1 -pJ,'?tfr,' VOL. XLIXXQ, 15,075. PORTLAND, OREGON. TUESDAY. MARCH 23, 1009. , WILLIE WH1TLA IS SAFE WlimFATHER Kidnaped Lad Returned in Cleveland. 1 IS SENT TO HOTEL DISGUISED Father, Crazed With Anxiety, Is Nervous Wreck. BOY SOUND AND WELL FED AVhitla Hefuscs to Reveal Terms of Settlement or Whether Any Prosecution of Kidnap ers AV111 Be Made. CLEVELAND, March 22. Little Wil lie Whitla. who has caused the police or the entire country endless worry since he was kidnaped from school In Sharon, Pa., last Thursday, was re turned to his father at the Hollenden Hotel here at 8:30 o'clock this evening. In compliance with an agreement entered into between the boy's father and an agent of the kidnapers here to day, the boy was placed on a streetcar on the outskirts of the city and start 1 to the hotel shortly after 8 o'clock. Meeting of Father and Son. Two boys, G. W. Ramsey and Ed ward Mahoney, recognized the laa on the car and. taking him in charge .inducted him to his father, who was in waiting according to a pre-arranged plan which h had followed at tlio dictation of the kidnapers The boy wandered about the hotel lobby unannounced for several min utes, asking bellboys for his father before the latter knew his son was" Jn the big foyer. The moment the anxious parent heard that a strange boy was in the hotel he rushed across the Jobby. grasped the boy In his arms and smothered his face with kisses An attempt had been made to dis sruise the lad. He wore a pair of smoked glasses and a large tan cap which was pulled down over his eyes' nd the father said it would have been difficult to recognize the boy in such a garb had he passed him on the street. Well Treated by Captors. Willie is jn perfect health. He says he has been well treated, and ever since his capture has been constantly indoors. He believes he was taken from Sharon to Warren and thence to Newcastle. Pa. It is his opinion, ex hibited in a happy schoolboy way. that the was In Ashtabula Saturday night at the time his father was to leave his 10.000 in Klatiron Park. Before retiring for the night Mr. Whitla admitted that he had paid J10.000 to the woman in the confectionery store It aa in currency. The woman did not count the money. Mr. Whital believes the woman was an Italian, but refuses to dis close her identity. He said that he received a letter today from the kldnaoers at his home in Aharon saying that if he called at a confectionery store in the East End of Cleveland he would be told how to se cure his boy unharmed and "well led." Whitla Tells Story. Shortly after noon he loft Sharon for Cleveland. He was unaccompanied. His immediate family and private detectives he apprised of the proposed secret meet lug, but instated that he make the trip alone. Every one of them was warned that he must .be allowed to go alone, and no attempt at capture of the kid napers be made. Whitla was certain that if he spoiled the plans of his son's captors tonight he would never see the boy again. His experience at Ashtabula - served as a warning. About 2 o'clock this afternoon he went to a candy store, in the East End. With him he carried the J10.000, expecting that It would be demanded of him there. He was met by a woman who detailed to him the terms of the kldnapsrs. With all the eagerness of a distracted parent. Whitla agreed to them immediately. De-t.-ciives in his employ eay that he paid the money, but on this point the father declines to commit himself. A few hours later he returned to the hotel and awaited developments. Secrecy at Hotel. . His fntranoe to the hoel was shrouded In secrecy. By a previous arrangement made with the hotel management he did not register. Detective C. V. Perkins who has superintended the search for the boy in behalf of the father, was in the lobby of the hotel, calmly smoking and pretended to be unconcerned. But the hearts of both parent and detectives were bi-atlng anxiously. The agent of the kidnapers promised that the boy would be started toward the hotel shortly after nightfall. As the hour for the appearance of the child ap proached Whitla became nervous He disregarded the advice of the detectives, who had told him to keep out of sight of the newspaper men and the crowds of curious people who had learned that he was in the city. Emerging from his room he walked up and down the hall on the second floor lth hands clasped across his breast. (Concluded on Fags 4.) CURRY QUITS JOB; MAD AT BALLINGER NEW MEXICO'S GOVERNOR WANTED TO TRAVEL. Denial of Permission to Go to Wash ington and Fight With Editor Lead to Resignation. SANTA FE, N. M.. March 22.-(Spe-cial.) Governor George Curry this morn ing telegraphed President Taft his resig nation as Governor of New Mexico. The Governor stated that although he had contemplated taking this action for sev eral months past, the immediate cause of his resignation was that he had requeu ed a leave of absence to go to Washing ton to talk with President Taft on mat ters of great importance to New Mexico, not appertaining to statehood, but that Secretary Ballinger had answered that he should take up the matter by letter. Last Saturday Governor Curry as saulted A. J. Loomls, editor of the Eagle, a Democratic weekly paper, in his private office at the Capitol building. Mr. Loomis last week printed an articla on the statehood and the statehood lobby, which .Governor Curry considered a re flection upon him. The Governor imme diately telephoned Mr. Loomis to call upon him, and when the latter put in an appearance, Coventor Curry, according to reports, hit him and then threw him from the office. Loomis and his friends at once started a movement to have Governor Curry re moved from office and charges were be ing prepared against the Governor to be filed with Mr. Taft and Secretary of the Interior Ballinger. Governor Curry was a Captain in the Rough Riders during the Cuban War and was appointed Governor of New Mexico by President Roosevelt in 1907. Previously he had been Governor of the Island of Samar, in the Philippines. COMING TO BECOME BRIDE Pretty Lynn Girl Will .Cross Conti nent to Marry Portlander. LYNN, Mass., March 22. (Special.) Miss Grace Jernegan, one of the pret tiest young women of this city, living at 16 Harwood street, started today on her week's Journey to the Coast, where on Sunday she will be married at Port land., Or., to Alexander Jones, now of that city, but formerly of New York. The couple met at Coney Island some years ago and when starting West Mr. Jones had the promise of Miss Jerne gan, who is a piano factory operative, to become his wife when he had made his pile. According to word he sent for her when he recalled the promise and requested her to come at once to Port land; he has amassed a fortune. EUGENE MAN IS SUICIDE Mark D. RoUe's Body Identified in . New York by His Father. NEW YORK,-March 22. The body of a man who committed suicide by snooting in the Grand Hotel last week was identi fied tonight as that of Mark D. Rolfe, of Eugene, Or. The identification was made by his father, is. S. Rolfe, a retired law yer of Eugene. The suicide had registered at the hotel as "J. V. Peterson, Minne apolis." Mr. Rolfe said tonight that his son started from home March 1 on a trip around the world. He believes that de spondency over the failure of business plans was the cause. The body will be cremated and sent to Oregon. WAIT ALL NIGHT FOR LAND Score of Men Keep Vigil Outside Land Of rice for Early Entry. All last night a score or so of men haunted- the hails of the Worcester build ing, outside the United States Land Of fice, so as to be on the spot early this morning, when tue office should open. The Vnert are desirous of filing on forfeit ed railroad lands that revert to the Gov ernment, and for which today is the first open date. The men were permitted to stay in the building by the night watch-, man, and while some slept on their coats on the floor, others spent the time pacing to and fro in the deserted nallways. WINTER HOME ON COAST Ilarriman to Select Site Will Con fer With Lieutenants. SANTA BARBARA. Cal.,' March 22 E. H. Harriman has wired J. K. Har rington, of the Texas Pacific Improve ment Company here, that he will be in Santa Barbara tomorrow and will se lect a site on the company's Hope ranch for a Winter residence. Mr. Harriman and all his Southern Pacific lientenants will hold a. week's conference at a local hotel and it is authoritatively stated that he will not go to San Francisco, as previously an nounced. - MINISTER ACCEPTS CALL Rev. Thomas H. Walker Will Come to Calvary Church. Calvary Presbyterian Church recently sent a call to Rev. .Thomas H. Walker of Hermon Presbyterian Church, Frank ford. Philadelphia, and word has Just been received here that he has accepted the call. He expects to be here to take up his work" in Calvary before the end of April. Since the resignation of Rev. Ben Ezra Stiles Ely last Fall, Calvary Church has been without a regular pastor, but the pulpit has been supplied from time to time 1 . - . . ROOSEVELT READY FDR AFRICAN TRIP Spends- Last Evening at Home with Family. INSPECTS STEAMER QUARTERS Insists That Neighbors Give Him No Formal Send-off. IS ONLY PRIVATE CITIZEN Oyster Bay Presents Resolutions Praising Him in That Capacity. Children's Former Nurse Is Afraid He'll Be Killed. OYSTER BAY. N. Y..' March 22.-Clos-ing a strenuous day that was taken up chiefly with the final arrangements for his African expedition, ex-Presidert Theodore Roosevelt spent the hours of the evening before his departure across the Atlantic in the heart of his family. . All is in readiness for the long journey on which he is to set out tomorrow; the baggage was put aboard the steamer to day and, after inspecting the quarters set aside for him on the vessel, Mr. Roosevelt returned to Oyster Bay with his wife and children. With his family, Mr. Roosevelt will take an early train tomorrow for ;New York. ' While Mr. 'Roosevelt Is grateful for the demonstration that has been planned for his departure by hundreds of petople who are desirous of cheering him as the Ham burg sails, he again today expressed the hope that his leavetaking might be re garded as that of. any strictly private citizen. A delegation of the local Town Board presented to Mr. Roosevelt this evening an engrossed resolution commending him as a citizen and a fellow-townsman. The former head of the Nation then sat down to supper with his family". After the meal Mr. Roosevelt spent the evening quietly with his family, retiring to rest early. JOINT PROTEST TO PERSIA Britain and Russia Condemn Bar barous Methods of Warfare. ' TEHERAN, March ' 22. A vigorously worded joint note has been presented to the government by the British and Rus sian Ministers here, protesting against the atrocities committed by the troops of Rahim Khan in the neighborhood of Julfa, on the Russian frontier, a week ago. and demanding that the Shah stop such barbarous methods of warfare. FINDS TWO NEW PLANETS French Astronomer Extends Solar System Beyond Neptune. PARIS, March 22 The astronomer Gaillot announced before the Academv r Sciences tonight that he had discovered iwo new pianets situated beyond Neptune, which te the outermost known planet of the solar system. NONE IIP 4miWW ZJi I '---ii............. nj....m c FRATERNITY STOPS COLLEGE WEDDING I STUDENT GETS LICENSE, THEN CHANGES MIND. Ann Arbor lan Planned to Marry Actress, but Decides Not to After "Being Seen" by Others. ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 22. (Spe cial.) J. L. Bryen. a Junior in the law department of the University of Michi gan, and Miss Blanche Raynor, who said her home was in New York and that she was an actress, procured a license today to marry. The girl is 20 and the young man 23. He comes from Duquesne, Pa After the license was issued two fra ternity men appeared at the Recorder's office, obtained the information they sought and went away, saying it would be an unwise step for Bryen to wed at this time. Tonight Bryen admitted the wedding was off. He would not tell why. Neither would his fraternity friends, but, it is said, they had convinced the would be bridegroom that they were right. Any how, it is conceded all around that the license will be voluntarily returned as needless. CRADLEBAUGH IS CALM Man Who Avenged Wife's Betrayal With Bullet Ready for Trial. DENVER, Colo., March 22 (Special.) The trial of John H. Cradlebaugh, charged with the murder of Frederick W. Walton, a month ago, set for today, was postponed until tomorrow. "I feel all right," said Cradlebaugh this morning. "I don"t feel confident that I will be acquitted, nor do I feel certain of a conviction; I'm not nervous for my self, but I most certainly nope that, for my little boys' sake. 1 11 be given an other chance. This is the first trouble of any kind I've ever had, and I'm doing my best to bear it as well as I am able. "I've not broken down, and I'm not go ing to. Whatever is Cone with me. I will accept it with good grace. I know I did wrong to take a human life, of course. Matters like that should be punished, but. well, the milk's spilled. I suppose', and there's o gathering of it into the pitcher again." VETOES FOR THREE BILLS Governor Spry Thinks Important Measures May Be Invalid. SAL.T LAKE CITY, March 22. Gov ernor , Spry announced tonight that he had decided to veto the county option and liquor regulation bill, the Des Moines . system of. government . for Salt Lake bill and. the fire and police com mission bill. These-are virtually the only important bills passed by the Legisla ture. While the Governor declined to explain his action tonight, it is under stood that he desires to avoid a con troversy .over the legality of measures passed after the constitutional date for adjournment. If such legislation were nullified, the general appropriation bill would be invalidated. " WILL NOT MARRY GERMAN Mrs. Ellen Vanderbilt Denies She Has Found Another Husband. BERLIN. March 22 The report that Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbilt. formerly the wife of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Is en gaged to be married to the hereditary Count William von Bentincke, a Lleuten ant in one of the Guard regiments, haa been given authoritative denial. Mrs Vanderbilt has left here for Paris. SO BLIND AS PIGS WHICH WON'T SEE Dill "'LL PROHIBITIVE, DEMOCRATS SAY Fierce Assault on New Tariff by Clark. NYITATION TO TRADE WAR Maximum and Minimum Provi sions' Denounced. COST OF LIVING IS RAISED Standard Oil Handsomely Cared Fop Leather and Shoes Should Be Free Duties on Wool and Sugar Criticised. v WASHINGTON, March 2. That the Payne tariff bill will increase the cost of living; that it Is crude and indefinite, sectional and prohibitive, and that it is an open challenge, to a trade war with every other nation, are some of the crit icisms of that measure made by the Democratic members of the ways and means committee in the minority report submitted to the House by Clark, the minority leader, today. The report is a severe arraignment of the revision which the Payne bill pro poses. The countervailing duty provis ions for coffee and petroleum, the maxi mum and minimum features, the Cuban reciprocity clause, the woolen, glass, agri culture and sugar schedules are bitterly attacked. Insist TarUf Is Tax. Declaring that a tariff Is a tax paid by the consumer and that the only legitimate function of a tariff is to raise revenue to supply the needs of the Government, the minority members insist that. Instead of an increase of taxes or a new issue of bonds, the correct remedy for the growing deficiency in the revenues is a reduction of the expenses of government. Con tinuing, the report declares: "The whole maximum and minimum tariff scheme as set forth in the Payne bill enables foreign countries to force us to raise the rates of the Payne schedules 20 per cent, which would, after making ample allowance for all reductions in the Payne bill, increase our tariff rates on the average much above the rates of the Dingley law, a prospect which will bring sorrow and dismay to the great body of the people. Challenge to Trade War. "We are most heartily in favor of such a maximum and minimum tariff as will enable our Government to negotiate tar iff arrangements by making concessions to other governments, by reducing the rates of our statute when such other countries will make equally valuable con cessions to us; but. as it stands: the maximum and minimum tariff plan of the Payne bill is ah open challenge to a trade was with every other nation on earth. It is seeking trade with a club or meat-ax. "The bill Is in many respects crude, in definite, sectional and prohibitive. It seems to us from our examination, which (Concluded on Page 3.) I " : .. WHITE WOMAN AND JAP ON STEAMER TWO PEOPLE MAY BE MISS EMERY AND AOKI. Traveling Companions on Rose City Due to Arrive in Portland This Morning. On board the steamer Rose City, which is due to arrive from San Francisco this morning. - are a Japanese man and a young white woman, suspected by the San Francisco police of being Gunjlro Aoki and Miss Helen G. Emery, whose proposed marriage has recently set . San Francisco by the ears, and who have dropped from sight within the past tfew days. The captain and the purser of the Rose City declared to an Oregonian cor respondent at Astoria early this morn ing that they did not believe the couple to be the persons whom the San Fran cisco authorities believe them to be. It was apparent on the trip up, as it was before the Rose City left San Fran cisco, that the Japanese and the white girl were traveling together, although they occupied separate apartments. The respective names under which the couple registered on the steamer were H. Matsuoka and Stella Horn. - Officers of the Rose City refused to arouse either the Japanese or the girl at Astoria this morning, as' both were asleep. It IS probable their identity will be ascertained on arrival of the steamer here, although no charge has been pre ferred against them and the Portland po lice have not been asked to detain them. THUG'S HAIR IS SHOT OFF Seattle Resident Carries Burglar's "Scalp" as Vest-Pocket Memento. SEATTLE, Wash., March 22.-(Special.) Robert H. Dexter, proprietor of the Dexter Cafe, at S06 Union street, is car rying in his vest pocket today a lock of blonde hair, the diameter of his lltUe finger, which he shot off the head of Perry Clute. a burglar whom he found under his bed in a room over his cafe shortly before 3 o'clock this morning Clute is in the City Jail on a charge of burglary. Going to his room in the lodging-house over the cafe at Third avenue and Union street about 2:30 this morning. Dexter ob served the head of a man under the bed Without asking any questions, Dexter drew his revolver and fired at the head. "Oh, please. Mlscer, do not shoot again Please do not shoots I am your prisoner That one shot whistled through my hair ' Dexter found that. Clute had -spoken the truth. Dexter has since tied the tuft of hair with a string and exhibits it as "the scalp of my burglar." HENEY'S PROTEST PUT IN Becker Tells Wickersham Why Not to Appoint Fulton. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ngton. March 22. Tracy C. Becker, who is here opposing the appointment of ex Senator Fulton as Federal judge in Ore gon, called on the Attorney-General to day and presented a new protest from Francis J. Heney. Later Mr. Becker had i . conferenc w"h the President. What transpired at these conferences cannot be learned, nor can any informa tion be secured as to the nature of Mr Heney's most recent attack upon Mr Fulton. . The Attorney-General has not yet had an opportunity of going through Mr Heney's protest, and it is altogether im probable that he will be able to make his report to the President at the Cabinet meeting tomorrow. Mr. Becker con tinues to pursue his mysterious course saying nothing for publication. IS SHE BALDWIN'S CHILD? Oklahoma Woman Seeks to Trace .Relation to Dead Millionaire. SANTA ANA, Cal.. March 22Mrs Mary Dowell, of El Reno, Dkla.. is' en deavoring to ascertain n-h.i . -..nnri sue ls .m J th6 latS a J- L"cky) .. ,,rllten a ctter to At torney Langley. of this city, asking for information and photographs of the late millionaire. She has informed ih ...... , . many yeans ago her father, whose name nas j. .Baldwin, deserted his family in the East and that herself and a brother are now all the members left alive of this family. 9ome tIme ago sne started an Investigation nrin. ..... , , t'tc maner, but reached no satisfactory conclusion. 77 . "aiowin is dead she hae again"1 "P .th lnvtsation FOSTER SAYS HE'S ALIVE Angry That Corpse In Boxcar Identi fied as His. OAKLAND, March 22.-Cyrus S. Foster a wealthy retired business man of SpringI field, Mass.. was much surprised and somewhat annoyed at learning on his ar rival here today from Santa Barbara that a body found recently In a boxcar at Melrose station, near here, had been identified as his remains. The identifica tion was made by George B. Ferguson a nephew-in-law of Mr. Foster . ' The body was found by boys at play in the railroad yards at Melrose. A Coro ner's jury assigned pneumonia as the cause of death. Mr. Foster left home several weeks ago for a trip through California. His rela- tlves here knew nothing of his where abouts until he appeared today and pro tested indignantly that he, was still alive. AERONAUTS MAYBE DYING IN CANYON Forester Sees Falling Light on Mountain. THINKS IT WAS BIG BALLOON Voyagers in "America" Have Been Missing 50 Hours. BLIZZARD STILL IS RAGING Snow Blocks Trails to Sierras, in Which Ill-Fated Balloon Party Is to Be Sought by Many Rescue Parties. , LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 22. (Special.) Dashed to death or terribly maimed, the six men who left Pasadena in the balloon "America" Saturday aft ernoon and have not been heard from sii.ee, are believed to be lying in a deep, almost inaccessible r Tiyon on the southwest slope of Mount Wilson. Ear ly tomorrow morning a Government relief expedition of 20 men, under the direction of Forest Supervisor Charl ton, of this city, will force a way through the dense chaparal to rescue the party, if alive, or recover the bod ies, if killed. Saturday night at 7 o'clock. Chief Ranger Crow, of the San Gabriel Re serve, was far back in the mountains and had not heard of the balloon as cension, saw a bright light on the up per slope of Mount Wilson. He sup posed it to be a brush lire until it be gan moving rapidly. The sight was so strange that he called a companion to make sure he is not mistaken. Both watched the light a few minutes, when suddenly It commenced descend ing, swaying at right angles, and then shot down almost like a meteor. They located as near as possible where 'it fell. Tonight Crow came out, and at (Concluded on Page 3.) INDEX OF TODAY'S " NEWS The Weuther. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62.2 decrees; minimum, 33.8. TODAY'S Fair, with northerly winds. ' foreign. Revived boycott of Japan due to dispute about Praias Island; Japan and China will arbitrate. Page 5. French strikers insist on dismissal of Slmyan. Page 1. National. Insurgents and Democrats In House threw away victory by blundering. Page 2. Governor Curry, of New Mexico, rtrsins be cause forbidden to s;o to Washington and thrashes, hostile editor. Page 1. Senate appoints committees and insurrection follows. Page 2- Democratic members of committee severely criticise Payne tariff bilL Page 1. Provisions of French tariff as affecting United States. Pace 3. Committee places given Northwest Senators. Page 5. After bitter wrangle House Democrats re pudiate bo It era on rules. Page 4. Domentic California aeronauts believed to have de scended in mountains during wtorm Page 1. Millionaire iron man, banker and four oth ers to he Indicted for bribery at Pitta burg. Page 3. Nick Oswald's lieutenant at Los Angeles sent to jail for refusing to testify about white slave trade. Page 3. College fraternity forces student to break . oft engagement. Page 1. California aeronauts reported -to have crashed into canyon on Mount "Wilson Page 1. "Willie "Whitla returned to father at Cleve land. Page 1. Kidnaped boy Page 4. tells story of captivity. Politics. California machine wins fight for district vote on United- States Senator. Page 4. Sport. Rain stops training of Portland basebaU ' team. Page 7- Pearl vasey leaves for Medford with North western League team to train. Page 7. Noted Norwegian distance runner enters big Oregon Marathon. Page 7. ' ra rifle -Xfonhweat. Demonstration train grCeUd by large crowd at Ash lend and Metlford. Page 6. Shooting of Grant County sheep herder la mystery; accused proves alibi. Page o. Aberdeen millman says cut in tariff will raise price of lumber. Page '2. O'Brien denies he want south to confer regarding change in local -Harriman office. Page 6. Hay vetoes anti-pledge bill; criminal codo approved ; appropriations filed. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Premium paid for Yakima hops, page 17. Chicago wheat market turns from weak to strong. Page 17. Stocks stronger but less active. Page 17. Freight arrangements have been completed ' between North Bank Road and line of steam schooners to San Francisco, Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. T. B. Wilcox will not be candidate for Mayoralty. Page 10. Ladd bank to move to new skyscroper at Third and Washington. Page 9. . t John C. Young, Portland Postmaster-elect. arrives from Washington. Page 10. Annual exhibition of Oregon Camera Club opens. Page 3 1. John T. Burns, dry-farming expert, speaks before Commercial Club. Page 11. J. W. Gardner calls wife termagant, in an swer to divorce complaint. Page 12. Liquor license committee recommends rev ocation of license under Cellars law Page 11. $100,000 due water department from city may not be paid. Page IO. "500.000 Hub'" to be formed tonight at Com mercial Club dinner. Pagje 12. Willie ."Whtlla returned to father at Cleve land by kidnapers. Page 1. Roosevelt completes preparations to sail for Africa today. Page L Prohis adopt slogan "Oregon. Extra Try 1910," at lively meeting. Page 5. Architectural league of Pacific Coast or ganised and ofneera elected. Page 6. gH 105.0