VOL,. L.-XO. 15,466. PORTLAND, OREGON. 'WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FATALLY SHOT; SLAYER IS SUICIDE Death Ends Quarrel Be tween Two Men. ANGRY FATHER-IN-LAW FIRES IAs Bullet Strikes, ex-Soldier . Turns Weapon on Himself, x VICTIM CANNOT SURVIVE "When Young Husband Goes to Seek Reconciliation With "Wife, Her j. Father, In Rage, Draws Re. I volver and Shoots to Kill. One man is dead and another dying as the result of a. domestic quarrel, in which C. A. Buch, an angry father-in-law, shot George W. Rauch, his son-in-aw, through the head, and then turned the weapon upon himself, send ing two bullets crashing through his own - brain, in his home at 246 Page Street, at 7 o'clock last evening. Buch died instantly. The police sent Rauch to the Good Samaritan Hospital, where his death Is expected momentarily. There were no witnesses to the hooting and, as a consequence, the real incidents leading up to the killing are a mystery.. From friends of both men it was learned last night that Rauch, who had married Buch's daughter, Bes sie, 18 months ago, instituted divorce proceedings against her only a week ago. Since taking this action. It is said that he has repented, and last evening visited their former home on Page street, where Buch and Rauch's wife lived, for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation. Wife Not Present. Upon reaching the house it Is evident that Rauch found his wife absent, but iier father at home. Apparently words passed between , the two men andi the climax of the quarrel came when Buch secured a .32-caliber revolver and fired point-blank at his son-in-law while they stood in the little dining-room. The bul let struck lts ' mark, . entering Rauch's right temple and Inflicting a wound that will probaWy be fatal: He fell prostrate en the floor. Seeing his victim fall apparently life less, Buch retired to a rear bedroom and proceeded to his own execution by firing two bullets into his head. The leaden slugs entered the mouth and plowed their courses upward through the head and after emerging imbedded them selves in the wall. The first intimation that a tragedy had occurred was received by Eli Schupe, who lives next door to the Buchs" home' on Page street. Schupe, hearing the shot that felled Rauch, hastily ran out of his1 home and upon the porch of the house In which the shooting occurred. He sought to gain entrance, but found the front door locked. Two More Shots Heard. Just as he started to run around to the rear of the building, Schupe heard two more shots. Gaining entrance through a rear door he found Rauch lying uncon scious on the floor, weltering In bis life's blood. 4 On further investigation, Schupe found Buch lying crosswise over a bed in a rear bedroom, with two gaping bul let wounds In his head and life almost extinct. Rushing to a telephone, the neighbor summoned Ir. "W". B. Hamilton. Buch was dead when the phj-Bician arrived, but Rauch had partially revived and re gained his senses' enough to gasp: "The old man shot me." The police were soon on the scene and Rauch was hastened to the hospital. Deputy Coroner Dunning was notified and after viewing the remains of Buch con cluded that death resulted by his own hand. His body was removed to the morgue. i Relations Were Strained. Strained relations have existed between Buck and Rauch for several months. Ac cording to those familiar with the fam ily's affairs, the breach between Rauch and his father-in-law began to widen after the latter had come to reside with his daughter and son-in-law at the little home in which the shooting occurred. This was shortly after their marriage. The bitterness grew until the parent had turned his daughter against her hus band, it Is said. Rauch had prophesied the sequel if matters continued - and on several occasions is said to have tried to adjust matters and live amicably. When he failed, he began divorce proceedings against his wife. She could not be located last night. She is thought to have left Portland early yesterday afternoon. Ranch Is Blacksmith. Rauch Is about 35 years of age and was In business with his brother in a blacksmith shop at Williams avenue and Sacramento street. Buch is 55 .years of age and had been a resident of Portland for a number of years. He formerly belonged to the Regular Army and was stationed at Vancouver barracks until about 15 years ago. when he suffered an acci dental gunshot wound In his left leg, which necessitated the amputation of ; the limb. Since that time he had worn j an artificial leg. No one had claimed his- body at the Alorguo up to a late hour last niarht. ETHEL ROOSEVELT "ENGAGED," RUMOR OTSTER BAY FOLKMHINK SHE WILIi WED NEWSPAPER 31AN. Ex-President's Daughter Entertains Former Washington Correspond ent at Lnncheon. OYSTER BAT, L. I., June 21. (Spe cial.) "Is Miss Ethel Roosevelt en gaged to be married?" This is the question which Oyster Bay folk are asking. James Thomas Williams, one-time Washington newspaper correspondent, later member of the Civil Service Com mission, was Miss Roosevelt's guest at luncheon today. He arrived on the noon train, and Miss Roosevelt was at the station in a runabout to meet him. She greeted htm as "James." They mingled a little with other members of the Roosevelt family during the afternoon, and went for a long walk after luncheon. Mr. Williams left for New York early this evening. Miss Roosevelt brought him down to the station in her runabout. Ertirlng the Roosevelt Administration Mr. Williams was a welcome visitor to the White House. During the last Na tional campaign he served as private secretary to Frank H. Hitchcock, Re publican National chairman. THIEF BOXES UP PLUNDER Then Sells Out to Junkmen, Sending Them to House He Robbed. SAN FRANCISCO. June 21. When John T. Whellend, local superintendent for the Guggenheim Smelter Company, returned with his family from a vaca tion, he found his house stripped of all its silverware and Jewelry, and the furniture packed and crated ready for removal. A steady stream of second hand dealers called at the residence to day with orders for the furniture, which they had received from a thrifty burglar. Detectives were placed on the case and have succeeded in recov ering the silverware and arresting John P. Hurley for its theft. The furniture, including ' the stove, was as securely packed as if the fam ily had contemplated regular removal. Orders for the household goods were scattered among a number of second hand dealers who were surprised when they were told that the goods had been sold to them by a burglar. Only the unexpected return of the family pre vented the house from being emptied of its contents'. " . . - VETERAN SLEEPS 55 HOURS Relatives Unable to Arouse Klamath Falls Man for Two Days. KLAMATH FALLS. Or., June 21 (Special.) E. B. Ramsby, a Civil War veteran and an old-timer of Klamath County, has just awakened from a sleep which lasted B5 hours. Last Wednes day evening he went to bed at the usual time, about 9 o'clock, and when his wife tried to get him up next morn ing she was unable to get him to more than open his eyes and answer her vaguely. Attempts were made all day to awaken him, but to no avail. Mr. Ramsby slept on until 1 o'clock Friday morning, without even being thoroughly aroused, although, he was awakened several times, but would go back to sleep while being talked to. Once he was induced to get out of bed, but while dressing went to sleep and fell over. Since awakening Ramsby has felt no bad results from bis sleep. Mr. Ramsby did not consult a physician, but he ascribes his sleep to the fact that he has worked very hard the past year. He thinks he was simply fatigued from hard work and his system required rest. WAR A LA AIRSHIP IS PLAN Atlantic City to Be Scene of First Experiment of Time. NEW YORK, June 21. (Special.) At lantic City is prepared to outdo the entire universe in up-to-date matters by holding a sham battle of airships and. a navy in and over the ocean, during aviation week, which will be featured here from July 4 to July 11. Inclusive. The Atlantic. Aero Club today sent an application to the authorities at Wash ington asking for a warship to shoot up an airship fleet which will be directed by Aviators Curtlss, Hamilton and Brook ings. The attack is to consist of an at tempt to drop sandbags, presumed to be filled with a high-power explosive, upon a warship's deck from an aeroplane. The sandbag, of course. Is supposed to con tain enough destructive stuff to transfer the sea-fighter from the surface service to the fleet of Admiral McGinty.. A prize of $1000 will be awarded to the first aeronaut , who succeeds in dropping one of the sandbags on a ship's deck. CHILD'S MURDERER FOUND? Man Said to Have Killed Little Alma Kellner, in Texas. HOUSTON, Tex., June 21. It is re ported that Joseph Wendllng, of Louis ville, alleged slayer of Alma Kellner, has been discovered on a ranch near Houston. His arrest is being deferred pending the arrival of the necessary papers of extradition. Valuable Antiquities Arrive. . BOSTON, June 21. What is said to be one of the most valuable collections of antiquities ever brought into the country has just arrived here on the steamship IBloemfontein from the buried cities and tombs of Egypt. They are consigned to the Metropolitan. Museum la New York. 520,000,000 VOTED FOR IRRIGATION House Partially Keeps Promise to Taft ALL AMENDMENTS REJECTED Mistaken - Idea of Wishes of President Prevails. WARREN'S BILL REFUSED Sleasure for Sale of Surplus Water Fails in Form of Rider and ; Probably Will Not Pass Until Next Session. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 21. Acting under heavy pressure from the White House and In partial fulfillment of promises made to President Taft by Speaker Cannon and Chairman Payne, the House of Repre sentatives, by an overwhelming vote at 10 o'clock tonight passed the bill making available J20.000.000 to expe dite the completion of Government ir rigation projects. Passage of the bill by the Senate is assurred. : . . Not one man in ten who voted for the "bill understood Its Importance or appreciated the good it is intended to accomplish. They voted for it because of President Taft's insistence, and it was apparent that the House would as readily have voted J30.000.000 as $20 -000.000. All Amendments Rejected. All the amendments which were pro posed in the .course of the four-hour debate were voted down, for the" mem bers generally did not understand their significance and all but Westerners la bored under the erroneous Impression the President wanted the ways and means committee bill without any change. - Just before the - debate closed. Rep resentative Hamer, of Idaho, offered the Warren bill authorizing the sale of surplus water from the Government projects as an amendment tp the $20, 000.000 bill, but the House treated this as it did all the other amendments and voted it down without understanding Its purpose. Chairman Payne made a point of or der on this amendment but . this was overruled by the Speaker. That, how ever, did not save the amendment, when it was put' to a vote. Failure to in corporate Warren bill as an amend ment probably means that it will have to go over until the next session, for no arrangement has been made for Its consideration separately In the House. Payne Speaks for Bill. Representative Payne, as chairman of the ways and means committee, had charge of the $20,000,000 bill before the House, and, although personally MEMBERS OF SENATE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE V 11 a, t. -.-- ii . . opposed to it, made a fair and forceful speech in its behalf. There was no roll call, but a division was demanded, and on rising vote 165 members voted for the passage of the bill and 20 against It. This did rfot constitute a quorum, and Underwood, of Alabama, who led the fight against the bill, was about to make a point of no quor um and perhaps prevent the passage of tbs bill tonight, when the Speaker antlolpatsd his demand snd announoed the Mil passed by a vote of 256 to 20, . The House laughed uproariously at this, as it was manifest that there were not 256 members present, but everyo'ne was In good humor and the Speaker's announcement was allowe- to go un challenged. - . Borah to Canvass Senators. If there Is a night session tomorrow, the bill will be called up then for con sideration. Otherwise,- it probably will go over until Thursday, for the postal savings bank bill has the right of way until 6 o'clock tomorrow. What ths programme will be Is not yet known. Senator Borah, who is leading the fight for 130,000,000, will convaM the Bon ate tomorrow to ascertain whether or jLCenoluded oa f INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS . ' The Weather. ' ' YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature," 63 degrees; minimum, 49 degrees. TODAY'S Probably fair; westerly winds. Foreign. Miss Mildred Carter becomes bride of Lord Acheson In London. Page 2. National. House passes bill allowing S20.0O0.OOO bonds tor Irrigation enterprises. Page 1. v - Domestic. Accused Lorimer agent does not take wit ness stand. Page 1. Inquest-over bodies -of Samuel - Elmore and Mrs. Purdy oarretson to be held In South today. . Page 2. . Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Sacrimento 5, Portland 4: Los Angeles 5, Oakland 4; - Vernon 4, San Francisco . 3. ' Page 8. Reno will be scene of big fight. Page 8. r Pacific Northwest. - Portland boys win oratorical prizes at TJnl- versity. Page 1. ' .- - -Oregon -a. A. R. convenes In annual session at Astoria. Page 6. ..... . With 'throat cut., dying" man ' signals-train and names slayer. : Page 7. ... Commercial and Marlo. Looal wheat and flour markets show effects of Eastern bulge, page 21- Wheat advances over 8 cents at Chicago. Page 21. Wall street Ignores the crop scare. - Page 20. Longshoremen refuse arbitration by Cham ber of commerce in wage increase. Page JO. . Tug bneonta will make test- trip today. Page 8. . Portland and Vicinity.. Street railway company to shift and improve tracks. Page 14. father shoots son-in-law. Page L' Jury convlctst -Herrin. Page ;14. -Pioneers wiil convene today. Page 12. Indian War Veterans seek equality wtth Civil War. veterans . on pension question. Page 12. "Lodge habit" excuse for meetings with "other women," says ' neglected wife. Page 9. -Streetcar wrecks store. Page 12. Legality of evidence obtained from wife of Oregon Lumber- Company - bookkeeper questioned. Page 11. Grand lodge of Knights of . Pythias elects . officers; other Pythian bodies meet. Page 14. BRIDE, AT ALTAR, ROBBED Pawnshop .Find Discloses Theft on ex-Governor's Daughter. DENVER,; Colo., June 21. Through the recovery by the police in a local pawnshop of a gold watch and chain belonging to Mrs. William Gordon Len nox, daughter of ex-Governor Henry A. Buch t who was married here last Sat urday afternoon, it was learned today that the bride was robbed while she was Btandlng at the altar. - The watch and chain, a present from her father, had been left in a chatelaine bag in the woman's dressing-room of the church while the. ceremony was being performed. There Is no clue to the Identity of " the - thief beyond a vague description given by the pown brokers. MAIL INDEMNITY ASKED Measure Essential to Growth of - Service, Hitchcock Declares. WASHINGTON. June 2. A recom mendation has been made to Congress by Postmaster-General Hitchcock that a law be nacted to indemnify the senders or owners of third and fourth-class domestic registered matter lost in the malls. The Postmaster-General urges that no growth of third and fourth-class regis tered mail can. be expected unless Indem nity for possible loss can be granted. Re fusal to grant such indemnity he main tains, is an unfavorable discrimination against domestic mall, as an indemnity Is provided for the loss of registered pack ages in foreign mails. '---''.s -3.--- m r BRIBER ABANDONS HIS OWN DEFENSE Accused Lorimer Agent Not on Stand. REBUTTAL NOT ATTEMPTED Men Relied on Prove Valuable to Prosecution. 50 -WITNESSES EXCLUDED Defendant Hope Jury Will Not Be lieve Confession of Representa tive White Lorimer Him self Is Not Heard.' - CHICAGO, June 21. (Special.) Coir" fronted by the sudden discovery that some of his own witnesses would dis-' close damaging evidence against him if called upon to testify. Representa tive Lee O'Neil Browne today aban doned his "defense." United States Senator William Lori mer, for whom Browne Is accused of having acted In the alleged bribing of Legislators and whose sea is placed in Jeopardy by the evidence heard, did not take the witness stand to enter a denial. Representative Browne himself failed to testify that Representative White's confession was untrue, or even to be come a witness at all in his own be half. . . . The sudden move of the defense was wholly unexpeexed. More than 50 wit nesses for the 'defense were thus ex cluded. Several of these, in addition to Browne and Jjenator Lorimer, were considered important. Among them was Lieutenant Governor Gillespie, who arrived in Chicago from Springfield this morning. Disbelief in White Hoped For. It is said that Browne's counsel be lieves their case stands or falls upon Whether the Jury Is willing to accept the .testimony of Representative Charles A. White, who made the first confes sion and gave the principal testimony in the alleged bribery scandal. It is hoped by the defense that the jury will look upon White's testimony as doubtful. - - It was just before, the morning ses sion that Representative Browne's law yers discovered that the testimony on which they were relying to Impeach White and Beokemeyer's stories on the witness-stand would be far more val uable to the state than to the defense. The two witnesses who were to have been thus used were G. N. Welch, of Carlylye, and District Attorney Walter ITowden. of East St. Johns. According to the questions directed at Beckemeyer while he was on the witness-stand for .the proescution. It was expected to prove that the Legis- (Concluded on Page 2.) CHARGES OF BRIBERY AGAINST s at V ft nlri- " 1 1 fl i )? - V .....ua r OILED FLOORS ARE FOOD FOR FLAMES SPOKANE'S SOUTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DESTROYED. Class Records ' and : Athletic Team Trophies Saved, but $1000 Piano Goes 1 Cp in Smoke. SPOKANE, June 21. (Special.) One of the most spectacular fires Spokane has suffered since the city's destruction a quarter of a century ago was that which destroyed the South Central High School here today. From the front to the back and from the basement to the roof, and even through the high clock tower, the Interior of the building was a seething mass of flames, ' tearing through the heavy walls as If they were so much paper. The floors had been oiled repeatedly after being swept, and this was the best food for the flames. The high steeple of the clock tower fell first, Just as the chimes were striking the hour of '7 and crashed through the three floors of the main building together. Many of the trees in front of the school were ruined by the. heat and the flying brands. The grass was scorched and ruined almost to fourth avenue. In defiance of all the havoc near it, the new fountain placed on the school grounds by the graduating class that left the school this month, continued spouting the lit tle stream of water that fell In a sprary in the huge granite bowl. All the student records for years past have been saved. These records and the athletic trophies that were In Principal Hart's office are the only things In the high school building that were saved. ' A new $1000 grand piano In the au ditorium was burned, although a strenuous effort was made to save It. BACK BROKEN, MAN LIVES Impaired Fragment of Spine Is Re moved by Operation. VANCOUVER, Wash., June 21. (Spe cial.) With his back broken as the result of a fall from a flume 24 feet high, and the broken fragment of the spine removed by a surgical operation, Carl Nelson, a logger, still lives and has some chance for partial recovery at least. A wek ago Nelson fell from a flume, landing on a pile of rocks. His back was broken, so he was carried several miles on . rude stretcher to a railroad station and brought to Vancouver. His life was at first despaired of, but he showed great vitality. The operation was performed, removing the broken bone, and this relieved the pa tient. He had lost the sense of feeling blow the waist line, but now he can feel as far down as his knees. The case is A most remarkable one, ' eo the doctors think. JOHN H. M'GRAW SINKING Ex-Governor Suffers Relapse; An other Will Mean End. SEATTLE. Wash., June 21. (Special.) Ex-Governor John H. McGraw suffered a bad sinking spell this morning. His heart is showing signs of weaken ing and the physicians say another such relapse will be the end. SENATOR LORIMER OF ILLINOIS - . i i " - IT , T3- 1 v.-.-.v -x . : -." YOUNG MEN WIN PRIZES IN ORATORY Rounds and Geary Are Portland Boys. AWARDS MADE AT YARSITY Regents Add Two New Mem bers to Oregon Faculty. ALUMNI ELECT OFFICERS Allen Eaton, '02, Is Chosen Presi dent Seniors Defeat Old Grads In Tug of War, and lasers Are Ducked in Mill-Race. t UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, Or., June 21. (Special.) Harold J. Rounds, of Portland, won the Palling prize of $150 in the annual seniorator ical contest tonight with his oration on "The Higher Laws." Arthur M. Geory, also of Portland, won second place and the Beekman prize of 75. His subject was "A Meslanlc Hope." Rounds was this year's varsity or ator. He entered the university from the Lincoln High school and has made an evniable record in the public-speaking department. He was one of the junior leaders last year. Geory did his preparatory work In the Portland Acad emy. He is a new man In oratory and his work tonight was rather a sur prise. The prizes are the largest open to the students during their college course, and. the. Falllng-Beekman con test is the goal of every senior. It is the one forensic contest of the year which draws a crowded house, tonight's crowd being the largest of commence ment week. "Higher Law" Rounds' Subject. Rounds' subject deal with t-'e need that the higher impulses be placed in ,the foreground in public and private life. "Justice," he said, "has been the law of man and civilization. But with the complications of modern life, with the progress of humanity, there is need for a higher law, a law benefiting man's' lofty state." Rounds alluded to the higher law In public life as exemplified in such men as Roosevelt and Hughes, and said that success was possible for them only if the public give them the support that comes from the highest human im pulses. Geary Speaks of Newspapers. Geary spoke on the modern news paper. He showed first the service it has accomplished and is able to accom plish. But its mission, he said. Is often thwarted by - corruption and sensa tionalism. The hope of the future, ac cording to the orator, lies in an un tramelled press, an educated and en lightened public opinion, and a fear less editorship. The other orators and their subjects were Mi&s Frances Ober teuffer, of Portland, on "The Hand maiden of the Lord"; Miss Isolene Shaver, of Portland, on "The Higher Law," and Benjamin H. Williams, of Eugene, on "Non-Conformity and Progress." Regents Xante New Professors. The board of regents today elected Arthur J. Collier, B. A., M. A., B. S.. of Harvard, to fill the chair of geology, which has been vacant since the resig nation of Professor Condon five years ago. He will get a salary of $2000. Collier Is now a member of the United States Geological Survey. He is a son of Dr. A. J. Collier, once professor of chemistry In the university. Dr. C. J. C. Bennett, Ph. D., of Colum bia, comes from the West Virginia Stats Normall school, of which he has been president for the past three years, to take Professor Howthorne's place at the, head of the psychology department, also at a salary of $2000. Before going to West Virginia Dr. Bennett was head of the department of education at the -University of Louisiana. Dr. Hawthorne was made professor emeritus and resolutions appreciative of his long service were passed and en grossed on velum to be presented to him. Professor Howthorne is the first Oregon man to retire under the provisions of the Carnegie pension fund, from which he will receive $1400 annually. George F. Lussky, B. A., . of Illinois, was elected to fill the vacancy in the German department caused by the year's leave of absence granted to Dr. H. W. Koehler, who is visiting Germany. A total of 136 students. Including those from the departments of law and medi cine in Portland were .recommended for degrees by the . faculty and passed by the regents. Alumni Ducked by Seniors. The Alumni Association after passing resolutions in favor of Normal school education In the State, elected the fol lowing officers for next year President, Allen Eaton; vice presidents, L. R. Alderman. A. M- Geary and Miss Therese Friendly; secretary-treasurer, C. W. Converse; members of athletic coun cil. George Hug, L. T. Harris and C. A. McClain. The tug-ofrwar across the mlllrace be tween the seniors and alumni was th most popular event on the programme and a large crowd saw the losers get good ducking. For the first time th , (Concluded on Pass 3.)