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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.
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"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.
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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.)
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