i VOL. XMX.-XO. 15,189. lululiA"' iv, WIFE'S PLIGHT IN GAVE IS TRAGIC Husband Shot, Others Desert Cavern. ALONE MILES UNDER GROUND Woman Tears Up Clothes to Check Ebbing Lifeblood. AWFUL SIGHT PRESENTED j.-onr Hoars' Battle Against Ieath All In Vain, Then Widow, Hair Crazed, Crawls to Entrance and Goes for Aid. GRANTS PASS. Or.. Aug. t (Special.) Deserted by their companions when the tragic climax of their merry-making In the Josephine County caves came In the accidental shooting of Frank Ellis yes terday, he and his wife were left alone In the styglan blackness, he to die and she. grief-whelmed, to ease his agony as best she might. All the lights but one carried by the party were taken by the cravens who ran away. The remaining torch soon went out. Death Foneht for Hours. For hours Mrs. Ellis sat In the dark ness, trying to stanch the flow of blood from her husband's wound, but feeling it pouring steadily away over her own hands and body: calling to him to speak to her but receiving no reply, and hearing no sound aave his ever-lessening breath ing. Finally Mr. Ellis died, and Mrs. Ellis, groping on all fours until she found the lead string which the party had brought in. following it with great difficulty and Anally crawled her way to the cavern's mouth. Today, as the result of her awful ex periences. Mrs. Ellis Is completely pros trated and her condition Is critical. Mr. Ellis and Arthur Vineyard, , with their wives, two other women and several children were seeking passage through the caves and had succeeded In reaching the third chamber on the upper floor. Ellis being in advance of the party, and holding a pistol in his hand, attempted to climb to an upper cavity, but owing to the slippery walls be lost his footing and fell several feet, striking the revolver against the wa.lL The weapon was discharged, the ball entering his left eye and ranging upward through the brain, which resulted In death after four hours. Desert at Cry or "Murder." At the discharge of the weapon some one cried "murder," which precipitated a rush for the mouth of the cave. All fled except Mrs. EUla. who, rushing to where her wounded husband lay, took bis limp form upon her lap and tried to nurse him back to consciousness. In the terrible darkness of the cavern Mrs. Bills sat, fanning her husband with her hat. while the blood flowed freely from the dying man's face over the grief stricken woman's hands and body. Realising that she had been deserted. Mrs. Ellis made cry after cry for help, but no answer came, save the echo of the caves. Thus she sat for four hours, nursing the dying man and hoping for aid. In her desperate efforts to save his life she tore up her white underskirt and tilled the wound with bits of rags, to stop the ebbing life blood, until llnally he died. Crawls, Saturated With Blood. Exhausted and nearly overcome with . ejrlef. Mrs. Ellis began to crawl on her hands and knees over the slippery floor In an effort to find the guide string, which fortunately had not been broken In the retreat. This she secured to a rock and . laid It on her dead husband's body, with '. the Intent. If she failed to reach the mouth of the cave, of returning there. , Then, with her clothes saturated with Mood from the wounds of her husband. Mrs. Ellis started out and by fortunato circumstances finally reached a line of light and the cave entrance, and thence walked over the precipitous mountain to a settlement nearly four miles away. Woman Presents Awful Sight. The sifrht presented by the unfortunate woman was awful. Smeared from head to foot with blood, her clothing torn, her hslr hanging and disheveled, the unfor tunate woman's appearance shocked all beholders. She was brought here today, a nervous wreck, after a strain of 30 hours, Ave of which she had spent In the dark recesses of the cave watchlnjr the life of her hus band ebb away. Her condition is pre carious. Officers say a most grewsome sight was presented where the body was found, as the opening through which he had at tempted to enter was bespattered with blood and his brains. In the fall his skull had been cracked. The strangest feature of the case, which cannot be fathomed at this time, is the action of Vineyard and the women in not returning to the cave. After their-panic-stricken bolt from the cave, they notified Joe Fetxner of what had oc curred. He went to the nearest telephone and summoned aid. but Vineyard and his party were so excited and frightened that they hastened to his father's ranch ati t!e head of Williams Creek and could not be prevailed upon to return. M. D. Ellis, father of the victim, ar i rived today from Dallas and will take I charge of the body, which is expected to KsutIvs. here some time this evening. BIRD MAKES NEW DISTANCE RECORD HOMING PIGEON COVERS OVER J 000 MILES IN SIX DAYS. Senorlla Travels From I.a Vegas to Chicago, 1255 Miles, at Over 209 Miles Per Day. CHICAGO. Aug. 2. (Special.) Senorita. a homing pigeon, owned by Robert Krue ger, of Blue Island, has arrived at the loft of Its owner after a flight of 1265 miles, from Las Vegas, N. M., in six days ami two hours. The bird was one of 26 released Satur day, July 24. All the birds were the prop erty of Chicago fanciers, and the race was under the charge of the Lakeview Flying Club. The flyers got off to a good start under favorable conditions. The former record for the distance was ten days, and was held Jointly by the lofts of "W. F. Belser and Morton Bros. The flight of Krueger's bird Is considered remarkable toy local authorities In view of the fact that just prior to the shipment to Las Vegas it had com pleted one of the hardest 600-mlle races held to this city. MAKING MOVING PICTURES Admiral's Explanation of Fatal Prizefight on Board Warship. PROVIDENCE, R. I.. Aug. 2. "It wan not a prizefight or a boxing bout, but an exhibition for a moving-picture ma chine," said Admiral Seaton Bchroeder today. In referring to the death of Han son H. Foster, a colored messmate, on board of the battleship Vermont last night. A committee of officers was appointed to make an Investigation. Those who saw the exhibition say the men went six rounds and then, as prearranged, Foster took the count. That was on Friday evening. The next morning the negre complained of pains in his bead. He died lost night. The autopsy revealed that Foster died of cerebral hemorrhage, caused by a blow or fall. STREETCAR KILLS CHILD Crushes Out Life of 3-Year-Old at Astoi la. ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 2. (Special.) Frances Harriet Jones, the S-year-old daughter of Henry Jones, was Instantly killed at half past o'clock this evening by being hit in the head by car No. S of the Astoria Electric Company, at Twenty-ninth street. She was playing In the street with her S-year-old brother and ran back In front of the car as it approached, evidently not noticing it. The motorman. J. M. Miller, stopped the car almost within Its length, and the conductor. M. Vandoe, picked the child from the side of the track be fore It had stopped moving from the Jolt it had received. JAP THREATENS MANDAMUS Refused Marriage Ceremony 18 Times, Will Seek Legal Order. WALLA WALLA, Aug. 2. After obtaining a marriage license here this afternoon. Frank Iahlkure, a Japanese aged S2 years, and Miss Minnie Crockett, aged 39, a white woman, both of Walla Walla, were unable to find a minister willing to perform the ceremony. Refused In turn by all of the 16 clergy men in Walla Walla, the local Justice of the Peace and Judge Brents of the Su perior Court, the couple assert they will bring mandamus proceedings against the Superior Judge to force him to perform the wedding ceremony. REQUEST TO WED DENIED Japanese and White Girl Can't Get Xuptial Knot Tied. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug 2. (Spe cial.) Thomas Brents. Judge of the Bp perlor Court, and Justice of the Peace T. M. McKinney. today refused to unite In marriage Minnie Crockett, a white girl of this city, and Frank Ishikuro, a local Japanese. The Judges refused on the ground that they did not believe In mixing races. Several ministers were then applied to, but In every Instance the couple were turned down. Ishtguro stated today that he would try until 'he found someone who would be willing to perform the ceremony. WOMAN DRINKS KEROSENE Gulps Down Half Cupful, Thinking It Is Water. PRAIRIE CITY, Or., Aug. 2. (Special.) Mrs. Addle Sullens is in a critical con dition at her home in this city as a re sult of drinking half a teacupful of coal oll. Mrs. Sullens mistook the coal oil for water, and, being very thirsty, took a very heavy drink before she realized w it she was doing. DAM BURSTS; THEN STORM Double Flood In Mexico Cause 9500,000 Damage; Kills Two. MORLELOS. Mexico. Aug. 2. Two men were killed, three hurt, several houses swept away, and all crops de stroyed by the bursting of a dam across the San Juan River, near here, yester day. The wreck of the dam was followed by a cloudburst, and the damage Is es timated at 1500,000. ' ' ' TrnTTST 'a.. 1009. , ' ' ' ' ' PRICe" FIVE CENTS. PORTER BLOCKADE RAISED BY ARMY Twohy Brothers Send 200 Men Up Canyon. SIX WAGONS PASS OUTPOSTS Guards at Gate Withdrawn as Overwhelming Force Comes. DEPUTIES WATCHING ROAD 6herlff Freeman Arrests Three Men for First Day's Trouble, and OXricer Declares Open War fare Must Stop. BT R. Q. CALLVERT. GRASS VALLEY. Or., Aug. 2. (Staff Correspondence.) In the face of an ad vance of overwhelming numbers. Porter Bros.' forces guarding .the entrance to the Gurtx ranch today yielded their posi tion, and permitted six wagon loads of Harriman supplies and equipment to pass beyond their outposts and up the road to the Twohy Bros.' camps in the Des chutes Canyon. This withdrawal of the Porter Bros." forces probably avoided what would otherwise have been a bloody conflict. In advance of the Harriman wagon train, Twohv Bros, this morning sent out from Grass Valley a heavy body of laborers. The men took stations on the lower side of the gate, and awaited the arrival of the wagons, closely watched, but unmolested, by the 75 Italians that had slept on the upper side all night as a Porter Bros.' guard. Shortly after the Twohy cohorts arrived, riflemen from the camp of the Porters took up stations be hind convenient clumps of sage-brush, where their guns commanded the gate way. Big Army Assembled. As a further preliminary to the "forc ing of the gate," Twohy Bros, had sent their superintendent, M. 3. Boss, on a night rlie Ao the. firm's lower camps, and a body of 200 men were assembled and sent up 'after the wagon train. Just as the Sheriff's party and Attorney Bowerman andLittleflcId. accompanied by W. I. Westerfield, Justice of the Peace, reached the gateway, a courier reported to Foreman Carleton, of Porter Bros., the approach of the 200 men from the canyon. The latter were not yet in sight, but Ca,rleton unlocked the gate, and the teams passed through without molestation. The TS Porter laborers .ho had remained on guard all night picked up their blankets, shouldered their pick handles and guns, and were Just leaving the gate for camp when the Twohy army appeared coming over a knoll In the dis tance. To avoid an unnecessary conflict on the road, the lattar were notified to return to camp, and the Incident closed without trouble. Three Men Arrested. As an outcome of yesterday's exciting episode at the gate, when a four-mule team and a pack-horse train were (Concluded on Page 6.) mm i-ii smt DIRECT PRIMARY FOUND WANTING INDIANAPOLIS NEWS ADMITS ITS MISTAKE. ' Too Many Candidates and None Good Enough Too Much , Money Expended. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Aug. 2. (Spe cial.) The Indianapolis News, which ad vocated the direct primary law when the bill was before the Legislature, conceded editorially today that It made a mistake. The News says in part: "We would by no means give aid and comfort to an enemy and yet, when we read pleai for a direct primary system made by our friends In the East who favor It, we cannot but think that they need some enlightenment. Perhaps the experience of Indianapolis with reform Is peculiar, or It may be that our law Is not a good one, but certain It is that those who advocated the direct primary in cluding the News are much disappointed in its operation. "Today we have five candidates for Mayor, not one of whom measures up to the standard which It was supposed we should reach under the direct primary. It is admitted on all hands that. If the new machinery Is retained, we shall have to do something to limit expenditures, or else throw them on the public, for as things now are we have in effect two elections, two campaigns and two large outpourings of money. "Good men. who, It was predicted would come out." do not do so. The necessity of making two campaigns, of contributing to two campaign funds and twice sub mitting to the importunities of 'heelers' undoubtedly Increases the reluctance of representative citizens to offer them seUves. Including the candidates for Council, there are 79 names on the pri mary ballot, and yet out of this material It Is impossible for a citizen to find more than three or four candidates for whom he will vote with pleasure." MINISTERS BADLY SHOCKED Find Too Many Couples in Spokane Parks After Dark. SPOKANE, Wash.. Aug. 2. (Special.) The moral condition of the public parks of Spokane is bad and neids the im mediate attention of the City Council and the citizens." This Was the report of a self-appointed committee, .composed of the Rev. Robt A. Smith. Rev. C. Ross Baker and Rev. M. E. Dunn, submitted to the ministerial association, which , held special meeting at the T. M. C. A. parlors this morning to consider the renort. A trip of inspection was taken through Natatorium, Libertia and Manltou Parks by the committee who stated that In all of them young girls with companions were seen at late hours. The greater number of offenders, It was stated, are soldiers. It was voted at the meeting that the committee present the matter to the City Council. ATTEMPTED RESCUE FATAL Drowning Man Drags Two Others Down With Him. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2. Clutching two comrades In his dying grasp, John McClusky drowned today near San Quen tln prison. In sight of 200 convicts, and carried to death with him William Darling and Louis Crauer, who tried to rescue him when the small boat In which they, with' two others were rowing, sank In the tides of the bay. BIG WAVE COMING 1 STOP CAR TRAFFIC Strike of 10,000 Men Is Threatened. BOTH SURFACE AND ELEVATED Companies Seek Strikebreak ers as Precaution. POLICE FORCE IS DRILLED City Has Beauty Squad Perfect In Military Tactics and Others Al most as Efficient Whole. Force in Reserve. MEN TO VOTE ON STRIKE. CHICAGO. Aut. 2. The union motormen and conductors of this city's surface streetcar lines tonight refused the offers of the company to accept a scale of the old wag-es and ordered a referendum vote to deter mine on a strike. , CHICAGO, Aug. 2. (Special.) Grim as pect, with police preparations already un der way, characterized the streetcar strike situation today, and the walkout of 10,000 motormen and conductors of the city and suburbs hung In the balance, pending the action of the four big meetings of their unions. Preparations for a streetcar con flict between the men and companies such as Chicago has never 6een were begun by officials of h6th sides and by city author ities. Paralyze Whole Service. Union officials planned to call on every member of their locals and completely cripple the service on every electric sur face line not Jater than one week from next Thursday, unless the companies grant the men more wages and the men on the South Side lines a "closed shop." If this strike should not prove effective they plan to call out In sympathy every motorman and guard on all elevated roads. 'The companies would - not admit that they were preparing for the worst, but it was said that various agencies have been set at work surveying thr situation to dis cover where men can be found In large numbers to work as strikebreakers and where they may be housed after being brought to Chicago. City Has Police Drilled. Discussing the preparations of his de partment. Acting Chief of Police Schuett ler said: "We have 200 men drilled to the last degree of efficiency in military tactics. They compose what Is known as the Beauty Squad.' We have 400 others near ly as well drilled, and we can mobilize these 600 men In any part of the city within an hour. If the strike should be called, the entire Police Department will be placed on reserve, that Is, will be kept at stations day and night, ready for In stantaneous service." ON CHICAGO ROADS ELLA GINGLES OFF TO HERIRISH HOME ORANGEMEN RAISE FIND FOR FAIR LACEMAKEB. Chicago Women Send Delegate to Explain Why Torturers Not Punished. CHICAGO. Aug. 2. (Special.) Ella Gingles, recently acquitted by a Jury In the criminal court of the charge of steal ing lace from Agnes Barrette, will leave Chicago tomorrow for her home in Lame, Ireland, accompanied by Mies Grace Van duzen Cooke. The expenses of both women are being met by a fund which has been raised by Orangemen of Chi cago. The fund paid all of Miss Gingles' bills in Chicago and 1100 in cash was turned over to her. The Orangemen held a farewell recep tion for her tonight at Hopkins Hall. Rev. R. Keene Ryan, one ofc those making the arrangements, Grand faster William Russell, of the Orangemen of Illinois, and other officers of the organization and rep resentatives of women's clubs were present. Miss Gingles said her mother was un able to understand why the people who had tortured her had not been punished and she is taking Miss Cooke along to help her explain to her neighbors. She prefers to remain In this country, but her friends insist she return home. NAVAL TRAGEDY RUMORED Accident to Torpedo-Bont at Prov incetown Is Reporled. PROVINCETOWN, Mass.; Aug. 2. Eleven torpedo-boats In the guise of an enemy made an attack on the battleship fleet engaged in maneuvers here tonight, and while the result of the attack is not known, an unconfirmed rumor has reached this town that one of the attack ing boats suffered a serious accident. The attack of the mosquito flotilla was made without general knowledge of the fleet officers, in order to test the ordi nary watchfulness of the lookouts. If an accident occurred, it Is thought that one of the bigger ships may have run down a torpedo-boat. Officers on shore know nothing of any accident, and wife less queries to the ships are unanswered. It is not known whether or not the tor pedo flotilla scored a technical victory in their maneuvers. RECORD OF REGISTRATION 5993 Persons Apply for La-nd at Missoula During Day. MISSOULA. Mont., Aug. 2. The heavi est registration that has been recorded in Missoula was reported today by the local land office, when figures were given out showing that 6693 persons applied during the day for homesteads in the Flathead reservation. This figure is greater by 468 than, the total for any day since registration com menced. Tonight all Notaries agreed to keep open all night from now on until the close of registration, so that every one may have a chance to file their appli cations at any hour of the night or day that they arrive In the city. SUFFERING AT ACAPULC0 Populace, In fear From Continued Quakes, Need Food and Shelter. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2. A dispatch from Acapulco states that severe shocks continue. All the buildings that remain standing are uninhabitable and many are suffering from lack of shelter. Tents and temporary shacks In which people are sheltered are Inadequate. Local authorities have sworn in a num ber of citizens as special policemen, as the force of gendarmes Is Insufficient. There has been some looting. Food, clothing and medicine are ur gently needed, but 'thus far no relief steps have been taken by the federal gov ernment. BABES HELD FOR RANSOM Italian Children Abducted and $25,000 Asked for Return. ST. LOUIS. Aug. 2. Two children were abducted and held for $25,000 ransom here today, the affair causing a furore In the local Italian colony, of which the children's parents are among the weal thiest members. The police have arrested five on sus picion, but have not found the chilldren. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ASKED "Free Thinkers" In Portugal Plan Big Demonstration Soon. LISBON", Aug. 2. At a big public meeting of free thinkers from all par ties, held here today, It was decided to organize an Imposing procession to march to the houses of Parliament and demand the suppression of the religious orders in Portugal and the abrogation of the existing laws against freedom of conscience. SOLON ROBBED AT DEPOT Congressman Reeder, of Kansas, Loses $100 in Crowded Station. y i WASHINGTON. Aug. 2. Representa tive W..A. Reeder, of Kansas, reported to the police tonight that he had been robbed of 100 by a pickpocket while mov ing through the crowds at the Union station, where he was awaiting to board a train for Seattle, whence he will sail for Honolulu and China, THAW'S CONDUCT. AT ASM INSANE Laughed in Silly Way About Trial. AMUSED AT LAWYERS' EFFORTS Made Newspaper Clippings About Question of Sex. 1 HIS MANNER ABNORMAL Physician at Matteawan Tells of Evidences of Insanity He Saw -When Thaw Admitted. Bribe Offered Keeper. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Aug. 2. How Harry K. Thaw conducted himself at the Matteawan Asylum for the Criminal Insane, a phase of his life not gone Into in the past, was described today by Dr. Amos Baker, first assistant physi cian of the Institution, the only wit ness called by District Attorney Jerome at the continuation of the hearing by which Thaw hopes to obtain his re lease. Dr. Baker read from the hospital case book, saying the hearing and eyesight were normal. Laughed About Trial. At that time the record said Thaw laughed and talked in a "silly manner" abouc his trial and acquittal, then Just ended, but this phase was not allowed In the evidence. "He appears to be amused by what he thinks was overwork by his physicians and lawyers at the trial," continued the record. . "He admits 'tne evidence of fered shows he was insane, but says the District Attorney was not in possession of the facts In the case. He greets one in a very silly and pompous manner." "Perverted practices," Thaw told Dr. Baker, were no more evidence of in sanity than raking- a cordial after din ner. His attitude toward the shooting of White apparently underwent little change at the asylum. Abnormal Signs In Conduct. When .Thaw had been there a month Dr. Baker told him he had noted cer tain abnormal signs In his conduct and could set no date for his1 probable re lease. In April Thaw offered a keeper J500 for the detection of any one tam pering with his clothes. The witness presented S5 newspaper clippings found in Thaw's pockets, nearly (Concluaed on Page 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S- Maximum temperature, 78 degrees; minimum, 0U degrees. TOUAiS J? air and warmer;- northerly winds. Foreign. Republic proclaimed In Catalonia and Span isn strike spreads lo iicayan provinces. Page Czar entertained in England with splendid naval display. Page a.. Britain begin building aerial navy. Page S. Rational. On demand of anti-free hide Senators, backed by Taft, joaer will oe cui out of. tariff bill. Page 4. Bitter attacks on Aldrich and tariff bill in Senate debate. Page 4. Taft cuts short visit to Portland in order to placate California. Page 3. 1'olltlcw. Indianapolis News admits mistake in sup porting direct primary. .fage J- l)om title. Whole Missorul Pacific system to te merged in one company. Page Chicago carmen threaten general strike and ponce drill ready for trouble. Pace 1. Asylum physician gives evidence that Thaw is insane, rage 1. Ella Gingles lo return to Ireland today. Page x. Sports. Pulllam succeeded by Heydler aa president ot .National baseball League, ra.e tt. - Homing pigeon hies from Las Vega to Chicago, breaking record. Page JL. Portland latut oeiieve umpires lavor fieaia In games, page 7. Track athletes nave trained to good con dition ror A. A. U. events. Pae 7. Northwestern League scores: Seattle 13, Portland 4; fcpoKane 3, Vancouver 2; Ab erdeen o, Tacoma 4. Page 7. Pacific Northwwt. : Overwhelmed by numbers. Porter Bros,' men let Harriman teams enter gaLe at Uurtz ranch, page 1. Deserted by her panic-stricken friends, wo man is lett in blackness of cave alone with dying husband. Page 1. Washington Kaflroad Commission not ex pected to grant redut;ea grain rate. page tf. Governor Hughes Is given -banquet at Seat tle. Page 6. Spokane railroad takes legal blame for fataj wreck near Coeur d'Alene. page o. Costly flres at Everett; 75 armed men patrol guy, fearing firebugs, page '2. Commercial and Marine. Local wheat market approaching export basis. Page 15. Wheat lower at Chicago on denial of dam age reports. page IB. Stock market shows strong undertone, page 13. Tray and Holt Steamship Company secures leae on both decks of couch-street dock. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Secretary of Interior Ballinger and super vising engineers confer on apportionment of reclamation fund. Page 5- Contract let for first 2.T miles of Natron Klamath Falls Railroad. Page 14. Meter rate for city water likely to be in creased "id per cent. Page ltt. Official head of Superintendent Daggett, of city cremators-, in danger. Page . Many Washington couples come to Portland to marry. Page 10. Portland biscuit company affected by huge trust formed. Page 10. North End not closed but under strict con trol. Page 4. Cottage Grove company wins National Guard rihe shoot. Page lu.