THE 3IORNIXG OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MARCH 14. 1910.
CRISIS IN STRIKE
REACHED TODAY
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TWELVE-YEAR-OLD PORTLAND LAD, SUPPOSED POSSESSOR OF OCCULT POWER, AND HIS
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Tailored Suits for Misses and Little Women
Union Leaders Demand Neces
sities of Life Dispensers
Quit.
Lipman, Wolfe & Co. leadership in wearing apparel for misses and little
women is attained by keeping in close touch with styles, designs ' and fashions for
their particular demand. The vogue for simplicity in these suits, expressly for
young girls is exemplified by our showing of new Spring garments.
OPEN SHOP, FIRM DEMANDS
Arbitration Is Considered Natural
Method of Settling the Trouble,
But Railroad Men Declare the
Union Must Be Recognized.
PHILADELPHIA. March 13. In order
to strengthen the sympathetic etrike, the
Central Labor Union today directed, that
all milkmen, bakers, grocery clerks and
other dispensers of the necessities of
life remain away from work tomorrow
and until the grievances of the striking
carmen are adjusted.
This means the reaching of the crisis
in the strike whether or not this latest
call is obeyed.
Attracted by a fire In a boxcar on a
railway siding In Kensington a crowd of
several thousand persons collected late
today. Small boys threw stones at some
of the police and later the windows of a
number .of cars were broken.
Aside from this outbreak, cars were
run without molestation and there were
more cars in operation than on any other
Sunday since the strike began.
The police and the traction company
officials agreed in the statement that the
situation is' Improving hourly. The rough
element that the company hired when
the strike began Is being weeded out and
a better class of men now operate the
cars.
Fares Show Strike Breaking.
"And we are getting the fares, too,"
declared an official. "Where two weeks
ago 300.000 fares were collected in one
day, yesterday 750.000 fares were turned
In. This is. of course, accounted for, In
part, by the fact that we are running
more cars and people are using them
more freely."
The settlement of the strike is still
uppermost In the minds of citizens in
Philadelphia. Nearly everybody consid
ers arbitration as the natural method,
but the company insists there is nothing
to arbitrate.
The officials and directors stick to their
original declaration that the union will
not be dealt with and they are appar
ently just as determined today as they
were three weeks ago.
Officials of the union are just as de
termined that no settlement will be ac
cepted that does not include-full recog
nition of the union.
Company Demands "Open Shop."
The company offers to take strikers
back and does not demand that they
shall drop their union and membership,
but insists that the union shall cut no
figure in any peace negotiations. In
other words, the company is for the
"open shop."
It Is not believed that any effort to
seoure outside intervention or the medi
ation of the Civic Federation or of Pres
ident Taft, or of any one else, wilr bear
fruit.
The company officials are silent regard
ing yesterday's action of the Interstate
Railways Company increasing to 23 cents
en hour the wages of motormen and
conductors in Trenton, Reading. "Wil
mington, Chester, Lebanon and Norris
town. The Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Company now pays 22 cents an hour,
with promise of increase to 23 cents on
July 1 to men employed more than one
year.
The authorities look for a big break In
the ranks of the sympathetic strikers to
morrow. Many have already returned to
work and the police canvass, it Is said,
shows thousands will do so tomorrow.
A superintendent at Cramps shipyard
declared today that, despite the extraor
dinary efforts of the leaders, not a sin
gle one of 6000 employes of the big plant
walked out.
According to police' information, hun
dreds of the sympathetic strikers at the
Baldwin J.ocomotive Works will return
to work tomorrow.
The bricklayers and carpenters, it is
said, will resume Monday or Tuesday,
and other trades will follow.
ECONOMIC WARNING GIVEN
Kansas Merchant Figures Drinks In
Terms of Merchandise.
TOPE K A, Kan., March 13. (Special.)
Prohibition is a settled question in
Kansas. Four years ago the saloon
and the "joint" disappeared, and a year
ago the drug store was barred from
the sale of liquor, even for excepted
purposes, as prescribed in the state
constitution.
One of the most striking methods yet
resorted to as a warning to the regular
drinker comes from a merchant in Ef
fingham. Here is the proposal: "Any
one who drinks three drinks of whisky
a day for one year and pays ten cents
a drink for it can have instead at my
store: 200 pounds of granulated sugar,
25 pounds coffee, 20 pounds tea, 0
pounds prunes, 20 pounds raisins; 50
pounds rice, one barrel crackers, 100
pounds hominy, 50 cakes laundry soap,
25 cakes toilet soap, five dozen clothes
pins, 20 gallons coal oil, 100 pounds
salt, five pounds pepper, ten pounds
fetarch. 100 pounds beets, 25 cans to
matoes, ten pounds soda, 25 boxes
matches, 20 cans salmon, 100 yards
muslin, 100 yards calico, 50 yards ging
ham. 50 yards sheeting, 50 yards outing
flannel, 25 yards toweling, 50 yards
lace, live pairs lace curtains, five
pairs blankets, ten pairs shoes. 25 pairs
hose."
POLO COLLISION FATAL
John Dustin Freeman Dies From In
juries Received at Coronado.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 13. John
Dustin Freeman, one of the most expert
,polo players in America, died in a hos
pital in this city today as a result of
injuries received in a practice game at
Coronado yesterday.
Mr. Freeman's pony and that ridden
by R. Weiss, of the Southwest Polo
Club of Los Angeles, collided, and Mr.
Freeman was struck on the head, sus
taining concussion of the brain.
Colonel Hofer Recovering.
E. Hofer, the Salem editor who was
Injured Saturday on the East Side
throug-h being- struck by a streetcar,
is reported to be improving at St. Vin
cent's Hospital. His injuries are not
serious and he is now regarded as be
ing1 on the highroad to recovery.
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ERNEST HARPS.
DR. GILBERT ERRS,
SAYS MRS. HARPS
Mother of Mysterious Bay
Firm in Conviction He Is
No Trickster.
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'CONFESSION" WAS FORCED
"Dr. Gilbert Peeked at Me TTntil I
Was Half Crazy," Says Lad In
Physician's Home Roast Is
Hurled Out of Range Oven.
That the supernatural manifestations
attributed to Ernest Harps, the -12-year-old
boy, were genuine, and di
rected by an unseen power operating
through the lad. is the conviction of
his mother, Mrs. Anna Harps, his kins
men and a score of witnesses of the
occurrences who have come forward
with caustic disapproval of the con
clusions reached by Dr. J. Allen Gil
bert. The confession Dr. Gilbert says he
got from the boy was made merely to
escape the rigid questioning of the in
vestigator, according to an explanation
the boy made yesterday, when telling
of the surveillance he underwent in
the physician's household.
"Dr. Gilbert just pecked away at me
until I was half crazy," said Ernest.
"I just got sick of listening to his
questions, so I told him I did every
thing he said I did about smashing the
dishes and things in grandma's house
on Marshall street.- I told him I did
not know anything about how the plas
ter fell off the wall or how the table
fell over in Uncle Harry's room; and
I don't, either."
Mother Tells Her Convictions.
For the first time since the strango
occurrences of last October. Mrs. Anna
Harps, the lad's mother, gave out her
opinions relative tg her son yesterday.
"There is no question about it and 1
don't hesitate in saying I am firmly
convinced that my boy has some super
natural power about him," she declared..
' am his mother and have been with him
since babyhood. I think, therefore, I
am in a position to know him better than
any one individual or any number of
people who never had seen Ernest before
the occurrences noted last Fall. Quite
naturally since that time I have watched
every action of his closely, Things havo
happened, since then which have never
crept into print, and they have con
vinced me beyond a doubt that he pos
sesses some peculiar power."
Mrs. Harps expressed considerable in
dignation over the conclusions reached
by Dr. Gilbert and the distorted reports
of his report which appeared in a local
evening paper.
Investigation Is Unasked.
"Why Dr. Gilbert should even hint that
Ernest is a" fraud is more than I under
stand," she said. "In the first place no
body ever asked him to make an investi
gation, but when' he took charge or
Ernest for a month during my illness in
November he saw things happen in his
home that should warrant him in not call
ing Ernest a trickster.
"It was only three weeks after the
strange things happened in the Marshall-street
house and while Ernest
was staying at Dr. Gilbert's home that
a roast flew from the oven of Mrs. Gil
bert's range and w-as dashed violently
upon the kitchen floor. Ernest was in
j the parlor at the time. Following this
a ucavy uaK aiiiing laoie in me UDert
home was turned upside down by some
unknown force. At this time Ernest
was in an adjoining room.
"Both Dr. and Sirs. Gilbert were of
the opinion that Ernest was account
able for these manifestations.
"In view of these facts, why does he
get up before a body of men in his
profession behind closed doors and say
blandly that the boy is a fraud?"
Ernest Harps will celebrate his 12th
birthday on the 28th of this month.
Since the first of the year he has been
a pupil at the Ladd School and lives
with his mother at the Valley Hotel,
on Second and Main streets. He
displays extraordinary intelligence
for a child of his age, and evinces a
keen interest In the diversity of
opinions for which he is accountable.
He makes little or no effort to "gain
notoriety." as he has been accused,
but, on the contrary, he is of a retir
ing disposition. Yesterday he reluct
antly recounted his participation in the
manifestations and was the author of
statements which lend credence to the
claim that he is possessed of some
uncatalogued power.
"Every time the furniture dances and
things begin to slide around the room,"
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he said, "my eyes begin to hurt just
as though I'm blind, then I feel like
another person I can't tell what kind
of a person. Then I get weak and sick,
all over."
He recalled a day just before Christ
mas and a few days following his de
parture from Dr. Gilbert's home, when
he was with his mother at the Valley
Hotel. On this particular day the boy
told how his mother was washing
dishes in the kitchen while he was in
another room in the front of the build
ing. They were the only two in the
rooms.
Ernest told how he was suddenly
overcome with weakness and remained
sitting silently in a chair in the front
room. His mother in the kitchen in
the rear had about this time filled a
dishpan full of water and dishes and
set It in the sink. Noting the silence
of Ernest In the front room, she left
her duties to speak to him. She stepped
to the kitchen only long enough to
call to the lad and receive a response.
When she was about to return to the
sink a moment later she was astonished
to find the pan, water, dishes and all
had been lifted bodily from the sink
and deposited .upon the floor in the
center of the room. Not a drop of
water had been spilled nor a dish dis
turbed. Mrs. Harps confirmed her son's
version of this occurrence.
Fraud Verdict Decried.
"I was thinking of mamma washing
dishes Just at the time she called me,"
said Ernest, in his attempt to advance
a solution of the transit of the dish
pan. The accusations made that the boy
is responsible for various strange oc
currences In the series of manifesta
tions and that he used material means,
are laughed at both by witnesses and
by kinsmen of the boy.
"W"hat object could he have in using
cords, strings, wires and similar means
to produce the manifestations?" they ask.
"Or how could he successfully perform
the feats under the close observation of a
score of persons?
"The boy possesses a stronger power
than I do." said Professor J. E. Willey, a
hypnotist who recently vieited Portland
and experimented with the lad, with the
consent of Mrs. Harps. Yesterday she
told of the extreme methods tried by
the hypnotist to place the lad under his
power. After he had resorted to every
method he kneVr, Professor Willey gave
up. He subsequently reported his con
clusions to European scientists.
Dr. Gilbert's report has met with a
storm of protest both from persons who
witnessed the happenirgs and from the
lad's relatives.
"Rottenl" is the terse opinion advanced
by Harry Sanders, uncle of the boy, who
resides at &46 Marshall street, in the
house where a dozen witnesses saw a two
hour upheaval of furniture and crockery
on the afternoon of October 2S last.
' Druggist Believes in Boy.
"No legerdemain, no sleight-of-hand, no
trickery, no bamboozling on the part of
the boy, but something too deep for me,"
says T. E. Lyons, a druggist in Allen's
Pharmacy across the street from the
Marshall-street house, who witnessed the
happenings.
"That lemon pie proposition was enough
to convince me that Dr. Gilbert is mis
taken when he says Ernest Is a fraud,"
declared J. W. Dernbach, part owner of
the Vlley Hotel, who was an eye-witness
to the antics of furniture and cooking
utensils on several occasions when Ern
est was in the place. Mr. Dernbach, Mrs.
Harps, a patron of the hotel and the
Harps boy sat at the table in the dining
room one evening in early November.
A lemon pie soared upward in full view
of the diners. In its flight it passed
over their heads and fell to the floor.
'There were no strings or wires on that
pie, and I know how well Ernest likes
pie," said Mr. Dernbach.
REINS TIED, MAN DRAGGED
Team Runs Away With Plow, La
Center Farmer Hurt.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. March 13.
(Special.) With the reins tied around
his shoulders while he was plowing
near La Center yesterday. C. G. Smith,
a farmer, was dragged 150 feet by the
team, which was frightened when the
singletree struck one of the animals on
the leg.
Smith finally freed himself from the
lines. The team then raced several
times around the field, dragging the
plow, which was broken to pieces.
Smith was badly bruised but not seri
ously Injured.
ST.-MARTIN'S SLAYER HELD
Charge Is Reduced to Manslaughter
and Bonds Fixed at $2000.
STEVENSON. Wash.. March 13.
(Special.) After a preliminary hear
ing which began at 2 P. M. Saturday
and was only concluded at midnight,
Robert Brown, slayer of Isldor St. Mar
tin, was held to the grand jury for
trial in bonds of $2000 on a charge of
manslaughter.
There Is much dissatisfaction among
the friends of St. Martin, who had ex
pected Brown would be held on a. mur
der charge. Brown is still in Jail, but
hl friends say he will be bailed out
Monday.
ANNA HARPS.
DIES IN JAIL
Picked Up Injured From Street,
Thrust Into Cell.
NAME OF E. E. ROSS GIVEN
Seattle Policeman Finds Youth in
Front of Saloon and Sends Him to
Hospital, but Attendants Re
turn Victim to Jail.
SEATTLE. March 13. E- E. Ross, a
well-dressed young man 22 years old,
was found dead on the floor of the re
ceiving hall at the city jail by his cell
mates this morning.
The name of the unfortunate young
man was learned from the band of his
hat, but his address and occupation are
unknown. From a letter taken from
his person when he was booked at po
lice headquarters', it appears that his
parents live at Hastings, Neb.
A policeman found him in front of a
Second-avenue saloon Saturday even
ing. He had fallen and apparently was
severely injured. He was sent to po
lice headquarters with the request that
he be placed In the emergency hospital.
The hospital attendants thought that
he was intoxicated and sent him back
to be locked up In the Jail, where he
died, unattended, during the night.
MAN FORGETS NAME, HOME
Vancouver Prisoner Is Puzzle, Un
able to Account for Daze.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. March 13.
(Special.) Declaring in a whisper that
he doesn't know who he is, whence he
came, and unable to account for his
loss of memory, a man supposed to be
J. Chadwick, is detained at the City
Jail here.
He attempted to walk across the
drawbridge over the Columbia River last
night and reached the first draw when
he was stopped by the watchman, who
attempted to get him to go back, as no
one is allowed to walk over the bridge..
The man appeared to be dazed and stood
in the middle of the track. He was led
to the depot, and taken to the jail. He
was not drinking.
When Chief- Secrist attempted to get
the man to talk, he refused to reply.
A pencil was placed in one hand and a
sheet of paper In the other, but he took
no notice and stared into vacancy.
The unknown is a laborer, wears cor
duroy trousers, a corduroy coat with fur
collar and a blue woolen shirt. In one
pocket was an employment slip from
the Red Cross Employment Bureau, 20
North Second Street, Portland. It was
made out February 2S to J. Chadwick,
who signed a contract to go to work for
Deeks & Deeks. contractors, for J2.25 a
day. He Is about 35 years old. has a
light mustache, and is apparently a Ger
man or Scandinavian.
The mysterious prisoner was in jail
several hours before he was able to
speak or hear.
FEE REFUSED BY OLD MAN
After Testifying Against Assailant
He Does Not Want Money.
DAYTON, Wash., March 13: (Spe
cial.) "Pride and Poverty" might be
the title of a little drama in real life
enacted here yesterday, when Wllhelm
Wiegand, 70 years old. well-known
pioneer, who was assaulted and cruelly
beaten by Mark Owens, a laborer, on
Sunday, refused to take the t2 witness
fee due him as prosecuting witness
against his assailant. Tears trickled
down the care-worn face of the old
man and his frame shook with sobs
check strawof emotion when -the two
silver dollars were laid "in his hand a
hand which in former years had
amassed . a fortune." but which later,
loosening its grip, had let the wealth
slip away, but he proudly spurned the
money, saying, "Please give it to the
county."
Judge Holman finally prevailed on
the Septugenarian to take the fee and
reluctantly he placed" the silver In his
pocket. He was at one time United
States Marshal at Laramie. Wyo., and
was an intimate of General Lew Wal
lace and Bill Nye.
State College Is Examined.
STATE COLLEGE. Pullman. Wash.,
March 13. (Special.) The state legis
lative investigating commttee is now at
Pullman, examining the student member
ship records of the institution, inquir
ing Into the curriculum and making a
general but thorough examination of the
general financial and teaching policy of
the college, Howard Taylor and W. C.
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Our showing is very
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and have a fitting. You are not obligated to
purchase.
McMasters. Representatives in the House,
and Seator P. L. Allen, chairman, are the
represetattves of the state committee.
Senator H. O. Fishback and-Representative
J. C. Hubbell are absent.
MILLS ADOPTING CEMENT
Raymond Plants Use it for Building,
Fire Danger Less. '
RAYMOND, Wash.. March 13. (Spe-
The Royal Bakery and Confectionery, Inc.
The Great Portland Bakery That Always Invites Inspection
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Corsets
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Miss White is like a
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cial.) The Willapa Lumber Company
is installing a Grand Rapids dry-kiln
in a concrete house, which will make
it fireproof. The building is 30x150
feet, divided into two compartments,
one for dry heat and the other for wet
heat. The capacity is 40,000 feet of
lumber, or two cars, a day.
This building had been completed,
but due to the frosts before the ce
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had to be rebuilt. It is expected that
the kiln will be completed within three
weeks.
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The coats modeled in the
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Easter Hats $5
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Millmen are beginning to use cement
for building about their mills. Cement
buildings lessen fire danger and are
a great saving in the cost of insur
ance. Alleged Bad Check Passed.
HERMI8TON, Or., March 13. (Spe
cial.) C. A. Smith. bearing several
alias, was arrested here by Deputy New
port and taken to Pendleton on a charge
of passing forged checks. Smith is said
to have passed a bad check on a grocery
firm before coming to Hermtstoji.