VOL. la. XO. 15,397. PORTLAND, OREGON.. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PINGHOT PLOT IS DETECTED IN BILL PLUCKY WOMAN'S DEFENSE NO AVAIL JURY ACQUITS BUT CENSURES MOORE TABLET FIND IS BRANDED AS FAKE CORPORATIONS TO AVOID PUBLICITY BOY AT LOG CHUTE ATTACKED BY CAT BY GRAFT SCANDAL HUSBAND'S ARREST RESISTED WITH RIFLE. JOHNS HOPKEfS SCIESTTISTS SCOUT DELUGE STORY. LIFE SAVED BY FALLING AGAINST WHISTLE WIRE. CARNEGIE MOVED Extension of Forest Re serves Is Plan. COST WOULD BE MILLIONS Vast Army to Be Added to Pay roll of Natioi. HOUSE MAY BE FAVORABLE Weeks Bill Proposes Government Shall Take Over Lands at Head waters of Navigable Streams, Property to Be Paid For. BY HARRY J. BROWN. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington; April 1. Under the guise of pro tecting the watersheds of navigable streams, the ultra-conservatlonlsts in Congress, otherwise known as the "Pin chotltes," are undertaking to slip through a bill which will extend the vast system of forest reserves Into every state of the Union, entail the expenditure of unestl mated millions of dollars of Government money, and swell the Forest Service to proportions never dreamt of by Gifford Pinchot, even In his palmiest days. It Is all being done by subterfuge. In which clever effort Is being made to con ceal the main purpose of the legislation In question. Wolf In Sheep's Clothing. The Weeks bill, recently reported by the House committee on agriculture, is an outgrowth of the old Appalachian for est reserve bill. When it was demon strated that Congress would not outright appropriate money to buy the tops of the Appalachian and White Mountains as a playground for Mr. Plnchot and his fellow faddists, the advocates of that proposition cast about to find some way . of evading the objections raised to tha original Appalachian bill, and the result of their search and connivance Is found! In the measire In question. It Is entitled, "A bill to enable any Btate to co-operate with any other state or states, or with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of navi gable streams, and to appoint a commis sion for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers.'" Members Are Not Pooled. It is Just such a change as was made by the advocates of ship subsidy, when "they changed the name of their pet meas ure from 'subsidy" to "subvention." But It Is a change that will not fool many members. One of the important factors of the Weeks bill Is hidden away In section 4. , This section makes an appropriation of ,-' $1,000,000 to be used Immediately, and au fi thorlses an annual appropriation of J2.000.000 for the next five years, this money to be expended for "the examina tion, survey and acquirement of lands located on the headwaters of navigable streams or those which are being or which may be developed for navigable purposes." Korest Reserve Act Covers. The bill creates a National Forest Re serve Commission, consisting of the Sec retary of Agriculture, Secretary of War. Secretary of Interior, two Senators and two Representatives, which commission shall pass upon all proposed purchases of lands, and to approve prices. The - Secretary of Agriculture is to locate the lauds to be acquired, and will engineer the actual purchases, subject to the or der of the commission. Then, down In section 12. comes this provision: 'That the lands acquired under this act shall be permanently reserved, held and administered as National forest lands under the provisions of section 24 of the act of March 3, 1S91 (the forest reserve act), and tha Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time divide the lands acquired under this act into such specillc National forests and so designate tha tame as be may deem best for adminis trative purposes." Bill Adds to Army of Clerks. Fine! More forest reserves, meaning more supervisors, more rangers, more clerks, more responsibility for the heads of the Forest Service, and consequently larger salaries. The bill makes a separate appropria tion of $200,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to co-operate with any state in the protection from fire of the forested watersheds of navigable streams, the states to contribute half to the cost of this work. In another section the Secretary of Agriculture Is authorized "to agree to administer and protect for a definite term of years any private forest lands situated upon - any watershed whereon lands may be permanently reserved as National for est lands, but such agreement shall provide that the owner of such private lands shall cut and remove the timber thereon only under such rules and reg ulations as will provide for the pro tection of the forest In the aid of nav igation." In other words. Government money may be expended In caring for private forests, and the owner of such " 1 forests need not contribute a cent T toward said administration. Where a landowner, under this bill, sells land to the Government, he may iCoacluded on Pas Before She Can Shoo sfve Is Dis armed, Though, and M. ,-"Jrops Off Roof Into Officers' Hai.' SPOKANE, Wash., April 1. (Spe cial.) Roused from slumber late at night by the approach of officers to arrest ber husband, Mrs. Frank Nu gent, wife of an order clerk at a local store, seised a rifle and made ready to stand off the law until the man sought had a chance to escape. Although her Intentions were good, her plans went amiss, for she was seised and disarmed before she had a chance to fire, and her husband, drop ping from a shed roof to the ground, landed squarely in front of a deputy, and is now In the County Jail. Nugent lives near Rathdrum, which Is 40 miles from Spokane. He was wanted on a warrant charging a serious of fense in which a 17-year-old girl now in custody of fche probation officers Is concerned. Deputy Sheriffs Long and Logan and Deputy Prosecutor Crow in a big automobile went after him last night. Nugent's ranch Is on the side of a mountain six miles from the town, and is reached only by a steep and difficult road. When the place was found, the fam ily bad apparently been in bed, but had heard the approach of the auto. Mr. Logan, in answer to the query of Mrs. Nugent, told bis name and busi ness and that he wished to Interview her husband. She replied that she was alone and refused to admit the officers. Then she got a rifle and made ready for the siege. Logan, however, admitted him self, and seized the weapon as the woman was raising it to her shoulder. Meanwhile Nugent had slipped through a second-story window to the roof of a shed, whence he dropped to the ground right in front of the depu ties. A search revealed an ugly knife, but no other weapon. 'ETNA' NOT DEAD EXPERT Cessations of Eruptions Temporary. Roar Drives Out Observer. CATANIA. April 1. Expert opinion concerning the activity of Mount Etna is pessimistic. Frank A. Perrett, the assistant director of the Royal Observa tory on Mount Vesuvius, thinks the volcano still contains a considerable quantity of lava and a cessation of the eruptions probably will be only tem porary. Professor Ricco, director of the Mount Etna Observatory, has been forced to abandon his post after pass ing hours of terror there. He said' to night: "One could not stand the deafening and horrible roar of the volcano for more than one day. It would certainly drive him mad." MESSINA. April 1. Seven slight earthquake shocks, accompanied by subterranean rumblings and explosions, have been 'felt here since Thursday night. No damage has resulted. SEALING VESSEL CRUSHED Ice Floes Wreck One Steamer and Threaten, Second. ST. JOHX, N. F.f April 1. Sealing steamer Iceland, operating in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, was crushed in the ice last Wednesday and went to the bottom. The sealer Florizel, which arrived here today with news of the disaster, rescued the members of the crew. When the Florizel " left the sealing ground the steaamer Newfoundland was in a dangerous position, hard pressed by the huge ice floes. The steamer Eagle was staandingr by prepared to take off the 2U0 men if the Newfoundland sank. The Florizel brought the largest catch, of seals ever recorded here, her catch numbering 49,000 skins, valued at about $120,000. The season has been remarkably pros perous, the catch In sight being worth 5600,000. PATIENT IS OWN SURGEON Willow Stick Does Work While Doc tor Seeks Instrument. Dr. F. A. Short lost a fee Thursday because a patient performed the nec essary operation upon himself -while the doctor had gone to get his instru ments and anaesthetics. The physician was sumoned in baste to the home of Hiram Smith in Ste phens Addition. A prune pit had lodged midway between Mr. Smith's throat and stomach. Dr. Short found him suffering keenly and returned to his office for additional Instruments and chloroform. While Dr. Short was gone. Mr. Smith revived, cut a willow stick, peeled It and dislodged the obstruction. "UNWRITTEN LAW" UPHELD Bakers-field Man Who Kills Another Released AYlthoot Trial. BAKERSFIELD, Cal.. April 1. Killing under the "unwritten law" received start ling support here today when John Cross, who shot to death J. W. R-hoads day be fore yesterday, following the slain man's alleged attentions to Mrs. Cross, was re leased without formal action and today Is walking the streets a tree man. His friends are even forced to swear to a complaint to have the case passed upon in due legal form. Cross, returning home unexpectedly from a trip, found Rhoads and Mrs. Cross together at a theater. Peculiar Verdict Result oof 29 Hours' Voting. OYER 20 BALLOTS ARE TAKEN Final Decision Is Actually Com promise. THREE WANT CONVICTION Are Only Won Over to Agreement by Rebuke Clause Tacked On Bank er Shows Relief Prosecution Is Hopeful Other Charges. VERDICT BROUGHT I" BY JI R Y. "We. the Jury, And the defendant, W. H. Moore, not guilty as charged m the Indictment, but recommend that he receive the most lenere cen sure of this court for his guilty knowledge and participation In un lawful and dishonest acts relative to the conduct and management of the bank of which he was president and a director. W. H. Moore was acquitted yester day afternoon. Tacked on to the verdict of "not guilty," however, was a rebuke from the jury for guilty knowledge and par ticipation In unlawful and dishonest acts In the conduct of the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank. The outcome of the two weeks' trial was a complete surprise, for the jury had been out more than 29 hours and the general belief prevailed that a "hung" Jury or disagreement as to a verdict had resulted. Immediately following .the news of the acquittal came the announcement from District Attorney Cameron, that Mr. Moore -would be tried again on the- same issue, that of receiving a de posit in a bank knowing it to be in solvent, as soon as a second count on the list of indictments pending against him could be set for trial. The second charge will be entered on the trial docket of the Circuit Court as early today as the case may be settled upon by the District Attorney. Five Other Indictments Pending. There are five other indictments against him and his co-defendants for receiving deposits from depositors other than Minnie Mitchell, and one of these will be selected by the prosecut ing officials as a basis of the renewed attack. District Attorney Cameron and Deputy District Attorney Fitzger ald say they are certain they will se cure a conviction before another jury, with another case. The return of the verdict was objected to by District Attorney Cameron on the ground that it did not conform to either of the two forms provided for in the statutes either "guilty" or "not guilty." His objection was disregarded by Judge Bronaugh, who, however, pondered over the written verdict several minutes be fore accepting it and permitting It to be read aloud In court. The fate of the accused banker de- (Concluded on Page 12.) WHAT HE SEEMS 1 Professor Hllprecht'e Report Is Be littled as Fabrication for Sen sational Purposes. BALTIMORE, Md.. April 1. (Spe cial.) The tablet which Professor Her man V. Hllprecht, of the University of Pennsylvania, announced two weeks ago that he had discovered on an ex pedition to Palestine and which, be alleged, upheld the biblical story of the deluge, was denounced today at a meet ing of the American Oriental Society at Johns Hopkins University as a fab rication and as an exploitation of an archaeloglcal fraud for purely sensa tional purposes. This declaration was made in one of the "latest additions to Babylonian lit erature of the deluge," presented by Professor George A. Barton, of Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Barton said that the scholarship which Professor Hilprecht manifested In his translation of the text of bis tablet was hardly worthy of a first year student in Hebrew, and with the restorations which he made in the case of filling in broken lines were purely conjectural. Professors Paul Haupt, of Johns Hop kins, and Albert T. Clay, of Yale, up held the arguments of Professor Barton. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60 degrees; minimum, 40 degrees. TODAY'S Fair, preceded by hower; west erly' -winds. National. Pinchetlte pl-ot vast extension of forest policy by bill before Congress. Page 1- House committee divided Into three factions ever conservation bills. Page 3. Clash In BalHnger-Pinchot Investigation re veals hopeless disagreement ol commit tee. Page 5. House passes bill providing for less publicity for corporation reports. Page 1. DomMtic Coroner disappears in search of new evi dence as to death of Moody, Chicago pie manufacturer. Page 3. Reported finding of tablets telling of deluge branded as fake. Page 1. Andrew Carnegie Is dined by Pittsburg as sociates and utters witticism on grafters. Page 1. Coal mine strike will be settled m month, savs United Mine Workers president. Page 2. S ports. Portland defeat San Trancisco, 8 to 0. Page T. Pacific Northwest. Ill-fated Fa rail or castaway wtns rtte against tVath for n v. thre- sy"hs. f'age 6- Marion County to.m to see i,,g far mi give -' way to small tracts. Page 5. Thmu s h Great Northern service. Portland Chicago starts May 1. Page 6. Drawing1 for Spokane reservation lands be gins at Spokane. Page 6. Woman tries to resist husband's arrest with rifle, but he drops off roof into officers' hands. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Local tntter prices will be reduced today. Page 21. Cattle sell higher at Portland atockyerds. Page 21. "Wheat declines at Chicago on bearish Okla homa crop report. Page 21. Stock trading on small scale. Page 1. Trade reports are Irregular. Page 21. Kire d am ages steam schoon er Washin gton. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Jury acquits W. H. Moore in peeuriar ver dict, recommending Court's, censure. Page 1. Board of Health ignores offer to dispose of garbage by contract. page 11. First term of -Federal Court at Pendleton to open Tuesday. Page 15. Ex-Minister, seeking divorce, savs wife com pelled him to move 30 times in nine years. Page 15. Thirtv-year lease on Park street means new $230,000 office building. Page 1. "Water board opens bid for many small contracts. Page 12. Plan for new hotel on Morrison street con firmed by Charles Sweeney. Page 12. Portland Wood pipe Company denies that lack of terminal rates in Spokane caused it to locate here. Page 14. Lack of funds demands that people of Sec ond district give help to census takers. Page 12- Option purchasers of Eastern Oregon tract not acting for James J. Mill, says Col. C. E. S. Wood. Pare 12. TO HAVE GAINED BY THAT CHANGE IN RULES. House Agrees to Amend New Tax Law. PRESIDENT GIVEN AUTHORITY Records Made Public at Dis cretion of Executive. PARTY UNITED IN VOTING Fitzgerald of Xew Tork Moves to Recommit Bill With Instructions to Report on Repeal of Pajne. Aldrich Tariff Law; Loses. WASHINGTON, April 1. Til at the cor. poration tax law will be amended to restrict the operation of its publicity feature was virtually assured today when the House slightly amended a provision previously adopted by the Senate for that purpose. As passed by the House today, the law provides: "All corporation tax' returns shall be open to Inspection only upon the order of the President, under rules and regula tions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by the President" As previously provided by the Senate, such corporation tax reports were to be made public when called for by resolu tion of the Senate or the House of Rep resentatives or under the order of the President when he desirea it for public interests." Conference to Make Report. The Senate and House conferees soon will meet in an effort to agree upon a publicity amendment in which the views of both branches will be harmonized.' Just before the subject was disposed of, Fitzgerald of New Tork attempted to get a direct vote upon a motion to recom mit the bill under consideration, with in structions for the committee on appro priations to report it with an amend ment repealing the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. By a strict party vote of 150 to 116, in which the insurgents lined up with the regular Republicans, a point of order against Mr. Fitzgerald's motion was sustained. Discretion Rests With President. The amendment adopted by the House today was introduced by Mr. Glllett of Massachusetts. Under the terms of his amendment, Mr. Giliett said he thought the President would rule that the records of corporations of use and value to the public should be made public. He said he thought the majority of corporation returns ought not to be made public, as they should not be open to the inspection of rival firms. Mr. Fitzgerald, combating the Gll lett amendment, said he was in favor of the fullest publicity of all corpora tion affairs and he offered an amend ment providing simply that reports required by the corporation tax law "shall be open to public inspection," and appropriating $50,000 or more to classify- such reports, etc. "This amendment." said Mr. Clark of (Concluded on Page 3-) Foreman of Seaside Camp Attracted by Prolonged Blast Rescues Fainting Youth. SEASIDE. Or., April 1. (Special.) Attacked by a wildcat while In charge of a whistle wire at one of the log chutes of the Seaside Lumber & Manu facturing: Company, Willie Sellers, a boy, fainted yesterday, fell across the wire and sounded a blast that brought rescue. The prolonged whistle attracted the attention of Foreman Ankeny, of camp No. 2, who Immediately started for the chute to investigate the trouble. When 100 yards away he saw the big cat on the back of the prostrate boy endeavoring to claw through his cloth ing to the flesh. Ankeny happened to be armed and killed tha cat with a sin gle bullet. The story was brought to Seaside to day by F. H. Laighton, a member of the company, who says that young Sel lers would surely have been killed had his full weight not fallen across the wire and thus summoned help. Mr. Laighton brought the body of the wld cat with him and placed It on exhibi tion in the lumber company's offices. DEATH WINS RACE TO HOME Son of Millionaire Seattle Man Dies as He Leaves Portland. SEATTLE. Wash-, April 1. Walter Henry, son of Horace C. Henry, the mil lionaire banker and railroad builder, died today at a small railroad station north of Portland. Toung Henry, who was 28 years old. was returning home from Arizona, hopelessly sick with tuberculo sis, and an effort was being made to get him home alive, at his own entreaty. The sufferer's mother and two brothers were with him. Soon after leaving Portland on the train he became worse and he died after be ing taken Into the station. The young man's father has Just assumed the presi dency of the Seattle Anti-Tuberculosis League, having become interested in the work through his efforts to save his son. Horace C. Henry built the western extension of the Milwaukee road. LAKE COMPANY UNDERBIDS Proposal Lowest for Four Sub marine Boats for Navy. WASHINGTON, April 1. On the face of the bids, the Lake Company, of Bridgeport, Conn., today submitted the lowest proposal for building four sub marine boats for the United States Navy. This was for a boat of 450 tons displacement to cost $424,000 each delivered on the Atlantic seaboard, and V be constructed at the Newport News works. There was a differential of about 7 per cent in favor of boats constructed on the Pacific Coast, at the Rl&don Iron Works at San Francisco. The only other bidder was the Elec tric Boat Company, which offered to construct the boats at the Fore River works, Quincy, Mass., the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, or Moran Bros., at Seattle. The lowest bid was $453,500 each for Atlantic delivery with a liberal Increase for work on the Pacific side. FIRST ICE SELLS FOR $31 Tillamook Company Auctions Off Initial Product. TILLAMOOK. Or.. April 1. (Special.) Considerable Interest was caused on Main street last night when the first cake of Ice manufactured In Tillamook County wai auctioned off. The ice was manufactured by the Tillamook Cold storage plant, recently installed In this city. There was a large crowd present and the bidding was spirited. The ice was knocked down to M. F. Leach for $81, who is president of the Tillamook Meat Company, WEDDING GIFTS SPARED Robbers Bind Victims, but Relent on Hearing Pleadings. SAN FRANCISCO, April L Dr. T. F. Gleason and his bride of a day, with the former's sister. Miss Anita Gleason. were compelled to witness the looting of their home this afternoon, while tied hand and foot to bedposts. They Im plored the two robbers who had bound them to spare their wedding presents. The robbers, after gathering the sil ver wedding gifts in a sack, relented at Gleason's plea, and left the sack In the hall. They secured $110. NAVY PLAYER IS SINKING Quarterback Hurt Last Fall and Since Paralyxed Now Dying. ANNAPOLIS, Md, April 1. The con dition of Emll D. Wilson, former quar terback of tha Navy football team, who was Injured In a football game last Fall and who has been paralyzed ever since, becuu much worse to night. His death Is expected. German Editor Sentenced. BERLIN, April 1. Richard Barth, ed itor of the Socialist organ Vorwaerts, was sentenced today to a month's inv pri&onment for having organized the demonstrative "stroll' of March 6, when thousands paraded in the inter est of suffrage reform. - Ironmaster Twice Is Near Swooning. VETERANS HOSTS AT DINNER Refuses Aid to Orchestra Lest He Discourage It. LET IT DO SOME CLIMBING Laird of Skibo Agrees AVith Hughes That Danger Lies in Concealing Corruption No Advance Near for United Steel-Workers. PITTSBURG, April 1. (Special.) When dictating a long statement in tended for the people of Pittsburg to day, Andrew Carnegie was compelled to stop twice because of fainting spells. He turned white and seemed on the verge of falling. Friends say he had become worked up to so high a pitch over developments In PittBburg graft that by the time he reached here be was unstrung. Mr. Carnegie did not feel equal to the programme arranged for him this afternoon. Tears ran down his cheeks as he wrung the hand of Edward F. Bige'iow, ex-director of public safety and his personal friend, and begged him to tell all about "this awful graft." His eyes blazed and he paced up and down the room as he learned the de tails. He Would Pardon Others. "Eddie, I'm ready to go to Governor Stewart and ask him to pardon those boys," cried Mr. Carnegie to Blgelow,. as he pounded his fist on the table, referring" to some of the men already in prison for graft and bribery. Mr. Carnegie had recovered his spirits somewhat when he attended the. dinner given in his honor by the mem bers of his former staff at the Duquesne Club. The Carnegie Veterans' Associa tion arrang.l the banquet on the oc casion of Mr. Carnegie's first visit to the city in nearly four years. John Unger, director of the research laboratory at the Carnegie mills, spoke on the Carnegie Company's past and future, to which the Laird of Skibo re sponded with entertaining reminiscences and prophecies. Charles M. Schwab, William P. Palmer, Alfred A. Corey. Jr., William E. Corey, Asor A. Hunt and others comprising a party of 60, were present to do honor to Mr. Carnegie. He Wishes He Had Been Reporter. After Mr. Carnegie had Jokingly ad mitted he had missed the mark of his ambition in falling to be a reporter, to a party of men who besieged him at the Hotel Schenley, he talked of many topics. " He admitted his pride In Pittsburg and his pain in the disgrace by recent graft exposures. "They tell me some of these fellows took $81.10 for their votes. My, oh, my! If I were going to be a thief " 'But the man of millions halted his humor there. He echoed the opinion of Governor Hughes, of New Tork, that it is not in the exposure, but In the con cealment, of corruption that danger lurks. In speaking of local personalities, he was hearty in tributes to many old friends, especially ex-Mayor Guthrie. "I know him and I . know his wife. A great deal depends on the wife of a public man." Lets Orchestra Climb Itself. Pittsburg's orchestra is seeking to perpetuate Itself with an endowment by public subscription. When the mat ter was spoken of Mr. Carnegie said: "I have no more to do with the Pitts burg orchestra than with the heavenly choir, which I hope to hear in the near future. I would not discourage Pittsburg by supporting its orchestra. I have often said you can't boost a man up a ladder unless he does some climbing himself. "I give organs to churches or help churches get organs, because I am willing to be responsible for every thing they say, but I could not be re sponsible for all that is said from the pulpit." For the next three days Mr. Car negie will visit his Institutions here and on Tuesday he will leave for New York. It was said tonight that he In vited nearly a score of local relatives to visit him Sunday. No Advance in Wages Yet. It was learned from President Corey, of the United States Steel Corporation, after the dinner that in his remarks to the steel partners tonight he had de clared the recent announcement of a probable Increase in wages to tha alsel men premature. "It has not been decided upon," said Mr. Corey, "and I cannot say It is like ly to be for some time." Mr. Carnegie's sentiment was pressed at the dinner in the following words "My millions, without the love and association of the veterans, would not be worth keeping." France to Build Two Dreadnoughts, PARIS, April 1. The Chamber of Deputies today voted to lay down two battleships in the present year de signed to equal the latest type adde to tha navies of Great Britain and Germanjr- 1