VOL. XLIX "SO. 15,113.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1909.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
3
FIRES IfJ
SWEEP
CHILD IN TEMPER
PLAN TO SIGNAL
MARS IS SCOUTED
SAYS HE SAW CASH
PAID LEGISLATORS
PRINCE FARES AS
T RESENTS
COMMITS SUICIDE
COMMON STUDENT
STEALING MONEY
SLURS ON SOLDIER
DRIXKS CARBOLIC ACID WHEN
PRINCESS D ANTCNI CALLS THE
SON OF PRINCE OF WALES BACK
TOLD TO STAY HOI.
SCHEME IMPRACTICABLE.
IX COLLEGE.
BRUSH
HAMILTON
ADMITS
GRAN
CM
Settlers Flee for Lives
Before Flames.
BIG SAWMILLS ARE BURNED
Many Ranchers Homeless in
Region of Kamloops.
WIRES 'ARE BLOWN DOWN
Heary Gales Drive Devastating Ele
ment Over Country Sweeping
Everything Before It Losses
Will Reach Hall Million.
KAMI..OOPS. B. G. May 6. Hundreds
of thousands of dollars Jn property was
destroyed and Bcores of ranchers forced
to flee for their lives as the result of
a disastrous brush fire that swept the
country frcm Notch Hill as far east as
Three Valley, and south from Sicamous
as far as Vernon.
Air.on the losses are two large saw
mills, both which were totally consumed
in the wall of fame that swept over the
land. The big: Carlin mill, located be
tween Tappens Siding: and Notch Hill,
was wiped out, with a loss of 176,000,
as was also the Carrigan mill on Sal
mon River, valued at $35,000. Several
of the millhands had to flee for their
lives.
Throe Large Brush Fires.
Three large brush fires had been burn
ing for several days and a terrific gale
soon brought them Into contact with
each other.
Barns and houses fell a prey to the
fire and many head of cattle were lost,
while many settlers had to leave every
thing and hasten- to save their Uvea.
While it Is impossible to estimate the
total losses, it la known they will reach
nearly half a million dollars in the vi
cinity of Salmon Arm. The principal
losers were Narcisse J. Buckle, A. Judge
and S. P. Matthews.
In the Mara district the loss will be
heaviest, as scores of ranch properties
were completely devastated.
Railroad Fences Burned.
On the main line of the Canadian
Pacific the . fences . and the telegraph
lines were destroyed for nearly 20
miles, and telegraph communication be
tween Revelstoke and Kamloops was
cut off for hours.
West of Kamloops the wires were
blown down by high winds, so that
Kamloops was praotlcally isolated most
of Tuesday.
Reports coming In late show many
destructive fires are still burning In the
Spillamachene Valley, near Endeby.
Many refugees have reached Salmon
Arm, Vernon and other places, and are
being cared for by friends.
STATE RAILROADS LOSERS
Canada Finds Government Owner
ship Unprofitable.
CHICAGO, May 5. (Special.) Govern
ment ownership of railroads in Cana
has not turned out to be a profitable in
vestment for the people. The Dominion
government owns and operates the Inter
colonial and Prince Edward Island roads.
The gross earnings of the lines for 12
months ending on March 31 last amounted
to $3,534,589 and operating expenses to
J9,6!I6.296, leaving a deficit of $60,726, al
though there were no Interest charges
to be met and no unusual amount was
; spent for maintenance.
Taken together, the two roads are 1748
miles long, of which the Intercolonial
owns 1449 and the Prince Edward Island
299 miles, the amount of earnings from
the Intercolonial being $9,173,559 and op
erating expenses $9,167,438, leaving net
earnings of $16,123. This makes the
Prince Edward Island road responsi'
for the entire deficit. This poor ehows
lng does not appear to have been the
result of depressed times.
BIG ICE DAM BLOWN OUT
Bridges Over Big Hole River Saved
From Instruction.
BUTTE. Mont., May S. Lifted by a
tremendous charge of dynamite, the Ice
dam in the Big Hole River, southeast
Df Butte, went out last Monday. The
dam. which had been gathering for
more than two weeks, backed the river
water over an area of two miles. All
bridges for several miles were saved
by boing cabled to trees and great
rocks.
AUTOS HIS BETE N0IR
Paris Merchant, Dying, Expresses
Hatred in His Will.
PARIS. May 5. M. Gilbert, a retired
merchant, whose declining years have
been made miserable by speeding auto
mobiles, has bequeathed his entire for
tune to French churches for masses for
the repose of the souls of the victims of
the "diabolical machine that has poi
soned my last days."
Ida Hansen,' Aged 15, Walks Silently
to Get Bottle After Talk
With Mother.
Ida Hansen, a pretty girl of 15 years.
when refused permission to Join a party
of young, friends who had .arranged an
outing for last night and "had Invited Miss
Hansen to attend, swallowed carbolic
acid and died almost before a doctor
could be called to the home. 1234 East.
Sixteenth street, North. The act was com
mitted with a haste and Impetuosity
which was startling and so shocked the
dead girl's mother, who was virtually a
witnessi that she Is seriously 111.
After the midday meal the young girl
asked her mother if she might go out last
night. Mrs. Hansen talked kindly to her
and gave her some good advice, ending
by telling her that she would not allow
her to go. Without saying a word, the
girl walked Into the bathroom, closed the
door, took the bottle of acid, and swal
lowed the contents.
She fell on the floor and her moans
brought her mother. She was unable to
speak. White patches about her mouth
and the empty bottle by her side told
the alarmed parent the story of the tra
gedy In one glance. Mrs. Hansen's
screams brought in neighbors, who tele
phoned for a doctor. When the physi
cian arrived the girl was alive but
breathing her last. Heroic efforts were
made to save her but to no avail.
Morton Hansen, father of the dead
girl Is employed on the County roads.
He has lived in Portland for the past
16 years, having come here from Oma
ha, Neb. There are three brothers and
three sisters besides the dead girl in
the family. She was next to the young
est. She had been attending the
Couch school and only recently gradu
ated there.
FINE POINT ABOUT DIVORCE
California Judge Decides on Inter
state Marriage Law.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 5. (Spe
clal.) A fine point in interstate mar
riages was decided by Judge Hutton
today when he refused to grant a de
cree of annulment of marriage to El
bridge L. Heath from Elanor C. Heath,
As brought out at the trial of the case
several weeks ago, the couple had been
married in Portland, Or., before a final
decree of divorce had been granted
the defendant in the state of Wash
ington. The marriage was legal in
Oregon, but not legal in Washington.
Judge Hutton held today the Wash
ington marriage would be considered
valid for the purposes of the suit
brought In the California courts and
decided to sever the matrimonial tie.
FORT STEVENS GETS BOAT
Captain Springer Arrives for Use of
Artillery Authorities.
FORT STEVENS, Or., May 5. (Special.)
The steamer Captain Anton Springer
arrived at Fort Stevens from San Fran
Cisco Tuesday and has been turned
over to the district quartermaster, Lieu
tenant Keeler, at Fort Stevens. A simi
lar boat is bound for Seattle, to be used
there by artillery authorities.
The Captain Springer is a bo-root
steamer, with all modern appliances and
sneclal apparatus for laying submarine
mines. The boat was delivered by Ol-
sen & Murray, of San Francisco, at a
cost of $1200. She is at present dockfcd
ort Canby. Wash.
COUNCIL REFUSES TO HELP
Oregon City Body Will Not Glv
9300 to Save McLoughlin Home.
OREGON CITY, Or., May 5. (Special.)
The City Council at its session tonight
refused to appropriate $300 to aid in pre
serving the Dr. John McLoughlin home
as a historical relic.
While this action of the Council is con
demned by many people here. It will not
affect the preservation of the building,
for steps are now being taken to move it
to a lot given to the city by Dr. Mc
Loughlin for park purposes on the bluff
at the head of the Seventh street steps.
It is considered sure that sufficient funds
will be subscribed by various Individuals
to make good the short-comings of the
Council In this regard.
RuInM
MAY SCATTER
Burns in Oil Warehouse and May
Wreck Rio Grande Yards.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., May 5. Ig
nited from a fire originating in a string
of freight cars this afternoon, a fire in
a warehouse in the Denver & Rio Grande
yards here containing 20,000 gallons of
oil is beyond control and it is feared
that the roundhouse and machine shops
that adjoin the burning structure will be
destroyed.
A cistern containing 4000 gallons of gas
oline is located but SO feet from the blaz
ing warehouse, and the firemen are work
ing in constant fear of an explosion that
will wreck all the buildings and scatter
the flames in all directions.
WESTON NEAR KANSAS CITY
Veteran Pedestrian Rest9 at Oak
Grove, Mo.
KANSAS CITT, Mo.. May 5. Edward
Payson Weston, walking from New
York to San Francisco, rested tonight at
Oak Grove, Mo., 30 miles east of here.
He will reacn Kansas City, by noon
Thursday;
NKE
Ex-Adjutant General
SpentOver $20,000.
LAVISHED FUNDS ON WOMAN
Charged State With Items
Paid for by Government.
VOUCHERS EASILY PASSED
Military Hoard Consisted of Himself,
Governor and Auditor Also Re
sorted to Forgery of Army Of
ficers' Names to Get More.
OLTMPIA, Wash., May 5. (Special.)
On fictitious and forged vouchers, which
he Induced Governor Mead and State
Auditor C. W, Clausen to approve, Ortis
Hamilton, formerly 6f Colfax and Spo
kane, secured while- Adjutant-General
and spent personally between $20,000 and
,$50,000 of state military funds, according
to a partial confession made to Governor
Hay and Attorney-General Bell here this
afternoon. Hamilton is now in custody
of the Sheriff here in default of $10,000
bonds, having been arrested on complaint
of the Attorney-General's office on
charge of larceny of state moneys.
The state expects to make good $30,000
of his shortage from the National Surety
Company of NeWfc.York, by which Hamil
ton was bonded to that amount.
-'Made False Entries.
Washington is allowed about $26,000
annually in- supplies from the National
Government for its militia. " As such
supplies are furnished on reqiiisltionjby
the State Adjutant-General, they are
debited against the state's account by
the Federal authorities. No charge re
quiring payment of any money by the
state for such supplies Is made . by the
Government.
Taking advantage of this fact and of
the failure of the Governor Vna Auditor
closely to examine his vouchers, Hamil
ton, a few months after he took office,
began his graft. He would order 1000
campaign hats and when these were
shipped from the Government a state
ment would accompany them that the
state had been charged $1.96 each, or
$1960 therefor, meaning its $26,000 equip
ment credit with the General Govern
ment had been exhausted to that extent.
Hamilton took this statement and
turned it In to the military board, con
sisting of himself, the. Governor and the
Auditor, as a cash expenditure, and the
Auditor issued a warrant against the
military fund, which the Treasurer later
paid to reimburse Hamilton for this sup
posed expenditure.
, Resorted to Forgery.
This plan not providing money in suf
ficient quantities, Hamilton then Is said
to have forged signatures of Federal
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THE CAMPAIGN
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Spiritualism, . She Suggests, Should
Be Invoked to Get Communi
cation With Planet.
"ROME, Italy, May B. (Special.) Prin
cess D'Antuni says the proposed attempt
to communicate with Mars by means of
signalling Is not likely to succeed, and
besides is of no practical use, because
even if it succeeded, it would prove only
that the planet is inhabited and could
not lead to any regular communication.
She advocates spiritualism as the best
and safest plan and suggests that a series
of experiments be undertaken under
strict scientific conditions for the purpose
of ascertaining the best method of com
municating with Mars. -She thinks that
signals could be arranged In this way,
preferably by means of wireless teleg
raphy, which she Is convinced has been
known and perfected on the neighboring
planet.
The princess adds that until spiritualism
is recognized as a science, any problems
which baffle mankind will remain un
solved. AIRSHIPS TOO CARELESS
Householder Says Sand Thrown Out
Ruins Laundry.
LOS ANGELES, May B. The extent to
which navigation of the air by means
of airships and balloons is. being under
taken in Los Angeles at the present time
is illustrated by a complaint made to
Chief of Police Dlshman today by W. X.
Campbell, owner of fiats on Grand
Island, near where the Aero Club is hold
ing Its annual show.
Campbell declares that his lawns., even
the paint on his flats and the laundry of
the occupants are being ruined 'by sand
being thrown overboard by the aeronauts
during their flights.
BITES ON OLD SWINDLE
Oregon Man' Seejts Smooth Stranger
v and $40o. ,
. , -
OMAHA. Neb., May 5. (Special.)
P. Nodine, of Union. Or., met the con
fidence man and became an easy vic
tim. At the Union Station he bit on
the freight bill game and lost $400.
Nodine met a stranger who had $400
freight bill to pay. He' had a checlc
for $1200. This he left with Nodine
as security and went away to get his
goods. The check turned out to be
bogus and Nodine. aided by the police,
is hunting for the stranger.
BUFFALO TO GO TO CANADA
Cowboys to Round Up Herd of 30 0
in Montana.
WINNIPEG, Man., May 5. Canadian
cowboys have gathered at Lethbridge,
Alberta, preparatory to leaving for Mon
tana to assist in rounding up 300 boffalo,
the herd purchased some time ago by
the Canadian government. Special trains
of especially constructed cars will con
vey them to Canada.
Canada soon will have 1000 buffalo run
ning in a park at Elk Island.
IS NOT WITHOUT ITS AMUSING FEATURES.
Detective Charges Bri
bery in Wisconsin.
PEEPED OVER HOTEL TRANSOM
Three Democrats Paid to Help
Stephenson.
BY ABSENCE AT BALLOT
Standing on Chairs, He Says He Saw
Three Piles of Money Paid by
Senator's Henchman All
Three Deny Charge.
MADISON. Wis., May 5. (Special.) P.
T. Wegner, who says he, is a private de
tective of Milwaukee, created a decided
sensation today by testifying before the
senatorial investigation committee that
he saw M. J. Regan, of Milwaukee, pay
three Democratic Assemblymen $35,000 to
remain away from the Joint Legislative
session on March 4, in order that the
supporters of Senator Stephenson could
have a majority of the votes cast and
could te-elect iiim.
Wegner said that the money was paid
to the three Assemblymen In room No
153 of the Plankinton House in Mil
waukee, February 20. Wegner was in an
adjoining room and peeked through a
transom over a door between the two
rooms, he said. He named Ramsey, Far
rell and Towne as the three Assembly
men who received the money.
Wegner said he shadowed the three
Assemblymen to the Plankinton House
and saw them go to room 152. Then he
got into an adjoining room and piled up
chairs so that he could see through the
transom. Soon after tlie three Assem
blymen entered the room, Regan, who is
a Democratic politician, arrived, Wegner
said;.. -. A few minutes later J. H. Pue
lichor, who 'handled the money In the
Stephenson campaign, entered the room
and. gave Regan three large packages of
currency, Wegner declared. After Pue
llcher left Regan 'divided the money in
three" piles and gave one to each Assem
blyman and then the four men left the
room separately, Wegner testified.
All three of the accused Assemblymen
tonight issued statements absolutely de
nying the charge and declaring that
EMBLEM GOES ON SPECIAL
Silver Trowel Is Accompanied by Es
cort of Masons.
LOS ANGELES, May 6. In care of a
deputation of four and accompanied by
nearly 100 Masons, the traveling silver
trowel of the Masonic order started to
night on its journey to Mexico City in a
special train over the Southern Pacific
Railroad.
Edward Albert, In Training for Mid
shipman, Lodges With Other
New Termers.
LONDON, May 5. (Special.) Edward
Albert, son of the Prince of Wales, and
the future King of the United Kingdom,
goes to Dartmouth Naval College tomor
row, where he will enter upon his second
half of four years' training which will
turn him out a smart midshipman. For
two years he has been at Osborne at
the Naval College and has undergone the
Initial stages in engineering and seaman
ship and the usual curlcculum of the pub-'
lie school. ,
Edward has fared the same as other
cadets in hours of study, food and ac
commodations and has received the usual
1 shilling (24 cents) pocket money a week.
He will now change from the bungalow
like bui'dings at Osborne to a splendid
new college by the side of the River
Dart, where all the rooms are named
after famous Admirals.
The Prince will be lodged with other
new termers in the St. Vincent common
gunroom and will occupy a dormitory
with 29 comrades.
SEALERS TO BE SHIELDED
Japanese Will Send Warships to
Bering Sea.
VICTORIA, B. C, May B. Japanese
warships are to be sent to Bering Sea
to protect the sealers from Yokohama,
Toklo, Nagasaki. Hakodate and other
ports across the Pacific which flock to
Bering Sea In growing .numbers each
year. This is news from an authoritative
source at Toklo. A letter received here
says:
"In view of the fact that , Japanese
sealers are seized every year In and about
the Bering Sea on charges of poaching,
the Japanese government Is considering
proposals to send war- lips there during
the sealing season for the protection of
the sealers. This appears a somewhat
dangerous proceeding, likely to Involve
the risk of international trouble, and
many prominent officials are of this
opinion. The request for the sending of
Japanese warships is being made by the
sealing interests.
AUTO PARTY IS MOBBED
One of Its Members Terribly Beaten.
by Butte Toughs.
BUTTE, Mont., May 6. John Berkln,
of Butte, president of the Raven Mining
Company, a prominent mining man of the
Northwest, alighted from his automobile
in the heart of the business district last
evening to slap the face of a young man
who had addressed a vile epithet to his
party, which Included several ladles. A
mob gathered and the police arrested
Berkin, Walter O'Malley and Bert Mai
loy, and took all to jail. Later. W. G,
Watson, son-in-law of Mrs. Berkln, was
found unconscious on the steps of the
Inter-Mountain office. He had been felled
by a blow from behind and kicked and
beaten frightfully, and has not recovered
consciousness and Is In a serious condi
tion. CREW MAY BE IMPRISONED
Sailors Mourned as Lost Said to Be
Held in Venezuela.
KINGSTON. St. Vincents, D. S. W.,
May 5. It may be that Captain Collin
Stephenson and the crew of the Ameri
can whaling ship, Carrie D. Knowles,
believed to have been lost at sea, are
still alive in a Venezuelan prison.
An American seaman named Payne,
an escaped prisoner from Venezuela,
has made his way to Kingston, where
he laid before the authorities an
astounding story of the seizure of the
Carrie D. Knowles at a . Venezuelan
port, where she arrived five years ago
in distress, and of the Imprisonment of
the crew. A speedy Investigation will
be made.
YOUNG WIFE IS SUICIDE
Mrs. A. M. Carney, of Butte, Takes
Life at San Diego. .
SAN DIEGO, May 5. Mrs. A. M. Car
ney, the young and beautiful wife of a
wealthy resident of Butte, Mont., at
tempted suicide this morning by leaping
from the cupola Tf the fashionable
Golden Hill apartment-house, this city.
She died at midnight. She was 21 years
old.
CURB FOR CORPORATIONS
Missouri House Passes Measure Reg
ulating Them.
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo., May 5. The
public utilities measure prepared by Gov
ernor Hadley, was passed by the House
today. The measure provides for the crea
tion of a commission to regulate all pub
lic utilities corporations, -ts fate in the
Senate is problematical.
RAFFLES PUT UNDER BAN
Judge Threatens Indictments of
Church Workers.
NEW MARTINSVILLE. W. Va., May
5. Judge H. H. Willis, in delivering a
charge to the grand Jury today, in
structed It to indict all church societies
and church workers who obtained money
through the medium of raffles.
Plain Talk to Peace
Congress Folk.
HIS PROFESSION CREDITAELF
Army and Navy Best Means ot
Keeping Peace.
WARS CAUSED BY NATIONS
Soldier-Son of Great General Waxes
Wrath at Talk of Disarmament.
Bartholdt Gives Hint to
Japanese Consul.'
CHICAGO, May S. "A good Navy and
a good Army can do more to sustain
peace than all the speeches of Peace
Congres3 delegates." .declared General
Frederick D. Grant, commander of the
Department of the Lakes, at a banquet
that closed the Second National Peace
Congress. His address followed argu
ments for disarmament.
"I had read m the papers In the East
for three days much against the Army,"
he said. I always felt the profession oi
my father, of myself and of my son was
a creditable one.
Mnst Maintain Good Army.
"I doubt if my son will live long enough
to see the gun turned into the plowshare,
to see the sword beaten Into the pruning
hook. I hope that before that time
armies will not be needed for the pro
tection of the people, but up to the time
that men do not need armies, I believe
it behooves the people of this country to
maintain their Army and their Navy in
an efficient condition, and I believe thai
the 12-inch guns along the coast of the
Atlantic and Pacific, with a well-drilled
body of men in this country, will do more
toward maintaining peace than all the
talk that all the good people of all the
countries of the world could do Jn timet
that are not strenuous. '
People Create Wars.
"It is your statesmen and your people
that .create wars. First, the people have
become' irritated, generally through some
commercial transaction. The statesmen
get hold of the matter and they com
promise or try to demonstrate the nations
are nearly equal. If they are not nearly
equal, the stronger one slaps the weaker
In the face and the soldier is called in tc
settle the matter."
War Clouds to Scare Congress.
'War clouds in the United States have
a propensity for darkening the horizon
Just before the matter of Army and Navy
appropriations come up. This was shown
by the recent Japanese trouble in Cali
fornia." Congressman Bartholdt made this state-
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 69
degrees ; minimum, 3a degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; variable
winds, mostly soutnerly.
Foreign.
Japan to send cruisers to protect sealers
in Bering sea. .rage ju
Government ownership of railroads not
good lor Canada. raio 1.
Prince of Wales' son enters naval school.
Page l.
Bank of England refuses to give up Abdul's
money to uraey. rage .
Terrible - story of carnage at siege of Had
ji n. rage .
Politics.
Three Wisconsin Assemblymen accused of
receiving bribes from Stephenson, page 1.
National.
First vote on tariff In Senate won by stand
patters, rage t.
Taft declares opposition to Income tax ex
cept as last resort- rage .
Domestic.
Abbott testifies to drawing money from
mint alleged to nave oeen usea xor orioes
by Calhoun. Page 2.
Blgnallng to Mars declared Impracticable by
- spiritualists. rag x. .
Peace Congress ends with speech from Ore
gon delegate ana nreDrana zrom social
ists. Page 1.
May wheat rises again and July fluctuates
greatly. Page 3.
General Fred Grant resents slurs on Army
by Peace Congress. Page 1.
Convict in San Quentln schemes to kidnap
Governor tiinett son. rage .
Pacific Northwest.
Ex-Adjutant-General Hamilton confesses to
stealing state funds. Paar-e 1.
-Insurance Commissioner Schlvely can escape
prosecution by resigning, rage .
Brush fires near Kamloops, B. C. sweep
country, doing $600,000 damage. Pag 1.
Sports.
American Association threatens war on Mf
leagues. Page fl.
Coast League scores: Portland 7, San Fran
cisco 4 ; Vernon 8, Oakland 0 ; Sacra
mento 6. Los Angeles 5. Page 7.
Northwestern League scores: Vancouver 7,
Portland 1 ; Spokane. 10, Tacoma 4; Se
attle 3, Aberdeen 1. Page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Strong demand for few Oregon hops re
maining. Page 17.
Scramble by shorts sends up wheat at Chi
cago. Page 17.
Stock speculation Is slower. Page 17.
British bark Altalr Is chartered. Page 1ft.
Portland and Vicinity.
Ladd and Reed 3000-acre Broad mead farm
in Yamhill and Polk counties, brings
about 200,000, Portlanders purchasing.
Page 16.
Portland hearing on Harrknan merger Is
concluded. Pag 12.
Movement started for new $2,000,000 post
office for Portland. Page 1L
Rushlight is In new role as reform candi
date. Page 10.
Municipal primary campaign will close very
quietly. Page 11.
Petition for bridge at Sherman street is
found valid. Page 10.
Oregon threshermen form state brotherhood.
Page lO.
Testimony at hearing shows pumps of city
water system are in bad condition.
Page 9.
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