Jlitrtiitig VOL. L. XO. 15,543. PORTLAND. OREGON. TUESDAY, SEPTE3IBER 20, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ROOSEVELT GAINS HELP FROM TUFT Pledged Moral Support in New York Fight. lUTCDUiniCniinUTDVPni nUCI lillCnllLll OUUUni 01 UULUIILL Hasty Journey Made to New Haven to See Taft. SHADOW OVER FRIENDSHIP Campaign of 1S12 Not Mentioned, bat In Both Men'K .Minds Taft Is Willing hut Not Anxious. Mutual Regard lias Cooled. ON" BOARD TAFTS TRAIN. Albany. f. T- Sent. 19. President Taft today nln pledged his moral support to Colo- nel Roosevelt In the Utter s fight aitalnst the New Tork bosses. He favor, direct primaries but not abolition of conven- font Two other Important facts were brought out at the conference which the Presl- dent had with the ex-President at New n--,n i-nnr, tod.v One Is that Mr. Taft will run for Presi dent in 1912, If his friends think he can be elected. The other is that there is not the same I eordlality between Mr. Taft and Colonel I Tn.....it -,. ... I met after the latter's return from Africa. The fals- report of a deal between Mr. Taft nd' the New Vork bosses and the posslble rivalry for the nomination in 3913 cot their rtdows on the meeting It was plain from all that tranaplred v.rnr. .ei.. ,. ,. I Colonel and his close political adviser I are not a little worried over the situa tion In New Tork State and came to the President for further evidence of his moral support. . Taft Pledges Roosevelt Aid. This the President was glad to give. He declared his position In the New Tork State Cght had been clear from the very first. He said he sympathised heartily with the fight against "boaslsm" being wared by the people of the atate. Mr. Taft reiterated the statements he made In his letter to Lloyd C. Grlsrom. chairman of the New Tork County Re public committee, at the time of the Sherman-Roosevelt controversy over the temporary chairmanship that he favored direct primaries for tne nomination of Representatives and state legislators. The President la not ready as yet to admit I I the advisability of doing away with con iTentlons for tl J nomination of state offi cers. Mr. Taft understands that both Gov- ' ernor Hushes and Colonel Roosevelt are sow practically In accord with his own position, although the Governor fought at first for direct primaries for all offices. The President and Colonel Roosevelt did not disrnss the question of the Presl- V'A m TL .Ft?'dnt h" ."?t b'.n advised as to what Mr. Roosevelt s attl- tude is toward that campaign. From sources close to the President it was said there was no occasion to discuss the sub ject, Mr. Taft's position Is this: Taft Willing to Rnn Again. He is willing to run if nominated. If his friends think there Is a good chance for him to be re-elected. Mr. Taft feels that they will see to his nomination. Mr. Taft's political friends say that. If the American people want him for a second term, not even Colonel Roosevelt can prevent hi. nomination. If the people nv. apir-vr iv want HUM. jar. 1 mil Will tw only too glad to sutfmtt to their de cision. It can be stated of today's meeting at New Haven that, while It may have been successful In Its "scenic effect and of moral advantage to the Roosevelt lead- I ers In New Tork State. It was absolutely barren of results as to any better under standing between the President and Col onel Roosevelt as to National Issues or their personal relations. Something In the nature of a trace seems to have been arranged regarding the New Tork State situation. After that Is over, events will shape' themselves. Colonel Roosevelt himself Is said today to have let drop the hint that as to his I side of the matter, "something would be '"oTZnJ:;. elares he has other matters of concern at the moment. Convention Will Indorse Tart. It came out at today's conference. which, in addition to the President and Colonel Roosevelt. Included Lloyd C. Ori scorn. Otto Bannard and Secretary I Norton, that the Taft Administration is I to be Indorsed at Saratoga. No mention I of Mr. Taft as a candidate In 1913 will be I made. I "It Is not the province of a state con- I vsntlnn to nominate any man for Presi- I dent two years ahead. said Mr. Bannard ::rrdo z .z NekV a tn of the Ohio Republicans In declaring for him in 112. He did not think he should be made an Issue. The Ohio lead ers were anxious, however, that the Taft Administration and the Congressional record should be made a part of the state campaign and took this mean, of bring- Today a conference. It 1. believed. . . ituc4uaea on i z.) j ROAD FROM SOUTH TOTAPLAKEVIEW SOITIIERX PACIFIC LETS COX- TRACT IX CALIFORNIA. Railroad AVlwn Completed Will Af ford Fortland Another Southern Route to Lo Angeles. SACRAMENTO, Cat, Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) Contract! , hava been let for a railroad between Fernley and Lassen, n the northeastern part of the atate which railroad will eventually bo ex- tended Into Lakevlew and Klamath Falls. This will afford Portland a new southern route all the way to Lo Angeles. Erlckson tt Peterson have secured the contract for the 100 miles of railroad. The same contractors are now building; a large section of the Southern Pacific cutoff in Placer County. Two hundred carloads of rails and great quantities of ties and other ma terials are being unloaded at Wads worth and Ferney, Nev and con struction equipment Is belna; taken there In big shipments. The Fernley and Lassen is to run from Fernley. near Wadsworth. northwesterly through Washoe County. Nevada, and Lassen County, California, touches; at Susan vllle. Over other roads yet to be con strtlcted It will reach the Sacramento Valley at Chlco or Vina, and will reaoh Klamath Falls, Or.; Alturas. Modoc County, and Lakevlew, Or. Sur- veys for all these routes have been made ana companies naie orrn .n..,r- porated. Over this road and the Oregon Southeastern, now building between Natron and Klamath Falls. a new north and south route will be secured rom ""'" ..k. - Portland will have shorter connection with the central i-acmc. RATE NOTICE IS NOT GIVEN interstate Commission Has No Infor- ... . . mation From. West. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Waah- ington. Sept. 19. (Special.) The Inter- atate Commerce Commission haa thus f" heard nothing; official regarding the rumored purpose or tne mil ana Harrlman Railroads to advance the lumber rates next month. No new lum ber schedules from the Pacific coast points eastward have been filed. One of the tariff experts of the Com- mission said today that he did not be- I his son. came to our aid In a drench Ileve any attempt would be made to I ing rain. They climbed the tree and put In effect rates that were set aside by the Commission two years ago. for. he declared, those rates would today be In violation of the long-and-short haul clause of the Interstate com merce act. and would not be operative. If any advance Is to be made, said this official, it must be along differ ent lines from the advance that was prevented by the Commission order In October, 1908. SHOTGUN BRINGS OUT COIN Bricklayer Adopts effective Method I of Collecting Money. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. "Sept. 19. (Special.) John Allen, a bricklayer. this morning held up C A. Bodack. a carpenter contractor, at the muxxle of a anoigun .no compri, i "f""" tne contents 01 ms pvcKcia uu in. ground. Officers In the United States reclama- I tlon office witnessed the act and tele- phoneJ for tne police. They arrested Allen and the explanation he gave was I that 17 was due him for building a chimney on the house Bodack was erecting and that he was collecting Ills wages. He waa locked up In the County Jail and charges of robbery and carrying a dangerous weapon were lodged against him. Allen Is evidently mentally unbal anced. ' ' ) TWO CHILDREN DIE BY FIRE House at Douglas, Alaska, Burns While Aunt Is Absent. JUNEAU. Alaska. Sept. 19. Two children were burned to death today In the home of their uncle, George Myers, a merchant of Douglas. Last month Myers was asked to take rare of the four orphaned children of his sister. He went to Seattle and brought them to Douglas. This morn- i Ing Mrs. Myers went down stairs to the store, leaving three of the chil dren in the rooms above. During- her absence the hulMlna- caught fire. Mrs. Myers rescued the third child. BALLINGER TO BE GUEST Denver Chamber of Commerce Will Entertain Secretary. DENVER, Sept. 1. The Denver Chamber of Commerce haa arranged to entertain at luncheon Wednesday, Sec- J retary of the Interior Baillnger. who Is scheduled to arrive in Denver from Salt Lake tomorrow night. Secretary Baillnger will speak on ln- veatlgatlng of withdrawals of land, and several others will speak. evans going to salt lake Which Sent Him Into Navy. SEATTLE. Sept. 19. Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans. V. S. N, retired, de parted today for Tacoma. whenre he W,"1 it0rcPkn' """" Whl0h cUy ha "rom" Spokane he will go to Salt p,,ment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. 3 GALLOONS MAY STILL BE IN JIB All others Have Made RejTts of Landing. NEW WV IS NOT SIGHTED Trio of Pilots Qualify for Inter national Races. SOME HAVE CLOSE CALLS Buckeye ' and Miss Sophia, Which Have Xot Descended, Seen in West Virginia and Ohio Respec tively and Moving Fast. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 19. If they nave not met with disaster or landed safely at some isolated spot from which they have not been able to report these three ballons and their crews have qualified tonight as the Ameri can contestants in the international balloon race which will start at St. Louis. October I New York Clifford B. Harmon, New Tork. pilot; Thomas Baldwin, New Tork, aide. Not sighted. Buckeye J. H. Wade, Cleveland pilot: A. H. Morgan. Canton, O.. aide. Sighted at Charleston, W. Vs., 7 P. M.. Monday. Miss Sophia W. T. Assman, St. Louis, pilot: P. J. McCullough, St. Louis, aide. Sighted at Pomeroy, O.. 7:43 A. M.. Sunday. All Others Are Down. "We passed all but Hawley, In Amer ica II, Saturday night during a storm that brew great guns. In the storm our drag rope caught in a tree top and held up two hours, during which four balloons went by at great speed. We finally aroused a farmer, who, with cut as loose, then we proceeded, tree and all. Louis Von PhuL who piloted the Mil lion Population Club balloon of St. Louis, assisted by Joseph O'Reilly, described his trip as follows: Rain Drenches St. Louis Men. All the other balloons that started from the Indianapolis Speedway Sat urday afternoon In the free-for-all con testtest are down. The sixth of the nine starters In the afternoon race to alight was the Amer ican, which landed at Warrenton. Va., at 2:20 P. M. today. Allen B. Hawley, New York, was the pilot, and Augustus Post, New York, the aide. Stories of the flight told by the pilots of the balloons which have landed are beginning to come to Indianapolis. Carl O. Fisher, who with George L. Banmbaugh, was In the Indiana II., wire, from Pittsburg as follows: "We had been In the air only a short time when the rain hampered us. We were going In the dlrectloln of the Great 'e Lakes, then we struck a current that (f'nncluded on Pate 3. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, SO degrees: minimum. 60 decrees. TODAY'S (Showers; cooler; northwesterly winds. Foreign. Aviators fall In first attenmt to cross Alps. I'age 3. National. Congress has task In apportionment of mem bers. Pace 0- Senate committee begin Investigation of l.orlmer a election today. I'age a. rolitlrs. New men in Congress will handicap State of Washington. Page 2. Taft and Roosevelt confer and Taft prom ises help In New Torn flgac Page 1. Roosevelt satisfied with Taft's promise, will not run for Governor. Page 2. Domestic. Chsrles R. Heike. ex-offtclal of Sugar Trust. fined S50O0 and sentenced to serve eight months in penitentiary lor sugar frauds. Page 5. In letter to Ms sister. Muror Gaynor de scribes his Impressions when he was shoe Page 8, Contract Is let in California for railroad which will later extend to Lakevlew. Page 1. Evidence of manipulation in stocks by rail' roads to hide dividends brought out at rate hearing. Page 1. California Prison Board refuses to aid Mil lionaire Bradbury In helplns paroled prisoners to get new stare Page 1. Pnrlflo Northwest. Lady Dorothy Walpole thinks It a pity English wom-n should want ballot. Page 6. Willamette University will resume work September -7. page 7. I'uget Soundf Methodist Conference names pastors for coming year, i'age 8. , Sports. Connie Mack, manager of Philadelphia Ath letics, wonderful baseball general. Page 10. Second annual motorboat regetta at Rainier Is great success. Page 0. . Beavers will begin series with Vernon on home grounds this afurnoon at 3. Page 10. Spectators at Salem auto races cry "fake." page to. Commercial and Marine. Hopplcklng In Oregon will be completed this week. Page 17. France may reduce Import tax. on wheat. Page 17. Stock speculation marks time. Page 17. Puget Sound gains slight loaj over Portland in wheat exports In eight months. Page is. Portland and Vicinity. Reports show city nearly free from con tagion, page i l. Ten per cent dividend paid creditors of line uuaramee or lruRi io., reaucing iiaoiiities to 26.ooo. rage 13. Forty Chinese bahles are exhibited at Pure Food Show. Page IK Ship strikes draw pier of railroad bridge over toung s Kay and seaside Beaches are cut otr. page Jo. Federal Appeal Court Indicates intent to reverse ruling on ' 2B-nour" stock law. Page 16. Judge Bennett dies suddenly at home m mis city, page 7. Chamber of t'ommeree favors decision by voters in isovemDer ot puDlic docks Is sue. Page 13. RATS INVADE MANITOBA Swarms Occupy Building and Ad vance Steadily Northward. WINNIPEG. Manitoba. Sept. 19. (Spe- lal.) The advent of cold weather has roused the rats In Southern Manitoba to action and they are preparing to take up their Winter quarters In various buildings. Around Gretna, on the Da kota boundary, they have already done amage estimated at thousands of dol lars, and from that point tAie plague Is spreading out east, north and west. They are traveling at the rate of 20 miles a year, and it Is feared they will have reached Winnipeg by Spring. Five ears ago there was not a rat In Man itoba, but today there are literally thousands of them. Grants Pass Depot Ready. The Southern Pacific will open a new 14,500 depot at Grants Pass today and the citizens of that city are preparlnf to celebrate the event. Last evening a party of railroad officers left for rants Pass to participate In the cere monies. Among them were J. P. 'Brien, R. B. Miller, W. D. Fenton. ohn M. Scott, J. D. Slack and L. R. Fields. FEB SCHEDULE. DIVIDENDS MIDDEN BY MANIPULATION Practice of Railroads Is Investigated INFLATION IS ALSO ALLEGED Stockholders Get Stoji Worth Above Par at Parity. GAIN HIGH AS 50 PER CENT Queer Transactions Are Revealed at Rate Hearing $49,000,000 In Stock Is Secretly Sold for Far Below Market Price. CHICAGO, Sept. 19. Alleged stock Inflation and manipulation, designed to turn over to the stockholders' large sums of money without putting in the company's records any reference of more than passably fair dividends, was the subject Into which the Interstate Commeroe Commission delved today at its continuation of freight rates of Western lines, scheduled te take effect September 1. The stock manipulation feature of the Inquiry was suggested by Commls- eiuner uemeniB ana was immediately taken up by the Commission's attorney, Frank Lyon, and by Attorney Atwood, of Kansas City, who appeared for tlfe general shippers' committee, which is fighting the Increase- Illinois Central Man Witness. Controller Blauvelt, of the Illinois Central Railroad, was the witness from whom the disclosures which followed were obtained. Commissioner Clements called the witness' attention to figures he had furnished on direct examination by the railroad's counsel. The Commissioner said: "You say. Mr. Blauvelt,' that in 1891 your capital stock was $40,000,000 on 2875 miles of road, and In 1910, on only about 1700 miles more it was $109,000,000? Also, that in 1891, the bonded Indebtedness was only $62,- 000,000. while In 1910 it had reached $176,000,000. Why is this?" "Well," was the answer, "what would appear to be the excess went to lm- prove the roadway and for equipment and purchase of other roads. Stock Is Sold Secretly 'And how was the stock raised for these purposes sold?" continued the Commissioner. "Was It on the open market?" "Part of It was, but most of it was sold to the stockholders at par." 'Was there ever declared a stock dlvl dend?" "Oh! I am sure there was not. That would amount to the same as any other dividend, you see. That Illinois Central stock sales represented real values, you must see, in dollars and cents." Here Attorney Lyon sought to have the witness differentiate between giving stockholders a stock dividend or giving them stock worth more than par at par iConcluded on Pare 12.) MILLIONAIRE MUST SPEND OWN CASH I CALIFORNIA PRISOX BOARD RE FUSES TO HANDLE IT. Directors Inform "Splttin' Bill Bradbury They Can't Help Him In Aiding Paroled Men. SAX QUEXTIN, Sept. 19. (Special.) If William B. Bradbury, the aged Corte Madera millionaire, and ex-Inmate of San Quentin, is still Insistent upon spending some of his money for the benefit of paroled and discharged prison ' erg, he will have to superintend hi works of charity In person, or else hire a man to do It for him, for the State Board of Prison Directors will not look after "Splttin Bill's" endowment fund and has so Informed Bradbury politely but firmly. The State Board of Prison Directors has had under careful consideration for some time your proposition to establish a fund for the purpose of aiding paroled prisoners in making the necessary de posits, as required by the rules of the Board," reads the opening paragraph of Acting Chairman Dentin's communication. "We find, however, on examination that the only moneys we can handle are public moneys, and that we cannot, as officials, undertake this trust." ORCHARDS REPLACE WILDS Big Crop of Choice Apples Gladdens White Salmon Growers. WHITE SALMON, Wash., Sept. 19. (Special.) Where once were tall pine and fir trees, the Slade orchard now bends low with fruit. In this orchard Mr. Slade has just made a picking of 39 boxes of apples from three trees, with out using a box or ladder to reach the upper branches. In the North White AlEi., Unnn. Walilrnn haa ,,,., 40 hn. from two 10-vear-old i trees. I Just across the White Salmon River, I Keeley & Dubois gathered 1000 boxes ' peaches from 70 trees. M. C. Martin niut i-year-uuin mut win J iriu lwu boxes each of Winter bananas and Spitz. Further up the White Salmon Vallev the MeCrarkens will cart to market 8000 boxes' of choice apples. HOP CROP CLEANLY PICKED Dealers Say Easy Market Will Be Found for Entire Product, SALEM, Or.. Sept. 19. (Special.) With four-fifths of the hop crop taken from the yards, statements are made by local dealers that this year the cleanest pick Is shown in the history of Oregon, and tt is believed that mar keting of the 1910 Oregon hop crop will not be interfered with on the score of a dirty pick. The majority of dealers now estimate the crop near 100,000 bales, and It Is believed these figures are accurate, al though some dealers still Insist that the pick will be materially smaller. By the close of the week the crop will be nearly all cleaned from the vines. Predictions made all along of superior quality are being more than fulfilled. CROP EXCEEDS ESTIMATE 55 Bushels an Acre Reported, SO Common, in Western Canada. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) Reports from threshing .outfits throughout the three western provinces show that the estimates of the total wheat yield were generally below the mark. During the last few weeks be fore harvest the crops came along In a wonderful manner, surpassing all ex pectations. Several yields from large fields or over 65 bushels to the acre have been -eported, and 30 bushels to the acre for Spring wheat Is quite common. It is now believed that the total wheat yield will be 110,000.000 bushels, against some 119,000,000 bushels for last year. OREGON BIDDERS LOSERS San Francisco Man Receives Con tract to Supply 10,000 Tons Hay. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 19. (Special.) Portland bidders will also lose on the new Philip pine hay contract. Today the War De partment awarded to W. A. Miller, of San Francisco, a contract for 10,000 tons of grain hay at $1.04 a hundredweight. the total cost to the Government being $208,000. delivered at San Francisco. Most of the Oregon and Washington bidders submitted proposals on timothy, and among them W. W. Robinson, of Se attle, was the lowest, at $1.55 a hundred. Robinson also made a bid on grain hay at $1.06 a hundred. GOLDENDALE FAIR CLOSES Best Exhibits Are to Be Shown at Other Fairs This Fall. GOLDENDALE. Wash.. Sept 19. (Special.) The second annual county fair closed here yesterday. The fair ran four days. The fruit exhibit attracted much at tention. Lyle had a nice exhibit of ap ples. The Goldendale exhibit was very large, owing to the nearness to the fair. These exhibits will be taken to Spo kane and Vancouver and thence to the Southwest Washington Fair at Chehalis next week. These exhibits will finally be placed on exhibition cars. LIQUOR-SELLER SENTENCED Palmer Junction Man Fined and Ordered to Cease Business. LA GRANDE. Or.. Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) Victor Townsend, found guilty of sellng whisky at his near-beer stand at Palmer Junction, in this county, was ordered to suspend business today. He was fined $350 and sentenced to 30 days In Jail, but the Jail sentence will be suspended, if Townsend will close up his place of business and move away. . HEIR OF HOLSTEIN ESTATE IS F Man Sought by Danish King Is in Seattle. SAILOR WILL GET MILLIONS Disinherited Son of Nobleman Trailed Over Earth. SEARCH OF 2 YEARS ENDED Fleeing From Home After Angering Father by Intended Marriage Below- Station, Son Is Labor er, Miner and Sailor. SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 19. (Special.) A nattily-dressed man of 30 walked nto Detective William Peterson's of fice early this morning and said that he was Olaf Holstein, the sailor who had been trailed for two years at the request of King of Denmark as the heir to an estate and title In Holstein. Detective Peterson's caller said that he had been known In this country as Ben Suhr. 'I saw a story in the Post-Intelli- gencer recently on the train going to Spokane," said Suhr. "I am not the son of Countess Holstein, bul the eld est son of her sister, who died several years ago. However, I am the heir to the title and estates of the Holstein family." 'The reason they are seeking me Is that the estate of my mother, which amounts to several million dollars, has never been settled on account of my bsence. I telegraphed to the Countess my whereabouts and as soon as I can lose up my affairs here I shall leave for Copenhagen again to take my place n my family." Suhr Is now employed by the Chl- ago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, charge of the commlsary depart ment. He left for Spokane after see- ng Detective Petersen. Marriage Angers Father. It was more than four years ago that Olaf Holste'n, returning from the Danish army. Informed his father that contemplated a marriage with the aughter of a tradesman, who lived ear the army post at which hi. had been stationed. This angered the father, who declared that he would disinherit the 'son if he carried out his intentions. That night Olaf slipped from the Castle grounds, and making his way on foot to Copenhagen, shipped on a sailing vessel bound for the Antipodes. Two years later his mother died. Her sister, the Countess Holstein, then took up the task ol finding him and had detectives' follow him Into all parts of the world. Then the father died, which left th eldest son the only heir to the fortune and title of the Holstein family. Search I .ds Over Seven Seas. The search for Holstein, urged con stantly by the Danish Brotherhood of America. Has led over the seven sea, where he was a sailor, into Texas and this state, where he was a laborer, amlt. into the gold fields of Nevada and Alaska, where he was a miner. He once lived In Seattle at SOU Main street. MUCH PROGRESS IS MADE Many Improvements Made at Bur- doin Heights on Columbia. WHITE SALMON, Wash.. Sept. 19. (Special.) Burdoin Heights, overlook ing the village of White Salmon, is progressing. Besides building a mile of logging road, the Swan-Hamann Lum ber Co. is building a flume from the mill to Catherine Creek, a distance of three miles. The company will float its products down the stream to the North Bank Railroad at a point six miles east of White Salmon. The mill has recently Installed an electric lighting plant. Will Bates is setting up a wireless station, and with specially contrived batteries Bates Bros, are blowing up powder-loaded stumps In the clearings. Mills & Shel don have eight teams at work grubbing 40 acres, and S. Tl. Glavls will soon put a donkey engine to grubbing his 180 acre patch. FIFTY WILL BE INITIATED Knights of Columbus Will Hold Spe cial Session at Vancouver. VANCOUVER. Wash., Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) Fifty Knights of Columbus will be Initiated Into the order at a special convocation to be held here Sunday. Oc tober 2. at which time 250 Knights from all parts of the state will be In attend ance. The ceremonies will begin with solemn high mass in the morning, when 250 Knights of Columbus will attend ser vices In a body. ' Following this the first degree will be conferred upon 50 candi dates and in the afternoon the second and third degrees will be given. In the evening at the St. Elmo Hotel a banquet will be served. Takes Xante of Suhr. The stranger explained to Detective Beterson that he had taken the name of Ben Suhr of America, for the reason that members of, his family who had been In this country for many years had been known by that name. He has a second cousin In Seattle, employed by the Pacific Balata Company, at 634 OUND irst avenue, South.