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VOL. XLIX-XQ. 15,091. POTLAyDt 000 AFRIL IP 1909 PAYNE TARIFF IS THROUGH HOUSE Final Scenes Marked by Confusion. FREE LUMBER FINALLY LOST Tawney Leads Forlorn Hope of Granger States. OIL PLACED ON FREE LIST I'arty I,ines Broken on Lumber Tar iff Small Kcmnant of ltepubll- cans Favors Oil Tariff Tea and Coffee Are Free. WASHINGTON". April S.-Aftor three weeks of consideration the Payne tariff Mil was pawd by the House of Repre sentatives tonlht amid preat excitement by a vote of 217 to 161. One Republican Aunt In of Tennessee voted against the measure and four Democrats, all from I-oulslnna-Broussard. Kstopinal. Pujo and Wlrkliffe-voted for it. An attempt by -lmn,p Clark, the minority leader, to re commit the bill with instructions signally failed. The day was filled with excitement from th.. moment the session began at noon until adjournment. The members were keyed up to the highest pitch and prac-t-cnlly the full membership remained on duty throuchout. The final vote demon t rated the capacity of the Republican urbanization to Set .together. Free Lumber Men in Minority. The situation with respect to lumber was greatly relieved to the Republican leaders when It became manifest that the advocates of placing It on the free list were In the minority. Becau.se of that fact. FHzserald of New York charged that a mldnlKht deal had been made last niKlit whereby free lumber was to be voted down and. the rates on barley and barley malt Increased, this notwithstand ing the denials of Mann of Illinois and Oushman of Washington, who offered the barley amendments. ' The ejieral public was greatly inter ested in the pro-reding and the galleries were packed. Both the diplomatic and executive reservations likewise were fully occupied. Mrs. Tart being amonB those present. lance With Joy at Finish. When the bill was passed the Repub licans cheered lustily, some dancing up and down the aisles and patting- their fellow-members on the hack. The bill was introduced on Starch IT. reported to the House by the ways and means committee on the following day and was under general debate for 18 days. Ijist Monday the rules committee reported a special order, which closed the general discussion and provided for the considera tion of the bill under the five-minute rule. One or the principal changes In the bill was the placing of petroleum on the free list today. Among the other Important amendments made since the bill came from committee were those striking out the provision for a duty on tea and the countervailing duty provision on coffee. Cotton Joker Cut Out. The so-called "Joker" in the cotton cloth schedule, which. It was contended, would Increase the duties of the Dingley bill several hundred per cent, wiere cor rected, the proviso for the method of counting threads In the cloth being mado the same as in the present law. The drawback section was added to the, bill so that It could not be taken advant age of for speculating in grain, and 'the Philippine free trade provision was amended so that rice will not be admitted free from the Islands. The countervailing duty clause on lum ber was btrtcken out, but a strong effort to place lumber on the free list did not succeed. The duties on barley, barley malt, pine apples ir. irate and cotton collars and cuffs, as originally in the bill, were in crcasert. A proviso was Included in the tobacco schedule tnrreasiiur the duty on tiller tobacco from any country which pro hibits the Importation of American to haeco. There were several technical changes In the steel schedule, principally downward. Hides, holsery and gloves were left as re ported by t'ae committee, hides remaining free and an Increased duty being pre sented for slows and stockings. Few Oppose Free Oil. The contest over free petroleum was stubborn, but the vote In its favor was overwhelming. Opposing it were Repub licans, as follows: Alexander. Andrews. SouthVhk and Vree i""l vi Y"rki AuUa of Tennessee, i. hleld. Riivl.i, M.itei. Burke. I'aliell. attain. l.ajinhaiu. McOreerv. Mooner. i.-h-i..;,i w ht,i,r of ivnns; -lvanta: Hn li.UT, t..lwarua and l-anglpy uf Kftitue!v .-!. is.tl. Huilui kv ort h. Jchnaoli uiid nhoi.iaa of Ohu.; C.car of Oklahoma; i.nglebrigM Have.. Kahn. KnwUaJ, Mc Kimev. M.I.a.tilnn and Needham of Cal ifornia; tialnt-a. Hubbard. Hughes. si,urgi and WootO.rd of West Virginia: Howell ot , , '. ."nn i"non of Illinois; Mon de, i ot -Wyoming; Washburn and Weeks of Maachuaeita and Young ot Michigan. New Reciprocity Provision. A substitute for the maximum and minimum provision was offered by the ways and means committee. It does not change the effect of that section, except upon a few articles. The maximum provisions are applied to manu- tConcluded on Fas 3.J COUNTRY MILLER BUYS $1.38 WHEAT PATTEX KEEPS HIS HAND IX ON EXCHANGE HOLIDAY. Ienics That He Has Sold 4,000,000 Bushels on Quiet, and Says High Kate Will JLast. CHICAGO. April 9. (Special.) To day was a holiday in the wheat mar ket and bears were given an oppor tunity to catch their breath and figure up their losses. James A. Patten came to his office, however, and effected a sale of 5000 bushels of No. 2 red w heat to a country miller at $1.38, which is the highest price for the year yet re corded. The bull leader had nothing but the most positive kind of a denial for the story that a private settlement had been made on & line of 4.000,000 bushels of May wheat. 'T have no wheat to sell except in the open market, and those who sold wheat short must go into that market and buy it back," was the comment of the leader. "We will see no more cheap wheat In this country until there is a more extensive production to meet the grow ing consumption. I see very little chance for this increase in the produc tion in this country this year, because farmers all over the Northwest declare there is more money in raising oats and barley than putting- land in wheat." LEADEN MISSIVE OF LOVE Itejccted Lover Shoots Sweetheart and Takes Own Life. EL, PASO. Tex.. April 9. Because his 14-year-old sweetheart. Blanche Atkin son, had broken an engagement with him. Clay Ratcliffe. aged 17. tonight stepped to the little girl's side in one of the principal streets here, pulled a revolver and shot her, inflicting a fatal wound. Her clothes blazing, in such close quar ters had the shot been fired, the little girl ran screaming into the street and fell at a crowded crossing, dying a few minutes later. Then Ratcliffe aimed the gun at 13-year-old Eva Mipolzkl, who was a com panion of the Atkinson girl. Eva ran Into a nearby store before he could fire. Ratcliffe then turned the pistol on him self and fell dead with a bullet through his heart. ANARCHY RULES BUSHIRE. Britain May Land Bluejackets at Turbulent Persian Ports. LONDON. Apt-11 .- -Telegraphing from Teheran, the Times' correspondent reports a reign ot lawlessness and anarchy at Bushire. a seaport city of Persia, 18 miles from the mouth of the Euphrates. Foreigners, he declares, are endangered and a British cruiser is likely to land blue jackets if the city authorities fail to deal effectively with the situation. CHICAGOANS COMING WEST Business Men From Windy City to Tour the Coast. CHICAGO. April 9. The Pacific North west .will be invaded by Chicago busi ness men from June 2 to June 19, accord ing to plans announced today by the Chi cago Association of Commerce. A spe cial train carrying the trade extension en thusiasts will stop at 30 cities on the way to Seattle. The Seattle Exposition is the main point of interest, June 12 being set aside as Chicago day. JUMPS FROM HIGH WINDOW Professor Hunicke Commits Suicide at St. Louis Hospital. ST. LOUIS, April 9. H. August Hunicke, chemist for the Anheuser Busch Brewing Association and for merly professor of chemistry at Wash ington University, committed suicide by leaping from a third story window at a local hospital, it was learned to day. The death occurred Tuesday. MOONSHINERS USE RIFLES Revenue Officers Raid Still and Fa talkie Result. TAXWELL. Va April ?. In a pitched battle between moonshiners and revenue officers in Buchanan County today it is believed that one or more of the moon shiners were killed. They were operating a whisky distillery when surprised by the deputies, who began shooting when the moonshiners showed fight. AFFINITY EXPERT MISSING Ferdinand Pinney Earle Reported to Have Cone to Europe. X11DDLETOWX. N. Y., April 9.Fer dinand Pinney Earle. whose "affinity" wife recently sued him for divorce, has left his home at Monroe, and his neigh bors are wondering where he is. It was reported, but not confirmed, that he had sailed for Europe to avoid the further service of legal papers. WESTON WALKS 43 MILES Reaches Rcllevne, O., and Will Go to Toledo Friday. PEIXEVUE, O.. April 9. Edward Payson Weston arrived here tonight at 7:45 on bis walk to the Pacific Coast, having walked from Mansfield. 43 miles, today. He planned to leave at 3 o'clock Saturday morning for To ledo, where lie will rest over Sunday. FRANCE WILL SHIP CASTRO TO EUROPE Tells Knox He Will Be Driven Away. PUT ABOARD FIRST STEAMER United States Pleased at Re moval of Firebrand. . FRENCH PAPERS CRITICISE Action of Government Condemned as Toadying to America and Britain and Fixing Domination or Fnited States. WASHINGTON, April 9.-The French government has informed the State De partment of its determination to put into effect immediately its decision to expel ei Presldent Castro of Venezuela from Fort de France and compel him to' return to Europe. The programme is to put him aboard the vessel first touching at Fort de France. If this is carried out, Castro -will be on bis way to Europe in a day or two, unless his physical condition Is such that the ocean trip would put his life in Jeopardy. The State Department officials are much gratified at the manner in which the French government has acted, and feel relieved that Castro Is to be sent back to Europe, where he will have no immediate Influence in the affairs of Venezuela, where his personal following is believed to be considerable. . FRENCH PAPERS CRY SHAME Say France Expels Castro to Please America and Britain. PARIS. April 9. (Special.) The roles of both the United States and France come s in for severe treatment by this morning's foreign editorial writers in their consideration --of Cas tro's expulsion from Fort de France. In fact, -the general opinion here is that France forsook her traditional role of refuge to the unfortunate sim ply, out of a weak willingness to be agreeable to the United States and England. This morning's Journal declares it is an act which the country at large is sure to disapprove. So far in the his tory of the republic, continues the commentator, there has not been an other government which has been guilty of such injustice. Flattered by a call for protection from President Gomez. of Venezuela, the United States, It Is asserted, suddenly has be come sensible to the advantages of keeping in Caracas such an amenable chief as Gomez and Is also keen on keeping Castro out of the Antilles. Thus its diplomacy went to work and succeeded admirably, both in London (Concluded on Page 3. v ........at vli rMgg 1U.J i" - l 0H! HOW SAD! J ! . j j ' j iii ' 'j t . " , I T 1 '. J x ...... : iHVC riVK UKAXS. RECEIVER HOLDS YERKE'S MANSION WHILE MRS. YERKES LIES ILL, HIS MEN STAND GUARD. Widow, Kept Ignorant of Facts Lest Shock Kill Her Only There on Sufferance. NEW YORK. April 9.-(Special.-A temporary receiver for the Yerkes estate in New Tork City was appointed April 5 and on that date two detectives em ployed by the receiver slipped into the Yerkes mansion at Fifth -avenue and Sixty-eighth street by the back areaway when the iceman called there. These men admitted others sent by the receiver, whose guards, working in day and night shifts, have been holding possession of the house and art gallery since fhen as against Mrs. Yerkes. She is confined to her bed on an upper noor of the house and remains Ignorant Qf the presence of the receiver's men Her lawyers and physician say her ill ness Is such that she might die if in formed of the seizure of the house by the receiver's representatives. Her lawyers applied to Judge Ward in the United States Circuit Court, to day for an order for the withdrawal of the receiver's men. Judge Ward de clined the order, remarking that it ap peared Mrs. Yerkes had been holding the Fifth-avenue mansion merely through sufferance since Yerkes' death and had no right of possession as against the receiver. Mrs. Yerkes claims ownership of the mansion and its contents, and also the Yerkes art, gallery. The property is said to be' worth over 2,500,000. The receiver " was appointed in a suit brought by the London Underground Railway. Ltd., which has a claim of SOO,000 against the Yerkes estate. BLACK HAND IN ROMANCE Italian Flees to America With Bride, but Is Followed. NEW YORK, April 9. Vincenzo Chaino de Pape. a wealthy resident of the Bronx, who arrived from Italy direct with hiB bride, said he received letters from the Black Hand threatening his life because he married his boyhood sweet heart, whom a Black Hand leader coveted. Before sailing from Italy with his wife he received letters declaring the hostility of the Black Hand would follow him to America. He went on board the steamer Roma, guarded by a dozen policemen. After the ship sailed seven stowaways were found on (board, one of them who was heavily armed was identified as a cousin of Pape's defeated rival. STATE OFFICERS INDICTED Out or $10,000 Bequest Gave Home Only $1.44, Is Charge. ASHLAND, O., April 9.-A joint indict ment charging embezzlement of $15,553 was returned late yesterday against State Senator Frank M. Patterson. ex-Common Pleas Judge Robert M. Campbell. ex Common Pleas Judge H. L. McCrary and George Ullman, former cashier of the Farmers Bank. The charge grows out of the settlement of the estate 'of Mrs. Mary F. Freer who, by will, left to the Ashland County Children's Home the sum of $40,000. Of this amount it is said only $1.44 was turned over to the home. Ullman acted as administrator of the estate. FANS RUSH FIELD; PLAYER ARRESTED Phil Cooney Center of Storm at Medford. HOT MIXUP ON DIAMOND Mayor Causes Warrant to Is sue for Arrest. FLIGHT IN AUTO FOLLOWS Marshal Pursues In Another Car and Brings Back Cooney From Central Point, Whereupon Casey's Man Pays Fine. MEDFORD, Or., April 9. (Special.) Roysterers o the bleachers at the game between Casey's Colts and the locals here today enlivened the occa sion by persistently "baiting" Phil Cooney, Casey's shortstop. Finally in the eighth inning Cooney retaliated in kind and most vociferously. This Is what followed: B. Klum. a bleacherite. Jumped through the -wire screen, followed by a crowd, and attacked Cooney. A larger man attempted to take the fight oft Klura'a bands, -when Garibaldi interfered and pummeled the interloper until he was pulled oft by others, leav ing the big man with a burst lip and various contusions. Cooney and Klum agreed to settle their differences after the game, and mutual friends began negotiations to avert further violence. Mayor W. H. Cannon intervened and caused a warrant to issue for Cooney's arrest on a charge of using profane language. Flight and Pursuit by Auto. Cooney's friends spirited the shortstop away to Central Point in an automobile in an effort to avert his arrest. The City Marshal of Medford learned of Cooney's destination and gave chase in a second automobile and - arrived a t Centrwi Point in lime to arrest Cooney oeiore ine nortr.oouna train on which he intended to depart had arrived. Cooney was brought back to Medford and fined $13. Mayor Cannon's son was in the crowd watching the game today. It Is alleged by Cooney's friends that the young man was among those who were baiting the shortstop, and that he therefore was one of the targets of Cooney's sulphurous re marks when the latter began to retali ate. Because of these facts, Cooney's friends say the Mayor took up the case and refused to permit the amicable ad justment which seemed to be imminent. Klum and Cooney were brought to gether after it was all over and the mat ter ended in mutual apologies. Cooney will leave this morning for Portland. Game Easily Portland's. Of the game, there isn't much to tell; NEGRO'S REVENGE ON FEDERAL JUDGE HAS FCRXITCRE SEIZED TO SATISFY JUDGMENT. Obtains Judgment for Being Run Down by Auto Atlanta Bar Cries Outrage. T-AiTItVNTA' Ga" Arril's.-The home of United States Circuit Judge W. B Sheppard was dismantled today to sat isfy a Judgment obtained by a negro who was run down by the Judge's auto mobile. A special meeting of the At lanta Bar Association has been called to consider means of disciplining the ne gro's lawyers and forcing reparation to the Judge. There is great excitement bere over the affair, which members of the Bar Association characterize as an outrage. JUdge Sheppard had agreed to pay the negro's medical bill and give him $50. The negro's attorneys rejected bis prop osition, however, and swore out a writ of attachment. One of the attorneys, ac companied by a constable and a force of negroes, went to the Judge's home and found Mrs. Sheppard alone with her children, one of them a baby six months old. They seized everything in sight and carted it away, took all the furniture except the beds, the clothing of the-entire family, the trunks and even the children's toys. All the time Mrs. Sheppard says she was pleading with the men to wait until her husband returned, but they refused, and she says they were rough and inso lent. Judge Sheppard has bitterly denounced the treatment as not only outrageous, but an attack upon the dignity of the United States Court. BOY IS FOUND BY THEFT Father's Search of Continent Ends at Prosser, Wash. SPOKANE, Wash.. April 9. (Special.) Missing from his home in Atlantic. la., since August 4 last year, the sloughs and rivers in the vicinity of Atlantic dragged for his believed drowned boy, and his father searching from one end of the continent to the other for him, Fred Draper, aged 17, son of H. B. Draper, ot Atlantic, Ia. was today at Prosser. Wash., handed into the arms of his father, a traveling salesman, and started homeward, no longer a hobo. Because he stole a child playmate's pig bank containing about $2 in pennies and nickels, young Draper was arrested on March 19, pleaded guilty" and was fined $1 and costs, then remanded to the custody of Marshal Hinkle to await the session of the Superior Court- His father arrived Just In time to attend court and paid the fine and heard a pitiful story from the lips of his long-lost son. HUMAN SKIN CALLED FOR Grafting Process Will Be Resorted To in Seattle Hospital. SEATTLE, Wash., April 9. (Special.) Wanted Several patches of human skin. Report for the sacrifice at the City Hos pital. H. Christopher, a laborer was badly injured during the Christmas holiday sea son by an exploding lantern which set fire to his clothes and burned his lower limbs and abodmen before it was extin guished. After giving up patches of skin from other parts of his body to cover the burned surface, there is still about two square feet of Burface that requires a similar covering, which the patient is not able to furnish himself. It is this condition that has called for a sacrifice of human skin from, others. BOSMAN RETURNS TO WIFE Has One With Him, but Second Spouse Is In China. SAM FRAXCISCO. April 9. Among the passengers on the steamer Man churia, which sailed for the Orient today, was Robert Pu Tung Bosman, the Hongkong millionaire, whose at tempted entry into this country with two wives several months ago was the cause of considerable flurry among immigration officials. After a fruitless appeal to Washington, Mr. Bosman was obliged to send one of his wives back home, while he was permitted to remain in this country for medical 1 treatment with the other. WASHINGTON LADS VICTORS State College Team Wins National 22-CalIbre Championship. WASHINGTON. April " 9. -The State College of Washington won the National championship for rifle shooting with .22 caliber cartridge among the colleges and universities on their indoor ranges in the contest last week, making the high est score, 949. This is the decision an nounced today by Judges appointed by the National Rifle Association, who ex amined the targets made by the 17 com bined institutions. Columbia University, of New York, was second, with a score of 923, and the University of Wisconsin third, with 918. ICE JAM IN NIAGARA RIVER Piles on Docks and Weakens Sus pension Bridge. LEWI3TON. N. T., April 9. Owing to a Jam of ice in the gorge Just above here, the docks of the Niagara River Navigation Company at Queenston and Lewiston are covered with about SO feet of ice. The stay wires of the Lewiston suspension bridge were carried away. GORVALLIS GIRL Hazel R.Kline Accused of Shoplifting. FIGHTS WOMAN DETECTIVE Goods Said to Be Stolen Found on Her Person. SAYS SHE BOUGHT THEM Daughter of Oregon Representative at Inaugural Ball In Trouble. Married, but Conceals Name of Husband. TORK. April 9.-Special.)-Tw fashionably dressed women engaged in what looked like a fight at Tenth street and Broadway this afternoon until de tectives separated the couple. They found one woman was Mis Nellie Suydam a detective in the store in front of which the trouble occurred. She was trying to take the other woman, whom she accused of being a shoplifter, back into the store to be searched. The woman was arrested on complaint of Miss Suydam, who charged her with petty larceny. At police headquarters she gave the name of Mary Brown, but refused to give her address. When searched, a silver cigarette case, silk necktie and a pair of cuff buttons were found on her. Miss Suydam said these were taken by her from the store. The woman declared she had purchased the articles. Before Magistrate Herrlman, In the night court. Miss Brown pleaded not guilty and was held in $500 bail for court. Detective Martin said afterward that the woman had told him her maiden name was Hazel R. Kline, and that she w-as a daughter of S. L. Kline, merchant of Corvallis, Or., and was suing her hus band for divorce. She declined to, say who her husband was. She had $150 when arrested, was well dressed and wore expenaira Jewelry, S. D. Kline, of Corvallis, when ap prised by long distance telephone that a young woman claiming to be his daughter was under arrest in New York, said be had a daughter in New York, but that he had heard nothing of her being in trouble. Pending re ceipt of more direct Information he declined to discuss the affair. Mr. and Mrs. Kline, of Corvallis, were Oregon's official representatives at the Taft Inaugural ball in Washington. March 4. Mr. Kline Is a well-to-do mer chant of the Benton County metropolis. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, GO. 8 decrees; minimum, 42.8 degrees. TODAY'S Showere, followed by fair and warmer weather; westerly winds, becoming northwest. Foreign. Roosevelt arrives at Port Said and sends telegram on Messina relief work. Page 0. National. Taft wins victory In Senate committee's action on suear tariff. Page 3. France agrees with Knox to ship Castro back to Europe. Page 1. Civil service denounced in Senate debate on census bill. Page 6. Defense closes argument In Standard Oil case. Page o. House finally passes tariff bill, defeating free lumber proviso, but retaining free petroleum. Page I. Politics, Senator Hornh and Secretary Dickinson speak at Hamilton Club banquet at Chi cago. Pago mj. Domestic. Kx-Secretary Hitchcock dead. Page 6. Private sale of May wheat at $l.3S. Page 1. Kleventh juror secured for Calhoun and trial may begin Monday. Page 5. Rejected boy lover at El Paso kills girl and himself on street. Page V Daughter of 1 Kline, of Corvallis, ar rested in New York on ohargo uf hop- lifting. Page 1. Negro causes seizure of federal Judge's furniture at Atlanta. Page 1. Receiver of Yerkes estate puts guards on Mrs. Yerkes house. Page 1. Crassett acquitted of cannibalism, but some man guilty. Page 4. Krlanger returns from Europe and the atrical war will soon break out. Page 4. Anthracite miners and operators disagree. Page 3, Sports. Five games played In grammar echool league. Page 10. Coast league scores: Portland 5, Oakland 3; San Francisco 6, Sacramento l; Los Angeles o, Vernon 1. Page 10, Coffroth goes East to arrange Johnson Jeffries and other fights. Page 10. Swing coming to Portland, Page 10. I'srciftc Northwest. Conflicting testimony Is gathered at Eugene regarding Bristol's mental condition prior to bathtub Incident. Page 6. Governor Hay to cut "political pie" Monday; troubka sure to follow. Page 6. Valley shippers complain that rate on onions is discriminative. Page 6. Faculty of University of Puget Sound up in arms because president forbids teachers attending theaters. Page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Shake-up In City Engineer's office promised by Mayor Lane. Page 11. Friends of direct primary to hold con ference to name man to oppose Simon. Page 12. Ten divorces granted In State Circuit Court. Page 11. Six companies are after big paving con tract. Page V. Council will probably discontinue East Sixth street nil project. Page 17. Councilman Rushlight announces his can didacy for Mayor. Page 12. rrier Ponnay Is exonerated of blame for fatal auto accident.. Page 18. State editors may agree to demand cash for all advertising. Page 12. Obstacle appears in settlement of terminal dispute. Page 10. Calvin Heilig leases property at Seventh and Taylor for new theater. Page 11. New steamer Hyak will be launched about April 2r0 at Yuppie's yard, page 16. NEW YORK JA I