PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. L.-0. 15,439. INCHOTISM BARS OF SETTLERS Louis Hill Makes Caus tic Comments. LET LEGISLATURE INVESTIGATE Blundering and Obstruction Mark Oregon Work. "RESERVED" BLIGHTS ALL "Wherever Hardy Settler Wishes to Develop National Wealth AVay Is Blocked by Green Eastern Men Who Know Not West. Br R. G. CALLVERT. KLAMATH FALLS, May 20. (Staff Correspondence.) That an investigation be instituted by the next Oregon Legis lature of the procedure and work under taken and accomplished by the Reclama tion Bureau and Forestry Service in Ore. gon is a suggestion that Is being made by President Loads W. Hill, of the Great Northern Railway, in the course of liis addresses in Central and Western Ore gon. Mr. Hill declares that such an investi gation would be more thorough and fairer than any hearing that has been or would be held in Washington, and that the results of the investigation could be ma.de the basis of an effective rembn strance or memorial if the conditions were found to warrant it. In his talks Mr. Hill has been pro nounced in his criticism of the two bu reaus of the Federal Government. In speaking to about 20 business men of Klamath Falls yesterday at a lunch eon given at the farm of N. C. Merrill, south of this city, Mr. Hill said: "I was disappointed this morning In not seeing the American flag, floating over the Reclamation headquarters as we passed. The raisins and lowering of the flag seems to be the principal occupation of the service." Again, In the afternoon, in addressing 1000 people in the courthouse groundg in Klamath Falls, he said: Government Sends Incompetents. "You have both the Forestry Service and the Reclamation Service represented here, and therefore I know you have a good country, for wherever there is a new country1" that could be developed, there you will find the Government reserving something. The Reclamation men who are on the ground here are perhaps good men. I believe they are. But .the fault lies higher up. There is incompetency In the direction of the service." Mr. Hill advised the people of Klamath Falls, however,, that as long as the Government had undertaken reclamation work here, it was wisdom for the people to use the water and develop the coun try. 1 Similar criticisms were made of the Forestry Service and Reclamation Serv ice at Lakeview. The administration of Western forests, he charged, was put in the hands of young college men from the East, who knew nothing of Western con ditions. There Mr. Hill was followed by William Hanley, who endorsed Mr. Hill's remarks. In numerous conversations with the rarmers and business .men of interior Oregon, Mr. Hill has expressed views antagonistic to Finchotism, and has a big fund of illustrations to draw from of the locklne- no of Montana by Government bureaus. . Everywhere these expressions of opin ion have been received with applause by Ills auditors, and the residents have come forward with incidents of the holding back of settlement on Government land and hindrances, particularly by the For estry Bureau, to the development of the country Juniper Suddenly Precious. The work undertaken by William Han- ley in the reclamation of 1Q0.000 acres of land In Harney County and its hin- j,.rt, by the Governments suddenly i-ivrine a. value In juniper wood ased . f vrr Hanlev's dredger, has 1UI . " described in a preceding article. ,, i viamath County a similar in cident ia related of the Indictment of J u- Ariams. one of the most suo- tantial ranchers ifi South Central Ore ' who has devoted mons than a quar ter of a century to the upbuilding of the farming interests of this community. Like Mr. Hanley, Mr. Adams has been ir.Hlr.ted for buying juniper cut by set tier . from worthless Government land In his case the. juniper was to be used for fAice posts. Substantial men of the WAY community 'assert that the juniper was cut from rocky land bordering a lava bed. The land cannot be homesteaded, because it is unfit for agriculture, and the Government has already created a precedent by refusing timber filings on Juniper land. According to Mr. Adams, he was In formed by the department that he was entitled as a eettler to $50 stumpage for fence posts per annum, and the stumpage value of the Juniper cut Is well within that figure. - The men came to me," he said yes terday, "and told me they were out of work and needed money. They asked for something to do. I needed fence posts and offered them 8 . cents a post for ' Juniper. It was He only way I could asrtlst them." Mr. Adams established the first rec- fOoBcluded on Pax 14- LONG JUMP CHOSEN AS MEANS OF DEATH MAN LEAPS FROM TOP OF CALL BUILDING IN SAN FRANCISCO. On Striking. Pavement After Drop of 320 Feet Body Bounces 'Hlgh in Air Again. SAN FRANCISCO. May 20. (Spe cial.) Jumping from the cupola of the Call building at II o'clock this morn ing, Nicholas Lichkaskis struck the sidewalk amid a crowd of passersby with sucft force that his body bounced and fell in a heap amid passing wagons and automobiles. Death was instantaneous upon strik ing the sidewalk and the body lay in the street an almost unrecognizable mass. - That the leap of 320 feet was long ago adopted by the man as the means of committing suicide was established when a receipt for $75, made out to an undertaking firm to be set aside to de fray his funeral expenses "in case of death," was found, in a pocket of the dead rfran's coat. To reach the . highest point of the building he had taken, the elevator to the 16th floor and thence gone up through the hoisting machinery to the topmost point of the big structure. y! The leap was watched by many from the street, but so rapidly did he drop that few imagined that It was a man. SHOCK KILLS BIG PANTHER Beast Falls, Grabs Wire and Is Elec r trocuted at Victoria. VICTORIA, B. C, May 20. (Special.) An eight-foot panther crawling along the eteep cliff underneath which runs the high-power wire .from the Goldstream power station to Victoria, made a fatal misstep or over-spring shortly after 9 o'clock late night and, falling, clutched the' first thing visible or material, which chanced to be the high potential wire. The surprise was complete, and, grip ping the wire zealously, the big cat curled around it like a great caterpillar and brought it to the ground, the electrical shock killing the animal. As a result Victoria's street railway and electric light services were temporarily suspended until the exceptional cause was ascer talned and removed. The panther, is now exhibited at the store warehouse of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company and is to be mounted to adorn the den of Electrical Engineer Tripp. i .- ROOSTER ATTACKS CHILD Four-Year-Old Fights Losing Battle . in Barnyard. DAYTON. Wash.. May 2,0. (Spe clal.) Four-year-old Dale Tewalt, son of Charles Tewalt. a Touchet Valley farmer, proved no match for a large Plymouth . Rock roo3ter when attacked by. the fowl in his father's barnyard yesterday. When the youngster at tempted to quell a disturbance among the domestics with a short stick, the old warrior resented the intr'i- .jn and, flying onto the child, pecked, spurred and beat him unmercifully while the child screamed with pain and fright. The mother rushed out In time to save her boy. from probable serious In jury Only a few days previously the old rooster attacked a girl aged 13, but she had beaten him off. Today the warlike fowl received his death sentence. ' He had been a pet of the.' family in his younger days. "COTTON KING" ESCAPES Indictment Found by Government Employe Fails to Hold. WASHINGTON, May 20. Theodore H. Price, of New York, the cotton king. Indicted here for connection with the cotton leak scandal of 1908, cannot be prosecuted in the District of Columbia, according to a ruling of the Supreme Court of the District today. Price's plea that the grand Jury which Indicted him had as a member a Government em ploye was sustained. Price faces similar charges in New York and he may have to stand trial there. He Is the only one of the four men charged with conspiracy In connec tion with the cotton leak who will not have to face a jury here. Frederick A. Peckham, Moses H. Haas, of New York, and Edwin S. Holmes, Jr., of this city, although relieved by the court's action of the 1908 indictment; jwill still have to an swer the old indictirient returned in 1905. ONION SET SUIT DBOPPED Court Decides Testimony Does Not Show Fraud. OREGON CITY, Or., May 20. (Spe cial.) A legal action of many compli cations, in whjjtl onion sets were the original cause of complaint, was dis missed today by Judge Campbell, in Circuit Court. E. L. Dose, of Woodburn, filed the original action against R. B. Beatie, Sheriff, alleging the wrongful conver sion of the onion sets. Next the Sheriff filed a cross-bill in equity asking that the action for damages be stayed and that the suit In equity prevail. Today after the evidence was all In Dimlck & Dimick, attorneys for Dose, with E. P. Morcom, moved a dismissal of the suit, on the ground that the complaint was not supported by any testimony prov ing fraud. The court granted the mo tion. C. D. Latourette and John M. Gearin appeared for. Sheriff Beatie. Ex-Governor Pleads Guilty. . NEW YORK. May 20. Frank W. Rol lins,- ex-Governor of New Hampshire, en tered a formal plea of guilty before Judge Hand late this afternoon and his coun sel made a plea for clemency. The court imposed a fine of $2000, which, the ex Governor paid at once in cash. The TAFTPBHISESTO UPHOLD BALLINGER Secretafy Innocent Is Belief of Executive. HE SAYS NO CASE IS MADE OUT AH Testimony Placed Before Investigating Committee. 5-HOUR PLEAS TO BE MADE After Public Arguments Next Week Attorneys for "Defense" and Prosecution Will Have 15 Days in Which to FiIe Briefs. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, May 20. President Taft told sev eral callers today he intends to stand by Secretary Ballinger, for he Is convinced of Mr. Balllnger's innocence either of wrongdoing or of improper motives. The President says he does not consider that Balllnger's accusers have made out any case against him. . . On top of this announcement from the White House comes the reiteration of Secretary Balllnger's purpose to hold on to his position, notwithstanding a re newal of the reports in friendly papers that he is soon to resign. Inquiry Soon to Close. With all the testimony before it that was to be presented, the Ballinger Pinchot. Investigating committee today took steps to bring to a speedy conclu sion the Congressional Inquiry that has been in progress four months. . Two days next week Friday and Sat urday have been allotted to the lawyers to make their closing arguments. Then the public hearings will end and the at torneys will have fifteen days- in which to submit briefs, after which the com mittee will begin legislative sessions to weigh the evidence. . .'.Records May Be-Added: To. The "prosecution," as the Pinchot side of the controversy is called, began the presentation of evidence January 26 and concluded March 18. Since that time the committee has been hearing the Ballin ger "defense.' Both sides still have opportunity to add to the already bulky records, papers and affidavits of a certain character. Attorney Vertrees, counsel for Ballin. ger. today put in the agreements be tween L. R. Glavis and W. W. Barr, land broker of Seattle, to show Glavis had a pecuniary interest in obtaining tim ber lands from the Government. It was the avowed purpose of the "defense" to show Inthis matter Glavis" information obtained while in the employ of the Gov ernment. Glavis Again Attacked. Portions of th testimony at the trial of the Cunningham coal land cases also were presented by Mr. Vertrees, who said It showed Glavis and Special Agent Jones knew there was nothing in the charge that the Guggenheims were plan ning to get control of the Cunningham claims when they toek the affidavits of the Cunningham ' claimants, and that Glavis and Jones deceived the claimants. (Concluded on Page ' 1 "bKtfB 0W7C '( szZtWM rvumctppo. ownT J&)k INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, . 69 uegrno minimum. 4o aeicrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. . . . Foreign. King- Edward VII rests In tomb of his an cestors, borne with mournful splendor. Page. . National. ' Federal appointments for Oregon are still pending- Pago 7. - President Taft says he will stand by .Bal linger; declares no case is made out. Page 1. a Senators Hale and Clay lead attack on In crease or navy. Page 2. . Sutler Ames bitterly attacks Payne In House lor suppressing move for Canadian reci procity. Page 1. Domestic. Sugar frauds trial brings out new develop ments, .fage ;:. Ex-Governor Rollins . of New Hampshire lined for defrauding Government. Page 1. Man leaps from ton ut Call building In San irancuco, a JO feet, to his death. Page 1. Tornado sweeps Oklahoma towns, leaving aeatn and destruction in path. Pace 1. Americans Join Britons in services In honor of late King in many American cities. Page -4. Sport. Pacific Coast League results; Oakland 7, Portland 6; Vernon 5. Los Angeles 3; San Francisco 4, Sacramento 1. Page 8. San Francisco District Attorney will not prohibit big fight. Page 8. University Oregon athletes defeat O. A. C in fast track meet, 84 to 38. Page 8. Jefferson High School shuts out Columbia at baseball. Pane 9. Commercial and Marine. Another advance in local butter market. Page 19. Small changes in wheat prices at Chicago. Page 10. Stocks are stronger, but trading is small. page i. Improvement In iron and steel trade. Page 19. Pacific Northwest. . Louis Hill proposes Legislature, investigate blight which Plnchotlsm has put on o.e velopment. Page 1. University of Oregon girls edit college paper tomorrow. Page 6. Dr. A. S. Cooper, after 15 years in tropics. much Impressed by work on Panama Canal. Page 7. Medford entertains President Hill and party. now on- way back to Portland, page -f Frank Tllfany, who died of fright during burning of Marhoffer, is buried at New port. Page 6. - Portland and Vicinity. Epworth League convenes in annual con vention nero June z-a. rage x-. When divorce Is granted. Mrs. Dora Chick drops suit against Airs. uora. inompson Page 12. California fugitive loses lit race to liberty. which he enjoyed only six; months after shooting countryman page 18. Mrs. Hannah Smith missing since last Fri day with SOOO; murder is feared, page 11. Solution to Broadway bridge difficulties near, is rumor. Page 13. Rush to beaches is on fully a month earlier than usual. Page 13. Alienists testify Scrlber was Insane when he forged bank securities. page V. Fifteen-vear-old srtrl refuses to allow ex amlnation for contagion -by inspector and may be expelled. Page 20. , Portland people 'fail to see comet In west and are disappointed. Page 9. YARDMEN WANT INCREASE Official of "Western Roads to Hear Request or Same Scale as Kast. DENVER, May 20. Presidents and managers of- 12 big Western railroads have been summoned to Denver for a con ference May 25 to take action on the demand of the yardmen, who insist that the roads put into effect at once the new wages and working rules adopted by the general. managers' committee for Chicago and Eastern territory. Headers of the yardmen assert that un less the wages and rules are put into effect, a strike may be declared on all of the Western lines. ANOTHER QUAKE RECORDED Disturbance Believed to Have Oc curred in Costa Rica. WASHINGTON. May 20. A moderate earthquake estimated to be from 4O0O to 6000 miles from wasnington was recorded by the seismograph at Georgetown ijnl versity this morning. Father Francis A. Tondorf, professor of astronomy, said he was inclined- to believe that the' disturbance was In the vicinity of Costa Rica, which only a few weeka ago was the scene of an appalling quake. . 'PORTLAND FOR ME!" E BY BUTLER MIES Arrogance of Leader Is Claimed." WISHES OF MEMBERS IGNORED Move for Canadian Reciprocity Suppressed. THOUGH TAFT INDORSED IT Ames Secures Support of 7 7 Repub licans and President's Letter. Says Payne's Methods Sim ply Foster Insurgency. WASHINGTON, May 20. A sensation was sprung unexpectedly in the House late today by Butler Ames, a Republican member from Massachusetts, when h9 obtained the floor for five minutes and proceeded to read a series of letters that had passed between himself and Sereno E. Payne, of New York, chairman of the ways and means committee and Republl can floor leader. He scored Payne in strong language. The letters concerned a resolution in troduced in the House March 31 by Ames, advocating that negotiations be opened with Canada to establish closer commer clal relations with that country. Wishes of 7 7 Ignored. Ames' resolution was referred to the ways and means committee and the au thor charged that Payne refused to al low the committee to consider it, al though he (Ames) presented a petition favoring it, signed by 77 Republican members. "On three separate days I approached your august person and asked verbally and politely for a hearing by your com mittee on my resolution," said Ames in one letter, "to my first request you ar rogantly insisted that, "as far as you could find out, no one wanted the resolu tion and it was not good political sense.' "Believing your lack of courtesy was excusable and you were unable to under stand or appreciate that many Republi can members of .the House not only wanted the resolution adopted, but who, not yet having lost all touch with pres- ent desires, of the party and the country generally, did believe the resolution to be good political sense, I went to the unusual labor of circulating a petition which I Inclosed." Payne Doubts Tart's Good Faith. Continuing, the letter said the peti tion was signed by 77 Republican mem bers, but Payne had given it no con sideration. It was recounted that its author had seen a letter dictated in his presence by President Taft and addressed to Payne favoring the reso lution. It reciietl Ames had twice spoken to Payne about the President's letter and Payne told him that "his (Payne's) relations with the President were such that Payne knew when he wrote such a letter he did not want the resolution." Payne replied, saying: "The fact that 77 men have signed your petition does (Concluded on Page 2. m ARBA1GNED FRAUD IS ADMITTED BY. EXtGOVERNOR F. V ROLMNS CAUGHT TRYING TO CHEAT CUSTOMS. New Hampshire Man Pays $2000 Fine and Gives $1500 Additional m to Escape Charges. NE WYORK. May 20. Frank West Rollins, ex-Governor of New Hampshire, pleaded guilty today to the charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government of custom duties brought against him by customs inspectors last Friday. Judge Hand, sitting in the United States Circuit Court, construed it as an admission that Mr. Rollins had violated the law, "knowingly, wilfully and ma liciously," and fined him $2000. The law provides a maximum penalty of two years In prison, a fine of $5000 or both. The ex-Governor took a big roll of bills from hlspocket and paid his fine without comment. The total value of the articles Mr. Rollins neglected to declare is given as $4736. The original complaint named Mrs. Rollins, his wife, and Douglas Rol lins, as parties to the conspiracy, but the Federal grand Jury today handed down but one-indictment, naming only the ex Governor. As soon as Mr. Rollins learned of it he promptly entered his plea and when he had paid his fine visited the customs house, where it Is said he paid an addi tional $1500 in duties on the understand ing that further proceedings against his family be dropped. LAD, SHOT, DIES IN AGONY Clackamas Boy's Brother Rides Through to Doctor Loses Race. EST AC AD A, Or., May 20. (Special.) One of a gang at work building a trail under the direction of Forest Ranger Mendenhall, 50 miles from the nearest doctor, Mark Jones, aged 16, the son of Len Jones, of Clackamas Station, shot himself yesterday with ,a revolver he was cleaning. He lingered in agony Ave hours and then diea be fore surgical aid could reach him. News of the accident reached here this morning, brought by Wade Jones, a brother of the injured boy, who rode all night to get a doctor. Without stopping to rest after he reached here he started back with Dr. Adix, of this place. They had gone some 25 miles. as .far as Roaring River, when they met a party from the camp that told them the boy was dead. The party is at work on a trail from the old Hatchery on the Clackamas River to Detroit, a distance of 30 miles. Young Jones, after the day's work was done, was putting his revolver in shape One cartridge remained in the barrel unknown to him. This was exploded. the bullet striking him in the groin. Rude camp treatment . failed to give relief. . PASTOR MET, ELOPERS WED Runaway Marriage Ceremony Per formed Beneath Oak Tree. ROSEVILLE, Cal.. May 20. (Special.) . E. T. Mlspley. of Sacramento, and Miss Stella Stuhr, formerly chief oper ator of the local telephone exchange, went to Auburn Saturday and procured a marriage license. The next day they drove down toward Loomis with Mr. .' and Mrs. Scribner until they met Rev. Mr. Ec cles, of Loomis, whether by pre-ar-rangement or accident not being stated. The party of five then assembled be neath the branches of a large oak tree by the -oadside and the minister per formed the ceremony that united the young couple. The wedding waj kept secret until today, when the couple announced It Just prior to departing for their honey moon. Parents of the bride opposed her marriage on account of her youth. SOCIALIST SEEKS FARMER Party Changes Constitution to Make Him Eligible. CHICAGO, May 20. An important change was made in the constitution o" the Socialist party in its congress to day when the phrase in the pledge of the party was changed from, "a politi cal party distinct and opposed to all parties formed by the propertied classes" to read "by the capitalist class." There was a heated debate before the vote on the proposed change was taken out the word "capitalist' won by 58 to 38. According to delegates who voted in favor of "the change, it was felt that the words "propertied classes," would be considered to Include farmers. The sentiment of the party at present is said to favor the admission of farm ers. A committee of nine was appoint ed to consider the "farmer question," and make a report at the con-vention in 1912. CHERRY CROP CUT SHORT Late Frost Hurts Yield in Orchards Near Woodland. WOODLAND, Wash., May 20. (Spe cial.) The cherry crop in the Lewis River Valley will be far short of the usual one. owing to frost that came lust as the trees were in bloom. In some localities the apple crop will -not be full, but It Is expected to be of bet ter size and color than usual, as there Is not so much fruit on the trees, aad the further fact that Horticultural In spector Miller has compelled pruning and spraying tne past season. The strawberry crop will be very heavy ad of fine quality, and picking will be on in full force on bottom patches in about ten days. TORNADO SWEEPS T Several- Persons Re ported Killed. HAIL STONES WRECK CROP All Signs of Vegetation Gone; Girl Seriously Hurt. TEXAS GALE DESTRUCTIVE Lightning Slays, Wind Overturns Oil Dericks at Famous Beaumont, and Houses Demolished Like So Much Paper-Mache. rACL'S V3tX.E'S, OkTa.". "ATay" Maysvllle, a small town 15 miles north west of here, was wiped cut by a tornado early tonight. Several persons were killed, according to meager reports received. The town of McCarthy, near Maysville, was almost swept away and three per sons killed. All wires are down and de tails cannot be learned. Relief parties probably will be. sent out tonight. One of the hardest hall storms In the history of this section swept over a stretch of country near here tonight. In places practically obliterating all signs of vegetation. HAILSTONES INJURE GIRL O.klaltoma Crops Suffer by Storm. Streams Rising Fust. ADA, Okla., May 20. A destructive hail storm visited this section early this eve ning. Crops are considerably damaged. Mies Ruby Bngleman, a telephone op erator was seriously injured by falling hail stonea. Heavy- rains fell at Coalgate, Caddo and Lehigh, but no damage is reported. Streams are rising rapidly in southeast ern Oklahoma. A heavy hail storm in the vicinity of Wynnewood, Okla., Is reported to have damaged crops. COAST . HOUSES DEMOLISHED Gale In Number of Texas Towns Does Much Damage. HOUSTON, Tex.. May 20. Heavy wind storms on the coast last night and to day blew down scores of houses and sev eral substantial structures in a number of little towns. At Beaumont oil derricks were over turned. One death by lightning is re ported. Man Killed; Houses Blown Away. MAD1LL, Okla., May 20. W. S. Lindsay. an oil mill operator, was killed in a small tornado here this evening. Ton houses were blown away. MANIPULATION IS ALLEGED Receiver AbkedT for Commonwealth Coal Company. TACOMA, Wash.. May 20. (Special.) I. B. Winsor, ex-president and trustee of the Commonwealth- Coal Company, filed suit in Superior Court today asking the appointment of a receiver. The company was reorganized last De cember, Newton H. Peer, C. O. Bates, R. L. McCormick, George H. Stevenson and others getting control .of 676,589 shares from Winsor. who had owned 764,311 shares. He now alleges the defendants have made no provisions for the bonded indebtedness, have conspired to depreci ate the value of the holdings, have dis charged him as sales manager and sales agent, and refuse to keep him posted on the financial status of the company. His petition will be heard May tM. ASTORIA CRJO FOR HELP Labor Scarce 4 2 Go to Work and Within Week 30 Leave. ASTORIA. Or.. May 20, (Special.) Common labor was never as scarce In Astoria as at the present time and with the mills paying $2-60 per day. One mill recently secured 42 men from Portland aiid within a week but a dozen were left, the men leaving because they heard of better jobs some other place. For the past week a logging company has been hunting without success for an engineer to run a donkey engine at $4.50 per day. CONVICTS GIVEN PILLOWS Rest Made Easier for Prisoners in State Penitentiary. SALEM. Or.. May 20. (Special.) For the first time in the history of the Ore gon State Penitentiary, every convict in the prison is sleeping tonight on a neat, clean pillow. Heretofore, prisoners have used their coats for pillows or have gone without. Superintendent James is responsible for the Innovation. Cushman to Be Eulogized Today. OREGONIAN NEWS BURAU, Wash ington. May 20. Eulogies on the late Representative Cushman will be held In the Senate tomorrow, according to the original order of the Senate. OKLAHOMA OWNS charge was smuggling.- -