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VOL. LV. .NO. I7.I!)C rOKTLAXD. OKI. OX, MONDAY, JANUARY'. 3. 191G. PKICE FIVE CENTS. CONSUL use LUMBER PRICES rinr itt i rn m mil SCORE INJURED IN APARTMENT FIRE L UHh nil HI SflN 1 INDEX OF T0DA1TS NEWS ADVANCE TODAY UUL IUL.L.I.U- 111 U.U1 FRANCISCO STORM iDUTHFU FORGER OF Hi IBS DEAD - - Tt WUMr. TtrTKROATf VrnTlmnm ttnpratur. cixf:r will WOMAN' AND TWO CHILDREN" BE.LIEVED TO BE DEAD. TOl Ocriori4ii no: otl to mod- h it nnoR. ISui-OftSIS Not. a Club Is Left to Offer Solace. BRAGS FRAUDS Amencai Official Among TtoLosl en Psrsia. sDsnroEs usd is egypt Those Rescued Said to Include 59 Passengers ard 94 Members cf Crew. VESSEL'S CAPTAIN DROWNS Cairo Dispatches Say Warn irg Was Not Given, but No Panic Followed. 10 N POX. Jan. 1 Vtrl dia. pa'.chaa fmna Cairo ay that tk Brit ik itam.ih:j Tariua. ur in that MaJ itrraai ca TaraJa. torp duacl wtaout wmrmnf aal tank in f; iinutaa. BaCwaaa I mr4 nrn-rtirt hara taan tan4aj at Alriaruiria. Fry pi. Rohart X. Mv-Narfy. Anmru Cory. u! at Adan, Arabia, la brlia-vad I t ba dronat. taoaar IVatk Report rL Rautar'a Cairo rorraponjant makaa lha anraaarvad ttatrmanl thai Mr. Mc Naaly J.t kta Ufa. Oiarlca H. Crmr.t. f Contort, waa aarad. prUUa of Cha ainkLTta; of tho Pvrvia Cama ia !rw!y torlay. but aura infor mation aa a r-iTJ mad it appaar that tfca tumbrr of partocia who a- capl ia th four boau whek wrra pat tt w Ury.r thai waa bopad whn lh firt rw a l:iTd yrataniay. Th rrin.au!ir at Oriantal Corapaity. whi'k aramad t ha rria. annoancad Irxlj T that 1 'j- auriror had arnirac t Atciandria. Th aurrivor compriao lk chiaf ff'arar. aavond cffWar. arccn ar.ci aaara. T! aramarv. t3 Iwart and BaMrnrvra. Uoaala Saaa 113 r 5arL A Llojda c!l patch rTi h nunbrr a Ji3. anaia op of pavaaanfrs. of whora 1? ara woman, and 94 member f lha rraw. tnclinlma? 5J Laarar. Tb aurior inctad roihtary offn rr and aifht parlors who ara not tintuh ub,ct. "Tha k:p waa truck amidhipi oa lha port at 1:10 F. M . aaj a Reu tr' rorrporulnt at Cairo, "Sb ad diappaarad cofnptataty at 1:1 J "Sanrnon ur it waa tr.tl ihort of miratt that anyona waa lavad. Thar waa no panar. I our boata war launrhai w:'.k tha stmoat promptituJa. Captaia mt Liawr Prawaxd. "Tia captaia u drownad. When la.t aava ha waa wimm:r after lha Uf Had ptuncl banaatk th, .ur- ! far. Both th ranirMuUr A Orwntal Compan and Ru-r' Cairo corr- pondarl aa y thai Mr. Grant ha bn Uriiid at Aktandrva. Th ataam-h.p companT had to nawa of Mr. Mc.Nra ly f'. Edward R.m. af Denver. Wft th rrua at Cibrattar. aa ail reported jeetervUy. - Na AaaiaUac Offrred. Th TenuuuUr 4t Ortenlal Cleans hia CompaBjr toniHl received th . t . , . ' . . r I r - R -hara. whwaa amorr lha lunttun1 f th d:a.r: I -a iorpuo ,truk th ,h,P M th ' Mrt bow al I eVIork in tha afur. ' - i nooa whan about t) (Bile aou'.h of th at nd Of th I.lanJ of Crete. .No warnina; waa ftven. Dr ary :t4rp: atad t aaaut. Wi'.hn fi minute th ahip kad aonk. It waa intpoaaibl la lower th (tarbeaird bo.a, owmf to tho heaay t L Tr or ; boata war towered cm th port ;!. I d:d lhu iyif. aa I waa waahed ccr board a hen th boat rapaaed. "Th cond-JCt cf th pa.n-er and rrew waa plndid: there waa no truet'.iRaT and no pa rue. I our boat after 20 hoar at aea were parked up by a warship." Airi;ix citt .-a it Rto: flna Xwrl4laM-k Ak Thai dg an. I W Swearate-al lor Prewe-at. WlHlllwrriV. Jaav 2. Aaml.ty wvr Ik sinkift af Ik H'ltUk siaaahlp rraa lr..4 la effwial cirrt.e hare list he leaked handsome In a pollre tdr wk.a a coa i;r di.palrfc broegkl' man a klmt. Ldwar4 Fmilh rlgn4 lafaenaala Ik l tka ki ba4 ba .rJ freea th Abardeea foer. New Tear a a44 t wrfe a4 taat at . aftar ana naoaih af arrtK a..4 M 77i. w.-T. 1 BUl tormtrlr 4 -4 ." Tw I-ocsib Tampa Start Vllh II Mm and ftthe-re Pr-oeil4 by Frbcwary I. nn;rr;x. wav. j i .r- rial )-trim .itr rl- prvvai:!" a4 witk tk 4' man 4 nun rtkr ihea t nea fc-a al aay lima ' Ik arar ia. awilooh for ih ramaar bu.ln oa Or,a Harbor for lt I t.tail traa oa roach lambar atlll e4-- trawm II in III pr 1 hr lantnrrww. wM- tlnl.k.4 r-Mi net w.nt aa II ar ! Httr prl a! o art araatliB( la t Kaat ai4 Mi44!weyat, rM4m( lo toral lic.aar en-y ad- MUtmaa svt It" lamaar altaallaa ta a-B ft boat aoreaat kr by I'" Mff I. Aaaoaaramaat waa mat thi a 11 Ike tmalB Mnc'a mill ef4 caraa al Markkam. employing I aari. wea'4 oewa ywbtnr-r I Today laa ( or th Cray Harbor Ul- Coenaaay ar.n4 with 114 raa aa Ta ,n4arxa-MI44!aai rem I Oakeillai wttk 14 an-a. will oaaa a fakraary t. ef.r In yare" ld!- PASSENGERS GO TO CHURCH Portland Traveling .Man Lead a tfUjrd Companion lo rVrk-e. OAKLAND. Or, Jaa. 1 p-ll rlMy HWftf aa th com bit. 4 kaata Ltalt4 Kaaoallloa liaaclaJ Irala. bowed from -ortlaa4 lo !aa Pranci). Wa-.a Ika flral ua4ar of Ik N.w Yer br altandlnar church fc.ra today IHarrk -lta Ikla aa paaaaasar fom4 aft.r a ll-koar 4. tar. with ahr wattle af hoar Ika only proapart. aa Ika ruti af arrack south. Kar. I'm eft la cburik. wko'a coming Ions' ceil4 fot.r Morrla. Poniaed travel lac aua. ae4 eoena J-44 traveler torero! Ibolr wo a. trudsad throuch Iba aow aa4 ilae lo aa Oakland aaater. KING'S WOUND NOT HEALED IWIla aatd YkH I aria lo Trral I fhaak-lana Itcw m-k IlaW-r. LOVPOX. Jaa. 3. A Raalrr dtasatrb from Alhaaa. fli.4 rrldar. y fro f.aor rrta4rtrb Kraua. of lUrlln. and rrofaaaor Cuolbars. of Vlanna. vbo al l.a44 Km Coaaiaallaa durtnc bu lllaaaa laa I VprlnjT. haaa raluroad lo Alk.aa lo asamiaa Iba wound lorl br Ika oaaralloa aarfom.4 la J una. wblcb baa aol k.al.4. Tba wound la lTln Ika Klnar aoma Iroabla. althossk bla '(oral coadittoa it arood. ro.aaor t:iaolara; aarforcnod Iba eoarallon. wblcb conaialad of r. moral of aart of Ika Irgll rib. Tba klnf waa aafforlaaT from alaurtajr. SPRING OPENS ON MARS .Make Important Obxw altoaa ('oor-rralnc Caaala. l-LACjrr A rr. AM Jaa. 3. Ob..rr lloaa of Mara for Iba araaoal oppol loa ara now la full procraaa al lb Low.ll abaaraalonr. r.oaulla of alcoa, j imaortanr baa atroadjr b a brouarkt out. la Ibal Iba obaarvad canal d.l opmaat la alrlktncrjr rorroborallva of Iba Ik or 7 af waaoaabl daan4rn soon iba anattinai of lha polar cap. Tba aortb.ra caaat ara now cm Iroaaalr dark, ladu-alina: tnrrad ac IKK? with aaoarlat prtac. whll lb. I outk.ra caaala ara faiat la Aalaanaal tfrclmr. Tka aaa In Ika aorlk.ra pkr of lara la now tat April. HUERTA'S ILLNESS SERIOUS i parali4iaj la rOMrt cMl-atln; roa ;ree I rar. ' a T. Jan. ; ;nrl r tor u8 llorta. o lTu .atonal Preai i iat of aWai-. b .n4rtRl an' r.ftLoa br. wator-ta .l bra. I a4Rrd im m rtuo rmd tton tonight bf bta ti iriaa, tT . P buatar. laWaorel Itearta. bo bad Nn III for aocno lima It m bat tha (-hyatriana ! dk iMbajraj) aft J4-1l. Wt OB OpOfatO! for gatoar. It arae arvioganrtj afur j tna aparauoa 101 in pnyau tana louna avmptom of a anre cnplt.-atw d . . ... ... , . a erraaa.4 for bla riT) THRONE OCCUPIED BY YUAN j . .aor. ; , Vr.KIS. Ja. t Tuaa M Kal. Prl 4nt of t'hiaaw wbe ba "rtd th j proffar of aa i:mprr" crow ' J -Taiat of art4j eloaaanta la the ns.llaa atafeti th NU' In tho Ir Pril i I ' ow aiair. pi on in mroni ... ... tend aarouncad mm "h.a Imperial i t rnajaet- at tho Ne Tear' a day rep- (toaj fftaaa for flrt offaertata. II la atra4r a4dre4 r.mprr br the "nea. although iho formal croat oa coremony a bot taboa pi-a. "GUYED MAN QUITS FORCE A be-riler a Polkrv-anaa Tl rr of Joke A bow I Ilia Helmet. ABKRDrEX. Jan. 2 (?pa- riatl BcaaM aa eau!4 aol alaAd the ssTta af kt fria4 wh told klra Many Are Injured and Property Damaged WIND BREAKS 27-YEAR RECORD Plate Glass Windows Shatter and Signs Blow Away. APARTMENT HOUSE FALLS I'rrrr Pa-nT"ra llrcomr t-k-k a ad CMIirra tTnj; Coallio Vca. aria Fail Hark, lo Harbor; luroiartrr. ! Ialll. ' HAV rRANCfSCO. Jan. S Ufa. limb and property paid tribute bar Innlsht lo torn aald by lha Wealbar Ilu reaa officlala lo ba tha aaeereet that baa vlaltad Haa rtaaclaco for 37 yeare. noeeatr-flee rnrtra aa hour waa Ibr Telocity of lb wind at I o-clock off l-olnl Rare, and . mll.e an hour off lolnt Loboa. one of lha portala of the Coldra Oal. Tba wind waa atlll Maine lonlcbl and the barometer falling-. Mo Killed by ralllaa la. Henry Chlieon. of Loa Anc!-. klll'd bra br tha norm. Chllmn and hu wife raraa here lo elall Ih ranama Pacific Cipoeltloa and were to have relurnd lo Loa Anselra tonight. H waa knocked down by a falllnc adeer llalnaT also, auffared a broken aplne and fractured ekull and dlrd half an hour later. Nuaneroue Injurl.a wei reported from flylnar ln and other d.brla blown loo by Ih bowline aoulberly tale. rlate-4.laaa w, laeaaa Saffee. Tbe wind waa eapeclally aeerre on plaie-Blaaa window, mora lhaa 10 of which were r. ported aa having been blown In. On window, on the 17tb alory of aa office bulldln. waa blown from Ita frame and atuck like a Jack knife in a door at tha oppoait aide of tha room. . Ti alarm 'alcked up a heavy a ot Haa Kranclaco llay and ferry traffic waa maintained with difficulty. In everal caaaa whole aeaa aw.pt Ih lower drka of the rerryboat. and many of tba' paaaentfrra became aea elck and otbere ensaced theraeelvea In prayer. CeoatlaaT Teaaela Tare Baek. Fet.ral coaatrra that tried to put to turned back aft.r (elllnc a taala of the wind velocity outald tbe heada The property loaa cauerd by th lorn includ.d the d.alructloo of an untenanted two-atory frame aparlm.nl- houae. which collapaed und.r the prea- aure of the wind. intra war no caaualtira IVueione Granted Orrcoa Women. ORrOONlA.V NKWS Bf REAL. Willi- Insian. Jan. J. I"enlona of III a month have bean araniad to Mra. alary It. tlornaday. of Portland, and to Mra t.mma l- Hood, of Dufur. .NOT : . , ST T V -.. I a J J - I i ifi i ' k -M s-- aw . w - m in ar- - I l l.tl V" i - awgaaaw ---T w I vraU Dorteiwrijf ludiL Amrlraa Coodfa lovt a ilnr Pmntm. Ptui 1. Arbia i4ers vruontd br trriibl b.rrl Bo in rat nrvi H at tared by lif 1b tracbca. Con, Interna P-vf -V Srrw t ry )f ouaton varna farm ara that farti iiara b acxt-e. I'aca - ' Armv atarr Mnta caoaoratilp In event o r. Kattv i. Raii-ara Tduem art-- to rttlera oo racla- maiioi prowf oa coouitloa of Miuv IMMk, I'M S. Aaonciato JuatVco tAixar 4la. rax ft. Ctia of D-tnorratie laaa offaoi br trad aitnbvtod to aic. fas . Whoot long boi for 4rmaa arcoant aold In br-4i and quirby aboartajil bj mvrbt. TBalO A. Mr. f ord bora wtih rhancad vioara aa to mt ar. i'aa 4. On k 1 1 ld. maar Injured and broprtr aad la baa rraartaco Crm. I Uf 1. raited btatoo fhambrr of Commrro pro- dKta groal proaaortir for IV. C Oat look for nolo oa Iacirio Coaat for ltt6 lo W4. fas lo. I'nrio em- to pitr two cam or trm twm lata tffa. Pa lw. lroal tt in loa at lacua promts to bo montBiotta Pafo lw. J ohm or rworo aaid to bavo aortoua tflU oat JOld paronant. Pa 10. raartflo Nrt.wta(. Lambor arfro advaoco nod boaglna; campo otaft. Ia4t i Tbro of tra.a crew b:amod for Roaoburs rOCK. VaVC . rnaeaakrbM aad Marto. IXanavar dorlaro tnoaor for nil lfUlmat acwdJ la nailablo. fnar II. nrvo Antoalno nails ith grata cart. l aaa li, ro--ttaad aod Tlrialtr. rrohlt.it wn bnr.-;a danclna; to bolol g fit la rait a. Croiya N-at.lt daoco to tbrllllnc. ! 1- Uoilar rarpot Cotalanarr Church pal pit. Fajio I. PttMtf aafcad In fod bird bllo toOW COVOT Cont-at tt moal Ic tiara onda today. l-avo It. Toothful foraar braJta of Ion a; cmrmr mt crlrna. Pas a 1. Port land vaharn without oaala for flrat ouaday 10 ora. Pago 1 Toungatorb and pa rata to abate. Pag 14. 1 JitrtVr poUc begin patrol and find Winter auiomotlliBf oblllr Pago 14. Dr. Iitnaon urgao family worahlp. Pago - Pair Bar vaitom lap yar and bacbelora ara rraignad lo lata. Page CHICAGO THIEVES BUSIER Total of S 1,30, 00 Stolen In Year. f 300.090 Above Preceding Year. CHICAGO. Jaa. I. One million, flv hundred thoueand dollars waa atolen in Chlcaeo durlnar 11S. according; to fls urea compiled from police reeorda. Tbla was 1300. 000 more than th tribute levied by tt-leve on Chicago' public durlnff Lha year precadlna;. Chief of Police llealey baa aeked the Council for loo additional patrolmen, and be is L-onfidenthera will ba a con siderable decrease in crime If his re quest la granted. DIETZ SEEKS MOVIE JOB Victorious Coach i aacinaled by Film Game and Woald Be Slar. LO.S AXGELES. Jan. 2. (Special. ) The Washington state College football team left for home tonight, after spend ing lha day at San Diego. 'All are la good shape. Coach Diets alone remalna here, and he ssys he will start out tomorrow to find a Job with some moving picture outfit. Diets la faaclnatrd with the movl game. If auccessful. he expects to etsy until next year's aon beirins. ENOUGH ENGINE POWER, AS USUAL. SOFT DRINKS ARE SPURNED Erickson's Place Well Filled But Bar Patrons Few. AIR OF PROPRIETY REIGNS Car Conductor Apologize for Hing ing Oonj In Front ot Church and "Cop" Courteous When Re quefttlns; Hobo to Move On. Little old Portland on its first prohi bition Sunday waa a model of decorum. Of course, there have been previous dry Sundays. Ever since John Manning as District Attorney back in 1107 pained tba boys by invoking the Sunday clos Ins; law oa saloons the town has been outwardly dry on the Sabbath. At the same time, there never has been a Sunday In that period when a nun couldn't go up to his club and warm himself with a drop or so to stave off a threatened attack of pneu monia tbe Winter after next. City Veritable Sahara. Could that be done yesterday? It could not. Dry, drier, drought! The day of Sahara was come. Only a few of the saloons, proprie tors of which had announced the in tention of continuing at the old stands with soft drinks In place of hard liquors, so much as took tbe trouble to unlock their doors. Even tha prospect of Sunday opening for the first time In nine long- years did not seem to appeal. In thoso places that were open. Just a ghastly remainder of the old Jolly throng- waa there. Warslag Gives AcaJaet Kxceaa. Tbey talked In subdued tones, and cautioned each other gingerly about drinking too muck of "that stuff," and of the evil effects thereof. Soda m-ater waa the strongest drink on tap. and ginger ale the most devilish in aound. Even near-beer was not to be had. "Uimme a near-beer with a glass of naptha for a chaser. Tie a white rib bon around It," ordered a facetious log. ger at Erickson's big saloon and con cert hall. Burnslde and Second streets. "So near-beer today." said tbe bar tender. "You can have soda pop. sar- saparllla. grape Juice or loganberry fixx. But no near-beer. We don't carry it on Sunday." faallaa Ia Exercised. A bystsnder curiously inquired the reason why. "Well," said the bartender, "we Just aren't doing it. Wa are going as care fully as we possibly can. Soma peo ple might not understand it and would tbink something waa wrong if near beer was sold on Sunday, and we don't want to get in bad with tbe public -Come to think of it, though. thii 4'onciuu1 ua Vatie .V Column l.i Husband and Wife so Badly Burned They Probably Will Die Blame Placed on Lighted Cigarette. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 2. Twenty persons were Injured, six seriously, two of whom will die. iji a fire that de stroyed the Bellevue apartments 'here early tonight. Mrs. Elizabeth Ostrom and two children of Mrs. Nellie Buchard are missing and are believed to have been burned to - death. Some of .the victims were hurt in heroic attempts to save others, while many leaped from windows in the upper stories ot the building and were more, or less seriously injured. Wilson Gray and his wife, each 30 years old. were caught in their apart ments on the fourth floor and were so badly burned that physicians bold out slight hope for their recovery. The five-story brick building contained 21 apartments and at the time of the fire about 200 persons were In the struc ture. It Is believed to have been caused by a lighted cigarette, thrown Into a wastepaper bin in the basement. The financial loss was estimated at about f 100,000. SEATTLE COASTER KILLED Sled and Aiito Collide; Several in Oilier Accidents Injured. SEATTLE, , Jan. 2. One boy was killed and several others were injured today as tbe result of coasting acci dents on Seattle's steep snow-covered hills. - Russell Marvin, 11. was killed when bis sled ran into an automobile at West Barrett street and Grand boule vard. Sidney Greenburg. 11. suffered a broken leg as. the result of a collision between two sleds on Washington street, between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth avenues. A bobsled carrying five boys and girls hit a telephone pole at East For tieth street and Brooklyn avenue. None was hurt. FLEEING LAUNCH CAPTURED Calypso in Custody, of American Cruiser at Lit Paz. SAX DIEGOixCal.. Jan. 2. The launch Calypso, which sailed from San Pedro December 27, the crew of which sought by the Deputy United -States Marshal at Los Angeles, Is in the cus tody of the cruiser New Orleans at La Paz. Lower California, according to radiog: ram received here today from Admiral Winslow. The Calypso was held at San Pedro under an admiralty libel instituted by tbe Standard Oil Company and the San Pedro Iron Works, when, it is alleged, the crew forcibly took possession from the Deputy United States Marshal and put to sea. FIRST LIQUOR RAID MADE Beer, Wine, W hisky and Gin Seized at .Negro Club, With 30 Present, The first raid in Portland under the new prohibition law was made last night on tbe Union Club, colored, at 91 Xorth Park street, by Lieutenant Harms and Patrolmen Powell and Mar tin. The raid resulted In the arrest of one man and the seizure of 26 pints of beer and a quantity of wine, whisky and gin. The policemen visited the club when about 20 colored men and women were present. J. H. Reed, president of the tiub. told the police that there was no liquor In tbe house. TOWN IN VIRGINIA BURNING Business Section of Gordonsville Ap pears to Be Doomed. ALEXANDRIA. Va., Jan. 3. Dis patch en received here early today over railroad wires from Gordonsville, Va., said that a fire which started on the main street there a block - from the Chesapeake fc Ohio station, shortly after' midnight, was burning fiercely and that the business section appeared to be doomed. Local firemen were unable to cope with the blaze and a fire company from Charlottesville was being rusbed to the town on a speciaj train. STATE WORTH $16,600,000 Washington Has $3,600,000 Cash ' and SI 3000.000 Bonds. , OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 2. (Special.) The State of Washington starts the year 1918 with total cash balances of 12.603.623.83 in. Ita various funds and bond holdings in excess of (13,000.000. The state general fund has a cash balance of 11.204,075.26. The bond statement shows bonds valued at 111.76391.80 in the perma nent educational funds, with 1500,000 in cash awaitng' investments, while II, 336.800 of the accident fund also is in vested in bonds. JEWS ORDERED TO LEAVE? Stockholm Krport Says Impulsion From Petrograd Is Decreed. BERLIN'.' Jan. 2. (By wireless to Sayville. X. Y.) "It is reported from Stockholm that orders have been given to all Jewish refugees st Petrograd to depart immediately. says tho Over seas News Agency. "This order involves the cancella tion of all concessions to the Jews made by Prince. Cherbatoff, . form-r AUmeter of the imerir.'' G. L. Thorne Uncovers Long Crime Career. PLAN FOR BIG COUP SPOILED Prisoner Blames Self for Sui cide of James De Ford. BLIND PIG PLAN FAILS Suspicions of Woman Stop Project for Liquor Sales Man Who Lived ' by Wits Tells of Getting More Than $25,000 by Fraud. By his own confession yesterday George Lee Thorne, alias Dr. Russell Elliott and many other names, held in the city Jail for alleged bad check and other fraudulent operations, is a rival in fact of the imaginary Rufus Walling ford, and if his own statements are to be credited, the suicide of James De Ford, president of the Randelett Oil & Gas Company, of Neodesha. Kan., Sat urday morning, at 286 Eleventh street, Portland, may, in part or in whole, ba laid at the door of Thorne himself. Thorne said yesterday, in a statement which he backed up by an array of facts, that he 'had engaged DeFord's attention in an oil-promoting scheme; that he intended to reap a harvest by fraudulent sale of stock and then to disappear, taking all the blame. With Mr. DeFonKhe said he had formed the Finley Orday Company. Mrs. DeFord. daughter-in-law of the dead man. ad mitted yesterday that she had a vagu, recollection of having heard the elder Mr. DeFord speak of such a company. Thorne said the company was actually planned. Mr. DeFord's suicide was at tributed to an unheavat in his financial operations at the opening of the war. Thorne to Take All Blame. Thorne said yesterday he had used DeFord as a tool for the alleged fraudu lent sale of stocks and bonds. Thorne admitted he 'way to fix things so that he could profit by Mr. DeFord's knowl edge of oil stocks and at the jail pro duced, while others looked on. what he said was Mr. DeFord's forged sig nature. If trouble came. Thorne said, he would have taken all the blame. Thorne had planned to "vanish" before the evidence of fraud was discovered. His arrest interrupted his plans, and, according to Thorne. probably added to the worries of Mr. DeFord, who feared being implicated in other affairs of Tborne's. of which :he know nothing. Mr. DeFord took carbolic acid Satur day morning, quietly saying to his son, "I'm going." Forger Reproduces Slgnatare. Charles De Ford and Eugene Da Ford, sons of the deceased, were taken last night to visit Thorne in his cell. They sought to disprove their father's connection with Torne's company. When the forger wrote for them a copy of their father's signature, as he remembered it, they refused to com ment upon the reproduction. Thorne told them that their father had gone into the plan with honest in tentions, but that three or four days thereafter, when he suspected some thing wrong, he protested. Thorne said De Ford's real signature, signed to some business papers, should show up at one of the Portland banks in a day or so. v Pride Takra la Frauds. His alleged connection with De Ford, however, was but one of the many amazing revelations in a dazzling career of living on his wits. He is but 31 years old. but ha is a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago; an ex-Sergeant in the United States Army formerly stationed at Walla Walla, Wash., and as an im postor and fraudulent check operator, by his own admissions, it is doubtful if he has an equal in this part of the world. All day yesterday, while he was telling his story, telegrams from various parts of the country came pouring in to the local detectives, in a measure backing up the admissions which he made with considerable pride. A plan to establish a fashionable and elaborate "blind pig" In Portland was frustrated only by suspicion of tho woman he had engaged to be his partner, and by his untimely arrest. Wit Caed for Living. Thorne. realizing himself caught and undoubtedly due for a Jail sentence, admitted the operation of some 59 frauds and check operations, the aggre gate amount of which is over 125.000. The exact amount is unknown to him self, other than that be has lived high, and brags that he has lived on his wits entirely since 1906, and that he has partaken freely in the high life of hotels, cabaret and high society. The only actual labor done in the past 10 years, he says, was two days' work building headquarters while an officer in Villa's army in Mexico. He believes his criminal career is past, for he be lieves that three years in jail will kill him. his health requiring the open air. His only hope lies in his trial by the Government on the charge of using tha mails to defraud, in connection with his " obtaining $516 escheat money from a Baker City bank, and that sentence of ess than three years will be given him. ; He had refrained trom talking until yesterday in hopes of buying leniency with confessions of his past crimes. DistrVt Attorney Evans yesterday iCuucludeu va l's li. toluuiii 1.).