The Sunday Oregonian., October 06, 1907, Image 1

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VOL- XXVI NO. 40.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 3IORNING, OCTOBER 6,. 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FAILS TO AGREE
ON FORD'S GUILT
Jury Discharged After
Many Ballots.
EIGHT VOTE FOR ACQUITTAL
Accused Briber Must Have a
Second Trial.
JURORS FEAR CRITICISM
Hefuse to Xame Those Who Favor
Aequlttel Iest Newspapers Attack
Them Disagreement Entire
ly on Questions of Fact.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6. The Jury
which tried ex-Attorney-General Tirey
L. Ford, general counsel for the United
Railroads, on the felony charge of
bribing; Supervisor Thomas F. Loner
Kan in the mum of $4000 to vote for the
trolley franchise in June, 1906, voted
eight for acquittal and four for conviction-and
at 8 o'clock this afternoon was
discharged by Judge Lawlor, after
bavlng been out 18 hours.
Judge Lawlor Informed counsel that
the regular trial Jury box having been
exhausted in the trial of Ford, he will
organise a panel of several hundred
talesmen to serve for all cases coming
before his department of the court.
This has the effect of doing away with
the likelihood of special venires.
Second Trial Monday Week.
As Ford Is under heavy bond on tlie
other Indictments returned against htm.
he was given his freedom and will not
be required to furnish fresh bonds In
the present case until Monday. To that
day the case was continued to be set for
retrial, which It was agreed shall be
begun Monday, October 14.
A crowd of about J00 men was assem
bled in Judge Dunne's courtroom when
the Jury was brought in at 2:30 P. M.
Judge Lawlor was late In arriving and
for 15 minutes the defendant and his
counsel sat scrutlniiing minutely the Im
passive faces of the trial twelve. Ford
appeared only slightly nervous. His
face was flushed and he gazed piercingly
at one after another of the men who
held his liberty In their hands.
Cannot Agree on Facta.
When Judge Iawlor ascended the bench
he opened the proceedings briskly. Re
sponding to the usual question by the
clerk. Foreman Bender .rose and said
that the Jury had not agreed upon a ver
dict. Judge Lawlor asked whether the
disagreement was upon matters of fact
or upon questions of law.
"Upon questions ol fact entirely," was
the reply.
The Court asked If the reading of any
portions of the testimony would tend to
solve the disputed matter. The foreman
said he did not think so; that the Jurors
had not changed their ballots "practically
at all," since the first was cast the night
before. Judge Lawlor decided neverthe
less to hold the Jury and have each man
answer the question he had put to the
foreman. The question was repeated and
each Juror as his name was called an
swered clearly and distinctly: "No."
Both sides consented to the discharge
of the Jury, and an order to that ef
fect was made after the Judge had ad
dressed to the Jurors a few words con
gratulating them upon the patience
they had evinced and the close atten
tion they had displayed throughout the
trial. Foreman Bender, replying,
thanked the court for Its oonstant oour
tesy shown in the jury's behalf.
Fear Newspaper Attacks.
The courtroom and corridors were
ordered okvared e that the IS might
have free paaeage to the tally-ho that
was waiting outside to convey them for
"Shall We Continue tbe Waste and
Destruction of Our Ttaiural Re
sourr, or Shall We Conserve
Them."
I . -
the last of many times to the Fair
mount Hotel, thence to depart for their
homes after securing their personal ef
fects. As the Jurors filed out of the court
room they waved aside with consider
able vehemence the approaches of
newspaper men, and It was intimated,
In explanation of their refusal to sur
render the names of the eight who
voted for acquittal, that they feared
to subject them to newspaper attacks,
which were directed against those
Jurors In the first trial of Louis Glass
who voted not guilty.
Judge Gilbert to Sit In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5. The October
term of the United States Circuit Court
H. M. Whitney, dominated for
One of the Democratic Fit-
Hons.
of Appeals for the ninth circuit will con
vene next Monday morning in this city.
Judge' Gilbert, of Portland. Or., will
preside and Judges Morrow and Ross will
sit with him. The calendar Is extensive
and comprises several Important cases.
ARREST WEBB IN ST. LOUIS
BADLY WAXTED AT HEPPNER
OJf MFRDER CHARGE.
Sheriff Taylor, of Pendleton, Gives
Tip Alleged Criminal Was
Headed for Missouri.
ST. IiOUIS, Mo., Oot, 6. A young
man giving his name as Oscar B.
Lavln, but whom the police believe
to be George Webb, alias Webb Mc
Allister, wanted at Heppner, Or., on
a charge of murder, was arrested hers
today. A telegram was received to
day from Sheriff Taylor of Pendle
ton saying Webb would arrive, here
to-night. The prisoner admits having
come from Pendleton, but dlsolalms
that he is Webb.
Webb is wanted at Heppner on the
charge of murdering Z. T. Zasbell last
Sunday evening. Zasbell's body was
found the next morning hanging from
a buggy In the main street of Hepp
ner. A bullet hole at the base of his
skull showed the manner of death.
Webb, who had started from Hepp
ner in company with Zasbell, was
missing. Sheriff Shutt traced the fug!
tive to Echo, where It was learned
that he had boarded the O. R. & N.
train for the East. Robbery was the
motive for the alleged murder. Webb
is said to have served Urns for sheep
stealing. Little Is known of his rec
ord.
MORE HONOR FOR TAFT
Banquetted In Kobe Says He la
Pleased With Reception.
NAOABAICI, Oct. B Secretary of War
Taft on his arrival here this morning
from Kobe on board the steamship Min
nesota, was welcomed by the Mayor and
municipal officers and was banquetted
by the municipality. The Minnesota will
sail at midnight for Manila.
Mr. Taft expressed himself as being
greatly pleased with his visit to Japan
and with the press comments on his
speech at Toklo.
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HARRY MURPHY PICTURES THE PRESIDENT IN
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Th Old Dar of Rpiy-&o-l4iekr
IndllTercnaa by the Public to the
CorKltic ef Corpoimtlomfl Hot
WILL- TELL
ABOUT CANDIDACY
Announce Decision at
Omaha Banquet.
DEPENDS ON HEARST'S HELP
If It Is Refused He Will Pro
pose Tom Johnson.
SHOW SOUTH BACKS HIM
Mayor Dahlman Will Gather Galaxy
of Governors About '' Nebraska
Leader Bryan and Hearst
May Unite on Tom Johnson.
JOHNSOX NOT A CANDIDATE. I
ST. PAUL,, Minn., Oct. 8. Gov- T
ernor Jonhson Is out with a formal j,
statement to the xress of the Twin I
Cities that he is not and bas not t
been a candidate for the nomination I
for President. Ha also states that ' !
he knows that William J. Bryan la J
and has seen a candidate for the
Presidency for the past three months.
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. B. (Special.)
William Jennings Bryan has given
himself Just two months to decide
whether or not he will again be a
candidate for President, and he will
make his formal "bid" for support,
either for himself or for his favor
ite candidate, at a big banquet which
his friend, Mayor James C. Dahlman
of Omaha, has announced for Decem
ber T, at the Auditorium, in Omaha.
when 1000 prominent Democrats from
all portions of the country will be
present. By that time Mr. Bryan ex
pects to know positively whether he
will ask for the nomination for him
self or for another. If the trend of
events between now and December 7
is such that he is led to believe that
he can be elected, he will announce
his candidacy and his platform at the
big banquet. If he concludes there is
not a first-class chance of his elec
tion, he will announce, at that time
that he is not a candidate and does
not want the nomination. At the same
time he will make a plea for his per
sonal choice.
Graet Galaxy of Governors.
While Eastern Democrats have been
boldly declaring that the South Is not
for Mr. Bryan, he and his friends haSe
quietly gone about disproving this
statement, not by words but by the
actions of the Southern leaders. Among
the leading Democrats who will take
part In the great Bryan banquet are
the following Governors of the South'
ern states: Comer of Alabama, Glenn
of North Carolina, Campbell of Texas,
Hoke Smith of Georgia, Broward of
Florida and Folk of Missouri. Beck
ham of -Kentucky and several others
have been Invited and are expected to
accept, but have not yet done so. The
sight of the Governors of so many
Southern states taking part In a pro
Bryan banquet, and one at which Mr.
Bryan is expected to make the most
important political announcement of
the year, is calculated by the Bryan
people to show the country
that Mr. Bryan Is yet "solid"
with the real leaders and the
actual voters of the Southern
states, despite the circulated charge
that such Is not the case.
It Is expected that Governor Johnson,
of Minnesota, will also be a member
of the galaxy of Democratic Governors
which will surround Mr. Bryan on the
night when he will either announoe his
candidacy or "sins; his swan song.1
Mr. Johnson has not yet replied to the
invitation, but from the answer given
by him to an invitation to a banquet
planned in Lincoln for the last week
In September, It Is believed he will
accept, and will be with Mr. Bryan, if
Mr. Bryan decides to be a candidate.
Now, here is some Information which
comes right from the very "inner
The One Intolerable FoeMotB for
m Self -BcspecUn ation Is to
Bluff mad Them Hot Be Able to
Make Good.
BRYAN
' JlllSr iww SBIr Wwm$&m h
circles" of Bryanism. and may be taken
as correct. Mr. Bryan and his most
Intimates and "ancients" concede that
William Randolph Hearst really holds
the whip-hand of Democracy, and that
in the final analysis It rests with Mr.
Hearst as to whether or not Mr. Bryan
will be a candidate. ' After deciding
that all other points are with him, Mr.
Bryan will then reckon with Mr.
Hearst before he makes his decision.
If Mr. Hearst, through the Independ
ence League, refuses to support Mr.
Bryan, Mr. Bryan will not be a candi
date for President.
And the doubt of Mr. Hearst's posi
tion comes from the Ill-feeling which
really exists between 'those two men,
which on Mr. Hearst's part originated
at the St: Louis convention, when Mr.
Bryan refused to throw his support to
Mr. Hearst, bnt instead asked his fol
lowers to support Senator Cockrell, of
Missouri. Mr. Hearst has never for
given Mr. Bryan for this, and now Mr.
Bryan is In the position of having to
ask Mr. Hearst to give his support
where a similar request from Mr.
Hearst to Mr. Bryan was turned down.
This Ill-feeling, .which is openly de
nied by each party, really exists. Just
the same, and unless Mr. Hearst agrees
to throw the support of the Independ
ence League to Mr. Bryan, Mr. Bryan
will positively not be a candidate.
Tom Johnson Bryan's Choice.
And when the banquet of the Dahl
man Democracy begins In Omaha on
December 7, this point will have been
definitely decided. If Mr. Hearst has,
in the meantime, agreed to support Mr.
Bryan, and Mr. Bryan has settled In
his own mind that other conditions
point to his own election, he will that
night declare himself a candidate and
will outline his platform, which will
be practically the same as the Nebras
ka state platform for this Fall which
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. TO
degrees; minimum, 52 degrees.
TO DAY 8 Probably rain; westerly winds.
Foreign.
British war balloon proves great success.
Section 1, page 2.,
Gossip of European capitals. Section 4.
page 1-
National.
President RoosevUt arrives at hunting
camp. Section 1, page 8.
Government expert reports on wasta of Na
tional resources. Section 2. page 4.
Politics.
Bryan to declare candidacy or Indorse Tom
Johnson at Omaha banquet. Section 1,
page 1.
Bryan scorns tainted money. Section 1,
page I.
Massachusetts Democrats exploit and nomi
nate rival tickets. Section 1. page 2.
Investigating Boston municipal government.
Section 1. paga 3.
Iot7flite.
Malinr seeks .( eloping daughter, by
wireless teleg r ph. Section 1. page 6.
Hall collapses at Waterbury. Conn., under
Republican convention. Section 1, page 4
General Booth predicts hard times. Section
1. Pge 2-
p resident Ripley predicts calamity. Section
1. page 4.
Pilot of steamer Hart we jr loses license for
six months for oollldlng with Roosevelt's
steamer. Section 1. page 8
Sport. Detroit defeats St. Louis and finally wins
pennant. Section 3. page 2.
Beavers defeat Oakland fourth time. Sec
tion 8. page 2.
Ball season ends In East. Section 4. page 7.
Washington or Pullman favorites In North -west.
Section 4. page 6.
Football season opens Saturday. Section 4,
page 7.
Fix new Futurity at Butte. Section 4.
page 7.
Pacific Coast.
Jury disagrees tn Ford case. Section 1,
page 1.
Quarrel among detectives who hunt Brown's
assassins. Section 1. page 1
Webb, wanted In Heppner on murder
charge. Is arrested In St. Louis. Section
3. page X.
Hoqulam man. Insane from'' Jealousy, kills
wife, then himself. Section 1. page 6.
People at Baker City prefer wide-open town.
Section 4. page 0.
Statement of land holdings of Oregon &
California road. Section 4, page 8.
Commercial and Marine.
Ten cents paid for Oregon hops. Section 4,
page 11.
Wheat strong and higher at Chicago. Sec
tion 4, page 11.
Stocks are sluggish, but undertone Is firm.
Section 4. page 11.
Export business record-breaker. Section 3,
page 10.
Portland and Vicinity.
Rock Island's plan to build to Portland
alarms Harrlman and Gould; plan to
block extension. Section 1, page 1.
Klamath County lnvltea Portland people to
coming fair. Section 4, page 8.
Roosevelt and "Fighting Bob Evans Invited
to attend 1908 Rose Festival. Section 2.
paga
Irrigators of state plan to Join force with
foresters. Section 1. page 10.
Oregon Bank depositors meet Wednesday
night. Section 1. page 10.
Nine Hawaiian girls on visit to Portland.
Section 1, page 8.
Railroads make new tariff on oat for East.
Section 8. page 12.
HIS GREAT SPEECHMAKING JOURNEY DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
"The Dlnin of the Fautut Canal
Is the greatest Engineerlnc; Feat
Yt Attempted on This Globe."
DETECTIVES JAR
brown
Idaho Officials Object
to Swain's Work.
HE PAYS BACK WITH INTEREST
Search of Mrs. Kinnison's
House Reveals Nothing.
LILLARD DEFENDS BROWN
Adams' Helative Persists In Effort
to Show Federation Had No Mo
tive for Crime Drunken Fed
erationist Is in Jail.
DEVELOPMENTS ON BROWN
MURDER.
BAKER CITT. Or.. Oct. 6. Spa-'
eial.) The search for the dynamiters
Is hampered by the desperate over
fidelity of W. 8. Swain, who la in
charge of the detectives. Emissaries
of the Idaho prosecution are In Baker
City, seeking his removaf. They al
lege ha Is In the service of the Fed
eration of Miners.
-Mr. Swain denies the charge, say
ing his enemies In Idaho took the
eaars out of his hands there without
reason and used such poor Judg
ment as to fail to convict Haywood.
A drunken member of the Federa
tion, Dan Alien, was arrested In
Union for saying Brown got hla de
serts, and was brought to Baker City
and held aa a suspect, but is not
thought to be connected with the
murder.
Both Federation lets and members
of the Idaho prosecution say Brown
supported their sldie. Out of this
dual service may have come the. mo
tive for the murder.
Mna Charles Kennison, suspected of
aiding the. murderers, refuses to talk.
J. W. LUiard says he can produce
oheck to show paid Blow a to go
to Wallace snd testify for Steve
Adams, and beileves Brown was In
the service of the Federation when
killed.. .
One of the murderers was certainly
clad In a woman's kimono. No ar
rests have been made other than that
at Union, and dissatisfaction develops
from the slow work of the detectives.
The Kenntoon house was ransacked
Saturday afternoon by officers, who
found nothing of Importance.
BAKER CITT, Or., Oct. 5. (Special.)
Events took an unexpected turn to
day, when C. E. Elmer, secretary to
Governor Gooding of Idaho, and Sher
iff Shad Hodgln, of Boise, undertook
to unseat Captain W. S. Swain, of the
Thiel detectives from the head of the
search for the dynamiters. They
charged Mr. Swain with being allied
with the Federation and said they
could prove their charges in Idaho,
where, they say Mr. Swain caused the
loss of important evidence against
Pettlbone, chiefly Pettlbone's letter to
Orchard or Hogan, which, it is al
leged, Mr. Swain Induced Sheriff Nich
olls to give Orchard after the latter's
arrest. Orchard destroyed the paper
and -the prosecution has only a copy
of the original. Mr. Swain denies the
accusation, saying that the Gooding
methods made a fiasco In the Haywood
case and, if allowed to invade Baker
City, will do the same here.
Mayor Johns and other officers here
will not say what Impression the two
Idaho men have made. But affairs are
not in good shape. Confidence in Mr.
Swain haa been shaken and the effects
are bad on detective work. No results
are yet visible from the detective Quest
and most of the discoveries appear to
have been made by the officers and
newspaper men, who have not, however.
uncovered the tracks of the criminals.
Swain's Side of tbe Case.
In Justice to Mr. Swain it should be
said that the case is difficult and he is
short-banded. Mr. Swain came from
Spokane without a summons, the same
way as he went to Caldwell. He did
Tn the Fundamental Questions
Most Deeply Afrectinc tbe Mfe of
the Nation. There Can Be No
Proper Division on Party Udm,"
considerable work and has claimed a
large part of the credit for the detection
of Orchard, but he was put aside to
make way for James McParland, man
ager of the Western division of the
Plnkertona. Mr. Swain's friends say fie
was unjustly treated.
However that may be, tbe feud haa In
vaded Baker Ctty. The Plnkertons have
no representative here. All detective
work has been Riven to Mr. Swain by
the city and county authorities. They
say they have no funds to employ
Plnkertons. even if they wanted them
here.- The money at their disposal Is
very limited. The reward money cannot
be used for detective fees. The local of
ficers are working hard, but Inexper
ience stands In their way. None of the
men haa had much training; in hunting
criminals. Vnless something unexpected
General William Beoth, TVho
Makes Gloomy- Predictions lie
cardtnjt Decrease la tVages
and Loss of Interest In CnnTch
Matters.
shall happen, tbe bloodhounds will not
be of further use.
No Proof Against Federation.
Swain Is accused of shielding the Fed
eration from the blame of the Brown
murder. This he also deniea. says he:
'The indications are these of Feder
ation dynamite, and I am Inclined to be
lieve them, but evidence that the Fed
eration killed Brown is lasting and until
I get facts I shall not say they com
mitted the deed. Do I look like, a dyna
miter? Why, I have been threatened
with dynamite perhaps as much as any
body. We are getting tbe search In
Baker City down to a system, but the
invasion of those Gooding ' men will
spoil it."
Federatlonlst's Drunken Braarglng.
Mr. Swain bears the marks of being
true blue, but his situation is not pleas
ant. Dan Allen was brought to the Baker
City Jail this morning by Sheriff Rand
from Union, where he was arrested yes
terday by Marshal Maxwell, of that city,
for saying that Brown got his Just de
serts and he hoped all enlmles of the
Federation would get the same medi
cine. Allen remarked that they stood a
good chance of getting Just such medi
cine. He declared himself a member of
the Federation and proud of it.
Allen was drunk In the Fawn saloon.
After his arrest Federation cards were
found on his person. He Is of medium
height, light complexion and red mus
tache. These features do not resemble
those of the three men seen near
Brown's house before th explosion. Mr.
Hand says there Is no evidence against
Allen. " '
Mrs. Kinnison's House Searched.
The house of Mrs. Charles Klnnison
was searched late this afternoon by the
sheriff without revealing anything im
portant Her house is that to which
the bloodhounds scented the trail from
the scene of the explosion last Wednes
day. Her husband, now dead, was an
officer of the Federation. While he
was confined in the bull pen In Colo
rado, she was supported by the Feder
ation. Mrs. Steve Adams visited her
while here. Mrs. Kinnison is known
8B a Federation sympathizer and par
tisan. She Is about 35 years of age.
light-haired, of medium size and has
three children. Mr. Rand and Deputy
McCord searched her-house. She asked
them what they wished to look for and
they answered.
"For everything," she replied. "You
are perfectly welcome, gentlemen."
Officers went through the house from
top to bottom. Then she showed
apots they overlooked. Earlier in the
afternoon she refused to be interviewed
for publication. She said she had two
families in her house besides her own,
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rrhe National Highways, the Water
ways, BelonK to All the People.
River Regulation Is Rate Regulation.
HASTEN TO BLOCK
THE-RQGK - ISLAND
Invasion Alarms Gould
and Harriman.
SENO SURVEYORS INTO FIELD
Project Lines in Eastern Utah
and Western Colorado.
TAP NEGLECTED EMPIRE
Same Tactics Pursued in Central
Oregon by the Short Line Plan
to Barricade Gateways
to the State.
That the Mount Hood Railway & Power
Company's elactrlo line Is to be the west
ern link in the Rock Island system, giv
ing that road' entrance to Portland and
making the Rose City Its western ter
minus, now seems probable. This is in
dicated by recent developments In West
ern Colorado and Eastern Utah, where
Gould and Harrlman are both working to
tap that territory. For once they seem
united in the purpose of blocking tha
Moffat road, which Is the link between
Denver and Salt Lake City in the Rock
Island's transcorrtrnental scheme.
Pour Men Into Field.
Into Eastern Utah and Western Colo
rado surveyors have been literally poured
during the past few weeks by the Denver
& Rio Grande and the Union Pacifio.
This Is taken to mean construction of
lines Into that territory by both thesa.
systems in the effort to retain the trafflo
now being secured in the two states by
the rival system. Products of the coun
try now And their way to either the
Union Pacifio tracks on the north or the
Denver & Rio Grande to 'the south. The
Denver, Northwestern & Pacific lies mid
way between the two roads.
Another Neglected Empire.
The territory 1b not unlike the Central
Oregon country .in that it is said to be
one of the largest fertile sections. of the
country without railroads. Next to Cen
tral Oregon It is believed to be the largest
fertile territory in the United States so
neglected. The Moffat road follows a
much stralghter course between Salt Lake
City and Denver than the two lines it
will compete with. It has about half the
mileage of the other roads between the
same points.
Campaign in This State.
Of no less interest than the apparent
determination of Harrinian and Gould to
protect themselves In Western Colorado
and Eastern Utah is the recent despatch
ing of surveying crews to Central Oregon
by tho, Oregon Short Line. During the
last few days at loa3t three surveying
crews have been sent away with the
evident purpose oi mapping out the prob
able routes Into Southeastern Oregon of
the Moffat line and of holding the passes,
thus keeping the interlopers away. The
Harriman roads have practiced such
methods so long and so successfully that
they are confident they can make them
again succeed.
Build Occupation Lines.
By building short occupation lines, the
progress of new competing roads into
Central Oregon may be either stopped al
together or delayed for years. That
Gould aa well as Harriman realizes the
danger to his preserves from the threat
ened invasion of the Moffat line to the
Pacific Coast is now apparent, and the
haste of both to head oft the invader is
the best proof of the imminent danger to
both interests.
. Few Gateways Jfot Closed.
Harriman has almost every other en
trance to the Interior of this state well
bottled up. The passes along the Cas
cade Mountains are taken. Points of
vantage from the Columbia River south
are taken with the exception of the Des
chutes Valley and the Harriman inter
ests are now fighting for that. On th
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GOD
Drawn From Photographs.
T Will t'se My U tmost Endeavor to
Httmp Out Murderous Anarchists.
I Rrpeat AM t Hive Said as to
rndestrali!o Citizens."
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