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THE 3IOKXIXG OKEGOXIAX, HAIl'KUAI, OVXtS lo, THIS. DEAD STEUNEfJBERG 15 POLITICAL I55UE Brother of Idaho's Assassin ated Governor Makes Initial Attack. CANDIDATE MORRISON HIT C. B. MconenberaT Opens Fight on Man Who Would Be Gem State' t Executive. Accused Man Enters Denial. BOISE. Idaho. June 14. (Special.) Protesting against the election or jonti T. Morrtaon an Governor of this stste, bwium he alleges Mr. Morrlaon m arrayed with the representative of dis order during the trial of the Western Federation officers here, C. B. Steunen berg. brother of frank Bteunenberg. murdered Governor of Idaho, today made public an open letter tn which he attacks Morrison's candidacy. Tha letter created a sensation, culling for a reply from Mr. Morrlaon. who de nies th chance of Steunenbcrg. in raisins; of the Stounenberg episode will. It Is now believed, make an Issue dur ing; the coming primary campaign. In his statement Mr. Steunenbergr says In part: "I cannot fel that I would be true . to the name of Bteunenberg If I re main silent and permitted John T. Mor rlaon to continue hla candidacy for Governor without voicing my earnest protest. Morrison should not be con sidered favorably as a possible occupant of this high office or any other honor at tha hands of the people of Idaho. Dead Brother Defeated. '"My brother. Frank Kteunenberg, while Governor of Idaho, acting from the purest motives of patriotism, took a decided stand for law and order. lie thereby Incurred enmities that after several years resulted In his assassina tion. Men who, I believe, were his murderers were arrested and brought to trial. Their Instrument, Harry Orchard, made confession of his own and their part In this rile conspiracy. Corroboration of this confession was seoured through the sworn statement of Steve Adams, and tha state thus ob tained evidence that would Inevitably have resulted In the conviction of Moyer, Haywood and Pettlbone. "John T. Morrison. who had been Governor of Idaho for two years and for many years bad lived a neighbor of my brother and enjoyed hla confidence and claimed to esteem hla friendship, knew as well as any man In tut state the Importance attached to Adams' tes timony in the state's case against the murderers of the man he esteemed as a neighbor and friend. Apparently ha was unable to resist the opportunity of tak ing a fee, and by securing the freeing of this Important witness, rendered useless the efforU of the state to bring to Justice these slayers of his friend. "I recognise the right of an attorney to sell his services to a client, but Mr. Morrison was something more than a lawyer. He had been Chief Executive of the state. Ife had applauded my brother's efforts on behalf of right and . Justice, and means by which tha dignity and good name of the state had been upheld. If there was anywhere anr man who owed to his neighbor and his friend debt of gratitude that man was John T. Morrison, and the debt was due to Frank Pteunenberg. But he could not resist the tempting clink of the greasy SO pieces of stiver, for which Judas be trayed his master. ' Steaaeaberg 'Asks Question. "John T. Morrison asks the people of thla state to make him Governer. I ask In what position would he be If he were elected Governor, and Jack Simp kins, the accomplice and companion of Harry Orchard In Caldwell Immediately before the assassination and who Is still under Indictment In this state and la a fugitive from Justice, were appre hended and placed o trial for this foul murder? Could tha people expect that this man would see Justice done to this SlmpklnsT "I believe that all tha Steunenbergs feel that Morrison's nomination and election to the Governorship would be a disgrace, a repudiation of the acta of .our brother and a Justification of his murder." Steunenberg'a attack la vigorously denied by Mr. Morrison, who says in freeing 8teve Adams he did no more than any other attorney could do or would do under the clrcumatant-es If called upon. He charges that. behind the attack on his . candidacy la the Italian hand of hla enemies who were thwarted, while he was Governor, from securing control of large bodies of tim ber In thla state and now seek to re taliate. "The people ought to have the facts," , deelare-d Mr. Morrison. "The truth Is I wae not connected with the Moyer-Hay-wood-Pettlbone case at all. I was never In the employ of the Western Federa tion of Miners or any of Its agents or attorneys. I did, however, by the em ployment of his uncle, appear In a habeas corpus proceeding by which one Steve Adams was released from the penitentiary, where he had been held for months without authority of law, without ever having had a complaint ' filed against him. and without ever having had a preliminary examination and trial or a commitment. "That was late In October, 1I0. The federation case was tried In the Spring and Summer of 1907, and with them I had no connection whatever. My employment In the Adams matter lasted three days and ended when he was re leased. Upon the return of the writ he was promptly released by the court, but was Immediately rearrested and In due course properly committed for trial upon a charge of murder committed In North Idaho. He was afterwards tried and acquitted. I was not connocted In this case In any manner after the habeas corpus proceeding, and was not even In the state when he was tried." SEATTLE GETS CONVENTION Conference of Charities and Correc tion to Meet There. CLEVELAND, o.. June 14. Tha Na tional Conference of Charities and Cor rections voted today to hold Ita next convention in Seattle. It la expected that by holding the conference It Seattle next year seed will be sown that will prepare the Parlflo Coaal states to handle properly the flood of Immigration that will pour Into them with the opening of the Panama. Canal. BEND TO GET BIG PLANT Sawmill Cootlng $1,000,000 Will Be Krerted Soon. BEND. Or., June 14. Announcement has Just been made here by the Brooks Robertson and Scanlon-Olpson Com panies, holders of millions of feet of Central Oregon timber, that a mill to cost tl. 000.000 will be built at Bend, construction to start within IS months. The plant will have a minimum payroll of 125.000 a month, employing 500 men. Another mill, plans for which are as yet In embryo, will likely be erected here also by the Mueller Land & Tim ber Company. It Is also announced by the Bend Water. Light & Power Company, that u 1 40.000 electrical power plant will be erected, work to start Immediately. It will be a permanent plant. Jt will be built on the unit plan, two units being put In now and three added as the growth of the town demands. .The buililt'tf will be of brick or concrete, the total cost of the completed plant being- 80.000. I'lans for a sewer system for the town, costing when ultimately com pleted 1292.000. have Just been com pleted by Engineer R. E. Koon. of Chi cago, and accepted by the City Coun cil. It la proposed to Install the first unit of the svstem now, providing a s I GIRL OF THIRTEK OBEfiO.V BEST STlDKVr IX tlX AMI.ATIO.S. v. 4 filadya C'arpeater. EBTACADA. Or.. June 14. (Special.) Mies Gladys Carpen ter, a graduate of the eighth grade of the Estarada schools, haa Just been notified by L. R. Alderman. State Superintendent of Schools, that she has pasaed highest In the state In the eighth-grade ex aminations. Her percentage was 8-. Her nearest competitor was Samuel Prltchard, of Lane County. 9 S-9. Miss Carpenter Is 13 years old and a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Srhock. of Estacada. with whom she makea her home. Her father ia a resi dent of Portland. Her mother Is dead. Her Instructors In the local school regard her as a marvel and were not especially surprised to learn that she had passed highest In Oregon. sanitary sewer for the business portion of town. This will cost approximate ly I". 9.000. The question of Isauing bonds will be submitted to the people within a short time, and if they ap prove the construction work will be started this Fall. TIVO APPLICATIONS OUT SEASIDK HAS REQUESTS IXJH FRANCHISES TO ROADS. llarrlman System Believed Behind Plan for Right of Way on Main Street of Beach Town. SEASIDE, Or, June 14. (Special.) The announcement which waa made a short time ago to the effect that there would ston be another railroad through thla city received, added confirmation at the last meeting of the City Council a few nights ago, when there were two applications for franchises made for a railroad right-of-way through Main street. The presence of surveyors In this vicinity for the last year has long Indi cated the probability of a railroad com ing through this city, and numerous circumstances disclosed recently have substantiated thla belief. It haa been established that the Harrlman interests have found a desired route from Port land to Astoria that has been sought by wsy of the present line now extend ing aa far aa Tillamook. When the TUlamook line was first built it waa known that the extension of the line to the mouth of the Columbia. Its most logical and desirable terminus would be only a matter of time. The finding of a suitable grade from this line to the Columbia has only lately been ac complished by a survey. This survey extends up the north fork of the Ne- halem, across the divide, and thence down the Necanlcum to Seaside. From here there Is an easy route to the Co lumbia. Right-of-way has been pur chased along the beach north of here by partlea known to be acting as agenta for tha railroad. The question of rignt-or-way through Seaside, though expected to arlao at any time, haa Just occurred. Although the railroad company, nas carer in iy ob literated all means of tracing the real applicant for the franchise by means of agents. It I well known that the, per son applying for the franchise Intends to turn over the grant to tne company building the line Into Seaside from the Nehalem. Although there was some question aa to whether the line that is being surveyed through here wus being put through by the Hill or the Harrlman n teres ts. all Indications are now that the Harrlman people are hack of the work. Their line Into Tillamook, and the fact that their right-of-way does not coincide with Hill property here. precludes the supposition that the Hill people might be extending their line out of this city, which Is their present terminal. ' It ia also pointed out that there are no Important Interests of the Hill people that might be taking them beyond here, while the Harrlman peo ple have long been known to be desir ous of reaching the Columbia River. where there could be easy connections made with ocean freighters. SURVEYORS ORDERED OUT Southern Pacific Sends Men to Not I Tunnel to Trace Roads. EUGENE. Or.. June 14. (Special.) Southern Pacific Construction Engineer Hoey aent two crews of engineers to day to Notl tunnel to trace county roads and their joints of crossing tha survey to Coos Bay. The purpose is to be ready for rapid distribution of construction material when the building Is ordered. mm Mrlii ii . 1 anf.li ki fliil l DOUBLE SHOOTING BIDS' FAMILY ROW Fonfier Portland Man Sends Bullet Into Brother- ' in-Law?s Body. . TROUBLE LONG STANDING John Adams, 30, Spanish War Vet eran, Deserted by Wife, Follows Her lo Parents' Home Where Shooting Occurs. ROSEBURG. Or.. June 1 4. (Special.) "I have thrashed that fellow before and I can do It again." were the words spoken by John Ad.ims as he boarded today's stage for Iteston, where, at noon, he shot and probably fatally wounded Paul Graf, his brottier-ln law. Following the shooting of Graf, Ben Hartman, a brother-in-law, selxed a Winchester rifle and fired two shots at Adams, who was by that time ZOO yards distant from the scene - of the tragedy. One of tne otiarges siruca Adams near the base of the spine and It Is not expected he will live, Adams wound was Inflicted unknown to Hart- man, who found him nearly two hours after the shooting. According to meager details of the shooting received here late today, Adams and his wife recently separ ated at Portland and Mrs. Adams re turned to Reston to reside with her parents. Nothing more was heard of Adams until late yesterdsy, when he arrived from Portland and registered at a local rooming-house under an as sumed name. He boarded the stage for Reston. where It Is believed he went to attempt a reconciliation with his wife. Arrlv Ing at the home of bis wife's parents, K. M. Hartman. hla father-in-law, re fused him admission and demanded that he leave the place. Adams resented the demands of Hartman. and during an altercation that followed he pulled a revolver and fired three shots. None of the bullets took effect. Attracted to the scene by the shoot Ing. Graf was about to assist his fath er-ln-law when Adams fired another hot which entered Grafs breast and plowed through his lung. - Adams then left tha. scene and hastened to the hills. Graf la an electrician and for several years haa been employed by the Pacific Telephone Company at Grants Pass. At the time of the shooting he was passing- a vacation at the home of his wife s parents. Seriously wounded, th attending physicians entertain slight hopes of Adams recovery. - Adams la about SO yeara and la a veteran of the 8panlah-Amerlcan war. He waa admitted to the Soldiers' Horns a few months ago and while there was married to Hartman's daughter. They later left for Portland, when domestic difficulties culminated In a separation. The prisoner will arrive here tonight. Hartman was brought here late to night and lodged In the County Jail, where he will await a preliminary hearing, pending a report of the pbysl clans relative to Adams' Injuries. Adams will arrive here early tomorrow and will be admitted to a local hos pltaL It la not believed that either Adams or Graf will survive their wounds. Adams' statement to tha effect that ha married Hartman's daughter la de nted by members of the family, who say they were merely close friends. Deputy Stewart said late tonight that Adams supposed his wife was at tha home of her parents, while In fact she ia still In Portland. WEISER RATIFIES ACTION Commercial Club Scene of Joyful Meeting of Citizens. VTEISER. Idaho, June 14. (Special.) Optimism was tha keynote of every speech delivered last night at a rous ing ratification meeting held In the handsome Commercial Club assembly room, following the voting of 1452,000 tn bonds at the special city election last Monday. Musical numbers en livened the meeting and predictions of a rapid development for Welser as a result of Monday's progressive step were made. It was explained that paving of all the streets Nand alleys In the present business section will be undertaken and completed, barring unforeseen de lays, by next Fall and Winter, and sewer mains will also be laid In the paving district before that time. The liberal extensions of water mains, sew ers and cement sidewalks to other parts of the city will be made as rapidly as possible. PLAYWRIGHT IS MARRIED Harry Wilson and Helen Cooke, Ills Bride, to Join Colony. SAN FRANCISCO. June 14. Harry Leon Wilson, author and playwright, and Helen Macgowan Cooke, the It-year-old daughter of Grace Macgowan Cooke, were married by a magistrate at a down-town hotel here yesterday. They will Join the colony of artists and writers at Carmel-by-the-Sea, Wilson having built an artistically designed chateau, called "Ocean Home,' near the resort. Wilson was editor of Puck from ! until 1902. He la a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The romance began when Wilson and Miss Cooke took part In the play. Twelfth Night. given at the Forest Theater, Carme'., last Summer. Sandy to Celebrate Fourth. SHADY. Or- June 14. (Special.) this place to hold a Fourth of July celebration, and G. W. Beers and Oscar Dahlgren have been appointed com mittee on arrangements. C. B. Ayls worth, of Portland, will furnish mu sic. The programme win consist of music, an oration and races, closing with a ball In the evening. Head Cut Off In Mill. RAYMOND, Wash..June "t. (Spe cial.) Jack Johnson, aged 10 years. married, with two children, was In stantly killed In tha Creech Brothers' Dlant. Johnson was working on the carriage and a log rolled back, catch ing him between a lever and cutting tha top of hla bead off. Rain Puts Out Fires. RATMOND. Wash.. June 14. (Spe cial.) A heavy rain which has been falling for the past two days has ef fectually extinguished the numerour small fires throughout this section. No consldersble damage had as yet been done by the fires. Do "One look means a lot. Tri-State Church Conference on at Newberg. MISSIONARIES ON VISIT Growth of Religion Body of Oregon, Washington and Idaho Shows Interesting Development. Officers Are Elected. NEWBERG. Or.. June 14. ("pedal.) The annual session of Oregon yearly meeting of the Friends Church opened at this place yesterday, with a large at tendance from Oregon, wasmngion ana Idaho. The principal visitors of Importance from other yearly meetings are Dr. Syl vester Newlln. of Pasadena. CaL; Charles and May Replogle, of Everett. Wash., and Caleb Jenkins, of Tacoma. Wash., all ministers of prominence, the Replogles missionaries for years among the Indians of Alaska. Charles Replogle is himself chief of a tribe of Indians In Alaska, having been elected to that place years ago. though himself a full, fledged American of Oerman extrac tion. Tha opening address of tha session was given by Dr. Newlln. a stirring message for the church In the 20 tn cen tury. A message suggestive of the epistles of the Apostle Paul was read from John Henry Douglas, of Califor nia, one of the pioneers In evsntcfcllsm In the Frlonds' Church a generation oko. He Is now aged, but snt a greet ing to thla yearly meeting, within FRIEI1DSII1 IE1G You Kjhlqw That Westover Terraces, the Tcry cream of Portland's finest residential district, Is only ten minutes by auto from the heart of the city on the elevation overlooking Nob Hill, and at the intersection of Lovejoy street and Cornell road! Do 3 on know that all landscape work in Westover Terrace is under the direct supervision of Col. Dosche the man who laid out the Lewis and Clark Pair (.rounds, the St. Louis Pair GroundM and many others! Io you know that West over Terraces w ill have the highest class improvements bitulithic paving, cluster street lights, small ornamental trees and flowering plants, cement walks and curbs, sewers and water mains! Do You Know' That Westover Terraces, by reason of its location and en vironment, has rigid building restrictions and can never bo deteriorated in value by Inferior dwellings! J)o you know that Westover Terraces in surrounded by the choicest homes in Portland anft that the finest homes in the Northwest will be built here ! Do you know that the magnificent panorama of mountain, valley and snow-capped peak can never be ex cluded from Westover Terraces! Yes, these statements-arc absolutely true, as a visit to the property w ill prove. As the work has progressed many lots have been bought and the point ha.s now been reached w hen The Six Finest Sites Are Ready to Be Sold They are the six best residential sites in this remarkable property. The smallest one contains ten thousand square feet (about seventy by one hundred and thirty feet), and the largest fifteen thousand square feet (about one hun dred and sixteen by one hundred and thirty feet). Call or phone to me personally. I'll be glad to talk further and take you out in ten minutes time. To reach the property, take Tw enty-third-street car, get otr at Lovejoy and walk west to F. N. CLARK whose limits he has done so much work In the pssu Many of the meetings In this state especially, were founded by him. Church Crewlh Eseearaslis. The report of the condition of the church occupied most of the time of the afternoon session. The growth of the church, both In numbers and In the work don. for the world Is eneoursg Ing. Officers for the yearly meeting were chosen aa follows: Presiding clerk. Julius C Hodson, of Newberg. Or. Recording clerk. Blanch Ford Pick ering, of tialem. Or.' Rearilng clerk. Marguerite P. Elliott, of Falem. Or. Assistant reading and recording clerk. Myrtle Russell, of halem. Or. Announcing clerk, Walter H. Wilson, of Newberg, Or. President, Levi T. Pennington, of Pa riflc College, was chosen aa delegate to the Five Tears' Meeting, the quin quennial session of the Friends of America, to be held In Indianapolis. Ind.. In October of thla year. Alternate delegatea to that gathering were chosen aa follows: Salem quarterly meeting. Aaron M. Bray, of Roeedale, and Jesse Coulson, of licotts Mills; Boise Valley quarterly meeting. Hanford J. Pickering, of Green leaf. Idaho; Portland quarterly meeting. F. Marlon George, of Port land, and Phoebe Hammer, of Ients; Newberg quarterly meeting, Charles O Whltely. of Newberg. Statistics ef Year Oat. f At the session of tha yearly meeting this morning, the statistics for the year were considered, the report being made by Aaron M. Bray, showing a healthy growth throughout the yearly meeting, and the n peace and arbitration waa presented by John F. Hanson, of Portland, superintendent of that department Tha session this afternoon Is de voted to the subject of literature. In troduced by the report of the superin tendent of that department, Mary Cammack. with addresses by Iaom P. Wooten. of Falem. Or.; Mary riear. of Portland, and Charles O. Whltelv, of Newberif. Tonight will occur the annual meet ing of the Pacific CoUge Corporation, which w-tll review the work of the year and elect four new members for Selling Agent, 818-S23 Spalding Building. tha board of managers of the college to take the places of B. C. Miles, of falera; Julius C. Hodson, of -Newberg; Lira H. Woodward, of Newberg, and John He m be r ton. of Salem, Peiulaal atateaseat Arleea. The question of doctrlnsl statement or restatement was brought before the meetlnf by two communications, one from Boise Valley quarterly meeting In Idaho, and one from Salem. quarterly meeting. Oregon. The matter was re ferred to the representatives from the various quarterly meetings, to pro pose a committee to present the matter In more direct form to the yearly meet ing. The occasion of the raising of this question Is the failure of the Five Years' Meeting of the church to adopt as a part of Its fundamental state ment the so-called Richmond Declara tion of Fmfth, the doctrinal statement that waa adopted by tha Quinquennial Conference, the forerunner of the Five Years' Meeting, and was afterwards adopted, together with Oeorgo Fox' letter to the Governor of Barhadoes as part of tha discipline of every Friends Yearly Meeting In America except one. From several yearly meetings, Ore gon probably among them, will go up thla year a demand that the Richmond Declaration be made an Integral part of the uniform discipline. Wahklaknm County Resident Dies. CATHLAMENT. Wash, June 14 (Special.) Patrick II. Neville, a resi dent of Wahkiakum Cnuntv sine 1 SI AS. 'WHITE CLOVER Ice lassies, You'll say when you use "The whole town sends for TOWNSEND'S Products." Main 4077 PHONES A 4946 died st his home in Skamokawa venter was 73 years old. The following chil dren survive him John Neville, of Snattle. and Nicholas, of Skatrinkawa : Mrs. Clifford Monroe. Mrs. William l.yod, of Skamukawa: Mrs. William I.iiml. of Cathlamet, and Mrs. Brown, of Urays Harbor. CANDIDATES ARE NAMED I.nne County Prohibitionists Nomi nate Ticket. Ei;GKNE. Or.. June 14 (Special.) . Lane County Prohibitionists have nom inated the following candidates for of fice: T. H. Garrett. Jefferson H. Irish, William R. Porter, all of Kugene, Rep resentative. Third District; Kdwaid Zumwalt, Irving. Sheriff; W. W. Bear ly, Creswell, Trrssurer; l A. CoWren, Eugene, Assessor; O. M. Bailey, I.o rane. Commissioner; A. A. Kyburx, Eugene, School Superintendent. A. E. Hexllne from Prohibition head qusrters, snd O. A. Stlllman, Prohibi tion candidate for Congress, addressed the meetings of the convention. Prall After Kugene, Signers. Et'GEVF.. Or.. June 14 (Special.) C. T. Prall. president of the Oregon Association for highway Improvement, came here today In the hope of secur ing part of the HlflO signatures needed Cream pleases laddies and it: 'It simply surpasses. " 1