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(J4 CfM t rrnriT FT in 1-rii .-. mvn-. 4 V K WAR OF MILLIONS Cause of Cram's Break With Murphy Shown. PENNSYLVANIA IS AT BASIS Fight on Tammany Over Sena torship Becomes Plain. RAILROAD WANTS SHEPARD Cram Arrange to Xm Hint and Then Get Surpr' ' 11,9 Wben Mnrphy Selects Sheehan for Other Interests." BT T.LOTD K. LONEBOAX. NEW TORK. Feb. 17. (Special.) The real Inside history of the leglsla tlr deadlock that has divided the De mocracy of the Empire Slate Into two bitter faction. ! here presented for the flret t'me. On the surface the bat tle la simply, a fight of honest Demo erate against the extension of the dee. potlc rule of Murphy. From behind the scenes It I shown to be a contest belweea two group! of financiers, who seldom war except for millions. The farts here presented are the re sult of a careful, conservative exami nation at Albany. Tammany men who are close to Murphy, up-state Peroo rrats who hate Tammany and all Its works, and Republicans who only take an academic Interest In the situation, have contributed to the evidence, un der pledges that their names will not be used. Combined, their statement show that the New York Iemocracy Is very far Indeed from that Jeffer onlan simplicity which Ita oratora talk so much about. Cram's Attitude Surprising. One of the most surprising features of the present situation, to those not la the "It now." was the attitude of J. Sargent Cram, clubman, who for years has been one of Murphy's closest ad visors. Why he should bresk a friend ship of sucb length, for so small a matter as a Senatorshlp, Is a matter that has not heretofore been explained. The situation may be summarised In a few words. The causes of the deadlock were the ambition of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the assertlveness of J. Bargent Cram. The Instrument that was used to bring It about was Maurice MInton. The Pennsylvania Railroad has for years had wuprmm legislative control la the statea of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In New Jersey the result of the ballot last November wss regarded with Indifference, for John Kean and James Smith. Jr., were both friends who had been tried and not found wanting. They were the rival machine candidates, as the leaders had agreed to ignore the primaries. The decisive action of Governor Wilson In forcing the election of Martins was an unex pected blow, as the Pennsylvania had been assured by certain Wall-street Individuals that the president of Princeton waa "safe and conservative." Railroad Enll.ts Cram. Senator Chauncey M. Depew has naturally been regarded as "the New Tork Central's man." The Pennsyl vania, with Its new Interests In this city, thought It was about -time that It had another representative in Wash ington. So a certain official sent for J. Sargent Cram. At the time of the building of the present station. the Pennsylvania wanted certain business favors from the city administration. They were grant ed. Mayor McClellan being then on good terms with the organlxatton. and as a result Murphy's construction company received certain valuable contracts. It la an cpen secret that Cram made the arrangements, which were not Illegal, but purely an exchange of favor for favor. Fy many persons Cram was regarded as the real Boss of Tammany Hall. He was Murphy's social mentor, chair man of the County General Committee, and he and Dan Cohalan were his clos est friends. Gradually Cram became Imbued with the Idea that he was a big toad In the political puddle, and some of his actions last year did not meet with Murphy's approval. But the boss never let his feelings be known, and Crsm continued to "deliberate' and "confer." So it was natural In the circum stances that the Pennsylvania officials should regard Cram as the final court of appeals. There waa a conference, and It was made clear to Cram that the man who should be sent to Washington was Edward M- Shepard. And Cram, beaming wl:h pride promised that It should be done. Murphy Sits on Cram. Then Cram broke the news to Murphy, and received the shock of his life. It also saocked him out of poli tics. Here la a report tf the conversation, as told by one of the four Tammany men who beard It. Cram Well. Charlie. I have fixed It op with the Pennsylvania. We are to send Shepard to the Senate. Murphy Who the told you to (Coaciodt't oa Psse 2.) HOBO HURLS BRICK AT HELEN GOULD MISSILE STRIKES MRS. EDWARD SCHOLES INSTEAD. Man Angered at Refusal of Alms Send Projectile Through 'li brary Window. NEW TORK. Feb. J7.-Angered when refused alms at the door, a disheveled tramp retired to the "treet and hurled a brick through one of he library wln dowa of Mlsa Helen Gould's Fifth-avenue residence tonight. Mrs. Edward Soholes, standing near the window, was struck squarely on the head and escaped serious Injury only because of an ahuadauce of hair. She was knocked prostrate and a large bump raised at the base, of her skull. Police began a search for the tramp, but had not fqund him late tonight. Miss Gould, who was In an adjoining room with two children, hurried Into the library when she heard the crash, and tho butler summoned the police. The butler told the police that an un kempt man,, apparently under the in fluence of liquor, had come to the house shortly after 7. Tl'.e butler told him Miss Gould waa engaged, but the man Insisted she had helped him before and he waa In dire distress now. When the butler attempted to shut the door he placed his fool in the opening and with drew It only when the heavy door squeezed It painfully. Five minutes later the brick came hurling through the window. Mrs. Echoles profile conld be seen plainly from the street and the tramp mistook her for Miss Gould. SHIP SORELY BUFFETED Distressed narkrntlne Rescued With Crew at rumps Fatigued. SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 17. The bar kentlne James Tuft, which psased in at Cape Flattery early today flying dis tress signal, waa picked up today by the t'nlted Statea Life Saving Steamer Snohomish and towed to Port Angeloa, where they 'arrived tonight. The Tuft left Tacoma with lumber for Sydney. Australia. February 2. Hoon after leaving the Strait of Juan do Fuca. she encountered the furious storm that baa been lashing the North Pacific for several days. Her cargo of lumber ahlfted, giving her a dan gerous list, her sails were stripped from the maats and ahe made water rapidly. The crew were kept at work at the pumpa until the Snohomish ar rived, when a detachment of anen from the Government vessel was assigned to the Tuft to relieve the worn-out crow. SCHWERIN'S HOUSE ROBBED Burglar In Skirts Takes $5000 In Jewels From Steamer Magnate. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 17. (Special.) The residence of R. P. Schwerln, president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, was looted by burglars short ly after midnight this morning. They made their escape with Jewelry valued at liOOO. Mr. Scbwerin la at present in the East and his wife was with a theater party. Two children were In the bouse at the time of the robbery. Entrance was gained by forcing open a rear window with a 'Jimmy." The thief ransacked Mrs. Schwerln's bed room and several other rooms, forcing open bureaus and cases and emptying them of Jewelry and diamonds. P. L. McDonald, chauffeur for the Schwerins, saw the burglar drop to the rear yard from- the window and vanish. He fired a shot at the fleeing form, but the bullet missed Its mark. McDonald aaya the burglar wore a skirt and may have been a woman. PRISONER SELLS INVENTION Walla Walla Man UcU $12,000 for Harvester Improvement. WALLA WALLA. Wash, Feb. 17. (Special. )-rConfined In the County Jail, serving a sentence for passing a no fund check. Clinton Buchanan, of this city, sold an Invention to Improve side hill combined harvesters, for $11,000. He was released from Jail two days ago and upon securing the model of his patent from a farmhouse on Eu reka Flats, where It waa stored, he was able to close the deal. Ben Holt and a Spokane man were Joint purchasers of the invention. Buchanan's Invention waa worked out In the harvest field last Summer and was stored on Eureka Flat. He made a conditional sale of the con trivance, which Is Intended to keep the threshing machine of a combined har vester level at all times, no matter how steep the hill which may be run over. It is said to be far superior to any other device of this kind In use. BURGLAR TIED TO POLE Police Frustrate Attempt to Rob East Side Butcher Shop. An early morning robbery was frus-trat-d by Patrolman Lltherland at East .Third and East FumMde streets when he saw two men breaking Into a butcher shop near that corner at 1 o'clock this morning. Seeing that he could not cap ture t'le two men alone as they started to run in different directions he called to the clerk of the Princess Hotel and blew bis police whittle. Sergeant Keller arrived at the scene and seeing one man running. rhot over his head. The man surrendered. The other escaped. The man who was captured Is a sailor, giving his name as Olaf Olsen. He was strapped to a telegraph pole and hand cuffed while the police started on a search for the other would-be burglar. WEST REPRIMANDS PRODIGAL HOUSE State Printer Bill Lost, Governor Angry. MESSAGE THREATENS VETOES Representatives Told to Prune Sums or He'll Use Knife. SOLONS PAY LITTLE HEED Executive's Letter to Lower Body Chides It for Opening Flood gates of State Treasury and Providing Xo Revenue. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or., Feb. 17. (Special.) Reminding the House that this session of the Legislature has already made a new high record in appropriations. Governor West in a special message addressed to the mem bers of the House tonight warned that body that unless the prunlng-knlfe ia applied to unnecessary appropriations, he will feel Justified in exercising his right to veto In protecting the people of the state from undue extravagance. This unusual message from the Chief Executive of the state was brought about by the action of the Houbo this afternoon in postponing Indefinitely the bill placing the State Printer on a flat salary, which the Governor said in his message was a meritorious measure and would effect a saving to the taxpayers or from 130,000 to $40. 000 a year. Message Is Not Heeded. The House took no action on the message. Instead, after a short but lively debate, Just after receiving the anti-extravagance message, the House passed Senator Carson's bill appropri ating 1160,000 for the purchase of ad ditional grounds and the construction of a building for elate purposes at Salem. There were 33 votes for the 0)111. which Huntington and others op posed as an unnecessary expenditure. Governor West stated later that he had, reached a definite conclusion that unless the bill for a flat salary for State Printer went through be would abso lutely veto the bill providing for a 1150, 000 building to be placed on. the Capitol grounds. "If the State Printer bill falls, I see no use, for such a new building and it will not be constructed for two years, at least." he said. The bill providing for this appropria tion was Introduced by Senator Carson, of Marion. Bill Not Reconsidered. When the message had been read Bigelow of Multnomah moved that the vote by which the State Printer bill was Indefinitely postponed be recon sidered. Speaker Rusk announced that he would not entertain the motion. Bigelow Insisted on his motion, but Thompson of Lake came to the Speak er's assistance by raising 'a point of order, which was that the House was (Concluded on Page 5. eeeeeeeessee eeseeeeeeeeeeeessseseeeeeeeseeeeesesessseiilileeeeiseii I j U. S. "WHAT DO TOU KNOW ABOUT THIS?" 4eeeeeeeeeeeee.eeseeseeeseeeeeeseseee.ee ... sees. The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, S3 desrees; minimum, 30 desrees. TODAre Occasional lisht rain; soathsast rlr winds. Legislature. Governor West reprimands House for profll gallty and threatens to veto appropria tions. Pas 1. West likens Bailer to wart and sas he will kill $20,000 bill If Legislature doesn't oust orflciaL Pas 7. House kills Mariner's ood roads bill and all Mill way Inflation may be detested as a result. Pas . Handling of Boas case In Washington Sen ate attacked as unfair; all affidavits ' against Land Commissioner ordered Died. Pag 7. Senator Malarkey public servlc bill passes House. Page 6. Bill giving power to Governor to nsm Port of Portland Commission Is passed by Senate. Page 4. Legislators vote $.2.124 In appropriations in on day. Pag f. Foreign. China delays answer to Russian demands, but will surrender In the end. Fag 2. T. w. W." men with Mexican rebels say comrades in Portland. Seattle and Spo kane ar ready to send arms. Pag 6. Vega, deserted by his beaten army, Is dying. Pag 1. Politic. New York Senatorshlp tight really war of millions. Page L National. Heyhurn prevents vot In Senate on direct election, crisis may come today. Pag Reciprocity In clanger In Canada because of annexation talk. Page 4. Domestic. California shippers stand by Independent Famma steamer line despite Faolno Mail's rate cut. Pag 3. Mrs. Pagnuelo. ex-wlf of Judge 811ve- stone, of Portland, again asks divorce. Fage a. roelker adheres to bribery story and denies Losinky personated him. Pag 3. Tramp throws brick through window of Helen Gould's house; woman is hurt. Pg L Ex-Governor Lord of Oregon dies in San Francisco. Page 1. Sports. 1 Portland Peavers ready for trip to Califor nia training grounds. Paga 16. Pacific Northwest. Russian suffragists congratulate sisters in Washington. Page 1. Army of hobos kicked off train, now storm bound and unsheltered near crest of Siskiyou. Fage 1. Southwestern Washington Development As sociation convention doses. Pag 7. Commercial and Marine. , Tea consumers to be benefited by chang ia standard law. Pare 17. Heavy offerings and short sailing carry wheat prices down. Page 17. 8harp fluctuations in stock quotations at New York. Page 17. Iron and steel trade Is expanding. Page 17. Steamer Golden Gate to carry cargo of gasoline to Tillamook Bay points. Pag ' Portland and Vicinity. Compromise for Joint use of Broadwsy by Mount Hood line seems probable. Pag 12. Wells-Fargo Company contends Multnomah assessment is double taxation. Pag 12. President of Aberdeen Chamber' of Com merce praise Portland. Pag 9. W. F. Rurrell flies suit asking that Broad way bridge contract b canceled. Pag 12. Diamond robbers identified as highwaymen. Pag, 10. Far on new Eastern Oregon line to b three cents a mile. Page 4. Big hotels add liberally to Elks' convention fund. Page lu. BERESFORD. GIVEN DARE Warren Barbour, Millionaire, would Box DrexcI'B Conqueror. NEW TORK, Feb. 17. Warren Bar bour, son of a millionaire and the ama teur heavyweight boxing champion of the United States, would like to meet the Honorable "Bobby" Beresford, who defeated Anthony J. Drexel In the bout at George Gould's country place at Lakewood, N. J. Barbour issued a challenge tonight through a New Tork newspaper, agree ing to fight Beresford four rounds un der amateur rules at any -place the Englishman may name. As Barbour weighs more than 100 pounds and Beresford about 166, there seems 'to be little likelihood of the match being held. EX- GOVERNOR LORD IVDRKEflS' DUUND D1ES IN BAY CITY Heart Disease Ends Life of Oregon Citizen. FUNERAL WILL BE IN SALEM His Career as Soldier, Lawyer, Judge Distinguished. HE SERVED AS AMBASSADOR Interrupting Law Studies to Fight In Civil War, Ho Enters Regular Army, Becomes Judje, Gov ernor and Diplomat. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 17. (Special.) William Paine Lord, ex Governor of Oregon and at one time United Statea Minister to the Argentine Republic, died in Hahnemann Hospital at 6:30 this morning. Death came as the result of a long illness and waa caused by heart failure. The patient had been in the hospital for more than a month, and was suf fering from the result of overwork and from a complication of diseases. He was 73 years old. The widow and a daughter were .with him at the time of death. The body will be sent to Salem Saturday morning and it will be accompanied by the widow and by the daughter. Judge Lord left for San Francisco with his wife and daughter a few weeks ago, Of his two sons, one, W. P. Lord Jr., is employed in the State-' house, and the other, Montague, ia In Hawaii. Judge Lord until shortly before his death had been preparing the new Ore gon code, for which he had been given a contract by the Legislature. William P. Lord was born in Dover, Del., in 1838. He graduated from Fair field' College, New Tork. in 1860. at a time when National affairs were ap proaching a crisis, which finally cul minated in the Civil War. He began the study of law when the war waa just breakng out. After serving through the Civil War aa major of a Delaware cavalry regi ment in the Union Army, he began the study of law. He was later commis sioned aa lieutenant in the. Regular Army and served in Alaska until 1S68, when he resigned from the Army and began the practice of law In Salem. He had been a resident of this city since that time. He became prominent In the Republi can party of Oregon, and for 14 years was a judge of the Supremo Court. From 18!5 to 1SS9 he was Governor of the State, and from 1899 to 1903 he was Minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the United States to the Argentine Republic He was one of the commis sioners appointed to codify the laws of Oregon, and Lord's Oregon Code was the result of much labor 'and consider able care. Governor Lord received his early edu cational training in the schools of Concluded on Page 4.) SUFFRAGISTS CONGRATULATE SISTERS IX XORTHWEST. Beautifully Written Document Is Received and Read by State "Congress." OLYMPIA. Wash., Feb. 17. A memorial from the council of the Russian Wo men's Suffrage League of St. Peters burg congratulating the State of Wash ington upon the adoption of the woman suffrage amendment to the state con stitution last November waa" received by the Legislature today. The memorial was passed by the league January 19 and was signed by Dr. Shishkina Taveln, president, and N. Stannevltch, secretary of the council. The document, which was written in beautiful longhand, says: "To the Congress of the State of Washington Honorable gentlemen: Please accept our greetings, and kindly transmit our warmest congratulations to all the women of your state on the event of their obtaining rights of suf frage and citizenship. "On behalf of the Russian Women's Suffrage League, we send to our Ameri can sisters a message of love and with this message groes the hope of their successful work for the welfare of their state and their country. "May the example of your state be a strong Inspiration for other states of your great Union, and may the Lord bless your citizens for the justice they have done to their sisters." HAWLEY IN GOULD DEAL Two Chid Lines of Missouri Pacific System to Be Separated. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 17. A St. Louis cap italist Just back from New York, today told of a secret conference on Thurs day between E. T. Jeffrey, George J. Gould's chief adviser, and Edwin Haw ley. Intimations he received from them were meager. They merely said the two chief Gould lines would be sep arated and that Hawley wotild figure in the new transaction before the plans were consummated. Respecting this, the St. Louis Re public tomorrow will say: "There is believed to be some basis for the report that the Missouri Pa cific and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern may be separated. The one is an east-and-west line; the other a north-and-south line. p . GRIEF CAUSES WANDERING i Captain Matthews, of Marines, Dis appears When Father Dies. VALLEJO, Cal., Feb. 17. Stricken with grief over the death of his father, Rear-Admiral Matthews, Captain Ar thur J. Matthews, of the Marine Corps, has disappeared, and all efforts to locate him have proved unavailing. Captain Matthews received the mes sage of his father's death the first of this month, and was greatly upset, shutting himself away from his asso ciates. He obtained a three-days' leave of absence February 3, and left Mare Island, where he had charge of the Naval Hospital. He was seen the next day in San Francisco, but there all trace of him was lost. Descriptions of him have been sent to police headquarters In all the Coast cities. GOLD SEARCH REWARDED Swa.uk. Miner Finds $400 Xugget and Smaller Pieces In Claim., ELLENSBURG, Wash., Feb. 17. (Special.) Carl Enenkel, a Swank miner, brought Into bank here today a nugget weighing more than 23 ounces, valued at over $400, and a score of smaller nuggets with a total value of more than J 800. All were taken from his claim in Swauk last week. Enenkel had four shafts, but started prospecting placer work and in a short time uncovered these nuggets, which are the biggest find reported this year. Several big finds have been reported lately and, with moderate weather, there will soon be more prospectors a,t work than for years. Enenkel is one of "the oldest of the 200 men who have been In the Swauk for years. COMMANDMENTS TOO LONG English Church Appoints Man to Boil Them Down. LONDON, Feb. 17. The Very ' Rev. William Mordaunt Furneaux, dean of Winchester, has been Intrusted by the convocation of Canterbury with the task of preparing an abridgement of the Ten Commandments to be submit ted to the convocation in May. As a sample of the form which the abridgement will take, the dean said today that probably he would suggest that the tenth commandment be abbre viated to read simply: "Thou shalt not covet." POPE PIUS HAS RECOVERED As Precaution He Transacts Business Lying In Bed. ROME, Feb. 17. Pope Plus has vir tually recovered from his attack of influenza, although as a precautionary measure his physician advised him to remain in bed throughout the day. In his bedroom, his holiness dealt with several matters pertaining to the church, receiving Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary of state, and Mgr. Blsleti, the papal major Uomo, mi inu niniiunnn Hobo Army Hungry; May Cause Trouble. TRlflS GO PAST FULL SPEED Troops May Block March o Malcontents to Fresno. . CAMP MADE AT STEINMAN Thrown Out of Boxcars, Industrial AVorkers of World Huddle Under AVater Tanks In Storm and Seek to Board Freights. SISKirOU, Or., Feb. 17. (Special.)- Drenched by Icy rain falling In mountains and devoid of food supps . 160 member of the Industrial Workers of the World who left Ashland this morning to tramp to Fresno to rein force their brethren there In a "free speech" campaign, are storm bound to night at Steinman, Or., several miles) from the crest of the mountains. South ern Pacific trainmen say they are hud dled in the shelter of the water tank, waiting for a chance to board a freight train. The railroad has given orders that n trains shall stop at Steinman, and moun taineers who know the Siskiyou pass say there is grave danger that the way farers may perish In the storm and tha snow, of which there Is six feet here. Troops May Be Called. The authorities at Dunsmulr, the first station where the men can hope to obtain food, fear trouble when the half starved "army" reaches there, and con template asking the Governor to call out troopa to aid them in handling the situa tion. Word received from the police at Ashland states that a large part of the expedition is . armed. The . prevailing opinion, however. Is that the men will merely ask food and aid oh their way. Under the leadership of an executive committee of six members and with almost military discipline the army of men who arrived at Steinman wera encamped there tonight, vainly en deavoring to catch every train which wept rushing past at full speed. They are without food and as Steinman only has a section-house, are unable to buy any. Hunger Is Increasing. So far they have made no hostile demonstrations, but as they are ill clad to withstand the cold and snow in the mountains and hourly getting more hungry, the., leaders who now have them well in hand may lose control. To a representative of The Oregonian who Bpent the night at their encamp ment the executive committee, who re fuse to divulge their identities, issued the following statement: "We are bound for Fresno, Cal., to go to Jail. Our brothers there have been refused the right of free speech and have been thrown into Jail for the supposed violation of an ordinance that does not exist. Our Intentions are peaceable; there is not . a man among us who is armed with either gun or knife and in order to guard against rowdyism the executive com mittee has invested three men with police powers to enforce good behavior and our members are forbidden to take a drink of Intoxicating liquor. Free Speech Demanded. "We are on our way to Fresno but our coming need not occasion alarm. We have money and a financial secre tary, who attends to all our purchasing. We have stolen nothing. To Fresno w are going and our members are going to keep going there until Fresno allows free speech. We will make Fresno show a larger population than she ever dreamed of having, even though the greater portion of it is in jail." The party which is at present here, which will continue the march at day break; started from Seattle about 50 strong. In Tacoma they picked up some more members and in Portland their number reached Its present proportions. They . left Portland shortly after mid night last Wednesday and at Albany, when it was found impossible to get rid of them, the railroad provided them with a boxcar. . A telephone message to Junction City sent ahead of them by a man whom they had angered in Albany had the en tire population of Junction City to meet them. The citizens were led to believe that an armed band was descending upon them, met them with shotguns and refused to let them off to get food or water. They came on down to Ashland, where they were ordered off the train by the police. After procuring food they walked up the railroad track and as no trains would stop for them, started the climb over the mountains into California. MEXICO MAT BE OBJECTIVE Several I. W. W. Men Declare They Are En Route to Join Rebel Forces. That the real objective point of the L W. W. crowd which appropriated free transportation from Portland to Concluded on Page i.)