Convinced Recent Dip Into July Market Was Xeat Move to Equalize Prices and Ward Suspicion. CHICAGO, Feb. 26. James A. Patten's tactics on the Board of Trade, were changed again today. The bull leader began the day buying May wheat. The result was a quick upward rush In prices for both May and July. May wheat sold at tt.lS'.s. the highest price since April. 1906. when It sold at Jl.lEi, previous to the collapse of the Gates deal. The highest price during the IflOiVja, or Black Rust year, was in Feb ruary, 1905, when May sold at $1.21. Th3re was a:i enormous volume of sell ing on today's swell, but the recent oper ations in July had brought the public and the general trade to the support of the market, ar.d everything offered was quickly absorbed at the higher prices. This great strength spread to outside points, and prices were marked up at Winnipeg, Minneapolis and the Southwest marksts almost as sharply as in ttva trade. See Profit-Taking. How much long wheat ratten and his followers have been able to sell under cover of this excitement no man knows. Wise people in the trade are making the prediction that the holdings of the bull leader have not been reduced, that the selling is largely by followers who are taking profits, and by a group of North west houses. The speculative situation so far as the bull leadership is concerned appears to have lost none of its force by this further advance in prices. It Is regarded on the Board of Trade as Patten's cleverest move In the present bull campaign In wheat that he turned his back for a day or two on the May contracts and started a big wave of buy ing In the July. Before he made this (Continued on Page 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S' Maximum temperature, 49.8 decrees: minimum. JO.8 degrees. TrrAvs rnsli,nal light, rain: winds mostly southerly. Foreign. Von Bualow warns Russia If she helps Pervia against Austria Germany will tight, for Austria. Page 4. National. House orders Inquiry Into whether Cook's assault on P.uosevelt should be ex punged. Page a. Additional Federal Judge fnr Oregon, but constitution may prevent Fulton s ap pointment. Page a. Bourne causes row In Oregon delegation by claiming for Chamberlain voice in ap pointments. Page 1. Fleet begins to disperse to Navy Yards. Page 5. Senate has vigorous debate on forest re serves. Pag 0. Polities. Taft declares for prompt tariff revision and creation of commission afterwards. Pase i. Root denounces anti-Jap agitators and canal muck-rakers. Page 1. Domestic. Edwin Gooilall, pioneer steamship owner, dead. Page -. Mrs Ben Teul convicted and sentenced for cue year. Page 4. All records broken for rejecting talesmen 111 . amuuu v-- - - Each side, gains points In Cooper trial. Page 1. Man horsewhips Billy Sunday fnr uring vile language before women. Page 1. Patten renews May wheat campaign and price atlll advances. Pase 1. Family of five murdered and house burned In California. Page 2. Immense swindle discovered by accident. page 4. Pacific Northwest. Olympia Legislature turns down motion to investigate office o Insurance Commis sioner. Page 0. Battery B wins Army field me-!t at Van couver. Page 0. Employers' liability law to be submitted by Initiative. Page ti. Oregon-Idaho Congress in session at Boise. Page 0. Sports. Kid Parker swears that O'Connell paid wrestler ll)0 to throw match. Pass 7. Waverly Golf Club announces schedule of season's games. Page 7. Spokane takes three out of four events at Spokane tournament. Page 7. O'Connell calls "Kid" Parker faker, and says certain Portland fans are determined, u "get" liim. Page 7. Pacific Coast League baseball schedule for lUV'J. Page 7. Commercial and 3Iarlne. Only 500 cars of potatoes available for shipping. Page 15. Wheat prices continue to advance at Chi cago. Pag3 15. Better tone in .New York stock marktt. Page 15. Trade unsettled by price-cutting in steel. Page 15. L'nusually large fleet of ships In prt tt present. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Great Southern Railroad may be extended into Central Oregon. Page 14. How Chamberlain's political friends are being rewarded. Page 11. Boy of 4 and girl of 3 elopa and are arrest-ad. Page 9. Council refuses to uphold Wills in his re form crusade. Pase 10. Bank robber Wells turned thief to spend money on woman. Pago 10. lona S Bickerton granted divorce from Houghton C. Bickerton. Page 14.