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VOL. L. NO. 13,457. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY. JUNE 11,. 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CHILDREN GROWN FESTIVAL GLORY Schools' Pageant Is Cli max of Celebration. MORE THAN 2000 IN LINE Flower-Decked Pupils Win Plaudits of Crowds. ORIGINALITY IS SHOWN Variety or Costumes and Precision in Evolutions Give Evidence of Careful Training Offical Awards Delayed. I.EXTS ANI SOl'TH MOUNT TA BOR SCHOOLS LEAD. The judges, C.' A. Biselow and Wil liam Jackson, failed to make any official count In the children's pa rade yesterday and were unable to announce the awards. The judges said last night that they would be unable to announce their awards until Mon day. A newspaper count of the children showed that the East Side Business Men's Club cup, for the largest per centage of children from any one school in parade was won by South Mount Tabor School, Principal Pri deaux, having 38 children In the line of march, more thitb 51 per cent.. The unofficial count showed that the Lents School had the largest turnout of children, 215. If this count is confirmed, the Lents School will have the A. B. Manley cup. The Manley cup was won last year by the Williams Avenue School, now known as the Elliott School. - Portland children made their con tribution yesterday to the success of the Rose Festival. Though It was the hottest day of the year, the children were favored In the period when the parade was actually S in motion. Only one child was com pelled by the heat to drop out of line. That one did not suffer seriously. The massed march of the children by schools was the most effective day light parade of the week. With the possible exception of the electrical pa rade. It was the most effectlbe exhi bition of all those given on the streets since the Festival began. It was a picture such as only chil dren could portray. Dressed in white and decked with roses, both boys and girls gave an exhibition of health, youth and beauty that could not have been surpassed elsewhere. . The chil dren were applauded from end to end of the line of march. Schools Drllled"carerully. Marching in fours. In eights and in platoons of 16, each school showed evi dence of careful drilling. Ahead of the schools were 80 girls marching in pla toons of 20.. These were taken 20 from the Hawthorne, Sunnyslde, Stevens and Buckman schools. Dressed in the Stars and Stripes, these children performed evolutions all along the line. Under trie direction of Professor Robert Krohn, as they marched, the little girls wheeled, coun termarched and danced. They formed stars and "solid," "open" and "British" squares, without missing step. Five schools had a feature In the form of two platoons of tiny children dressed in old-fashioned costumes to represent five different flowers. The flowers represented were the mar guerite, violet, forget-me-not, pink rosea and rambler rose. The schools from which the flower children ap peared were the Hawthorne. Holladay, Stevens, Buckman and Sunnyside. Special Features ' Shown. To Professor Robert Krohn those who witnessed the parade are Indebted for ita special features. For- several months past he had drilled the children. and he had only one rehearsal with all the children In line. The showing ranked with the display of the Amer ican flag: he made when President Taft was a visitor In Portland. At that time he had more than 5000 children In the stands of Multnomah Field. The diBplay yesterday was of a dif ferent class. The parade extended more than a mile. Bach school was led sep arately by Its principal when In line, the companies being under the com mand of children. Although more than 2000 children were in line, and although they marched and performed evolutions the entire length of their route from East Twelfth and Hawthorne by way of Hawthorne and Grand avenue to Orand and East Everett, there was not a single mis adventure. The parade moved off promptly at S:S0 o'clock, under the direction of General Flnser, who was in command. As his staff General Flnser had Major T. M. Dunbar and Captain M. B. Marcellus. A large force of police under the oommand of Captain Bailey led the column. Ser geants Qolts and Keller acted as Lieu tenants. Chief Cox was In the line of march, riding John Oordano's magnifi cent horso. Chief, Folios Sand lends. The poiloe band beaded the American Beauties. These were little girls dressed (Concluded on Pass .). IRIVAA I FAnFRS TO UNITE FORSUFFRAGE MRS. HTJTTOX AXD MRS. DEV'OE WIL UVORK IX HARMONY. Cause of Votes for Women Will So Longer Suffer Through Wran gles of Factions.. SPOKAXB, Wash., June 10. (Special.) Leaders of the two Woman's Suffragist organizations of the state will bury the hatchet and work in unison for the cause of equal suffrage. It is announced today that complete harmony between the Washington Poli tical Equality League and the Washing ton Equal Suffrage Association will exist during the rest of the campaign in East ern Washington, and the followers of May Arkwright Hutton and Emma Smith Devoe will direct their energies, not against one another but for the cause of equal rights. , - 1 While this is in no way an alliance of the organizations; it is stated a tacit understanding exists between the leaders which will prevent a repetition of the former misunderstanding and fight at-Seattle, at the time of the state convention. Everything else will give way to the ap peal for equal rights, and while both or ganizations will thoroughly cover Eastern Washington separately during - the ' cam paign, there will be no conflicting dates. CRACKED GUNS PUTTIED UP Hughes Says Naval Armament More Dangerous to Gunner. WASHINGTON-, June 10. "I have sworn affidavits that cracks In guns made by the Bethlehem Steel Company have been puttied up by experts in order that they might pass inspection,", declared Hughes of New Jersey in advocating the construction of battleships in Navy yards, during a discussion of a 'conference re port on the Naval - appropriation bill In the House today. Roberts of Massachusetts, a rriember of the Naval affairs committee, challenged this statement. "And these guns," addded Hughes, "are more dangerous to the man behind them than they are to the enemy In front of them." Hughes said he did not know whether such guns had been accepted by the Government ATHLETE'S WIFE DIVORCEE Mrs.. .Robert Schwab Once Entered Into Suicide Pact With Husband. TACOMA, June 10. Mrs. Robert Schwab obtained a divorce from her husband, well known on the Coast as a wrestler. in the Superior Court today, on her alle gation of cruelty and desertion. Schwab was not in courj:. The wife, who married Schwab when she was 15 years old, was party to a sui cide pact with her husband shortly after their marriage, both taking laudanum. He nearly died, but she escaped serious consequences by going to a skating rink immediately and skating vigorously. 1111 ' svC 'mmJifj! w$00m ' --V'Vv1X:V- ? ft llhl J :: VALUATION CLAUSE SEEMS TO BE LOST Conferees on Railroad Bill Agreeing. SHORT HAUL COMPROMISED Regulation of Security Issues to Be Eliminated. INSURGENTS GAIN POINT Increases of Rates to Be Suspended Ten Months t When Assailed. Burden of Proving Reason ablenes on Companies. WASHINGTON, June 10. Conferees on the Administration railroad bill had the aid of Attorney-General Wickersham to day and it was announced tonight that there is a possibility of a final agree ment on Monday and Tuesday. No me m ber of the conference committee would discuss the details of today's accomplish ments.' It was learned, however, that a tenta tive 'agreement was reached aa to the long and short-haul provision, which will consist practically of both the Senate and Hou3 amendments on the subject. The stocks and bonds provisions are to be eliminated, as the conferees say that because of the Democratic opposition they could not secure the adoption of the con ference report providing for Federal reg ulation of securities. Physical Valuation Abandoned. The ascertainment of the physical val uation of railroads, it Is asserted, will not be provided for in the conference bill. Senator Aldrich told . Representative Mann that the Senate had voted four times to reject the project and that it was folly to consume time in discussing it-- In the course of the day Mann, substi tuted a House amendment on the subject, but the Senate conferees characterized it as a "makeshift," which, if adopted, would subject the conference committee to general condemnation " by those who favor an investigation of the value of railroad property. Mann has not entirely abandoned hope of compelling the acceptance of some pro vision on this subject. Several times he referred to the fact that the House had (Concluded on Page 2.) GENERAL VIEW Or THE EAST SIDE irgg."JW.1W.-WV, INDEX OF TOWS NEWS ' . The Weather. . YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. S4 degrees; minimum. degrees. TODAY'S Showers and cooler; southerly winds shifting; to westerly. Rose Festival. Number of passengers carried by Portland streetcars Thursday, 4u2;SO0, breaks all records. Page 9. .Human - rosebud parade on East Side par ticipated In by 20OO children. Pace 1.. Rom Festival's popularity grows through ex pressions, of approval ox visitors. Page 8. Rose Festival will cloae tonight- Page 9. , Foreign. Roosevelt boards steamer for New York. Page s. Mutilated body of' American woman found submerged In trunk In lake In Italy. Page 1. National. House committee investigating charge that Mexican system of espionage on political refugees Involves corruption of American officers. Page 2- Prosldent recommends C. B. Merrick for postmaster at Portland. Page 5. Oonferees on railroad bill may reach agree ment early next week; progress - already made. Page 1. . - Domestic. Harriman lines order rolling stock to extent of tl.15,000 to be delivered thja year. Page 1. Policeman mistakes kangaroo for drunken woman. Page 3. Sport. Pacific Coast Ieague results: La Angeles lO. Portland 2; Ban Francisco S. Oak land 1; Vernon 6, Sacramento 5. Page 12. Johnson resting for Sunday's activities. Page 12. Commercial and Marine. Good export trade In Oregon prunes. Page ID. ' i Bearish factors prevail in Chicago wheat market. Page 19. Bears manipulate stocks at New " York. Page 18. -Trade outlook better than last week. Page 19. Steamer Knight of the Garter clears with record cargo of lumber. Page 18. ' Pacific 'Northwest. Friends of Salem postmaster believe he win be reappointed. Page 6. Ben Hinton, convicted of complicity in mob murder, spirited to secret hiding place. ' " Page 7. Portland and Vicinity. Suspected pickpockets permitted to leave city. Page 13. St. Johns Hindu rkt trial will open here to day. Page 14. Mllwaukie people will discuss new way. to secure 5-cent fares. Page 11. Pacific Coast commercial organizations, rep resented by 54 persons, leave for Orient In August. Page 8. Jury of leading business men spends Festival week hearing damage suit In Federal Court. Page 14. Portland has hottest June day since 1903. Page 7. Klaw Erlanger's representative here to close deal for theater site. Page 9. Draymen, for second time, ask Mayor Simon for police protection. Page 14. CLARA MORRIS' HOME GOES Famous Actress' , Residence Cnder Hammer to Satisfy Mortgage. WHITE PLAINS. N. T., June 10. Un less some steps are taken to prevent it, it is probable that the old home of Clara Morris, on Rlverdale avenue, Yonkers, where the actress Is seriously ill, will be sold under foreclosure of -mortgage. Judge Keogh today - in the Supreme Court appointed Laurence Crosby, an at torney, referee to sell the property. The application was made by a trust company, which alleged that $25,250.40 was due from the actress and her husband, Frederick C. Harriott. SCHOOL CHILDREN'S PARADE it ii i u 1 1 1 1 1 1 nm hm nrrsmsW -r - ! t" rii mhiiiiims iims innsiisi i r ' " ' " i n i mil -i i mmisl - .vv. -.. -i s ............................. ...A HE1KE CONVICTED OF SUGAR FRAUDS Jury Finds Against Officer of Trust. GERBBACHT IS ALSO GUILTY Conspiracy to Defraud Gov ernment Is Offense. NO VERDICT FOR THIRD MAN Daughters of Secretary of Big Con cern in Court as Twelve Men Re tire to. Determine Verdict Sending Father to Jail. NEW YORK. June 10. Charles R. Helke. secretary of the American Sugar Refining Company, "was convicted to night of conspiracy to defraud the Government Ernest W. Gerbracht was convicted on six counts. The jury disagreed . as to James F. Bandernagel. The jury in the case of Helke and his two former subordinate, charged with conspiring to defraud the Government by means of sugar underweights, re tired for ' deliberation this afternoon at 3:35 o'clock. Judge Martin delivered his charge to the jury before a crowd -which filled ttie courtroom and which included Heik;'s two daughters, who have attended meny sessions of the trial, and President Wash ington D. Thomas, of the American Sugar Refining Company. Of the charges against the secretary of the company, Judge Martin had this AO say : ' "If Helke had knowledge of the frauds- and kept a series of accounts to conceal the frauds, you should find htm guilty, even though he might not have known the means of conspiracy and did not know the men who worked out the) scheme." ' On the question of character testi mony. Judge Martin told the jury to "bear in mind that a reputation that it took a lifetime to build up may be laid oVown in an hour, or a single moment may unearth a concealed life." - Heirs Fight for $2,000,000 Estate. NEW YORK. June 10. The legal battle for the J2.000.000 estate left by Benjamin Hart, . Virginian who died In Paris two years ago, began today before Justice Greenbaum in the Supreme Court. MARCHING DOWN GRAND AVENUE. HARRIMAN LINES SPEND $1,125,000 ORDER FOR ROILIXG STOCK LARGEST OF LATE. Passenger Locomotives to "X umber of 85 Must Be Delivered to System . During Year of 1910. ."' NEW YORK. June 10. Speclal. Alba IB. Johnson, vice-president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, announced today that the company had received an order from the Harriman lines for 85 passenger loco motives of the largest and heaviest type. The order means an expenditure of about $1.125.000 by the Harriman system. It is the largest locomotive order placed in some time. "Deliveries are to be made in -October, November and December. In reply to a question as to the re ported cancellation of equipment orders by certain railroads. Mr. Johnson said that no orders had been cancelled and that there was no expectation that any would be. CHICAGO 2 HOURS NEARER i Overland Limited to Make Notice able Cut July 1. CHICAGO, June 10. (Special.) The running time of the Overland Limited train between Chicago and San Fran cisco is to be reduced by two hours. The date of the change probably will be July 1. Westbound it has been decided to have the train leave Chicago on the Northwestern and St. Paul roads at 7 P. M. and have it arrive in San Fran cisco at 5:25 instead of 7:25 P. M. Two trains, both called the Overland Lim ited, are combined at Omaha and run from there to San Francisco over the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific roads. - - The reduction over the Northwestern and Harriman lines is due to double tracking and additional block signals. There is now fully 1000 miles of double track over that route between here and San Francisco. MAN MAD FROM COW'S BITE Rabid Animal Dies but Its Victim Is Still Alive. FLTjLERTON, - Cal., June 10. (Spe cial.) While treating a cow for an un known trouble last Monday evening, FrsJik McDermont, a veterinary surgeon, was bitten on one hand and within a few hours developed symptoms of hydrophobia. The cow died Tuesday evening, with a well developed and violent case of rabies. The animal had been acting queerly for some time, but its condition did not become serious until Saturday evening. Monday, the veterinarian was called and in his examination got the bite and his hand became infected. He has gone to the Pasteur treatment. AM ERi CAT WOMAN IS SLAIN IN ITALY Body Found in Trunk Submerged in Lake. YOUTHFUL HUSBAND MISSING Police Arrest Russian Land lord of Villa. FISHERMEN MAKE FIND Evidence Is Plain That Woman Was Beaten to Death With Club or Iron Bar Former Husband Is Official in Alaska. MILAN, June 10. (Special.) The po lice are searching Lombard! and all Northern Italy for the murderer of an American woman, whose body, stuffed In a trunk, was found by fishermen yesterday In a little lake near the Vil lage of Moltrasio, a short distance from Como and about 30 miles from this city. - The authorities of Cernobbio, the nearest city of consequence to the scene of the murder, have ascertained that she was Mrs. Porter Charlton and that she has been living with her hus band in the Villa Moltraslo. which had been let to them by a Russian gentle men they met casually. Husband Gone, Russian Held. The police discovered after an ex amination of letters and papers found in the abandoned villa that Mrs. Charl ton, before her last marriage, was Mrs. Mary Castle, wife of a well-known Am erican. Porter Charlton has disappeared and Constantino Spolatoff, the Russian who rented the villa, was arrested this afternoon at Roggiano. It was early yesterday morning when the attention of the Cernobbla police was directed to this mysterious crime. Fish ermen of Moltraslo had gone out in the small lake to cast their lines. Their hooks became fast In a large object, which re sisted stubbornly. After some effort they managed to draw the object to the surface. They saw that it was a trunk and, with considerable difficulty, they rowed to shore, towing it. After beach ing it they ripped open the cover with knives, hoping to find something of value. Fishermen Take Fright. What they saw was the body of a. woman, wrapped in a sheet and jammed into the trunk so tightly that the head rested between the knees. The fisher men were greatly frightened and lost no time in running to Moltraslo- and ac quainting the authorities. The news .was dispatched to Cernobbia and detectives of the criminal branch arrived swiftly. Beginning their investigation, they found that the trunk had been weighted down with stonee. The lake was comparative ly shallow and It was not remarkable, that fishhooks had caught and held in the trunk. The white sheet which was wrapped exound the body -bore In one corner the Initials "O. L." , Marks of Violence Plain. An examination of the body disclosed that the woman had been perhaps 35: years old and good-looking. Her hair was dark brown and eyes blue-gray. She was about Ave feet six or seven inches tall and 1 of handsome figure. j The head and upper part of the bodyj were covered with clotted blood and It i was evident that she had been beaten to death with a club or iron bar. The back of her skull was crushed and her arms and shoulders displayed marks of savage abuse. It was the opinion of the police that the woman had been dead only a short time end that the trunk had been sunk in the lake within a few hours before It was dragged to the surface by the fishermen. Packet of Letters Found. A packaga of letters, some of which, were etgned "N. W. Castle." and which, had been posted at San Jose, Cal., and two prayer-books were found In the trunk. They kept secret the contents of the letters, giving out only the lnfor-' mat Ion that . W. Castle" had been, it seemed, an Intimate friend of the dead woman, and that the letters were dated between 1S04. and 1907. . - In the trunk, too, was a photograph of a man of perhaps 20 years. Pursuing their Investigation, the police gathered clews which lad speedily to a hunt for Porter Charlton and a Russian who gsrva his name as Constantlne Spolatoff. The proprietor of the Hotel Suisse, on Laka Como, the keeper of an apothecary- shop at Cernobbia, boatmen of the west bank of Lake Como and the inhabitants of several villages in the neighborhood were able to supply Information of value. Innkeeper Tells of Quarrels, The lnkeeper said that a couple who called themselves Mr. and Mrs. Porter arrived at the Hotel Suisse several weeks' ago. He volunteered the opinion that th pair quarreled frequently. He heard th women crying often late in the night. Guests of the hotol complained they wera disturbed by ber outcries. One morning very early the proprietor was aroused by shrieks. He found the woman had hidden in a cupboard, hoping to escape her husband, but the husband had found her and was dragging her to the street. The lnkeeper said he was obliged then, fegtoncluded ea Pace -) I