THE 3IORXIXG -OEEGOXIAX. s FKIDAT, APRIL 15, 1910.- NO LIVES LOST Olt DOOMED CRAFT Steamer Santa Clara Awash at Table Bluff,-Passengers' Safe at Eureka.' TOO ' PAS'S NIGHT ON TUG Elder, From Portland. Stands by Wreck, Rough Sea Bars Heaving of Line Vesel Likely Total ' Ix? Cat Is on Board. SAXTA CLARA. ETAOIX nib mbb EUREKA, Cal.. April 1. With her decks awash and slowly settling In the sand, the steamer 6anta CVixa, of the North Pacific Coast Steamship Company, which sprung a leak while passing over Humboldt bar yesterday afternoon, is lumbering at anchor In the heavy swells oft Table Bluff, ten miles below here, to night. In the same position in which she wis left by Captain Noren last night. The vessel Is deserted save for the ship's cat, which would not leave the deck when the passengers and crew went over the Bide into tho small boats. All of the passengers who arrived here !hw morning on the tug Ranger will de part for San Francisco tomorrow after noon on the steamer F W. Kilburn. The passengers and chew, numbering 100, spent last night on the deck of the Ran ger, there being no accommodations e hoard the tug. Suffering from cold and hunger wasen- dured by them until this morning, when they were landed on the wharf, here. They were received by a volunteer relief crew, which distributed food and shelter. Captain and Crew Lauded. ' Captain Noren and his crew, and Cap tain Edward Parsons, who was a pas senger on the Santa Clara. ,are warmly praised by the passenger's, for cool ness and courage In the face, of the danger that was imminent. When It was determined that ship was leaking and the report had come from below the 'capacity of the pumps was not ade quate to cope with the rapid rise of .the water in the hold, t'aptain Par sons offered his services' to Captain Noren and wjis assigned to the work of providing for the safety of the pas sengers. Assistanee had bee hasked from shore by wireless and before nightfall the tug Ranger was standing off Just north of Table Bluff, ready to render aid. When It was seen that it would be impossible to run the ship back to Humboldt Bay, the passengers were ordered trans ferred. I'arsohs lireots 1 Vom Boat. Captain Parsons gave his personal at tention to this work, standing for hours In a small boat In the heavy sea, drenched to the skin and directing the efforts of the crew. Captain Noren and captain Parsons were the last to leve the Santa Clara. The tug Hercules has been sent from San I-'rancisco for the purpose of mak t 1ng an attempt to take the Santa Clara In tow. Orders were sent by wireless ' to the steamer George w. Elder, bound from Portland, to San Francisco, "to stand by the waterlogged ship until the arrival of the Hercules to offer all possible aid In the effort to save the vessel. The Elder reached the wreck at 5 o'clock this afternoon . and after lying until 6:30 o'clock proceeded on her way. It is said to be Impossible to git a line to the steamer and the rough weather prevented a crew of men in a small boat from carrying a hawser aboard. i Captain Noren declared tonight that the Santa Clara did not strike in'pass ing over the bar. but attributes the wrenching of the plates and the con sequent inflow 'of water to the force of an unusually heavy wave that struck the veasut as She was working her way out to sea along the channel. BALLINGER PLAN ADOPTED Secretary Helps Montana Out of Dif ficulty About Cnrcy Lands. llffl.KXA. Mont, April 14. ( Special.) Secretary Balllnger has written to Gov ernor Norris outlining a plan whereby the Dearborn Canal lands may be saved by the state, although Attorney-General Wtckersham recently, has threatened suit in ' behalf of the Government to cancel the entry made under the Carey act. The land involved consists of about 10.000 acres. Secretary BaUlnucr's plan involves the reconveyance of the land to the Govern ment, with the unflerstanding that it shall be serf aside as of an original entry. The state will accept this suggestion. i'atents have been issued, although it Is contended by the Government that the Carey act,.has not been complied with. Exception was taken to some of the statements to special agents upon whose reports the Attorney-General proposed to net and a letwr was written to Mr. "Wickers-ham calling attention to the fact that the panic of 1907 had made it diffi cult for the contractors. Ames Realty company, of St. Ixiuis. to raise necessary funds, and further, that floods in 1908 had swept away the large reservoir clams already constructed. TWO ARBITRATORS ACCEPT "ow York Central Wage Dispute May Be Settled Soon. i NKW YORK. April 14. Acceptances f-.ave been received from both the men requested to serve as arbitrators of the New York Centra! wage dispute and the arbitration proceedings are expected to begin in this city early next week. The ,io arbitrators are P. H. Morrlssey. president of the Railway Employes In vestors' Association, and fl K. Clark, of :he Interstate Commerce Commission. Today both the representatives of the Central's conductors and trainmen, who are siskins advances 1n wages of from 8 to 64. per cent, and the railroad officials Hre working on tho arguments which will be brought to boar upon the arbitrators. The railroad has signified its willing ness to grant advances, but not to the extent the men demand. In case 'the two arbitrators are unable to agree on the rate of advance to be granted, they will name a third arbitrator to decide. Thaw's Bankruptcy Action On. F1SHKILU N. T.. AprtI 14. At the Matteawan State Hospital, this afternoon. Seferee Van Amee, of Newburgh. began .aklng Harry' K. Thaws testimony in lnkruptcy proceedings. The motion for Thaw's discharge in bankruptcy was made at Pittsburg. COURT OPERA-HOUSE AT VIENNA, AND MONARCH WHO . WILL MEET COLONEL ROOSEVELT ON HIS VISIT. .. - - M .i f Jtjjiiijegiiiai - Ht-? 4 L ABOVI3, HOME! OP" VIENNESE OPERA; BELOW, EMPEROR FRAN. CIS JOSEF. FEES GAUSE RIFT Mrs. L 0. Swope Has to. Bear Prosecution's Burden. HELP REFUSED BY FAMILY Amount to Be ChaVged by Lawyer Objected to, and for Week Dls- ' pute Has Been On 47 Men Obtained for Jury. KANSAS CITY, April 14. A dispute between Mrs. L. O. Swope and the spe cial counsel -She employed to assist the State in the prosecution of her son-in-law. Dr. Hyde, has been breuving for a week over the size of the attor ney's fees, it developed today. Other members of the . Swope family having refused to aid In defraying the expenses attached to the employment' of the lawyers, the burden of payment fell upon Mrs- Swope. She objected to the amount of the fee, and suggested a smaller one. At one time it appeared as if the counsel would withdraw from the case, but a fee was agreed upon. A temporary jury of47 men was ob tained in the Hyde murder trial shortly after 5 o'clock tonight. Attor neys will exercise their peremptory challenges tomorrow and at 6:30 o'clock the names of the final jury men will be announced in open court. After the last jurors had been placed In the Marshals custody. Prosecutor Virgil Conkllng expressed a desire to Question one of them further. The court ruled that this could not be done. Judge Latshaw asked the attorneys when they would be able to complete their peremptory challenges. "I'll strike off the last three men accepted now," said Mr; Conkling. The men had been passed after the oourt had warned - the attorneys against using a form of Interrogation which he deemed suggestive of ex cuses for not doing service. Unless present plans go amiss, the opening statement of the prosecution will be made to the jury Saturday morning. No witnesses will be heard until Monday. - TEAMSTER LOST IN RIVER Haltered Body Recovered Seven Miles From Scene of Accident. OGDEN, Utah, April 14. Tositiff sitarht of the road in the dark, Robert Gra ham. 3 years old, a driver for the P. J. Mortn Construction Company, drove his team, attached to a, heavilv loaded wagon into the Weber River near the mouth of the canyon Tuesday night and was drowned. His battered and broken body was dis covered at 9 o'clock yesterday morning on a sandbar in the middle of the river near the Thirty-third street crossing of the Salt Lake & Ogden Railway, seven miles below the scene of the accident. It .was recovered by R, Zonavnut, a sailor, after a. dozen srrong swimmers had buf feted the river in numerous attempts to reach the sandbar. The team of horses; valued at $300, was drowned. - CRISIS WARNING SOUNDED High Cortof Living Foreshadows Trouble, Says Railroad Head. NEW Y(Srk. April 14. A -warning of Impending danger, not only to man '" " " " " it--? ; - 0 -.- t . i ufacturing: interests, but to the whole country, is sounded by W. C. Brown, president of the New York Central Railroad, who believes that the high cost of living foreshadows a national crisis. In a statement made public today, Mr. Brown quotes statistics showing that consumption is increasing at a much greater rate than production, and i likens the sUyatton' to two1 rail road trains traveling on a single track, one train representing produc tion moving at 36 miles an hour and the other representing consumption, making 60 miles an hour. It is plain," he points out, "that the second train must soon overtake the first, so picture the result." He refers to the recent meat boy cott as illustrating a similar economic problem. Referring., in a general waj to the differences between the New York Central and' its employes, which it has been agreed to arbitrate, Mr. Brown said that the company is just closing negotiations which will result in In creasing its payroll nearly 99,000,000 annually. t FERRY PLAN TRAINS TO CROSS FROM ENG LAND INTO FRANCE. Ex-President of Grand Trunk Says American Experience Proves Scheme Is Feasible. LON.DOX, April 14. (Special.) Sir Charles Rivers "Wilson, ex-president of the Grand Trunk Railroad, announced to day that in less than two years a train ferry wo u lei be running between Dover and Calais and that a similar service would te established between Folkestone and .Boulogne, as well as other ports on the main lines of travel between Kngland and the continent. Sir William White and Sir John Wolfe-Barry, prominent en gineers, are hard at work on the plan. x "Englishmen exclaim impossible'," said Sir Charles today. "On the contrary,- it is entirely possible. At least 72 train ferries are in operation in Canada and the United States, not to mention the service between the Scandinavian Penln- eula and Germany, to enable travelers to cross stretches of water while peace fully slumbering in their sleeping-car berths. . "To be sure the English Channel is rough so.netimesv but so is Lake Michi gan, where I have traveled on a train ferry in perfect comfort a long distance." PINCH0T ENTHUSIAST ERRS Press Bureau Is Persistent, With or AVltbout Facts. ' OREGONIAN KETCS BUREAU, Was'i InBton. April 10. The enthusiasm of the Pinchot press bureau krfows no bounds. Take notice of this. A newspaper printed in St. Paul, of March 20, printed a glowing account of an eloquent ad dress delivered in that city the nig-ht before by Mr. Pinchot before the Min nesota Conservation Congress. In the introduction 'this sentence occurred: "Mr. Pinchofs address was listened to with close attention by the large audience and several times the speaker was interrupted by loud applause." Which Is all very, interesting in view of the fact that Mr. Pinchot. alias Gay lord Smith, sailed from New York for Europe on March 19, the day the St. Paul address is supposed to have been delivered. Those Pinchot press agents never sleep, -but what is equally Im portant, they need no facts on which to base their advertisements. Alphonso Dissolves Parliament . MADRID. April 14. King Alfonso to day signed a decree dissolving Parlia ment. The new Parliament will t elected in May and will assemble Juns 15. ..MM tr : U. S. DECAY SCORED Attorney Lafferty Says Land ' Grant.Suit Is Hindered. PROMPT ACTION IS WANTED Portland Lawyer in Washington ' X rgcs Department of Justice to File Brief Long Due Tardi-iie-S'Is Very Discouraging. t OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 10. Asserting' that the Government is taking an unreasonable length of time in which to file its brief In the Oregon & Calfornla Railroad land grant suit, pending in .the Fed eral Court at Portland, Attorney A. W. Lafferty, now in Washington, is striv ing to stir up the Department of Jus tice to immediate action. According to Mr. Lafferty, the Gov ernment so far Ijas hindered rather than helped the movement to compel tho railroad company to seH its 2,000, 000 acres of remaining lands to settlers. Had the Department of Justice kept hands off, a decision in the suits filed by settlers would have been procured before this either for or against the enforcement of the law, said Mr. Laf ferty today, and the people of Oregon would know where they stand. The Portland attorney favors the immediate reversal of the dilatory pcAicy thus far pursued by the Government, and- says that if ,the Government wants to win the case it should encourage settlers to go at onoe upon the lands. John L. Snyder and other citizens re siding on the railroad lands in Co lumbia County, Oregon, in the Fall of 1907, filed the first suits ever brought againBt the railroad company to en force the terms of the grant. Later, the Government intervened and filed a ' suit asking- for a forfeiture of all the unsold railroad lands to the Govern ment. Attorney Lafferty contends that had the Government not interfered, the court would have been enabled to ren der its decision long ago. The con solidated suits of the settlers and the Government were argued on the rail road company's demurrer in March, 1909, and the Department of Justine has not yet filed its brief of the argu ment It then made. Mr. Lafferty de clares that he will demand that the Department of Justice either file its brief at once, and hereafter prosecute the case with all convenient- speed, or he will apply to Judge WoTverton to be allowed to proceed with the cases of his clients independent of the Gov ernment. Attorney Lafferty said: "The whole trouble originated when the Government adopted the forfeiture theory, instead of demanding merely a decree requiring the railroad com pany to obey the law hereafter, by selling Its remaining lands to settlers. The action of the Government to date has been taken with the avowed purr pose of discouraging settlers, from go ing on the land. Unless this policy is abandoned immediately it will result disastrously. The principal defense of the company is that the lands are not capable of settlement, and If no set tlers to speak of are on the land when the case is tried this circumstance will strongly corroborate the defendant's, contention. "The acts of Congress granting these lands to the railroad company are so plain that the Biblical wayfaring man could not misunderstand their plain provisions. It issimply provided in so many words that the lands snail all be sold to actual settlers only, in quan tities not exceeding 160 acres to any one. settler, arid, at prices not exceed ing $2.50 an acre. The debates on the bills in Congress show, that the .Na tional Legislature understood what it was doing and meant what it said when it stipulated for the disposal of these lands In thfat way. It simply made the railroad company sales agent for the Government. Only such settle ment is necessary as was required un der the rtd pre-emption law. which re quired six months' residence, and any person who will live upon and culti vate a tract of this land for that period will win-out, in my opinion. In a suit to compel the company to execute to him a deed at the maximum price fixed by the act of Congress. Nothing short of actual settlement can give a citizen any rights and unscrupulous locaters charging fees for filing applications for nonsettlers , are simply petty grafters." 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STEEL WAGES' INCREASED Advance' to Most of 225,000 Work ers Will Cost $9.p00,000. f NEW YORK. April 14. Substantial In creases in wages by the subsidiary com panies of the United States Steel Cor poration will soon be announced to be come effective May 1, it was offlciaiiy stated here today. The proposed Incraase will apply to -a large majority of the cor poration's 225.000 employes, and in round figures will increase the pay rolls about 3,000,000 annually. Tongs Sue for Peace. N"EW YORK, April 14. The warring tongs In Chinatown are ready to quit their guerrilla warfare and-have appealed to Judge Warren W. Foster, of the Gen eral Sessions Court, to restore peace. He will call together representatives of the opposing factions and submit to them a protocol similar to the peace agreement which he prevailed upon them to sign several--years ago. ' . Two Die AVlien Battleships Collide. STKTT1NT. Prussia.' April 14. 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