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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JULY. 31. 1911. ALASKA HOT WAVE CAUSE OP FLOODS Glacial Lake Bursts and Vol ume of Water Surges Down Upon Valdez. WOMEN'S ESCAPE NARROW Men Carry Them on Bock to riicM of Safety Water Subsiding but Bo!inr. In City of North I Entirely Suspended. VALDEZ. Alaska. July 10. Tha un rrecdiit4 flood which awept down upon Valdea yeaterday biran to abata late today and report from upstream Indicate that tha water la falling rap Id! V. The suddenness with which tha flood b'Kan to abate has given rise to the belief thai toe great volume of water cam from a glacial lake which burst from Its Ice barrier when the hot wave which struck Southwestern Alaska Sun cav melted the glacier with unusual ra pidur. A creek that flows through Vald last right tore out 40 feet of dike. In undating four blocks In t!;e south end of town. Women Herued by Men. Women In the houses were carried out en the backs of men and taken to hotels. The damage thus far haa been chiefly to treta. sidewalks and small frame buddings. Most streets In Valdes have water In them. A second break In the dike per mitted the Ice-cold water to And a channel through two brooks that run through the town. Log and brush Jams forming In then streama backed tha water about the buildings. All the stores In Yaldeg are closed, and the citizens, aided by Company L Ftxteeoth Infantry, from Fort JJscum. are protecting property. Three bridge on the river near Falrbanka ar gone, and travel I at a standstill. Company I Marooned. The company which left Fort Llscum for a march laat Monday was marooned at Keystone Cnyon by the washing out out of a bridge. The soldier repaired the damaaed bridges and returned to their post Friday. Enormous flootla caueed by the burst. Ing of glacial lake are pot unknown In Alaska. Two ears ago Tasllna River rna IS feet In mix hour as the result of such an outburst, and last Decem ber a disastrous flood was caused In the Controller Kay country by th bursting of a lak In Hering glacier. 'INDIAN JOE" MUST MOVE Orrscm City Redman Ordered Ont of flat for Si Year III Home. OREGON C1TT. Or. July So Spe !!. Joe Andrews, better known a -Indian Joe." who ha lived In a hut at Ktret and Washington etreet for more than Ji years, wa ordered to move today by Chief of Folic 8haw. .Mono Baker, wno recently built a heme near the old Indiana hut. com plained to the Ctty Council and the Chif wa Instructed to tell him to And a home elsewhere. Although- "Indian Joe" lived In the hut alone, he waa often visited by member of hl race from other part of the tate, and at time 10 or 12 slept In the little ramshackle building. Unr complaint hav been made by neighbor of the carousal at th place, and a "Indian Joe" waa a squatter, he ad no recourse but to get out. He ohlectsd etrenuoualr at flrat to going, but gave In when the Chief obtained a room for him In Fifth street, near th river. GOVERNOR IS NOT DECIDED Scvixin of Legislator for Good Road Action Tp In Air. ?AI-EM. Or, July JV-4Spec!al.V-"W at'.! hang the question on th hook for a fw day for consideration." said Cor rnor West tody when asked If h would rail a special session of the Legls ltire for the purpos of passing good rad laws- "So fr resolution have been received -on Lebanon alth th Medford resolu tions Incorporated. I understand that other resolutions will be received, and bfrre I gl th matter consideration I wl'I make no decision a to whether J will call a special session or not." he continued. -I am not yet familiar with the pur poses or desire of thoe Interested In sm-h a special session." MAN DRESSESAS WOMAN Tllgli-neelcd Shoe and Pk-tnro Hat Pnixle Pendkion Polk. TENDLKTON. Or, July 3" peeral. r.d a woman from picture hat t high-heeled shoes, a man giving the nsme of J ark 8eeney and his as as i years, was arrested here today on a charge of Insanity. Th officer found a trur.a full of feminine finery In hi camp In a clump of brush Just west of th city. , , Ssreeney sav he Is a structural steel morker and that he has been here fur too month, but h will not tell wbrre he get the clothe o gtv an excuse for stearins' them. DALLAS PLANS FRUIT FAIR l ommrrrtal Cluh and Growers to Inlf In Kail Mow. MLI-A4 Or.. Julv I. (lined.!. Because the Fruitgrowers- Cnton of r'k County will hold a big fruit fair hers In the Fell, the plan to have a prune afr In Jertember la given up for tvl year and th Dallas Commercial Cub wltl' Join with th Fruitgrower I nton in mktng th fruit fair a sue- Crrun wltl k on of th principal eahiblt at th fruit fair. STATE HAS BIG BALANCE Washington Trarer Eapert. lo Keep on Cah Ital. Ol.TMPIA. Wash.. Jly J Si ri.l -o Jul, I thr "--i;t-is In Iba permanent Xunda of Washington, of which fl.I9S.JM ill Invested In bonds and th remaining ITil.SSt waa In cash ready to buy up bondr. The State Board of Finance, consisting of Governor Hay. Treasurer Lewis and Auditor Clausen. Intends to keep th money Invested. Th f S.:3S. 221 In bonds now bring In mora than 400.000 a year Interest. The permanent chool fund Is by far the richest of the alx funds, as It ha $7. 473.14 tl in bonds and 1754.710 cash on hand. The board get nearly S per cent on It bond now and frequent ly when some outalde Arm underbid th state, th school district, county or municipality get a decidedly favor able rate of Interest merely because th tat has put In a bid. Since ilarch II. 1911. the slate has Invested I30J.J7S tn bonds, but 1719.650 In bonds wa redeemed. The Vte general fund redeemed 1700.000 of tha bonds, completely wiping out that debt. Though the last two Legislature hav pent more money than any four pre vious seaslona. the atate'a finance are In good hap at preent and Treasurer Lewis says he believe the tate can be kept on a cash basla and that It will not be necessary to float any more bonda for the benefit of th general fund. IRK STARTS ON LIME IDAHO NORTHERN" TO BCILD SO. MILK EXTENSION. New Road Will Connect norscehoo Bend With Emmflt, Following North-and-South Koarte. BOISFX Idaho. July JO Special. What la considered one of the most difficult feat of railroad engineering ever attempted tn Idaho Is now being started along the SO-mlle extension or the Idaho Northern Railroad In th western part of the state. There are 10") men employed In the various camps that hav been estab lished along the rlght-of-ay. and they will be actively engaged In railroad building until snow falls. TTie contract for building the grade for the exten sion was let to the rtah Construction Company, but th work Is said to have been sublet to such an extent that the Arm will do none of the actual con struction Itself, unless It be two or three stretches considered the most dimcult and Important. From Emmett to Smith s Prairie camps hav been Installed along the extension, and within th present month many more men will be added to the payroll and tk up position In the upper por tion of Long Valley, working towards d..h.. nd the Payett Iikes. tn destination of the new tine. Machinery I being Installed along me roaa. In view of the fact that the contract work will probably lt for the next six month or until snow block It and will he continued again In the early Spring, the construction company ha eitatt .... rinartment. a men- I i lliru m ",,,,J- - . . . ... .A.nitsl. s-eneral stores and camp, division and general nead- ""iV" . , ths Idaho Northern will be built out of th town of Emmett. near th Idaho-Oregon line.- m a. ... as Horseshoe Bend. Between these two town th right-of-way of th extension hugs the river oanas. i Bend th lln crosses th liver and f..l- w tw west side to lows norm - , Smiths Ferry and Into Long r Reseburv. where It turns wr.i Payette Lakes. It i declared that tne "" at the second link In a future north nd south Idaho road that will operate Ppokane, "-kin, connexion. it iwls- ton s.ltr an "'- " . hat city. At the present nm. - sitno.it a railroad connecting the south with the north. POLK TO HAVE EXHIBIT COUNTY COCRT WILl, SPEND stfooo ron work. PalUs. Independence? and Fall City Commercial Club- Cnlte to Get Kalr Representation. DALLAS. Or, July Sl'VoT, meeting of delegate from th Com marc ai Club, of D"as. Independence rJ Trails City ws held in th county uVhou"..0!.. night to take no th matter of making an exhibit at the Fair next Fall. Th. member, of the County Court were P resent and .greed to gather It and Inata" e.lem at the .xpen.e of the county. Independen.-e wa. represented by J. C Cooper. Conrad Kreb. Mos w. Wa'keT and W. W. Perctv.1. and Fall. Cltr by W F. Nlchol. Mr. Kreb. and Mr. Perclval led th move to get tha court to. make an appropriation uf flclent to cover the expense of ather Ing the exhibit and Installing It. rath er than leaving It for the commercial clubs- Th court at first took th stand that It wa too lat now to gather th exhibit. In answer. Mr. Kreb urged that th cost should b borne by th taxpay er as a whole, and not by a few men beiotiglnr to commercial organisation. Mr. Perclval took th am aland. Th result of the meeting waa that tha court promised to gather and In stall the exhibit, and after th Stat Fair had cloed. to permit any part of th exhibit selected, to-b taken East to the Eaatern land shows with th great Willamette Valley exhibit being arranged. As m means of securing the exhibit rapidly, th tourt today authorised each newsraper In th county to offer prises to the children of th county bringing In th best samples of grains, grasses, fruits, etc. These sample may be left at any real estate office In Falls City. Independence. Mon mouth or Dallas. Committee from th commercial clubs of each city will pas upon the different samples and decide upon the prise winner. The sec re t a r y of the Dallas Commercial Club waa In structed by th court to secure tha service of some competent person to put up the exhibit. Polk t ountr haa not mad an ex hibit sine l0&. It Is estimated that th court will spend about 1:000 In getting up thla exhibit, and even more If necessary. FIREMAN'S BODY IS FOUND I -otters Make Discovery In Rltcr Three Paya After Accident. KALKM. Or.. July 20. ( Special.) After being adrift In the Willamette River since Monday afternoon the body of Italph K. Kennedy waa discovered today near a logboom at the foot of State tret. Th discovery wa. mad by a number of logger, employed by the Spauldlng Logging Company. Th body wa recovered three miles and a half from the cene of tha drowning. Kennedy drowned when thrown from a wood cow by Its Imnact with the tli.vernment dredge Champoeg. of which Kennedy was the fireman. Hi body waa sent to Newport. Wash. LETTER NOT FILED "Dick-to-Dick" Message De clared Imaginary. ANTI-TAFT PLOT APPEARS Private Secretary of Balltngcr and Fisher Tells How Woman Writer Made Only Casual Exami nation Into Facts. M'r-ntinued From First Pxe. the letter Into her own hand and found attached to it by a clip this amazing postscript: Dear D(lck) I wsnt to see the Presi dent the other day about this Controller Bay affair. The President asked m whom It wss I represented. I told him. accord ing Id oar agreement, that I represented myself. But that didn't seera to satisfy bun. So I sent for Charlie Tatt and asked him to tell his brother who It was I really represented. Th President made no further objection to my claim. Tours. DICK. Charges Arc Untrue. "Mis. Abbott had other thing, to tell, among them that I had told her that I wrote Secretary Flsher'a report to the Senate last April on the Control ler Bay matter, and that the Secretary didn't know anything about the case or about Alaska. All of this Is untrue. -A relation of th exact facta may prove of interest. It was in May, soma weeka prior to my re.lgnatlon from the Interior Department that Miss Abbott ram In with a letter of Introduction to Secretary Fisher from Norman Hap good, editor of Collier's Weekly. The letter .aid that Mis. Abbott was re liable and asked the Secretary to tell her about Controller Bay. "She appeared a very well bred, mod est and Intelligent younp: woman and made a favorable impression on both tha Secretary and myself. The Secre tary turned her over to me with In structions to let her ee the file. The only reservation he made waa that ah should not copy documents that we might later have to embody Into a fur ther report to the Senate. "I related the history of the whole matter to Miss Abbott, hurried through the pile of paper, to Indicate where he would find this or that fact, sent out and got mapa and other Informa tion for her and did my very best to let her know all about the case. She I entirely mistaken In assuming that I tried to hold out any document, from her. ' Full File Submitted. -When I had given her the verbal history. Illustrated by documents. I placed the entire file into her hand, and told her to take what notes she liked, but to refrain from copying any thing In full. She agreed to this. But. unlike an earnest newapaper worker. he did not dig Into the tile. She exam ined It most casually and made but very few note.. Then I began to sus pect that she belonged to that class of writer, that la handicapped by facta. However, I .aid nothing; of my suspicions. "She waa In and out of the ortlce for several days, and never during the whole time did she mention having found the 'amaslng -postscript. It is almost needless to add that I knew nothing of it and had never aeen kt. "The day before 1 left the depart ment she returned with the manuscript of her article In a sealed envelope and asked that it be given to the Secre tary unopened. I gave It to him un opened and it had not been opened when I left the department. "Subsequently. Secretary Fisher tells me. ah cam back and asked him to read the article. He did so and frank ly told her he could not approve it, as It was full of insinuations and Innuen does, without having sufficient facts. She agreed that he was correct. "Her story, aa it then stood, did not contain a reference to the amaslng postscript- In all her talk with the Secretary ah did not once refer to it. Rejected Story Rewritten. "Norman Hapgood advised with Sec retary Fisher about the story and re fused to accept it from Mlsa A boot t And then, after all this, he rewrote the story weeka later. Inserted the amazing postscript, and then sold It to th Newspaper Enterprise Associa tion and the Philadelphia North Amer ican. The association named is affil iated with the Scripps-McRa service and Is a bitter opponent of the Admin istration and a 'booster for La toi lette. The North American is In the same class. "Now, as to the letter of July 13. 110. to which Miss Abbott says the postscript was appended by a clip. The notation on the letter anows tnat on July 14. 1910. It was forwarded to the White House to go with the other pa pers In the matter, which was- then under consideration. It remained at th White House from then until some time last April, when It waa re turned to the Interior Department. With It when It waa returned was all (he White House file on the subject. These documents were returned to as sist us in making up our report to the Senate. "Is It at all likely that if such a postscript ever existed It would have been sent back to th department? "When all these papera came down from the Whit House In April they. with the departmental files, were turned over to S. W. Williams, an assistant at torney of th departmental law force, to prepare a memorandum for the re port to the Senate. He had all the papers for several days. Naturally ha had to go over all of them with ex treme care. H asserts that ba saw no such postscript- Plot Seems Apparent. "Secretary Fisher concluded to secure till another memorandum for the re- oort. o all the papers were delivered to Chief Dudley of the railroad division of the General Land Office. He had them for several days, going over them all with care. He also testifies that he saw nothing of such a postscripts -When the Dudley arsit came oacsi with the files I laid the whole matter before the Secretary. ne ana i to gether went over the documents. In cluding the letter of July 1J. At that time neither he nor I saw any such postscript. "It was some weeks later that Miss Abbott came In. Meantime all the papera had remained in my possession. She waa th last person with whom I went over the file before I resigned. No such postscript as she mentions waa found by me or seen by me at that or any other time. "Naturallv the question Is, where did she get It? I ln't know. But ther Is evidenc that tha whole thing is a 'plant' to injure the President. Hera are some of the facts: "The flrat talk of the 'amazing post script" came out through John E. Lathrop. who Is correspondent for the Portland Evening Joufnal and a semi official press agent for Jonathan Bourne. On July 2. four days before the Philadelphia North American story appeared. Lathrop, who had been very friendly tlth Miss Abbott for some weeks, printed a story in the Sunday Journal in which he said that 'Dick' Ryan last year told the private sec retary of Delegate Wlckersham. of Alaska, that he R?an) had got Charles P. Taft to go to his brother, the President, and get him to put through the Controller Bay elimination order. Lathrop went on to say that this state ment was substantiated by a letter 're cently found in the files of the In terior Department,' from Ryan to Sec retary Balllnger. La Follctte Boomers Blamed. "Lathrop tells other newspapermen thst he got his Information from Miss Abbott. He. Judson Welllver, one of the chief figures In the La Follette boom, and Gllson Garoner, another writer of the same class, appear to be the principal promoters of Miss Ab bott and her story. Delegate. Wlck ersham Is betraying much interest in the whole affair and is In frequent con sultation with these. "Altogether they produced quite a sensation for a few days with the 'Dick to Dick letter,' as It has come to be known. Then, as evidence began to accumulate to show up their story, their very good friends. Chairman Graham and his committee of Investi gation, stepped Into the breach. Sec retary Fisher appeared and pleaded that the 'Dick to Dick letter might bo Investigated at once so that the question could be cleared up. This did not suit the purpose of the antl Admlnistratlon crowd. They do not want the letter story punctured too soon. Accordingly, they have been driveling along with scientific evidence regarding Controller Bay. whfch evi dence Is beautifully distorted by the combination s reporters, and letting the really Important matters go over. In other words, the so-called investiga tors want the Insinuations against the Fresldent to sink into the public mind before evidence will be permitted to disprove them. "I am calmly told that the committee has decided that I will he examined be fore, not after, .ulss Abbott. Apparent ly they want to find out how 1 will testify so that subsequent testimony may be cut to fit. Since I have but one story to tell It makes no particular difference to me. but the arrangement Is an Indication of the character of the alleged investigation." CHAIRMAN GRAHAM CHECKED Burke of South Dnkot Insists on Fair Kxamlnatlon. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 20. In the future Chair man Graham, of the House committee investigate the Controller Bay af fair, will not be permitted to monopo lixe'the witnesses appearing before his committee, as he haa done up to this time. Representative Burke, of South Dakota, who yesterday was appointed member of-he committee in place of Catlln. of Missouri, who Is 111, sat to day for the first time and took oc casion to condemn Chairman Graham s methods of asking leading questions and drawing witnesses into making statement, which they knew were not true. - Burke corrected several such errors which crept Into testimony on Tues day and when Graham undertook to shut him off insisted that as a mem ber of the committee he had the right to question witnesses tho same as the chairman. He mad his contention "'Burke Is a first-class investigator and last session killed the Colville In dian graft. He will assume an ag gressive stand and will be a splendid match for Attorney Louis Brandeis. who was called In by Chairman Gra ham when he saw his committee get ting Into deep water. Representative Mondell. of Wyoming, the third Republican member of this committee. Is In Wyoming, but Is to be summoned to Washington to help Burke Mondell has more information on Alaskan affairs than any other member of the committee. Burke is th only Republican lawyer on the committee. Assistant Forester Adams, the only i ..iH Vi a believed the executive ordar of October 28, 1910, withdrawing ine vonirouci th. mihile. domain was made available for the press In the usual Itl'chard S. Ryan, who secured the j waterfront claim wnicii nw . conspicuously in this Investigation, and TODAY AND TOMORROW Ornamented Picture Frame Ovals f f 35c Each, Three for $1 We offer for today and tomorrow beautiful ornamented Picture Frame Ovals, made on wood, complete with glass and back, ready for the picture, at one-third to one-fourth of their actual worth. These ovals are 10x12 inches and 11x14 inches in size, and we show them in a number of artistic designs. They are finished in black, green, gold, antique bronze and bright gold. We do not know that we will again have the opportunity to offer such an unusual bargain in picture frames. We have only about 300 of them, therefore Saturday night should see fhe last one out of the store. Out of a multiplicity of bar gain sales over the town, rely on it that none excels this one as a pleasing surprise to you. WOODARD, CLARKE & GO. One whole floor filled with beautiful, inexpensive reproductions of fine pictures. Look through at your leisure, whether j'ou wish to make selections now, or not. We show the largest stock of picture mouldings in the city. Artistic framing at lowest prices. . , : . ........ Miss Emma F. Abbott, a writer who claims to have copied the famous "Dick-to-Dick" letter from the files of tha Interior Department, faced each other at the meeting today. Both will tes tify soon. HEAT iTSUNG FISH THOUSANDS OP DEAD DENIZENS SEEN IN WILLAMETTE. I'arty of Anglers, Returning From Headwaters, Clear Up Mystery for Springfield Folk. SPRTN'GFIELD, Or., July 20, Spe cial.) The hot weather of the past two weeks has killed thousands of fish In tho Willamette River. For some time an unusual number of dead fish have been floating down the river past this city, attracting no little attention. Sus picions of dynamiting by some one on the upper river have caused local anglers and those interested to make inquiries, but it could not be learned that any one was using the explosive either with the purpose of killiug fish or for blasting in the river. The mystery, however, was solved by a party of anglers returning from a fishing expedition into the head watera of the Willamette River and on Upper Fall Creek. There are places where the water In these creeks Is un protected bv trees and is very shallow. Here It Is heated by the sun to a tem- perature in which the fish cannot live. This party found large pools, the banks of which were solidly lined with dying fish. This condition seems to be confined to the smaller branches of the Wil lamette, and not to the McKenzie. The trout are not as much affected as tha other species of fish, although hun dreds of trout are dying. The hot weather has temporarily spoiled all fishing in the Willamette. UlEiaaiiiQiiiimififfinattisifi Th August Number of n (St ;siilu ia2a3 iSitPwv is tha annual FICTION R3UEVIBER FROSVl its first issue, more than twenty years ago, this number has been the repository for some of the best Short Stories ever written. It is a literary in stitution, the leader in the idea of a special number devoted chiefly to fiction. The number lor this year contains a group of extraordinary stories, including the beginning of a remarkable Short Serial, "Ethan Frome," by Edith Wharton; one of the best stories of the sea James B. Connolly has ever written, a love story with a background of stirring adventure, and another article by General Frederick Funston, " Up the Railroad to Waldos," with an account .of. the famous river-crossing on a raft. On All News-stands mat ooLUUia a vtaa Twanrv-nvg enrra a numa CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK At Wertheimer's NEW 145 7th Street S-p 145 7th Strf Portland's Leading Suit House and Waist Shop New Location, 145 Seventh St.. 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