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Newspaper Page TextPORTLAND. ORE-RON. THURSDAY, MARCH 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LIV. NO. 16,G28. 1 I : DEPARTMENT STORE HEAD IS INDICTED Bankruptcy Hearing Is Ended Dramatically. CREDITORS MURMUR ANGRILY Henry Seigel and His Partner Accused of Grand Larceny. OTHER CHARGES PENDING .Discrepancy of $2,000,000 Said to Have Been Discovered Wife Said to Have Spent Greater Part of $46,000 a Year. NEW YORK, March 11. While Henry Siegel, head of large department Btores in New York, Chicago and Boston, was testifying today in a riotous bank ruptcy hearing in the Federal building, the grand jury that has been investi gating the failure of the Siegel stores in New York and the savings bank returned three indictments against him and his partner, Frank E. Vogei, in the banking enterprise. Siegel and Vogei were taken to the criminal court building, where they were arraigned and later released on $25,000 bail each. Angry Depositor Seek: Men. Three hundred angry depositors wiio had been ejected from the bankruptcy hearing hunted around the Federal building for Siegel in vain. At the time they were seeking to question him he and his banking partner were' be fore Judze Rosalsky pleading not guilty. One of the indictments charges Siegel and Vogei with grand larceny in that they made false statements to the Bank of Commerce in order to bor row J25.000. The other indictment al leges that the two bankers accepted deposits when they knew the bank of Henry Siegel & Co. to be insolvent. .Women Ejected From Court. ' Siegel testified pn the (stand at. the bankruptcy proceedings that he did not invest capital in the private bank that bore his name. Miss Jessie Mar tin interrupted his testimony and said that she had a right to represent the depositors at the hearing. She was urged to stop. When she refused she was led from the courtroom. Three hundred depositors who were standing around the corridors also were put out for shouting threats of violence against Siegel. Siegel testified he and Vogei signed a note and purchased fix tures for the bank. They admitted they accepted de posits and made them act as a floating capital for the bank. He declared he had no money to pay what he owed and he declined to answer a .question whether an entry was made on the books of the stores when they bor rowed from the bank on the ground that it might incriminate him. Wife Spends 940,000 a Year. Siegel said he had life insurance Pol icies made in favor of himself to the amount of $50,000. He once owned some paintings which he Baid his wife took four years ago. He had no jewelry. In regard to his partnership with Vogei in the private bank, he said he and his partner had an agree ment to divide the profits at the end of each year. He said his salary from the Simpson & Crawford store in New York was J1000 a month, the Fourteenth-street store, also in New York, $750 a month, and from the store in Chicago $1200 a month. His wife, he said, spent most of $46,000 a year for his living expenses. This amount represented his total income. When one of District Attorney Whit man's detectives, who had been sent to the Federal building to watch the partners, and his partner told Siegel's attorney that the indictments had been returned, Siegel turned pale and from then on stammered out his answers to questions put to him. Partners Appear Dazed. Siegel and Vogei were taken to the ground floor of the building in a pri vate elevator so they might dodge the mob of depositors waiting for them. When the partners arrived before Judge Rosalsky both of them appeared dazed, A representative of the law firm of Stanchfield & Levy, the personal at torney of Siegel and Vogei, entered a plea of not guilty for the two men. One week was allowed them in which to withdraw the pleas if they, so de sired or to make such motion as might bs deemed necessary. After their bail was accepted, both men left the court. Both declined to talk. In the indictments charging grand larceny it is alleged that at the time the men applied for the loan from the National Bank of Commerce on May 17, 1912. they said they had above their liabilities $1,151,319 and it is charged they were insolvent even then. The other indictments allege that several depositors were allowed to deposit $100 each in the Siegel bank December 20, 1913, when both Siegel and Vogei are said to have known the bank to be in solvent. Proceedings Not Knded. The indictments by no means end tho grand jury proceedings. It is al leged that an investigation by the Dis trict Attorney's office has disclosed dis crepancies of nearly $2,000,000 between the books of the Siegel stores and banking enterprises and the financial (Concluded oa Pa;e 2.) CITY QUITS EATING LIVER AND BACON RETAIL BUTCHERS RESOLVE ON CURTAILING STOCKS. Fifteen Cents a Pound for Meat That Used to Be Given Away Too High Wholesale Price. SAN FRANCISCO. March 11. Liver and onions, liver and bacon, disap peared from the tables of all houses and restaurants of San Francisco fol lowing a stormy executive session of the Retail Butchers' Association last night, which lasted into the morning hours. Liver, the butchers say, used to be given away with dressed carcasses. Then the wholesalers asked 25 cents a liver and got' it. Now the wholesalers are asking 15 cents a. pound, but rather than pay it the butchers' union unan imously resolved not to carry liver at all. Prices are too high all along the line, say the retailers, particularly on veal. againstwhicli they threaten to declare a boycott Fifteen cents a pound for carcasses of calves, they believe, is beyond rea son, and 12 M cents for beef is 5 cents too high. REFUND MADE IN "DRIBS" Railroad Commissioners' Persistency Finally Wins for Shipper. SALEM, Or., March 11. (Special.) As a result of persistency the State Railroad Commission has recovered $175.20 for Charles H. McCutcheon, an overcharge on- a shipment of house hold goods from Gilman, Mont., to Cove. Mr. McCutcheon's contention was held to be correct and the Commission asked the railroad to remit. The company forwarded a check for $83.20, which was kept, but held to be insufficient. A second check for $28 was received, but the Commission asked for more money and the railroad sent another check for $24. Still the Commission was not satisfied and in slsted that there was still due about $40, which the company wrote today would be sent at once. "CLEANUP WEEK" CREATED Governor Goes "Fire Prevention Pay" Suggestion One Better. SAN FRANCISCO. March 11. H. L. Simpson, chairman of the Fire Pre vention committee of the World's In surance Congress, has requested that Governor Jonhson Issue a' proclamation designating April 18, the date of the San Francisco disaster in 1906, as "fire prevention" day for the State of Call fornla. In reply Governor Johnson has suggested that an entire week be set aside as "cleanup week." The various civic organizations and women's club throughout the state are said to be giving their hearty Bupport to the movement. TAX FOR JULY 4 IS PLAN Baker Proposes Fund for Independ ence Day Celebration. BAKER, Or., March 11. (Special.) A levy of half a mill on all taxable property in Baker City for a fund for an annual Fourth of July celebration here was indorsed at a meeting of the merchants' committee of the Commer cial Club tonight. It was proposed and decided to start initiative petitions to call a vote at the next regular election to determine whether the city should make such a levy. The total from the half mill levy would be $3000 on the present valua tion. POWER CHIEFTAIN IN CITY C. 31. Clark, Chairman ot Portland Company, on Annual Trip. C. M. Clark, of Philadelphia, chair man of the board of directors of th Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany, arrived In Portland yesterday on his annual inspection trip. He win be here for a week or more and will visit th various units of the property. He is at the Portland Hotel. Additional investments in the local properties, said Mr. Clark, depend largely upon future developments i th security market. . If the market improves the railroads are apt to do considerable development work, espe cially in the West, he thinks. MOTHER OF 7 IS SUICIDE Mrs. E. Damours, of Molalla, Under Hallucination, Cuts Throat. MOLALLA, Or., March 11. (Special.) Mrs. E. Damours, who Monday par tially severed her windpipe and jugular vein with a razor while in a flit of in sanity, died at her home ' near here today. Mrs. Damours suffered under the hallucination that she had killed her youngest baby. She wore her self out through this emotion and Mon day morning her husband found her dying in her bedroom. Besides her husband she leaves seven children, several of whom are quite young. COAL $57.80 TON IN NORTH Utah Fuel Hauled Overland by Dog Sledges From Nome. SALT LAKE CITY. March 11. A shipment of 300 tons of Utah coal just sent to Alaska will cost $57.80 a ton when delivered. The coal is billed to a mining com pany operating dredges north of Nome. It will be hauled overland by dog sledge from Nome. - MAN KILLS 2 AND SELF; WIFE SHOT Chehalis Tragedy May Total Four Deaths. RELIGIOUS CONVERT MURDERER Two Others Escape Death by Flight Through Window. REVOLVER IS WEAPON USED After Shooting and Leaving Mate for Dead and Killing Her Host and Hostess, Slayer Sends Bul lets Into Own Body. CHEHALIS, Wash., March 11. (Spe cial.) William Hagerman and his wife, Artie Hagerman, were shot and killed tonight by Tom Hardin, who also made a murderous assault on his own wife, Mr. Rosev Hardin, leaving ner ior dead, then killed nimself. The triple tragedy occurred at the Hagerman home on lower Pacific ave nue, Chehalis. Mrs. Hardin i3 lying at the point of death at a local hospital and is not expected to recover. The crime has never been equalled in this part of the state. Two Others Narrowly Escape. Bud Stoddard, a neighbor of the Ha germans, and Florence Smith, a daugh ter of Mrs. Hagerman by a previous marriage, escaped with their lives by fleeing from Hardin through a bedroom window. Tonight to Sheriff Foster, Coroner Newell and Attorney Cunningham Bud Stoddard related the story of the triple murder and suicide. Tho Hagerman family was at snpper, when one of the children reported that Hardin had been seen in the street outside. Saturday Hardin had been put under bond to keep the peace, after having made threats against his victims of to night. Sunday he professed religion at a revival meeting, testifying to the peace within his soul. Woman Met by Shot. Tonight within a moment after the family had pulled down a window blind after his presence outside was reported (Concluded on Pan I WHAT HE WANTS . ' j ip MOREECQNOl n h ! p GREATER EFFICIENCY j i p fewer COMMISSIONS l If LESS DEMAGOGY V ! BETTERC0MMr.M crJ. ! n tl l I to. . IBIlIS B 9 H II lit s , INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 63 . inim.im r.n ,lcr.8- aegrceo, J1 """ " TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds. Forei-rn. Suf f rasette outrages threaten tourist trade National. Plucked Navy captain appeals to Congress. Two'more regiments ordered to border. Page 1. Domestic. H.nrv Kleiel indicted for larceny. Page 1. Founder of George Junior Republic exon erated. Page Idle army's food supply cui on. " Sport. Beavers limp, but continue practice games. Page 8. ' Deaf and dump Indian to pitch for Port land colts., rage . Portland bowling statistics show how eacn ball of season rouea. rago . Errors cheat - Klawltter out ot snuiouu Page 8. Charles P. Taft will retain control oi i-ui- cago Cubs. Page e. Pacific Northwest. Governor of Idaho aenies report inai no opposed by Senator Borah. Page 6. New railway line across Umatilla project is rumored. Page i. Kan Francilca itirl. V- Tears old, stows away on bis liner. Page 1. Federal mediator brinjrs about end of shin Kle mill strike on Wlllapa Harbor. Page a. Man kills two and self at Chehalis. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Oregon and Idaho sheep men holding wool for later market. Page 19. New-crop wheat firmer and old-crop weaker at Chicago. page xv. Stock market Irregular with Industrials roak ins: best showing, page iv. April grain movement expected to exceed March. Page 14. Oregon lumber exports show big sain in 11)13. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. T. M. C. A. plans to Increase membership 1000 next weeK. page la. Gift of scenic park for people depends on outcome ot proposeo. cunutuiiiuuua Page J3. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. Meter plan foes enlist to start referendum tonight. Page la. Near-total eclipse of moon visible in Port land. Paire 1. "Hillside drive," 11-mile scenic boulevard. . assured. rage 18. GERMAN WAR TAX OPPOSED Americans in Country Protest Through Their Embassy. BERLIN, March 11. The German American Union has forwarded a pro test through trie United States em bassy to the German Government against the imposition of the new "war tax" on American resiuenis in Ger many. I?v a law passed last year in con- nprtinn with the German army, per sons in Germany with an income of more than $750 and up to $2500 a year have to pay an extra tax of one-half of 1 ner cent. The tax increases pro gressively up to 2 per cent on incomes of $12,500 and over. Several European powers are about to make a joint protest based on clause of the, German .treaties- with RuMial' Greece, ' Italy and Roumania, exempting subjects of those countries from taxation levied under extraur dinarv conditions. Tho United States, It is pointed out, would benefit by the "most favored nation" treatment if this protest should be successful, but meanwhile an Ameri can protest has been filed. n & SnDC DCniMQlTC MIL IlLUIl.lLHIU ORDEREDTOBQRDER Force NowBi?$fTs'an 1 t)eP . I .aw .ii I. una. - V in REQUEST OF TEXANS HEEDED Protection Is Urged Against "Overnight" Developments. FELIX DIAZ' HAS SCHEME Suggestion for Ending War in Mexico to Bo Announced From Wash ington Today-Huerta's Elim ination Is Sought. WASHINGTON-. March 11. Dispatch t twn additional regiments of Ameri can infantry to Eagle Pass and Laredo. Tex., to allay fears of raids by Mexi cans, and the appearance in Washing ton of General Felix Diaz ana int. with a new plan to solve the Mexican problem were the chief developments today in the Mexican situation. Th troops the Ninth and Seven teenth Regiments were ordered to the border at the request' of Senator Sheppard and Representative Garner. The latter told the President there was a good deal of cash in the border banks and Americans wanted to be protected ,r raid or invasion which mirht result from sensational oo. night developments at any time in the Tav!.Qn situation. Cottle Also Disappear. Mr. Garner also said many cattle had disappeared lately and residents be lieved Mexicans were responsible. The request for additional troops was dis missed at the Cabinet meeting anu o elded on today by the President, who communicated his approval to the Sec retarv of War. n.,,-ni Diaz and his friends here said they would announce their pur noees here in a statement tomorrow. The Mexicans denied that they were seeking support- or sanction, for , ani revolutionary movement, saying their idea chiefly was a campaign or in formation about Mexico. Peace rians Not Divulged. Just what their plans are for the restoration of peace was not divulged. (Concluded on PaBe 3.) JULIETTE, ONLY 4, IS SHIP STOWAWAY SAX FKAXCISCO MISS BUSS AWAY; HIDES OX LIXER. Just to Be With Daddy, Tiny Girl Hides In Vessel's Clothes Closet Until Far Out at Sea. SEATTLE, Wash., March 11. (Spe cial.) When the liner Congress, of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, docked in Seattle Monday night from California potoits she brought to Puget Sound the youngest stowaway in the history of the sea little Miss Juliet Benjamin, 4 years old who success fully smuggled herself on board the huge vessel at San Francisco and re vealed herself to the crew only after it was too late to return her to shore. With an agility and strategy far beyond her years, the youngster ran away from hewr mother at the San Fran cisco pier jiist as the Congress was ready to leave for Seattle, hid herself a clothes ' closet until the Golden Gate had ben passed and permitted discovery only when it was impossible for the big steamship to retrace her route. 1 Excitement' reigned when the wee miss demurely stepped out of the closet and announced that she had run away from her mother. The awe-stricken members of the crew took the stow away before 1 the captain and there Juliet explained the reason for her extraordinary ' exploit. "I wanted to be with daddy." she said. i Investigation showed that her father was a Junior engineer on the congress and he took care of the venturesome little one. The wireless was sent forth with notifying; the worried mother that the babe butt been found and Juliet was given the right of way in every part of the vessel. BANK FOR FLORA WANTED A. L. Gosh, Denied Charter on Basis of Lack of Business, Still Pleads SALEM. Ol-., March 11. (Special.) The State Banking Board, consisting of the Governor, Secretary ol istate ana State Treasurer, has been appealed to by A L Gosh for a charter for a bank which he desires to establish in Flora, Wallowa County. - State Bank; Superintendent Sargent declined to Issue a charter, on the ground that there was not enough business In the town to justify the opening of a bank. Mr. Sargent says the population ot the town is about 100 and that there are already six banks In the county, which., liq. reajardtf as sufficient.-. Tlia capital and surplus of the banks is $358,500 with 'deposits of 1602,000. LABOR SAFETY IS PLANNED Bill Creating .Xciv Bureau Passed by Lower House. WASHINGTON. March 11. A bill to create a bureuu of lauor safety in the Department of'Labor was passed in the House today. It proposes a bureau to make general and special investiga tions of labor safety plans and devices, to inquire into all phases of vocational diseases and ti make public the result of its investigations. The bureau is to be headed by a commissioner of labor safety at J5000 a year, and wuuld have a museum for exhibition of aiiproved devices for safe guarding machinery and protecting employes from '.injury and methods of controlling industrial diseases. Representative Walsh, of New Jer sey, called the attention of the House to the fact that "Smiling Bob" Brem- ner, of New Jersey, who recently died in Baltimore, itirst proposed this bu reau. SULTAN LOSES HIS SUIT Property or Turks Dying in United States Subji.-t to Local Laws. NEW YORK, Iklarch 11. The Sultan of Turkey lost a test suit to establish hia right to control the property of Turkish suDjects 'who die in the United States. " . Through the Turkish Consul-General here. His Majesty sought to take and distribute as puWIe administrator the estate of Hovhannes S. Tavshanjian, a wealthy Turkish,. rug dealer, who died in New York. Th State Supreme Court decided today ag:alnst him, sustaining a demurrer entered by Tavshanjian'a executors. ! BIG LANDSLIDE MASTERED Canal Engineers Figure Depth Will Be Attained in Two Months. PANAMA. March 11. Canal engineers today expressed the opinion that the slide at Cucaracha, virtually has been overcome and that it was now a ques tion of taking out the dirt, which la being removed much faster than it is coming into the ca-Jial. W. C. Comber, the dredging engineer, said that within two months the channel at Cucaracha would be at the required depth. The width of the canal in front of the slide is now within 40 feet of the specified 300 feet, i HAWAIIAN FLL:ET DOUBLED Eleven Xew Freighters Being Built, Twelfth Boogrit for Trade. SAN FRANCISCO, March 11. (Spe cial.) The American-Hawaiian Steam ship Company is havtng 11 magnificent new freighters constructed, has bought a 12th and will operate a fleet of 26, just double its present size, when the Panama Canal opens next year for traffic. Tills was the statement of G. S. Bear- born, president of tho company, who arrived hero today from New York for his anuual tour of inspection. NECKS ARE CRANED TO SEE fi Near-Total Eclipse Is Visible in Portland. AMATEUR OBSERVERS ARE BUSY Shadow Covers Nine-Tenths of Bright Surface. ALL'S OVER AT 9:43 P. M. Eartli Slips In Between Sun and Chief Beacon of Heavens at Xight and That's Why It Happened. Another Due in Fall. Such expressions as "Hello, did you see the eclipse?" were prevalent about the streets last night, and amateur ob servers on curbs, porches and roofs focused their necks skyward for min utes at a time in their study of the firmament. For, a3 announced from astronomical sources, the earth flipped almost plumb in between the sun and the moon, and there was no celestial officer on duty to clear the traffic of light that normally has the right of way betwixt sun and moon. Surprisingly few know it, as was il lustrated last night by the numerous telephone calls of innocent inquiry that came to The Oregonian, but an eclipse of the moon amounts merely to the shadow of the earth on the moon, thero by reason of the unusual circumstance that the eartli, the sun and the moon are In a direct line, witn tne eartn in the middle of the circuit. In 1913 there were two total eclipses of the moon, one on March 22 and another on Sep tember 15. Kclipxe About Nine-Tenths Full. The eclipse last night began at 6:Zt o'clock, when the moon entered tho earth's shadow. The middle ot the eclipse was recorded at about S:04. and the moon left the shadow about 9:43. The eclipse was not total, but scarcely nine-tenths. It was visible everywhere in Western Europe. North and South America and Western Africa. There will be another partial eclipse of the moon September 3-4 of this year. This will not be visible in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, but will be visible from Pacific Coast points. The moon will then set with the eclipse on it. These are the only eclipses visible on the Pacific Coast this year. Mure Stars Visible. Astronomers the country over were busy wih their glasses last night, for they can learn more about the moon during an eclipso than at any other period and, too, more than the usual number of stars are discernible than at ordinary times when the light from tho sun reflected on the moon dims the stars. There is no other body as close to the earth as the moon, it being but 246,000 miles distant, whereas the sun ia between 93,000,000 and 96,000,000 miles distant from the earth. At tho times of moon eclipses it is the earth and the earth only that intervenes, thus ntercepting the light of the moon. Because of the peculiarly clear sky in Portland last night and the accom paniment of a favorable atmosphere, the eclipse was one of the most spec tacular from an observer's standpoint ever seen in Portland. Many remarked that they had never before so clearly seen the Interesting phenomenon. CLOLDS BISTUKB ASTKOX'OMEHS Naval Observatory Unable to Obtain Kcsults It Planned For. WASHINGTON, March 11. Dense snow clouds wnicn nung over ivasn- ington tonight prevented astronomers at the Naval Observatory from making observations of the moon's eclipse, for which they had been preparing for weeks. Only at Intervals were the astronomers able to train Instruments directly on the partially obscured planet. Hope was expressed, however. that the photographs made after the moon had entered the shadow would reveal some points relating to the phenomenon that would be of assist ance to the astronomers ip correcting the lunar tables. While "close" observations were im possible, the great telescopes showed that the moon entered the eartn s shadow at 9:41 8-10 o'clock and was more than nine-tenths obscured before it finally emerged, about three hours later. CENTRALIA HAS TRAGEDY Wife of Railroad Man Drowned but Two Companions Reach Safety. CENTRALIA. Wash., March 11. (Special.) Mrs. Frank Swisher, wifo of a local railroad man. was drowned in the Chehalis River west of Cen tralla about 6 o'clock tonight. Clifford Cruson. another railroad man; Mrs. Swisher and Mrs. Wilson, whose homo is in San Jose. CaL, were out rowing. When the Skookumchuck was reached the current proved too strong for Cru son to manage the boat and it over turned. Cruson and Mrs. Wilson man aged to reach safety, but Mrs. Swisher was carried into deep water. Coroner Newell was summoned, but up until a late hour the woman's body had not been, recovered. 00N DARK 6 i. c