Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, February 06, 1913, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texty v FRUIT AND PRODUCE HEN ARE ARRESTED Trust Methods Said to Be in Vogue Here. 15 INDICTED BY GOVERNMENT Accused Assert Charges Will , Be Shown Groundless. COMBINE'S BOOKS SCANNED Secret Federal Agent Obtains Em ployment With Commission As sociation and Tiros Gets Evidence, Is Asserted. rnourcic merchants who FACE CUARCKS. Inflicted and tinder $1000 ball E. A. Bamford, C. H. Dllley, Timothy Pearson. W. A. Manrtleld. W. H. Dryer. Herbert B. McEwen. Mark Levy. Charles R. Levy. Ed B. Levy. Ben Levy. G. TV. Cardwell. J Be Under Indictment, but not arrested B. Clafke. John A. Bell, Fred A. Pase. John J. Cole. 6ecretaxy of produce trust who re I eelved Immunity bath from srand Jury- W. Bunn. Grand Jurors In the Federal court yesterday returned Indictments against 15 fruit and produce dealers on Front street, charging; them with unlawful conspiracy In restraint of trade and In violation of the Sherman anti-trust act. The men indicted assert their in nocence of law-breaking. Every commodity that the average family requires for its dally food sup ply, with the exception of meat, it is alleged, la controlled by the group of men under indictment, with the result not 4nly that the prices to the consum ing public are ' greatly Increased, but that all dealers not members of 'the alleged combination, are and. have been prevented from doing business. Men rataUh SIOOO Ball. Eleven of the 15 men against whom true bills were returned have been ar rested and have given J1000 ball each. They are E. A. Bamford, C. N. Dllley, Timothy Pearson. W. A. Mansfield, W. II. Dryer, Herbert B. McEwen, Mark Levy, Charles It. Levy, Ed B. Levy, Ben Levy and G. W. Cardwell. W. B. Glafke, John A. Bell. Fred A. Page and John J. Cole are' under in dictment, but have not been arrested Glafke because he is visiting bis moth er, who is ill. and the three others be cause they are out of the city. They have been advised by their associates to return and submit to arrest. The defendants. Individually and col lectively, are among the leading com mission men on Front street. Many of them have been in business here for a long time. While they admit the ex istence of the Produce Merchants' Asso ciation of Portland, they deny that It tends to stifle competition or that it manipulates prices. Buna Gives Testimony. The center of activity during th grand Jury's investigations and the probable star witness when the cases come to trial is J. W. Bunn. the secre tary of the organisation, who has been granted Immunity by the Federal prosecutors. Bunn. it is understood, was taken hurriedly before the grand jury a few weeks ago, his books and papers seized before he could com municate with members of the asso ciation. It is said that he gave valu able testimony to the jury and that he will be held as a witness. Bunn never was a member of the organization, only an employe. . Special agents of the FeVJeral Depart ment of Justice have been working for months to gather evidence against the Front-street commission men. Com plaints, they say, have been frequent. but working evidence scarce. About the time that John Mi-Court, District Attorney, decided to make a thorough investigation of the situa tion there appeared on Front street a young man who gave his name as Elton Watklns. He was out of a Job and out of money, he said, and was willing to accept almost any kind of work. Work Is Obtained. After hanging around for a few days in fruitless endeavor to obtain . em ployment, he was given a job wheeling trucks with one of the commission houses. He was just an ordinary la borer. It appeared, and his employers made little effort to learn anything of him or of his associations. Had they Investigated Watklns' hab its after be had finished work each day. they would have found that he was submitting reports of his move ments to the Federal District Attor ney's office. Watklns Is a regular secret service agent. He has Just told all he knows about Front street and its methods of doing business to the grand jury. He will repeat his story when the cases come to trial. He it was who learned that nearly all the business of the or ganization is done through the office of Bunn. and he It was who planned the clever coup that landed Bunn in he Federal building at a time when his office could be ransacked of valu able books and papers without the knowledge of bis employers. The Indictments descrio the alleged ASSESSED VALUE OF CITY $308,975,220 INCREASE TOTALS $177,777,661 IX SEVEN YEARS. Annnal Tax Levy Grows From 6 1-5 Mills In 1906 to 7 7-10 Mills for This Year. The assessed valuation of Portland has mounted steadily from 1131,197,553 in 190 to 1308.975,220 in 1913. as shown by figures compiled by Auditor Bar bur, while the Increase In the annual tax levy has been from 5 1-5 mills in 1906 to 7-10 mills la 1913. or 2.5 mills. The only year that did not show an Increase of several millions in assessed valuation over the preceding year was 1909, when the valuation was J215.S36. 410, an Increase of only J256.465 over 1908. The levy for fire protection purposes has decreased slightly since 1906, when it was 2 mills. For 1913 it is 5.14 mills. The levy for police purposes has Increased from 1 mill In 1906 to 1.39 mills in 1913. The levy for interest on bunded Indebtedness lias increased from .2 to . of a mill. There has been a Blight increase in the levy for lighting purposes. . For 1906 it was one-half mill; for 1913 it is .62 of a mill. The levy for street repair purposes shows an Increase from .15 of a mill for 1908 to .38 of a mill for 1913. The levy for library purposes was one-tenth of a mill for 1906. No lev was made for 1913. For park purposes one-tenth of a mill was levied In 1906: one-half a mill has been levied for 1913. There was no levy for public docks until 1912. when it was .07 of a mill For this year It is .21 of a mill. The special bridge levy for 1906 has In creased from nine-tenths of a mill in 1906 to .37 of a mill in 1913. The first levy-for street cleaning and sprinkling was made last year, when it was .07 of a mill. This year It is .79 of a mill. No provision was made for a sinking fund to pay off the city's bonded in debtedness until 1910, when it was two tenths of a mill. This year It Is four- tenths of a mill. Auditor Barbur's statement of re celpts and disbursements shows that exclusive of tax receipts for 1912 there was received from licenses, fines, etc 61.154,752.74. How large a part of the city's expenses was borne by funds received from these sources is shown by the fact that the total disbursements of the city, not including Interest on water and improvement bonds, were $2,907,964.18 for 1912. AMERICAN CRUSHES KROOS Borrowed Major Leads Llberiana to Victory In Battle. MONROVIA. Liberia, Feb. 5. A crushing defeat with heavy slaughter was inflicted on the Kroo natives of Liberia on January 27 by Major Bal lard, one of the American officers lent some time ago to the Liberlan gov ernment. Dispatches brought today by runner say that Major Ballard, with a force of Liberlan troops, razed the Kroo stronghold at Rock Cass on that date after a severe fight. Major Ballard's force lost eight killed and 15 wounded. The recalcitrant Kroos were respon sible for the recent arrival of the Ger man gunboats Panther and Eber off the Liberlan coast, the Germans resi dent in Liberia having represented to the German government that their lives and Interests were in danger. Major Ballard, who led the Liber- tans to victory over the Kroo natives. Is an ex-United States Army officer. He went to the aid of the Liberlan army about a year ago, after an ex change of correspondence on the sub ject between the government at Mon rovia and the State Department. ROLLER SKATING TARGET Proposed Ordinance Prohibits Prac tice on Pavements. City Attorney Grant has prepared an ordinance which will be submitted to the City Council at Its next meeting, prohibiting roller skating on the pave ments In the residence districts. The ordinance was framed at the request of P. Mcintosh, probation officer of the Juvenile Court, who says that many complaints have been made against the practice by policemen. Youngsters on roller skates make a practice of catching to the rear of moving automobiles, where they may hang unobserved. If the speed be comes too great for the boy behind, he releases his hold, and It is held that he Is in grat danger of colliding with vehicles or machines coming in the opposite direction. A report recently made to Chief of Police Slover complains that the dis trict bounded by Fifth, Thirteenth and Taylor streets is particularly infested with the skaters. ASHES LOWERED INTO SEA Burial of Captain Conway, -of Port land, Is as Requested. ASTORIA, Or, Feb. 5. (Special.) Hermetically sealed in a cement block, the ashes of the late Captain George Conway, of Portland, were lowered 33 fathoms beneath the waves outside the mouth of the Columbia River this after noon. The sea rites were In charge of Captain C T. Bailey, accompanied by George Conway, Jr.. and several of the late captain's friends. The bar tug Oneonta was the funeral ship and the ashes were lowered into 33 fathoms of water at 8:45 o'clock. The exact location is latitude 46:10 north-, longitude 124:12 west. Just three-fourths of a mile southwesrt of the Columbia River lightship. J Mrs. Conway accompanied the ashes to Astoria. GALLIPOLI CHIEF OBJECT OF ALLIES Rear Move Is Made on Turkish. Forts. GREEK FLEET CO-OPERATING Command of Dardanelles Will Seal Constantinople's Fate PORTE PRESSED FOR CASH Crown Jewels Are Offered and De spairing Efforts Made to Float Bonds - Among Moslems of India and Egypt. LONDON, Feb. 6. The Bulgarians are devoting their chief attention to the bombardment of Adrianople and an attempt to capture the Galllpoll penln--sula and so take the Turkish forts in the rear. An offlciat dispatch issued at Con stantinople Indicates that the Bulgar ians have been successful in their first operations in the latter quarter, and, according to a Sofia dispatch, the cap ture of Galllpoll is the chief obejetive of the Bulgarians for the time being and no serious attempt will be made to force the Tchatalja lines. Greek Navy Support Attack. The same dispatch says that the Bul garian attack on Galllpoll Is supported by the Greek navy in the Gulf of Saros. Fifty thousand Bulgarians were landed along this coast last November, and it may be presumed that during the arm istice this force was strengthened by artillery. Should the Bulgars capture the Turk Is'lf forts there is nothing to prevent the Greek fleet from entering the Dar danelles, where, in the opinion of naval officers. It easily could defeat the in ferior Turkish fleet, in which case Con stantinople would be at the mercy of the allies. . I'aaceowated Remnant Revives. The Constantinople correspondent of the Standard sends a strange story, re porting that the remnant of the Turk ish army of Monastlr, which has never been precisely accounted for, still is operating in that district and has cap tured the Important town of Kerltza, less than 50 miles from Monastlr. The statement attributed to the Greek Premier, M. Venlzelos, that peace speedr Hy will be concluded, tends to confirm the report current in European capitals In recent days to the same effect, al though there has been no evidence in the shape of fresh diplomatic move ments to support it. The Turkish government, however, evidently is In (Concluded on Page 2 4 CARTOONIST REYNOLDS JOTS St?WV0 YA-J. OCM-S U TTiT INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Veatber. TESTE RD AT S Maximum temperature, S decrees; minimum, 30 degrees. TODAY'S tlncre&stii; cloudiness followed by light rain or enow; easterly winds Legislature a. House passes lAwrence compensation bill by biff majority. Page 6. "Dry a'' win first fight at Olympla on "ant I treating" biiL Page T. Senate Democrats mildly revolt. Pae T. Clackamas County loses and wins in House and Senate lights. Page 6. District Attorney Evans bill lost In Senate. Page 7. Foreign. Prince Michel Marat weds Miss Helena tallo, of Cincinnati, at Paris. Pag-e 3. Bulgarians begin movement for capture of Constantinople. Page 1. National. Plans made so that 8f00 persona can hear Inaugural address. Page 3. Harvester report ready for Taft. Page 2. Domestic. Wilson's Inaugural address to be short. Page 5. Mr. and Mrs. Beach both to take stand In defense of 'Beach. Page 8. Ex-chief of police of Chicago Insane. Page 2. Bootblack who shines Rockefeller's shoes gets rich on tips. Page 1. Seaworthy vessel found with crew strangely missing Is lost again In gale. Page 1. Huge custom frauds in Pacific Coast coal cases charged. Page 4. Xw York Stock Exchange makes rule against "wash sales." Page 6. Sport. Fortier. Colt outfielder, is fifth available catcher. Page 12. Racing heads of Northwest pass day In Portland prior to meeting at tSalem to day. Page 12.' Pacific Northwest. Eastern Multnomah County dairymen ay w hole sale milk prices are cut. Page 19. Commercial and Marine. Record year's trade In exports and Imports with Orient. Page IT. Wheat lower at Chicago on breaking of drouth in India. Page 17. Copper group weakest feature of stock list. Page 17. Crown of Seville to load lumber here for Manila. Page 16. Portland and VlHnity. Fruit and produce men are arrested. Page 1. Portland's assessed valuation mounts to $308,973,220 In 19J8. Page 1. Police are baffled by series of recent holdups. Page 11. Southwestern Washington-Oregon Develop ment League urges appropriation for ex hibit at Panama-Pacific exposition, page IX. New "blue sky" bill viewed as model draft. Page 10. Board of examiners of applicants for teach ers certificates named. Page 10. Four young men held to grand Jury on charges of gambling. Page 18. Lawyers give -opinions as to need of more Circuit Judges in Multnomah County: Page 10. ft OREGON WOMAN'S AGE 102 Mrs. Frances Ellen Hare, of Astoria, Celebrates Birthday in Bed. ASTORIA. Or, Feb. S. (Special.) Mrs. Frances Ellen Hare, of this city, who is believed to be the oldest living person in this section, was-102 years old today. She was born at Winches ter. Va, February 5, 1811, and during the last few years has lived in As toria with her daughters, Mrs. Flora Hare Gilman and Sirs. M. R. Hoagland. st Hare i bedridden, but her mind is clear and she Is able to recognize and converse wltn ner rnenos. Duluth's Oldest Citizen Dead. DULUTH, Minn., Feb. 5. John Flynn, the first white man to push a trail through the wilderness from St. Paul to the Indian trading posts on the shores of Lake. Vermillion, and who was Duluth's oldest citizen, is dead in his daughter's home here. Had he lived until June 24 next he would have been 100 years old. DOWN SOME MORE IMPRESSIONS .cr7 O-tz CAPTAIN BETRAYS MEN STILL HIGHER Gotham Police Officer Corroborates Tale. CONFESSION IS FROM SICKBED Story of Graft Collections Is Verified in Detail. INSPECTOR'S SHARE BIG Walsh, in Confession to District At torney, Says Superior Received, Between $25,000 and: $50,' O00lmjnnnlty Not Given. NEW YORK, Feb. 5. Police Captain Thomas W. Walsh, accused by Patrol man Fox as the man to whom he paid his graft collections for five years, sent tonight for District Attorney Whitman and, according to a statement by the District Attorney, confessed to his part in the alleged -police graft. Captain Walsh has been 111 several weeks and it was said that his condl tlon spurred him to tell all that he knew of the graft system disclosed by Fox. Mr. Whitman said that Walsh had corroborated in detail the statements made by Fox, who pleaded guilty on Monday and then turned state's evl dence. No Immunity FmnbL District Attorney Whitman said that Walsh sent for him and asked for no immunity and received no offer of in ducements to tell his story. In which it Is said that he implicated two men "higher up" in the Police Department and declared that every cent collected by Fox had been shared by him with an Inspector after 10 per cent had been kept out by Fox as his -share of the fund. Walsh could not recall tonight off hand the amount paid by him to the In spector, but he thought it would reach between 125,000 and $50,000.- He had no knowledge of the collections In the other precincts in the district, of which there are four, but expressed the opin ion that they had been large. Excitement Causes Relapse. ' For more than a year Walsh has been treated for an affection of the heart, and the excitement following the con fessions of Fox, it is said, resulted in a relapse and the fear of dying caused him to send for Whitman. His state ment to Whitman in the presence of witnesses follows: That Fox was his collector and' that the statements made by Fox as to the (Concluded on Page 4.) OF PERSONAGES AT SALEM SMATOfZ. OAH tfl.LAHfZ. nVATCKArtSAtA1 m JOHN D'S TIPS MAKE BOOTBLACK RICH SBLVE PRIVILEGE AT 26 BROAD WAY VALUABLE. Standard Oil Certificates Prove Menial to Be Man of Real Worth in Bail Case. SEW YORK. Feb. 5. (Special.) Shining John D. Rockefeller's shoes and cheerily bidding him the time of day proved profitable to "Leonard Bolpe. of 164 Mott street. While Leon ard industriously shlned Rockefeller's shoes, the oil man discoursed on the advisability of Investing bis income from shines In Standard OH stock. Leonard hearkened to the voice and today has seven shares of stock. It was the means of saving a particular friend of the bootblack spending the night in a cell. Leonard received a note " from Gae ta.no Bocema early In the day that the law had taken offense at something he was supposed to have done, and unless Leonard furnished $500 ball he would be put in Jail. Leonard at that time was shining another wealthy man's shoes in the Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway, where he has the bootblack privilege. When business was over he hurried to Magistrate Garrlgan. He first offered a house he said he owned, but, there being some doubt about the owner ship, the Judge demurred. He then offered a certificate showing that he had seven shares of Standard Oil stock and promised to bring the deeds of the house Into court tomorrow. The Judge said the certificates Indicated he had some money, so he agreed to take the house as a bond. CANDIDATE MUST BIDE TIME Seventh Ward Council Aspirant Is Told Joy's Term Is Not fp. Although candidates for the various city offices are scarcer than the pro verbial hen's molars, there Is at least one man who aspires to serve as a Councilman, and who must forego the attempt to satisfy his ambition. He is a resident of the Seventh Ward and applied to Auditor Barbur yester day for information aa to the proper manner of launching his boom for the Council. He was told that he would have to postpone the effort, as Coun cilman Joy, of the Seventh Ward, is one of the hold-over members, who are not worrying In the least as to what may happen In the Second, Third, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Wards, where Council- men are to be elected. HORSES RUnNT0 PARLOR Housewife Hears Crash and Finds Draft Team on Carpet. CHICAGO, Feb. 6. "Well, the nerve of, some people's horses," exclaimed Mrs. John McCsron today when she rushed from the kitchen to Investigate a crash in the front of her home and found a team of draft horse tramping on the parlor carpet. The team had run away, and the front of the frame dwelling of the Mc Carons had offered but slight resist ance to their maddened impact. All that kept the horse from continuing through the place was the beer wagon to which they were attached and which caught in the wreokage of 'the wall. TREE BLOCKING VIEWCUT Ex-Senator's Wife Served With War rant for Destroying Property. WASHINGTON. Feb. 5. Mrs. John B. Henderson, wife of ex-Senator Hender son, of Missouri, was served today with a Police Court warrant charging, her with destroying District of Columbia property. She was not arrested, but was ordered to appear In court tomor row to answer to the charges. Mrs. Henderson, one night about a week ago, held a lantern while she superintended two laborers from the Henderson estate in cutting down a large tree which she declared blocked her view to Sixteenth street, popularly known as "the Avenue of the Presi dents." MAN GETS BRAIN OF DOG Diseased Tissue of Patient Supplant. ed by That of Animal. ANN ARBOR, Mich- Feb. 5. The brain of a dog was transferred to a man's skull in University Hospital here today. W. A. Smith, of Kalamazoo, had been suffering from abcess on the brain and as a last effort to save hlg lire this remarkable operation was per formed. Opening his skull, the surgeons re moved the diseased portion of his brain and In its place substituted the brain of a dog. Smith was resting comfortably to night. Bud the surgeons say he has a good chance to recover. ROOF GARDEN FOR CHURCH Fashionable St. Louis Congregation to Have Place for. Movies. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 5. Rev. John L. Brandt, pastor of the First Christian Church, announced today that bis con gregation soon would build a church with a roof garden in the fashionable West End district of St. Louis. The roof garden will be a develop ment of the Institutional church idea and will be used for moving-picture shows and other entertainments and possibly for Summer Sunday evening services. The church also will have free medical, surgical and dental clin ics and a night school. FATE OF CREW IS MYSTERY OF DEEP Seaworthy Ship Found With None Aboard. LIFEBOATS HANG AT DAVITS British Vessel Picks Up Bark Remittent but Loses Her. PROVISIONS NOT DEPLETED Strange Disappearance of Crew of Marie Celeste Years Ago Paral leled Norwegian Craft Is Again Lost in Heavy Gale. NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. Feb. 5. An other mystery of the deep, practically paralleling the unexplained disappear ance of the crew of the schooner Marie Celeste several years ago, has been re ported here by the British tank steam er Roumanian. On January IS, churning along ten days out from Port Arthur and near the Azores, she picked up the Norwegian bark Remittent, sea worthy, provisioned and fully rigged, but without a soul aboard and with no indication of the crew's fate. The Rou manian, after towing the Remittent to within 100 miles of Cape Henry, lost her in a violent gale. The Marie Celeste was found at sea with a pot boiling In her galley and her captain's papers on the cabin table and every Indication thata her crew had been aboard within a' few hours of her discovery. But nothing ever was heard of her skipper or crew. Remittent's Story Mranare. The story of the Remittent is scarce ly less strange. The Roumanian sighted the Remit tent in latitude iO degrees SO minutes and longitude 27 degrees 30 minutes, riding a heavy swell without a hand to guide her before a breeze. The big tank steamer's lookout then re ported her as a ship out of control and Captain Claridge set out in pursuit. : While the Roumanian was comlnpr up on her, the Remittent, with tlllar banging to and fro, was running wild, first to one point of the compass and then to another. The Roumanian low ered boats to take a line to the bark. After more than an hour's Jockeying, during which the Remittent sailed In swoops and dashes, now stopping dead, atremble in the eye of the wind, and then bounding away to the crackling of what canvas was not furled, the pursuing small boat Anally caught and boarded her. Decks Bear Marks of Feet. Her deck planks, once swabbed and holystoned to a glistening white, bore the marks of many feet, but there was nothing to- explain the disappearance of her master and crew. In her cabin some odds and ends rolled and clinked In the corners, but the lockers and drawers were undisturbed and her charts and papers were quite secure. In her water tanks there was a full supply of fresh water and her stores of salt horse and biscuits were not de pleted. A mainsail and two Jibs were furled snugly and her lifeboats swung at the davits. The Roumanian's boarders sent a hawser to their prize and took her In tow. But in a gale met a few days later, 100 miles off Cape Henry, Captali Claridge lost the Remittent. Hawser Finally Snaps. As the sea rose the bark plunged like a wild thing at the long hawser and nnally snapped the strands that bound her to the steamer. Twice the Roumanian attempted to launch boats to carry another line aboard the dere lict, but each time they were dashed against her sides and crushed against the Iron places by heavy seas. The. boat kept from sinking by the narrow est margin. Captain Claridge nnally gave up the attempt and made for portp leaving the Remittent at the mercy of wind and sea. No ship has reported her since. The Remittent was commanded by Captain Torgersen and sailed from Rlo Grande do Sul October 25 for Liver pool. She was of 351 tons and prob ably carried. In addition to her master, a crew of five or six. LORDS GET WELSH BILL Disestablishment Passed by Com mons, Which Stands 247 to 210. . " LONDON, Feb. 6. A motion to reject the Welsh disestablishment bill was defeated in the House of Commons to night by a vote of 240 to S7. The bill then passed Us third reading without division. Later It formally passed first reading in the House of Lords. BULLDOGS GUARD HERMIT Authorities May Shoot Faithful Animals to Bury Body. JOLJET. 111., Feb. B. Two faithful bulldogs are guarding tonight the body of John Seipf, a hermit who had lived alone near here for 35 years. The dogs have refused to allotv coun ty officers to enter the little cabin and it may be necessary to shoot them In order to bury the body. (Concluded on rase a. fTvl mfi