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- PRICE FIVE CENTS. SEPTEMBER KAISERIN GRANTS BUSINESS VOLUME EASTERN MILLIONS " BUY TIMBER BONDS 812,090,000 INVESTED IX WEST ERN SECURITIES THIS YEAR. GUN THAT KILLED SCHOOLGIRL'S PLEA BAN" OX FRENCH IN URVILIE SCHOOL- REMOVED. OF COUNTRY GAINS OFFICIALS BELIEVE 1G. DOMESTIC AXD FOREIGN" OR DERS IMPROVING.' MARINES IN BAnLE WILSON OPPOSES TARIFF BOARD PLAIl 2 OFFICIALS HELD IN SMUGGLING PLOT BARR FOUND Dramatic Disclosures Follow Rapidly. THAT MAN DID DEED BELIEVED Near-Eye-Witness to Murder Is Found at Inquest. TANGIBLE CLEWS DAWNING lime of Crime More Nearly Estab lished Victim's Last Abode 13 Sought by Police as Means to Finding Important Letters. That H. G. Barr was killed Monday night by a man, not a woman; that the time was around 9 o'clock, tame diately after Barr had deposited three passengers at the Hut tavern and started back to the city, and that the crime was committed within 300 yards of where the body was found, and al most within the view of Billy Swag gert, proprietor of the tavern, were Indications established yesterday by Captain Baty and Detectives Maloney and Swennes. A pool of blood in the road at the end of Death Curve furthest from the city, an old revolver, fully loaded and with one chamber fired, lying In the grass near the blood spot, and the re port of a woman that she heard a shot fired and saw an automobile pass with a man driving it from the foot board beside the driver's seat, were the developments picked up by the of ficers yesterday. The discoveries are of greatest importance in that they greatly narrow the expanse of time and space within which the murder was committed. Important Facta Gathered. Of highest importance was a state ment obtained yesterday by the offi cers from Mrs. Nathan Wilcox, who Uvea about midway between the spot where the pool of blood was found and the point where the body was thrown over the bank. She heard the shot fired, some time between 3 and 10 o'clock and, going to a window, saw the car proceeding along the road to ward the city. It was being driven by a man who stood on the running board. She could see only the dark outline of the car and Its standing driver as it was silhouetted against the light cast In front by the car's lights. To test the woman's story three car loads of officers went last night to the scene of the murder, one of the cars being that in which the murder was committed. Arriving on the spot, they went through the supposed evo lutions, which occurred at the time of the murder and found that they tallied at every point. Standing ' where Mrs. Wilcox stood. Captain Baty was able to make out the outline of - a man standing on the running board, just as he had done. It was also clearly dem onstrated that the car could be op erated by a man in that position. Murderer "Hien" Car Is Belief. .' Peculiar features In the mechanism of the car seem to point to the fact that it was driven after the murder by one who was familiar with it. Un like most other cars, the throttle and spark control . operate on opposite sides of a circle, are exactly alike in appearance, and are not ratcheted, so that they drop back if not held at all times. Patrolman Sherill, an experi enced chauffeur, who drove the car last night, had difficulty with the ma chine until he had become familiar with it. After exhaustive tests based upon Mrs. Wilcox's statement. Captain Baty pronounced himself satisfied that the crime was committed under her eyes and as she had described it. He was greatly elated over this limitation of the sone of uncertainty of time and space within which the murder was done. f Dlarlnim Are Dramatic. The occurrences at the time of the finding of this new evidence were highly dramatic. Accompanied by George Barr. brother of the murdered man. Captain Baty and Detectives Mol oney and Swennes went yesterday to the neighborhood of the place where the crime was committed, with the pur pose of interviewing the residents, on the off chance of gaining a clew. They had made considerable progress and were debating the advisability of stop ping at another house, when Captain Baty's attention was attracted to a spot on the hard-surfaced road near his feet. v "That's blood!" he said. . The others were inclined to dispute him at first, but young Barr took a pen-knife and began digging up tbo hard-packed roadway. "See." he cried In a tense voice, "that's Harry's blood!" Seemingly Impelled by an occult force, the young brother straightened up and cast his eyes about, and then walked Jnto the grass by the side of the road and picked up a cheap .3 8 -caliber revolver. "And that," be said, "is the gun that killed him." It was a simple task to reconstruct the scene af the time of the crime. Barr had been shot, apparently from the running-board, within a few hundred feet of the old Lakevlew tavern. Just as his car reached the beginning of the fatal Theodore B. Brown Tells Realty Men Portland Is Center for Rapidly Growing Business. More than $13,000,000 has been brought from Eastern money centers and invested in timber bonds since January 1, according to a statement made before the Portland Realty Boara yesterday by Theodore B. Brown, of Brown & Brown, timber bond broKers. This new capital was invested in bond ing propositions, nearly all of which are in Portland's territory. "The business of floating bonds on standing timber has reached big pro portions during the past few years." said Mr. Brown. "The ability to re alize on standing timber by the bond ing method has1 been of great benefit to the Northwest. As a result oper ators have been able to continue the logging Industry to advantage. Hun dreds of men have been given employ ment and the development of this sec tion has been generally aided. "Oreaon and Washington timber bonds are now in favor with Eastern capitalists. On account of the effi cient patrol of the forests, danger from fires has been reduced greatly, thus providing better security for timber bonds." PEARS BRING HIGH PRICE Rogue River Bartletts Sold for $3.15- a Box In New York. MEDFOKD, Or., Sept. 20. (Special.) The highest prices for Rogue River Bartlett pears this year were received today in the New York market, when $3.15 a box was paid for fruit shipped by D. R. Hill, of this valley. The sale was made through the Producers' Frnlt Company, which rep6rts the sale of three cars. ' The first was sold for $1351, being made up of shipments from various orchardists. Prices ranged from $2.60 to $2.90. The second car brought $1449. It was loaded with Hill fruit. Prices ranged- from $2.70 to $3.15-a box. The third car, mostly from the Daggett orchard, brought $1541. Prices averaged $3.05. The Producers' Fruit Company, hop ing to duplicate the success of last year, has shipped four cars of Bosc pears to Glasgow, via Montreal. Bosc pears met with remarkable success in that market a year ago.- DOCTOR TRUSTS PEOPLE Woods Hutchinson Says Publicity . Will Improve Healtb Conditions. WASHINGTON, Sept 20. -"Trust the people and they will take care of them selves in health affairs without being driven," declared Dr. Woods Hutchin son, of New York, formerly of Portland, Or., in an address today before the American Public Health Association. The time had passed, he said, when any of the trappings of mystery need be placed about questions relating to public health. Twenty-five years ago, when the medical knowledge was much less advanced, mystery probably was necessary, he declared, but full pub licity was needed today. Wide publicity and discussion of health problems, he declared, were do ing more to bring the United States into an excellent state of health than the strictly enforced laws in some other countries. TAFT CHANGES HIS PLANS Trip to Hot Springs, Va., to Shorten Stay at Parramatta. BEVERLY, Mass., Sept. 20. Plans for President Taft's vacation here were changed today, and it became known that the President probably would re main in Beverly only until October 20, He had intended staying at Parra matta until a few days before election, and then closing up his Summer home. travel to Cincinnati to vote. According to the new plan, the Presi dent will leave Beverly with" Mrs. Taft for Hot Springs, Va., late in October. He will vote in Cincinnati and return to Hot Springs for a long stay, prob ably remaining there until a few days before Congress convenes In Decern ber. EUROPE "DONE" ON $83 Columbia Student Works Passage and- Walks After He Arrives. " NEW YORK, Sept. 20. (Special.) , Doing Europe on less than $33 is a feat that has just been accomplished by Morris Jagendorf, a Columbia Uni versity student, who returned to Columbia today to begin the work of the new school year. Jagendorf left New York early In June with a work ing capital of $90. He had $7.40 left when he returned. He spent his Sum mer in England, France,- Germany and Switzerland. After working his way across the Atlantic on an English passenger boat, Jagendorf went to London, staying there, a few days before going to France. He walked most of the way through France and Germany and spent considerable time in Munich. Rich Will Be Released. KLAMATH FALLS, Or Sept. 20. (Special.) L. B. Rich has been Indicted for bigamy in Grants Pass, where he married. Layton, an officer, is on the way here to get the prisoner, but Mr. Rich will b released here anri th. charge against him dropped1 when the officer arrives. Conflicting stories as to the first marriage are being circu lated here, one that the couDle were never married, the other that they had Force of 1000 Prob ably Cut. Off. NAVY DEPARTMENT WORRIED Nicaraguan Rebels Thought to Have Made Attack. AMERICANS WELL ARMED Serious Conditions Declared to Ex ist, Particularly at Granada, Where Tortures Are . Said to Bo Practiced. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. (Special.) That there has been a terrific battle between American marines and Nic araguan rebels under General Zeledon Is the belief of the State and Navy De partment officials. - No reports have left Corinto since lateTuesday night and it is feared that communication between Managua and Corinto has again been destroyed. If so, Rear Admiral W. H. H. Southerland, with a force of nearly 1000 men, is in the in terior of the country, cut off from the American warships at Corinto. So worried has the Navy Department become that 'a rush message was sent to Rear-Admiral Southerland today or dering him to report immediately. Belated Message Received. A. cable message from Corinto, dated September 17, was received at the de partment today, which contained an accouht of an attack made by General Zeledon on the American forces at Bar. ranca Hill, 14 miles from Managua. It said that many shells burst over the beads of the marines at work' repair ing the railroad. Rear-Admiral South erland gave Zeledon notice that if the rebel forces did not draw away the American forces were going through at any cost. It is thought by Navy Deparement officials that General Zeledon did not draw away, and that a battle was fought. -. Americans Have Machine Guns. The American forces have three or four three-Inch guns and several ma chine guns. It is thought that if there has been loss of life it is on the rebel side. ' According to the latest advices con ditions in Nicaragua, especially at Gra nada, are worse than those which ex isted in Congo and in Putumyo. The American legation has received a letter from Pedro Rafael Guadra. Minister of (Concluded on Page 3.) THEODORE'S Weekly ReTiew of Trade by II. G. Dun & Co. Is MJost Optlm- istic in Tenor. 'NEW YORK, Sept. 20. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade tomor row will say: All the developments of the week confirm and strengthen the improve ment in business activity. Dry goods houses report a steady volume of duplicate business, buyers displaying confidence, but confining their operations to frequent purchases of small parcels. Wide print cloths are firmer and narrow cloths steady, while a better demand is noted for fine and fancy cottons. Drills, sheet ings and ducks are very strong, and some export orders are said to be pending in the latter. .. Conditions in the wool and worsted markets and at the, mills are ex ceptionally satisfactory. Trade in silks is steadily Improving. Trading in footwear shows further improvement, both in New England and at nearby points, and, while little buy ing has yet been done for Spring, many supplementary orders for Fall and Winter goods have been received. Leather and hides continue strong. The lumber trade is heavier. - BLIND EMPLOYE REWARDED Mine Owners Send Him $10, 000 Three Years After Accident. RENO, Nev Sept. 20. (Special.) Roy Berry, who was blinded three years ago while working in the Com stock Phoenix mine at Virginia City, today received a check for $10,000 from the owners of the mine. With the disposal of - a reasonable block of stock In the mine the direc tors came to the conclusion they should do something for a faithful employel who had been blinded through a pre mature explosion while working in their Interest. Ever since the accident three years ago Berry has been con tinually cared for by the mineowners. During the period following the ac cident the mine owners showed every possible consideration for the young man. After his recovery ,he was taken about on business and pleasure trips and his life made as easy as possible under the distressing circumstances. Berry left today for San .Francisco. DIAZ REFUSES T0JALK Ex-Mexican Ruler Will Xot Com ment on Popular Tribute. BIARRITZ, Sept. 21. (Special.) A press correspondenfhere asked Gen eral Porflro Diaz, who is here, what he thought of the demonstration in favor of his return at Mexico City on the anniversary of Mexican Independence and whether he intended to go back to that country. General piaz thanked the correspondent for offering to cable his views, but added: 1 am unable to break my rule of not speaking on politics." ANSWERING SHOTS GO WIDE OF Experts Are Declared to - Foster Delay. CAMPAIGN IS OPENED IN OKI Harmon and State Leaders At tend on Candidate. HIGH PRICES DISCUSSED Government Regulation Will Shield Monopoly as Well as Guide It, and Regulation Is Not Free dom, ; Is Keynote. COLUMBUS, O., Sept 20. Twelve hours were spent in Columbus today by Governor Wilson, but in these were crowded the formal opening of the Democratic campaign in Ohio, a lunch eon with Governor Harmon, Represent ative Cox, the Democratic candidate for Governor, and state leaders and a series of speeches and receptions. It was a strenuous wind-up to the Presidential nominee's first week of consecutive Campaigning.- Enthusiasm and demonstration spread through the day's events. For the first time in his life, the Governor said, he saw what a political organization looked like. He saw the preoinct organizers, the coun ty leaders and the state executives, and with them hundreds of co-workers. From the meeting of the Democratic organization the Governor went to the Chamber of Commerce and addressed a 'meeting of educators from all parts of Ohio. He then addressed a meeting of several hundred business men. Commercial Hara-KIrl Improbable, "One of the most amazing fictions of our politics," said the Governor to them, "is that the Democratic party is not Interested In the business life of the United States. When you reflect that the Democrats of the United States comprise about half the popula tion, ifc -is .interesting .thatVfealf the population should be suspected of the desire to commit commercial hara- kiri.:' . .' . .:. -. , ' In attacking the idea, of a board of experts to handle the tariff question, he said conditions were constantly changing with the tariff ; as often some times as every 24 hours. "You cannot touch -one tariff sched ule," he added, "without having. Incal culable results in other schedules. suppose- that when you deal with the woolen schedule, for example, you sup pqsed that . was all the woolen men (Concluded on Page 2.) THE MARK Empress, True to Promise, Orders Language Introduced Despite Political Agitation. BERLIN, Sept .20. (Special.) While the Kaiserin recently was at her castle at Urville, near Metz, she invited the village schoolgirls to the castle. When they arrived the Empress said to one of them: "Tell me your wish and I promise to fulfill it." To this a little one replied: "I wish It would be granted us to learn French in our school." The Empress was taken back by this request, which touches a great po litical question which Is always to the front In Alsace-Lorraine, namely, the Germanlzation of schools and the sup pression of French influences. But, having given her promise, her majesty said: "Your wish shall be granted." The little . girl bowed and said: "Thank you very much, Frau Wll helm." The next day the first French les son was given in the Urville school since the - annexation of Alsace-Lorraine. These lessons will be repeated three times a week hereafter. FROG LIVES AGES IN ROCK Workmen Release Amphibian, Which Awakes and Hops Away. LOS ANGELES. Sept. 20. (Special.) Workmen engaged in clearing and blasting rock on the L. D. Loomis prop erty, in Santa Monica Canyon, today found a frog imbedded in solid lime stone, three feet beneath the surface. It had been encased in rock for several hundred years. Apparently petrified, the amphibian was taken by the aston ished workmen and laid in the sun. In a few seconds it suddenly showed signs of life. After several minutes it blinked confusedly, drew a long breath, and In long leaps traveled a hundred feet before the workmen could recapture it The lump of limestone from which It was taken was' carefully packed and taken. to Santa Monica. It shows clearly the exact shape of its occupant, to the minutest detail. Professor G. W. Altland, of the Uni versity of California, to whom the rock was shown, and to whom the circum stances of its finding were related, said that undoubtedly the f rog . was hun dreds of years old. Professor Altland Is recognized as an authority. WIT UNFASHIONABLY ILL Wilson Mizner, With Appendicitis, Would Prefer Auto Smash. NEW YORK, Sept 20. (Special.) Wilson Mizner, the playwright, maga zlne writer, wit and adventurer, was operated on for appendicitis at the Hahnemann Hospital early today. It was only on assurance of the doctor that it was necessary to save his life that Mizner submitted. Though In great pain, he joked with the surgeons as he stretched himself on the operating table. "The worst of this appendicitis stuff," said the author of "The Deep Purple," smiling, "is that it is no longer fash lonable; everybody who is anybody has had It long ago, and it's more stylish now to be in an automobile smash. Anyhow, get on with the aldermanlc inquiry into my innards.' It was said after the operation that it had been completely successful and that there was no appearance of any complications, though the fact that Mr. Mizner has not been in good health re cently made the shock unusually se vere. ETHEL CHASES BURGLAR Actress in Xightgown Pursues Thief in St. Louis Hotel. i ST. LOUIS. Sept 20. (Special.) Ethel "Barrymore, attired in her nightie, gave chase to a midnight prowler in the Hotel Jefferson last night, but the man escaped, after entering and rob bing the apartments of nine patrons. His loot included watches, jewelry, clothing, checks, cash and railroad tickets. Miss Barrymore, who in private life is Mrs. Russell G. Colt was awakened by a noise in the room she and her hus band were occupying. They had neglected to lock the door. She sprang from bed and, followed by her husband. pursued the burglar down the dimly lighted hall. i The burglar ran Into the suite occu pied by Miss Blanche Irwin, the hotel housekeeper, who let loose a volley of screams which brought a battalion of bellhops." The entire procession pur sued the burglar, but he managed to escape. ' "WIGGLE" DANCES BARRED Chicago Society Determines to Re turn to Old-Fasbloned Steps. CHICAGO, Sept 20. (Special.) So ciety is fortifying itself against a repe tition of last year's revel of "freak" dances. The galloping "horse trot," sinuous "grizzly bear," wriggling "tur- ket trot'"' and yits sister, "the "bunny hug," together with all other "whirly glg" and "wiggle" dances are under the ban. With the opening of the dancing season, the entertainment committees of the Onwontasla Country Club, the South Shore Country Club and prac tically all others of the more elite of the clubs have issued stern edicts against dances of this class. This season dancers will have to con tent themselves with the waltz and two-step or some of their modifications. Inspector and Steam ship Man Indicted. OTHERS SAID TO BE IN NET Intercepted Letter - Leads to Federal Investigation. DRUG TAKEN OFF STEAMER Evidence Against Assistant Superin tendent Donaldson, of Pacific Mail, and Inspector Ualli gher Causes Arrest. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 20. Robert Donaldsen, assistant superintendent of navigation of the Pacific Mail Steam ship Company, and Henry Gallagher, United States customs Inspector, were arrested here tonight after Indictments had been returned against them by a Federal grand Jury charging complicity in an opium smuggling conspiracy, in which, it is said, many other men are implicated. The indictments were based upon the testimony of David Powers and Enill Fiedler,, employes of the Western Fuel Company, arrested in Oakland, Decem ber 13, 1911, with several hundred tins of contraband opium in their posses sion. Powers and Fiedler served four and six months, respectively, In the Alameda County JaiL Letter Is Found. The supposed connection of Donald sen and Gallagher with the smuggling plot was revealed through the Inter ception, by Government officials, of a . letter given by Fiedler, while in jail, to a discharged prisoner. Powers testified before the grand jury today that he had been approached by Donaldsen in December, 1911, with a proposal to assist In landing opium concealed on the steamer Siberia, which then was being loaded with coal by a barge on which he and Fiedler were working. He at first refused to consider the' matter, -he "said, but later decided to "take a chance." He was taken aboard the Siberia and met two Chinese cabin boys, who had secreted the opium. Two nights later, said Powers, 320 tins of opium were trans ferred from the Siberia to the barge. Cases to Be Pushed. Gallagher, according to the witness, first appeared in the plot in conniving to land the drug in Oakland. Through the defection of a Chinese accomplice in Oakland, the plans miscarried, and Powers and Fiedler were arrested. Federal officials said tonight they would1 push the cases against Donald sen and Gallagher and that they ex pected other arrests soon to follow. WEST'S AGENT WINS CASE Lebanon Livery Man Fined Fifty Dollars for Bootlegging. LEBANON, Or., Sept. 20. (Special.) Frank Gleason was convicted In the Re corder's Court In Lebanon on a charge of selling liquor in violation of the city local option .law and was fined (50. At the conclusion of the trial he gave notice of appeal to the State Circuit Court. This case grew out of the con tention arising from the recent raids made In Lebanon by F. A. Dillon, who was sent here by Governor West. Friends of the Newman brothers. whose livery stable was raided at that time, believed that Gleason had been too active In that raid and made this complaint as a retaliation. Mr. Gleason is also the proprietor of a livery stable. and was a former partner with New man. The charge was that, while a partner of Newman last April, he made the sale from the same barn in which the raids took place. Mr. Gleason says h has plenty of evidence to convict Newman of a dozen charges, which he will place before the City Attorney and ask for warrants for his arrest. CUBA SILENT AS TO GIBSON Transfer Deplored by Americans Who Fear Effect. HAVANA, Sept 20. The Cuban news papers printed today without comment the Washington dispatch announcing the transfer of Hugh S. Gibson, at present Charge d'Affairs of the lega tion at Havana, to be secretary of the legation at Brussels. Some Americans deplore the trans fer, which, since it follows closely the Reilly claim incident and the attack on Gibson by a Cuban journalist, they believe, may be interpreted by Cubans as an indication, despite'the public ex planations of Washington, that the United States disapproves of Gibson's conduct and is prepared to make any sacrifice rather than incur the illwill of Cuba. MUTE ACCUSED AS FORGER Negotiations With. Hotel Clerk Con ducted W"lth Pad and Pencil. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 20. Sought by the Sheriffs of nearly every county in California, Irvin Hart a deaf mute, was arrested today on a charge of for gery just as he had received 100 from a hotel clerk on a check alleged to be bogus. Hart conducted his negotiations with a pad and pencils 4, Concluded on I'&e 30.) been divorced.