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TIIE MORNING OKEGONIAX. THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1011. ; . BRIAN'S ATTACK RASED ON FACTS HYPNOTIST HOLDS' GIRL HE ABDUCTED GOVERNMENT PURE FOOD EXPERT WHO TESTIFIES IN HIS OWN BEHALF BEFORE HOUSE INQUIRY BOARD. Nebraskan's Quarrel With Un derwood Gives Cheer to Republicans. Jessie McDonald, Sought for 15 Months by Detectives, Found Near Home. AMBITION IS FIRED ANEW POLICE BREAK DOWN DOOR - IMbniui Fall Sunte BBBSSSBBSBSBSBSSBBBBBBSSBBBSBBBBBSBSBBBBBBSnBansnBSnnnnnni - " ' . -vv-' ' Willi Young Bab Clasped to Her lirra-t. High School Student Altrrnalrly Accuses and Kxcues Her Captor. SAN BERNARDINO. Cal.. Aug. !. -Breaking into the office of A. M. W. McDavld. a dentist, at midnight last right. Chief or Police Meshelt found huddled In a corner, a baby at her brea.it. rMIs Jessie McDonald, the high school irtrt for whom private detective, employed by her father here, have searched for IS month! In all parta of the (tale. The girl was a pitiful fig lire, clothed In ragged garments and wasted almost to a skeleton. She told the officers that she had been confined for almost the entire period In a small apartment adjoining the dentist's office. M -David, who Is married wa ar rested on a statutory charge. Girl Pleads for Abductor. The girl, after pleading all night to be allowed to go with the man who had been her Jailer, broke down today and sobbed out her story to District Attor ney Goodsell. Charging that she had been held In subjection by McDavld through hypnotic Influence, Miss Mc Donald, who Is barely 21 years old. told a story of awful suffering, while in the same breath avowing her love for McDavld. Although detectives have been on the case Is months. It was only last night that clews wers found to lead to Sic David's offices. McDarld refused to make any statement tonight. Freedom Given Only at Night. District Attorney Goodsell declared the girl had been in almost solitary confinement In the apartment adjoin ing the dentist's office for IS months. Only at night, she said, and then close ly veiled, would McDavld allow her to Invr the room. On these fe wocca slons he would take her driving In the outskirts of the city. The girl gave birth to a son four months ago. For day at a time the Irfant has been her only companion, while the dentist was away with his wife and family, and she will allow no one to dress or care for It but herself. The girl's parents allege that the dentist a held her under an hypnotic sprll arid point out that the former .wife of the dentist, in her suit for di vorce, related an experience with Mc Davld similar to that of Miss McDonald. LODGES WILL BE HOST Knights and Ladle of Security to Welcome National Officer. Arrangements were completed Tues day night at the home of J. C Volker. at S"2 Mississippi avenue for the enter tainment and reception of President W. P.. Kirkpatrlck and Secretary J. V. Abrahams. National officer" of the Kntghts and Ladles of Security, who will be in Portland Monday and Tues dy. September 11 and 11. Councils of the order In Portland and Oregon City will entertain the guests. At a meeting Tuesday night the gen eral committee of arrangements, con sisting of the presidents of the Ave councils of Portland and Oregon City, and Delegates Thomas and Green to tho National convention, organised by the selection of Mrs. H. U Vail, of Ancher Council, as chairman. President Kirkpatrlck and Secretary Abraham will he met by the reception committee, -of which W. E. Cummins, state deputy. la chairman. It is planned to hold a large Initia tion In Multnomah Camp's hall, on Kast Sixth street, where It Is expected to have a class of S0O new members. The work will be given In the presence of the National officers. Tuesday night a banquet and recep tion will be given to the grand offi cers. Grant B. Dlmlck. of Oregon City, will deliver the principal address. The National officers will visit Eugene Sep tember 11 and Ah!and September 11. HIGH POWER LINE BEGUN Portland Company Will Erect Steel Towers to Carry Wire. The work of constructing the largest and strongest transmtalon Una on the Taclflc Coast was started yesterday by the Portland Railway, Light St Power Company, when a force of ISO men be gan work on the project, which when completed will cover a distance of 19 mites. It Includes a branch line, which will run from The Oaks to Beaverton. the mala line running from Kstacada tn the substation at the foot of Haw thorne on the river in Portland. The transmission line is unique In that It Is conrpoeed of steel towers over 40 feet In height, having on the top a rrou tree which will carry six cables. Only three cables are to be placed by the present crew. The cost of the work will approxi mate S34O.00O and when completed will be of the latest and most approved plan of construction of high transmission. The towers are placed every 100 feet while the copper cables are fully an Inch In diameter, of the stranded va riety and known as the "250.000 cir cular mill" size. The line follows the Estacada right of way. Into the city and at The Oaks, a branch will ran across the river and be built on to Heaverton where It will feed not only the Oregon Electric but will supply the West Side If needed. FIRE HEMS IN HUNTTRS Pine Forest. Summer Ilcvort and Indian ISeserratlon Menaced. BANNING. Cal.. Aug. 14. (Special.) Crave fears are felt for the safety of a party of deer hunters near Cabasnn. a lit'.! station In the San Jacinto Moun tains near the forest tire that is sweep ing around the base of the mountain and progresses toward the large pine f oresta to the eastward. The Summer resort. Palm Springs, and the Banning Inlan reservation, are seriously threat ep fitter resorts seem doomed. Three k,.n.irM men are fizhtlng the lire, with little success, and the blaxe Is likely to rech the Cleveland forest by tomorrow. : . A- DR. H. W. 1 0-DAY DRILL OVER Oregon National Guard Back From Maneuvers. REGULARS ARE RIVALED Army Officers PralM! Kfflclency of .Militiamen at Fort Stevens and Citizen Soldiery Feels Bene fit of Miam War. t After ten days of coast-dofenss ma neuvers at Columbia Beach and the mouth of the Columbia River, the va rious organizations of the Oregon Na tional Guard struck tenta yesterday forenoon and returned home. The Guard, comprising the Third and Fourth regiments of Infantry and Field Battery A. reached Portland late In the day in a special train of three sections. Outside companies proceeded home by the first connecting trains. The most Important and valuable field Instructions In the) history of the Guard were those Just ended, officers u ere unanimous in declaring. i ne work proved even raort practical than the biennial Joint maneuvers witn reg ular Army troops, the Guardsmen de clared. That In the event of a war the wholo of the state military force would have to be thrown Into rendezvous at Fort Htevens was made clear through the maneuvers. Not only was It proven that Infantrymen can be readily whipped Into shape for Coast Artillery service, but the capture of Fort Stev ens by Colonel Dunbar in a single roup with a few hundred men revealed the need of a large force of Infantry supports. The Guardsmen were spi rited by Army tacticians that in the event of actual conflict they could ex pect to b hurried to the Columbia Klver fortifications and kept there. Hemming Soldiers Cheered. The citizen soldiers reached Portland In fine fettle after the period of active outdoor life. The Portland companies of the Third Regiment, led by the regi mental band, passed through the busi ness section of -the city between 5:10 and P. M. They were In heavy marching order and made an excellent military appearance, being freely ap plauded along the line of march. Strict military discipline waa kept up until the Guardsmen had reached their several armories and donned civilian attire. The camps were broken with fine decision, the tents in the two regimental camps falling in unison at the last note of "the general" In accordance with the regulations. There was no confusion In packing and ship ping the hundred tons of equipment. Strict attention to military instruc tion work marked the Guardsmen throughout, so the Army officers at tached as Instructors report. The de alre to perfect the Guard In Held serv ice was shown by every man from commanding .officers to recruits. Regulars Are Rivaled. The camps were as well conducted and disciplined as Army camps, be ing wholly unlike Cie old form -encampments" of rallltla days, when the National Ouard was purely state or ganization having no support or super vision from the War Department. Valuable assistance was given by the Army officers attached to the several commands a Instructors. Major C. T. Dentler. attached to the Third Regi ment, not only gave the men plenty of valuable Held work, but he put the officers of the regiment through fre quentdrills, on the theory that an offi cer must be able to do well everything that Is required of a private in the ranks Major Whalley. at one time an officer of the Washington National Guard, performed similar services for the Fourth Regiment, which kept up dally Infantry work In addition to spe cial training In the manning of Coast defnse batteries. Before dismissing hl regiment at the Armory Colonel Dunbar complimented the men In high terms for the general close attention to duty, perfect discipline and co-operation In every work under taken by the regiment. The regiment, before breaking racks, displayed Its unanimous regard for the commanding officer by three rousing cheers. Oregon Field Favored, v Next year's - maneuvers will be held In conjunction with all the regular troops of the Department of the Colum bia, together with the National Guards of Washington, Idaho and possibly Mon tana. Oregon will likely be the scene of the maneuvers, which In paat years have been held at American Lake, near Tacoraa. Several localities In Oregon WILEV. have been looked over by representa tives of the War Department and fa roraole reports have been made on the Klamath reservation as an Ideal place for throwing large forces of mixed troops In the field for Instruction work. TROOPS GUARD RAILWAYS (fnntlnued from First Pane.) taken at all military atalions In Great Britain. Though the government today made an energetic attempt to avert the ca lamity of a general railway strike. In dications are that one will materialize at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, when the ultimatum of the employes expires. In tho conference today and tonight at the Board of Trade representatives of both aides met Sydney Buxton, president of the board, but there was no meeting between the contending parties. An adjournment of the conferences until tomorrow was arranged late to night to enable Mr. Buxton to see the executives of the three railway men's unions, now en route to London from Liverpool. This alone leaves a glim mer of hope that the men' ultimatum may be extended another day and pro vide an opportunity for further nego tiations. This Is the government's earnest desire, but up to midnight there was no sign of any change In the plans for. a strike. It Is understood that Mr. Buxton's conference with the managers of the railway companies was largely to dis cuss how far the government was pre pared to go In affording military pro tection to the railways. In the House of Commons today Winston Spencer Churchill, the Home Secretary, declared the nonunlonlsts were entitled by law to work without molestation and would be protected in the exercise of that right. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, also declared that the govern ment was determined to protect the railways and the goods supply at all cost and would not depart In tne small est degree from Its determination vto protect life and property. Llyod-Ueorge In the Commons again answered tonight the question of what the government's policy of protection to the railways would be. He seem ingly hedged from the statements of himself and Mr. Churchill during- the day. "The government Is bound to pro tect life and property, but Its respon sibility does not end there," he bald. "It must do all in Its power to see that fi.tr piny Is given the community at large. Nothing Is further from the mind tf the frovernment even to con vey the Impresslson that It would in tervene In the interest of any party. "It ia ossentlal that the government preserve an attitude of complete im partiality. It certainly does not mean to give any guarantee or to lend any countenance to the theory that it has undertaken In advance te be a party to the controversy." TROOPS TO SHOOT LEADERS Practice of Firing Over Heads of Mob Ordered Stopped. LIVKRPOOU Aug. If. A renewal of rioting growing out of the strike of dockers and allied unionists occurred tonight In the Scotland-road division of the city. The" police again made baton charges and the soldiers were also called upon. Their presence, how ever, was sufficient to overawe the rioters, who dispersed. Motor-wagons which were convey ing print paper to newspaper offices were attacked. streetcar windows were smashed and another attempt was made to release prisoners from vans conveying them to the Walton Jail. Police and soldiers, however, were present In force, the troops with bay onets fixed, and tfcs crowd was not so daring as on Tuesday night and did Dot compel the militia to fire. The troops are bivouacked tonight In the streets. Their orders are not to fire over the heads of rioters In the future, as this endangers innocent per sons, but If It becomes necessary to shoot, to pick out the apparent ring leaders of the mob. Coal and provisions are being brought Into the city under military es cort. In many other great provincial cities business has been partly or completely dislocated by reason of strikes. Some trains out of Birmingham have been cancelled, but as comparatively few of the workers are members of unions, a general tleup Is not expected. At Leeds a mass meeting of unionists decided tonight to act according to the Instructions of the Amalgamated As sociation of Railway Seryants. and to cease work tomorrow at 8 o'clock if the railway managers failed to com ply with the ultimatum sent them. At Manchester, where sectional strikes have been going on for several days, supplies are running short and because of the curtailment of train ser vice many suburbanites were unable to reach their homes tonight. Provisions are running low at Swan sea and garages have closed because the supply of petrol Is exhausted. Sheffield, like Liverpool. Is having some disorder, and the police, acting as convoys, have had to make frequent baton charges In dispersing moos. Aspiration to Bo Nominated Still Another Time Will Not Quench, and Is Sure to Prove Dis turbing to KItsIs, OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Aug. 16. There ,1s much elation among Republican Senators and Repre sentatives in Congress over the row that has broken out between wunam Jennings Bryan and Chairman Under wood, of the House ways and means committee. And there is Ill-concealed hope that the fight will be kept up to the end of next year's campaign, for Repabllcans believe that they will stand a fair chance of electing the next House and the next President If Bryan Is able to split the Democratic party In wain. And that is what he is likely to do 1f he keeps up his assaults on the present Democratic machine that con trol the House of Representatives. At the time ' Representative Under wood made answer on the floor of the House to Bryants charges with respect to the steel and Iron tariff. It was re marked that not a single Bryan fol lower had the temerity to rise In his place and defend the man from Lin coln. The scene was striking; In a sense it was astounding, for it Is well known that among the Democrats of the House are many ardent admirers and adherents of Bryan. Quarrel Not to Be Dropped. That their Idol should have been pub licly branded a liar, and that by the Dsmocratic leader of the House, was unusual and unexpected; -that Bryan should have no defenders on such an occasion ia even more astounding. Tet that proved to be the case, and at first blush It was thought that Bryan's friends had forsaken him. But those who know Bryan are eat Isfled that he will not drop his quarrel with Representative Underwood, the Democratic floor leader. Rather, they contend that he will be back In the fray and will wage merry war upon Underwood, and possibly other Demo cratic lenders before he quits. This view vould seem to be strengthened by reason of the fact that Brys had much on which to base his attack upon the Alabama leader. It Is admitted, as Bryan charges, that Underwood's all Is tied up in the Iron ami steel Industry of Alabama; his whole wealth is Invested In that branch of the steel truet. It Is also true that the ways and means committee, as Bryan slleged, refused to revise the Iron and steel schedule of the Payne-A-drich law, but rather turned to wool and cotton.. As to the influences that swayed the ways and means committee there Is room for doubt, but It Is gen erally accepted In official circles in Washington as true that Underwood controls the ways snd means commit tee, and can swing that committee Into line at will. Influence Is Apparent. He did It on the wool bill, and head ed off a large number of free . wool Democrats who came to Washington last April determined to put raw wool on the free list, if they did nothing else. It was Underwood who prevented a free wool bill. Therefore, It Is argued, if Underwood could prevent the reporting of a free wool bill by the ways and means com mittee. 'In face of a strong demand, he probably could have brought an Iron and steel bill out of that committee if he had worked as industriously for it as It worked against free wool, for there Is strong Democratic sentiment In favor of revising the steel and iron schedule, and such a bill could have passed the House without difficulty. Just why Bryan picked a quarrel with Underwood at a time when he knew he would embarrass the Demo cratic majority In the House Is not clearly established, but It will be re membered that . Bryan was a strong advocate of free wool, and was much piqued when Underwood shelved free wool snd brought out a wool revenue bill. While Bryan could not expect the Democratic House-of Representatives to recognize his leadership, he was aw.re of the strong sentiment among Democrats In favor of free wool, and if he had reason to believe that a majority of tho House Democrats, If left unhampered would have voted for . wn.i ha nerhans. felt he had Justification In making war on the man who thwarted me win. or icaai me preference of that majority. Renewed Ambition Suspected. There has long been a suspicion that Bryan harbors a hope that he may again be the Democratic nominee for President, and it may be true that, en tertaining such a hope, he has under taken to embarrass other leader, and to advance himself as the one Simon-, pure Democrat who Is "agin the ..... .t..i trust, as -well as others and Is not tied up with or under obli gations to any of them. At the same time Underwood and those who wil lingly followed him in the House will not look any more favorably on Bryan's candidacy by reason of his assault upon the Democratic House leader, and he probably has alienated many votes by his course, assuming be Is really an aspirant for the -.Presidential nomina tion. ' Whether Bryan la after the nomina tion for himself, or merely wants to pick the man, it will be found In time, according to current belief in Wash ington, that the Peerless One wilj turn up with a strong following, and. de spite Mr. "Underwood"s denials, will find many who believe with him that the Democratic House of Representatives waa hampered through the efforts of a man who Is a stockholder In the Ala bama branch of the steel trust Bryan, with such following as he can muster. wHl at least be a mighty disturbing t th. nevt convention, and he undoubtedly intends to be Just that very thing. Pierce Has First Forest Fire. TACOMA. Aug. 18. Fire Warden Thorpe left for Melmont, on the Northern Pa- BROWNS with full box backs ; And other new models Arrivals every day .., p.iiwav in miles from Tacoma. to. day to fight a serious forest fire re ported to be raging near mere, inis i the first forest fire of any consequence In Pierce County tnis Bummer. Ptomaine Poisoning How to Avoid Attacks of This Com mon, Though Dangerous, Illness. , . ,i. nf alkaloids of a highly poisonous nature, originating In decaying or dead matter. wvl- fnntnlninB Dtomaines enters the stomach of a rundown person or one whoee digestive orSm .. doing full duty, or one who Is weak ened through neglect or overwork, the system Is not strong enough to throw off the irritating matter Intense pain in the stomach and bowels and suffer ing ensues. v ...... .til fnnriltinn In X Oil can prrvcin m.- - your case by keeping the system in such a neaitnrui cuuum"" - resist all efforts of ptomaines to secure a hold noon the digestive organs by a svstematfc and consistent use of Duffy s pure Malt Whiskey. This wonderful tonic stimulant acts like magic on rundown and overworked systems; it promotes a perfect flow of the digestive juices, aiding digestion, and benefits and strengthens the entire system. Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey Is the only whiskey that was taxed by the Government mm a medicine during the Spanish-American war. All druggists, grocers and dealers, or aireci, si.uu a iaigj u"Lt". . .... stltutes and imitations; they are impure . . , . . ..1 ii rl 1 1 tj 1 ana aangeroua. o-nu r ... booklet and doctor's advice. The Dnffy Malt Whiskey Co., Bochester, If. T. g00(l things to eat ancl drmk. there p C Gl" BlueRifcbon i f T ' I SMl i The Beer of Quality I j ' iBIa Y Tere is sometliin2 so iistinctive' so Jim UTWlX 'delicious about it that the man I JS, Vj who drinks it is never quite jMx w n light Still SELLING LEADING CLOTHIER Bulletin, - . i n ninety-nine yeaia was surrendered to the 3U iW Mrw Bslflil-iBW.: - t V.x- H m .as? A"sj i SPRING STYLES and medium weights on Sale at HALF PRICE August 17th. f Ai Ttofv-nit ltTichieran fcwuaj, ix'i -, .Britisn Djr lien. wm. nuu. aftiTFTirgi: " -