1$ -.rT-.-T-v-n nirnnvTtv TiriTPniV .TTTT.V 22. . 1909. - PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XLIX. NO. 15,179. i'ir' vxv-a., FORFEITS DIVORCE E 'S STORY . OUTLAW TITLE IS BOUGHT FOR CASH PRESIDENT FAILS AS PEACEMAKER PARACHUTE PRANK BY TRIP TO EUROPE MRS. TYLER FAILS TO COM PLETE RESIDENCE IN NEVADA. PUTS OUT LIGHTS HE IS GOING TQ DO T CONSISTENT AEROXAVT DROPS OX WIRES 'PRINCE" BRAGAXZA TO WED MISS ANITA STEWART. ANT) DARKENS CITY. I SIMOHT LIS WHAT GALVESTON SWEPT BY PIERCE STORM IJIIII I IMP bilLLHIU Tariff Conferees Will Fight It Out. MEET AT WHITE HOUSE DINNER Only Agree That Making of Tariff Is Trading. WILL CANVASS MEMBERS . Conference Report Will Sot Be Signed Till Sure of Adoption. AJdrk-h Admits Senate Max Make Concessions. WASHINGTON. July 21. The much-talked-of White House dinner, at which the tariff canferees and the President's closest advisers were brought together tonight in an effort to settle differences regarding the tariff bill, ended at 11:30 with the disputes over raw materials no nearer adjustment than they were before the dinner Invitations were Is ued. Only one question was deter mined beyond appeal, and that was that the conferees will have to settle their own differences. Tariff-Making Is Trading. Pains were taken to convey the impres sion that this decision Is not Indicative of any absence of appreciation of the President's efforts. It merely confirmed what the "elder statesmen" had asserted from the first that tariff-making is trad ing, and the shrewdest dealer snd the strongest section is bound to get the best of the argument. Representative Dwlght. the Republican whip, spoke for the House at the din ner. He referred to the Insurgent move ment organized by the "anti-free raw material" faction, but was not ready to estimate the strength of this element. Position on Free Raw Material. Representative Payne expressed the opinion that a conference report carrying free Iron ore. free coal, free hides and free oil could be adopted in the House, but he said that he had not canvassed the situation. Senator Aldrlch was positive that such a report would fall In the Senate, but he thought reductions could be made In the Senate rates, with perhaps iron ore and oil transferred to the free list. It was stated the President realized that the time had not yet arrived to call for a decision on the subjeot of raw ma-t-riali. Must of those present agreed with the President that the customs court should be situated in Washington, since it Is to be a final court of appeals. The discussion of the corporation tax dealt with the revenue It will produce and its general political effects. Make Sore of Votes First. Srrme of the conferees sa!d after the dinner that no conference report would be signed until both Houses had been canvassed. No one can say how much All the Republican conferees with the exception of Senator Cullom. were present at the dinner. From the Sen ate came Aldrlch. Hale, Burrows and Penrose. From the House were Payne, ralzell.- McCall. Boutell. Calderhead and Fordney. The President Invited Vice-President Fherman, Secretary MacVeagh. Attorney-General Wirkersham. Speaker Can non Senator Crane. Senator Root and Representative Dwlght. of New Tork. The real discussion did not begin until after the dinner, which Is said to have been one of the most elaborately prepared banquets ever served from the famous old White House kitchens. It m-as no fault of the President, his steward or his old Virginia "darkey" cook, if the conferees were not in an amiable mood when the meal was done. TAFT SOOTHES SEREXO PAYNE House Chairman Aids Conferees in Agreeing on Many Points. WASHINGTON. July 21. Better progress was made today by the tariff conferees than on any other day since the troblesome disputes were reached. Many questions were settled without any renewal of hostilities. President Taft is given credit for hte smoothness of the conference. It de veloped that after Senator Aldrlch and Speaker Cannon told their troubles to the President yesterday he undertook to bring the warring factions together. He ordered out his big touring car and went to Mr. Payne's home. Soon the chairman of the House ways and means committee and the President were riding out towards country roads. The two talked over the situation. What they said will never be known, but Mr. Payne made no objection to day to taking up subjects not involved In the White House programme con cerning raw materials. Zinc and Lead Duties Reduced. The entire zinc schedule was ad justed. Spelter was made dutiable at 1 cents per pound, which Is a reduc tion from the Senate rate of Hi cents and an Increase from the House rate of 1 cent. All the Senate different ials were adopted. Zinc in sheets will be dutiable it 1 cents, and sheets coated (.Concluded a Pwe ft J Proressor Wildex. After Making Bal loon Ascension. Short-Circuits High-Power Cables. Through the fouling of electric light wires by a parachute Jumper at 7:4S o'clock last evening. Portland was cut off from "Juice" for a period of about half an hour. The accident happened at East Sixth and Wasco streets as Profes sor Carlos Wildea was attempting to alight after releasing his parachute from a gas balloon. The parachute dropped across the electric wires at the street Intersection and immediately caught fire. Wildex fell to the ground, a distance of about 30 feet, sustaining a sprained ankle. Wilde and Professor Charles DeNora made a double ascension from the grounds of the midsummer fair of the Catholic Young Men's Club at the cor ner of Williams avenue and Stanton street at 7:30 in the evening. A northwest breeze was blowing and both balloons were carried over the city. DeNora made the parachute Jump in safety, but Wildex came down directly over the high tension wires carrying the electric current which furnished light and power for a large portion of the city. When the para chute fouled the wires the aeronaut let go and dropped to the ground. Both Wildex and DeNora are pupils of Professor Frank Miller and have been making ascensions and parachute Jumps for some time. The parachute used by Wildex was destroyed. His balloon dropped on the roof of the Holladay school and was not damaged. WAR ON GRAFTERS BEGUN Wayman Gets Indictments of Over 300 Persona. CHICAGO. July 21. (Special.) One hundred and five graft indictments, in volving more than 300 persons, were re turned today by the July grand Jury be fore Judge Ktckham Scanlan in the Crim inal Court In Slate's Attorney John E. Wayman's war on graft the greatest mass of indictments ever voted in one day in Cook County. Graft In the levee districts, graft in saloons and slot machines In the coun try towns and graft in Chinese gambling were struck a terrific blow by the grand Jury's action. In political circles it was the sensa tion of the day, for experienced pol iticians saw in this the start of a great campaign engineered chiefly by the StateAttorney's pf!ic against the city administration. Huge as was the day's" grist of true bills, it was reported that these were only a starter and that Mr. Wayman was hot after "men higher up"' In the world of graft. It was reported that the prosecutor hoped that some of these small fry would confess. MANY SECURITIES BARRED New York Stock Exchange Follows Suggestions of Governor Hughes. NEW YORK, July 21. The governing committe of the New York Stock Ex change today adopted a resolution abol ishing the commission on unlisted securi ties and forbidding further dealings fn such stock on the floor of the exchange after April 1, 1910. This action ia In Una with suggestions contained In the recent report of the White committee to Gov ernor Hughes. In the list thus barred are many of the best known speculative specialties, among them being Amalgamated Copper and Anaconda, National Biscuit preferred, Tennessee Coppper, Utah Copper. Ameri can Wool and American Smelters pre ferred. The existence of the unlisted de partment Is now continued until April of next year, to give officers of all corpora tions affetced opportunity to comply with the requirements. VOLCANO BURSTS FORTH Sumatran Villages Devastated by Eruption and Floods. VICTORIA. B. C. July 21. News was brought by the Norwegian steamer Tri color, which passed in today from Sour abaya. Java, of a disastrous earthquake on the west coast of Sumatra, the second largest Island in the .Malay Archipelago. In mid-June. According to the report received by the Tricolor 200 lives were lost. The earthquake followed an eruption of Mount Korintji. a volcanic peak 12.400 feet high, and Inland 50 miles from Indrapura. Mount Korintji has long been supposed to be extinct, lis crater having been filled with a large lake. Following the eruption of the rolcano and the earthquake there were torrential rains, flooding the rivers and causing ad ditional losses. The disaster Is said to be one of the worst that has ever occurred in Sumatra. LET FIREBUG KING OUT? Application for Pardon of Man Wanted In Many Slates. BELLE FONTAINE, O., July 21. Local attornejs today filed an application for the pardon of George R. Gamble, known as "king of firebugs," who is serving a seven-year sentence in the Ohio state prison for burning a gristmill in this city. All the police chiefs from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Coast were on the lookout for Gamble at one time. He Jumped his bond here after a charge of arson, but was arrested in California after a sensational chaaa. Admits He Saw Adams Beating Sutton. ADHERES TO SUICIDE THEORY Says Cadet Told Him He Would Shoot Himself. SAW HIM FIRE FATAL SHOT Description of Adams Punching Sut ton Make Dead Man's Sister Smile With Incredulity In quiry Goes Slowly. ANNAPOLIS. Md.. July 21. When the naval board of inquiry investigating the death of Lieutenant James N. Sutton, of Portland, Or., finished Its third session today, only four witnesses out of the 15 subpenaed by the Government had been examined. H. W. VanDyke, of Washing ton, of counsel for Sutton's mother, said after court that outside of Mrs. Kose Sutton Parker, sister of Lieutenant Sut ton, there pnobably would be no witnesses beyond those on the Government list. On a few minor points Henry E. Davis, chief counsel for the Suttons, showed dis crepancies in Lieutenant Wllllng's testi mony at this and the former Inquiry. Willing was the first man to say that he reached the scene of the tragedy in time to see Adams beating Sutton. Lieu tenant Bevan testified that he saw no blows exchanged. As Lieutenant Willing on cross-examination described Sutton with Adams holding him by the back of the neck with one hand and punching him with the other, Mns. Parker, who sat directly opposite the witness, smiled Incredulously and, turning to Mr. Van Dyke, one of her counsel, said: Sister Shows Discrepancy. 'Imagine a wild man, as they de scribe my brother to have been, standing up with -a revolver in each hand and tak ing a punching like that. It is wholly incredible." The Judge-Advocate asked Willing if he thought the beating Sutton got would have killed him, or if the witness had any way of knowing whether Sutton was dead before the last shot was fired. It is known that Mrs. Sutton has Impressed upon Major Leonard her belief that her son was beaten to death and afterward shot. The witness answered these questions In the negative. He said he took a serv ice revolver from Sutton's right hand af ter the shooting, but could not remember what became of it after that. Sutton Talked of Suicide. Lieutenant Bevan created a stir when he testified that six weeks prior to the shooting Sutton had told him that life in the Marine Corps had no attraction for him and that some day he would shoot himself. , A report being current that Lieutenant Sutton carried life Insurance to the amount of JM.000, which could not be col lected If the decision of the previous ln- ( Concluded on Page 4.) Man Is Barred From European Courts and Society, and Is Scorned by Austrians. NEW TORK, July 21. (Special.) Miss Anita Stewart, daughter of Mrs. James Henry Smith, of this city, who is to be come the wife of Prince Miguel of Bra ganza, and who gives him Jl.OOO.000 dowry, with no strings whatever attached, seems to have made a poor bargain. Bra ganza is not a prince, but the son of a pretender to the throne of Portugal. About the best thing that can be said of "Prince" Braganaa is that he is not quite as bad aa his young brother. Francis, but he has been ousted from European clubs, ostracised by society, dishonorably dis charged Irom the army of the nation that gave his family refuge, and barred from every royal court. Americans can hardly comprehend the status of the man who is barred from European clubs and society. If he is of royal, or even near-roya! family, he must go the extreme limit before society, clubs and the Austrian army find him unen durable. It Is not Miss Stewart's money, but is supposed to be furnished by her mother, who Inherited a fortune from "Silent" Smith. The girl herself has an income of J6OO.O0O from railroad bonds, and this comprises all her personal fortune. She cannot be received In any European court as Bragansa's wife. FLAG LEADS 'TO DIVORCE Woman's English Husband Objects to Her Patriotic Demonstrations. SEATTLE, Wash., July 21. (Special.) Because her husband, John Francis Black, refused to allow her to fling the American flag to the breezes on the Fourth of July, and because of a chain of similar circumstances, Helen Black has filed ,sult for divorce. Black is an Englishman. His opinion of these United States of America is not complimentary, though he makes his home here. Not only haa he tabooed any semblances of Fourth of July celebra tions in his home, but at divers and sun dry times he has wounded the patriotic feelings of his wife. In other words, Mr. Black is an Englishman with enough bulldog tenacity not to allow his rl leglance to Cheapslde and the King to be shaken by American patriotism. Mrs. Black does not admire these virtues. She specifies continual cruelty from her hus band. TAFT STANDS BY NEWELL Assures Him Ballinger Shall Not Have His Scalp. OREGON IAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington Jnly 21. The Washington Post, In an article today discussing the troubles . between Secretary Ballinger and Director Newell of the Reclamation Senrlro. states that Mr. Newell has re ceived assurance from the President that he Is not to be deposed, even though his scalp is demanded by Mr. Ballinger. THEY ARGUE WITH BULLETS Banker and Depositor Shoot In Set tling Accounts. ST. LOUIS, July 21. Several shots were exchanged by S. Zelig, president of the Savings Trust Company, and M. Daw son, a real estate dealer, who at the muzzle of a revolver this afternoon had demanded and received $365. which he claimed to be the amount of his deposit. ALIVE, DEAD, OR SLEEPING? Ten Dead and Property Loss $100,000. SHIPPING IS WARNED IN TIME Seawall Breaks Violence of Storm's Impact. ENTIRE GULF COAST SWEPT Hurricane From Sea Drives Big Waves Upon Beach Resorts and Great Loss of Property snd Life Is Feared. GALVESTON, Tex., July 2L A hurri cane equalling in violence the one that devastated this city nine years ago, swept In from the Gulf of Mexico today, did J100.000 worth of damage in the city proper, cost the lives of about a dozen people, cut off all rail and telegraphic communication with the mainland and then swept on Inland, leaving a wake of destruction and suffering behind. Owing solely to the warnings sent out by the weather bureau that . had first detected the storm In the Carribean Sea, the shipping at the port here escaped damage, all vessels being made snug before the fury of the gale struck. Te 17-foot sea-wall, built two years after the former devastation of the city, kept the huge waves from eating away the land as they had done before, but this wall was not sufficient to keep the water from the lower streets, from whence it poured Into the warehouse cellars, dam aging thousands of dollars' worth of goods. Most of the loss resulted from this flooding of buildings, though the vio lence of the wind, which at times blew as high as 70 miles . an hour, carried away a few of the weaker and mors ex posed structures. Ten Drowned at Pier. Ten people were drowned in the water that swept over a portion of Tarpon Pier, seven miles from the city. They were washed from the rock prom ontories into the gulf and the bodies have not yet been recovered. While it is impossible to get an accurate list of the dead, the best information ob tainable follows: Captain Bettlson and wife. Edward Lewis. C. H. Daily, circulating manager, Galveston Tribune. Four negroes. Friends In Galveston set forth a faint hope that all or a part of the party on the Tarpon Pier might have secured wreckage from the pier and floated to the Bolivar shore. In view of this hope, the launch Clifton, owned by Captain Bettlson, went to Bolivar, but could not find trace of the party. Dredge Wreck Bridge. During the height of the gale a heavy dredge which was at work in the chan nel behind the island, broke from its moorings and was swept into the steel railroad bridge that connects Galveston (Concluded on Page 6.) Returning, She Startles Divorce Col ony by Dress Husband Con sents to Separation. RENO. Nev., July 21. (Special.) Because Helen Bibb Tyler, daughter of Brigadier-General Lloyd M. Brett, of the United States Army in the Philip pines, wife of Francis J. Tyler, a pro fessional singer at Herald Square Theater, New Tork, the husband being a son of Colonel Tyler, of Washington. I took a trip of five months to Paris during the time she was establishing a legal residence in Nevada, a divorce decree was denied her today on the grounds that the court desires to take the matter under advisement upon the question of its Jurisdiction. Judge Pike, however, stated that there was no doubt but that she was entitled to a divorce, but he questioned that she was a legal resident of this state. Mrs. Tyler's allegation is that of desertion and non-support. She came to Reno last August and went to Paris in November, returning about June 1. She has made herself very conspicuous here by her dress, and spends much time on horseback. She was formerly a member of the chorus of the "Mary's Little Lamb" company and studied mu sic In Paris. The suit was not con tested. MINISTER HURT, MAY DIE Rev. George G. Ferguson Falls Off Wagon at University Park. Rev. George G. Ferguson was per haps fatally injured yesterday after noon while riding alone on a load of hay at University Park. The wagon striking an uneven place in the road, the minister was thrown from his seat and fell to the road. His head struck with great violence and he was picked up unconscious. It is believed he sus tained concussion of the brain. He was conveyed to his home. 1693 Dwlght street, where late last night he was still unconscious and In a critical con dition. The injured clergyman was found on the road by a passerby. He was at tended by Dr. D. O. Webster, who states the injury may prove fatal. HEN HAS ROOSTER'S HEAD Crows and Struts About, but Lays Eggs Daily. ABERDEEN, Washj, July 21. (Spe cial.) Having the body of a hen and the well-developed head of a rooster, laying eggs and crowing, is a feathered prodigy possessed by Mrs. Joseph Tiefenthaler. Mrs. Tiefenthaler did not notice at first that the chicken, which was raised with a brooder late last year, was any differ ent from the others, but after it was lay ing she saw it coming from the chicken house one day crowing, and from that time she watched its peculiarities. Mrs. Tiefenthaler has numerous visitors to see the curiosity, and has been offered JIB for the hen, to be exhibited as a curiosity. WOMEN TOO BAD FOR JAIL Suffragettes Turned Out of Prison on Account of Insubordination. LONDON, July 21. Six out of 14 suf fragettes who were recently imprisoned in the Holloway Jail for breaking win down at Whitehall have been released on account of insubordination, and Her bert Gladstone, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Intimated in the House of Commons today that it was only a question of a few days until all would be turned out The women were defying all the prison rules, and now Mr. Gladstone said they had taken to kicking and biting the fe male wardens. POWER SITE WITHDRAWN Ballinger Protects Green River From Grasp of Monopoly. WASHINGTON, July 21.-Carrylng out the policy of Secretary Ballinger in pre venting the monopolization of great water power sites by large corporations. Acting Secretary Pierce today withdrew for a temporary power eite 23.0S8 acres of land along the Green River and its tributaries in Wyoming. -A.il of the water power sites withdrawn will be reported by the 9?cretary to Con gress in order that legislation may be enacted to preserve them to the Govern ment. PASSENGERS STAY BY SHIP North German Lloyd Boat in Dan gerous Berth on Shoals. SOUTHAMPTON. July 21. The North German Lloyd steamer ' Deriffllngrer, which grounded on Shingle Bank yes terday. 1b still aground. Her passengers, numbering 100. re main on board, though she is gradually settling and her position Is dangerous. HARRIMAN STILL BETTER Wizard Is Xow Able to Devote Part of Time to Business. GASTBIN, .Austria, July 21. E. H. Harriman's health continues to im prove. He is devoting a small portion of his time to his business affairs Outlines Policies of His Administration. WILL BREAK UP PAVING TRUST Wants Brick and Will Throw Open Field to All. PLANS MUCH PARK WORK Will Complete Boulevard on West Side and Connection With All East Side Parks Promises Xew Jail and Crematory. SEATTLE, Wash., July 21. Staft Cor respondence.) While viewing the grounds of the Alaska-YUKOn-Paclflc Exposition with The Oregonlan correspondent today, Mayor Simon gave out some information that will be welcome news to Portland ers. First and for..iost, he will complete the boulevard on the West Side, recently donated by the Terwilliger heirs, a strip one mile long and 200 feet wide, and the proposed boulevard on the East Side con necting all the parks on that side of the river, during his term of office. This he has decided to do, and promises the peo ple of Portland this much as an evidence of his desire to make the city more beau tiful and to show that he favors utiliza tion of its natural grandeur. Death to Paving Trust. Another thing Mayor Simon promises the people of Portland, after viewing Seattle's scores of well-paved streets, is that he will break up the paving trust that has so long held the city in its grasp, and which drove the Denny Clay & Iron Company of Seattle out of the field when it attempted some months ago to get a foothold there. The Mayor has made up his mind he will not tolerate present conditions to continue, and de clared this morning, upon his return, he would begin action to make Portland an open competitive city for all manner of hard-surface Improvements, and that he would demand a square deal for every company In the business, but would not permit any combination to run things any. longer. Outlines Intended Achievements. "I promise the people of Portland I will do a few things during my administration that are urgently needed," said Mayor Simon. "I will complete the Terwllliger boulevard on the West Side, and a boule vard on the East Side, connecting all the parks on that side of the river. I am in favor of parks, but I have not changed my mind about a general policy on that (Concluded on Pase 12.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 87 8 degrees; minimum. 53.9 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and probably not bo warm; Northwesterly winds. foreign. Moors make all-night attack on Melllla; riots in Spain against sending troops. Page 3. Bolivia threatens to fight Peru and Is at en mity with Argentina, Paes 2. Bourgeois or Brjand to be new French Pre mier. Page S. National. Taft soothes Payne and tariff conference agrees on several schedules. Page 1. Taft fails as tariff peacemaker and con ferees will fight it out. Page 1. Domestic. Wholesale Indictments for grafting In Chi cago, page 1. Jerome expects Thaw to go gunning for him and ETvelyn Thaw If liberated. Page it. Prince who will marry Silent Smith's step daughter is aristocratic blacksheej Page 1. More evidence that Sutton committed sui cide weakened by witnesses contradic tions. Page 1. Storm causes great damage and loss of life on Gulf Coast, but seawall saves Galveston, though railroad bridge Is broken. Page 1. Orville Wright flies at speed of 54 miles an hour, almost equalling record. Page 3. Much destruction of property by cloudbursts in Wisconsin and Wyoming. Page 5. Miners Federation proposes to enroll all affiliated trades. Page 4. Cornelius P. Shea convicted of attempt to murder woman. Page 2. Sport. Coast League scores: Portland 4. Lo An geles 3; San Francisco 3, Oakland 2; Vernon 10, Sacramento 4. Page 7. Northwestern League scores: Portland 4 Spokane 5; Aberdeen 6. Seattle 0; Van couver 6, Tacoma O. Page 7. Pacific Northwest. Mayor Simon at A.-Y.-P. Fair outline policies of his administration. Page 1. Attitude of Schtvely and his Inactivity puzzles. Page 6. Governor Benson takes vacation first time since assuming office. Page o. Grain in field destroyed by fire near Walla Walla; loss $10,000. Page 6- Russia exiles Impress convicts to help them cross Bering Strait. Page 4. Portland and Vicinity. Twenty thousand people attend annual street carmen's picnic at the Oaks. Page 11. Hordes of Elks continue to pour into Port land on their way home. Page 12. Governor Benson will be candidate for Sec retary of State at next election. Page 11. Brother Leo says students should know English language perfectly first. Page 10. Harney County stockmen destroy Illegal fences because of guilty conscience. Page 6. Secretary Ballinger will visit various Ore gon reclamation projects. Page 10, Mrs. Grace Buckles says her husband threatened to cut her heart out "in a quiet way " Page 16. Women's Auxlllarly to Police Department has aided hundreds of young girls. Page 10. Helisrious Life Commission of Y. M. C JL gets down to work, P&f rcn io7