PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. L. NO. 15.5G4. TUFT WILL VISIT STHI1 CANAL Important Problems to Be Settled Soon. COAL MONOPOLY THREATENED Tolls Must Be Fixed Before Shipowners Meet. OPEN ON NEW YEAR'S, 1915 Canal Will Be Finished Long Be. fore That Iate Rates to Be High Enough to Pay Interest Work men Ask for Higher Wages. BEVERLT. Mass.. Oct. IS. President Taft will sail or the Isthmus of Pan ama Njrember 10 from Charleston. & C. on the cruiser North Carolina, con voyed by her sister ship, the Montana. The President mill be (rone shout 11 days. The North Carolina and Mon tana ran make the Journey In each di rection In four days. This will give Mr. Taft about four days on the Isth mus. The President had practically given up all Idea of visiting the canal this year unttl Colonel Goethals. chief en gineer, called upon him this afternoon. At the end or the visit Mr. Taft had "been convinced that the problems con fronting the officials at Panama require Ms presence. Some of the problems to be dealt with In the Immediate future are: Tolls Must Be Settled. The extent and character of the for tifications; the fixing of tolls: a pro posed Increase In wages; the future management of the Panama Railroad; the form of government of the canal zone and the regulation of the sale of coal. The Government may go Into the 'business of selling coal Itself. In order to prevent the possibility of extortion or a monopoly. Mr. Taft had thought that several of these questions mould not require set tlement for a year or more, but Colonel Goethals put matters In a different light. The question of tolls, which It was thought could wait until the canal is much nearer completion, was ex plained by Colonel Goethals to be one f the most pressing for Congress to meet. An International conference of steamship owners and shipping Inter ests Is to be held in Berlin In the Bum mer of 191 1. It Is believed to be high ly Important that Congress should have fixed the rates of toll by that time. The authorities believe that the influence the canal mill have upon shipping should be felt at this conference. The canal must be made to attract shipping and at the same time an effort mill be made to have the toll charges m.-et the Interest on the 1400.000.000 Investment, which the canal will represent. Opening Set for January 1, 1913. The date for opening the Panama canal has been set as January 1. 1515. The President and Colonel Goethals be lieve It wll be completed and open Ions; before that time. The proposed early opening of the canal Is already having an effect upon shipping Interests, especially in the Fe rine, and Inquiries are coming In as to the estimated rates of tolls. The President was Informed today that one line supplying the Hawaiian trade m-ould have 4 ships In commission by the time the canal Is opened. This line now has Its freight transferred' across Mexico by ralL If the toll through the canal mill make the cost of ship ping lens, the company m-ill use the waterway, otherwise U will continue Its present method. The canal, first of all. It Is declared. Is a business proposition and must be so treated. It will be for Congress to determine whether the canal sone .shall have a military or civil form of government. The present authorities on the Isthmus are strong In their recommendations for the former. Workmen Want More Paj. Colonel Goethals reported that the higher, classes of workmen are asking for Increases In pay In keeping with Increases recently granted their fellow artisans In the United States. At the same time report comes from Panama that the cost of living on the Isthmus has not Increased as It has In the I'nlt.d States. The tiurstion of regulating the sale of coal on the Isthmus Is an Interesting one. Colonel Goethals believes. It Is said, that if private Interests are al lowed to build pockets, opportunities mill be opened for extortion and mo nopoly In supplying vessels which ar rive In want of fucL Mr. Taft will go to Cincinnati to vote on November 1 and proceed from Cincinnati to Charleston to take ship for Panama. He may stop over In Washington a few hours on the way. RAISING OF MAINE APPROVED Taft t;ies O. H. and Work Will Be Completed la February. BEVERLT, Mass.. Oct. 11. President Taft today finally approved plans for raising the wreck of the battleship Maine, which call far the completion of iCoadudcd a 1 l , NOTE WITH OREGON APPLES WINS MATE JOBS DAY LASS GAINS HVS BAND BY MISSIVE. Message Received by Jersey City Girl Leads to Wedding of Writer ; in Los Angeles. NEW TORK. Oct 13. (Special.) An Involved romance, born in Oregon, has Anally ended as good romances do. In a marriage. Bertha Luce, an orphan, of John Day. Or, put a note in a barrel of apples. The message was found by Minnie Pletromsky. of Jersey City. A cor respondence started and the two girls (they were then each about 14 years old) became warm friends, although they have never met. Another resident ot Jersey City. Mrs. Stosser. heard about the Oregon girl from Minnie, and also began to waste Mnn on nostaae stamps. Then the Stosser family moved to Los Angeles and Bertha Luce also went there. The Eastern woman has six sons, and naturally one of them fell In love with Bertha. Now they are married.' In a letter to her friend In Jersey City the bride declares she owes all her happi ness to the note which she put In a crate of Oregon apples seven years ago. CORNELL WOMAN ACCUSED Columbia Professor Barred From Statins Case to Grand Jury. NEW YORK, Oct. 11. Accompamea by an attorney. Professor Harry Thurs ton Peck, recently dismissed as pro fessor of Latin at Columbia University, called at the District- Attorney s office today and asked permission to present to the grand Jury charges against the m-lfe of a professor In Cornell Univer sity. His accusation was based on al leged threatening letters, mhlch he said were sent to him several years ago by the Ithaca woman. When District Attorney Whitman that the statute of limi tations covering the case would ex pire tomorrow, he denied the request, then Professor Peck Intimated that he would make his charges before a mag istrate tomorrow. The name of the woman was not disclosed. rw.ii was made bv Professor Peck's lawyer that the charges have any con nection with the 150.000 suit for breach of promise Instituted against the pro fessor by Esther Qutnn. MINERS STEAL GOLD ORE Twenty-Two Discharged at Midas for Taking 180,000.. HARRISON GULCH. Cel.. Oct. 11. Special.) Twenty-two miners have been discharged from the Mldss mine here during the past two weeks be cause of hlgb-gradlng. This la the first Instance known In Shasta County here the practice of stealing high- grade gold ores has been carried on. Two of the miners m-ere caught In the act early this m-eek and their discharge led to the discovery that high-grading had been going on for months and In the neighborhood of $80,000 worth of gold has. It Is believed, been taken from the mine since July. This week, two of the men were caught stripping the ore from a lead and placing it in a box. When con fronted with their crime, they did not deny they had been taking the ore. Many of the miners seem to labor un der the Impression that the gold be longs to whoever takes It out. HIGHEST MOUNTAIN FOUND Engineer Thinks Alaska Discovery Eclipses Mount McKinley. a SSATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 13. Thomas J. R'ggs, Jr., a Government Engineer who has been at work on the Alaska boundary survey, today reported the discovery far north of the Arctic Circle of what he believes to be the highest mountain on the continent, exceeding Mount Mo Klnley, the famous Alaska peak, by nearly 5000 feet. Rlggs and his party discovered the mountain while at work near the Por cupine River, north of latitude 67. The mountain is east of the 141st meridian. Rlggs estimates its) distance at 40 miles from the Pcrcuplne River, In a little known country. The party was unable to get close enough to make measurements, but Rlggs estimates Its height at 22,000 feet. The height of Mount McKinley is 30.34O feeu JAP FRAUDS UNEARTHED Scandal In Mikado's Navy Results In Arrest of Six. VICTORIA. B. C Oct. 11. Naval frauds have been unearthed at Toklo and S. Shimamura. younger brother of Rear Admiral Shimamura. who com manded one of Togo's squadrons, the widow of the late Admiral Shimamura and four officers of the Naval Depart ment have been arrested, and T. In. ouye. eldest son of Admiral R. Inouye, has fled to avoid arrest. Toklo papers do not disclose the na ture of the frauds. LA FOLLETTE NOW SITS UP Wisconsin Senator Fast Recovering From His Operation. ROCHESTER. Minn, Oct. 11 Senator I.a Follette has so far recovered from his recent operatlpn for gallstones that he now eats his regular meals and today mas allowed to lit up. ROOSEVELT SEES T NDIANA Colonel Sheds Coat in Aid of Beveridge. "DECENCY" ISSUE IS" DRAWN Republican Agreement on Tar iff Policy Predicted. ' PARTY IS "PROGRESSIVE' Others, Says Speaker, Will Catch l'p . In Time Alaska Coal Ca-.es Discussed at Length in In dianapolis Speech. RlrtfMOND. Ind., Oct. 13. When the Roosevelt special train rolled across In diana today, Theodore Roosevelt pulled off h's coat, rolled up hie sleeves and plunged tnto one of the hardest fights of his political career. He came to Indi ana to do what he oould to send Albert J. Beveridge back to the United States Senate for six years more. Early In the day he started in at the western boundary and as he approached the eastern boundary tonight he said that there was "victory In the air.' Excitement Follows Step. Colonel Roosevelt talked of the hon esty, good cttlxenehtp. and other good .qualities of Mr. Beveridge. The issus In Indiana, he said, was one of decency In public life as against ' crookedness. Everywhere the Colonel went there was in the air the excitement of a red-hot campaign. Colonel Roosevelt asserted that the whole Republican party would be solid ly In line on a tariff programme before the next Presidential election came around. Senator Beveridge voted against the Payne-Aldrlch tariff bill. Senator Beveridge presented a bill for a tariff commission three years ago. Colonel Roosevelt defended his action In regard to the tariff and his words were fhe nearest thing to an expression of an opin ion in regard to the new tariff law which he has yet made. Senator With People. "Senator Beveridge did not split from his party." the Colonel said In his speech at LaKayette. "He merely stood by the bulk of It, because the real party consists of the mass of "people. The mass of the people wished to see done just what he did. And before the next Presidential election comes around the platform will be fairly and squarely, the platform on which Senator Beveridge stands." Colonel Roosevelt said that the Repub lican party was progressive and always had been. . Senator Beveridge and the bulk of the party, he said, at Crawfords vllle, were a little ahead of some repre sentatives of the party In Washington. "But the others will catch up," he added. "They're a little late In start ing, but they're all right." The Colonel made his speech t In- (Concluded on Pajre 2.) t - - - :. . : t .'X...M.. L -.-.A INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 59 degrees; minimum. 46 decrees. TODAffe Fair; westerly winds. ' National Government prosecutor contends Union and Southern Pacific are competitors, rase - Railroad presidents plesd for advance in rates. Pace 2. Taft will visit Panama Canal alter elec tion. Pas" 1. Foreign. Arrests dampen ardor of French railway strikers. page 0. Politics. Roosevelt stumping Indiana for Beverlds. Page 1. Oregon Democrats In revolt against Bourne Chamberlain machine, rat;e IS. Bowermaa in Pendleton insists normal schools should be free from politics. Page 8. ' Domestic. Note placed in apple barrel by John Iay girl goes to Jersey City. N. J., and leads to her marriage In Los Angeles. Page 1. Oevernor Olllett signs call fr Pacifle Coast Congress. Psge 6. New York art dealers accused of $1,000,000 . customs frauds. Page 4. Episcopalians would call conference of world's churches of Christian faith. Pae 5. Western Pacific secures Harvard and Tale to tply on Coast and -compete with Southern pacific. Page 3. Manager of Redeemable Investment Com pany and noted preacher accused of using mails for extensive frauds. Page 1. Sports. McCredie challenges Graham to Justify Het ltng decision. Pace 10. Pacine Coast League results: Portland 1. Los Angeles 0; San Francisco 6. Oaklsnd 0; Vernon . Sacrsmento 0. Page 10. Commercial and Marine. Farmers capture local apple market. Page 23. Wheat prices slump badly at Chicago. aPi.ge 1!3. Speculative campaign launched In Wall street. Page 23. Differential on towage rate on lumber ves sels Is removed. Psge 22. Pacific Northwest. State Land Agent's report shews large rev enue from sales. F-se 8. Alleged murderer Kllngenberg sneers at wit nesses in trial at Montesano. Psge 7. John Harvey, wealthy Vancouver citizen, killed by train near Felicia. Page 8. Army test ride of 00 miles starts from Van couver Barracks. Page 17. Speaker at development convention calls es tablishment of present forest service gi gantic fraud. page 1. Many hear Sidney Storey's address against prohibition at Baker. Page 7. State land agents' sales for two years bring t)29.e7. Page 9. - Portland and Vicinity. Garbage franchises would mesn tfto.000 profit snnually. Page Id. Tsx Commissioner puts ban on "public policy" exemptions heretofore granted by boards of equalization. Page 17. Webb declares confession was extorted by third degree." Page is. Annual horse ahow eclipses all former ex hibits In Portland. Page 14. Marv Adele Case Beam and her husband not estranged, he declares. Page 7. - Couple seeking divorce settle property rights, wife taking four lots. Page 17. Order of Moose parades through Portland streets. Page 4. Oregon Trunk to complete tracks to crooked River within 70 days. Page 1L Port of Portland Commission not unit on opposing bridge. Page 14. ' ' OREGON WATER POWER BIG State and Washington Generate One Third of Union's Energy. SKATTLB, Oct. 13. The States of Oregon and Washington contain one third of the available water power entrgy In the United States and be tween six and seven million horse power can he generated in the two states, according to Fred H. Renshaw. hydrographer of the .United States Geological Survey, who has had charge of measuring the flow of Paclfio Northwest rivers during the past two years. Two years more will be required to complete the survey of Washington, but the results so far obtained will be published December 1 by the Geologi cal Survey. "HE'S GOCD ENOUGH FOE ME." CONSERVATION IS .- DEGLARED FRAUD Establishment of For est Service Scored. SPEECH CAUSES SENSATION League Plans Development of Southwestern Washington. VANCOUVER IS SELECTED Home-Makers Who Will Build Vp State to Be Favored by Employ ers, Instead of Foreigners Who Send Their Cusli Abroad. BT MARK WOODRUFF. GOLDENDALB. Wash.. Oct. 13. Sp fe cial.) The sensational feature of the meeting of the Southwestern Washington Development Association here was the epeech delivered tonight by T. D. Rock well, a member of the State Tax Com mission, and who came to the meeting to represent Governor Hay, who was unable to be present because of a death in his family. .Commissioner Rockwell entered into an extended discussion of the ques tions of conservation and declared that the establishment of the present forest service was attended by the most gigan tic frauds ever perpetrated on the peo ple. He referred to the operation of the law under which railroads were enabled to exchange their worthless mountain lands for script and by the application . of the latter, secure some of the most valuable lands In the United States. Taxation Is Escaped. He charged that the odd-numbered sec tions com posing the grant were in large part In unsurveyed townships, that many of them had been sold to Weyerhaeusers' timber corporation and that the present owners were escaping taxation by falling to have the land surveyed. The speaker charged that the conser vation lid had been screwed down upon a third of the area of the State of Wash ington and that with more water power than any other etate In the Union, It had been commanded by Glfford Plnchot that the rivers flow untrammeled to the sea. The only right left the people In the four great resources, he said, was to fish. - Plncliotlsm Called Stagnation. Commissioner Rockwell . asserted that conservation was backed by Eastern sentiment becauej of selfishness and that the further exploitation of the Northwest by Plnchotism meant stagnation. . The speech created a furore In the Opera-house, where more than 600 peo ple had assembled. Vancouver had been selected as the place for holding the next meeting of the association, which will be some time in February, to be selected by the Van couver Commercial Club. The Portland delegates held a meeting In the parlors of the Central Hotel to- Concluded on Psge 7.) TO STOP GAMBLING, ACT, SAYS MITCHELL GAYXOR'S SUBSTITUTE REPLIES TARTLY TO LETTER. Rebuked by Executive for Activity, Recent Acting Mayor Stands His Gronnd. NEW YORK. Oct. 13. "The way to eliminate gambling in New York is not. to write letters to 'Sister Mary,' Little Dog Spot and James Creclman, but to take action." This is John P. Mitchell's tart state ment made tonight in reply to a let ter sent by Mayor Gaynor to Police Commissioner Baker, in which the Mayor deplores the anti-vice crusade recently undertaken by Mitchell as Acting Mayor, during Mr. Gaynor's convalescence. , A list of alleged disreputable resorts sent by Mitchell to the Police Commis sioner has been called to the Mayor's attention, and he brands the list in his letter of today as -similar to a list "made up in a wholly untrust worthy newspaper office for scandal and sensation," and too inaccurate to be made the basis of official action. As proof of the inaccuracy, the Mayor cited that five of the addresses mentioned are In sight of the new Pennsylvania station, and ordered Baker to apologize to the owners of certain houses "stigmatized." Mr. Mitchell said he had sent two lists to Commissioner Baker, one con taining addresses which had been ver ified as undesirable, the other with ad dresses made in complaints which were submitted for verification. CYCLIST, ABLAZE, RIDES ON Man Does Not Know He Is on Fire . Till Boy Sounds Warning. Astride a motorcycle, J. R. Rlsmer went up East Burnside street yesterday after noon from the Burnalde bridge uncon scious of the fact that his machine was afire and that his coat tall was being burned off. With the fire flaming out from under neath and behind, Rismer sped across Grand avenue going eastward, when a small boy called out, "Mister, yer on fire." That was the first intimation Rlsmer had of the blaze. He Jumped off just In time to escape being seriously burned. As It was, his hands were scorched, but otherwise he was not in jured. " The fire enveloped the motorcycle. Rismer drenched It with water and anal ly succeeded in extinguishing the Are. The saddle was burned off and every part of the motor was blackened by the are, but the engine was not damaged. Mr. Rlsmer said that the fire) must have started from a leak from the engine. PUSH "OFF TRAIN. FATAL Glcnns Ferry Jury Finds Attack, Not Accident, Killed Passenger. BOISE, Idaho, Oct 13. (Special.) A Coroner's jury sitting today at Glenns Ferry in the case of the death of a man supposed to be Edward Hager, whose body was found 500 feet east of the rail road tracks at King Hill Monday, night. Just after Oregon Short Line passenger train No. 6, eastbound, had passed, brought in a verdict holding the deceased had met his death by being' deliberately pushed off the train by an employe of the road. Criminal proceedings will fol low the verdict. It Is claimed Hager was a passenger on the train and had alighted at King Hill when the train stopped there to exercise. When he started to climb back into the coach an employe pushed him off and he fell, striking against a stone curbing, the blow causing death. Hager was between 28 and 30 years of age. A letter in his pocket bore his name and was postmarked Lyon, Neb. SENATOR ALDRICH RETURNS Legislator Back From Europe Re fuses to Discuss Politics. NEW YORK. Oct. 13. United States Senator Nelson W. Aldrlch who, with members of his family, has been In Eu rope for a month, returned today on the Adriatic. T went away for my health, with good results," said the Senator. T also did a little work for the Monetary Com mission." ., Senator Aldrlch would, not discuss American politics. MANY PUPILS DEFECTIVE More Than Half in Kansas -'City Schools Need Treatment. KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 13. Accord ing to the report of Dr. W. S. Wheeler, Health Commissioner of this city, 9304, or 36 per cent, of the pupils in the Kan sas City public schools have been recom mended for' treatment because of mental or physical defecte found. Of the number, 1292 -were mentally de ficient and the others were suffering from malnutrition, hypertrophied ton sils, defective eyes and defective teeth. DAVID B. . HILL IS SICK Condition of New York Politician Not Regarded as Serious. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 13. David B. Hill is ill at Wolfert's Roost. . his country home here, but his condition is not regarded as serious. 'About a week ago he suffered a bil ious attack and this has been com plicated with a cold. 'S F With Him Is Involved Noted Minister. REV. NORMAN PLASS SOUGHT Letters From Ballinger and Others Recommend Him. MINES AND RANCHES OWNED Redeemable Investment Company I Means of Drawing Money From , All Hands to Secure Visionary Riches in West Indies. BOSTON. Oct. 13. Federal authori ties visited the office of the. Redeem able Investment Company, at 85 Dev onshire streeti today, and came away with Manager Charles H. Brooks, the books of the company, and several thousand dollars In cash, all taken under a warrant charging the com pany with the use of the mails in a scheme to defraud. . Officers tonight were hunting for Rev. Norman Plass, president of the company, who has the alleged endorse ment as an individual of Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, the late Asso ciate Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, Senator Curtis, of Kansas, and several local Congrega tional ministers. Rev. Mr. Plass for seven years was president of 'Washburn College at To peka, Kansas. The Redeemable Investment Com-, pany was organized three years ago . as a holding company, with a capital , of (10,000,000. Circulars found In the office say that the company promotes only those properties of which it Is the owner, or of which it has control, and that the stock is not listed, aa the company's redemption fund fur nishes a market for the stock on de mand at a price not less than the price paid the company, with at least 6 . per cent interest, for the time it has been issued. The circulars also say that the com' BURTON FRi AGGUSEOO ID pany controls ,r.h Santo Domingo Min ing Company, which Is said to own 85 per cent of the mines of Jallsso, San Domingo, and a ranch of 70,000 acres in the same country; the Norman-Plass Lumber Company, which claims to own 356,000,000 feet of timber in British, Columbia; the Boston and Canada Wheat Land Company, having 20,000 acres of land in Canada and the Okan ogan Development Company of Wash ington. John P. Feeney, counsel fofl the company, said tonight that the of ficers welcomed the fullest Investiga tion. Rev. Mr. Plass, president of the com pany, Is a graduate of Williams Col lege and a Yale Divinity School grad uate. He held pastorates at Detroit, Lincoln, Neb.; Cincinnati and Barring ton, R. I. In 1897 he was state super intendent. of the Rhode Island Anti-Saloon League and later agent of the Congregational National Home Mis sionary Society. He became president of Washburn College, Topeka, in 1902, and resigned two years ago. The literature of the company con tains the following alleged copy of a letter from Secretary Ballinger: f'l have known Mr. Norman Plass for many years as a gentleman of high, character and Integrity. He possesses a high degree of energy and ability in ' anything he undertakes. He is worthy of confidence and respect and has had experience in the West in the investi gation of timber lands. I am sure he would not knowingly present any mat ter untruthfully or unfairly in business connection. "Richard A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior." Mr. Brooks was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, 39 years ago. According to the Federal officials, he was ar rested in St. Louis six years ago, tried and convicted In connection with the land frauds of the Rialto Investment Company of St. Louis. The officers of the Redeemable In vestment Company are: President, Nor man Plass, Boston; vice-presidents, J,, Austin Parach, Worcester; George A, Vlevult, New York; William A. Bryan, New York; secretary, George B. Graff, Boston; treasurer, J. I. Traphagent, Boston. Brooks was released on giving $3000, bond. Rev. Norman Plass, president of the Redeemable Investment Company, left Boston two weeks ago to go to Van couver Island to investigate timber lands in which he is Interested, ac cording to a statement made by Mrs. Plass tonight. . . . BALDWIN AIRSHIP WRECKED Aviator Slightly Injured When 51a- chine Descends on Barn. IOWA CITY, la., Oct. 13. In his see ond flight here late today In a biplane. Captain Thomas S. Baldwin circled the field several times, but In making a de scent the machine struck a barn and was wrecked (Baldwin was slightly Injured, - -