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VOL. LI II. NO. 1G,4TT. PORTLAND, OKEGOX, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HILL IS DEGLARED CAUSE OF TROUBLE Answers Filed in Tele phone 'Trust' Suit. MEANS OF FINANCING TOLD Sale to Highest Bidder De clared Imperative. i MONOPOLY DENIED BY ALL California and Puget Sound Com panies Charge Portland Man With, (inline In for Xothing and Then Forcing: Sacrifice. All the business misfortunes of the Home Telephone Company, of Puget Sound, and the Northwestern Long Plstance Telephone Company, of Call fornla. were bundled together and dumped upon the shoulders of Samuel Hill, president of the Home Telephone Company, of Portland, In the answer filed by those two companies in the Circuit Court of the United States yes lerday, to the suit of the Government against the American Telephone & Telegraph Company and subsidiary companies. They are charged with conspiracy to monopolize the telephone business In violation of the anti-trust law of July 2, 1890. Hill la Approached. It was alleged In the answer of the Northwestern Long Distance Tele phone Company that when the business affairs of their company were in a bad way and failure seemed, imminent, William Mead, W. TV. Hitchcock and W. II. Allen appealed to Mr. Hill for assistance in rehabilitating the fi nances of the Northwestern Company and the Home Company, of Puget Sound. They allege that they agreed to transfer to Mr. Hill controlling Interest in all three companies. Including the . I tome, of Portland, and in return he agreed to invest new capital. TNs wax in 1909. Portland Company Profitable. The Portland Home Telephone Com pany is alleged to have been paying a profit of $5000 a month at that time and Mr. Hill is said to have had this company make a loan to the Puget Sound Company Instead of advancing it himself. Then the Portland Company brought suit and forced the Puget Sound Company into the hands of a receiver. It is further alleged that Mr. Hill repudiated his agreement to put both companies on a sound basis and de manded that the bondholders scale down their holdings. TVIIiiam Mead and P. L. Willis, tried to reorganize the Northwestern Com pany and exchanged bonds and stock they held in the Portland company for lr. Hills holdings In the Northwestern. Barriera Are Met. It is said, however, that when Mr. Mead In his efforts to finance the Northwestern Company tried to get the Postal Telegraph & Cable Company to bid on the Puget Sound plant and to rntaln its connection with the North western, Mr. Hill's manager, acting, as the defendants profess to believe, under the instructions of Mr. Hill, told the Northwestern officials that they must buy the local plants at Albany, Cor rallls and Oregon City, in Oregon, from the Portland company, or these plants would be sold to the Bell interests, thus cutting oil tho connection of the North western. Mr. Mead is said to have been advised also at that time, that Mr. Hill was trying to sell the Portland plant to the Bell people. Under these circumstances the North western people declare they found that they could not get aid and were obliged to sell the Puget Sound property as best they might to any bidder.' and the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Com pany finally agreed to bid $550,000. Conspiracy la Denied. The answer filed by the Puget Sound company yesterday is in substance the name as that of the Northwestern Com pany. Both companies deny any iden tification with any movement or con spiracy to monopolize the telephone business or to destroy competition. Other answers filed yesterday were from the Independent Long-Distance Telephone Company, of Idaho, and the officials of the Independent Telephone Company of Seattle. These are the last of a long list of answers filed by vari ous companies, yesterday being the last lay of grace for such filing. The original petitioa of the Govern ment cites 42 companies and individ uals as defendants in the action, and the list involves nearly every tele phone company of Importance in the Pacific Coast States. The answers filed for the most part make a general denial of the charges. TWO DAYS' RAIN 11 INCHES Mobile, Ala., Suffers From Down pour Which Causes Flood. MOBILE. Ala., Sept. 15. Much dam age ha been caused by a terrific downpour of rain which began Satur day morning, the precipitation for 43 hours beln;r more than 11 Inches. The low portions of the city. Inundated Sunday morning, were flooded again early today. Transportation lines hav not been erioudy- affected, , GUN SET FOR BEAR SHOOTS IDAHO MAN HOMESTEADER. IS VICTIM OF XEIGHBOR'S TRAP. Wounded Settler Carried 41 Miles Out or Wilderness to Reach Medical Assistance. LEWISTOX, Idaho, Sept. 15. (Spe cial.) August Anderson, a homesteader in the North Fork country,' walked into a set gun Friday night that had been placed on the trail for bear by John Larson, a neighbor. The bullet from a 38-caliber revolver entered me leu tbigh, badly fracturing the bone. The accident happened on a trail leading to the Upper North Fork, and at a point 43 miles from Orofino, known as Meadow Creek. Larson was sleeping in a cabin short distance from where he had set the cud and was awakened by the shot and cries of Anderson. He imme dlately went to his neighbor's assist ance. It is a lonely section of the moun tain country and it was necessary for Larson to travel ten miles to secure Fred Freeble before Anderson could be brought out for assistance. He was then carried five miles, where a boat was secured, and taken 42 miles down the North Fork River to Ahsahka. The trip consumed nearly 24 hours. After receiving temporary medical aid at Ahsahka the patient was brought to Lewlston and placed in St. Joseph's Hospital, and probably will recover, say the physicians. I. W. W. IN CONVENTION Gompcrs Pictured as 'Pure Reaction arj" at Head of "Labor Trust." CHICAGO, Sept. 15. Fifty delegates declaring they represented a vast army of unskilled workmen, attended the opening of the annual convention of the Industrial Workers of the "World here today. The delegates listened to Tom Mann, English labor leader, criti cise Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. "Gom pers is a pure reactionary, . ne saia. and has got far away from a sympa thetic understanding of the needs of the great army of .borne-down, un skilled laborers. 'He virtually Is at the head of the American 'labor trust.' Instead of wel coming into its membership all who need the benefits of organization, the labor trust' draws a sharp line, ex cluding the unskilled." MORE RESERVOIRS WANTED Commissioner Daly Preparing Conserve Bull Run Water. to To provide for future increase in the city's supply of water, plans are under way for the surveying of Bull Run canyon by the city water engineering bureau to ascertain the best place for the establishment of a storage basin. In the annual budget for 1914, It is probable City Commissioner Daly will ask for an appropriation of $5000 to cover the cost of the survey an for the making of preliminary plans ft the basin. Arrangements are being made also for the erection of a new dam at the head works in Bull Run canyon. Another plan which Commissioner Daly has under way Is the establish ment of another reservoir to hold part of the supply of water, which at pres ent is going to waste. ECLIPSE OF MOON VISIBLE As Hour Is 2:4 2 A. M., Few Port land People Witness Phenomenon. A total eclipse of the moon, visible on the Pacific Coast, but not elsewhere In the United States, took place Monday morning at 2:42. Inasmuch as most good folks are abed at this hour, few persons other than scientists, "milkmen, burglars and policemen witnessed the phenomenon. At San Francisco, the only point on the Pacific Coast recognized by the al manacs, the exact instant when the earth's shadow began to obscure the moon was 243:8 A. M. The total eclipse began at 3:51:3 A. M. and ended at 5:25:5 A. M. JUDGE THAYER IS ACCUSED House Committee to Consider Case of District Court at Shanghai. WASHINGTON. Sept. 15. Charges against Rufus F. Thayer, United States District Judge at Shanghai. China, were laid before the Hous committee on ex penditures, in the State Department to day, by John F. Curtis. Mr. Curtis charged that Judge Thayer left his court at Shanghai and spent much time in Canton while various prisoners were awaiting trial before him. He also charged that the expense accounts of the court were Irregular. The committee twill receive docu mentary evidence In support of the charges Wednesday. 7 INJURED IN DISTURBANCE Garment Factory Workers- Attacked by Strikers, Police Say. PHILADELPHIA. Sept 15. Seven persons, believed to be striking gar mentworkers and their sympathizers, were so badly beaten In a disturbance late today that they had to be sent to a hospital. Two are in a serious con dition. According to the police, several gar mentworkers who refused to Join the strikers were attacked by about 800 men and boys when they left their places of employment, police Lieuten ant Morrow, who undertook to quell the- riot, was badly beaten. NEW HAVEN WRECK LAID TO EMPLOYES Engineer, Flagman and Conductor Blamed. CRIMINAL WARRANTS ISSUED Company Neither Made Liable Nor Absolved in Verdict. SIGNALS IN PERFECT ORDER Regardless of Whether Banjos Are Obsolete, Accident Would Have Been Prevented if Rules Were Not Violated, Is Charge. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 15. Three employes of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad are held by Cor oner Ell Mix to be criminally responsi ble for the disastrous wreck at North Haven on September 2, when the White Mountain Express plunged through the second section of the standing Bar Har. bor Express, exacting a toll of 21 lives. The Coroner's finding was filed today after he had conducted a "private" in quest. Signals Found O. K. Those held to be responsible are Au gustus Miller, engineer of the White Mountain Express, and Bruce C. Adams and Charles H. Murray, conductor and flagman, respectively, of the Bar Har bor train. The Coroner neither blames nor ab solves the New Haven Road. He finds the signals were In perfect working order, "and whether the banjo signals are obsolete or not he accident would have been prevented if the company's rules had not been violated." He de clares the number of violations of rules by employes "makes a sorry rec ord." Engineer Is A ire ted. Engineer Miller was arrested on a bench warrant this afternoon and pleaded nit guilty before the Superior Court. Bench warrants have been is sued for Adams and Murray. It is said they will be brought into court to morrow. In his findings the Coroner says of Engineer Miller: "The lives of a large number of peo ple were in his care and he was duty bound to take no chance and incur no risks. Engineer Miller was aware the late train was ahead and tbat it was imperative and his duty to have had his train under perfect control, ready to stop at a signal of danger. . . . Miller approached the banjo signal set at danger just north of the wreck at a reckless rate of speed." Adams and Murray Scored. Regarding Conductor Bruce Adams, ot the Bar Harbor Express, Coroner Mix says: It was clearly his duty (after the (Concluded on Page 2.) j ' "i i cvOOA INDEX OF TODAY NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 75 degrees; minimum, 5t degree. TODAY'S Fair: variable winds, moatly northerly. . foreign. Mexicans celebrate 103d anniversary of In dependence. Page 3. National. Knotty tariff problems solved at Senate- House conference. Page 2. House Democrats remain firm behind cur rency bill. Page 2. Domestic. Three employes of New Haven road held criminally responsible for wreck. Page 1. Thaw protested against kidnaping by habeas corpus writ, jp age l. Native Portland girl out to win Portola trip nere. .page z. Big dipper, most famous of constellations, -gradually is falling to pieces. Page 1. Two more ar held in New York murder. Page l. Sport. James drafted by - St. Louis Americana. Page s. Northwestern Leasrue results Seattle Portland 0; Vancouver 12, Spokane 1; victoria o, i a com a fage f. Coast League pennant difficult to dope. Page 7. Major leagues get JoO.OOO worth of ball players on Coast for $15,000. Page 6. Pacific Northwest. Gun set for bear shoots Idaho Homesteader. Page i. Industrial "Activities of La Grande are fea tured by Addison Bennett. Page 4. Two persons slain by ex-asylum inmates within three months. Page 4. Four autolsts in collision hurt near Salem. Page i- Flre-swept Sheridan rebuilt rapidly. Page 4. Junction City prepares for annual pumpkin snow. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Strong demand for Oregon hops at 20 cents. Page 17. Large world's shipments weaken wheat mar ket at Chicago. Fage 17. Stocks sold freely to realize profits on Jast weeic's advance, page 17. Tug Sampson will be added to bar fleet Pago 13. Portland and Vicinity. Fine weather blamed for slight decrease in school enrollment. Page 12. County economizes on Insurance under new system, page 16. Road declared to be firm where Sunday's auto accident occurred. Page 19. Equalization Board faces S00 protests on as sessments, rage n. Chattanooga g Irl is house guest of Miss Marie Haller. Page 10. Portland visitors pleased with Roundup. Page 12. Estimate of Water Bureau expenditures for 1914 is S93tl.tiD0. Page 11. Members of firemen's band return from East today. Page 16. Samuel Hill blamed by telephone companies in answering monopoly charge. Page 1. County Clerks of state discuss uniform ac counting. Page 10. Open-air work to be tried at Irvlngton School Page 12. SECRET OF SEX IS TRACED Plans May Solve Mystery of AVhy Animals Are Male and Female. BIRMINGHAM. Eng., Sept. 15. The secret of the determination of sex pos sibly may be found In plant life. Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge- told the British Association at Its 'meeting this after noon. Referring to the fact that some plants produce .both male and female flowers, he said this must be the result of some profound change in the sap at the Junction In the stems, where dif ferently sexed flowers branch away from- each other. He continued: "I don't know what this is and the microscope tells me, nothing. - Perhaps If physiologists could find out what happens In that little plant joint they might get a clew to the reason why some human beings are born boys and others girls." Frontier Agreement Reached. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 15. 1 is officially announced that an agreement on the principal points of the frontier question was reached today at the sit ting of the Turkish and Bulgarian peace delegates. A CONTINUOUS INTERRUPTION. LA --- JUL JL.AJL JL --- ' L-J-. THAW PROTECTED FROM KIDNAPERS Federal Goverment Joifit Guardian. Is HABEAS CORPUS WRIT ISSUED Jerome to Fight New Coup of Opposing Counsel. HEARING TODAY SCHEDULED Fugitive Has Feeling of Security, as This Is First Time His Case Has Been In United States Courts. Constable Is Arrested. COLEBROOK, N. H.. Sept. 15. The the United States judicial branch of Government assumed Joint guardian ship of Harry Kendall Thaw tonight By virtue of a writ of habeas corpus Issued at Concord. Saturday, United States Marshal E. P. Nute became one of the Matteawan fugitive's custodians and tomorrow morning maw win ue taken to Littleton, N. H., and produced before Judge Edgar Aldrich in the United States District Court. The writ was obtained by Thaw's lawyers as a weapon against William Travers Jerome, in case Jerome should essay forcibly to get Thaw across the New York border. Before the Federal Court tomorrow they will seek to have the writ continued to safeguard their client should Governor Felker rind against Thaw in the extradition hear ing to be held at Concord probably on Wednesday. Jerome to Oppone Action. Jerome will oppose the continuance of the writ and insist on an Immediate hearing, even though there is a possi bility that Thaw may be released from custody. Jerome believes Thaws counsel would make no attempt to get, their client out of the state under- the cir cumstances and that Thaw Immediately would be arrested and brought before the Governor as arranged. Both factions planned tonight to leave Colebrook for Littleton tomorrow morning. Thaw was eagerly anticipat ing the trip to Littleton. It is the first time, with the exception of bankruptcy proceedings at Pittsburg, that his case has been heard in the Federal courts and the sovereign power of Uncle Sam gave him a sense of security against kidnaping. Sheriff Served With Writ, Marshal Nute reached Colebrook shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon, The writ he bore was directed against Holman Drew, Sheriff of Coos County, or any other custodian of Thaw. But because the Sheriff was absent tempo rarily, having gone to his home in Ber lin for the afternoon, the Marshal re frained frdn serving tas writ and (Concluded on Page 2.) l t t e tJL BIG DIPPER SLOWLY FALLING TO PIECES IX 200,000 YEARS FAMOUS COX- STELLATIOX WILL VANISH.- Lick Observatory Astronomer Says Pilot Star Group Did Xot Exist Once and Now Wastes Away. SAN JOSE. Cal., Sept. 15. (Special.) "It is now known positively that the Big Dipper, most famous of all con steuatlons. Is gradually falling to pieces. In 200,000 years the grand fig ure as we see It will not exist longer. In fact It did not exist 200,000 years ago." This announcement Is made by Pro fessor Heber D. Curtis, astronomer at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, a member of the faculty at the Uni versity of California. This fact, says Curtis, was discovered by the study of the motions of the stars through com parison with records kept by astrono mers for the last 150 years. "Stars," Professor Curtis explains, "have two motions that in their orbits and that which has been recently made In a path through the sky, known as the proper motion. "The stars of the Big Dipper are not all moving In the same direction in their proper motion. Five are going in one general direction ana two In an entirely different one. "In relation to the movement of the earth their pace is so slow that cen turies must pass before the constella tion will have vanished completely." $1 A MILE IS FINES CHARGED Automobile and Motorcycle Speed ers Pay for Fast Traveling. i A dollar a mile was the line paid by automobile and motorcycle speeders when they were found guilty of break Ing the trafftc laws in Municipal Court yesterday. c. Linville paid $25, C. H. Brlstow $33, Wilbur Herron $22, Victor Chev aiier, a motorcyclist, $20, and Arthur Miller. C. M. McDougall and W. L. Diel, earn fjo. The arrests were made by Motorcy cle Officers Coulter and Bewley, Gould stone and Nutter and Patrolman Hunt. The cases of C. B. Malarkey and A Lnenoweth were continued for later trial. POOR SUFFER FROM STRIKE ateamers at Dublin Loaded With Grain Unable to Discharge. DUBLIN, Ireland, Sept. 15. The labor situation has assumed a more serious phase and the city is affected to greater extent by this strike than any in its history. Today 5000 builders went out after refusing to sign a dec laration proposed by the employers that they would not Join with or sup port the Transport SV'bVkers' Union which started the origlnql strike. Two thousand farm laborers and 600 dock workers also are out Four steamers loaded with grain are unable to discharge. Food is running short and the poor are beginning to suffer. FIDO MAY SHED -MUZZLE Mayor Albee Hears Pleas of Dogdom for Uncaged Xoscs. Doaiiom may yet win Its anti-muzzle fight. Following scores of complaints against muzzles, received by Mayor Al bee by telephone, mail and 'otherwise, the Mayor announced yesterday that he will consider with the City Com mission, probably tomorrow, an ordi nance to permit the removal of muzzles after October 1. As it stands the ordinance requires all dogs to be muzzled the year round, Owners of dogs complain that this is foolish and they insist that the muz zles be removed as soon as possible. FOUR ARE LOST IN ALPS Experienced Swiss Climbers Are Caught in Snowstorms. GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept 15. Four experienced Swiss mountain climbers, one of them Mile. Bunzll. of Pontresina, have been missing; since Friday on Piz Palu, a summit of the upper Engadine, in the environs of Pontresina. As continuous snowstorms have prevailed since then there is lit tie hope of finding; them alive. x Two rescue parties of guides, which started from different places, were driven back by the fierce storms. HAVEMEYER WILL 'FILED Sugar Baron's Four Children Get All Except $5000 of Fortune. NEW YORK, Sept 15. The will of the late William F. Havemeyer, one of the organizers of the American Sugar Refining Company, filed today for pro bate, leaves all but $5000 of his for tune to his four children. The $5000 goes to Lydia G. Magee, of Pennington, N. J. The will does not disclose the value of the estate. Mr. Havemeyer died suddenly on Septem ber 7. - DE YOUNG ISJEAR DEATH San Francisco Publisher Xot Ex pected to Live Until Today. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15. Charles DeYoung, general manager of the San Francisco Chronicle and son of M. H. DeYoung, proprietor of that nsTtpa- per, was not expected today b? ia physicians to live until tomorrow. He is ill of typhoid fever, which has run into typhoid pneumonia, gompllgat ed by perltonltia, . ... Tl MORE TAKEN INGOTHAmmuKUER Dr. Muret, Dentist, and Bertha Zeck Held. WOMAN WANTED AS WITNESS Former Is Held on Technical Counterfeiting Charge. PRIEST AND GIRL KNOWN Schmidt, Who Said He Killed Anna Aumuller Because "Lord Told Him to Do It," Closely Guard ed in Cell at Tombs. NEW YORK, Sept. 16. Inspector Faurot, who on Sunday arrested Father Hans Schmidt, who later confessed to having murdered Anna Aumuller and cut up her body and cast It piece by . piece Into the Hudson River, early this morning arrived at Police headquarters having in custody Dr. A. E. Muret, a dentist of 301 St. Nicholas avenue, and his housekeeper, Bertha Zeck. Dr. Muret is being held on a technical charge of counterfeiting and the wo man ns a material witness. It Is alleged that under the name of George Miller, Muret hired an apart ment In West One Hundred Thirty fourth and that in this apartment were found plates and presses and portion" of partially destroyed proofs of $20 gold certificates. DentlNt Is I'ncnncerned. The detectives allege that they alo found In Father Schmidt's room at St. Joseph's rectory a plate from which counterfeit money had been struck. Dr. Muret was arrested at his home, which is In the vicinity of St. Joseph's Church. The dentist seemed uncon cerned when lie was taken into cus tody.' , Dr. Muret is SI years of age. Ho was born in Chicago, but went to Europe as a. boy and studied in the public schools of Berlin. He graduated from a dental collega there In 1902-3 and came to New York in the latter year. The police say that Father Schmidt often was seen In the apartments in West One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street with Dr. Muret. The agent of the flat also is said to have identified Muret as having been In the apartment with Father Schmidt. Confession Not Implicating. Inspector Faurot said he wanted It understood that Father Schmidt had made no confession implicating Muret In the Broadhurst avenue apartment where the murder of Anna Aumuller took place, the inspector continued, was found a receipt made out to John Schmidt for the apartment in West One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street. De tectives were put on Jie trail and tound that the premises had been leased by George Miller. They got a good de scription of Miller from the agent and janitor and also learned that Father Schmidt was a frequent visitor to the place. They ran down several other leads and finally decided to arrest Dr. Muret. Muret Knew Aumuller f.lrl. Dr. Muret said he first met Schmidt when the priest visited him to have some dental work done and it Is al leged by the police that Muret to.d In. spector Faurot that Schmidt first broached the subject of counterfeiting. "Does Muret or Miller admit know ing the Aumuller girl?" the newspaper men asked Mr .Faurot. - "Yes," was the reply. "Where did Muret meet the Aumuller girl?" "With Father Schmidt," was all the inspector would say. Schmidt Is Guarded. Hans Schmidt, the priest who con fessed that he killed Anna Aumuller "as a sacrifice to be consummated in blood," is in the observation ward of the Tombs prison tonight under the watchful eye of Dr. McGulre, the pris on physician. Warden Fallon, of the Tombs, declares the man Is insane one of the most dangerous men ever confined in the prison, and In thla view he was upheld by Deputy Com missioner of Corrections Wright From far-off Mainz, Germany, there came today to Mgr. Joseph F. Mooney, vicar-general of the arch-diocese of New York, a cablegram from the secre tary of the bishop, which said that Schmidt had been declared insane there and suspended by the bishop. The message read: "Schmidt born at Aschaffenburg. Priest of diocese of Mainz. Ran away from Mainz because of attempted frauds; arrested by police. Declared insane by court and discharged. Sus pended by bishop for acts and for pre senting falsified document regarding studies he pretended to have made. Then left diocese." Schmidt Repeats Story. In his cell today Schmidt told and re told the story of his crime and how. after the woman was dead, he cut up the body with a knife and saw, and sank it portion by portion in the waters of the Hudson River from the stern of a ferryboat The Lord told me to do It," or "St Elizabeth, my patron, demanded the sacrifice," were the only reasons he gave for his deed and he Invariably added: God In his own time will clear it up. Concluded on Pag ft.) m 108.2