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PORTLAND, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LII NO. 15,933. WANT TO TELL THEIR SIDE Lawyers for State in Brandt Case Object. COMMISSIONER IN DOUBT Hand Will Confer With Gover nor Dix About It. . INQUIRY WILL NOT DROP Jew Tork. Executive Mar Yet Tar- don Yglet IMstrict Attorney Ft nta to Prevent ex-Employers Getting Immonltj. NEW TORK. Feb. iO (5peclJ. Wlth Delaneer Nlcoll. counsel for How ard 8. Oana, Insisting that Mortimer L. rVhlff. Mrs. Schlff and Mr. Gans have an opportunity to testify and Attorney n . - v m.nA TJls- t'rlct Attorney Whitman declaring that H would be highly Improper to allow ar.r of them to take the witness stand s-.-ause of the Immunity It might af- I f.r-l from prosecution l i any consplr- I -r action that might follow, the first t-. arlng before Richard L. Hand, the ,T.rl,wlonr arfpolnted y Governor I'M in Inquire Into the case of Foulke l- n Ht ...valet to Schlff. who seeks ?rMm from a 10-year term for burg- :err. r-m. to an end this afternoon. It as a stormy session throughout, with Mr. NW-olt persistently dragging In tha name of Mrs. tvblff and main taining that Brandt baa case a nis f peal for eiecutlve clemency on a lying story to the Governor. I llraadt Mia fpere W.s. I Ti-i.h ior Mr. Carmodr and I -. . . i t -. ... v . . n.ant hftdli SGHFFS never asked consideration from any- I not only promised to give It his atten body oa such a p ee, and Mlrabeau L. ton and support, but said that be prob- rna crodured a statement from 1 Trandt la which tha prisoner declared I that he would rather go back to prison and serva out hla term than have the I name of any woman member of tha Schlff household dragged Into the case. Comra'ssloner Hand wavered bark and forth In trying to decide Just what he ought to do. It waa plain that hla own Interpretation of hla duty as a commissioner hearing evidence to sup port a plea for pardon from a convict, was thst ha should hear all witnesses that presented themselves. (MmMnrr II a ad Wavers. So forceful and persUtent were the arguments of Mr. Carmvdy and Mr. Whitman against such a course, how ever, thit Mr. Hand wavered at a time when It seemed certain he was about to rule in favor of Mr. Nlcoll and de rided that tha matter was of such great moment that he wo.i'.d not deride It without first going over the situation with Governor Dlz himself. He accord ingly adjourned the hearing for a week but It Is doubtful If there will ever be arother hearing In the case. Justl.e Gerard announced late this afternoon that he haa completed his derision on the writ of habeas corpus sworn out for Brandt by Mr. Towns ml that ha will hand It down tomor row. Dla May Yet Grant Pardaa. The Hand decision. It Is believed, will sustain the writ. With It will rome an end of any hearings on an appeal for executlv clemency because It will automatically place Brandt In the position of a man under Indict ment who haa never been tried and therefore not a subject for the exer cise of the Governor's pardoning power. I'nlesa justice Gerard hands down Ms declstoL esrly tomorrow, however, there Is a chance that the Governor will forstall Iflni by granting the full pardon, although without the testi mony of Mr. and Mrs. Schlff and Mr. liana before hint, ha has nothing fur ther on which to art than he had two . weeks ago when he denied the appeal for a commutation of sentence and r -ale j the papers In the rase. laalrr W ill Xot Be Drepped. District Attorney Whitman has his r'ins made for either contingency. If writ is sustained by Justice Gerard. Mr. Whitman wtll go before Judge '.oral sky and move tha quashing of the two Indictments against Brandt. One of these la for burglary In the first de. gree. th other for felonious assault. If Governor Dix hands down a par don for Brsndt before the writ Is de cided, the prlsorer will Immediately be set free. Mr. Whitman win take charge of him. It ia said and will use him as a witness In the grand Jury Inquiry Into the charge that he vu the victim ef a conspiracy. In either event, the Dis. trlrt Attorney has no Idea of abandon I hi. his Inquiry. EXPLOSION PANIC FATAL ! Hart. One of W hom Will Dip, In Picture Show Disaster. WHEELING. W. Ya, Feb. 10. In an e-xploelon and panic in a movlng-plr-tn re show at Albrlgbtsvllle. Preston Connty. West Virginia. 2 persons were injured tonight, one fatally. Some of the 21 injured are said to be fatally hurt. j ATHLETIC CO-ED LANDS KNOCKOUT WHITMAX Gim. FRESHMAX ,PCTS ASSAILANT TO SLEEP. Georgia McManns Swing Hard kumoj.w and Raff Ian Who Accost Her Take Count. WAIXA WALLA. Wash.. Feb. 21 (Special.) Wbn a well-dressed ruffian stepped from behind a tree on Thayer avenue last night and seised Georgia McManus, a college student, by the arm. he iwuDf a heavy right to the point of his taw and he vent down. And ha stared down. too. until Miss Mc Manas was out of striking; distance. Hiss McManus has had experience with the gloves and takes gymnasium lessons at tha college. And when the man grabbed her he made tha mistake or taking hold of her left arm. leaving her right free. Miss McManus has a good right, as her assailant ascertained, ana sne .....hi him unnrenared for such vigorous resistance. She had Just passed Clinton street and the darkness i. emnhaalzed there by tall locust ' : trees. When the man. wno appr to be well dressed, stepped out and took hold of her arm she lost no time kni rack and struck forcibly. No clew to the assailant was rouno. ss It was so dark Miss McManus could not aee his face, and she did not wait (or him to recover from his-shock. Miss McManus Is a freshman in me and her home is in Wash. CLARK IS FOR CORAH BILL Speaker Enlisted In Fight to Make I Better IIonieMead Terms, OREOOXIAS NEWS BUREAtT. Wash lnrton. Teh. JO. Speaker Clark today hu.nu Interested in in. oorm-.-.- three-year homestead bill and gave his promise to use his best efforts to have It favorably reportea cy m. v lands committee and passed by the l-Trtu Senator Borah this afternoon naa long conference with Mr. Clark witn reference to this bill, explainer .u.., the hardshloa now encountered by the hm.. t.ader and told him of the Inter- ha fha entire vv est in ,hornlng; the homestead period and a-rantlnsr leave of absence to sewers during Winter months. c,.ktr Clark waa quickly con- i i. wwiMritm of the bill.' and .Mr would make a speecn in lis d- v.if while It was under consideration i the House. With these assurances from the Speaker. Senator Borah feela lner- s DOw a good prospect of getung hi. bill enacted In substantially its present form at tha present session, notwithstanding the adverse report of Secretary Fisher. I r- n vriD DOnDP.CAl WIW LLHr ILHn rnwi I nirh Man Fall In I.ove wim wwt. a- ir.n Glrl'a Voice She Topa Question. SANTA BARBARA. CaL. Feb. 10. (Special.) Caesar Latlllade. agea e. ona of the heirs to property ruuru ..ri f 000 000. Is one of Santa ear- harae victims of leap year proposals. Latlllade waa a bachelor ana oiw . .... u n . 1 4 rtitver en - remarkea snai iii' snare him. When telephoning in Ven tura, during a visit there a few weeka ago. ha wes completely n)pniu " r tha voice that answered hla request for a number. He could not resist tna temptation to go to tha central office . ... . . i to see the possessor oi ine rnuji voice. He admits that ha fell deeply In love at first sight, tha -hello' girl h.in Miss Cassle Kulx. a beautiful young woman or -o years. Frlenda say Miss Kulx. a snort time later, proposed marriage, and the con firmed bachelor assented. The couple were married thla afternoon at Ven tura and left at once for San Diego and the Grand Canyon. Y. M. C. A. INDORSES POOL Whitman Aocltlou Would Put Tables In College Dormitories. WALLA WALLA. Wasb, Feb. 20. tSueciaL) That the college students may not have to frequent poolhalls In order to play the game, the T. M. C A. of Whitman has taken up a movement to have billiard and pool tables put in tha Billings Hall dormitory for the Dae of the boys. This movement is finding a hearty response and it Is be lieved there wtll be no opposition. Lo cal men are donating money for tha purpose. George Cole, student manager, who laat year was expelled from the Meth odist conference for dancing and up holding card playing, but who was later reinstated, la at the head of tha movement for the billiard and pool tables. He Is a senior, chairman of the managerial board, on of the best ath letes In school and one of tha most popular men of the Institution. COMMISSION RULE GAINS Three South Dakota Towns Vote In Favor of New Form Government. MADISOV. 8. IX. Feb. 20. The com mission form of government waa adopted at a special election today. The vote waa Jti for to 70 against. LEAP, 8. n- Feb. 20. In an elec tion In which a light vote was cast, the commission form of government adopted here today. At Belle Fourrhe the commission plan was also adopted. HDDSAG TUNNEL IS COLLISION SCENE Famous Portal Will Be Blocked for Days. FOUR TRAINMEN ARE KILLED Express Train Is Warned, but Brakes May Have Failed. PASSENGERS ARE SAVED Freight Cars Catch Fire and Heat Is So Intense It Causes Roof to Crack and Fall Locomo tive Not Injured. NORTH ADAMS. Mass.. Feb. SO. Four trainmen are dead and Hoosae Tunnel la blocked so effectively thst It may be several days before the tracks are cleared, aa the result of a rear-end collision between a freight train and Boston-bound express on the Boston Maine Railroad late today. The passenger train waa not dam aged seriously, with the exception of the electric engine which waa drawing It, but several cars of tha freight were demolished and the wreckage took fire. Heat la Teasel Cracks Roef. The heat in the portal waa so great that portlona of tha tunnel roof were cracked off and fell to tha tracks. The dead are Archer L. Slmmonds and Henry Gregg, engineer and assist ant on the electrlo engine; Luther Da vis, a "learner" on the motor, and lieuben Kemp, flagman on tha freight train. The accident happened 1500 feet from tha east portal of tha tunnel. The freight train bad been stopped near the farther end of tha four-mile shaft and Kemp went back to warn the express. He succeeded In stopping the express and then got aboard the engine, which proceeded cautiously to ward the freight. Freight Cars Catch Fire. For some unexplained reason, pos- ihly because tha brakes refused to work, tha electric engine failed to stop aa It neared the rear of the freight train and a moment later there, waa a crash. This waa followed by an electric dis play and a burst of flames and then the rear .freight cars took Are. A steam locomotive attached to the pas- MPn ger train behind tha electrlo engine escaped injury. To aave the passen gers from suffocation tha engineer im mediately backed away. Wreckage Still Burning. It waa not until 7 o'clock, however. that tha train finally emerged Into tha open air. Late tonight the wreckage waa burn- rConcluded on Page 4.1 i ' a - as i - INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TisTiBnirs Maximum temperature, 41 df reee; minimum, S7 degrees. TODAY'S Showers; southerly winds. Rational. House committee adds parcels post provi sion to aonroDriatlon bill, rage z. Chemical tariff lll pase Hou.e unamended. President Taft spprores liability bill. Page 4. Domestic. Baa Francisco society woman organises Taft Club. Page ft. . Trail of hlnmlit stows cold In Seattle. fagei ft. Baa Francisco police rescue sohool teacher from sans In vacant nouse. " stnmt of iniiii-tot labor leaders will go to Indianapolis without protest. Page 2. Four killed when trains collide in Hoosao tunnel. Page 1. . ckin. .mi tn i.nlfv at Brandt hearing state objects: decision withheld. Page 1. Disaster in Hooslae tunnel will block traffic for days. Page 1. Aviator 'flies across Lake Brie to return In lnud. Pase 1. Treasury Department will give back 1110.000 to Mrs. Leeds, page a. Politics. Kiunuri Democrats compromise tight and Indorse Clark for President. Page 2. Gill wins nomination for Mayor of Seattle. Pase 1. Only Republicans tile for posts in Legls Isture and Ave places, thus far are not eought. Page 14. La Follette telegraphs Oregon manager that be Is still In race and work for hla nomi nation resumes, page T. Ben Selling decides to seek nomination for I'nlted Etates senate la opposition w Bourne. Page 1. Facllle North west. Girl freshmen st Whltmsn College lends knockout on Jaw of runuan wno accosts her. Page 1. Railway wins contention before Supreme Court in Lincoln county tiaeiana cm Page . Sport. Trotting Association decides against hobbles. Page g. Joe Mandat has better of 10-round bout with Pal Moore. Page 8- Frankenateln in city for bout with Berg. Psge 8. Commercial and Marine. Kew-rllp wool contracting begins In Eastern Oregon. Page IB. Wheat lower at Chicago on better crop pros pect. In Kansas. Psge 18. Stock desltnrs In Wall street smallest of year. Pase 10. Captain W. 8. Buchanan, well-known river- man, to retire siarcn i. rage is. rortiaad and Vicinity. Police vainly seek to and hidden loot. Psge 13. Work of tearing down old city Jail is be gun. Page Tart telrgrapha that he is In favor of Ore gon reclamation projects. Page 14. Court to decide whether sandwich la meal In reataurant where liquor Is sold. I'sge 18. Interststa Commerce Commission Intlmstes It Is dlssatl.fled with Uoutbern PacUlc rate to and from Willamette Valley. Page 7. Irrigation Ctngreas hears bitter attack on Uovernor We.t. page B. Passenger Association grants cut rate for Ix 1V12 celebrations. Psge 12. president of Child Welfare League Is ac cused of bungling finances of school af fair. Page 8. Governor West sends message to Irrigation Copgreee efraring to bare all Land Hoard records for Investigation. Page 9. Fred 3. Smith, leader of Men'e Religions Forward Movement, is in Portland. Pase 11. ' TORNADO FATAL TO EIGHT Fifty Others Injured In Great Wind Storm in Louisiana. SHREVEPORT, La., Feb. 20. Eight persons are dead and about SO Injured as the result of a tornado which swept through the western outskirts of Shreveport late today. Tha dead are negroes, with the ex ception of the 2-raonths-old baby of A. J. Manhelm, whose home was demol ished. In the city proper no damage was done. GET IN. TEDDY! GET IN! Sj3 VgoW SEATTLE CHOOSES GILL BY BIG VOTE Renomination of Ex Mayor Is Certain. COTTERILL AND PARISH CLOSE Recalled Official's Vote Large in Every Section. WOMEN RUSH TO POLLS Single-Tax Candidate Makes Hard Race Socialist Carries Some Districts Election to Be Held March 5: SEATTLE, Feb. 20. Hiram C. Gill, elected Mayor two years ago and re moved by the recall In less than a year, finished at the head of the poll In the nominating primary for city of- fleers today. It la estimated that ha polled 25,000 votes. Late returns show Parish and Cot term running neck and neck and thera Is doubt as to which, will oppose Gill in tha election. Complete returns from 1J5 out of 281 precints give Gill 11,674 Parish 6854. Cotterill 5702, Wells 4149. Socialist Is Eliminated. Hulett M. Wells, Socalist, was eliminated. The Socialists polled nearly, aa large a vote as they ex pected, about 10.000. These figures are based on an estimate that 60,000 votes were cast. Gill's vote Is so very large that politicians tonight say there is small chance of beating him In the final election. March 5. The result today Is taken to fore shadow defeat of the single-tax and 11 other reform proposals to be voted on March E, both Gill and Parish be ing opposed to them. Heavy and fast voting was reported from all precincts, tha women voters being almost aa numerous aa the men. GUI's Success Conceded. The primary will eliminate all but two candidates, and It Is conceded that Gill Is one of the two successful men. uul was removed irom oince a year ago by the recall, the petition for which accused him of making Seattle a resort for criminals. Gill's Chief of . olice. Wappensteln, is under sentence to Berve two years in State Prison for accepting a bribe. Cotterill is the National head of the Independent Order of Good Templars. Parish was until recently State Tax Commissioner. The contest .was one of the most bit terly fought In the history of the city, and the newspapers played a prominent role In the campaign. AVIATOR FLITS O'ER ERIE; IS INJURED SAXDT FALLS WHEN TEX MILES OCT OX GREAT LAKE. - Birdman Remains Unconscious on Ice for While, Then. Staggers Back to American Shore. ERIE, Pa, Feb. 20. Earl Sandt, a youthful aviator, the first birdman to fly over the Great Lakes from the United States to C.-tiada, came to grief ten miles out on Lake Erie from Northeast. Pa, tonight, when attempt ing a return flight to the American shore. While high In the air and 20 miles west of his course, the engine of his biplane stopped. For a while he glided, but suddenly tha machine over turned and he was burled unconscious in the wreckage on tha ice. How long he remained in this condition Sandt does not know. When he recovered he was saturated with blood from many cuts. . Aided by a pocket compass, Sandt walkerl ten miles to the American shore, landing at Northeast at 10 o'clock tonight. He was found stag gering along the shore by boys who were skating and was carried to a hotel. Word then was telephoned to this city. Sandt is not injured seriously. ' He was brought here from Northeast at midnight in a special car. Thousands of persons, a brass band and loud blasts from shop whistles greeted him. BURDEN PUT ON HOSIERY Democrats in Quandary Over Deficit Caused by Free Sugar. WASHINGTON. Feb. 20. The ways and means committee intends to make the wearers of silk stockings and other expensive imported clothing make up for what t.ie Government would lose by free sugar. Sugar on the free lis. would keep J60.000.000 a year out of the treasury. On Saturday the committee will sug gest taking the duty off sugar and put ting it on stockings and other fancy things. Chairman Underwood says a sugar bill will be reported in a few weeks, though Its terms have not been agreed upon. How to raise the revenue which will be lost has put the committee in a quandary. FREIGHT TO BE CHECKED Railroads Make Concession for "Clean Bills of Lading." SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20. Attorneys representing 35 railroads agreed before the State Railroad Commission today, t meet the demand of shippers for the issuance of "clean bills of lading." Heretofore the railroads h -e refused to be accountable for shortages in freight where the carriers' agents had not checked personally the goods to be shipped. .Shipping interests Insisted that all freight should be so checked off, and this demand was acceded to today by the railroad attorneys. The companies refused, however, to be held responsible for goods shipped from sidings or spur tracks between stations. FIRE RAGES IN HOUSTON Five Hundred Rendered Homeless - by Early Morning Conflagration. HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 21. It is es timated 50 residences have been de stroyed by a fire which is sweeping the populous section of a fifth of Houston at 2:30 this morning. Five hundred persons are homeless and the loss will approximate 3250,000. The fire started about 1 A. M. in a one-story building adjoining tne Southern Pacific tracks and spread rapidly among frame residences in the block adjoining. The houses burned range from four-room cottages to 20- room boarding-houses. The district is populated mainly by persons of the working classes. WOMAN, 101, DIES AT PARTY Relative of William H. Seward Stricken at Birthday Celebration. NEW YORK, Feb. 20. (Special.) Just as a birthday celebration in her hondr was about to begin, Mrs. James Frazer, 101 years old, widow of a Pres byterian minister and relative of Will iam H. Seward, Secretary of State un der Lincoln, died at her home at Brook lyn last night. Mrs. Frazer's birthday was on Sun day, but because she was feeling poor ly, the party was postponed until last night, when she said she felt better. Guests had begun to assemble when she was stricken, and she died within a few minutes. STORK IS EYEING ASTORS Visit Is Expected by Colonel and His Bride in July. NEWPORT, R. I.. Feb. 20. (Spe cial.) Society circles heard today that the stork was expected to make a visit in July to Colonel John Jacob . Astor and his bride, who was Miss Madeline Force, of New Tork. Colonel and Mrs. Astor are now in Egypt. The servants at the Astor place have received instructions to close up the big "cottage" in this city and go to New Tork to make the Fifth-avenue mansion ready for the return of their master and mistress, who will come home late in Ma, SELLING DECIDES TO OPPOSE BOURNE Portland Man Heeds Pleas of Voters. THOUSANDS PLEDGE SUPPORT Candidate Is to Resign From Taft Body to Campaign. PLATFORM READY SOON Oregon Lawmaker Receiving nat tering Response From Citizens Over All State Makes Vp Mind to Seek Congress Post. Responding to a state-wide demand, Ben Selling, Stato Senator from Mult nomah County and for 40 years a busi ness man of Portland, announced yes terday that he would be a candidate for United States Senator to succeed Jona than Bourne. Mr. Selling will retire Immediately, not only as chairman but as a member of the Portland Taft com mittee and will devote his personal at tention to his Senatorial candidacy. In a few days, Mr. Selling will Issue a formal statement of the principles on which he seeks the office of Senator. Entrance of Mr. Selling into the Sen atorial contest Is the result of Im portant developments In the Repub lican politics of the stats in the last month. From all sections of the state came & demand from the party voters for a candidate who could represent the state and Its great and growing Inter ests at Washington properly. Several Decline to Run. A number of prominent Republicans were approached and urged to become candidates, but they declined. Friends of C. W. Fulton, ex-United States Sena tor, pleaded with him to oppose Bourne, but after mature deliberation he de clined to become a candidate. In doing so, he Issued a statement, expressing the belief that he did not consider himself the most available man for the office and for that reason did not desire In any way to Jeopardize the interests of the Republican party and the people of the state by contesting for the nom ination. Democratic friends of John M. Gearin, also ex-United States Senator, urged him to seek his party's nomination, in the belief that he was not only emi nently qualified to represent the state in the Senate, but that he would be able to defeat Bourne should the senior Republican Senator be successful In the Republican primaries. Mr. Gearin also decided adversely and would not qualify as a candidate. Whole State I'rgca Selling. With the elimination of Mr. Fulton and Mr. Gearin as possibilities, those seeking the retirement of Mr. Bourne directed additional pressure on Mr. Selling, who late yesterday concluded to comply with their requests. More than a month ago Mr. Selling was be sieged by personal friends from over all the state to become a candidate against Mr. Bourne and, although he took the subject under serious consid eration, It was not until yesterday that the Insistence of the demands be came so imperative that they could no longer be resisted. When these personal appeals, which could only be numbered in the hun dreds, became so numerous, Mr. Selling three weeks ago concluded before reaching a decision to ascertain to his own satisfaction ana nrst-nana irom the voters, the extent to which the demand for his candidacy existed. Ac cordingly he mailed a circular letter to every registered Republican voter in the state, requesting an expression as to whether he should contest with Bourne for the Senatorahip. Responae Ia Flattering. The response from these circular let ters was surprising both to Mr. Sell ing and his friends. They were a flattering tribute to the Portland man and the high regard in which he is held throughout the state, both as a progressive Republican and a business man, whose integrity is and always has been unquestioned. In all Mr. Selling received between 11,000 and 12,000 replies. Others are continuing to arrive at the rate of from 500 to 600 a day. Of those 86 per cent of the authors urged Mr. Selling to enter the contest and pledged hint their active and enthusiastic support. Bourne Cienerally Disliked. The letters almost uniformly ex pressed dissatisfaction with Mr. Bourne. Between 3000 and 4000 of the Repub licans .writing declared emphatically they- would support a Democrat tn the election in preference to Bourne, if the senior Senator should receive the Re- I publican nomination. The sentiment ! nmst generally expressed was an aver sion to having longer a "non-resident, non-taxpaying" Senator from this state. Those registering their opposition to Mr. Bourne were just as pronounced In their declaration that they would sup port a "progressive" Republican to suc ceed him, and for that reason urged Mr. Selling to get into the contest. "Oregon today is represented at Washington by two Senator., one a Re publican and the other a Democrat." said Mr. Selling, last night. "The pros- (Concluded oa Fags 4.)