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f 4, r-s AyA jKsjTk A VOL. L. NO. 13,478. PORTLAND, OJLS O.N : WEDNESDAY, v JULY 6, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. T.R.TO GIVE AIDTQ MILES POINDEXTEH FIGHT GETS MUCH SPACE IN LONDON E RIOTS HAVE CHILD SUCKS BLUE VITRIOL FOR CANDY DIRECTOR NEWELL WILL BE DROPPED HEARST'S LEAGUE HAS SHUT UP SHOP LONG- DEATH LIST NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS LARGER TILYX WERE WAR ITEMS. INDEPENDENCE QUARTERS IN CHICAGO ARE ABANDONED. DYIXG GIRL TELLS MOTHER SHE ATE SOMETHING "BLUE.." WILD MM DEFIES CAPTURE II WOODS Support Pledged Chief Among Insurgents. WABTOBEMADEON BALLINGER Washington Radical Gets Backing in Senatorial Race. CONSERVATION THE ISSUE Poindexter Supports Roosevelt's . Poller and Gets Significant Dec laration T. 11. to Confer With Five Insurgent Chiefs. OTSTER BAT", N. T., July 5. By Asso ciated Press.) Theodore Roosevelt de clared today, not by direct statement, but by implication go strong that it admits of no misinterpretation, that he will sup port Miles Polndexter in his fight for a seat in the United States Senate from the State ' of Washington. They had luncheon together" and a con ference at Sagamore Hill today and Mr. Polndexter departed Jubilant. In indorsing Polndexter for the Senate, Colonel Roosevelt places himself square ly in opposition to Richard A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, whom Presi dent Taft has so warmly defended. It is the only stand he has taken bearing di rectly or indirectly on the Balllnger Pinchot controversy. Enmity to Piles Pledged. Mr. Polndexter Is opposed to Secretary Ballinger from first to last and hopes to unseat Senator Piles of Washington, who seeks another term and who has Secretary Ballinger's support. The Secre tary and Mr. Polndexter are from the same Seattle district. Leaving Oyster Bay after the confer ence, Mr. Polndexter said: "I found Colonel Roosevelt' unchanged. He and I have worked together always and he assured me that we always will work together. I am delighted with the. result of the visit." Colonel Roosevelt looked happy when he received the interviewers a little later. He was dressed in the crash riding suit which he wears most of the time he is at home. Seated In his library, he spoke of the talk with Mr. Polndexter in a manner that showed plainly the pleasure the meeting had given him. This is what he said: Poindexter Assured Support. "Representative Polndexter and I went over the political situation in the North west. He assured me he was In hearty sympathy with my conservation policy. "Mr. Poindexter is a candidate for the tTnited States Senate and is politically opposed to that wing of the party headed by Mr. Ballinger, Secretary of the In terior." That was all the Colonel wanted to have put in quotation marks. What he said otherwise made it rather clear he had given assurance to Mr. Poin dexter that he would support him In his attempt to unseat Mr. Piles. Colncldentally. Secretary Ballinger and President Taft held a conference at Beverly today in which they dis cussed the reclamation service. There Mr. Ballinger denied with emphasis the rumor that he was to resign. "I am not a quitter and never have been," he said. Same Pleased Smile Worn. Miles Poindexter is an out-and-out Insurgent, elected by the people of Washington on a radical platform. He lias been a firm supporter of the Roos velt policies, especially as they related to conservation. They were the basis of his platform when he ran for Con gress. He arrived at Oyster Bay on the noon train and was recognized at once as an Insurgent. For he had the same pleased smile that shone on the faces of Senator Brlstow and Represen tatives Murdock and Madison, of Kan sas, when they came here last Satur day. The Kansas insurgents arrived smil ing but excited. Presently they re turned from Sagamore Hill, with the smile still there, but with the excite ment replaced by placid confidence. It na so with the Washington man. At luncheon they discussed the Ballinger -Pinchot occurrence In detail in the course of their talk on the present status of the Northwest. While the general opinion here is that Colonel Roosevelt is still "feeling his way" as regards his ultimate atti tude toward the Taft administration, his stand today is considered the most striking Indication of his political frame of mind. And that he will still fight hard for the conservation move ment he made plain to interviewers when Mr. Poindexter had gone. Weighty Conference at Hand. There have been two important in surgent conferences at Sagamore Hill siuce the Colonel's return, but more are coming. One of the post potential of these Is arranged for Thursday next. On that day five of the best known and weightiest of the insurgents are com ing to talk with the ex-President, but Mr. Roosevelt declined today to give out their names. Governor Hughes had been expected I tomorrow, but he telegraphed he would (Concluded on Page 4,' English Sporting . World ; Less - Sur prised That Negro Won Than That Whites Permitted It. LONDON, July ; 5. (Special.) The London newspapers gave more space to the Reno prizefight than they gave to the biggest battle of the Boer War. The rounds were described" in. detail, and the . scenes at the ringside fully pictured. Opinions of the affair were quoted from both Britons and Ameri cans and nearly every paper discussed the fight in long editorials. The sporting world is less surprised at the fact that the negro won than that the whites at the ringside permit ted him . to win. "I would put my money on the black man," said many Britons before the fight, "only I know that if he shows promise of victory, the whites will kill him." - - Practically all the editors here wrote of the struggle with symptoms of nausea. "The days of the ring are over," says the Daily Telegraph. "Whatever glories it ever possessed" have van ished. The Reno encounter was de plorable, not only because it was dis gusting, but because It aggravates the color problem." ' BIPLANE FALLS 100 FEET When Engine Stops, Airsh Dives to Earth Aeronaut Unhurt. PITTSBURG, Kan., July 6. Arch Hox sey, in a Wright biplane, dived almost straight downward from a height of 100 feet here today after his engine had gone dead. The machine was demolished, but Hoxsey crawled out from a mass of planes, wires and stays, unhurt. .It was the last day of a four days' avi ation meet here. Hoxsey was soaring at a height of 600 feet, when his motor stopped. He tilted his planes and had floated down gently to within 100 feet of the ground, when one of the stays gave way, the aeroplane's nose dropped and the machine crashed to the earth. HARVEST ON; HANDS FEW Asotin County Farmer Hopes for 35 Bnshels to Acre. ASOTIN, Wash.7July 6. (Special.) The Asotin County harvesting season be gins here this week with threshing in portions of the farming district. The wheat crop Is in excellent condition, and it Is believed that the entire crop will average about 35 bushels to the acre. The grain here was never In such good condition. The weather for the past ten days has been ideal for the ripening and filling out of the wheat. No signs of shriveling or burning has been noticed. Harvest hands will be scarce. HAWLEY WILL RUN AGAIN Representative, Back From Wash ington, Voices Wishes. SALESM, Or., July 5. (Special.) Repre sentative Willis C. Hawley, who has Just returned from Washington, declared to day that he will be a candidate for re election, but is not certain as to the time he will file his declaration. GOVERNOR HUGHES, WHOtWILL We h a k , s , I" f MSMttSbjBSSSIIHIBBSMH I .- " v: ; . .-. . . . :v:iW-'-:i::-'-' ' j&&''fQc-' 'xVC:-::;:':VVr r 'UK. tK y::mfffmm:m ABOVE, LEFT-HAND CORNER, FRANK B. KELLOGG, NOTED AS A TRUST-BUSTER? ABOVE, RIGHT-HAND CORNER, WILLIS VAN DE VANTER, FEDERAL JUDGE; C ENTER PORTRAIT, CHARLES E. HUGHES. BELOW, LEFT-HAND CORNER, WALTER SANBORN", FEDERAL JUDGE; BELOW RIGHT-HAND CORNER, LLOYD W. BOWERS, SOLICITOR-GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Fourteen Negroes and Two Whites Dead DISTURBANCES FOLLOW FIGHT Reno Contest Elamed for Out breaks Over Country." BAN IS PUT. ON . PICTURES Four Big Cities Forbid Film Repro ductions in Fear or Trouble Re ception of Champion in Chi cago Cause of Anxiety. . CHICAGO, July 5. (Special.) Riots of minor degree, but fraught with perilous potentialities, have broken out all over the country following the Jeffries-Johnson fight at Reno. The latest dispatches from various sources show that 14 negroes have been killed. Two white, men are dead and there are broken heads and. men wounded by razors, clubs and bullets by the score. In this city 50 "bad" negroes were ar rested at the first ebullition and locked up to prevent trouble. They will part with their winnings on the light in the police courts and may be cooled off by that time. More trouble Is expected here Thursday, when Johnson arrives. He -will be greeted by two bands, the Eighth Regiment (colored) and the Colored Elks band, and there will be a parade of 60 automobiles. Chicago Awaits Effect. ' Fearing riots, the authorities in Wash ington. Cincinnati, Atlanta, New Orleans and other cities have positively forbid den the fight pictures. Philadelphia re fuses to prohibit the production of the pictures and Boston and Chicago will wait and see what effect they produce before taking action. A summary of the rioting shows the following results: Unvalida, Ga., two- negroes killed, five seriously wounded: Mounds, 111., two negroes dead; Little Rock; Ark., two negroes killed; Shreveport, La., two ne groes dead, one wounded; Houston, Tex., one dead, three wounded; Keystone, W. Va., one dead; Macon, Miss., one killed; Plaque Mln, La., one killed. North Only to See Pictures. Scores of whites and blacks were in jured in riots in Pittsburg, New York, Wilmington, Del., Indianapolis, Omaha and other points. It is regarded as cer tain that the fight pictures will be pro hibited all over the South, where they would be certain to provoke fresh riots. In Northern cKies, where the sporting fraternity sways any political power, the films will probably be shown, but if trou ble breaks out, they will be stopped. Mu nicipalities tonight are considering the advisability of having two sets of pic- Concluded on Page 2.) v PROBABLY SUCCEED THE LATE CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, AND OTHERS WHO ARE MENTIONED FOR SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS. I c I ,, .1 Ibii iffiBmpsA mm i iiisif mmmmnmmmm f mm. mmmm -Mmm;mmimiMmm . r r 1 1 . v !- a i i Smmy Finding of Bits or Copper Sulphate With Toothmarks May Explain Little One's Death. SPOKANE, Wash.,-July 5. (Special.) Bits of copper sulphate " found in a deserted house at 8084 Perry street. South, may explain, the mysterious poisoning of little 'Rosie Chldichimo, who died last week after horrible, con vulsions,, supposed to have been caused by strychnine The sister of the little victim, herself only a child, today took Will G. Davis, inspector of the City Board . of Health, . to the . Perry-street house, not far away from where the children lived. They had been playing there on the day site was stricken. In the house Davis found numerous pieces of copper sulphate, used in elec tric batteries. Several pieces had soft edges, as though partially dissolved by being in a child's mouth, and one bore what appeared to be tooth-marks. The theory , that Rosie sucked the blue vitriol is strengthened by the fact that she told her mother when first be ginning to sicken that she had eaten some' candy and "something blue." On the other hand, J. J. RIppeteau, who made the examination' of the child's stomach, inclines to the belief that copper sulphate being a corrosive would have left traces In the stomach which he says, he failed to find. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 77 degrees; minimum, 5 2 degrees. TODAY'S Fairv northwesterly winds. National.. Director Newell to be dropped from Rec lamation Service. Page 1. Politics. Roosevelt pledges support to Poindexter In Senatorial fight. Page 1. Alleging wife sneezes on his neck, man sues for divorce. Page 12. Domestic. . Race riots growing out of Reno fight cause 16 deaths. Page 1. . Train dispatcher blamed for Middle ton wreck. Page 3. David Starr Jordan denounces college foot ball' as sordid. Page 2. Snorts. Pacific Coast League results: - Aernon 3, Portland 2 ; Los Angeles 4, San Fran cisco 0; Oakland 7, Sacramento 2. Page 7. Jeffries leaves Reno broken in spirit and shrinking from fellows. Page 6. Reno fight gets more space In London pa pers than biggest battle of Boer War. Page 1. Johnson's mother says champion Is going to retire. Page 6. Pacific Northwest. Opportunity given to Idaho District Attor ney to resign. Page 5. J. J. Kirby, of , Portland, demented, runs wild in woods. Page 1. Representative McCredle will make trip over his district. PageUp. Salem Cherry Fair will "open Thursday. Page 6. Finding of bits of copper sulphate, with toothmarks may explain Spokane child's death. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. No sellers in local wheat market. Page 17. Four cent advance In wheat prices at Chi cago. Page 17. Stocks weak with trading listless. Page 17. Hogs sell at $10.10 at North Portland yards. Page 17. . Shippers await moves In vessel rate war from Atlantic Page lfi. Portland and Vicinity Receiver asked for Smith & Powers Log ging Company, of Coos Bayt Page 36. Fire causes $30,000 loss at Mootavilla. Page 10. Twenty thousand Hibernians expected to at tend National convention in Portland. Page 12. H. M. Lambert accuses another of killing his wife, but Coroner's jury blames hus band. Page 13. Uncle Sam demands Impossible in post office site. Page 10. Ballinger Talks Over Plans With Taft. SECRETARY KEEPS UP FIGHT Quietus Put on Renewed Ru mors of Resignation. WESTERN TRIP PLANNED Reclamation Projects 'to Be Exam ined at Close Range Recent Order of Withdrawal Means "Essential Conservation. BEVERLY, Mass., July 5. (Special.) The reorganization of the Reclama tion Service was discussed today tit a three-hour conference between Presi dent Taft and Secretary Ballinger. Although no official information could be obtained, it was reported that the future plans for reclamation do not include the retention of Frederick K. Newell as the director of the serv ice. Mr. Ballinger would not discuss this phase in any way. It is known, however, that the Secretary has long regarded Mr. Newell as inimical to his plans for the Reclamation Service. Mr. Newell has openly opposed Mr. Bal linger and- Mr. Ballinger in turn has publicly stated that he did not regard Mr. Newell as the man for the place occupied by him. Just when and how Mr. Newell is going could not be learned. Secretary Coming West. Secretary Ballinger left for Wash ington tonight. He will remain there a few days and then start on. a long trip to the West, in the course of which he will visit several Indian re serves and probably look over some of the reclamation projects now under way. ' His trip, including a brief rest at his home in Seattle, , will occupy from "six weeks to two months. When Secretary Ballinger alighted from the train here this morning, he was met by the usual crop of resigna tion rumors. . , "I am not a quitter," he said, ,' "and never have been. I did not bring a resignation with me and will not leave one." After he had lunched and conferred with the President, Mr. Ballinger was told of a later rumor that he would resign after the special Congressional investigation -committee had made its report. No Thought of Resigning. The only suggestion of resignation that came in reply was in the Secretary's smile. "I am in this fight, and I am going to see it through," he said. The recent withdrawal of waterpower sites and phosphate and petroleum lands Concluded on Page 2.) i m m ) 5 Political Outcasts IMnd Prospect Cheerless, Now That Dream of Power Is Over. CHICAGO, July 5. (Special.) The sanitation officers have finished their work with the Independence League. The remains repose in the political ash can and the quarters have been dis infected fdr the arrival of new tenants. The league is nothing more than a memory to the political nondescripts who lived for a time in a rose dream of offices that were to come . to them when the "new party" was in power from the White House down. There was a Charles H. Mitchell, who was to be Chief Justice of the United States. There was Dr. Howard S.. Taylor, who was to be a United States Senator from Illinois. There was George . Washing ton McCaskein, who was to be Secre tary of the - Treasury, and goodness knows how many more were to be United States judges, collectors of in ternal revenue and United States mar shals. All dreams went well until the sup ply of "dope" ran out. Then they awoke and scattered. The first hard jolt came when Charles H. Mitchell polled only 7000 votes for state's attorney, and since then the league has crumbled away until there is nothing left but the odor. Now the leaguers are looking for holes under the Democratic tent. The outlook is pretty cheerless. The Inde pendence Leaguers were small fry to start with, kicked out of the parties because they could produce no strength. $25,000 FOR AIRSHIP RACE Time Limit for Chicago-New Vork . Contest Set at Seven Days. CHICAGO, July 5. (Special.) Rules and regulations to govern the pro posed aeroplane race from Chicago to New York were made public today. The contest is to begin at Chicago on Oc tober 8 with not less than three en trants, who must have previous rec ords of sustained flights of an hour or more. The time limit of the race is seven days and the contestants are allowed to make as many stops as they please. To win the prize of $25,000 the winner must make a flight before any flight of the same ortgreater distance has beeh made in any part of the country. The start must be within the city limits of Chicago and finish within the corporate limits of New York City. COOK'S RECORDS FOUND? Miner Declares He Climbed Mount McKinlej Inquiry to Follow. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 5. P. J. Carrigan, an able bodied seaman and placer miner, who arrived in Colorado Springs a few days ago. made the asser tion today that he had climbed Mount MoKinley and found there the copper tube and records left by Dr. Cook to establish the latter's assertion of having first ascended the mountain. Carrigan's story is regarded by John R. Bradley Dr. Cook's former backer, as suf ficiently plausible to warrant careful in vestigation. CHERRY PICKER PARALYZED Man 68 Years Old Falls From Tree in Eugene and Is Badly Hurt. EUGENE, Or.. July 5. (Special.) W. Yergle, of BS5 West Seventh street, fell from a cherry tree to the roof of a hous and from there about 15 feet to the ground yesterday, the force of the fall partially paralyzing him. For some time he could not move at ail and even now he cannot move either of his arms. He was taken to the general hospital. Mr. Yergle is 68 years old. FOLK DEMOCRATS' GUEST Ei-Governor of Missouri Leaves Denver for Oregon. DENVER. July 6. Ex-Oovernor Folk, of Missouri, was tendered an informal luncheon by Dome of the Democratic leaders in Denver today. Those present were ex-United States Senators T. M. Patterson and Frank J. Cffnnon; Governor Shafroth and ex - Governor Charles Thomas, and Judge Ben Lindsay. Governor Folk left this evening for Ore gon. RIOTERS TO FACE TRIAL Law Against Mobs Constitutional, Decides Judge. CAIRO, HI.. July 6. Men indicted by a special grand Jury last February for at tacking the county jail to take out a negro will have to stand trial, according to Judge W. W. Duncan, who decided to day that the law against mobs was constitutional. Trials of the 12 men will come up next Tuesday in the Circuit court. SPAIN TAKES NEW STAND Further Orders May Be Forbidden Until Revision of Concordat. MADRID, July 5. Premier Canalejas will submit to the King on Thursday a bill forbidding further religious or ders to enter Epkin until the pending negotiations at the Vatican for the revision of the concordat are ended. J. J Kirby, of Portland Is Demented by Drink. DOUGLAS COUNTY IS AROUSED Escape Made From Friends on Threats to Kill. CAMPERS ARE DISTURBED Scantily Clothed, Kirby Was Last Seen on Rock in Midstream. Body Appears Bruised Posse Searches in Vain. ROSBBl'RG, Or.. July 5. (Special.) Believed to be demented by alcoholism, J. J. Kirby, at one time a resident of Roseburg, but for the past two years of Portland,, is running wild in the vicinity of Lairds, a hamlet 20 miles east of the Roseburg, Coos Bay stage line, and de fies the officers to effect his capture. Telegraphic information received here late today is to the effect that Kirby first arrived at Lairds Sunday after noon, and at that time showed evidence of insanity. He was very nervous and admitted, upon questioning, that he had been drinking heavily. Realizing his con dition, the proprietor of the hotel to which he applied for supper induced him to remain over night, and upon his promise to do so, employed a man to watch over him. Wild Man Displays Itevolvcr. The following morning Kirby's condi tion appeared somewhat improved and he was allowed to continue his journey to Roseburg, accompanied by a driver dis patched from Lairds. As the men reached a shallow str.am in the dense thicket, about four miles distance, Kirby sudden ly uttered a loud cry, and at the same time started to jump from the buggy. The driver grappled with the maniac, with the result that the latter drew a revolver and threatened to shoot. Being unarmed the driver released his hold, and Kirby disappeared in the deep canyon that parallels the road. Residents in the neighborhood were notified and a posse was soon in pur suit. Notwithstanding that they searched until late at night, nothing was seen of the demented man until yesterday morn ing, when travelers noticed him standing on a rock in the middle of a stream with wearing apparel limited to an undershirt. Rocky Island His Abode. Urged to come ashore, Kirby said that he was being pusued by men bent on taking his life, and that he would never be taken alive. Asked relative to hia name and address, he stared with mad ness and exclaimed that he had but two friends in the world. S. K. Sykes, a hard ware merchant of Roseburg, and George Crane, who conducts a saloon on Alder street, Portland. Kirby then became ugly and refused toi talk, further than to inform his fol lowers that he was armed and would fight a gallant battle. For some reason the fellow Insists on remaining on the rock in the stream. When last seen he appeared cold and several bruises and scars on his body were evident. Where he cached his clothing is not known. Sheriff Fenton, of Roseburg, and Sheriff Gage, of Coos County, accompanied by armed men, are In pursuit of the man. but up to a late hour tonight he was still at large. Hundreds of camping par ties are In the vicinity of Lairds, and consternation prevails. Many of the campers have sent word that they will return home unless Kirby is captured CAPTAIN M'GUINNESS DIES Retired Naval Officer to Be Buried With Military Honors. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash.. July, 5. (Special.) Captain John T. McGuinness,' commander in the United States Navy,' retired in 1906. died here yesterday. The funeral will be held from St. James' Ca thedral tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock. The commanding officer of the First; Battalion of the First Infantry has beem ordered to furniph the required pallbear-'i ers, and the First Infantry Band will, play. The soldiers of this battalion will; attend the funeral in a body. The buriel' will be in the Catholic Cemetery. Captain McGuinness came here three months ago and has been visiting his sis-j ters, Mrs. F. M. Gay and Miss Mary Mc-; Guinness. His death was sudden. CHILD IS GIVEN TO MOTHER Colorado Court Awards Custody of: Son to Mrs. Wilson-Mitchell. DENVER, July 5 The Colorado Su preme Court today awarded to Mrs. June , Van Buskirk Wilson Mitchell, of London, England, the custody of her young son, George Russell Wilson, whose grand-; parents, living in Las Animas County, this state, fought for the possession of i the child. Mrs. Mitchell's former husband, Fran cis Wilson, divorced her a short time be fore his death. Her pressnt husband, Percy Mitchell, Is said to be a wealthy civil engineet, and, with his wile, is now In Montreal. jL t