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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX. MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 191J. WIVES 10 TESTIFY SECRETARY LAKH "TALKING TO L. F. CHANDLEK (FACING HIM) AND OTHER SILETZ RESERVATION SETTLERS CONCERNING THEIR HOMESTEADS. WESTERN UNION . io mo I TELE0RAM TMIO. N. VAIL. PRESIDENT BeautifuI'Mrs. Diggs and Re fined Mrs. Caminetti to Take Stand. on. THREATS TO BE RECITED HUSBANDS esse -0 Women Will Attempt to Prove That Men Were Frightened by Dan ger or Arrest and Left State on That Account. ji BAN" FRAXCISCO. Aug. 17. Spe. rlai.) In an attempt to save their hus bands from prison, Mrs. Maury I. Dlggs and Mrs. F. Drew Caminetti will take the witness-stand on Tuesday when the white slave trial Is resumed. Both women were in court Friday. They compared favorably in beauty and refinement of appearance with the girls for whom their husbands aban doned them. Mrs. Disss Is strikingly beautiful. Her 4-year-old daughter. Evelyn, seated on her knee, attracted much comment In the sordid court room. Mrs. Dlggs to Tell at Letter. MM. Diggs' testimony will be that be wrote Dlggs' father asking; him to go to Sacramento and do something anything to break up the Intimacy be tween her husband and Marsha War rington. She will testify along: the line of the defense to account for the flight of her husband that he was badly frightened and excited over the threat of prosecution she made against him. Mrs. Caminetti will give evtdenae that she applied to Juvenile Court Judge Hughes for a warrant for Lola Xorris, which. If issued, would have caused her husband and Diggs to be arrested also. From the opening statement of Robert Devlin, chief consul for the .defense. Friday, it seems evident that Diggs and Caminetti would make a -slight attempt to Impeach the testi mony of Miss Warrington and Miss Norrla. Devlin said in part: "Gentlemen "of the jury. It now be comes my duty to outline what the defense will attempt to prove to you by its testimony. "The defendant is charged with having violated what is known as the white slave traffic law. Fear of Arreet Real. "We shall chow that the purpose of the defendant and Miss Warrington in going to Reno was not that Diggs might make a concubine or mistress rtt Miss Warrington, but that the state ments which the girls have testified that he made as to fear of arrest were really made by htm and their verity undoubted by him, and that fear of arrest was the real motive of the flight to Reno. "We shall prove that the only object Diggs and Caminetti had in taking Miss Warrington and Miss Norrls with them was to save the young girls' faces and spare them the disgrace and notoriety attendant on their arrest and threat ened prosecution. "We shall show that the defendant first Intended going to Los Angeles and that when he informed Miss Warring ton of his purposed trip she said: " "If you go, I am going with you. You shall not leave me here. "We shall prove that the only reason the party went to Reno out of the state was that the train going to Reno was the first to arrive In the station. "You must remember that If the de fendant had gone to Los Angeles or any part of this state1 this charge could not have been made. The charge is a geographical one and we can prove that there was no premediated Intent to cross the state border line." COUNTESS HANGED ON CAR Kussian Xoolewoman Once Convicted of Murder, Is Found Dead. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 17. The Countess Tarnovska, who in 1910 was convicted In Venice of complicity in the murder of Count Kamarowsky and sentenced to eight years' Imprison ment, was found dead on a St- Petersburg-Kiev express train today. She had been .hanged. The police are in vestigating to determine whether It rs a case of suicide or murder. The countess was pardoned last year. The Countess Marie Tarnovska, a beautiful Russian woman, was charged and found guilty of persuading a jealous youth, Nlckolaa Kaumoff. to go to Venice from Vienna and kill Count Kamarowsky In order that she might obtain $100,000 life insurance, the pol icy for which Kamarowsky had taken out in her name. The countess, it was said, was engaged to marry Kama rowsky. It was charged at tho trial that the countess had a mania for making men love her and then turning them against one another. It was tes tified that she had repeatedly em braced Count Kamarowsky In the presence of ycung Naumoff and had shown Naumoff forged letters In order to rouse hla jealousy. The court also found Naumoff guilty but mentally unbalanced and sentenced him to three years' Imprisonment. WILD AUTO JUMPS ROAD Ughtnins Kills Driver, AVomcn Shocked, Unable to Leave Scats. CTUPrLE CREEK. Colo.; Aug. 17. With its driver killed by a bolt of lightning, an automobile bearing two women, & baby and another dad man, ran unguided down a steep embank ment on the road north of Cripple Creek today and hurdled over the side of tba road. Neither of the women nor the baby was seriously injured. H. W. Lylev of this city, and Oscar Avery, of Wichita Falls, Tex., the men in the par', were instantly killed while they and their wive and the Lyle baby were returning from a picnic party near here. Shocked by the hor ror of the tragedy, neither of the women was able to leave her seat in the rear of the machine, even after they observed that the automobile was plunging wildly, with the hands of a dead man grasping the steering wheel. YACHT AT DUTCH HARBOR VhnIing and Hunting Party on Edge of Arctic Realms. SAX FRANCISCO. Aug. 17. Wireless advices announcing the arrival of the whaling and hunting yacht Adventuress at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, were received here- The vessel leaves Dutch Harbor for the Arctic in a few days. The Adven turess with John Bordern, Chicago mil lionaire, and Harry Scott, of San Fran cisco, sailed from jtm Francisco for Arctic July IJ. ' V ' 5 R; 1 f-'. i fcv V.. i X" - : r; . C ' ':d VT V1 M v V ? 1 i ;(,' v . ... J ! . - . 1 - -.- .'V . f ... j - .-"',. . ... j : y JtJ' MMiii -i "laiiniiiiiim V.. L'v "" n 77- - x - x ran. eTTTZ- ; ; Av y v -Jz: M Flf I I IIP A lirnr f th timber U ripe and dylnK. and I ,kt.,4,;j - C iiny H I II MU lla ULUL have seen a nail of fire 40 feet high NV 1 . "KW f I Mlir III lirnr sweeping through It This is not the V-V,..V-A ..i.;4 r ..i ' fc V tr ; :.pfX -7 i 111 1U IIUllL. kind of conservation we want. ' ''y- Administration Policy Said to Be Favorable to West.- DESCHUTES TRIP BEGUN Majority of Settlers on Irrigated Land Found to Exhaust Cash Early eo That Best Results Cannot Be Attained. (Continued From First Page.) luncheon at 12:30. From 1:30 to 3 o'clock was devoted to a public hear ing, at which all those who had mat ters pertaining to the Interior Depart men took up their cases with the Sec retary in an informal way. A "seeing Portland" automobile trip tooic up the time from 3 to 6 o'clock and at 6:30 the party went to the North Bank Station, where they left at S for a trip of Inspection to the irrigation projects in the Deschutes country. ' Secretary Lane expressed approval of the plan in general, or of any plan that would favor the homeraaker against the speculator. "The majority of men who take Ir rigated lands," he said, "begin with less than $1100. By the time they get their buildings erected, some machin ery and a team they have little or no money. Then, to get money to make their payments, they have to raise the quickest crop, alfalfa, and sell it at ti a ton. Now, If they were not pressed to make their payments they could realize more on their alfalfa by feeding- it to pigs and cattle. They would then be in better condition to make their payments, as well as to make a living; and the improvements on their land." C-operatloa la Favored. Secretary Lane also spoke in favor of co-operative societies among farm ers for the purpose of borrowing money on their joint note at -low rates of in terest for community purposes. "Owing to the Isolated condition of the farmer, he has been slow to grasp the idea of co-operation." he said, "but It Is along these lines that the problem of rural credits probably will be solved." Postmaster Myers suggested that the problem could be solved by the lend ing of the deposits from 'the rAstal savings banks direct to farmers on real estate security at low rates of Inter est, to the mutual benefit of the farmer and the depositor. D. M. Watson, a Portland Democrat spoke of the possibility of the Govern ment, instead of allowing locations or leases on oil lands, going into the busi ness of piping and refining oiL He said he believed there were enough oil lands yet in the public domain, espe cially in Colorado, if developed in this way, to produce a revenue sufficient to pay the entire expenses of the Gov ernment. Secretary Lane, while commending the idea, expressed doubt of persuading Congress to enact legislation making such a policy possible. G. P. Schlosacr. secretary of the Roseburg Commercial Club, told Secre tary Lane that there are over 14.000 acres of land in Douglas County alone, within the Oregon & California .land grant, that have been sold in tracts to settlers and claimants, to which title cannot be secured. Timber Waste Cite. "We would like to see it possible for the timber on this land to be cut and the land developed,," he said. . "Much of the timber Is ripe and dying, and have seen a wall of fire 40 feet high sweeping through It This is not the kind of conservation we want.' Postmaster Myers told bow, while serving as secretary to Senator Lane at Washington last Spring, there had been hundreds of letters received from homesteaders and timber claim ants who wanted action taken on their claims. Secretary Lane said that there were many such cases, and that the depart ment would do its best to handle them justly. "However," he said. "I hope we have been able to get the Idea well under stood that the Government wants no 'dummy' entrymen, or non-resident homesteaders." "The sympathies of the men in our department," he said, "are with these Western people, for we are many of us Western men ourselves, and have a first-hand knowledge of these prob lems. I am from California, the Com missioner of the General Land Office is from Nevada, his first assistant is from New Mexico, and another promi nent official in the department is from Arizona. West Assured of Sympathy. "These are the men who will pass on these questions, so the West is as sured of an intelligent and sympathetic hearing.' Secretary Lane contends that the administration of the affairs of the Interior department are rendered par ticularly difficult by "the large mass of archaic land laws, which he con alders are often unjust and inequitable. He recommends that Congress ap propriate $25,000 to hire three good lawyers and a corps of clerks to effect a codification of the land laws, which he believes could be accomplished in a year. "As It Is," he said, "they are In a frightful jumble. With a proper codi fication, every man in the country would have as Rood a chance as every other man to know his standing before the Interior Department, and we would be saved the work of answering countless Inquiries. rmmiel of Party Glvea. . The following comprised the party that left the North Bank' Depot last night in the two special cars to in spect the irrigation projects of the Deschutes Valley: Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior; A. C. Miller, Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Oswald West, Governor; H. A. Meyer, private secretary to Secretary Lane: Ben W. Oleott, Secretary of State; Thomas Kay, State Treasurer; John H. Lewis, State Engineer; A. P. Davis. chief engineer Reclamation Service: J. N. Teal, president Oregon Conservation Commission: William uanley, presi dent Central Oregon Development League; C. S. Jaffkson, vice-president Portland Commercial Club: J. W. Brewer, vice-president Central Oregon DeveloDiuent League: Tom Richardson. vice-president Oregon Development League: C- C. Chapman, secretary Ore gon Development League; W. B. D. Dodson, trade commissioner Portland Chamber of Commerce; A. H. Devers, Oregon Conservation Commission; John F. Carroll, E. U. Popson, chief engi neer Reclamation Service, Oregon dis trict: E. B. Aldrich, editor Pendleton East Oregonian: E. P. Dodd. secretary Hermiston Commercial Club; G. a. Crlgo. photographer, Portland: King man Brewster, secretary Oregon Con servation Commission; E. G. Worth, United States Suveyor-General for Ore gon; L. L. Sharp, chief of field division. General Land Office; F. ' L. Stanley, president, and Roscoe Howard, manag er. Central Oregon Irrigation Company; R. II. Crozier, assistant general passen ger agent, Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway; A. C. Jackson, advertising agent 0.-W. R. N.: Marshal N. Dana, secrotary Oregon Immigration Commis sion: Robert L. Wtthrow and Rex H. Lampman, of The Oregonian. Rain Affects Excursions. The changeable weather yesterday' hurt the excursion business on the river, but notwithstanding the show ery conditions a large number of peo ple went Astoriaward, ITPF.R ROW JOSEPH ST. TEAL. WILLIAM HAXLEY, OF BIRS, TO LEFT OF .ROl P: J. W. BREWER, OF REDMOXD, AT SECRETARY LANE'S BACK SECRETARY LAME. W. IL STRt'BLB AND I- F. CHANDLER. LOWER INSERTS) SIDE AND FRONT VIEWS OF SECRETARY LANE. LANE HEARS GRIEFS Settlers and Waterusers State Get Audience. of PATENTS TO LANDS ASKED Siletz Reservation Residents and Umatilla. Project Farmers Call on Secretary Woman Comes From Idaho With Protest. Settlers from the Siletz reservation, water-users from the Umatilla project, water-power claimants from the De schutes, were received by Secretary Lane at the Oregon Hotel yesterday afternoon. They stated their cases to him briefly, althougn all were given time to completely outline their griev ances, while H. A. Meyer, the Secre tary's private secretary, took notes wr future reference. L. F. Chandler and five other Siletl settlers protested against recommenda tions made to Congress by Representa tives Hawley and Lafferty concerning the Siletz lands. The protestors said they were cither bona fide settlera-or contestants. - Amy E. Newman said she had lived on her claim for four years, that she had complied with the law in every detail, had sent a letter and pictures descriptive of her improvements. She said she had been 'on the land 11 months when the Hawley bill declaring the land was not subject to entry be came a law. Attorney Aska Fair Play. A. S. Dresser, a Siletz attorney, said he represented no one in particular, but had come In the interests of fair play. He said the settlers had no legal rep resentation in Washington, where land office and Congressional hearings have been conducted in an ex-parte manner. He appealed for a hearing of both sides of the case before final. action should be taken. "... Other settlers from Siletz told of building trails and roads, and accused others of not being In good faith and of claiming to build roads and trails which they had not Duut. Paulson, of Hermiston, told Sec retary Lane that much of the land in the Umatilla -project cannot be culti vated and that It takes zz acre ieei oi water to produce a crop on some of it. Water-aaers Have Hearing Secretary - Lane issued Instructions to have a telegram sent at once to E. Irvine, president of the Umatilla Water users' Association, to have all water--users at Hermiston Tuesday evening to state their cases. Mrs. Henry L. Balrd came from Wal lace, Idaho, to see secretary iane about obtaining patent on ner stone and timber claim, for which a receiv er s receipt nas Deen isauea, uui ior which she. has been unable to obtain patent from the General Land Office. Mrs. Biiird believes patent has been withheld through influence of the big timber companies, operating through mineral locations, to prevent the land from going to patent and eventually securing it for its timber. Several old .friends greeted Secre tary Lane. One was R. C. Lee, a Port land newspaper man, who . served, as city editor on the Tacoma News 20 years ago, when Mr. Lane was its edi tor and part owner. "Why, hello, Dick," said the Secre tary, giving an example of his faculty of never forgetting a friend or ac quaintance. CANNON WILL RUN AGAIN - (Continued From First Page.) sation of the executive Republicans that the claims of tho "ex's" cannot be overlooked in getting together an organization to make the next state fight. 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Won&A fa THE WESTERN UNION FULL TEST CRUCIAL Anti-Suffragists Expect to Win Fight in House. EARLY HEARING PROMISED Opposition Leaders Say Congress and President Wilson Disfavor Granting Right of Fran chise to Women. WASHINGTON. Aug. 17. (Special.) The anti-women suffragists are pre paring for what they term the crucial conflict with the suffragists next De cember. Representative Henry, of Texas, chairman of the House commit tee on rules, has given notice that the committee will have the contesting; ar guments early In the regular Bession of Congress. Apropos of this an nouncement the National association opposed to woman suffrage Issues the following statement: "We consider the hearing before the committee on rules in the House of Representatives next December a real crisis In the woman suffrage campaign and we are convinced that the suD sidence of the clamor of votes for women will date from that hearing. 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"Nor is this alL The refusal of the President of the United States only a few days ago to deliver an address to the meeting of suffragists here may be taken as sufficient indication of the coldness of the Administration for votes for women. "At the hearing- next December tha National association opposed to wom an suffrage will be represented by its most brilliant speakers, among them one or two well-known authorities on constitutional law." OLD FRIGATE IN COLLISION Santee, Relic of War of 1812, Makes Port With W ater In Hold. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 17. The old United States frigate Santee. which did valiant work in' the war of 1812, the Mexican War and the Civil War, and which was being towed up from An napolis to a point in New Kngland, put into the Delaware breakwater last night with six feet of water In her hold. The old vessel was in a collision shortly after leaving Annapolis, but it was not serious enough to endanger her. The Santee, which was used as a . training ship and then a prison ship after her efficiency as a fighting craft was over, was sold some time ago to a Philadelphia firm to be broken up for the copper that Is on her hull. Thi copper, it is said, has IS per cent of gold in It. PHONE FOR A CASE TODAY