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4 VOL. L.-XO. 15,469. PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY, JUNE' 25, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WOMEN TAKE RIDE IN GERMANAIRSHIP MAN BRAVES DEATH TO-SPARE 6 LIVES E HINTS BRIBE LOCAL CLEARINGS , GAIN 73 PER CENT 12 DIE FROM HEAT ISSUE AGREED ON JEFFRIES FIGHTER OFFERER RIM TEN BRAVE BAXGERS OF tOXG AERIAL FLIGHT. ALKALI SANDS CROSSED- UNDER BLISTERING SUN. PORTLAND HEADS PERCENTAGE COLTJMX OF COUNTRY. RRICATION BOND JOHNSON IS BOXER OR 15 IN TOBBID CHICAGO Bill Will Go to Presi dent Today. MODIFICATION SUITS HOUSE Jaft to Use Discretion in Call , ing Army Engineers. TOO CONFERENCES HELD Luncheon at White House at First Fails to Smooth Way Threat to Block Adjournment Aids in Bringing Settlement. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 24. There is every indi cation that the $20,000,000 irrigation bill -will become law tomorrow. The confer ence committee reached an unexpected agreement tonight on the one provision in dispute, the Army engineer clause, and its report was promptly agreed to by the Senate. It will be submitted to and approved by the House in ample time tomorrow to permit the President to sign the bill before night. - This result is highly gratifying to those who have labored unceasingly in behalf of this measure, for at one time today it looked as though the bill would be left in conference and go over until short session next December. Western Senators Firm. Senator Hale announced on the floor of the Senate this afternoon that Con gress probably would adjourn tomorrow. Senator Borah interjected the remark that Hale might find it impossible to ad journ so soon. When asked to take the Senate into his confidence, Borah ex plained that unless there was an agree ment of the conference committee on the Irrigation bill, there could and would be no adjournment. In this sentiment Senator Jones acquiesced, for Jones, Borah, Heyburn. Hughes, Sutherland, Carter and Smoot had agreed among themselves hot to ac cept the provision of the House bill which prohibited the expenditure of any part of the $20,000,000 on any project un til it was approved by a board of Army engineers. Bill in Balance. Had it been necessary for these Sena tors to stand out against the conference committee, the majority in Congress might have forced adjournment, leaving this bill undisposed of for a comparative ly Bmall percentage of Senators are suf ficiently interested in this legislation to etay here and fight it out. While this colloquy was taking place in the Senate, the conference committee was at the White House endeavoring with the President's aid to reach agreement, but they were unsuccessful, Payne and Dalzeil refusing to depart qne iota from the terms of the House bill. The Senate conferees continued to oppose turning over the work of examinations to the Army engineers, on the ground that many of the projects had been developed to a point where they must be continued ac cording to the original plans or all of the money already Invested would be lost. Conferees Taft's Guests. The President had the conferees as his guests at luncheon in an effort to harmonize the differences. Those who stayed were Senators Lodge, Bailey and Smoot and Representatives Payne, Clarke and Dalzell. Even this failed, however. When the conferees returned empty, handed to the Capitol and it was noised -About that adjournment might be in definitely postponed on account of t..is one bill, there was another meeting, and a compromise was reached, under which projects require.' only the ap prov-al of the President in order that they may receive allotments from the $20,000,000 fund. The President, under the compromise, is, however, author ized to employ an Army board to re port upon all projects concerning whose feasibility there is question. Compromise Is Accepted. This compromise was acceptable to the Western Senators, and when re ported to the Senate was agreed to promptly. As the compromise reached tonight is . acceptable to the President, the House undoubtedly will adopt It. The Presi dent today assured the conference com mittee that there would be no unnec sary delay in applying the money made available by this bill, but that all possi ble expedition would be used in com pleting those projects which are wor thy and practicable. He specifically stated that the projects of Washington, Idaho and Colorado were all right, and intimated that they would be among the first to receive allotments. SPAIN TO IGNORE VATICAN j Premier Announces That Govern ment Programme Will Stand. MADRID, June 24. At the conclu sion of the Cabinet meeting today, Pre j mier Canal ejas announced that the ; Government's religious programme ( would be carried out. . He said the protest of the Vatican l against the imperial decree of June 111 would be ignored and that the de t cisions of the Government already an-(a&ouncedr-would -stand. Carrying-32 Persons In All, Record , Number, Zeppelin - . Dirigible Breasts Wind and Rain. DUSSELD.ORF, June 24. The Zeppe lin airship made, a four hours' excur sion this morning over he industrial cities of this district. The return and landing were . made without incident. The' machine took a second but shorter excursion this afternoon. The Deutschland, ,on .the longer trip today, carried 32 passengers, the larg est numberever transported by a. sim ilar craft.. The passengers included 10 women. At one time, running with the wind, the dirigible attained a speed of 56 miles an hour. The trip was from this city to Essen. . Dortmund, Bochura and return. ..... The airship passed over the chimneys of the great Krupp 'works at Essen. ' On the return the Deutschland en countered a rain storm and had to fight her ' way against a head wind. On landing the women . passengers said they had not experienced a moment of discomfort. IDAHO GIVES UP DEBATING Gem State University Will Not Meet Oregon In Talkfest. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Or., June 24. (Special.) After discounting oratory because, as they : said, its day was past, the University of Idaho has now gone a step farther and withdrawn from the Triangular Inter-State Debating League, composed of the Universities of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The rea son given for the latter action is that Oregon and Washington refused to vote for some amendments which the Idahoans proposed to the constitution of the league last Winter. C. A. Steele, manager of the Oregon debating team, received word of Idaho's withdrawal too late to take steps to ward getting anyone to take that uni versity's place next year, and it is prob able that Washington and Oregon" will meet alone hereafter. . It is not known what course Idaho will take in the way of opening up debating . relations with other colleges. When Idaho discontinued oratory last Winter the charge was made that they were going in for athletics at the expense of literary activities. This charge was indignantly denied, and as proof the fact was cited that they were exceptionally strong In debate. This year they lost their debates with both Oregon and Wash ington. FERRYMAN FIGHTS THIEVES Safe at Mosler Blown and Escape Made In Stolen Boat. MOSIEJt. Or., June 24. (Special.) In the darkness very early this morning a pitched battle took place between thieves who had dynamited the safe in the store of Nicholls. & Reeves, at this place, and Jack Coover, a ferryman. After blowing the safe between mid night and 1 o'clock and getting nothing, the robbers made off in a boat belonging to Dr. D. Robinson, using oars stolen from the ferryman.v He was awakened by the noise, and seizing his gun, ordered the men to stop. They paid no attention, so he fired twice, apparently with no ef fect. The men in the boat returned the fire, sending four bullets at Coover. None of them hit him, however. The thieves escaped to the Washington shore, where it is supposed they boarded a train on the North Bank road. ABOVE REPRESENTATIVES JOHN London DelineatesMen Psychologically. NEGRO LIVES BUT FOR PRESENT Emotion of Moment to Him Is AH-Absorb ing . BIG WHITE MAN PRIMITIVE Propensity , to Look Ahead Indicates . Mental Sub-Stratum of Fierce Racial Pride, Which Compels Subservience of Minor Aims. BT JACK LOXDOS. ' (Copyright. 1910. by the New York Her ald Company. Registered In Canada In ac cordance with the Copyright Act. All rights reserved.) RENO, Jlev.,- June 24. (Special.) Bag and baggage, bull pupal bass viols and phonographs. Jack Johnson stepped off the train at Reno today to be greeted by fully as- large a crowd as met Jef fries when he arrived. 'Whirled away in an automobile to Ricks' resort, he appeared unperturbed and happy, in epite of the fact that his train was three hours late and that it was a Friday. His voice was just as jovial, his handshake as hearty, his smile as dazzling as when I last saw him In ' Australia. ' , Johnson, Too, Big Man. Commenting on the fact, he announced that, he was feeling much better and stronger than a year and a half ago in the Antipodes. . In shirtsleeves, his shoulder muscles and biceps bulge knotti ly like Jeffries. He, too, is every inch a big man. But they are vastly different types -of men. Under all his large garniture of fighting strength, Johnson is happy-go-lucky in temperament, as light and care free as1 a'chnd'.""Be'Is easily amused. He lives more in the moment, and Joy and sorrow are swift passing moods with him. He is not capable of adjusting his actions seriously to remote ends. Though fresh-arrived from an irritat ing railroad journey, fraught by vexa tious delays, his face was placid and lineless. Nor was there the hint of a sign of care and worry, such as would be ex pected from his disagreements with his manager, from the abrupt shift of train ing quarters at the eleventh hour and from Joyrides interrupted by rude police. Negro Lives In the Moment. This quality, differing no widely in the two men, cannot be overemphasized if one is to get an adequate comprehen sion of the fight when it takes place. They say that Johnson cannot hold a grudge. The man who does him real or fancied injury today is. received heartily by him a week hence, and this Is so because a moment of life at a time is good enough for him. He cannot hold on to more than the moment, be it a moment of fierce hate or joyful friendship. Possibly a good conception "of this dif ference between . the two men may be gained from my own feelings about them. (Concluded on Page 6.) CONTEREES WHO WRESTLED WITH AND FINALLY SETTLED IRRIGATION BILL DISPUTE YESTERDAY. DALZELL AND SERK.VO E. PAYNE, SEN ATOR HK 111 CABOT LODGE AND JOSEPH W. BAILEY. BELOW REPRESENTATIVE C. D. CLARK, PRESIDENT TAFT (PHOTO- COPYRIGHTED BY GEORGE GRAATHAM BAIN.) AND SENATOR REED 8t(09, Surveyors Become Fatigued and Be- wlldered on Desert One Is - Crazed When Found. .... . . , . SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., June 24. (Special.) -Captain J.' l. Ames, chief en gineer for "the Security. OH Mines Com pany, reached ' Camp' Saltstack. 10 miles from Searles . Lake, yesterday afternoon, his feet bound in sacking and a screen of burlap over his mouth, having tramped through a. blistering sun and cutting alkali-laden winds for 22 miles, seeking help for six companions who became too fatigued to Journey further through the wind. The surveyors . set . out from Kramer Tuesday to urvey oil lands east of Searles Lake. In an effort to complete the survey Thursday and tramp back to the automobile six miles distant, they set forth when last corner was located. Be coming bewildered in the wind, they lost their way. When ready to drop, they accepted Ames' offer to go for help. - George Putnam, superintendent of the salt camp, made a quick run to the stricken men, who were found huddled to gether, delirious. Walter Black had wan dered off on the sand hills and was only caught after quite a chase. They are being taken to Los Angeles. The men were overtaken In the same region where the Davidson party of Berkeley met mis fortune and death. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 80 degrees; minimum, 52 degrees. TODAY'S Fair: north-westerly winds. -Foreign. Ten women ride In Zeppelin airship in record-making flight. Page 1. National. Conferees agree on irrigation bond bill. Page 1. Congress awards- Siletz homesteaders their lands. Page 2. Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, hints in Senate bribe was offered htm. rage 1. Domestic Surveyor braves death on desert to save six Uvea. Page 1. .Illinois bribery case goes to Jury. Face 3. Sports. Coast League results yesterday: Sacra mento 4, Portland 3; San Francisco 6, Vernon 1; Los Angeles 5, Oakland 2. Jack London delineates two champions, Jeffries and Johnson. phychologlcally. Page 1. - Pacific Northwest. Rampant bulla terrorize town. Page J.. Bankers convention at Pendleton efceers. . denunciation ot rmcnoi po"y.' 1 " " -Summer session at O. A. C. well attended. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Opening prices are named on new Oregon canned fruit. Page 17. "Wide fluctuations 1 n wheat at Chicago. Page 17. . Stocks decline as wheat urices advance. Lower prices by manufacturers stimulate trade. Page 17.. Harrlman line announces higher Tate, Port land to San Pedro, than North Pacific's. Page 16. - . Portland and Vicinity. Clatsop County fugitive caught In Tilla mook. Page 12. Proposed public service commission to be voted on In November. Page 10. Judge Gatens grants 13 divorce decrees. Page 12. Number of trains leaving Portland almost doubled In 18 months. Page 16. Councilman Cellars declares city's deal with - O. R. A N. is fair to both. Page 1. Mayor appoints Tuesday as . "Solicitation day" for Broadway bridge bonds. Page 6. Portland bank clearings increase 73 per cent over same week of last year. Page 1. "Scientific Temperance Lecturer" says there are 400 "blind pigs" in Portland. Page 9. Both man and woman Indicted for trunk murder. Page 12. "Bud" Krlbs now in first place in race for boy mayor. Page 12. House and Senate Are Much Disturbed. OTHERS IN CONGRESS INVOLVED Object Huge Fee Claimed by Oklahoma Attorney. SENATE. SLOW TO AROUSE Blind Member Has Difficulty Get ' ting His Charge Before, Body, but So Great ' Is Sensation That Investigation May Be Called. WASHINGTON, June 24. Senator Gore of Oklahoma, disclosed in the Senate to day what he interpreted as an effort to bribe him In connection with legislation affecting the fortune in attorney's fees claimed by J. F. McMurray, of Okla homa, for services rendered to the Choc taw and Chickasaw nations in land and townsite cases. . The charge . created a sensation in the Senate that was later extended to the House. The latter body In consequence sent back to conference the general de ficiency bill, which carried an item re lating to contracts between the Indians and their attorneys. Several Men In oCngress Involved. As the result of the denounement. Senator Gore finally Involved a member of the Senate -Committee on Indian affairs, two ex-senators, one from Ne braska and the other from Kansas, but whose names were- not made public in debate. In response to a suggestion by Senator Bailey .that he should name the Senate members of theIndlan Affairs Commit tee, Mr. Gore demurred, but declared he would welcome an investigation of the charges so that the whole matter might be brought out before a body authorised to deal with his allegations. It is thought not Improbable that, such an investiga tion will be ordered. Senate Iotli to Listen. Mr. Gore was compelled to address the Senate three times -before that body was fully aroused to the seriousness of the charge he made. His - first effort was in connection with the adoption of the conference report on the deficiency bill, which had been presented by Sena tor Hale. As passed by the Senate, that measure contains an amendment that .would nulli fy contracts made by the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations and - by individual members of the tribes with their attor neys unless the contracts are approved by Congress. ' Fees Would Aggregate $3,000,000. This provision was in "accordance with a resolution introduced by Mr. Gore on May 4. last. . It was designed to prevent Mr. McMurray from obtaining fees which, it Is said, would aggregate $3,000,000, and which Mr. Gore complained had not been earned by the attorney. The conference report bad been adopted by the Senate when Mr. Gore entered (Concluded on Page 2.) Increase Over Corresponding Week of 1909 Is 9.7 Per Cent In Seattle, Taeoma Loses. Showing the tremendous increase of 73 per cent over the corresponding week of last year, Portland bank clearings for the week ending last ! night easily head the percentage column of the country, as re ported ' by Bradstreet. Last week Port land occupied fourth place, with a per centage of 30, The present total Is $10, 225,000, a slight decrease from last week. No other city can lay claim to any thing like the enormous Portland in creased percentage. Savannah,- with a percentage of 45.1, comes nearest. Seattle is toward the bottom of. the list and although not in the minus column, shows but 9.7 per cent increase over the corresponding week last year. The Se attle total clearings were $11,613,000. . Spokane still continues to climb, with a percentage of 40.2 plus, while Tacoma, for some reason, drops for the first time in a long while Into the other column and has to record a minus percentage of 4.1. Sacramento, which last week headed the list, is still well up In front, although the . percentage has dropped to 22.6. Atlanta and other cities of the South and the cities of the Middle "West all make exceptional "showings. There is manifest a general increase of business over the whole country, with the eiteeption of New, York and Boston, which show decreased percentages of 22.1 and 22.7. Salt Lake is also heavily in the same class. These large decreases have the effect of reducing the total clearings or the country to $2,740,915,000 as against $3,028,212,000 last week and $3,103,469,000 in the corresponding week last year. FORTUNE LEFT OLD LOVE Boyhood Swain Bequeaths $7,000, 000 to Idaho Woman. SPOKANE, June 24. Mrs. Dolly Baker, of Coeur d'Alene City, Idaho, is stated to be heiress to $7,000,000. Twenty years ago she said goodbye to her girlhood sweetheart, Arthur B. Travis, in Montana, and he left for Australia. The girl grew tired of waiting and married Judge W. J. Grout, later divorcing him and marrying Baker. Now word comes that' Travis became a cattle king in Australia, cleared up $7,000,000 and died, ' leaving all to his girlhood sweetheart. . Attorney R. J. Fellmore has gone to Australia carrying proofs of Mrs. Baker's Identity, to claim the fortune for her. A. B. HAMMOND DEFENDANT Federal Government Sues for $211, 854 for Timber Cutting. SAN FRANCISCO, June 24. (Spe cial.) United States Attorney Robert Devlin today tiled suit In the United States Circuit Court, alleging that A. B. Hammond, the millionaire lumberman. has cut $211,854.10 worth of timber from lands belonging to the United States Government and to which Ham mond had no title. ABE ATTEL WINS FIGHT Newspaper Decision Is Gained Over Owen-Mora n. LOS ANGELES, June 24. Abe Attel was given the newspaper decision in a ten-round fight today with Owen Moran. It was a very close contest. Death of 5 Babes Also Attributed to Wave. MAN AND WOMAN DRIVEN MAD Crazed by High Temperature, Two Commit Suicide. LAKE BREEZE SOME RELIEF More Fatalities From Prostrations Are Expected Forecasters Say Stifling Weather Will Con tinue for Two Days More. CHICAGO, June 24 (Special.) Twelve more victims today succumb-d to the heat wave, which has slain nearly 50 persons In Chicago alone Cool breezes off the lake tempered the heat In the city, but In the suburbs ii was stifling. Three of today's victims died in hos pitals, having been overcome previ ously. Mrs. Lucy Laschiacca, a young Ital ian woman, was driven Insane by ths heat. Running through the streets, screaming that her . head hurt, she Jumped into the river, from the Chicago & Alton Railway bridge, and was drowned In sight of many spectators. Louis Sapletol, made Insane by the heat, of which he had been complain ing several days, hanged himself tn.i morning. Other victims today were: Jacob Kreamer, found dead on a porch In the rear of his home; William Schroeder, Peter Kuhng, William Schudder, Jacob Larson, A. Binlcaco, Augusta D. Meyer, George Rondeze, Tony Tracharico and Frank Psaslckl. The deaths of five children are a'.so directly attributable to the heat. There were numerous prostrations, notwithstanding the cooler tempera ture, and some of these are certain to terminate fatally. The forecasters say the heat wave Is not yet br.oken and that at least two more days of high temperature without rain are in sight. St. Paul Still Swelters. ST. PAUL June 24. Today was the 12th consecutive day of the hot .spell. The Weather Bureau thermometer registered 93 degrees. 4;MILE AUTO RECORD MADE Barney Oldfield. Establishes New World's Time for Distance. ST. PAUL, Minn., June 24 For the third successive day, a new world's auto- , mobile record was established today by (Barney OldSeld, when he drove his 200 horsepower machine around the local cir cular track for four miles in 3:24. This Is 10 1-6 seconds better than the previous record made by Ralph De Pal ma on the same track one year ago. Oldfield aver aged 61 seconds to the mile. Tomorrow Oldfield will attempt to lower the new mile record that he made yes terday. Aside from Oldfleld's record-breaking drive and several flights by Glenn H. Curtlss in his aeroplane, the programme today was only ordinary. DEAN OF SEALI0NS IS DEAD Largest One of Colony Near Yaquina Bay Found on Beach. NEWPORT, Or., June 24. (Special.) The largest sealion of Seal Rocks, lying ten miles south of Taquina Bay. is dead. He was familiarly known as "Grandpa," on acccount of his unusual size In pro portion to the others. The dead sealion was found on the j beach near here, with a bullet hole in, j his head. He measured 13 feet long and ! over four feet through and probably j weighed 1600 pounds or more. While the Rose and Gazelle formerly t took people down to the rocks to shoot seallons. all were anxious to bag Grand- pa, but he could scent a gasoline boat a j mile off, and disappeared long before the i launches came within firing range. STRENUOUS ONE WILL REST Roosevelt Hopes to Renew "Tennis Cabinet" Matches at Sagamore. OYSTER BAT, N. Y.,' June 24. Theo dore Roosevelt began today what he hopes will be a period of real rest at Sagamore Hill. When he went home last night It was with the express Intention of remaining there with a few of his old friends until next Tuesday, when he is to start for ; Cambridge, Mass. With him today were Clifford Pinchot. Chief of the Forestry Service, and James R. Garfield, ex-Secretary of the Interior. The tennis-court at Sagamore Hill has been put In shape for the season and , If Is expected there will be a renewal of the "tennis cabinet" matches. J