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Jf wtfitt g mm v-.t i it -vn 1 1; 74:1. - I GAILLAUX SCORES HEAVILY IN TRIAL Government Denies Documents Exist. SCENES IN COURT EXCITING Ex-Premier Clashes With Law yer, Confronts Witness. CROWDS SHOW SYMPATHY Riot In Streets Grows Ont of Dis cussion or Case Witnesses Tell of Overwrought Nerves r Mme. Caillaux. PARIS, July 22. Joseph Caillaux, el Prmtcr. was again today the central figure In the proceedings In the Court of the Assize, where hi wife. Mme. Henrlette Caillaux. is on trial for the killing of Gaston Calmette. editor of the Figaro. The courtroom was crowded to Its utmost capacity In the expectation of sensational revelations arising from M. Laborl's closing ultimatum last night, when he declared he would refuse to plead unless a full statement was made by the government regarding docu ments which. It was alleged, were Im portant enough to crush Caillaux. Doronrala Declared Xnn-F.xletent. fn the opening of court the Procurator-General said he was authorized by the government to declare the docu ments referred to In yesterday's testi mony did not exist. Instead, therefore, of utterly discrediting the cx-Premler. the Incident ended In his triumph, as his brilliant antagonist, M. Chenu, counsel for the Calmette family, wai obliged to acknowledge. The radical leader, from his seat in the body of the court, followed the case with the closest attention. Occasional ly he would look tenderly In the direc tion of his wife, with r-n encouraging smile or gesture. Not a word uttered by the witiie.-.-.. s . scaped him as he leaned forward, "his hand nipped around his e-tr. the better to hear, l.aw.er'x Word rhelleeed. Twice In the course of the session Iniav there were exciting scenes. Once, when M. Chenu declared it did not be- j .oine M. danisms to endeavor to soil the srave whicli Ills wife hail made, j the ex-Premier sprang forwr.rd and j exclaimed: . "Since I !iTt4l cake notice of wh:it ! this I .-. ;.r '.is .-.id. I will ask him If! be rlH take personal responsibility for rils words." I When tiie uproar which :his utterance IflUHi1 had subsided. M. Chenu re- : uke tn entire responsibility. You cannot ir.e.iuce no hire." M. I'aillaux did not interpose further In the proceedings until Auguste Avril. polltic.il editor of the Figaro, in Ms lepos::ion declared that early In November. IK12. M. Cailiuux had stopped hint in the lobby of tlie Cham ber -.ntl atked how much longer Calmette wns BOtBg to continue his campaign. WNmsi !" asila ft- limns. lie gave an evasive answer, and M. Caillaux then said to him: "You know I am a crack shot. I go every day to the shooting gallery and get a bull's eye every time." The ex-Premier leaped to his feet and demanded to be confronted with the witness. The two stood face to face) at the bar. M. Caillaux affirmed that ne naa no muun.iiuii oi c.i .-.i .... such a thing: M- Avrll maintained with qual determination the exactitude of his testimony. As M Caillaux left the court at the close of the hearing many hands were outstretched to him. Some were those of acquaintances and others of total strangers He seemed to be deeply touched by these manifestations of sympathy, and exclaimed In a voice shaken with emotion: "I see I still have some friends left" Crowd Cheers) Few His. A small crowd assembled outside the main gates of the palace of Justice to see M. Caillaux depart. They gave him a rousing cheer, mingled with a few hisses M. Caillaux. accompanied by Deruty Pascal Ceccaldi, went to the Concier Kerle and spent an hour with his wife. Meanwhile on the opposite side of the palace, close to the statue of Henry IV on the Pont-Neuf. a small crowd, waiting In vain to sen the ex-Premier, began to discuss the case and soon came to blows. It required determined police Interference to disperse the riot era. Pierre Mortler. editor of Gil Bias. corroborated previous evidence as to th overwrought nerves of Mme. Cail laux and to her knowing that the Figaro was about to publish sensa tional revelations. He was followed by three other Journalists. M. Du Barry. editor of Journee Republicane: Albert Llvat. manager of the Radical, and Robert Le Court, editor of the Courier Du Parlement, who declared they had been Informed that the Figaro Intended to publish other letters after the "Thy Joe" letters. Professional Secrecy Pleaded. When pressed by the presiding judge and M. Chenu for the names of their Informants, they sheltered themselves . . . n. r -f I I n HIGHER education MU JL'L SCHOOL BUILT OX BANKS OF COOS RIVER PORKS. Structure, to Cost $10,000, Will Be Fully Equipped and Will Have Five Acres for Test Farm. MARSHFIELD. Or.. July 22. (Spe cial.) The ranchers of Coos River re nv voted to consolidate three school districts and have now arranged to have one of the most modern scnoois m he building, which will cost 110.000 will stand at the forks of the -Vorf and South rivers and will be convenient for students on both arms and on the main river. , . The chief feature will be an agricul tural department and the principal will be obtained from some ' irlcultural col lege. Five acres of the finest bench land are included in the site and this will be used as an experiment farm. Jay L. Smith, County Agriculturist, expects to co-operate in special work. The building will be a community school, with four years of high school and will have a fully equipped chemi cal laboratory and similar features. Kvery scholar will be taken to school In either a rowboat or a .gasoline launch, since there are no roads lead ing to the schoolhouse site and It is located a few leet from the river -ank. There are 75 scholars of school age In the district and the directors expect to have the place open for Fall and Win ter work. RURAL MAIL UNDELIVERED Government Tliinks Rate Should Not Be Increased by Parcel Post. PENDLETON. Or.. July 22. (Spe cial ) Because the Postoffice Depart ment does net think a rural mail route contract price should be any higher now tfan before the parcel post went into effect. 300 residents In the But ter Creek district of Umatilla County have not had their mall delivered for three weeks. The County Commis sioners have been appealed to. William Cooley, who has had the contract for $1000 a year, offered to renew at 11200. USE OF CUTTER CRITICISED McAdoo Again Attacked for Private Alignment of Government Boats. WASHINGTON. July 22 Another at tack on Secretary McAdoo for use of revenue cutters "for private purposes" was delivered today in, the House by Representative Gaod. Republican, of Iowa Good asserted the cutter Apache was brought to Washington from Baltimore on Friday, carried a pleasure party down the Potomac and returned to Baltimore on Tuesday "almost every "Representative Fitzgerald. Jf New York, replied that the charges were "not based on facts." , JONES REPORT IS READY Minority of Democrat, supporting Wilson Nominee, Prepare Report. WASHINGTON. JuTy 22 Four Demo cratic members of the Senate banking and currency committee who are sup porting Thomas D. Jones, one of Presi dent Wilson's nominees for the Federal Reserve Board, practically completed their report tonight and probably it will be submitted to the Senate tomor row. Nothing had been hea.-d toni&ht from Senator u'Gorman. of New York, who was said to have been in conference with Paul M. Warburg relative to the latter's appearance before the com mittee. MILITANTS ATTACK POLICE Wild Tumult Caused at Trial or Suf fragette at Belfast. ni:i.FAST Ireland. July 22. A crowd of suffragettes caused a tumult today in the Assize uoun wnen ju. ..,.,. nf the. Belfast branch UUIUH'J . of the Women's Social and Political Union, was brought up for trial -in the charge of having explosives in her pos session. Miss Evans had Decn arreoieu In the house of the Lord Mayor oi uei fast. t, ...efi-.e-ettes broke windows and savagely assaulted the police. The dis turbance was so great thai prjeeeu lngs had to be suspended for a time. WEED-CUTTING COST IS UP Arrest of Offenders Is Proposed to Make Law Observance General. To cut down the overhead expense necessary to enforce the city weed cutting campaign now in progress. City Commissioner Bigelow has pro posed a series of arrests of persons who have failed to remove weeds when requested by the police to do so. The weed-cutting campaign has been established on such a large scale that additional help has been found neces sary In the Auditor's office and in the Public Works Department. LIGHTNING HITS FOUNT Holy Water Receptacle Smashed In Storm on Long Island. NEW YORK. July 22. (Special.) Lightning crashed through the Catho lic Mission Church at Rockaway Point. L. L, In Tuesday's storm, and, besides doing other damage, smashed the re ceptacle containing holy water. This is said to be unprecedented. The bolt struck under the cross on the ridge of the roof, but missed the cross. pnuTT im OT?FGON. THURSDAY. II UX XJ. SCIENTISTS WATCH LES PLY WITS Professors See Match less Fire Coaxed. FAITH IN ADVENTURER FIRM Los Angeles Public School In structor Sees Start. WOODEN NEEDLES TO KNIT White Cedar Fabric to Be Fashioned Into Clothes; Bones to Make Fish hooks; California "V" Profes sor Writes of Test. BY PROFESSOR C. L. EDWARDS, Head ot Nature-Study Department of Los Angeles Schools. KNOWLES CAMP, Klamath Forest, July 22. Via Grants Pass, Or., July 22. (Special.) Just before going into the wilderness yesterday. Joe Knowles, whi will attempt to prove modern man still primitively efficient, gave us a demonstration of his method of making fire. This Important matter came near leading him into despair and to an early termination of his Maine test. For three days it had rained and flre maklng was impossible. Ho had to move about continually In order to keep warm. On the afternoon of the third day the sun appeared. A lean to had been built and he had found flab onrt herrles. Hence, on that night he rested content that his experiment could be contlneud. Materials Are Available. Primitive fire-making depends upon two things, the punk and the spark. Gaod punk is difficult to find, it must be a substance which the spark will Ignite and then eat right into. Bark of the red fir which has rotted and dried for many years, until it has crumbled from docay Into a dark soil- (Concluded on Page :.) SCENES AT EAST 1-KLXG-FlbHKH MATTHEW KNOW p niiiliiili nil ii " iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil mi i . fi '. . I . . raw A INDEX OF TODAYS NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. SO.O degrees; minimum. 08 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. Mexico. Villa's aloofness menaces Mexican pesce. rape 3. 1- oreltn. Caillaux scores heavily at wife's trial, have Page L Home rule conference believed to failed. Page J. National. Eastern men In Congress show hostility to reclamation of West. Page is. "Pitiless publicity" too much for Colombian Borah gets action on trade commission bill. I age . Domestic. Waldorf Astor much nettled by i.aughter-in- 1.,...-.. .,.,. ., To fp- 3 United States on verge of landing marines in Coal miners say waste of coal is enormous. Page &. Democrats fear Wilson's hostility to woman suffrage will cost dearly in West. Page U. Roosevelt indorses Hlnrnan for Governor. Page 2. Sports. Coast League results: San Francisco 7, Prt i.nrt .1- Lou Angeles 3. Sacramento 1. t a HalilanH O PftCC 8. Portland mil best amateur shot of Pacific Coast. Page 0. American tennis team chosen with average age of 2B. Page 8. Vancouver. B. C polo team reaches city to day. Page r. Pacific Northwest. Rancher- plan higher education lor rural school. Page X. Washington Federation of Club Women nom inates ticket and revises constltption. Page 6. Dynamite plot against Eugene teacher falls. Pago 5. Scientists watch Knowles ply wits In heart of forest. Page 1. Commerrla! and Marine. Oregon Naval Militia returns from cruise. Page 1C. European demand for Pacific Coast wheat slow. Page IT. Black rust and heat cause wheat prices at Chicago to soar, rage IT. Standard stocks not affected by New Haven suit. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. "Locator" J. W. Logan contradicts his chauffeur's testimony. Page 1. Farmer creditors of Equity Warehouse Com pany ask Indictment ot officers. Page U First National Bank hives SI.4UO.000 In gold preliminary to merger. Page 2. Weather report, forecast and data. Page 17. Movies at Portland theaters span range of life. Page 16. Eight bulldlngB burn in hot East Side fire. Page L Mounds at center of street crossings and painted sidewalk lines will regulate traf fic. Page 1. Towns not heretofore associated with "fresh air" movement teudcr aid. Page 12. Oregon and Idaho Guardsmen arrive In Portland from Gearhart camp. Page 11. Paving bids offered city lowest In years. Page 11. Medford prepares for enthusiastic good roads meeting. Page 0. Warrant, inked for Equity Warehouso of ficials. Pago 12. Fares for persons and products to Land ..u. i i' in. arrantail. Pace 1?. Two thousand grocers attend picnic. Page 12. SIDE -FIRE figAT DID $100,000 DAMAGE YESTERDAY. S.SG O 1 llJ..'lj.l I .J,i..-.V- v LOGAN CONTRADICTS CHAUFFEUR'S STORY 'Locator' Insists on His 'Good Faith'. ONLYWELL-TO-00 ARE SOUGHT Believe They Will Get Land Grant Claims," He Says. IOWA DETECTIVE IS BUYER Minard Instructed by Defendant Witness to Ofier Railroad Com pany $400 for Each Claim Applied For, He Testifies. Tellings the story of his activities as a "locator" of "settlers" on timber cfaims in the Oregon & California Rail road land grant in Oregon. J. W. Logan, of Tacoma, as u witness In his own defense in the United States District Court yesterday before Judge Bean, squarely contradicted the testimony of Government witnesses wherever his testimony touched theirs relative to the "good faith" of his actions. Logan is being tried, with W F. Minard. of Portland, and E. J. Sellers, of Tacoma. on a charge of fraudulently using the mails In connection with their work as "locators." I.otcan Points nt "Good Faith." From first to last Logau declared he had acted in good faith, believing that people who "located" on the lands would eventually get title. He de scribed his efforts to Insure a person who took a "location" securing a prior right, and declared tuat he had paid substantial fees to attorneys for "opin ions" as to the validity or "locations' and the possibility of claimants getting title. , Logan's attorney. J. C. Dennis, of Tacoma, led his client through the (Concluded on Pae 18.) - koViikT AUTOMATIC POLICE TO CURB AUTOISTS HIGH MOUNDS WILL BF. PIT AT CENTER OF CROSSINGS. Street Traffic Will Be Compelled to Turn Square Corners and Pedes trians Walk "Chalk" Line. Mounds ill the center of street Inter sections and white lines to indicate the sidewalks across the Intersections are to be used by tne city In bringing about better traffic conditions in the West Side business district Plans have been completed by II. W. Holmes, chief of the municipal bureau of highways and bridges, to place a mound, three feet thick and five feet high, in the center of each intersec tion where there are no carllnes. Auto mobiles thus will be required to make proper turns and the practice oi cut ting corners will be eliminated. It is said the mounds will take the place of policemen, being Htylcd as "automatic policemen." At intersections where there are streetcar tracks, white lines will be drawn across the streets indicating the sidewalks. Pedestrians will be pro hibited from crossing the intersections diagonally or at any place except be tween the lines. The traffic policemen will be stationed on the curb to give whistle signals and answer questions instead of having pedestrians walk to the center of the intersection to ask questions. The first of the white lines will be tried out at the corner of Fifth and Washington streets next week. Others will be established as soon as possible. KING QUOTED FOR RECALL Attitude of James II Toward Judi ciary Cited as Warning. CHICAGO. July 22. Disapproval of the recall of Judges and judicial de cisions was voiced today In the address .if Thomas W. Snelton. of Norfolk, Va chairman jf the American Hr Assocl atlon's committee on uniform Judicial procedure, before the convention of the Commercial Law League of Amer lea. Mr. Shelton referred to the attitude of James II. of England, whi declared "I am determined to have 12 lawyers for Judges who will be all of my mind." "That," said Mr. Shelton. "Is an el ample of the recall of Judges and Ju dlcial decisions which it Is well to re member. 'SWISS ADMIRAL' DETAINED State Department's Invitation Heard Throughout Europe. PARIS, July 22. (Special.) The United States Department of State's invitation to the Swiss government to send a naval representative to attend the formal opening of the Panama Ca nal has caused a thrill throughout Eu rope. A white-haired man, wearing a heavy gold-braided uniform, was seen pacing the boulevards In a drenching rain today. When a policeman asked him his rank the man replied: "I am a Swiss Admiral and am pro ceeding to America." The policeman saluted, called a taxi and Invited the "Admiral" to drive with him to an infirmary lor the Insane. CABINET ROMANCE HINTED McRoynolds Reported F-ngugcd to Postmaster-General's Daughter. WASHINGTON'. July 22. (Special.) Washington society Is momentarily ex pecting the announcement of the en gagement of Attorney-General McBey nolds and Miss Lucy Burleson, daughter of Postmaster-General and Mrs. Burle son. This second Cabinet romance has been followed with keen interest by friends of the couple. The two are constantly In each other's company and reports fix the i wedding date for this Autumn. Miss Burleson Is accomplished and striking ly beautiful. REBEL ENTERPRISE FAILS "El 3Iocho," Short of Funds, Cannot Continue Revolution. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, July Sl owing to his failure to obtain the financial support promised him in New York, General Jose Manuel Hernandez (EI Mocho) has been unsuccessful in his revolutionary movement against Venezuela, according to advices reach ing here. Persons who have arrived here from Cludad Bolivar report the surrender of his forces and tho retreat of General I u.rr.iuiri toward British Guiana for safety. N0RTHP0RT HAS BIG F'RE Two-Thirds of Huslne-. Part of Washington Ton n Destroyed. NOBTHPOBT. Wash.. July 22. Two thirds of the business district of North port was destroyed by fire today, en tailing a loss of 150.000. The blaze started In an unoccupied building and spread rapidly, despite the efforts of volunteer firemen, aided by scores of townspeople, acting as bucket bilgudes. Late tonight the fire was under con- trol. but fears were expressed that If wind should arise the greater part of th town would be destroyed. .Motorcycle and Auto Collide. A motorcycle ridden by A. R. Roberts, .if Holbrook. Or., was wrecked last night when he collided with an auto mobile at Brodaway and Everett streets. No one was injured. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 8 BUILDINGS BURN IN HOT EAST SIDE FIRE Frame Structures Are on Goldsmith Street. LOSS IS PLACED AT $100,000 Contents Highly Inflammable and Flames Spread Rapidly. LINEMEN FACE FURNACE Showers of Sparks Threaten .Nearby Buildings and Make Ilia. On of Most Spectacular Daylight Fires Recently Witnessed. BrSlMS ON( KRN! IM'RNMt OI 1 AND AITROXIMATK LOt. Ineur i nrr low .1 MbM Freftand Ktimttur Company Ktnr-Klahvr Mat. tr Company. . . Gunthor-KIng Com pany 20,000 Conrad Boardlnp; houa l.ooo Star TranaferCom- pany Henderson A Flncb Transfar Company Kattern Western Blow Pipe Comp'y BulMlnga owned by s.ooo .oo L G. W. Ingham .... i'e.ooo 11. hi ci.n I so.lo Eight East Side frame building, on Goldsmith street. In the block between Alblna avenue and Page street, totally were destroyed by fire thai starts 1 at 3 P. M. yesterday. The buildings were occupied by factories and trans fer companies. A rough estimate place the loss at about tl00,000. lialf of which Is covered by Insurance. Kir spread. ItavMlr. Half an hour after the fir broke, out all the buildings were a seethlo mass of flames, the structures them selves being of flimsy construction and most of the contents highly In flammable. The brick building at the corner of Goldsmith and Page streets, occupied by the Green Transfer Com pany, escaped damage. '.Vlieu tlie fir began to gain liaadwuy the flrepmof doors were closed and the firemen pre vented the fire breaking through the brick walla. All of the burned build ings were owned by E. H. Ingham, who was out of the city yesterday and could not be reached by telephone. - Nine engines and the flreboat Duvld Campbell were sent tu light the Ilia. Three trucks also were sent, but the latter were of little use. Three calls were sent In. Mattrme Factory First ( clle. Tho lire broke out In tlie factory s4 the Klng-Kisher Mattress Company. m"l probably was caused by friction In the machinery. It spread to the factory of the Ereeland Furniture Company next door, and that building, too, soon wsa blazing briskly. The next building to catch was occupied by thu Henderson & Finch Transfer Company. .So"ii after, the building used as a sliei t metal works by the Gunther-KIng Com pany broke Into flames and then Utf building occupied by tho Star Transfer Company, that of the Eastern & West ern Blow Pipe Company and a small building used as a garage by the Twen tieth Century Baking Company speedily were wrapped In the general blase. Tlie auto delivery wagon and a horse-drawn wagon of the baking comtiai.y were dragged out. orklngmen'e Home niche.. When the sheet metal works flames were fiercest a building about 30 feet away, occupied as a worklngineti's boarding and lodging-house, and con ducted by Mrs. Charles Conrad, caught fire, and before the firemen could ex tinguish it one side of the house u practically gutted. So fierce was tlie shower of sparks at una time that tlie roof of a dwelling half a block distant on Gildsmlth street caught fir. Two poles of the Portland Hallway. Light & Power Company, at the cor ner of Alblna avenue and Goldsmith street, were burned about half way down. A much taller polo of the Nortn western Electric Company, Mandlng only a few feet away, was little dam aged although some of the Mgh tension Insulatorf wre cracked with Die heat and fell to th street. Llsenra Urate Hrat. There was danger from falling wire for a time at this comer when the blaze was hottest. Th danger wa lessened by lint men. who luced terrlfla lieut to cut away the dangerous . Ires. Three disastrous llres have occurred ivlthln the last few month. In this dis trict, the Montgomery dock, tho nr. at the Northwestern S...U U Door Com pany's factory and the ttre of yesterday- ' The Mississippi-avenue car wire di verted from tlicir course during the lire, being turned north immediately uftr crossing the Broadway bridge MM crowds attracted to the lire had to walk about half a mile from the bri.lif. . Th blase was one tt the must spectacular recently seen In Portland In tlie day time, owing to the Inflammable nature of thubtil!dlnK and their ONtMa Talking of the origin of the fire In his factory. A. E. King, jf th Kliif (Concluded on ! t (Ceaduded on Page S.)