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PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND, OREGOX, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1909.- ONE PIN CAUSE TESTIMONY HEARD BOY FIGHTS VAINLY WITHERING: BLAST CROSSES RIVER TO FLEET ADDED TO IS TO RULE WITH WHIRLPOOL RUSH HIS DIVORCE W. H. GREESHAGEX TICKLED AT CHANCE OF FREEDOM. OF FAINTING BEE COXSTERXATIOX REIGXS WHEX BOSTON'S PERILS IN SCHIVELY CASE HITS SOUTHWEST VANDERBILT LINES SWEPT BY NIAGARA INTO VORTEX. RAPIDS GIRL SWALLOWS WIRE WIZARD Has Option on Control of Whole System. ADDS 12,000 TO HIS MILEAGE Harriman Can Dictate Rates in All Directions; 2 OCEAN-TO-OCEAN LINES Will Close Deal for $50,000,000 of Stock, Which Added to Present Holdings Will Make Master of Great System. HARRIM-S-N'S HEALTH NO BETTER. MTTN'ICH. German?. Aue. 18. (Special.) Edward H. Harriman. the railway magnate, who lft h?r Sat urday tor Pari, probably will re turn to America shortly. Tna Times correspondent learns from an authoritative source that bla chief ailment la rigidity of the verebrae column. He Is little. If any, better, havlnr derived no real benefit from the baths In Gaateln waters. These possibly were too strong for him. and In any event they do not appear to have suited his case. During his stay in Munich air. Harriman went out little and made no long excursions. His faintly fre quently used the automobile which he has with him. but he scarcely ever went -out with them. NEW YORK. Aug. 16. (Speclal.)-The elimination of the Vanderbllts from New Tork Central lines and the complete ascendency of Edward H. Harriman in the control of more than 12.000 mfles of railroad comprised in that system is de clared to be the next Important move in the railway world. It is reported on what seems to be good authority that the Harriman backers have secured an option on the greater portion, if not all, of the Vanderbilt hold ings and will soon close a deal in the in terest of the "Xapoleon" of the railway world. The option which has been ob tained, it is stated, is on t3O.OO0.O0O worth of New Tork Central, which is to be purchased for Mr. Harriman at $150 a share. Gets Absolute Control.' The last report of the Union Pacific Road shows that it has in its treasury tl4.ono.O0O worth of New York Central se curities and it is generally believed that Mr. Harriman and a few of his friends have large personal holdings of New York Central securities. ' The total capitalization of the New Tork Central Is Ji:8,632,000 and It is un derstood that the option. If exercised, will give Mr.- Harriman and his friends abso lute control of the company. This carries with it the control of the West Shore and practical control, though not by stock ownership, of all roads in the New Tork Central Lines system. Second Transcontinental Route. The acquisition of the New York Cen tral by Mr. Harriman would give him a second transcontinental route and place In him power to make and to control rates of transportation which was not dreamed of a few years ago. This power would extend to traffic East and West and also North and South, by reason of his control of the Illinois Central. CXIOX PACIFIC REACHES 219 Haiiman Stock Touches New High Record, but Drops Back. NEW TORK, Au. Is- Union Pacific stocks made a new high record in the Wall-street market when the top figure of 219 was reached soon after the opening today. Southern Pacific also reached the highest figure in the his tory of that stock. Professional trad ers met the opening demand and the prices after a time were hammered down, not until high-water mark had been reached in the two Harriman stocks named. On the decline many large blocks of the two stocks were sold and eagerly picked up, 7700 shares of Union Pacific and S500 shares of United States Steel being among the big deals recorded. Union Pacific went down to 214 during the day. S points below the record price, but a little later took another upward lump, but the balance of the list did not rally with much vim, although there was spirited bidding up of Northern Pacilic. In the last few minutes selling was re newed in all quarters and low prices for the day were made for many stocks. BANKR0BBERS TAKE LIFE Surprised at Work, They Kill Mar shal, Fatally Wound Cashier. TULSA, Okla.. Aug. IS. Two robbess, surprised while looting the State Bank at Kiefer. Okla., near here, tonight, shot and killed City Marshal Inford and prob ably fatally wounded Cashier Calmer WebUng. Promptly Faints, Revives, Screams, Companion Faints, and Then They Alternate In Swooning. As Miss Beulah McClure, a wrapper in the Golden Eagle department store at Third and Yamhill streets, was engaged in wrapping a bundle at 2 o'clock yes terday afternoon, she put a pin in her month and while laughing at a remark made by Miss Elsie Leece. a saleswoman, swallowed the pin. Then she fainted dead away, to the consternation of Miss Leece. who aided in reviving her. soon as Miss McClure regained conscious ness, she uttered a piercing scream and this so startled Mian Leece that the lat- te- nromntlv went Into hysterics and ended by fainting herself. By the time Miss Leece was revived, Miss McClure remembered there was a pin In her stomach and again she fainted dead away, not from pain, but from the hor ror of the thought of that pin. Then Miss Leece again went Into hysterics and an other fainting spell, and for two hours the entire force at work In that depart ment was busy in trying to quiet the two young women. finally at 4 o'clock an automobile was called, and Miss McClure was taken to her home, on First street, between Whit- taker and Gibbs. She fainted again as she was being removed from the auto mobile, and medical attendance was sum moned to quiet her. Miss Leece was then taken to her home. 214 Woods street, and she regained her composure quickly after being separated from Miss McClure. The doctor called stated that Miss McClure was suffering from fright and would probably suffer no ill effects from swallowing the pin. GERMANS FIGHT YANKEES Teutonic Merchants In Haytl Fear Loss of Trade Monopoly. PARIS, Aug. 16. A dispatch from Port au Prince, Haytl, says that a group of Germans who for years have monopo lized the commerce of that country, are conducting a violent campaign against the American bankers who are negotiat ing for a concession for the construction of a railroad system in Hayti. The dispatch says the Germans control the newspapers of the country, which print strongly worded articles against the Americans and predict the annexation of Haytl by the United States. The Germans fear, the dispatch says. that if the railroad is built It will end their monopoly In the republic. COLBURN DONATES FARM Athena Rancher Gives $25,000 Property to Eugene School. ATHENA. Or., Aug. IS. (Special.) P. E. Colburn, one of the best known pioneer farmers of this section, today gave Bis farm, which consists of a half section of the famous Athena wheat land, and which is worth at least $25,000, to the Eugene Divinity School, at Eugene, Or; The condition of the gift is such that the divinity school shall pay to Mr. Col burn and wife as long as they live 6 per cent interest on t24,O0O annually. Mr. Colburn has no immediate heirs and feels that this Is the best disposition that he can make of bis money. He and his wife will soon go to California to re side permanently. CRETE STANDS BY GREECE Provisional Government Swears Al legiancePowers Mast Step Jn. CANEA.' Island of Crete, Aug. IS. The provisional administrative com, mlttee, to which the admlnistrtlon of this island was entrusted when the Cretan cabinet resigned Sunday, took the oath of allegiance to the King and Kingdom of Greece today. This action apparently Indicates that it is not the committee's Intention to meet the demands of the protective powers to haul down the Greek flag, and therefore the powers again will be forced to land troops to - insure the autonomy of the island. SHIP NEEDED AT INQUIRY Officer on Probe Board Xot De tached, Cruiser Must Go Back. VALLEJO. Cal.. Aug. 16. The Navy De partment having failed to iesue orders temporarily detaching from the cruiser South Dakota Lieutenant-Commander H. O. Stlckney and Lieutenant J. O. Fisher, who are members of the board of in quiry into charges of alleged lnefftcency against Edward Kavanaugh, foreman of the Mare Island boilershops. It is expect ed the South Dakota, on her return to Seattle, will be ordered to return to Mare Island, in order that the inquiry may be completed. DROWNS WHILE BATHING Alita Ghlrardclli Goes Too Far Be yond Breakers. MONTEREY, CaL, Aug. 16. Miss Alita Ghlrardclli. daughter of D. Ghirardelli. a San Francisco manufacturer of choco late, was drowned today at Carmel-by-the-Sea. She went surf-bathing at noon and got beyond the heavy break ers. Launches will be sent out with divers aboard In search of the body. Miss Ghirardelli was 30 years old and was well known in social circles in San Francisco and other Coast cities. State Seeks to Prove Extortion. LITTLE WORK, BUT BIG. FEES Insurance Companies Send Receipts as Evidence. ANOTHER EXTRA SESSION Governor Hay Consults Lawyer Member of Senate on Advisability of Reconvening Legislature Next Monday. OLTMPIA. Wash.. Aug. 16. (Staff Correspondence.) Although losing an other half day this morning because of the absence of nearly one-third of the Senators, real progress was made in the Impeachment trial of J. H. Schively, Insurance Commissioner, today. The state presented and completed its testi mony on four of the articles of im peachment, offering evidence strongly tending to prove extortion by Schively when a'deputy in the Insurance Depart ment. This progress, however, does not Insure the completion of the trial by Saturday, when the legislative session must come to a close, and if it becomes certain that the trial will not be ended and a serious question is raised as to the right of the Senate to continue to sit as an impeach ment. Governor Hay will reconvene the Legislature in special session next Mon day. The Governor is consulting lawyer members of the Senate, and he said o day that If he decides that another spe cial session Is necessary to preserve the legality of the trial, the call will be is sued. . Schively Collects In Excess. The hastening of the taking of testi mony today was brought about by the state withdrawing for purpose of amend ment IS of the articles, which it Is 'con ceded fall within the rule on which article 1 was stricken, and the withdrawal by Schlvely's counsel of the demurrer to the remaining articles. On- the four articles covered today, the state presented direct testimony or depo sitions from the officers of four com panies from which Schively secured sums In excess of the J35 entrance fee, to the efTect that either there was no examina tion, or a perfunctory one of the com panies at the most, for which the excess sums were paid and that no itemized statement of expenses was submitted by the Insurance Commissioner. Extortion Charge Backed Up. The first testimony concerned article t, which charges Schively with extortion in demanding and receiving from the Boston Insurance Company $100 for verification of report. ( A deposition by William Head, vice-president of the company, was pre sented, alleging the payment of the $100, exhibiting the original receipts and alleg ing that no examination was made. A corroborative deposition by George O. Hoadley, of San Francisco, general man- (Concluded on Pa.se 3.) THE WIZARD .1 I hii i "Li. BtniND DESCHUTES ROAD. rflllFORNIAl icHT TO BE HIS GOAL- 2 Drowns After Desperate Battle In Which He Excels Feat of Captain Webb. NIAGARA FALLS, N. T., Aug. 16. Eighteen-year-old August Sporer, of this city, was drowned today in the whirlpool rapids With three companions, Sporer went swimming in the river. He struck out at once for the middle of the stream. His companions called to him to turn back, for the current is very swift at that point. but he kept on down stream and was caught in the great sweep, the first break from the smoother waters to the rapids. Although a frail boy, he went into the rapids swimming strongly and held his own until he struck the giant wave. Again and again he disappeared, only to reappear each time fighting desperately against the current. Then, when within 100 yards of the whirlpool, his strength gave out and he sank and was lost to view. Even then he had swum perhaps 100 yards further than did the great English swimmer. Captain Webb. CALVINS COMING NORTH Harriman Manager and Wife Have Recovered From Appendicitis. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16. E. E. Calvin, vice-president and general man ager of thfl Southern Pacific Railroad, and Mrs. Calvin, both of whom have Just recovered from operations for appendicitis, left tonight for the North. They will visit Portland and the Alaska-Yukon-Paciflc Exposition at Seattle.' On their return trip they will visit Idaho. Mr. Calvin was stricken with ap pendicitis June 21, and his wife was attacked by the malady while attending him as he was recovering from the re sulting operation. FIRE CHIEF USES PISTOL Himself Perhaps Fatally Wounded, He Shools Down Incendiary. ROSfrEUi, N. M., Aug. 16. Gustave Van Elm, fire chief at Nevis, N. M., after being shot perhaps fatally by his an tagonist, snot and killed John Childress during a dispute in which Childress was accused of Betting fire to his own home. ie shooting occurred Saturday. Van Elm declared when the fire de partment arrived at the fire Childress knocked down two of the firemen with revolver. The chief was so badly wounded that he had to support himself against a tree while he returned the fire, killing Childress. MATE LOST OVERBOARD John Baker Drowned From Schoon er Albert Meyer at Wlllapa. SOUTH BEND, Wash.. Aug. 16. (Special.) The schooner Albert Meyer arrived in at 11 A. M. today with flag t'half mast and trailing a lifeboat. Captain Johnson reported that while crossing the bar and near whistling buoy. First Mate John Baker fell from the port rigging forward into the sea and was drowned. A life preserver was thrown him and a boat lowered but he only came to the aurfaoe once, and be ing unable to swim went down for the last time. Baker was 55 years old and a native of Montreal. "WELL, WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT!" m i--K I r MM Hot Wave Strikes Down Hosts, Kills Fifty. MUCH VEGETATION IS KILLED Corn and Cotton Shriveled Up by Fierce Bfast. TEMPERATURE UP TO 110 Highest Record by Government Is at Muskogee Kansas City Has Ten Deaths, St. Louis 3 7 and St. Joseph Two. FACTS ABOUT HOT WAVE. Ten deaths in Kansas City. 2 in St. Joseph Monday, 3T In St. Louis In last four days. Highest temperature on Govern ment thermometer 110 degrees at Muskogee, Okla. Temperature alt other points: 'Wellington. Kan., 106; Topeka, Kan.. 102; Oklahoma City, 103 (on the street 112); McAllister, 105: Lincoln, Neb., 103. Vegetation killed, corn crop In Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma seriously damaged. Epidemic of murder and suicide In Chicago. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 16. Unusually intense heat, officially recorded by the Government Weather Bureau as high as 110 degrees, caused at least ten deaths, numerous prostrations and much dam age today In Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. Throughout the Southwest the day was the most trying since the devastating drouth of 1901. As the withering winds swept across the plains much vegetation fell. In this citythe heat continued and prostrated a score, some of whom are in a dangerous condition. The Union depot was like an oven. Babies became seriously ill, and medical attention was needed before their mothers could re sume their journeys. The distress of a party of immigrants was great. Ice Famine Is Result. The likelihood of an ice famine added to the gravity of the situation here, Dealers reported that the factories were running night and day, but that the de mand had exceeded the supply. Most of the dealc-.rs refused to deliver more than 25 pounds to any residence, and feared they would have to cut this quota down by tomorrow. At Wellington, Kan., the official temperature was 106. Corn was suf fering greatly in that district. The day was the hottest Topeka has had for eight years, 102 degrees being officially recorded. Two prostrations resulted there. Kansas and Oklahoma Blasted. The last eight days in Kansas, each with a maximum temperature above 90 degrees and a minimum which has not (Concluded on Page 3.) Takes Long Hike, Slides Through Log Chute and Changes Counties to Receive Service. ALBAN ,'' Or., Adg". 16. (Special.) So anxious was William H. Greenhagen to receive service in the suit for divorce brought by his wife. Fay Penelope Greenhagen, that he traveled several miles from the lumber camp where he was working, crossed the North San tiam Rive.r from Marion on a log chute and entered Linn County so that he could accept service from Sheriff D. S. Smith. Smith had been Informed that Green hagen was at Mill City, on the Linn County side of the North Santiam River, and went there on the train Saturday morning. Arriving at Mill City he found that the defendant was cooking in the Curtiss Lumber Company's Camp No. 8, near Detroit, In Marlon County. It would have been illegal for htm to serve Greenhagen in Marion County, but Smith decided to take a chance on get ting Greenhagen to cross the river into Linn County. So he called Greenhagen up on the telephone line to the Curtiss camp. ' Suppose your wife should, bring a divorce suit against you," said the Sheriff, "would you object to the papers being served upon you?" "I should say not," came the response over the wire. "Well, if I come up there tonight will you agree to cross the river into Linn County with me and accept service?" asked Smith, who didn't want to make the trip in vain, as it necessitated his remaining in the mountains over Sun day. "I'll be there," said Greenhagen. Sheriff Smith went to Detroit, and he and Greenhagen crossed the Santiam together on a log chute into Linn County, and there Smith formally served the defendant with the summons and a copy of the complaint. KICK MAY COST $100,000 Cook's Eyes Filled With Rust by Cat Sent Hurtling Through Screen. NEW TORK, Aug. 16 Ernest W. Smellie, New York manager for a glove manufacturer, has been sued for $100, 000, by Emily Jones, his cook, because, it is charged, he kicked the cat through a window screen. His small daughter had complained that the cat scratched her. . The cook says that her eyes were filled with a shower of particles of rust iron wire as the cat forcibly, disap peared, and she estimates the damage to her sight and her lessened chances of matrimony at $100,000. IDAHO TOWN IS WIPED OUT Iron Mountain Swept by Fire; Loss Is $35,000. SPOKANE, Aug. 16. The small town of Iron Mountain, Idaho, formerly known as Superior, near Wallace, was practi cally wiped out by fire this morning. The fire started between two hotels and burned 15 buildings, leaving one saloon as the only business house. The loss Is estimated at $35,000, with $20,000 insurance. The Northern Pacific depot and the water tank were saved. ABDUL IS NOT WEAR DEATH Trouble In Throat Gave Rise to Rumors About ex-Sultan. CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 16. Abdul Ham id, ex-Sultan of Turkey, now in con finement in Salonica, suffered recently from a slight abscess of the throat, which made It difficult for him to swallow. He refused to submit to an operation and the trouble eventually removed itself. This gave rise to reports that Abdul Hamid's life was despaired of. MANGLED BY NATURAL GAS Seven Men and Three Women In jured by Explosion. CLEVELAND, Aug. 16. Seven men and three women, two of whom may die, were injured today when an explosion of nat ural gas wrecked the four-story building occupied by the Wirick Moving & Storage Company. MEXICO DENIES REPORT No Truth In Rumor Diaz' Son Assas sinated, Say Officials. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 16. A rumor that Porfiro Diaz, Jr., son of President Diaz, has been assassinated was pronounced to night as absurd. Mexican officials, are highly incensed at the report, which originated In El Paso. KILLED AT MONTE CARLO American Millionaire Meets Death at Hands of Hospital Guard. MONTE CARLO, Aug. 16. Ned Marshall, described as an American mill ionaire, was killed today by a hospital guard, who escaped. BASEBALL KILLS YOUTH Chicago Boy Dies From Effects of Blow Upon Head. CHICAGO, Aug. 16. Bendon Smith, 14 years old, was killed here today by a baseball striking him on the ear. War Game in East Made More Complex. INVADERS CONTINUE ADVANCE General Bliss Occupies Strat egic Position at Night. TWO SHARP ENCOUNTERS Scouts Tangled in Skirmishes and Sixteen Are "Killed" in One Battle and Forty Taken In Another; ROCK STATION, Mass., Aug.. 16. For the first time since the beginning of the war game between the armies of the red and the blue the two forces tonight were In close touch. A general engagement is likely tomorrow. The situation follows a day which proved eventually as deciding on which side of the group of lakes General Tas ker H. Bliss, commanding the red army, would make his advance. He sent the Tenth Cavalry and the Four teenth New York Infantry toward My ricks station, on the extreme west, this movement being only a feint, and the real advance was along the eastern end of the line. Tonight the headquarters of the commander-in-chief are about four milea southeast of Middlesboro, a most strate gic position. Bliss In Strategic Point. General Bliss is so situated that he still may have a chance to move his army quickly around Assawontsett Lake, and then swing his full strength against ueneral William A. Pew's blue forces on the letter's right wing, or he might even attempt to turn the right in upon itself. Observers here, however, were In clined to think tonight that such a move would be less politic than a quick swing around the left . of the blue army, so as to force a path for the Invaders between Middlesboro and Plyropton. ihat would mean an at tempt to turn the left wing and would afford the advantage of more territory for maneuvering plenty of fairly good main and crossroads, and, what ia theoretically an exceedingly strong consideration, will give the red army an opportunity to work around to the west if it found itself In a dangerous position. As a result of the forward movement (Concluded on Pftffe .1.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 77.1 degrees; minimum, 48.2, degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwest winds. Foreign. British House of Commons pusses South African confederation bill. Page 4. Glenn Curtiss' airshir.' driven to earth at Rhelms and Curtiss slightly nun. rage J, National. Decisive engagement espected today In war game in Massachusetts. Pago 1. Mexico arranging for meeting of Taft and Dlas. Page 5. Politics. San Francisco to have first direct primary In municipal campaign today. Page 3. Domestic. Ballinger-Pinchot controversy may not be reWved at Trans-Mississippi Congress, owing to Taf-'s intervention. Page 2. Terrible hat in Southwest causes man deaths and destroys crops. Page 1. Harriman secures control of Vanderbilt tern. Page 1. Sutton court of inquiry decides on flndlngsj probable purport Page 3. Sport. Horse-racing to be revived in California witbl oral betting. Page 7. Sergeant Hingle. of United States Marines breaks long-range rifle record at Camp Perry. Page 7. Northwestern League scores: Portland 2. Aberdeen 0; Seattle ti, Vancouver 3; Ta- coma 1, Spokane 6. Pase 7. Pari He Northwest. Taking of testimony is begun In Schively trial. Page 1. Twohy Bros, still active in Deschutes. Page 0. Final land drawing is made at Coeur dAlene. Page 0. Mount Baker's crater known to emit vapor at times. Page 0. E E. Beard, of, Vancouver, Is candidate for congress. Page 4. Taft's proposed visit to Seattle starts row aa to how he shall spend his time. Page 5. Marion County man crosses river on log chute to receive service in divorce suit. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Better feeling in local grain market. Page 15. High price paid for cash grain at Chicago. Page 13. Five-point break in Union Paclfle. Page 15. Heavy business in Coastwise shipping pre vails. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Girl swallows pin in store, fainting bee fol lows. Page 1. Colonel McDoneil will recall verbal resig nation as comminder of Third Regiment. Page 16. Prominent business men discuss importance of announcement that Hill will build to Central Oregon. Page 14. Dr. David Starr Jordan discusses heavy run of sockeye salmon. Page 10. Heymans arraigned on charge of forging1 death certificate 'of Golda W. Rowland. Page 10. Pajciflc Car Foundry Company to build 4O0,000 plant here. Page lrt. Mutual Fire Insurance men of country here for convention. Page 11. Work of farmers' institutes discussed in convention here. Page 4. Boppicktng season to begin In Krebs yard August 2a Page 16. Mayor Simon appoints committee to ar range for entertainment of President Taft. Page 10. M, E"l 104.2