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.Jfenmiitg jfcjil. 0&$m kit ; : tt,t tvn nvrnnv TTTBSnAY." JANUARY 24. 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TOT.. L-m 15.651. . WEST IS RALLYING TO SMI FRANCISCO New Yorkand Iowa Join ' Forces With It. APPEALS TO TAFT ARE MYRIAD Telegrams Asking Support for Panama Fair Pour in Fast. CHICAGO ADDS TO VOLUME Wire Into White Hon Until With Mrafee and Congress Members Itegln Yielding to Pressure of Fnblio Opinion. TELEGRAPHIC ARtil MEXTS FOR PAX FRANCISCO. Oregon Development I- t u. Ors ton M pledged ts make It a gigantic Portland Commercial Club Port- land will maka It a monumental soc- CtM. J Portland Ad Men's Club It la tha I Coast crowning achievement. East Kid Business Man's Club Wilt redact world-wir credit on United States. Northwest Manufacturers Associa tion Deserves tha honor of enter talnlng tha people of the world In IIS. Portland Preaa Club Should have National recorntlon. Oregon Grocers Association Tha wnly piaca to hold It. Oregon Retail Merchants It will aid In settling country. Civic Improvement Society As a land dealer with millions Invested Id Irrigation works. United States should display her land to exposition visit arm. Portland Realty Board Paclfle Coaat entitled to It. v President Beckwlth. Commercial J Club Beat subserve future Interests 4 at Natlom. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. Specia!. President Taft Is "amused and pleased." tha telegraph offices are all but over whelmed, members of Congress are sud denly slipping San Franctscoward from :helr perches of "neutrality" and a new rnthnslasm of hope and confidence has wised tha California headquarters, w hich Is conducting the campaign for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The wonderful response of the West to the call from San Francisco for Its support Is tha cause of It all. The tele graphic deluge on the White House began rarly this morning and tonight the tele graph men say "things are still hum ming." Ths sppeal of the Western city wect out in broadside advertisements published In all the larger cities beyond the Mississippi this morning snd the spontaneity and vigor of the results Is nothing short of marvelous. That's What West Can Do Taft. The four day operators at the Whits House left their keys late tonight with Instructions to be on hand early In the morning to resume the grind. Grind It Is. for every time a wire la clear of offi cial business a doien cities are clamor ing with calls. "It Is getting monoto nous." declare J one of them tonight, so continuous hsd been the flow of tele grama throughout the day. short tele grams, long ones, many from business organisations, others from Individuals equally formal and aa many again from mn who addressed the President In per sonal tone, frequently with a touch of humor, all urging him to lend San Fran cisco a hand. That the President was entertained and Impressed by the thousands of petl tionlngs from ths Wast was reported from a variety of sources during the day. The heaps of telegrams were shown to visitors aa entertaining exhibits and the comment Is one sentence: Thafa what ths West can do In one morning of a fight before Congress." New York and Clih-aKo I5oet It wss not from ths West alone, nor for th President alone, that the flood f telegrams came. About noon a bom bardment began to materialise from New Tork. both on the White House snd members of Congress, and the number of friends San Francisco has In that state was a revelation. Chicago sent Its share of messages, spurred on undoubtedly by business and personal friends of Pan Franciscans, and tonight It Is reported that a leading Congressman from that city, accounted fr many months as for New Orleans, had made positive declaration that, be cause of the great superiority of San Francisco's project and because of the -mnds of constituents, he had changed Ms mind. It looks as If San Francisco has been conserving much of Its strength for an eva!anrhe finish. That It Is proving effective Is not to be questioned, suf fice It to say that men high In the Ad ministration councils art not Ignoring California's claims and the merits of Its exposition offer. This evening came a telegram from Albany, announcing that the New Tork Assembly ha.l Indorsed San Francisco unanimously and the Senate with only six votes dissenting. I.a Shout for Pacific Cat. From Iowa word was received that the State Senate hsd Indorsed the iOoncludcii on Pese 104 SOLDIER OF MANY WARS PASSES AWAY JOHN BOYSEX EXDS MFE OI FIf.IlTINC. AT AGE OK 91. Beginning With Battles Willi panes In 1818, lie Afterwards Fights for Vnlon and With Indians. IjOS ANGKI.ES, Cel.. Jan. 3.-(Spe-lal.) John Itoysen. an aged veteran of wars In both Europe and the I'nltcd State?, was borne to his last resting place In the Soldiers' Home cemetery todsy. Born in the then Duchy of Holsteln 91 years ago, Boysen entered the army of that country and participated in nil the battles of Srhleswig-Holstein. when in IMS thos duchies confederated for the purpose of securing liberty from fur ther dominion by Denmark. After the successful cloee of that war Boyscn forr-eaw that his native land would fall a prey to Prussia and Austria. Vowing he would never bow his knee to either power, he Immigrated In the early 5"s to the United States. Boyscn entered the Army of the United States In 1534 and served through the Civil War snd participated after its close In Indian campaigns In all parts of the country for 14 yesrs. Boysen was finally discharged. August 19, 1S. . In Alaska, from which country he drifted to Ore gon, whers for 17 years he engaged in farming. GOULD WEDDING ARRANGED Bride and Lord Decles Will Have Plenty of Attendants. NEW TORK. Jan. 23. (Special. Ar rangements srw complete for the attend ants of Mies Vivian Gould and Uord Decles st their marriage In St. Bar tholomew's Church on February t. Miss Gould's attendants will be her little sis ter. Miss Edith Gould. Misses Beatrice Clafiln, Hannah Randolph, Emellne Holmes. Louise Cromwell, Allison Pierce and Hope Hamilton. ' There will be two flower girls, little Miss Gloria Gould and little Miss Dlsna Dalrell. and two pages. Masters Marcus and Graham, nephews of Lord Decles. The best man will be Lord Alatalr Graham, R. a son of the Duke of Montrose and a cousin of Lord Decles; Earl Percy. Lord Camoy, Messrs. Robin Grey, Phoenix Ingraham, Moncure Rob inson, Robert H. Russell. Anthony J. Drexcl. Jr.. and Francis W. Crowlnshleld. Lord Decles will give his farewell bach elor dinner on February 4. OCEAN WAVE SAVES LIFE Rider Held Under Water by Horse's . Weight Freed by Big; "Boiler." NEWPORT, Or.. Jan. 2J Speclal. Lee L. Doty, driver of the stage line be tween this city snd Waldport, had a narrow escape from drowning last Wednesday evening. He mounted his horse to ride down ths beach to a neigh bor's, where a death had occurred. The tide was very high and at one point he was compelled to traverse a distance whers tha water was two or three feet over the sand. His horse stumbled and fell, and In falling one of Mr. Dory's legs wss pinned under him. Ths man was fast with no aid In sight. While In this plight a big wave cams along and lifted the horse clear over him. the buoyancy of the water alone preventing Doty being crushed beneath the water by the horse's weight and drowned. $31,000 IS LEFT IN PARK Woman's Lost Fortune Found hv Gallant Motorcyclist. LONG BEACH. Cal.. Jan. 13. When Mrs. Mary McCall boarded a car to go to a bank today, she left her handbag containing $:o.000 In rash and $11,000 In negotiable paper on a bench. She did not learn her loss until she reached the bank. Then she shrieked: "I haVe lost 131.000." Two motorcyclists and two boys on bicycles Immediately stsrted out to find the money. Mrs. McCall followed In an automobile and when she ar rived at the comer whers shs boarded ths car. T. McDonald, one of the motor cyclists, handed her the bonds and money Intact- He had found it whers Mrs. McCall had left It on ths bench In a park. GOODRICH HEARING SECRET i Edna, Behind Closed Doors, Is First Divorce Suit Witness. NEW TORK. Jan. 23. Taking of testi mony was begun today In tho divorce proceedings which rVJna Goodrich has brought against her husband, Nat C. Ooodwln. the actor. Miss Goodrich was the first witness at tho hearing, and was on the stand but a few minutes, testifying to her mar riage with Mr. Goodwin. Her counsel entered ss part of ths record depositions from residents of St. Louis and other cities. The hesrlng was behind closed doors. Adjournment was taken to Friday. BALE OF HAY KILLS MAN Charles Helms Neck Broken. Mother Lives In Oregon. STOCKTON. CaU Jan. 2J. Charles Helm, a well-to-do rancher of this county, was Instantly killed today, when struck with a bale of hay while loading a wagon lu a warehouse. The bale fell from a height of 30 feet and broke Helm's neck. He wss about SO rears old. He leaves a mother and I brothers and sisters in Oregon. - - . OFFICIAL ACCUSED OF BUYING VOTES Danville Grand Jury Is Told of Confession. PEEPHOLE USED BY WATCHER City Attorney Jones' Story Re peated by Reporters. CALL CANNON'S RELATIVE Men High in Orfice Must Testify and ' Election of Judge W ho Presides May Be Tainted Effort Made to Bay Witnesses. DANVILLE. 111.. Jan. 23. The Ver milion County grand Jury today heard Danville's City Attorney accused of having admitted buying votes and was given a list of 50 possible witnesses by the accusers. The City Attorney's al leged trafficking. It was testified, was In the Interest of the present Sheriff at the last general election. The Jury heard It witnesses and 13, Including Speaker Ctfnnon'a eon-ln-Uw, are subpebaed for tomorrow. The tact tiiat an Investigation may,, disclose it regularities in the elections of the State's Attorney and even the court Itself has not stood In the way of their orders to have the search complete, and all the officials concerned have an nounced they want a thorough inquiry regardless of results. "Good Tilings'' Orfered Heporter. A newspaperman who was a witness today told the inquisitors he had been approached by persona offering him a vacation and several "good things" if he would not go before the grand jury with his story. It hsd not been expected the alleged vote traffic would be Investigated soon, as .there were many routine mat ters to be looked Into by the grand Jury, but the climax of the situation was precipitated when two newspaper reporters, who iast week sent broad cast a story purporting to contain a "confession" from City Attorney Frank W. Jones that he bad purchased votes a story denied by Jones demanded to be allowed to go before the grand Jury. When It became known they would in sist on being heard several subpenas were Issued and nine other persons ap peared later and were heard.. Eleven Heard, More Summoned. Those heard today Included R. H. Frankeberger, reporter for the Com mercial News, a Danville newspaper, who clalma to have secured Jones' al leged confession; George A. Martin, correspondent of an Indianapolis news paper, who was with Frankeberger when the conversation took place con taining the alleged admission of Jones; S. Murray Clark. Assistant United States District Attorney and ex-County Judge, who was defeated for the noml ( Concluded on Page S.1 OREGON'S GREATNESS IS MADE KNOWN. The Oreromau has endeav ored, successfully, it believes, to make its Fiftieth Anniversary Edition a publication .that will be of great value to every sec tion of Oregon. The paper, al though containing more than 100 pa.sres, will be well jystematized snd therewill be no waste space. The text and photographs have been carefully prepared and se lected for the purpose of utiliz in'' every column to the best pos sible advantage. One 24-pagre section will be devoted exclusively to Oregon counties, with pictures and de scriptive matter from every di vision of Oregon. An illustrated section, depicting Oregon indus tries, will be unusually attract ive and instructive. Another sec tion will be given over' to indus trial articles, while still another division of the paper will tell of Portland's advancement. Besides all these will be the historical department, giving an account of the growth of The Oregonian and the development of the Ore gon country, as connected with the history of this newspaper. The Anniversary Edition will be issued February 4. The price will be 5 cents a copy. HUSBAND BLAMES CHURCH W alla Walla Man Says ' Adventlsts Took Cash and Wife. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Jan. 23. (Special.) One of the most stubbornly fought divorce cases of months was that today in the Superior Court of Katharine Janke against Gotthilf Janke of this city, which was started De cember 1, last. The wife alleged cruel and Inhuman treatment, asserting she had been forced to do washing when -Just re covering from illness and operations at the hospital, and asserting . that Janka failed to provide for his family. The husband replied with startling cross-complaints, alleging that he had always been a good and faithful hus band, and that no cruelty or failure to provide was causing the trouble, but that It was the Interference of the Ad ventlst Church. He alleged that his wife had joined this church, and that a good part of his wages had gone toward it. He says they tried to get him to Join, - and when he refused brought pressure to bear on his wife that has caused this divorce suit. He believed they, could live together in peace, he stated. If outside forces would leave them alone. JUDGE SCORES POLICEMEN Shooting Guilty Bluecoats Is Xo Crime, Declares Jurist. BERLIN, Jan. 23. At the second trial today of men accused of taking part In the strike riots In the Moablte quarter, the presiding Judge took occasion to say that citizens were Justified in re sisting police officers who exceeded their authority. During the disorders, a squad of mounted police rode down and-sabred a party of newspaper reporters. Referring to the case of an Innocent pedestrian whom the police had killed, the court 'declared that anyone who shot down a guilty policeman was within his rights and coul'd not be pun ished. WILL HE GET STUNG? AUTHOR SHOT FOR FANCIED WRONG Six Bullets Fired Into Graham Phillips. ASSAILANT ENDS OWN LIFE No Cause Known for Attack jy Goldsborough. PHILLIPS' MAY RECOVER Young Member of -Old Maryland Family Who Had Bothered Author With Many Appeals Xot Known to 'Have Grudge. NEW TORK, Jan. 23. David Graham Phillips, editor, publisher and novelist, was shot six times today as he ap proached the Princeton Club by Fltz hugh Coyle Goldsborough, a Harvard man, who Immediately afterwards com mitted suicide. Phillips is at Bellevue Hospital in a critical condition, but, as relatives express It, "with a chance for life." The body of Goldsborough, whose career at Harvard was brief, lies in the morgue. Apparently insane, he had a fancied grudge against the authbr and sought bis life. He was only 31 years old. Phillips Is 43. "There you go," said the assailant as he opened fire, "and here I go," ho echoed as he sent a bullet Into his own brain. He used an automatic pis tol and all six shots aimed at Phillips took effect. One penetrated the abdo men, another pierced the right lung and came out at the back, a third shattered the left wrist and a fourth drilled the right thigh. Two of them dropped from the wounded man's clothing as he was being undresred at the hospital. One Shot Pierces Lung. The course of the- bullets was so er ratic and there was such doubt as to Just which wounds were points of en trance and which points of exit that the surgeons were uncertain whether he had been shot four, five or six times, but their best belief tonight was six. The most dangerous ' wound Is that through the lung. Septicaemia and pneumonia are the two secondary effects most feared. The robust constitution of the patient bore him through the loss of blood and shock well and his first request to his physi cians was that no alarming reports be given out. "My mother," he said, "is an old lady and the shock might kill her. I'm young and strong; I may get well. Make the best of It and I'll try to bear you out." - The six shots broke the quiet of one of the most aristocratic neighbor hoods of New York. The Princeton Club, formerly the home of the late Stanford White, fronts on Grammercy Park and at 2 o'clock of a bright after noon Phillips, who lives nearby at the - (Concluded on Page 3.) WIFE CANNOT BE ENGAGED TO MARRY MAN' ABSOLVED FROM PROMISE HIXGIXG OX DIVORCE. Woman Who Shakes 'Off Shackles of I One Man, Expecting to Wed Another, Gets Xo Damages. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23. (Special.) On the ground of public morals. Mrs. Babette Schmidt today lost .the first round in her battle before the Superior Court to obtain $10,000 damages from William Isert for alleged breach of promise to marry. The reverse came when Judge Sturte vant rendered a decision sustaining the demurrer of the defendant, wherein it was shown that. If any promise to marry was made. It was when Mrs. Schmidt was the wife of Ernest J. Schmidt, having no capacity to engage In another matrimonial contract, the same being against public morals. She alleged In her. complaint against Isert that toward the end of August, J 1907, he promised to marry her. On that date, she sets forth, she had a suit for divorce from Ernest J. Schmidt. Isert's promise, she said, included that the marriage was to take place within a reasonable time after she had ob tained her final decree and was at lib erty to marry. Mrs. Schmidt on December 3, 1909, obtained from the Alameda County Superior Court a final decree of di vorce and called upon Isert to fulfill the alleged promise to marry her. She alleges he refused and ever afterward she suffered great shame and humilia tion, which only $10,000 in money will wipe out. RAIN FLOODS CALIFORNIA Whole Xortbern Section of State lias Steady Downpour. SACRAMENTO. Cal., Jan. 23.-(Spe-cial.) The second big storm of the season is raging fhrougnout Northern California tonight. Starting about noon with a slight drizzle, the storm Increased In velocity until tonight m Sacramentoraln is fall ing In a steady downpour. From the lower foothills reports are coming in of rain and in the upper regions and mountainous sections snow is again fall ing. Along the Western Pacific and Southern Pacific on the Eastern divisions small slides are giving trouble and streams and rivers ere again showing the effect of the rain and melting snow. The day has been one of unusual cold and rain in the valley and has been accompanied by a brisk north wind. The Southern Pacific Company fearing trouble from a possible ripe in the Yuba and Feather rivers in the vicinity of Marysville, has a piledriver crew and several section crews ready In case of emergency. CUSTOMS OFFICIALS TO GO . Locb Announces Dismissal of Men for Complicity in Scandals. NEW YORK, Jan. 23. Collector Loeb will be given, in the New York World tomorrow, as authority for the state ment that a high official of the port, a chief clerk In one of the depart ments, and ten other men drawing good salaries are to be dismissed for al leged complicity in the customs scan dals of recent years. At the office of the United States District Attorney, it is said to have been admitted that a communication has been prepared, advising the Col lector to make the dismissal contem plated. NEVADA DOWNS CIGARETTE Senator, Who Smokes, Futhers Bill, Which, 'Tis Said, Will Pass. CARSON, Nev., Jan. 23. A bill intro duced in the Senate today and which Is expected to pass both houses will if made a law shut out completely from Nevada all cigarettes and the materials to make them. The bill makes It a crime punishable by 'fine and imprisonment to sell or give cigarettes or cigarette materials to any woman or child or man in tho state. Dr. Aslier, who presented the bill, is a cigarette smoker and stated that ha could testify from experience to the direful results of their use. TARDY JUDGES TO LOSE PAY Bill Would Compel Jurists lo Give Decisions in 90 Days. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or.. Jan. 23. (Special.) With a view to expediting tho business of the State Circuit Courts, Representative Collins has offered a bill which provides that a judgo shall give his ' decision in a case within 90 days after the case is submitted for his con sideration, except on account of sickness or other valid excuse. Failure of any Judge so to decide cases submitted to him shall bo sufficient ex cuse for the proper official to withhold the salary warrant of the delinquent Jurist. EMPRESS' HEALTH ALARMS Alexandra or Russia Suffers From Melancholia. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 25. The health of Empress Alexandra is agaln a matter of concern to the imperial family and her physicians. Her ma jesty suffers periods of melancholia. The royal family is planning a long stay at Nauhelm, Grand Duchy 'of Hesse, where the Emperor and Empress ! stopped for some time last FalL ALARM CON OF STATE SOUNDS Legislature Wants Ex penses Checked. ALL INSTITUTIONS WATCHED Wild Spending by Officials Prompts Resolutions. LAVISH ASYLUM SCORED Senator Wood Would Change System of Coin-Handling and Make Watchdog or Secretary All Deficiencies Condemned. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Jan. 23. (Special.) Numerous bills to hedge in officials at state institutions, resolu tions calling for investigation of state establishments from separate investiga tions of the asyium and the office of Insurance Commission to a resolution, sweeping in its nature and covering all of the state institutions and officials, were features in both houses today. They marked a continuance of ths sentiment which has been expressed forcibly that lavish expenditure and ex travagance have marked the conduct of affairs at the asylum and that there is a possibility of further instances of this being unearthed at other institu tions. Senator Wood introduced several bills covering state institutions. They have as their end in view the complete elimi nation of pbsslblllty of future deficien cies and would change the present sys tem of expending public money for pub lic institutions Dimlck introduced a bill requiring, that the Secretary of State shall make a personal Inspection of every voucher drawn and every war rant paid and that such shall be signed by him personally. All Deficiencies Blocked. One of Woods' bills makes it unlaw ful for any trustee or officer of any state Institution to allow a deficiency to be created. Such, deficiency, the bill recites, must be repaid personally by the trustee responsible or by his bonds men. Another of Woods' bills provides that no warrant shall be drawn by ths Secretary of State unless an appropria tion has been made therefor, nor shall any account be audited and ordered paid unless the appropriation covering the same has not been exhausted. It is provided In another of Woods" (Concluded on Pass 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. ' YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 3T degrees; minimum, 31 degrees. TODAY'S Rain snd warmer, with increas ing southerly winds. Legislature. Both Houses of Oregon Legislature hint at InvestlRatlon ot expenditures of all stats institutions. Page 1. Senator Oliver files bill for creation o Eastern Oregon Normal School. Pass 5. Washington solons In hot fight on defi ciency appropriation bill which passes. Page J. Foreign. Mexican rebels trap Federals In pass and kill or wound nearly all. Page 2. National. Taft and Congress flooded with telegrams indorsing San Francisco for Panama Exposition. Page 1. Tariff piecemeal tinkering Is condemned by Senator Flint. Page 2. Judge William H. Hunt's nomination to Court ot Commerce is turned down. Page 2. Government loses tn.000.000 to t5.O00.000 year through false classification of tobac co imports. Page 4. POLITICS etaolnnuu Politics. Democrats rallv to support of Franklin Roossvelt. Btate Senator In New York lighting Tammany. Page 4. DOM etaoin shrdlu unnu Domestic. Danville grand Jury gets first evidence of vote-buying and calls many witnesses. Page 1. Man who began soldier's life In 1848 dies at ago of 91. Page 1. David Graham Phillips shot In New York by Fitzhugh Goldsborough. Page 1. Woman who sues for breach of promise made while she was married recovers no damages. Page 1. Mother at court-martial of Major Davis tes tifies that General Elliott cursed her son. Page 3. Mrs. sienk suffers blow in instructions given to Jury. Page 3. 8 ports. Auto "opening" is great success. Page 8. raciflc Northwest. Mrs Marlins Kvalshaug acquitted of com plicity in murder of husband at Tacoma. Page S. Commercial and Marine. Eastern hop buyers turn to old growths. Page 15. Wheat higher on visible decrease and bull ish French estimates. Page 15. Steel used by bulls and bears In stock mar ket. Page 13. Grain-fed sheep sell high at Portland stock yards. Page 15. Port of Portland Commissioners as one in approving reduction In drydock rates. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. G. W. Kemp, on ball on fraud charge, may be man who Jumped off bridge. Page 8. Burglars who attacked woman sentenced by Judge McGinn to serve IS years In prison. Page 0. Apple-growers to convene here today to dis cuss apple-selling agency plan. Fags 10, Rates on finished lumber to East by water cut one-tblrd. Page 16. Portland Y. M. C. A. leads Vorthwesters cities first day of membership contest. Page 14. Portland syndicate buys 400O seres neai Salem; land will be irrigated. Page 10. F. l.arher. forger, asks that ehafge against him be raised to felony, rage 8. L
