PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PORTLAXD, OKEGOX, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1909
TOL. XLIX NO. 15,192-
YOUNG THUGS GET
LOOT WORTH $890
EBWIX CAMPBELL IS .HELD tP
AFTER LEAVING CAR.
TELLS OF lllt'S
LICENTIOUS LIFE
SPOKANE DECISION
TO BE CONTESTED
GREATEST RUSH IN
HISTORY IS ENDED
Al BANY FIRE LOSS
MAY BE $82000
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILD
ING IS GUTTED.
PRIM FRAUDS
TARIFF BILL
T
E
SOUTHERN" PACIFIC AND SANTA
FE TO LEAD FIGHT.
new
BARBED
BY CODR
s
becom
LW
Signed by President
and Session Ends.
TAFT "JOSHES" DISAPPOINTED
Philippine Tariff Bill Also
Signed With Delight.
LEATHER DUTIES REDUCED
Senate Tote for Free Cotton-Bagging,
bat House Fata Amend
ment la PI goon -Hole.
Many Sore Hearts.
COST OF EXTRA SKSSION.
VH-a IT- of Senators and
Representatives S.WV..000
Printing 4C0.OOO
Extra ry for employes 22.500
Extra month's pay for an
nual employes 102.845
Compensation for reporters
of debates S.240
Extra compensation for fi
nance committee clerks. . T.400
Total 3.5B5.4S5
CKBONOLOGY Or TAWTF BILL
March IS. lflofl Reported to House.
April 8 Parsed House.
April 12 Reported to Senate.
April 1. Recalled by House.
April 19 Returned to 6enata by
House.
April 19 Reported to Senate with
amendments
July s Passed Senate.
July 30 Agreed to by conference
committee.
August 6 Conference report accepted
by both booses and bill becomes
law.
In all 141 days from data reported
until signed by President.
WASHINGTON. Aug- crTii tariff has
been revised and the extraordinary ses
lon of Congress Is ended. - Both houses
adjourned . sine die at 6 o'clock today.
The conference report was agreed to by
the Senate. 47 to 31. at 1 P. M., and soon
afterward the concurrent resolution making-
certain changes In the leather sched
ule was adopted by both houses.
President Taft arrived at the Capitol at
4 45 and entered the President's room. His
appearance there, the first since he be
came President, caused Congressmen to
form In line to be received by him. There
-was a constant procession of handshak
ing statesmen through the President's
room from the time of his arrival until
his departure at E:S0 P. M. At six minutes
past S the Payne tariff bill, as the meas
ure will be known, was laid before the
President. He picked up a pen supplied
by Chairman Payne, which had been
used by both the Vice-President and the
Speaker In signing the bill, and attached
his signature. After writing "William
H. Taft." the President added. "Signed
five minutes after 6 o'clock. August 6,
ir. W. H. T."
Anxious About Pineapples.
With the President at the time were
Fecretary Knox. Secretary Mac Veagh.
Attorney-General Wickersham, Postmaster-General
Hitchcock, Secretary Nagle,
Secretary Wilson. Senator Aldrich, Rep
resentative Payne and. many others o?
the Senate and House.
As the Senstors filed Into the room the
President had something of a personal
nature to say to each and good nature
appeared to be overflowing." Senator
Taliaferro, of Florida, In rather a plaint
ive tone, satd:
"Mr. President, surely you are not
going to sign that bill with that pineap
ple paragraph In it?"
He referred to the fact that he had
gotten the duty Increased on pineaples in
the Senate, but that the advance was
eliminated In conference.
"What would you have me do? Shall I
strike out pineapples altogether or just
write In a rate to suit you?" asked Mr.
Taft, laughingly.
A short time afterward Senator
Fletcher, of Florida, was telling the Pres
ident good-bye. The Flortdan was dis
missed with a "Good-bye, old pineapples,
take care of yourself."
"Old High Tariff Heyburn.
The President tried to mollify Ser.stor
Warren for hia disapolntxnent over free
bides and he greeted Senator Heyburn,
who said on the floor today "that no rate
In the bill was too high to suit faim. with
a "How are you. old high tariff?"
When the committees of the Senate and
House appointed to Inform the President
that the extraordinary session was ready
to adjourn called at the President's room,
the bill had not been signed.
"Well, I have not sicned the bill yet."
aald the President. "Do you think that
I ought to adjourn Congress before I sign
It?"
The announcement had been made by
Mr. Aldrich on the theory that nothing
stood In the way of adjournment. There
having been a great deal of talk about
the possibility of a veto, everybody In
the room caught the significance of the
President's Jocularity.
"I certainly do." hastily replied Mr.
Aldrich.
The delay In laying the bill before the
(Concluded on Page a.
Capitalist Who Is Accosted Xear His
Home at First Thinks Joke
Is Intended.
Waylaid by two young thugs who were
armed with a revolver and disguised with
black masks, Edwin Campbell, a capital
ist, with offices In the Commercial block,
was held up at midnight last night and
robbed of a diamond pin valued at $C60.
a gold watch and chain valued at $150
and $90 In money. The robbery occurred
at Delaware and Kllllngsworth avenues,
within a stone's throw of Mr. Campbell s
home, 196 Willamette boulevard.
The victim of the robbery had Just
alighted from a St. John car at Dela
ware avenue when confronted by one of
the thieves, who sprang from behind a
clump of brush. "Throw up your
hands," commanded the thug, drawing
his weapon. It was quite dark and he
could not see the robber well, but the
voice and the figure of the. robber were
so youthful that his victim thought it
was a joke and laughingly attempted to
brush aside the weapon.
Mr. Campbell grabbed the muzzle of the
revolver, but released It Immediately
when the fellow told him that he would
shoot. As Mr. Campbell obeyed a sec
ond robber sprang from behind the brush
and began to search his pockets.
After taking the money and the
watch and chain, the searcher found
a checkbook containing a draft for
$900. These he returned and as the
robber was about to leave the one
holding; the gun called out. "Don't for
get his diamond. You'll find it In his
tie." Snatching the gem the highway
men fled. Both were youthful, slight
of build and were dressed In black or
very dark clothes and wore dark
slouch hats.
The robbers ran east on Killings
worth avenue, while their victim ran
to his house and, securing his revolver
and shotgun, came back and diligently
hunted through the neighborhood for
a trace of them. Falling in this he
called up the Police Station and noti
fied Captain Slover. From the fact
that the robbers knew he was wearing
a valuable diamond. It being too dark
to see the stone, the police are work
ing on the theory that the holdup was
perpetrated by young men who know
of Mr. Campbell's possession of the
gem.
WEDDING IS RUDELY UPSET
Groom Kidnaped and Ceremony I
Necessarily Postponed.
THE DALLES. Or., Aug. B. (Spectal.)
William A. Sechler, local agent for the
Pacific Express Company, and Miss Ruby
Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. P.
Moore, of 1003 Alverd street, were to
have been married at the home of the
bride's parents at 2 o'clock this after
noon by Rev. D. V. Poling, but friends
of the groom caused a postponement of
the momentous event
The prospective bride and gTOom
planned to surprise their friends, but
news of the wedding leaked out and the
tables were turned. Mr. Sechler was In
vited to take an automobile ride by a
party of friends who kidnaped him and
held him a prisoner at a point three miles
from the city on Chenowlth Creek, until
6 o'clock this evening.
The kidnapers and their victim were
met on the road home by Rev. D. V. Pol
ing and the bride-to-be and a sister of
the prospective groom, who had learned
of his whereabouts. The wedding plans
were spoiled for the day.
DROWNED IN STRANGE LAND
Rich Young Irishman Perishes In
Surf on California Coast,
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 8. The body
of a young man drowned In the surf at
Ocean Park yesterday, was identified
today by two persons as that of Charles
S. Swift, son of wealthy parents of
Dublin, Ireland, who are now motoring
through Germany.
Swift was to have left Los Angeles
next week to Join his parents In Ger
many. WIFE OF YOUNG IS DEAD
One of Fonr Slates of Mormon
Leader Passes Away.
SALT LAKE CITT. Aug. B. One of
the four surviving widows of the Mor
mon leader, Brtgham Young, died here
today. She was Maanah KJct Toung.
Her marriage to Young took place at
Nauvoo. 111., before the Westward pil
grimage of the Mormons. She was 8S
years old. No children were born to
her.
FOUR PICNICKERS DROWN
Launch Carrying Baptist Party
Bumps Into Piling.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 5. Four persons
were drowned today, when a gasoline
launch, in which they and 16 others were
riding on the Patapsco River struck some
piling and threw the party Into the water.
They were attending a Baptist Sunday
school picnic and had gone in the launch
for a trip on the river.
MOBS CKEER PROHIBITION
Great Enthusiasm In Montgomery as
House Passes Bill.
MONTGOMERY. Aug. 5. Amid street
scenes of wild enthusiasm, the bill mak
ing prohibition constitutional passed
the House tod-
Thaw's Stories Backed
by Letters.
GIRLS LURED TO DESTRUCTION
Carvalho Supports Charges by
Quoting White.
ONE ACTRESS WHO ESCAPED
Got Large Sum From White Under
Threat and Is Now Star, Though
White Had Her Boycotted
for Several Tears.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Aug. B. More
of those stories that have stained the
memory of Stanford White stories that
paralleled the tale of the Madison Square
tower-room as told by Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw were related at the Thaw sanity
hearing before Justice Mills today. They
were told first . by witnesses called in
Harry K. Thaw's behalf and then by
Thaw himself, who testified, hoping to
show that things he knew about White
were not "delusions," and that this phase
of the state's attack on his sanity is
unfounded.
Thaw may be called again tomorrow.
The attorneys will sum up on Saturday
and Justice Mills hope to render a deci
sion next week-
White's Crimes Against Girls.
David N. Carvalho, the New York
handwriting expert, testifying for Thaw,
told of episodes connecting Stanford
White with twi young women, whom, it
is alleged, he tried to ruin. One was Miss
Mae McKenzle, an actress, and the
other's name was given as "Sue Parker."
From Miss McKenzle Thaw's attorney
had obtained a note which figured In the
homicide trials as "The mushroom let
ter." White was represented as the
author. The letter was read In court to
day. It was concerning this that Miss
McKenzle had said, according to Thaw,
that her father would kill both her and
White If he had seen the contents.
Mr. Carvalho testified as to an affidavit,
which he said "Sue Parker" made, de
scribing an alleged attempt of White to
ruin her when she first came to New
York as a young chorus girl.
Tells Girl's Wrongs.
When Thaw took the stand,, the District
Attorney seemed anxious to let- him tell
all he knew, evidently with the hope that
his palpable eagerness to talk on this
theme would show Justice Mills that he
was Insane on the subject, and Thaw was
eager to tell.
"This thing I am going to tell you now,"
(Concluded on Page 3.)
NEXT MONTH MARS WILL BE CLOSER TO THE EARTH THAN IT WILL BE IN THE NEXT FIF
TEEN YEARS. YESTERDAY'S OREGONIAN.
Position of Northern Roads to Be
Attacked at General Sleet
ing in October.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug;. 5. After ten
days of discussion, the freight agents
of the Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe
and other transcontinental railroads
announced today that they had decided
to fight the affirmation of the Spokane
decision and its application to other
Intermediate points.
George W. Luce, general freight
agent of the Southern Pacific . Com
pany, said that when the matter is
taken up at Spokane next October his
company and the Santa Fe will contest
the attitude of the Northern railroads,
which favors the granting of terminal
rates to Intermediate points'. ' A battle
royal Is expected at that meeting.
Luce declared that his company took
the position that intermediate points
are not entitled to terminal rates; that
to grant them such rates would be to
open a vast field to the manufacturers
of the Middle West heretofore reserved
for Western enterprise.
He said that In view of the water
competition on the Coast, the present
policy of forcing intermediate points
to pay rates to the Coast plus the local
freight back, was considered fair and
reasonable by the Southern Pacific and
Santa Fe, whereas the Northern roads
favored a proposal to limit the distrib
uting area on the Coast to a narrow
atrip paralleling the shore line.
OFFICIAL AX IS FALLING
Immigration Service Has Shake-up,
Following Investigation.
WASHSINGTON. Aug. 5. Another
shakeup occurred in the Department of
Commerce and Labor today as the re
sult of an Inquiry Into the efficiency
record of Its employes, t
The official ax fell heavily upon
employes In the Immigration Service,
where considerable inefficiency was
shown to have existed. Others are
slated to go. In the same service a
number have been allowed to resign,
others have been reduced, and still
others disciplined.
HEAVY BAIL FOR PRIEST
Louisiana Churchman Placed Under
$72,250 Bonds.
PLAQUEMINE, Lai. Aug. S. Rev.
John J. Holtgreve, a Catholic priest,
was released from Jail here tonight
upon furnishing $72,250 balk
. He was arrested on charges set out
in 31 indictments alleging Immorality
and criminal libel.
DEATH ENDS HONEYMOON
Vice-Consnl Leute Dies In Arms of
Bride on Shipboard.
ANTWERP, Aug. 5. Joseph H. Leute,
American Vice-Consul General at Zurich,
Switzerland, died In the arms of his
brlee on the steamer Marquette today,
just as the vessel was entering this port.
Mr. Leute was married in Philadelphia
July 25.
274,529 Register for
Reservation Lands.
CHANGE IN THOUSAND FOR EACH
Flathead Reservation Gives
Best Opportunity to Win.
NOTARIES REAP HARVEST
One Enterprising Seal Affixer Aver
ages $135 Dally Pickpockets
Sole Bane of Police One
Mishap Mars Incident.
SPOKANE. Wash., Aug. 5. (Special.)
Breaking- all records In the history
of the United States for registration
for Government land openings, regis
tration for land on the three reserva
tions, Flathead, (Montana), Spokane,
(Washington), and Coeur d'Alene. (Ida
ho), closed at midnight tonight with a
grand total of 274.B29 applications re
ceived at the central office of James
W. Witten. at Coeur d'Alene. Those
In the letters will bring the total to
290.000, exceeding- the famous Okla
homa reservation rush, the greatest
known.
Official figures today: From Coeur
d'Alene today, 4307: total from Coeur
d'Alene to date, 104,416; from Kallspell
today, 1420; from Missoula today (no
mail). 348; total from Flathead reserve,
73,362; from Spokane today, 4573, total
from Spokane, 96,821. Total today from
all lands, 10,646.
Earl Sanders Makes Small Fortune.
Earl Saunders, a Coeur d'Alene no
tary, reported 11,218 registrations,
making- hfs fees for the 220 days,
$2804.20. (Sanders was formerly a resi
dent of Ti e Dalles, Or., where his par
ents now eslde.
Until Monday the force in Judge
Witten's office will be .preparing to
send out the lucky notices to those
drawing for lands. The high platform
from which the drawings will be made
is complete and the 80 steel cans which
contain the applications are guarded
by armed men until August 9, the
opening day.
During the period of application, cer
tificates of authority to administer the
oath have been withdrawn from five
notaries in Spokane by Judge Witten.
The offenses consisted of altering the
name of the agent in a soldier's power
of attorney and in leaving signed and
stamped application blanks with clerks
to be filled out when the authorized
notary was absent.
Registration' today has been extreme
ly quiet, the rush having parsed during
the early days of the week. The steady.
(Concluded on Pese7.)
Bain Clothing Company Suffers
Heavy Ramage Origin of Blaze
Is Unknown.
ALBANY, Or., Aug. 6. (Special.) Fire
which broke out at 1 o'clock this morn
ing gutted the First National Bank
building, one of Albany's best business
blocks and did damage estimated at $S2,
000. The loss Is covered by $61,000 insur
ance.. The fire started In the tailor shops of
the Blain Clothing Company, and prac
tically all of the $35,000 stock of that
company will be ruined by fire and water.
Insurance on stock, $20,000.
The fire in the First National Bank
building continues to gain on the fire
men, and the big building will be com
pletely ruined. The fire will be confined
to the burning structure.
Losses are as follows: Building, owned
by First National Bank and Miss Anna
Fllnn. $40,000, fully Insured; Blain Cloth
ing Company, $35,000, insurance $20,000;
George W. Wright, law library, $1000, no
Insurance; L. L. Swan, law library. $2000,
no Insurance: J. C. Christy, law library,
$3CO0, Insurance $1000; W. S. Rlsley, law
llbrajy. $800.
The law libraries of Percy R. Kelly and
Hewitt & Sox were saved with a loss of
about $500 to each, no Insurance.
The First National Bank may loose
Its furniture, though the fire has not
reached that of the building, but all the
money and books are safe In steel vaults.
The origin of the fire is a mystery,
there having been no fire in the tailor
Bhop in the rear of Blaln's store, where
It started, for two days, but is not be
lieved to be Incendiary.
MULLANEY REFUSES JOB
Mayor Busse's Secretary Does Not
. Want Police Berth.
CHICAGO, Aug. 6. (Special.) Bernard
J. Mullaney, after 24 hours of delibera
tion, told Mayor Busse today that he
would be unable to take the position of
general superintendent of police, offered
him when the resignation of George M.
Shlppy was received.
Mayor Busse, it Is announced, has not
given up hope of persuading his secretary
to take the position, and up to this time
has considered no other man for the
place. It Is probable that no appoint
ment will be made immediately.
Secretary Mullaney, in finally refusing
to let the Mayor send bis name to the
City Council, gave as his principal rea
sons the fact that the term is a short one
at best; that needed reorganization in the
department could scarcely be accom
plished in the period, and that he had
no training in police administration.
The wife of the secretary, too, brought
her Influence against his acceptance, and
this .undoubtedly had considerable influ
ence on Mr. Mullaney's decision.
MAYOR TRIES BLACKMAIL
Virginian Asked $45,000 From
Pennsylvania Kalload..
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5. "This is
a declaration of war. The weapons 1
shall use are dynamite and other high
explosives."
Thus wrote Abram C. Eby, Mayor
and referee in bankruptcy, of Burke
ville, Va., to the "President of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia,"
on July 23, asking $45,000 as the ran
som for the safety of the railroad, its
steamships and the tra-ellng public.
Eby was arrested here today after
being Inveigled to this city on Presi
dent McCrea's orders. He was held in
$10,000 bail.
The fllrst letter written by Eby was
signed "Adam Smith." In It he pro
posed to use explosives in wrecking
Pennsylvania freight and passenger
Eby sets forth further that he has
tried for 30 years to earn an honest
living, but finds that "the corporation
thieves get all and the rest of man
kind must starve or stand In."
CRETAN TROUBLE BREWING
Mussulmans In Macedonia Threaten
Invasion of Greece.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 5. Serious
agitation has broken out In Albania
against the attempt of Greece to annex
Crete. Forty thousand Albanians as
sembled at Monastir today and sent im
perious messages to the Government,
threatening that unless effective meas
ures were adopted the entire Mussulman
population of Macedonia would march
against Greece.
.The Grand Vizier, on receiving the
message, hurriedly left the Council of
Ministers, went personally to the tele
graph office and replied that the Govern
ment was taking active steps to pre
vent the annexation of Crete by Greece.
RIFLE BALL ENTERS BODY
Harry Krebs Is Perhaps Fatally
Wounded by 22-CaIlber Rifle.
DALLAS, Or., Aug. 5. (Special.) Hani
Krebs was shot and serously wounded
at his home In Falls City today by the
accidental discharge of a 22-callber rifle
which he was handling. The bullet en
tered his body about two inches below
the heart, striking a rib and ranging
downward and back, lodging In the mus
cles of the back, near the kidneys. Med
ical aid was secured at once, but at
latest reports little hope was entertained
for his recovery.
Krebs is 23 years old and has been a
resident of Falls City only a short timx
Besides his wife, he has relatives resid
ing in that vicinity,
Heavy Guard at Polls
in Indianapolis.
BALLOTS TO BE PRESERVED
Injunction and Police Discour
age Crookedness.
PRIMARY CANDIDATES LOSE
Vote in Better Class Sections la
Light Leaders Denounce New
Law and Will Try to
Have It Changed.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 6. (Spe
cial.) With two police officers at every
precinct, the first direct primary under
the new law was held in this city to
day, and passed off without serious dis
turbance. Just before the polls opened
the Circuit Court issued an injunction
against the, destruction of the ballots,
and this order to preserve them so that
frauds, if committed, might be investi
gated, stopped whatever frauds had
been contemplated.
While the voting was in progress
both city chairmen and many of the
leading business men denounced vtha
primary law, and steps were taken to
have it repealed at the next session of
the Legislature.
Incomplete returns at midnight, but
fairly representative of the entire city,
show that Lew Shank, the auctioneer,
has defeated Newton W. Harding for
the Republican mayoralty nomination
by a large majority, Shank's friends
claiming 3500. Shank polled practically
the entire vote In the negro wards,
and In the South Side wards, where
the labor vote is pronounced.
Charles B. Clarke, backed- by the
Taggart machine, and Charles Gauss,
who has made Ms campaign openly
against Taggart and his brewery con
nections, are running neck and neck for
the Democratic mayoralty nomination,
and it will require the full returns to
decide the race.
The vote was heavy in the colored
and South Side wards, but on the North
Side, where the business and profes
sional men reside In large numbers, the
vote was very llghr
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 73
degrees; minimum. 40 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwesterly
winds.
Foreign.
Two disastrous shipwrecks oft Cape Colony
Page 6.
Stockholm strike causes famine and is
spreading throughout Sweden. Page 1J.
National.
Tariff bill signed by President and Congress
adjourns. Page 1.
Taft says tariff bill Is good, though not
perfect. Page 6. '
A. B. Parker denounces new tarttl diu.
Page 8.
Bourne tights Beach for census supervisor
Page 7.
Northwestern Congressmen given good com
mittee places. Page 6.
Politics. -
Mullaney declines appointment as Chief of
Police of Chicago. Page 1.
Frauds In Indianapolis primary election pre
vented by court order; regulars win.
Page !
Domestic.
Thaw tells how White wronged women and
handwriting expert corroborates story.
Page 1.
Lieutenant Utley again tells about Suttcn s
death, but modifies former testimony.
Page 3.
Oregon woman arrested at Oakland for
swindling railroads by fake Injury
claims. Page 7.
Japs call oft strike In Hawaii. Page 3.
Two deaths and many prostrations from
heat In Chicago. Page 1.
Mavor Eby. of BurkevlUe. Va.. arrested for
threatening to dynamite Pennsylvania
Railroad trains. Page 1.
Three leading citizens of Los Angeles re
ceive blackmailing letters. Page 4
Harriman and Santa Fe roads decide to
fight Spokane rato decision to finish.
Page 1.
Man accused of check frauds and imperson
ating Army officer believed to be son of
General Horatio King. Page 4.
Sports.
Coast League scores: Portland 8. San Fran
cisco 2; Los Angeles ,7, Sacramento 0;
Oakland 7. Vernon 0. Page 10.
Northwestern League scores: Seattle X
Portland 1 (13 Innings); Spokane 7, Van
couver 9; Aberdeen 4. Tacoma 3. Page 10.
Pacific Northwest.
Greatest rush lor free land known to history.
Is ended. Page 1.
Lakeview sees evidence of Harriman trying
to block Hill's entrance Into California.
Page 7.
Twohy Bros, shut out Porter Bros, all
along Deschutes. Page 7.
Pan-Tans is new secret order taking hand
in politics In Spokane. Page 7.
Mazamas are camped at Meadows. Pag T-
Commercial and Marine.
No hope held out for foreign hop crop.
Page 17.
Wheat prices again break in Chicago market.
Page 17.
Bears force down stock prices. Page 17.
Two French barks added to list of grain
carriers headed for Portland. Page 16.
Portland and Ylclultr.
Mrs. May Real run down and instantly
killed by automobile. Page 12.
E. H. Stolte. veteran notel clerk, dies sud
denly. Page .
Lunacy commission declares Mrs. Kate Van
Winkle Collins Is ne. Page 10.
Call for state Republican assembly will be
issued this FalL Page 18.
Executive Board takes action to force pav
ing contractors to cut prices. Page IT.
Hoodoo lawsuit comes up in court for the
eighth time. Page 10.
Edwin Campbell robbed of money and
Jewelry worth $S!K by young thugs.
-Page 1.
General Marshall says Columbia River Im
provements should get larger approprla-
Cltv may buv part of Hazel farm for park i
system, ac 1A- 1
ITTI i n-7 n