... WltTLAm OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 13, 1911. PKICE, FIVE CENTS. VOL. L NO. 15.tHJ. ; , - lS LETTERS ATTACK BALDWIN Detective Wood Shows Correspondence. MRS. TURNBULL WAS SCORNED Marriage Sought Even if Di vorce Follows Quickly. LETTERS CALLED FORGERY PaNled Old Man foniM From Bos on and Identifier Ixtnjr Series of F.plMtes Mrs. TurnbuII One of Baldwin Several Wives. I .OS ANGELES. Jan. 11 With unex pected celerity, the. attorney for Anita Tumbull completed their cam In the Baldwin will content today and counsel for the defense. Immediately began their effort to breuk down the testimony ad duced to prove that Miss TambuU'a mother. Mrs. Lillian Ashley Tumbull. was Ltx-ky Baldwin's contract wife. Tbelr principal witness Is James R TVood. the Boston private detective, whom Mra. Tumbull. during her Ions; atece on the stand, repeatedly branded as a traitor who had pledged his services to her and then "sold her out. Wood, a palsied old nimn of 72, all af ternoon was busy Identifying as Mrs. Turobulfs the letters which she previous ly had branded as forgeries; perpetrated by one of his employes la Boston. All the letters were Introduced in the trial of Mrs. Turnbull's former suit against Baldwin for S7S,ox damages and some of them wire relied upon by the defense to controvert Mrs. Turnbull's contention that she married Baldwin In 1SJI, by sttowtng that prior to the trial of the damage suit In ISM she herself had re peatedly written the declaration that Baldwin had betrayed her under the promise of regarding her as hi daughter. Woman Scorned Tolcra For jr. One of the letters which Wood Identi fied aa having been written to him by Mra Turr.bull from Ban Francisco. July 1Z. 173, ppuk of the faint hop she had that Baldwin would marry her and legltl matUe her expected child. This letter. Introduced in evidence on behalf of the estate, says In part: "Lucky Baldwin Is mighty stingy where women are concerned, everyone says, and If ha thought be could divorce his wife, who really Is no wife at all (I hare heard Imnet anyone can get a divorce In Chi cago), and marry me to get out of this srrapo any les. I am almost persuaded he would do It. even phould he divorce me soon after. Just to give our child a name. Tou know. Mr. Wood, money can do al most anything, and If ha will show me and my little Innocent babe kindly con sideration and give my baby a legal name-, while I can never love him. I shall always be grateful to him and let him down easy, so to speak. . "lis has succeeded In making fool of me. an.l. If he Is cruel, as everyone knows he ran be. he will find ma steel to deal with. If I was a fool to let him get around me. I will show him I am no rheap fol. I shall aue him for tOOiOn If he Is cruel and heartless, aa I expect him to be. he will find one girl he has ruined la his match, for hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Witness Knew Several "Wives." Jacob H. Wheatfield. of San Fran cisco, a whisky broker, testified that he first mel Mrs. Tumbull In Pan Fran cisco la the cafe of the Baldwin Hotel. "She tal with Baldwin at a table. I wnt ovr to Baldwin's table. He dld j.t recognize ma. but when I re called our acquaintance, ha shook hands.'' ha said. "He Introduced the woman with him to me aa his wife. I net Baldwin and the woman later In the Cliff House a couple of times. On cross-examination. Wheatfield was not very positive as to tha Iden tification of Mrs. Tumbult "The features seem to be tha same, he said. "There has been soma change In her In IS years." The witness testified that he had not seen Mrs. ' Turnbull since 1191 until this morning. "And you recognised her at once." asked Carln McNab, fur the defense. "The features came back." answered Wheatfield. "She Is Just about the same, except for about 100 pounda ad ditional weight." Teeth Remembered 18 Tears. "I recognised her by her teeth, too," added Wheatfield. "Yon asked her to open her mouth and let you see her teeth?" aaked Mc Nab. "Ton guessed rl;ht that time." was the answer. "When I met her In 1(91 we commented on her teeth. They were very reguU.r and pretty." "And you remembered her teeth II years V "Yea. sir." Further questions revealed that In liOl Mrs. Turnbull was a blonde. Now the has brown hair. To you know the real Mra. Baldwin-Lilly Bennett Baldwin?" asked McNab. "I wouldn't swear that ever met the real Mrs. Baldwin." answered Wheatfield. I was Introduced by Bald win to three different women whom ha called his wives. I met a brunette WW tOoaclu4d Qm i'aae Z. WOMAN AS SLEUTH DAZZLES POLICE BAXKKR S WIFE FINDS JEWELS THEY HAD GIVEN VP. Seattle Matron Conduct Search and Kccovers Necklace and Brooch Belonging to Friend. SKATTLJ-i. Jan. 12. (Special.) Mra. Joseph A. Swalwell. wife of a Seattle banker, has traced down stolen property which the police departments of Seattle and Everett were unable to recover. The residence of Charles G. Smyth, In Everett, waa entered by burglars and a large number of heirlooms and trinkets taken. A description waa placed In the band of the Seattle authorities and Mr. Smyth offered a reward of "00. Mrs Swalwell, white passing a Jewelry store here two daya ago, saw a neck lace which she had seen about the neck of her friend. Mrs. Smyth. She Inspect ed the necklace and discovered the Smyth Initials on a pendant locket. A telephone message from Mrs. Swal well took Mra Smyth to Seattle, where she Identified her property. Mrs. Smyth then visited the Sesttle police headquar ters and ai-ked to Inspect the dally re porta turned In by pawnbrokers, and found a description of a 1W0 brooch that had been taken from her home. This she recovered from a second-hand store. LOYAL NURSE GETS $6000 Woman Who Attended Captain Gra ham Remembered In Will. OREGON CITf. Or.. Jan. ll-fSpeclal.) The will of the late Captain John M. Graham was admitted to probate here today. The estate Is valued at 115.000. The chief beneficiary Is Mra. Julia E. Haskell, who Inherits S000 for fajthful service, she having taken care of Cap tain Graham during hla declining years. Until the estate Is settled Mrs. Haskell la to receive ISO a month. The bequest becomes void if she remarries. The remainder of the eatate la willed, share and ahare alike, to the sons and daughters Alden B-. Arthur W and John N. Graham, and Mercy W.- Ander sen. Anna May Morrill and Jessie E. Fucha, hla daughters. . t NEWLY-WED LOSES PURSE I lone t Stranger Returns Money and Tickets for Honeymoon Trip. EUGENE. Or, Jan. It. (Special.) Louis Aye, of Eugene, owes It to a kind-hearted and boneat stranger that hla wedding trip was not sadly disar ranged. If not prevented. While tak ing some clothes to the cleaner yes terday Mr. Aye dropped a pocketbook containing over 150 snd two tickets to Medford for himself and bride. Consternation prevailed when the lose was discovered, but the purse fell In good hands, and was returned this morning. Mr Aye waa married yester day to Misa Margaret Hetlch, of Eu gene. BILL COMPELS POLITENESS Missouri Legislator Would Fine Sta tion Agents Who Won't Talk. JEFFERSON CTTT. Mo.. Jan. 12. The tongues of railroad station agents In Missouri may be loosened If a bill Introduced In the State Legislature to day by Representative Floyd Tuggle la passed. The bill provides a fine of 125 to 130 for any agent who refuses to answer any questions put by travelers. Mr. Tuggle said years of rebuffs by country agents of whom he had In quired If the trains were on time, had aroused In him a lingering longing to get back at the "sphinx behind the wicket. WAGNER MEMOIRS COMING Composer's Autobiography Will Be Published May 1. BERLIN. Jan. 11. The publication of an autobiography of Richard Wag ner, the existence of which has been a matter of doubt. Is announced for May 1. In a preface, the composer authenti cates the manuscript which was dic tated to his wife. and directs that It remain unpublished until some time after his deatn. In order that others mentioned therein shall not be embar rassed. $1,000,000. WILL FILED Seattle Founder's Widow Remem bers Her Grandchildren. . SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. II. The 11.000.000 will of Mrs. Mary Ann Denny, widow of the founder of Seattle, was filed for probate today. The will provides that the estate re main Intact until the death of the last of Mrs. Denny's six children, when It shall be divided among her grand, children and'great-grand-chlldren. COLD KILLS MONTANANS Rabbit Hunter and Stage Passenger Froxen to Death. BUTTE. Mont.. Jan. II. The extreme cold of the last two days has caused at least two deaths. Moses Klein, a homesteader near Culbertson. was frozen to death while hunting rabbits, and William Compton died of cold near Rlngllng. when the stage In which he waa riding broke down. EDDY BEQUEST TO CHURCH ATTACKED Lawyers for Relatives Say It Is Void. FORBIDDEN BY STATE LAW Claim of Mother Church o Scientists Contested. $13,000,000 IS AT STAKE Chandler Harris Taylor and Others Cite Law Forbidding Legacies In Excess of $5000 a Tear to Any New Hampshire Church. CONCORD, N. H- Jan. II. The resid uary clause in the will of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, founder of the'chrlstlan Science Church, Is null and void. In the opinion of ex-United States Senator William E. Chandler, Hannls Taylor, professor' of constitutional and Inter national law at George Washington University, and others .according to a statement given out for publication. The clause In question provides for a gift of 13,000,000 to the First Church of Christ. Scientist, Boston, known as the "Mother Church." Law Forbids Snch Gifts. A statute of New Hampshire, pro hibiting a bequest to a church of more than 5000 annually and one of Massa chusetts forbidding more than $2000 annually are the basis of the opinion, which was written by Professor Tay lor, formerly Minister to Spain. Ac cording' to the residuary clause held "null and void," the opinion says: "As to the void gift, the testatrix died Intestate and Its aubject mattes passed on her death to her next of kin under the New Hampshire statute of distribution." In the closing paragraph the opinion advises the attorneys for the next of kin 'that such agreements stand and contracts aa they made with the testa trix and her trusteea In her lifetime bind tbem only "to recognize as valid such provisions of her last will as are legally valid." Residuary Clause Void. To that extent." continued the opin ion, "you are bound and required to join with the executors In requesting the Probate Court of New Hampshire to ad mit such will to probate In solemn form. In order that all Its provisions may pre vail, so far aa they are not forbidden by law. "After you have ao acted and per formed every part of the agreement you have entered Into, It will remain for the courts of equity. Federal or state, to construe the will. In order to determine whether the residuary clause Is valid or void." Besides Mr. Chandler and Professor Taylor, the signers of the opinion are Attorneys John W. Kelley, of Ports mouth, and DeWltt C. Howe, of Con cord, who were associated with Mr. Chandler as counsel for the "next Concluded on Pace 6.) 'IF MY NAME INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The. Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 30 dogreea; minimum, 33 degrees. TODAY'S Snow flurries; west to north winds. ' ' Legislature. "President of Wsshlngton Legislature, after squabble, retained as chairman of rules committee. Pace 6. Dr. I'lamondon. superintendent . of new branch asylum at Pendleton, removed by estate Board. Page T. Initiative and referendum Is before Idaho Legislature. Page 7. Fore's- Eighteen revolutionists defeat 175 Dlas sol diers In fierce battle. Page 1. ' National. Advance In fselght rates suspended until March 13; Interstate Commission may de cide by. March 1. Psge IS. Champ Clark defends Democratic action In supporting Cannon in recent conteru Page . Ullbum makes argument for Standard Oil Company btfore Supreme Court. Page- President sends mesuge to Congress recom mending Panama Canal fce fortified. Page 2. ' Government will condemn block for Port land Postofflce site. Page 8. If President had investigated Irrigation question personally. Oregon would nave got millions Instead of paltry I925.00O. Page 2. West will gain by reapportionment. Page IT. Politics. Eaton forces may succeed In naming House committees at Salem. Page 12. Domestic. Schenk's nurse testifies that Mrs. Schenk did not love husband and tried to poison him. Page 5. Rotary clubs will hold 1911 convention in Portland in June. Page 12. Twin sisters, of Chico. CaL. elope with af finities on same- dsy. Page 1. Detective wood Identifies . letters he st- trlbutes to Mrs. Turubull at Baldwin trial. Page 1. Taft asks House members to agree on tar! I IT details. Page Lawyers for Eddy heirs say bequest to Christian Science Church is void. Page 1. At farewell banquet President Harahan. of llinols Central road, excoriates grafters. Page 4. Sports. Chlvlngton sgsln heads American Associa tion. Page $. Changes In game laws to be asked by Ore gon sportsmen. . Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Two trains burled in mountain snows since Monday.. Page 1. "Cunningham claimants" lose . "Washington state coal lands. Page 6. Woman as sleuth dazzles police. Page 1. Thirty members of lower house adopt reso lutions favoring reapportionment of Washington. Page 4. - Commercial and Marine. Record of commercial failures in 1010. Page 21. Strong demand for cattle at Portland stock yards. Page 20. Wheat deecllnes at Chicago on heavy selling. Pago 21. 8tock market unsettled by selling of Penn sylvania, page 21. Grain carriers ready for sea. Page ,20. Port land and Vicinity. Scottish Rite degrees conferred on class of 30. Page 12. East and west line of Harriman system now depends only on bond sale. Page 14. Judge McOInn sorry he cannot Impose heav ier sentence on "white slaver." Page 11. Man found guilty of turning father, 80 years old. out into cold, page 14. Council passes modified 'model" liquor "or dinance. Page 16. East Side residents favor ML Hood Rail way franchise. page 14. "First Paclflo Northwest livestock show will be held In Portland in March. Page 15. BLAST KILLS 5; 12 HURT Store Destroyed, Buildings Near Damaged, at Connellsvllle, Pa. CONNELLSVILLE. Pa.. Jan. 12. Five dead and 12 injured Is the toll of the explosion that today wrecked a 5 and 10-cent store, destroyed the building by fire and damaged nine other structures. A score of shop girls and a number of customers had narrow escapes. One young woman was Identified only by her shoes, which her father recog nised. The bodies of a man and a wo man were taken from the ruins tonight so badly burned that they have not been Identified. The dead Mabel Grace "Wagner, clerk; Chrlstobal S. Smith; Minnie juulae, clerk; unidentified woman: unidentified man, probably negro porter. The Injured Include four women clerks, two carpenters, Charles Loomls. assistant manager, and four customers. All will recover. ISN'T IN THE PAPER YET, IT SOON WILL BE." 5 18 REBELS DEFEAT 175 DIAZ FIGHTERS Federal Force Is Forced to Retreat. 20 KILLED DURING BATTLE Regulars Charge Handful of Enemy but Are Forced Back. TWO OF INSURRECTOS DIE Arrival of Reinforcements Enables Valiant Mederolsts to Ketreat to Hills With Their Dead and Injured. COMSTOCK, Tex., Jan. 12. For three hours a handful of lnsurrectos 18 men held at bay a force of Mexican gov ernment troops, numbering 175, on the bank of the Rio Grande, opposite this place yesterday. The revolutionists were surprised by the government force but they immedi ately occupied a strategic position in the trail and coolly poured deadly fire into the enemy. The total dead in the en gagement, which continued hotly Until darkness fell, was 20, of whom two were of the valiant band of rebels. Twice the government force, compris ing 75 rurales and 100 regular infantry men, charged the lnsurrectos, but the latter, drawn up In the crags, fired so frequently and so accurately that the government soldiers were forced to re treat. On one attack, only nine rebals remained at the guns and withstood the enemy, the others having been killed or wounded. Rebels Are Reinforced. When darkness came, the lnsurrectos were reinforced by 20 men, who had been off on a raid, and with the assist ance of this force, the crippled but courageous rebels were able to retreat to the mountains with their dead and injured. Had they remained the super ior force of regulars would, in the course of a few hours, have annihilated them. Besides the two revolutionists killed, seven were wounded. E. 8. O'Rielly, a correspondent with the revolutionists, received a slight wound. Twice the rurales charged the rebels position, once coming within 50 yards, but each time they were repulsed. Tho correspondent counted 18 soldiers who were carried from the field during the battle. "Forty In Original Party. The original party of lnsurrectos num bered 40 men. They bad been on a raid through the country south of Las Vacas, getting horses and recruits. , For two days 70 rurales had chased the band and Tuesday night the party went to the river to water their Jaded horses, think ing they had eluded the government forces. The next morning, 20 rebels started for a ranch about 12 miles away to get more horses. The company of ln surrectos was discovered and mounted Infantrymen were sent to the support (Concluded on Page a.) TWIN SISTERS GO WITH AFFINITIES BORX TOGETHER, THEY ELOPE OX SAME DAY, TAKING BABES. When Husband of One Returns From Renting Xew House, He Finds Wife, Money, Watch Gone. CHICO, Cal., Jan. 12. (Special.) Tak ing with them all the money and Jewelry they could find at home and leaving a letter to their husbands, in which they Jointly bade a fond adieu, Mrs. Charles Rose and Mrs. Al Lawson, twin sisters aged 22 years, last night departed from Chico, presumably bound for Portland. Their husbands, however, believe they have gon to Sacramento to join affini ties whose presence around the two homes and aroused suspicions. Mrs. Rose took with her a 2-year-old child by a former husband, and Mrs. 'Lawson took her two children, aged two and four years. The elopement was made while Rose, acting under his wife's directions, had gone to arrange for a new house, into which they planned to move. When he returned, he found a note written by his wife in which she said she and her sister were tired of housekeeping and did not love their husbands enough to take their hard-earned money. Rose missed his money and gold watch and has asked, the officers to apprehend the pair. PEARY'S CLAIM APPROVED House Subcommittee Recommends Promotion to Rear-Admiuil. WASHINGTON. Jan. 12. Captain Robert E. Peary, Arctic explorer, to day was formally approved by a sub committee of the House committee on naval affairs. The sub-committee at an executive meeting, from which the two principal opponents of Captain Peary, Roberts and Macon, were absent, adopted a fa vorable report to the full committee on the Bates bill, which extends the thanks of Congress to Peary and re tires him with the rank of Rear-Ad-mlral In the Engineer Corps of the Navy. Captain Peary is 63 years old, and the action, if approved by the full commit tee and agreed to by the Senate, will place him Immediately upon the retired list with about, the same pay $6000 as he Is receiving as a Captain upon the active list, . The report probably will arouse a lively discussion, in the House. PLAGUE SLAYS THOUSANDS Manchnrls Being Fast Depopulated by Bubonic Scourge. PEKIX, Jan. 12. Bubonic plague In Manchuria is spreading rapidly. Reports reaching here state that hundreds of per sons are dying every day and that the number of fatalities is increasing. A French plague expert has succumbed to the disease. The Chinese government has pleaded to the foreign communities for assistance In combating the epidemic and four mis sionary doctors, one an American and the others British, have volunteered their services. It was planned to quarantine the rail ways and the great wall In the hope of arresting the spread of the scourgo south ward. GIRLS WEAR OWN HAIR Xew Vogue Is Ushered In at Salem High School. ' SALEM, Or., Jan. 12. (Special.) Rats, switches, rouge and powder were absent from the high school yesterday as a result of a decree Issued by the co-eds themselves. They have decided to dispense with all artificial aids to beauty. Yesterday's decree revived the old fashioned braid, the large number of the young women Inclining to the plait down the back. Court was held and all girls wearing superfluous hair were fined. But there were few violations of the decree. 7 OPEN POSTAL ACCOUNTS High School Girl Is First Depositor at Klamath Falls. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Jan. 12. (Special.) Only seven persons took ad vantage of the opening of the postal savings bank here today and but $126 was deposited. Miss Laura Nelson, high school girl, was the first depositor. J. C. Stanley was the last depositor With $61. An other was for $60 and the rest for $1 each. Local bankers expect no effect upon the private banks of the city as a re sult of the Government institutions. CENSUS MAN IS ON TRIAL Seattle Enumerator Charged With Slaking False Returns. SEATTLE, Jan. 12. Furman J. Shad, a former Seattle enumerator, charged with making false returns, will be tried in Seattle. The papers in the case were brought today from Tacoma. Shad was indicted by the grand Jury at Tacoma on October 13 on a charge of feloniously making false and ficti tious returns on a schedule of population. 2 TRANS BURIED IN SNOW. DRIFTS Passengers Are Ma rooned for 5 Days. SHQVELERS FIGHT IN VAIN No Dining Cars Attached to Stalled Equipment. 75 PERSONS SUFFER Great Xorlhern Men Working With Might and Main Xear Fielding, Mont., to Rescue Trains, Fearing Fatal Snowslides. KALISPEL, Mont., Jan. 12. (Special.) Two passenger trains, carrying not less than 75 persons, have been buried in the snow in the mountains near Fielding, Mont., since Monday of this week, and all efforts to get within ten miles of them have been futile. Neither train has a dining car. Driven by a 70-mile gale, snow has piled upon the tracks to depths that have detied the strongest snow-fighting equip ment of the Great Northern. The storm has razed the telegraph wires leading to the stalled trains and for two days no word has reached the outside worldyfroxn the marooned trains. Armies of snow-fighting men have been assembled under rush orders from the headquarters of the Great Northern, snow-fighting machinery that has hith erto conquered the mountain drifts that each Winter obliterate the railroad map, has battered at the soggy white walls that Isolate the passenger trains. It has been useless. Fight Is Kept Up. Unceasingly siuce Monday night the fight has been kept up. Division super intendents, section foremen and laborers and many volunteers have clawed and hammered and dug side by side. Sleep has been forgotten. Men have dropped in their tracks. Others1 have Jumped to fill their places. And still the snow piles up, piles up faster than it can be removed. Tonight word was given out that the outlook carried little hope. Railroad officials admit reluctantly that the situation is the gravest in the annals of mountain railroading. It seems almost an impossibility to buck the snow. What shall we do next? is the only question that is heard at head quarters. Fear of a repetition of the Wellington disaster a snowslide multi plies the anxiety. Flour and Rice Food. Flour and rice consignments were ear-, ried on number fhree. "The Oregonian;" one of the-stalled trains, and constitute, the sole means of subsistence. Number three is believed to have carried sufficient-coal to last a week. Rotaries coupled back to back, in pairs, a measure that has been resorted to only in rare cases, were sent out tonight to attempt to bore into the 10-mile snow bank. The bank was attacked from both sides Whitegish on the West and Cut bank on the East, but the rotaries were compelled to return to avoid being burled in the drifts. Early yesterday, a relief train - left Whiteflsh following a huge rotary. The rotary was snowed in and it and the train were compelled to return to White fish. Two of the giant type of mountain engine left Cutbank with two rotaries this morning but had to turn back. COLD WAVE STRIKES MEDFORD Temperature Lowest In Years, Portland Expects Xo Change. Cold weather in the Northwest con tinues, with the high-pressure area spreading south. Eastern Oregon and Southeastern Washington are in Win ter's grip, although the snowfall in those districts is light except in the high altitudes. The Medford district, in the Upper Willamette Valley, was struck yester day by a hard snow storm, accompa nied by a Btrong wind. It is colder there than it has been In 20 years. Fruitmen believe that the orchards will not be damaged, however. The Walla Walla country reports cold weather, yesterday being the coldest day of the year. There is no snow on the ground, and Fall-sown wheat is in danger of being frozen out. The cold wave has extended on south through Eastern Oregon Into Nevada, and, according to reports from Reno, the worst snow storm In 20 years is raging in that district. Rail commu nication there Is completely tied up. From the Canadian Northwest, Mon tana and the Dakotas come reports that the snow storm continues unabated, tho mercury droping from 10 to 40 degrees below zero last night. Train service on nearly all the lines in those districts Is blocked, and the situation appears to be growing worse. It is feared that there will be a large loss of livestock in Alberta and Montana. In Portland the weather yesterday showed little variation, the mean tem perature for the 24 hours preceding 5 o'clock last evening being SS degrees. The weather turned colder last night, and at 10 o'clock the mercury dropped to 28 degrees above zero. Weather Observer Beals predicts no marked change-in local weather conditions for (Concluded on Page 4.).