VOL. L.-XO. 15,424. PORTLAND, OREGON," WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. J. J. HILL ADMITS ILLINOIS WOMEN TO GET INTO CAMPAIGN LONG HAUL CLAUSE LIES WITH SENATE PATRIARCH CALLS ALL DESCENDANTS COMMITTEE WILL CLEAR BALLINGEB GRAND OPERA STAR SINGS TO CONVICTS GERALDIXE FARRAB GLADDENS FEDERAL PRISOXERS. WEIRD PRACTICES DISCLOSED IN RAID ELECTRIC DEALS "VOTES FOR WOMES" MUST BE 105 DESCENDANTS OF MEXICAN MILLIONAIRE ASSEMBLE. ISSrE, THEY SAY. . Two Systems Now in "Hill Interests." WON'T TELL ALL HIS PLANS YET Property Acquisitions Neces sary Before Secrets Out. .TERMINAL . PROBLEM BAD "o Prospect of Combining Xortn .Bank Yards With Northern Pa cific Terminal Company's-Ten Day Trip Over State- Next. Beyond giving encouraging1 Intimations concerning future railroad construction in Oregon and admitting the ownership of the United Railways and Oregon Electrio systems. James J. Hill yesterday declined to make any statement relative to his plans or acquirements in this state. While promising that before he leaves the city he will make a further state ment. Mr. Hill insists that more or less reticence is necessary in the carrying ont of plans which require the purchase of rights-of-way and other property. "If I told all that we intended to do in Oregon there would be perhaps 50 per sons who would try to Jump in ahead of us at each point to gain some unjust ad vantage or profit at our expense." ' said the railroad magnate yesterday when asked for details concerning construction plans for Oregon. No Statement Given Out Yet "Will you say whether an east-and-west line Is to be built across the state? was asked. "No; that Is a matter that I cannot dis cuss at this time," be replied. The solid through train between Port land and St. Paul will be known as "The Oregonian." President (Hill, of the Great Northern, yesterday said that it was desired to have the name "Oregon" somewhere In the title that will be given the new limited service, but the shorter form of the word had been used so much in the designation of trains that- some thing distinctive of the Great Northern service was desired so "The Oregonian" was elected as the name. Ownership Now Admitted. In reply to a direct question James J. Hill admitted that he and his associates now own the Oregon Electric and United Rail ways, but when a question as to extend , lng the Oregon Electric this year to Al bany and McMlnnvllle was asked. Mr. Hill again reserved any statement on the ground that it would not be politic to disclose his plans. A similar reply was given to a question as to whether a new depot would be con structed this year on the North Bank ter minal property. In answering further questions. Mr. Hill said that he saw no prospect for a com bination of the North Bank terminals with those of the Northern Pacific Ter minal Company in Portland. Terminal Problem Serious. "The terminal situation Is a serious one in all large cities." be continued. "Ready handling of traffic cannot be ac complished without adequate terminals. Look at Chicago. It now requires more time to get a car through the Chicago terminals than it does to haul it from Chicago to the Pacific Coast once it is out of that city. "In the state at large," be continued, "the great need Is for development of the outside territory. Tou now have large and growing cities, but they must have a settled country on which to draw. The upbuilding of the state is what Is most needed." The Oregon Electric Railway, of which Mr. IIU1 now admits ownership, was ac quired only a few weeks ago, it Is un derstood, while the transfer of the United Railways occurred last Fall. The Oregon Electrio system includes an interurban line to Salem and one to Forest Grove. Prior to the sale arrangements had been practically completed for the then owners to extend the road from Salem to Al bany and also to build from -TigardviUe to McMlnnvllle. The extensions would mean the construction of about BO miles of new railroad. The road is also pro jected on to Eugene and also to McMlnn vllle via Forest Grove and North Yam hill. The United Railways now consist of about 13 miles of railroad, the principal line extending from a terminus at the Chamber of Commerce building to Bur lington. Tracks are laid also on . Front street which give a connection from the North Bank terminal properties to the Oregon Electric terminal on Jefferson street. Porters Get Tunnel Contract. Recently. Porter Bros, were given the contract for constructing a tunnel through the hills that divide the Willam ette Valley from the Tualatin Valley and the road, before many months, will be In operation to Forest Grove, It is also projected to Tillamook. Last week con struction work began on three miles of city tracks connecting North and South Portland via Seventh street. Arrangements for combining the offices of the United Railways and the Oregon Elect Ho have not yet been niada. ac (Coocludcd ob Fas ?. Dramas Built About Their. Ideas Also to Be Staged in Many Towns of State. CHICAGO. May 3. (Special.) Bands of woman suffragists touring the state in automobiles will descend upon every city, town, village and hamlet in Illi nois before the legislative primaries next September, in an effort to make the question of "votes for women" the leading issue in the campaign that al ready has so many angles it promises to be the hardest-fought legislative battle ever experienced in Illinois. Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, a lawyer and Justice of the Peace in Evanston and a leader in the equal suffrage movement, made the first an nouncement of the plan today. An other plan for educating the. people will be placed in the hands of Miss Dorothy Horning, a graduate of North western University, as soon as she graduates from Cumnock School of Oratory in a few weeks. Suffragists have three plays written around their cause, and Miss Horning will visit principal cities of the state and train groups of girls to present these plays. STAR CONTRACTS AWARDED Government Lets Work of Carrying Mail to Interior Points. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, May 3. Contracts have been awarded for etar service on Oregon routes for a period of four years, be ginning July 1, 1910. as follows: Siletz to ICernvilli. S2 miles and back, twice a week, to Louis M. Smith, Siletz. at $960 per ytar. Sandlike to Hemlock, eight miles and back, three times a week, to William J. Galloway, Sandlake, at $274.99 per year. , Skelley to Yoncalla. five miles and back, twice a week, to W-. H. Wilder, Yoncalla. at $150. Galloway to Heppner, 16 miles and back, twice a week, to W. T. McRob erts and Marlon Evans, of Heppner. at $500. Vlstillas to Jboreiia, 38 miles and back, once a week, to J. o. Waivr Lorella, $439. Contract for star service hetween Artesian City and Murtaugh. Idaho, has been awarded Joseph E. Strong, of Artesian City, at $260. , AUTO MAKES RECORD TRIP Seventy-Six Miles of Mountain Grades Covered In Six Hours. f!OLrK OAT .T." AV'tJ ciVl ATov t c, ciaL) William Pratt, "owner of an uiumoDiie stage line from White Sal mon to Trout Lake, brought a party of four people from White Salmon to Goldendale Sunday to see the ball game. Mr. Pratt made the trip by way Of Camas Prairie. lAavfno. xxrui c. mon at 5:15 A. M. and arriving at Goldendale at 11:30 p. M, without a mishap. His speed indicator showed umuuiKo io oe i t miles. In making the trip over this route it is necessarv to prnna v IllUUillUlU into the Camas Prairie country and cross the Big Klickitat at the bridge on the Gleiiworwl moti h-k . coming -Out of the Big Klickitat is w.o ii.capeai. one in tms part of the country The trip made Is considered Lime over tne route. CHILD KILLED IN RUNAWAY Victim Pitched to Crosswalk, Death Resulting- Immediately. LEWISTON. Tbhn' -Ma,. Agnes W agner. 13-year-old daughter of ......a..,. ..o-tiuer. reai estate and insur ance dealer, was instantly killed here this afternoon in a runaway accident. '" was witnessed by scores, but all were powerless to render sic. ance. Mr. Wagner, acoomnnnlmi iv v. it,- - . ' iuo UIL1B girl, had started on a drive into the country and in front of a meat market "Ul OI buggy, leaving her to hold the horses. The animals became fright ened and started to run and In passing over the crosswalks the child was thrown from the vehicle, striking on her head. Her skull was frnctnrivl .1 t v. . , - - auji i ulting almost immediately. The funeral will be i,i,, me v-amouc .:nurch Thursday. Sundav a woman vaa tnuj - . . . . , 7 ' " " "u. Aiain street in almost a similar manner. ALUMNIS PLAN BIG REUNION Interest Aroused in Commencement at T"niversity of Oregon. EUOTTVR Or vr-v 1 . - ' 1 l ; .Mem bers Of th I llk-iri:i(.. ( 1 who reside in Eugene at a special meet ing uinujni iaia tne foundation for what they hope to make the most successful commencement in the history of the uni versity. Classes were represented from 1SJS0, the second graduate class from Oregon, to , ..... ' nciu w xne classes of 1SS0. 1SS5. 1SS0. 1S95. 1900 and 1905,. una. every oiner class represented locally will be hmnirht . i , . Lr 1 i.. - ra-.. in w iniBc num bers as the resident alumni and the peo- iio ui rjutien. can secure. HEINZE'S ROBBER TO JAIL Charles Kau Guilty of Pledging Stock to Secure Loan. NEW YORK, May 3. Charles Rat. who was found guilty of larcenv hv a Jury in the Supreme Court last night, was sentenced today to serve an in determinate term in the penitentiary. Ball was fixed at $35,000. nendinar ap peal. Katz was charged by ronald Persch and otners with pledging $110,000 worth of copper stock put up with the Windsor. Trust Company by an agent of F. Augustus Helnze as security for a $60,000 loan. House Modifies Provis ion in Rate Bill. COMMISSION HAS DISCRETION Clause Relating to Traffic Agreements Stricken Out. TINKERING IS CONTINUED Both Branches of Congress Make Sweeping Amendments Hey- burn Amendment Under Con sideration at Adjournment. WASHINGTON, May 3. The dis mantling of the Administration railroad bill proceeded in both houses today. Section seven the traffic agreement provision was eliminated both by the Senate and the House. The Senate also struck out section 12. which would have permitted any railroad owning 50 per cent of another to absorb it altogether. The section prohibiting a railroad charg ing a higher rate for a short than for a long haul was adopted by the House in the form reported by the committee on in terstate commerce, but with an additional provision for a report to Congress by the Interstate Commerce Commission of the facts relating to the longi and short haul question. There is no section corresponding to this in the bill as tt is pending in the Senate, but an amendment offered by Senator Heyburn today to modify the existing law similarly precipitated an extended debate, which was In progress -when the Senate adjourned. Bills Are Ear Apart. Strictly speaking, each bouse today was boring holes in a separate bill the Senate In tbe bill introduced by Senator Elkins, the House in the bill introduced by Representative Town send but the bills at the ourteet were identical, though changed by the committees that reported them. Each version of the bill has yet to be passed in its own house and then will have to undergo the tender mecles of the other. Whether either ever will emerge from the final stage of Joint confrence la e. thing nobody is prepared to prophesy. Never since it was reported to the Senate nine weeks ago has the bill moved along with such celerity as to day. The entire programme outlined at yesterday's conference of the lead ers was carried out and extended. In rapid succession the Cummins and the Crawford-Elkins amendments to the traffic agreement provision were with drawn and the entire traffic and merger provisions stricken out. Cummins Provision Killed. Immediately after the bill was taken up in the Senate, Elkins, in charge of the bill, proposed to lay on the table the Cummins amendment requiring the approval of all changes in rates by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion in advance of their taking effect. Mr. Cummins saved the trouble of a vote by withdrawing his amendment. The .Democrats had agreed to vote against the Cummins provision in con sideration of the adoption of the Clay (Concluded on Page 2.) Owner of-. $30,000,000, Feeling Death Near, Summons All Three Succeeding- Generations. GALVESTON. Tex., May 3. (Special.) When Senor Evariso Madero, one of the wealthiest men of Mexico and for years Governor of Co abulia, who has been sojourning in San Antonio, Tex., for several weeks for his health, be lieved the end was near, he notified his son and physicians that he wanted to call his children and their children and their children's children. A message was dispatched to Mon terey , Mexico, and immediately the family -was gathered from far and near and they numbered 105, Including sev eral sons and several daughters, 62 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchil dren. A special train brought them to the border and from there they came in two special sleepers to the Alamo City, where a small hotel was leased for them. Madero is 74 years of age, but he never hoarded his wealth and he said the sight of such a family reunion was worth a million. Only 10 of the chil dren bad ever crossed the border of Mexico. Madero is Bald to be worth, about $30,000,000. POLICE CHEATED BY DEATH Wifebeater Kills Himself and Wife When Officers Surround House. ST. LOUTS, May 3 While 10 police men surrounded his bouse in an effort to arrest him, John Briscoe shot and killed his wife and himself today. Mrs. Hrlsooe bad summoned the po lice to protect her from ber husband, who was beating her. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTEROAT'S Maximum temperature, 49 degrees; minimum, 4ft degrees. TODAY'S Showers; westerly winds. National. House adorptes -modified clause tn rate bill; Sea ate debate it Pag 1. Secretary Ballln-a-er will be cleared by com mittee, and even minority will find be no wrong. Page 1. Iometfc Grand open star sings to Federal prisoners at Atlanta. Page 1. Toxleologist testifies Swopes were poisoned; deaths not natural. rnKo 2. Tacoma girl said to be victim of hypnotic young man's strange cult in New Xorlc Page I- Mexican millionaire summons 105 descend ants try special train to deathbed. Page 1. Sports. Fans blame Hogan's gay togs for down pour. Page 8. Fight referee tobe selected today. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. State "Railroad Commission gets statistician's figures in express rate hearing. Page 3. Wnen new Commission takes charge of Ta coma City Hall. old employes resist. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Beer production in March establishes new record. Page l. Crop scare sends up wheat at Chicago. Page iy. "Break in copper stock. Page la. Wool prices in London advancing. Page 1&. Longshoremen strike upon suspension of members for visiting saloon. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Hill admits acquisition of Oregon Electric and United Hallways systems. Page 1. By big timber teal. ll.OOO acres In Yamhill ana iniamuuK LuuuuBi oruiK .,uuu,uuu. Page 11. Controversy over proposed liability law grows acute, rage l. Justice Olson postpones decision In fish case. .page a Evangelist hotds meeting to enthuse min isters; deprecates sensauonai practices. Page 12. Morris trial halted by lack of talesmen. Page iz On stand in land fraud case. Stephen A. T. puter repudiates nis own statements. Page 18. Today is last chance to be counted, in Port lands census, page . KB,. STREET-SWEEPER. I Even Minority Cannot Find Wrongdoing. PINCHOT CHARGES FALL FLAT Based Only on Inferences From Conversations. SECRETARY MAY RESIGN Coming T"nsmirelied From Attack, He Will Lay Down Trust, Know ing He Has Conserved People's Interests Despite IMnchoU "WASHINGTON. May 8. (Special.) Seemingly everybody in Washington has. made up his mind that there can be only one outcome of the investigation which the joint Senate and Souse committee has been making- into the affairs of the In terior Department and of the Forest Service. The majority of the committee is to vote Secretary Bellinger a clean bill of moral health and. a minority is to sub mit a report which will say at the worst that the Secretary of the Interior was not as sympathetic as be might have been with the policies for which bis depart ment, as an agent of the people's wishes', was supposed to stand. If it is possible to base affirmative words on external appearance, the com mittee long ago made up its individual minds concerning the matter under in vestigation. The tone of the questions asked by the chief members sounds the note of opinion. Iso one haa believed for a. long time that anything was1 likely to be disclosed during the latter days of the investigation which would change in the slightest the opinions of any member of the Investigating body. There is & general impression in Wash ington that some months after the com mittee turns in its report. Mr. Balltnger may resign his position as Secretary of the Interior. He will hold, as be will have a right to, that he has been cleared absolutely of having committed any act in violation of bis duties as a conservator of the people's interests. Mr. Balllnger's mistake, if he made one, was accepting office knowing that he was expected to support Pinchot and Pinchotlsm. "The letter of the law" has been Mr. Balllnger's stumbling block as the coun try has viewed it. It must be admitted that Glfford Pin chot as a witness was a disappointment to the friends of conservation. He had made some charges which, it was be lieved that he could substantiate by di rect documentary evidence. Inferences that Mr. Pinchot had drawn from certain conversations and certain acts were found in several vital Instances to be the basis of his conclusions. Secretary Balllnger received what might be called one vindication in the Supreme Court of. the District of Columbia today when a charge that he had shirked bis duty as Secretary of the Interior was or dered expunged from the record. 'Haskell's Trial Put Over. TULSA, Okla., May 3. The trial of Governor Charles N. Haskell and five other men in the Muskogee town lot cases was continued this afternoon until the next term of the Federal Court. Half Dozen Bank Officials, Including- Charles Morse, Are Hid den in Audience. ATLANTA, Ga.. May 3. (Special.) Fac ing SO0O men in stripes, many of whom were serving life sentences. Miss Ger aldlne Farrar, noted grand opera singer, brightened one day of life at the Federal Prison when, early this afternoon, she sang her way into hearts hungry for music, but long denied it. Suiting her songs to the majority of her audience and their limitations, she selected a number of simple English bal lads, though there were many present who had heard fthe best of grand opera and would appreciate French, Italian or any other language. Hidden away In the midst .of stripes were such prisoners as Charles W. Morse, Greene and Gaynor, Lupo "the wolf," a half dozen prominent bank officials, the man who a few weeks ago was con victed of stealing $$4,000 from a Richmond postofftce, and others. First she sang "Annie Laurie," and then she switched into "Comin' Thro the Rye. Both songs were applauded to the echo and brought two others, which were Just as enthusiastically received. The simplicity of the occasion was empha sized by the action of Miss Farrar in playing her own accompaniment. In the party which accompanied Miss Farrar to the prison were Antonio Scottl, and a number of others, but Scottl did no sing ing. FOREIGN LABOR DECRIED Oregon City Commercial Club Ob jects to European Workmen. OREGON" CITT, Or. May 3. (Spe cial.) The Commercial Club has turned its attention to the foreign labor prob lem, with the hope that arrangements may be made with the paper mills on the west side of the river to shut out the large number of Austrlans and Greeks who are coming here to work in the mills at J 1.76 and $2 per day. President Randall will appoint a com mittee to make an Investigation of the situation. During the last two years a great many foreigners have been given em ployment in the paper mills and the business men Bay their presence here is detrimental to the trade of the city. Officials of the paper mills say it is impossible to get married men to come here, as there are no vacant houses in which they can reside, and single men, other than foreigners, are floaters and are not steady enough. CHURCH PLANS BUILDING St. Paul's Episcopal Parish, of Ore , gon City, Flourishing. OREGON CITT, Or., May 3. (Spe cial.) St. Paul's Parisb has elected the following delegates to the annual dioc esan convention of the Episcopal Church, which will be held in Eugene June 18: H. L. Kelly, George A. Hard ing, William Hammond. The alternates are: T. P. Randall; H. H. Hughes and W. A. Shewman. The vestry has named a committee to procure data relative to the con struction of a new and modern busi ness block on the corner of Main and Ninth streets, which property is owned by the parish. In future the money received from the ground rental will be placed in a sinking fund and used to pay off the Indebtedness of the church. The vestry has just started a fund for 'the construction of a new church and a parish house. POLICE CHIEF IS OUSTED Council Bluffs Official Loses Out, by Court's Decision. COUNCIL BLUFFS. Iow'a. Mi a Tk. decision of Judge Woodruff in the ouster case against Mayor George H. Richmond, Chief of Police of this citv. ha hn celved by mall from Glenwood, Iowa, where the Judge is now holding court, and is against the defendant. The case was brousrht bv A(tkm.iri.n. eral Byers. representing the State of Iowa, as a direct result or the disclosures made in the recent Maybray fraud trial, it be ing charged that Chief Richmond was remiss in his duties while the "big store" was In operation here. The court orders Richmond's removal. FLOODS WILL BE STORED November to April Excess to Make Homes for 50O Families. "NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., May 3 (Special.) A new irrigation project to re claim 8000 acres Is proposed In the Yakima Valley. C. P. Devine and several others in North Yakima have bought 1000 acres of land and 12 feet of water in the Wenas Creek. It is proposed to build a. dam and make a. large reservoir to store the flood waters from 138 square miles. The Government has released to the promoters1 the flood waters of the creek from November to April. This project will provide homes for about BOO families where heretofore there has been only a sheep pasture. ONE VOTE DEFEATS MOVE w York Assembly Objects to In come-Tax Amendment. ALBANY, N. Y.. May 3. A second at tempt to pass the resolution favoring the Federal income tax failed in the As sembly today. By a. vote of 75 to 67 the House refused to sustain a motion to' re consider the vote by which the resolu tion recently was defeated. Only, one vote .vw lacking, Young Man with . "In fluence" UnderArrest. TACOMA GIRL MAKES CHARGE In New York She Becomes Victim of Peculiar Cuit. HYPNOTIC POWER HINTED Detectives, Breaking in, Find 'Ora,' Young Man From Indiana, Going Through Gyrations on Glass Giobo Before Girls' Class. NEW YORK, May 3.lt was a strange story which Detective Callahan told the Police Court today in describing the raid last night on the Mystic Temple of Om," a young man who Is entered on the police records as Pierre A. Bernard a native of Indiana. "Om" was arraigned on the charge of abduction after the detectives had found , him in a luxuriously appointed house, where he taught physical culture and languages, surrounded by a number of pupils, mostly young women. Some of his girl pupns said Bernard represented himself as a "swaml" from India. . Peculiar Exercises Seen. "When I pushed open the parlor doors." Callahan testified at the hearing today Bernard was standing on a glass globe that was on a hair mattress in the cen ter of the room. He was going through some peculiar gyrations. Five girls and several men. all in bathing suits, were gathered around him trying to repeat the movements." Miss Zela Hopp said she went to Ber nard s place last October and consulted him about a method of curing her of heart weakness. Bernard told her she must come to the place and stay for a time which she did. first paying him, she testified, a fee of JTIOO. Tacoma Girl Influenced. Miss Hopp told the" magistrate that Bernard had a peculiar influence over her and that she believed he had hypnotized her. She made grave charges against (Bernard. , While she was in the place she met Miss Gertrude Levy, of Tacoma, Wash., another "student." and when she got out she thought she ought to advise Miss Levy's sister, a Mrs. Hanford. of Tacoma, of what was going on. Her letters brought Mrs. Hanford to New York and the two women complained to the police. Bernard was held In J15.000 ball. ILLINOIS EX-GOVERNOR DIES General John L. Beverldge Passes in California Home. HOLLYWOOD. Cal., May 3. John L. Beveridge, ex-Governor of Illinois, died at his home here today. v CHICAGO, May 3. John Lourie Bever idge served four years as Governor of Illinois, beginning In 1873. He entered the Volunteer Army in 1861 as Major of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry and participated In the battles of Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. In the Winter of 1863-64 he recruited and organized the 17th Illinois Cavalry, of which he was Colonel. He served to the end of the war, when be was mustered out with the brevet rank of Brigadier General. In 1870 he was elected Congressman-cit-Large. Two years later he was chosen Lieutenant-Governor, and when Governor Oglesby was elected to the Senate, Gen eral Beveridge succeeded him. He moved to California 15 years ago. Kuehn Bev eridge and Baroness Ray von Wrede are children of the deceased. COW STARVING IN WOODS With Foot Through Bellstrap, Ani mal Becomes Helpless. VANCOUVER, Wash.. May 3. (Spe cial.) With her right foot through her bell strap, a cow belonging to William Lawffer was found yesterday. She had been In this condition several days, ap parently, and could not travel, and- was starving to death , in the woods near Yacolt- She had become lost and Mr. Lawffer searched three days before he found her. I m JAPANESE TOWN BURNED' Aomari, Flourishing Seaport, . I Nearly Wiped Out. TOKIO, May 3. Aomari, a flourish ing seaport on the north shore of the main island of Japan, was visited today by a conflagration which destroyed two-thirds of the town. The census of 1900 gave Aomari a population of 15,000. SOCIETY BELLE, SUICIDE Miss Idelle Phelps Found Dead in Room, at Denver. DENVER. May 3. Miss Idelle Phelps, daughter of A. C. Phelps and prominent for several years in Denver society, was found dead in her room today from the effects of poison, ' taken, it is presumed, with suicidal Intent. She bad been in ill .health. ' i. ..- '