T PORTLAND, OREGOX, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. L.-XO. 15,518. FOREST FIRES' TOLL OF DEAD grdwshourly Idaho-Montana Zone of Danger Widens Constantly. HALF OF WALLACE IS SAVED Property Loss Will Be Close to Million, and Many Lives Are Reported Lost. FIGHTERS IN GRAVE DANGER Burke and Mullan, Idaho, Among Towns Threatened. WHOLE REGION GOES DARK Many Parties In Woods Bettered to Be Cut Ofr People Fleeing From Points Regarded as Safe on Saturday. , MISSOI LA. Mont.. Aui. 31. (Special.) Except for Wallace. Idaho, the fowl fir situation on both aides of tha Idaho Montana line la more serious tonight than It was this tnornlnit. Flames are sweeping over an Increae Ir.g area, destroying small settlements and arlplnc .out of existence millions of collars' worth of property. The Ins of life will be large. It grows hourly, and the number of Injured Is constantly Increasing. In and around Wallace It la estimated here the death list Is at least 60. ' Many Made Blind. In addition to at least 25 otherwise Kurt. It Is said that ten persons have been tnnrie Mind. Indications in Wallace, however, are that nearly half of the city will be saved. Communication with Wallace to the west has been possible at Intervals today, but eastward It Is entirely cut ofr and It Is known that the entire east half of the town, above Seventh street, has been burned. West of that a hard fight la being made and with Improve ment In the water supply there Is more chance that the fUmes may be driven back. Lives Loot In Wallace. In Wallace the" dead Include: John Boyd, pioneer of the district and for 1 years general agent of the North ern raclflc Railroad here, suffocated In his home In Pearl street while trying to reeoo the family rarrot. Two unknown, whoa skeletons were found In the ruins of the Michigan H'mse. I'nknown men. burned to death tn Coeor d'Alene Hou'e. Th conflagration tn the East End was scared soon sfter U o'clock today. Back firing, la which the members of the City JTlre Department, a company of the Twenty -fifth Infantry and many volun teers prevented new fire west and south. City's !. Close to Million. The lnes to the city la estimated at close to SI.dce.O0a. Some of the principal losses are as follows: Coeur d'Alene Hardware Company, warehouse and stock. t!50,0n. Ban Brewery, ISO" via. Pacific Hotel and Annex, owned by W. I. James, of Spokane. S30.C0O. Coeur d'Alene Iron Works. fSOiOOft. O. R. N. depot snd string of box cars, ro ooo. Smith Fisher, JfACHa Tlmee Printing Company. tl&AW. Worstell Furniture Company. 350,000. Standard Oil Company. fcO.OOX About ISO small residences and many other minor bus-.neast houses. Hospital Is Saved. Providence Hospital and the big mills of the Federal Mining Company were the only buildings In the Ear End that were saved. Forest Supervisor Oeorge W. Welgel re port that the region between Wallace and the St. John River Is swept practical ly clean, with enormous loss. Fires between Burke and Mullan threa ten both towns and many women and children have been aent out. At War Eagle tunnel etx were found dead and two were badly burned. Five of the dead were In the tunnel, where they had sought refuge. They lay face down In wjtar. covered with wet rags and blsnkets. Some had died from the fire and some from suffocation by smoke. The Injured were taken to Providence. Hosp4tal In Wallace. Twelve dead were recovered at Big Creek. There were three Injured and three others were completely blinded. Ore fire lighter was found dead near tCoaaiaded ee. rase SERMON ON GOSSIP SENT TO GOSSIPS VICTIM OP WAGGING TONGUES TAKES rSIQCE REVENGE. To Slop Talk Abont His Matrimonial Troubles, General Miller Sends Out 5000 Pamphlets. SHARON, Pa.. Aug. 31. (Special.) To set at rest the. wagging tonguea of the gossips. General Charles Miller, of Franklin, whose divorce proceedings against the second Mrs. Miller last Spring caused such a widespread sensa tion, has prepared for distribution S00O coplea of a slixllng sermon on gossip among the talkative critics. Several years ago General Miller aued bis first wife, who Is a sister of Joseph C. Sibley, for a divorce and obtained it. Later he married Mrs. Emma Zuver Miller, of this city. The second Mrs. Bulen. the former wife of a Meadvllle piano tuner, and alster of Mrs. C. T. Miller It Is said, did not get as cordtsl a reception In Franklin as expected. Last Spring General Miller brought suit for divoroe from bis second wife, alleging cruelty and Indignities to his person. Mrs. Miller evaded a score of detectives snd subpena servers and fled to Ohio, going first to Youngs town snd Ister to New York. Later General and Mrs. Miller were recon ciled. Oosslp ran high In Franklin. Then the . Rev. A. Lincoln Moore, pastor of the First Baptlat Church, In which General Miller la the strongest pillar, preached a sermon on gossip which so pleaaed the General that he has had the sermon printed for distri bution. DECOY LETTER IS FATAL Long Beach Mallcarrler Accused of Theft to "Keep Affinity. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Aug. 31. (Spe cial.) Inspector Know, of the Postof flce Department returned today from Denver with a quantity of Jewelry and other valuables which Frank Tennant, a mallcarrler at Long Beach. Is accused of having abstracted from letters and sent to his affinity In the Colorado city. The young woman will nqt be disclosed before the trial. Tennant in order to avert suspicion at his home, used to take there his full psy envelope snd to keep the girl at Denver In presents and cash, and It Is charged he looted much mall of money and valuables. Four open letters were found In his pockets when he was ar rested. One. a decoy, contained four marked dollar bills. These were in his purse. He declared he found the decoy letter In a waste paper basket and took out the money. Much of the plunder he sent to Denver has been identified. HARRELL TO HANG SEPT. 9 Quick Justice Overtakes Confessed Murderer of Xcvrell Boys. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Aug. SI. (Special.) A stay of execution of tha death sentence Imposed on Ike Harrcll for the murder of Herbert and Walter Newell last June has been denied by the State Supreme Court and Harrell will pay the penalty for his crime on Sep tember t. Harrell had been herding sheep for the Newell boys, who were 22 and 24 years of age. but bad neglected to take proper care of hla flocks and was discharged. Herbert Newell was writing a check for the amount due Harrell and was using his knee as a support for the checkbook, when Harrell struck him with a heavy platol. Walter aaw the act and rushed to his brother's aid. When he came'near Harrell the latter shot him. killing him Instantly. Harrell then shot Herbert through the shoulder, the shock of. the bullet's Impact felltng him to the grand. He revived later and crawled to bis tent where he wrote a totter de scribing the murder of his brother. While Herbert was In the tent. Harrell came up and shot him with a high power rifle, the bullet tearing; ths top of his head ofX. I: ' ' " - - '"-- - " ffi v - - ' s'i CHADS Hi MANAGUA MADRIZ- FLEEING Nicaragua's Govern ment Tottering. CAPITAL IS PANIC-STRICKEN Lives and Property of Ameri cans Now Threatened. CRUISERS READY TO ACT Grenada Believed at Mercy of Un disciplined Warriors, . Who Soon May Be Among Captured Es trada on March to City. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. The pro visional government of Nicaragua Is tot tering to its fall, the Madrls army Is demoralized, consternation reigns In Managua and Dr. Madrls. his general-ln-chief. Toledo, and General Irtaa, are pre paring to flee the country. This, In effect. Is the news received by the State Department today from United States . Consul Ollvares st Ma nagua, and these advices are ' confirmed by dispatches from Mr. Johnson, United States Consul at Corinto. - - - Panic Threatens Americans. - The panic In the capital Is threatening the lives and property of Americans. Crowds are reported traversing the streets crying, "Death to the Americans." While the cruiser Vlcksburg and York town are at Corinto and in close touch with the situation, the legation and con sulates In Managua are under heavy police guard and preparations have been made to meet attacks on American lives and property. . -The situation grew out of the victory won Thursday by the revolutionists who defeated a strong column of government troops snd crossed the Tlpltapa River. The removal of the government army ems complete. Mr. Ollvares -reports that General Toledo, who was In com mand of the Madrls troops, arrived in Managua today following his defeat and announced that his force hsd been seised with panic and . fled when attacked. Soldiers made their way to Grenada whll others continued their flight to the capital. Mob of Soldiers Pillage. ' Grenada appears to be at'the mercy of an undisciplined mob of soldiers, who are reported to be pillaging the houses there. . . It Is sdded that the Estradan force is already at the gates of the city and !s preparing to take the place by assault. From the evident demoralised condition (Concluded on Page 2.) SCENES AT BTTONTT) my ABOVE, PROVIDEXCB HOSPITAL. WHICH WAS BARELY SAVED WITH ITS INMATES, AND GEKEBAL VIEW OIT BURKED CITY BELOW, STJN ET BRCWEBr, WHICH WAS DESTBOYEIVLXD. TOWNS OF GEM ISO MUBKAV TO J5AVB WHICH HEBOIO EFFORTS ARB BEING MADE. NEW PEDESTRIAN BEATS OUT WESTON NEW OCEAX-TO-OCEAA ' MARK MADE BT 68-YEAR-OLD. John Ennls Out-Travels Rival In Walk Across Continent Hopes to Do Trick In 81 Da vs. SACRAMENTO. CaL, Aug. 31. Seventy-eight days out of New York city, by actual walking time, and three weeks ahead of the coast-to-coast walking record of 10S days set by Ed ward Payson Weston. John Ennls, aged 8 years, arrived In this city at 4 o'clock this morning. He rested here today prior to con tinuing his walk, to San Francisco which he expects to reach Wednesaay morning, thus making a new walking record of II days across the continent. The pedestrian was greeted by the blow ing of whistles on the Southern Pacific locomotives In the yards at an early morning hour. Members of the local Y. M. C. A. were on hand to greet him and escort him to lodgings. He walked from Auburn yesterday. Ennls ' has been on tile road for 89 days. but he does not travel . on Sundays. He counts only the days he walks. He carries letters from Mayor Gaynor, of New York, which he expects to hand to Mayor McCarthy, of San Francisco, on Tuesday evening.. He lectured to the Y. M. C. A. today. INDEX OF TODAY'S. NEWS The Weather. YESTETtDAT'S Maxlmium temperature, 69 decrees: minimum. 51 degrees. TODAY'S Pair: northwesterly winds. Portland and Vicinity. Campaign of an I. of Broadway brides bonds an, today. . Pass 11.. . , Work" on Hood River highway soon to be- Chlna Is on vere of bankruptcy, says Dr. Alirea iingio. r. Only big companies benefit by subsidy. Csp- laJn Lans says. Pace 3. Secret of hardening copper discovered In Alaska. Page 0. Infantile paralyaia puzxles Oregon health authorities. " Psge -14. Politics. Vice-President Sherman" to take stump In Illinois for Representative McKlnley. Page 1. Foreign. Miss Elklns likely to become Queen of Greece. Pag 3. Wrest hire. Men fall exhausted fighting flames ia Cra ter laae rwrve. i G- o. Governor may call volunteers to fight for est fires; after much red tap, regulars finally leave for fir son. Page 8. Derastatlon by forest fires follows ava lanche in the Coeur d'Alenes. Page 8. Domestic. - Harahan will lay bar skeleton, of Illinois Temperaacc women nonplusted as to what lo oo aooui nt ij.'"o ' - - Pan 4. New 8-year-old pedestrian outwalks Wes ton across continent.. Page 1. Hoort. - Oakland 4. Portland 2: San Francisco 4-2, ernon o -" . i.o a(,i w-, to 3-1. Pag 10. Australian swim champion braks world's ma- .a- 1AA m.t.r. f.. lO. Seal, coming north to play Beavers, minus Paelne Northwest. Springfield has noteworthy celebration of "coming of railroads." Page 3. Premier Lsurler decorated by citizens at Princ Rupert. B. C. Pag S. Skeleton of murdered mining man of seven leviis ui.iru.-i .uuuu vj -,.-..- Page 5. A.m CAMPS MT!'Ta.C'rjD ITT t 1 ii J JgeoOf .is- - '- - JuMT .-- " ' ?4Si ILLINOIS CENTRAL BONES TO RATTLE Harahan to Be Made to "Bare Skeletons." ACCUSED MEN SUMMON HIM Issue to Be Obscured by Coun ter Inquisition. OLD CASE IS BROUGHT UP Light Thrown on Mysteries of Fam ous Coughlin Jury Bribery De fendants - Hope .to Show Ko Great Amount Was t-lolen. CHICAGO, Aug. 21. (Special.) With the opening of the long-heralded crim inal prosecutions in the Illinois Cen tral 81,500.000 graft scandal tomorrow. President J. T. Harahan will discover himself to be one of the chief witnesses called by the men whom he is prosecu tlpg. He will be questioned about loner secrets of the road's acts that never have seen the light of day. . If the plans -of the defendants do not miscarry it will mean the removal of the veil that for years Is supposed' to' have covered the work of the road's "legislative policy," the efficiency of which Is declared to have been respon sible for the fact that It has enjoyed legislative favors with which no other corporation has been favored. Three Officials Subpenaed. As the first move In the plan to switch the present investigation in such a manner as to bare numerous other skeletons in the closets of the road's officials, lawyers for Frank B. Harrl man, Charles I Ewlng and John M. Taylor, the three accused officials, to day supenaed President Harahan, Mau rice Welch, special agent for the road, who was dismissed and later re-employed, and President Jarnes,Nlles, of. the. Blue Island. XTar. Repair &Equlo ment Company, as their witnesses. Thia move came without the slightest intimation on the part of the lawyers as to what -their real ptrt-pbse" w'as." It was accepted as .beyond doubt, how ever,' that Mr. Harahan,' the prosecutor of grafters, will be made the defendant. If the evidence can be forced in which the lawyers representing ilarriman and his companions now are preparing. , r Sew. Light on Old- Case. Along with this Information light was thrown on many of the mysteries of the famous Cqughlln Jury bribing ease during the day. It was shown (Concluded on Page .1 ) COETJH. D'ALENES. . . .. W NOBODY FOLLOWS LONGWORTH'SLEAD AVTI-CASXOS PROPAGANDA IX TOTAL ECLIPSE. Other Announcements Forecasted to Be In Line With His Thus Far Not in Visible Evidence. BEVERLY,. Mass.", Aug. . 21. (Spe cial.) Something has gone wrong with the fight against "Uncle Joe" Cannon, started In Beverly when Representative Nicholas Longworth gave out the an nouncement that he would not support the present Speaker for re-election. This action was Intended as the rais ing of a standard which should be a rallying point of other "regulars" who desired only an opportunity to repudi ate allegiance to ' Mr. Cannon. . To date the number who have followed the lead of Representative Longworth Is so small that not a "regular" has been forced to second his motion. This adds strength to the dispatches from Ohio, which' indicated that .the announcement of Representative Long-, worth was, so far as he was concerned; as well considered from Its effect in his own. fight as from its National standpoint and likely to aid him to return to Congress. Instead . of becoming the central figure in a rush like that of a co terie of bears around a seller in Wall street. Representative Longworth and his statement seem to have dropped out of sight. Since it was his plan to go to Oyster Bay to visit Colonel Roosevelt. It is possible that he has been temporarily obscured in that re gion. It was understood that several others were ready to make similar anouncements. The fact that they have not followed the Longworth announce ment printed on August 18, has caused considerable surprise. COYOTE BITE;THEN RABIES Sheepherder of Washington Lies at Point of Death. . ASOTIN, Wash.. Aug. .21. (Special.) An unknown sheepherder was found along the Snake River yesterday 20 miles from here in' a very precarious condition with rabies resulting from a bite of a mad coyote. The sheepherder was coming down the river from the mountains where he had been employed for several -months. As he was passing over a high rim rock, he was confront ed by the coyote, which when within a few feet made a spring, burying Its teeth deep Into- the-flesh of-his body. The herder Is lying very ill about 30 miles from medical attention and has slight chance for recovery. - - BRITISH SHIP RUNS ASHORE Japanese Vessels Have Been Sent to Her Assistance. , TOKIO, Aug. 21, The British cruiser Bedford ran ashore on the southwest portion of Quelpart Island today. ' Jap anese warships have been sent to her assistance. The weather Is bad. . The Bedford at the time of the ac cident was sailing with the Brltlsn squadron from Wei Hal Wei, China for Nagasaki, Japan SHERMAN TO TAKE STUMP in 1 1 10 u Vice-President Is Out for McKinley. 2 SPEECHES ABE SCHEDULED Statement of Attitude of Ad ministration Expected. "SOFT PEDAL" IS LIKELY Possibility That Vice-President May Hnrl Thunderbolt at Cannon Adds Interest to Campaign. 3io Opposition Vet. CHICAGO, Aug. 21. (Special.) Vice President James S. Sherman Is to take the stump in Illinois this week for Representative William B. McKlnley, of Champaign, regular candidate for re election In the Nineteenth district. This announcement was made today at the headquarters of the Republican Con gressional committee In the Auditorium Hotel, where the Vice-President's speaking tour is being arranged. . Although Representative McKlnley had no opposition at the primaries and has every prospect of success at the election, Mr. Sherman will make two speeches In his behalf. One will be at the Weldon Springs Chautauqua at Clinton next Saturday afternoon and the other at Decatur in the evening. "Soft Pedal" Is Expected. From Illinois Mr. Sherman will jour ney to Missouri, where he will make speeches in several Congressional dis tricts. Other dates are being arranged for him in the Southwest. The Vice-President will reach Chi cago from the East Saturday morning and will spend an hour or more In this city before leaving tor Clinton. Mr. Sherman's first speeches in the Coffgressional campaign will be of mora than local significance, as he Is expect ed to voice the Administration's atti tude in the impending primary contests between regulars and Insurgents. The opinion among politicians is that the Vice-President will put on the soft pedal In talking of the factional strife and will not be too emphatic in his in dorsement of the tariff act. Cannon May Be Ignored.' Whether he will mention Speaker Cannon's name. In view of the recent anti-Cannon utterance made by Repre sentative Longworth with President Taft's approval. Is problematical. With a possibility that the Vice-President may hurl a thunderbolt in Mr. Cannon's direction, it is expected that the' Speaker will not venture to attend the Sherman meetings, though his district adjoins that of Representative McKln ley and the trip will be a short one. A few of the Illinois Representatives, including W. A. Rodenburg, of East St. Louis, will act as guard of honor for the Vice-President. The Clinton and Decatur gatherings will mark the for-t mal opening of Representative McKin ley's campaign and he will make brief addresses. . Representative McKinley will be in Chicago Tuesday to attend to his duties as chairman of the Republican Con gressional committee. His secretary, John Eversman, Is at the Auditorium. ' TAPI S SILENCE BRINGS PEACE Roosevelt's Advisers, However, Try to Inject Him In Fight. N BEVERLY. - Mass., Aug. 31. (Spe-. cial.) Friends of both President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt along the North Shore have noticed that the dignified silence of the President, regarding the aspersions which have been cast upon him, beginning with the adverse vote of the New York State Republican com; mlttee last Tuesday, has born fruit making temporarily for peace and or der. This was further revealed when newspapers today brought denials from Oyster Bay that Colonel Roosevelt had ever said that he was sending Lloyd C. Griscom to Beverly with an ultima-, turn to the President demanding that: he repudiate Vice-President Sherman. It was obvious that the newspaper' correspondents who have been carrying tho anonymous storleB attacking Presi dent Taft would get In trouble sooner or later. Colonel Roosevelt was in a position to repudiate them any time'. -and now some of them have gone Into the Ananias Club, while the prospects for a brief peace are good. There Is a feeling here that no matter what may happen now Mr. Roosevelt will find it Impossible to keep out of Presidential politics. His closest ad-' visers, some of whom can be claaaed as friends of the President, are dreaming of his becoming a candidate for the' nomination in 1912. They give him no. rest. They are working a regularly organized campaign to make him feol that all Israel is calling for a new Moaee. The rebuff of James R. Gar field in Ohio ad the defeat of the In surants in Nebraska together with the waning of the 'progressive" cause M Minnesota do not tease them. In return they point to Iowa, Kansas and Cail fornla and Insist that conditions there are typical of the entire country. Every effort is being made by the . Concluded on Page 2-i. :4 y . 13 1 04.0