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THE MORNING OREGONIAX, , SATURDAY, APRII 30, 1910. 3 HEAD OF BUY- CITY POLICE ARRESTED H. P. Flannery, Indicted for, Grand Larceny, Too 111 to Accompany Officers. BOND PROMPTLY RAISED can Francisco Commissioner Ac cused of Participating In Pool room Swindle, by Fresno Rancher Who Was Victim. SAN FRANCISCO. April 29. Harry P. Flannery, president of the Board of Police. Commissioners of San Francisco, was for mally placed under arrest by Sheriff W. P. Taylor, of Marin County, and Deputy Sheriff Martin late this afternoon. A warrant charging grand larceny was served upon Flannery as he lay 111 In his home. A physician's certificate was exhibited by Mrs. Flannery, showing that the patient wag too sick to leave his room, and Sheriff Taylor announced that he would remain until Flannery had recov ered sufficiently to accompany him to San Rafael. Taylor had been in the house only a ehort time when" he received word from his office across the bay that a bond to the amount required by the court for Klanery'a release had been filed with the Circuit Court of Marin County. The Sheriff was satisfied as to the legality of the procedure and left Flannery's home. Friends Visit Flannery. Captain of Detectives Eugene Wall was with Flannery for some time today. Ed Kelly, a. politician, also was a. visitor, and Secretary Charles Skelly of the Board of Police Commissioners called at the house during the afternoon. Flannery was today indicted by the Marin County grand jury. Bench war rants have been issued and the bail bond ttxed at 2000. The indictment of Flannery followed an investigation of the Marin County grand Jury into the operations of a gang of al leged poolroom bunco men and wiretap pers, who were arrested in a raid on their headquarters at Sausalito by Sheriff W. P. Taylor and District Attorney Boyd. The men were arrested on complaint of Robert Wood, a young Fresno rancher, who lost $1000 to the poolroom operators after winning a number of minor bets which he had placed with them. Police Protection Alleged. At the time of the arrest of Joseph Ab bott, Frank Hazel and Frank McSherry, It was charged' that Flannery had inter ested himself in their cases to the xtent of securing legal services for them. Later the arrested men denied this, and the etory was not revived until Abbott testi fied before the grand jury Wednesday that he had come to San Francisco rely ing on a promise that police protection would be extended to him by Flannery. When the news of the confession became public. Mayor McCarthy suspended Flan nery from his position as head of the Police Commission. The Marin County grand jury met again today after a re cess of one day, and the indictment of Flanery quickly followed. The grand jury is still considering- the evidence regarding Flannery, and it is re ported that other Indictments against him on different charges may be brought in. District Attorney Fickert stated today that his office would probably investigate the evidence in the hands of the Marin County authorities with a view to pos sible indictments in San . Francisco County. PUBLISHERS NAME RIDDER Officers Re-elected at Annual Meet ing of Association. NEW YORK, April 29. The American Newspaper Publishers' Association at its annual meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria today elected the following officers: President, Herman Ridder, New York Staats Zeitung: vice-president, Bruce Hal deman. Louisville Courier-Journai ; secre tary. Elbert H. Baker. Cleveland Plain Dealer; treasurer, William J. Pattison. New York Evening Post; directors, Hilton U. Brown, Indianapolis News; F. P. Crlass. Montgomery Advertiser; Conde Hamlin, New York Tribune, and Charles W. Knapp, St.- Louis Republic. All of these officers, served last year, the entire ticket being re-elected without opposition. COURT NIPS THAW PLAN Appellate Division Decides Matteawan- Is Place for Murderer. NEW YORK. April 29. Harry K. Thaw, who killed Stanford White, must remain in the Matteawan Insane Asylum. The appellate division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn handed down a deci sion today which sets aside the appoint ment by Justice Tompkins, of the Su preme Court, of a referee to take testi mony bearing on Thaw's possible trans fer. The court holds that Matteawan is the proper place for Thaw. WEZLER IS PUT ON TRIAL Divorced Wife Says Prisoner Showed Xo Affection for Children. TACOMA. April 29.-harles Wezler was put on trial before Judge Chapman today for the murder of Mrs. Schultz. The se lection of the jury proceeded rapidly. Mrs. Wezler, his divorced wife and daughter of the murdered woman, gave out a signed statement denying that Wezler had any real affection for his children, citing instances of his neglect of them and declaring his present pro testations were only for the sake of gain ing sympathy. LAND BRIEF COMPLETED Attorney-General Is Ready to Bring Oregon & California. Suits. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. .April 29. B. D. Townsend, spe cial attorney of the Department of Justice, in charge of the Government's suits against the Oregon & California Railroad Company to compel forfeiture of its grant in Oregon, has completed the Government's brief and says that It will be forwarded to Judge Wolverton next Tuesday. In a resolution introduced In the Sea- ate today directing the Attorney General to proceed immediately with the suits, attention is called to re ports that speculators are obtaining money from persons ignorant of the situation. These speculators are re ported promising preference rights to clients filing applications to purchase lands from the railroad company in volved. In case of judgments favorable to the United States, thus perpetrat ing frauds upon such persons. It is important to Oregon that there be an early termination of the suits because of the great acreage In volved, as well as for the protection of persons now being imposed upon by speculators, and as the suits have not been prosecuted with diligence, and some not instituted at all, the present mandatory resolution is necessary. The resolution was referred to the Judiciary committee. Representative Ferris, of Oklahoma, Introduced a similar resolution in the House, and will call it up at the next meeting of the public lands committee next Wednesday. The Ferris resolution was drafted by A. W. Lafferty, who is urging speedy action on this suit, which, he contends, is already too long: delayed. ' GLACIER HOLDS VICTIMS GCIDES OX MOXT BIjAXC EX PECT TO SEE BODIES SOOX. Greatest Alpine Disaster on Record Recalled Extraordinary Sui cide of "The King." . LUCERNE, April 29 (Special.) All the guides working Mont Blanc are awaiting the melting of the snows with grisly interest. They expect one day in the next tnree months to come upon the bodies of six climbers that have been held in glacial ice for 40 years. One ol the lost victims was an Ameri can. Swiss mountaineers have marked that catastrophe in their records, as the greatest Alpine disaster that ever hap pened. There were 11 men in all two Americans, McBain and Randall; one Englishman and eight Chamonlx guides. They were on the upper reaches of the mountain when the snow storm de scended and raged for hours with re lentless fury. All tracks were lost. Struggling on, six of them fell Into a crevasse that soon filled with snow. After weeks of searching, rescue parties found the bodies of the remaining five, frozen stiff on the glacier. One of them was McBain. They were burled at Cha monlx. That was in 1870. A glacier has never been known to retain its victims long er than 40 years. That is why this Summer these Swiss folks expect to see what remains of Randall and the five guides who died with him so long ago. But one guide the chief among them all will not be there to see the melt ing of the snows. Old Adolphe Balmat was so pre-eminent in his profession that he was known as the "King of Mont Blanc." But as the years grew upon him he became oppressed by the thought that another must soon snatch the leadership from him. So he has committed suicide. He was associated with several Al pine tragedies, and on one occasion he only escaped from a snow storm by hewing a shelter chamber with his ax ot of the solid ice. LABORERS GET $10 A DAY Wages of Bricklayers Stagger Offi cials at Inquiry. CHICAGO, April 29. That there are bricklayers in Chicago who get a regular wage of $10 per day the year round was the testimony which 6tartled the Fed eral board of arbitration and the railroad officials and attorneys who have been at tempting to prove that switchmen who get $2 or 3 per day are on their way to become closed as possessors of preda tory wealth. In the hearing of the wage controversy between the Switchmens" Union of North America and eight railroads of the Mid dle West, before the arbitration board in Judge Grosscup's chambers, P. H. Mar tin, secretary of the Washington Con struction Company, was put forward as a witness by Attorney Daniel Crulce of the switchmen. "What is your business, Mr. Martin?" asked Attorney R. J. Gary, representing the railroads. "Builder of tunnels and sewers." 'What do you pay your bricklayers?" was the next query of Mr. Cary. "Ten dollars per day," was the answer, which made his listeners sit up and listen intently while the equally astonished law yer repeated the question. "How much did you say?" queried Mr. Cary, in an incredulous tone. "Ten dollars a day," was the nonchal ant reply. "Ten dollars!" gasped the railroad offi cials and lawyers in chorus. Questioning' and cross-examination fail ed to elicit tile fact that their occupation was a particularly hazardous one. "I have to pay it because the union demands it," was the reason advanced. CAT WHIPS BULL TERRIER Minnie Upholds Honor of Bellevue Against Xew York Hospital. NEW YORK. April 29. Respective merits of Bellevue Hospital and the New York Hospital have been settled to the complete satisfaction of Minnie, Belle vue's staff oat, and to the definite un derstanding of a prize "bull terrier that rides with Dr. Lelghton, of the other in stitution. New York Hospital sent a patient to Bellevue last night in an ambulance In charge of Dr. Lelghton. When Dr. Leigh ton and the patient entered the receiv ing ward the dog trotted in with them. He is a dog of ferocious mien and terri fying aspect and there was a general shudder. Not so -Minnie. With arched spine and swollen tail, she alighted fairly upon the dog's back and began her famous imita tion of a man raking a garden. The dog rolled over, bit at a physician or two and then sought his. ambulance. Minnie hung on. The dog came yelping back to the receiving room, and Minnie with him. Finally he dashed back to the ambulance, where the driver knocked Minnie loose with a blow of his glove. She returned purring to her hospital, smiling from ear to ear. "I make one suggestion," said Dr. Hooker, of Bellevue, to Dr. Leighton, of New York, as she came in. "Which is?" "That the next time you come here you tie your bull outside." Seattle Japs Xumber 4000. SEATTLE, Wash., April 29. The cen sus of Japanese In Seattle, nearly com pleted, will show a population of more than 4000 people of that race, or more than twice as many as any other Amer ican city has. Adding the truck farm ers in the surrounding country, there are 10,000 Japanese in and near Seat tle. In the state of Washington the census Is expected to show 20.000 Jap anese, as against 40.000 in California. Ten town lots page 6. given away. See COTTON PROBE IS SCORED BK SMITH Senator Says Investigation Has Cost American Peo ple Forty Millions. SPEECH FULL OF SARCASM Statesman Suggests That Sellers Who Had Xot Goods to Dispose of Should Be Inquired About. Resolution Is Adopted. WASHINGTON, April 29. "'The in vestigation into the sales of cotton whicn Attorney-General Wickersham is conducting has cost' the American people nearly $40,000,000." Thus asserted Senator Smith of South Carolina in the Senate today. He was making a speech in the hope of per suading the Senate to adopt a resolu tion directing the Attorney-General to ascertain the names of the persons who sold the cotton to the New York pool, the operations of which have recently received much attention. Exports Worth $600,000,000. Mr. Smith said that whereas only J40,000,000 worth of manufactured goods had been exported last year, $600,000,000 worth of raw cotton had been sent abroad. This year the cot ton exportation, he said, would be about $800,000,000. "The Attorney-General is investigat ing the sales of spot cotton," Senator Smith continued. "I want" him to in vestigate the sellers to find out who were engaged in trying to put down the prices. Investigation Depressed Prices. "I want him to Inquire as to the gentlemen who got together and sold the cotton without having it to sell. His Investigation, so far as it has gone, has depressed the price to the extent of a cent a pound, a total cost to the people at large of $40,000,000. Let him extend the inquiry so as to show the real facts. "If the Attorney-General must con duct an investigation, let him Investi gate the Chief of the Weather Bureau for bringing on the recent frost, and if that is not conclusive, let him go higher and Investigate Jehovah himself for ruining the cotton crop of the pres ent season. Bear Relief, Purpose, He Says. "I believe, and the South believes, this interference at this time is for the specific purpose of relieving certain bears on the cotton market." Further along in his speech, he de clared the machinations on the stock exchange were In the interest of tor eign buyers. "The bear weevil is as destructive as the boll weevil," he said, "and I'd like to have a million dollars to drive every one of them out of the country." Resolution Adopted. The resolution was then adopted. It directs the Attorney-General to Inquire as to the names of the party or parties or corporations thafsold the cotton al leged to have been bought by a pool of purchasers who are now under in vestigation by the Department of Jus tice; also as to the prices, "whether or not they owned the cotton at the time of the sale thereof, and the prices of spot cotton in the South on the date of the contracts." Senator Clay introduced a bill pro hibiting the transmission by mail, tele phone or telegraph of all information concerning future sales of cotton. AUCTION SALE FAVORED WALLA WALLA. RESERVE MAY ' BE PUT CP FOR BIDS. House Committee to Test Sincerity of Men Who Have Offered to Buy Government Property. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, April 29. As a solution of the tangle that arises over the bill to sell the Walla Walla military res ervation to Whitman College, the House committee on military affairs has decided to amend and report the bill in a form authorizing the Secretary of War to dispose of the reservation and improvements at publio auction to the highest bidder. While the committee believes that the high price that has been offered is a mere bluff, it is not positive on that point, and by the putting of the property up for sale, the bidders will have an opportunity to buy If they are sincere, but the same opportunity will be given to Whitman College. The bommitte is not favorable to any plan to rehabilitate Walla Walla as a military post. LOCK A.MEXDMEXT SEEMS SAFE Hawley Believes Provision for Open River Will Be Accepted. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 29. Representative Haw ley has received a telegram from the associations interested in the Oregon City canal provision in the rivers and harbors bill urging him to support the Senate amendment ap propriating $360,000 to purchase the old canal or build a new one. The $60,000 appropriation for im provement of the Willamette above the falls was originally Inserted In the House bill and approved by the Sen ate and there is, therefore, no ques tion of its final adoption. It has noth ing to do with the canal project as to the same amendment carrying $300,000 for the purchase of the old canal or the construction of the new one. Haw ley has had several conferences with Chairman Alexander regarding it and, while this Item has not been formally accepted by the conference committee, Hawley feels certain the item will be accepted by the House bcause it has been recommended by the Army engi neers. - M'CTSEDIE'S BILL IS FAVORED Committee Will Report on Revision of Boundary Line. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. April 29. Representative Mc- Credie today had a hearing before the judiciary committee in order to pre sent arguments In support of his bill authorizing the States of Oregon and Washington to adjust differences over the boundary line where it follows the Columbia River. After his hearing the committee as sured him the bill would be favorably reported next week. Rate Hearing Postponed. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 29. The Interstate Com merce Commission has suspended con sideration of the Spokane and other inter-mountain and coast terminal rate cases until the middle of next month, as two members' of the Commission are obliged to be, away from Washington. In view of the vast Importance of these cases it is deemed essential that all members of' the Commission should take part in all the meetings at which the case is being discussed. Bar to Be Deepened. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 29. Representative Haw ley was today notified by the War De partment that in compliance with his recommendation $1000 has been al lotted out of the emergency appropria tion to dredge the channel through Hoquarton Slough, Tillamook Bay. Heavy floods during the Winter washed considerable earth into the channel and formed bars which have Impeded navigation. Chehalis May Get Building. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 29. Representative Mc Credie today introduced a bill author izing construction of a $150,000 publio building at chehalis. BARRACKS WORN OUT BILL TO SEXIi XiAXD AT $150 AN ACRE IS REPORTED. 3Iea su re for Tra n s f er of Ia nds to Whitman College Strongly Vrged by Committee. " OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, April 29. Senator Warner, of Missouri, in favorably reporting- to the Senate tne bill of Senator Jones au thorizing the sale of uie Fort Walla Walia military reservation to Whitman College at $160 an acre, says: From these Indorsements it will be noted that the maintenance of Fort Walla Walla Is ho longer a military necessity ; that it is too small for the uses to which a mill tary reservation must be put in these days; that It would be impracticable to seek to enlarge it because of the high prices which would be asked for the valuable -lands ad jacent ; and that, even if it were enlarged, target practice on the reservation would not be safe, as the lands adjacent to the res ervation so enlarged would be within range of the modern rifles and thickly inhabited. Therefore your committee is of the opinion that the Government can easily afford to dispense with this reservation, which seems to have outlived its usefulness, but that the lands are too valuable to give away, even for the commendable purposes stated In the original bill. After careful inquiry as to the assessed value of and prices asked for similar lands in that locality, your com mittee has decided that $150 per acre is a fair and reasonable price to ask for the lands, and has recommended that price in the bill as reported. Incorporated in the report is a letter from the Chief of Staff, as fol lows: The post of Walla Walla was established in the year 1S39. fc It was built of wood and logs, and with the exception of one barrack building- recently (built of brick, 'the buildings are all In bad, repair. If the post were to be retained it would have to be completely reconstructed of permanent ma terial. The reasons which led to the establish ment of this post have long ceased to exist or have any bearing upon the necessity of Its present maintenance. It Is a one-battalion post on a reservation so small that it is impossible to hold target practice there on, it Is situated in a community where land is too high-priced to add any material acreage to the reservation. The community Is so thickly settleM that moderate additions would do little good, as the range of our modern rifles is too great to render target practice .safe unless there is a distance of several miles uninhabited behind the tar gets. It is furthermore, not in accordance with the present policy of the Government to maintain battalion posts unnecessarily. In asmuch as to best promote the interests of instruction in the Array troops should be stationed in units of not less than a regi ment, where practicable. The post has out lived it usefulness, and it has been the policy and the purpose of the War Depart ment for a number of years to abandon it as soon as possible. There are vacant barracks and stables at several posts in the Army where the garrison can be accommo dated when withdrawn from this station. Favorable action on Senate Bill No. 3190 Is therefore recommended. The bill contains a provision requir ing that the purchase be concluded on or before January 1, 1911. WOMAN FALLS 50 FEET Lands on Head,, and Vpside Down, But Unhurt, Scolds Policeman. NEW YORK, April 29. While stand ing on her head and leaning upside down against a fence, My. Marie Rieff, of 120 Sumner avenue, Brooklyn, who has just fallen 50 feet from the roof of the four story house located there, assured the policeman who was taking notes on the case that toe wasn't doing her any good by asking her foolish question. She told him he would prove much more useful if he would go to the next block, which was full of doctors, and lring one back. This the policeman did, and Mrs. Rieff was finally righted, after she had kicked her way through a board fence and been doused with cold water. While hanging out clothes on the roof of the building which her ihusband, a central office detective, owns, Mrs. Rieff rested her weight on a frail clothes line stretching from one building to the other. The line broke, and Mrs. Rieff, with a scream and a vain clutch at a passing shutter, started for the court beneath, where she landed equarely on the top of her head. Mrs. Jacob Reich, who lives next door and heard the scream, hurried down with a glass of water, expecting to find her backyard disarranged, but instead there stood Mrs. Rieff upside down, calling for help. While the neighbors ran about in a panic, the woman, who BhouH have been by ell the laws of nature unconscious at least, directed the proceedings, and did more than any one else to extricate herself from her predicament. When seen by a reporter Mrs. Rieff was In bed recovering from the shock, he said that every muscle In her body was terirbly sore, but that was the extent of her injuries. She had slight abrasions on her forehead and right elbow. Dr. Iwis. of Buwhwiek Hospital, who Free Lessons LA VIDA CORSETS in Irish Crochet Work Butterick Patterns by an Expert Teacher AGENTS FOR DE MIRACLE Dr. Jaeger's Und erwear Splendid Middy Specials for Girls Girl's Middy Blouses at 98c Our Regular $1.25 Blouse One thousand nobby Blouses, made in the regulation Middy cut, Galatea sailor collar and cuffs. Trimmed with rows of white braid; has side pocket. Material is extra quality In dian Head, insuring severest wear. Misses' Middy Blouses at $1.39 Our Regular $1.95 Blouse Made of extra heavy battleship duck, with navy blue sailor collar, trimmed with rows of white braid. Cuffs of navy blue, braid trimmed, side pocket trimmed in navy blue. These waists are practically ironclad. They will never wear out. An unusual value. SCHOOL GIRLS' SPECIAL. NEW JUMBO SAILOR $ 1 .45 On Saturday we show a new school girl's model broad brim Sailor Hat in Rough jumbo straw. These hats have a very wide mushroom shape brim and are trimmed with black and colored bands in wide silk velvet ribbon. Saturday's attractive price $1.45. Saturday's Interesting News for Kiddies and Girls Boy Kiddie Suits Seersucker, percale, check and plaid gingham in Rus sian and other styles. All colors. Smartly cut in strik ing styles. Sizes, two, three and four years. The assortment is varied and every suit is new this week. Prices range from $1.50 to $1.75. $1.50 Dresses Today $1.19 $3.50 $4.50 Coats $2.98 Children's colored Wash Dresses. 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