VOL. XLIX.-yO. 15,280. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JACKSON'S PHOTO ' ON WALL, 2 FIGHT TEXXESSEEAX IN SAWMILL RE SENTS INSULT. M'CREDIE LOSES PORTLAND FIGHT MURDERER GETS fprCPT OUHDT CrMTCMPC LI I LU I SNOW-CLAD TRAIL STETSON T MAY BE HIS TOMB SEARCHING PARTY SEEKS FOR FOREST RANGER. onun i ocn i lil T F CHICAGO CHATTFFEC R GETS THREE MONTHS IN' JAIL. i i BILLION 1 RQQPS TO GUARD 0 CHURCH Era M DOLLAR MERGER eons Violence Feared When Dead Are Recovered. WATER TURNED INTO SHAFT Cherry Colliery Officials Sure All Men Are Dead. RESCUER IS TURNED BACK Rod Cross Appeal for Aid for Sur rlrors Meets Quick Response. Eighty-six Families Left Without Male 'Members. CHERRY. EI., Nov. 16. Troops have been called to prevent any -untoward demonstration at the St. Paul coal mine, when bodies of the 300 men entombed by Saturday's catastrophe are brought to the surface. Sheriff Skoglund, of Bureau County, wkith authority from State's At torney Eckhart, telegraphed to Spring field lat today, asking Governor Deneen to send several companies of state militia. So fac no violence has been displayed and State's Attorney Eckhart hopes by the presence of a small guard to prevent any ill-advised move on the part of tha miners, whose feelings have been wrought up by the loss of their comrades. "We want the troops at once; that's all there is about it. We will take no chances." declared the State's Attorney. Two companies of militia from Gales hurgr and one from Kewanee have been ordered to report here at midnight. "The decision to call for troops was agreeable to all concerned," said Sheriff Skoglun. "It was thought that when they began to take up the bodies con fusion might ensue. The coming of troops does not change the situation, for the mine Is practically In the hands of the state, owing to the presence of the State Mine Inspectors." A fire engine with other' fire-fighting apparatus from Chicago also arrived tonight and was set up at the mouth of the mine. All Thought to Be Dead. When the bodies will be brought to the surface Is doubtful. None of the offi cials believes any of the 300 entombed men are alive. The subterranean fires today were more Intense than when the men were entrapped three days ago, and no efforts could be made to enter the mine. Fire Chief Horan, of Chicago, arrived with a supply of hose and chemical fire extinguishers. The seal over the mouth of the shaft was perforated and it was Intended to force water and chemicals down through pipes. A thermometer in the sand on top . of the seal showed a temperature of 110 degrees. Indicating that heat In the Interior of the mine was Intense. Chief Koran shook his head. "It s no use."" he said, "to lift the lid today, as It would mean that the whole mine would blaze up and there would be no possibility of recovering even the bodies. The coal deposits would take fire and the timber supports would crum ble. Perhaps another shaft will have to be dug to recover the remains of the men." Eighty-six homes visited were, with the exception of children, without male mem bers. Cause of Disaster Sought. Speculation was rife as to the location of the bodies in the mine. Upon this will be determined the immediate cause of the men's death whether It was fire, suffo cation by smoke, or the falling In of parts of the mine. It Is the opinion of veteran mlneworkers that In time of danger a miner will remain near the hoisting shaft until driven to remoter parts in searca of air. If the bodies are found near the shaft, it was declared. It would Indicate the men perished by fire. If they are found in the more distant galleries, suffocation by smoke or gas was probably the cause of death. The repeated sealing up of the mouth of the mine. ' necessary to stop draught and smother the fire, it is held, was 'sufficient to generate enough gas to kill the men in any part of the mine. The location of the bodies will Indicate also about when the men died, for nox ious gases did not become fatally dense until some time after the first fire was subdued. The belief was expressed by Mine Manager Taylor that men in the mine died soon after the disaster Satur day. Taylor has repeatedly risked his life to get Into the mine and yesterday almost perished when he wandered 200 feet from the main shaft and returned Just in time to see .the rekindled flames eating their way toward the cage, his only means of escape. Taylor Has Xo Hope. "Every man in that mine died on the day of tho fire," said Taylor. "It is a mistaken idea that the entombed men could have hastened far out in the gal leries of the mine and there found oxj--gen enough to keep them alive for the day. I "It is a mistake to think that sealing the shaft cuts off the circulation of air. It does not. Our anemometers have shown all along" a good circulation of air In the shaft, but the damage that was fatal had been done long before the mine Concluded on Face 0.) Indicted for Manslaughter, Reckless Driver Is Allowed to Plead Guilty to Assault Charge. CHICAGO, Nov. Id Special.)Chauf feurHallie Stokes, the chauffeur who, on January 25, ran down and killed Miss Emma Wlnkelman. was today given three months in Jail, "as a warning to other reckless chauffeurs." The killing of Miss Wlnkelman was par ticularly atrocious. She was on her way home from church and had Just stepped out of a car when Stokes, driving his machine at a furious clip, tossed her 20 feet to the stone pavement, killing her In stantly. Without a backward glance, he kept on his way and escaped. He eluded the police for two days. It was. shown at the time that he had just been dismissed by some patrons who objected to bis reck less driving, and was on his way back to the barns. Eventually he was In dicted for manslaughter, but he finally "agreed" to plead guilty to "assault, and on this he was sentenced to 90 days. The case was about as near murder as If be had slain the girl with a rifle, and at the time the police announced they Intended to "make an example" of him. JAIL, THEN SHRIEVALTY Imprisoned Sheriff, When Freed, to Seek Re-election. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. Rather than ask for clemency from, the Government that has fixed upon him the stigma of failure to perform his duty as Sheriff, Joseph F. Shipp,' will probably choose to go back to the people of Hamilton County, Tenn., after his term In Jail for contempt of the Supreme Court of the .United States has been served. He plans to test the Tenesseeans" con fidence in him by asking them to re elect him to office. CONSUMPTIVE IS SET FREE Violation of Anti-Pass Law Over looked in Case of Sick Man. f CHICAGO, Nov. 16. Charles J. Iiuhd bloom, a consumptive, who was arrested for violating t he interstate commerce law relative to issuing passes, was. re leased by the Federal authorities today. Bernard Love, who obtained the pass for Lundbloom by representing the - con sumptive as his brother, will be prose cuted. It is probable Lundbloom will receive transportation to Denver. Mrs. Lund bloom also Is ill. The family is aaid to be without funds and District Attorney Sims refused to prosecute the case. SCOLDED GIRL IS SUICIDE Girl Makes Good Her Threat AVhen Mother Calls In Neighbor. PHOENIX. Ariz., Nov. 16. Connie Ger man, 16-year-old daughter of Mrs. Taylor, of this city, shot and killed herself to day. She had disobeyed her mother by going tarantula hunting with some companions and when she returned the mother threatened to call in a neighbor to heat her scolded. "If you do, I'll kill myself," said the girl. Mrs. Taylor called the neighbor and the girl seized a revolver and sent a bullet into her breast. PINCH0T TO KNOW STATUS Government Forester Asks Taft to Declare Himself. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. Tt Is rumored tonight that Glfford Pinchot, Government Forester, has written to President Taft, expressing a desire to nave his status In the Administration more clearly de fined so as to set at rest the so-called controversy between Secretary of the In terior Ballinger and himself in regard to the conservation policies. The report has it that in his letter to the President Mr. Pinchot requested Mr. Taft to declare himself emphatically either for Pinchot or for Ballinger. RAIN WRECKS SALT PONDS Seal Islands Precipitation 'Is 11 Inches in One Day. GRANDTURK. Turks Islands. B. W. In dies. Nov. 16. Turk's Islands suffered severely from recent wind and rain storms. There was a great waste of salt, the salt ponds on both these Islands and Seal Cay Island being flooded. One day 11 inches of rain fell. The British schooner Alexandria, which was driven ashore at East Harbor Fri day. Is a total wreck. The crew barely escaped with their Uvea ROOF MURDER ADMITTED I'nknonn "Ruth" Writes That She Killed .Gannon for Revenge. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov. 16. A letter was received by the authorities here today signed "Ruth," In which the writer declares that when she is found the police will have the "one who killed R. D. Gannon." "I killed him because he wronged me," the letter continues. The body of Gannon, a real estate dealer, was found on the roof of an office building here two weeks ago. Maud Geek is under arrest charged with being an accessory to bis murder. Bell Telephone Takes Over Western Union. POSTAL Ml BE ABSORBED Sale of Gould Stock Makes Gi gantic Deal Possible. MILLIONS TO BE SAVED Wires of Two Systems Will Be Used Interchangeably, One Business Becoming Auxiliary of Other. Combine long Contemplated. BOSTON, Xov. 16. A long, stride toward tho cnmnleto control bv one corporation of all wire communication in the United Ktotc Trno mode todav in the acquisition by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company of the control of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Tn maVa h Ahsmratlon oomplete. the Incorporation of a new $1,000,000,000 com pany Is announced. It Is said the new mmnr.llm will Include the $592,475,400 of bonds and stock of the American Tele phone & Telegraph Company, known as thA !.!! Comnanv. and the ouisianains 165,O0O,O0O of bonds and stocks of the Western Union Company. Millions AV111 Be Saved. The acoulsition of the Western Union stock by the Bell Company has been In TirnETCN for six months, and only & suf ficient amount to Insure control, said to be 51 per cent, was taken over. Officers of the telephone company be lieve that the merger will save the Bell Company 375,000.000 in new construction, whti it also will enable the utilization of wires both for telegraphing and telephon ing. -Minor Companies Are Included. MKoclated corporations engaged In telenhone business, a majority of whose jrtnek reste In the treasury of the present ooncern. are: New Tork Telephone Com pany, 350,000,000; New England xeiepnono & Telegraph Company 331,700,000; Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, 331,150,000; New Tork and New Jersey Tel ephone Company, 325.400.000; Southern Bell TabnhnnA fnmrvunv X21.4O0.000: Cumber land Telephone & Telegraph Company, 318,000.000; Chicago Telephone Company, 317,500,000; Western Telephone & Tele graph Company, 316,000,000; Bell Tele phone Company of Canada, 312,500,000. Tha telephone system annually trans acts 6,956,800.000 messages, while the Western Union handles 68,063,000. The tel ephone system has 8,089,879 miles of wire onH thA Vntcrn TTnlnn 1. 3X2.509. The to tal property value of the telephone com pany Is 3545,045.600 and that o the West ern Union 3124,086,920. STOCK SALE AIDS MERGER Transfer of Gould Property Makes Big Combine Possible. NEW YORK. Nov. 16. Announced In Boston and confirmed In New York, an- (Concluded on Page 3.) v ....... .... ........ . Storm Comes Up Soon After Marlon Hurd Starts on Trip in Cas cade Mountains. EUGENE, Or., Nov. 16. (Special.) much uneasiness Is felt here for the safety of Marlon Hard, a forest ranger and son of G.'F. Hurd, of this city, who started across the Cascades by way of the old military road ten days ago on horseback, and from whom nothing has been heard. Hurd set out for his station at Ross land, Crook County. For the past two days the wires into Rossland have been dowrj and no word could be had from there until this afternoon. It was re ported that .he had not arrived and his whereabouts are not known. Supervisor Seltz a', once telegraphed for a searching party of four to start out from Rossland, and he himself will head a similar party to leave Eugene in the morning. The party from here will be followed by a six-horse team with pro visions. At the Hill ranch Bill Hill will Join the Seitz searching party. The fear of Hurd's people and many friends here is strengthened by the fact that two men by the name of Mahan and Roberts started across the moun tains, but by the McKenzie route, and they encountered so much cold and snow, which was getting deeper as they pro ceeded, that they came back to McKenzie Bridge. Here they found a family that had Just been rescued after crossing tha sum mit of the mountains from the other side almost frozen. They had been brought in on horseback, their own horses having perished in the enow from fatigue. It is possible that Hurd is at the Sig- don ranch, but no word can be had from there. Again he may have made his camp In the mountains, but his sup plies were not sufficient to last him long. INSANE WILL PICK FRUIT Outdoor Method That Has Cured Drinkers Tried for Dementia. CLEVELAND, Nov. 16. A plan for fresh-air treatment of the city's insane at the municipal farm colony was an nounced today. The city will place per sons suffering from curable dementia in fruit orchards and vegetable gardens at the Warrensville farm. Similar treatment has proved effective with drink victims, . GEORGE CROCKER SICK MAN Son of California Pioneer Seriously III In New York. NEW YORK. Nov. 16. George Crocker, son of a multi-millionaire California pio neer. Is seriously ill at his Fifth-avenue residence. His older brother, William H. Crocker, recently hurried from Europe and Is with him. Physicians have not made known the cause of his Illness, but It is said to be a disorder of the stomach. JOHN G. CARLISLE . BETTER Former Secretary's Physician Says His Condition Is Encouraging. NEW YORK, Nov. 16. John G. Carlisle ex-Secretary of the Treasury, who Is ill, continued to Improve today.. His physician. Dr. Joseph B. Bryant, said tonight that his condition was en couraging. THE LAW IS BLIND SURE THING. On Carpet 20 Hours, She Relents. MRS, EDDY'S ARGUMENT WINS Woman Tried for "Mental Mal practice" Admits Wrong. LEADERS' JUDGMENT TAKEN Accused Christian Scientist Issues Statement After Jong Secret Ses- sion Board of Directors Con demn Her Healing Method. BOSTON. Nov. 16. For 20 hours, 10 yes terday and 10 today, Mrs. Augusta F. Stetson, of New York, accused of "mental malpractice," was In secret con ference with the board of directors of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, In the Inner council-room of the mother church. Mrs. Stetson Bows. While the deliberations were secret, their result was apparent tonight, when Mrs. Stetson issued a statement In which she asserts that she bows to the Judg ment of the mother church against her and furthermore that she will obey "my leader" by uniting with those who felt It was right to condemn her In their tes timony. She Makes Statement. Mrs. Stetson's statement follows: "Our beloved leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has requested us all to unite with those In our church who are supporting the mother church directors. Today I have received a copy of her letter addressed to the trustees of our church. . "For 25 years I have gladly obeyed her In every question. I have always found that by doing this T drew nearer to God. Students know that I have taught them to do likewise, without questioning her wisdom; therefore, they do not need any wod from me in adding to what our be loved leader has said to guide them at this hour. Declares Judgment Right. "They will know that it Is right for them to unite with those who supported the mother church directors In the judg ment rendered against me. I myself have been obeying that judgment and I shall continue to do so. I shall, further more, obey my leader by uniting with those who felt it was right to condemn me in their testimony. My leader's let ter induces me to believe that I may have been wrong where I felt that I was ab solutely right. "For 25 years I have watched and prayed for guidance and strength in cor recting every error revealed to me by God and by my leader or by any of my brethren." General Reyes Sails for Europe. NEW' YORK, Nov. lS.-MSeneral Bern ardo Reyes, ex-Governor of the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and frequently men tioned as a candidate for the Mexican Presidency as President Diaz successor, sailed today for Europe on the steamer George Washington. Man Who Is Forced to Retract Se cures Gun and Goes in Search of Assailant; Row Follows. f WENATCHEE. Wash., Nov. 16. (Spe cial.) The picture of Andrew Jackson caused a disturbance in a sawmill camp on the Swakane River, eight miles from this city that neariy resulted in the death of John Sweet, a laborer In the camp. Sweet and a co-worker named Shaw were at the supper table last Friday evening when Shaw, who was Intoxi cated, began to berate Andrew Jackson's picture, which hung on the wall. Sweet, a Tennesseean, resented the, Insults and made Shaw take back what he had said. Afterward Sweet was sitting in his cabin with companions when Shaw opened the door and pointed a rifle at Sweet. Sweet jumped for the gun and a fight ensued. With a knife, Shaw started for Sweet, but companions drove him off. Shaw then left for the hills and nothing has been heard of him since. The officers are looking for him with a warrant charg lng assault with intent to kill. LAKE STEAMER FOUNDERS Ottawa Turns Turtle and Crew Is Barely Saved. CALUMET. Mich., Nov. . 16. The steamer Ottawa, a Canadian wheat boat bound from Port Arthur for Lower Town, Ont.. foundered off Passage Island yes terday morning. The Otftiwa began to turn on her side and had almost turned turtle before the last of the crew could be taken off. The crew had pulled only a short distance from the steamer before she disappeared Captain Birnle may die and three mem ber of the crew are In a serious con ditlon as a result of exposure. STURGEON BAY, Wis., Nov. 16. One life was lost and ten 6ailors barely escaped when the steamer Louis Pahlow was wrecked in the storm that swept Lake Michigan today. When two miles from Ford River the wheel cable parted- PENNILESS VOYAGER HELD Plea of Wager May Enlist Consul in Globetrotter's Cause. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16. After making his penniless way three-fourths around the globe on a wager, Alphonse Vergonjeanne may have to go back the way he came, unless the French Am bassador at Washington can stay the hand of the immigration authorities of this port who are required' by law to return stowaways whence they came. Vergonjeanne said that his trip was the result of a wager entered into in Paris, April 21, when a party of friends wagered 25,000 francs against the possi bllity of making one's way around the world In six months without a cent. Con- sul-General Merou of France has taken up the case of his compatriot who arrived here last Friday on the Manchuria, with a dollar and a copper penny In his pocket. BLAZE CARRIED TO WATER Minus Roof and Sides, Car Is Re turned to Place After Drenching. SPOKANE. Wash., Nov. 16. (Special.) Because fire was destroying a carload of baled hay at Chewelah, north of Spo kane, this afternoon, and the hay was beyond reach of a Are hydrant, Chewelah volunteers moved the fire to the water plug, where It was extinguished. On the siding near the Spokane Falls & Northern depot was the boxcar loaded with the hay ready for shipment, when flames were discovered. A car loaded with fur niture standing nearby was then in danger and it too was moved. Chemicals falling to check the fire be cause of the compact hay bales, the load was shunted down the track, hose was attached to a fire plug, the flames were extinguished, and the car vas returned to the depot minus its roof and sides. NEW PACIFIC LINE PLANNED Liner Waits for James Bain, Hurry ing West With Details. VANCOUVER, B. C, Nov. 16. (Spe cial.) The sailing of the Empress of Japan to the Orient is to be delayed until noon on Thursday to permit James Bain, one of the dignitaries of the Brit ish mercantile marine, and formerly su perintendent of the Cunard line, to catch the vessel. He is speeding west from Winnipeg, en route to Hongkong, and his business is said to concern the establishment of a new steamship line on the Pacific Ocean to run to this port. Details re garding the proposed line are not made public. PARTNER BETRAYS PUTER Confession of Released Prisoner Fol lowed by Suit to Recover $50,000. ST. PAUL. Minn., Nov. 16. Horace D. McKinley, just released from prison for Government land frauds, has made a confession implicating his former partner, S. A. D. Puter, and other Western men in swindling a St. Paul millionaire named Fclzer out of nearly 60.000. Falzer has begun suit to recover the amount he lost. Pacific Northwest Nine Is No More. TIE VOTE DENIES THE RIGHT 'I'm Soured on Coast League,' Says Magnate McCredie. MAY QUIT BALL HOLDINGS After All-NiRht Session of Club Owners at San Francisco, Port ' Innd Man Refuses to Announce His Action of Future. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 16.-rSp-vial), After an all-night session the Pacific Coast League, by a tie vote of 3 to ". denied the right of the Pacific Northwest League to Install a club In Portland this coming year, as they had last season. Henry Berry, of Los Angeles, and Happy Hogan, of Vernon, voted witli Judge McCredie for the granting of the request, while Ed Walter, of Oakland, and Charlie Graham, of Sacramento, and D. W. Long, who held the proxy for the San Francisco club, voted in the npgative. McCredie Is Incensed. Judge McCredie was decidedly Incensed at the stand taken by the league di rectors, and while he has not made any statement as to the stand he will take In the matter, there is apt to be some thing popping In baseball circles on the Coast after he has returned to his hom in the Northwest. It was Intimated earlier in the session that the permission to have a class B club In Portland would be granted the Northwest people In case they would agree not to count the Portland popula tion in making their request next July for higher classification. Either Judge McCredie refused to agree to such a proposition or did not have the proper (Concluded on Fage 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 40. 7 degrees; minimum. 21'. 7 degrees. TODAY'S Cloudy, wtth light rain; warmer; light east wind. .Foreign. General Cliamorro, leader of Nicaraguan revolutionists, menaces Zelaya hi Grey town. Page 3. House of fiords to reject budget, great fight expected. Page 4. National. Suspicion points to 22 weighers as impli cated in "sugar trust" fraud. Page 5. Years of labor make Manila's defence now like another Gibraltar. Page 3. Ballinger withdraw from entry power sites in Central Oregon. Page 6. Domestic. St. Paul Road advances rates to Orient, thus averting; traffic war. Page 2. Christian Science board of directors con demning Mrs. Stetson for mental mal practice, she accepts leaders' Judgment, Page 1. Troops ordered to Cherry, 111., to pre serve order when :tOu bodies of colliery disaster victims are brought out of mine. Page 1. Bell Telephone system ahsorbs Western Union in billion-dollar merger. Page 1. Charles N. Crittenton. founder of refuse borne for unfortunate girls, dies. Page Tt. Charles T Warrlner goes to jail and war rant issues for Mrs. Ford. Page 2. Chauffeur who kills woman Is given threa months in Jail as "warning." Page 1. Sports. McCredie loses fight. Northwestern league out. Page 1. Boxing programme of Rose City Athletic Club smoker on December -j win ne mane up of lightweight events, page 7. Holladay wins football game from Shattuck by score of J to o. race . Champion Patterson wins 100-yard swim ming contest for Harmar trophy. Pag 20. Pnciflc Northwest. Donald McMaster appointed to succeed W. W. McCredie on hencn ui ciara county. Washington. Page 8. Hypnotism overruled as defense in trial of M rs. Kvaisnauc ior raumer oi nusuiu. Page 8. Enrollment at Willamette 1 niversity shows rain of 2o per cent, rage u. Union Pacific will ship coal from Aberdeen. Page 9. Federal Judge orders acquittal of T. TT. Wvatt, accused or perjury, at Moscow. Page 8. Trial of Mike Ryan, slayer of Edward Dixon. In land uispute, begins anew in, Pendleton. Page S Picture man fondles ns that of lost 5'ster in wife No. 1. and bigamy suit follows. Page 8. Grandmother of bor accuses her father of kidnaping him at jroutaaie. race - , Forest ranger lost in Ca-scades, ucstti : feared. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Bears hammering the hoy market. Page 1. "Wheat declines steadily at Chicago. Page 19. Tone of stock market unsettled. rage 10. Local inspectors investigate th death oC John Robinson, oiler on tne areage to- lumbia. Page IS- Portland and Vicinity. ' Festival hearts plan to try to raise every known rose of tne woria in t oruana son. Pace 13. Lowlt awaits release from County Jail , ' i ntrt i.An,lD is It a f urnfhH hv security company. Page 1 2- 1 Ex-Senator Fulton denounces trial court for ; conduct of Scnmltz case, neiore vrcgun Bar Association. Page 18. Police Detective Day welromi Investigation ; says there is a piot against mm. . Page 14. Judge Gat ens releases bunco steerer on ball ana latter skips new ocnsanon m police scandal. Page 14. James H. Errickson. popular manager of . Orpneum I neater, mes suuueniy. i bkr il City Beautiful committee canvass results In ' fftloo in subscriptions in nrst aay. : Page 12. Surveyors' activity in University park attrlb- ! uted to Chicago. Milwaukee & M, Paul. : Faare 14. j Man hurt In ftght with brother die next day. Past ?