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VOL. XXIX. NO. 13,518.
PORTLAND. OREGON. -MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1910.
PRICK
iTS.
PORTLAND THIRD
IN BUILDING GAIN
PRESIDENT HEEDS
VIRGINIA HARNEDJO
LAST HONORS PAID
TOHABVEYW.SCOTT
HOOSIER FARMERS
'SELL OWN CROPS
FRECKLED OUTLAW
FIRE-SWEPT IDAHO
ACT FOR CHARITY
IN FEAR OF
GROWTH OF CITY REFLECTED
IX STATISTICS-' ' '
RENO'S FAMOUS DIVORCE COI,
FIELD-TO-COXSUMER . IDEA
,- . GROWING IX INDIANA. .
IS
OXV MEMBER AIDS HOME.
ALDRICH'S ADVICE
Rhode Island Senator
NGREASES
ARMS
WIND
Not Yet Overboard.
PANAMA TRIP NOW 'TENTATIVE
Much Depends Upon Wha
Crane Will Say Tomorrow.
"NEW POLITICS" PUZZLE
leader Make Haste to Go to Bct
erly to Learn Details of Up
heaval Thought to Impend.
Message Is Under Way.
BEVERLY". Mm .. Aug. 14.-(SpeclaI.
Senator W. M. Crane, of Da It on. will
come to Beverly to see President Taft on
Tuesday. It la the special mission of
Senator Crane In the United States Sen
ate to be able to tell Senator Nelson W
Aldrtrh. the Republican leader, or the
President. If he needs to know. Just how
many votes an Administrative measure
will command. He has been doing so
for several .Tears and be has not yet
been deceived.
Upon what Senator Crane tells the
President about the movement started by
those who represent the Administration
to oust Mr. Aldrlch. Sneaker Cannon and
Secretary Baillnger from control will de
pend the neat move In that direction. If
Senator Crane comes with his thuirbe
turned down, the ax la ready. If he
whispers a different menage In the Pres
ident's ear. a well-meant political earth
quake will have spent Itself at sea and
may never be located by political sclen
tists.
Politician Hurrying In.
Heading toward Beverly to find out
what It all means are vice-President
Sherman. Representative Loudenalager,
of New Jersey. In charge of the Eastern
office of the Republican Congressional
committee, and others no lees Interested
In the length of ruse attached to the po
litical bomb. They are charged with the
section of Republican House of Rep
resentatives and they - went- to know
whst this new thing la politics is.
It was lrarned today that Abe Presl
dent may abandon his trip to Panama,
on which he had planned to leave after
receiving the returns from the Nove
ber elections. Strangely enough, the
advice noon which the President
pigeon-holed his Panama Itinerary as
"tentative- came from Senator Aldrlch.
who Is marked for the "Down and Out
flub" by the men now forging to the
front In Administration politics. When
the President was asked If there had
been any change In his plans for go
ing to Panama he Indicated .that an
engagement to visit the canal must be
regarded aa tentative. Until the sug
gestion of Senator Aldrlch that the trip
might result In detriment to the work
which the President desires of Con
greas this Winter, the trip had been
treated aa a certainty.
Aldrlth's Advice Heeded.
Secretary Meyer called at Burgess
Point last week to learn the member
ship of the President's party, that he
night make arrangements for a cruise
to take the President to Colon.
That the president baa given serious
.onslderatlon to a suggestion of Sena
tor Aldrlch wMti regard to the Admin
istration policy does not fit the plans
which hare been made by the men who
would dethrone the Rhode Island
leader. Senator Aldrlch urged the
President to- give up his Panama trip
on the ground that there were so many
questions of large Importance which
will be pending during the month pre
ceding the meeting of Congress that
the President cannot afford to be ab
sent from the United States.
Some of athe subjects which he men
tioned were the appointments to the
Supreme Court and a list of legislation
which the President will seek to obtain
from Congress at the short session- It
Is worthy of consideration. In estlmat
Ing the President's part In the new
politics, that a suggestion from Sena
tor Aldrlch followed an enumeration
on his part of things which he will lay
before Congress In his second annual
message.
ORIHO.M MAY BEAK MESSAGE
Visit to Beverly to Be Followed by
Trip to Sagamore Hll.
OTSTKR BAY. Aug. "14 Kx-Presi-
dent Roosevelt announced today that
l.loyd C Grlsrom. chairman of the New
Tork Republican county committee,
will come to Sagamore Hill tomorrow
for a conference, ilr. Grlscom spent
last night with President Taft at
Beverly, although Colonel Roosevelt
would not say that .Mr. Url scorn will
tome to Sagamore Hill as the bearer
f aa Important message from Presi
dent Taft. The conference, therefore,
will be of more than usual Importance.
Colonel Roosevelt would add nothing
to the bare announcement that Mr.
tSrlscom was to come, except to say
that he had read with great Interest
the dispatches from Beverly intimating
that the President Is expecting Secret
tary Baillnger to resign, and that Sen
ator Aldrlch and Speaker Cannon. In
the future, are to be In less direct con
tact with the Administration. He re
rosed to give his views on this sub-)e-t.
or to ssy whether the messgs
which Mr. Grlscom bears constitutes
Social Ev ent to Be Made of Prod no
tion Which Will Be Seen Before ;
Divorce Case Comes Up.
RENO. Nev Aug. . 14. (Special.)
In response to the solicitation of . a
large number of 'the women locally and
from the East here, who were Inter-
ested In the recent organisation of a
Crittenton Home, .among whom are
several members of the divorce colony.
Virginia Harned. whose name Is .Mrs.
Edward H. Sothern on the divorce court
records here, has consented to give an
elaborate performance by herself and
company, under the auspices of ' these
women, for the benefit of the building
fund. .
The date planned will be prior to
that when her divorce case again comes
up. within the next two months. The
colony will make a social event of this
occasion and. hope to-net a sufficient
amount as the basis for a magnificent
building for this worthy cause.
While the actress Is establishing her
legal residence In this state, she is ab
sent from Reno much, of the time by
the legitimate demands of her 'profes
sion.
PEACHES I BLOSSOM -AGAIN
Trees Will Bear Second Crop on .'One
Side," After: Being" Scorched.-. -STOCKTON.
Cal..'Aug. 14.-r(8pecial.)
Excessive heat has caused, a phenome
non in the fruit world here that is creat
ing much interest. Peach trees laden on
one side with green leaves and ripe fruit
and the opposite side with as fine blos
soms as were ever seen In April or May
have set the wise ones, guessing. The
oddity was caused by workmen of the
Central California Traction Company
line burning the grass alongside of the
tracks of that line on the Cherokee Lane
road of the Interurban between Stock
ton and Lodl.
The trees were badly scorched on one
side but the fruit matured on the other.
though the owner believed the trees
would die. The past few days the
scorched side of the trees blossomed for
the second time and there Is every Indi
cation that a second crop of peaches will
result. Orchardtsts are taking a keen
Interest In the unusual action of the
trees and will closely follow the result
of the unnatural heat on the trees.
WORLD'S FAIR FIRE-SWEPT
Great Belgian Exposition Seems
Doomed Two Die In Flames.
BRUSSELS. Aug. 14. Fire swept the
great Belgian exposition tonight. The
flames were driven by a high wind and
soon destroyed the Belgian. English
and French sections.
It is believed the .whole exposition
will be destroyed. Two are dead and
SO injured.
SS Riled ; 4 Injured.
ROTAN. France. Aug. 14. An excur
sion train from Bordeaux with 1200 pas
sengers and running at a speed of SO
lies an hour, crashed into a freight
train at Saujon today.
Thirty-two persons were killed and 100
Injured.
Many of the victims were school girl
Several of the passenger cars were torn
to splinters. A split switch caused the
accident-
MASONIC
1 rWWV
SimpleServ.ceAccords
With Own View.
ASSOCIATES ACT AS; ESCORT
Last; Work- for. Education Re
called in Words of Eulogy. ""
BODY AT- REST IN GRAVE
Masons Conduct Concluding; Rites at
. Riverview Throngs : Attest : Sin- t
.cerlty; of .Mourning? Serv-.
Ice at Home Is -.Brief.
',-Wlth brief, simple services at the fam
ily residence and a short. Masonic ritual:
tstlc. ceremony at ' the ' grave, the 'late
Harvey W. . Scott, editor '.of The Orego-
nian, was buried in Riverview Cemetery
yesterday afternoon. The last rites were
In keeping with his often expressed Idea
of a funeral, a short service, stripped
of eulogy and ostentation.
The cortege was long and marched with
alow tread In cadence with the funeral
dirge.
The procession was made up of per
sonal associates, for It consisted of none
but Masons and men representing all de
partments of a metropolitan dally news
paper. Members of the family, relatives
nd a few close, personal friends, In
cluding the active and honorary pall
bearers, rode in carriages behind the
hearse.
Body Rests in Library.
The body of Mr. Scott lay In the li
brary, his favorite room In his resi
dence. The long shelves of books which
border the room were hidden behind
banks of floral tributes from friends.
The casket was surrounded with flowers.
At the bead stood a floral fac simile of
the front page of The Oregon lan, made
up of pink lilllea and Oregon grape, the
tribute of Multnomah Typographical
Union.' In the center was the symbolical
"10" In black, the sign used In newspaper
offices to denote that work .Is -ended...
As the clock struck the hour of 8. Rev.
Thomas I Bllot,. minister emeritus of
the First Unitarian Church, arose in the
library, and atanding in the 'doorway.
Where all who had assembled In adjoin
ing rooms could hear, announced that
the services would be brief and simple,
as requested by Mrs. Scott, and in keep
ing with, Mr. Scott's own expressed wish.
Poem by Slielley Read.
He read the first Psalm, the first to
eighth, and 28th to 31st verses of the
40th chapter of Isaiah, the third to 16th.
verses of the sixth chapter of Matthew,
and the lth, 17th. 24th. :5th and 9th
verses of the eighth chapter of Romans.
A mixed quartet sang. "Abide With Me,"
after the scripture . reading, .and then
Dr. Eliot read stanxas from Shelley's
"Adonals." Introducing the poem with
reference to the funeral of E. B. (Jerry)
(Concludeil on Page 8.)
BODIES ESCORTING REMAINS
1
VIEW OF PORTION OF
Million-Dollar Capital, Wanted for
Construction of Elevators, Is in '
" "Way to Be" Subscribed.'
INDIANAPOLIS,' Ind., Aug. 14. (Spe
cial.) Within the next 30 days the most
comprehensive ' efforts " that 'have ever
been made to organise Indiana farmers
into devoted self Interest will be inaug
urated and paid organisers .will be. at
work In all" parts of the state. :
Steps have already been taken to raise
a fund for. the disposal of millions of
dollars', worth of grain from a central
depot In this city and elevators and
other buildings 'are 1 to be erected from
which agents of the farmers are to sell
their products direct to shippers : and
consumers. .The plan Is much the same
as that adopted by the big .brewers in
-Kentucky' and other states, and farmers
Interested In it believe' it will be 'quite
as successful. ' 1
.. It, la expected the site for. a' large
storehouse will be' selected, here In i
short .time and that a oapital of 31,000,
000, made up. of shares, of 35 each, with
which buildings, are . to be erected, will
be subscribed before the corn- crop 'is
ready .for market 5 : '
INDEX' OF TODAY'S ' NEWS
The Weather. . . V "
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, - 70
degree; minimum, a? degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; north weatery
: winas. .... . . .....
Foreign.
Florence Nightingale, famous British Army
nurse, aies at age or 90 years. Page 2.
Politics,
President stl aceepts advice from Senator
Aiaricn. page 1. -
Both parties In Nebraska spilt over option
. issue. rage z.
Republican registration heavy in California.
Page 2.
- Domestic
Statistics show Portland third city In coun
try in building gain since January 1.
Page 1. ' .
Prominent actress to play before 1 Reno's
divorce coony to aid Crittenton - Home
fund. Pagel.- f
Boiler of steam schooner phoenix explodes,
Kllng four. Page 3.
Illinois Central to push charges against
aeged grafters. Page S.
Indiana farmers organise union. Page 1.
Rioting continues In Columbus strike, police
siding with strikers. Paze 3
Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 5,
Sacramento 2; vemon 7-1. Oakland 1-2;
Los Angeles 1-3, San Francisco 0-2.
Page 10.
Veteran - horsemen Inspect Rose City track
and viw horses. Pace 10. .
O rest prtarmtrons ' are made: for fair, at
Kcseburg. Page W.
. Padflo Jiorthwest- -
"ld'aho"forest -fir1 ' situation ' la critical.
Pe J. .......
Erangelst Bly Sunday preaches against
. liquor traffic, pe 5- ,
Great crowd attends clambake at Newport.
Page , V
Chapatn Olbert, at ' American ' Lake en
cimpment, prophesies war. . page 5..
M osier shoots first gun In big advertising
campaign. Page 0.
. Fort U ad and Vicinity.
Fun era of HarvewW. Scott is argey attend
ed. Pare 1.
Pastors praise life-work of Harvey W.
Scott. Page 8.
Three hurt In early morning Are. which de
stroys odging-house. .. Page 14.
Bridge bond issue expected to sell at about
v'2. Page 11.
Woman who fell from fourth story balcony
has chance of recovery. Page 7.
"Work begins today on West Side pier of
rainroaa oriage. rage v.
Commission merchants bold Joyous outing.
Page 11.
R; R Lovett.' head of Harriman lines. In
spects Deschutes road. Page 14.
C. A. Smith won't sell valuable timber hold-
in gslieresaysat torn ey. Page 9. '
OP LATE H. W. SCOTT TO
PROCESSIOX TAKEX OX THIRD STRKKT, ABOVE TAYLOR.
Sheriff's Aide Robbed
i of Revolver.
OFFICERS STILL EXHAUSTED
Others Go Out ' in Search of
: Impudent Highwayman.
FUGITIVE IS GOOD-HUMORED
Slanhnnters Hope to Effect Capture
Hwith Help of Russian Staghound.
Desperado Carries' His-Provl- -I
slons Along. With , Him.
'.- , . - .. -.
COLFAX,, Wash., Aug:. 14. (Special.)
-V-Of fleers of the Sheriff's, posse .who
yesterday ' gave up the pursuit "of" the
freckle-faced" desperado" on" pleas' of ex
haustion, following the cool announce
ment from, the audacious .outlaw, .who
has been the talk and terror of this
section for two weeks, that he would
shoot them on sight, are still resting,
but they haven't given up hope of
getting their man. They have picked
a number of setlers ' as scouts : and
ordered them to keep a sharp lookout
for the holdup man, while they recover
from the fatigue of their day's unsuc
cessful search.
Meanwhile, the fugitive. , still jolly,
boastful and blue-serged-suited. has
secured reinforcements and is enjoying
his liberty and, it is said, eating regu
larly, somewhere In the tall timber
near Em Id a. Idaho.
" The reinforcements consist of a .38
Ivor Johnson revolver and ammunition,
and a double-bladed hunting knife,
while he took from a tlmberman named
John Heltman, a guard In the Sheriff's
posse. These, with his 30-30 rifle,
make him more formidable than ever. '
Men Start in -Pursuit. .
Among the understudies assigned to
look out for the outlaw by the- regular
officers are Bernard .Baber. Robert
Butcher, and Jim Martin. citizens of Cot
fax, who left here this morning to take
up the chase. They believe, as "the
freckle-faced highwayman has often ad
mitted) that tie murdered Dell MeCon-
nell here, and .there. Is a reward of $1300
for 'the capture of McConnell's slayer.
Baber took with blm bis Russian stag-
bound, which be bopes will be of service
In tracking the. criminal. The blood
hounds used by the Sheriffs posse last
week proved of no use on account of the
thick underbrush and the smoke of the
forest fires. .
Baber and his aides will leave the rail
road at Farmlngton and drive across the
country 80 miles to Charley Creek, where
the fugitive was last seen. The party is
equipped to stay .on the trail several
days.
Forest Fires Hamper.
The officers were bothered in ' their
(Concluded on Pase 2.)
FINAL RESTING PLACE AT RIVERVIEW.
Increase Here for Seven -Months Is
31 Per . Cent; Seattle Has 19
Per Cent Loss in Period.
CHICAGO, Aug. 14. (Special.)
Building operations in Portland for the
seven months from January 1 to
August 1, 1910, show an . Increase over
the corresponding period of 1909," of 31
per cent, according' to statistics just
published in the American Contractor.
This gain places the Coast city third
In the list of American cities as re
gards gain in building operations for
this period. In the list mentioned by
the contractor there are .51 ; cities
shown.. Of these S4 show decreases In
the building operations for the early
period . of the year. . This ; decrease
ranges from 4 per cent to 76 per cent,
which latter unenviable record Is held
by Scranton, Pa.. ' :
"While Portland . shows a . solid gain
for the first seven months of the -year
as regards ' the " money expended for
new buildings, Seattle shows a loss of
19 per cent for the same period, and
during the month of - August,- 1910, the
building operations of the Washington
city showed a decrease of 29 per cent
from August, 1909. ;
' During the month' of July, Spokane
showed a' decrease of 22 per cent from
Julyof 1909, for the early seven
months "of ' the current yearthat city
shows a "decrease of 16 per cent. Ta-
coma lost 33 per cent during the month
of July, and 24 per cent for the seven-
months period. i
- The only other Coast cities besides
Portland showing an Increase are Oak
land and Loa Angeles. Oakland show
ing a gain of 11 per cent for July and
35 per cent for the seven months.
Los 'Angeles shows a gain of 98 per
cent both for the month of July and for
the first. seven months of the. year.
MUSIC MASTER HELD THIEF
Teacher Tries to Cash Bonds Stolen
In Russia. '
BOSTON, Aug. 14. Andreu Roullow,
apparently a highly-educated music
teacher, is held by Federal officers be
cause he tried to cash 15 Russian govern-
ment bonds-which were identified, as
having .been stolen from the treasury at
Tlflte, Russia, in 1907.
The number of note? stolen was 200 and
their total value was about $50,000. Roul
low was held In 1 10,000 bail for a hearing
on August 24.'" He said the bonds were
sent blm by mali from Germany and
-that, he had no cause to . beleve they
had been stolen. -
CHINA DEPENDS ON SELF
Orientals to Use Own People as Dip
lomatic Advisers.
PEKIN, Aug. 14. The Chinese gov
ernment has decided to employ no
diplomatic adviser in the future, a de
clslon that has come as a surprise, and
to some extent a disappointment to the
foreign communities of the Far East.
The Wal Wu Pu, the foreign gov
erning board, will depend in the future
on -the views and opinions that are held
regarding foreign affairs by those of
Its own people who have had long ex
perience In the consular service abroad.
Cities Surrounded by
Burning, Forests.
WALLACE IS IN GREAT PERIL
Still Air Alone Saves Towns:
. From Utter Destruction.
COLORED TROOPS TO AID
Homesteaders Flee, lieavlng Goods.
Settlers, Out Off by Flames, May
Be IiostCries for Help Meet
With bnt Scant Response.
SPOKAXBi "Was:, Aug. 14. To fight
the forest fires which are daily threaten
ing - the cities of Wallace, Mullan and
Murray in the Coeur d'Alenes and which
are raging In Northern Montana, seven
companies of the colored soldiers of the
Twenty-fifth Infantry left. Spokane thl
morning immediately after their return
from the Summer maneuvers at Ameri
can Lake. '
The flames are within two or three
miles of Wallace In every direction and
should wind arise they will be swept to
the tops of the hills overlooking the city,
making the narrow canyon in which it i
built an oven so hot that nothing can
save the frame buildings from the fiery
cones and pieces of bark which will
deluge the town.
Narrow Trenches Wall Off Flames;
Clouds of sparks and smoke have been
pouring over the city for more than a
week and the little fire department has
been on duty night and day extinguishing
frequent incipient blazes. Owing to two
days free from wind the numerous biases
have been surrounded by trenches by the .
hundreds of fire fighters, but a gale would
blow the lire, over the narrow entrenchments.-
'
On Big Creek, near the head of the
St.' Joe River,' west of Wallace, the home
steaders were yesterday forced to flee,
leaving avtn -tKeh- household goods. The '
blaze there is in some of the heaviest
white pine in north Idaho and hundreds
of millions of feet of Umber have been
destroyed.
The homesteaders from Big Creek, cut
off from the 8t. Joe River, surmounted
the divide and reached the O. R. & N.
at Wardner. All those whose timber
claims are known to have been burned
are accouated for except Joseph' Bruzlri
sky and his wife and It is hoped that
tbey made their way to the north and
will emerge - on the shores of Coeur
d'Alene lake 20 miles away.
Soldiers Take Up Fight.
Two of the companies from Fort George
Wright left this afternoon on a special
train to Wallace and will be sent out into ,
the woods to reinforce nearly 1000 men 1
working under the direction of Supervisor ,
Weigle, of the Coeur d'Alene forest re- ,
serve. The -otner nve companies - went ;
this morning on the Great Northern to j
the Flathead reserve, the new Glacier 1
Park and to Dixon, Mont.
Smaller blazes are being fought in Bon
ner County, Idaho, next to the Canadian
boundary, and in Stevens County, In the I
northeastern part of Washington. From
the Canadian authorities . in British Co
lumbia and Alberta have come appeals
for men from Spokane to which no re
sponse could be made, as every one. that
can be secured here has been sent into
the Idaho burned district.
FOREST FIRES TTXDER CONTROL j
Blaze In Bine Mountains Has De-,
stroyed Much Valuable Timber.
DAYTON, Wash.; - Aug. 14. (Special.)
The destructive forest fires op the
Oregon side of the Blue Mountains 30
miles south of here are now under con
trol according to John Church, who re
turned today from the devastated dis
trict. Several men left Dayton today
to keep watch over smouldering logs
and stumps In the burned timber.
The fire has been raging lor 10 nays.
Mr. Church says, and has burned over
an area a mile square, . destroying sev
eral million feet of valuable fir, cedar.
tamarac and pine timber. The fire-
fighting brigade Is returning from Teal's
camp at the headwaters of Asotin
Creek, where Headquarters nave Deen
established. The fire is the most se
rious in the Blue Mountains in several
years. ...
WATER SUPPLY IS IJf DANGER
La Grande City Plant Threatened
by Near-By ' Forest Fire.
LA GRANDE, Or., Aug. 14. (Special.)
According to information given out
by railroad circles, troops' are . ordered
to La Grande to aid in iignting tne
forest fires that are beyond control
and are threatening the Beaver Creek
watershed tlmber.-
La Grande e:ets Its water supply from
Beaver Creek and the situation Is
alarming. The Forestry Department
has sent in a large 'crew or men irom
here this morning. Forest rangers are
in charge of the men.
WIXD: BLOWS AT MOSCOW
District Around Boise Raging Fnr-
. nace Flames Spreading.
ROISE. Idaho. Aug. 14. (Special.)
Idaho forests are still In great danger
Coacladd ea Pace X.)
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