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Pages! to 12 VOL. XXVII NO. 29. PORTLAND, OREGON, - SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FLOOD DESTROYS TOWN IN TURKEY TAKES 2000 LIVES AT TOKAT IN ASIA MIXOR.' TOLSTOI POURS WRATH ON RULERS GIRL HEROINE IS " REPAID IN KIND L, BOISE RIGID DISCIPLINE : TO BE ENFORCED PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD TO ADOPT PUBLICITY SYSTEM. MONEY FOR TAFT IS ARREST AVOID TRUST LAW CHICAGO MAX SAVES HER LIFE AXO SCORE IS TIED. i CORPORATION WHITNEY HMDS 'MUST Candidate Says It Not Be Accepted. WILL OBEY LAW OF CONGRESS Does Not Believe Union Men Will Follow Leaders. PARTY MEN WILL BE LOYAL Hints Abont Contents of Speech ol Acceptance Tnft Considers Pro hibition Xot Issue Does Xot Oppose It. HOT SPRINGS, Va.', July 18. "The Na tional Republican committee will accept no contributions from corporations." said William H. Taft, Presidential candidate of the Republican party, today in an In terview In which he referred to labor, prohibition and other questions. Mr. Taft said. that not only would the law of New York state, providing for the pub licity of campaign funds, be obeyed by the National Republican committee, but the Federal law, prohibiting such contri butions by corporations In connection with the election of the President, Vice President or Senators, would be obeyed without regard to any question of valid ity that misht arise In respect to any provlslons of that law. Answering ques tions as to the application of the Na tional law for the election of Presidential electors, Mr. Taft declared that the law would be obeyed exactly as it was passed by Congress. As to the right of a labor leader to at tempt to influence the votes of members of the organization of which he Is head, Mr. Taft at first laughingly said that that was a question of properiety upon which he was not sufficiently Informed to discuss. "' Labor Not Ruled by Leaders. When asked as to his idea of the power of the leader of a labor organization to throw Its vo'te to one party or another, he declared in his opinion it could be as serted that there Is no so-called class of the American electorate whose votes would bed ellvored by its leaders. He said that after eliminating members of both political parties from a labor or ganization, the expression of a leader might indicate how the remaining uncer tain quantity might vote In the election, but he declared that Just as is the case genural in dealing with any so-called class of citizens, before expression could be given of the nature of their votes, it would be necessary to eliminate the members of one or the other political party. The question calling rorth this siatement referred to President Samuel (Jumpers of the American Federation of Labor, but Mr. Taft avoided making any personal reference to Mr. Gompers or any leader of organized labor. Asked whether he would have any new remedy to offer for the so-called trust problem In his -speech of accept ance, he replied that he did not know of anything now that he could add to a question that would be so widely discussed, and stated that he would have nothing to say on that matter outside of what he had said at various times in his public utterances. Prohibition Xot an Issue. Mr. Taft's attention was called today to assertions of some journals repre senting the liquor interests that he was opposed to prohibition. He ex plained that he had never publicly dis cussed the ethical side of prohibition and he took the view, as he under stood Mr. Bryan had done, that the prohibition issue was not involved in the National campaign. From whnt had come to his attention in respect to the representations of these Journals he inferred that they had based their statements on speeches he had made In which he criticised the action of some State Legislatures In passing prohibition and other laws without providing the machinery for enforcing them. -7 "Say, Boos. Let Me In on l.lttte of Tbat Republican Prosperity. Army Recruits Engulfed and Only 100 Out of 600 Escape Prlson- ers Drown in Jail. 1 CONSTANTINOPLE, July 18. The re cent inundations in the vicinity of Tokat. Asia Minor, were apparently more serious than was at first reported. Details are lacking, but according to a private letter received here from Samsun, on the Black Sea, a total of 2000 people lost their lives, including 300 prisoners who were caught by the flood in jail and drowned.. Six hundred army recruits who had as sembled in the courtyard of the Govern mejit House at Tokat are said to have Count I.eo TolMtot, Who De nounces nelga of Terror In been engulfed by the flood. Only 100 of them got away with their lives. Tokat is an Important commercial town and has silk and calico factories and dye works and a government copper refinery. Its population is about 30,000, largely Ar menians. It is on the Yeshil Irmak River, which has a course about 200 miles long and enters the Black Sea 12 miles from Samsun. CAUSES FATAL RUNAWAY Tom Tiiggart's Auto Frhrhtens Horse and Woman Is Killed. COLUMBUS. Ind., July 18. (Special.) Miss Elizabeth Dupree, aged 40, Is dead and her mother, Mary Dupree, a widow, aged 65 years, is critically in jured, as a result of a runaway here this morning, caused by an automobile owned by Tom Tagrgart, of Indian apolis, chairman of the National Dem ocratic Committee. Taggart's chauffeur, Harry Stodler, was driving the big touring-car from Indianapolis to French Lick, when he met the two women in a buggy at Gar den City, one mile south of here. The horse became frightened at the car and ran away. The two women were thrown from the buggy against an iron fence. HEARST STARTS FOR HOME AVill Open Convention of Independ ence League at Chicago. NEW YORK, July 18. A cable dis patch was received here today announc ing that William R. Hearst, who will preside at the National convention of the Independence party at Chicago, sailed for New York on the steamer Lusltania today. He will reach New York next Saturday and will leave at once for Chicago. The convention will be called to order by Mr. Hearst on the morning of July 27. Double Tragedy a Mystery. NEW TORK, July 18. The police to day are searching for some clue to the mystery of a double tragedy In West One Hundred and Seventy-eighth street years of age. Is dead with a bullet early today whereby Ernest Block, 2S through his heart and his wife, Sarah, 27 years old, is dead from poison. The polie believe the wife shot her husband and then ended her own life. HARRY Quite a Large Contract, Mr. Oom pera. t . . . . T I: - & . t Calls Czar's Hangmen .Murderers. CAN'T PACIFY BY EXECUTION Only Means Is to Abolish Pri vate Land System. HATRED FOR OPPRESSORS Great Author Heaps Condemnation on Czar, Church, Donma and All Who Make Bloodshed . an Everyday Alfair. NEW YORK, July 18. (Special.) Pro voked by many executions in Russia, Count Leo Tolstoi denounces Czar, church and Douma in an article In the Times to morrow. He says In :art: "Of executions, hangings, murders and bombs people now write and speak as they used to speak about the weather. Chil dren play at hangings. To kill off large landed proprietors, to seize their estates, appears to many to be the very best solution of the land question. "You say that this Is the only means of pacifying the people and quelling the revolution, but that is evidently false. It Is plain that you cannot pacify people unless you satisfy the demand of most elementary Justice advanced by Russia's whole agricultural population, namely, the demand for the abolition of private property in land. Vocation In Life Xot to Kill. "Before being hangmen, generals, pub He prosecutors, judges, premier or Czar, are you not men today allowed a peep Into God's world, tomorrow ceasing to be? Is it possible that you, who have had this short glimpse of God's world, in your lucid moments do not see that your vocation lit life cannot be to torment and kill men, yourselves trembling with fear of being killed, lying to yourselves, to others and to God, assuring yourselves and others that by participating in these things you are doing an Important and grand work for the welfare of millions? "You cannot but know that you, like each of lis, have but one real duty, which includes all others the duty of living the-short space granted us in accord with the will that sent you into this world, and of living it in accord with that will. And that will desires only one thing: Love from man to man. Human love is love of man for man for every man is a son of God, and therefore a brother. Rulers Feared and Hated. "You are feared as a hangman or a wild animal is feared. People flatter you because at heart they despise you and hate you and how they do hate you! "And you know it, and are afraid of men. "Yes, consider it, all of you from the highest to lowest accomplices in mur der! Consider who you are, and cease to do what you are doing. Cease not for your own sakes; not for the sake of your own personality; not for the sake of men; not that you may cease to be blamed, but for your soul's sake and for the God who lives within you." Don't Take Prowe- Seriously. WASHINGTON, July 18. No official of the Administration is willing to be drawn Into a discussion over the statement pub lished In the City of Mexico over the signature of Dr. Herman C. Prowe, for merly a citizen of Guatemala, charging that A contribution had been made by President Cabrera to the Republican cam paign in 1904 and declaring that Senor Cabrera is favoring American residents to the exclusion of those of other nation alities. Officials refused to take the state ments seriously. Dr. Toledo Herrarte, the Guatemalan Minister, is in New York. MURPHY GETS BUSY WITH HIS Just a Little Touich on Te Editor. Drags From Lake Young Woman Who Rescued Him From Frames Yeats Ago: . , CHICAGO, July 18. (Special.) Miss Lil lian Hugglns, 17 years old, who nine years ago risked her life to save that of How ard Souders, who had fallen Into a bon fire, was today dragged from Lake Mlch 'igan and saved from drowning by Sou ders. When she came to, she saw Sou ders bending over her, and began to tell him how grateful she was. "Don't say a word," he pleaded. "You had it coming. You haven't forgotten the bonfire, have you?" When the two were playmates together, nine years ago' Souders, on a "dare," leaped through a bonfire, and his clothing caught fire. Miss Hugglns, with much presence of mind, dragged a table spread from a clothes line and wrapped it around him, smothering the flames. Both were severely burned, however. They had not met for some time, when today Souders, who is a fine swimmer, heard a woman screaming at the Seventy-ninth-street beach. Miss Hugglns had fallen from the pier. Souders leaped In and brought her to the landing. Now the friends of both are looking for further developments. BIG LOG RAFT ARRIVES First to Compl.etp Journey From As toria to San Diego. SAN DIEGO, Cal., July IS. (Special.) The log raft sent down from Astoria by the Benson Lumber Company ar rived here at 2 o'clock this afternoon. As the first big raft of the season to make the long Journey from Astoria to Southern California, the safe arrival of the monster craft created a world of Interest. There was a big crowd on hand to welcome the raft as It was towed into port by the tug Dauntless. The raft contains 5,000, 00J feet of lum ber and is over 700 feet long. It was . reported that the raft was favored by fair weather and that no accidents occurred. After leaving her tow the Dauntless returned to San Francisco. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTE RD AT S Maximum temperature 90 degrees; minimum, 64 degrees.' TODAY'S Fair and continued warm; north erly winds. Portland and Vicinity Whitney I. Boise arrested on charge of looting Hawthorne estate. Section 1. Page 1. M. A. Bowker kills himself; aged 86 years. Section 2, page lO. Jury completed in Booth conspiracy case. Section 3, page 12. Fight In progress within majority faction of Council. Section S. page 12. Scheme on foot for gigantic graft on dis solute women. Section 4. page 8. Hank of sergeant will probably be created on police force. Section 3. page 11. Taft rally at Baker Theater tomorrow night. Section 3. page 7. C. K. Henry compares Portland and Denver realty. Section 3, page 10. Factory projects help Portland realty mar ket. Section 3, page 10. Business sites are now In demand. Section 3, page 11. Fight in store In Council over ordinance to keep women out of saloons. Section 4. page 10. Senator Ankeny discusses candidacy for re election. Section 2, page 10. Suit filed to test authority of police judge. Section 1, page 8. Sport. Portland team wins fourth straight game from Los Angeles. Section 2, page 2. Oregon state tennis tourney comes to close. Section 2, page 2. Chicago girls beat Wabash team at baseball. Section 2. page 2. Beavers are showing great Improvement In form. Section 4. page 6. Fight fans doubt Rlckard's ability to put up big purse. Section 4, page 7. Great games promispd during next football season. Section 4, page 7. Many hunters take advantage of first days of deer season. . Section 4, p'age 7. Commercial and Marine. Average onion and potato crops on Pacific Coast. Section 4, page 9. Wheat strong most of day at Chicago. Sec tion 4. page 9. Brisk advance in stock prices. Section 4, page 9. .New York banks still gaining In cash. Sec tion 4. page 9. Portland passengers on Steamer Spokane ef fect landing on Mulr Glacier. Section 4, page 8. PENCIL OVER SOME OF THE Looks Like a Lemon; but Ferkipi It's a .Melon. Charged With Looting Hawthorne Estate. s SISTER-IN-LAW COMPLAINANT Alleged Shortage During Ten Years May Reach $200,000. ACCUSED MAN GIVES BONDS Investigation Vnder Way for Last Six Months Boise Given Chance to Leave Portland Wife Is One of the Heirs. ' Whitney L. Boise, prominent as pol itician, lawyer and clubman, was ar rested at 2:30 o'clock yesterday after noon on charges of larceny by embez. zlement from the Hawthorne estate. There are five separate charges, in volving a total of J7197. It is said by those in a position to know, how ever, that the shortage of estate funds really attributed to Mr. Boise exceeds $150,000 and may run as high as $200, 000. -The defalcations cover a period of ten years, during which he handled the money of the estate. Mrs. Catherine Hawthorne Beck Col lins, sister-in-law of Boise and one of the Hawthorne heirs, appears as the complaining witness on the complaints. She signed the documents at the Dis trict Attorney's office shortly before noon yesterday calling for Boise's ar rest. Warrants were at once placed In the hands of the police. The accused furnished bond in the sum of $20,000 and escaped going to jail pending trial. Others Concerned With Boise. T. Cader Powell, now TJnlted States Marshal of Alaska, W. B. Cate and the late R. L; Cate are all named in con nection with what is alleged to have been a continued milking of the Haw thorne estate. Powell was summoned from - Alaska some months ago on ac count of the situation, but the amounts for which he was implicated were, small and he made restitution, thus ending probability of successful prosecution. He Is known to have used estate monejt while in the real estate office of R. I Cate, who was agent for the Hawthorne lands until nearly a year ago, when the wrong dealings were discovered. Mr. Cate turned over all his property to the Hawthornes pre vious to his death by way of restitu tion. W. B. Cate had charge of the Haw thorne property near Hillsboro. and on authority from Boise checked to the extent of $20,000 on estate funds de posited in the Merchants' National Bank. He was to use the money in buying stock, but it is charged that he put considerable money to private use. The statute of limitations ap plies to that case as regards Cate, but the estate is now suing the Merchants' National Bank for the full $20,000 on the grounds that the bank had no right or authority to honor Cate'a checks. Wife Staves Oft Drastic Action. Mr. -Boise's arrest is the culmina tion of six months of investigation into the estate accounts. It is learned authoritatively that the climax lhas been staved off ' for a considerable period only through the efforts of his wife, Mrs. Louise Hawthorne Boise, one of the Hawthorne heirs,- and Mrs. R. L. Hawthorne, Boise's 1 mother-in-law. For family reasons, they wished to avoid such drastic action. It is known that Mr. Boise was called before a family council and the sug gestion was made that he ought to leave Portland and begin anew. When he refused to do this, the course taken (Concluded on Page 9.) INTERESTING EVENTS OF THE He Said It; But He Forgot It. Names of Rule-Breaking Employes and Their Punishment Will Be Bulletined. CHICAGO, July 18. (Special.) Dis cipline publically administered is the latest plan of the Pennsylvania road for insuring greater efficiency in the operating branch of its service. Here after, when discipline is administered for any cause, the employe's bulletin board, which Is maintained at all di vision headquarters, will contain a full statement of the offense and of the punishment administered. It is too early to know what atti tude the labor organizations will take with respect -to the publication of the offenses of its members, but it is not at all unlikely that a determined pro test will be made. It is understood, however, that the Pennsylvania man agement has determined to administer discipline impartially and rigidly in the face of any opposition which may be offered by the unions. It Is said to be the opinion of the officers of the road that as the rail roads are paying the highest wages in the history of railroading for labor, it is about time that the highest type of loyalty to duty be demanded. SHAH RECAPTURES TABRIZ Kaclun 'Khan's Troops Pillaging and Murdering by Wholesale. ST. PETERSBURG, July 18. The So voe Vremya this morning publishes a dispatch from Tabriz, Persia, declaring that the revolutionists have been over come by the government troops and that the horsemen of Rachin Khan are, now pillaging the town and murdering the in habitants. , FOREIGN RESIDENTS ARE SAFE Shah Orders Protection of Consuls and Missionaries. WASHINGTON, July 18. The Persian Government has stated that stringent orders will be given to the authorities at Tabriz to protect tffe, Consulate and all missionary property there, according to a dispatch received today from John Ty ler, temporarily in charge of the Lega tion at .Teheran. Representations were made by tne state Department to Persia as a result of advices from Consul Doty at Tabriz. Mr. Tyler adds that he has reliable information that foreigners in Tabriz are safe. SHARKS COME FAR NORTH Bathers on Oregon and Washington Coast Warned of Danger. HOQUIAM, Wash., July 18. (Special.) Mariners arriving from San Francisco one and all report the presence off the mouth of the Columbia River and north to Grays Harbor, of an unusually large number of sharks, some of them being of enormous size, and caution bathers against these "tigers of the deep." The reports are well authenticated and confirmed by many sailors and ship masters. ZU EULENBERG IS WORSE Becomes Seml-Cnconscious After Short Session of Court. BERLIN, July 18. Prince Philip zu Eu'enberg was either insensible or in a condition of semi-consciousness for sev eral hours following the short session yesterday of his trial on charges of per jury "in connection with the court scan dals of last year. Today his condition is worse, but his physicians announce that his life is not in immediate danger. No Notice of Lumber Rate Appeal. WASHINGTON, July 18. Judge Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, today stated that he had not been officially informed that the transcontinental railroads would con test the commission's decision In the lum ber rate cases, but he has heard in an indirect way that they are considering such a course. WEEK What to Him Are . " Whirlwind Campalo-aa "r Cannot Raise Rates by Concerted Action. COMMISSIONER KNAPP TALKS Explains Powers of Interstate Body in Such Cases. MAKES. A VEILED THREAT Intimates That Action of Southern Roads in Advancing Freight Tariffs Will Come In for Searching Investigation, WASHINGTON, July 18. The Inter state Commerce Commission may take action on the increased freight rates agreed to at the meeting of the South eastern Freight Association and the Southeastern Mississippi Valley Associa tion, at Louisville, Ky., yesterday, when the new tariffs are filed with the Com mission by the roads having membership In these two associations. Action cannot be taken by the Commission on its own Initiative or on the complaints of ship pers or shippers' associations. If the In terstate Commerce Commission should find that the increase In reight rated was made through concerted action and that there was evidence that the Sher man anti-trust law was violated, atten tion will In alt probability be called to the matter. Commissioner Knapp Talks. In speaking of the powers of the In terstate Commerce Commission where an advance in freight rates has been made by any railroad, Chairman Knapp, of the Commission, said today: "The railroads bust file their tariffs with the Commission with 30 days' notice of a contemplated change. Changes In rates between competitive points must be made simultaneously by all the roads operating between those points. This is in a measure protects the shipper. When a railroad files notice of an increase In Its freight rates the Commission can on its own motion make an Investigation as to the reasonableness of the advance. Cannot Act Alone. 'In a case where the Commission actt on its own motion, however, it cannot Issue an order. If a shipper makes & complaint to the Commission against a railroad charging an unjust Increase of rates, each side Is given a hearing and the Commission can then Issue an order based on its decision in the case. Should It develop that the Increase waa made through concerted action the com mission would very likely refer the mat ter to the Attorney -General. The depart ment of Justice can also call upon th commission to investigate as to the rea sonableness in rates. Consider All Causes. "The commission would base its inves tigationstigations on conditions existing on the roads making the increases, con sidering each case separately. It may b found that the roads In the South would be justified in increasing their rates, while the roads in the Trunk Line Asso ciation would not have sufficient grounds for doing so. In each case the railroads would be given every opportunity to present their case. While the commission 1 is an administrative body Us duties are analogous to those of a judicial body and the same forms are used a complaint, an answer and a hearing. Names Three Great Factors. "Justification for an increase " in freight rates, if there is to be sucb an increase, may be found, if at all, only in the fact that increased cost ol operation and maintenance of railroads has reached a point where reasonable profit on money invested in them, in (Concluded on page 2.) Tea, It's Hot Enough tor Htm. -lEGDioaol1
