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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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