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VOL.. Li. NO. 15,417. PORTLAND, . OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 0 YET Losses by Cold Spell Total $38,000,000. SOUTH HARD HIT BY FROSTS Cotton Crop Damaged, but Kansas Hopes for Fruit. FAMINE OF SEED NOW SEEN Thousands of Acres ia Louisiana and Mississippi Must Be Ke- plantedAtlanta Suffers Heav ily by First April Snowfall. CHICAGO, April 25. (.Special.) Ih-lvlng snowstorms that succeeded each other In rapid succession and that blinded Chicago today, marked the third day of the unprecedented cold spell that swooped down on the Middle West Friday night and that has caused damage estimated at $38, 000.000 to fruits and crops in more than a dozen states. Dispatches from the South brought discouraging news of big damage from frosts. Snowstorms prevailed all over Missouri, Northwestern Arkansas, and Kastern Kansas today, and tempera tures ranged about the freezing point. Kansas Still Hopes. Below freezing temperatures were reported all over Nebraska. Hope is still maintained for the fruit crop of Kansas. Forecasts from AVashington, D. C, to day were that frosts would settle all over the Ohio Valley, while snow would continue in the Great Lake region. Louisiana. Mississippi and Georgia suf fer most severely through damage to the cotton crop; but fruits and vegetables have also been Injured. Replanting of much of the cotton crop is necessary and tliere is a famine in seed. There are no prospects of any crop from the first planting in Ixmtelana and Mississippi. Thousands of acres must be replanted. Atlanta Gets First April Snow. For the first time In the history of At lanta. Ga., an April snow fell early today, continuing for three hours. T. G. Hudson, Commissioner of Agri culture, estimates that fully SO per cent of the eGorgia early cotton crop is killed. ; More than 90 per cent was above ground and reports Indicate that the scarcity of seed will prevent replanting of vast acre ages. Snow and sleet storms struck Northern and Central Alabama and Tennessee last night.- Central and Eastern Kentucky re port fruit and vegetable crops either killed or badly Injured. Growing tobacco plants elso suffered. While the blizzard was raging In Geor gia, Tennessee and other Southern states, the West Coast of New Foundland was sweltering in a temperature of 85 de grees. PASTORS' REQUEST TABLED Medford. Council Favors Opening of Theaters on Sunday. " ROSEBTIRG. Or.. April 25. (Special.) The petition submttted to the City Coun cil at its recent meeting by members of the Roseburg Ministerial Union, asking that an ordinance be passed prohibiting the operation of theaterical exhibitions in the city on Sunday, was referred back to the Council tonight without reoommenda- - Hon. and was laid on the table Indefi nitely. It is freneraly conceded that tonight's action of the Council means that the theaters will continue to operate the majority of the Councilmen favoring a liberal administration. . DHIuING s r j u w BLINDS GHICAGDArJS CHANLER HAS NEW CHARM FOR HIS PRIVATE OPERA-HOl'SE WILIj BE ERECTED OX BIG ESTATE. Millionaire Suitor Proposes to Make More Certain His Position in Star's Affection. - NEW YORK, April 23. (Special.) Robert Wlnthrop Chanler, ex-Sheriff, ar.tist, millionaire, great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, is already making plans for his marriage with Mme. Llna Cavallera. famous French .beauty, Sa lome dancer and grand opera star. According to one of his most inti mate friends, he Is planning a wedding gift that is calculated to have even more Influence on the heart of the ca pricious -di va than even the charms of his own handsome person. This, it is said, is nothing less than a beautiful private opera-house on one of his es tates near this city, where she may sing with the Metropolitan Opera Company whenever she chooses. Chanler, It is said, relies on this stroke to make more certain his po sition In the beauty's affections. She has told him many times that her only love is the stage, and that while she thinks a great deal of him, she 13 by no means a slave to the tender pas sion. Mr. Chanler admitted today that he would soon go to Paris to perfect ar rangements for the approaching mar riage, but he declined to say on what date he would go abroad. AUTOS COLLIDE; ONE HURT Portland and Vancouver Machines Crash J. P. Stapleton Victim. VANCOUVER, Wash., April 25. (Spec cial.) In an automobile collifdon on the Rooster Road hillside yesterday J. P. Stapleton, County Attorney of Clark County, was thrown headlong several feet and injured, though not seriously. The machine in which Mr.. Stapleton was riding was driven by J. II. Jaggy, of this city. The other auto was driven by J. I Keats, of Portland. The wheel of the Keats machine was within eight Inches of a precipice 200 feet high when stopped. Mr. Jaggy saw the Keats machine coming down hill, so turned his auto quickly up the steep hillside. It was about to tilt over, when the Keats ma chine rammed it from below and kept it from going over the precipice. Mrs. Jaggy and Mrs. Stapleton were also in the machine, but were only badly frightened. HERMANN IS ABLE TO TALK Though Condition Is Otherwise Same, Patient Recovers Speech. ROSEBURG, Or., April 25. (Special.) Binger Hermann's condition is con sidered about the same as yesterday, according to a bulletin Issued by Ir. K. Ia Miller, the attending physician, late today. His voice, which was prac tically paralyzed during the early stages of his illness, has recovered- to a degree that he Is able to converse without the difficulty experienced since his condition became serious. The most discouraging symptom, and one that appears Jo baffle the physi cians, is the bloated condition of the spleen. Yesterday it was thought that the swelling was subsiding, but today It appeared even more severe than at any time during his Illness. REBUKE CAUSES SUICIDE Young Girl Brinks Acid After Being Scolded About Companions. SEATTLE!. Wash., April 25. Marion Morrison, the 12-year-old daughter of John D. Morrison, committed suicide yesterday by deliberately swallowing enough car bolic acid to kill six men, the Coroner learned today. The girl had been rebuked last year by her brother for associating with certain girls, and told her mother then that if the rebuke was repeated she would com-; mit suicide. Yesterday after attending moving picture shows and playing with one of the forbidden girls sho was ques tioned by her mother and the suicide fol lowed. MEMBERS OF THE DELEGATION . T, ' , II Jf -- - BENCH PLEASED AT ES New Supreme Court Justice Liked. WORK BEGINS WITH FALL TERM Oath to Be Taken on Second Monday in October. LOST TO POLITICS, BELIEF President Taft Much Gratified nt Acceptance of Governor and Says . He Places Every Confidence in His Ability Trust Attitude. 'WASHINGTON, April Sj. President Taft late today received from Charles E. Hughes. Governor of New York, a letter accepting a tendered appointment as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Five , minutes after the letter was handed to the President, the nomination of Governor Hughes was on Its way to the Senate. That body had adjourned for the day, however, when the papers reached the Capfol and so the Senate will not hear officially of the designation of Governor Hughes to succeed the late David J. Brewer until tomorrow. Oath to Be Taken In October. While tt is expected Governor Hughes will tie confirmed with little or no delay, it is understood here he will remain as the Chief ' Executive of New York until October and will not take the oath of his new office until the Fall term of court opens, the (second Monday in that month.' There has been much speculation ever since it was first intimated Governor Hughes would be tendered a place on the Supreme Bench as to whether his ap pointment would take him out of the Fall campaign In New York, where Republi can, lders say he is sorely needed. President Taft would not discuss th:i phase of the case today. He has been anxious to secure the best man he could for the Supreme Court vacancy and he feels he has done so. He was much elated over Governor Hughes' acceptance and tonight said: President Taft Pleased. "I . am very much delighted to secure Governor Hughes for the bench. He Is a man of wide experience and marked ability and it is a mighty valuable thing to have on the great bench of the Su preme Court a man of affairs. "Governor Hughes Is 48 years old. I think, and even If he should retire at 70, he will have had 22 years of solid use fulness on the bench." The appointment of Governor Hughes was received In Washington with the greatest satisfaction. The announcement, however, came as a surprise, despite the fact that it had been generally under stood the position would be tendered him. Doubts of Acceptance Existed. President Taft had been warned Gov ernor Hughes might not be able to acept because his service as Governor of New York had depleted, his small private fortune and he felt the necessity of again entering the practice of law to earn a competence for himself and fam ily. This did not deter the President, however, and he had optimistically awaited a. reply. The first overtures regarding the ap pointment are said to have been con ducted through Senator Root. It was not until Friday the President wrote a formal letter offering' the place to the Governor. The fact was carefully guarded. Governor Hughes deliberated for a day and yesterday wrote his ac- (Concluded on page 30 OF PORTLAND BUSINESS MEN UMNGOFHUGH SOON IT WILL BE TOO LATE How many people has Port land? Some say 250,000, oth ers say 2 00,000; still others say less and a few say more. But it is Just as well for Portland to understand that the forthcoming census is not going to show 250,000 or 225,000 or even 200,000 unless more in terest is displayed in the census. ; So you might just as well get ready for the shock.- Unless something Is done. Unless a great deal is done. Now, what is to be done? Make yourself this means YOU a committee of one to find out if your neighbor and all his household have been enu merated. Or to see that every person whatsoever who belongs in Portland Is counted. This ap plies to all persons who for any reason are now absent from Portland. ' Possibly Seattle has as many people as Portland. Only pos sibly. But it will certainly have more unless all the people who are here, or who belong here, are counted. Lot Portland wake up. It is up to' every man, woman and child in Portland to take an in terest in this business. It won't do Portland any good merely to put up a howl after it is all over that the census is incomplete. Telephone the census office Marshall 1422, or Home A 7213. Location Lumbermens Ex change building. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 03 decrees; minimum, 54 defireea, TODAY'S Showers; westerly winds. !Foreign. Zeppelin II, one of Germany's aerial fleet, total loss after running- away. Page Z. . National. Governor's Hughes acceptance of Supreme Wench appointment generally pleasing. Page I. Bryan criticlFes Hughes" appointment, rage 1. Dol liver and Root have verbal duel In Senate on railroad bill. Page 2. Politics. Vice-President Sherman defends Aldricb pnyne law and old-fashioned doctrine of protection. Page II. romestle. Bnow storm continues unabatH In Rat nnd Kouth; damage -will reach $;iS.0tM).000. Page 1. Hyde trial makes enemies of Swope testers, Margaret and Mrs. Hyde. Page 1- Chanler proposes private opera house as wedding gift to Mme. Cavalier!. Page 1. Confssi&ne In Illinois Central scandal In volve officials. Page X Sport t. Portland and San Francisco begin six-game series today. Page 8. Jeffries is ordered to ease up on hard train ing. Page S. Pacific Northwest. Farmers to try Mrs. Maud Johnson at Van couver for alleged fraud on-Northern Pa cific road. Trial opens. Page 6. Spokane burglar apologizes to victim, prom ising to return "loan. Page 7. Portland excursion receives hearty welcome at Salem. Page 1. Jury holds fate of James McGuire, charged with murder. Page-T. Evangelist. Oliver attacks Med ford's coun cil men, calling members degenerates. Page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Captain. Applegate wMl try to persuade T'ma tllla Indians to be counted. Page ft. Friends of C. T. Dickinson demand official inquiry on false arrest. Page 5). x Ministers work as carpen ters in bu tiding tabernacle In Hawthorne Park. Page 0. Puter will testify against Smith In Govern ment land suit. Page 13. Y. M. C. A. to hold college conference at Oolumbla Beach. Page 13. Loss of crops by frost In K-a.Pt open oppor tunity for new markets for Oregon fruits Page 14. Fishermen win engagement in salmon war, on defective complaint. Page lii. Iosofflee jCobber Caught. St. JOSEPH, Mo., April 25. Elmer Vogrht, who confessed that he is wanted at Sioux Fall S. D., on a charge of postofflce robbery, was arrested here last nig-ht and is held for the South Dakota authorities'. 'opht admits that he saWed hia way out of jail at Sioux Falls several weeks ago. WHO STARTED LAST NIGHT HYDE TRIAL MAKES SISTERS ENEMIES MargaretSwope Snubs Mrs. Hyde. MOTHER WITH HER YOUNGEST Mrs. Locjan Swope Glares at Wife of Doctor. HYPODERMIC TOLD ABOUT Accused 'Doctor Approaches Ilel in Darkened Iloom and Plunges cedle Into Her Arm Without Turning on Light, She Says. KANSAS CITY. April 25. Sister battled against sister In the Hyde murder trial hero today. From the witness stand Miss Margaret Swope, whom it is charged in three counts of an indictment Dr. Hyde attempted to poison, testified for the ftate. She told t straightforward, though somewhat stilted story of her ill ness and of, the typhoid epidemic in the Swopo home. Behind Dr. Hyde's, attorneys sat Miss Swope's sister, Mrs. Hyde, directing the fight on her young sister's testimony. At torneys frequently consulted her during the cross-examination of the girl. Mother's Sympathy With Younger. Seated where she -could look directly Into the eyes of the witness, Mrs. Logan O. S-wope watched the duel of wits. Her sympathy was with the younger girl the mother's witness against a disliked son-in-law. But, although her sympa thy was not with her older daughter, Mrs. Swope noticed Mrs. Hyde's every actlon. One moment Mrs. Swope would smile encouragingly on her younger daughter and the next she would gaze steadily at Mrs. Hyde, her face set with an expression of grim-determination. It seemed almost certain when Marga ret Swope walked down the aisle of the courtroom today to take the witness chair she was going to stop and recognize Mrs. Hyde. She- walked within a few feet of her, faltered. slightly, peered anxiously at her and passed on. Mrs. Hyde, apparently, did not see her littlo sister falter. The spectators did. how ever, and there was a busy craning of necks to get a good look at the two when they saw each other for the first time in months. Hypodermic Told About. Testifying was an uphill battle for Miss. Swope. She is still weak from the effects of typhoid. Her nerves are un strung. The rapid-fire questioning of the attorneys disconcerted her at times, but her testimony in the main was unshaken on cross-examination. The best feature about her testimony was her story about how Dr. Hyde came to her room while the lights were burn ing low one night and In the semi-darkness gave her a hypodermic v "It was almost dark In the room," she said in a low and faltering voice. "My nurse was away. Dr. Hyde came to my bedside and said he was going to give me a hypodermic. He took my arm and rolled up my sleeve. I drew away as soon as the needle entered my arm. He gave rue the Injection and then left the room." "Did he feel your pulse before he gave you the hypodermic?" "No." "Did he turn up the light before he gave you the hypodermic?" "He did not." Miss Swope said her arm was swollen next morning and that it pained her for several weeks. The state contends the injection was of pus germs and not cam phorated oil, as Dr. Hyde alleged. Dirty .Water Used in Syringe. Miss Elizabeth Gordon, a nurse, testi fied late in the afternon that once while Dr. Hyde was giving Chrisman Swope a hypodermic he filled his syringe with water which had been used in giving the patient a bath. During the morning session, O. H. Gentry, a druggist of Independence, said the strychnine tonic he sold James Moss Hunton and which was authorized by Colonel Swope, was harmless. And to show he believed In his prescription he pulled a six-ounce bottle of the tonle from his pocket and, took a. draught of it. FOR WILLAMETTE VALLEY AND SOUTHERN OREGON POINTS. SHOT, MAN WIRES TO SAVE OWN LIFE KENTUCKY RAILROAD TELE GRAPH OPERATOR RESCUED. Employer Stops .Freight Train, Takes Engine, Coach and Doctor and Hurries to "Wounded. DANVILLE, -Ky.,. April 25. "I am bleeding to death; hurry engine here and take me to doctor.. I have been shot by Operator AI F. Hudson." This message came early today to General Agent Reed of the Queen and Crescent Railway System from Cave Springs, Tenn. It was sent by C. H. Kennedy, operator at the little moun tain hamlet. Knowing1 there was no physician at Cave Springs, Mr. Reed ordered a fast freight train to take a siding at Rath bun, Tenn., directed the engineer to abandon the freight oars, pick ua a passenger coach and "go after Kennedy." When the improvised special arrived at Cave Springs, the wounded oper ator was lying unconscious on the floor. An examination of his wounds showed he was probably fatally hurt. News that Kennedy had been rescued had hardly reached headquarters here when Hudson, whom Kennedy accused of the shooting, wired his account of the trouble. He declares' Kennedy and several companions had caused a dis turbance near the Hudson homo and when Hudson remonstrated, Kennedy attacked him. MRS. KERR GETS DIVORCE Decree, Separating Her From Alex ander H. Kerr, Kept Secret Month. On the ground of desertion. Mrs. Alexander H. Kerr obtained a divorce from Alexander IL Kerr, of the firm of Wadhams & Kerr Bros., of this city, at Oregon City on March 2 last. The di vorce has been kept secret for a month. A. C. and R. W. Emmons acted as the attorneys for the plaintiff. The suit was not contested by Mr. Kerr. For tne past two years Mrs. Kerr has been living in Boston, near her two children, who are attending school there. One is a son 20 years old. attending Har vard University, and the other is a daughter 18 years of age, attending a private school. No arrangement was made in the divorce as to the custody of the children, for they are now almost of age. The property rights were settled out of court, and the settlement was satisfactory to all concerned. Mrs. Kerr anil her husband separated here after some difference about two years ago but no mention of these dif ferences was made in the complaint for divorce. Since then she has been living in Boston but returned here over a month ago to secure her divorce, leav ing a gain for Boston two days after ob taining the decree. Mr. Kerr h;ts been living at the Arlington Club. HILL PARTY LEAVES EAST Policy in Oregon's Development to He Announced on Way. ST. PAUL, April 25. James J. Hill, chairman of the Great Northern Rail way Company, accompanied by Presi dent L. W. Hill. Howard Elliott, presi dent of the Northern Pacific, and a group of Eastern financiers, including representatives of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., left today in' a special train for the Paclfk: Coast. During the trip it will be announced what will be the policy of the Hill lines with reference to the development of the southern part of Oregon. CONVICTS ARE IIM REVOLT Jailbrcak at Canyon City Causes City to Rise In Arms. CANYON CITY. Colo.. April 23. A jail break occurred at the Colorado State Penitentiary tonight at S:30 o'clock. Sev eral men are reported to be seriously in jured. A call has been sent out for every available man in Canyon City to report at the penitentiary heavily armed. WELGDME HEOT AT CAPITAL CITY Portland Party Meets Good Cheer. "BOUQUETS" ARE EXCHANGED lllihee Club Maintains Open House for Excursionists. THREE-HOUR STAY IS MADE President Homan. of Willamette University, In Address, Ex presses Good Will Toward Heed Institute. By R. ij. CALIATRT. SALKM. Or., April 23. (Staff Corre spondence.) Portland business men car ried a trainload of goodwill Into Salem tonight in the Commercial Club's busi ness men s excursion to Willamette Val ley points and Southern Oregon. And here they ; found every possible evidence of a complete reciprocity in the desire for a statewide growth and a develop ment of closer business relations. Having thoroughly enjoyed the short journey between Portland and the Capi tal City, through a valley smiling in the verdure of Spring and in a perfectly ap pointed train, the 75 members1 of the party were in the mood to see the bright est side of the future. Bright Future Is Predicted. The business men of Portland who spoke to the business men of Salem to night voiced the prediction that Salem in 15 years would have a population of 50.000 and would be to Portland what Milwaukee Is to Chicago. A valley built up almost solidly with towns' along the rail transportation "lines was forecasted. For two and a half hours in the rooms of the lllihee Club the representatives of the commercial interests of the two cities ' felicitated each other on the advance ment that lf being attained byeach and by the .whole state and on the bright prosiects for the years to come. City's Growth Is Xoted. As illustrative of what has been ac complished by Salem during a recent period, it was related that when the business men of Portland visited this city four years ago, there was not a block of paved streets in the town, and that the population was then about 10,000. Today Salem has six and one half miles of hard-surfaced streets, will build seven miles more this year, and the census, it is predicted, will show a gain of 100 per cent in the number of residents. The excursion train reached Salem at 20 minutes ahead of the scheduled time of 7:30, and stopped a few blocks be low the station, where a committee from the Salem Board of Trade was awaiting, with streetcars, to carry tho visitors to the lllihee Club. Club's Welcome Cordial. At the club, all was open to the guests. Andrew Gilbert, president of the club, extended a formal welcome in behalf of the organization, and Tom Kay, president of the Board of Trade, and George P. Rodgers, Mayor, greeted the excursionists on behalf of the city. Samuel Connell, president of th American Bank & Trust Co., was th chairman of the day for the Portland party. In behalf of Salem, addressee were also delivered by Governor Ben son and Dr. Fletcher Homan, president of Willamette University. For the Iortland party the speakorj were Mr. Connell. Tom Richardson. Dr. Andrew C. Smith and Herman Witten berg. A strong feature in the addresses wa (Concluded on Page 5.)