PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1909. VOL. XLIX.-NO. 15,185. ROYAL WEDDING IS TUFT IS PRETTY GIRL ROBS MAN IN DAYLIGHT HIGHWATWOMAX HOLDS LT CHICAGOAX IX AFTERXOOX.' BLACK HAND HAS REVOLT IN S DISTRICT IN FEAR BLOCKED BY FEAR FEAR FOR SAFETY I PEOPLE OF XEW MICHEL GO PRINCESS ALEXANDRA NOT TO ABOUT ARMED. MARRY KING MANUEIi. FIGHTING WHITES SEN TBffl UNDERGOES HIS ORDEAL WELL 1 LAIS ALFONSO ARiFF SCHEMERS Gives Thoughtful An swers to Jerome. SHOWS NO SIGN OF INSANITY Entire Day Spent Upon Stand Parrying Questions. WITNESS IS GOOD NATURED Prisoner Often Smiles Triumphant ly as He Scores Points in His Battle With New York's District Attorney. WHIT-Hi FUIK9. X. T.. July 28. Hurry K. Thaw's .fata lay In his own hands today. For six hours he occupied the witness stand while District Attorney Jerome delved Into his life history. Thaw emerged creditably from the ordeal. Whatever Mr. Jerime and his alienists may make of the examination, to the rye and ear of the layman Stanford White's slayer showed no signs of In canity today. Tonight Thaw, the members of his fam ily and his attorneys and experts were unanimous In their opinion that he has proved his fitness to be at large. But Thaw's ordeal Is not over. He will remain on the witness stand tomorrow and perhaps a day longer. The state's alienists believe If he Is Insane he will be more likely to betray himself toward the end. when wearied by Jerome's con tinued hammering. Good Nature Prevails. Neither Thaw nor the District Attorney displayed anything but the utmost good nature. Frequently the dialogue resem bled the chat of friends. Sometimes Thaw thought he had scored a point and smiled with the keenest enjoyment. The smile was always reflected on the face of his white-haired mother, who sat. InX court throughout the day with the other members of the Thaw family. Jerome strove to establish Thaw's in sanity, mainly on Thaw's alleged hallu clnatlons regarding Stanford White's treatment of young girls. Time and again he aeJced th witness his opinion of his mental state. Thaw's replies In substan.ce "I have always been sane, medically. When I killed White I may have been legally insane for a few minutes. I am sane now. Declares Experts Wrong. Thaw explained the evidence of his alienists at the trial by saying that In declaring him Insane they had been mis led. He said he was told the charges agatast White were untrue, and he in ferred the charges must be delusions. Questions that made the witness knit his brows had to do with his relations with Evelyn Nesblt before their mar riage. He declared, however, that he had treated the girl well on their Euro pean trip and had repeatedly asked her to marry him. Thaw turned to kiss his aged mother as he strode proudly to the stand. Then he settled bark In the witness ,chair, and in a low, but steady voice began his duel with District Attorney Jerome. His very first statement created a sensation In the courtroom. "I believe." he said, "that in acquitting me the Jury was lanedy influenced by the belief that Stanford White deserved his fate. Another reason I was acquitted." he continued, "was, I believe, because the attorneys on both sides told the Jury that my act was caused by certain delusions." Jerome Starts Quizzing. Then District Attorney Jerome began. "You are a gentleman and an educated man?" h asked. The witness nodded. "Ton believe that a gentleman should defend his honor?" "Yes." 'And if you committed an set In the defense of your honor, would you consider yourself Justified In committing perjury to escape the consequences or your actr "No." replied Thaw, shaking his head The District Attorney abandoned this attack and spoke of hypnotism. "Did you ever take lessons of a hyp notist?" "They could hardly be called lessons, said Thaw, smiling. "I talked with one four or five times." "Did you ever think that Stanford White exerted a hypnotic Influence over Miss Evelyn Xesblt?" "From her remarks I thought such a thing possible. At least, he certainly had a very strong influence over her." Speakiiw of Anthony Comstock." Thaw said half apoiozetically. "since my arrest, I am afraid I haven't had any Interest tn his work." Jerome examined Thaw at length on the testimony Etven at the trial regarding Thaw s alleged hallucination that a num ber of little girls were locked up in the jail where he was conrined when first ar rested. "That's r-jt.bish." said Thaw. "Then, dirt you. dominated by this Idea of noblesse ohl ge, allow Sir. Littleton tThaw s attorney) to put this in evi dence?" "I told h'.m not to. but he Insisted on using It." Refers to Merrill Story. Vp to this point. Thaw had acquitted himself well and his lawyers, alienists and relatives exchanged elances of con gratulation. "Did your wife reproach vou for lash, lng these women regarding whom Mrs Merrill testified, and say she could get a divorce on that ground? And did you (Concluded on Page &j Business Totallv Suspended in Crows st Region Because of Threatening Letters. VICTORIA, B. C July (Special.) Through the resumption of activities by the anarchistic Italian element operating under the mask of the Black Hand, reign of terror has been inaugurated in the Crows Xest Colliery district of East Kootenav. At Xew Michel business is suspended and the community, fully armed, goes about in groups, fearful of sudden assassination. Five or six leading citixens have re ceived the regulation warning, among them Joseph Ferona, proprietor of the Northern Hotel, and Carlo Salmo, for whom the town of Salmo is named, well-known mining operator. The ' men suspected by the police are low Italians, lately from Pittsburg, and a bad lot. In each of the threatening letters $200 was demanded and places for the deposit of the money were designated. Several men were posted at the designated places and false parcels were placed in the hiding places by the recipients of the letters, but no attempt was made by the Black Hand gang to claim them. Xot a member of the big colony of Italian miners is working today. Every one in the town is armed, and the Ital ians are out to assist the police in pro tecting the lives of the threatened men. Three hundred and fifty Italians held a meeting yesterday afternoon and dis cussed the situation. FALL FROM HAY IS FATAL Rev. George G. Ferguson, Pioneer Pastor, Dies of Injuries. Rev. George G. Ferguson, of 1693 Dwlght street. University Park, one of Portland's . pioneer Methodist clergy men, died yesterday noon of injuries received July 21 in a fall from a load of hay. He was 70 years of age and for more than 30 years had been preaching in and near Portland. The accident that led to Rev. Mr. Ferguson's death occurred when a por tion of a load of hay. upon which he was riding, slipped. His skull was badly fractured and the aged minister was taken to his home, where he had been hovering between life and death until yesterday. Up to the time of the acci dent he was actively engaged in the ministry, having charge of a country jAWECb near. University Park. He is survived by a wife and nine children. The funeral services will be held to morrow in the University Park Metho dist Church. MAY CLOSE BRITISH MINES Miners Vote to Strike in Support of Scottish Brethren. LONDON. July 28. The balloting of the members of the Miners' Conference of Great Britain to decide whether or not a national strike should be declared In sup port of the Scottish miners, who are re sisting a wage reduction of sixpence a day, was concluded today and resulted In 518.3"il votes In favor of a general strike and only 62.9S0 voted against. Another conference between employers and the men will be held tomorrow un der the chairmanship of Winston Spen cer Churchill and. unless a compromise Is then reached, a general industrial up heaval appears Inevitable. LITTLE GIRL DIES IN FIRE Lamp Explodes and Child Cannot Be Got Out of House. SPOKANE, TVah., July 28. Bernard- tne Brown, the 5-yrar-old daughter of Norman G. Brown, department manager of the Spokane Dry Goods Company, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed her parents home- at Gree nacres, a few miles from Spokane, tonight The fire was caused by a lamp explosion. An older sister, who had been sleeping a tent, was about to rush into the flames to rescue the little one, but was held back, as It would have meant certain death. The house and contents were en tirely destroyed. HAIL DEVASTATES CROPS Beats Down Grain, Tears Tops Off Potatoes in Montana. FILLINGS. Mont.. July 28 Word re ceived here today from the Huntley proj ect in Eastern Montana, which yester day was swept by a terrific wind, hail and rain storm, places the aggregate damage at aooo. Fields of grain of all kinds were beaten down and the tops of beets and potatoes were torn to bits. Unprotected stock suf fered greatly from hall. The wind unroofed numerous houses and barns and wrecked smaller buildings. As far as known, no one was seriously injured. SHOUP STATUE AT CAPITOL Memorial to Late Idaho Senator Will Xot Be Cnvciled Till Winter. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, July 28. A marble statue of late Senator Shoup. of Idaho, is soon to be erected in Statuary Hall in the Capitol building. The statue la the gift of the state of Idaho, and was delivered at the Capitol building today, but will not be unveiled until next Winter. The ceremonies will then be con ducted Jointly by the Senate and House of Representatives. Desperate Battles at Barcelona. RIOTS IN MANY OTHER CITIES Purpose to Involve Whole Kingdom in Revolt. BLOODY FIGHT AT MELILLA Government Contends at Same Time Against Sedition at Home and Fanatical Moors Costly Victory for Spain. MADRID, July 28. The revolution in Catalonia has reached a serious stage. There is much bloodshed. Artillery has been employed in the streets of Barcelona to quell the outbreaks. The c ty Is ter ror-stricken. The revolutionists are re ported to be fighting desperately behind barricades. The troops includo mounted artillery and the defenses of the rebels have been raked with shot. King Alfonso hastened back to Madrid from San Sebastian today and Issued a decree proclaiming martial law and sus- perslon of the constitutional guarantees throughout Spain. Orders have been given to the Governors of Provinces to crush the revolution at any cost with out hesitation and without pity. Costly Victory at Melllla. Today marks a black chapter in Spain's history, for there was tragedy both at home and abroad. The army at Melllla had a bloody battle with the Moors, which, though the victory was won by the Spaniards, resulted in the loss of 21 officers and 200 privates killed and wounded. An exact estimate of the dead and wounded in the clashes between the troops and rebels in Barcelona ia not possible because of the rigid censorship, and the Government has not fixed a total. The Government admits, how ever, that rioters have been billed and wounded in several cities, including Barcelona and Alcoy. Rioting in Many Cities. There has been rioting at Ragossa, Vendrell, Rloja, Fort iau and Llaneon, and a general stri.ee was declared at Blscaya. There has been much destruc tion of property. The center of the re bellion is Barcelona, whither the gov ernment is rushing extra troops. A dispatch tonight said that the Bar celona revolutionists had been defeat ed as a result of desperate charges by the troops. Later fighting started again, troops using heavy guns to de molish the barricades. At Barcelona no life is safe and a proclamation has been Issued warning peaceful citizens o remain under cover. King Alfonso was closeted until a late hour with Premier Maura, and an (Concluded on Pare .) HAVE THEY Bride-to-Be Afraid of Assassination and Plans of Regal Match Are Dropped. . LISBON, July 28. (Special.) The fall nre of the proposed marriage of King Manuel and Princess Alexandra was due primarily to fear of the prospective bride that she might be assassinated. Official announcement that the King will not wed the daughter of the Duke of Fife has been followed by details of match-making plans in which King Ed ward, grandfather of the Princess, was active. An emissary of Manuel, sent to arrange the marriage, visited King Edward, and his approval of the match was followed by a consultation wrth the Princess- and her parents. Unrest in Portugal and the assassination of King Manuel's father and brother were discussed at length. The Princess expressed her fear that King Manuel might meet the same fate. and her own life might be taken if she were his wife. Her protest was so strong that the Idea of marriage was dropped. MORE SUPPLIES REQUIRED Rush for Indian Lands Expected to Break All Records. SPOKANE,. Wash., July 28. So great is the rush of applicants for Indian Reservation lands, to be drawn August 9, that the Land Department officials today placed an order for 50,000 more registration blanks, 10,000 soldiers' pow ers of attorney, and 60,000 colored en velope's. At 4 P. M. Tuesday, with little more than half the time " " t registration passed, Superintendent Wltten had re ceived 36.656 applications for Kalispell lands, 65.220 for the Spokane Reserva tion and 67,079 for the Coeur d'Alene, the total being 148,965. It Is figured there are about 6400 homesteads available on the three reserves. By tonight It is believed even the record of the Oklahoma rush will have been broken. DENVER GIRL IS INJURED Miss Jnanita Fenstermacher Thrown Off Horse Near Weiser. WEISER, Idaho, July 28. (Special.) Miss Juanita Fenstermacher, of Denver, a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bean, who arrived a few days ago for an extended visit, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon by being thrown from her horse a short distance west of town, and was dragged several yards. She struck on her head, and besides being badly bruised otherwise, it Is feared she Is dangerously injured internally. She remained unconscious for several hours. AMERICANS GIVEN SHARE Chinese Txan Increased on Terms Almost Agreed On. BERLIN", July 28. The German bankers participating- in the Chinese railway loan have forwarded advices from Pekin that negotiations for an American proportion ate share in the loan are nearly com pleted on terms agreeable to the Ameri cans. The loan, it is stated, probably -will be increased by one-third. It is evident that much' more money will be required for railway development than is covered by the present transaction. GOT THE WIZARD? PERHAPS Stands Pat for Revision Downward. SMASHES CONFERENCE DEAL Demands Lower Lumber and Glove Duties. REVELATION TO ALDRICH Senate Boss Finds Good-N'atured Man Can Wear Fighting Face and Cannon Learns Bunco Games Don't Catch Him Easily. WASHINGTON', July 28. (Special.) There is an angry roan in the White House. The usually good-natured occu pant has buckled on his armor and wears a fighting face. He doesn't care whether Congress finishes its tariff work this week or some time next Winter. He Is standing for a good Job. There was joy among real downward revisionists this morning when It was learned that President Taft had smashed to flinders the conference agreement reached last evening. This was the re sult of last nlght'e conference at the White House between the President and several prominent Republican members of the House. Down With Lumber and Gloves. Hides were relegated to the "has-been" class today and gloves and lumber be came the issues. Last nlghf s conference determined the President not to stand for the conference agreement on these two items. To the earliest White House callers this morning he declared that there must be a reduction In lumber from the Senate 2160 rate, and that the Ding ley rates on gloves must Btand. Representatives with home voices ring ing in their ears -went to the executive offices in droves and came away in great glee. Representative Wilson of Chi cago and Representative Perkins of New York State were a typical couple. They heard the President's statement of his determination to smash a glove compro mise and to insist on a lower rate on lumber and congratulated him. They and others urged him to stand to his guns and declared that the House would see he got what he wanted or knock the tar out of the bill. Taft Sees Through Bunco Game. Senator Aldrich, thinking matters had been all arranged and. that everything was lovely when he retired to his couch last night, heard the early morning re ports and hit the White House trail. He carried a lot of convincing figures but they were not convincing to the Presi dent. The President gave a good imita tion of a man with a grievance the kind of grievance a man Is likely to show when there is an attempt to bunco him and who discovers the game just before (Concluded on Pag-e 3.) BUT WAIT. At Muzzle of Revolver She Relieves Him of Diamond Stnd and Orders Him Away. CHICAGO. July 2S. (Special.) Held up and robbed at the muzzle of a revolver by a girl whom he described as young and pretty, was the experience of Zig mund Klebber, 38 years old, according to a story heralded to the police at the Hudson-avenue station this morning. The strange nature of the robbery is that it happened in broad daylight, at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The woman was about 19 years old, the victim said, with dark hair and eyes. She wore a light coat and an automobile veil, and carried out her work like a profes sional highwayman. Klebber met her near the corner of Toll Court and North Park avenue, when she suddenly pointed a pistol at his head and ordered him to give up his money. ' He declared that he had no money', and she commanded him to deliver up a $60 diamond stud he wore in his shirt front. Having secured this, she walked away, warning him that she would shoot if he attempted to follow. NOTARIES REAP HARVEST W age of $ 1 0 0 Day Considered Small by Men Who Certify Landseekers. SPOKANE, Wash., April 28. (Spe cial.) One hundred dollars a day Is t meager wage to scores of wild-eyed notaries in the land rush at Spokane and Coeur d'Alene registering names of land seekers at 25 cents a head. N. W. Leeper, a prominent Coeur d'Alene notary, is said to have made as high as $350 in a day. According to Deputy McCarthy at the Spokane land office, the following seven notaries lead in registrations: A. E. Kane, 2458; H. G. Wolking. 1, 978; E. W. Smith, 1390; R. H. Dunn, 1242; M. C. King, 1230; J. O. Bailey. 1, 182; J. B. Blgelow, 1073. Seven notaries have reported a registration approxi mating 900, which indicates that the registration of 65,000 applicants in this county, up to 5 o'clock last night, was done for the most part, by less than 20 of the 231 authorized notaries. ONLY WANTS JUSTICE DONE Langdon Wants Good Government Leaguer on Calhoun Jury. SAN FRANCISCO, July 23. The first important struggle over the selection of a Jury in the second trial of Patrick Cal houn, president of the United Railroads, occurred during today's session. Carl F. Haas, a member of the Good Govern ment League, who was temporarily passed to a seat in the box yesterday, was at tacked by attorneys for the defendant,' and admitted a bias in favor of the pros ecution which the court deemed suffi cient basis for allowance of a challenge. When Judge Lawlor intimated that he would allow the juror to go upon the showing made, District Attorney W. H. Langdon objected, declaring that Mr. Haas had expressed no more than a com mendable desire to have Justice done all the defendants in the graft cases." FIRE IN APARTMENT HOUSE Blaze Starts in Excelsior In Base ment of Maryland. There was a fire alarm last night turned in from Twenty-first i and Flanders streets, caused by a small blaze in the basement of the Maryland Apartment house, at Twentieth and Flanders. Excelsior piled near the fur nace, caught fire and alarmed the peo ple of the house. The blaze was put out, however, before the fire department ar rived. A narrow escape from fire was ex perienced last night by the family of Clarence Broughton, who lives at 439 East Nineteenth street, where a quan tity of gasolene stored in the rear of the house, exploded with a loud re port at about 9:30 o'clock. There was no damage. FLEA DOES NOT SEE FOOD California Scientist Delves Into Op tics of Famous Pest. BERKELEY, Cal., July 28. Follow ing a series of exhaustive experiments with the California flea, Professor C. W. Woodworth, of the University of California, announced today that al though the Insect has eyes, it does not see. To be more exact, the professor stated that the flea does not see ma terial objects, but merely sees a varia tion of rays of lights when near an object. There is no formation of images on the retina -of the eye of a flea," said Professor Woodworth, "all the insect sees when it approaches a solid object, is a varying intensity of light rays." EXTENDS CLOSURE POWER British House Adopts Xew Proposed by Asquith. Rules LONDON, July 28. The House of Commons tonight adopted the amended procedure rules proposed by Premier Asquith. The principal rule extends all the pow ers possessed by the chairman of the committee to the deputy chairman, the latter now being empowered to declare closure on, debates. This right hitherto has been vested In the chairman alone. Indians Stop Work on Grand Trunk Pacific. PETITIONS SENT FOR POLICE Bloody Troubles Expected at Close of Navigation. BURIAL" GROUND IS CAUSE Reds Object to Removal of Graves on Right of Way and Demand Prices for Each According to Rank of Deceased Refused. , VICTORIA, B. C, July 28. (Special.) The situation in Skeena, where 2000 mem bers of related Indian tribes threaten the safety of the scattered whites, has been little If any improved by the investiga tion conducted by Special Commissioner Stewart of the Ottawa office of Indian Affairs, who with Superintendent Vowell and Chief of Indian Police O'Connell re turned here today from Hazelton, hoping that a clash between the reds and the whites may be averted by diplomatic and immediate governmental action, but ad mittedly far from sanguine. Bloody Hostilities Expected. Others from the North today emphati cally assert the Indians only await the closing of navigation to initiate san guinary hostilities. These independent Northerners brought from Hazelton a pe tition of the white residents of the Skeena for transmission to Ottawa asking the immediate dispatch of a sufficient force of the mounted police to guarantee their safety and also to secure the builders of the Grand Trunk Pacific from Inter ruption. Object to Removal of Graves. A lately-developed phase of the trouble with the Indians Is the forced suspension of railway construction work at Kitsum gaum, where the line was run to cut cor nerwise through an ancient Indian cem- (Concluded on Page 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YEtilEKDAY'S Maximum temperature 71 degrees; minimum, 58. TODAY'S Fair, westerly wind. Foreign. English Princess refuses to marry Kin Manuel for fear of assassination. Page 1. Spain in throes of revolution; fighting at Barcelona barracks; terrible battle at Melllla. Page 1. National. Tariff conferees in deadlock with Taft on lumber and glove duties. Page 4. Insurgents work for rejection of conference report on tariff in- hope of forcing real revision next Winter. Page 4. Heyburn denies Taft's power to interfere In tariff conference. Page 4- Taft staggers conferees with determination to nave tariff reduced. Page 1. lom(t ic. Daughter of English peer put out of San Francisco hotel for receiving male visi tor. Page 1. Pretty girl holds up Chicago man in day light Page 1. Wind and defect in airship cause Wright to postpone final flight. Page 5. Senator Stone held Justified In slapping im pudent dining-car waiter. Page 2- Harry C. Pulliam, president of National Baseball League, shoots himself and will die. Page 3. Thaw testifies and creates Impression he Is sane. Page 1. Sutton's attorneys determined to have tnorougn inquiry. rage Fourth in series of murders of Italians who knew truth about barrel murder. Page 4. Nine-year-old white girl found in Chinese opium den in ban Francisco. Page 6. Son of wealthy English family break neck in at tempt ea escape lrora sanitarium In San Francisco. Page 4. Sport. Coast League scores: Portland 4, Oakland 2; can Francisco 4, bacramento a; L,ua An geles , Vernon 1. Page 7. Jeffries posts forfeit for fight with John son, and Johnson says he is ready.. Page 3. Northwestern League scores; Portland 11, Vancouver 1; Spokane 7, Aberdeen 4; Seattle 11, Tacoma 2. Page 7. Pacific Northwest. Skeena Indians may go on warpath because railroad wants to cross graveyard. Page 1. Black Hand Italians have thrown Crows Nest district Into state of terror. Page 1. Rain storm of week has done small damage to wheat crop. Page 6. Death reveals fact Tangent resident has been living 17 years under assumed name. Page . The Dalle officials think they have Simp kins, wanted for Steunenberg murder. Page . Harriman Ignores Porter Brothers in prep arations for building Deschutes road. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Member firm Porter Bros, declares Oregon Trunk acting In good faith. Page 12. Hill officials all deny their chief la behind Porter Brothers. Page 12. County may provide portable houses as temporary quarters fur two court de partments. Page 10. Councilman Cellars delays purchase of site for new jail. Page 10. Council is divided In policy toward patent pavements. Page 10. Fourth Regiment troops show proficiency In field. Page 11. Portland lumbermen will attend gathering at Spokane August 0. Page IS. Associated Billposters will aid fight on tuberculosis. Page 11. Mistake results in corpse being held for week at Union Depot. Page 11. Commercial and Marine. Oregon will have record crop of potatoes. Page 17. Sharp advance In wheat at Chicago. Page 17 Union Pacific stock passes the 200 mark. Page 17 July makes record as mon t a of freak weather. Page l& 1