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VOL. L. NO. 15,392. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GRAFT CRUSADES REND PITTSBURG BURGLAR ALARM IN LILIES GETS GIRLS HOUSES LINE UP ON TAFT LEGISLATION QUAKE OF EARTH NOW PREDICTED EASTER ANOTHER DIAMOND TRUST IS IN FIELD F UPON CITY IS LAID TO YOUTH VAXCOITERITK TIIKN SKIZKS TWO FA I It INVADERS. OUTPUT OF GERMAN MINES IN A Kill C A TO BE CONTROLLED. ETNA LAVA, FORCING PASSAGE, MAY CACSE EXPLOSION'. SUNSHINY IENDI5H MURDER BEAMS Easter Sermons Deal With Disclosures. BANKS TO BE CALLED TODAY Many Councilmen Expected to y Resign Without Protest. TENDERLOIN FEELS BLOWS Charge That Million Dollars a Year Is Collected In Red Light Dis trict Is Made John F. Klein Is Muzzled by Police. PITTSBURG, March 27. The Lenten season, which ended today, has been too short a season of penitence for Pitts burg, and, it will be continued with promise of even mora startling- confes sions of graft this week. In several hundred churches today an unusual feature of the Easter services was the reading of a circular letter is sued by a cii'lc committee yesterday, urging the members of every congre gation to attend a huge indignation mass meeting to be held some day this week. Sermons, too, were designed to arouse public condemnation of such practices as have been revealed. Les- sons in civic cleanliness were drawn by many pastors. Source of Bribe Fund Sought. It having been pretty thoroughly established, according to District At torney William A. Blakeley, that at least $102, 50o was used in Influencing legislation, the source of the money and the dispensers of It are to be the focus of the grand jury's attention tomorrow morning. A considerable portion of the tig bribe fund is charged to certain banks that sought to get city deposits. They succeeded, but it is the desire of the grand jury, as pronounced In its report of Friday, last, that. the bank deposit ordinance be rescinded and the banks. If found guilty, be deprived of the use of city money. It is known that some ' representatives of the banks are to be called tomorrow to testify. Banks Called Vpon. The six banks that have been named by the grand jury as having been In volved in the scandal are the Columbia National, the German National of Pitts burg, the Farmers National Deposit Bank, and the Second National, the Ger man National of Allegheny, and the Korkingman's Savings & Trust Com pany. The directorate of the Farmers" Na tional has announced that it will comply with the District Attorney's call for in formation and the Second -National has prepared a certified statement which is to be presented to the grand jury tomor row. The other banks have taken no action. It was still unlearned tonight whether Charles Stewart yesterday in his talk with District Attorney Blakeley told all that he is believed to know of the men higher up. Stewart is an ex-Select Coun cilman, who was declared by the grand jury in its presentment Saturday to have been the man to whom $43,000 of bribe tainted money was given at the Hotel Imperial in New York. Councilmen to Resign. The City Councils meet tomorrow. Twenty of the present members of the Councils are under fndictment in con nection with the graft cases. It is ex pected that some will protest their inno cence, but the majority are expected to hand in resignations quite as meekly as they confessed last week. While the big show continues, there is a lively side feature in a crusade against all' varieties of graft and wrongdoing in Pittsburg. Disorderly houses are being closed up and every night lately has seen a roundup of women in the tenderloin district. At a meeting cf citizens in the Fort Pitt Hotel at which a committee was formed to further the mass meeting plan, it was openly charged the graft col lected in the red light district amounted to a million dollars a year. John F. Klein, whose confessions and exposure of others has netted such, a scandal, has been muzzled and is now kept in a room at the Fort Pitt Hotel pending disposition of his case. He is under sentence of three and one-half years. He-issued yesterday an emotional postcard appeal for clemency and aid for his family. The authorities have for bidden him to give out further public statements. PIONEER STRANGELY DEAD Crook County Sheriff Orders In quest Into Tom Payne's Demise. FRINBVILLE, Or., March 27.-(SpeciaI.) The body of Tom Payne, a well-known Crook County character and pioneer, was found today at the Russell ranch near the" post where he had been employed, under conditions pointing to accidental death by shooting, or suicide pr murder. The Sheriff's office has ordered an in quest. Payne was well-to-do and was about 57 years old. Wires From Garden tt Bell on lied Ensnare Portland Miss and Chum Two Escape. VANCOUVER, Wash., March 27. (Spe cial.) By the use of a burglar alarm placed to protect his Easter lilies, K. L. Curtis last night captured ' two high school girls who, he declares, were in the act of stealing his posies. He marched them to jail. The lassies ensnared were Miss Thelma "Welch of Vancouver and Miss Viola Bell of Portland. Miss Agnes Eaton and Miss Gladys Powell of Vancouver ecaped the clutches of the horticulturist. ; Mr. Curtis at his home on Railroad avenue has a large garden. To safeguard an exceptionally good crop of Easter lil ies and hyacinths he fixed a bell at the head of his bed, and to it connected two wires which he concealed in the roots of the plants, that the least movement would sound the gong. Expecting that his flowers would be unsafe Easter eve., Mr. Curtis did not retire, but extinguished the light and fell asleep in a chair. About 10 o'clock lie was awakened by the burglar alarm. He rushed to his front yard and before the invaders were aware of his presence, he seized Miss Welch and Miss Bell. The two other girls fled. It is a long walk to the City Hall, but Mr. Curtis marched his captives before the Chief of Police. The girls, giggling, the Chief threatened to lock them up for the night. Then big tears welled up in the eyes of the fair prisoners. They were released on their solemn promise to appear for trial before the Police Judge Monday morning. 3-DAY DEATH FIGHT WON Portland Merchant Lives to See Rel atives, Then Dies. Deathly ill at 9t. Vincent's Hospital and aware that he had only a short time to live, James Douglass, aged 55 years, 707 Johnson street, lived three days longer than expected, through sheer force of will, that he might see his wife's sis ter and brother-in-law, John Mullin, on their way here from Omaha, Neb. Mr. Douglass, when he realized death was near, asked that Mr. and Mrs. Mullin be telegraphed. He was told he could not be expected to live until they reached Portland, but he Insisted, saying he would live anyhow. He died Saturday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock, two hours after they arrived. Mr. Douglass was a Third street mer chant. . He had been, in Portland 10 years, coming here from Omaha, Neb., where he had lived 20 years. He was born in Ire-land and came to America when a lad. For the past 25 years he has been prom inently identified with the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The funeral services will be conducted by that order this morning at 9 o'clock from St. Mary's Cathedral. WRECKS USED FOR FUEL Idaho Building Timbers Find TTse After Avalanche. SPOKANE, Wash., March 27. (Special.) Aside from photographers, who reaped a harvest from sales of pictures of the snowslides at Mace and Burke, Idaho, a month ago, the only persons who will benefit from the disasters are the resi dents of the canyon towns, who are ob taining their next Winter's supply of fuel from the timbers, many of them of Im mense size, brought down by the avalanches. Thousands of big trees and logs are be ing taken from the drifts and sawed into convenient lengths, and the supply seems sufficient for all the people in canyon towns. The wrecks of 27 houses, ground and twisted into little more than kindling wood, are being hauled away and used for fuel. MUSKRAT DRAINS . POND Fish. Heading Vp-Stream, Stranded in Adjoining Marsh. SPOKANE. Wasl. March 27. (Special.) Near Kalispell, Mont., boring a hole in an earth embankment that sustained one side of an artificial fish pond, a muskrat a few days ago drained the pond and caused the loss of many of the fish, many of which. Instinctively heading up stream when the waters began to fall, floundered into a small creek that poured into the pond and escaped into the small marshes that lined the stream. The pond was owned by Richard Greig, who stocked it several years ago with brook trout brought to the city by the Government fish car.N For two years the Greig pond has been visited by many who have taken large strings of fish. GUN EXPLODES; EIGHT DIE? Cruiser Chaf lestown Scene of Acci dent Xear Manila. MANILA, March 27. A report reached here today that a gun on the United States cruiser Charleston exploded dur ing target practice, killing or wounding eight men. . The Charleston is returning to Manila from Olongapo. Xo details of tho re ported accident have been received here. The United States cruiser Charleston la the flagfhlp of Rear-Admiral John Hub bard, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet. Her commanding officer is Com mander John H. Gibbons. The Charleston is a nroteeted cruiser of -700 tons, and cat lies 15 guns in the main battery. j Administration Bill Is Upheld by Senate. "UNSEAT CANNON" AGAIN HEARD Insurgent-Democratic Coali tion Holds Power. MANN TO PILOT MEASURE Townsend, Who Introduced Execu tive Recommendations, Must Give Way Conservation May Go Over Statehood in Trouble. WASHINGTON. March 27. Legisla tion desired by President Taft has been the means of crystallizing various sentiments among the members of both houses of Congress for and against the Administration. Out of the general drift of opinions prevalent has come the conclusion that the Senate is sup porting the Administration bills and is looked to by the executive to accom plish what he. wants done, while the House is, one the whole, rather un friendly toward Mr. Taft's desires as expressed in his messages. Successor to Cannon Again Hinted. This same legislation and its treat ment by Congress has also served to bring forward Speaker Cannon again as an issue in the House, and there is frequent expression of a desire to un seat him and elect a new Speaker. Asher C. Hinds, the parliamentarian of the House, is the man most frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Mr. Cannon. Townsend's Ambition Fails. The ambition of Representative Town send of Michigan to assume charge of the Administration bill on the floor of the House will not be gratified, for the honor will go to Chairman Mann of the committee on interstate and foreign com merce. " This fact developed today, and support ers of the bill in the form in which ,it was originally introduced by Representa tive Townsend end in which it now is pending in the Sjnate, are greatly dis appointed. Republicans for Amendments. It has been thought the intensa oppo sition of Mr. Mann to certain features of the bill as drafted by Attorney-General Wickersham would make him disinclined to champion it. His success in incorpo rating many of his own ideas into the measure, however, made Mr: Mann will ing to assume the sponsorship. As amended by the committee, all Re publican members voted for it and there was no way in which7 the chairman could be denied the management of the meas ure on the floor. Court of Commerce Opposed. Mr. Mann was particularly opposed to the provision for the creation of a Court of Commerce and this was retained only through tho personal efforts of the Pres ident. Whether Mr. Mann will seek to elimi- (Concluded on Page 2.) 1 - fR'S I L . Vesuvius Develops Five Xfw Large Fissures, but Volcano Is No - More Active. CATANIA, March . 27. While the quantity of lava from the craters of Mount Etna continues to decrease, the Internal activity of the volcano was stronger today than yesterday. Frank A. Perret, the American au Viorlty, believes that the decrease In the flow of lava is due to obstructions in the new craters, which prevent Its flowing freely, and that in a few days the molten mass either will force a passage or an earthquake will result. Mr. . Perret went today from Nico losi to the Alpine Club refuge, which is situated near the craters, and later telegraphed down as follows: "The activity of Etna . today is stronger, but the lava is slower. Ter rific explosions in the interior of the mountain continue." NAPLES, March 27. Five new large fissures have opened near the central crater of Mount Vesuvius, but the vol cano shows no great activity. Alton B. Parker Reaches Russia. ST. PETERSBURG, March 27. Alton B. Parker, of New York, and Mrs. Parker arrived here today. Mrs. Parker is ill. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTEUDA Y'S Maximum temperature, 64 degrees; minimum, 40 decrees. TODAY'S Fair, westerly winds. Foreign. RooReelt spends strenuous Sunday In Cairo. Page 2. Earthquake predicted at Mount Etna unless lava forces passage,. Page 1. National. Houses of Congress Jine up on Administra tion bill; "I'nseat Cannon' cry again heard- Page 1. Personal bitterness of reclamation officials endangers irrigation bond issue. Page 2. roii tics. Demand for fixed, term securities shows discouraging abatement in New York market. Page H. Leather workers organizer says strike will b extended ; employers reassert position. Page 14. Domrstic. Youth accused of murdering Ruth Wheeler, 1.1. in New York is lodged in Tombs without bail. Page 1. Charge made that million dollars a year graft is taken -from Pitts-burg tender loin. Page 1. Another diamond trust formed ; output of German mines in Africa is controlled. Page 1. Mrs. Jack Cudahy. City society, may ostracised by Kansas turn to stage for ref- uge. page z. Daughter of J. O. Stubbs. d Ivorcee, dies TO . days after securing separation. Page 3- Missouri it", t 1 1 on a Ire banker telle how May bray sang beat hira out f of 940.UOO. Page 2. Sport. Rain interferes with Fresno game and Port land team hurries to San Francisco. Pase & Trl-City league directors to act on season's schedule tonight." Page M. Promoter Tex Rickard pit-ks Johnson to beat Jeffries and short fight, too. Page S. Water sports may be feature of Rose Fes tival. Page 8. Portland football players look with disfavor on proposed changes in rules. Page . Eaatern racing pea son promises greatest in history. Page 9. v Pacific Northwest. Burglar alarm placed in Easter lilies by Vancouver man catches two girl invad ers. Page 1. W. K. Newell says Nort hwest apple grow ers must continue f iglit before Congress to defeat unfavorable legislation. Page 14. Demonstration train finds Eastern Oregon at height of great prosperity. Page 5. Returned missionary predicts another Ruffian-Japanese war within lO years. Page 13. Motion before court to quas-h indictment against Banker Moore gives him chance to be freed of charge. Page 7.' Sunshiny Easter beams upon Portland throngs; 40,000 attend church services. Page 1. Disabled ship Atlas towed into port after accident to propeller and tallshaft. Page 14. Burglars ransack every room of East Side home; steal dishes and food. Page 7. SCARING UP THE GHOST OF HARD TIMES All Churches Thronged With Worshipers. FASHION PARADE RESPLENDENT "Resurrection" Is Theme in Gospel Halls and Missions. 38,000 ATTEND- SERVICES Crowds Pass Day In Balmy Out doors, Advent of Spring Styles Making Gay Spectacle Store AVindows Are Attractive. Estimate of Church Attendance at Easter Services Is Close to 40,004). St. Mary's Cathedral, four serv ices 2.500 St. Lawrence Cathedral, four services 2.O0O White Temple, two services.... 3,000 Grace M. E. Church, two services 1.50O Taylor-street M. E7"Church, two services 1,500 First Congregational, two serv ices ... 2.000 F"rt Presbyterian, two services 8,000 Trinity Episcopal, two services. 2,500 St. David's Cathedral, four services 1,200 Centenary M. E. Church, - two services 1.000 East Side and suburban churches 15,000 Missions 3.000 38.200 "He is risen." This ancient and time-honored salu tation of the pious or all Christendom found expression yesterday in every pulpit in Portland. The words were formed in artistically-arranged banks of flowers and were lisped by children, who, sitting in the pews with their parents in the various churches of the city, paid little understanding heed to the sayings of the ministers as the old story of the crucifixion, burial and res urrection of Christ was told again. Under the influence of clear skies, warm sunshine and balmy breezes, Easter, queen of Christian festivals, was ushered in. It seemed that the goddess of Spring, . from whom it is believed by many, the name of the day was derived, had joined with the elements to symbolize the spirit of the occasion by resurrecting Spring. Despite adverse prediction of the Government weather forecaster, the sun shone from the time It peeped over the Eastern horizon until it sank. Light showers however, fell about 9 P. M. Romping children, clad in their night ies, first saw it as they rushed out doors in ' the earry morning . and searched through the dew-laden grass and shrubbery of the lawns for multi colored eggs, left there during the night by -mischievous bunnies. The parade of fusnion commenced early. By 10 o'clock the down-town streets and thoroughfares In the vicin ity of the churches were filled. Earlier than this worshipers were on their (Concluded on Page 10.) I Rapidly Increasing Supply Caused Fears That Demand Would Be Overtaken In Sliort Time. NEW YORK, March 27. (Special. ) Diamond dealers have learned within the last few days that a new syndicate, the third in the trade, has been formed and has taken over the new diamond mines in German Southwest Africa. The output of these mines has been increasing so rapidly of late that some concern had been awakened among dealers, who feared that possibly the supply would overtax the market. The formation of the new syndicate brings about, according to the dealers, a com plete control by throe companies of all the important sources of supply, so that the world's production of diamonds is now greater than ever before, but the dealers say the demand is also greater. Jacktyn & Walters is the principal New York firm in the new syndicate. Most of the members are in Antwerp. The output of the German-African mines. which a year ago was insignificant, has amounted of late to 60,000 carats a month, mostly of the smaller sizes of stones. SEARCH FOR EXPLORER ON Canada Determined to Find Trace of .Missing George Caldwell. OTTAWA. Ont.. March 27. (Special.) The Canadian government has deter mined to clear up, if possible, the mys tery surrounding the disappearance of George Caldwell, the Arctic explorer, who has been missing for two years. He started ostensibly upon a geographical expedition on behalf of the government accompanied by two Eskimos, but it is now admitted that he went in search of immense gold deposits, known to Eski mos, who had brought him samples from the fields. Captain ' Samuel Bartlett. one of New foundland's most skillful navigators; has been commissioned by the government to conduct the search for Caldwell. The last tidings had of him was furnished by mounted police, to whom some trading Eskimo? told they had seen Caldwell and his two companions at Baker Lake in the Fall of 1908. Caldwell's relatives here have aband oned hope that he survived the trip. It Is known, however, that he took with him a number of copper tubes wherein to deposit records of his journey. HEIRESS? NO, SAY PRINCES Servian Minister Denies Rich Amer ican Bride Search for Royalty. PARIS. March 27. Dr. M. R. Ves nitch, the Servian Minister here, gives categorical denial of the reports that Crown Prince Alexander and his older brother, Prince George, are about to visit America in search of rich Ameri can brides. Mr. Vesnitch says the royal family of Belgrade is greatly annoyed over these reports and no such personage is known as "Count Pablow Mysky Treskaya," who is reported to be in America as the matrimonial agent of King Peter. "Should either of the Servian Princes at any future time go to America, said Mr. Vesnitch, "It will be only to visit the country and study institutions which are especially interesting in Servia, the most democratic kingdom in 'Old Europe ' LINE WILL JOIN CITIES Electric Railway to Operate Between Marshfield and North Bend. MARSH FIELD, Or., March 27. (Spe cial.) Major L. D. Kinney of North Bend has put a large force of men at work and announces that he will con struct in four months an electric street railway to connecjt Marshfield and North Bend. Operations have begun at what is known as Plat B between the two cities where Major Kinney controls a large amount of land. About 30 men are at work clearing and 100 more, will be put to work. A force of surveyors has also been put in the field. Major Kinney has applied to the North Bend City Council for a franchise and de clares that he will also apply to the Marshfield City Council. He announces that Seattle capital is behind the enter prise. WELLS FARGO HEAD DEAD Colonel Dudley Evans Dies In New York After Operation. NEW YORK. March- 27. (Special.)- Colonel Dudley Evans, president of Wells, Fargo & Co., one of the most" widely known common carrier officials in the country, cMed tonight in the Roose velt Hospital following an operation. He was operated on in that institution a. few days ago and for a time his con dition showed improvement. He suffered a relapse Saturday and sank despite ev ery effort made to save him. SECOND MORMON DIES J. It. Winder, 88, Next to President Smith, Pneumonia Victim. SALT LAKE CITY. March 27. J. R. Winder, whose position in the Mormon Church was second only to that of President Joseph F. Smith, died today from pneumonia. Winder was first councillor of the presidency and was S8 years old. He is survived by 16 children, 87 grand children and a number of great grandchildren. Alleged Slayer of Ruth Wheeler in Tombs. NIGHTGOWN IDENTIFIED AS HIS Woman Consort of Albert Wol ter Seized as Witness. ACCUSED MAN DENIES ALL Katie Miller, Who Lived With New York Prisoner, Tells of Removal of Stove Her Story Consis tentBail Is Refused. NEW YORK, March 27. Albert Wolter, the youth in the fire escape of whose rooms were found yesterday portions of the burned body of Ruth Wheeler, the 15-year-old stenographer who had been mining since last Thursday morning, was committed to the Tombs without bail today, charged with the girl's mur der. At a continuation of the police ques tioning, to which he was subjected last night, he persisted In his denials that ha had ever seen the girl, ever had writ ten to her or knew how her body came on the fire escape outside his window or why fragments of human feet, hands and arms were found in the ashes of his fireplace. Katie Miller, the girl with whom lie lived, was arrested today as she ap proached the hous. where the murder was committed. She was reading the details in a German newspaper as she walked, smiling as she read. During a long cross-examination she held sturdily to a consistent story that she knew nothing of the crime until she read of it in the newspapers. Stove's Removal Noticed. Thursday night when she returned from work at the laundry, where she earned $6 a week, which she gave to Wolter, she said Hhe noticed the stove In front of the fireplace had been moved, the fire-board newly painted and a col ored lithograph pasted over the hole where the stovepipe formerly entered. When she asked Wolter why he had done this he answered that Summer was coming and they wouldn't need the stove. She had not even known that Wolter had received a visitor, she says, until Pearl Wheeler, the dead girl's elder sis ter, had called Friday morning to ask if Ruth had been there. Girl Kept as Witness. Wolter had denied that, but the Miller girl says she was uneasy after the inter view and that she became jealous and accused him of harboring another woman in the flat. Again he denied it. Friday morning she went to work again and that afternoon Wolter was arrested. The girl was committed to the House of De tention as a material witness. An autopsy today showed that Ruth Wheeler had been killed in the manner Indicated by the first superficial examin ation. First she had been strangled with, a rope and then the bones of the arms and legs were broken to admit the body more readily to the narrow throat of the chimney. Why the cuts were made on the body does not appear. Gown and Sack Identified. When Katie Miller was shown thfc nightshirt in which part of the charred body had been wrapped, the girl posi tively identified the garment as Wolter's. "That letter 'W,' " said the girl, indi cating an initial worked on the shirt, "was embroidered by Albert's mother." She also identified the gunnysaek in which the head and trunk of the victim, had been placed as having been used by her and Wolter to hold kindling wood. PLAGUE MENACES NATIVES Esquimaux Children Seldom Free From Tuberculosis, Says Surgeon. WASHINGTON. March 27. Declaring that 50 per'cent of the natives of Un- alaska and St. George and St. Paul Islands are suffering from tuberculosis,- Surgeon Simpson, of the Revenue Cutter Manning, says that the disease exists in e.11 forms and that there are only a few children who do not show some evidence of it. He adds, however, that many of them Improved under treatment in the Summer of 1005. Efforts, he says, are being made to instruct the natives how to prevent the disease. If the natives of St. Paul had an abunri nce of water, which now has to be hauled some distance in wagons, accord ing to Dr. Simpson, they would keep their houses cleaner and the danger of the spread of infection would he greatly lessened. HARRIMAN LINE TO SOUTH? President I.ovett and Associates Plan Mexican Road. EL PASO. Texas. March 27. In ex planation of the presence on the west coast of Mexico of President Lovett and many high officials of the Harrl man lines, it is said that the Mexican Pacific Railroad Company has ac quired the concession held by the Mex- can-Amerlcan holding company, to build a railroad from Salina Cruz to Manzanillo, a distance of 930 miles, and thence down the coast I I L-J-l 1 07 O f