MACHINE CHOOSES
BAPTIST OFFICERS
Dr. Judson Again Heads
Convention.
LOVING WORDS STOP DISCORD
Idaho Delegation's Chapel Car
Controversy Settled.
SOCIAL SERVICE IS LITTLE
.Report Censnree Church for Defi
ciency or Work Among Young
People and Women and Clash
With Brotherhood Results.
With an enthusiasm set off strongly by
the unimpassloned utterances of the
speakers, the Northern Baptist conven
tion at the "White Temple yesterday after
noon elected its officers, with Harry Pratt
Judson, president of the University of
Chicago, at their head for the ensuing
year. Corvin S. Shank, of Seattle;
George Edwin Horr, D. D., of Newtown
Center, Mass., and Frank Harcey Field,
New Tork, were elected vlce;pjresidenU;
Geoi-ge W. Coleman, Boston, Mass.; Rev.
W. C. Bitting. r. D.. St. Louis, and Wil
liam E. Lincoln. Pittsburg, were elected
respectively recording secretary, corre
sponding secretary and treasurer.
Election Machine Affair.
The election was purely a machine af
fair. The delegates had not the slightest
say. D. Q. Garabrant, chairman of the
nominating committee. presented his
printed report giving the list of officers
nominated, made a formal motion that
the list be elected in toto. and that was
all that was necessary to choose the of
ficers and board of management for the
ensuing year.
While there has been no direct com
plaint against any officer elected, a num
ber of delegates are making bitter com
ments that there has not been the
lightest opportunity for the man on the
floor to have some voice in the govern
ment of the convention. The convention
la a democratic affair, they say, and they
feel the election of officers by a few men
who cannot posRibly know the spirit of
a whole convention is not in accordance
with the supposedly democratic nature
of the organization.
Ir. Judson Pleasing.
Universal satisfaction is expressed at
Dr. Judson's acceptance of the presi
dency for another year. The famous
educationalist has made himself loved
by all for the tact displayed at the
convention. Time and time again he
has averted a storm, whether It was
merely the growl of some disgruntled
delegate or the more serious complaint
of a committee chairman.
The session yesterday was altogether
peaceful. The convention hall was
rather stuffy and the delegates did not
seem to have spirit to reply to any sub
ject, even if it did become contentious.
On one occasion the delegates began
1o recover their debating abilities, but
Ir. Morehouse immediately moved that
the matter be referred to the execu
tive committee and prevented the eager
ones from getting further Into the fray.
During the morning session the most
Important item that came before the
convention from a spectacular point of
view was the renewal of the effort of
Rev. w P. Lovett. of Idaho, to have
the control of the chapel cars trans-
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MORE LICENSE AND
LESS CLOTH ASKED
BATHIXG SUIT REFORM TTXFOP
rXAR IX CALIFORNIA.
Proposed Ordinance at San Diego,
Demanding '-Swaddling Gar
ments," Causes Trouble.
SAN DIEG, Cal., June 29. (Special.)
Advocates of greater amplitude in
bathing suits have been hung in effigy
here, and opposition to the proposed
reform is growing dally more deter
mined. Opponents of the proposed "modest"
ruits are strenuous for more license
and less cloth in the matter of cos
tumes for the surf, and Insist that cool
ing breezes be allowed more leeway In
the matter of playing upon the forms
of those disporting themselves in the
ocean and upon the sands.
They declare that to compel bathers
to muffle themselves up to the neck
and swathe themselves below the knees
is to take away a large portion of the
delights of surf bathing. They also
declare that trunks, prohibited In the
proposed ordinance, are oftimes more
convenient and always sufficiently dis
creet. Th-n they argue that to deprive the
ladies of exhibiting the latest designs
to admiring throngs . borders closely
upon "cruel and unusual punishment,"
prohibited by the statutes. ,
SLOT MACHINES BARRED
Ordinance Goes Into Effect In Bay
City July I, Stopping Use.
SAN FRANCnSCO, June 29. With the
coming of midnight tomorrow the whir
and rattle of nearly 4000 slot machines in
this city will be stilled and nickels will
be a drug on the market. The ordinance
placing all manner of nickel-in-the-slot
cigar and drink gambling devices under
the ban goes into effect July 1, and the
police have received orders to rigidly en
force the prohibition.
It was estimated when the Supervisors
were considering the ordinance that J12,
000,000 has been placed annually in these
devices in this city.
The machines are licensed at Ho a quar
ter, the annual revenue being close to
$300,000.
MINING FAKER CONFESSES
Action of Crooked Promoter Saves
Two From Prosecution.
LOS ANGELES, June 2. Confessing
that he had secured thousands of dol
lars through misrepresentations in con
nection with mining deals, Elmer E.
Rowel 1 today offered a signed state
ment to that effect in Justice Stephens'
court, fully exonerating from blame A.
C. Lebaron and R, A. Johnson, who
were held wlui him in the same con
nection. Rowell' stated that he had sta
tioned Lebaron in El Paso to send out
for him false statements regarding fic
titious mining properties in Mexico and
Arizona. Lebaron, he said, did not
know of the fraud.
KIDNAPS DIVORCED WIFE
Iowa Farmer Kills Former Mate's
Parents Before Capturing Woman.
DES MOINES, la., June 26. Calvin Lit
tlepage, a farmer, tonight shot and killed
Elmer Jamieson and Mrs. Jamieson,
parents of his divorced wife, and then
forced her and her baby to enter a
buggy and flee with him. He drove sev
eral miles in a blinding rain and hail
storm and took possession of a farm
house. Here he was surrounded by a
posse. Ills wife managed to escape with
her baby, and placed herself under the
protection of the Sheriff. Littlepage,
heavily armed, then took refuge in the
barn, and succeeded in breaking through
the cordon and escaping.'
DELEGATES TO NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION, NOW IN SESSION IN PORTLAND, GATHERED IN
I i O f O i--' I? I " V I - ' X
FLOOD OF PROTEST
AGAINST NEW TAX
Senators' -Support of
Taft Weakening.
MAY REVIVE INHERITANCE TAX
Business Men Don't Want Tax
on Corporations.
SCHEME MAY BE DROPPED
Aldrlch Admits He Only Backs Tax
on Corporations to Defeat In
come Tax Lodge Shuts Out
All Amendments.
WASHINGTON. June 29.-A flood of
telegrams, nearly equalling that which
swamped the wires during the anti-railroad
pass fight, is pouring In upon Sena
tors In opposition to the corporation tax
bill. Most of the telegrams come from
persons Interested In building and loan
associations, but practically every char
acter of corporations represented. Most
of the Senators received from 12 to 50
telegrams today and some at least 100.
In view of the vehement tone of the
protests and the fact that the telegrams
are from prominent business men, some
Senators pledged to vote for the adminis
tration programme said today that they
are doubtful as to the wisdom of their
course.
Unless there is a change of sentiment
throughout the country, It would not
surprise many members of Congress If
the corporation tax should be abandoned
in conference and the inheritance tax,
which was adopted by the House, should
be restored to the tariff Mil. " '
CIjUB TO DEFEAT INCOME TAX
Aldrlch Admits Reason for Snpport
Ing Income Tax.
WASHINGTON. June 23. With the
tariff schedules disposed of, the Senate
today began consideration of the proposed
income and corporation taxes.
The question of taxing Incomes re
received attention while the tea provision
was under consideration, and it was then
that the most interesting occurrences of
the day took place. This was the an
nouncement of the real attitude of Chair
man Aldrich, of the finance committee,
toward the corporation tax provision,
which he had introduced at the instance
of the President. He said that he advo
cated the corporation tax as a means of
defeating the Income tax. He also said
he thought for the next year or two there
would be a deficit . In the Treasury re
ceipts, which he was willing to have made
good by the income from the proposed
corporation tax. He thought that the tax
could be materially modified, if not re
pealed, within a year or two.
This declaration was seized upon by the
Democrats as a confession that the pro
posed corporation tax was a mereSbter
fuge to destroy the income tax.
Tillman Tea Duty Beaten.
Tillman presssed hard for his tariff
amendment providing for a duty of 10
cents a pound on tea, but the amendment
was defeated by a vote of 53 to 18.
When the income tax question was for
mally taken up. Lodge moved as a sub
stitute for Bailey s straight income tax
proposition a measure providing for coun-'
tervailing duties against countries Impos
ing duties on articles exported to the
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DIES HERO'S DEATH,
AS WIFE DREAMED
MINER BLOWN TO ATOMS TRY
ING TO SAVE COMRADES.
Body Just Taken From Mine. When
Wife Inquires Fate and
Finds Dream True. ' J
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., July 29.
(Special.) Within 20 minutes of the
time that the body of "Doc" McCloud.
a miner who gave his life that his
companions might live, had been lifted
from the mine shaft where he had been
blown to death, his wife called up the
superintendent and asked why her hus
band' was late .. coming home. ' When
the stammering man told her of her
husband's fate, she said: ;
"I knew it. I dreamed three times
that he had been killed in Just that
way. It was so like 'Doc' " .
McCloud and three mates, all expert
compressed air drillers, had loaded six
holes with dynamite and fired the
fuses. Jumping Into the elevator they
found that it was stuck. While his
companions scrambled for safety, Mc
Cloud ran back and tried to cut the
ruses. He had cut three when the
other charges exploded, blowing him to
atoms. . -
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
78
iotb; minimum, DZ aegrree.
TODAY'S Fair and cooler; westerly winds.
Foreign.
English suffragettes attempt to storm Par
liament, slap policemen and over 100 are
arrested. Page 3.
National.
Storm of protests against corporation tax
may cause abandonment and revival of
Inheritance tax. Page 1.
Debate on Income and corporation taxes be
gins in Senate. Page 1.
Foster repudiates Baptist Church. Page 1.
Domestic.
Orville Wright makes short flight, but drops
for lack of power. Page 3.
Police find expressman who hauled Elsie
Sigel's body and have strong clew to
Leon Ling. Page 8.
Mrs. Tucker gets divorce from Colonel.
Page 5.
Campaigners against short bathing suits
hanged In effigy at San Diego. Page 1.
Miner dies hero's death, fulfilling wife's
dreams. Page 1.
Portland man marries heiress from Hawaii
Page 1.
Mrs. Woodlll's letters show passionate love
affair wlUi Eastman. Page 1.
Hot weather abate In East.
Perilous experience of St. Louis balloonists.
Page 4.
Five men terribly scalded by explosion on
torpedoboat. Page 4.
Eliot made president emeritus of "Harvard
and will be given $50O,0OO.
Sport.
Coast League scores :' Portland S, Oat land
4; Los Angeles 6, Vernon 4: San Fran
cisco 6, Sacramento 0. Page 7.
Northwestern League scores: Portland 2.
Aberdeen 0: Tacoma 8, Vancouver 2;
Seattle 13, Spokane 3. Page 7.
Pacific Northwest.
Body found at Pendleton may bs. missing
Belllngham man, whose life held mys
terious romance. Page 11.
Heney says Hermann case will be tried this
year if at all. Page 11.
Oregon teachers In convention at Albany.
Page ft.
Hay forces refuse to compromise, and Im
peachment programme goes on. Page 1.
Russian convicts escape and terrorize Si
beria. Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Summer boom' starts In lemon market
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Chicago wheat prices advance on black
rust rumor. Page 17. ,
Better demand for stocks and bonds.
Page 17.
British bark Inverness-shire, from Puget
Sound to Europe with wheat, at Val
paraiso in damaged condition. Page 16.
Portland and Vicinity.
Northern Baptist Convention elects officers.
Page 1.
Harrlman lines voluntarily reduce class
rates to mountain points. Page 2.
Gravel trust is charging excessive prices In
Portland. Page 10.
Plana are completed for Oregon National
j Guard's annual competition. Page 16.
Baker has clear Held In candidacy for
president of Council. Page 12.
Lane administration will come to close at
midnight. Page 16.
State Board of Health will make tubercular
exhibit in Oregon cities. Page 12.
Walter Reffllng, 7-year-old boy, killed by
automobile. Page 13.
Alleged forger arrested at Hobart-Curtls
denies guilt. Page 3.
MRS. WOODILL HOT
TRUE-TO HUSBAHD
Passionate Letter to
Eastman Found.
HINTS AT ROMANCE FOR YEAR
Epistle Says She Feels Nothing
Wrong in Conduct.
NEW ASPECT GIVEN CASE
Correspondence Found in Bungilow
Proves That Californlan's Wife
and Murderer Were More '
Than Mere Friends.
ST. MICHAELS. Md June 29. The
feelings entertained by Mrs. Edith May
Woodlll toward her slayer, "Lame Bob"
Eastman, were indicated In a letter
signed "Edith," part's of -which were
found in the bungalow of. the murderer
and suicide last Saturday. The mis
sive, which is In Mrs. Woodill's hand
writing, and coui-hed in most sensa
tional language, was presumably sent
to Eastman and was made public to
day. It not only indicates a warm at
tachment for the man, but seems to
prove that she had known- him for at
least a year. On the same paper, In
Eastman's handwriting, is the follow
ing: "Little Dear I cannot live after our
short ... of bliss, with the coming of
our parting ever before us. If we meet
in the unknown, let's continue the bliss
ful times that we spent here. I am with
you in every thought.
The letter signed "Edith" contains the
following passages: .
letter Very Poetic.
"Is the iron immodest when it creeps
toward the loadstone and clings to its
side? Is the seed immodest when it
sinks Into the ground with budding life?
Is the cloud bold when. . It - softens into
rain and falls to. earth because (t hai no
further choice, or Is it brazen when it
nestles on the bosom of heaven's arched
dome and sinks into the blue-black in
finity and ceases to be itself?
"Is the human soul immodest when,
drawn by a force It cannot , resist. It
seeks a stronger soul which absorbs its
ego as the blue sky absorbs a floating
cloud and as the warm earth swells
the seed, as the magnet draws the iron?
; Feels No Wrong.
"I do not feel myself to be bold or
wrong for drifting toward you. I
would not feel , myself wrong to go
straight to you tomorrow. There is
ever and always some human soul to
love and trust, and whose confidence
we would not alter.
"We are not of our own making and
our lives belong to another Brahma
who rules and Is wise.
"As one who was concerned and In
every line of it, I read only the same
adoration that a year's absence would
not shadow. And the wonder comes
to me that you did not, could not un
derstand. Surely a life such as yours
brings in time understanding, you must
know lewd from the modest, the untrue
from the true
longs for Him Always.
'SDo I mean you? Long for you would
be better, for every heartbeat seems
to cry out against the enormity of the
crime that makes me no longer yours.
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PRONT OP WHITE TEMPLE, WHERE THE MEETINGS AREHP
CHURCH ON TRIAL
NOT PROF. FOSTER
SO SATS CHICAGO MAX WHEX
ASKED ABOUT POSITIOX.
Declares Ministers Are Xot True to
Baptist Faith and Says They
Should Join Catholics.
CHICAGO. June 29. "The application
of a little water to a man's head or body
will not make him a Christian, and as
for the Baptist dogmas, I repudiate
them absolutely."
Thus declared Professor George B.
Foster in an address tonight defending
the principles that caused his expul
sion from the Chicago Baptist minis
ters' conference.
"The basic principle of the Baptist
faith." he added, "is freedom and lib
erty, and yet this conference has been
disloyal to that fact. Such men belong
to the Catholic hierarchy, and I wish
they would go there.
"I am not on trial, but the Baptist de
nomination Is. I am" at peace with my
own integrity. I am frankly agnostic.
I think Jesus did live, and believe in his
good will toward men. My proposition
is to convince that Jesus is not as good
as God. but to hope that God is as good
as Jesus.
"All I ask of these Baptists Is to se
lect an inner light, and follow what
their fathers thought."
BLACK BISHOPS LOSE OUT
Interstate Commerce Commission
Says They Have Xo Case.
WASHINGTON, June 29. Five bishops
of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, who declared to the Interstate
Commerce Commission that they were
discriminated against by Southern rail
roads and by the Pullman Company In
transportation, dining facilities and
sleeping-car accommodations, have been
informed by the Commission that their
complaint was not warranted. They
charged that negroes were denied
sleeping-car accommodations and that
they were refused food in the dining
cars solely because of their color.
HELENA HAS CLOUDBURST
Water Foot Deep Pours Through the
' Main' Street of City.
HELENA, Mont., June 29. A cloudburst
in the mountains south of this city this
afternoon wrought much damage in the
city and adjacent country. Small streams
and dry gulches in the vicinity became
raging torrents.
Main street carried a foot of water and
the cellars of score's of business houses
were flooded. It is feared that the dam
age has been great in the Prickly Pear
Valley and In the, Missouri River bottoms.
THESE DUCKS CATCH BUGS
Illinois Farmer Gets Income of $9 0
Per Week From Trained Fowls.
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ALTON, 111.. June 29. (Special) A
farmer living near here has started a
new industry, and one that Is proving ex
tremely profitable to him. This man has
trained a flock of ducks that he has raised
to hunt for potato bugs, and now an
nounces that ha is ready to rent the
fowls out at so much per. The man has
testimonials from satisfied clients in the
neighborhood, and declares that his train
ed birds bring him an income of $90 a
week.
WILL RAISE WAGES AGAIN
Reading Iron Company to Give Back
Reduction in Julj .
READING Pa.. June 29. The Reading
Iron Company posted notices today thai
part of the reduction In wages made last
February would be restored beginning
July 6.
FAMILY SPURNS
ACCUSED SLAYER
Testimony Is Dark for
Young Robbins.
EVEN SWEETHEART DESERTS
Witnesses Trail Him to Scene
of Mrs. Castoe's Murder.
REMANDED TO GRAND JURY
Prisoner Breaks Sullen Silence and
Admits Semblance of Guilt.
Views Dead Body Without
Quiver Is in Dalles Jail.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. June 29.-Staff Correspondents-Simultaneous
today with a
brheirr d'rCtlng'that -gey Robbing
be held for the fiendish murder of Mrs
Emaline Castoe. the alleged slayer was
disowned by his father, cast off by his
sister and brothers and spurned by h s
girl sweetheart, so strong was the evi
dence against him.
Scarcely had Judge Buck pronounced
his decision when aged William Robbins
father of the alleged slayer, left the
courtroom with bowed head followed by
his daughter and a son who had come
f.,JV?Knff.the Pr00eedinsa- Relieving at
bef of fh ,S ar,reSt f Wt mem
ber of the family was a mistake.
Taken to View Dead Body.
After two hours, when an angry crowd
surrounding the Courthouse had dispersed
young Robbins was escorted, by Sheriff
Morse, Deputy Sheriff Christie and Con
stable Garger, to the undertaking parlors
where lay the bruised and blackened re
mains of his alleged victim.
"Whoever did that should have his
neck stretched." said the prisoner with-'
out blanching.
"What would you do to a man who had
treated your mother like this poor wo
man was treated?" asked Garger of the
prisoner. .
"I would kill him. Hanging would be
too good for him," responded the youth
accused of murder.
Looks Dark, Prisoner Admits.
Then returned to the jail young Rob
bins for the first time broke his sullen
silence, his first statement being: "From
the testimony against me this morning.
It certainly seems to be a case of guilt."
At twilight, through a poorly-lighted
street, he was remvoed from the midst
of incensed Hood River citizens and
manacled under the close espionage of
Sheriff Morse, he was taken to The
Dalles, pending his examination before
the grand jury next Tuesday.
Six Witnesses Testify.
Testimony by six witnesses traced
youijg Robbins from Hood River to the
Barrett and Belmont districts, within a
few paces of the scene of the murder of
the woman, and back to town. Every
whit of the testimony was denied by the
prisoner. Evidently it was this denial
in the face of sworn testimony by re
spected residents that turned his people
against him. At any event, when the
court Inquiry ended the father of the
supposed slayer said: "My boy, George,
has always been a confirmed liar, and I
cannot induce myself to do anything for
him now." .
This statement by the aged parent
was followed by others almost as bit
ter, uttered by his sister and two broth
ers, all of whom refused to visit him in
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