HABRIIUUH'S STATE GROWS CRITICAL Second Relapse in AS Hours Occurs. LIFE HANGS BY SLIM THREAD Doctors May Try Heroic Means, but Not Operation. HE COULD NOT SURVIVE "Wizard's Vitality So Reduced That Knife Can't Be Used Friend Explains Origin of Trouble. Family, Much Alarmed. TURNER. X. T.. Sept. 7. (Special.) Edward H. TTarrlman's life tonight hangs by a slender thread. Weakened by a sec ond relapse, within 48 hours, his condition la critical. Two physicians and two nurses are constantly at his bedside. If there is another attack of acute indi gestion, from which he has been suffering- since Sunday night, his close friends believe that his chances of recovery will be slight. Dr. William G. Lyle. the fam ily physician, has not slept for nearly 24 hours. He today declined to make any statement with reference to the finan cier's physical condition. Could Not Survive Operation. All the knowledge of expert medical skill is being used to save the railroad man's life, and his friends have by no means abandoned hope. If the crisis of ton!ght Is safely passed and Mr. Harrl man's strengtn will Justify, even more heroic methods may be resorted to be fore tomorrow night. Reports tirat Mr. Harriman la to under go an immediate surgical operation are entirely without foundation. In his pres ent weakened condition and low state of vitality he could not survive an opera tion. This statement is made, not with the authority of Dr. Lyle or any member of the household, but by someone who has for ' many years been a personal friend. Weak, but Pluck Mar Save Him. "Mr. Harriman Is dangerously ill." said this friend, "and when I learned of his relapse on Sunday night I was told that members of the family were greatly alarmed because of the weak ened condition of ihe patient. So far is I am personally concerned, how ver. I believe that the ' man's pluck ind strong will may result in his ul timate recovery. "Acute indigestion often proves fatal to r. person in strong physical condi tion md it Is only natural that in the cast 'ft man in as weakened condition as Mi.-I.? -riman undoubtedly is. it will require careful nursing and the best of medical attention to avoid grave consequences." Seat of Disease. "The seat of the attack is at a point where the stomach enters the Intes tines," he said, "and some of the doc tors have diagnosed this ailment as a peculiar form of indigestion, which at times becomes very acute." . It was learned tonight that Mr. Har riman, if he gains his strength suffi ciently, will go to ,San Antonio. Tex., to take again treatment at Hot Wells, under the cars of Dr. Amos Graves, who attended the financier while he 1 was sojourning In the Southwest last Spring. XO CAUSE FOR ALARM LYLE Harriman's Physician Denies Con dition Serious; No Explanation. ARDEN. Sept. 8. After a nlsht of un certainty It was determined shortly after midnight thst H. H. Harriman Is not In each a critical state as earlier reports indicated. A party of newspaper men succeeded in reaching the Harriman home and in talking with Dr. Lyle. who said1 emphatically that there was no cause for alarm. Rumors of the .most alarming nature were circulated throughout the early part of lat night. Shortly after 10 o'clock there came a report that the financier had passed away In a sudden collapse. Where this rumor came from no one can say; but. aided by the difficulty of obtaining communication with the Harriman home, it vu given wide circulation and had spread on the winijs of the wind from the Atlantic to the Pacific before a terse de ntal over the telephone from Dr. Lyle set .It at rst.N i Silence Breeds Alarm. But Dr. Lyle declined to add even a word to the denial, and his refusal to give out any further Information regard ing hta- patient's condition gave further grounds for speculation a situation that was readily selied upon by alarmiets. The optimistic tenor of the statement is sued in New York by a friend of Mr. Harriman did not serve to quiet even during the afternoon the apprehension that was felt there. It TO pointed out that the Information .upon which the statement was based may have been a day old. Evidence pointing to a serious set back in Mr. Harriman's condition began to aecumu'ate early In the afternoon. Three men whose professional appear ance led at once to the conclusion that BODY-OF WOMAN . IS FOUND IN BAGS DISMEMBERED CORPSE SEWED TP IN BURLAP. Detroit PolU-e Face a Brutal Murder Mystery Dead Girl's Chum Tells Story. DETROIT, Sept. 7. The dismembered body of Miss Mabel Millman. 27 years old, of Ann Arbor, Mich., lies In the County Morgue tonight a pitiable exhi bition of human brutality. A portion of the body Is still missing. Miss Martha Hennlng, of Detroit, a former schoolmate of the girl, gave Iden tification proof that could not be dis puted. When Miss Hennlng identified the head of the. body detectives left for Ann Arbor to make arrests. Not until today was the head found. The head and legs were sewed in a burlap bRg similar to the one containing the trunk. A comb In the dead girl s hair gave Miss Hennlng her clew. Miss Hen nlng said Mabel had come to Detroit to visit her three weeks ago. One day Mabel told her friend she was going to see her cousin. It since has been learned that she never reached her cousin's home. William and Ernest Buboltx, brothers, re ported tonight that early last Tuesday morning they saw an automobile racing from Detroit toward Ecorx. In it they noticed a large burlap bag much like the one In which the body and head were found. SEALERS HAVE COMPLAINT Canadian Ships Stopped When Hunting for Sea Otters. VICTORIA. B. C. Se.pt. 7.-9peclal.-A new International question has been brought directly to the attention -of Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada, as well as to the Dominion authorities. The movers are Stockham & Dawley, Cap tain Victor Jacobson and others inter ested in sealing, whose Independent schooners, the Baird. the Eva Marie and others, are at present hunting in Behrlng Sea. . These vessels. It is claimed, were hunt ing sea otters strictly when overhauled by American cutters, and given speclflo orders to keep oat of Bering Sea. al though an otter herd was In view. Sea otter are covered neither by the Paris award nor any other international agreement and Interference with British vessels In pursuit of sea otter by Ameri can warships ia resented as unjustified. The matter has been reported to London and Washington. ALIEN HAS EQUAL RIGHTS LoRger's Widow Wins Appeal In Suit for Damages. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 7. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals adjourned at the close of today's ses sion to reconvene September 13 at Seat tle and September 20 at Portland. . In the case of Satka SavelJIch against the Lyle Logging and Mercan tile Company, of Porter, Wash., was remanded to the trial court for rehear ing, with instructions to override the demurrer. Rade Saveljich was killed while in the employ of the company, and his wife sued for damages, but the case was thrown out of court on a de murrer, alleging that the plaintiff was an alien. The Appellate Court reversed the rul ing of the trial court, under a decision by the Supreme Court, holding that an alien has equal rights of suit with a citizen in any state. ACCUSED OF WIRE TAPPING Western Union Official Arrested on Return From Europe. PHIL ELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 7. John P. Altberger, superintendent of the Phil adelphia district of the Western Union Telegraph Company, was arrested today and held In $500 ball on the charge of diverting private Information from the Western Union Company's wire's. It is understood the Chicago Board of Trade, the New York Cotton Exchange and the Western Union Company are back of the prosecution. The technical charge, according to George S. Graham, counsel for the prosecution, la larceny as bailee. Mr. Altberger arrived here today from a six weeks' trip to Europe and was shadowed from New York to this city. He will be given a hearing two. weeks from today. Mr. Altberger came to this city in 1893 from Denver. AMERICA BEWILDERS JAP Royal Party From Mikado's Land Arrives in New York. NEW YORK. Sept. 7. Prince Kunl yoesesi, a grandson of the Emperor of Japan, tonight reached New York from Liverpool. With him came the Princess Kunly and her lady in waiting; Mme. Nagasaki, whose husband is the grand master of ceremonies at the Japanese court, and Colonel Kurlta. the prince's military aide. The Federal Government and the state were represented In thoee who met the royal party. Prince Kuniy knows 115 English, but through an interpreter he spoke with enthusiasm about America. "I am bewildered," he said. PANIC FOLLOWS A QUAKE Italians Camp in Streets When the Earth Trembles. SIENA. Italy. Sept. 7. An earth shock early today threw the inhabitants of Buen Convento. Montecieno and Murlo Divescovado Into a panic and they camped in the streeta A large number of house) were damage) EXTRA PEARY SAYS COOK DID NOT SEE POLE Never Was Out of Sight Of Land in North. QUOTES ESKIMO COMPANIONS Warns World Not . to Take Cook Too Seriously. STORM DELAYS RETURN Story of Peary's Discovery May Not Come for Three Days. All Well When Steamer Left Port on Labrador Coast. NEW YORK, Sept. 8. The following dispatch was received here early today: "Indian Harbor, Labrador, by wire less, via Cape Ray, Sept. 8. Melville E. Stone, Associated Press: , "I have nailed the Stars and Stripes to the North Pole. This is authorita tive and correct. "Cook's story should not be taken too seriously. The two Eskimos who ac companied Cook say he went no dis tance North and not out of sight of land. Other members of the tribe cor roborate their story. (Signed) "COMMANDER ROBERT E. PEARY." RETURN DELAYED BY STORM Peary' Story Cannot Reach World for Three Days. INDIAN HARBOR, Labrador, via Cape Ray. Sept. 8. Commander Peary and hia party sailed from here today for Sydney. N. S. The Roosevelt arrived here Sunday night and has been detained until this morning by a heavy gale. On the arrival Peary and Captain Bartlett came ashore and personally filed the dispatches which were sent by wire less to the United States. Commander Peary expressed gratification at his suc cessful completion of his life's work In discovering the North Pole He and Cap tain Bartlett appeared to be In the best condition. The Roosevelt is uninjured from her long voyage through Ice packs of the Polar seas. Unless the Roosevelt stops at Red Bay, Labrador, to permit Commander Peary to file details of his successful exploration. It Is not believed that his Interesting story can reach the outside world for at least three days. PROMISE SCIENTIFIC QUARREL German Paper Thinks Public Opinion Will Support Peary. S5UNICH, Sept. 7. Commenting on the remarkable coincidence arising from the prasence at the North Pole of both Com mander Peary and Dr. Cook the Zeltung today says: "Commander Peary and Dr. Cook are (Concluded on Page 3.) J I ...... i . r r r i.i. t r - SAYS GERMANY IS ARMING FOR WAR XOKTHCLIFFE PREDICTS FIGHT WITH BRITAIN ERE LONG. Owner of London Times Warns Canada That Big Ships and Big Guns Are Building. WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. 7. Lord North cllfte, owner of the London Times, In an Interview . here today predicted war be tween Germany and Great Britain. He said that In the Krupp gun works alone 100,000 men were working night and day and on Sundays preparing for war. He said: "I woulfl make the suggestion, with all respect to the Canadians who are in vesting their money and labor In con structing railroads and building grain elevators, that they keep an eye on European affairs and begin to figure out why it is all the shipbuilding yards in Germany are busy constructing rapid cruisers and first-class battleships, and why it Is that Krupps were increasing their hands to over 100,000 men, nearly the population of Winnipeg. "They will fight or threaten again when they think that it will pay. Many peo ple say now that they will fight Great Britain in the near future and some have mentioned the year 1911." SALEM 'HAS $36,000 FIRE Smoke, Damages Department Store In Heart of City. SALEM. Or., Sept. 7. (Special.) A fir which was discovered at 11 o'clock lonight in. the basement of J. L. Stockton's de partment store at Court and Commercial streets, "in the heart of the business dis trict, burned through a portion of the floor and damaged the stock by smoke to the extent of 36,O00. Origin of the fire is unknown. The in surance Is small. At 11:S0 the fire was well under control. TOLEDO FAVORS SALOONS Local Option Election Goes to Wets by Vote of 51 to 30. WIXLOCK, Wash., Sept. 7. (Special.) The- Town of Toledo, east of here, in a special local option election today voted wet by 51 to 30. This is the first town In Lewis County to vote on the liquor question, and has aroused a great deal of interest. Two years ago Toledo elected a prohi bition ticket and the Council held up a number of saloon licenses for several months. GOMEZ PURSUING CASTRO Venezuelan President Offers Re ward for Former Executive. SAN JUAN, Pt R., Sepfc 7. Two rep resentatives sent here by President Gomez of Venezuela, are watching fQr the possible landing of ex-President Cas tro. They say that a large reward will be given to anyone submitting Informa tion of an attempt by General Castro to land on Porto Rico or adjacent islands. ECHO OF ADANA HORRORS Courtmartial Sentences Turkish Officials at Scene of Massacres. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 7. The court-martial Investigating the Adana massacres has sentenced DJevad Bey, the ex-Vall, to six years' exclusion from the public Service; Rameei Pasha, mili tary commandant of Adana. to three years' imprisonment, and has acquitted the Governor of Adana. TEDDY, WHERE ART THOU? BALLINGER WINS, PINCHOT WILL GO Taft Is Convinced That Former Is Right. ROOT'S FIGHT NOT JUST He and His Assistants Will Lose Official Heads. OVERHAUL FOREST BUREAU After Long Conference, President Finds Nothing to Shake Confi dence in Secretary, but Keeps Silence. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 7. Apparently reliable Information was received here today from Beverly, Mass., as follows: President Taft upholds Richard A. BaJlInger, Secretary of the Interior, In the fight made on Mr. Ballinger by Gif ford Plnchot and friends of Mr. Plnchot. In a conference lasting two hours and a half at the Taft cottage last night, the President went over In detail with Mr. Ballinger and Oscar Lawlor, As sistant" Attorney-General for the In terior Department, most of the phases of the charges connected with the Cun ningham coal claims In Alaska and the accusations made by Mr. Plnchot that the water power trust has been aided by Mr. Ballinger' handling of public lands in the West. He found nothing to shake his confidence in Mr. Bal linger. On the contrary, he found that the fight made by Mr. Plnchot Is not Justified. All that is known of the solution of the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy to day is that Mr. Ballinger Is victor, and, as the fight has been a bitter one, so will the victory be all the more com plete. Friends of the President are predict ing here today that the whole Forestry Bureau will be overhauled and that Mr. Plnchot, Its head, and Assistant For ester Price will go by the board. It is taken for granted that Mr. Ballinger will not remain in the servioe If Mr. Plnchot continues to .hold office, and between the two the President will fall on the Forestry Bureau in an emphatic manner. LET WAR GO OX BALLINGER Welcomes Attacks of Plnchot Taft Not 'Ready to Decide. BEVERLY, Mass., Sept. 7. "So far as I am concerned, let the war go on." This was the, reply of Secretary Bal linger today when pressed for an ex pression of opinion as to how long he thought the controversy in Washington regarding the conservation policy of the Interior Department would continue. Mr. Ballinger spent the day In Boston while the President was attending the Yale celebration at the Brookllne Country Club, but he came to Beverly tonight and had a second interview with the Presi dent. Mr. Ballinger consistently declined to discuss the situation in any way, but President Taft let it be known that no decision on the matters at Issue could (Concluded on Page 5.) VACANCIES LIKELY IN SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HARLAN AND MOODY MAY RETIRE. 1 Both in Poor Health, Entitled to Rest Hughes and Lurton Are Mentioned. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. (Special.) When the Supremo Court of the United States convenes for the October term it is probable that two of the chairs upon the bench, those that have been oc cupied by Justices Harlan and Moody, will be vacant. Justice Harlan is eligible for retire ment, but until recently his health had been exceptionally robust for one of his age. It Is reported that he is likely to go from his Summer home at Murray Bay to California to recuperate and that unless a change of climate restores his health he will retire. Justice Moody, who recently suffered a severe attack, does not recover, it is stated. Reports concerning the condition of Justice Day are not reassuring. Chief Justice Fuller is eligible for retirement. President Taft will, it is believed, have within a short time the designation of at least one Supreme Court Justice. Governor Hughes, of New York, and Justice Lurton, of Tennessee, are among the prominent lawyers mentioned for the first vacancy. WRONG NEGRO IS LYNCHED Southern Mob Kills Brother of Po liceman's Slayer. CLARKSDALE, Miss.. Sept. 7. Fol lowing the killing of Policeman Walter Marshall Saturday night, the lynching of the brother of Nathan McDonald, the negro held responsible for Mar shall's death and the killing through accident of another negro, normal con ditions have been restored In this place. The removal of McDonald and others alleged to have been Implicated In the killing of Marshall to prisons in other parts of this state and Arkansas has been effected. During the chase for McDonald the second negro was fatally wounded by a stray bullet. THROUGH LINE TO PANAMA Pullman Cars From Seattle via Portland on Harriman Roads. .OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 7. A Mexican newspaper clipping forwarded by Consul-General Shanklin to the State Department tells of a proposed railway which plans to run Pujlman cars from Seattle to Panama. It is to be part of the Southern Pacific system, which is now being pushed on to Guadalajara, and a concession has been secured for a line from Acapulco to Salina Cruz, the Pacific port terminal of the Tehuantepec Railway. Mr. Shankiin states that he made In quiries and was - advised by the news paper making the announcement that the report came to it officially. TOPEKA WADES TO WORK Record Rainfall Stops Cars and Floods Streets. TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 7. The heav iest 12-hour rainfall ever recorded at the local weather bureau occurred last night and this morning, the total precipitation being a fraction more than eight inches. A light fall began today. Many streets were impassable for pedestrians today. Streetcar traffic was tied up and residents waded to their places of business through water varying In depth from three inches to a foot. STEEL STRIKERS SCORE McKees Rocks Workmen Win Com plete Victory Over Company. PITTSBURG. Sept. 7. The strike of the employes of the Pressed Steel Car Company's plant at McKees Rocks is over. The 6000 workmen have won a complete victory. Beginning Thursday they will return to work 1000 a day, according to a statement made tonight by C. A. Wise, chairman of the strikers' executive committee. Practically all the demands made by the men have been granted. ALASKA VOLCANO VIOLENT Lava Flows From Crater of Akutan in Aleutians. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7. Captain M. M. iveber, master of the Alaska pack steamer Lehua, which arrived to day from the Aleutian Islands, reports that when his vessel left the Islands the volcano Akutan was in violent eruption. Lava was issuing in great volume. Akutan is 58SS feet high and this is the first disturbance reported since 1887. TOM JOHNSON NOMINATED Cleveland Democrats Stick to Old Stand-By for Mayor. CLEVELAND, Sept. 7. Incomplete re turns thus far received make It almost certain that Tom Johnson has been nomi nated for Mayor by the Democrats. Herman C. Behr, County Recorder, leads in the race for ' the Republican nomination. The street railway situa tion is the bone of contention. This is the fifth tim Johnson Km been nominated ROSE FESTIVAL TO BE ANNUAL EVENT Directors Plan Fete for Next Year. AERIAL FLIGHTS A FEATURE Portland Will Have Chance to See Expert Aeronauts. H0YT IS AGAIN PRESIDENT Other Officers Are Elected and Steps Taken to Make Carnival Greater Than Successful Ones Already Held. Portland's Rose Festival, bigger, bet ter and more elaborate than ever, will be repeated in 1910, and so far as the directors and stockholders can now de termine the Rose Festival will be an annual event in this city for many years to come. The date for next year's Festival, as determined upon at a meeting of the new board of directors, which immediately followed its election by the stockholders, will be in the week embraced between June 6 and June 11, inclusive. This is the same relative period as that in which the Festival was held In 1909. Aero Club Is Interested. Already the programme for the great event of Oregon is being outlined and it is practically assured that one of the at tractions will be an exhibition flight of airships. The management of the festival for several weeks has been In correspond ence with the Aero Club of New York, the Wright brothers,. Glenn Curtis and other aeronauts, and while it is not yet possible to announce who will take part in the exhibition, fairly definite assur ances are given that Portland will have the opportunity of witnessing aeroplanes skimming over the city in Rose Festival week. The airship flight is not planned to be in the character of an international race, but more on the order of. an exhi bition flight. Not Dissenting Voice Raised. At the annual meeting of the stock holders of the Rose Festival Association, held last night, and in the subsequent meeting of the new directorate, there was not a dissenting voice raised to the pro posal to repeat the Rose Festival in 1910. The meeting of the stockholders. (Concluded on Page 4. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 75 uegiees; miiiiiitu.i. " ' ' TODAY'S Probably ralr. with moderate temperature; westerly winds. . Foreign. Lord Northcllffe says Uermany Is scttvely preparing tor war with Britain. Page l. Lefevre. aeronaut, falls from machine and Is killed. Page 4. Discovery of the North Pole. Peary says Cook did not reach Pol and quotes Cook's Eskimo to prove It. Page 1. Bridgman compares merits o I'eary and Cook. Page 3. Offers for Cook's lectures and books doubled by controversy over who was first al the Pole. Page Shackleton discusses work of Peary and Cook. Page 2. National Geographical Society arranging; ban quet to explorers. Page 3. National. Ballinger sustained by Taft, and) Plnchot will have to go. Page l. Taft will appoint Hughe and Lurton to Su preme bench. Pago 1. Politics. First test of direct primary in Cincinnati ends In defeat for Taft'a brother-in-law. Page 0. Domestic Harriman reported to have had two relapses and condition causes alarm. Page 1. Whole city wiped out by Mexican floods. Page 2. Wealthy capitalists arrested tor coal-land frauds in Wyoming. Page 1J. Southern Pacific to enter transcontinental BJJeu tunic... - - Detr iroit girl murdered ana aisnsmuow Page I. tnr Mitchell's hell'S Win Suit tO CSCapS Set. a paying his fine. Page 5. Sports. ist league scores: Sacramento 2, Portland Coast O: Oakland 8. Vernon 4; ban r rancisco o. Los Angeles 3. Page 7. Pittsburg ties series with Chicago Nationals) by winning yesterday. Page 7. Northwestern League scores: Portland 5. Vancouver 10; Spokane . Tacoma 3: Aberdeen-Seattle game postponed. Page I. Pacific Northwest. Washington Ta'x Commission boosts O. R. as N. asessments. Page 6. Railr Ilroad rivalry in Idaho shifts to mnn River where Harriman executes flank movement on Hill. Page 6. Friends of Stewart start movement to center support on one cnngreraiuiiaj '" Columbia XtlVr uuunuw. r rty men examined for murder trial duty at Hood River have convictions and are excused. Page 1. Forty Shir Ingle manufacturers thwart smite Dy clos ing mills. Page 6. Commercial and Marine, Lis iaht trading in local grain mars-ei.. Page 17. leat prices in East affected by heavy re Whe ceipts, ran ii. all street alarmed by Harriman's con- Lighth hthousekeeper rows 20 miles to give wue burial. 4 Page 16. 'piirlluH and Vicinity. Pla ans are adopted for 1910 Rose Festival. page l. rents see Will Hunt, Infant, killed by Par streetcar, rage io. ..--i TTtnmr rteciares McDonell ease Is General closed Incident. Page 18. Albers ers Bros, will not Interfere wltn Broad way bridge. Page 11. yor Simon to bid Japanese trade envoys welcome to Portland. Page 10. sohutes Irrigation & pSIl"rJC?'',nl'!,V." edness is shown to be 1700.000. Page 18. May w Deso Kew w grand Jury selected to prou miu" of defunct Oregon Trust, Fm U ConcluUd an Fags 12-i