VOL. XXIX NO. 15,093. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TARIFF BILL f, CHRISTIANITY NOT " GOVERNMENT ENDS BIG PACKING CASE COST OF BRIDGE FURIOUS FIGHT IS SAYS HARPER GOT MEANT FOR ESKIMO WAGED IN MID-AIR BEFORE SENATE HAS JAIL RECORD TO BE SI TOLL FROM VICE BOY WHO CAME WITH PEARY REBATIX'G CHARGES GIVEN' XJP OX WASHINGTON ORDERS. THREE DISCHARGED WORKMEN' DEXOrXXES CHRISTIANITY. ATTACK FOREMAN. ow CAPTAIN GRAHAM 0 Debate Will Begin on Revision Thursday. DUTIES ON LUXURIES RAISED Many Articles Added to Free List by Committee. I NO NEW TAXES CREATED Aldrich Says Tariff Will Provide Enough Revenue Women's Cry Is Heeded and Stocking Tax Cut Down CHANGES IX TARIFF BILL. Iron ore. from free list to 25 cents . ton. Lead products, raised throughout. Hard wood, restored to free list. Kurir In biscuits and wafers from SBO to 20 per cent. Agricultural produce. reductions 4 cut out and Dlngley rates restored. J Cocoa, restored to free list. Sntr.i. ritnri1 t r fr liar Wines, duly Increased 15 per cent throughout. Cotton goods, specific substituted for ad valorem rates on fancy goods and novelties. Fashioned hosiery. Increase cut out and Dlngley rates restored. f Raw flax, again made dutiable. Silks, specific substituted for ad J valorem duties and slight reduction marie. No decision made on wood pulp and its products, nor on coal and hides. Hats and bonnets, average reduc tion of 15 per caU. Gloves, Increases struck out. Ding lev rates restored. Yachts, taken from free list, duty 15 per cent. Works of art of all kinds mono 4 min years ota anu aruaiia an- 4 ttqulttea more than 100 years old. made free. WASHINGTON, April 12. The amended tariff bill Is now on the Senate calendar and consideration of the measure will be begun Thursday. It was laid before the finance committee with the Democratio members present this morning and after 30 minutes' parley a vote was taken on the question of making a report to the Sonnte today, all the Republicans voting in the afllrmatlvo and the Democrats In the negative. Pooni after the Senate met Aldrich pre vented the amended bill. Daniel, on be half of the minority, protested that the Democrats had not been given an oppor tunity to examine the measure, and Aid- rich replied that they could make their examination by Thursday He said also that, as the majority was responsible for the bill. Its course in hastening the re port was warranted. ' Duties on Luxuries Raised. As reported, the hill does not contain all the charges In rates which the finance committee purposes to make. Al though several important amendments have been made, such as the restoration of the Dlngley rates on women's gloves and hosiery, the placing of works of art on the free list and the assessment of a duty on Iron ore, the revenue-producing lolblllties of the bill are little changed The Increases are provided mainly In the schedule covering luxuries, the entire liquor schedule being materially ad vanced. The Increase on wines and spirits Is expected to bring In about $3.00O,0uO ad ditional revenue. Aldrich said, that the committee reallred that the increased recommended would not counterbalance the loes in the revenues resulting from reductions and the lengthening of the free llst This shortage will necessitate further Increases on certain luxuries and the committee intends to report more changes. Xo Now Taxes Needed. In discussing the revenue features of the bill Aldrich Insisted that, as It will be amended by the Senate, the Payne bill 111 provide sufficient funds to meet the expenses of the Government without re sortlnK to any but Import taxes. In this connection tfcose articles which the Fed pral Government purchases in large quan tities In, foreign markets are to ba pro vided with lower rates of duty. This Is .in accordance with the plan recently launched in the Senate through, the ap pointment of a new committee on public, expenditures to reduce the running ex penses f the Government. No maximum and minimum provision or administrative features which Include additional forms of taxation were re ported. These sections of the measure are to receive the Joint consideration of the Republican ami Democratic members of the finance committee and may not be reported tor three weeks or more. Sev eral of the revenue features depend upon the committee's action regarding these sections. Philippine Proviso Changed. Resides the dutiable and free lists, the only additional provision of the bill was the Thilipplne free trade provision. While not changing the purport of the Philip pine aeetton. the committee's report in cluded a new draft of this provision by which its successful operation will be- (.Concluded on l'a 2 Because Peary Left Him Behind and Bumpus Refused to Give TTp Father's Body. NEW YORK. April 12. Mene. the Es kimo boy 'brougrht here In 1896 from the region of the Humboldt Glacier, In Greenland, by ommander Peary, and who recently disappeared from this city, has written to Chester Beecroft. announcing- his intention to return to his people. 'When this reaches you," the letter read, "I will be well on my way, as It will not be mailed for three dava. Never mind where I am; I am Just working north. "I am homesick and disgusted, and. when Mr. Peary told me he had no room for me on his ship, I lost hope. Then when Professor Bumpus. of the Museum of Natural History, refused to give me my father's body, so I could bury It, or give me my sled or gun, I gave up believing that your Christian belief, which you taught me, was meant for a poor Eskimo boy. "After all. my people are more hu mane and kind, and I am going home. Your civilization has done nothing but harm for me and my people. Good bye." SHOT STOPS DIVORCE CASE Husband 'Wounds Wife Who Has Started Suit, Then Kills Self. RENO, New, April 12. "We will both die before we leave this room!" With these words Luis McFadden, a Seven Troughs teamster, fired two shots with a .38-callber revolver at his wife, Mary, shooting away a finger and causing a serious wound In her neck. Believing her wounds mortal. McFadden placed the smoking pistol In his mouth and sent a bullet through his brain. Two children of the couple witnessed the tragedy. Mrs. McFadden was re moved to the Red Cross Hospital, and it was said tonight that she would re cover. Mrs. McFadden ffled an application for a divorce last week, alleging ex treme cruelty, and saying that at one time McFadden had attempted to pour carbolic acid 'down her throat. The couple were married at. San Miguel, Cal., In 1896. EMPTIES GUN AT BROTHER Spokane Youth Would Kill Man Who Refuses to Close Door. SPOKANE, Wash., April 12.-r-(Special.) Because his "brother would not close a door through which a draught blew that annoyed him. A. O. Pahl, a palntdr 30 years old, emptied six chambers of his 32 caliber revolver at W. H. Pahl, a sur veyor, . 24 years old, two bullets taking effect. One bullet penetrated the -law. passing out at the cheek and the other clipped oft the end of one thumb. The widowed mother of the boys In terfered to prevent further assault by the older brother, who was reloading to renew his attack. "W- H. Pahl was arrested and" placed under J1000 bond, and the other is held under surveillance In the hospital as a witness. SWEPT FROM CAR-STEPS i San Jose-Roy Fatally Injured in Trolley Line Tunnel. SAN JOSE. Cal.. April 12. (SnecialT- Aftor an egg-hunt In which WOO people iook part at Alum Rock Park yesterdav there was such a rush for the cars that several people were injured, one woman sustaining a fracture of the arm. Richard Brown, a 17-year-old boy. inuring io ine outsiae of a car, was swept from his poMion while passing through a tunnel, and rollled between the car and walls until his legs Were broken and he was otherwise so badly injured that he Is not expected to live. Richard Brown is a son of Mrs. Ella M. Brown, of San Jose, and a nephew of A. C. tlage, the Portland real estate man. MORE TROUBLE FOR ZELAYA Madriz Said to Be Plotting to Gain Nlcaraguan Presidency. WASHINGTON. April 12. An unofficial dispatch received here connects the name ! of Jose Madrix with an alleged move ment to iislodge President Zelaya from his position as head of the Nlcaraguan republic. Madris was a rival of Zelava, but was expelled about ten years ago. Well-defined rumors are current here regarding the activity of President Zelaya in military matters, with Salvador as the probable objective point. The disturbing forces appear to be made up to a large extent of Salvadorean emigradoes acting ufrder Nlcaraguan auspices. WESTON BREAKS RECORD Tramps 71 Miles In Single Day, Get ting Dost in Bargain. BRYAN. O.. April 12. Edward Pay- son Weston, the pedestrian, made to day the record walk for a day of his present trip from New York to San Francisco, covering 71 miles. The dis tance from Toledo to Bryan Is but 56 miles, but between Toledo and Delta Weston lost hta way and had an extra walk of 15 miles. Bay City Society Lion Proves Impostor. REPUDIATED BY BRITISHERS Man Was Out on Bail When He Met Mrs. Maud Evans. . FACES THREE CHARGES NOW Adventurer Claimed to Be Son ot British Nobleman and to Have Vast Fortune Had Just Served SLx Months. SAX FRANCISCO. Anril 12 (Stuwl.l rAccordlnK to San Francic detectives, Captain Jack K. Graham, who, claim- lng to be a commissioned officer In the Gordon Highlanders, the son of a Brit ish Baronet and heir to vast estates and finances, dazzled Mrs. Maud Evans, di vorced wife of Naval Constructor Evans, with alluring stories of the lofty posi tion in English society which awaited her would she but marry him, is a fraud, convict. swindler and a heartless scoundrel. Records held by the detectives of this city show that Graham has served six months In Jail at Vancouver, B. C, for check swindling; that at the present time three charges are pending against him in San Francisco for obtaining money under false pretenses, and that the man w-ho. established a mysterious and dom inating Influence over the Navy . officer's wife within a Jew hours of meeting' her for the first time, was actually out on ball when he made her acquaintance. Though inquiries were made in Eng land with the object of ascertaining whether Graham was really the son of a Baron, no definite information is forthcoming, beyond the fact that the alleged scion of nobility has been re pudiated by persons of quality whose names he furnished as references to those who lent him money when he said he was starving. Chief of Police Cham berlain of Vancouver in a letter to Chief Cook of San Francisco, says: "Graham victimized many people here. He is absolutely no good, and there would be no mourning In this city if he decides to remain where he is. He was arrested for issuing bad checks at Vancouver, and sentenced to six months In prison." ALBERTA CROPS TO DOUBLE Seeded Area for This Season 100 Per Cent Greater Than Last. WINNIPEG. ManT, April 12. The first Canadian Western crop report was is sued today, showing 100 per cent increase in the seeded area in -Southern Alberta, Iittle seeding outside of that district will be done until the end of the month. t fH ' "YOUNG. FELLER, x fllC DON'T GIT ME t : STIRRED UP!" ' j ! n g FvXSf kmji j rwfez,,,... -mmmzm i ; attics roif x z - ; V" Msm$m mm m c& , Attorney-General Wickersham De cides Xo Conviction Can Be Had Against Morris & Co. ' CHICAGO. April 12. (Special.) Uncle ! Sam haa abandoned the prosecution In all investigations of the rebate cases, the affairs of the packers and tHe al leged Argo peonage -system, which have oeen before the present grand Jury. This follows the dispatching of a letter from Attorney-General George W. Wicker sham, in Washington, D. C., to Morris & Co., officially announcing the abandon ment of efforts to obtain Indictments of rebating against that firm on evidence that has been heard thus far. This does not apply to the Inquiries on the part of the Department of Justice, which have not been presented before the grand Jury. The probe of the Na tional Packing Company, which grew out of the Morris & Co. Investigation, has not yet been heard by the Federal inquisitorial body. Pees for services and funds for the transportation of the grand Jurors dur ing their session have amounted to $10,000, while that of witnesses have to taled $50000. HEARST'S MEN SET FREE Rockefeller's Libel Suit Fails Habeas Corpus Proceeding. NEW YORK, April 13. The writ of habeas corpus secured In behalf of S. S Carvalho, Bradford Merrill and Edward H. Clark, officers of the Star Company, publishers ot the New York American and the Evening Journal, in the action brought against them for criminal libel on complaint of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was upheld by Justice Gerard in the Su preme Court today, and the defendants were ordered discharged. Mr. Rockefeller had complained of the publication In the New York American of December 17, 1908, of an article wrong ly accusing him of originating a peonage system among the employes of a break fast food company in Illinois. In his opinion Justice Gerard character ized the art(ple as a gross and vicious libel, the writers and publishers of which, should be brought to trial; but finds that no evidence exists that Messrs. Carvalho, Merrill and Clark had anything whatever to do with its writing or publication. RUMOR SNAKE IS DEAD Government Still Seeking Chief of Creek Indians. MUSKOGEE! Okla., April 12. There is a rumor here that Crazy Snake, Chief o the Creek Indians, "who has been sought ty the state militia for the past two weeks. Is dead, but it cannot be verified. The Government has representatives in the field searching for the Indian leader, but has received no word from them. LOST WITH CREW OF 30 Sealing Steamer Missing Off Coast of Xewfoundlnad. sr. JUri-N'S, N. F., April 12. Th oca. i u b Bicamer jjecapo nas not been heard from in several weeks, and it i feared she was lost between the Nova Scotia coast and . Newfoundland last week. The Decapo carried a crew of 30 men. " YOUNG . FELLER, DON'T GIT ME STIRRED UP!" PlansforNewO. R.&N. Span Announced. REPLACE "STEEL" STRUCTURE Will Tower to Height of 212 Feet Above Pier Bases. WIDTH IS TO BE 50 FEET Bridge Will Extend From Third and Glisan on West to Oregon Street on East Side Work to Bo Pushed Without Delay. Plans completed by the engineering de partment of the O. R. & N. for the pro posed bridge to replace the present Steel bridge call for a more expensive and modern bridge than any now spanning the river at Portland. It will cost $1,300. 000 and an additional $60,000 will be ex pended by the railroad company In rear ranging its tracks at each end of the new bridge. Plans have been filed with the Port of Portland, with the application for permission to build the structure, and soon as that body acts in the matter, permission will be asked of the War De partment. If the new bridge were set up In Sixth street alongside the Wells-Fargo build ing, the fabric of steel would tower above the skyscraper by over 80 feet. The height of the proposed bridge from the base of the piers to the topmost steel beam will be 212 feet, "the Wells-Fargo building reaches to a height of about 130 feet. The steel in the drawspan alone of the proposed bridge will weigh more thah one and one-half times the total weight of all the steel in the present Steel bridge. Work to Go Ahead at Once. "Just as soon as we get permission w will order the steel and finish our bor Ings for foundations, so we may design the piers and get right to work," said George W. Boschke, chief engineer for the Harriman lines in this territory, yes terday. "We will erect the new bridge Just as soon as men and money can do the work. The structure will be modern and first-class in every respect. It will probably require from 12 to 18 months before it can be put in operation. "When the new bridge is completed. It should not he called the 'Steel bridge,' as the present structure is known through out the city. When this bridge was built It was the only steel structure spanning the river here, but now there are several. The name gives the Impression to out side people that this is the only steel bridge Portland has." Site for New Span. v The site selected for the center line of the new bridge is from the point of in tersection of Glisan and Front streets to the Intersection of East Adams and Ore- (Concluded on Page 3.) Battle With Fists and Clubs on Fourth Story of New Building la Watched by Shuddering Crowd. Fighting on the framework of the new warehouse under construction at Thirteenth and Everett streets. I. L. Young, foreman, and three discharged workmen. H. Theman. S. E. Colvin and John Roberts, narrowly escaped being precipitated 60 feet from the fourth story, late yesterday afternoon, during the course of their mad combat- Young, single handed, was fighting the three men, who attacked him be cause of having- lost their positions. Heavy planks were used as weapons, and the struggling: quartet, fighting like beasts, swayed time and again to the very edjje of the floor. Scores of people saw the 'fierce fight from the street below and shuddered. But for the prompt action of Patrolman Murphy, who was called to the place it is doubtful if the workmen would have escaped the plunge from the fourth, story. Murphy climbed to the scene, and after separating them put all four under arrest- Young, the foreman, was terribly beaten. His head and face was fear fully cut and gashed and one eye was swollen .shut from a blow across the face with a heavy piece of wood. Young managed to give Theman a se vere drubbing, but the others got off with only a few blows apiece- JUDGE CALLS NEW PANEL Discharges 24 Talesmen at New Mexico Because of Rumors. I-AS CRUCES, N. M.. April 12. A sensation was created in the Federal District Court here today when Judge Frank "W. Parker discharged the en tire panel of 24 Jurors and ordered a new panel drawn for Wednesday. In discharging the Jury, the Judge declared that while be did not make any specific charge, yet. as the rumor had persistently gained ground that efforts had been made to tamper with the Jury In the interest of persons un der indictment on charges of smug gling or conspiracy to smuggle Chi nese, he thought It best to draw a new Jury. PITTSBURG AND CHINA WAR Mayor Has Kebuked Wu Ting Fang; State Department May Act. PITTSBURG. April 12. That Minister Wu Ting Fang's action is called to ac count in the reply made by Mayor Ma- gee to the State Department of the United States regarding the recent arrest here of two distinguished Chinese. Is as serted here. Mayor Magee refuses to discuss the matter, but police officers are authority for the assertion that eight Chmamen here say they received letters from Minister Wu urging them not to testify against their countrymen. It is Intimated that the State Department may be asked to look Into the alleged attempt at interference with the American courts. BANK CASHIER IS SUICIDE Accounts AH Right and Xo Reason Known for Rash Deed. LOVELOCK. Nev., April 12. W. T. Onyon, assistant cashier of the First Na tional Bank of this city, was found dead today with a bullet wound throueh' his fheart. It Is believed the wound was self- inflicted, although a Coroner's Jury sum moned has reached no conclusion as a re sult of its investigations tonight. Bank officials declare that Onyon's accounts are straight and no cause for his suicide. If such It was, can be assigned by them. CHINESE TRY TO ESCAPE Four Celestials Caught Trying to Re- SAN FRANCISCO, April 12. Four Chi nese who attempted during last night to escape from the British steamer Strath dee, on which they were being deported. were captured early today and placed .In Irons on board the vessel. They had Improvised a raft of hatch covers and were rapidly drifting toward Goat Island when they were seen by the officers of ferryboat, who notified the authorities. REPORTER POLICE CHIEF New Head of Dos Angeles Force For merly Newspaper Man. LOS ANGELES. April 12. Edward F. Dishman, Chief Deputy Sheriff of Los Angeles County, was appointed Chief of Police today to succeed Thomas H. Broadhead. Dishman formerly was a police reporter on a local morning paper for many years, and had previously been employed In the capacity of a newspaper man in Louisville. Ky., Spokane, "Wash., and other cities. SOCIETY MEETS CARMEN Women of High Finance Welcome Road's Employes. NEW YORK. April 12. Receiver Whltrldge. of the Third-avenue Rail road Company, gave a reception today to the 3000 motormen and conductors employed by the company. Mrs. Whlt rldge and daughters. Miss Anne Mor gan, daughter of J. P. Morgan; Mrs. E. H. Harriman and Mrs. Douglas Rob inson acted as the road's hostesses. Oswald's Story as Re lated to Earl. THREE OFFICIALS INVOLVED Schanck as Go-Between for Los Angeles Gang. OSWALD WILL TESTIFY Harper, Kern and Broad head Are Trio Against Whom Tenderloin , King Gives Evidence He Talks of His Flight. LOS ANGELES. Cal., April 12. The testimony given by E. T. Earl, propri etor of the Los Angeles Evening Ex press, before the special grand Jury I called to investigate charges of protec- tion of vice against ex-Mavor A. a. Harper and officials of his administra tion, was given out by Presiding Judge W. P. James, of the Superior Court, to night. This testimony embodies the statements made by Nick Oswald, al leged "King of the Tenderloin," against Harper, ex-Chief of Police Edward Kern and Theodore H. Broadhead. who resigned today as Chief of Police. Given Money to Protect Vice. The charges are specific and details are given of transactions in which these three former city officials are al leged to have received sums of money at intervals from Oswald in return for protection alleged to have been given to dens of vice In the tenderloin. Besides the three officials mentioned. Samuel Schenck, ex-Police Commis sioner, who resigned before the acts mentioned are alleged to have taken place. Is implicated as a go-between, it being alleged that on numerous in stances he took money from Oswald and delivered it to Harper, Kern and Broad head. Oswald Gives Details. Intimation is made that payments were made to these three officials mainly for a considerable period of time. Oswald tells how the money was collected In the red light district and also details alleged acts of the officials construed to be In the nature of protection against prosecu tion of keepers and inmates of the houses of Ill-fame and gambling houses. Oswald was indicted by the special grand Jury for perjury for his refusal to testify before a former grand Jury re garding the matters which are contained in the statements to Mr. Earl. He has been granted immunity from prosecution. (Concluded on Page 3.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 61.7 decrees; minimum. 4o.W decrees. TODAY'S PXobably fair; westerly winds. Mrs. Vastro not allowed to land In Vene zuela.. Fftge 3. Religious riot In Mexico causes 15 deaths. Page 4. . National. Taft rents houe at Beverly, Mass., for Simmer home. Page 0. Government abandons all prosecutions for giving rebates to packers. Pane 1. Tariff bill reported to Senate, and debate begins Thursday. Page 1. Birmingham breaks down In scout cruiser race, Chester leading. Pace 6. Perkins and Nagel have hot correspondence about Immigrant station. Page 2. Senator Jones proposes Hartson, of Spo kane, for Internal revenue collector. Page 2. Politics. Sherman. Carter and Cushman speak, at banquet ut Ctlca. Page 3. Domestic. Petroslno burled in New Torlc with great ceremony. Page 7. Libel charges against Hearst newspaper officials dismissed. Page 1. Railroads say earnings decreased enorm ously in 1&08. Page 5. General ' Booth sends summons to American people to prove Christianity real. Page 4. Eskimo boy returns to Arctic denouncing Christianity as sham. Page 1. Baldwin's doctor claims $100,000 fee. Page 1. Sport. Sullivan appointed manager of Chicago White Sox. Page H. Ketchel. Kaufman and Langford seek match with Johnson, but he stands them off. Page 31. League baseball season will open In Port land today. Page n. Oregon ball players hold reunion on South ern Pacinc tram; Cal lowing is optimistic. Page 11. Pacific Northwest. Hlll-Harrlman war resumed on Puget Sound; Harriman to build to Everett. Page 6. Second juror probing Gordon-Root case Is dying. Page 6. Rltzville father secures lost child at Monte- sano after five years. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Sharp advance In local barley prices. Page 17. Wide fluctuations in wheat at Chicago. Page 17. Advance xesumed in ntock market. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. O. R. & N. announces plans for $1,300,000 span to replace Steel bridge. Page 1. Construction of new span at Madison street to be delayed. Page 19. No Bull Run water before end of week, at earliest. Page 10. People in Western Multnomah will try to force United Railways to build. Page 12. Fight between discharged workmen and foreman occurs in mid-air Pa.se 1. Jesse C. Moore ordered to pay wife alimony and part of suit costs. Page i School Board will allow children under 12 to march In Rose Festival parade. Page IO. Xo hats to be allowed at Klrmess. which, opens tonight at Armory. Page 10. Mayor Iaii hints at collusion between Bar . ber Asp"halt Company and P. R., L. & p. Co. In paving bid. Page 7. 7 6 a a 107.0 r