t OILIX.-XQ. 15,006. PORTLAND, OREGON. FT?,Tr A v. aphtt. mno 1 PATTEN PURCHASES STOP BIG DECLINE Wheat King BuysThree Million Bushels. FOUR-CENT DROP IS HALTED Last 15 Minutes of- Market Day Is Crucial to Corner. BULL LEADER AGAINST ALL Campaign Shifts From May to July Grain and Regal Battle for Su premacy Will Bo Fought i In Near Future. .CHICAGO. April-' 15. Tumult and fharply-shtftlng fortunes marked the day In the wheat pit of the Board of Trade, July "wheat, following an advance to a new high level, suddenly dropped 4 cents. The "pyramid" fortunes of small specu lators vanished In a trice, and the devel opments caused vigorous exertions by the bull leader. , James A. Patten. Within the last 15 minutes of trading Mr. Patten bought 3,000,000 bushels of wheat for July delivery. "'Nothing but a flurry." he said, but that was after the turbulent pit had been deserted for the day. Patten Is Busy Man. Luring that final quarter of an hour Pal ten was a busy man. Into the corri dor of the building of which the Bartlett Patten offices are to be found floated the sound of high-pitched, nervous voices as clerks at telephones sent buying orders to others In the pit. "Buy fifty. Buy a hundred. Buy twenty-five." These numbers referred to thousands of bushels of wheat, and there were many smaller ones so many, in fact, that not 11 of them were filled. It was a phys ical Impossibility to do so. Wheat King In Pit. . Mr. Patten personally visited the floor of the' exchange and directed his own deals. It was Patten against the field, and the final gong showed that Patten apparently was as mighty as ever. His purchases and those of Ms followers, to gether with the profit-taking of shorts who lost no time In securing the fruits of their bearish daring, caused a reaction of more than a cent all along the line. Before this occurred the hoard of many small speculators was gone. f In hundreds of bakeries a different, al though related 'scene was enacted. Flour had risen, and bakers were trying to find out where their profits were coming from unless the prlceof bread could be raised. The speculative day on the Board opened without indications of the sensa tion to come. May and July quickly rose to a new high price, the former to 128. and the latter to 1.18. July's price waa the highest since 1877, but neither mark created sunusual comment. Either one or the other of the options mentioned has been doing the same thing since the first of the month. There has not been a trading day since then that one or the other has not created a new top price. Campaign Xow on July. Patten bought and sold, as usual, buy ing July and selling May. He is said to have sold 1,000,000 bushels of his May holdings today, and to be practically out of that option. His energies are now centered largely In July. "I have some May still," he said, "but I am chiefly interested in July now. 1 am not paying much attention to the de ferred futures. They are new crop months." It was 15 or 20 minutes before clos ing time when the selling tornado hit .me pit. btop loss orders came out 1 n a deluge and the bears, stirred by five-cent decline at .v'innlpeg, based, was sad, on re-selling by exporters, a a it t- iacKei tne market with great spir rit. July tumbled half a cent at a time to $1.14H, an extreme loss of : nt s; May, in larger Jumps. dronDeri to tl i 6. and September, an undisputed new crop montn, which attained ll.OSTs. de rlined to 1.06i. Here the Patten purchases mad llielr influejiie felt and the close o the session found July at S1.15H3 1.15-,: May at ll.27Stri.27H. and Sep tember at 1.06'.i. In contrast to these nr1r thn.. .i year ago are of interest. During April year ago May wheat sold at an average nr cents ana July around So cents first sale of wheat for 1iircr i. -km or mis year was made here June 23, last, it SSe. Whether it went to Mr. Patten nr not Is not of public record, but he was among the earlier purchasers. Since then the price has risen nearly 30 cents. This, however, does nof serve to give a line on the supposed profits of Mr. Patten and hia associates. .No. estimates worth con sidering can be made. July Old Crop Month. With flie May deal proper to all Intents a thing of the past, a battle royal will be waged In July. Mr. Patten, at the head of an Influential firm, insists that July will be an old crop month. That Is. flour must be marie .from the harvest of last year, instead of the new wheat usually harvested in tne Winter wheat belt In time for delivery on July contracts. Un usually unfavorable weather for planting s - (Onaoluded on Put 0.) POLES PLAN HONOR TO GREAT ACTRESS STATUE OF MODJESKA MAY BE EKECTED IX WARSAW. Fel low-Countrymen Collect Fund to Bring Body Home, but Russian Government, May Object. ( WARSAW. Russian Poland, April 15. A movement is on root in Russia and Austrian Poland to honor the memory of Helena Modjeska. the Polish actress, who. died in California, April 8. Ar rangements are being made for a memo rial service to be held In 'this city and a statue to Mme. Modjeska will be erect ed in the foyer of tlie Warsaw Theater. A committee is working- in Austrian Poland to erect another statue at the Lemberg Theater. The Warsaw Theater has decided to establish a Modjeska fund to further the education of young actors. An effort Is being made to collect money to bring Modjeska's body to AVajsaw for burial, and if this is permitted there will be a public funeral. There is some doubt, however, whether the Russian authorities will permit tliist as Modjeska was expelled from Russia several years ago, when she wan about to make a publlo appearance in this city. If burial in Warsaw is not possible, the body will be interred in Cracow, in Aus trian Poland. ' NEW CHIEF BOOTS CHUNG First Official Act Is to Kick King or Chinatown. LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 15 Spe cial.) Charlie Chung came up from Chinatown, where he Is king, this after noon "to do business" with the new ad ministration. Early in the afternoon he visted Chief Dishman, ex-police reporter, at, police headquarters. The Chief threw him bodily out of the office with nnl like a man crashing through a roof. It was Mr. Dishman's first official act. Chung has been Intensely interested in learning who was to be Chief of Police. Today he learned when Mr. Dishman, who has known him for years, gave him the official boot. While Chung did not exhibit money, he intimated that others are getting it and that the new officials might as well get in the game. SALMON PACKERS OBJECT Do Not Wish to Label Humpback and Dog Salmon Correctly. WASHINGTON. Aorll IK m..,n.. with a recent decision of the food and drug inspection board of the Depart- ...ern. oi Agriculture regarding the la beling of canned ealraon and whltefish, representatives of the salmon industry have asked Secretarv Wilson tnr- adjudication of the rutins- rH i t. . fixed next Monday for the hearing. xne Doara, after declaring that many packers put up "humpback" and "dog" salmon under fancy names and sell them to consumers who may believe them to be of superior varieties, held that these fish, when canned,, should be labeled with their common names. LAWYER SUED BY CLIENT Asks $5000 for Divorce That Was Subsequently Invalidated. HELENA, Mont., April 15. John Rumplng filed suit today in the District Court to recover $5000 damages from O. F. Goddard, a lawyer of Billings, Mont., for alleged incorrect legal advice. God dard secured a divorce for Rumplng and the latter remarried. The Supreme Court reversed the lower court In the divorce suit because of a defective complaint. Rumplng. in his suit against the attor ney, complains that he was humiliated greatly by his arrest on a bigamy charge, as the result of his divorce decree having been Invalidated. DYNAMITE BENEATH BRIDGE Two Big Bombs Discovered tinder Santa Fe Property In Stockton. STOCKTON, Cal., April 15. Two large dynamite bombs, containing sufficient of tne explosive to wreck a business block, were accidentally discovered this morning under the California-street bridge in the vicinity pf the Santa Fe yards. The bombs were primed and prepared with fuse, ready for the match. Last Decem ber a similar bomb was found by work men in the Western Pacific yards, and during the same month a Santa Fe ca boose was wrecked by dynamite. SALOME BARRED lll IOWA New Law Prohibits "Indecent" Shows of Any Description. DES MOINES. Ia., April 15. lowa'a anti-Salome dance law went into ef fect today. The law was signed by the Governor, and provides a fine and a jail sentence for any one engaging in any "obscene, indecent, immoral or Im pure drama,-play, exhibition, show or entertainment." The enforcement of the law is left to the sheriffs and to the police of the state. WOMEN BOSS STREET GANG Washington Matrons . and Belles Work for Clean Highways. WASHINGTON. April 15. Carrying out their campaign for a cleaner Washing ton, society women were out in force today supervising the clearing of the streets of the. city of all floating paper and debris not gathered by the rubbish carts. The scheme was inaugurated by the women of the Twentieth Century Club, . . TRIAL OF CALHOUN ACTUALLY BEGINS Heney Undertakes to . Prove Bribery. THIRTEENTH JUROR SECURED Trolley Franchise Obtained for $200,000 Cash. RUEF RECEIVED MONEY Prosecution Will Attempt to ' Show Money Taken From Mint and Paid to ltuef for Distribu tion Among Officials. FRANCISCO. April 15. After three months spent in completing a Jury , the trial of . Patrick Calhoun, president of the" United Railroads, to day attained the stage where the tak ing of testimony was commenced, and when court adjourned for the day Ferdinand P. Nicholas, the ex-Supervi-sor who is accused of accepting a bribe, paid through Abraham Ruef. had been ordered to an?Ver the first vital question In the case. The final -acceptance of Michael Murphy, a retired po lice sergeant, as the 13th Juror, pre pared the way for the actual inaugura tion of the trial, and Assistant District Attorney Heney, after outlining to the Jury the case he expects to prove, gave way to the first witness. Tells Story of Bribery. Mr. Heney's statement to the Jury was confined strictly to a narration of what the prosecution expected to prove and. although the defense at one point inti mated that he was attempting to argue the issue, he was not interrupted by Judge William P. Lawlor.. , Mr. Jieneys statement contained lit tle that has not previously, developed In trials connected with, the bribery graft prosecution. He promised- to prove the passage of money to various Supervisors through Abraham Ruef and James L. Gallagher, chairman of the board and In his written synopsis of. the statement charged that agents and of ficers of the United Railroads had re ceived and disbursed $200,000 as a blanket bribe for passage of an ordi nance giving the corporation the right to Install the overhead trolley system on several of Its lines operated by cable before the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906. Calhoun's -Many Lawyers. There was little more than the usual stir in the courtroom whe;. the taking of testimony was commenced. When the defendant returned for the after noon session he was surrounded by six attorneys. Of "this number Alexander S. King, of Atlanta, 6a., and John J. Barrett made their initial appearance during the pending trial. Charles Hol brook, a director of the United Rail roads, and General Manager Charles E. Black were also present on the defend-, ant's side of the chamber.. A score, of women who wore buttons shorring membership in the Citizens League of (Concluded on Page 5.) NURSE QUITS HOME TO LIVE IN CAVE SNOHOMISH WOMAN BELIEVED IXSAXE IX CALIFORNIA. ATter Long Search. Is Found in Cav ern on Beach, Living on Ber ries and Scraps. I.ONG BEACH. Cal.. April 15. (Spe cial.) Considerable mystery attached to the disappearance of Miss Mary Lane, of Snohomish. Wash., from this city, until she was found late tonight in a cave on the. ocean bluff. Miss Lane. who . was a nurse at the Snohomish Hospital, left the cottage she had rented at 130 Elm ave nue,. April 12, and it Is said she had not been seen since. Her disappearance was reported to the police yesterday, and a search to locate' her ended when she, was discovered .living on berries "and sleeping on a pile of dried grass in the cave. When the cottage she had. occupied was searched, the police found a scribbled sheet of paper, written in an Incoherent manner,' somewhat in the. nature of a will, but-which was unsigned. Miss Lane has been- in Long Beach about three weeks. It is believed she . is "demented. Children who discovered her, and-whom she had persuaded to get some food aside from the berries which formed her prin cipal, diet, notified the authorities of her whereabouts. ' - CRAWFORD'S WILL JFJLED Novelist Leaves but $10,000 to Wife and Children Get Balance. NEW YORK, April 15. The will of F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, who died in Italy,, was filed with the surrogate to day on behalf pf Arthur Turray. who is appointed hie executor: The- value of the estate was not indicated. Mr. Crawford leaves 10.000 to his wife, Elizabeth C. Crawford, saying that she has been amply provided for by the will of her father. The residue of the estate is left in trust to his brother to pay the Income to his two sons and two daughters until they, reach the age of 25. when the principal is to be equally divided between them. KNOX EATS STRANGE FOOD Secretary Honored at Part-American Banquet In Washington. WASHINGTON, April lsl-Here 1 what Secretary - Knox had to eat to nights . - ' "Ostrasa la.tlerra del Fuego." "Sopa cehtro "Americana." " ' . ' "Pescado a la Mexlcana." "Fuchero sud-Americano." "Cocktail Pan-Americano." - This menu, served at dinner in Mr. Knox's honor by the governing " board of the International Bureau of American Republics, apparently pleased the Secre tary, for in an address he highly praised the bureau for its efforts toward cohe sion among the various republics. - FATHER OF, 12 QUITS WORK But Lazy Parent's Excuse Fails to Move Police Judge. VANCOUVER. P. C- April 15. Be cause no had so mar.y children that he could not get even with life's struggles, Albert Me.-iard, a machinist, decided to lay down on the job. "I hav 12 kids," Menard told the magistrate, "and that it. too much for one man." The court did not look at it that way and decided to send Menard to Jail for a month, on the complaint of his wife, who said that for. a year, he had not contributed to the support of his growing- family. FORCING THE MAYOR .TO BE A CANDIDATE. i . : TARIFF 'FOR E ISLES Will Help Both Island and Home Trade. REMOVE OLD SPANISH RULES Foreigners Will No. Longer Have Advantage. PROTECTION IS AFFORDED Taft Recommends Passage at Spe cial Session to Conform With Payne Bill Island Deficit Will Still Remain. WASHINGTON. April 15. A new tariff bill for the Philippine Islands, prepared by a board of experts in the Islands and approved by the" Philippine Government and the War Department, was submitted to both Houses of Con gress today by President Taft with a message recommending that It be passed at the present session. Its pur pose is to make the Philippine tariff conform to the Payne tariff, to extend the protective principle to the Islands and to provide new revenue for the Islands in place of that which will be lost by free trr.de with the United States. It was referred by the House to the ways and means committee, and by the Senate to the committee on Philippines. Great Aid to Exporters. The. new bill will prove of great value to American exporters. In the opinion of George R. Colton, the collector of customs in the Islands. Features of the old Spanish and Cu ban tariffs, which were vexatious and annoying to both exporter , and im porter, have been eliminated and every effort has been put forth to make the administrative features simple and In conformity with the United States, tariff decisions and the Interpretations of the courts. Under the existing tariff the prac tice was to levy duty on the packing as distinct from the merchandise en closed and it provided a system of au tomatic fines which led to all sorts of dissatisfaction v and complaint from American exporters and prompted il legal practices. The German. Spanish. English and French exporters were fa miliar with the practices in vogue, and this gave them a decided advant age over American business men. Protects American Products. Adequate protection to the principal products of the United States is given bv. the, bill. Mr. Colton says, and to bacco and sugar are treated as in the House measure. It is estimated that the revenues from the bill will aggregate J7.000.000. as against $8,500,000 under the present law. The deficiency In the budget will be made up-by an Increase in internal revenue taxation. These schedules in the tariff are consolidated and put under 362 paragraphs, as against 405. in the old Spanish classifications. Generally speaking, the changes from (Concluded on Pace T.) HEN PHILIPPIIM MORE JAP DEPUTIES WHO TOOK BRIBES ARREST OF MEMBERS OF DIET CAUSES SENSATION". Frauds in Sugar Company Spread Ruin and Expose Grafting Among Politicians. TOKIO. April 16. A tremendous sen sation developed here today with the ar rest of nine members of the lower house of the Diet, the nature of the charge being withheld. It is believed, however, that bribery In connection with the re cent difficulties of the Japaaesc Sugar Company Is alleged, and there is great unrest in the capital, as It Is stated that some members of the upper house are liable to arrest also. A few weeks ago charges of fraud were brought against certain of tho -directors of the sugar company, which is a big concern capitalized at 12.000.noo. The. directors resigned and an inves tigation followed. A series of ques tionable transactions was disclosed and the stock dropped from 50 to BO points as a result, a liwge number of people, including many foreigners, meeting financial ruin in the slump. The affair started an outcry, which resulted in the prosecution of the directors involved. These men were all high in commer cial and political circles. When the 9 members of the lower house were taken Into custody today. the charges were not made public, but, owing to the connection of the defendant di rectors with politics", it is generally be lieved that the investigation of the sugar company resulted in the 'exposure of bribery in the Diet. The members arrested all belong to the Seiyu-Kai. the predominant party in both houses of the Diet. FULTON TELLS TAFT "NO" Declines Proposed Appointment as Minister to China. ASTORIA. Or.. April 15. (Special.) Senator C. W. Fulton went a telegram today to President Taft declining the proffered appointment (is. Envoy E: traordlnary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China. The Senator has renewed the former partnership in the law business with his brother, G. C. Fulton, and the firm will open a branch offlice in Portland. While the Senator will spend much of his time in Portland, he will maintain his resi dence In Astoria and his family will re side here. ONLY NEGROES- - INJURED Whites Cannot Recover-Damages for Springfield Riots. SPRINGFIELD. III.. April 15. Only the negroes who suffered at the hands of mobs during the disorders here last Ail- ruet or their heirs can recover damages for death or Injury from the city under tne statute relating to mobs, according to the decision rendered today by Judge Creighton. He sustained the city's de murrers In the cases of a number of white men who were killed or Injured. PRIMARY LAW DEFECTIVE? Attorney-General Bell Believes That Amendment Is Invalid. OLTMPIA. Wash.. April 15. (Special.) The Attorney-General is today wrestling with the question whether the amendment to the direct primary law designed to re quire voters to vote their party ticket is valid or not. Attorney-General Bell Is In clined to believe that the section is void because no reference "is made to it In the title of the bill, but has not formally de termined .upon his decision. GLENDALE MILL BURNING Plant In Southern Oregon Will Prob ably Be Destroyed. GLENDALE, Or., April 16. (Special.) Fire broke out at 1:15 this morning in the boiler-room of the Glendale Lumber Company., and from the present outlook the complete destruction of the mill is threatened. The mill is a quarter of a mile from town, and there is no danger of the fire extending to the town. ETNA REPORTED ACTIVE Paris Dispatch Says Sicilian Moun tains Spout Fire. PARIS, April 15. A dispatch received here from Naples says that Mount Etna Is In eruption and that showers of cin ders have fallen on Catania. Many of the inhabitants, the dispatch pays, have fled. Stromboll, It is asserted, is also active. WRIGHT FLIES IN ITALY First Appearance Xear Rome Calls Forth Plaudits. ROME, April 15. Wilbur Wright, whose tests with his aeroplane soon will be observed by King Victor Emmanuel, made his first appearance on the field at Centscele this afternoon. His flight was excellent, bringing forth plaudits from the multitude. PLAGUE IN EAST AFRICA Xyanza District in German Territory Has 60 Deaths. BERLIN, April 15. Advices received by the German Foreign Office from Ger man East Africa state that 60 deaths from plague have occurred in Nyanza district, which lies south of the Victoria Kyanza, ( TURKEY MENACED WITH CIVIL Young Turk Forces to March on Capital. ONE OF LEADERS LYNCHERS Two Army Corps Ready to Undo Revolution. MANIFESTO BY MOSLEMS Explains Revolt Was Xot Aimed at Constitution leaders of Young Turks Flee or Hide in Embassies. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 15. The third day of the revolutionary movement in the capital was marked by more dis orders, the most serious of which was a lynching during a demonstration by marines, who objected to the new min ister of marine. Vice-Admiral Adjiemtn Pasha. The marines gathered In force and seized and conveyed to the palace Arif Bey. commander or the battleship AKar-1-Tefik, a member of the committee of Union and Progress, who ordered the guns of his ship trained on the Yildix Kiosk, when the rising was at its height. His intention was to support the committee. Arrived at the Yildiz Kiosk, the men lynched Arif Bey, notwithstanding the efforts of the palace guard to save him. Young Turks Threaten War. Edhem Pasha, the new Minister of War, and Nazim Pasha today made the round of the barracks and exhorted the soldiers to obey their officers. They were heartily cheered. Porte circles are disquieted by news from Salonika and Monastir. where the Influence of the committee of UYiion and Progress is strong. Officers of the Porte have received telegrams from these sec tions demanding the re-establishment of the status quo. falling wlilch the com mittee leaders threaten to march on Con stantinople with the entire third army corps, whose officers are now in com munication with the second army corps with a view to co-operation. Moslems Try to Explain. The Impression prevails here that the third army corps is Ignorant of the real objects of Tuesday's rising, and may desert when it realizes that the Parlia ment and the constitution have been maintained. A committee of Moslems in the capital has Issued pamphlets ex plaining the movement, which, it asserts, is in no wise greeted against the con stitutional government. The committee emphasizes the fraternity between the (Concluded on Pa.ce 6 J INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDATS Maximum temperature. 59 gibes'"' mln,mum temperature. . d- TODAYS Fair; westerly wind.. Foreign. Turkish sailors lynch commander and Young Turkish troops roaroh on capital to over turn new Cabinet, rase 1. Poland prepares to honor Modjeska I memory. I'agf 1. National. Judge Bean appointed Federal Judge for Oregon. Tags 8. Taft sends special message recommending new Philippine tarirr. raze 1. Polities. Congressman Clark of Florida stands bv criticism of Bryan and threatens to vote for Republican against him. Pagt, 6. Domestic. Smugglers use tourists- names to jet good past Inspectors, rage 1. Patten huys S.OOO.OOO bushels of wheat to stop decline. Page 1. Flour advances In all sections and bakers threaten to raise price of bread. Page 3. Thirteenth Juror secured for Calhoun, and Heney begins actual trial, rage t. Snohomish girl goes craxy at Los Angeles and Is round living In cave. Pag 1. Mrs. Ingersoll wins final decision In Davis will case. Pag 7. Court allows expense to Mrs. R. R. Thomp son and takes charge of nusband's estata. Page a. Sports. Sacramento wins from Portland. 4 to L Page 14. Mc,""dle disputes Swing's statement In fchlnn case. Page 14. Entries for Columbia Indoor meet break all records. Page 14. Coast League scores: Portland 1. Sacra mento 4; Vernon 8. Oakland T; San Fran cisco 3, Los Angeles 1. Page 14. Pacific Northwest. Milwaukee deeds half of Tacoma holdings to Harrlman Interests; may use sams terminals at Portland. Page 8. Walla Walla people stung- by land shark. Page S. Woman believed to b connected with Frace murder. Page 8. Oregon City asked to aid proposed railroad to Molalla. Page 4. Commercial and Marine. Eleven vessels added to the list of grain vessels en route to Portland. Page IS. Portland and Vicinity. E. Henry Wemme sentenced to County Jail for contempt of court. Page 12. Water in city mains la still turbid. Page 13. Executive Board wants ordinance regulating- nlckelodlons. Page ft. New bearing probable In Harrlman merger case. Page 18. N ,fe' nreboat and high-pressure flre tlghtlng system recommended by Execu tive Board committee. Page 13. Prit. nour Increase. In Portland mar f"l. but does not affect cost of bakers' oread. Page ;j. Anii-Slmon men will confer in hope of unit ing on candidate. Page 12. Democrats seek In vain for leader in M rralty contest. Page Vi. Deaf mutK 'give programme at entertain ment In sign language. Page 1. General building laws of Portland llkel to be amended, paga 7. w W A R ED 108.2