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60 Pages fj Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVI. NO. 12. PORTLAND, OREGON, . SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1907. PRICE FIVE -CENTS. A CLASS INDICTED ON TEN CHARGES Head of Sunset Tele phone in Ruef's Net. DETWE1LER IS UNDER CHARGES Thirteen Indictments Against Ohio Capitalist. NELLIE SMITH IS TALKING Tclepliane Lawyers' Stenographer Loosens Tongue Before Grand Jury Scheme to Grab 1 be lief Fund Failed. SAN. FRANCISCO, March 23. The grand Jury ended a week's intense ac tivity of deep probing into the alleged corruption and graft In the city govern ment by filing 22 more indictments with Presiding Judge Coffey of the Superior Court at noon today. These are the se cret indictments voted by the inquisitor ial body, but not reported nor even placed on the secret file. Thirteen of the true bills reported to day are against A. K. Detweller. a capi talist and prominent man of Toledo, O., and nine are against Louis Glass, former ly vice-president and general manager of the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company of this city. The charge in each Indictment is bribery. A tenth indictment was returned against Glass, but was withheld at the last moment, owing to its defective form. Glass has been In Nevada for some time and is stormbound on a train be tween Reno and Sacramento on his way home. He will be arrested immediately upon his arrival by Sheriff O'Neil. Glass Is now a member of the advisory board of the Pacific States Telephone & Tele graph company. Detweller In Egypt. . Detective W. J. Burns today received word from his agents that Detwller had been located in Cairo, KgypL Orders for his arrest have not yet been cabled, but if necessary he will be apprehended and extradited. Mr. Burns seemed to be of the belief that Detweller would return voluntarily. Judge Coffey fixed the ball at PO.000 suretv or $3000 cash on each charge, or .0,000 for Glass and $130,000 for Detweller. Detweller represented the Home Tele phone Company in this city, and : it is alleged that he gave Abraham Ruef the 62.000 which the indictments against the latter charge he divided among the Su pervisors. Glass Acted Through Heney. Glass, who was in charge of the Pa cific States Telephone & Telegraph Com pany at the time, is held responsible for the alleged bribing of ten Supervisors through his general agent, T. V. Halsey, who Is charged with having presented them with J6000 each to prevent the granting of a franchise to te opposition company. Halsey is supposed to ba now on his way to San Francisco from Manila in charge of Chief Trowbridge of the In sular Secret Service. Trowbridge and the telephone agent were to have sailed today on the steamer America Maru. Halsey and Glass are brothers-in-law and the former was Installing a tele phone company in the islands. Both Mr. Heney and District Attor ney Langdon confirmed the story sent out by the Associated Press last night that no attempt would be made at present to remove the Mayor or the Board of Supervisors and declared un true the report published in a local pa per this morning' that a wholesale re moval of city officials was being planned, that the Federal Government was Interested In such a step and the Citizens Construction Company would administer the affairs of the city. As a result of the work of the Dis trict Attorney's office 95 Indictments were found this week or a total of 114 since the investigation began. , . The grand iury met at 11 o'clock this morning, half an hour later , went to "Befor my electio I drrw bakery Biifiii ill Judge Coffey's court to file the indict ments and reconvened at 2 o'clock in the fternoon. Miss Nellie Smith, the stenog rapher for Gerstie, Fricke & Beedy, the attorneys who represent the Home Tele phone Company, was the principal wit ness in the afternoon. Miss Smith is re garded as the most Important witness in the telephone deal and it Is from her that the prosecution has for days been en deavoring to get the Information whi it is said would be the connecting link between Ruef and the Home Telephone Company officials in the matter of $62, 000 which. It Is charged, was paid to the Supervicors. Miss Smith has heretofore been a recalcitrant witness. She was in terrogated for an hour today and the prosecution seemed to be much plea ed with the results of the day's work 1 the grand Jury room. The grand Jury will meet again Monday afternoon to resume the telephone investigation. Trolley Steal Next Week. The probing of the alleged overhead trolley deal by the United Railways will be commenced the latter part of next week. The attorneys for Ruef emphatically deny the persistent reports that there is a misunderstanding and lack of harmony !....... ...........t arwfljwsress I ' - CSV" 1 r a. I General Leonard Wood, Who Is Sus tained by the President In Ills Controversy With Captain Koehler In the Philippines. among them over the conduct of his case. They promise to issue a statement. RCEF APPEALED TO PRESIDENT Roosevelt Replied by Promoting, Not Dismissing Heney. SAN FRANCISCO, March 23. (Spe cial.) That Abe Ruef, in his efforts to avoid investigation at the hands of F. J. Heney, appealed direct to the President of the United States is attested by a let ter in the possession of. Mr. Roosevelt's Secretary. The latter was shown to a San Franciscan who recently returned from a visit to the National capital. The appeal to the President was made in the Fall of 1905, immediately after Mr. Heney's speech in the Mechanics Pavilion, in which he denounced Ruef as a boodler and promised to put him in prison. Mr. Heney at that time' was asked to testify before the grand jury.' He did so; but refused to divulge the nature of his in formation. Thereupon Ruef called Mr. Roosevelt's attention to the' circumstances and asked that Mr. Heney, be removed as -prosecutor of the land frauds in Oregon. Mr. Roosevelt replied by. promoting Mr. Heney to be Assistant-Attorney General. TRIED TO STEAL RELIEF FUND Phclan Exposes Schniiti' Scheme to Give Supervisors Charge. SAN FRANCISCO', March 23. (Special.) James D. "Pheian charges, in an inter view, that the Mayor tried to get con trol of the relief "millions" for " himself and the Supervisors ' in order that they might put through a big boodling job. Mr. Pheian says: . ' "At one of our meetings Schmltz be gan by saying that he thought it was time for the Supervisors to get down to their customary business. Things "were getting in better shape, order was being restored and the city was gradually feel ing itself again. To have the Super visors about their customary affairs would help to inspire public confidence, he said, and then suggested the advisablW ity of turning over the relief funds to their care. "Of course the . suggestion met with vigorous opposition. Judge Morrow ar gued at length against it, and so did I. (Concluded on Pape 3.) A FEW INTERESTING CHAPTERS FROM ne i 1 tttt ty .-r bMi "Yea cm call It Intuition ar anything you like, but I call It 'Indian Information.. MANAGES CAMPAIGN Reads Democratic Chiefs Out of Party. IMPORTS NEW YORK METHODS Same Old Bogies Trotted Out to Scare Voters. OLD ISSUES ARE DISCARDED Editor Recognized as Commander-in-Chief With Many New York Lieutenants Caricatures and Mud Favorite Weapons. CHICAGO, March 23. (Special.) William Randolph. Hearst, who . has taken personal command of the Chicago campaign, has read Roger C. Sullivan and Carter H. Harrison out of the ranks. He -'RBsed the Democratic Na tional committeeman and the ex Mayor with the enemies of the Republic and, in a conference with the Mayor, is reported to have warned the Mayor that he must no longer affiliate with the two Democratic leaders whom Mr. Hearst has marked for political slaughter In the event of Dunne's re election. Mr. Hearst lias summoned numerous of his employed candidates from various parts of the country and is seeking to hav Mayor Dunne "turn the town upside down" during the re mainder of the campaign. Gotham Issues and Methods. not only have commanders been im ported from New York to manage the Dunne campaign with tactic weird and uncanny, but Gotham Issues are being brought in to supplant those good old campaign arguments which the . de throned Democratic leaders in this city thought sufficient to stir the voters. Immediate isunicipal ownership is a "has been"; Mayor Dunne's boastful re view of his "record" goes Into the dis card; traction ordinances and clean streets have been worn out by the cam paign orators. ...... August Belmont, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas F. R. an and "Tony" Brady, of Brooklyn, are the perils of Chicago Just now, even if it may puzzle the voter to discern in just what way they menace his rights. They are being reproduced in caricature daily In an. effort to ter rorize the people of Chicago, just as they were used to dragoon the people of New York State last fall. Vision of Great Conspiracy. The first evidences of sweeping changes which Commander-in-Chief Hearst is making in the Chicago may oralty strife are declared to bear a striking resemblance to the tactics he employed when he was . running for Governor in the Empire State last Fall. Old line Democrats commented that it was hardly logical to run two cam paigns 1000 miles apart on practically the same lines and issues, but they were waived aside. There is one variation in the pro gramme, however. Fred A. Busse is associated with the financial powers of New York in a "conspiracy" to sell Chi cago to them on the block, once the postmaster is elected Mayor. This is a new affiliation for the Republican can didate, w-ho heretofore has been al lowed by his opponents' to mix only with assorted magnates of strictly local spheres of action. Edge of Sword Is Dull. 'Commander-in-Chief Hearst and Chief of Staff Brisbane evidently be lieve that the way to win voters in Chicago Is to throw mud copiously and all the time," was the Republican com ment at the turn the Dunne campaign has taken. "Unable to find basis for potent attacks upon Mr. Busse, they have fallen back upon their old tactics in New York. . It is their one weapon, but they will find it's edge has been removed in Mr. Hearst's battle at home. "Mr. Halser invited me mt Delmoaiee's.- The delicious." Fred Busse is too well known in Chi cago for .indiscriminate abuse to touch htm. : Their vilification will only make Republican votes." MAGISTRATE MAKES RAID Deposes Police Sergeant and Prose cutes Illegal Liquorscllers. .' NEW YORK, March 23. A sensational series of raids upon alleged violators of the excise law was made today under the direction of Charles 3. Whitman, presi dent 6t the Board of City Magistrates. The Magistrate forcibly seized the West Forty-seventh Street Station In the upper tenderloin, deposed the sergeant in com mand, directed the arrest of several al leged violators of the excise law, and then held an impromptu session of court in the police station. Two men who were found in charge of the saloons where, it is alleged, liquor was being served after hours, were held in $2500 for further hearing, . and the Magistrate de clared that he- would appear personally to press the charges against the men when they are arraigned. In the course of Police Station Court session Magistrate Whitman declared that the two men arrested told him that they were permitted to keep their places open after hours because -'the captain fixed it." Grandson of Millionaire Stolen. BERLIN, March 23. A dispatch to the Tageblatt from Hanover says that "Eddy" Krelger, the 12-year-old son of George Krelger, of Chicago, who married the daughter of Dr. Bart, a millionaire, has been kidnaped by two masked per sons. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 46 de gree; minimum, 38. TODAY'S Occasional rain. Foreign. Immense Income of the Czar; other Euro pean gossip. Page 35. Nicaraguans twice defeat Hondurana and American-Mexican intervention is near. Page 3. Murder of Frenchman in Morocco etlre up France against Germany. Page 2. Revolutionary . disturbances continue throughout Koumania. Page 2. Pobedonostzeff, ex-Procaru tor-General of Russian Holy Synod, Is dead. Page 3. National. Census Bureau gives figures on wealth of American Nation. Page 2. Secretary Garfield plans to remove great deal of red tape in his, office. Page 4. .. politics. Has Senaotr La Follette lost his grip on Wisconsin politics t Page 4. New York female teachers successful as lobbyists. Page 2. Hearst In charge of Dunne's campaign tn Chicago. Page 1. Domestic Haskin on American newspapers. Affidavits of Thaw's mother and lawyers . defend his sanity, - page 2. - ' Vote cf Western trainmen almost-, unani mous. Page 1. Hundreds of inmates at National Soldiers' Homes are victims of ptomaine poisoning.- Pacific Coast. ' Storm continues to rage tn Northern Cali fornia and Southern Oregon. Lewis Glass, of Sunset, and Detweller, of Home Telephone Company indicted for bribery Page l. Schmltz denies he has anything to confess. Page 1. Labor war Is feared In Seattle. Page 15. Floods still continue In California; heavy mow in part of Oregon and Washington. Man at Oregon City kills wife, self and wounds father-in-law. Page 14. Unfamiliar clause In Jones bill may upset much municipal legislation. Sport. Colonel McCraken beats Judge Williams In match game of bottle pool at Commercial Club. Page 8. Commercial and Marine. First steps toward organizing hopgrowers warehouse company. Page 43. Break in New York and foreign stock mar- kets. Page 43. Eank statement less favorable than ex - pected. Page 43. Chicago wheat market lower on Wall street decline. Page 43. Unknown steam schooner, in distress off bar, towed out of danger by tug Tatoosh, Page 43. Portland and Vicinity. Portland taxpayers raising $50,000 to bring Heney and- Burns to Portland to investi gate municipal graft. Page 1. Woman shot by trap gun set for chicken thieves. Page 8. Street railway company abolishes system of requiring identification photos of con ductors and motormen. Page 10. Mrs. C. J. Pennicord dies in bathtub from attack of heart failure. Page 10. Mayor Lane consents to become Democratic candidate for Mayor, but will make no pledges. Page 24. Lawyer Mark SchlusseL of slot-machine fame, arrested for cursing detective. Page 11. Mrs. A. v Loft us stabs her husband, who may die. Page 8- Senator Fulto explains letter written East ern Oregon stockmen: did not counsel trespassing on forest reserves, page 9. Y- M. C. A.-Y. W. C. A. solicitors will begin building fund campaign tomorrow. Page 34. . . . All lumber mills will resume operations to morrow; strike Is dead. Page 34. THE OFFICIAL CAREER OF A SAN FRANCISCO SUPERVISOR tm loach with him luncheon : was very "We constitute bers." . RAISING ' FUND TQ BRING HENEY HERE Taxpayers Want Inves tigation of Graft. WILL TRY TO GET $50,000 Believe Portland Is Ripe for Exposure of Corruption. CALL ON GREAT TEAM Will Ofrer Purse to Heney and Burns to Take Up Work When They Complete San Fran cisco Inquiry. . Fifty thousand dollars is being raised as an investigation fund to bring Fran cis J. Heney and Special Agent Burns to Portland to probe into local munici pal graft. Transactions for years back and up to and Including the present administration will be examined under the searchlight of the investigators, and those who are isntrumental in starting the movement predict expos ures as startling as those of San Fran cisco. Captain E. W. Spencer is among those most active in the endeavor to .bring Heney and Burns to Portland, and has pledged $1000 to the fund. It is un derstood that a small coterie of citi zens, all of whom are large taxpayers, have pledged $5000 as a nucleus for the $50,000. .They believe that the money can be raised within a few days and declare that If more than toO.iOJ is necessary to make a ' thorough and sweeping investigation, it will be ob tainable. Rumors about an investigation fund have been spreading about town for several days, but not until yesterday were they confirmed. It is said that there Is considerable uneasiness In cer tain circles. Franchises Under Searchlight. Just : what particular transactions they have In mind Captain Spencer and his friends refuBe to make public. They declare that they will take in every thing and that all phases of municipal government will be sifted to bedrock. The granting of franchises, the awards of large contracts for municipal work, such as street pavements and bridges, corporateklnfluence and boss rule may all contribute to the unfolding of con ditions past and present that will make Portland a fit subject for the "Shame of- the Cities" articles, they say. The two men who have brought about the downfall of Ruef and the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco are expected in Portland within a few weeks. A com mittee of citizens will wait upon them and ask them to make an Investigation elmilar to that conducted in the Bay City. As an Inducement the committee will place the $50,000 at their disposal and guarantee them sufficient backing to unearth everything worth while. They have several things in mind and some facts. It is said, for the investigators to begin their work on. It is said that Mr. Heney, when in Portland prosecuting the land grabbers before the Federal Court, expressed a desire to dig down into mu nicipal affairs in this city. Time to Probe "Interests." "'We believe that there has been as much graft in Portland as in San Fran cisco," declared Captain Spencer when seen last night? "We think that certain parties and interests have been living off the fat of the land long enough and some of us taxpayers who have been getting the worst of it right along want to show H up. Some of my friends may be Impli cated In the shady deals and I believe that .they have been, but if they are guilty they should suffer like the rest. "Several of our well-known citizens are squirming alrea just over the rumors that Mr. Heney and Mr. Burns are com ing to Portland, and they are willing to fly to the tall timbers at the slightest provocation. We tried to keep It quiet. a happy family at IS ; but somehow it got out and they learned of It. . "There Is a strong sentiment in Port land in favor of an investigation and there are plenty of men who are willing to lend financial assistance to the move ment. Only yesterday I talked with three men about conditions here and they agreed to subscribe J500 each. Heney and Burns will have plenty of material to work upon if we can persuade them to make an investigation, as we have a few things U" our sleeves." Surprise to Public Officials. Public officials, candidates for mu nicipal offices and citizens who have been interested in the affairs and gov ernment of the city were genuinely surprised last night, when told of the movement on foot Some believed that Portland had no reason to hold its head above that of San Francisco in the matter of civic virtue, but they for the most part did not believe that there has ever been any organized or continued graft In the city. : John B. Coffey, who is prominently spoken of as candidate for the mayor alty on the Republican ticket, is most heartily in favor of bringing the spe- i ' ' ' I I" . "' A ' f ' 'a J :: ' Jih " ,J I J. M. Van Cleave, President of Na tional Association of Manufactur ers, Mho Proposes Federation of Employers and Kecognitloo of La bor Unions. (Copyright, 1906. by J. C. Straus, St. Louis.) cial Government prosecutors to Port land. He not only gives the movement his indorsement, but believes that there is a fertile, field for .the muck-rake In this city. ; . , ; , . .. Views of Candidate Coffey. 'I do not believe that I am exag gerating," declared Mr. Coffey last night, "when I say that there is great need for an investigation of this kind In this city. In my opinion, a complete upheaval would bring to light just as sensational disclosures in Portland, in comparison with the size of the city, as in San Francisco. The plan has my heartiest approval. ' Such an investi gation is needed of affairs both past and present. "It is , time for 'corruption to be stamped out wherever .it exists. Cor porations and trusts must ' be dealt a blow for their practices of Illegally in fluencing legislation. I believe that the people are -waking up and that they are determined to place in office men who will administer their laws honestly, and , to punlsb graft wher ever it may exist." Mayor Would Be Glad. "I would be very glad to have them make an investigation," said Mayor Lane. "I do not think that there has been much crooked work since I have been in office and I never did believe that there was a great deal of graft here. There has ' been more careless business methods and lack of intelli gence exhibited than pure and simple graft, in my opinion: . I cannot speak for previous administrations, as I know little about them, but, as I said before, I do not believe there has ever been ex tensive graft In Portland." "Ever since I can remember almost there has been gossip and talk about graft in the municipal government, but I do not believe . that there has ever been graft on a large scale in Port land," remarked . City Auditor evlin, last night. "I never knew of any ex cept that which was made public There has always been considerable talk about police graft, but- further than common talk I am unacquainted with it." "I will welcome an Investigation to discover and jiunisli the boodlers, if any, of this city," said Francis I. Mc Kenna. "I do not see any indications (Concluded on Page 2.) - After I looked at the machinery I quite acreed with Halsey that an opposition sys tem wouldn't be good thing." RAILROAD STRIKE E Trainmen Reject Man agers' Compromise. ALMOST ALL ARE OF ONE MIND Delegates Gather for Confer ence in Chicago. COMPLAINT OF MANAGERS Say ' Railroads Cannot Afford to Raise Wages, but All Effort to Hire Strikebreakers Prove Fruitless. CHICAGO, March 23. (Special.) Dele gates representing the trainmen and con ductors on all the principal railway sys tems ta the West arrived in this city to attend .a conference with the general, managers Tuesday. On the outcome .of the conference hangs the question of peace or war between the railroads and the employes. More than 130 delegates are already here and the men from di tant points like Los Angeles and Wlnni pee. will arrive tomorrow. While the vote recently taken has not yet been officially canvassed, there Is no longer any doubt about the result. The men have voted 95 per cent to reject the orfer made them by the railroads and stand by their modified demands for a 12 per cent Increase and a nine-hour day. As an indication of the temper of the men on the question, it is said that fewer than 50 out of 4000 trainmen on the Northwestern road cast votes in favor of accepting the compromise offer- of the managers. The proportion Is said to.be as grea''on the other systems repre sented in the general conference. Out of 49 systems in the West, 40 are taking cart in the conference, but, should a strike be called, it wltt" affect all the ' other roads. Managers Say Losing Money. ' Among the chairmen of the committee from the. various systems the possibility, of a strike was discussed today. The general opinion prevailed that the men would not seek a strike unless it Is forced on them. The general managers will hold a meeting by themselves Tuesday morn ing to discuss the situation before- they meet with the committee representing the workmen. The managers believe that, in offer ing an increase of 10 per cent t6 the men in the freight service and about 7 per cent in the passenger service, they have gone as far as conditions warrant. They assert that adverse legislation and the general agitation against them has materially reduced profits, and that, if the men insist on a wage Increase that will entirely wipe out dividends, a fight may as well be made now. Cannot Find New Men. ' ' ' ' Business is good on all the railroads, and it is practically Impossible to get experienced railroad men to fill the present demands. For this reason tha trainmen believe the railroads will not force a strfke at this time. Several detective agencies in the city who make a business of hiring men to take7 the places of strikers have for the past two weeks been trying to hire railroad men, but they have met with 'little success. About 50,000 men are Involved In the present controversy, and both organ izations are well equipped for a strike, should it be necessary. Will Mitigate Cochran's Sentence. WASHINGTON. March . 23. Secretary Taft has recommended the mitigation of the sentence of Captain Will B. Cochran, Twenty-fourth Infantry, who was con victed in the Philippines of drunkenness and sentenced to be dismissed. The Sec-' retary's action is based on evidence of the officer's splendid record. It Is under stood the President will approve the Sec retary's recommendation. -I wish I were back the bakery wagon." HANGS B ALAN C on