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. 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
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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
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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.