4 llfffftt VOL. LII-SO. 16,183. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BETWEEN S0BSpTALE OFIVIURDER ISTOLD Life in" Danger, Lum berman's Fear. RICH MAN QUICK WITH GUN Thought Patrolman Highway' L man, Is Testimony. PRISONER NERVOUS WRECK Wife of Slain Aberdeen Policeman Takes ' Stand Welch "Feared Something Was Going to Hap. pen to Him," Is Evidence. MONTESANO. Wash.. Oct. 4. (Spe cial.) With tears streaming down his face and between sobs which sffSok his frame, John S. Creech, lumberman of Raymond, who Is on trial for his life for the shooting of City Detective Frank J. Welch, today told the story of the shooting, passing the entire aft ernoon on the witness stand, under going one of the severest cross-examinations given any defendant in the history of the Montesano court. When court adjourned tonight Creech was almost a nervous wreck and had to be almost led from the courtroom. so great had been the strain on him during the day. The day was a tearful one for both the widow of the dead officer and also for the Creech family, the women be ing In tears a greater part of the time. To the court and Jury Creech told the following story: Creech Explains Return. "I came back to Aberdeen Monday night because I wanted to collect some money from the lumber agency, and, after arriving in the city, passed an hour with Mr. Tebbs before going to my home. I walked several blocks out of the way and, as I stepped on my property, I thought I beard a rustle In the bushes. As I had been warned by Pacifia County officials that my life was in danger owing to the recent la bor troubles in Raymond, I was al ways prepared and carried a gun. "The noise startled me and, as I took another step forward, someone flashed a light In my face and a gun and or dered me to stick up my hands. I dodged and quickly drew my gun from my hip pocket and fired twice. The man fell and as he fell I said "Who are you? I am an officer,' to which he replied, 'I am an officer, too.' Then I said: 'My God, why didn't you say so and I would not have shot." "Had you known - it was an officer would you have killed him?" was the question asked Creech by Attorney Welsh. Court Walts for Tears. "My God, no," said Creech, and his eyes filled with tears and he cried bit terly for several minutes, the court waiting until he regained his com posure. Continuing, Creech said: "I shot him because I thought .be was a highwayman, and when I pulled my gun believed that was my last day. I was of the opinion that he fired Just as I shot, which I have since learned he did not. "I never saw the man before and did not know whether be knew me or not." Creech denied that he had said he expected to pass the remainder of his days in Walla Walla for the crime and that he did not lay the responsibility for his act to his wife the night of the shooting-. mWtoiic Man" Expression Told. He said that when he told the offi cers he bad gotten the wrong man. he meant that he had killed a police man Instead of a highwayman as he thought Welch was. Another touching part of the day's trial was when Mrs. Welch, wife of the dead patrolman, took the stand and told of the parting between her and her husband. She said that Welch came to her home on his way to the Creech home and wanted his light. He secured it, left the house and In a moment came back and kissed her and the baby "good-bye." Friends who talked with Welch after he had received the word to go to the Creech home that evening said he did not want to go, fearing something was going to happen to him. The defense's opening statement was made by Attorney John T. Welch and he said they would prove that Welch was called to the Creech home earlier in the evening because some - one had opened a window and left a tile under it so admittance could be gained to the room. They propose to prove that Welch came to the Creech home, went Into every room In the house, thea stepped out in the backyard and a few minutes later -was killed. New Light on Story. The state has contended that Creech came home and was prowling in the back yard when Mrs. Creech tele phoned for officers, but this places a new light on the matter and gives Creech a good chance for his freedom. An effort was made early this morn ing to impeach the testimony of Chief of Police Templeman without avail, he sticking to his first story concerning his talk with Creech and no further evidence was introduced against him. The trial will not be ended until next Monday or Tuesday as Prosecuting At torney Campbell is not' through with his cross-examination of Creech and iConcluded on Pace a.) BLACK BEAR ROUTS SECTION OF ARMY SABER DRILL AXGERS PET OF FIRST CAVALRY. Ripping, Tearing Sound Follows Up rising of Bruin, Necessitating Reclothing of Trooper. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 4. (Special.) A small black bear, the property of Troop B, of the First Cavalry, and re cently captured in the Sequoia National Park, nut one section of the United States Army to rout this afternoon. A squad of recruits was going through saber drill behind the cavalry barracks. Ordinarily three bears from Sequoia Park have undisputed posses sion of the courtyard behind the bar racks. Just then Trooper Fred Jamie son swung his saber in a rear stroke and caught a black bear right across the bead with the flat of it.; It did not hurt the bear any, but it did hurt his feelings. He baa been used to the kindest treatment since Joining the Army. ' Trooper Jamieson was facing due east, entirely unaware that he naa struck the bear. The bear rose on his hind legs, stretched his claws a couple of times to see that they were in good working order and then made a swipe at Trooper Jamieson with both feet. There was a ripping, tearing sound and the entire west side of Trooper Jamieson's trousers remained In the bear's claws. Without waiting for any orders Trooper Jamieson made a leap toward the barracks, and when he returned to saber practice with a new pair of trousers on the drill line was moved forward beyond the reach of the Pre sidio menagerie. T SENSATION JS PROMISED Testify Before McCormlck Will Clapp Committee. NEW YORK, Oct. 4. Medill McCor mlck, in charge of Roosevelt Progres sive headquarters at Chicago, sent word to National Progressive head quarters here tonight that he had been subpenaed to appear before the Clapp committee. That Mr. McCormick's tes tlmony will cause a sensation was pre dicted by representatives of the party here. , "I will testify that I have contrib uted money to finance Colonel Roose velt's campaign out of my own pocket.' Mr. McCormlck telegraphed to New York headquarters. "I shall also de mand that the committee call Fred W. Cpham, collector for the Republican campaign fund, and ask him the names of contributors and the amounts they gave. I will probably have interest ing things to tell the committee that will be more valuable than anything I can tell about the Roosevelt cam paign fund." "SEE AMERICA " IS SLOGAN "Glacials" to Seek to Have Postage Stamps Show Home Scenery. ST. PAUL, Oct. 4. Fourteen Eastern newspaper men who have been the guests of L. W. Hill, chairman of the Great Northern Railway board, on i trip to Glacier Park, arrived here yes terday. As a result cf the Journey an or ganization was effected of Eastern and Western newspaper men known as the "Glacials," the primary object of which is that the people of the United States may be Induced to see America before traveling in Europe. Efforts are also to be made to have future postage stamps lithographed so that the scenic wonders of America may be shown as part of the decorative scheme of the stamps. PEACE WITH ITALY MADE Turkish Cabinet Accepts Proposal, Is Announcement Made. LONDON. Oct. 4. Peace between Italy and Turkey was signed at Ouchy, Switzerland, last night, according to a news agency dispatch received here from Paris. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 4. That the Turkish Cabinet voted yesterday to ac cept Italy's latest proposal for peace was the announcement made today from an authoritative source. The preliminary agreements were to be signed upon the arrival at Ouchy of a special Turkish emissary, who left Constantinople immediately after the Cabinet meeting. EUROPEANS ARE MENACED Chinese Rebel Makes Threat to Kill , " Foreigners at Foo-Chow. , AMOY. China. Oct. 4. Threats to sacrifice European lives at Foo-Chow have been uttered by General Pung, unless his demands for 450,000 taels (about' 1315,000) from the authorities are acceded to. The mutinous troops with General Pung number from 10.600 to 20,000 men. A force of 6000 government troops is marching from Nanking to meet the rebels. The missionaries have been recalled from the Hinghwa district to the north of this city, where serious disorder has existed for some time. YOUNG MATRICIDE CAUGHT Boy of 1 2 Tells, Without Tears, How He Killed His Mother. WEST ANTHONY. Idaho, Oct. 4. Ar thur Whltaker. 13 years old, was cap tured today, after he had been driven by hunger from his hiding place in a haystack, where he took refuge yes terday after he had shot and killed his mother. , . The boy was taken to the county Jail, where he told without a tear and with an unshaken voice bow he had killed hjs mother. F Moslems Curse Enemy, Doubting Valor. LIGATIONS ARE ATTACKED Servian Minister Will Leave Constantinople Today. RUSSIAN ACTIVITY NOTED Porte Believes That Hand of Musco vite Will Be Restrained by Threats of Austria and German Opposition. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 4. (Spe cial.) Sentiment In favor of war is increasing in Turkey. ' Several thou sand persons held a mass meeting to day In the mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, at Stamboul, at which all references to the Balkan states were greeted with cries of "cursed be Bulgaria, Servla. Greece and Montenegro." Several leaders of the Liberal party addressed the meeting, declaring that Turkey was ready to face all her foes. Cabinet Ministers Named. Hilma Pasha and Munhlr Pasha have been appointed cabinet ministers with out portfolios. ' This step was taken in view of the gravity of the situation There were continued reports today of skirmishes on the frontiers, but no definite news concerning them was re ceived. The Servian Minister will depart from Constantinople tomorrow, leaving the legation in the bands of a charge d'affaires.. Hostile demonstrations against the Italian eVnbassy and the Bulgarian and other Balkan legations were renewed. tonight by the populace. They were more violent in form than those of Thursday night, Many windows were broken by showers of bricks and stones and -the troops were -called to assist the police in dispersing the riot ers. No Fear Expressed. Contempt for the military qualities of the Balkan people is prominently shown in the words and mien of Turk ish soldiers from the highest to the lowest. The feeling is obvious also among Turkish civilians of high position, and If confidence in victory can win for the Moslems in the event of war with the Christians, the triumph of Turkish arms is assured. ' Bulgarian Declarations Doubted. The high principles set forth by the Balkan advocates of war are not ac- (Concluded on Page 2.) ratio BULGAB5 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60 degrees: minimum, 4S degrees. TODAY'S Fair snd warmer; northwesterly winds. Foreign. Nlcaraguan government capture town of Malays, where people are starving. Page 8. Turks -eager for war with Bulgarians and allies, page J. National. Colonel Roosevelt denies he solicited cam paign funds or made any promisee. Page 1. Politics.' Chairman Moores gives some interesting ex planation as to why millionaires oaca - Bull Moose. Page 18. Wilson says light ia late in reaching Roose velt., Page 6. Governor Marshall says Roosevelt and Bev . erldge are "self-lntoxlcated." Page 2. Ben Selling, says he will be elected United folate Senator by substantial majority. - Page 13. George N. Davla opens campaign for. Cir cuit judgeship, rage . Roosevelt swing around clrcnlt leaves .him loser, says Washington report. Page 2. Domestic Federal prosecutor says Iron. Workers' Union officials appropriated money to buy ex plosives, page 3. Twehty-flve women poisoned at dinner in uenver. Page 1. : Miss Helen Gould may' write book on up lift work. Page 6. .. Outlaws hold up - train and make escape- Page j.- Black bear routs section of American Army, page 1. Sports. ' Portland and Spokane Athletic Club ar range programme. Page 9. Pacific Coast League: Portland 2, Oakland l, X.OS Angeles 7, can Francisco 2: ver- non-Sacramento game postponed, rain. Page - -. Canadian marksmen lead tourney. Page 14. Red's , twirling staff leads over Giants. Page 8. Paclfle Northwest. ' Without Jealousy Valley cities unite in Wll- lamette channel project, page T. Robert Strahom addresses Eugene Commer cial ciuo. page 7. School children and politicians hold sway at uauas. polk county, fair. Page 7. Between sobs, .which interrupt proceedings. tumoerman creech, ot Raymond, - tells tale of murder. Page 1. Columbia-Snake River Waterways Associa tion meets at X.ewlston. page 7. Commercial and Marine. Opening prices on new crop walnut made by calixornla Association. Page 18. Wheat advances sharply at Chicago on war rumors. Page J u. Stock prices break owning to heavy foreign selling, page la. Volume of business greater than In former years, page 19. All claims for deaths by explosion on steam er &aran . ijixon settieo. page is. Portland and Vicinity. "Tin Plate" ordinance recommended by council committee, page 14. Mrs. Baldwin says 27 public dances are operating under satisfactory condltlona Page 12. Plan to make vacant property pay share of water expense to be considered Tues day. Page 11. Mayor RushUgbt believes commission char ter would save money for the city, Pag 13. Plot to entrap Governor West believed con spiracy of Klaoey. page H . R. B. Miller makes plea for modern agri cultural system in Oregon. Page 14. .. . Columbia bridge campaign start.. Page 4. Seventh street property owners file protest against znteruroan car move, page 4. Permit for 14-story telephone building fa- vorea ry committee, page is. ' Vancouver May Get Presbyterians. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 4. The 23d annual session of the Presbyterian synod of Washington completed Its work and adjourned today. The place of next year's convention was not ?hosen. but the advisory board was in structed to arrange if possible to hold the meeting at Vancouver, Wash., at the same time the Oregon synod meets. similar Joint meeting of the Wash ington and Oregon synods was held there 17 years ago. DISCOVERED.. OUTLAWS HOLD UP TRII Ai ESCAPE Express Car Safes Are Blown Up; Looted. PASSENGERS NOT MOLESTED Railway Men Forced Behind Trunks During Blast. FOUR ROBBERS MASKED After Opening Safes Desperadoes Gather Valuables Into Gunny sack Crime Is Committed Near Poteau, Oklahoma. WESTVILLE, Okla., Oct. 4. Four masked men held up Kansas City Southern passenger train No. 4, north bound, three and a half miles north of Poteau tonight," ransacked the mails, blew open the safe In the express car and retreated into the wood-covered hills that skirt the railroad at that point. The men boarded the .train as it stopped at a crossing a short distance from Poteau. Crawling over the tender, two of them covered the engineer and fireman with revolvers, while the others robbed the mall and express cars. Through" Hall Demanded. After wrecking the express car safe with nitroglycerine the robbers entered the mail car and demanded all the through" mail. Refusing to accept the clerks' word that there was none, they ransacked the pouches, getting not more than a dozen letters, that are be lieved to contain little of value. The loot from the express car Is est! mated at $10,000. The bank at Heaven er, Okla., Is said to have had $7000 on the train. The loot was carried away in a gunny sack. William West, 13 year old, who- re sides near by, saw the men climb on the train. Two men went Into the ex press and baggage car, and a third climbed on the tender. Toung West saw the men who entered the express car brandish their revolvers and called to passengers that robbers were aboard. His cries were disregarded. Air I Cut Off. Two miles farther on the man on the tender cut the air and brought the train to a stop. As he did so, he leaped to the ground and the robbers Inside the express car started to work. L. P. Kerr, express messenger, and J. L. Williams, baggageman, both of Kan sas City, at the point of revolvers, were driven behind a pile of trunks - and (Concluded on Page 4.) 25 WOMEN DINING IN CHURCH POISONED METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCI ETY DELEGATES VICTIMS. Five of Those Suffering From Pto maines in Serious Condition After Denver Dinner. DENVER, Oct. 4. Twenty-five wom en, delegates to the annual convention of the Topeka branch of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, were stricken with ptomaine poisoning here tonight during a dinner at Trinity Church, at which 300 delegates were present Many others became ill after leaving the church. Physicians are unable to decide what food was re sponsible for the trouble. Those in a serious condition tonlgHc are: Mrs. William Winkler, Denver. Miss Lula Holman, Topeka, Kan. Mrs. George Wyrick, Eaton, Colo. Mrs. Hoffman Mies, Fort Worth, Tex. Mrs. Lydla Andrews. Lincoln, Neb. Those whose condition is the most dangerous are Miss. Holman and Mrs. Wyrick. The 25 women who were stricken at the table became ill shortly after the dessert was served. All but six were able to go to their homes. The dinner was provided by a caterer. JEWELS SEWED IN SKIRT Demented Woman Carried Gems Worth In Vicinity of $700. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4. (Special.) Seventy-five pieces of Jewelry, valued at $700, were found sewed in the under skirt of Mrs. Julia Kane, aged 41 years, when ifhe was disrobed in the Detention Hospltr.l, where she was taken today and paced under observation to deter mine ?er sanity. Mrs. Kane gave her address as the Dayton Hotel, Portland, and said her husband was connected with the J. D. Hennessy Company there. She arrived in San Francisco three days ago and was found on the waterfront and sent to the Harbor Emergency Hospital. She was sent from there to the Central Emergency Hospital, and was released yesterday mornlngr She secured room at 722 Golden Gate avenue but ran Into the street, screaming, at noon and was arrested again. The woman is the victim of hallucinations. She says she has had seven husbands. She car ried a doll dressed in baby clothes. The Portland authorities have been asked to find her husband. .... HADLEY TO SUPPORT TAFT Missouri Governor and President 1 Agreed as to Primary Reforms. JEFFERSON CITT. Mo., Oct. 4. Qovernor Hadley, at a Republican ral ly here last night, said he had received assurances that President Taft would support the reforms Governor Had ley outlined September 29 in St. Louis and declared he would support the Re publican ticket. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 Carmi A. Thompson, secretary of the President, addressed a letter to Governor Had ley, of Missouri, saying that "on ac count of a certain discussion that has arisen in the past few days," he deemed It proper to define President Taft's position on Presidential primaries.. Mr. - Thompson quoted from the speech delivered in Boston last March, in which the President said he favored and welcomed primaries for the Pres idency whenever they could be safe guarded by state laws, and added: "The President suggests that I say to you that he has in nowise changed his views, but adheres firmly to his posi tion as defined at that time." SMUGGLING RING BROKEN Conviction of Men in San Francisco Believed to End' Traffic. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4. In the conviction of Adolph Adolphson, Wil liam Sundgren amd Wong Ott here to day, on charges of having conspired to smuggle Chinese Into this country from Mexico, immigration officials be lieve a coastwlde smuggling conspiracy has been undermined and that traffic In contraband Chinese In California soon will cease. .A Jury In the Fed eral Court, in finding the three men guilty, asked that clemency be shown Sundgren. The men were arrested soon after a cargo of Chinese were smuggled ashore June 1 from the launch Earl.K., the property of Wong Ott, which later was seized by Government officials. Ac cording to testimony given at the trial the launch was used by Adolph. son and Sundgren, and Adolphson re ceived $250 for each Chinese brought in. REBEL CHIEF KEEPS LAW Colonel Orders Own Soldier Shot for Trying to Assault Woman. EL PASO, Tex, Oct. 4. A rebel sol dier was executed yesterday by order of his chief for an attempted assault on an American woman. This is the sequel of the story of an American child who saved' her mother in Colonla Juarez, Mexico, as related by R. T. Bentley, a Mormon bishop, who arrived here today. After negotiations between the Mor mon Church officials and Colonel En rique Bertlllo, a rebel chief, Mrs. Miles Romney Journeyed to the rebel camp and Identified her assailant. Colonel Portlllo ordered the man executed. The 10-year-old daughter of Mrs. Romney, who leaped from the second story window of the house to summon help, when the rebel entered, fractured her right arm in the fall. COLONEL DENIES HE SOLICITED FUNDS Charges Against Him Termed "Hearsay." MORGAN CONTRIBUTION KEVV3 Witness Says First Knowledge Was From Testimony. SESSION IS . PICTURESQUE Committee and Spectators Frequently Moved to Laughter by Remarks. Bliss and . McHarg Are Warmly Defended. WASHINGTON, Oct 4. Theodore Roosevelt occupied the witness chair three and a half hours today before the Senate investigating committee, de fending his Administration, himself and his Cabinets against what he termed "Infamous charges'' and "hearsay evi dence." He appeared before the committee to answer statements made in August by John D. Archbold that the Standard OH Company had given $100,000 to the Republican campaign fund in 1904 under the impression that President Roosevelt knew of and approved ac ceptance of the contribution. Not only did Colonel Roosevelt deny this, but he put into the records a sweeping de nial that he had ever solicited funds from anyone while President; that any money had been received by the 1904 campaign committee with an express or Implied promise of favors from the Administration; that excessive funds had been used in his 1904 campaign or in the 1908 campaign, or that money ever had- been Improperly used In his behalf. So far as he knew. Harrhnan Asked Aid, T. R. Says. In reference to the Harrlman fund of $240,000. raised in 1904, Colonel Roosevelt declared the statements, of J. P. Morgan, George R. Sheldon end others had fully corroborated his earllor statements that this fund was raised expressly for the New Tork state cam paign and had not been solicited by him for bis own support in the fight for election that year. There was not one word spoken by Mr. Harrlman or by me having any reference to any collection of funds for the National campaign," he said, re ferring to his interview with Mr. Har rlman in October, 1904. , "On the con trary, the request was from Mr. Har rlman that Inasmuch as we had ample funds for the National campaign and as the National campaign was safe, we could help him out in the state cam paign." The sessions of the committee were picturesque throughout. Colonel Roose velt arrived at the committee room ten minutes before the hour of opening. His progress into the building was marked with cheers from a throng that surged through the corridors. Colonel Sits on Platform. Colonel Roosevelt was placed in a chair on a little square platform, from which h looked down upon the table at which sat Senators Clapp, Oliver, Pomerene and Paynter. William Loeb, Jr., his former private secretary, now Collector of Customs at New Tork. came with him and occupied a seat at his left. The ex-President turned repeat edly to ask Mr. Loeb for facts and rec ords; and at the end of -his testimony Mr. Loeb himself took the stand to cor roborate statements of Colonel Roose velt. Expressions that brought laughter from the committee and spectators in terspersed the Colonel's remarks throughout the day. Once he said: "1 actually sent for, while I was President, trust magnates, labor lead ers. Socialists, John L. Sullivan, Bat tling Nelson (there was a pause) and Dr. Lyman Abbott." White House Latcbatring Out. This was In response to questions as to the propriety of his sending for E. H. Harrlman in 1904 to discuss mat ters of legislation or campaign affairs. "If I am elected President," he added, "if Mr. Rockefeller or anyone else wants to see me, I'll see .him." Again when Senator Pomerene asked if some corporations did not expect re turns for their contributions, Colonel Roosevelt declared emphatically': "As a practical man of high ideals, who has always endeavored to put his Steals into practice, 1 think any man who would believe that he would get any consideration from making any contribution to me, was either a crook or a fool." When the crowded committee room was swept with a burst of applause, the witness turned around and said: "Stop that, please." Asked whether the so-called "coal trust" had contributed to his cam paigns, he replied: "Jly dear sir, after the revelations that have been made here. I would not be surprised air any one' having contributed." Mora Contrlbotloa Declared Neni. He had said previously that he had no Idea that Mr. Morgan had con tributed to his 1904 campaign until the financier testified yesterday. The only reference to the use of money in the McHarg had used funds improperly in Roosevelt Progressive campaign this year was brought in by Colonel Roose velt himself, with a denial that Ormsby (Concluded on Fag s.k