( 4 THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY,' DECEFBEK 18. 1909. U. S. OF CENTRAL AMERICA IS PLAN Diplomats See Method in Hur ried Southern fTrip of Luis Anderson. CHAOS IS TO BE FEARED Mexico (ommincd lo Kvenluul Fed era t ion ami In i ted States Not KitthusJaMti'. as Prestige Would. lie Iost. WASHINGTON'. Dr. 17. Plans are afoot, It- is b"li ved. for a confederation of the ( Vntrj! ArnericHii republics. Proof of I hi. iff i(Tered io the minds of Central AmericHn dtiIomn here in the sudden disappearance, of Dr. Iuis Anderson. Dr. Anderson was here as special rep resentative of Cost a Rica and was the candidate of Mexico for president of the proposed "1'nlted States of Central Amer ica." (p u.ft on receipt of the telegram and It wari learned today that his desti nation Is Carta ko. Before gifins, he Jield an interview with Senor Creel, for iufT Mexican Ambassador to the United Stales, and now here as a special envoy of Mexico In the existing trouble in Nicaragua. Chaos Dniijrer of Future!. t Vntral American diplomats fear there may h a conflagration while now there Is only a hlz. Jn siftch a cae, the RovernmentK most interested in the vari ous i (Hintries would interfere, with the if suit i hat clioits would ensue and new organization would be necessary. It is believed that Anderson hurried smith in anticipation of such an eventu ality. He lias the indorsement of Mexico, the iiiot poweriul near neighbor ofl Cen tral America, and holds the confidence of at bast two other slates on the isthmus. In t he event that affairs reathed a crisis UnuinUinj? consolidation, he would be on the ground and ready to step into the breach. Krlends of Dr. Anderson insist that he has cone to San Jose merely to attend a meetiiiK of the International Society on sanit a tlon and to visit his family. This, others declare. Is a blind. They main tian that Dr. Anderson's plans were not changed until It was learned that Zelaya's abdication was inevi table. Then followed the rmrrled interview with Senor Creel and the journey. Mexico Favors Federation. The Mexican government is committed to the amalgamation of the five fiery little republics on the isthmus. Senor Knrlque lYwl has declared that his .gov ernment would like to see such a 'con solidation, though qualifying the declara tion by saying he did not believe the time ripo Jor such a transformation. Although the Cnited plates has avoided t lie subjnot. It Is understood that this Uoveinment would not entertain any Kieat, enthusiasm over such a consolida tion. It would mean that Mexico could exercise a far greater Influence over such a group and that the Cnited States would bine prestige. The close alliance of the l-atln-Anieriean race would bring such a 1t nation about. The State Department disclaims all knowledge of the movements of Dr. An derson or of his object in going to Costa Rica. German mail is delayed Steamer Sailings Infrequent, So Post Foreign Matter Now. RKRMJC. Oermany. Dec. 17. (Spe cial.) The infrequency of steamer sail ings at tills port, together with the enormous mall matter handled by pos tal employes, is threatening serious de lays in the transmission of malls be tween the Cnited States and Germany. Americans wishing; to sen New Year's greeting or important business commu nica t iypis to Oermany to be de livercd somewhere near the first of the year would do well to post them im mediately a nd ta ke ca re to send them at t he .r-cent rat o. The risk of delay is especially great in the case of letters with only 2-cent nostage. which often require more than a week's extra time in transmission. It is computed that letter sent now from ?erma.ny at the lower rate proba bly will not reach points west of New York until some thme after Januaryl, owing- to the infrequent sailing of Ger man ships, which are the only ones carrying the 2-cent mail, and. the tre mendous volume of holiday mail mat ter. 1 . SOLDIERS GOOD FIREMEN Fort Stevens (Harrison Saves House" x From Flames by Energy. FORT STKVrNS. Or., Dec. 17. (Spe cial.) A las of several hundred dollars was sustained this afternoon by Mr. Kindred, when hjs house in Hammond was seriously damaged by fire originating In the kitchen. The - alarm was sent to Fort Stevens and the entire garrison turned out to tight tthe blaze. The suction hose of a hand pump was placed ' in a nearby Hwamp and suftlcVent water obtained to overcome the fire. Cltiseiuii of Hammond unite in praising the efficient service performed by the post garrison in saving property valued a r--many thousands of dollars. BANDOIM GETS NEW SERVICE. Steamer port Will Ply Between Portland and Coqiillle River City. BAN DON. Or., rec. 17. (Special.) The Newport, which is to ply between Portland and this city, arrived in port Monday She came from Eureka, Cal.. where she had been fitted out for the occasion. The establishment of a regular boat between Hundon and Portland will be the beginning of a new era lor this place. Merchants her have ions want ed to buy more heavily from Portla:.d, but. owing to the extremely poor freisrht service, they have been com pelled to buy most of their goods from San Francisco. . Boy Joker Tossed From Trin, SOl'TH NORWALK. Conn., Dec. 17. A niisihievous South Norwalk boy is suf fering from painful injuries today as the result of a practical joke which he played on a stranger yesterday. The lad had boarded an afternoon commut ers" train, bound for New l'ork, and the. train wu starting "he set Are to a newspaper which a corpulent man by hla rtde was reading. The man, whose hands were bsrdly burned, Jumped up in .a raase and tossed the boy out of the car window. The lad was taken to his home by a policeman. BRADY DENIES CHARGES Governor Says He Bouglit Irrigation Bonds as Investment. SPOKANE, Wash.. Lec. 17 James M. Brady, Governor of Idaho, who is made the central figure in a sensational suit filed in Chicago by Mrs. Mary Stone, on account of an alleged swindle of the Idaho Canal Company and the Chicago Title & Truet Company, of Chicago, de nies absolutely he conspired with any body relative to the sale of the bonds lloated to finance the irrigation project. Ke was one of the chief promoters, but declare- he bought the bonds and prop erty for the sole purpose of protecting the investment made. "When this case is tried." he said, 'it will be found the two bonds held by Mary B. Stone are fraudulent and should never have been paid. The suit is sim ply a continuation of the tactics1 em ployed by Charles W. Spalding. "T never conspired, either directly or indirectly, with anj body relative to this property. " WARRINER PROBE BLOCKED Henry Clews & cJ. Refuse to I.ct Books Be Examined. CINCINNATI, lec. 17. Another ob stacle has been encouiTtered by Prose cutor Hunt in his efforts to discover what became of the $843,000 embezzled from the Big Four Railroad by Charles 1... Warriner. According- to a statement given out hy the prosecutor tonight. Henry Clews '& Co., the New York brokers through whom Warriner claims to have lost vast sums in speculation, have refused to allow their books to be examined. The brokers claim that a Big Four accountant has obtained all the infor mation they have, but. according to Mr. Hunt, all the railroad official could get was a slip showing that Warriner had lost J17.000 on the stock market. UNIQUE TREASURE SOUGHT Monroe's Gift From Japanese Km peror May Be Extant.' WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. According to Dr. L. H. Cabell, of Chilllcothe, Mo., who claims direct lineage from President Mon roe. vaults of the United States treasury hold a strange treasure which has Keen there unnoticed since 1S2G. Dr. Cabell has written to Senator Stone making a claim for it. The doctor says that In Jfc25 the Emperor of Japan made a gift to President Monroe of a cask which contained "'Pearls, diamonds and a lump of gold." OREGON BABE FOUND DEAD Body Lodged in Pile or lrirt For Day. HARR1SBCRG, Or.f Dec. 17. (Special.) The 7-year-oid daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Allen, living eight miles east of Junction City, was drowned yesterday in a small creek near their home. The little one had several times wan dered away, and this time, during her mother's absence in Bugene, she disap peared and no trace of her could be found untiltoday. Her body . was lodged In a pile of drift. LANDMARK IS DESTROYED Famous McMeekon Place Goes I'p in Flames. HARRI9BURG, Or., Dec. 17. (Special.) The farm house .occupied by Jack Cole man and family and owned by R. K. Burton was destroyed by tire this aft ernoon. w This was one"" of the old landmarks, known as the McMeekon place, located a short distance nrth of here. State Road No, Be Altered. LTLK Wash., Dec. 17. (Special.) State Highway Commissioner Henry L. Bowlby states that the survey party, which has been sTTFveying between AVhite Salmon and Lyle, is working with a view of changins the route of state road No. 8. In a prevfcuis location Lyle and White Salmon were deprived of this road, and the same-waa located through a sparsely settled country. Bank Failure AVas at Norfolk. XtmPOI-K. Va., Dec. 1?. Attention of the Associated Press has been drawn to the fact that upon two occasions recently its dispatches have referred to the Traders & Trackers Bank, which failed some time ago. and to its president, Ter ry B. Gordon., indicted on charges arising out of the bank failure, as having been "of Portsmouth, Va." The dispatches Bhould have read "of Norfolk, Va.," not Portsmouth. Divorce Given, but Xo Alimony. VANCOUVER, "Wash., Dec. 17. (Spe cial.) In the divorce case of liexiry Wilson for a divorce on the ground that hla wife was untrue, wrhile she made the counter charge of drunkenness and non-suppart. Judge McMaster today -granted the wife a divorce and tte custody of the 13-months-old child, tut without alimony for the support of the child. Improved Area Extended. ABERDEEN. Wash., Dec. 17.-( Special.) One of the most extensive systems of street improvements ever launched in Aberdeen, in one district, was started last night when petitions for the improvement of portions of nine streets on what ifl known as the "schooihouse hill" were granted. Southern Railway Train Wrecked. ATLANTA, G.( Dec. 17. The South ern Railway's fast mail No. 37, New York to New Orleans, was wrecked to night at Chimblee, ' Georgia, 18 mijes north of Atlanta. Fosr cars left the track and two trainmen ara reported injured. . Army Man Quits Then Repents. Samuel Hunter, a liberty-breaker in the United States Marine Service, sta tioned at Goat Island. walked into police headquarters last night and sur rendered. He still has a few days' time before being declared a deserter. Bank Robber Gets' $2000. L.A WTOX. Okla.. Dec. 17. Five rob bers dynamited the safe of the Citizens State Bank at Geronimo, near here, early today and escaped with $2000. In cash. A posse started In pursuit. Texas 8-Hour Law Is Invalid. GALVESTON. Tex... Dec. 17. The first court of civil appeals of this city today declared ' unconstitutional the elprht-hour telegraphe-rs' law passed by th last. Texas Legislature. y DEMAND PRQSING FOR ALASKA GOAL Quality Is Such It Would Sup plant Fuel Navy Now Brings From East. NO LANDS YET PATENTED Congressman Sees Hand of "Coal Barons'' in Uelay Law to Pro mote Development to Be Sought This Session. OREGON I AN NEWS BUREAU, Wash., ! Dec. 17. Senators and ReDresentatives from the Pacific Coast states will un dertake, during the session of Congress, to frame and pass some practical law which will permit the entry and eveL-' opment of government . coal lands in Alaska. This is utterly impossible un der existing law, and In consequence the vast coal deposits of the big terri tory lie dormant, except where individ uals, in isolated spots, are digging out enough coal to supply local needs. Until the Cunningham entries were brought into the limelight, little atten tion had been paid to Alaska's coal possibilities. It' was known' in a gen eral way that coal was. there, but It was never known that the best coal on the Pacific Coast, and the only Amer ican coal on the Coast adapted to naval use, is stored away in the mountains of Alaska. Nor was it known that in spite, of the fact that Congress three times has attempted to provide a means for permitting the development of this coal, not a single acre of Alaska coal land has even been patented, title to all of it still remaining In the Government. Xavy Xeeds Coal. That this coal should be developed is conceded. The Navy Department is anxious to obtain it for its warships on the Pacific, for today the coal used by the Pacific fleet is either shipped aroun4 from the Atlantic Coast at heavy expense, or is imported from for eign markets. Moreover, big commercial industries on the Pacific Coast that re quire coal of high, grade are anxious to get the coal from Alaska. There is no. trouble about finding a market; but the demand has never yet been met. This condition, in the opinlonvof those interested, should not be. Therefore, pressure will be brought to bdar to get through Congress some sort ofj practical law that will open the way for the de velopment of this coal land, so that the fuel may be put upon the market. Representative Kahn, of California, one of the men most interested in this ques tion, is much In earnest about the de velopment of the Alaska coal deposits. There is no legitimate excuse for keep ing this coal tied up indefinitely, he says, any more than there is excuse for forbidding the cutting of timber, or the utilization of water power. But Mr. Kahn, unlike some of his colleagues- be lieves that the binding up of the Alaska coal fields is not due entirely to the in fluence of the theoretical conservation ists but was. at least, in part, brought about through the sinister, influence or Eastern capitalists whose pockets will be affected if this Alaska coal" gets on the market.1 ', Eastern Influence Seen. Mr. Kahn calls attention to the fact that coal for the Navy on the Pacific Coast is now, in the main, purchased on the Atlantic Coast, shipped around to the Pacific, and there delivered to the warships or Navy-yards at a cost far in excess of what would have to be paid for equally desirable coal from Alaska. He believes that the capitalists interested in selling Pocahontas coal to the Navy have had a hand in retarding the devel opment of the Alaska coal fields, for, as long as Alaska's coal is not obtainable, there will be a heavy demand for their own coal, and thUf they propose shall continue as long as possible. While Mr. Kahn does not charge that the theoretical conservationist are tools in the hands of the Pocahontas coal op erators the Coal Trust he does main tain that these conservationists are actu ally promoting the cause of the coal bar oils of the East by making competition impossible. In other words, by sewing up the Alaska coal In a sack, and pre venting" its development, the conservae, tionists have given the Pocahontas .coal people a monopoly on the Pacific Coast, so far the Navy is concerned. Just as by sewing up the Nation's timber, they have played into the hands of Weyerhaeuser and other lumber barons. There are other men on the Pacific Coast who agree with Representative Kahn, and in addition to them should be mentioned Representative Mondell, or Wyoming, , chairman of the public lands committee, before whose committee must pass any legislation looking to the further development of Alaska's coal resources;. TABERNACLE MUST BE SOLD High- School and Presbyterians to Bid for Lumber. ' VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec. 17. (Spe cial.) The tabernacle built last Spring at a cost of 9?o0 by the Methodist, Presby terian. .Baptist and Christian churches' in order to provide a building in. which-to conduct special revival services'under the auspicesof these four churches and which was capable of seating 2300 persons will be sold tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, at public auction to the highest bidder. There are 34.000 feet of lumber in it and the lumber was put in with bolts instead of nails so that the building mi-ht be torn down and the lumber sold. The high school will bid on the building lo get the lumber to erect a play shed, and the Presbyterians wish to buy It thai they may use the material in construct in a new chapel on Vancouver Heights. MRS. BROKAW HIDES FACE (.Continued From First Page.) Mr. Gilbert looked at the plaintiff. She shook her head and smiled. So did Jus tice Putnam ae she made good her" word. General surprise was caused when At torney Baldwin, for Mrs. Bro!?a, after concluding his examination of J. Bullard Blair, announced that the plaintiff rested. .It was assumed that Baldwin was holding his other witnesses for possible use in rebuttal. Brokaw liaises Censorship. Blair testified that at a hotel, in Paris he found his sister weeping over the dis covery that Brokaw had placed a cen sorship over her mail. When Blair asked Brokaw the reason for this. Brokaw declared there had been a mistak and stepped over to th hotel clerk desk and directed that Mrs. Bro kaw be given all her mail. . . Witnesses for tlp defense were ex amined by Attorney Bush, Brokaw's per onal counsel. Henry Knox, an engineer, who was at the Brokaw place at High Point, X. C, in the Fall of 1908, said the Brokaws seemed very happy. Cl;ildish Spats" Krequent. After the New Year party, however, he noticed a Migrht estrangement. What the witness called "childish spats" became frequent. "I can t recall in my 25 years acquaint anee with Billy Brokaw ever seeing him touch a drop of liquor," Knox declared, "until the firsA break occurred, when Mrs. Brokaw left the lodge." The witness would not eay that Bro kaw was drinking even then, but simply that Ire seemed, "benumbed -by som3 grief." Knox said the Brokaws disagreed on everything. "If BiHy safd a vegetable was a tur nip, V he testified, "Mary woald declare she saw a fly." Asked to describe the manner of the couple's speech, Knox replied: "That's hard. Everything was chaos a, perfect mess. Mrs. Brokaw was excitable; her conversation was jerky and flittering. "Did you ever see a horse poke his nose.into a barrel of flour, spluttering it in every direction?" The answer caused laughter in the courtroom. - DIVORCE REVEALS CHILD CHICAGO TRAVELING MAX DID XOT KNOW HE WAS PAPA. diaries X. Clancy, Wedded Six Years, Is Surprsied to Kind He Is a Father. CHICAGO. Dec. 17. Wedded six years during which time he had no intimation that the stork had visited his home. Charles X. Clancy, a traveling auditor, of this city, was astounded yesterday when he learned that his wife had filed a di vorce complaint alleging that Clancy had deserted her and her 2-year-old child. i "Not until I was served with the di vorce papers did I know that I was a father," - said Clancy in discussing his surprise with friends. "What am I to do? I suppose I should be passing around the cigars on the arrival of the youngster into the family, but It seems a bit late now. Believe me, I want to find out all about the child. It may have been born during one of my trips away from home, but where did my wife keep it when I was at home? Mrs. Clancy and I have been living apart since last April." Determined to discover whether the child was born to his wife or whether It was adopted by her, and also 6b jecting to the divorce, action, Clancy yesterday engaged an afttorney and be gan pl-eparatlons for a legal fight. The nature of the answer which Clancy will make to the- charges of cruelty and de sertion specified by his wife could not be ascertained. In case Mrs. Clancy testifies that she adopted the child mentioned in her bill, it is said that the legality of the adoption will be at tacked because she did not secure her husband's consent to the action. Pre vious to her marriage Mrs. Clancy was on the stage. The desire of the wife to return to the stage is reported to Jave caused the separation of the cou ple. INSANE PATIENT KILLS Breaks Loose From Guards and Runs Amuck. EL PASO. Tex., Dec. 17. William Fee, an aged American, was killed and several Mexican patients were Injured by an in sane Mexican patient at Porfiro Diaz Hospital, at Chihuahua, Mexico., yes terday. The insane man broke loose from his guards and beat Fee and other patients over the head with stones. PRISON, KEEPERS INDICTED Grand Jury in Atlanta Finds Condi lions Deplorable. ATLANTA. Ga., Dec. 17. After a riid inspection of conditions in the City Prison the grand jury today indicted two officers. Overpowering stenches, filth, torture machines and other horrors were detailed as seen in the men's and women's quar ters, white and black. THEFTS EXCEED $1,500,000 Iligli-GradevOre Is Stolen From Co - V, bait- Mirtes. TORONTO, Dec. 17. Tonight it is esti mated that the theft of high-grade ore from cobalt mines by miners and re ceivers will exceed $1,600,000. K Yakima Gets Convention. EVERETT, Wash., Dec. 17. The Wash ington State Dairymen's Association con cluded its convention here today with the election of the following officers: W. J. Langdonr Sumner, president; David F. Sexton, Snohomish, vice-president; Ira D. Whitney, Pullman State College, secre-' tary-treasurer; C. Sorenson, Grays Har bor; D. F. Troy, Chlmacum; A. E. Smith, Orllla, and Otto Tamm, Bnumclaw, di rectors. . The next convention, will be held at North Yakima. ' Water Machinery Contract Let. VaXCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 17. (Spe cial. 1 The contract for the water machin ery a pump, engine and 38,000-gallon pneu matic .pressure tank, for the new water .works -System at the state school for the deaf, was let this morning by Superinten dent Thomas P. Clarke to D. F. Doherty, at tloOO. A well has been drilled at the school to a depth of 1G0 feet and an ample supply of water secured. " , Mrs. Bernlce Chapel Dies. VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 17. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Keratce E. Chapel died &t her home. Eighteenth and Carney streets, this morning. She is survived by her husband, Gilbert- Chapel, and four sons and one daughter. The funeral will not be held until the mother, a brother and sister, who live in Montana, are heard from. . . Fog Envelops Eugene. EUGENE, Dec. 17. (Special.) The c!ty was enveloped in the densest fog of the season last night and at 8 o'clock It was impossible to see one of the 2000-candle power arc lights on the street a distan of two blocks. Even the busiest street in the shopping district could not be dis cerned a block away. - Holly Man Declared.lnsane. EUGENE. Or.. Dec. " 17. (Special.) Frank Ltst. a farmer front' near Holly. Ljnn County, was taken violently insene while in the city yesterday. It appears that Iei6t had been in the asylum before in the State of Kanwi. He has a wife and six children near Holly. HUE SUGAR TRUST .Elf IMS CAUGHT Government Succeeds in Win ning All but One Con viction. MERCY IS RECOMMENDED Former Cashier of Sugar ISefining Company's Williamsburg Plant Is Xot Found Guilty, as Jury Disagrees. NEW YORK, -Dec. 17. The Jury today found guilty five of the six employes of the American Sugar Refining Company who have been on trial for the last three weeks, charged with criminal conspiracy to defraud the Government of customs duties on imported sugar. In the case of James F. Benderriagle.a former cashier of the company's Will iamsburg plant, the Jury, out 10 hours, disagreed. Mercy is recommended for all those found gui'.ty. Others Slay Be Punished. " Under the indictment Oliver Spitzer, a dock superintendent; John R. Coyle, Thomas Kehoe, Edward A. Boyle and Patrick J. ' Hennessy, checkers, may be punished for the commission of two overt acts, the maximum penalty for each of which is two years' imprisonment and $5000 fine. ' The failure to convict Cashier Bender nagle is regarded by the Government as a distinct disappointment. The effort of the prosecution has been to trace the customs frauds already admitted to a higher source and' Bendernagle, though not an executive officer of the company, was an employe who came in contact with these who shaped the company's af fairs in their largest aspects. Conspiracy to Be Proved. In the final argument Henry I Stlm son, f-pecisil attorney for the prosecution, reviewed the evidence by which the Gov ernment is trying to prove that these men conspired to defraud the Custom-House by ur.clerweighing sugar at the Williamsburg docks. "Jf the attorneys for the defense," said Mr. Stlmson, "had been., retained by the 'men higher up,' If any there be. they could not have made an argument better adapted to 'serve vthe interests of these men 'higher up.' " Judge Martin told the jury tltet it made no difference who had a part in the plan ning, if the defendants had a. hand in executing the alleged frauds. "Should you have the opinion." he said "that there are. others in higher stations of life not reached by this indictment who have participated In the fraud charged here, that must have no weight with you." i Prisoners Out on Parole. As other indictments are ' pending against the convicted nve on which they are to be tried, it was agreed by the Government that they be paroled in cus tody of counsel with leave to renew ball when argument for a new Trial is heard. Mr. Stimson moved that the indictment against the ex-cashier be severed from that of the other defendants. To this the court agreed. Bendernagel put in a strong defense by the introduction of testimony of prom inent character witnesses. Tomorrow a date will be fixed fox the argument on application for new Trial. LOEB WAITS FOR AUTOMATICS -Sugar-Weighing Aparatus to Be In stalled In New York. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. 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