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58 Pages M JKh SlflflM ilSS . Pages I to 12 VOL. XXVUXOT PORTLAND, OKEGOX, SUNDAY MOItXIXO, DECEMBER- 27, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GENERAL 01 BEEF Government Will Ac cuse All Packers. GIVES NO IMMUNITY BATHS None of Principals Called Be fore Grand Jury. SUBPENAS BY WHOLESALE Club Orer Railroad rt Extort EtI- denee or Rebating Employes of Packers and Cattle Ship pers Are Summoned. CHICAGO, Pec !. (Special.) Search for evidence to establish the existence of a "beef trust" clearing house, by whJch evidence certain pack ing Interests could be Involved In charges of violating both the anti rebate and anti-trust laws. Is being made today by (secret Service men and gents of various departments of the .United. States Government. The De partment of Justice at 'Washington has Issued orders to District Attorney Sims and his associates In this city to pro ceed against all the large packers sus pected of being in a combination with reference to prices, control of terri tory and demands upon railroads. Force Railroads to Help. The Government's plan Includes an attack on many of the large packing Interests and not on Morris & Co. alone, and the agents are hard at work to carry out the order and secure the proof to sustain the general attack. An opportunity to strike at railroads. If only to hold a club over them to facilitate the furnishing of evidence against the packers. Is also being Bought by Federal officials, according to admissions made by one of the at torneys. Mr. Sims and his assistants held nu merous conferences today and prepared to continue their work all day tomor row. Edward T. Glennon, counsel for the New York Central lines, and other railroad men were in the conferences. All deputy marshals have been ordered to be on hand on Monday morning to carry out orders which Mr. Sims and his associates will give them and to serve 150 subpenas on witnesses In the stockyards. Subpenas by Hundreds. All day today batches of subpenas were sent to Omaha. Kansas City. St. Louis and other places for railroad and packers- employes, which Federal offi cials In those places will serve, and to which all witnesses railed must re spond. The subpenas issued today are not merely for employes of Morris & Co., hut Include employes both in Chi cago and other cities of other packing companies. The calling of cattle shippers from Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and other out-of-town points Is a surprise to the packers and by many Is taken as an Indication that the Inquiry hy the grand Jury will not be limited to the alleged violations of anti-rebate regulations. Give Xo Chance of Immunity. "The railroad rebates are the most effective weapons used by the packers to crowd out the little fellows and to maintain prices and a trust," said a leading representative of the DepHrt ment of Justice today In an Interview. "Thus the railroad rebate problem and the anti-trust problem are closely linked. You will notice In the investi gation none of the men higher up In the packing companies and In the rail roads Is being called as a witness. Of course, for obvious reasons well known from the former prosecutions we are not examining men before the grand Jury whom we have orders to prosecu te." 1 Vale. Cfcrlatmaa! ASSAULT COMBINE mmHm toff $&mm fefift mM CUT ON FINGER BY DISH KILLS WOMAN BLOODPOISOXIXG PIES WITHIX SETS IX, WEEK. Mrs. Sarah Xoble Meets Accident While Washing Dishes Uses Bluing Next Day. CENTRAL.! A. Wash., Dec. IS. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Sarah Noble died here yes terday from blood poisoning under very peculiar circumstances. 'While washing dishes a week ago she cut her thumb slightly on the sharp edge of a dish. On Saturday she did the family washing and on Sunday the hand and arm began to swell and to pain her severely. . A bluish lump appeared near the elbow. Thinking that a boil was' starting, Mrs. Noble was not alarmed till Sunday even ing when the pain became to great that a physician was sent lor. He failed to come, as he promised, and on Monday another was called, who pronounced the case one of blood poisoning and imme diately took measures to check It. All efforts were of no avail and, after suffering greatly, she died on Christmas day. It is thought that the poison came from blueing In the washing. Mrs. Noble was born in Bloomingdale, 111., In 3S55. She and her husband have lived In Washington since 1879, and in Centralia for the last three years. Be sides her husband, she leaves four broth ers, six sisters and three children. QUICKSAND IN FOUNDATION I nstable Soil Adds $500,000 to Cost of Northwestern Depot. CHICAGO. Dec. 26. (Special.) A stratum of treacherous quicksand under lying the site of the new 20,00fl.0ii0 sta tion of the Chicago & Northwestern Kail- road, now under construction, will add about $300,000 to the cost of the struc ture, owing to the increased difficulty of sinking the foundation pillars. This In formation has been given to the railroad company by the George A. Fuller Com pany, which has In turn been told to go ahead with the construction of the build ing at any cost. Interesting pneumatic processes are now being used to overcome the difficul ties presented by the unstable soil. En gineers eay that Chicago soil Is nllve with quicksand In the territory about the river banks. Two engineering experts who handled the situation in New York at the laying of two big river tunnels of the subway, when quicksand there fur nished the gravest engineering problem of the kind in the history of America, were called by telegraph and are at work solving the problem, presented. JUDGE REMEMBERS VICTIMS New York Magistrate Gives Men He Has Sentenced Gifts. AI.BANY,N. Y., Dec. 26. An unusual incident in prison life, that of a County Judge presenting Christmas gifts to the convicts he had sentenced to prison during the jar. was reported today by C V. Collins, State Superintendent of Prisons. A box was received at Clinton Prison yesterday accompanied by a let ter from J. J. Moore, of Fort Plains, County Judge of Montgomery County, requesting that the contents of the box be presented to those named If not against prison rules. The recipients were prisoners whom the Judge had sentenced to the insti tution during the present year. Super intendent Collins authorized Uie distri bution of the gifts. VAGRANT HEIR TO FORTUNE Handsome, Well-Educated Powell Sentenced to Workhouse. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Dec. 26. (Spe cial.) Heir to more than $750,000.- to broad acres on the Potomac, and entitled to a high position in Baltimore society. William James Powell, known far and wide among the hobos as "Slim." was sentenced today to serve ISO days in the workhouse on a vagrancy charge. He was at once made head trusty. Powell is a soldier of fortune, with a wonderful record of adventure: hand some, refined and educated. Among the yeggmen and tramps he is as much at home as in polished society, and his other side is as seamed as his gentle actiors are good. Little more than 24, he has ..eon years of the roughest life. SOME OF THE INTERESTING EVENTS OF THE CLOSING YEAR ARE DULY CHRONICLED BY HARRY MURPHY'S HUMOROUS PEN "What's the rnrr fJO ONE RESISTS OF GOMEZ Even Castro's Brother Readily Submits. ALL TURN ON EX-PRESIDENT Many Suits Will Cause Him Loss of $2,000,000. EXILES INVITED TO RETURN Castro's Cattle Monopoly Abolished. Press Freed, Dispute With Co lombia Settled Castro's Or ders Meet With Derision. CARACAS, Wednesday, Dec. 23., via Port of Spain, Trinidad. Dec. 25. The Presidency of Juan Vicente Gomez has been received by the country at large, officially and unofficially, and Venezuela is through wilth one of the most popular revolutions In the annals of the Republic, a revolution In which not a drop of blood is shed. The authority of President Gomez Is accepted supreme. Even General Celes tino Castro, brother of the ex-President, who was Chief of the Department of Tachlra, has turned over to the new mil itary commander of that district all the arms and ammunition in his possession; amounting to 6"i00 rifles and 3,000.000 rounds of ammunition. Celestino Cas tro's acceptance of the new regime is regarded as final and conclusive evidence that his brother is no longer a factor in the political situation. Castro Sued for Millions. President Gomez is showing in many ways his desire to propitiate ail inter ests, promote business, both local and foreign and Improve foreign relations. Cipriano . astro is being sued In the Caracas courts for moneys and property alleged to have been obtained wrong fully. Among othera Madame Crespo, widow of ex-President Crespo, has brought action to recover two years' rent of the Miraflore8 Palace In Caracas. This beautiful building was erected by her husband when he was President and it has been used by Cipriano Castro since his triumphant entry Into Caracas, nine years ago. These various actions prob ably will result In Castro's losing prop erty to the, value of $2,000,000, which he left behind in Venezuela when he sailed for France, about a month ago. Monopoly Dead, Press Free. The doors of Venezuela have been opened to all Venezuelans residing abroad and all agitators have been urged to re turn. The cattle monopoly, maintained for so many years oy Cipriano Castro, has been abolished and the press has been given its freedom. All the political pris oners In the land, excepting the men who were connected with the recent plot to assassinate President Gomez have been freed and the President has settled the dispute with his neighbor on the west, the United States of Colombo. This diffi culty had existed for many years and arose over a contested boundary line. Castro's Belligerent Order. Jose de J. Paul, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Castro Cabinet, received two days ago a dispatch from Cipriano Castro, at Berlin, as follows: "Declare the Dutch warships pirates. Suspend the payments to the powers un der the Washington protocol. I am for warding you a solution ot the difficulty." The communication has been received here with ridicule. TRAFFIC BY SEA RESUMED Curacoa Steamer Starts to Take Cargo at Maracaibo. "WILLEMSTADT, Dec. 26. The Im provement In the relations between the Netherlands and Venezuela has re sulted already in a resumption of com munication by sea between the repub- (Concluded on Page 2.) The American Comedy Opens in I-ittaburs;. POWER i i WIDE SCOPE OF ANNUAL. Every important industry of Portland and Oregon, and the progress in all lines made dur ing 1908, will receive attention in the New Year' edition of The Oregonian to be printed next Fri day. Few publications have been so thorough or o valuable in ex ploiting the resources of this state. Most of the articles are being prepared by writers who are known as authorities on the subjects treated. Besides the contributed matter, there will be numerous articles by Oregonian staff members. The pictorial features of the Annual will be all that could be desired. There will be typical scenes of Oregon dairies, farms and orchards, as well as illustra tions of mining, lumbering and irrigation. Some of the most striking pictures will show Port land's fine harbor. Photographs and drawings, portraying the city's building growth and park extension, will also be repro duced. The Annual will be issued Jan uary 1, 1909, and the price will be 5 cents a copy. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 47 desrves; minimum. S9 degree TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds. Foreign. Gomea' power firmly established ; many suits begun ay a in st Castro. American who bought auto with forged checks sentenced in Paris. National. Roosevelt telN reasons for not interfering in labor boycott caw. Section 1. page 3. Railroad Senators nervous at Fulton's de mand for action on rate bill. Section 1, page 2. Government summons Jtost of witnesses ajrainst beef trust, but will give prin cipals no immunfty. Secttoa 1. page 1. Believed Ambassador Griscom will resign. Section 2, page 5. Domestic. Jury trying Beach Hargis for killing father disagrees. Section 1. page 2. Henry W. Poor, leading broker, fails. Sec tion 1, page 7. Massachusetts girl coming to Falem to marry student lower. Section 1, page 1. Pittsburg reformers, backed by corporations will have bribers arrested. Section 1, page 1. ctnum Sprecke:, California sut'tr -king," dead. Section 1. page 5. Troops sent to sceno of Kentucky miners riot. Section 1. page 7. Defense of Halns opens after adverse ruling by court. Section 1. page 7. Kev to Etruscan inscriptions found by Stan ford professor will revolutionize Roman history. Section 1, page 1. Real KM ate. Portland's business district is growing to ward northwest. Section 3, page S. Tract of Oregon land for farms on Roosevelt plan put on market. Section 3. pago 8. One company to build 400 houses in ad dition. Section S, page 9. BulMing permits for month to date are over v $850. OOu. Section 3. page St. Sport. Sam I,angford new Idol of San Francisco fight fans, section . page t. Harry B. Smith writes about Pacific Coast League meeting. Section 4. page 4. New Year paper chase of Portland Hunt Club to be classy event. Section 4, page 5. All floor space taken for automobile show next March. Section 4. page 4. Spokane Northwestern league team under new management. Section 4. page 5. Coast League Is to open Portland season April 13. Section 4, page 5. Multnomah Club team losea but one game during season. Section 4, page 3. Chemawa Indians defeat Catholics by score of Jl to 0. Section 4. page 4. Malonoy. new arrival from Ireland, breaks Marathon record. Section 2. page 3. Johnson willing to fight Burns again, but will keep him waiting. Section 2, page 2. Commercial and Marine. Onion Growers 'Association appoints selling agents. Section 4, page 7. Hop stocks in farmers hands on Pacific Coast. Section 4, page 7. New York bsnk statement shows heavy re duction in loans and deposits. Section 4, page 7. Balfour, Guthrie & Co. charter Norwegian ship Arrunmore to carry lamber to West Coast. Section 4, page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Board of Education announces estimate of expenditures for new year. Section 2, page 10. Pioneer railroad transfer boat Tacoma goes out of commission. Section 4, page 6. Dr. Brouglfcer may be called to Boston. Union labor measures to be Introduced in Legislature. Saction 4. page 8. Sensations sprung by defense in Finch trial fall Mat. Section 2. page 10. T. P. A. holds annual meeting and banquet. ie-electing old officers. Section 1, page 8. Three nations are searching for Edward Payson Fitch. Section 1. page 5 Harriman plans to complete extension to Puget Sound during coming year. Sec- I tluu 3. page 10. Mother comes from Duluth to help daughter, but cannot find her. Section 3, page 10. President Schurman, of Cornell, says Sher man act should be repealed. Section 4, page K. About Done. PLAN ARREST OP 40 MORE THIEVES Pittsburg Reformers After "Higher-ups" RAILROADS BACK MOVEMENT Cheaper to Oust Grafters Than Pay Their Price. SEARCHLIGHT ON BANKS More Suspected of Bribery Voters' League After 17 More Council men Carnegie Puts Up Money for Reform. CORPORATIONS AID REFORM. FITTsBL'RG. Dec 26. (Special.) A sensational story Is Roinit th rounds today that the Pennsylvania Railroad and other big industrial and financial interests are back of the Councilmanlc bribery expose. It was said that corporations were put to such an expense In setting through any legislation for improvements and extensions that they decided it would be cheaper to spend a larye Fum In ousting all the grafters than it would be to pay them their price. It is said the Pennsylvania Ratl roal within the coming year has some great Improvements planned, per mission to complete which will re quire ordinances to be iut through the City Councils. PITTSBURG. .Dec. 26. About 0 more arrests in the Council bribery scandalare promised by the Voters' League, accord- ins to a statement made today by Leo Weil, president of the league. Other of ficers of the league say they have plenty of evidence against many persons, who, it is said, will be arrested. The first meeting of Council" since the disclosures were made is scheduled for Monday night. Clarence Burleigh, coun sel for Joseph Wassan, Jacob Soffel and T. O. Atkinson, of the seven accused Councllmen, stated tonight that he would advise his clients to continue their duties. Punish Bribers Equally. T. D. Harmon, a member of the ex acutive committee of the Voters' League, said: "Pittsburg's Councilmanic corrupters, the real root of the bribery evil here, will suffer equally with those who fell before their temptations. The Voters' League is not In this thing for any political rea son, -for there Is not a member of the executive body who would accept a pub lic office if it were given him. We Intend to clean up the city and this is the first move. Other sensations will follow and the men who are attempting to frighten us by threats or counter-suits soon will learn whether or not we are in earnest." Examining More Banks. It was reported today that a number of new banks were undergoing a thorough examination in connection with the re port that certain financial institutions had paid W76.000 for the privilege of handling the city's funds, but Govern ment officials refused to either confirm or deny the story. According to a report published here today, 17 members of Councils have been notified that they are under surveillance and that they must not leave the city. It is also alleged that the 17 men have been told definitely that they will be called upon to answer charge in connec tion -with the bribery prosecutions. That they were simply playing a game of politics and wanted to see how far the detectives would take them, it is re ported, would" be the defense of eome of the accused Councilmen when their cases are tried in court. Carnegie Aids House-Cleaning. The story told In the fashionable Du quesne Club and the Pittsburg Club is that the same men who told Pittsburg conditions to President Roosevelt also Concluded on Page K. ) H. S. V. P. ACROSS CONTINENT TO MARRY CHOICE MASSACHUSETTS GIRL TO GO TO SALEM, OR., FOR WEDDIXG. Romance Started in Childhood and Continued Unruffled Through out School Days. MIDDLEBORO, Mass.. Dec. 26 Although the entire continent separates her from her fiancee, Miss Florence McDermid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mc Dermid, of Star avenue. Is undaunted, for the coming week she will start alone for Salem, Or., where she will meet her sweetheart. Way land Chace, formerly of this town. There she will become the brido of her schoolday sweetheart, and they will make their home in Salem, where the groom-elect is a landscape engineer. The romance is one of the pleasant kind, for it dates back to their child hood days when they played together. Both went to school together and both wore members of the same class which was graduated from the High School In 1903. All through their school days their courtship was all sunshine, and when they left the High School they were still sweethearts. Miss McDermid attended a business school in Boston, while Mr. Chace, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Chace, of Pearl street, attended the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst. Miss McDermid later ac cepted a position with the telephone company here as stenographer and ,1aut was clerk to ihe Board of Selectmen. As soon as Mr. Chace finished his course he went to the Pacific Coast. HERO OF GRIDIRON MARRIES Forbes, of Oregon, One of Yale's Best, Takes Bride. MIDDLETON, Conn.. Dec. 25. (Spe cial.) Robert W. Forbes, one of Yale's best football players, has married Miss Bertha T. Bacon, of this city. Forbes played end and tackle on the Yale team in 1305 and 1906 and was named on the All-American team as end in 1S06. He was elected captain of the Wesleyan team In 1905, but ow ing to conditior.3 in his studies was not allowed to play. He left college and went to Yale. He is in the lumber business in Wendling, Or., where he took his bvide. RETURN CHRISTMAS GIFTS Chicago Officials Barred From Ac cepting Contractors' Presents. CHICAGO, Dec. 2fi. Contractors who have been in the habit of playing Santa Claus to employes and officials of the Board of Improvement of the local city government were invited to discontinue the practice today. While the rule does not go into effect until next Christmas, Colonel H. S. Dietrich, president of the board, and four members, today returned a valuable array of presents received to day. The new rules owe their existence primarily to the fact that the Board of Improvements annually passes on some $8,000,000 in contracts with the city. LOOK INTO STOCK MARKET Investigation of Produce and Cotton Exchanges First. vpw vnR rec. 26. The New York Produce and the New York Cotton Ex changes will be the first ones investi gated by the commission appointed by Governor Hughes to inquire into the nnntiict nf the New York exchanges. This was decided upon at a meeting of the comission today, cnairman White said it probably would take the commission three months to finish its work. The commission will meet again on January 4. USED 4,000,000 TREES Christmas- Custom's Inroads on For ests Upheld by Plnchot. WASHINGTON. Dec. 26. The native forests this year supplied 4.000.000 Christ mas trees, the Forestry Service estimat ing that one out of every four families rthcerverl the tree custom at Yuletide. Gifford Pinchot. United States Forester, upholds the Christmas tree custom and believes that It should be maintained. Jea' Lookta 'Round. SHEDS NEW LIGHT ST Hempl Finds Key to Etruscanlnscriptions. OVERTURNS ACCEPTED THEORY Proves Romans and Etruscans Were of One Race. CONFIRMS STORY OF ENEID Stanford Professor In One Xlghf Solves Mystery of People Who Preceded Romans Must Re state Ancient History. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal.. Doe. 26. (Special.) The key which bares the secrets so long hidden behind the Etruscan and old Italic inscriptions has at last been discovered by Professor George Hempl. the holder of the philo logical chair at Stanford University, and the manners, customs and history of a people today practically unknown may be read in the future as in a book. Experienced In his investigations of old German inscriptions and rune. Professor Hempl was able to accom plish in a single night the feat under taken by science nges ago and never before pushed to a successful conclu sion. Members of the faculty who were present at the lecture of Dr. Hempl before the Stanford Phililogical Asso ciation today declined that the discov ery is a veritable triumph and will have far-reaching results. It will necessitate a re-stating of ancient Roman .history and It will throw a flood of light on many disputed facts (it Laiin grammar and etymology. Romans and Etruscans One Race. It has been the generally accepted view among historians that the Etrus cans were an element entirely foreign to their neighbors, tho Romans. This theory is entirely and conclusively overturned by Professor Hempl, whosu investigations prove a great similarity between the Roman and Etruscan lan guages and make pus"'1'1-' nl' "9 conclusion, that the Etruscans and Ro mans sprang from one race, which, fol lowing the old legend, wandered to Italy from Troy after the fall of that great city. Thus Virgil's Eneld is sub stantiated by scientific proof. Dr. Hempl's discovery Is yet in Its infancy. Out of 8000 inscriptions he has read but 50. yet the-little work he has done has been sufficient to convince him that the old idea or distinct races is entirely erroneous. f Applauded by Faculty. When Dr. Hempl unfolded his discov ery to the little group of educators In the president's council-room today anil proved that the Latin and Etruscan tongues were from the same root, ha received prolonged and hearty ap plause. A full scholarly treatise upon the subject of Etruscan inscriptions written by Dr. ricmpl will be read be fore the meeting of the American Phil ological Association, which is to bo held at Toronto next Spring. Profes sor Hempl Intends to go on with his work on the Etruscan Inscriptions. Read German Inscriptions. Professor Hempl attributes his success with the riddle which has so long puzzled science to his experience In studying in scriptions In other languages and coun tries, notably Germany. For several years he has been quietly working with succ ss In German fields, but his dis coveries have not been of the startling importance of his last. At the conclu sion Dr. Hempl was made the recipient of many congratulations by his col leagues. In discussing the discovery. President Jordan said: Changes Views of History. "Professor Hempl has made a most Important discover"- He has been study ing inscriptions In many countries, so (Concluded on Page 7.) Will It Cilvr Birth to a Slouaef OH 111 001 -
