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. VOL. XLIX.-XQ. 15,150. POHTLAXD, OREGON 1:,, JUNE 18 19Q9. TTTT . "DTTTTl 4"i-ri-vrf JAY WILL PAY RICHLY Taft's Plan Will Yield $50,000,000 a Year. WILL NOT DEDUCT INTEREST Only Cost of Maintenance and Operation Cut Off. WICKERSHAM EVOLVES IDEA Original Scheme. Was Tax on Dlvi dends, hut Xo.w Taft Proposes Not to Exempt Interest on Corporation Bonds. WASHINGTON. June 17. ( Special. ) President Taft's .plan for taxing the earnings of corporations Is broader than generally understood In Congres sional circles and It will. If enacted Into a law. yield a revenue far In ex cess of the 25,000.000 estimate given by the President In his special mes sage. v As Interpreted by manyipersons who come forward with objections to the scheme, the plan is to tax only such portion of the earnings as remain after all expenses of operation, maintenance and fixed charges. Including interest on bonds, have been deducted from the gross earnings of the corporation. The tax. however. Is to be upon the net earnings before the Interest on bonds has been deducted. Otherwise, It Is pointed out. the tax would be reduced substantially to a dividend basis, which was what the President himself did have In mind originally. Evolution of Idea. First, a dividend tax. then a tax on earnings available for dividends, and finally a tax on alt earnings in excess of expenses of maintenance and opera tion, were the successive steps in the evolution of the idea which Attorney Oeneral Wic.kersh.am. following a long conference with the President this afternoon, is putting into form for sub mission. The bonded , debt side of the matter waa fully gone into by the President and his advisers. Yield .Double $25,000,000. The 125,000.000 estimate of revenue to be yielded by the tax. was based on figures supplied to the Secretary by an expert at the President's request, but they were based on the original proposition of a dividend tax. The yield from the tax as now proposed will double that at least and perhaps go considerably beyond. These facts were obtained today from a member of the administration who has taken a lead ing part in working out details of the plan. PEFEK INCOME TAX REBATE Aldrlch Wants Tariff Finished. Democrats Will Fight Delay. WASHINGTON, June 17.-When the In come tax comes up in the Senate tomor row, Aldrlch, chairman of the finance committee, will again move that action be deferred until after the schedules in the tariff bill shall have been completed. This motion will carry with It President Taffs programme for the enactment of a law taxing net earnings of corporations and the adoption of a resolution submit ting the question of amending the Con stitution so as to permit Congress to levy an Income tax without regard to appor tionment among the states. At a caucus of the Democratic Senators today It was decided that the minority hall stand by their previous declaration In favor of the enactment of an Income tax law at the present session. The cau cus was well attended, and the opinion waa expressed that the Administration movement is designed to prevent the In come tax plan from reaching, a direct vote. Previous to the caucus there was a dis cussion In the Democratic cloakroom of the President's programme. It was sug gested that Bailey might withdraw his amendment until after Aldrlch presents the amendment for a tax on the earnings of corporations. The purpose would be to avoid the offering of the President's plan as a substitute for the Income tax amend ment. The Bailey amendment could then be offered after the corporation tax amendment was before the Senate, and a motion to table or refer to a committee could displace it. Thus a direct vote on the amendment. It was argued, could not be prevented. HAYWOOD SMOKES; FINED Insists on Breaking Anti-Cigarette Law In State of Washington. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. June 17. W. D. Haywood, the Socialist leader, who two years ago was tried for the murder of Governor Frank Steunenberg. of Idaho, and who yesterday was arrested at Ellensburg and again at North Yakima for smoking cigarettes in violation of the new state criminal code, was today flned 13.50 and costs on the charge. The cost brought the amount up to 15.10. GORPORAT TRACYBECKER IS vjul.lt u i nio wire ATTORNEY WHO FOUGHT liAXD FRAUDS IX TROUBLE. Mrs. Becker Charges Failure to Sup port Her Adequately and Asks $250 Per Month. LOS ANGELES, Cat. June 17. (Spe cial.) Charging that he abandoned her two years ago in Buffalo, and does not pay her enough to maintain herself. Mrs. Minnie A. Becker brought suit here to day against Tracy C. Becker, ex-Special Assistant to the United States Attorney General, under Bonaparte. The wife seeks a permanent allowance of $260 a month for her support. She al leges that he earns as much as J6000 a year in his profession, has valuable hold ings of stocks and bonds and a $10,000 unincumbered property in Buffalo. They were married In Cohoes, N. Y-, 33 years ago. Since leaving her. Mrs. Becker, as serts, the husband gave her $100 a month for her maintenance, but has paid noth ing since May 1, and threatens to cut off her allowance entirely. Becker is practicing law here. As Spe cial Assistant Attorney-General he aided Francis J. Heney in prosecuting the Ore gon and other land-fraud cases, succeed ing Heney at Portland. SKULL FRACTURED BY FALL Young- Woman Steps From Car In Middle of Block. Hilda Hoffman, 19 years old, who lives with her parents at Sandy. Or., was seriously Injured yesterday after noon by stepping from a streetcar while it was moving rapidly at Union avenue and Tillamook street. It is thought that the skull at the base of the brain has been injured and prob ably severely fractured. She was picked up In an unconscious condition and carried' to a dwelling at 425 Tllla- moo Btreet, where she was allowed to remain until the arrival of the Red Cross Ambulance, in which she was conveyed to the Good Samaritan Hos pital. Miss Hoffman was still In an un oonsclous condition at a late hour last night, and some doubt as to her re covery was expressed. Her parents were notified of the accident by long distance telephone. DIES AS HE PLAYS TENNIS O. H. Stewart Drops Dead in Game : at Vancouver. VANCOUVER. Wash.. June 17. (Spe cial.) O. H. Stewart, aged 50 years. while playing tennis on the courts of the Vancouver Tennis Club, suddenly dropped dead at 5:80 o'clock this after noon. Dr. R. D. Wiswall was on the grounds and restoratives were applied at once, but he never rallied. Death was due. it is thought, to the bursting of a blood vessel near the heart. Mr. Stewart had been suffering from arterial sclerosis for some time. He had been playing for only ten minutes. Mr. Stewart was a clerk in the head quarters of the Department of the Co lumbia at Vancouver Barracks in the office of the Adjutant-General. He had been connected with the Government either in a military or civil capacity for about 20 years. He leaves a widow and four children. BLISS HEAD OF COLLEGE Ex-Commander of Army In Philip pines Given New Job. WASHINGTON. June 17. Briradier- General Tasker H. Bliss, recently de tached from- command of the Army In the Philippines, was notified today of his assignment to duty as president of the Army College. Washington" Barracks, to succeed Brigadier-General W. w. witb- erspoon, transferred to duty as Assistant Chief of Staff. Captain John Pool. Corps of has been relieved from dutv an minarHn- tendent of the State. War and Navy buildings, and as a military aide to the President. Lieutenant U. S. Grant. Corps of Engineers, probably will suc ceed him. DISHES MUST BE SCALDED Tacoma Health Board Issues Edict to Restaurants. TACOMA. Wash.. June 17. (Special.) Simply giving dirty dishes a passing in troduction to water and soap will not be tolerated in Tacoma under the new rules laid down to restaurant keepers by Health Commissioner La. Gasa. The Health Commissioner made a tour of inspection today and found that only a few of the eating-houses scalded their dishes. "They have got to give them a long bath and a proper scrubbing here after," declared the Commissioner. Dr. La Gasa has ordered several of the restaurants to make their kitchens sani tary. NEW BUNKER HILL BATTLE As Many Injured by Fireworks as British AVounded. BOSTON, June 17. The list of in jured in the Bunker Hill celebration today rivaled that of the actual battle 134 years ago. Sixty-five persons were treated at the hospitals of Boston and vicinity for injuries caused by fire works and pistols, and many more were attended by physicians at their homts. . . m- r-j , r : IS CLOSE TO E CELLAR Gould Evidence Only Strays to Farnum. SAME HOTEL AT LYNCHBURG Bellboy and Waiter Tell of What They Saw. TANTRUMS ON NIAGARA Broker Says Mrs. Gould Made Yachting Trip Lively With Her Quarrel Ten More Days of " Washing Dirty Linen. NEW YORK. June 17. The spot light of the cross-examination contin ued to oscillate today in the trial of Mrs. Howard Goulds suit for separa tion from the estate at Castle Gould and the St. Regis Hotel to the farm at Blue Gap. Va., and the Gould yacht and back to New York again, but except for the moments when it lingered on Dustin Farnum it never got very far away from the butler's keys to the wine cellar. Delancey Nlcoll, counsel for the husband, was willing enough to adduce testimony that the wife was affable when herself, if only he could bring her. good nature into contrast with testimony that tended to show her violent, abusive, unoertaln in her motives and confused In her actions when she had been drinking. Mrs. Gould Shrinks Visibly. There was no abatement of Mrs. Gould's ordeal and, as the burden of reiteration grew heavier, she shrank visibly and a look of pain came to her eyes as if. though she might have read or seen such' t..ings, it was a new real ization for her to hear them applied directly to herself. Only once was there a break In the procession . of footmen, - chauffeurs, maids, waiters and bellboys, on whose testimony It is sought to prove Mrs. Gould an impossible wife, and that was when Mr. Nicoll called Melville E. Chapman, a broker, who was a guest of the Gould's on the Niagara during several cruises in the year 1905. He had several times seen" Mrs. Gould un deniably drunk, he testified, and led by Mr. Nicoll, he described several alleged outbreaks, with emphasis on the over bearing manner of the wife and the efforts of the husband to anntho or,, Conciliate her. Xicoll Insults Shearn. In the effort to discredit this witness Mr. Shearn drew the word "blackmail" from Mr. Nicoll and became so much agitated at its application to his own conduct of the case that for some mo ments he was unable to continue his cross-examination. The court ruled the use of the word offensive and Mr. Nicoll apologized for introducing it. As Mr. Shearn has announced he will cai; more witnesses to rebut the testi- (Concluded on Page T.) ALWAYS WN FATHER LOSES IN RACE WITH DEATH PITTSBURG HIGH SCHOOL STU I'E.VT DIES IN SPOKANE. Lad Succumbs to Injury to Brain, Due to Strains Received in Athletic Contest. SPOKANE! Wash., June 17.-(Special.) Dewitt Bedout, the young Pittsburg High School athlete, has lost his fight for life, and his father, J. N. Bedout. has lost in his race across the country against death. The boy. who was brought to a hospital from Colvine last Tuesday, suffering from an abscess on the brain, died this mora-Jn- His father, who was wired of the serious condition of his son, a few days ago. Is now speeding across the country. Bedout. in company with his mother and sister, was spending his vacation at the ranch" of his brother near Colville. His case was almost hopeless from the etart. His injury is believed to have been the result of a strain during some athletic contest. His father, J. N. Bedout. Is connected with the Maryland Casualty Company at Pitteburg, to which city the body will be taken for burial. BABIES TAUGHT TO STEAL Children Say Elder Girls Led Them to Become Thieves. VANCOUVER. B. C, June 17. (Special.) Four children, three girls and one boy, the latter but 5 years old, have been ar rested here for having perpetrated a series of long-continued thefts in department stores. The offenders claim they were taught the art of thievery by older girls and that after sharing with their teachers for some time concluded there would be more In the game If they took it up on their own account. The coat of one of the girls. 12 years old, was found to be one huge pocket in the lining and was filled with .enough purloined stuff to start a email store. The police are at a lose to dispose of the crim inals, because of their age, and' an effort will be made to apprehend the girls re sponsible for having taught them thieving. GIVES LIFE FOR BUTTONS Amish Youth Commits Suicide to Es cape Hooks and Eyes. MASSILON, O.. June 17. Because his mother provided In her will that he Should be disi.irherited-.lf ha refused" to return to the Amish style of dress, which calls, for hooks and eyes in stead of buttons on clothing, Levi Yoder killed himself today. Several years ago Yoder was sent to the State Hospital for the Insane and there Amish clothing was changed for garments fastened with buttons. After his return he refused to resume the Amish fashion. MORSE TO PAY BACK ALL Convicted Banker Loses No Time in Getting to Work When Free. NEW YORK, June 17. Perceptibly re freshed by his few hours of liberty, af ter long confinement in the Tombs, Charles "W. Morse left his home for the financial district today with an avowed ! determination to start right in the work j of rehabilitating himself flnanclaly. i am going to pay back every dollar I owe. 1 am going to work now to do it," he said. 1 A SHAKE-UP. ARTICLE GENUINE Cleveland's Executor Is Quoted in Court. HE STOOD BY BRANDENBURG Writer's Story of How Cleve land Gave Article- - COMMITTEE HOT ON SCENT Republicans Eagerly Grasped at Campaign Material Editor Kept Signature When Article Was Declared Forged. NEW YORK, June 17. Proof that the signature purporting to be that of Orover t-ieveland to the article supplied to the New York Times was believed to be genuine by H. S. Hastings, one of Cleve land's executors, was furnished today at the trial of Brandenburg tor grand lar ceny. This evidence was furnished by nanes M. Lincoln. Sunday editor, of the Times, under cross-examination ni,. denburg'a testimony before the grand jury was read. In which he related the circumstances under which he obtained the article from Cleveland. Hastings Said It Was Genuine. on cross - examination by Attorney tiucoos, ror tne defense, Mr. Lin coln stated that he had twice pnt reporter to H. S. Hastings, one of th executors under Mr. Cleveland's will, to ascertain if the article was genuine. Two letters which the witness said the re porter had obtained from Mr. Hastings were admitted in evidence. In one of them, over the signature of H. S. Hast ings, the statement was made that the writer had given Brandenburg "a formal written assignment by which he has the exclusive right to said article." The sec ond fetter eaid In part: ,- , .,. "I have examined the signature sub mitted to me by Mr. Tbarra and com pared It with others of Mr! Cleveland's and believe the one submitted by Mr. Tbarra is genuine. I have no reason to believe the article furnished you by Mr. Brandenburg purporting to have been written by Mr. Cleveland is not genuine." He Preserved Signature. Mr. Lincoln tdhered amlnation to his positive identification of me arncie as tne one Brandenburg had given him.. He had cut orr th and preserved it after sending the article to me composing-room, he testlfio Mr. Lincoln said the original article had been ' returned to Brandenburg after Its publication; that Brandenburg had objected to the signature having been cut off and that he informed the de fendant that the signature would not be given up because the genuineness of the article had been questioned. He aid not know that Brandenburg later volun tarily had returned the article to the newspaper office after the agitation over (Concluded on Page 6.) HASTINGS OPINION TYPHOID SQUAD IN HEIGHT OF FEVER REGULARS WHO VOLUNTEERED FOR EXPERIMENT ARE SICK. Men All Under Expert Medical Care and Expected to Recover and Continue Tests. OMAHA. Neb.. June 17. (Special.) Sergeant Fuller and seven privates of Fort Omaha have all the symptoms of typhoid fever. Tuesday of the present week these eight men were inoculated with typhoid fever virus. 800,000,000 germs having been injected Into the left arm of each man. That night the men were sick, and the following day they commenced to develop fever symptoms, which are now said by Major Gilchrist, chief surgeon, to have reached a maximum. Since Tuesday evening the men have been in bed, and each has been drowsy, sick at the stomach, dizzy and has had severe headaches. Their temperatures have not been below 100, and have been as high as 10S. It is expected the symp toms will continue a couple of days and then disappear.: After the men have .fully recovered, they will be put to a final test. They will drink large Quantities of water containing live typhoid germs. This will continue for several days. At the end of that time time they will again be Inoculated with typhoid virus, and if it does not take they will be pro nounced immune. ECLIPSE SEEN BY PEARY North Pole Only- Neighborhood Where It Was Total. WASHINGTON, June 17.-Although preparations were made at the United States Naval Observatory here to take observations of the eclipse of the sun today, the cloudy weather spoiled the plans. The eclipse here was but partial, the only place where it was total being near the North Pole. Few. if any, white men, with the, exception of Commander Robert E. Peary and his crew, now in search of the North Pole, had an oppor tunity to observe it The eclipse was visible over Eastern Asia and almost the whole of North America, Greenland, Ice land and the northern part of Finland. NEWS BUREAU FOR NEGROES Headquarters of System for North west Opened In Spokane. SPOKANE. Wash.. June 17. (Spe cial.) The Negro Associated Press of the United States has established head Quarters of the Pacific Northwest Negro News Bureau in this city, with Rev. J. Gordon McPherson, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, in charge. The Negro Associated Press has com pleted a system of news gathering cov ering the country at large. Each bu reau is to send out weekly news let ters and keep the country posted on race progress in the commmercial and Industrial world. YOUNG BRAVE IS MURDERER Navajo Lad Confesses to Killing Four of His Relatives. SALT LAKE, Utah, June 17.-Dean Tscoac, a 15-year-old Navajo Indian boy, pleaded guilty today in the Unit. a,atL District Court to . the charge of murder- g tour or his relatives several months ago 'at Aneath, in a remote nart cr th state. He was sentenced by Judge Mar- to serve a term of 10 years' impris onment in the Federal prison at Leaven- worcn, Jian.. and to pay a fine of J500. MERCHANTS OPPOSE STEEL French Cabinet Gets Another Fro- test Against American Stock. PARIS. June 17. The Fedora linn French Merchants has lodged with the Ministers of the Interior. Flnanno Foreign Affairs a protest similar to that of the committee of the Forges of France against the listing of Steel common stock on the Paris Bourse. TEN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING Barn Used as Shelter in Storm Proves Funeral Pyre. VIENNA, June 17. Great ln r n. j aiu aama&e to property has the Sanok district by thunder storms. A barn in which 60 persons had sought -iidcr ww. sirucK. and ten men were Kuia. MRS. TAFT WILL GO NORTH President's Wife to Commence Va cation Next Week. BEVERLY. Mass.. .Tim. 17a- ments have been made at th t. Summer home at Woodbury Point for the "rival or airs. Taft. wife of the Presi dent, next Thursday. President Taft is noi expected until July. RUSSIAN THUGS SLAY SIX Demand Money of Landowner, and Murder on Refusal. KIEV, Russia, June 17. A band of armed men who visited today' the estate of a local landholder and were refused a large sum of money, shot the land owner, his mother, three peasants and a servant. The bandits escaped. PRIMARY DECISION UPSETS POLITICS Harrison Men May Win Back Chicago Power. SULLIVAN'S FORCES JARRED Agreement Made Before Pri maries Proves Boomerang. DENEEN WANTS NEW LAW While Present Status May Enable Harrison to Again Become May or, Governor Will Keep Vp Fight. CHICAGO, June 17. (Special.) The Cook County Democratic organization was thrown Into a mad turmoil today when it became known that, as a result of the knocking out of the direct pri mary act. 15 members of the managing committee of the party practically all of them loyal adherents of Roger C. Sulli vanmay be forced to give way to Car ter H. Harrison's faithfuls. Harrison Democrats, who were beaten by the Sullivan forces at last August's primaries under the now Invalid law, came out of their retirement and de clared they were again members of the committee. May Go to Courts. Anticipating strenuous opposition from the faction in power, the Harrison men made tentative plans for bringing man damus proceedings to obtain what 'they claim to be their rights. In view of the plotting among antl Sulllvan Democrats, who would like to again elect Mr. Harrison Mayor two years hence, the situation suddenly created by the Supreme Court decision carries with it tremendous possibilities. Old Agreement Revived. The nail japon which the Harrison men hang their hopes is a resolution adopted by the county managing committee of August 1, 1908, a few days before the pri marlee. This resolution declared, that in the event of a court decision declaring the primary law invalid, the tenure or office of committee members at that time would be extended until their successors (Concluded on Page 4. ) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YEdIJSr?AT'.STMaxlmum temperature. 73 degrees; minimum. 61 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. foreign. Kapagea?.d CZar meet in yacnt ,n inland. British steamer flred on by Russian wars Mr. .wT0""'"' t0 naar Cz".WyachtP National. Ta"', corporat,m tax P'an estimated to yield over SjO.000.000 & year Page 1 AIdtax?' VLgel. l d"ay aCUOn n ,n'com Senator Brown denounces paper tariff as unnecessary. Page 6. 1 a" Politics. . ' Amendment ot Illinois primary may re Page Harrison 10 power in Chicago. Cardinal Gibbons speaks against woman suffrage. Page 4. Domestic. Evidence of Mrs. Gould's Intimacy with Farnum is ottered. Page 1. n Brandenburg's story of how lie got article from Cleveland told in court. Page 1 Heney's speech m Calhoun case Is denuncia tion of bosses and bribery rig, j TP'kP-i H0.13" celebration ln honor of V right brothers. Page 6 4 MPamTeM "rlkers Indicted at Honolulu. SOlmestakPatgyeP$'d ever "V 'noculatlon Tracy C Becker sued for divorce. Page 1 More deaths due to brutality at Patten In sane Asv nm .p... ii U 1U Snorts. CoacV3coafuI" roL,f.or,ua5?,-s- non-Sacramento, no game. Page '14 r Great auto race to be held at Crown Point. Ind., today. Page 3. Northwestern League scores: Tacoma a Aberdeen 5; Seattle 3. Portland 5; Sdo Kane 4, Vancouver o. Page 14 Horse turns somersault in race at Inde pendence, arises and wins race. Page 14. Paclflo Jior-thwent. Fences of rancher at Bend destroyed, it la 5e""e? Vy ca"leme. "d farmer or dered to leave country. Page 8. Handwriting expert declares Toiim'i will to be forgery. Page 8. Senator Ruth defies threats of Governor ' J " . . . .1 w c. r a((o o. Negro who shot railroad officials at Shanlko Page's lnsis"' ba acted ln elr-derense. Father loses race with death to see dyln son. Page 1. " Governor Benson and stair to dedicate Ore gon building at A.-Y.-p. today. Pago 8. Van Cleave speaks at Seattle on Gomoarr resistance of injunction. Page 4. Commercial and Marine. Endof the cascara bark combination. Page Late bulge ln wheat at Chicago. Page 1. 'Demoralized break: ln stock market. Page Reported that steamer Telephone ' will be sent to Puget Sound. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Mayor-elect Simon announces he will not make radical changes in city offices. Page 12. Sixty-four complete course at Lincoln High School. Page 9. Attorney Lafferty goes to Washington to expedite Siletz cases. Page 13. Paving war is renewed by receipt of com petition bid for patent material. Page 12. Eastern Star adourns and Masons will con clude session today. Page 12. Mrs. Walter M. Gadsby sues William Gads-b- for tl'00.000 for alienation of husband's affections. Page 13. p- R-. Company has spent nearly J230.0OO this year in improvements. Page 18. Mayor raises cry of graft ln connection with purchase of road roller. Page 13. Edward Quackenbush accused of misman agement of Calef estate. Page it. A