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VOL. LTV. NO. 16,702. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. X (EMS STORY OF IE Morgan Not Shielded, Ledyard Testifies. DIRECTOR'S VERSION DIFFERS New Haven ex-Presitfent Pic . lured as Seeking Safety. INNOCENCE IS PROTESTED tTndae Influence Declared Not to Hare Been Exercised by Mr, Morgan, Who "Was Much ' Vexed by Blllard Deal. WASHINGTON, June 4. Charles S. nfellen's recent testimony that he, as president of the New Tork, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, allowed himself to be Indicted In the Grand Trunk case to shield the late J. Pierpont Morgan 'Was flatly denied before the Interstate Commerce Commission today by Lewis Cass Ledyard, of New Tork, who was a director of the New Haven at the time.' "I want to say In the most unquali fied terms," Mr. Ledyard asserted, "that Mr. Mellen did not offer himself as a vicarious sacrifice for Mr. Mor gan." Letter Construed Differently. Telling of the letter regarding the Grand Trunk investigation to the United States District Attorney at New York, written by Mr. Mellen in the presence of E. D. Robbing, counsel for the New-Haven, and himself, Mr. Led yard said: "That letter was not the letter of a man accepting responsibility. It was the letter of a man claiming inno cence." Mr. Ledyard took the stand as a vol untary witness in the Commission's in vestigation into the New Haven's financial affairs and was not sworn. The subpena issued for him some time ago had been withdrawn, but he urged that he be allowed to make a state ment. Morgsm rtomlnatlsm ?fot Recalled. Earlier In the day William Skinner completed bis testimony, begun yes terday. Ha said he could not recall any Instance in which Mr. Morgan had tried to dominate the board of direc tors. Mr. Ledyard said he was on the Bos ton & Main board as the representa tive of the largest holder of stock, the American Express Company. "I tried to get for the American Ex press Company the business of the New Haven," he said, "but it was never a condition of the sale of the Boston & Maine stock. Mr. Mellen has testified that what I was after was to get an extension of the contract between the American Express Company and the Boston & Maine. There is not a word of truth in that statement. After I had become a director of the New Ha ven Mr. Mellen sent for me and said he wanted to take the road's express busi ness away from the Adams company and asked if the American Express Company would take the business. I told him it would not. TJse of Influence Avoided. "I said: TDo you think I would let you turn the Adams company off and have people say that this was due to my using my Influence as a directorr Mr. Ledyard spoke of his connection with the acquisition by the New Haven of the Boston & Maine. "I discussed the matter," he said, "with Richard Olney, of Boston, ex-Attorney-General 'and Secretary of State, who was interested largely in the Boston & Maine, personally and as a trustee. We both were of the opin ion that It was a wise thing for the New Haven to acquire the Boston & Maine. "The New Haven had the right un der its Connecticut charter to acquire the Massachusetts trolleys. Mr. Olney and others were surprised when they learned the New Haven, by its six-mile holding In Massachusetts, had become a Massachusetts corporation and was bound by the laws of that state. "Much has been said," continued Mr. Ledyard, "in the press and elsewhere as to my relations with Mr. Morgan or his firm. For many years I was an intimate friend of Mr. Morgan's, but had no business relations with him." Reply to Legislature Changed. Mr. Ledyard said that when he be gan to take an active part in the af fairs of the New Haven, about $13,000,- 000 already had been expended for the acquisition of the Westchester road. Taking up the Blllard company mat ters, Mr. Ledyard said: "While I was in Europe in 1098 the Boston & Maine stock was sold to Mr. Blllard and after my return I asked Mr. Mellen if the sale was outright or & 'dummy transaction. He told me the sale was made outright. "I asked who Mr. Blllard was and he replied: He Is a wealthy Connecticut man.' I asked why the sale was made to Mr. Blllard and Mr. Mellen replied that it waa because Blllard was a 'friend of the New Haven interests.' 1 then inquired why this was not men tioned in the reply to the Massachu setts Legislature.' Mr. Mellen left the chair and became excited. He seemed to think I was showing lack of confi dence to him. Later the answer to the Massachusetts Legislature was .(Concluded en Pas J.) DEN ED MOTHER IDENTIFIES "MAN OF MYSTERY" C. R. LO.VG LOST CHICAGO MXNLXG EVGINEEE. Woman Recognizes Patient of Oak Park Infirmary as Son. Heard From Last From Goldfleld. CHICAGO, June 4. "The man of mys tery," who has been known only as "J. C. R," by officials of the Oak Park Infirmary and by hospital attaches at Rochester, Minn., from which he es caped, was identified today as Earl W. lies, a mining engineer, who has been missing since 1908. The identification was made by He's mother. Mrs. H. B. Pitkin, of this city, and the proof was considered complete when the man revealed an obscure scar of a cut on his right foot which he bad suffered when a boy. lies showed feeble signs of recognition, although his vocal chords have long been para lyzed, and he was unable to speak. The man of mystery was found un conscious on the streets here last No vember. He was unable to speak, but wrote the Initials J. C. R. and some times J. R. H. Mrs. Pitkin said her son had last been heard from In the Goldfleld min ing district In September, 1906. "He started for home to visit us," she said, "but never arrived." He was believed to have been In jured or suffered paralysis. which caused complete loss of memory. BORAH'S THREAT FRUITFUL President Asks lor Consideration of Bills Affecting: West. OREOONIAtI Nnwa mmrriiT lngton, June 4. Alarmed by Senator ouran s mreat to ceieat the river and harbor bill unless legislation for th relief of Western settlers is enacted into law at this session. Democratic Senators and Representatives have made an urgent appeal to the President for aid ana today the President sent for Representative Henry, chairman of the House rules committ & him to report a special rule under wmcn tne House can consider five bills on the conservation programme. Mr. Henry Informed tfca watm Democrats tonight that he would re port a rule DrOvidinar Tnr- enr ocrfl.l.. of these bills as soon as the sundry civu Diu is passed by the House. This probably insures the final passage of the 20-year reclamation bill and sev eral other measures demanded by the West. i 0LYMPIA LANDMARK BURNS City Hall, Bnllt in 1861, Destroyed in Spectacular Blaze. OLTMPIA. Wash- Juno 4 Olympla's old City HalL a landmark for nearly a half century, was prac tically destroyed in a spectacular fire this afternoon. Erected original!? in l subscription, as Columbia Hall, this structure was the scene of all leading social and official event of t.rri.A.i.i days. In It Miles C Moore, last of the territory Governors, was inaugu rated. The ruins of the frame be removed and a concrete building will take its place. ROSES MAILED IN QUANTITY 500 Boxes Sent From Vancouver, Some Going to East Coast. VANCOUVER. Wash.. June 4. (Spe cial.) More than 100 boxes of roses have been shlDDed by Darcel nomt tmm the Vancouver office each week for the past Ave weeks. Most of the packages are sent to friends in the Middle West and Central States, though soma in sent to the Atlantic Coast. During the same period the postofflce received a total of 1279 parcels and dis patched 1600. FEDERAL RAID IS BLOCKED Pete Schneider, Seattle North-western's Star Pitcher, Lost. SEATTLE, Wash, June 4. An at tempt by the Federal League to raid the Northwestern League was blocked tonight, when Pete Schneider. tb tr pitcher of the Seattle Northwestern league club, signed a contract with the Cincinnati National League club. He departed Immediately for tv. East, after he Virtually had agreed to leave tonight to Join the Chicago Fed erals. FLOOD IS COSTLY TO CIJY Last Winter's Damage In Los An geles Estimated at $10,000,000. LOS ANGELES, June 4. Damage in Los Angeles County resulting from the overflow of storm waters during . the floods of last Winter approximated J10.000.000, according to a report filed today with the Board of Supervisors by a specially appointed board of engi neers of flood control. Suggestions for future flnnri nt..i at an estimated expense of 9,500,000 were made by the engineers. BABY LARGEST EVER BORN California County's Biggest Boy Weighs 20 Pounds. i PLACERVILLE, Cal., June 4. The largest baby born in El Dorado County within the memory of the oldest inhabi tant arrived today in the home of H H. Long, of Caldor. It weighed 20 pounds at birth. Mother and son are In excellent health. DEFENSE MADE FOR MARRIED TEACHERS Board Asked to Re-Hire Six Dismissed. POLICY HELD BLOW AT HOME Civic League Members Urge Efficiency as Only Test. ACTION CALLED BRUTAL Woman's Club Officer Slakes Argu ment and Denounces Wording of Dismissal Question Is Put Up to Committee. Should a woman be excluded from teaching In the Portland public schools because she is married, especially If her husband Is able-bodied and cap able of supporting her? Partisans of the married woman teacher at a meet ing of the Board of Education yester day voiced their answer to the ques tion In an emphatic "No." They appeared to protest against the policy Informally laid down by the Board at its last meeting. May 26, when It directed the dismissal of six married women teacners on the temporary list. The action was taken at the suggestion of Superintendent Alderman. Committee Cpholda Women. The - side of the married woman teacher was presented by a committee of three from the Oregon Civic League. Dr. C H. Chapman was chairman and spokesman. The other members were Mrs. A. C. Newtll and A. H. Harris, editor of the Labor Press. "Our committee does not feel that the Board has acted with complete wisdom in taking the stand against the employment of married women teach ers." declared Dr. Chapman. "We be lieve that the sole question for the Board to consider in employing a teach er Is that of her efficiency. That she la married or not married should not cut any figure." Matter mt Support No Factor, Dr. Chapman also contended that whether a married woman were sup ported by her husband was beside the question. '' "The matter of income ought not to enter into It at. all," he asserted with warmth. "We repeat, efficiency ought to be the sole test. Whether a mar ried woman can command an Income from her husband, or whether she Is single and has a father capable of Concluded on Pvg 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. IBSTEKDArS Maximum temperature, ft degrees; minimum. 44 degrees. TODAY'S Unsettled weather. probably sbowen; ruins temperature; southwest erly winds. Forelgm. Suffragette outwits royal court, admonishes Kins. Fage 1. . National. Carranza delays answer to mediators while he starts on tour. Page 0. President drenched at unveiling- of Confed erate monument, page a. Domestic Plumbers indicted for conspiracy to create monopoly. Page a. Crater of Mount Lassen doubles in alse. Page 2. Ledyard denies-Mellen offered himself as sacrifice to save Morgan. Pago L. "Man of Mystery" Identified as long-lost Chlcagoan. Page 1. Secret of past hinted at In Schumann-Heinle's divorce, suit. Page 1. Tallest single-piece flagstaff ready for rais ing. Page 17. Sports. Coast League results: Portland-Sacramento game called in seoond : Los Angeles 8, Oakland 2: San Francisco 0, Venice 2. Page 14. Northwestern League results: Portland 6, Vancouver 4; Spokane 14. Tacoma 6; Victoria 0. Seattle 1. Page 14. Resolute wins yacht trial race from Vanltle, which withdraws. Page IS. Beavers lead Sacs when hall storm stops game. Page 14. Osteopath hunts Bill Spaas batting eye. Page 15. Paclfle Northwest. Canadian officials bar "Mother" Jones from ln'anaimo. Page 7. New gas rules adopted by State Railroad Commission. Page 7. Grants Pass road to Crescent City Is plo turesque. Page S. Administration denounced by Washington bankers. Page 2. Deposit schedule of public servloe corpora tions reduced by Railroad Commission. Page 4. Stock Show opens at Union despite rain. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Heavy movement of coffee In all markets of world. Page 21. Bumper crop prospects lead to break In wheat at Chicago. Page 2L v Wall street stock prices continue to work upward. Page 21. Engineer thinks new building rules will pre vent dock fires. Page 20. Portland and Vlrfmlty. Rain, snow, hall, thunder and lightning visit Oregon and Washington. Page 1. Oregon & California' land grant case ruling surprise, says W. 1. Fenton. Page B. Cash prizes swell entries In Rose Festival parades. Page 16. Jokers cause man to Jump from bridge. Page 2u. , Coroner will hold Inquiry Into Wednesdays waterfront fire. Page 18. Leon Vial, dock hand, heir te fortune, says his guardian. Page 8. United Brethren Conference discusses prob- . lems t church and state. Page 9. Programme for bankers" sessions at Medford J une 15 arranged. Page 13. Thirty-nice girls graduate at St. Mary's Academy. Page 8. Peninsula Rose Show programme Is an nounced. Page 11. Defense for married women teachers made . to School Board. Page 1. Democratic County committee holds stormy session. Page 4. Weather report, forecast and data. Page 21. PRISON DAUNTS "WORKER" Tarrytown; Annoyer Renounces I. W. W. and Is Set Free. TARRTTOWNnTV, June 4. A rain storm today caused a lull In the open air activities of the Industrial Workers of the World, who have been holding demonstrations demanding the- right of free speech. "Jack" Butler, arrested Saturday, sent word he waa ready to renounce his affiliation with the Industrial Workers of the World If allowed to go free. With a term of six months In tue penitentiary Imposed on him, sen tence was suspended. LET EUROPE RUN IT. T Precautions at Court Set at Naught PLEA REACHES ROYAL EARS Bandmaster's Presence Mind Relieves Situation. of MUSIC SMOTHERS WORDS How Woman Passed Cordon So Strict That Royal Guests Were Much Annoyed Puzzles Everyone. Identity Xet Unsolved. LONDON, June 4. The King and Queen held court at Buckingham Pal ace tonight and In spite of all precau tlons a suffragette gained access to their presence and caused an Interrupt tlon to the presentations. As she was passing the King the suffragette dropped on her knees and shouted: "Your Majesty, for Ood's sake, do not use force." The woman was attired in court dress and her action caused profound astonishment. Band Plays Loaotr. She continued to admonish the King, but her words were inaudible, as the conductor of the band in the gallery, quick to observe the Incident, signalled to the band to play louder, and the woman's voice was drowned. - She was removed from the room and handed over to the police. The name of the woman Is not known and close Inquiries are being made as to how she obtained a card of admission. The scene, which gave a shock to those In the Immediate vicinity of the royal circle, was brief and the assem blage generally had scarcely any knowledge of what was happening. Visitor's Identity Still . Unsolved. Whether the woman was one of the Invited guests who sympathised with the suffragette movement or an In truder who gained admission by forged card is still unknown. It Is difficult, however, to Imagine now any person could have gained ac cess to the court on a forged Invita tion, as the police had knowledge of a conspiracy to approach the royal presence, and every guest and every carriage arriving at Buckingham Pal ace tonight had been subject to close Inspection by detectives, a unique pre caution and one that caused consld- (Cuncluded on Page 2. MLiTAN OUTWITS GUARD AROUND KING RAIN, SNOW AND HAIL VISIT STATE PORTLAND BOTS MAKE JCXE SXOWBALLS FTtOM STOXES. Rogue Ri-rer Orchards Slightly Dam aged Eastern, Central and Southern Oregon Worst Hit. i With a cold rain and a brief volley of hall at Portland, with hall and a flurry of snow at Medford, several snow flurries at Frinevtlle, a blinding snow storm followed by rain at La Grande and snow and hall reported from Umatilla County and other widely divergent parts of the state, Oregon's June waa more like December for a few hours yesterday afternoon. Lightning strucK the house of Robert Brunner. a Janitor at Reed College, at 1105 Woodstock avenue, on the edge of the college campus. While It did not start a fire. It did coslderable damage. The bolt glanced from the house to a tree, which waa splintered. Mrs. Brunner and two children in the house were uninjured. The storm in Portland started with a light, cold drizzle. Then came a heavy downpour, with hail about the size of large peas. Enough hall massed beneath gables for boys to mold It Into Icy snowballs, with which they pelted each other for a few minutes. No great damage to crops Is reported from Eastern. Southern or Central Ore gon, where the storm was heavier than In the Willamette Valley. In one or two Rogue River Valley orchards pears were marred slightly, but not appreciably damaged. At Med ford the thermometer fell to 45. Reports from north of Camas. Wash ington, Indicate a severe storm which did considerable damage to trees, tel ephone poles and buildings. Many trees were uprooted by a terrific wind. In Vancouver, Wash, for a few min utes there was a heavy wind and sev eral flashes of lightning, followed by thunder, but no damage was done. The minimum temperature at Port land was 44. The total precipitation was one-tenth of an inch. The Government weather forecast for Portland and the Northwest for today Is: "Unsettled weather, probably show ers; rising temperature; southwesterly wlnds.- P0SSE W0 U I, PS SUSPECT Men Reply to Challenge hy Opening Fire and One Kscapes. KALISPELL. Mont, June 4. Two members of a posse hunting the rob bers who blew open and robbed the Rexford Junction postofflce of 1 400 early yesterday, accosted two men in the railroad yards at Eureka, seven miles east of Rexford, at midnight last night, and In a revolver duel the offi cers wounded and captured one of the men. The two men answered the deputies-' challenge by ordering the officers to throw up their hands and opening Are simultaneously. The wounded man's companion escaped by dashing into the forest. The prisoner was shot through the right lung, the bullet coming out at the back of his neck. It Is believed ha will recover. WEDDING RECORDS MIXED Sisters Kind After Double Ceremony Wrong Husbands Are Assigned. SAN MATEO, Cal.. June 4. Mrs. John F. Barrett and Mrs. Robert D. Savage, sisters married at a double wedding In January, returned from their honey moon trips today and learned that, ac cording to the County Clerk's records, Mrs. Barrett's legal name was Mrs. Robert D. Savage, and Mrs. Savage's legal name was Mrs. John F. Barrett. The marriage licenses were confused at the time of the wedding, and tech nically: the two girls, who are the daughters of Supervisor James T. Casey, were married to the wrong men. GALE BLOWING OFF COAST Wind Reported at 84 Miles From South-west, With, Heavy Sea. SAN FRANCISCO. Juno 4. A heavy gde blowing off Points Lobos and Reyes late today held up all north bound vessels. At 6 P. 11. the wind was reported to be blowing 84 miles an hour from the southwest, kicking up a heavy sea. All ships scheduled to leave for the north remained tied up at their wharves. The wind arose early today, increas ing rapidly In violence. At 3 P. M. off Point Reyes It had attained a velocity of 70 miles an hour. I BIG STORM SWEEPS JAPAN Hundreds t of Boats Wrecked and Many Lives Believed Lost, TOKIO, June 6. A disastrous storm has swept over Western and Southern Japan. Several hundred boats have been wrecked and hundreds of persons are believed to have been drowned. The steamer Mongolia rescued many sea men. A hundred houses In Nagasaki have been blown down. BOY SPELLS 1400 WORDS Sixth Grade Bee at East St. Louis Lasts 11 Hours and Half. EAST ST. LOUIS. Ill, June 4. Will iam Boselager.' an 11-year-old boy In the sixth grade of the schools here, won a spelling match today when he spelled 1400 words without missing one. The match was limited to 85 boys and girls of the sixth grade and lasted lift hour. LETTER HINTS AT SINGER S "SECRET" Husband Fights Suit of Schumann-Heink. GERMAN WORD MADE ISSUE Rapp Writes 'Geheimniss.' De fense Reads It 'Confidence. SINISTER SENSE INFERRED Diva Tearfully Declares in Trial of Own Application That She Wants "o Divorce, but Is Happy in Children and Art. CHICAGO. June 4. (Special.) Silent, expectant, straining forward to catch each word, a crowd which filled the courtroom listened today to the shat tered love story of Madame Schumann Heink and William Rapp, Jr. For more than three hours the great singer occupied tne witness chair. She was dressed simply, her plain gray check suit contrasting sharply with the dlar-.onds which flashed from her ear rings and fingers. "I don't ' want a divorce." she testi fied brokenly. "I told my husband not long ago that I was happy as I am. with my children and my art." Letter From liunband Read. For a moment the singer broke down. Sobs shook her body and tears coursed down her .cheeks. Then she wiped her eyes and resumed the attitude of calm defiance which she has maintained throughout the trial. With the exception of the reading of a letter received by the complainant from her husband, testimony of the great contralto differed little from hun dreds of other love stories which have their ending In the divorce courts. The letter was written In German, under the date line. "Chicago. June 27. 1913." It outlined a plan by which the singer could secure a divorce without opposition. Advantages" Are Enumerated. "Dear wife," It begins, "my coming to Chicago is for the purpose of bring Itt about a conference with you to clear up our affairs. Only a personal talk between us alone Is possible be cause I have to make propositions which can only be agreed upon person ally between us." The letter continues: "I insist in advance that my infor mation that has como to me from many quarters In the last year of the fact that you are secretly desirous of marrying again Is founded on fact. If that Is true, a plan can be carried out under which you will have the follow ing advantages: "1. You will be complainant Instead of my suing you. It will be better thus, because. If I bring suit I will have to bring up all the unendurable circum stances in your home that compelled me to leave the same. The contradic tion between facts and your St. Louis Interview will not appear very flatter ing to you. Proofs of Neglect Threatened. "Tour letters of 1904 will be the last in which you praised my foresight for your children, you name their faults and your own carelessness in looking after them and you bewail your own neglect of them and beg me to under take their bringing up and to look after their persons and in addition give me the highest compliments. I will have to bring these as proofs. "2. The suit can be brought at once. Tou, In that way, make a whole year and can at once marry again, while otherwise under the Illinois law you cannot marry for a year after the divorce. Therefore, the matter should be hurried. "3. Tou could then control the time for the hearing Instead of waiting weeks before the courts and lose the advantages of many concerts If you will be compelled to await the call of your case on the calendar. Other Promises Made. "4. Tou will be compelled to stand a cross-examination on the part of my lawyer. " '. I will not put in any defense In court. "6. I will furnish everything neces sary for you In order to procure the decree. "7. It will be In all circumstances more decent and less sensational than a case fought in court before open mouths." Then comes a paragraph in which a dispute over translation has arisen. The German word "geheimnlss" in the translation of Mme. Schumann- Helnk's counsel appeared as "confi dence." The defense contended that the proper translation of the word Is "secret." The attitude of the defense was as sumed by those present as implying some sinister application of the "se cret," which it contends Is referred to in the dispute over the word "gebelmnlss." That the secret Is some particular wrongful act in the life of Madame Schumann-Heink was hinted In the argument of the defense. "Secret" Declared Sacred. The passage in which the word oc curs is as follows: "Tou have done me wrong; very much wrong, and have derived your advantage through my decency, and (Concluded on Page 8.) Ii ii i nc o I