dm PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ADMIT BUILT AS NETDRAWS James B Accused' in Times Case, Will Es cape with Life Term. JOHN J. HAY GET 14 YEARS Trial Comes to Abrupt, Dra matic End When Pleas of Guilty Are Entered. MEN UNCONCERNED IN COURT Darrow Says Case of Prose cution Was -Stone Wall." TRAGEDY IS MADE CLEAR Negotiation. Said to Hate Been On for Week. Delayed by James B.a Desire to Make Terms tpr III Brother. IEVEI-OrMKTH OF DAT IN CM MAX OF .M'XAMAKA CASE. JfeniM B. Mr.Vimvl pleads lul'tr of dromltln Loe Amli Tiro, causing :t d.atha; will reiv Utm vntQC. John J. MrNtmut ptcsd guilty In Lln!lya Iron Work cm: no d.ath rauaed: will 14 years. Ortl E. McManltat. who conrMj and Implicated Mc. Samaras, wilt st Hsht ntnr. Prosecution of Bert H. Franklin on chars of brlMns talesman will bo droppod- LArry M Sullivan, formerly of Portland, la credited by many with baring; brought about reault. GetLeral Harrison Gray Oils say law-aMdlnc labor anion will profit by result. Samuel Com per. declare hi ero dulltT was Imposed upon. Federal authoritlea mar contlau teTestlitatlon In collateral case. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Pec. 1. James R McNamara pleaded guilty to mur der In the first decree In Judge Bord well'a court today. Ills brother, John J. McNamara. secretary of the Interna tional Association of Bridge end'struc tural Iron Workers, entered el plea of guilty to dynamiting- the Llewellyn Iron Wohks In Los Angeles, Christmas day. 110. James B. McNamara' confession clears up absolutely the tragedy of the explosion and fire which, at 1:0 o'clock on the morning of October 1. 1910. wrecked the plant of the Los Angeles Times at First and Broadway and caused the death of II persons. For 19 of these deaths the McNamara brothers were Indicted, and J. B. McNamara was on trial specifically for the murder of Charles J. Haggerty. a machinist, whose body was found nearer than that of any other to the spot where the dy namite waa supposed to have been placed. Primers Escape With I.I Tea. Both men's sentences were set for December S. when It Is expected that District Attorney John D. Fredericks will ask for life Imprisonment for James B. McNamara. the confessed murderer, and probably 14 years for his brother. The men's lives are con sidered saved. The great contention that the Los Angeles Times was not dynamited Is dead beyond resurrection or any argument. Tonight as the two brothers sat to gether in the county jail, refusing to see any one or make any statement, an Interest second only to the occurrence itself bung about the question with reference to James B. Darrow Hees Stoae Wall. "Why did he confess?" To this opposing counsel gave the same answer.- "He confessed because he was guilty, and that's all there Is to It," declared restrict Attorney Fredericks. "lie was counselled to confess be cause that was the best thing he could do. In trie opinion of counsel." said At torney Clarence S. Darrow, chief of counsel. "I will say now that there waa no other reason or motive In it. I've studied this case for months. It presented a stone wail." Darrow's statement was made after looking squarely In the face of charges that the recent arrest of Burt H. Frank. Iln. an Investigator employed by the defense, and two others with fclm. might have precipitated a situation untenable save by confession of the prisoner. Negotiations have been on for weeks." asserted Darrow. and this was cor roborated by District Attorney Fred -CCuPsiudoA ea Jrase aa MRS. HARDING DAVIS TO SEEK DIVORCE? AUTHOR'S WIFE IX CIIICAOO TO ESTABLISH RESIDENCE. Couple Separated for Year but Wom . an Itefnse to -Make Known Marital Troubles. CHICAGO. Deo. I. (Special.) Mr. P.ichard Harding Davis Is In Chlcsgo with the intention. It Is said, of estab lishing a legal residence) here for the purpose of suing her author Husband for divorce. The couple have been sep arated for a year, and it became known today that Mrs. Davis has been here for months. Mrs. Davis was found today at the home of bor mother. Mrs. John M. Clark, but she refused to discuss either her marital troubles or her plana for their solution. Mr. Davis Is returning to the United Btatea from England, where he went to console his slater. Mrs. Frederick rerclval Farrar, who married the King's chaplain. Charge of a sensa tional nature Involving his moral char acter were made against Farrar, who was dismissed from his position. Mr. and Mrs. Davis never really were In love, friends of both have argued. They had been acquainted since child hood. They were no more than "chums" at the time of their sensa tional marriage In 1S99. PORTLAND'S LOSS LEAST Bank Clearing Fall Behind Due to Holiday in Week. On account of the Thanksgiving hol iday, bank clearings In every part of the country fell behind the record made In the corresponding week of last year, when there were six full business days. Portland Is one of the cities that had the smallest decrease. hich was (.6 per cent The losses ranged from 7.5 per cent to as low as 4J.J per cent. Portland's clearings amounted to f9.S04.OOO. The clearings at Seattle were tS.59S.000 and the loss was 24.8 per cent. Los Angeles showed a loss of 7.5 per cent. San Francisco 15.1 per cent, Tacoma 18.9 per cent and Spo kane 19.9 per cent. Of the 40 leading cities in the coun try Portland and Los Angeles made the best showing. PAIR PAINTEDAS MARTYRS McXamnras Innocent but Eager to SaTe Vn Ions' Money, Is Belief. SALT LAKE CITT. Dec. 1. That the McNamaras pleaded guilty, although innocent, to relieve the unions from the financial burden of the defense waa the view expressed at a special meet ing of the local union of Structural Bridge and Iron Workers hero tonight. Salt Lake local. It was said, had con tributed more than 86000 to the defense fund more per capita than any other local save Indianapolis. The public was asked by a vote of the local to suspend judgment until all the facts were known. Surprise and Incredulity at the news from Los Angeles were expressed by J. BjMunsey. business agent of the lo cal union, who has been spoken of as a probable witness at the McNamara trlaL He reiterated his denial of the statement made by his wife that he had harbored James B. McNamara for a week after the Llewellyn Iron Works explosion. CAPT. BERMINGHAM DIES Pioneer Banker and Shipping Man Active Vntll End. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1. Captain John Bermingham, since the pioneer days of California a prominent figure In shipping and banking circles In this city and since 1S92 United States In spector of Steam Vessels for the Pa cific Coast, died here today aged 8L Captain Bermingham Is survived by a widow and four children, one of whom Is Mrs. C. F. Stokes, of Washington. D. C. wife of Surgeon-General Stokes, of the navy. , Captain Bermingham; had recently telegraphed his resignation to Wash ington, but the Navy Department re fused to accept It. He was prominent In the management of several bank ing. Insurance and manufacturing firms at the time of his death. GOVERNORS KEEP GOING Party Leaves Cleveland for Buffalo, Where They Will Stop Two Days. CLEVELAND, Dec 1. The Governors of eight Western states and the repre sentatives of four others, after a busy day In Cleveland, left tonight for Buf falo, where they will spend tomorrow and Sunday before resuming their tour of the East. The tay of the Governors In Cleve land, which waa marked by an almost continual round of entertainment, waa concluded tonight with a banquet at the Union Club tendered by ex-Governor Herrlck, of Ohio. SCORE INJURED IN WRECK Several May Die a Result of Pas senger Train's Leap. PADUCH. Ky.. Dec. 1. More than a score of passengers of Illinois Central passenger train No. 101 were Injured, several perhaps fatally, when spreading rails threw it into a ditch 28 miles east of here, lata Oils afternoon. STATE 10 REWARD OR! M'MANIGAL Dynamiter Who Told Is to-Get Off Lightly. FREDERICKS PROMISES AID Prisoner Chokes With Emo tion When He Hears News. CHEERFULNESS IS MARKED Factor In Downfall of McNamaras , Say Ho Ought to Be Punished for What He Has Done. He Reviews) Career. LOS ANGELES, Dee. 1. Ortle E. Mc ManigaL the confessed dynamiter, whose admissions are said to have B"en a big factor In the McNamaras plead ing guilty, will go virtually free, if the plans of the state In his behalf do not go wrong. After 'court had adjourned this af ternoon, Malcom McLaren, the Burns detective who has been a dally visitor toMcManlgal's cell since the dynamiter was brought here last Spring, and has always spoken In a friendly way of the prisoner, came upon District Attorney Fredericks in the prosecutor's ofTlce. "There's Just one thing I want to ask of you," said McLaren to Freder icks, "and that Is that you do all you can for McMantgal." Mercy Promised to Informer. Fredericks held up his right hand as he answered: "I promise you I'll do all in my power for him. He may have to take a light sentence, but I'll do the best J can." . After the dynamiter bad gone into the story of the Llewellyn Iron Works explosion last Christmas. McLaren told him privately what Fredericks had promised. He waa greatly affected when he learned that the state had become his friend. His eyes filled with tears and his voice choked so that be could hardly stammer his thanks. Before he heard the news, McMant gal had been apprised of the pleas of the McNamaras snd had said with a chuckle that he was glad to hear of their action, as It confirmed his asser tions and he thought the public now would regard him differently. ' Sooaet hlnar Doing" in Air. "I suspected something was doing," said McManlgal, with a smile, as his kittle black eyes snapped, "when J. B. did hot go over to court as early as usual this afternoon. And then, when J. J. was taken over, I was positive. 1 could not tell Just what had happened, however, until some time1 afterward. Concluded on Pace 7.) MAKING LIFE PORTLAND'S RECORD YEAR REVIEWED. Portland 's most prosperous year will be reviewed in The Oregonian Annual 'which will be issued on January 1, 1912. Each month of 1911 has brought surprises in the large volume of business transact ed in Portland, as indicated by bank clearings; postoffice receipts, real Estate transfers, building per mits and other factors that make up the commercial barometer. "These proofs of progress will be emphasized in the Annual and the conditions portrayed will be . in marked contrast with the experi ences of cities in other parts of the country during the present year. The erection of new business blocks, the construction of a new building to house the library with the largest per capita circulatioin in the United States, improvement of transportation facilities, estab lishment of new industries, erec tion of new bridges, growth of shipping, assured construction of a grpat convention auditorium, ex tension of tributary railroads lliese and many other subjects re flecting credit orv Portland will be covered in the Annual. STAGE HOLDUPS CONFESS Two of Passengers in Drain Coach Rohbery Members of Grand Jury. ROSEBURG, Or., Dee. I. (Special.) Edward Jurgins and Fred Foster, who were arrested on Friday, accused of holding up the Draln-Scottsburg stage, today made a complete confession in the presence of Sheriff Qulne and District Attorney Brown. Inasmuch as the next term of the Circuit Court does not convene until February, It is probable that the grand jury will be summoned and dispose of tuis case during the next few days. Two of the passengers robbed are members of the grand Jury and reside at Gardiner. CLUB CANNOT BAR BARRY Court Orders Players to Reinstate. Author of Odious Article. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. (Special.) The P.layers Club must reinstate Rich ard Barry, the writer, who was ex pelled on complaint that an article he had written reflected upon the dra matic profession. Four Justices of the Appellate divi sion of the Supreme Court today granted Barry a peremptory writ of mandamus, orderlr.g the club to restore him to membership. GERMAN NAVAL PLANS BIG Expenditure of $90,000,000 in Next Six Years Reported Schedule. BERLIN, Dec. 1. A news agency which Is sometimes well informed, says an Increase of the German Navy has been decided on. It says the Government is determined to pend 890.000,000 on the augmenta tion of Its fleet, which sum will be spread over six years. Official circles maintain silence. EASY FOR THE POOR, UNFORTUNATE CONVICT. m ; " ' LARRY SULLIVAN FIGURES III DEAL Ending of Trial Cred ited to Finesse. WAY POINTED OUT TO DARROW Ex-Sport Believed to. Have Made Result Possible. BRIBERY CHARGE CRUCIAL Insiders Say That Sullivan, Who Was Warm Friend of Fredericks, Won Confidence of Attorneys for Defense, Too. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 (Special.) That Larry M. Sullivan, the famous sport, sailor boarding-house keeper and ex-millionaire, well known all over the Pacific Coast, played an Important part in settling the McNamara case and did actually bring the defense and the prosecution together. Is the story that Is going the rounds of the Insiders to night. According to information received. Sullivan was a warm personal friend of District Attorney Fredericks and was for some time prior to the beginning of the McNamara trial a daily visitor at that official's office in the Hall of Records. Almost as soon as the trial began indeed some little time before that date Sullivan suddenly discon tinued his visits to Fredericks, with whom he had been associated In the ownership of some Mexican mining propery, and began frequenting the of ..ces of the defense in the Hlggina building. Place on Staff Accepted. Shortly after that It was announced that Sullivan had accepted a regular place on the staff of attorneys for the McNamaras and that he was doing confidential .work for them, as well as advising them on certain phases not connected with the . legal aspects of the case. Soon rumors began to be bruited abroad that Sullivan was still in the pay of the District Attorney and that he was acting as agent for Fred ericks in the camp of the enemy. At any rate, when Bert Franklin was arrested, charged with bribing C. N. Lockwood, last Tuesday morning, Sul livan is said to have seen a chance for Darrow to land In an easy sp9t and at once proposed to the attorneys for the defense that they accept the intimated offer of the District Attorney that the defendants plead guilty to the charge and accept a lesser penalty than the law apportions for the crimes of whlcb thoy had been guilty. Secret Conference Held. After some delay Sullivan succeeded In securing a secret conference be (Concluded on Page 7.) KEY OF WIRELESS SIGNALS FROM TEES HOPE RENEWED THAT inOSE ON BOARD ARE SAFE. Later Messages- Are Sent to Ill-Fated Vessel, but Operators Receive No Response. VICTORIA, Dec 1. All night long the Estevan and Triangle Island sta tions have sent out messages to cheer those on the Tees telling them that rescue steamers would reach them with the morning light, but no answering signal has come. Much relief has resulted in Victoria though from the messages sent out early tonight by the Estevan station which read: "There 13 hope that all are safe on the Tees. I heard her distress sig nals at 6:45 P. M." Light southerly winds prevail off Estevan tonight, while a 70-mile gale Is reported from Triangle. The Vic toria station communicated with the William Jolllffe late tonight. The tug W. T. Salvor was then anchored in Klashkish Inlet to the westward of Cape Cook, and the United States rev enue cutter Tahoma was sheltered to the southward of Kyuquot Sound, all three expecting to steam into the sound in the morning. The Tahoma made an effort today, but- returned to sea. The tug Nanoose, which Is carrying Captain Searle, of the Kyuquot. whaling station, who is familiar with the locality, will reach Kyuquot tonight. SINGLE RATE CUT 10 CENTS Tacoma Wins Fight on Rate From Puget Sound to South. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 1. (Special.) Announcement was made toaay at thn offices of the O.-W. R. & N. Com pany of a reduction of 10 cents per 100 pounds in the rate on shingles rrom Tacoma and Seattle to Denver ana ioi orado Doints. This will give Tacoma a rate of 50 cents, the same as the rate from Port l.mrL The reduction is the result o long-continued complaints on the part of Tacoma shippers, that they were unable to compete with Portland. The new rate goes Into effect in January, INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 47 detrrees: minimum. 40 degrees. TnnW'S Fair: winds mostly from the southeast. McNamara Case. -r VTo mora r.rnthrl nl PRii euilt7! J&TTltB B mav eet life. John J. 14 years. Page L McManigal, first to confess, will get off lightly. Page l. Larry Sullivan credited with having brought prosecution and defense together. Page L Detroit recalls how it was deceived when McNamaras were capturea. jrago u. Mrs. McManigal say she is through with husband forever. Page 9. General Otis says honest organized labor may profit by outcome. Page 9. Samuel Gompers is astounded at confession of MaNamaras. Page &. Detective Bums finds personal vindication In result. Page 9. Confession of McNamaras Is triumph for William J. Burns, detective. Page 4. Labor representatives and Socialists in Port land express resentment over decoit shown by McNamaras. Page 5. Crime was outgrowth of bitter feeling of several years' standing. Page o. Foreign Nanking falls and rebels are in command. Page 7. Persia rejects Russia's ultimatum and Czar orders troops to move, on Teheran. Page 2. National. Secretary of Navy, in annual report, urges Nation to Keep prepared for war. Page 2. Domestic. Reputed son of Evangelist Sankey mentioned in connection with charge against woman of stealing diamond brooch. Page 2. Mrs. Richard Harding Davis In Chicago said to be about, to sue author husband for divorce. Page 1. Women employes of Stokes testify against Lillian Graham. Page 3. Beautiful Mrs. Creel, back in New York, Is still unhappy. Page 8. San Francisco clergymen will take religious census, page 2. Shorts. Coach Warner and Assistant Coach Hunt may not be seen at university next year. Page McCredie will attend annual meeting of Coast League next week. Page ti. Australian lads meet Portland soccer team today. Pagr tL Northwestern Conference College football , rankings out. Page b. Pacific Northwest. Town of Vosburg to be known as Wheeler In future. Page . Desert land board aroused over warning from Attorney-General. Page 6. Editor of Seattle Times found not guilty of conducting public nuisance. Page tt. Revenue cutter Tahoma risks dangerous channel to find lost steamer Tees. Page 1. James Evans, Philomath bank cashier, in dicted by grand Jury. Page 2. Commercial and Marine. Manipulation of coffee market continues, page 19. Small world's wheat estimate caunes prices at Chicago to advance. Page 19. Stock market weak and prices lower. Page 19. November the best trade month o the year.. Page 19. Death of John Bermingham at San Fran cisco causes marine men here to mourn. Page IS. Portland and Vicinity. Warren Construction Company member says many Skidmore street owners feign pov erty to escape cash payment of street assessments. Page 14. Oregon will have Coast Artillery, forming it from Fourth Infantry and part of Third. Page 18. County Clerk Fields says legal distribution . uf ballots in rotation will be impossible next April. Page 13. Record of ex-Convict Norris while on cruiser Boston causes recall to, penitentiary. Page 1. Australian boy tourists arrive In Portland. Page 14. Judge McGinn dismisses civil case and urges indictment of plaintiff for forgery. Page 12. Man who pays $120 for loan of $50 sues Ashley & Rumelin for return of money. Page 11. Church extension and Methodist Episcopal Home Mission Board appoints committee to oversee church survey of Oregon Page 9. Opera "Thais" powerfully presented at Heillg Theater. Pago 14, NAVAL FORGERIES Ex-Convict Enjoys Life as State Employe. NIGHTS GAY ON SHI? BOSTON Oregon Sailors Are Told West Wanted to Guide Affairs. IRREGULARITIES ARE SEEN Lieutenant-Commander of Cruiser Accused of Allowing Women to Board Ship Bills Contracted by Impostor Reach Big Sum. Posing as the official representative of Governor "West to supervise elec tions and other conditions in the Ore gon Naval Militia, and drawing a sal ary from the state for that work, J. "W. Norris, recently pardoned conditionally by Governor West, performed his duties, and drew lils salary, until alleged forg eries on the Cruiser Boston, moored at the foot of Jefferson street, led to an energetic protest from members of the militia, and the revocation of the par don by Acting Governor Olcott Thurs day. Following the action against Norris, it is probable that charges will be filed within the militia against Lieutenant Commander Gustav J. Blomberg, execu tive officer of the cruiser, who, it is alleged, was cognizant of Norris' oper ations, if not a party to them. Bad Checks Charged. Beside running huge bills and having a gay time, largely in the wardrooms of the cruieer loaned to the militia by the Federal Government, 'Norris, since be ing released from the penltntiary, is said to have Issued several checks which were not honored when presentd by the holders. Norris was committed from Klamath County for larceny, under a sentence of your years, but the naval militiamen say that back of that he was a sailor on the cruiser Baltimore, and was com mitted to a prison ship for an assault on a boatswain's mate. While In the penitentiary, Norris ap pears to have won the favor of the Governor by being the man who brought back Jess Hall, an escaped prisoner whom Governor West pur sued In person. State Salary Awarded. It was shortly after that episode that Norris received a conditional pardon and took up his quarters on the cruiser, ostensibly as a guard, under salary of J50 from the state. The larger signifi cance of his presence, say the militia men, came out, according to his own ac count, when, about the time of the re cent election in the militia, he called ten petty officers into his stateroom and informed them that he had been sent from Salem to see that the elec tions wre conducted properly and that the right men were elected. He then proceeded, according to the story, to point out various candidates, who, ho said, had been, in the militia. Army or Navy and knew too much. Most of tho men bo blacklisted were elected. Norris is said to have caused cards to be printed, designating himself as special state agent," and under the guise of "Captain of the TJ. S. S. Bos ton" he is alleged to have run auto mobile bills to the extent of over $160, persuading a commercial agency to establish his credit. Women Part of Complaint. Charges are expected to be filed against both Norris and Blomberg, to the effect that at midnight, November 18, Norris came to the ship, drunk and accompanied by two women, who re mained until noon the next day, using obscene language and conducting them selves in a disorderly manner. The com plaints assert that Blomberg knew of the affair, and when he learned that charges were likely to be filed against himself, sent Norris over the side. It also Is charged that the unsea manlike methods of the officers have spread to the six shlpkeepers, enlisted men of the regular Navy, and com plaint against them has been lodged with Lieutenant Toaz, of the local re cruiting station. It is asserted that one night during the recent high wind the ship was left absolutely deserted and volunteers went down and put add itional hawsers ashore. That charges of passing bad checks are out against Norris is known to the city detectives, but no complaints have been filed. It was the growing feeling within the militia that caused informa tion of Norris' actions to reach Acting Governor Olcott and to bring about his recall to the penitentiary. HUGH JENNINGS IS HURT Manager of Detroit Tigers One of Victims of Auto Smash. SCB.ANTON, Pa, Dec. 1. Hugh Jen nings, manager of the Detroit American ball club, and Rev. Edward Lynett, of this city, were seriously injured in an automobile wreck near Gouldsboro, 30 miles from here, early this morning. A physician was summoned by auto- ' mobile to the scene. A report says Jennings is badly Injur 4