PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1909. VOL. XLIX.-XO. 13,183. PINCHOT TO QUIT, SAYS DAME RUMOR REDUCED FARE FOR ; TWENTY ASGEI WOMAN DIVORCED FREE HIDES MEAN FROM WRONG MAN ONE M0NTH ONLY COLOXISTS' RATES WILL BE SAME AS FORMERLY. MAN GREW CHEAPER SHOES IN RIOTS IN SPITE OF WIND BALLIXGER REPORTED TO BE TOO MUCH OF FIGHTER. SEATTLE WOMAN HAS TO BEGIN SUIT ALL OVER AGAIN". 10 1 HT 5 PORTERS OUTWIT INJURED Buy Land and Block Canyon Road. GATES LOCKED AND GUARDED Grade Made at Cost of $10,' 000 Captured by Rivals., WAR NOW ON IN EARNEST Only Entrance to Narrow Canyon to Point Where Surveys Conflict Se cured for $30,000. or Many Times Land's Real Value, BT R. O. CAU.VERT. GRASS VALLET. Or.. July 26. (Staff Correspondence-) Porter Bros, opened a war of strategy on Harriman'a railroad construction forces today by cutting- off the base of supplies for Twohy Bros. camps at Horse Shoe Bend, In the can yon of the Deschutes. This was accom plished by Porter Bros, by the acquisi tion of the homestead of Fred Gurtz. across which runs the only road that leads to the brink of the canyon any where near the vicinity of Horse Shoe camp. It is said that Porter Bros, paid BO,X0 for the land by which they have shut off entrance to the canyon to Twohy Bros. At Horse Shoe 3end Twohy Bros, have begun to establish the blRftest camp along the construction route, but to get there with the tralnload of supplies now here the Harrlman contractors will have to cross Porter Bros.' land, and Porter Bros, have put up signs warning tres passers off the property. The Gurts homestead is enclosed by a barbed wire fence and a wire gate Is across the road at once boundary line and a wooden gate at the other. Guard's Side Pocket Bulges. Both gates were padlocked today by Porter Bros., who stationed a man at the wire gate, which Is the one nearest town. This sentry Is not openly armed, but the side pockets of his coat bulge suspiciously. 'Oregonlnn' proved a jood password today. The Gurts homestead occupies a posi tion peculiarly adapted for a strategic move of this kind. Two lesser, canyons converge Into the Deschutes almost to gether from different angles at the point where Harrlman"a new wagon road leads off 3009 feet to the river's edge below. On the table land at the apex of the angle formed by these lesser canyons is a tract cf Government land now In con test between settlers. The Gurts home stead adjoins the disputed tract, with canyons on two sides of It. $10,000 Road Appropriated. There Is no feasible place to build a road connecting Grass Valley with the ammlt of Harriman's wagon road other than through the Gurts ranch. Exten sion of this road down Into the canyon of the Deschutea was considered so es sential thai the Harrlman railroad build ers expended more than $10,000 building a highway winding down the bluff to the mater. Two hundred men worked 30 days putting it in shape, and the first wagon went down it yesterday. The Twohy Bros." camps on the brink of the bluff have been moved Into the iranyon. and this morning the Harrlman iforees began working on the approaches to both ends of the tunnnel which will cut through Horse Shoe Bend. At this strategic point the two surveys conflict. Hone Shoe Bend Is a curve in the Deschutes River more than one and one-J-aJf miles around, leaving a high tongue ft land about 1040 feet acrsss at the base. The tunnel is to be constructed through the tongue, making a ten-degree curve for the entire distance of lv0 feet. 900 Men Taking la Supplies. From the viewpoint of one not a rail road engineer. It would not appear feas ible to build two railroads around Horse Shoe bend, and tnere appears to be room for only one line's construction by the tunnel plan. There are now about 300 men in the camps getting supplies and equipment u the road from Grass Valley into the canyon at Hone Shoe Bend. So far as food supplies are concerned. Porter Bros.' coup is not a total bar to transportation. ir.aamU'-h as pack trains can get down in what are known as Mar Canyon and 16 Canyon. But there are scrapers, work cars, lumber, camp ranges, steel, drilling machinery and great stores now in Grass Valley, which is full of camp railroad construction paraphernalia of all kinds that can only go by wagon. Having fenceu off Harrlman. Porter Bros, apparently Intend to appropriate his I10.0ui wacon road down the bluff, which Li wholly Government land. One of Porter Bros " wagon trains of seven wagons, with 30 men. arrived late tonight at the Gurts place and will attempt to go down the Harrlman road to the very base of Harrlman operations tomorrow and establish tampi there. Road Full of Powder Holes. At the Harrlman construction head quarters here tonight it is stated that the fencing off of the route to the camp was not a surprise. It was admitted that the new wagon road Is full of powder holes and can be blown up and destroyed if desired. Harrlman has a sufficiently (Canoiudea ea Fae I) Lawyer Bungles and . Names " Are Confused, Giving; Divorcee Inter est In Property Not Hers. SEATTLE. Wash., July 26. (Special.)- Divorced from the wrong man and awarded the wrong property, Mary Louise Owens has again filed suit for separation, this time from the right man. James Franklin Owens, her husband. May 8 this year she was given a divorce from F. J. Owens, a person with whom she haa no acquaintance, and awarded the ownership of property which belonged to a man who never heard of the Owens. Both of these mistakes were the fault of Mrs. Owens' attorney. She haa changed lawyers and now sues for sep aration from James Franklin Owens. Owens thought over the matter care fully, did not remember that he had ever married and therefore proceeded to look up Mrs. Mary Louise Owens. 'Mrs. Mary," he remarked, "I am highly honored by your interest in my property, but I can't quite see the point. Did you ever marry me?" 'Not that I know of," replied Mrs. Owens. "Did you ever divorce me?" "Not having married you, how could Explanations brought out the facts. and Mrs. Owens begins a suit against the right man. ALLEGED THIEF IS DYING Two Baker County Men Accused of Dealing' Fatal Blow. BAKER CITY, Or., July 26. At Cop- perfleld. Or., where It is alleged he stole a horse yesterday, Page Hawley, believed to be a member of an organized gang of rustlers who have been operating in Oregon and Idaho, lies with his head caved in and will 'le. It is believed th. it the man was. the victim of the rudimentary justice of Baker County's newest community. After selling the horse to John Stevens, of Copperfteld, Hawley made off with, it. He was pursued into the hills by J. J. Burns and G. Pratt, who captured him. When the men returned with Hawley his skull was crushed, evidently from a rock, and he will die.- The men contend that Haw ley, who was an expert rider, fell from his horse as they were bringing hint back to Copperfield. There were no other wit nesses. It is believed, however, that Hawley was struck by the men after his capture. The suspects are under arrest, and in case of Hawley 's death, will be made to stand trial. MAKE SURE INDIAN DEAD Funeral of Siwash Centenarian De layed by Former Resurrection. OLTMPIA, Wash.. July 26. (Spe cial.) Sandy Parker, a Mud Bay In dian, more than 100 years old, was buried today. He died Saturday, but the Indians, mindful of an experience six years ago, refused to bury him as promptly as is their wont. On the former occasion he was ap parently just as dead as he was Satur day, and the high functionaries of the ribe engaged one of the most elaborate uneral programmes known to the tribe. In, the midst of the rites the "corpse" rose up and inquired what it was all about. Hence it was that the chief re marked: We'll take no chasices this time," when Sandy died Saturday. He was generally known as "Cultus Sam." He was a short, squat Indian, but exceed- ngly pugnacious and was famed for his fights with men and John Barleycorn. ARDENT LOVER IN PRISON Man Who Von Widow From Fiance Mart Serve Time for Bigamy. HONOLULU. July 26.-R. M. Baker, of Chicago, -who wu arrested here M&y 34 on a charpe of bigamy, upon cable In structions of the Chicago police, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to three years at hard labor In the penitentiary. Baker arrived here May 1 from San Francisco. On board the steamer he met Mrs. Eva B. Wallace, who was en route to the Islands to marry a member of a well-known Honolulu Arm. So ardent was Baker's love that the widow forgot her waiting fiance, and promised to marry Baker. They were married immediately upon arriving- at Honolulu. Baker Is eaid to have a wife and child living in Chicago. TORNADO WIPES OUT TOWN Saskatchewan Village Gone, but No body Reported Injured. WINNIPEG. July 26. The village of Slecklin. located on the Saskatoon and West Asklwin branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Saskatchewan, was wiped out by a tornado yesterday after noon. No one was seriously hurt. OFFER MADE TO EX-SHAH Deposed Ruler Has Chance to Be come "Remittance Man." TEHERAN. July 26. The new Persian government is prepared to offer Moham med All Mirsa, the ex-Shah of Persia, an annual pension of $25,000 on condition that he leaves Persia without delay. Tariff Conferees Find Way to Harmony. REDUCE LEATHER GOODS DUTY Cattle States Will Not Yield on Other Conditions. ASK HOUSE TO CONSENT If Plan Is Rejected, Conferees Will Ask Taft to Secure the Needed Votes Proposed Schedule of Leather Rates. LUMBER TAJUI'F, 1.M. OREGONIAN NEWS BCHKAU. Washinffton. July 26. Advocates of a duty of CI. 50 on rough lumber per thousand have about abandoned hope of success, for ther learned today that President Taft will not consent to a rate exceeding- $1.23. The Pres ident would prefer a rate of $1, but will not Insist upon the House pro vision. It Is generally believed the confer ence committee will report a rate of 91.25 in view of the President's Insistence. '. WASHINGTON. July 26. Hides will be put on the free list if the tariff on boots and shoes and other leather manufactures is reduced below the House rates. Un less the advocates of free hides are able to carry out this plan, the whole is to be called off. A decision to this effect was reached by . the. tariff conferees today. The conference adjourned tonight until 11 o'clock tomorrow morning;, but the House members assemble half an hour earlier that they may plan for executing ffielr part of the agreement. It is ex pected ,that they will have a report from the House leaders as to the possibility of passing a rule conferring: jurisdiction upon them to agree to lower rates on leather than those named in the House bill. 3Iay Put It Up to Taft. Senator Aldrich has informed Senators from Northwestern states that he will not consent to free hides unless there is a material cut in the rate on boots and shoes and other leather goods. In no other way, he said, can he get the neces sary votes in the Senate. Senators from cattle-raising states have insisted that the only way consumers can get any benefit from the removal of the duty on hides will be by corresponding reductions in the duties 'on boots, shoes and har ness. Should the House fail to give Its con ferees authority to adopt rates lower than those of the House bill, the confer ence committee has what is regarded as a trump card in reserve. This provides for a conference report putting hides on the free list and reducing the rates on shoes and other leather manufactures. This report, it is said, then would be presented (Concluded, on Page 6.) COVERED T Homeseekers in East Mast Leave Be tween September 15 and Octo ber 15 This Year, However. CHICAGO, July 26. (Special.) Colo nists' fares to the Pacific Coast which have been under consideration at the rate meeting of the Transcontinental Passen ger Association for several days, will be made this Fall at the same rates as here tofore, $33 from Chicago, $32 from St. Louis and $25 from the Missouri River to California and North Pacific states. Their availability will be reduced, how ever, from the usual 60 days to a month. from September IB to October 15. This was decided upon because the heaviest movement has been found dur ing the first and last ten days of that period. Abotat 25,000 people are expected to take advantage of the rates, which are for single trips. The Santa Fe handled 219 carloads of passengers Into Los Angeles from east of Albuquerque between January 7 and 12. Southern roads have, in the last three years, made extraordinary .efforta, by cheap fares and other inducements, to divert travel from the northern roads, but with indifferent success. DAYLIGHT ROBBER SHOOTS Salem Grocer Has Thrilling- Experi ence With Highwayman. SALEM, Or., July 26. (Special.) A daring attempt at a holdup was reported to the police late this evening. J. J. Mc Donald, proprietor of the Liberty grocery store, states that while he was driving home and when about half a mile from the city, a tall man. wearing a black mask and a linen duster, stepped out of the bushes, pointed a revolver at McDonald's head and ordered him to throw up his hands Instead of complying, McDonald dropped his head and whipped up his horses. He reports mat tne noiaup man nrea iw shots, but the bullets missed their mark. Shortly before the attempted holdup Wal ter Hoffman saw a man answering the description of the highwayman, but no trace of the fellow has been seen since the attempted robbery. The affair occurred about 5:30, but the telephone wires are in trouble and news of the robbery did not reach the police for several hours. . ... . FALLS 80 FEET, WILL LIVE Farmer Attempts Suicide, by Leaping Off Bridge at Albany. ALBANY. Or., July 26. (Special.) Though he plunged from "the highest point of the Albany steel bridge into the Willamette River, SO feet below, last Sat urday night, August Krleger, a Benton County farmer, is alive and rapidly re covering from the effects of his suicidal leap. During a 'short period of mental ab erration, Krleger determined to kill himself, and climbed up on the railing of the bridge and Jumped. People on the bank saw the leap, and a man In a fishing boat took him to the bank. He was taken to St. Mary's Hoepital, but his Injuries were not severe and he is now practically well, and has recovered from his fit of despondency. Krleger !s worth about $15,000, having recently sold his farm, and Is said to have had no cause of any kind for worry. He had been working hard in the hay field Saturday, and had become over heated, and after coming to town in the evening became mentally unbalanced. WITB? FLOWERS BUT THE CHAIN Mexican Politics Takes Sanguinary Turn. TWO AMERICANS ARE WOUNDED Property Leased by Men From United States Destroyed. MOB IS OPPOSED TO DIAZ Supporters of General Reyes as Can didate for President Attend Diaz Gathering and Troops Fire Upon Crowd of Rioters. MEXICO CITY. July 26. Two dead, 20 injured and more than 200 arrested. Is the result of political riots in Guadalajara yesterday and last night, according to reports received here. The riots started when a mob broke up a mass meeting in Delgado Theater in the interest of the re-election of President Diaz. The orators were stoned in streetcars, carriaues and auto mobiles in which they rode. Mobs ' paraded the streets crying: "Down .with Diaz!" "We want Reyes!" A barricade was erected and many shots were exchanged. Eight policemen were wounded. Troops Called Out. The police charged the crowd re peatedly, but were repulsed. State troops were called out and a number of volleys were fired in the air without effect. Some members of the mob erect ed a barricade and ' shots were ex changed between them and the sol diers. Considerable American property was destroyed, and two Americans were wounded. The Americans have, asked the American Consulate for protection. The Hotel Garcia, which was wrecked by the mob, was leased by an American, and he has put in a claim for damages. Two Americans Hurt. W. Hinton, one of the Americans who was injured, is a guest at the hotel, and Just before it was stoned he is said to have stepped to a balcony and fired his revolver into the air in an at tempt to disperse the crowd. A. Mur phy, the other American injured, was cut by a policeman's saber. A heavy hail storm eventually dis persed the mob. The riot is the most serious that has occurred in Mexico in years, and is looked upon as significant by those who have been closely following the politi cal situation. The officials say it was planned and carried out by the Demo cratic - party, known as the Reyesta party, from the name of the candidate for Vice-President, General Bernardo Reyes. Edris Is Confirmed. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. July 26. The Senate today con firmed the nominations of the following postmasters: W. P. Edris, Spokane J. M. Parrish, Wilbur; J. D. Stage, Blaine. IS THERE. Chief Forester Has Neglected Duties for Past Month to Write Roosevelt History. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 26. It is rumored around Washington tonight that Glfford Pinchot, chief of the Forest Service, because of the interference with his administration by Secretary of the Interior Ballinger and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in tends to resign and get out. The rumor lacks confirmation, but ap pears to be given color by reason of the fact that Pinchot, for more than a month, has neglected his Government work in order to collaborate with ex-Secretary Garfield in writing a history of the Roose velt Administration, and further because Pinchot is known to be deeply disheart ened by reason of the attitude assumed by President Taft and his Cabinet toward forestry and conservation propagandas. Pinohot's closest friends declare he will not resign, but will fight all who oppose him. PLAN CITY OF PULLMANS Delegates to Irrigation Congress at Spokane to Live In Cars. SPOKANE, Wash., July 26. (Special.) Spokane has had tented cities and nearly a white city, but the coming of the Na tional Irrigation Congress in August will bring the first city of Pullman cars, where large numbers of visitors to Spo kane will be housed. The "City of Pull mans" will be extended over spurs and sidetracks along the Northern Pacific from Washington street to Walla street. R. Inslnger, of the National Irrigation Congress committee, is carrying on nego tiations with the Northern Pacific to get the company to park a large number of their Pullman cars, and seeking permis sion of the city authorities to tap the fire plugs! in the vicinity of the right of way with a three-quarter inch pipe line, and to use eanltary garbage cans under the cars. Cars are to be guarded by spe cial service men of the Northern Pacific. CANADA MAY HAVE NAVY Minister Pugsley Thinks Ships and Docks WH1 Be Built. VICTORIA, B. C, July 26. That Can ada will build a navy to co-operate with the British navy in the defense of the empire was stated by Hon. William Pugs ley, Dominion Minister of Public Works, foefore the Board of Trade here today. He said: 1 look forward to seeing a number of first-class vessels of war, of purely Cana dian origin, and manned by Canadians, stationed on both the Atlantic and Pa cific seaports.- 'The question of a Canadian navy and drydocks on both Pacific and Atlantic will be discussed as soon as the delegates to the imperial defense conference return from England. The outcome of the con ference will undoubtedly be a decision to construct drydocks on both Canadian sea boards capable of accommodating the largest battleships." BALLOON IN SNOW STORM Contender for Labm Cup Finds Win ter at 13,000 Feet Altitude. ST. LOUIS, July 26. A midsummer snowstorm two miles above earth caused John J. Berry and two other men who ascended here last night in the balloon University City in an at tempt to capture the Lahm cup, to land today near Savanna, 111. Jhey traveled 242 miles. "At one time when we were trying to get out of the snow storm," said Mr. Berry, "we rose to 13,000 feet. At times the basket swung around like a top. Sleet cut our faces and we had to keep brushing snoW off the edge of the basket to prevent its weight from retarding our flight." CARVING AWAY SLOOP GJOA Amundsen's Sloop to Be Protected From Relic-Hunters. SAN FRANCISCO, July 26. Fearing that relic hunters will carry away piecemeal- the sloop Gjoa, In which Raoul Amundsen sailed through the Northwest Passage, the San Francisco police department has set a guard over the slo6p and will try to punish some of those whose initials cover the ves sel's sides. The ship is beached at Golden Gate Park and was Intended to be a museum for things nautical. Relic hunters have carved away at tne timbers until the worth of the vessel as a historic relic is impaired. GUARDSMAN NOT BARRED Miners' Federation Retains Adjutant-General Greening as Member. DENVER, July 26. Permission to allow Philip Greening to retain his member ship in the Western Federation of Miners and still accept the appointment of Adjutant-General of Montana and the adop tion of the report of the executive board member, J. W. Lowney, were the two im portant matters disposed of by the Na tional convention of the Federation today. Mr. Lowney's report, covering the dis trict including the Butte local, provoked a heated argument, the Moyer and Flynn factions exchanging many pointed personalities, Aeroplane Has Brave , Battle With Air. TILTS AT DANGEROUS ANGLE Brilliant Assemblage Cheers Aviator's Skill. TAFT SEES PERFORMANCE Endurance Test Postponed by Stiff Wind, Lest Fatality Occur aa When Selfrldge Was Killed In Similar Flight. '( LATHAM'S TRIAL DISASTROUS. CALAIS. July 27. Hubert Latham at 5:16 this morning made a trial night In his motor-plane preparatory to an attempt to fly across the Chan nel to England. His machine came violently to the ground In making a landing. A . wheel was smashed and the propeller damaged. It is possible repairs will be made in time to make the attempt to cross the Channel before noon. WASHINGTON, July 26. Orville Wright made a two-and-a-half-mile flight under adverse conditions with his aeroplane at Fort Myer this evening. The occasion, by reason of the presence of President Taft and a brilliant assemblage of Wash ington official life, bore an air more social than aeronautic. Everybody had expected Wright to make the first of his official so called "endurance tests" of an hour in the air with a passenger. . The last time the Wrights performed this feat, only ten months ago, it coat the life of Lieu tenant Selfrldge of the Signal Corps. A stiff wind caused the postponement of the expected trial and all that Wright at tempted was a brief flight without a pas senger. With President Taft, Speaker Cannon and Senator Aldrich looking on, the ma- (Concluded on Page 8.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS i The Weather. TODAY'S Maximum temperature, 684 de grees; minimum. 66.9. TOD AT Fair with slowly rising tempera ture; northwesterly winds. Foreign. European pressure may cause China to re fuse Americans share In loan. Page & British Cabinet announces that four mor Dreadnoughts will be built. Page 2. Two men killed and American property de stroyed In anti-Diaz riots. Pare X. Latham damages airship in trial flight be fore attempting to cross channel. Page 1. General strike at Barcelona against war is Morocco. Page 4. National. Tariff conferees decide on free hides and lower leather product duties, but Senate and House disagree and Taft may havs to find solution. Page 1. Rumor that Forester Pinchot will resign. Page 1. Government gains thousands by compromis ing Utah coal land suits. Pace 3. Battleship Michigan, speediest of class, tr be added to Navy In August. Page ii. Politic. Bingham rejected as mayoralty candidate and Governor puzzles both parties. Page 7 lomrstic Hawaiian sugarplanters propose to import Russian labor. Page 2. Private Kennedy says Sutton was forced into fight. Page 6. Orville W rl gh t flies in a crop lane in sp 1 1 of stiff wind. Page 1. Alenlsts testify In defense of Thaw's sanity. Page 2. Colonist rates to be same as last year, but only for one month. Page L Assistant cashier of Tipton, Ind.. bank robs It of $60,000 and flees. Page 4. Railroads adopt plan to fight Spokane rate decision. Page 4. Sports. Coast League scores: Sacramento 1. Vernon 2. Page 7. Northwestern League scores: Portland 2, Vancouver 4 ; Tacoma 2, Seattle 5 ; Spokane 5, Aberdeen 7- Page 7. Oakland here today for series with Port land. Page 7. Marvin Hart knocked out by Schreck in four rounds. Page 7. Pacific Northwest. Porter Bros, block entrance of Harrlman crews to Deschutes Canyon. Page 1. Seattle woman finds she Is divorced from wrong man. Page 1. Prison guard who kills convict exonerated. Page 13. Spokane suffragists abandon Liberty Lake camp for more comfortable headquarters in city. Page 8. Delays In litigation may be made cause for contempt, page 6. - Commercial and Marine. Local wheat market weak, but prices no lower. Page 17. Heavy receipts weaken wheat prices at Chi cago. Page 17. Stock market awaits Steel Trust 'meeting Page 17. United States engineers make preliminary examination of Clearwater River between Kamlah and Lewie ton. Page 16. Hops reach 20-cent mark with prospects ol further advance. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. New evidence pointing to Insanity of Mrs. Collins before murder is given. Page 10. Mayor Simon names new Park Board; two have served before. Page 12. Woman stirs up row when preacher talks to guardsmen In camp. Page 18. Mayor summarily stops sale of bonds, say ing city has enough idle money for park improvements. Page 1 1. Mrs. Georgia Kelsay, in suit for divorce, al lege many cruelties. Page 11. Report Is current that Tom Word Is slated to succeed U. S. Marshal Reed. Page 12. Kruttschnitt and O'Brien decline to discuss move of porter Bros, in Deschutes Can yon. Page 16u Countess von Rathlou declares Mrs. Collins threatened to kill her in visit to doctor t Page 10,