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A av a a , a a . nWSS&Aa- 9srtQs$y' VOL. LI-NO. 15.78G. FIRE CHIEF IS KILLED AI DUin POST David Campbell Burns to Death Beneath Falling Walls. EXPLOSION FOLLOWS STEP Veteran Head of Department Sacrifices Life at Union Oil Company's Plant. WIFE AT FATALITY SCENE Twelve Run Just in Time to Escape Great Crash. ASSISTANT YOUNG HURT Victim or HimM Enters Building as Smoke Subsides. Paying Xo Heed to Warning-! 0.000 Wit ness Seething Conflagration. a inu- nuBtn Tre following In hi own hand writing was brought to Tb Or gosiar offlco er Rrnr-oia ataorlce J.hnfia. of F" City Park: I nrd Chief Csmpboll and I want vor?on to know how good ho woo. II. oiworo hod o oralio on o kind word for all tho school children. Whenever wo woro loto bo sa4 to toil. us up to school In hlo auto just e-whlaalng. and at noon wo need to hurry bark from lunch and ho would lot bo rid with him. I think ho waa tho bet chief that or.r lived. I want to bo good to tho chlldroa when I get bit. Ilko ho was. MACRIOE JOHNSON. Run City Park. Portland. Or." Pa rid Campbell, veteran Chief of tho Portland Fir Department, was killed at t.IS o'clock yesterday morning, while heading a desperate fight on flames surrounding thousand of gal lons of oil In tho Union Oil Company's plant at East Water and East Salmon streets. The fire was one that Im periled the lives of acores of firemen and thousands of onlookers. The plant was destroyed, at a loss of $100. 00. Chief Campbell met death while making courageous efforts to plan the handling of a dangerous flr that had been defying control. He walked coolly Into the burning place In search of a poaslble solution to the grave problem that confronted him and his men. Warned of the risk, he said simply that It was necessary for him to go Inside. Kiploslon Deals Death. As he parsed to the. center of the building a fearful explosion wrecked the one-story concrete structure. The Chief waa plunged to death In a seeth Ins; cauldron, amid tons of debris. There was trouble In Identifying- him when the body was removed three hours later. Accumulation of gases generated In empty oil tank and ex posed to the heat Is given as the cause of the fatal explosion. Twelve- or more Bremen, working at the north of the building, were nearly caught by the heavy concrete wall which collapsed under the force of the explosion. This wall fell outward Into the street and the firemen avoided It by a mad scramble, a heavy rush of air from the center of exploaion lend in Impetus to their fllKht. Battalion Chief Young was thrown Into the street and struck by flying wreckage and Ta trot man Evans was knocked down by a bit of concrete. Neither was badly hurt. Multitude. In Danger. i:rm!ndful of an ominous danger. crowd of 10.000 people surged around the vicinity of the building all fore noon while the flames careened about two great tanks holding 14.009 gallons of water-white, gasoline and benzine. These tanks, being under the surface of the street, were not visible to the throngs, and thus the danger was made far more Intense. Luckily the oil In these big receptacles burned away gradually. Explosions of small tanks and casks boomed at Intervals all fore noon, but the only serious explosion was that which claimed the life of Chief Campbell. Chief Takes tint Ouuice. When Chief Campbell went on his fatal mission Into the building about :14 A. if he sought to take advantage of a rift In the dense pall of black smoke. This rift had been cauaed by a Concluded oa Paso BEN HUNT, FAMOUS PITCHER, IS DYING PLATER BEGS TO SEE SACRA SCEXTO TEAMMATES. Graham and O'RourUe Horry to Bedside of Beat Twlrler on Staff of Senator. SACRAMENTO. CaL. June 16. (Spe cial) Ben Hunt, probably the best pitcher on Sacramento's staff. Is dying of pneumonia In the Skiers' Hospital at Chlco. Word from the hospital late this afternoon from Dr. Inloe. who Is attending Hunt, was that the ballplayer had only the very slightest chance to recover.. Hunt hlmsejf believes he Is going to die. Hunt Is, familiarly known as "Big Ben." Word of his condition was con veyed to this city today and with It a message that Hunt. In his seml-delir-lum, was begging to see the manager of the Sacramento team. On receipt of a message. Manager Graham. Cap tain ORourke and Norman Hapgood immediately left for Chloo for a final word with the big fellow. Hunt pitched bis last game against San Francisco on tho local grounds last Friday. Immediately after the game Hunt complained of feeling poorly. The following day he asked for a vacation and went to Richardson Springs. There be rapidly became worse and yesterday he was removed to the hospital at Chlco. Tonight the word la that his condition Is critical and that he may live only a few hours. STRAPHANGERS WIN POINT Seattle Ordinance Prescribe Roles to Stop Car Crowding. SEATTLE. Wash., June St. (Speclal.) An anti-straphanger bill, fathered by Councilman Austin E. Griffiths, passed the City Council this afternoon with three dissenting votes. Councilman A F. Haas. E. L. Blaine and F. S. Btelner opposed the measure. Elaine ana siei ner told their reason for their opposi tion. Tha bill makes various rules for ef ferent classes of streetcars, but Its ef fect la to nrevent more than GO per cent of the passengers on a car from stand ing. In some types of cir. wiin narrow aisles, less than SO per cent of the paa- aengera are allowed to stand. The oDeration of the bill Is to make it . misdemeanor for the streetcar com panies to allow their cars to stop for a passenger after they are ioaaea to mo limit prescribed. The bill also provides ih.t tho operating company la guilty of aecond misdemeanor If It does not supply a second ear behind the first on schedule time. DOCTOR'S LIFE MENACED Police Powerless Before Tricks of Suspected Antl-Vaccinationist. spattix. Wash. June J. S re ctal.) Laughing at the efforts of the police to capture , him and growing mnra urious in his threats every day. an unknown antl-vaeclnatlonlst. who resides somewhere In Ballard, has warned Dr. F. L. Shepherd, of 111 Wal ker building, that unless he leaves Seattle within a week he will be as sassinated. Eight letters, some of them signed by the Black Hand, have been received by Dr. Shepherd In the last ten day a. Each was delivered at his office, one being written on his desk during his absence at midday, the othera slipped through the door by day or night. For six days the police department has watched the office, but the mysterious enemy of Dr- Shephard has avoided them. About two weeks ago Dr. Shephard took over the city vaccination work of Dr. C W. Knudson. of Ballard. BATTLESHIP UTAH IS FAST a New Craft .887 Knots Farter Than Contract Requirement. ROCKLAND. Me.. June 2. A max imum speed of :i.37 knots. .$37 greater than the contract requirement, was at tained by the new ynited States battle ship Utah, the latest addition to the Nation's dreadnoughts. during her standardisation trlala over the official coarse here today. Ia all. 10 runs were made. In three she made a speed of 20.UC knots. On three others 12.015. In another group of three 14.799 knots snd In still another 19.049. In the top speed runs the Utah aver aged "1.25S knots. Her contract re quires 20.73 knots. The battleship Is 9i.t per cent com pleted and It Is expected she will be ready to go into commission about August 10. PSEUDO FERNS SELL WELL Sooth Bend Residents Par Stranger $1 for Fake Plant, SOUTH BEND. Wash, June . (Special.) A well-dressed and suave man arrived here last week and be gan selling "Philippine ferns" at fl a plant. He said that the ferns were shrunk to about the alio of a peanut but. If soaked In water for II hours, would swell to their original size and, after eight weeks, bloom every 30 days and live forever. He sold his en tire stock In a .few hours and left town, presumably to replenish hla stock. The "ferns" have been soaking ever since but obstinately refuse to Changs their sUe or condition. SENATE REJECTS Reciprocity Bill Re mains Unscathed. YOTE IS OVERWHELMING Defeat of Proposal Comes Af ter Seven Hours' Debate. TARIFF FIGHT TO COME Disposition of Effort to Change -rolp and Paper Section Leaves Proposed Agreement Open to General Revision Battle. WASHINGTON. Jane 25. The Cana dian reciprocity bill emerged from Its first ordeal In the Senate tonight un scathed. The Root amendment, pro posing a modification of the wood pulp and paper section of tha agreement, was defeated after seven hours of de bate, by an overwhelming vote. The friends of the amendment were so satisfied of lta defeat that a rollcall was not demanded. This leaves the reciprocity measure open to the general fight that Is to follow for amendment of Important provisions of the Payne tariff law. Amendments Are Promised. Senator La Follette announced that he would give the Senate a chance to pass on general tariff amendments for free paper, free lumber and lumber products and for reductions In other schedules. Senator Clapp also an nounced his intention of offering a free paper amendment later and other Senatora gave evidence of their pur pose to force consideration of tariff reviaion on the widest plane. Attack on the Root amendment was Interspersed with attacks on the whole reciprocity measure in the debate which resulted In the defeat of Sena tor Root's proposal to change the House bill by requiring that all Cana dian provinces should remove their ex port restrictions on pulp wood and Its products before the reciprocal features of the wood pulp and print paper sec tion of the agreement went Into effect. Reciprocity Held Harmful. "I am opposed to . this so-called reciprocity legislation as a whole, be cause I believe It is wrong, harmful and unjustifiable," said Senator La Fol lette. "If It must pass I want to see It made as nearly perfect as possible. I shall vote against the Root amend ment, because I believe it will defeat the very purpose of the wood pulp and print papr paragraph of the agree ment." Senator La Follette said there was no justification for duty on print paper. He analysed the figures of the tariff board to show that the best mills In the United Etates actually could pro duce paper cheaper than the best mills of Canada. To continue a high tariff on paper, he said, was to put a pre mium on "Inefficiency and sloth" and to make the protective tariff "deaden Conduded on Paso 3.) ROOT AMENDMENT I .... . .wl. . . y ;:, I ftn'miii a)"i in m iiiii nsin n niai si i m mi piirnissiniii i itthhj ill Jill T i m m i M ii ii iim im I IIIIIWI'ISSI iiiS I'-ll'TTlMiiii in liwiOHi ill mt t, Jr -tYH ,yfai-'-T ' asawjsaaTjTaasTair " "nM " " " 'WaMilwi iK-yfwM-emimmmi Xu'fA rnPTT vtt fTiTFttA TirwnAT, .tttxt. mil. . INDEX TO TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDATS Maximum - temperature, S desrees; minimum. 0 degrees. TODAY'S Ehowsrs; south to southwest wtnda Fire. David Campbell, chief of fire department, la killed fighting fire at Union Oil Com pany's plant. Page 1. Big oil flro lose Is 1100.000 and only build ing Insured for 13.OO0. Pago 8. Slayor and Council favor legislation to re move oil tanks from heart of city. Pago 8. Chief Campbell was boxing Instructor or note and waa athlate from early youth. Pago 0. Portland citizens bow Is grief tor death of flro eh iff. Pago t. Foreign. King and Quean attend gala operatlo per formance In Covont Garden. Pago 2. At dinner with Americans Kaiser glvos toast to true sailors. Pago 4 NatlonaJ. .. General Wood has no Intention of aban doning Vancouver Barracks. Pago i. John D. Sprockets says Havemeyer sur rendered to hla father la Xamoua sugar war. Pago 6. Funk, testifying before Ix rimer committee, says life has been threatened and that dstectives dog footsteps. Page 1. Secretary Fisher, of Interior Department, disallows Cunningham coal claim cases. Pago 1. Senate rejects Boot amendment to reciprocity bill. Page 1. Domestic President Gompers and two other labor leaders cited anew for contempt In re opening of Buck case. Page 2. "Big Ben" Hunt, Bacramento's star twlrler. Is dying. Page 1. EMnver woman testlflee In Hen wood mur der trial. Pago 3. Los Angeles grand Jury summons Mrs. Mo Manlgal and children. Page . Oglesby threatened with riot of Illinois State Senators. Pago Sports. Many baseball players are rich men. Page T. Northwestern Tragus results yesterday: Ta coma S. Victoria 2; Vancouver . Spo kane 6; Portland-Seattle game postponed. Page 1 University oarsmen ready for regatta today. Pago 2. Taclfle Northwest. Brave sea captain, now living at Sutherlln, Or., presented with binoculars from United States Government for saving American sailors... Page e. Farmers Joyful because of general rain In Northwest. Page a. Hired man of slain Clark County rancher la sought. Pago 6. Mrs. Walter B. Dyer. Portland woman, dlea at Seattle. Page 20. Grand Army men convene at Ashland. Page J4. . Commercial and Marine. Black demand for wheat In Paclflo Coast markets. Page 19. Flurry In oats In the Chicago pit Page 19. Reaction In stocks in face of favorable news. Page 1. One million pounds of wool sold at Shanlko. Page 19. Traction company would build 78-foot towere and suspend power wires from Sollwood to Rlvervlew Cemetery. Page 18. Portland aad Vicinity. Speakers at Realty Board luncheon urge preparation for great growth of city by mesas of improvements. Psge 18. Many strikers on Broadway bridge caisson return for rise of 25 cents; work to re sume today. Pag 12. Conrad, once troublous saloonmaa. may be granted another license, page 13. Rushlight opposes city aid to Council Crest bore. Pag IX Mayor-elect Rushlight home; plans take shape. Pag 13. ROMANCE SOLVES SECRET Spokane Librarian Admits Reason She Resigned Position. SPOKANE, Wash., June 2. (Spe cial.) The secret is out. The reason for the resignation of Miss Alta E. Stansbury, city librarian,' Is matri mony. Miss Stansbury will go to Chicago this Fall to become the bride of F. A. Sager. of the .Windy City. The groom-to-be Is a consulting engineer with the B. A- Arnold Company, and the romance began when they were schoolmates at Cedar Rapids, la. Miss Stansbury admitted the rumor of her approaching marriage With, blushes this morning. "To be a matron," she said, "should be a woman's chief aim and after my experience It Is without any pang of regret that I surrender my place." FUNK IS ANNOYED BY VAGUE THREATS Lorimer Inquiry Wit ness Complains. DETECTIVES DOG HIS STEPS "Ask Hines Whom They Re port to," Says Chicago Man. $10,000 INCIDENT TOLD General Manager of International Harvester Company Tells Senate Committee Lumberman. Sought Cash for Slash Fund. WASHINGTON, June 2. Shadowed for weeks by detectives Instructed to get anything possible against him and Indirect threats against him were tho alleged experiences of which Clarence S. Funk, of Chicago, star witness in the present Lorimer investigation, com plained today to the Senate committee Inquiring Into the Lorimer election. The statement produced a sensation because the name of Edward Hlnes, who Mr. Funk had testified had asked him to contribute $10,000 toward $100, 000 used to "put Lorimer over at Springfield," waa mentioned in connec tion with the services of tho detec tives. Detectives Dog Step. Mr. Funk said four detectives had followed him to Washington and two had watched him during luncheon to day. One of them, he said, when caught In a tight place, had been com pelled to give his name and that of his employer. Mr. Funk declined to break his word to the detective and re veal his name. He said the employer was not Senator Lorimer. The com mittee ended the hearing by going into executive session to oonslder the situa tion. At the executive session Mr. Funk is said to have revealed the detective's name . and promised to proifuce him before the committee tomorrow if pos sible. The committee then took up consideration of steps to prevent de tectives Interfering with witnesses. Story Is Retold. Mr. Funk's statement about the de tectives came at the close of a long ex amination on the witness stand. Ho retold the story he related to tho Helm Investigating committee In Illinois, about how Mr. Hines is alleged to have asked him as general manager of the International Harvester Company to contribute $10,000 to the Lorimer fund. For hours the attorneys and mem bers of the committee asked question after question about this conversation, the report of which probably led to the present investigation of the Lorimer election. Tho witness had described his personal relations with Senator Lorimer. Mr. Hlnes and many others figuring in the case. Rather Inci dentally Mr. Funk remarked in answer to a question that his part In the case had been anything but pleasant and (Concluded on Page .) ARMY WILL NOT QUIT VANCOUVER FORTS LA.TVTOX AXD WRIGHT . SLAT BE ABANDONED. General Wood's Plan of Giving Vp Small Posts Adds to Importance of Barracks on Columbia. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 26. General Leonard Wood's plan of abandoning small military posts throughout the United States will not disturb Vancouver Barracks, but rather will tend to its enlargement. Vancouver Is today the leading post of the North west, and will continue to occupy that prominence and continue to be depart ment headquarters. There is a possibility, however, that Fort George Wright at Spokane or Fort Lawton at Seattle, or both, may be aban doned, as neither has a regimental gar rison. Boise Barracks, also, is believed to be slated for abandonment, though no definite plans are yet agreed upon. This programme of concentrating troops in cities will not affect coast de fense stations, with their limited garri sons, nor will it result in the abandon ment of posts in Alaska. It is expected there will be consider able Congressional opposition to Gen eral Wood's plans, but this is pure.y administrative matter in the hands of the War Department and does not re quire legislative authority. SMUGGLING PLOT BARED Wealthy Woman and Brokers In volved in Jewel Thefts. CHICAGO, Juno 26. (Special.) Sensa tional disclosures concerning the theft and recovery of Jewels belonging to "Mrs. Helen Dwells Jenkins," formerly of Chicago and now of New York, In connection with which It is reported that a New York broker and banker, a leather manufacturer of Wisconsin and a coal merchant of Tennessee are Involved In the smuggling of a fortune in gems, the three declared to have assisted the wo man in defying Federal laws, were made today by William J. Sutherland, vice president of the detective agency. Suth erland revealed details of the recovery of the Jewelry and the arrest of the thieves. The salient points disclosed by Mr. Sutherland are: Jewelry stolen from a New York wo man, most of which was recovered in Chicago at the time of the arrest of the thieves, had a total value of nearly $50,000. The name "Mrs. Jenkins" was as sumed by the woman, who was the wife of a Now York railroad clerk named Dwells. Her maiden name was Helen Adler. CREEDS CAST RED PEPPER Latter Day Saints and Congregation alism Tight Over Church Sale. LANSING. Mich., June 26. Red pep per was thrown about and a shotgun was displayed aggressively today In a riot among members of the Mayflower Congregational Church and adherents of the Latter Day Saints. The former attempted to tear down an old church they had sold to the -other congrega tion, and the latter drove off the in vaders after a portion of the structure was torn away. The Congregatlonallsts say that the sale of the property was made with the understanding that the building would be removed to another locality and trouble began when It was reported that the new owners of the church would keep it In Its present location, opposite the new Congregational Church. 10 FISH HOOKED IN 5 TRIES Cobuxg Angler Says Two Trout Bit on Every Oast of Line. SPRINGFIELD, Or.. June 26. (Spe cial.). The most remarkable fishing story brought to this city for some time comes through the reliable au thority of Ski Meek, a Coburg angler, who asserts he caught five doubles. That is, with several hooks on his line, he caught two fish at once five times. Ail were trout and hooked within a rather short space of time. They were caught In the McKenzle River, near Coburg, yesterday. He used, a six-foot leader with two files and a baited spoon hook. OWN MONUMENT VISITED Thomas Mulcahy, Thought Dead, Returns Xorth After Seeing Shaft. DERBY, Conn, June 26. Thomas Mulcahy, one of the few men whose lot has been to see a monument erected to his memory, has left home here to return to the Klondike, where he has spent his last 12 years. Shortly after his departure from here 12 years ago, word cama of his death and a monument was erected to his memory in a local cemetery. Six weeks ago Mulcahy returned home, and since then has paid several visits to the monument. 400 EXCURSjONISTS SAVED Swedish Stearjer Wrecked, but Pas sengers Are All Rescued. HELSINGFORS, Finland, June 26. The Finnish-Swedish mall steamer Bor I, with 400 Stockholm excursionists on board, was wrecked off Korpe Island, in the outer skerries today. All the passengers and crew were saved. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FISHER DISALLOWS ALASKAN CLAIMS Secretary Rules in Famous Coal Cases. EVIDENCE HELD CONCLUSIVE Last Door Believed Closed to Cunningham Claimants. BALLINGER NOT REVERSED Ex-Secretary, In Signed Statement, Says Claims Xot Under His Jurisdiction; Calls Decision Political, Not Judicial. HISTORY OF COAL CASES. BBATTLE. Wash.. Juno 26. (Spe cial.) Tho history of tho Cunning ham coal claims Is as follows: 1D03 Originally located by Clar ence Cunningham as asent. 1904 New land law passed. 1904 Claims relocated by Cun ningham for original group and several new entry-men. 1905- 6 Claims Investigated t,y H. K. Love, who reported favorably. 1907 Claimants furnish proof of entry before Department of Interior. 190T Proofs allowed and final re ceipts issued for payments on land. 1908 Claims Investigated by L. R. Glavls and H. T. Jones for the Land Department. An adverse report waa made. 1909 Hearing ordered in Seattle, which was followed by hearings In Spokane, Cleveland, New York, Washington. D. C, Paris and Rome. 1909 Hearings closed In April. 1009 L. B. Glavls. Olfford Pinohot and others discharged from tho pub lie service. 1011 Secretary of Interior Bel linger resigns and Walter L Fisher Is appointed to succeed him. 1911 Secretary Fisher approves decision of Commissioner Fred Den- t net. disallowing the claims and can- f cellng the entries. .............. WASHINGTON, June 26. By action of Secretary Fisher of the Department of Interior In officially approving the findings of Fred Dennett, Commissioner of the Land Office, the famous Cunning ham Alaskan coal claims were formally disallowed today. It was these claims through which It has been alleged that the Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate made plans to ex tend their great interests In Alaska and to secure control of one of the most valuable coal fields in the world. Secretary Fisher's decision today Is be lieved to be virtually the closing of the last door to the Cunningham claimants, whose claims have been held up since 1907, when they were first disapproved by Louis R. Glavis and H. T. Jones, as special agents of the Land Office. Appeal Must Be on Legal Issues. Although attorneys for the claimants have threatened an appeal to the United States Supreme Court, such an appeal cannot be based on the findings of fact as announced by the department, which Secretary Fisher says in his de cision he considers conclusive, but only on some point of law involved. Since the Cunningham claims came Into public notice two years ago, they have caused the Balllnger-Plnchot In vestigation by Congress, and the dis missal from the public service of Glf ford Plnchot. Chief Forester, and Louis R. Glavls. chief of a field division in the land office, who had disapproved tha claimB, besides several minor officials. Tha dismissal of both Plnchot and Gla vls was brought about by their insub ordination in attacking R. A. Ballinger, then Secretary of the Interior. Decision Political, Says Ballinger. In a signed statement from Seattle, ex-Secretary Ballinger tonight denied that tha decision disallowing the claims was a reversal of his official relation to the -claims, which had not been under his control. He declared, however, that tha decision was a political one, and not according to the law. Mr. Ballinger said: "Many persons seem to be laboring under the erroneous Impression that tho recent decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office in canceling the Cunningham claims Is a reversal of my official relation to these claims. Since 1907, when I was Commissioner of the General Land Office, these claims have been standing on my order of re investigation. As Secretary of the In terior. I took no action respecting these claims, as they were under the control of Commissioner Dennett. As to the present decision, I am of the firm be lief that there Is no evidence that a court of Justice would hold sufficient to warrant the denial of patents- In other words, the decision of the Com missioner is political and not Judicial." Action Is Final. - In announcing the decision of the department today. Secretary Fisher, who succeeded Ballinger, declared that new coal land laws are needed in Alaska if that territory Is to be devel oped property. The Secretary says: "This is a final decision of the Cun ningham claims so far as tha Depart ment of the Interior is concerned. Any further proceedings will be merely formal, for the purpose of protecting the record In case the claimants think (Concluded on Fag 14.)