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VOL. L. NO. 15,377. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY. MARCH 10, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WIFE SUED IS SISTER'S LETTER JAILS BROTHER Y BURKHARDT FALLS WITH AEROPLANE KHARTOUM READY UNEXPECTED HELP INSPIRES STRIKERS TO GREET "TEDDY" DIVORCE L BIG AUTO COMBINE PEARY'S PROOFS FUGITIVE FROM CALDWELL, PORTLAND AVIATOR, HOWEVER, LIKE RETURN OF CONQUERING DKtXK, SWAPS COAT. ESCAPES INJURY AT ALBANY. HERO WILL BE RECEPTION. OWN MORGAN MA HEAD MACON QUESTIONS Husband, Attorney, too, Pleads His Side. LITIGANTS WED 30 YEARS AGO W. A. Leet, Plaintiff, and Spouse Are Grandparents. MAN OFFERS WOMAN ALL Portland Portia Professes Love for Mate, Who Says Home Life Is TTnbearab!e Xovel Case Is Under Advisement. Married 30 years and professing love for her husband, Mrs. Catherine Leet. an attorney and wife of an attorney, pleaded her own case yesterday In the divorce court. Adding further, noveity to the case At torney W. A. Leet, the husband suing to sever his marriage ties, offers to give his wife every cent of his money, every inch of his property If a divorce decree is granted. The litigants are grand parents, their daughter's son being 7 years old. Mrs. Leet filed all the legal documents in her defense and signed them as her Own attorney. The Leets were married In Ovid, Mich., in 1S80. The husband testified yester day that his home has become so un bearable that he has been compelled to leave it and live elsewhere, pending the settlement of the divorce proceedings. Judge Cleland, after listening to the evi dence, took the case under advisement. Couple Had Only Quarreled. In the testimony submitted yesterday there was nothing to show that either the husband or the wife bad done any thing more seriously wrong than to quar rel with the other. The husband declared that hi wife had accused Tilrjef being unfaithful to her. while she, in turn, de clared that she had absolute faith in his moral character and did not believe that he had committed any wrong. "I love my husband," said Mrs. Leet on the witness stand, "and I have done all I can to make him happy. I have helped him get his education and I have done all 1 could to further his interests. Bo I told him once that if he thought he could find more happiness without me, 1 would let him have his freedom." According to the evidence presented to the court, the Leets came to Oregon from Michigan a little more than a year ago. The disturbance In the family has been growing, the husband declared, for many years, reaching climax last July when his wife received an unsigned letter telling her that her husband was keeping company with other women. The wife took this letter seriously, according . to the testimony of her daughter, Mrs. Alta ft! cMullen, ' who has been staying at the home of her parents since the death of her husband. A domestic storm followed the receipt of this letter, and the hus band left home. Mrs. Leet acknowledged that her hus band had treated her well, and had gen erally furnished servants for her. Con cernlng her practice of law, she made, but little reference, with the exception to say that at one time she was with her husband in his office In a legal way. and that she had been formally admitted to the bar. Hubby Says Wife Finds Kault. In answer to questions, Leet said he had loved his wife until she began to find fault with him. How long this fault finding had lasted, he was not prepared to say. "Has your wife any means of support at the present time?" Leet was asked. "None whatever" he replied. "In case she Is divorced from you, would you be willing to provide for her?" "She will never be in want as long as I live, if I can help it," he declared de cidedly. "I have offered her all the prop erty I own, as a settlement, if she will take It." i Whether the two grandparent attorneys axe to be separated for the remainder of their lives will probably be determined today or tomorrow. BATTLESHIPS SHOW SPEED Some Faster After Years Service Than on First Trial. WASHINGTON, March 9. Admiral Scbroeder has pleased the Naval officials by a report on the trials of the battle ships composing the Atlantic fleet oft Guantanamo. The remarkable showing was made that ships 11 years old. like the Wisconsin, were capable of exceed ing their contract speed, which is re garded as a high testimonial to the ef ficiency of the engineer forces and to the care taken of the machinery. The general statement is made that the horsepower realized by the fleet ex ceeded that developed on the contractors trials. Although in the case of the Guantanamo trials the crews were reg ular Navy men, the ships were all loaded and long out of dock end the crews were not specially seasoned. The ships are now ready for any kind of service, not withstanding the severe test. The Nebraska appears to hold the speed record at 19.11; the Virginia second, with 19.064. and the Georgia third, with 19.008 knots an hour. The Vermont made the lowest record, with 16.14 knots. Wife of Companion Finds Baker City Girl's Missive Referring to Flight Arrest Follows. COLUSA, Cal., March 9. (Special.) A letter written by Miss Ruth Hemple, of Baker City, Or., to her brother en closing: $50 for him to use in evading Justice by fleeing to Central America to escape arrest for embezzlement or forgery committed in Caldwell, Idaho, was the cause of landing the brother in prison here to await the arrival of a warrant from Idaho. However, it was the brother's fault. Hemple is a printer by trade and is alleged to have fled with money be longing to his employer at CaldwelL He left intending to get out of the country, but stopped at Arbuckle. this country, when his funds gave out three weeks ago. He worked on a ranch until the J50 check arrived from his sister. This money he used to go on a de bauch with an Arbuckle man Saturday night, They got their coats mixed and Henple's coat was worn home by the other man; whoso wife . searched his pockets and found Miss Hemple's letters and other papers that showed Hemple to be a fugitive from justice. She informed Constable Leverett, who arrested Hemple. and brought him to Colusa. HOGS SOAR HIGHEST YET $10,6 75 a Hundredweight Chicago Price, Lambs $0.65, Cattle Jump. CHICAGO, March 9, (Special.) Not since the cow Jumped over the moon have Chicago dockyards known mich high prices as developed today. Hogs in dulged in their daily flight and made a new record. Cattle sold up to 10 cents and 15 cento; sheep did' likewise, while lambs did a bit of record making themselves. touching $9.66. The stolid hog was the liveliest of all, however. The market opened 15 cent higher than yesterday's close, and soon took a Jump to 30 cents. The top price of the day was $10.67 a hundred pounds for porkers Just as they came from the cars; dirt and All. The- trouble was that there were not enough to go around, the total receipts being less than half of last year's figures. Eastern buyers took all they could get and soon after the market opened Armour became an active buyer. XThere was a serious shortage in the. cattle market, also. ' ..--- LAD EATS CANDY; SLEEPS Pendleton Boy in Comatose Condi tion Four Days; Puzzles Doctors, PENDLETON, Or., March 9. (Spe cial.) Local physicians are baffled by the case of George Moran, the 4-year old son of O. R. & N. Section Foreman M. Moran, of this city. The boy was given a Quantity of candy by a friend Sunday and has been in a sound sleep or comatose condition since eating it. Physicians have been able suffl clently to administer medicine, but aft er four days he seems no nearer an awakening than he was at the begin' ning. Other than to say that the "sleeping sickness" was caused by the poison in the candy, the doctors are unable to make satisfactory explana tion. ROUTE IN AIR ESTABLISHED Dirigible Balloon Will Carry People Regularly From Munich. MUXICH, Bavaria, March 9. The first regular air navigation service in Europe will be inaugurated on May 15. Regular trips will be made from this city alter nately to Starnberg and Oberammergau. A dirigible balloon of the Passeval type and driven by two motors of 100-horse power each will be used. The aerial carriage will accommodate 12 passengers besides the crew. The fare for the round trip to Stranberg will be $35 and for the round trtp to Oberammergau $175. The regular service will close for the season on September 1. An officer from the German Aeronautic Corps ha been detailed to serve as captain of the dirigible. BABIES EAGERLY CLAIMED Carload, of New York Orphans W1 corned In New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, March 9. This was the day they gave babies away in New Orleans. A carload of the little tots ar rived today from New York foundling and orphan asylums, with an eager crowd of claimants awaiting their arrival. In addition to those who had previously made successful claim to a baby, many pressed about the car in the hope that there might be some "left over," but those who had applied in advance got every baby in the car. NEGROES FIRE PRISON North Carolina Jail Burns; Blacks Fail to Escape; One Shot. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. March 9 Pour negro prisoners set Are to the County Jail here early today. The building was damaged so seriously- that the prisoners were taken to the courtroom and placed under guard. One of the deputies laid down his gun for a moment, and Fred Johnson, one of the prisoners, seized it, firing at Deputy Sheriff Cartwrlght- The deputy was not injured, re turned the fire and shattered the ne gro's arm. . - Croesus' Hand Seen in Sale of E. IY1. F. TRANSFERS PRECEDE MERGER? Report, "to End Litigation," Prompted Deal, .Scouted. RELATIVE IS ORGANIZER IC Is Believed Studebakers, U. S. Company, Maxwell-Briscoe and Others Will Join General Mo tors Co. $6,000,000 Paid. DETROIT. Mich., March 9. (Special.) The report from New York that J. P. Morgan & Co. had purchased the E. M. F. Automobile Company for the Studebakers for the purpose of ending litigation between the companies Is not given credence in automobile cir cles. i The incorporation of the Studebakers in Albany is . regarded as significant only in a passive sense. It is believed that the Studebaker Company and the E. M. E. will go into the United States Motor Company, with many other large companies, and that all will then be linked with the General Motors Com pany, under the control of J. P. Mor gan. It Is considered but a first step in the open that J. P. Morgan & Co. has taken toward control of the automobile industry of the United States. When- the General Motors Company began to demand the attention, of the automobile world, it was found that the principal Interest identified with the great corporation was that of Her bert L. Satterele, son-in-law of J. P. Morgan. . Satterele Among Organizers. ' When it was announced recently that the JDnltei. States Motor Company had organized, with the Maxwell-Brlscoe Company as its nucleus, it was found that H. J. Satterele was one of the organizers of the - second great auto mobile and automobile parts combine. Herbert L. Satterele was also one of the principal stockholders in the Max well-Brlscoe Company. In the purchase of the El M. F. Com pany, however, the automobile industry finds J. P. Morgan & Co. openly interested for the first time. The announcement that this purchase is for the recently organized United States Motor Company, capitalized at $16,000,000, would not sur prise the automobile trade. In fact it Is confidently expected. Color .Is given this conclusion by the statement of Dr. J. B. Book, one of the principal stockholders of the E. M. F. Company, to the effect that Morgan & Co. will Increase their Detroit capitaliza tion between J30, 000,000 and J50.000.000. This cannot mean solely H. M. F. plans but must contemplate extensions to an in dustry, that the Morgan people plan making in Detroit. The actual profits of the B. M. F. Com pany in -18 months of its existence were Concluded on Page 3.) Inspired by Hamilton's Perform ances Here, Inventor Files, Only to Drop Thirty Feet. - ALBANY, Or, March 9. (Special.) After testing the engine ef his ma chine with ground runs the past two days. John C Burkhardt, of Portland, today attempted flight, the machine ris ing to a height of 30 feet, when it careened and fell on its side, breaking one runner, Burkhardt escaped in jury. - Burkhardt is planning . to conduct experiments in aviation here this Sum mer with the biplane - airship of his own design and construction at Goltra Park. . The first time, the machine left the track it rose only five feet and then came down, but' it was on the second attempt that it rose gracefully to a height of . 30 feet, and, after a short flight, careened . to the left and dropped. An unusual feature of the flight was that the machine rose from the track after a run of only 60 feet. Burkhardt expects to repair the air craft in less than a week. He says today's accident was due to the fact that the wires controlling the rudder jarred loose and prevented him from controlling the ma chine properly. "When a student at Cornell Univer sity, Ithaca, N. Y., Burkhardt made sev eral successful flights, but this was his flrst experiment with his new machine. . Burkhardt made his machine in Port land. It is designed after the Wright brothers' biplane, with some of the features of the Curtiss. Like the Cur tlss design, it has balancing planes on the sides between the two support ing planes. The rudder, too, is much the same as the Curtiss make, as to horizontal and altitude directions. Instead of the tricvcle runnam ncfl by Curtiss, he equipped his machine with wooden runners, maklnar it nec essary to erect an inclined platform to start from, as is done bv the Wrin. Burkhardt first exhibited his ma chine at the Portland automobile show in the Armory, January 24 to 29 last. During the recent aviation meet here he was one of the most interested spec tators. At that time he expressed the intention of not attempting flights un til April. EXILE SYSTEM CURTAILED Duma Cuts Dmvn Appropriation for Administration. ST. PETERSBURG, March 9. The budget committee of the-Duma has struck at the root of the svstem r,t SiK,-i exile by . cutting the . appropriation for the administration of the system to 34.&UO. The committee admitted that th. n,. ernment had greatly reduced the number oi exnes in recent years and declares tnat the system was bad and must go, SOUTH HONORSJTS WOMEN Confederate Veterans Unveil Monu ment at Rome, Georgia. ROME, Ga., March 9. The first mon "inc in tne United . States in honor of the women of the Confederacy was un veiled here today, the principal address ran6 .ueuverea oy ienerai Clement ' A. Evans. Commander-in-Chief of the United The shaft is 30 feet high, decorated witn two groups or figures at the base, representing "News from the Front." and j. aiiuiniri ins Angei. 'HURRAH! I WIN." ' yH,' SEATTLE I Sub-Committee Votes to Deny Reward. SUDDEN SPEED SUSPICIOUS Greatest Marches, Singularly, Made After Bartlett Left. SHACKLETON IS QUOTED Inference Given That 2 6 Miles a Day, Reported by Explorer, Ex ceeds Limit of Human Endur ance In Polar Region. "WASHINGTON. March . By substan tially a unanimous vote today, the sub committee of the House committee on naval affairs decided against bestowing' a substantial reward upon Commander Robert E. Peary until he has submitted openly proofs that he reached the North Pole. Representative Macon attacked Com mander Peary's proofs. Macon told the committee that he regarded the sudden acceleration of the speed of the explorer after Captln Bartlett left him as suspicious. Before the captain left the party, it hl traveled only 9.8 miles a day. When Peary was alone, except for a negro valet and four Es kimos, he reported a speed of 26.4 miles a day for five days. Limit of Endurance Exceeded. Macon quoted Lieutenant Shackleton, General Greely and others to the effect that 10 or 12 miles a day of traveling over Polar seas was the limit of human endurance. "I confess that I am exceedingly skeptical about Mr. Peary's ever hav ing discovered the Pole," declared Mr. Macon . today before the; committee, "and I am going to protest against any honor being conferred upon him by Congress until he has established beyond a reasonable doubt that he did discover it. It must be established in the open, and not in the dark." Macon then said that he wanted to call attention to "one discrepancy in Mr. Peary's story." This was the Te cord of marching reported by the ex plorer. Macon said he regarded the sudden acceleration of speed as "very singular." "The astonishing part of Mr. Peary's statement," said Mr. Macon, "is the number of miles he traveled per day after Bartlett left him and when no white man was with him as a witness, his only companions being his negro valet and four Eskimos. Great Marches Made Alone. "His greatest marches, singularly, were all north of the Bartlett camp. From that time forward, going to the Pole and returning to Cape Columbia, he claims to have made an average of 26.4 miles per day until he reached the Pole; 44 miles per day on his way back to Bartlett's camp, and 28.2 miles (Concluded on Pare ) Largest Fleet Ever Seen In African Port Will Escort Hunter Every body Charters Craft. KHARTOUM, Egypt, March 9. Al though ex-President Roosevelt is not expected to reach here until March 17, the entire settlement in both native and European quarters is already in excitement over his visit. The noisiest and most enthusiastic reception ever accorded an American is planned for Roosevelt. The country of the Lower Nile has been drained for novelties. European and native musicians, aided by hundreds of tourists, will raise a din that will resound over the desert. Roosevelt's 'reception will be that of a hero and his journey to Cairo will be, at every stage, that of a conqueror. A battalion of newspaper correspond ents, chartering every kind of craft has proceeded up the river, each aim ing to be the first to greet Colonel Roosevelt. The principal question they will ask Is. "Will you run again for President?" Parties have chartered a steamer to proceed up the river 'and escort Col onel Roosevelt to this historical post of civilization. It is expected the boat, which will bring the Roosevelt party, will be accompanied by one of the largest fleets ever seen in this part of Africa. $100,000 CLAIM AWARDED Interest and Charges Grow on Orig inal Suit for $17,000. SAN FRANCISCO. March 9. Ending litigation which dragged through a doz en courts, from the District Court of Idaho through the Federal tribunals and to the Supreme Court of the United States during a period of 20 years, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth District today handed down a decree awarding $100,000 damages against the Northern Pacific Railroad to Joseph H. Boyd, of Boise, Idaho. The claim, originally for 17,000, was for the payment of construction work for the Coeur d'Alene Railway & Navi gation Company, which was absorbed on its failure by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. Interest and charges brought the sum up to the amount awarded to Boyd by the court today. NEEDLE IN BRAIN GUILTY That Explains Crimes and Vices -of Nevada Convict. 1 RENO, Nev., March 9. A case of sin gular surgical an.d criminological inter est developed at the St. George Hos pital here today, when Frank Everett, a life-termer, who was brought over from the state prison at Carson to re ceive surgical aid, was found to have a needle In his brain. For nearly his entire lifetime Ever ett suffered from what is termed "Jack sonlan epilepsy," during fits of which he acted in a strange manner, getting drunk one day and exhorting at a re ligious meeting the next. At times he acted in an ordinary fashion and wu a successful mining man. - Four years ago, without apparent provocation, he shot and killed Fore man Malone of the Mina shops. In sanity was his defense at his trial, but he was .sentenced for life. ROSEBERY LAUNCHES PLAN Peer Makes Known Ideas of Re forming House of Lords. LONDON, March 9. When Lord Rosebery launches his plan Monday for the reformation of the House of Lords he will present a -set of three resolu tions embodying In general terms the course that the peers propose to follow. There is little question that the resolu tions represent the general views of the lords. The flrst resolution will affirm the necessity for a strong and efficient sec ond chamber. The second will set forth that such a change will be best obtainable by the reform and recon stitutlon of the House of Lords. The third will declare that a necessary preliminary to such reform Is the ac ceptance of the principle that the pos session of a peerage In Itself should no longer afford the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords. COOS BAY PORT UPHELD Permanent Injunction Denied, Elec tion Result Is Sustained. MARSH FIELD, Or., March 9. (Spe cial.) Judge Coke, in the Circuit Court today, gave his deetBlon in the Injunc tion suit of the Bennett Trust Com pany and the Southern Oregon Com pany against the Port of Coos Bay. The petition asking that the Port Com mission be permanently restrained from acting was dismissed. The chief claim of the petitioners was that the proper number of notices for the special election adopting the port law had not been posted. The judge held that as the vote carried 5 to 1, it had not been shown that the result would have been different had more notices been posted. The case will be taken to the higher courts by the petitioners. $18,000 CUT JFR0M MAILBAG Ontario Banks Involved in Stolen Checks and Drafts. - "WINDSOR, Ont.. March . It became known today that checks and drafts amounting to about $15,000 were stolen from a mall bag while In transit be tween "Windsor and Toronto. Nearly every bank here Is Involved In the loss. Action of State Labor Body Gives Impetus. NATIONAL TIE-UP THREAT MADE Walkout of 1000 in Baldwin Works Also Factor. MORE TROUBLE IN SIGHT Labor Leaders Announce Meeting for Today and Police Forbid It. Quiet Day Is Spent and Some Say Interest Lags. PHILADELPHIA, March 9. Promise of help from without and development of strength In its own field, which appeared to take even the strike leaders by sur prise. Injected new life into the Philadel phia general strike movement today. The campaign received Impetus from the declaration of the Slate Federation of Labor at Newcastle that a Nation wide tieup would not be too great a price for the success of the local cause. Non-Union Men Help. The movement in sympathy with the striking employes of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company today Invaded what was supposed to be a citadel of the opposing forces. The strike leaders In duced over 1000 employes of the Baldwin Locomotive Works to walk out this after noon, following the early morning deser tion of an equal number. To the threat of a country-wlda strike, because the local traction com pany did not agree to arbitration, the company officials made curt responses, announcing that they had said their last word on arbitration and if the widespread strike depended on their yielding the strike would come. Evi dences, however, were given by em ployes of the many classes that they were confident a National strike would not be forced and that the sympathetic movement here would wear Itself out. Several companies announced that their hands were returning to work. . Meeting May Be Stopped. Possible trouble was indicated by the announcement that the strikers would hold an open-air mass meeting In the National League baseball park tomorrow. Director of Public Safety Clay declared that the meeting would not be permitted. The men reiterated (Concluded on page 3.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Wrather. YESTERDAT-S Maximum temperature. ST degree: minimum, 45 degrees. TODArs-Falr: north to east wind. Foreign. Khartoum prepares for great noisy greeting to ex-President Roosevelt. Pace 1. Russia acquits man but exiles woman on charges of revolutionary conspiracy. Page 2. National. Lafean apple box bill hearing1 calls forth right in open. Page 5. Inquirv Into death of Lieutenant Sutton sought with view of obtaining C'Mure and dismissal of those responsible. Page "A Peary's proof questioned in Congress; re ward withheld. Pace 1. Cost of living committee continues session in Washington. Page 5. United States Supreme Court. In considering Standard Oil dissolution appeal. asked to enforce or repeal Sherman law. Page 3. Domestic. Baker Olty girl sends money to fugitive brother, letter leads to his arrest for al leged theft In Caldwell. Idaho. Page 1. Philadelphia strikers encouraged by help from unexpected sources. Pago t. Spokane and Seattle men plead guilty to promoting take wrestling matches. Page 3. Sports. Jeff-Johnson fight not to be interfered with by Emeryville authorities. Page 8. McCredle's men show good batting form In practice game; smith and Lezle released; G-arber fined and may be suspended. Turk and Lodell join Stockton, page 8. Commercial and Marine. "Unusual conditions in hog market. Page 1. Heavy run at Union stock yards. Page Wheat up at Chicago on crop scare rumor. Page 19. Belling by London causes drop In stock prices. Page 19. French bark lloche will load general cargo at Liverpool for Portland. Page IS. Faciae Northwest. "Wells "Fargo profits on money Invested in Oregon business are 118 per cent a year. Page 7. Shaniko bristles with activity as result oC railroad construction in Deschutes. Page fl. Seattle may get 3-cent carfare through fight between street railway lines. Page 7. Snowslide engulfs locomotive at Field. B. C. but crew escapes death. Page 6. Burkhardt. Portland aviator, drops HO feet with airship, but escapes Injury. Page 1. Fred Pope. Indian fugitive, keeps promise and surrenders. Page 7. Seattle adopts charter amendment substi tuting nonpartisan council next year for one elected Tuesday. Page 7. Portland and Vicinity. Council passes ordinance vacating sites for railroad bridge piers. Page 12. Multnomah County Bar Association com pletes Arrangements to be host of Su preme Court and Judge Williams at ban quet next Tuesday night. Page H. North Bank and Northern Pacific to meet distributive rates put on by O. R. & N. at order of Railroad Commission! Page IS. H. 1. Day. wealthy Idaho mining man. diea here at home of daughter. Page 11. After 30 years of wedded life. Portland man seeks divorce In novel action. Page 1. adelph Fred Swenssnn accused bv sister In suit of concealing property In father's estate. Page 0. Oo-rernor Hay, of "Washington, and other of ficials attend Columbia River legislation conference. Page ft. Governors of Oregon and Washington aslc Congress to allow states to agree on Co lumbia River boundary line: rjeacafu) conference bald. Page a