TOL. Iilll. NO. 16,452. PORTLAND, OREGON. MONDAY, AUGUST IS, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HARRY THAI MAKES DASH TO FREEDOM Escape From Matfeawan Effected With Aid of Powerful Autos. CONNECTICUT LINE IS GOAL Stanford White's Slayer Darts Through Open Gate to Where Great Cars Await Him. EXTRADITION NOT POSSIBLE Belief Is Flight Is Made to Yacht to Sail for Europe. GATEKEEPER IS ARRESTED Fugitive Last Seen Ten Miles From Hospital Tearing Wltli Confed erates Along Road at Speed of 70 Miles an, Ilour. SOt'TH JORWALK, Coaaw Ana-. 1" It n learned late tonight tkat for tiro hours thla afteraooa a large ateam yacht wu aachored opposite Rotoa Potat, about a half-mile off aeore. She ateamed east late la the afternoon. MATIEAWA.V, N. Y- Adj. 17. Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford White, escaped from the hospital for the crim inal Insane here at 7:45 o'clock this morning-. A dart for liberty through an open Kate, a dash into the opsa door of a powerful automobile hat stood quivering: outside, and a flight like a rocket for the Connecticut State line, 30 miles away, accomplished his escape. Tonight he was still at large and the hospital authorities felt certain he was outside the state. Once beyond Its boundaries. Thaw is free. Only long, perhaps rears, of litigation can bring him back, and then only In one event that he be adjudged Insane in the state to which he has fled. Five Coafederatea Aid Thaw. Five confederates manned the car In which Thaw escaped and a big black limousine which trailed it past the asylum gate. The police have their license number and the names under which they registered at a local hotel Friday night, and are seeking them. The hospital authorities believe Thaw has fled to the shore of Long Island Sound and boarded a yacht, waiting with steam up to rush him to Europe. A reward of $500 for Thaw's appre hension has been offered by Dr. R. F. C. Kleb, superintendent of the asylum. Howard H. Barnum. the attendant at the gate past whom Thaw flashed In his break for freedom. Is under ar Test and other arrests are expected to follow In the rigid Investigation be gun by Ir. Kleb. The shades were drawn in the dor mitories and the Inmates Here get ting their second sleep when Thaw left his room this morning. He was fully dressed. The milkman's cart was rumbling on the road outside as he walked through the storeroom and into the outer court or yard of the asylum grounds. Barnum. sole attendant at the road gate, was pacing back and forth when Thaw closed the storeroom door behind him and apparently did not grasp .the significance of Thaw's early rising. Thaw Regarded aa -Trnrntr." Tears of residence In the asylum and repeated declarations by Thaw that he would never attempt to obtain his freedom except by legal means, had established the madman's status as a "trusty." There was little out of the ordinary in bis appearance, even at so early an hour, in the courtyard, and If Barnum saw him he raised no question. A six-cylinder touring car, black, and 60-horsepower, followed by a lim ousine, also black, loafed lazily along the road as the milkman drew near the gate. Thaw standing a few feet away, apparently unconcerned, waited until Barnum unlocked the gate and swung It wide to let the milkman en tar. At the same moment the two cars drew up on the further side of the road, opposite the gate, and stool still, their engines throbbing. As Barnum stepped aside for the milkman to drive Inside the grounds he heard the gravel crunch beneath Thaw's feet and look ing up saw the madman flash past him straight for one of the waiting cars, With a shout, Barnum started in pur suit, but a flying leap landed Thaw lafely within the car. The wheels were lowly turning before 'the keeper had ."airly reached the roadway. They were throwing op a cloud of dust before he bad gone 20 feet. Down the roadway the cars aped la a whirling cloud of dust that quickly (Concluded on Pace 2.) GIRL AND ESCORT SAVED BY BOATMAN PRESENTIMENT OF TROCBLE PRETEXTS DROWNINGS. Man's Attempt to Recover Oar Al nuKt Causes Traced on River at Salem. SALEM, Or.; Aug. 17. (Special.) Bruce McDaniel, a boat tender for Charles Denlson, became a hero late today when he rescued Clara Brown, 22 years old. and H. B. Smith, a clerk, 25 years old, who had narrow escapes from drowning when a rowboat in which they were riding was overturned by waves from a launch. When the young couple rented the boat, McDaniel had a presentiment that thev were going to have trouble. "Brown did not seem to know much about rowing," said the young boat tender, "and I decided I would keep my eyes on the couple. They had almost crossed the river to an island when one of the oars dropped and Brown leaned over to get it, as he did the launch came by and the skiff was overturned The girl sank twice and as she came up the second time her escort seised her. Then they clung to the over turned craft" McDaniel and Denison put out in a boat the instant the couple were seen to be in peril. Brown and the girl were taken to the boathouse where they were wrapped In blankets which, they wore to their homes. Persons who witnessed the accident declare that but for the promptness of McDaniel and Denlson the couple would have been drowned. PRAYER MADE FOR SULZER Pastor Asks Heaven to Crash Tam many and Send Rain. Rev. Charles T. McPherson, pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, at 368 Hemlock street, from his pulpit yesterday prayed for the overthrow of Tammany and for the success of Gov ernor Sulxer of New York. The pastor said If the Governor had done wrong he might have been led Into it innocently as part of a Tam many "frameup," and asked that he be forgiven. Following the service Rev. Mr. Mc Pherson sent this telegram to Governor Sulacr: "Christians asked to pray for Tammany's overthrow. Glynn Is cow ardly. "REV. CHARLES T. M'PHERSOS." The pastor also prayed that rain be sent to the relief of the drouth sections in. Kansas. Missouri and .Oklahoma. He censured Governor Hodges of Kansas for refusing to call a general day or prayer for rain. Tut vnr Rev. Mr. McPherson Draved for the cessation of rains in Oregon. The rains stopped. TIMID HIGHWAYMAN ROBS Youth Visits Store Thrice Before Nerving Himself to Show Gun. CHICAGO, Aug. 17. A timid young beginner In armed robbery held up a delicatessen store here last night, after nerving himself to the attack by three visits. On the first visit his heart failed him and he bought a pound of coffee. He went out and came back a few minutes later, and after some hesitation asked that the coffee be ground. He left again, but returned and bought a pound of tea. Two girl clerks and a girl cashier noticed the youth's singular actions. He was back again in a few minutes and this time presented a shaking revolver and In a trembling voice ordered the cash reg ister opened. The revolver enforced obedience, de spite the woung man's evident fright. He escaped with $65 after having driven the girls into a back room and locking the door on them. They said he was about IS years old and neatly dressed. SULZER ANSWERS LAWSON "Frenzied Finance" Man Says He's Urged to Push Fight. BY THOMAS W. LAWSON. PRINEVILLE. Or., Aug. 17. I have a reply; from Governor Sulzer, of New York, to my recent telegram and also urgent requests from editors and leaders the country over to act. The consensus of opinion is that Puller's impeachment is the culmination of a long-hatching plot to seize the state machinery, usurp the constitutional au thority, release from prison Senator Still well and Lieutenant Becker and make it Impossible to finish the in vestigation now under way and con templated, which threatened exposure of the past quarter of a century's grafting. The Knickerbocker Express, of Al bany, making calls for a National committee, has urged me to come East at once to organise such a committee. OLD TREE CHANGES FRUIT Freak Cherries Crow on Same Twig With Green Gage Plums. COLFAX. Wash.. Aug. 17. (Special.) A remarkable freak in fruit was brought to Colfax yesterday from the S. H. Miller ranch, 12 miles south of here. The fruit appears to be x cherry, buta Is not quite the shape or color of a Bing cherry, which it strongly re sembles. Growing on the same limb with the fruit, which is dark red In color, are Green Gage plums. The tree is 30 years old and was planted by Dr. Lewis. The leaves are plum leaves and the tree has always bore Green Gage plums. This year it is covered with the freak fruit, which has a seed like a plum. Scattered over the limbs is a liberal sprinkling of the regular Green Gage plums. I MAY NOW KILL HER Young Wife Tells of Husband's Threat. FEAR FELT FOR HER CHILD Fugitive's Love of Spectacu lar Chief Cause of Dread. OFFICIALS ARE BLAMED Matteawan Staff Said to Be Juggled by Prisoner Attempt of Es caped Slayer to Murder Her on Stage Not Unexpected. NEW TORK. Aug. 17. (Special.) Evelyn Nesbit Thaw dropped her arms on the table in front of her when told of her husband's escape from Mattea wan. "Just another chapter and nobody knows what its end will be," she said in weary tones. "You know Harry. One drink of liquor and he is as mad as ever. What he'll do, heaven only knows. Remember how he killed Stan ford White. That's the way he'd do anything. He must be in the lime light for such a thing. Nothing would so delight his mad soul as to shoot me on the, stage. "It's easy to see what prompted him to escape. He couldn't bear the thought of my making my own way without dependence upon him. All I can do is just go on and hope that everything will come out all right No one can tell what crafty schemes he might use to get at me." She was twisting a letter with a foreign postmark in her hands. Sud denly she opened it and glanced at the queer childish attempts at drawing on its back. Mother F'ara for Her Baby. "He's safe," she said, "but I wish baby were near, where I could be with him myself and be sure every moment that he was all right He's in Folkestone and the woman who has charge of blm has everything to recommend her, but I'd give anything in the world to have him right here this minute. "Isn't it aa outrage," she exclaimed. crushing up the letter and placing it In her bosom. "Isn't It shameful that a great and wonderful state like New York should permit a madman to jug gle the superintendents and the staff of one of Its greatest institutions, a place for the care of Its criminal in sane, where so many men more danger ous than the worst criminals are con fined? Harry Thaw was permitted to Juggle the officers In that place as if they weie his own servants." For the first time today. Evelyn told (Concluded on Page 2.) EVELYN SAYS HAW INDEX OF JODAY'S NEWS Tas Weather. TESTEDRArfi Maximum temperature. 68-5 dtgrew; minimum. degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; westerly winds. a Harry K. Thaw. Harry K. Thaw escapes from asylum at Matteawan. Pass 1. History of Thaw ease given. Pace 2. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw femra husband may try to kill bar. Pas. 1. Parentage of Mrs. Thaw's son disputed. Pace i Alienists believe Thaw is still Insane, Pace S Foreign. Tone of Mexican newspapers toward United Stales Is bitter. fu 4. Sporta. Coast League results: Portland 7. Oakland l; Venice -. Ban Francisco S-i; Bacra- mento 4-3. Los Angeles a-u. Fast a. Northwestern League results: Portland 7-1, Seattle 1-1; Tacoma 4-1. Victoria T-u; Vancouver S-lt Spokane 1-8. Page 8. Anderson eager to enter ring Thanksgiving Day. Page 8. Week's piny In majors show Athletics weak ening and Oicnta strengthening. Page & McCrcdie shirts Stanley from . Colta to Beavers. Page 0. Oregon riflemen win 18 prizes at Camp Perry. Page . Domestic. 'Uncle Joe" Cannon again to seek election to Congress. Page 1. Mrs. Dlggs and Mrs. Caminetti to testify In behalf of husbands. Page 3. Trading In stocks recently is unusually ac tive. Page 1U. Antl-Suffraglsts confident of victory before House of Representatives. Page 3. Sulzer and Glynn spend quiet day prepar ing cases. Page 6. Pacific Northwest. Girl and escort barely escape drowning at Salem. Page 1. Seattle excursion to Bend "held up" by desperadoes. Page 1. Addtsjn Bennett writes ot the Lewlston country. Page 4. Clackamas County officials, ousted by recall, will turn over offices to successors to day. Page 5. . Portland and Vicinity. Many orphans find good homes as result of iresh-air outings, page t. Secretary Lane assures West ot Administra tion sympathy. Page 1. Six injured when two autos collide on East Side. Pare 10. Mrs. Franklin K. Lane center of social in terest. Page 16. t Lane hears grlefa of settlers. Page 3. Maxama trip of IMS is now history. Page 10. Governor Lister, of Washington, is visitor en route to California. Page 16. Newspaper boys find prices of Valley lan too high. Page 5. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 4. QUAKE SP0ILS OIL WELL Subterranean Explosion Results In Flow of Gas From Gusher. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17. (Special.) In the ocean field at Summerland. near Santa Barbara, the Duquesne Oil Company has a well which, in the past. has produced considerable oil .but following a recent earthquake shock the oil ceased to flow and the well commenced to yield gas irregularly at first. Today, after what appeared to be a subterranean explosion, the well be came a regular gas gusher and the flow seems to be constantly Increas ing. The well Is only 300 feet deep. SHOWERS RELIEVE KANSAS Forage and Alfalfa, Crops Benefited and Stock Ponds Filled. KANSAS CITT. Aug. 17. Heavy showers today over most of the east ern half of Kansas added to the relief that came with the rains of yesterday and it is believed the drought is now effectually broken. AVOIDING THE ROCKS. UNCLE JOE AGAIN 10 SEEK ELECTION Regular Republicans Factor In Illinois. OLD PARTY IS REORGANIZING Former Leaders, Defeated in 1912, Seek Vindication. SWEEPING DEMANDS MADE Cannon, McKinley, 'Sterling, Prince, Fuller, Foss, Rodenberg and Wil son. Ask for NominationsSher man Unopposed for Senate. CHICAGO, Aug. 17. (Special.) Each of the present Republican Representa tives to Congress Madden, Mann, Brit ton, Copley and McKenzie will be a candidate for re-election next year and each one of the old Republican con tingent defeated last November, ex pects to try for vindication in Novem ber, 1914. This list is headed by ex- Speaker Cannon in the Danville dis trlct: William B. McKinley, manager of the Taft campaign, in the Cham paign district; John A. Sterling. Bloom ington; George W. Price, Galesburg; Charles E. Fuller, Belvldere; George E. Foss. Evanston; William A. Roden berg. East St. Louis; William M. WU son, Englewood, and some one repre senting the political organization of Napoleon B. Thistlewood of Cairo. James McKlnney, who was not a can didate for re-election in the Rock Is land district. Is likely to be a can didate for the Republican nomination next September. A'egotlatlons lader Way. Information of the candidates came to Chicago during the week, and is playing an important part in the ne gotlatlons now well under way for re construction and rehabilitation of the Republican state organization. Repub' lean state Jeaders surmised that minority leader Mann and Martin B. Madden would ask for renomlnatlon. Britten la an announced candidate In the North Side district, according to his friends, and McKenzle. In the old Lowden district fully expects a re nomination. Copley, who has been playing both with the Progressives and Republi cans, has been supposed to be in the going as a Republican candidate. The surprise which came to the organization leaders was that the full force of Republicans expects and de mands the Congressional nominations again. . Claims of "El'l" Vital. The political situation in Illinois is such It Is understood from the conver- ( Concluded on Page 8.) 4 BEND MERCHANTS PLAY ROBBER ROLE SEATTLE EXCURSION PARTV IS GIVEN TOUCH OF OLD DAYS. Garbed as Desperadoes, Business Men Furnish Material for Picture Machines. BEXD.Or., Aug. 17 "(Special.) That tile good old days of six-shooters and holdups are not entirely a matter of history was demonstrated this after noon when Bend's annual special ex cursion train from Seattle coming over the Oregon Trunk Railway was held up by a band of "desperadoes' a couple of miles north of Bend. Intimidated by the flash of many revolvers, accom panied by the noise of repeated shots, the train crew and 75 passengers were obliged to alight, line up beside the train and keep their hands in the air while the "highwaymen" "frisked' them In the most approved fashion. There were no fatalities. In .fact, aside from a loss of composure on the part of a few who did not "tumble", to the joke at the outset, the waylaid travelers report no losses. The train robbers were business men of Bend. Attired In chaps and masks, bristling with six-shooters and generally togged up in a manner that would have done credit to the baddest of bad men. tbece dozen "desperadoes" contributed the holdup as a feature of the trip of the Seattle visitors. Leaders of the "desperadoes" were: Representative Forbes, J. P. Keyes, Deputy Game .Wardenn McKay and Mayor Putnam. Moving-picture ma chines made films of the exciting event. The excursion party will leave Bend for Portland and Seattle Mon day midnight, D. M. Mosessohn. ol the Chamber of Commerce Bulletin, is one of the Portlanders on the train. CRAWFORD OFF TO BANDON Attorney-General to Investigate De portation of Editor. SALEM, Or., Aug. 17. (Special.) At torney-General Crawford went to Bandon today, where he will make an investigation, on the request of Gov ernor West, of the deportation of Dr. Bailey K. Leach, Socialist editor, wbo Is accused of defaming the American flag in his paper. Justice. The Governor has designated the men who deported the editor as a "mob" and says they should be punlsbed as such, Mr. Crawford will report the result of his investigation to the authorities of the eonetj- with supers." ns regarding -the proposed prosecutions. . Dr. Leach will publish the first issue of his paper, since he was deported from Bandon, in Portland, on Wednes day. He says the publication will be much larger than before, and the first issue will contain a complete account of his treatment by the Bandon cltlaens. Among the persons accused are tw ministers. MOUSE PLAYS JONAH ROLE Rodent Cruises In Bell? of Bass, Then Falls to Camp Cat. MONTCLAIR, N.' J.. Aug. 17. (Spe cial.) Warren H. Spangler, of Mont clair, while fishing in Greenwood Lake today landed a four-pound bass- The fish was placed in the bottom of the boat. The party remained on the lake for an hour, and while all the other fish in the boat seemed to have suc cumbed the big bass continued to show signs, of life that puzzled the anglers. When the camp was reached Span gler cut the fish open and out Jumped a live field mouse. It appeared to be feeble, but made a brave attempt to get away. It had not gone two feet, however, when the camp cat pounced upon it and ate it whole. PIONEER OF 1847 PASSES JohntM. Watts, for Many Years Res ident of Llnnton, Dies at 74. John M. Watts died yesterday at 5:46 P. XL. at the Imperial Hotel, this city, where he had made his home for the last ten years. He was a bachelor and leaves a sister, Mrs. Susan A. Stimson. of this city. His brother. Lewis W. Watts, died April . Dr. G. E. Watts, of thla city, is a nephew. John M. Watts was born In Missouri In 1839. In 1847 he crossed the plains with his. parents with an ox team. When they reached Oregon his father took up a donation claim near what Is now the townslte of Llnnton. Mr. "Watts . lived there until about ten years ago when he came to Portland. OMAHA HAS $200,000 FIRE Three , Firemen Hurt in Blaze In Business Center of City. OMAHA, Neb.. Aug. 17. A loss of $200,000 and three firemen Injured was the result of a fire near the heart of the business district tonight, which threatened for a time a whole business block and brought most of the local Fire Department out. Captain John F. Engle was the most seriously hurt of the firemen. He was knocked from a ladder and sustained a fractured skulL The fire was the result of spontane ous combustion in the rear of Burgess Granden Company, an electrical and gas fixture bouse, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth, on Howard street. Kansans Are Prosperous. TOPEKA. Kan.. Aug. 17. Kansas and Kansans have never been in as pros perous condition as at this time." said Governor Hodges last night, "Kansas never experienced such a protracted or as long a drouth with as little hardship as we have gone through this period.". LAND SPECULATOR E, SAYS LANE Home-Maker Favored by Administration. CABINET OFFICER VISITS CITY Secretary Declares Sympa thies Are With West. DESCHUTES TRIP BEGUN Majority of Settlers on Irrigated Land Found to Exhaust Cah Early so That Best Results Cannot Be Attained. "We ought to make it just as easy as possible for a man to get a home, and just as hard as possible for a spec ulator to get hold of the public land and hold up the man who wants to get . a home." That is the conservation policy of the Wilson Administration, as enun ciated by Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, who arrived in Port land yesterday morning, and who is in specting the proposed reclamation en terprises of the Deschutes country today. "The trouble is that it is hard to dis tinguish the home-maker," continued Mr. Lane, speaking to. the group of lo cal Democrats who, with a number of persons interested in the public land policy as applied to Oregon, welcomed him at his headquarters at the Oregon Hotel. Speculators Give Trouble. "We do want to weed out the specu lator, the man who is hired by the big timber companies to locate the land and then relinquish, and all others wbo are not bona fide settlers," said Mr. Lane. "It is the same with reclamation projects as It is with the administra tion of the homestead laws." T. as serted. "We find tbac va . kar9 tK:-' speculator to contend with. Every reclamation project, "virtually, comes to the Government as a bankrupt prop osition. Reclamation bonds are a drug on the market. Investors have bit and been bitten, and they want no more of them. So when the Government takes hold of a project it finds that a part of the land or much of It, often 40 or 50 per cent., is privately owned. Ellmlaatloa la Problem. "The speculator participates in the benefits of the project, and then boost: the price of his land to .100 or 8200 an acre. How to eliminate bim is our great problem. We don't want him at all, but we can't tell who he Is until we have him on our hands. We would have to look Into a man's very soul to tell." "Why not extend the time of pay ment for reclamation benefits to bona fide land-users, and decrease the time for those who do not use the land, but merely pay for the water to hold, the land for speculation?" asked J. W. Brewer, of Redmond, vice-president of the Central Oregon Development League. "A very good idea," remarked Secre tary Lane, asking Mr. Brewer to out line it further. Proof of Cnltlratloa Proposed. 1 think proof of cultivation should be required every year," said Mr. Brewer, "that the period of payments should be extended to 15 years, with the first five years free, and that the water benefits should be withheld after the land has not been cultivated for three years." Secretary Lane and party, consisting of Mrs. Lane. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Miller and Mrs. Miller, and H. A, Meyer, private secretary to Mr. Lane, arrived in Portland from Seattle yesterday morning at 7 o'clock. C C. Chapman, representing the Commercial Club, boarded their car. and went over the details of the pro gramme in Oregon with Mr. Meyer. The visitors arose at 8 o'clock and they were greeted by Governor West. J. N. Teal and C S. Jackson. They were taken to the Oregon Hotel in automobiles, where they bad breakfast as the guests of Mr. Jackosn. Maay Visiter Received. After breakfast. Secretary Lane be'.d an informal reception in the hotel lobby, at which he was greeted by local Federal office-holders, and others, including United States District Attor ney Reames, Postmaster Myers, Col lector of Customs Burke, Appraiser of Customs Miller, L. L. Sharp, special agent of the Interior Department, Don M. Carr, superintendent of the Takima Indian Reservation, D. M. Watson and Fred Hopkins,-of Central Point. Questions of great public moment. were discussed, with Secretary Lanj standing in the center of the group of questioners. Conference Held With .Mr. Reames. Among the interviews was a private one with District Attorney Reames concerning the pending prosecution of those who have been fraudulently "locating" people on lands contained within the Oregon c California land grant on the assurance that the land will revert to the Government, which will then be compelled to give title to claimants so located. Secretary Lane remained in his apartment from 10 to II and had (Concluded oa Page -) BAN