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DAILLAUX LETTERS REACT ON DEFENSE Harmless Nature Robs Madame of Motive. READING IS BELIEVED CERTAIN Brother of Slain Editor De fends Relative's Chivalry. NEW INCIDENT DRAMATIC ir Madame Had Simply Opened Her Mouth.'' Says Dr. Albert Cal metle, "My BrotherWould Have Removed Her Apprehension." PARIS. July 24. The defence In the trial of Mme. Calllaux for the murder of Gaston Calmette. editor of the Kuraro. was caught today In a trap innocently set by Mme. Gueydan. once the wife of the prisoner's husband. The principal argument of Maltre Laborl. counsel for lime. Calllaux. has keen that his client was driven to hoot M. Calmette through fear that two letters of which photographic re productions existed, would be pub lished by M. Calmette und the secrets of her inner life thereby made public letters Will Be Read. This argument, it is said. Will be re duced to nothing by the reading of the letters which Mme. Gueydan reluctant ly gave over to Maltre Labori yester day. She declined to receive them back from M. Labor!, replying to a question by 1-abori as to what she desired done with them: "I do not care what you do with them. Publish all of them if you wish to do so." Their reading Is now regarded as Inevitable. Mme. Gueydan's counsel, S. G. Arch ibald, said today concerning the let ters : "They are innocuous. They contain several disparaging references to Mine. Gueydan. M. Cuillaux's wife, and con sider the possibilities of his obtaining a divorce from her. This, however, he ays. would have to be after the elec tions. They are completed by allu lons to local politics of no Importance whatever. Lawyers Spar Over Letter. The unprecedented spectacle of two former Premiers, Jean Barthou and M. Calllaux, standing together at the bar and maintaining with no little heat divergent opinions on the case was of hardly less interest than the fencing of Maltre Laborl and Maltre Chenu. representing the Calmette family, over the letters. Stung by the taunt of Pascal Cec caldi. an Intimate friend of M. Calllaux, that he had not a word of pity for the woman on trial. M. ISarthou turned to ward her. "I had the honor. Madame." he said. t j be a guest of your house and you have been a guest of mine. I have said nothing of a nature to aggravate your situation. I wish to say that I havo the most sincere respect for you In your position. But, Madame, up to the present the prosecution has hardly pronounced a wjrd against you. You re defended by friends whose devo tion I admire and by a husband who tands here full of activity, energy and talent. It was not for me to speak In your defense. I could only give you the respectful salute which is your due. My pity has been for him to whom it rightfully belongs." Brother's Chivalry Asserted. A dramatic bit of testimony was given by Dr. Albert Calmette. director ejf the Pasteur Institute at Lille. He paid a high tribute to the character of his brother. "I am convinced." Dr. Calmette said, "that if Mme. Calllaux bad simply opened her mouth, if she had only said to my brother, 'Is It true that you have In your possession the private letters?' my brother would Immediately have reassured her. If you know how scrup ulous my brother was with his word! He would have removed Mme. Calllaux' apprehension. "I g- farther: he would have offered her his arm to escort her to her car riage: he would have filled her auto mobile with flowers. "Attempts have been made here to staffs the memory of my brother In speaking of the manner In which he , made his fortune. As the guardian of ' his children It Is my duty to say that , my brother worked hard all his life. His work did n:t enrich him greatly, for In his profession one rarely be comes wealthy. But everybody knows he had formed deep friendships and it j was through these friendships that his fortune grew. Fortnnr Attributed to Legacy. "It Is common knowledge that it was a result of the legacy of M. Chauchard (the proprietor of a great department tore) that my brother's fortune was made. There Is no reason to blush fa it." Dr. Galllard, Mme. Calllaux' dentist, j another witness of the day, testified that she had made an appointment with j him for two days after the tragedy, j Her physician. Dr. Mercigny, also gave evidence. "Mme. Calllaux Is the best of worn- ; n." he said. "Her character is sweet ; nd calm. I was stupefied when I learned of the drama." Henri Bernstein, the playwright, and saw 1 members of the Figaro staff siso were on the stand. iDELAVAN COMET IS SEEN BY NAKED EYE DECEMBERS WANDERER VISI BLE IX EARLY MORNING. After Dawn Telescope Is Required to Discover Tail 100.000,000 Miles Is Xearest Approach. SAN JOSE, Cal.. July 24. The Dela van comet, discovered last December, now Is visible to the naked eye in the early morning, according to a statement today from Lick Observa tory, where It regularly has been ob served. The comet is traversing the constel lation auriga and rises well in advance of and to the north of the sun. It Is as bright as a fifth magnitude star, but the dawn makes It rather difficult to see the faint object without a tele scope, and without a telescope no tall can be distinguished. The comet now is rapidly approach ing the sun in its orbit and will pass the sun at Its nearest point of ap proach late in October at a distance of about 100.000.000 miles. PAUPERS' ESTATES PUZZLE Small Sums Left by Inmates of County Farm Prove Problem. The curious problem of how to dis pose of the property of those who have nothing has come before the County Commissioners. Thi unnmAlv has been brought about by the question or the uisposai of money and effects left by people who die intestate at the Multnomah County Farm. Theoretically, these per sons have no property or they would not be at the farm, which is provided, of course, for those without resources. It happens frequently, however, that Inmates of the farm do leave small sums of money and personal belong ings. RATTLER KILLS CHARMER Strangest Woman Alive,' at Roslyn, Victim of. Newly Arrived Reptile. KOSLYN, Wash., July 24. (Special.) While a big crowd attending the PoIIowb carnival here last night filled the tent of Myrtle Wilson, aged 25 and billed as "The Strangest Woman Alive," she was bitten by a rattlesnake and died today. During the night her agony was in tense, but death came without pain. The woman's husband witnessed the affair. Mrs. Wilson had been a snakef charmer several years. The snake was one of five which reached here from Texas yesterday. TRIAL HELD IN 4 MINUTES Jury Case in Judge Gatcns' Court Is Briefest in Years. The shortest Jury trial in years at the Courthouse was held in Judge Gatens" court yesterday. The case was a damage suit for 5000 brought by Sam M. Johnson, guardian ad litem for Hugh C. Smith, a minor, against the O.-W. R. & N. Company. The hearing consumed Just four minutes, the Jury bringing In an agreed verdict for the defendant of $300. The case was based on Injuries al leged to have been received by Smith last month while working as a deck hand on the steamer Harvest Queen. ANIMALS NO LONGER STRAY City Commission Repeals All Ordi nances Prescribing Limits. No longer are lawn and garden own ers to be bothered by stray cows, horses or other animals. The City Commission yesterday repealed all or dinances prescribing limits within which such animals can graze without being interfered with by pound offi cials. The action makes it unlawful to permit the animals to run at large in any part of .the city. The change was asked by Mayor Albee because of the Inability of pound officials to ascertain definitely the boundaries of districts where cows and horses could be pastured. COUPLE ELOPE IN TAXI Former Portland Newspaper Man and Salt Lake Girl Wed in Ogden. SALT LAKE. Utah, July 24. (Spe cial.) Keeping their intentions secret, George Cecil Cowing, director of pub licity of the Salt Lake Commercial Club, and Miss Anne R. iCummock, of this city, went to Ogden today in a taxlcab and were married. They will spend a couple of days at a Summer resort before retrning home to call on the bride's parents. Mr. Cowing was formerly a news paper man of Portland, but has been connected with the publicity bureau of the Commercial Club more than a year. MOWER TAKES CHILD'S LEG Tot, to Surprise Father, Jumps Out of Grass In Front of Machine. DAVENPORT, Wash., July 24. (Spe cial.) In an attempt to play peek-a-boo with her papa, the 6-year-old daughter of Will J. Heln Jumped up out of the grass in front of the cycle of a mower her father was driving and be fore he could stop the team one of her legs had been cut off near the knee. 4 The horrified father controlled the horses and prevented further injury. Another foot advance would have sev ered the other limb. The little girl probably, will live.i PEACE OF BALKANS N SERIOUS DANGER Austria's Demand on Servia Imperious. 48 HOURS GIVEN FOR REPLY Terms Humiliating, Making Compliance Impossible. MONTENEGRO TAKES SIDES Support of Servia In Extremity In dicated Diplomats Will Devote Energies to Localizing Pos sible Conflict. VIEXSA, July 24. Baron von Glesl de Glesllngen, the Austro-Hnngarlan Minister at Belgrade, has been In structed to leave Servia with the en tire legation staff, if by 0 o'clock Sat urday night the Servian government has not notified him that It agrees without delay to comply with the de mauds of Austria's note. LONDON, July Mi. European diplo macy is faced with a situation of ex treme gravity in the controversy be tween Austria and Servia. Unless it is handled with great delicacy, it is not unlikely that others besides these two parties will become involved in war. An Austro-Hunuarian ultimatum to Servia, couched In a tone of almost un precedented severity and fastening on the Servian government and people re sponsibility for the assassinations of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife at Sarayevo, has been presented to Belgrade. It demands satisfaction within 48 hours. Humiliating Terms Impossible. The almost universal opinion in the European capitals is that the Servian government cannot comply with such hutnlllating terms as are set forth In the ultimatum, since compliance would be tantamount to an admission of Ser via's guilt. The Russian government already is seeking an extension of time for Servia. The efforts of European diplomacy, should the powers fail to avert the threatened war, will be devoted to lo calizing it. Montenegro has Indicated her readl- (Concluded on Page 3.) PRISON-CELL PHOTO OF f 1 ... .. I " ' ...... V. ... I ... . INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature degrees: minimum, 54.6 degrees. 77.5 TODAY'S Saturday probably fair; westerly WfBdSy Mexico. Zapata. Carranza and Carbajal approaching agreement. Page 3. Foreign. Two letters prove trap for Mme. Calllaux defense. Pace 1. Pmpi) nf PalkatiR In serious dancer. Page 1 Home rule conference falls. Page 2. "rtrnnriTTinther of Russian revolution" not sent to Arctic. Page 1. National. Witnesses in Federal hearing say unrest exists but is much overdrawn. Page Domestic. L Newport revels in splendor of ball given by Mrs. BeLmon.. FaKe ! Austria's humlllatlnr ultimatum to Servia threatens peace of Balkans. Page 1. Colonel Roosevelt says Barnes' suit will not deter him from continuing attacks. Pace 2- . Two copper mines at Cananea set on fire. Page 2. Claflln assets declared to exceed liabilities. Pave 11. Cutter Bear sails to bring out marooned crew of Karluk. Page 4. Oelavan comet now visible to naked eye says scientist. Page 1. raclflc Northwest. Joseph Buettenbaob takes "million dollar" health secret to grave. Page 3 Friends of Knowles are worried by lack of word from him. Page 5. One srirl killed, another wounded when Deputy Sheriff's revolver drops pocket. Page 5. from Foes of Washington Initiative measures more active than friends. Page 5. Movie actors are pressed into service in fighting forest fires. Page 1. Sports. Coast Learue results: San Francisco 7-7, Portland 1-6: Los Angeles 5. Sacramento 3; Venice 4, Oakland 2. Page 10. McLoturhlln allows Bundy only 1 game In 1 played In Lonrwood tennis tourney Page 10. Chrlstnfferson'a freak flvinz boat seta sail here today. Page 10. Commercial and Marine. Demand for prunes checked by better crop prospects. Page 1&. Chicago wheat market affected by war scare in Europe. Page 16. Steady Improvement in business situation. Page IS. Four vessels are chartered for grain trade. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Government closes land fraud case with attack on Mlnard. Page 11. City's subjall at Linnton Involved In alleged meat -buying scandal. Page 3. Silverton party, tanned and happy, home again. Page 14. Victims of alleged loan sharks said to have been held practically in peonage. Page 7. Franchise for Portland ft Oregon City line of Stephen Carver approved. Page 9. Weather report, forecast and data. Page 16. Two men held up. girl accosted, house robbed and auto Btolen In night. Page 4. MICE MAYCALISE STRIKE Dorchester "Hello Girls" Demand Riddance as Alternative. BOSTON, July 24. Feminine fear of mice may result in a sfVike of tele phone operators. The young women of the Dorchester exchange, after a vote taken by their union tonight, served notice on the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company that they would leave their switchboards unless the building In which the exchange Is located were rid of rodents. DEFENDANT IN FAMOUS FRENCH MURDER TRIAL. JUUS, Uii.MUL i I L CAlLLAli, SPflRTilELSl MANGHU SPLENDOR Ball by Mrs: Belmont Sets High Cost Mark.' FABULOUS COSTUMES WORN "Summer Temple in Pekin' Decorated With Real Loot. EMPEROR GREETS GUESTS Hundred Persons Attend Affair Given by Her Mother for Duchess of Marlborough and Dinner of Mrs. Stnyveeant Fish. NEWPORT. B. I., July 24. (Spe cial.) None of China's grana courts, even in the palmiest days of the Manchu dynasty, ever presented a scene of such splendor as did the famous Marble House and its grounds during the grand Oriental ball that Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont gave tonight for her daughter, the Duchess of MarlDorougn. Indeed many of the costumes worn were actually In use during the Manchu period of China's prosperity, ano care fully guarded through centuries, they have come to be worth fabulous sums for hire alone, while their value for purchase has not yet been set. Newport has had many novel ana elaborate balls, but this one, in wnicn the Duchess of Marlborough was the central figure, was the most gorgeous and much the most costly of all. Accessories Represent Fortune. There was represented in costumes and decorations, both at tne iuaruie House and at the Crossways. where Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish early in the night gave a dinner for 100 in honor ot Jvirs. Belmont, a fortune of great size. Mrs. Fish had fully 100 guests at her dinner and she had made preparations for this ainnpr as elaborate as tnose inauo Mrs. Belmont at Marble House. To accommodate all of the guests in the dining hall, the main hall and large verandas on the south side were tnrown ah had been decorated to renresent a Summer tempie in i-bkui Used in these decorations was pari ui the loot taken in the Boxer rebellion The n-uests entered the main hall. where thev .found Empero. Keen lung, (Concluded on Page 2.) Photo Dy Underwood & Unuerwoou. MUCH-LOVED EXILE NOT ILL-TREATED "GRANDMOTHER OF REVOLU TION" ESCAPES FROM ARCTIC. Boston Friends Hear From Woman Banished for Plotting Against Russia While in America. BOSTON, July 24. Friends of Mrs. Catherine Breshkovskaya. a Siberian exile known affectionately as Bsbo usbka (little grandmother), have Just received positive information that a re port in Russian newspapers saying she had been transferred from Irkutsk to a tiny hamlet on the Arctic Ocean was unfounded. Mrs. Breshkovskaya is still in the central prison in Irkutsk. In a recent letter she said she was not ill treated, though strictly secluded. Mme. Catherine Breshkovskaya. "grandmother of the Russian revolu tion." was sentenced to perpetual exile in Siberia in 1910 on conviction of be ing criminally active in the revolution ary organization In Russia. Nicholas Tchaikovsky, the "father of the revo lution." who was tried with her. was acquitted on evidence taken to Russia from the United States. Mme. Bresh kovskaya was arrested on her return to Russia from the United States, the charges against her arising In part from her activity while in this coun try. MOVIE ACTORS FIGHT FIRE Members of Climbiiijr Parti Are Drafted by Forestry Official. WHITE SALMON. Wash.. July 24. (Special.) Louis Shearer, of Portland Harold Brown, of White Salmon, and Rov Fllloon. a mountain guide from Trout Lake, after experiencing the thrills ot taking risky moving pictures on the mountain side several days ago, were drafted Into the For estry Service and are held to help tight forest fires at the foot of Mount Adams, near Trout Lake, instead of batnir allowed to accompany the re minder of the party home. They belonged to a party headed by R. C. Bruce, which was taking moving Dictures of the trip from Portland to the top of Mount Adams. Mr. Bruce, with his equipment, and Rov Corev. a Kuldo who had hurt his foot, were not impressed. RABBITS DIVERT HOUNDS Game Trulls Spoil Hunt for -Men Who Held Vp Train. LOS ANUEL.ES, July 24. Blood hounds, which spent most of the day chasing rabbits, failed to discover any clew, today, to the whereabouts of the two men who held up Southern Pacific passenger train No. 23. near Burbank, last night and robbed passengers of 11215. The two robbers were described as each being about 30 years old, one armed with a sawed-off shotgun and the other with a revolver. One wore overalls drawn over his ordinary clothes. SEVEN BLOCKS BURNED Jasonvillc Theater Sturts Blaze Sweeping Through City. JASONV1LLE, I ml.. July 24. Fire, which started in a motion picture the ater here shortly after noon today, destroyed seven blocks of business houses. The entire seven blocks were leveled. The city water supply failed a few minutes after the fire started and Terte Haute and Linton were ap pealed to to rush aid. In all 62 buildings were destroyed. John Hughes. 50 years old, was crushed under falling walls whon a building was dynamited to check the flames. He died a few hours later. TON OF HONEY HERE TODAY Ex-Policemun Brings Quuntity for Public Market Disposul. A ton of mountain honey will be brought to Portland today and placed on sale at the Carroll Public Market L C. Fonts, formerly a member of the Portland police force, sent word yester day that he was going to ship the honey from his apiary near Carlton. This is the first consignment of honey to be put on sale at the markets. Mr. Fones Is well known in Portland, where he lived for a number of years beforo starting his apiary. RELIC HUNTER PUNISHED New York Importer Fined for steal ing Robert Burns Memento. DUMFRIES, Scotland, July 24. Da vid Graham Carmlcliael. a silk Importer of New York City, pleaded guilty today before the County Court Judge at Ayr to the theft of a brass handle from an antique bureau in Robert Burns cot tage In Ayr. He was fined $125. An attorney who represented Car- michael said that the accused man was the worse for drink when he took the article as a souvenir. WOMEN TO CONDUCT CARS St. Joseph, Mo., Clubs Plan ovcl Benefit for Local Charities. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., July 24. Women will act as streetcar conductors one day next October on all the lines in this city as the result of an arrangement made today by the street railway man agement and representatives of the Federation fef Women's Clubs. All money collected in excess of the regular dally receipts will be given to lucal charity. UNREST DECLARED MUG OVERDRAWN Political Agitators in Part Are Blamed. FEDERAL HEARING CONTINUES Witnesses Regard Pessimism as Mostly Unjustified. WORKERS ARE AMBITIOUS World-Wide Desire for Belter Fond, Housing und Clothing and More Leisure Declared Basis of Industrial Charges. I CHICAGO. July 24. There Is no foundation for much of the agitation about business conditions In ths United States, George M. Reynolds, president of the Continental A Commercial Na tional Bank, and John O. Shedd, presi dent of Marshall Field Co., asserted in their testimony today before ths Federal Commission on Industrial Re lation. Tho witnesses said much of ths pes simism could be traced to polltlca "Unrest exists, but there Is a great exaggeration of present conditions." Mr. Reynolds said. "The prosperity of our own people compared with that of peoplo of any other land Is such thsi so much discussion and criticism Is not warranted. A great deal of our troubles are only mental after all. Picture of Suffering o eritrawa. "The ITnllsd Charities last Winter. acting wllh the laudable purpose of aiding suffering, advertised Chicago's unemployment and suffering. It painted the plcluro as blsrk as posslbls to ob- tsln aid. but It overdid the picture. There is too much agitation from all sides." Do you consider the amassing ol wealth and the commercial supreme of a nation desirable If It means the submergence of a large class of citi zens?" asked Commissioner Uarrettsen. of the Order of Hallway Conductor "No," Mr. Itej nolds replied. "Do you consider the men who make up unions more uisnonest tnan oinsi classes?" Majority of Mrs lloarst. "The majority of men In all rlaasas are honest. Individuals sometime buse their positions." Mr. Shedd said that his firm em ployed between 10.00U and 15.000 pet - sons. Unrest In Industry Is worldwide," ho salil. "and Is caused by a desire for better food, better housing, better clothing and more leisure. A largo element is In the prevailing agitation for purely political purposes and by Ir responslbles for purposes of notoriety. Another element Is the rapidly In. rest ing complexity of industrial conditions. 'Unrest Is a sign of progress, not necessarily an evil." t'ollrclltr HsraalnlSH XrUlcLed. John li. lllbbard. Commissioner of the National Tradss Association, said he did not believe in collective bat - gaining because of lack of responsi bility of the unions. "It has become apparent," he said, that railroads and large corporations have to be controlled. Before unions can be dealt with on a collective bai -gaining basis, they must also be con trolled." Grace Abbott, director of the Immi grants' Protective League. ur-eU the establishment by the Government of a National labor exchange, which, she aid, would do away with private em ployment bureaus by which the im migrant Is exploited. She advocated a permanent commission to Investigate labor uprisings. Men Oat at Work I nt-asy. Simon O'Donnell, president of the Plumbers' union snd president of tho Building Trades Council, said: "The Industrial unrest comes from men being out of work. Walking around the streets, they need thu money to buy Ice now and In the Win ter to buy coal. That makes unrest." His opinion was that affiliation of unions In a strong central body would help settlement of disputes. E. M. Craig, secretary of the Build ing Construction Employers' Associa tion, said that organization ot Willi sides made for peace und harmony. RACE ISSUE IS AVOWED Hawaiian Delegate Appeals to People to DM Their Majority. HONOLULU, July 24. Color and race are issues frankly avowed by Delegate Kuhle. a Hawaiian. In his campaign for re-election to Congress. "The Hawaiian race has a right to feel pride." he said. In opening the cam paign. "So long as there Is a majority of Hawaiian voters In our land we should use our majority to send a Hawaiian as delegate to Congress. "If the haoles (whites) hsd a ma jority here they certainly would elect a haole as delegate." Goldendale Postmaster Confirmed. OREGON I AN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. July 24. The Senate today confirmed the nomination of Tally -rand Brutton as postmaster at Goidsn dale. Wash