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VOL. XLIX.-XO. 15,214. PORTLAND, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. . . . : i I I JAPS THRIVE AND CROWD OUT WHITES UBOR BUREAU FINDS ALL AT WORK IN CALIFORNIA. . HARHIMAN CASTS OFF HIS BURDENS WIFE OF ,BR0DIE L. DUKE IN JAIL AUTO KILLS MAN; ANGRY MOB 'FORMS POLICE RUSH TO RESCUE OF WOMAN HAS NO MONEY TO PAY AUTO HIRE. DRIVER AND WIFE. CONGRESS TO ACT ON CONSERVATION WALL OF WATER SWEEPS RUE STEAMER on grounds .4 I 1 Feared Vessel May Be Total Loss. ASHORE IN COQUILLE RIVER Passengers Are All Landed Without Accident. SCHOONER GOING TO PIECES Boat Foals on Rocks Inside Jetty and Rapidly Fill With Water. Hawser Parts and Tug Is Un able to Render Aid. r MARSHFIELD. Or.. Aug. Jl.Spe clal.) The Meam schooner Bndon, owned by A. F. F.Mabrook & Co.. of San Francisco, was wrecked this afternoon off the mouth of the Coquille River bar at Bandon. She will probably be a to tal loss. She was valued at IS0.000, ex clusive Of Cargo. The Bandon had come up from San Francisco with 100 drums of distillate for Coos Bay. She stopped at Bandon to take oivsome lumber and was to come here to unload the distillate and take on more lumber. Vessel Fills Rapidly. The Bandon was being towed out over the Coquille bar by the tug Klyhlam. when she struck on the south spit In side the Jetty. The hawser parted and fouled. The Bandon struck on a rock, but later got off the rock end laid broadside across the bar between the Jet ties and rapidly filled with water. It was hoped that tonight, during the high tide, the vessel might be saved, but pieces of the boat which are coming ashore indicate that she la being badly pounded and may be a total loss. Tug Klyhlam and the life-saving crew, when the steamer first struck, got a line ashore and the passengers were taken off. but the crew remained aboard. The gasoline schooner Wllhelmlna, of Coos Fay, was on the scene and tried to save the cargo on the Bandon. but the bar was so rough that she could not get 'near enough to the wrecked vessel to give any help. Schooner North Bend Product. The Bandon was built by Kruse A Banks, of North Bend, and was launched July 2, iy7. She was 180 feet long and 39 feet beam and had a capacity for carrying 00.w feet of lumber. She was owned and operated by A. F. Estabrook & Co.. of San Francisco, and cost JSOOOO. She was a slater ship of the FifleM. i nd was one of the beat boats ever t -ned out at North Bend. The wreck seems to be one of a pecu liar train of misfortunes. The R. D. Inm&n. another boat built by Kruse A Banks shortly before the Bandon was launched, was wrecked a few months ago. Bandon Fnlueky Vessel. The Bandon has had several accidents. She went ashore at Tillamook last "Win ter and had to undergo expensive re pairs, and recently ehe struck a rock In the Coquille River and sank and waa raised and repaired. "With the Flfleld the Bandon was en gaged in carrying from Bandon to San Francisco the output of the mill of the Cody Lumber Company, which waa de stroyed by fire August 3. last. MAN MISTAKEN FOR DEER Careless Hunter Flees When He Dis covers His Error. PENDLETON. Or.. Aug 31 (Special.) Alfonso Mayons, a Belgian, employed as a sheepherder by the J. E. Smith Com pany, was mistaken for a deer and shot by some careless hunter, near Meacham yesterday. After discovering his mistake the hunter fed and his identity has not yet been revealed. His victim was brought to the hospital here this morning and Is in a precarious condition with hia left shoul der shattered and a part of his left lung shot off. The herder was stooping over when shot by the hunter, who was not more than 25 yards away. When hit the vic tim yelled and heard the hunter cry. "My God." and then heard him running away. After being shot. Mayons made his way to a spring where he remained a while and then started to walk to Meacham. He had covered a mile of the distance when he was met by his camp tender. BANDITS HARASS ROAD Chinese Do Much Damage Along Russian Line In Siberia. VLADIVOSTOK, Aug. 31. Chinese bandits are numerous along the line of the Siberian Railroad. They recently blockaded a section of the road with stones, at the same time cutting the - telegraph and the telephone wires, burl ing large quantities of fuel lor the loco motives and pillaging the local guard house. A detachment of t" TCut' ,JaC is pursuing tha bandit, ... "rj. Buy and Lease Vineyards and Or chards and Take Jobs That Whites Despise. MARTSVILLH. Cal.. Aug. 31. (Spe cial.) Special Agent Pierce, of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, la In this valley gathering labor statistics relative to Japanese invasion. He spent a couple of days at Chico and found conditions falrlv road, there being comparatively few, Japanese in that section. In this section, however, there are hundreds or Japanese engaged in all pursuits, and the Japanese population of this county is large. The Japanese are employed extensively in the orchards and fields and have in many Instances purchased or leased vine yards and orchards. There are several Japanese employment agencies here doing a thriving business. It is estimated that there are over a thousand Japanese in this section and more are coming dally. Every. Japanese here is employed steadily, while there are a few white men who are not working, principally because they have an aversion for work. Labor is scarce and the Japanese are filling places that it is Impossible to get white men to take. PISTOL FALLS AND WOUNDS Peculiar Accident May Cost Life of Bay City Business Man. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31. Thomas A. Crellin, secretary of the Morgan Oyster Company, of this city, was seri ously wounded today In a peculiar manner. Mr. Crellin went to the oyster com pany's warehouse with Deputy Game and Fish Commissioner McMillan, tn the course of the letter's routine Inspec tion tour. As McMillan leaned over to pick up a crawfish, the revolver in his hip pocket fell to the floor, exploding a cartridge. Crellin was standing directly behind McMillan and the- bullet lodged In bis abdomen. McMillan surrendered to the police, but no charge was preferred against him, as Crellin declared .the shooting to have been accidental: There la hope for Crel lln's recovery. CHINA DECLINES DEMAND Will Not Investigate Murder, Al though America and Britain Insist. FEKIN. Aug. SI. China has declined the proposal made by Sir John Jordan, the British Minister, for a Joint investi gation of the killing In San Su Province last June of Hazrahali, an Indian sur veyor attached to the meteorological ex pedition under C. P. Clark. Henry P. Fletcher, the American charge d'affairs, concurred in the British demand. China gives as her reason that it is im possible to bring witnesses from San Su Province. Sir John Jordan holds that, as the Clark expedition was travel ing under American passports, it de volves on the American Government to press for reparation. Hairahali was a British subject, and Sir John explains that it Is Impossible to, permit his mur derers to go unpunished. HAD NO CAUSE FOR SUICIDE Captain Robinson Held Blameless for Loss of Steamer. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 31. The offi cers of the Pacific Mall liner Indiana, which was wrecked in Magdalena Bay April 3 during a heavy fog, were de clared blameless for the disaster today by Federal Steamboat Inspectors Bolles and Bulger, who have completed a re view of the evidence. Captain J. F. Robinson, who was in command of the steamer when she went on the rocks, committed suicide In his stateroom shortly after the wreck. ROOSEVELT OO0K IS DEAD Woman of Faomus "Johnny Cakes" Passes at Age of 9 6. MONTCLAIR, N. J., Aug. 31. Hester Campbell, a famous Scotch cook who 'was employed for many years in the family of ex-President Roosevelt, died here today at the age of 96. She was particularly noted for her recipe for "Johnny cake." and always accompanied the Roosevelts on their trips. LUSITANIA IS ABANDONED Damage by Fire Too Great to Permit of Refitting Vessel. LIVERPOOL. Aug. SI. A survey of the Cunard liner Lusitania. 'which caught fire at her dock here August 14. and was snink to put out the flames, shows the damage to be so extensive that the com pany probably will not repair the vessel. It Is estimated It will cost more than 3500,000 to refit the steamer. SWEDISH STRIKERS STARVE Men Subsist on Bread and Water or Rob Potato Fields. STOCKHOLM. Aug. 31. The Afton-. bladet asserts that many strikers are ac tually starving, and that others are sub sisting on bread and water and fish caught in the archipelago or tramping tie countrs jobbing tha sotwto Said." Lovett His Mouthpiece " With Railroads. PROMISES FAMILY TO REST Stubbs and Kruttschnitt ' to Run Two Systems. PLANS FOR ABDICATION Lovett Hereafter Is Big Man of Har- rlman System Mahl Will Aid In Financial Dealings With the Big Bankers. NEW YORK, Aug. 31. (Special.) E. H. Harriman has promised his family that he will give up hard work for a long time and has Informed his assist ant that it will be necessary for other shoulders to carry the heavy burdens known as the Harriman railway poli cies. J. C. Stubb.s traffic director, and Jul ius Kruttschnitt, director of mainten ance and operation, on the Union Pa cific and Southern Pacific lines, will be responsible for the well-being of these two huge organizations. The difference in their position is that they will not have dally orders from Harriman head quarters. Lovett His Spokesman. In the days gone by, when he was sick, Mr. Harriman would lie In bed with two or three telephones at his side and a telegraph Instrument in the room adjoining, keeping In close touch with the chief men of the systems under his control. All this has been given up. The men mentioned will run the railroads and will be responsible to the various boards, and not to Mr. Harri man personally, as they have been In the past. Mr. Harriman will hereafter speak through Robert S. Lovett, counsel of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. Orders which he has been In the habit of giving direct to Mr. Stubbs and Mr. Kruttschnitt and others will now go through Mr. Lovett. and Mr.' Harriman has promised his physicians and his fam ily that he will originate as few of these orders aa he can. Schiff Works Out Plans. Judge Lovett's responsibilities have been Increased ten-fold. His right-hand man will be William Mahl, now controller of the Union and Southern Pacific sys tems. The two will deal with the bank ers, who are so Important .in all the Harriman lines. These plans are being carefully worked out by James Jacob Schiff, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and their subordinates The big man in the Harriman railway world in the future will be Judge Lovett. Harriman Is Much Better. ARDEN, N. T.. Aug. 31. Reports from th- Harriman home today were even more encouraging than those of Monday. Mr. Hsirrimon. it was stated, passed the entire day out of doors. He walked about at intervals with the assistance pf a cane. WILL THE t j t t m t , , JL-l,. -'-'- ------- V- ) Chases Around Chicago on Peculiar Errands After Being Turned Away From Palmer House. CHICAGO, Aug. 31. Mrs. Alice Webb Duke, divorced wife of Brodle L. Duke, the tobacco magnate, was arrested here tonight. She passed the night tn a cell at the Harrison-street station. Mrs. Duke was arrested upon complaint of an auto company because of her Inability to pay $10 rent for a machine during the day. Upon her arrival at the. Palmer House, ehe demanded the best suite in the hotel, and when asked to pay for it in advance, admitted she had no money, but said she would have $1000 next day. She then tried to send telegrams to Gov ernor Deneen and other prominent men. but the telegraph operators refused to accept them unless paid for In advance. Later she went to the. Criminal Court building and told Assistant State's At torney Day that relatives of her former husband were plotting against her life. After leaving there she visited a num ber of lawyers and business men and tried to Interest them in a plan to float a bond issue to save Turkey from DanK ruptcy. Mrs. Drake had been using a hired auto or all these trips, and when the chauffeur demanded his money, she admitted she had none. The marriage of Alice Webb and Brodle Duke, brother of James B. Duke, head of the American Tabacco Company, cre ated a big' stir. Later the marriage waa annulled after most sensational testi mony had been introduced by both sides. AUTO RUNS DOWN WOMAN Mrs. M." Potter Slightly Injured 'by Car as She Crosses Street. ' Run down by an automobile as she was crossing Third and Morrison streets at 4:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mrs. M. Potter) of 714 Patton road,, was seriously injured. The machine was No. 1406, driven by a R. Smith, of 309 Falling building. The woman had advanced part way across the street, having walked be hind a streetcar which hid the approach of the automobile. She was picked up and carried into Roberta Bros, drygoods store, where a physician from the crowd which gathered after the accident attend ed her. She sustained a scalp wound and severe bruises. She was taken to her home. ' Witnesses of the ' accident were Mrs. Poison, 7SS East Twenty-eighth street; A. C. Gibson, Arleta, and Mrs. H. A. Adklns. Millard avenue, Lents. AH agreed that the automobile was moving slowly and that the accident was due to lack of caution by Mrs. Potter. ALLEGED SWINDLER FLEES Posts Small Cash Bail and Escapes From Custody. SEATTLE, Aug. 31. W. W. Smith, whose real name is believed to be A. L. Groves, "with a family living In Oakland, Cal., who was arrested last week on a charge- of defrauding prospective patrons of his private banking establishment out of sums believed by the prosecutor to aggregate more than $10,000, escaped from custody today by inducing a court clerk to accept a cash bond of $1250 on the rep resentation that he was accused of get ting away with only $30. In defending his action, the clerk said that he did not know that Smith was the alleged private banking swindler. The Prosecuting Attorney has issued orders that Smith be rearrested. PRESIDENT VISIT PORTLAND Inquire Into Ballinger Pinchot Row. MAY FIGHT IT OUT IN HOUSE Taft Will Ask for Laws to Aid Conservation. AS ROOSEVELT PROPOSED Forestry and Reclamation Will Be Bones of Contention Move for More Liberal Coal Land Laws for Alaska. WASHINGTON. Aug. 81. (Special.) Congress is expected by all sides of the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy to investi gate the various phases of that row dur ing the session next Winter, unless President Taft shall intervene and settle the difficulty to the satisfaction of all concerned before that time. This new turn of affairs is not looked forward to with relish by the friends, of the Taft administration, who realize that the issue probably will be forced -upon them In Congress by the far Western members, who have fought -the Roosevelt policies and who now believe they have an op portunity to get more liberal terms from the administration. - Strengthen Conservation Laws. As a matter of fact, it is generally understood here that the policy of the administration will be to ask Congress to strengthen the laws' of conservation along the lines of the Roosevelt policies. In that event Secretary Balllnger at least will be placed in the position of having to fight the friends who think they are helping him by taking up the cudgels against the forest and reclamation services. That the Interior Department and the for'.stry and reclamation, services will be bones of serious contention In Congress this Winter was strongly indicated to day. The House committee on agricul ture controls practically all of the ap propriations under which the Forestry Bureau operates, and hitherto it has made it Its business to inquire specifically into the workings of that bureau. Amend Coal Land Laws. Likewise, the House committee on ter ritories two years ago requested the In terior Department to furnish Congress with data relating to Alaska railroads and coal -lands, but, after continuing the investigation for a short period, the Department gave It up. As a strong effort is to be made in Congress next Winter to -increase the amount of coal land which may be held under one man agement. It is believed almost unavoid able that Congress or one of Its commit tees must Investigate the conservation row. Ballinger Going to Capital. Mr. Ballinger. it was announced at the Department today, is expected to arrive in Washington next Friday. The Pur pose of his coming and length of his stay (Concluded on Page 3. ) THIS WAY? Walla Walla Millionaire and Spouse Are Taken to Jail, Where Sher iff Later Releases Woman. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 31. (Special.) Angered by the killing of Delos H. Coffin, a popular and wealthy young farmer, at 7:30 o'clock tonight, by the automobile of John A. Baxter, local millionaire real estate man, an angry mob quickly gathered about the machine and but for the protection af forded by the police, Baxter would have been' roughly handled. Both he and his wife were taken to Jail. Sheriff Havlland later released Mrs. Bax ter. The husband Is under $1000 bond for his appearance at the Coroner's Inquest tomorrow afternoon. The accident Is thought to have been due to 'the crowded streets, for Baxter is said not to have been running fast. Coffin attempted to dodge a vehicle and was struck by the automobile. When picked up he was still breathing and was removed to the nearest place, an under taking shop. . There he died in three minutes. HLs neck was broken in two places and his head horribly mangled and gashed. The larynx was broken and pressed upon the arteries, causing hem orrhage of the lungs. JAILER DODGES HATPIN Woman Prisoner Attmpts to Stab .Policeman as He Releases Her. Fiercely attacking City Jailer Burke with a hatpin which she pulled from her peach-basket hat, Jennie Smith, arrested last night, inflicted a slight wound on the Jailer's hand and would In all probability have pushed the sharp Instrument through his heart, which she threatened to do, had not assistance arrived. The woman prisoner was in a cell In the women's ward of the City Jail. She was arrested earlier In the even ing at 209 Clay street as an undesira ble by Patrolman Amundaon. Bail was provided for her by Monroe Gold berg, proprietor of the place from which she was taken. When Jailer Burke opened the cell to release her the woman Jumped be tween him and the door, saying: "I will g;et even with one policeman." She then struck at him with the hatpin. In warding off the blow intended for his heart Burke's hand was badly scratched. HARPER SOBS ON STAND Ex-Mayor, of Los- Angeles Breaks Down Under Cross-Examination. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. Testifying as a witness in the trial of Thomas H. Broadhead. who Is accused of having ac cepted bribes while Chief of Police for protection of the restricted district, ex Mayor Arthur C. Harper, who resigned under fire when a municipal investigation was set on foot, broke down and sobbed today between answers to his cross-examiners. Harper said he and his wife were sub jected to abuse and threats over the tele phone and he resigned to relieve his wife's fears. He admitted, however, the substance of an interview with a pub lisher, wherein he agreed to give up his office. HE HITS "DIP," ARRESTED Reaching Police Station, Prisoner ' Tells Why He Struck Stranger. After being arrested by Patrolmnn Small on a charge of fighting, John Cor onton told Captain Moore he attacked John Muir. with whom he was arrested, because the latter was attempting to pick his pocket. The fight took place last night shortly before 10 o'clock on Third street. "I felt a hand In my pocket and turned about to find Muir standing by me," he said. "I struck him and we fought. I had a considerable sum of money and did not feel like losing It." Nothing is known of either of the men. CANNOT PASS SUBMARINES Battleships at Mercy of Small Craft Defending Coast. r JfEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 31. With a sufficient number of submarines on guard, the battleships of an enemy ven turing too close to the coast of the United States would be completely at the mercy of these small craft, declared Charles C. Marsh, U. S. N.. In a lecture before the Naval War College today. Commander Marsh arranged the mobile defenses for the Navy on both the At lantic and Pacific Coasts,, and was in command of the ship Yankee, with sub marines and torpedo boats. In 1905. BABY HAS FUN AMID FIR& Starts to Burn House and Gleefully Throws Matches About. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31. Curious to learn what was furnishing so much amusement to her baby boy. whom she heard laughing heartily, Mrs. H. Jllseon went into her kitchen today and found the Infant had set the house on fire. He was throwing lighted matches about and gurgling gleefully as the flames played about him. Mrs. Jllseon rescued the child, and the f -rtmat saved tb,a house, .. Cloudburst in Hills Is Cause of Disaster. SIX LIVES REPORTED L0S1 Flood Destroys 130 Buildings in Whole or Partly. THRILLING RESCUES MADE Before Wave Passes, 500 People Are Homeless and Their Property Is Piled in Tangled Heap Sqnat- tertown Locality Damaged. RAWHIDE. Nev., Aug. 31. Squatter town, a settlement Just south of Raw hide, was swept by a 10-foot wall of water following a cloudburst In the hills to the north tonight and 130 buildings were partially or completely destroyed. It is reported that two women and four children are missing, but up to a late hour tonight it was impossible to secure verification of this report, as everything Is in darkness aud confusion. The cloudburst occurred on the sum mit of low hills to the north of the camp at 6:40 o'clock this evening. In a few moments a three-foot wall of water was pouring down the slope, covering three miles from the summit to Main street, with a speed of a railroad train. All Business Houses Flooded. The flood rushed Into the street, which lies In a hollow and forms a general drainage channel, and every business house on the east side was flooded to a depth of from one to four feet. Several structures were torn from their foundations and floated some distance down the street, while the crest of the flood was covered with furniture, ani mals and all sorts of debris. Water Is Ten Feet High. Gathering force as it poured down the channel, the flood swept into Squatter- town, half a mile further down. The water formed a wall 10 feet high as it crashed into the structures, overturning them and demolishing them. The work of devastation went on in the night. Be fore the wave had passed, BOO persons were homeless and their property was piled in a tangled heap in the basin at the foot of National Hill. Daring Rescues Made. Several daring rescues were made dur ing the flood. Mrs. Hobcloff and her two children clung to the wreckage of their home as it floated down the street, and were rescued by Emll Grutt and P. R. (Concluded on Page 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum MmpcratuM, 80.8 degrees; minimum,, 55.3 degree. . TODAY'S probably alr; northwesterly winds. Foreign. China and Japan finally a (tree or. settlement of Manchuria-n difficulties Page 2. National. Congress to Investigate Balllnger-Plnchot dispute and Taft to ask- for conserva tion laws. Page 1. Panama pays compensation for Injury to American sailors In riot. jtjLfte 3. Forest Supervisor Hlosson rerjs to resign and demands Inquiry. Pa,"-2. Pacific fleet sails' Snntay for'hillpplnes ajid Orient. PjVB" ..T JjomWWjg Harriman hands over reins to subordinates and will take long- rest. Pane 1. Lone robber holds up train in Pennsylvania, takes Lincoln pennies and leaves gold, r age 3. Government finds great invasion of Japs at Marysville. Cal. Page 1. Cloudburst almost destroys Rawhid. Nev and causes six deaths. Page 1. Cheney, Chicago poet, confounded with hair oil manufacturer of same name. Page 4. Hill linos. to start speed war in Wast by out- tlng lime to Coast 10 hours. Pago 0. Alice Webb Duke arrested for swindling Chicago chaaileur. Page 1. Sports. Coast League scores: Vernon & Portland 8; Sacramento 10. San Francisco 1; Oakland !(. Los Angeles 0. Pao 7. Northwestern League scores: Portland 8. Spokane S; Seattle 8. Aberdeen 0; Van couver 7. Tacoma 3. Page 7. American yacht hopelessly beau German's . In second contest. Page 12. Baron Alcyon wins great American Derby (trotting). Axtator second. Kaiiiar third. Page 5. Automobile Club will name olflcers to catch. speed fiends, page li. PacKlo Northwest. Steamer Bandon wreckadr on Coquille bar) may be total loss. Page 1. Platinum mine is round in Josephine County. Pago 0. Hamilton's counsel believes he has loop hole for escape. Page 6. Work begins on King's Hill Irrigation, project - in Idaho. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Condition of foreign hop crops. Page 17. Chicago wheat market quiet, but strong. Page 17. Leas excitement In stcck market Page 17. Foreign exports are quiet during August, Page 1. Portland and Vicinity. Director Newell would give Oregon Its hare for reclamation fund Uago 4. Southern Pacific will build line from Crab tree to Lebanon. Page 11. Taft entertainment committee meets in se cret session. Page 10. ' Court hears tilt In suit brought by Mrs. James Mel. Wood against administrator of father's estate. Page 18. Government Animal Inspector McClure says strict city law would solve Impure milk problem. Page 10. -Building expenditure makes big gain in Portland. Page 12. Dreams lead to discovery of rich Iron vsln. Page VI ( 4