THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1909. L IS FORCED TO GIVE UP GOLD Agent of Parliament Secur&s Assignment of Bank Deposits. HAS TO SURRENDER KEYS Guards Compel Him to Yield There and Treasure-Room in Palace AVill Be Riried by Voung Turks. LONDON". May 12. A special dispatch from Saloniea says that Talsat Bey. Vice-President of the Chamber of Depu ties, who was sent there to arrange with Abdul Hamld for the transfer of his for tune to the government, succeeded in obtaining the signature of the ex-Sultan for the withdrawal of funds from foreign banks, but that Abdul Hamid resolutely refused to deliver up the keys to two Iron rooms in the Ylldiz Kiosk, which had resisted all efforts at forcible en trance. After Talsat Bey's departure, the dis patch says, officers of the guard, furious at the ex-Sultan's refusal to comply with the demand, rushed into the room and forced him to surrender the keys without further parley. PREACHERS CAXTGHT IN" TRAP Turks Murder-Armenians in Crowd. Solo Survivor Tells Story. Sla. Asiatic Turkey. Friday, April 23. Seven Armenian preachers, two dele Rates and three Armenian women passed through Sis on their way to the yearly synodlcal meeting at Adana the day after the fighting began at that place. They stopped over night in the village of Sagh Gachad, some of the party with the local governor and the others with another of the leading men of the village. Hag! Bey. The next day a party of Mohamme dans took the travelers from the houses where they had spent the night, and, gathering together a number of Ar menians living in Sagh Gachad until they had 92 in all, butchered all the unfortunates in the streets' of the vil lage. The women were treated vio lently The wife of the governor watched the killing from the balcony of her house. The bodies of the dead were carted out to the country and thrown over a cliff. The Armenian pastor of the church at Pekke. although left for dead, was still alive. He recovered his senses and made his way to Sis, where he related the foregoing. He had to crawl, wound ed, through the fields and woods. REFUGEES BURNED IN SCHOOL More Details of Masxacres of April Come to Ijiglit. CONSTANTINOPLE May 12. Thomas r. Christie, in a letter dated Tarsus, May 4, says no Turks were killed in Tarsus except by the looters righting among themselves, but in Adana about ISO Turks, including 15 soldiers, were killed. The feeling there is still bitter. "The second massacre at Adana," writes Dr. Christie, "as I now learn, was much worse than the first. It is reported to have begun April 25 and lasted two days. The Gregorian School, filled with refugees, was set on fire. The only outlet from the building was commanded by hundreds of rifles, and those who tried to make their escape were shot down. The rest of those in the school, including more than 100 wounded from the first massacre, gathered within the building by Miss Wal lis, were burned to death. Only eight persons survived to tell the story. It is thought at least aooo men, women and children perished at Adana. "The government is now making every effort to prove the existence of an Arme nian conspiracy and with some success." The government has ordered Djevad Bey, the dismissed Governor-General of Adana. who arrived here a fw days ago, to return to Adana for trial by court martial. He Is charged with being re sponsible for the disorders. MUTINEERS HANGED IN PUBLIC Twenty-four Turks Pay Penalty of Revolt Against Orders. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 12. Con stantinople witnessed another batch- of executions this morning, when 24 mutin eers of the army and navy were hanged in public, within the city limits.- This makes a total of SS executions within the capital since the revolution of April 13. Four of the men today were hanged near the Sultan's palace, eight at the marine barracks, eight at the DJInst Mel dan quarters of Stamboul. and four at the M ar Office. Several of the courts -martial that sen tenced these men to death explained the effect of public hangings by saying that traditions of corruption so pervaded Con stantinople that had the hangings not been public the people would have thought the condemned men had saved themselves by bribing officials. IRISHMAN WHO RAISED SIEGE Rev. George II. Kennedy Was Man Who Relieved Deurtynl. ALEXANDRBTTA, Asiatic Turkey, Tuesday. May 4. Rev. George H. Ken nedy, of the Irish Church Mission at Alexandretta. is the man who raised the siege of DeurtyuL He persuaded the mill tary commander to assign 650 soldiers to go with him and relieve the place. The beleaguers were quickly dispersed by the force under Mr. Kennedy. All the sur rounding villages have been burned. There are 30 destitute refugees in Deur tyul and 2000 here. All Men Were Killed. ANTIOCH. Asiatic Turkey. Monday. May 3. There are a large number of Armenian refugees in Antioch. They are ail women and children, not one Arme nian having been left alive. SCH1VELY WILL NOT TALK (Continued Prom First Pag-.) the law was simply to provide for the orderly payment of state funds under ap propriation, and other laws upon presen tation and approval of prescribed vouch ers properly executed. f Clausen May Not Be Liable. This contention, if It Is the law, will, of course, exonerate Governors Hay and Mead and Auditor Clausen, who. as the Military Auditing Board, approved Ham ilton's vouchers, and will also relieve DU Clausen from all legal or civil liability for the loss to the state from Hamilton's peculations. - Similarly will it relieve all the other Auditing Boards, except such Boards as audit their own purchases and expendi tures. They, of course, will be liable, not for the auditing, but for the respon sibility of the expenditure in the first In stance. But aside from the legal responsibility, there is a moral responsibility, and it is this latter that worries officials. Hardly a department of the state government but has vouchers which are in evasion of the strict letter of the law. Large payments have been made from the state treasury on vouchers approved by the rubber stamp signature of some official attached by some clerk. The ex cuse is the official was busy on other work; he was familiar with and cog nizant of what was being done, and solely sought to escape the physical ef fort of signing his name. There are in stances, for Instance, the Auditor's of fice is one, where it is a physical impos sibility for any one man personally to check each voucher, check all additions and subtractions and sign his approval to the mass of vouchers that go through that office every month, not to speak of the other duties the Auditor may have to perform. Clerks Tremble With Fear. Had Clausen been here all the time. JEW FLORIDA SENATOR MAKES MAIDEN SPEECH. i : :'- 1 Duncan Upsbaw Fletcher. WASHINGTON, May 12. (Spe cial.) Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, the new Senator from Florida, made his maiden speech in the Senate last week, choosing the tariff on lumber as his subject. Mr. Fletcher is a native of Geor gia and 60 years old. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt Uni versity, Nashville. He has prac ticed law in Jacksonville since 1881. He has been a member of the State Legislature and Mayor of Jacksonville. under the lax conditions obtaining, it is probable Hamilton's crimes would have gone through undetected for a long time. Where Clausen loses, and what will prob ably cost him his position, is the fact he has been absent from the office, his Indulgence in intoxicants, and that he threw all the responsibility upon his of fice force. What seems to be public sentiment appears to demand punishment for lax ity, irrespective of whether in law the official had any discretion. Similar talk here and elsewhere in the state would seem to demand the cleaning out of the entire force of employes at the Secre tary of State's office, although none of them had anything to do with Insurance matters. It is this public sentiment that has the officials here scared. They all know they have approved vouchers carelessly, have diverted funds,s technically against the law, but from honest motives and for the good of the state. Some of them no doubt are wondering if some trusted employe In the past has not worked them with false vouchers. Just as Hamilton worked his Auditing Board. And the employes why. they are scared for fear that if the chief has to resign they will all Jose their positions. CLAUSEX IS OT TO RESIGN Denies Drinking Has Hurt Business of His Office. OLYMPIA. Wash.. May 12. (Special.) State Auditor Clausen arrived here to day sans moustache and looking hag gard from his recent illness. He said he will welcome investigation of his office and that there is no truth in any reports he contemplates resigning. Commenting upon a letter given the Tacoma papers by Senator Paulhamus charging Clausen with haying neglect ed his duties because of intoxication. Chairman Pliny L. Allen, of the inves tigating oommittee, said Paulhamus, In furtherance of his political ambition, had done a most discreditable act in giving such publicity to criticism of an offloer'a personal habits, particularly in view of the fact Paulhamus had caused these attacks to be published before they had been presented to the com mittee. Clausen denied today that drinking had in any way interfered with the per formance of his duties. Members of the investigating com mittee deny that so far charges have been filed with them against. Land Commissioner EJ. W. Ross. SENATORS KILL RATE BILL Missouri Solons Defeat Measure Giv ing State Control of Fares. JEFFERSON -CITY, Mo.. May 12. The Senate today defeated - the bill backed by Attorney --General Major, which gave the State Railroad Commissioners the power to fix passenger as well as freight rates. Grants Pass to Be Clean. GRANTS PASS. Or., May 12. (Spe cial.) The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Commercial Club held its annual elec tion today Mrs. Charles Clevenger was re-elected as president and Mrs. James Hair, secretary. The club took up the matter of co-operating with the city in beautifying vacant grounds near the depot. Wednesday. May 19, was set aside as the day to clean up. A committee was appointed whose duty It is to visit the public schools and enlist aid on clean-up day. Alleged Horse Thief Caught. PENDLETON, Or., May 12. (Ppeelal.) man giving the name of Joe Burns, wanted at Rltxvllie. Wash., on the charge of stealing horses, has been arrested here. Sheriff Cobs, of Adams County, ar rived today and took the prisoner back with him. - LATEST SHEET MUSIC 6, 10 and 15 Celts. Popular, classical and folios. The K. P. Chariton & Co, 288-290 Washing-ton St. Vm I -.ii 1 r i t it a ! Y JOKER IN CRIMINAL 1 CDDEWORKS HAVOC Indeterminate Sentence Law of Washington Found to Be Repealed. CONVICTIONS NOT SETTLED In New Code Chapter Number of Bill Passed in 190 7 Is Among Mea sures Repealed Hundreds of Criminals May Get Liberty. OLYMPIA, Wash., May 12. (Special.) A joker discovered In the new criminal code which goes into effect next month may result in giving hundreds of crim inals liberty and will entirely unsettle criminal prosecutions in this state until the Supreme Court determines whether or not the new code, or' at least one por tion of It, is valid. Without anything to direct attention to Its purpose, and simply by reference to the chapter number ot tTie law, the in determinate sentence law of 1907, which also created the State Prison Board, and provided for the parole of convicts, is repealed by the new code. Under the 1907 law, '-chapter 155, every person sentenced to the Penitentiary, ex cept those convicted of treason or mur der, must be sent there for the infteter mlnate time of not less than the mini mum and not more than the maximum term provided by law for the crime. Considered Good Law. Those who showed evidence of reforma tion could be released by the Prison Board on parole and if they then made good, could be Anally discharged, xne others would have to serve the maximum term. The passage of the act was urged by Governor Mead and was generally com mended as a step toward the modern ideas of penology. The penitentiary of ficials have been well pleased with the result of the working of the law. Of the scores paroled, relatively few have failed to make good and in nearly every in stance the convicts have been law-abiding and have earned an average of over $50 a month. No pubhc criticism of the law has ever been made. Yet, on page 18 of the new code, it is mentioned as one of those repealed. All that is left of the indeterminate sentence is found In section 29 of the new code, which limits indeterminate sentences strictly to those convicted of a felony for which no fixed peroa of confinement is imposed by law, and paroles are limit ed to these instances. As few felonies in the state lews fail to carry a fixed penalty, the indeterminate sentence law may, to all intents, be considered as wiped out. There is, of course, this legal question. Criminal Laws Unsettled. The Indeterminate sentence law relates to procedure. Attorneys say the title of the criminal code is insufficient to repeal laws covering procedure. There may be other questions raised as to the validity of the code and until they are determined, the administration of the criminal laws of this state may be terribly unsettled. Scores of criminals may get liberty on technicalities because of the uncertainty whether upon conviction they should be sentenced to fixed terms under the code or to indeterminate sentences under the old law. The code will go into effect early in June and before that time it is probable the peace officers of the state will ar range to test its validity. Attorney-General Bell holds that the phrase, "no fixed term," saves the law from being wiped out, but other attorneys contend the repeal of the old law is cer tain FRENCH STRIKE SCATTERS (Continued From First Page.) adopted a resolution to continue the strike with vigor. Leaders Oppose Violence. It was announced that the number of strikers was .growing rapidly, both in Paris and in the provinces, an Instance being given of the mail clerks on the Lyons mall, who had quit on the road. In a long speech M. Lauron declared that violence or destruction of prop erty by the strikers would not be tolerated. He said the men would fin ish the tasks on which they are now engaged. No disturbances were reported today and the movement appears to have gained no ground. The service in Paris and throughout the provinces tonight, with the exception of that of the railway mail clerks; is normal and. as a result, there has been no need to take ad vantage of the preparations made by the various business organizations and commercial bodies to carry on a pri vate letter service. Two detachments of naval mechanics, summoned from Brest by the Minister of Marine, have arrived here and are now stationed in the machine rooms of the Central Postoffice and the Cen tral Telegraph Bureau. The Hotel keepers' Union has arranged to take the mail of foreign guests to Brussels, whence it will be sent abroad. They are also devising a scheme to deliver Incoming mail. Troops and Police Everywhere. During the night troops took possession of the central posts and telegraph sta tions, and at daylight squads of infan trymen were picketed around every Little Soldiers In your blood are the millions of cor puscles that defend you against attacks of disease. To make and keep these little sol diers healthy and strong, is simply to make and keep the blood of the right quality and quantity. This is -Just what Hood's Sarsaparllla. does It helps the little soldiers in your blood to fight disease for you. It cures scrofula, eczema, eruptions, catarrh, rheumatism, anemia, nervous ness, dyspepsia, general debility, and builds up the whole system. It effects its wonderful cures, not simply because it contains sarsaparilla but because it combines the utmost remedial values of more than 20 differ ent ingredients. If urged to buy any preparation said to be "just as good" you may be sure it Is inferior, costs less to make, and yields the dealer & larger profit. branch office to protect postal employes who are willing to worK. The streets are patrolled by the mount ed Republican guards, all exposed tele graph lines are being carefully watched and soldiers have been introduced even into the sewers of the city to prevent the cutting of wires. Furthermore 500 mili tary telegraphers and 400 automobiles have been hastily mobilized and massed in the Galleries Des Machines, ready for instant service. General .Dalstein, the Military Governor of Paris, has 50,000 troops in reserve. BOUNTY TROUBLE COMING Coyote Hides Must Hare Feet Left, but Hunters Have Not Done So. PENDLETON, Or., May 12. (Special. From, present indications there is to be much trouble relative to the payment of bounties on coyotes, when the new law comes into effect. Though the law does not operate until May 22, all coyotes killed sinrSe February 1 are subject to bounty. Hundreds of the destructive ani mals have been killed in- this county since that date and the trouble Is to come from these scalps. Copies of the law have just been re- t HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER i San dor AVeckerle. NEW YORK. May 12. (Special.) Sandor Weckerle, the Hun garian Prime Minister, has of fered his resignation to the Diet at Buda Pesth. This action sig nifies a serious breach between Austria and Hungary. It is due to the Emperor's refusal to sanc tion the demands of Hungary for a national bank to replace the Austro-Hungarian National Bank in Hungary. The charter of the latter bank expires in 1910.. ceived and it has been discovered for the first time that all four feet, as well as the scalp, must be attached to each hide and it is this provision that has been disregarded by the killers. Though hun dred of hides are ready to present the day the law goes into effect, it is not believed more than a score of them have the claws attached. BEEF TRUST NO MENACE But May Become One to Britain it Controls Argentine Supply. LONDON, May 12. The committee ap pointed in July, 1908, to Inquire into the alleged combinations In the meat trade in the United Kingdom,- issued its report this evening. A large portion thereof is devoted to the American beef trust and its representatives in London, the com mittee considering that, while a com bination exists to a certain extent be tween four American companies engaged in the United Kingdom, it is not at pres ent sufficiently powerful seriously to en danger the beef trade as a whole, but, should these firms, as seems possible, acquire considerable interest in Argen tina, the situation with regard to the meat supply of the United Kingdom might become serious. Persia's Firebrand Arrested. ST. PETERSBURG, May 12. Panhoff. the Bulgarian journalist who played a prominent part in the Persian revolution and who was supposed to have been killed at Astrabad, has been arrested at Moscow on the charge of carrying a false passport. i 1 is p & ' .ii' t 1 H: iLAl- D pnnn Ann ts"f?y it lz 3XJJUTU-k.EulL I WRIGHTS ARE SHY AS DINNER GUESTS No Flights of Fancy in Brief Addresses of Aviators at New York Reception. WILBUR TALKS 60 SECONDS Brothers Seem Glad When Day of Tribute From Friends and Ad mirers Is Over and They Are Allowed to Jleave for Home. ICEW YORK, May 32. The Wright brothers Wilbur and Orville. left New Tork shortly before 6 o'clock this even ing: for their home in Dayton. Ohio, after a day passed in receiving the tributes and compliments of friends and admirers. However much at borne the brothers may be amid the perils of the upper air. they showed again that they are ex tremely shy as guests of honor. At the' lunchoon tenlered by the Aero Club of America, at the Lawyers' Club, both had consented with evident reluctance to al low their names to go down on the programme of speakers. Speeches Very Brief. But their cpeeches were models of brevity, and the pair appeared immensely relieved when the ordeal was over. Wil bur spoke first three sentences, that lasted less than 60 seconds. Orville fol lowed, and his speech was Just half as long as his brother's. Assailed by interviewers, the Wrights had little to odd to the few things ihey said yesterday. Orville referred all ques tions to Wilbur and Wilbur turned them over to Orville. Machines Merely Scouts. Together they , said that in their opin ion the use of the aeroplane for dropping bombs or explosives into a hostile army was impracticable. "Tho only practicable use of aeroplanes in warfare will be as scouts and mes Bengerj." they said. "The 'plane must rise 1000 or 1600 feet above the ground In order to be safe from shell fire, and at that distance you can't drop anything with accuracy from a machine moving at 40 or B0 miles an hour." Among those who shook hands with the Wright brothers was Israel Ludlow, who had to be wheeled into the halL He fell from his aeroplane at Ormond Beach a few years ago, and has not recovered. The Wrights greeted .air. Ludlow warmly. PRICE $7500 F. O. B. AT DAYTON This Is Minimum Retail Rate for Wright Aeroplanes. NEW YORK, May 12. The minimum price of a Wright aeroplane has been established at $7500. But if a hifth soeed machine, suitable for war purposes and carrying two passengers besides the avi ator ie desired, the price may run to $25.- uuo. xnis schedule of prices was an nounced last night by Orville Wright. : "Of the 60 aeroplanes which we now have under construction at our Dayton plant," said Orville Wright, "the cheap est will be $7500. We have received orders for a number of these from individuals and they will be delivered as rapidly as possible. We are not at liberty at present to announce the names of the purchasers, but among them are several well-known Americans and Europeans. The principal trouble will be in teaching the purchasers the operation of the machine. We recog nize the fact that we must enlist a num ber of aeroplane teachers. "Our friends in America should disre gard the stories which have preceded us concerning the vast amounts of money we are said to have received. The only money we have received came from the government of France, amounting to $100, 000. Of course, we have contracts with Germany. Italy and England, but they are entirely tentative and should not be considered as a direct income to us until we have completed the stipulations called for in such contracts." 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SIGNAL CORPS BALLOON TTF Lahm and Party Ascend at Wash ington and Soar Southward. WASHINGTON. May 12. Quickly at taining a height of 2000 feet. Lieu tenants uahm, Dickinson and Winter, of the Aeronautical division, ascended in the Signal Corps balloon No. 11 to day. The start was made at 11:30 A. M., and the balloon traveled in a south erly direction. The aeronauts expect to remain up until nightfall. Balloon Cleveland Ascends. CANTON, O.. May 12. Wade and A. H. Morgan, of Cleveland, made an as cension In their new balloon, the Cleve land, here today. They expect to re main in the air until Thursday after noon. ' PLEASE LEWISTON PEOPLE Reversal of Verdict Against Dwyer and Bobnett Satisfies Friends. LEWISTON. Idaho, May 12. (Special.) 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