VOL. L. NO. 15,332. I'ORTLAXD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WESTERN STATES GERMANY FEARS SPIES ON AIRSHIPS INSURGENTS WIN SEVERAL VICTORIES ROOSEVELT FIST. IS QUICK TO ACT INCIDENT OF MIDNIGHT WALK NOW RECALLED. TO BE MORMONS TO MOVE TO MEXICO BODILY GREAT HARVESTER . CONCERN ISTBUST I ACT ALONE , IS REPORT AERIAL PASSENtiEK LINKS TO BE KEPT FROM FKOXTIEH. LEADER, SAYS DIAZ WILL NOT FORBID POLYGAMY. B LUNGER UPHELD W Governors to Call Con servation Congress. FROZEN OUT BY EASTERN MEN Portland or Spokane Will Be Scene of Meeting. PARDEE ALONE OBJECTS Other Western Delegates Scent to Tnit for Independent Action In Favor of Mate a Against National Conservation. ST. PAl'l. Sept. . i Special.) At meeting of the California delegation at the se.-ond National Conservation Con gress In the St. Paul Hotel, this after noon, the question requesting Governor Hay. of Washington, to call a conserva tlon meeting In the Spring, at which tu Congressional delegations. Govern- ra and other officials of the Western States would attund. was taken up. The convention Is proponed to allow the Westerners opportunity to consider methods and the particular needs of conservation adapted to their respective iiiki iniri from Federal control of the resourres. None of the members of the California delegation would say whether or not the Callfornians went on record favoring the Western con servation meeting, nor would any of ,h denv the truth of reports that there was trouble in the meeting. An ether report was that a avriotis split occurred at the meeting, as Governor Pardee is known to be a strong sup porter of Federal control of resources. U L. Brawnson. one of the l alitor it.'irte declined to discuss tho meeting, as did the others who a tended, but satd with emphasis that uch a meeting of Western peop'.i would be likely. "Many of us In the, West are dissa". Iified with the representation allowed ua at the present congress. We feel that the people here do not understand nrt do not have to meet the same problem as we in the eWst. I know that the delegations from Montana, Wyoming. Idaho and Oregon are very dissatisfied. I think it likely that a meeting will be called In the Spring, either In Spokane or Portland." Mr. p.rawnson would rot sta'e whether the Western meeting woull be opened to the people of the East, but believed that all the Western Gover nors would attend. It Is believed this conservation meeting in the West was planned by the Governors at the Salt Lake City meeting, called by Governor May last month to p'rotest against the limited time allowed them in the, pro gramme of the congress now in ses sion. It is believed that arrangements for the proposed W'estern conservation meeting were made at that time. SPANISH VETERANS MEET (rand Ami Men Are to lie (.uol! on Mglit of September 16. Arrangements are being rapidly com pleted for the open meeting of the amps of Spanish War eVteran to be held at their hall. Eleventh and Alder streets, on Friday. September 1. The chief event of the meeting Is to be a reception for the delegates who at tended the National encampment at Denver during the Inst days of August and who are bearing a message from Theodore Koosevelt. Clyde Nicholson is among those who are devoting their time to the success of the meeting. lie announces that ar rangements have been made for the at tendance of the Orand Army f the Re public, and a number of well-known rltnens of the state. At the smoker which will follow the regular meeting, the defenders of the dag. old and ;ojjng. will be entertained by speeches. soV.gs and stories. ALLEGED SPY IS ARRESTED England' Authorities Detain Ger man Army Offk'cr. PORTSMOUTH. England. Sept. . The German army officer who was ar rested yesterday, while engaged In sketching the fortifications here, is still detained at Fort Purbrook. The man's name Is supposed to be Klmer and he la connected with the construc tion division of the German land forces. Documents found on the alleged spy are said to Include sketches of the forts all along the hills. The papers have been dispatched to the War office. TAFT REDUCES SENTENCE College Man Imprisoned as Coun terfeiter Aids Officers. WASHINGTON. Sept. President Taft haa commuted to four years the sentence of Joseph A. llau, who was caught In 1M by tha secret service in a raid on a counterfeiters' plant at Kraddoek. Pa., a suburb of Pittsburg. Haas maa sentenced to five years and Is now In Leavenworth penitentiary. Haas la a collere man and a scien tist. While In prison h gave Informa tion on which counterfeiters now serv ing sentences will be rearrested when lae ax release-" orkuni .May Cause tJr -iff of Hi elusion of Visitors. BERLIN". Germany, Sept. . Spe rial.) So widespread has become the alarm in military circles at the danger of espionage that the airship passen rer line recently opened at Strassburz mav have to be abandoned. The military authorities complain that many passengers on the initial trips were foreigners and that some of them carried cameras. Fear that pho tographs will be made of the fortlfi cations of Straasburg and other defen sive works near the French border has led to the demand that the airship Una be transferred to some other place. Since the arrest of two Englishmen on the islund of Ttorkum on the charge of espionage, the spy scare has heon growing. Military experts a.scrt th it espionage Is being carried on anions the European powers to an extent hlth erto unprecedented. One result of the I alarm is the demand that the regula tions regarding the admission 01 visit ors to the North Sea Islands be made much more stringent. It Is proposed that civilians shall b warned away from lirliicohind entirely and the lUnd converted Into n second Gibral tar. GIBRALTAR. Sept. 6. (Special.) An attempt to cro.s the straits between Gibraltar and Ccuta In an aeruplano will bo soon made l' a French aero naut. ENGINEERS WILL BUILD Canal Uuildcrs Will Also Erect Panama Fortifications. WASHINGTON. Sept. 6. The con struction of the fortiiicnlioiis along the Panama Canal Is to be done by the same ongineerlng organization which, is building the canal itself. Such a de cision has been received by President Taft. Major-Genrral Leonard Wood. Chief of Staff of tho Army, ami other officials interested. In commenting on the decision today. General Wood said It was desired to avoid duplicate or ganizations of engineers in the same territory. A reduction of several millions of dollars In the total estimates for ap propriations for the military establish ments. Including rivera and harbors ex penditures, as compared with the esti mates of last year, has been deter mined on by the War Department. Jlajor-General Leonard Wood laid tho final draft of the estimate before Presi dent Taft at Beverly last week. Gen eral Wood, who returned to Washing ton today, said that the President had approved of the estimates, with a few changes, and that they were now ready for submission to Congress through the Secretary of the Treasury- One feature of the estimates calls for the construc tion of permanent buildings In the Philippines for the use of the Army, rather than temporary structures, such as have been the rule. MORE COAL BRIQUETTES Production in Tnlted Mates Shows slow tiro wth. WASHINGTON'. D. C. Sept. 6. Co.ll brhtuetting Is slowly Increasing in tho L'nlteil States. The production in 19"!. according to a compilation by K. W. Parker, of the Geological Survey. reached 139.641 short tons, valued at fl51.ii7. The output In UtOS was '. 318 tons, worth $.i:S.057 and In 1907 .o2 tons, worth J JOS. 4-6. The survey has an experimental briiiettlng plant at Pittsburg. Tho German prets used has a capacity or , to three tonj an hour, testa having been made with llcniteji from Califor nia. Texas and North Dakota, which were all brlquetted successfully with out a binding material. POSSE LYNCHES 2 NEGROES One Other Is Fatally Shot, and Two Make Their KcaK. ATHENS. Ga.. i'ept. 6. Telephone mesages received here today from Carlton. Ga.. where five negroes were reported to have been killed last Thurs day night after an effort to attack the daughter of Robert Huff, a planter. and rob and murder the other members of the Huff family. Indicate that two of the accused negroes still are at liberty. Cliff Bolton, one of the negroes, re sisted arrest and was probably fatally shot. Two of the other blacks. Oglesby and Brooks, are reported to have been captured by posses and lynched, whllo the remaining two, brothers, named Brooks, made their escape. SETTLEMENT IS DELAYED Coatmnkcrs Refuse to Return to Work Until Terms Arc Stated. NEW YORK, Sept. S. Uncertainty as to how far the terms of the recent set tlement of the cloakmakcrs' strike ap ply to cutters and pressers engaged on piece work has resulted in delaying the return to the shops of neiirly three fourths of the 50.000 workers who par ticipated In the strike. Those shops paying by the weeh opened. The general trade is still par alyzed. MONTT'S SUCCESSOR DIES Term of Acting President of Chile Is Cut Sliort. SANTIAGO. Chile, Sept. 6. Vice President Klras Fernandex Albano, Act ing President of Chile, since the death of President Montt. died today from pneumonia after an lllne&s of six days. Senator Maclver Como as vice-preeldcnt of the Council of State, succeeded to th office of Acting President, Capture 'Primaries Shake Regu- i.o - .. II I iaru..i .v.narnpsriire. BASS NAMED FOR GOVERNOR Senator Burrows Downed by Townsend, in Michigan. LA FOLLETTE SUCCESSFUL Stafford Only Regular Krprscnta live in Congress Prom Wisconsin, Is Downed at Primaries, state It Insurgent. CONCORD. N. H, Sept. S. (Special.) On the first test of tho direct pri mary law in New Hampshire today, the regular faction of the Republican party for the urst time suffered the Insurgent clement to make Inroads. Kcturns from the election, tonight, indicate that in the Republican contest for the nomination for Governor, Robert P. Bass. insurgent, lias defeated Bertram E. Ellis, regular. Returns from 150 districts out of 2D0 In the state give Bass ST57 and Kills 5129. Result Causes Surprise. The gubernatorial fight has been a warm one. but few people have pre dicted that New Hampshire, so long rock-ribbed In Its Republican regu larity, would favor the so-called "pro gressive" element in the party. At tempts have been in the past to swerve the Republican voters from the old line groove, notably those led by Wins ton Churchill, the novelist, but they have failed. There was no contest for the Demo cratic nomination. SuIIoway Is Successful. Returns in the First Congressional district indicate that Representative Cyrus A. SuIIoway. regular Republican, leads Sherman E. Burrows, "progres sive, by about two to one. The names of 40S5 party aspirants were on the primary ballot as candidate for positions on the ballot next Novem ber, the greater Dortlon hi.n k muse anxious to obtain seats in the Leiri.. iiure, annougn direct primary acts ap plied to all offices. In several towns the Democrats failed to comply with the law in obtaining a position on the primary ballot, so that the contests in these communities were confined to Republicans. Rain is falling- In many parts of the state. LA FOLLETTE SWEEPS STATE Wisconsin Downs .Senator's Oppo nent: La Follctte Candlatcs Ahead. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 6. United States Senator R. jr. La Follette has swept tho state of Wisconsin in the primary election for renomination. defeating hla opponent. Samuel A. Cook, of Nco nah, by from three to 5 to one. F. K. McGovern, Republican, who f t-- M 'nnrlmld on Pace 5. . .- -- -- .!. . ' --- ' "A '-'J.' .'- - A 1 G Won Id-Re Assailant of President Knocked Senseless Before Secret Service Man Can Help. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. (Special.) The self-possession "displayed by Colo nel Roosevelt in handling a crank at Island Park, N. D., yesterday recalled among his friends an incident which occurred when he was President. The incident was kept quiet at the time. ' Accompanied by Secret Service Agent Craig and Secretary Root, the President agreed to go on a midnight walk. Craig was 15 or 20 feet behind the two statesmen. They were walking down Connecticut avenue when Craig was horrified to see a big man jump from behind a tree and lunge at the Presi dent. There was a smash and a thud, and the President was rubbing his right fist, which Ye had bruised when he sent It crashing against his would be assailant's Jaw. Craig turned his attention to the man, who had been knocked senseless. He worked over him 15 minutes before he restored him to consciousness. RUEF'S HEALTH IN DANGER Physicians Say Former Boss Is Not in Condition to Return to Jail. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.. 8,-Several physicians testified today in Judge Lawlor's department of the criminal court that the health of Abraham Ruef would he in danger should the former political boss be returned to Jail while his appeal against a 14-year sentence for bribery Is pending. Judge Law I or. who had ordered Ruef to show cause why his $0"0,000 bond should not be cancelled, announced that the law was not clear n his own mind, and that he would allow a further con tinuance as requested oy the attorney for the defendant. For the first time since his trial was Interrupted by an attack of appendicitis three years ago. T. V. Halsey, a former official of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company, will appear in court tomorrow to answer to a charge of bribery. Since the original inter rupted trial In 19"7, Halsey has never been well enough to appear In court. DAILY. PAPER IS PLANNED Grants Pass Courier Will Be Pub lished Every Day. GRANTS PASS. Or.. Sept. 6. (Spe cial.) This city will soon have a dally paper. The Rogue River Courier is making arrangements to publish every day. The first Issue of the dally will ap pear about September 18. Several changes will have to be made In the office and mechanical departments to meet the new demands upon the em ployes. A daily paper has long been needed here and the business houses and ad vertisers have clamored for a news paper plant that will meet the grifivlng needs of the community. ACCUSED VETERAN LET GO Another lnmulc of Soldiers' Home Confesses to Forgery. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 6. Samuel Sheehan. a veteran of the Yountville Sol diers' Home, who has been In jail three months under Indictment charging him with forging a pension check, was re leased today by United States District Judge Dehaven. Several weeks ago. Joseph O'SulIlvan. another veteran at the home, confessed that he had forged Sheehan s name .on .the pension checks. TOUCHING BENEVOLllNCE. Majority of Ccmmittee Backs Secretary. P'NCHOT GETS MINORIT Garfield and Glavis to Receive Plaudits of Few. DEMOCRATS MEET TODAY Kansas Republican Insurgent Will Support Minority Members lit Fight for Immediate Pub licity of Findings. MINNEAPOLIS. Sept. 6. Democratic members of the Ballinger-Pinehot inves tigating committee, which will meet to morrow, have practically agreed on their report. While the exact nature of the majority report Is not known, It is reported that the decision has been reached to vindi cate Secretary Balllnger. Contrary re- ports were also in circulation. It was said, but without apparent au thority, that the Republican members who formerly had been reported as strongly in favor of vindicating th Sec retary, were inclined to modify their view?. Minority to Uphold Plnchot. The minority report, it is said, will ap prove of the course of Gifford Pinchot ex-Chief Forester: James R. Garfleld, ex- Secretary of the Interior, and Loufs R Glavie. the discharged chief of a field division of the General Land Office There is no doubt that the report will condemn the Secretary of the Interior. Representative E. H. 'Madison, of Kan eas. a Republican Insurgent, will support the Democratic members in the fight to be made at the session tomorrow for im mediate publicity of the findings of the committee. Mr. Madison has prepared a separate minority report, which will uphold Mr. Pinchot. The Republican members of the committee now here, are: Senator Nelson, Minnesota, chairman; Senator George Sutherland, of Utah, and Repre sentative Samuel L. McCall, of Mas sachusetts. Hurry Call Sent Out. Senator Frank J. Flint previously an nounced that he would not attend the sessions here and Senator Root, of New York, who has been abroad, cannot ar rive in time for the- deliberations. An urgent call has been sent to Represen tatives Deny, of Michigan, and Olm 8tead, of Pennsylvania, to hurry here. It Is apparent to the Republicans that the Democrats, aided by Representa tive Madison, could force through the contemplated resolution. Should Messrs. Denby and Olmstead arrive Thursday and the meeting, called for tomorrow, be postponed until that time, the Republicans then would have five members on the ground and the Democrats alike number. Large Tract of Land in Coaliuila Se cured for Colony Utah Will Soon Be Abandoned. GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 6. (Spe cial.) Hamilton Smith, president cf Mormon Church, who has participated in the consummation of the sale of 50,000 acres of land for the Mormons in the State of Coahuila, Mexico, is authority for the statement that Presi dent Diaz has assured the Mormon Church that polygamy and other prac tices of the church will be permitted without interference in Mexico. Mr. Smith also states that his people will abandon Utah and settle in Mex ico, when they will not be prosecuted for their religion and its practice. He declares that the United States has gone out of its way in passing unjust laws to deprive Mormons of their rights. The Mormons already own 65,000 acres of land and have a well-established colony in Mexico, adjoining the 50,000 acres Just acquired, and hold op tions on many more thousands acres not far from Eagle Pass in Texas. It is planned to have 5000 families in Mexico within two years. FAIRBANKS SEES HYSTERIA 'Down With Demagogue, Up With Patriot," Says ex-Vice-President. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 6. Ex - Vice President Fairbanks today, in speaking to the survivors of the Mexican War, declared There is too much hysteria abroad in the country," and said tho watchword should be. "Down with the demagogue and up with the patriot." After paying tribute to the bravery and courage of the Mexican War Vet erans. who are holSing a National con vention in this city, Mr. Fairbanks said: "There is too much hysteria abroad in the land. There are many counsel lors and among them many false proph ets. Fortunately, the American peo pie are beginning to bear on the prob lcras which face them that deliberate rational judgment which has been their salvation in the past. Our coun try and our institutions have cost too much in the precious blood of her im mortal sons to be given over either to time-servers, or chance, or anarchy." This will be- the last National meet ing of the followers of Generals Scott and Taylor, who in the days of '48 an nexed a large territory on the south to the United States. BLACK HAND STILL ACTIVE Two Attempts Arc Made to Destroy v Homes of Italians. NEW YORK, Sept. 6. Activities of the dreaded Black Hand show no diminution, two attempts being made today to destroy the homes of Italians who refused payments lo the society. A blackmailer sought to blow up and burn the house of Frank Maze Ha, a contractor, in Thirty-eighth street. Brooklyn, because he would not puy $10,000. Mrs. Mazetta had fled to Europe with her children, fearing they would be kidnaped. Firemen checked the flames in Mazctta's home and threw unexploded bombs out of the window. Black Handers ignited a can of ex plosives against the front door of Giovanni Palmeros' house in East Ninety-seventh street early today. The fuse burned out without exploding the can. LAWYERS DECLINE FEES Many Shy at Defending Men Accused of Lynching Ethcrington. NEW YORK. Sept. 6. Several attor neys, asked to defend some of the men indicted for murder in the. first degree in onnectlon with the lynching of Carl Etherington, refused to accept the ap pointment from the hands of the court today. These men said they were op posed to lynching. At length, one legal firm accepted the appointment of the court. Nearly all of the 58 persons indicted connection with the disorders here on July S last were formally arraigned n court today. HOTEL MANAGER ARRESTED Man Taken in Custody for Showing Johnson-Jeffries Picture. CHICAGO. Sept. 6. Edward Burke, manager of the Congress Hotel Com pany, was arrested today on a charge of allowing an exhibition of the Johnson-Jeffries fight pictures in the hotel on the night of August 2fi. The pictures were exhibited to a party of 300 men during the' course of a banquet. BOWERS NOW RECOVERING Probable Xew Supreme Judge Now Beyond Danger, Says Doctor. BOSTON. Sept. 6. Solicitor-General L. W. ,Bwpr. mentioned as a probable ap pointee to the Supreme Court bench, who has been ill for nearly a month here, was reported tonight by Dr. Frederick Coggeshall to be well on the road to re covery. Mr. Bowers has been suffering with bronchitis, which, following an operation on his throat, became so severe as to cause anxiety. AMERICANS ARE WANTED Appointment as Financial Advisers to Persia Suggested. ST: PETERSBURG. Sept. 6. Advices from Teheran state that the Parlia mentary committee has proposed the appointment of Americans as financial advisers to Persia, to replace the Swiss citizens, who are subject to French and mas inuueace, 1 MissouriWins Decision in Ouster Suit. PENALTY OF LAW INCURRED Subsidiary Company Formed Merely to Evade Statutes. THREE MEN CONTROL ALL Practically All of Mower and Binder Business, and Large Prorortion, of Other Harvester Lines Arc In Hand. A- JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.. Sept. S.-Spe-ciol Commissioner Theodore, Brace, in his report to th-e Suprema Court in the ouster suit tiled today declared the International Harvester Company of Xew Jersey a trust and a combine for the purpose of destroying competition In the manufac ture and sale of harvester machinery. The International Harvester' Company of America is declared to be used merely as u selling agent by the New Jersey company in evasion of the Missouri laws, which prohibit the licensing of the New Jersey concern, by reason of Its enormous capital of JliU.OOO.OOO. Existence Merc Fiction. The subsidiary corporation, according to Commissioner Brace, once had capita!, but now has none. Its existence as a separate corporate entity is a mere tic tlon to evade the laws. Tho Commissioner found that the Mc Corinick Harvester Company, tho Deer lng Harvesting .Machine Company, War-dt-r. Bushnell, Gleesner & Co.. the Piano Manufacturing Company, D. M. Osborne & Co. and the Milwaukee Harvesting Ma chine Company, the latter being a re spondent, were in active competition prior to ISO.'. In June, isn-j, Cyrus H. McCor mlck went to George YV. Perkins, of J. Picrpont Morgan & Co., of New York, and sought bis aid in relieving competitive condition:?. According to the findings, Mr. Perkins soon perfected a plan whereby the Mc cormick Company and the other named companies, except tho Milwaukee cotn .ny. ostensibly sold their properties to William C. Lane. Lane, the Commis sioner found, pretended to sell them to the International Harvester Company. Stock Is ApHrtioiicd. The original companies received stock in the new concern, apportionad accord ing to the appraised value of the proper tits' and for their bills1 receivable, stock in the same company equal :o the same amount. The officers of the oriRlnuI companies, except the Milwaukee, signed practically identical contracts at the same lime In the office of an attorney of J. P. Morgan & Co. Morgan & Co. had pre viously purchased the Milwaukee com pany. Lane, the ostensible purchaser of the original companies, the Commis sioner found, was a figurehead. The new company was managed by former of ficers of the old companies, as was the international Harvester Company of America. The whole stock of the New Jersey cor poration was transferred to a voting trust composed of George V. Perkins, Cyru H. McCormick and Charles Deer- ins, who have control until 1'.12. Tho Commissioner found that these men prac tically control tho mower and binder business and have potential control of other lines of harvesting machinery in the United .States. Independent Concern Ilought. Soon after the organization of the so-called harvester combine, the report says, it acquired the D. M .Osborne Company and operated it ostensibly as an independent concern for two years. Other companies acquired in 1903 are the Columbia Cordage Company, the Mexican Sisal Company, the lllonoin Northern Railway Company, the Ault inann Miller Company, the Minnie Com pany and the Keystone Company, the last three being manufacturers of har vesting machinery. In 1304 It acquired the Weber Wagon Company and patents of the Betten dorff Axle Company, and in 3 9t6 the Kemp Company. In the first five years the sales of the companies in the United States amounted to nearly $200,000,000. In Missouri the company does about 0 per cent of all business In agricultural tools, implements, vehicles and rrla ehinery: in the binder line 90 per cent, and in the mower line 75 per cent. Attorneys for the company contended that the organization was a legitimate transaction in the ordinary course of trade. The report points out that the com pany was organized to control the bind er and mower business, and that the companies that entered the combine manufactured practically nothing ex cept harvesting machinery. In his con clusions the commissioner says: "I find that the International Harves ter Company, a combination created for the purpose of restraining trade, lessen ing competition, regulating, controlling and fixing prices of agricultural imple ments, tools and machinery sold and of fered for sale in Missouri. Sales Concern Is Evasion. "That the International Harvester Company of America Is maintained by the New Jersey Corporation as a-separate corporate entity for the sole purpose of making sales of its products and for . that purpose it obtained a license to do business in evasion of the laws which preclude the International Harvester Company of New Jersey from obtaining i a license and by means thereof has se cured a monopoly in mowers and power to secure a further monopoly In the sale of agricultural tools, implements and ma chinery In the state. "The respondent by becoming a mem ber of such a combination in furthering tiie purposes thereof by the evasion hits been guilty of a violation of the antl- iConcluded oa Pace 3-X