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VOL,, la. SO. 15,449. PORTLAND, OREGOX, THURSDAY. JUNE 2, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. REBELS HOLDTOWN DIPLOMACY BARS WOMEN FROM JURY E FOR BOYS" FIRES ENCIRCLE TOWN.DEVOUR CAMP PRIEST RIVER, IDAHO, CUT OFF ' BY BTJRXIXG FORESTS. CHAMPION GOTCH YET HOLDS TITLE AVIATORS OBJECT TO LONG FLIGHTS GRAND JURY WILL By ANTE-DEATH ORDER SHERIFF CALLS IX SUMMONSES TO AVOID STORM. NEW YORK TO CHICAGO COX SIDERED WILD LEAP. CAR FIGHT NG HEAR 0 DENEEN Bluefields Is Scene of Bloody Battles. MINE ANNIHILATES COMPANY Madriz . Engages Rama to Cover His Real Attack. CUSTOM HOUSE IS TAKEN Many Americans Among Killed and Wounded Estrada's Troops From Behind fortifications Inflict Heavy losses. BLUEFIELDS, Nlc, May 27, via New Orleans, La., June 1. With attacks di rected against It from three different di rections by the troops of the Madriz gov ernment. Bluefields, the capital of the Nlcaraguan insurgents, finds itself today In a state of practical seige. Within the last few days General Estra da, commanding; the insurgents, has re pulsed the enemy at Bluefields and at Rama, but has lost the bluff and the Custom-house through which what he be lieves to have been treachery. , AVeek Bloodiest of War. Shis has been the bloodiest week of the war and the total casualties on both sides will run into the hundredslclud.rd mm will run into the hundreds. Including sev eral Americans who had cast their lot with the revolutionists. The first attack by the Madriz troops was made at Rama early In the week. Ttama Is the boasted stronghold of the Insurgents, up the Rama River, 50 miles Trom Bluefleldsc. Estrada now believes that the Madriz plans called for a heavy attack at Rama so that the Madriz troops coming up behind Bluefields along the coast would find the garrison at the town depleted by the withdrawal of men from the defense of Rama. . Town Protected by Mines. This plan proved only partially suc cessful and was largely thwarted by the work of a young American, Phil Pitman, of Boston, who planted a series of mines around Bluefields. As the enemy advanced one of these mines was exploded and a company of Madriz men was almost 'completely annihilated. Several other Americans were handling rapid-fire guns behind the fortifications at the same time and the ranks of the advancing: army wavered and then broke for cover. That ended the fighting behind Blue fields for that day. Searchlight Hit by Shot. Secure behind their fortifications, the Estrada troops reported no loss of life and estimated the number of dead on the other side at from BO to 100. General Estrada that night brought 800 men from Rama to reinforce his troops behind Bluefields and a large searchlight operated by Guy Maloney, of New Orleans, and Samuel Thomas, a Boer veteran, was kept playing in the direction of the enemy until a solid shot from one of General Lara's guns put it out of commission. On the night of May 26 about 60 of the men stationed at the Bluffs arrived at Bluefields after paddling across the lagoon in skiffs. They reported that the Bluff had been captured and that General Zeledon, their commander, had disappeared. The mines which had been placed around the Bluff would not explode and they discovered that someone had tampered with the wires. Fire Held too Long. The Venus had covered the early ap proach of the Madriz troops, they said, and they asserted that General Zeledon would not permit them to open fire on the enemy until too late. The little improvized gunboat Blanca fired on the enemy but could give little aid. Sev eral were killed and about 40 were re ported captured or missing. In the fighting at Rama. William Koss. said to be from Milwaukee, Wis., and to have served either in the United States Army or Navy, was killed. Another man, named Mason, was also reported killed at Rama, but this could not be confirmed. He was last seen in a trench between the Madriz army and the Insurgents fortifications. PARKS TO SUCCEED FURTH Aberdeen Council Defers Action on Tide-Flat Fill. ABERDEEN. Wash., June 1. ( Special.) To succeed Fred C. Furth, who has re signed because he Is soon to remove to Seattle, the City Council tonight chose James W. Parks, of the Parks Fish Com pany. He is from the Sixth Ward. The tide-flat fill, which was recently decided in favor of the city by the State Supreme C ourt, was not taken up, as ex pected. due to the absence of Mayor E. B. Benn. Salmon Conservation Favored. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU! Wash ington. June 1. Favorable report was made today on Senator Plies" bill prohib iting the export from the United States of fresh sockeye salmon. This bill Is by vtv of retaliation on British Columbia which has prohibited the shipment of her salmon ta Puget Sound canneries. Idaho City Husbands Co-operate and 12 Men Are Found to Try Parnate Suit. BOISE. Idaho, June 1. (Special.) By diplomacy, the court and Sheriff at Idaho City avoided a storm that threatened to break when It was found that nine women had been summoned to serve on a. jury to try the suit of George Church vs. James Cruikshank, for damages for sheep tres passing on the range under the two-mile limit law. The Sheriff had failed to find men enough to -fill the venire and had sum moned the women. Many objections were raised when the fact became known, and Judge Fremont Wood submitted the sit uation to the Sheriff unofficially. That official at once started out to recover the summonses he had served. With the assistance of -the husbands of the women, the Sheriff after much effort was able to bring back to court all the papers he had served on them. The in sistence of one man, a merchant, that his wife had more time for jury duty than he had came near to spoiling the plan and caused the incident to become wide ly known. None of the women appeared to serve, however, despite protests that they had equal rights under this suffrage laws of Ida h o. The suit was finally tried by 12 men and a verdict for $650 was awarded to the plaintiff. HARDWOODS TO BE SAVED Lumber Interests Agree on Conser vation Plans. NEW YORK, June 1. An Important part of the lumber interests of the coun try have at last reached an agreement of great aid to the conservation of for ests. Delegates representing the hardwood manufacturers of the Eastern and West ern lumber trade settled today the long disputed "grading" problem which has to do with the size and quality of lumber cut that will be acceptable to manufac turers and dealers. Foster Lewis, secretary of the hard wood manufacturers, said tonight that it was too early to give out the complicated specifications of the agreement, but that the general trend of it was strongly in the direction of conservation. The delegates, who concluded tonight a two days conference, represent 3,000,000 acres of hardwood forests. NEW LOCKS PROVIDED FOR Improvement on Willamette River Cared For in Bill. OREGON CITT, Or., June 1. (Spe cial.) J. W. Moffett, a member of the Commercial Club committee named to secure data for the information of the Oregon delegation In Congress and to aid them in obtaining an appropria tion, received the following telegram from Congressman Hawley tonight: 'River and harbor bill agreed upon by commerce committees and includes appropriation of J300.000 for purchase or construction of locks at Oregon City, and this item is now safe. Item of $60,000 for Improvement of Upper Wil lamette River remains in, of course. Provision Is made for survey of river from Oregon City to Portland. TWO FISHERMEN DROWN Llfesaving Crew Goes to Rescue, but Arrives Too Late. ASTORIA. Or.. June 1. Two men were drowned this afternoon at Pea cock Spit, near the mouth of the river. while gillnet-flshlng. The Cape Disappointment life-saving crew saw the boat capsize and recov ered the boat and net, but the two men in the craft had disappeared. In pulling in the net the body of one man was found and it was worked on for two hours In an effort to revive him. The boat was No. 29 of the Warren Packing Company, but who the men operating It were cannot be learned tonight. START IS MADE FOR POLE British Antarctic Expedition Sets Sail From London. LONDON. June 1. The British Ant arctic expedition set sail today. Cap tain Scott has announced December, 1911, as the time for his arrival at the South Pole. After receiving visits and good wishes from hundreds of persons, in cluding Captain Bartlett, of the Arctic steamer Roosevelt, the Terra Nova sailed for Cardiff. After coaling there she will proceed to New Zealand, where Captain Scott will come aboard. The 10.000-mlle voyage Into the Ant antic will then be continued. PLACERS TO BE SURVEYED Government Will Map Iditarod and Vpper Susitna Regions. SEATTLE, June 1. Surveys of the placer grold districts of the upper Susitna and the Iditarod will Be made by the Vnited States this Summer. Fred Moffet, who will make the Initial reconnaissance of the Susitna headwaters, sailed for Alaska today and will be fol lowed by I. C. Witherspoon, who will have charge of the mapping. They will have 15 men In their survey party. Mr. Moffet also will make geological obser vations in the district south of the Alaska range and east of Mount McKlnley. The Iditarod Survey will be made by A. f. Maddren, who will leave Seattle about I June 1? Havemeyer's Act Re vealed by Trial. SUGAR TRUST DEALS GROW Late President Planned Fight to Finish for Weighers. SALARIES PAID AS USUAL Even After Leaving Combine'6 Serv ice Wages of Accused Men Went on Spitzer's Pay Stopped When Cell Door Closed. NEW YORK, June 1. That the late H. O. Havemeyer, ex-president of the American Sugar Refining Company, gave directions two weeks before his death in 1907 to "take care of the boys" was part of the testimony beard today in the trial of three officials of the company charged with complicity in a conspiracy to defraud the Gov ernment of customs duties. Ernest W. Gerbracht, refinery super intendent; James F. Bandernagel, ex cashier of the refinery, and Charles P. Helke, secretary-treasurer of the com pany, are the three on trial. "See the Boys Through It," Order. "Take care of those boys; get coun sel for them; see them through it," were the orders Gerbracht said he re ceived from Havemeyer when he in formed him after the first arrest of checkers that the men insisted on their innocence. "Taking care of the boys," Ger bracht later testified, had extended to paying their wages from the day they left the company's service until the present time. The salary of Oliver Spitzer, ex-dock superintendent. who was pardoned from the Atlanta penitentiary by Pres ident Taft, Gerbracht said, was paid to Mrs. Spitzer while her husband was In prison and he believed she was still getting It. Salary Quit When Doors Locked. Spitzer, when on the stand for the prosecution, testified that his salary ceased when he was locked up. Gerbracht was the chief witness today in his own defense. ' Theodore Have meyer, he said, had absolute charge of the- refinery until his death in 1897, and the late H. O. Havemeyer personally di rected all the routine. An attempt to introduce character wit nesses for Gerbracht and Heike brought an admlssison from the Government that both men had enjoyed good reputations. Gerbracht was on the stand when ad journment was taken. As soon as his defense Is concluded Heike's attorneys will offer testimony in their client's be half. He will be the last of the defend ants to have a hearing, as Bendernagle's defense rested yesterday. Spitzer, upon whose shoulders the three remaining defendants in the sugar con- (Concluded on Page 2.) . " " S Careless Forest Service Officials Start Blaze Which Burns Out Whole Logging Crew. PRIEST RIVER, Idaho. June 1. (Special.) Until late this afternoon, when the Western Union repaired the damage done to its lines by forest fires which are raging along the three only roads leading out of Priest River, the town had been completely cut off ex cept for the train service of the Great Northern Railroad. Early this morning a forest fire broke out in some old road slashings made along the West Branch road, about seven miles north of here by members of the Forest Service, and, fanned by a stiff easterly wind, quick ly spread over a territory of about a quarter section. In their progress the flames .com pletely gutted the Pierson Brothers logging camp, which consisted of nine buildings and barns. The crew of 60 men and two women packed as many of their belongings as possible and fled to priest Itiver. While this fire was cutting the town off from West Branch, two other fires, one along the Newport road and an other near the Coolin road, were also raging. The Newport road was im passable and the flames on the other side were so threatening that persons attempting to travel it were warned not to do so. None of the fires shows any signs of abating, as the high winds keep them spreading. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, S degrees; minimum, 51 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwest winds. National. Senate rejects valuation of railroads and commodity clause in rate bill, but pro tects water competition. Page 5. Railroads will contest Governments position that rate agreement violates law. Page 2. Domestic. Alleging cruelty. Mrs. Margaret McKlm, , prominent in Baltimore and New York, flies divorce suit in Reno. Page 3. Aviators don't like long Sight suggestions. Page 1. Ex-convict Spitzer, convicted in sugar fraud , deals. Interested spectator at former co workers' trial. Page 1. Governor Deneen to tell grand Jury what he knows about bribery scandals. Page 1. Sports. Spokane entertains North Pacing Interna tional' tennis meet this year, July 4. page 9. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 4, Sacramento' 3; San Francisco 4, Vernon 2; Oakland 4, Los Angeles O. Page S. Jeff slams into trainers in true prize ring Mtyle. Page 9. Miss Leslie ..eadbetter enters finals in Irv lngton Club's tennis tournament. Page 8. Champion Wrestler Gotch retains title by defeat of Polish champion in two straight falls. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Coast flour markets are unsettled. Page 19. Chicago wheat market is oversold and re acts. Page 19. Railroad stocks still suffer from Govern ment suit. Page 19. Increase in business at Portland Unia Stockyards. Page 19. Government engineers start Columbia River bar survey early next week. Page 18. . , Pacific Northwest. O. R. & N. concedes lower rate and per mission to ship wool unbaled to Oregon growers. Page 6. Governor Hay, in speech at Spokane, show himself foe of saloons. Page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Ericson letters fall to throw any light on Smith mystery case. Page 12. A. Byron Smith, blackmailer, receives Jail sentence with smiles. Page 18. Medford protests before Railroad commis sion against alleged "protection" of Portland jobbers. Page 6. Theodore B. Wilcox finds financial outlook In East promising. Page 7. FIXING-UP TIME. Polish Wrestler Loses 2 Straight Falls. FIRST THROW PHENOMENAL Record Time of 61-4 Seconds Made; Crowd Goes Wild. IOWA FARMER MATCHLESS At No Time During Bout Is Ameri can in Danger Hawkeye Vindi cates Self in Defeat of Zbyszsko Before Chicago Audience. CHICAGO, June 1. Frank Gotch, of Humboldt, Iowa, successfully defended his title as wrestling champion of the world by easily defeating Stanislaus Zbyszsko, the Polish champion, in straight falls at the Coliseum tonight. Gotch outclassed his bulkier oppo nent in every department of the same. After Gotch had won the first fall In the phenomenal time of 6Y seconds. It was only a question of how long the Pole could hold out against the bril liant and varied attack of his rival. Crowd Hardly Realized Trick. The Immense crowd had hardly re alized that the great match was on before Referee Dick Fleming slapped Gotch on the back and declared him the winner of the first fall. The hold that sent the Pole down was a bar arm and half Nelson. The first fall came so quickly that there was little intermis sion before the men faced each other for the second time. Warned by his sudden downfall, Zbyszsko was more cautious and it took Gotch 27 minutes and 36 seconds to win the match with a bar arm and wrist lock. . .. The result of the' battle showed the Iowa farmer is still without an equal in the wrestling game. At no time was he in any danger, and when the Pole would secure any advantage Gotch would quickly break his hold and jump to his feet. The American showed far greater knowledge of the ' game than did his more deliberate and slow-thinking vic tim. Gotch would forestall his oppo nent at every turn. And it was worse than hopeless for the Pole" to attempt to assume the aggressive. Gotch "Gets Kven." The result demonstrated that Gotch must have been out of condition when he lost the Jiandicap match to Zbyszsko at Buffalo. In that encounter, Gotch agreed to throw the Pole twice within the hour but failed to get even one fall. Zbyszsko was the first to appear, the Polish champion entering the ring at 10 o'clock. He was given a cordial reception by the crowd, but the demon stration was small beside the ovation given Gotch as he appeared four min utes after his opponent. After the Concluded on Page 8.) Curtlss and Hamilton Believe Small er Prizes Would Encourage Machine Perfection. XBW YORK. June 1. (Special.) Avia tors are not particularly enthusiastic over long flights and large prizes. That they will eventually be won there is no doubt, just as the London-to-Manchester and the Albany-to-New York prizes were captured when the aviators and the machines were developed to the proper lightness, but a flight from New York to St. Louis or New York to Chicago requires qualities of endurance and mechanical perfection that the present type of aeroplane has not yet acquired. It would please the aviators much more if smaller prizes were offered for less difficult tasks. They believe that a flight from New York to Chicago, for example, is a wild leap in advance of the natural development of the flying machine. "If the prizes and distances were natur ally progressive," said Mr. Curtlss, "It might do even more for the steady de velopment of aviation than these larger prizes and more difficult flights." - Charles K. Hamilton says there is no question that all of the prizes now of fered will be won, but he believes it would be more interesting to the publto and just as beneficial to science if less ambitious demonstrations of the aero plane's ability were to come first. "What I would like to see," he said, "is a prize for a flight from New York to Philadelphia and return without stopping." CHIEF K0HLER WINS POINT Immorality Charge Falls Flat With Woman on Stand. CLBVELAXD, O., June 1. The second day of the trial of Chief of Police Fred Kohler, Cleveland's "Golden Rule Chief" on charges of Immorality, intoxication and insubordination, was favorable for the defense. The prosecution put on the stand their star witness, a woman who was ex pected to prove the more serious charges of immorality. In substance, all the testimony she gave was that she had once seen Chief Kohler drinking wine in a disorderly house. The next most Important witness was Patrick J. Crown, an ex-policeman at Muncle, Ind., and one of the two men who signed the charges. Brown complained that on one oc casion when his automobile had been stolen, Kohler refused to listen to his complaint, and had ordered him out of his office. On cross-examination, he ad mitted he had bet money on the result of the trial, and that he had also made a bet of $20 in January that he would "get Kohler yet." BARRY RANCH PURCHASED Portland Capitalists Invest $200, 000 In California. RED BLUFF. Cal.. June 1. Special.) The Barry ranch of 10,000 acres, near Cottonwood, in the northern part of Tehama County, has been sold to syndicate of capitalists of Portland, Or., according to a report made here today. The selling price of the great ranch Is said to have been about $200,000, and the purpose of the purchasers Is to irrigate and subdivide it for coloniza tion. The ranch is all tillable, has 200 acres In orchard . trees and several thousand acres in grain. The Southern Pacific Railroad and two main electric power lines cross It, making power for irrigation pumps easily available. SHIP AND CREW ARE LOST Seven Men From Dismasted Clipper Picked Up by Storm. VICTORIA. B. C, June 1. The old clipper ship Loch Katrine was dismasted April 27 in a gale off the Australian coast and when last heard- from was adrift with 13 men on board. A boat crew of seven men who volunteered to make land for assistance drifted about for nine days before being picked- up by the Swedish steamer Tasmania, from Syd ney for South Africa. The tug Heroic was dispatched to search for the dismasted vessel, but when last heard from no trace of the missing ship had been found and It is feared that she was lost with all on board. WEDDING LICENSE HELD UP Man Divorced In March Is Denied Permit to Marry Again. VANCOUVER. Wash., June 1. (Spe cial.) Supposing that they were within 10 minutes of being man and wife, a couple here today found they were sev eral months removed from that anti cipated happy state. Clarence E. Gllkison, 28 years old. of Cottage Grove, Or., and Miss Denia C. Jones, applied for a marriage license. When asked if he had been divorced for six months, Gllkison replied he had been divorced in March. He was re fused a license. 250 QUARTS DAY'S WORK Clark County Woman Sets Fast Pace for Berry Pickers. VANCOUVER. Wash., June I. (Spe cial.) Two hundred and fifty quarts of strawberries Is the amount picked by Mrs. Crowner. of Minnehaha. In one day, from 7 A. M. until 7 P. M. She rested an hour at noen. The berries were picked in Mr. Wheeler s paten. Promise to Tell About Bribery Is Kept. OFFICIAL PRIVILEGE WAIVED Inquiry Into ."Jackpot" Grows More Searching. FISH BILL UNDER FIRE Democrat Testifies He Voted for Lor- imer, Not for Money, but to Dis rupt Republicans Burke Clashes With. Witness. i SPRINGFIELD, III.. June 1. State's Attorney Burke is to .confer with Gov ernor Deneen tomorrow regarding the various charges of bribery that have been made concerning the 46th General Assembly.- The County .Prosecutor will give the Governor an opportunity to discuss what he knows about the doings of the General Assembly and will Invite him to tell the grand Jury whatever he wishes bearing on the investigation. The action of the State's Attorney, which was announced in the evening, is in response to the published declara tion of the Governor that he would be willing to go before either the Cook or Sangamon grand Jury, if desired, and tell what he knows of the occur rences In the last regular legislative session. Privilege of Office Waived. In appearing before a grand jury the Governor would waive the privilege of his office, which exempts him from a summons. In the course of the day counsel for State Senator Broderick repeatedly de nied rumors that the Senator was con templating a visit to State's Attorney; Burke to confess. Representative Beckmeyer, hitherto a witness before the Cook County grand Jury exclusively, will be in tha capital tomorrow to tell his story to the Sangamon County investigators. Beckmeyer, so far as known, has cor roborated the confession of Repre sentative C. A. White. Scope of Inquiry Widens. Deeper delving into the "jackpot" scan dal was predicted with the news of the, coming of (Beckmeyer, who will be ques tioned by Attorney Burke, it is thought, before he is taken before the Jury. Burke, in a conversation by telephone with State's Attorney Way-man, of Cook County, was apprized of the coming of Beckmeyer and plans for widening tha scope of the inquiry were made. The only witness to appear before thee Jurors today was A. IB. Johnston, of the Johnston & Hatcher Company, the Spring field furniture concern that obtained tha contract for supplying new desks and chairs for the Statehouse. Johnston, who has repeatedly denied culpability In the furniture contract, al though accused by Senator Hoitslaw, em phatically repeated his denial In the jury room. He used the word liar'"- freely, and after declaring that Attorney Burka had had repeated conferences with one of his (Johnston's) business competitors, was ordered out of the juryroom by the State's Attorney, who angrily retorted: "If you say that, you are lying, too." , "I was strongly tempted to strike hint when he was talking," said Burke, "and I would very much regret having any thing like that happen. So I ordered the man out of the room." Fishing Bill Inquired Into. Investigation of legislative doings in connection with the bill regulating fish ing was scheduled for tomorrow. Representative A. M. Foster, of Rush ville, chairman of the fish and game committee. Is subpenaed to appear be fore the grand Jury, as is Nat Cohen, State Fish Commissioner. Beckmeyer was a member of the fish and game commit tee and is expected to be questioned alao regarding the fish bill, which died In the committee. Representative H. D. McCollum (Dem ocrat), declared he told the grand jury that he voted for Lo rimer after consult ing his people at home and also because he believed Lorimer's election would bring dissension and division among the Republicans and not because of political obligations to Beckmeyer or anybody else. Representative Staymales, in a talk with the state's attorney, denied that he had been offered or had received anything for his vote for Lorimer and denied any knowledge of a "jackpot." GRAIN FEES NOT ENOUGH Deputy Inspector In Taeoma Re signs, After Long Service. TACOMA. June 1. S. S. King, chief deputy grain Inspector, has resigned, to take effect last night. He has been In through two administrations and says he thought, as a new man was to be appointed Inspector, -he ought to have a free hand in naming his ap pointees. Another reason Mr. King gives Is that under the construction of the In spection law given by the courts the fees for inspection will not be suffi cient to pay the office force heretofore required.