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Newspaper Page TextVOL. L. NO. 13,311. - PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, . AUGUST 13, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GIRL KILLS BEAR WITH SMALL GUN POSSE IS CLOSE ON HEELS OF OUTLAW COLUMBUS POLICE REFUSE TO SERVE TAXES TOO SMALL, LAND ALL NEEDED, SUFFRAGISTS WILL flDfC SAYS STANDARD OIL DC munr. nftuiVrtL. SAYS BALLINGER BRCTX BROUGHT FROM TREE TOPS WITH .22 RIFLE. OFFICIAL IX CHICAGO ASKS TO AMERICAN DELEGATES SAY BE ASSESSED HIGHER. THEY WILL BE SUFFRAGETTES rush DOWN 0 Orders to Guard Cars Cause Mutiny. MAYOR IS OPENLY DEFIED Of 140 Men, 37 Refuse to Serve Against Strikers. OFFICERS FEAR UNIONS Mm) or Tlelds to Pressure In Order ing Men on Cars They Give. Kxense Boycott Is Threatened by Grocers and Batchers. COLUMBUS. O.. Aug. li Thirty-five cut of 1 member of the night police force rebelled tonight when called upon by Mayor Marshall to beard streetcars In an SJrort to catch persons attacking tar with stones, bricks and bullets. The mutineers, the Mayor announced, will be dismissed from the force tomorrow. The Mayor called upon regular police men to assume the duty on cars. One hundred and thirty-seven special police men. encaged especially for Hot duty in connection with the strike, were not drawn on for this service, as they were assigned to places where trouble was expected. Included In the XS who re fused to board the cars are some of the oldest men on the force. Mayor Yield to Pressure. Until today the Mayor had withstood pressure brought to bear by officials of the Columbus Railway. Light Power Company to put officers on cars. City officials and members of the Chamber of Commerce lned In urging the Mayor to take this step and he consented, al though he said he did not favor the plan. Within a few hours this change of pol icy became known to the police and there was wldesoread dissatisfaction. Chla reached a culmination at rollcall this evening. The Mayor began to make as signments and those In rebellion stepped out of the ranks. Little Ill-feeling was expressed, sl t hough one policeman took off his hat and asked the Mayor to don the hat and txard a car. Mutineers Fear Boycott. As reasons for their mutiny some said they had been warned hy grocers and butchers that. If they rode on cars, they would be refused provisions. Others said they had belonged to unions and others that tliey might wish to Join at mm future time. A.'ter being told that, if they refused to obey the new order, they would be dismissed, two officers who lisd at first rebelled stepped back .Into tbe line with the regulars. The Mayor announced later that he had enough officers to man the SO cars the company expected to operate tonight. $5,000,000 jJONDS ASKED New Orleans Plana to Raise Vast Sum for Panama Fair. NEW ORLEANS. Aug. li Ppee!aI. Tbe constitutional amendment under which the additional tax on New Or leans and the rest of the state for the Panama Exposition would be raised was snt to Chairman T. P. Thompson, of the executive committee, today. The execu tive committee will meet Saturday, the ' text of the amendment will then be made public. It provldea for an extension of tax in New Orleans for 3 years. That an Issue of CofW.fMO of bonds for the ex eoeltton Is enough is the opinion of C Tl. Ellis, vice-chairman of the Exposition Com rany . "We must hare a bond Issue." said be. "Ftath'r than have anything hestde a bond Issue I would favor an abandon ment of the exposition project. I be lter the matter should be put squarely up to the people snd If ther wsnt It. let them say so. and the Exposition Com pany will be liquidated. I feel certain, though, tbe people wlD rs'Jfy It-" SLEEPING HUSBAND SHOT Newly Wedded Woman Then Kills Self by Prinking Acid. TREATOR. I1L. Aug. li-Wlth three officers In n adjoining room malting to serve a warrant charging her with as sault with lntnt to kill her husband. Mrs. L. W. McDaniela took carbolic add today, dying an hour later. Karty today the woman's husband, now dying, was shot while In bed asleep, in an ante-mortem statement McDanlels said Mrs. McDanlels previously turned on the gsa In an effort to asphyxiate Mm. No motive for the shoot'ng la known. The couple were married re cently. PEACE PLANS TO PREVAIL Paa-Araerlean Republics Approve Arbitration Convention. BUENOS AT RES. Auir. II. The Pan American Congress has unanimously approved a new convention obligating the republic of America to submit to arbitration all pecunalry claims they are unable to settle amicably through diplomatic channels. The Venexuela delegate declared he signed this proposal under reserve and with the understanding- that diplomatic appeal should be had only In the case f a denial ot Justice. Board of Review Reminded by Agent That It Overlooked Item of Over $31,000 In Estimate. CHICAGO. Aug. IS. (Special.) The Standard Oil Company appeared before the Board of Review today. In the person of Robert Stuart, and registered a com plaint that Its taxea are not high enough, The company, which has Its general of fices at 11S Adams street, wanted Its assessment of 1150.000 raised to S181 434.44. the amount It had scheduled. The complaint blank showed that the sum levied by the Board of Assessors as a fair estimate of the concern's local wealth was lino.000. To this amount had been added JSO.000 as a penalty for fall' ure to schedule- Mr. Stuart asserted that not only had he filed a schedule but that It was for an amount greater than the estimate of the Board of Review, Last year the Stand ard Oil Company was assessed S150.000, but after a heating before reviewers. this was cut to $30,000. a representative of the firm promising that this year he would file a schedule of credits. A visit to the rooms of the Board of Assessors was made and there the schedule was found. The trouble lay in the fact that It came too late to be accepted. CAR TAKES FATAL LEAP Gravity Truck Dashing Down Grade, Hurled From Track, by Dos;. STERL1XO CITT. Cal, Aug. 12. A gravity car. In which James Jones, foreman of a section crew on the Dia mond Match Railroad, S. Porentl. and two other Italians, were riding last night, broke loose at the top of a steep grade near here, sped down the Incline at a terrific rate and. striking a dog on the track, overturned. Jones and one, man were hurled 40 feet down an embankment, while the other two were thrown against the rocks. Two of the Italians will die Jones, who was sent the farthest, es caped with slight Injury. He was thrown clear of a high trestle, onto which the car had rolled, striking, on the rocks at the bed, of a creek- Pedro Rossi, one of the Italians, lost an ear, had one arm torn from the socket, and was otherwise badly mangled. SUFFERING 0F NO AVAIL Chinese Swelter la Ship Hold for Month Only to Be Caught. SEATTLE. Aug. 12. Twenty-five Chinese stowaways, . who ' had eluded the Inspectors at Vancouver, B. C, were captured aboard the British steamship Kumerlc. recently arrived from Hongkong, by immigration au thorities in Victoria yesterday. The Chinese had walled off a room 20 feet square under the cargo of tbe Kumerlc. They had been confined to this den since the steamship left China, early in July, and planned to slip ashore when the Kumerlc reached Portland, where she is going to load lumber. In their little den they cooked their food and slept. The poisonous air ex tinguished the flame of a light when thrust Into the room. The men were half clad and some were almost 111 from their long confinement and scant provisions. RATE DIVISIONS ANNULLED Northwestern Roads Igtore Protests of Logging; Roads. OREGONIA2 NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Aug. 12. (Special.) The Inter state Commerce Commission has received tariffs from the Northwestern railroads canceling the rate divisions heretofore al lowed tap lines or logging roads to take effect September 10. The Commission condemned the tap line allowances long ago and the trunk lines are complying with the ruling despite protests from the tap lines, which are numerous In the lumber Industry. JUNEAU IN COAL FAMINE Situation Acute With Conservation Holding Back Vast Snpply. JUNEAU. Alaska. Aug. 12. With millions of tons of coal lying un touched In the Katalla coal fields. Ju neau is In the grip of a coal famine. The steamship companies hare com pletely exhausted their retail snpply. and the situation Is becoming acute. The city has a small supply and ta selling small amounts to those who are n greatest need. BOLD BANKROBBER CAUGHT Commercial Traveler Gets Man After Exciting Chase. FOND DU LAC. Wis.. Aug. 12. A. O. Crane, giving his home as Milwaukee, made a bold attempt to rob the Coles Savings Bank this afternoon. He was pursued by cltixens through the streets, firing his revolver aa he went, and was finally captured by W. J. Hoth. a Chicago traveling roan. AUTO SMASHED BY TRAIN Four . Killed, Three Injured at Crossing In Indiana. LOGAXSPORT. Ind- Aug. It. Four persons were killed and three were seriously Injured when a aouthbound passenger train on tbe Lake Erie A Western Railroad atruck an automobtle at a crossing a mile eaat of Rochester, lnd., at o'clock tonight. "Cold Storage" of Re sources Opposed. CITIZENS HEAR HIS VIEWS Secretary Addresses Gather ing of Portland Men. CONTROL MUST BE LAWFUL East Has Had Its Day and Must Concede to West Its Opportunity for Development Rational Individual Vte Proper. "I am opposed," said Richard A. Balllnger, Secretary of the Interior, li an address at the Portland Comnier clal Club, yesterday, "to the withhold ing of any lands in the public domain reserved or unreserved, that are cap able of giving strength and permanent prosperity to the country In agricul ture, commerce or Industry." Secretary Balllnger's audience was demonstrative In Its approval of this sentiment. It was even more so when the Secretary said: "The older states, as they ceased to be public-land states, have had the full benefit of the generosity of this Government. And the Government is bound In good faith to extend the same generosity to those wfio are to settle upon and build up the unim proved public lands of the newer states." Every Acre Needed. . The Secretary won more approval when he declared that "every acre that can be feasibly Irrigated, or brought under Intensive cultivation, will be needed to feed our own people, and every acre that can be added to our own cultivated area will add not only to the wealth of your commonwealth, but also of the Nation.", Secretary Balllnger had - been the guest ot the club at dinner, and was cordially received . as .he. descended the stairway to the parlors, where several hundred business men had gathered to receive him. His address met with popular approval, as was proved by frequent outbursts of applause. Mr. Balllnger entered the club par lors escorted by Edgar B. Piper, who had been chosen by the club to intro duce him because of long personal ac quaintance. Mr. Piper told of their early acquaintance. 'About six years ago," he said, "and at a time when the Republicans or Seattle were badly divided over the question of the nomination of a Mayor, the name of Judge Balllnger was sug gested. He was unanimously nominat ed and almost unanimously elected. He served the people of that town with distinction and declined a second-term nomination. Reforms Still In Practice, 1 About that' time the President of the United States wanted a Commis sioner of the General Land Office who J- Conc)u1ed on I'as 10.) DEAR ME! THAT MUST BE SOME OF THAT. CELEBRATED OREGON FRUIT WE HEAR ABOUT." Professor Martin Says English Moth - ods Will Be Adopted by Anierl can Sistfrs in Movement. . SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) "The suffragette movement is misunderstood In this country and soon the radical methods of the English wo men will be' adopted," declared Profes sor Llllien Jane Martin, who has Just returned frcra an extended European tour, as the American representative of the German Psychological Society at Innsbruck. Professor Martin was in the famous Hyde Park demonstration, in which 20,000 women took part. With her were Miss Carrie Goodhue. Miss Anita Martin and Miss jjavida French, all graduates of Stanford. Miss Martin be lieves that the meeting of millionaires and nobility with the working girls of the United Kingdom helped the ad vancement of her cause toward the goal they have aimed at. She conducted several important phys etiological experiments at the station at Bonn, Germany, being engaged there for sevesal weeks Miss Martin, a graduate of Vassar, has been a professor at Stanford since 1899. . Schooner Captain Dead in Bay. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug .12. The body of Captain M. C. Jensen of the schooner Evelyn was found floating in the bay today. ' It is believed that Jensen fell Into the water accidentally last night while boarding his vessel. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 73 dosrees; minimum, AO decrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. ' Foreign. Latham files across Paris and wins 1:000 prise. Fas National. Indians lawyers hold contingent agreement lor .millions in lees, rage u. I'olltirs. senator Chamberlain says he Is not choos ing Democratic casemates, rage Adoption of radical methods of English sunrMgettes American unra,BLs p dieted. Page 1. Brlstow replies to Aldrtch. Page 3. Deuieatle. . Grafting car repair company officials sre all strangely missing, rage a. Large section of Columubs, O.. police muti nies, recusing to guara cars isainn nw Page a. . Soorts. Pacific Coast I.esgue scores: Portland z. . Sacramento l; L.oa Angetes dru r r clsco 2; Vernon o. Oakland 4. Page Faclne Northwest. Wealthy RoaeDurg man held on charge ot selling beer, rage . x Idaho political situation grows complicated. Page. Mount rJhishaldln. on ITnlmak Islands, in violent eruption. Page 1. Pendleton girl graduate shoots bear with aaulrrel rine. rag t. Officers solve field problems at American 1 ake. Page ft. Manhunters : close- on heels of daring out law, rage l. Taft. Idaho, seems doomed In forest fires; Wallace also in a anger, rage i. Commercial and Marine. Local livestock market easier, with low price ruling, rage lo. Optlmlem noticeable In wool markets ot country. wim nigner prtKvm Afin,wu Page 16. Despite foreign sales, attempts at profit- taking cause reaction in vaicago wumi market. Page 13. Harrtman steamers wilt not resume passen ger service to orient, rage 19. Portland and Vicinity. Captain Spencer's "charges" against. Offi cers Kpelr ana liiiis xan nu rase . Judge Lovett says Coos Bay will probably be bunt by tne boutnern racitic rage ju. Draw proceedings may be delayed until October term of court. Page 14. Street railway company accused of delay ing city . Improvements. Page lO. Secretary Balllnger opposes "cold storage" of resources. Page 7. Mr. 6cott's .body to arrive In Portland this ; morning. Page 10. Flames Sweeping Over Hamlet of Tatt WALLACE ALSO IN FIRE PATH Hordes of Fighters Take Field to Save Towns. NO WIND IS ONLY HOPE Spokane Sends 100 Men to Combat Flames Residents Pack Belong' ings and Make Rush on In surance Company Offices. SPOKANE, Aug. li. Taft, Idaho, the little town in the Coeur d'Alene district with its 300 residents, may be, swept off the map as the result of forest fires which are now raging in the hills sur rounding the hamlet. The flames are now eating their way down the mountain sides, and it is feared the concerted ef forts of a force of fire-fighters cannot save the place. Should a strong wind come up, Wallace, too, will be in imminent danger of being wiped out. Freedom from high winds and the ar rival of 100 new men enabled the -lire- fighters, under the direction of Supervisor Welgle, to keep forest fires burning with in four miles of Wallace from making further advance toward the city today. Wallace Circled by Flames. Three fires, at Placer Creek. Slate Creek and Lake Creek, complete a semicircle to the south and west. The city is comparatively safe, except for 'a recurrence of high winds, which would cause the flames to break over trenches and. reach the wooded hills sur rounding Wallace. One hundred men from Spokane reached there today and supple mented half as many more. They were set to work digging trenches about the fires on Placer Creek and Lake Gulch, the nearest points of danger. A pall of smoke hangs over the town of Coeur d'Alene and 'ashes and embers are constantly falling and causing, citi zens .to exercise utmost caution. Miners May Aid. - If conditions become - more serious miners will be taken from the mines to aid In -controlling the fires. Burning barki moss, pine cones and needles, car ried to Wallace, cause most fear, as they have started several small Area in town. Many timid ones packed their belong ings preparatory to moving on a mo ment's notice. There was a great' rush on the Insurance offices In the city. Mine buildings on a number of pros pects on Placer Creek are believed to have been burned. Wallace residents were kept busy wetting down roofs to pre vent them catching Are from flying em bers. No families as yet are leaving Wallace or Mullen on account of the danger. Forty men, fighting the. Slate Creek fire, which trailed five miles yes terday, were surrounded by fire, but man aged to escape. Many narrow escapes (Concluded on Page 3.) Grace Bean, Pendleton High School Graduate, Displays Prowess With Well-Directed Shot. PENDLETON, Or., Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) With a rare exhibition of brav ery. Miss Grace Bean, member of this year's high school graduating class and daughter of Judge Bean and Mrs. H. J. Bean, of this city, shot and killed a black bear with a 22-calber rifle yes terday. In company with her mother and other women she was on her way by automo bile to the Summer home of the Beans at Hideaway Springs, a Blue Mountain Summer resort. On the very summit of the mountain they found Roy Con ner! sitting at the foot of a tree up which he had chased a bear while rid ing on horseback. He was unarmed and after making unsuccessful attempts to lasso the animal had sat down to wait for developments, when the au tomobile load of women came along. Miss Bean was the only woman armed, but she begged to be allowed to try to kill the bear with her squirrel gun. When permission was finally granted, she ' killed the animal with one well-directed shot In the head. ALASKA VOLCANO ERUPTS Mount Shishaldln Scatters Ashes on Distant Ship. SEWARD, Alaska, Aug. 12. The steamer Corwln arrived from New York today with the report that Mount Shisaldin, the highest volcanic peak in the Unimak Islands, is again In eruption. Early in July Shishaldln was very active, but after a short time - the eruption ceased. Officers of the Corwin say that when they passed the island a few days ago the volcano was more active than In the former eruption. A great column of fire shot high Into the air and vast volumes of smoke poured from the crater. The snow, which at the time of the previous eruption had , not melted far from the crater, has entirely disappeared from the sides of the mountain. Long before the Corwin approached the Island she was covered with white vol canic ash that had been thrown out by the eruption and was carried along in the heavy clouds of smoke. ' The men on the Corwin say the sight presented by Mount Shishaldln was the most awe-in spiring they have ever seen. PEERAGE LIST TO BE MADE Washington Publisher. Paves Way ' .. ' '. for Social Discord. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. (Special.) Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter, of Chicago and Washington, is named among the ultra fashionables and Is placed by C. W. De Lyon Nicholls in an American peerage. which he assumes to create by books he publishes listing those whom he would have compose the ultra-exclusives. In disposing of Washington society he places in the peerage, along with Mrs. Leiter, a number of rich New Torkers who recently have opened Win ter- residences here, including the Bel monts. Lorlllards, Depews, Wads' worths and Fishs, and Miss Katherine Elkins and Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. . The list is re stricted to a comparatively few of the recognized society leaders here, most of the well-known families being omitted. HUGHES HOUSE HUNTING Governor Has Trouble in Finding Suitable Washington Home. WASHINGTON. - Aug. 12. Special.) Governor Hughes, of New Tork, who Is in Washington with Mrs. Hughes, house-hunting, is having great difficul ty in finding just what he wants as his home when he comes to take a place on the United States Supreme Court bench. Real estate agents have placed their services at his command, but as diversified as are styles of architecture here the' Governor connot locate any thing suitable. This is because he de mands a house built around a library, not being particular about anything ex cept the library, while Mrs. Hughes Is looking for a house which has a large yard and stately trees. The combina tion of a large library in a stately grove does not seem to exist here. ' FISHERIES CASE ARGUED Senator , Root - Presents American Case at The Hague Tribunal. THE HAGUE, Aug. 12. United States Senator Ellhu Root, in the Newfound land fisheries case which is now be fore the international arbitration tri bunal, concluded his arguments this afternoon with a notable presentation of the American side. - Senator Root handed to the court a chart used by Great Britain in the Hal ifax arbitration case, - showing that Great Britain at that time held the opinion that the bays of Newfoundland were included in the water's in which Americans had tbe right to fish. The decision of the tribunal may be determined as early as the first week in September. ' STOP GAMBLING IS ORDER Governor Harmon Proposes to For bid Foolselling. CLEVELAND, Aug. 12. Governor Har mon today notified Sheriff HirsUus. of Cuyahoga County, to stop the pool selling which has been going on at the Grand Circuit races at North Randall all week. A warrant for H. K. Devereaux, presi dent of the Forest City Livestock Fair Comapny, charging htm with permitting gambling, was presented to him today. but he was released on ms own recogni zance. The pool selling continued. ' Manhunters Expect to TalfP Him Imparl UltV I 1111 WUVM BRIGAND SAYS HE WILL KILL Last Hold-Up Victim Conveys Grim Message to Pursuers. WOMEN TERROR-STRICKEN Bloodhounds, on Scent of Boastfal Criminal, Lead Men Through Woods to Capture Robber Who Stops Everyone He Sees. COLFAX, Wash., Aug. IS. (Special.) miles south of Emlda, Idaho, the Sheriff's posse is close on the slick heels of. the desperado who has held up and terrorized settlers in this vicinity for the past weeks. Impudently confessing to scores of crimes. Including the murder of Dell McConnell at Colfax, and threat ening men, women and children with death unless they obey his orders. This news of the man hunt which the outlaw has successfully frustrated for many days was received in Colfax tonight, together with the hint, grim and significant, that he would not be taken alive. With a score or so of armed men after mm. Kuiaea ov tne Keen scent oi Diooa- hounds, this freckle-faced brigand, at the mention of whom the wives and daugh ters of the settlers shudder, has con tinued his holdups, bis' display of weap ons and his threats to kill. Pursuers Are Warned. Through the medium of his last victim. the robber issued warning to-his pur suers that he would kill them on sight. Today the bloodhounds caught his trail ai, x tain, ETCbiiuc, s 1.C o iain,4, u w,,n, ij Creek, south' of Emlda, and tonight the manhunters are crawling through the un derbrush behind the dogs, led by an old settler and prospector. The members confidently expect to have their man within a few hours, and they expect to bring him back dead- The last man' the 'outlaw is known to ; have held up is Ralph Dickson, who was -covered by the man's guns at his camp, '. and made to tell what he knew of the officers who were on bis trail. This took place Wednesday. Posse Seen Several Times. ' It was Dickson whom the robber told suer he saw. , He professed to have 'been ' within range of the Sheriffs posse sev- eral times within the last few days and. would have opened fire had they discov ered film. Dickson's description of the audacious . highwayman tallies in every particular with those furnished by scores of others" whom, like another Harry Tracy, he had stopped, secured food from, boasted to, or bullied. He is a man of medium height with a sandy complexion and a face copiously speckled with freckles. He wears a blue serge suit and carries, loosely hung on his slim shoulder when it is not in use," a 30-80 rifle, which is supposed to be the one he took from Clarence Bruning, near Sanders, two weeks ago. He is said .to be Well sup plied with ammunition. Little Girl Held Cp. Bessie Warren, the 12-year-old daugh ter of William Warren, a settler living two miles from Emlda, was held up Tues day while riding along a trail near her home. The robber coolly told her to say nothing or,, she would be killed. Men working in the timber nearby saw the at tempted holdup and hastened to the girl's rescue, putting the freckled villain to -flight. Then they secured their guns and .-,.,,4 In miMiift hut t),lr n rru .11 - cessfully eluded them. So great is their fear of the gun-man in the blue serge suit, women and chil dren in the new Coeur d'Alene reserva tion districts are leaving their cabins. " y Sandcrgreen's Last Stop. So far as known, the fugitive was last seen at Sandergreen's camp, where he asked for food. He left shortly after ward. - Men everywhere aie on the lookout for -him. They say that the outlaw's only chance of getting food now is to happen upon a deserted camp, for receptions are prepared for him in the others. The Sheriff and his men, stalking the game la the dark woods tonight, have every hope of surrounding It and bringing the sen sational hunt to an end. MAN NOT INSANE, BUT MEAN, Convict Is Examined at End of Term at Walla Walla . WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 12. (Special.) Ed Smith, a Seattle negro, who this morning finished his term of seven years and eight months for high way robbery, was examined in the Su perior Court later on an Insanity charge, but was released upon the re port of the physicians who said he was not crazy, but merely mean, and that there was no law to imprison a mean man. Smith was placed In the insane ward of the penitentiary by Dr. Lane, for merly prison physician, and Dr. Quil 11am thought best to have a test of Ms sanity.