1 j! Ml iH II III IIS II II LI II II il M - ;-'j.t If J if III H ilk H let H fl in IH IH JT M O M .in i . PnBTT.Avn. OREGON. MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1911. . v PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. I. NO. l.l,G3. . t - . i . i PENDING INQUIRY iHES No Mercy to Be Shown . to Vote Buyers. GR'NO JURY OUT OF BOUNDS Prediction Nothing Would Re sult Seems Wrong. ELECTIONS TO BE PROBED Even "fncte Joe" Will Be Open to Invcotlgallon Politician Fear Result When Mayoralty Con test Is Illuminated. W.XTnxr. Til, Jn. . 22. Speclal. Vermilion County has a runawy (rand Jury on Ita hand. ' When Circuit Judge KImbrough less than a wetk ago quietly handed out In structions that the grand Jury should Investigate vote-buying no one expected anything would result. Now things are dttTerent. Even the threatened journey of Speaker Cannon to Ms home bailiwick failed to make a dent la the atmosphere. With the convening of the Jury tomor row aftemon the flreworks will start. One hundred witnesses are waiting with quaking nerves for the opening ordeal. The Immunity plan adopted for votebuy ers makes It Imperative that they tell all. and the general feeling Is that be fore a week has passed Vermilion Coun ty will be In the throes of a scandal which will overshadow the West Union County. Ohio, sensation. The word that the grand Jury will In vestigate all elections within the past three years has create no end of con sternation. This means that Judge KIm brough and States Attorney Lewman are willing that their own elections shall be sutjected to Inquiry. I( also means that the Mayoralty election, not to say Speak er Cannon's election, and even the elec tion of all of the county and township officers, will be open to Inquiry. Money Spent by Mayor. It is the Mayoralty election that makes the politicians dread being brought Into the glare of publicity. It Is common .talk that Louis Flatt. the Democratic Mayor of Panvllle. spent $JS.ono to g hla office. The term Is two years and the salary .SCO a year. This city Is nominally Re publican, but Tlatt won by 250 votes. Piatt's Republican opponent a as W. F. Fanm. a druggist. Baura spent PW. In the First and Third . arA of the city hundreds of negroes and "floating" votera are said to have been pild for their votea in that election. The prices ranged from 3 to rX No one charge that either Piatt or Baura personally bought votes, tut It ts openly said that neither kept a strict account of where money was pent. Mayor Tlatt la aald to have bad con siderable secret trouble attempting to get an accounting from several Indi viduals. It was in connection with one 5f those funds that Pete Sanlchas. the Zreen Candy Store proprietor, who "lined jp" the Westvllle Republican vote, came into the limelight. Sanlchas. It la aald. sill go before the grand jury and con fess. The Grape Creek and Westville elec tions of recent date will receive special attention from the grand Jury. While the manner of conducting elections In Iwnvllle has been scandalous. It Is un dented that the mining camp polla .were marked by almost unrivalled election theks. Ballot Boxes Stolen. Theft of ballot boxes until after re turns were In from other townships, and then If the returns were not favorable, stuffing them, buying of hundreds of "roundhead" and negro votes, organisa tion of cluba where the campaign funds solicited from candidates were split across the table In open meeting are a lew of the score of charges that have been made. The last election In Grape Cr?ek ts one of which Vermilion County citizens spak with a blush. ' When the votea were counted by the election commissioners It was found that Grape Creek had polled a vote twice the stxe of the population of the village. Th. rriala was nartlv breaarht about by a published statement parportlng to 1 be a confession from City Attorney Jones, of Danville, that he had beagttt ; votes to elect Sheriff Bhepard. and kts . . . w -It. f subsequent eeniai ei vucu .uri confession. Clerk Denies) Brfk-ery. City Attorney Jones today issued his first official statement deny hi g the re port, saying therein: "The newspaper stories 'concerning an alleged confession purporting te have been made by me. la which It la j said that I purcnasea veiea ior jonn Ehepard. now Sheriff of thla county, at the recent November election are abeolutely false. "No such statement was made by me to anyone, nor have any of my frl4ida. political or otherwise, author ised me to pursue such a course. There la no confession to make. All share j producta of the fertile Imagination of : a. . n rn rr.i ru-i nif.nli who are ever seeking the sensational. I have toid no one what I will tes tify to If summoned to appear before the grand Jury. The alleged confession credited to Sheriff Shepard la a fabrication, pure and a'inip and la a areat Injustice to hi- D1ILE ICHURCH BURNS AS MINISTER PRAYS FIRST PRF.SBYTKRJ A V KDIFICE AT VAXCOI VKU DESTROYED. Congregation Dlsrxrse Without Panic Parsonage Damaged. Total IiO Is $ 1 8,000. VANCOUVER. Wash, Jan. 52. (Spe cial.) Fire, starting from an overheat ed furnace, destroyed the First Presby terian church of this city early this evening, causing a loss estimated at $12,000. and damaged the adjoining par sonage to the extent of $1,000. The loss Is partially covered y Insurance. It was during the opening prayer or Rev. Ghormley. of Portland, at the eve ning service, while the church was crowded with people, that Dr. N. J. Tay lor, a member of the choir, saw smoke Issuing from the floor In the center aisle c.f the church, directly above the fur. nace. Interrupting the minister, he gave the alarm. Rev. Ghormley reas sured his auditors and bade them leave the bulldlnr. Without panic the congregation reached th street. Before the department arlved the In terior of the bu'ldlng was a furnace. The hollow walls of the church forming a draught, drew the tlo to the roof, which -was wholly ablase within ten minutes after the fire waa first discov ered. Though the department arrived short ly after the alarm was given, exhaus tion of one of the city cisterns used for emergency purposes, made It Impossible to prevent the total destruction of the building. By hard work the parsonage waa saved after It had been-badly dam aged. As soon as the alarm was given, pas tora In tha neighboring churches dis missed their congregations to aid. Members of the Presbyterian congrega. tlon succeeded n removing the organ and church benches. While the fire was in progress women of the church served the flre-flghtcrs with hot coffee and aandwlches. Rev. Ghormley Is pastor of the Sun nyside Christian church of Portland, and waa supplying tne pulpit of the Presbyterian church here for Rev. IL 8. Temple ton. pastor, who Is ill. WIFE DYING; JUROR KEPT Husband Tlien Misses Train, Hires Launch and Horse to Rush. s - SEATTLE. Wash, Jan. 11. (Special.) Detained by Jury duty In Seattle and mleslng the last train for his home In Fall CSty. Walter Moser. by chartering a launch across Lake Washington and riding horseback from Kirkland to Fall City, reached hia home last evening In response to appeals to hurry to the bedside of his dying wife. Bailiffs of the Superior Court were unable to notify him for several hours after receiving the message until the Jury, of which Mr. Moacr was a mem ber, had arrived at a verdict. The ballllffs felt that to notify him of his wife's illness would put an end to his efficiency as a Juror. Aa soon as the Jury reported Its ver dict. Mr. Moser was told of the message from home. TRAIN AND ROTARY CRASH Engineer and Two Others Hurt When Burlington Train Bnmps. SPOKANK. Wash, Jan. 22. Special.) Burlington train No. 41 collided with rotary engine at the eaat switch at Lubec Mont., this afternoon. One an glneman and two trainmen were In.ured. Blinding snow made It Impossible for tha engineers to see esch other until the trains were too close to halt. Traffic was delsyed six or seven hours. The Injured are: Engineer Railing. Fireman McLaughlin and Brakeman D. Ray. ABO VK. J. V 1 7,- . - - - . v. i. ' s-: . j " (Concluded on Pat 10.) 'x' r . r v T,-; I J - !;r . I ! . : i . 4 - 4 lr . h: ' " 1 ! fi I - '" Jk. nti-Mit ;ai-iBwawVsiijWi'fisfs B. HAMILAX iD JlllGK l a. JURY WILL HOLD WIFE'S FATE SOON Schenk Case May Close Wednesday. LAST ARGUMENTS ON -TODAY Poison Evidence Strong, but Purchase Not Shown. VERBOSE AFFINITY JEERED Testimony of Wheeling- Merchant Brings Sneers From Women. Nurse, Slain Witness, Distant Relative, of the Accused. WHEELING, W. Va.,-Jan. 22. That arguments will begin tomorrow In the case against Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk. charged with administering poison to her husband. John O. Schenk. was practically determined after a long conference today between Prosecutor Handlan and tils assistant,. Fred L. Maury. The case probably will go to the Jury not , later than "Wednesday noon. A full day will ba given to each side for argument. There never has been a criminal case In the history of this state fought more bitterly. - . , Tire state has shown through analysis by expert chemists that mineral water which John O. Schenk drank In his home and medicine administered in his home were charged with arsenic and augar of lead; that Mrs. Schenk had Improper relations with a Wheeling merchant, and that she had Vxpressed a wish that her hueband would die. Reward for Death Shown. The state has produced , a witness who swore .that Mrs. Schenk offered $1000 to put poison In her husband's medicine afterhe waa removed to the hospital; that she purchased augar of lead from a physician In quantity suf ficient to kill a dozen men. and that John O. Schenk waa suffering from arsenical and lead poisoning. On the other hand the state has not shown whether the defendant purchased arsenic; no evidence has been adduced (Concluded on Pag -) ,1 ' o ' . ! i X; , I - !-.-"; v. VXMX . jW- BELOW, SUSS KLE1X, XVKSK, AU 31US. SCHIS.K. ALLUUUU i'OlSOMR OK HUB HISUAMJ JORDA.Y INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TEFTFTRDAVe Maximum tsmperature, S degrees; minimum. SI degrees. , TODAY'S Increasing cloudiness, followed by rain; warmer; southeasterly winds. Xcgislarare. B11I to redlstrlct Washington State presages division. Par 10- Fsw salary Increase tills yet before Legis lature. Page 10. . More bills tntroduoed - at Sslem than in same period ot last session. Page 10. . Big Senate fight predicted over resolution to he Introduced asking Bourne and Cham berlain to uphold direct vote tor United States Senators. Page L National. Capture of Hondurlan rebel warship Hornet by Uncle Sam blocks telling blow planned by Bonllla. Page 2. . Government report says mine fatality rate is high In United States. Page 2. Leaders think extra session of Congress will be avoided, page "... Polttlos. Kansas legislature blocked by political right two years distant. Page S. jCew Tork Democratio chairman swings party laah for fiheehan. Page 6. Domestic. Parmalee. fai "Wright biplane at Sao Fran clsro, remains in air more than 28 min utes longer than American record. Page 8. Case sgalnst Mrs. Schenk to go to Jury Wednesday. Page 1. Miss Augusta Belasco weds William Elliott, young English actor. . Page 3. 6chooner ukma safe at San Francisco: vessel but 20 feet from cliff off Cspe Blanco in hurricane. Page 1. Feud between Ella FlaKjc Young and Co lumbia University president threatened In dispate over $173,000 fund. Page 4. Danville politicians quske on eve of grand Jury investigation. Page 1. Chinese smugglers escape revenue cutter crews near Ssnta Barbara, but one is taken. Page 3. Sport. High marks set at American Bowling Con gress. Page 14. Gloomy day for horsemen at Emeryville la seen. Page 13. - . Facias Northwest. Oregon Trunk Railroad expected to reach Bend by June i- Page 4. First Presbyterian Church at Vancouver, Wash., burns. Page 1. Veteran Wallowa prospector finds skeleton . of human beings. Page 4. .. Portland . and Vicinity. Police Sergesnt Goltz seizes three highway men who wait behind woodpile to way lay him. Page 1. Warning given women by Portland city -official. Mrs. Baldwin. Page 11. Socialists, in mass meeting, denounce Mi kado of Japan for death sentence on Japanese followers of Marx. Page 16. Overturning of engine blocks travel at steel bridge portal. Page 16. Ous Kranso arrested for third time on one charge of giving liquor to children. Page 16. Commercial Club to inqalro into new method ot towing vessels. Page 11. j. s. Delllnger tells of dissatisfaction in Arizona over constitution. Page 15. Oreat Northern exhibit car attracts atten tion to Oregon. Page 10. Seattle gets lion's share of Alaskan trade; Portland missing chance. Page 8. Dr Ferdinand U. Dammaech elected presl "dent of Oerman-Speaklng Societies In Oregon. Page 8. . Turks Kill Bluejackets. FRANKFORT. Germany, Jan. 22. The Zeltung's Constanlnople correspondent reports a serious collision between Brit ish sailors and Turks at Dubuya In the Indian Ocean. Several bluejackets were killed. The British, according to the dispatch, afterwards bombarded Dubuya. STAR WITNESS IN SCHENK CASE, THE DEFENDANT, PRESIDING JUDGE AND PROSECUTOR. GUNS OF SENATE . a AIMED AT BOH Sharp Wrangled Are Week's Forecast. RESOLUTIONS TO BRING ON WAR Abraham Wants Delegation to Uphold Direct Vote. SENIOR SOLON'S RECORD UP Multnomah Senator's Document to Be. Introduced Today Galls' State ment One Substitutes and De mands Action at Capital. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 22. (Special.) This week will see. probably without exception, the warm est fight that has yet been wagedin the Legislature. The principals will be resolutions, one of which has been introduced by Albee., Senator from Multnomah, call ing upon tha Legislature to declare tis confidence In the Oregon system of government, and the other will be a resolution to "toe submitted by Senator Abraham tomorrow, calling upon Unit ed States Senator Bourne and United States Senator Chamberlain to please be present at some session of Congress when the question of the direct vote on United States Senators by the peo ple Is to come up for consideration. Bourne's Record Dug Up. Senator Abraham's resolution will hit at the root of the question of elect ing United States Senators by. a direct vote of the people. For two days he has delved Into Congressional records. He has -followed Bourne's trail since the time he first entered the halls of Congress until the present. Ha says that while Bourne has made lofty pretensions of being founder of the Oregon system, that while Bourne issued a pamphlet from which was bor rowed the expression "Oregon' has the best system of government In the world." around which waged the war of last week in the State Senate, Bourne has neglected every opportun ity In which he might aid in the fight to aecure a direct vote of the people on United States Senator, and he has Ignored, aa far as the record shows, every practical attempt made in this direction by the United. States Senate. Statement Only Flller-In. In the Abraham resolution It Is pointed oat that Statement No. 1 Is merely a substitute for the direct vote on United States Senators, ""that it is made a part of the Oregon law merely to tide over the exigency between the times when the Legislature passed upon the question of United States Senator and when it might be voted upon by the people. Every resolution that appears to praise the Oregon system will no doubt be at tacked as a Bourne move. Many of the Senators are impressed with the idea that Bourne is attempting to make their attitude on such a resolution a matter of record and are prepared to defend their position. Fierce Wrangle Ahead. From the fact that Bourne was given no defense on the floor of the Senate when his original resolution was Intro duced declaring Oregon's government the best, system in the world and from the apparent apathy on the part of many Senators to give Bourne and Bournelsm any encouragement, but at the same time a tendency on the part of some to laud the Bourne resolution Indorsing the Ore gon system. It is apparent that there will be a warm wrangle between the OFFICER WAYLAID, GETS HOLDUP TRIO JOHX GOITZ FIRST WITH GUN AS BAD MEX WAIT. Seizing One, lie Marches Him to Companion's Room and Then Ar rests Other Two One Flees. Single-handed. John Goltz, Police sergeant, last night captured three of four highwaymen as they attempted to hold him up at the corner of West Park and Burnside streets. All three had revolvers stolen from a second hand store at 93 North Third street. The man who escaped has a revolver fully loaded, say his companions. ' Sergeant Goltz saw three men behind a woodpile at the corner of "West Park, and Burnside streets and advanced to where they stood. Expecting gun play, he held his revolver and when John Petterson attempted to draw a pistol Goltz hit him. over the head, felling him. Petterson then tried to draw his revolver again and Sergeant Goltz struck him down for the second time. Petterson then surendered. The other men ran. Sergeant Goltz then took Petterson to the "room of his companion. Art Olson, who was also arrested. Petterson was locked up while Olson was taken by Sergeant Goltz to search for the other two men. At the corner of Second and Ankeny streets the fugitives were seen and ra.n when called on to halt. Goltz, with Olson in his custody, gave chase and grabbed Robert Ratiman as he was escaping through a rear door of a lodginghouse. Three times Olson and Ratzman tried to escape and Sergeant Goltz was forced to threaten to shoot them before they submitted-to handcuffing. Again they fought and the captor bumped their heads against a brick wall. . A search is being made for the fourth man. All four robbed a saloon at Linn ton yesterday afternoon, obtaining a box of cigars and several bottles of gin as well as money from the till. They had two bottles of liquor and many cigars and a quantity of cigars were found in Olson's room. Ratzman confessed to Sergeant Goltz and Captain Bailey that he and his com panions robbed the second-hand store and the Linnton saloon and were plan ning to waylay Sergeant Goltz when he arrested them. He also said they planned to rob a Third-street Jewelry store last night. Petterson is 20, Olson 22, Ratzman i'3 and the man who escaped Is 23. POTATO CONTRACTORS HIT Increase in California Prices Causes " Heavy Iiosses. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 22, (Spe cial.) The contractors who bid to supply the various .institutions of the state with potatoes are now losing money, and it is asserted by some of them that the losses will aggregate probably $30,000. The contractors who were successful in getting the bids to supply potatoes to the institutions bid (1.30 a sack. At that time potatoes were selling for less than a dollar a sack and the contractors stood to make a good profit on their contracts. But since then potatoes have taken a steady rise. They have been going up in price from week to week until they cannot -now be purchased wholesale for less than $1.75 a sack. The best grades are even higher. 1 At the prevailing figures the con tractors stand to lose 45 cents on each sack of potatoes supplied. As it will be four months yet before new po tatoes come in, their losses will amount to thousands of dollars. Some of them may go broke If this unusual condition in the potato market con tinues. COLLEGE COMES TO HOME Cnlversity of Washington Would Give Degrees to All. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Se attle, Wash., Jan. 22. (Speciai.) Pro vided the present Legislature of this state allows the $10,000 appropriation for extension work. In the manner of a cor respondence course, the University of Washington will five every one in the state, who Is unable to attend college, an opportunity of earning a degree with study at home. Leading faculty mem bers of the university have taken the matter In hand and will endeavor to push such an appropriation through the Legislature. Only with those subjects where there is suffiolent demand will the faculty deal. The two phases, vocational and acade mic will be given consideration. Lec tures on educational questions in series will be one of the features. The depart ment hopes to co-operate with the work In high schools as now schools through out the etate are continually writing here for information. FERRY PASSES OVER MAN Launch and Occupant Go Under Larger Craft Without Fatality. Dr. Emmet Dlskum and .three com panions had a narrow escape from drowning when the engine in the launch in which they were crossing the river near Sellwood went "dead" yes terday afternoon, allowing the vessel to float down the stream and collide with the ferryboat John F. Caples. ' Three of the men were rescued be fore the launch struck the ferry, hut one of them was carried with the launch under the Caples. He was taken out with slight injuries. Cap tain James Whitcomb, in a rowboat, overtook the strugglin man In the water before he had been borne far down the stream and conveyed him to the shore near the Oaks PULLS CRAFT Y FROM CUFF Schooner Lakme Only 20 Feet Off Rocks. SHIP ON GIANT WAVE IN GALE Twenty Men Hug Forecastle as Swell Saves All. FREAK DEEMED MOST ODD Lumber-Laden Steamer in Peril Abreast Blanco Reaches Golden Gate Crew Tossed 36 Hours Before Liner's Aid Succeeds SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22. (Special.) Carried on the crest of a gigantic billow until It appeared to the ship wrecked men clinging to the forecastle head of the steam schooner Lakme that she would be dashed to pieces on Fox Rock, the spiral that juts from the sea at the end of the reef running off Cape Blanco, the vessel drifted safely on before a 120-mile hurricane. "It was the strangest freak of the elements I ever witnessed," said Cap tain William Malmgren, master of the wrecked vessel. "I thought that noth ing would save us as we were hurled toward the sharp crags by the rushing waves, but when we were within 20 feet of the pinnacle of rock the sea sucked us back to safety. If we had struck there would hare been nothing left of the Lakme or her crew." Craft All Awash. In tow of the big lumber carrier Nann Smith. Captain Olson, the Lakme, which became waterlogged In a storm off Cape Blanco last Tuesday night, came into port this morning, her decks awash from the bridge aft. On board the Nann Smith were the 20 members of the vessel's crew, who underwent 36 hours of terrible suffering before they were taken off the derelict. The Lakme was bound from Coos Bay for San Pedro with 560,000 feet of lumber. She was making weather of it until a gale sprung up, when she was 26 miles to the south of Blanco. The steam schooner, with her heavy deck load, began to strain badly In the high seas which arose, and about 11 o'clock Tuesday night the alarm was sounded that the vessel had opened up and was making water fast. Leaks Douse Fires. Chief Engineer Likens did not leave the fireroom until the water banked the fires. Without headway the disabled steamer was at the mercy of the wind and seas, which continued to Increase In violence. The Lakme settled slowly until the seas washed clear over her high deckload, which at last gave way to the strain and went over the side carrying with It the lifeboats. About 450,000 feet of lumber shot Into the ocean and great masses of It were hurled back at the wallowing derelict by the waves. With the dawn of Wednesday the gale increased In fury, until by noon it had assumed the proportions of a hur ricane. Before the terrifio blast the craft was driven at great speed. Cap tain Malmgren had set sail, In the hope of keeping the steamer as far off shore as possible. Forecastle Only Safe Place. "Wednesday night we passed, cling ing to the forecastle, which was the only part of the vessel free from the w..h nf thA upas " aaid Captain Malm gren. "The spray blinded us and we wora branched to the skin the entire . time. We had some bisoults and prunes to eat, but no water for 86 hours. When were hurled toward Fox Rock we thought our last moment had come. It . i ,Bn.ihu nicrht there on the w a, n " " ft r. forecastle head. It was useless to speak, for we could not hear one an other, and each man clung in despera tion, with death staring mm in me face. "Thr was a slieht moderation in the .,thr as Thursday wore on, but the sea was still very high. The steamer Watson came close to us in tne aner noon and attempted twice to shoot a lino aboard, without success. She left us after standing by for three hours. Vessel's strain Great. n h fim the Nann Smith reached ahnnt 6 o'clock In the evening, tha i't,, hnd droDDed and the sea was com- Daratively smooth. They took us off In one of their ooais wnooui and secured the Lakme to their auto matic towing machine." The Lakme was anchored off the mall dock and will probably be beached on w ri flats. Whether the old steam schooner will be placed in service agalc is a question, as ner nun m uu.j strained and the engines conslderablj damaged. WILHELMINA" is AGROTJXI Astoria Schooner In Distress Twentj Miles From Marshrleld. MARSHFIELD, Or., Jan. 22. Vi wireless to Seattle.) The gasolln. schooner Wilhelmina, of Astoria, It aground on the south spit at the moutr of Umpqua River, 20 miles north ' o; (Concluded on Fage 3.) SE ifl