Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, July 24, 1912, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text: VOL LII-X). 16,120. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. JULY 24, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ' I I rt rim rnnnr n iTT. ....... ... CLEVER FORGER SALTON SEA WILL SENATE PROVOKED TELLS OF COW AWES NATIVES, ENEMY IS 2 DIE, 5 HURT AS PHONOGRAPH? NO BE DATE ORCHARD SAYS HE IS RICH OVER CANAL PART IN MURDER AND BATTLE AUTO HITS TREE MILLIONAIRES PLAN PLANTING OP LARGE TRACT. EX-CONVICT CONFESSES LONG LIST OF CRIMES. ALEUTIAN" ISLANDERS MARVEL MOST AT BOSSIE. VALLUN E LOOMS Dr. Fiske Is Killed on Base Line Road. SAN FRANCISCO GIRL VICTIM Miss Toohig Dies While Under Wrecked Car. MT. TABOR CURVE IS FATAL Dead Man Well Known, Being Prom inently Connected in Maufactur ing Enterprise--Fiske and Fam ily Lived "With Mother. Bertrand E. Fiske, an optician with offices in the Macleay building and re siding at 668 Spring street, and Miss Eilzabeth Toohig-, of San Francisco, who Is visiting the family of John F. D. Martin, Jr.. at 81 GFrances avenue, were instantly killed at 10 o'clock last night when the touring car owned and driven by Mr. Fiske left the Base Line road while rounding a curve on the north side of Mount Tabor at a rate of probably 40 miles an hour. Five other persons weer in the car with them, but none of them was seri ously hurt Among them, it is re ported, were P. F. Munsell, brother of Mrs. Fiske, and John F. D. Martin, an optician employed by A. C Felden helmer. A man who occupied the front seat with Dr. Fiske and Miss Toohig, was caught under the car but crawled out unhurt. The. four occupants of the rear seat Jumped when the car left the road and saved themselves. Speed Utah at Carve. That the machine was traveling at a rerrific rate o fspeed Is evidenced by the fact that it plowed deep into the side of the bank below the road for a distance of 40 feet before, it collided hevily with a giant tree that stood in Its pata. The car was smashed almost to an unrecognizable mass 'by its im pact win the treat The two victims were squeezed be tween the frame of the car andHhe tree. Death of Mr. Fiske probably was instantaneous. The woman li-ed a short while but was unconscious when those who had occupied the rear seat reached her. She died soon after they picked her up. The party was taking a late run into the country for pleasure before going home for the night. They had been traveling over some of the city streets and evidently in tended taking a short spin out the Base Line road. The machine was un der perfect control and, although go ing at an excessive rate of speed, took the sharp turns on the road, as it circles around Mount Tabor, grace fully. I.ast Effort Faille. What caused it to leave Its path probably will never be known. As it reached a sharp curve It failed to re spond to the steering apparatus. It went straight ahead. As the front wheels went over the side of the road Mr. Fiske gave a final but futile twist to the steering wheel. It refused to work. In another Instant the car was tearing down the hillside. The wo men screamed. The men called for them to leap. Those in the rear seat had time to jump. As they stood up in the ton neau the car lurched. They landed on the soft earth in safety, thrown from the uncontrollable machine rather than having Jumped. The othera called for Mr. Fiske to lump and to save himself. He stuck leroicaly to his seat thinking perhaps that he could stop the car and save the lives of those in the seat with him. He died at his post, his hands clutching the steering wheel. As soon as they had recovered from their fright those who had been in the tonneau went for aid. The body of Miss Toohey was taken to Holman's. P. F. Munsill, a brother-in-law, took charge of that of Mr. Fiske, which was taken to the establishment of the kfn Undertaking Company. frisks Lived V4"ltk Mother. Bert Fiske was an optician, with of fices in the Macleay building. He and his family lived with his mother. Mrs. Q. V. Harrell, at 568 Spring street, on Portland Heights. He was for eight or ten years in the Postofflce service in Portland before he became an optician. Mr. Ftskes wife and children were at Ocean Park last night when the ac cident occurred. His daughter, June, 14 years old. has been there about a week. Mrs. Fiske left for Ocean Park on the steamer Hassalo yesterday morning, and their son. Norman, 17 years of age. left on the train for the same place. They were to pass a few weeks there with Mrs. Fiske's parents. Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Munsell. Dr. Fiske was about 41 years old. He was the son of Captain James Fiske. a pioneer assayer. who died in Italy about five years ago. He was secretary and treasurer of Fiske. Trullinger A Giles, manufac turers' agents. His own firm of manu facturing opticians was under the name of B. E. Fiske A Company, manufac turing opticians. Of Two Xew Sensations Music Box Accepted' With Least Concern Says Teacher Returned. SEATTLE, Wash.. July 23. (Special.) n-h n.rrv n Sellers arrived at Atka Island, far out in the Aleutli chain, to establish a Governme wt , haY witH him a bull and cow with which to inaugurate stock raising on the island and a phonograph with which he expected to sion..u The natives had never seen anything like either. However, tney rescue" the phonograph as a contraption such as a white man might naturally be rf.vlne while the cow was a never-failing source of wonder and awe. Mr. Sellers has been in the North two years and only comes out to ar- -nv fnr th. natives to market their fox skins without giving all the profit to the traders. wmi. at itica his first child was born to Mrs. Sellers in the midst of a terrific storm and there was no wo man to attend the mother. For nine months Mr. Sellers was compelled to t t via kniia. an A 1 P II f bov who fkecp u f i ' " had committed murder, there being no Jail where he could be confined until the revenue cutter arrived. WAR ON TIGHT SKIRT BEGUN Clubwomen Say Clinging Garment Is Responsible for Crime. CMTCAOO. July 23. (Special.) clubwomen of Chicago have started a ntuda seamst tlKht skirts, which are constructed with the sole aim, tney ae- Maro of dlsolavlntT feminine charms. Clothes that reveal as they half con ceal are declared to be responsible for much of the shocking crime and im morality In the country. To Immodesty in tha costumes of many women wno have discarded voluminous skirts for th. linelna: sort, have been attributed a dozen recent murders in which girls wr thA victims. The lesson in the murder of Julia fmnnr. in New York led the Chicago rinhwnmen. iurlsts and ministers to Join in a movement for reform in dress as a check upon public immorality. A feminine makeup such as Nathan Rohwarti declared drove him to the murder of Julia Connors, they say, is an Invitation to men to accost a woman who so boldly calls attention to her beauty. The hobble skirt stimulates emo tion. It is an abomination," declares Bishop Samuel Fallows. -The close fitting skirt and Doaice should he taken from women by law if necessary," said Dr. Effie Lobdell, the well-known Chicago clubwoman. MUZZLING LAW PROTESTED Pretty Young Women in Antos Pa rade Dogs Through. City Streets. LOS ANGELES, July S3. Twenty dogs with wire muzzles over their faces, or leather straps that held their Jaws tight, each riding in an auto mobile and accompanied by a pretty young woman, were the central figures in a street parade at noon today through the busiest sections of the clty- , ... The young women, owners or tne dogs, were protestants against the dog muzzling ordinance and took this method, they said, to show the people how cruel it was to restrict Fido's freedom with an unsightly wire cage or strap. The women are circulatng a petition to have the ordinance rescinded. DEPUTY SHOT, TROOPS OUT Militia Company and Machine Gnn Squad Leave for Coal Mines. CHARLESTOWN. W. Va., July 23. One company of militia and a machine -,m nnad left here early tonight for Peytona, Boone County, where a dep- .itv sheriff was fatally snoi loaay in a fight with striking coal miners. Sheriff Whtte called upon Governor Glasscock for troops, declaring he was unable to handle the situation. Peytona adjoins the Paint Creek re gion, where miners have been on a strike for several months. Adjutant-General Elliott accompanied the troops. PHOTOGRAPHERS MEET ON Tariff on Camera Supplies and Copy rights to Be Discussed. PHILADELPHIA. July 23. The tariff, so far as it applies to the importation of supplies used in the photographic business will be one of the questions taken up in the thirty-second annual convention of the Photographers' Association of America, which opened here today. Another subject to be discussed will be the advisability of the camera men's forming an adjunct to the association to be known as the "Copyright League." Many of the delegates assert that their pictures are "stolen" by periodicals. It Is said that the subject will be brought to the attention of Congress by the association. 12 WOMEN BURN TO DEATH Fatal Fire Occurs in Midst of Lon don's Danger Zone. LONDON. July 28. Twelve women were burned to death and several others injured by fire today in Moor Lane, the center of the danger zone of the City of London. The fire occurred in a building oc cupied by clothing manufacturing and Christmas card makers. Outposts Are Separated Only Three Miles. IMPORTANT BRIDGE IS TAKEN Blues Retreat Before Mines Can Be Exploded. TWO REDS ARE CAPTURED Trains Are Stopped and Searched. Cavalry Skirmish Expected To dayGuardsmen Bear Vp Well but Sore Feet Give Trouble. HEADQUARTERS OF BRIGADIER GENERAL ,,lo,nM WATTS riot Wash., Jul CI.VO.V8I Xjtuqi'T f, jo ') invading. Red ana tne aeienaing rn'uo armies are within three miles of each other tonight, but neither side knows it is so close to each other. , The main body of Reds is encamped at Elma, where the Oregon National Guard Is taking a rest from the hard 24 hours' work they had in leading the advance guard of the Invaders. The Oregon men probably will remain at Elma two or three days. Two troops of the First Cavalry, Reds, have taken a position far in advance of their base and are within three miles of the Blue outposts, one mile south of Gate. The Second Ir.fantry, National Guard of Washington, led the advance of the Blues today and marched to Scatter Creek, where they camped for the night. Train Stopped and Searched. Blue outposts were established in Mlna, Rochester and Independence. Gate and Rochester are In possession of the Blues and Elma, Oakvllle and Porter of the Reds. The Reds stopped a Northern Pacific train near Elma today, but failed to find any Blues. The Blues captured a train at Gate tonight. Two Reds were taken prisoners today. Blue outposts near Gate fired signal shots tonight that they had seen the enemy. Both sides are proceeding cautiously, with the exception of the Red cavalry, and it is probable that there will be a skir mish between the Red and Blue cavalry tomorrow. Bridge Destruction Falls. The Washington Signal Corps, on duty with the Blue army, is somewhat detached, but is prepared to retreat to the support near Rochester. The (Concluded on Page 0.) : I Tripfto Be Taken to Asia for Purpose of Obtaining Young Trees to Make Beginning. PASADENA. Cal July 23. (Special.) Paul and Wilson Popeen, million aire residents of Altadena and owners of large tracts In the Imperial, Coach ella and Carrlse Valleys, are about to establish the largest date orchard in the world in the Salton Sea region. Their plan Is to begin with 10,000 acres. With China, Ceylon, Northern India and Bagdad Included in their Itinerary, they will leave next week to buy young date trees to set out In the Southern California valleys. Many thousand trees, Including the various varieties which grow in South ern Asia, will be shipped to the United States by the two California land own ers. Experiments made by them have proved that the best quality of dates can be raised in the several places seclected and It is their Intention to introduce date raising as one of the state's greatest fruitgrowing indus tries. They will return in December and Immediately begin operations in the Imperial country, where Dr. Rebecca Lee Doresey, of Los Angles, is at pres ent putting in the largest grove thus far planted near the 400 acres about to be planted by a company. MITCHELL IS SENTENCED Labor Leader Appeals From Judg ment of Nine Months In 'Jail. WASHINGTON. July 23. John Mitchell, vice-president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, was sentenced today in the District of Columbia Su preme Court to nine months' Imprison ment for contempt of court growing out of the Bucks Stove & Range Com pany case. An appeal was taken and J4000 bail furnished to abide by the de cision of the upper court In the same case President Samuel Gompers recently was sentenced to one year, and Secretary Frank Morrison to six months. Mitchell was not In court, but sent a written statement waiving his right to be present. He was to have been sentenced last week, but Justice Wright then declined to pass sentence because he objected to the form of waiver submitted for Mitchell. MINERS EXPEL CAMPBELL Charges of Moyer Against Butte Man I'pheld, 232 to 16. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., July 23. Thomas Campbell, of Butte Union, No. 1, was expelled from the Western Fed. eratlon of Miners by a vote of the del egates to the annual convention in session at Victor tonight. The vote was 232 to 16. Campbell was charged by President Moyer with attempting to turn the Federation against the officers of the central body. Resolutions condemning htm were presented also by the dele gates from the Butte local. Long Debate Will Pre cede Agreement. PERCY OPPOSES FREE TOLLS Mississippian Holds Treaty Prohibits Preference. . HAGUE COURT CRITICISED Cummins Doubts Fuir Trial Could Be Secured and Would as Soon Submit Issue Directly to Britain Itself. WASHINGTON. July 23. The Pan ama Canal administration bill held the floor of the Senate long enough today fnr Hanntnr PftrCV. Of Mississippi, tO make a speech against the remission of tolls to American shlpplpg. ine meaa--a fh.n n-avA w:i v tn the sundry civil appropriation bill, which has pushed It aside for several days. Senator Brandegee expressed little confidence today of early action on the canal bill. The subject of free tolls and of the rights of the United States im H a. tbA tpMtv with Enzland have provoked keen feeling in the Senate and an agreement on various pro visions will not be reached, It is ex pected now, without long debate. The rest, of this week, beginning Thursday, is given over to tariff bills, and several other appropriation meas ures have still to be considered in the Senate, with the prospects that they will delay action on the canal bill. Treaty Called "Hard Bargain." "I do not believe we should give free tolls through the Panama Canal to our shipping, either coastwise or interna tional," said Senator Percy. He added thot ho did Tint believe the Hay-Paunce- fote treaty with Great Britain per mitt, thA United States to dlscrim lnate against foreign shipping in the interest or American commerce. Senator Percy said, the United States undoubtedly had made a "hard bar gain," in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty but that the sense of National re sponsibility should prevent this coun trv from breaking: Its contract. Senator Cummins said he believed the canal case could never properly be submitted, to the Hague. "It would not be possible to get a fair and unbiased court," said he. "I (Concluded on Page 2.) Oakland Prisoner Says He Is Heir to $250,000 Which. Is Held in Trust by His Father. OAKLAND, July 23. In a confession made today to Captain of Detectives Petersen, Carl H. Westcott, alias John F. Stewart, who acknowledges having forged many small checks In cities along the Coast, surprised his hearers by telling them that he was the heir to $250,000. He said that the money, left to him by his grandfather, was being held In trust by his father, who Is in Florida. Westcott said that he began a crimi nal career several years ago and was forced to leave his father's home. Since then he has been arrested several times, having served four years in the penitentiary at Stillwater. Minn., for forgery. He was released in 1909. went to Detroit and was arrested again on another charge of forgery. At St. Joseph, Mo., he was arrested again on a similar count and "jumped" his bail. He was arested Saturday In Oakland while visiting his partner. Isadore Schul, in the Alameda County jail. Since last April the two young men have obtained J6000 on bad checks, the police estimate. WOMEN FILE NOMINATIONS Two of Sex in San Francisco to Run for Legislature. SAN FRANCISCO, July 23. '(Spe cial.) Two women today filed petitions as candidates for the California Assem bly. Helen Willsey Hall has filed papers as the Socialist candidate for the As sembly from the Twenty-seventh Dis trict and Lizzie Lobe as Socialist can didate for the Twenty-fifth District. In both cases the petitions were correctly made up, the filing fees were paid and the candidates' affidavits were prop erly signed. Should these San Francisco women be elected to the State Assembly, they would not be the pioneers in the field in the United States. There are four women members of the Colorado As sembly, one of whom, Mrs. Agnes L. Riddle, has served several terms and is well known throughout the state. PEACE OFFERED ALBANIA New Turkish Cabinet Orders Sus pension of Hostilities. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 23. The new Turkish Cabinet under Moukhtar Pasha, the Grand Vizier, celebrated to day the anniversary of the day on wnicn tne constitution was wrung from ADdul Hamlfl, the ex-Sultan, by in auguratlng a new policy in Albania. Or ders were Issued to suspend all hos tilities and the authorities were In structed to take every means of paci fying the rebel provinces, while the troops are to be withdrawn to the prin cipal towns. Two important dismissals of officers were announced today, those of Shehab Eddin Bey, the commandant of Con stantinople, and of Eddin Bey, com mandant-general of gendarmerie. PRIMARY REFUSED NORRIS Xebraka Chairman Holds It Imprac ticable to Grant Request. LINCOLN, Neb., July 23 On the ground that a statewide primary at this time would be impracticable and that the state committee will have end ed its services before the election could be held. Chairman Kennedy, of the Republican state committee, has re fused the request of Representative Nor- rls lor a second election to see if Ne braska Republicans indorse his stand in the National convention. Norris, immediately following an nouncement that he would support Roosevelt instead of Taft as the legal nominee of the Republican party, was criticised by Nebraskans and In reply offered again to place tne question be fore the people. LONDONERS JFEAR ADVANCE Spread of Cattle Plague Portends Scarcity of Meat. LONDON July 23. (Special.) Lon don housewives are despondent over the prospects of dearer meat in conse quence of the spread of the cattle plague, and the closing of the London markets is likely to have a far-reaching effect. That the authorities are fully alive to the dangers of the situation is evidenced by the fact that a flock of sheep was held up by the police until they had passed the examination of a veterinary surgeon, hastily summoned for the purpose. RAIN DESCENDS IN SPOTS Mount Tabor and Sunnyside Soaked. Business Section Escapes. The ML Tabor and Sunnyside dis tricts of the city experienced a heavy downpour of rain at 7 o'clock last night, which was almost a cloudburst. In other sections of the city. Including the down-town districts no rain fell. Those who were caught without umbrellas, were dcenched. For ten minutes the rain came down in .tor rents. Then it ceased as suddenly as it began. Haggln and His 'Wire in Hospital. LEXINGTON, Ky., July 23. It was learned today that James B. Haggln. the millionaire of California and New York, has not been dis charged from the hospital in this city. His wife and her father, George Voorhies, also are confined in the same hospital. The attending physician says Mr. Haggin is suffering from stomach trouble. Statement Stirs New York Officials. PRISONERS ARE WEAKENING Rose's Story Contradicted by Man Who Implicates Self. MRS. ROSENTHAL IS HEARD Gambler's Widow Goes Before Grans Jury Dictagraphs Vsed in Get- ting Evidences Burns to Be Hired to Take Trail. NEW YORK, July 23. (Special.) Signs of weakness on the part of the defense of the men accused of com plicity in the assassination of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, became ap parent this afternoon after Harry Val lon, who had surrendered during the night and been held without ball on a charge of complicity In tha Rosenthal murder, had made a statement to the police and the District Attorney. Evidently Vallon's statement was of great importance, for it stirred the police and the District Attorney's force to Immediate action. Vallon admitted that he was in the vicinity of the Met ropole Hotel at the time of the murder; that he had previously been a passen ger In the touring car which conveyed the assassins to and from the scene of the crime, and that he was conver sant with phases of the plot which the police had previously been unable to reach. Statements at Variance. The assertions of Vallon were widely at variance with statements that have been made by "Jack Rose," whose real name is Jacob Rosenwelg, the man who, by his own admissions, hired the murder car from Shapiro and Llbby and rode in it from Fourteenth street to Harlem and back to Forty-second street and Sixth avenue. The variations in the two statement! were so important that the District Attorney and Deputy Police Commis sioner Dougherty determined to bring the two prisoners together face to face and question them on their respective stories. James M. Sullivan, counsel for Rose, was notified of the plan of the District Attorney. Mr. Sullivan hurried to Mr. Whitman's office and held an excited conference with the District Attorney and Inspector Hughes. Vallon'. Story Startles. Vallon's statement was shown to him and it appeared to set him back. He promptly announced that he would not allow his client to face Vallon and un dergo an examination. Rose, In his statement to th police, has said that Vallon was not in the gray asasslnat'.on car in which the murderers escaped. Vallon admitted today that he was a passenger In that car during the time when Rose was running around town gathering up men who assembled In the vicinity of the Metropole when Rosenthal was killed. In the course of a long examination before the grand Jury today under the direction of District Attorney Whitman and Assistant . Moss, Mrs. Herman Rosenthal, widow of the murdered gambler, gave In detail all the knowl edge in her possession concerning the charge of Rosenthal that certain police officers were sharing in the profits of the tenderloin gambling houses. One of Trio Accused. Preparations are under way fot sending out a general alarm for Whltey" Lewis, whose real name is Jacob Sidel; "Lefty" Loewey and 'Dago" Frank, whose name Is Frank Murato. It Is understood that these three are charged with waiting on the sidewalk outside the Metropole fot Rosenthal with revolvers In their hands, and that one of them Is accuwcc of firing the bullets into the gambler's head. Dictagraphs are playing a big pari In probing the mystery. Little denial was made of the report that dicta graphs were placed in the Tombs cells where the five prisoners held were confined. It now appears that when "Bridgey" Webber and his wife were called to the police headquarters Sun day the pretext of wishing to talk te them merely drew them from th-ir apartment, 193 Second avenue, lonx enough for electricians to put dicta graphs in the place. The second arrest of Webber on a more serious charae followed. It was announced positively that the District Attorney's office had accept ed the offer of William J. Schleffclln, president of the Citizens' Union, to furnish money for the employment of Burns detectives, who will endeavor not only to clear up the Rosenthal murder case, dul roveai tuumuvH between the noice and the criminal el ement. It is believed that Mr. Fchief felln acted for a group of prominent citizens. Including J. P. Morgan. Jr., and James Sheyer. These men realize that the time has come to atack the ponce syKtem from the outside. Whether the four gangsters still at large, who were In the "murder car" at the time of the shooting, win sur render Is causing much speculation. District Attorney Whitman nas an- (Concluded on Pace 2.)