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TTT73 SUNT) AT OREGOXIAXs POKTtNT, MAT 2, 1909. IMPOSE PENALTY FOR MASSACRES Turkish Parliament Votes .to Send Commission of In quiry to Adana. COURT-MARTIAL ON GUILTY Vail of Adana Denounced as Creat ure of Abdul Relief Fund, for Victims Pensions for All In jured by Revolution. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 1. After a stirring debate In which the late Vail of Adana and the Assistant Minister of the Interior were attacked as creatures of" the Hamidlan regime, the Chamber of iJepiities adopted a resolution today that a parliamentary commission be dispatched to Adana to InvcBtiKate the massacres and to organize a military court to court martial the guilty persons. One hundred thousand dollars has been appropriated to relieve - the distress in that district. The deputies have under consideration a proposal to pension the families of those killed or wounded In the recent fighting In Constantinople. , An imperial hats was read in the pres ence of the Cabinet and other officials, confirming the appointment of Tewfik Pasha as Grand Vizier and Zla Eddin Kffendi as Sheik-ul-Islam. The hatt briefly referred to the revolution and the recent massacres and enjoined universal observance of the constitution and the Bherl laws. All Ghallb Bey, the public prosecutor of Salonica, has been appointed Minister, of Justice to succeed Hassan Fehml Pasha. JIOW THE AMERICANS FEUTj Shot Dead While Trying to Extin guish Flames at Adana. CONSTANTINOPIJl May 1 Stephen R. Trowbridge, a missionary who wit nessed the killing of D. M. Rogers and Henry Alaurer, fellow-missionaries at Adana, has supplied an account of the occurrence dated Adarra, April 24, to rep resentatives of the Grand Vizier and has written It out also for the mission board at home. Mr. Trowbridge says: "Firing and fighting began April M be tween Moslems and Armenians, which re sulted In a number of casualties on both Bides. The next morning conflagrations resulted from Incendiary Urea and had spread to such an extent that we were obliged to watch closely the building of the girls' school and the residence of Wil liam N. Chambers. Mr. Rogers was guarding the home of Miss Wallace and the dispensary across the street. "All this time there had been no sign of any effort on the part of the govern ment authorities to stop the firing, the pillaging and burning." Mr. Trowbridge then tells of thv efforts of himself, Mr. Rogers and Mr. Maurer to save the school building. "Mr. Maurer was using the erowbar against a wall and I. higher up, was pouring water on places catching fire. Suddenly two shots rang out not more than SO yards from where we were work ing. ' "Mr. Rogers, who was In the street bringing water, was mortally wounded. He called to me by name and then fell In the middle of the street. The other bullet hit Mr Maurer in the left lung near the heart and the crowbar fell from his hands. He then climbed down the ladder and collapsed at the side of Mr. Rogers." A little later, when British Vice-Consul Daughty-Wylie. with 30 Turkish soldiers, arrived, the neighborhood was deserted and the murderers had fled. MEUEMMED SEXDS THANKS Expresses to Taft Good Will to American Nation. WASHINGTON, May 1. Sultan Me hemmed V of Turkey has cabled a mes sage In acknowledgment of the greetings sent to him by President Taft on his as cension to the throne. Ambassador Irishman at Constanti nople cabled that the government had taken energetic means to suppress fur ther attempts at disorders and. to punish perpetrators of the recent trouble. The government, he said., appeared to be able and anxious to restore peace. AMERICAN GOES TO RESCUE SaTes 0 Persons From Deurtyol. Smallpox Attacks Adana. TW3IRUT, May 1. An American drago man rescued 60 persons from Deurtyol and brought them to Alexandretta today, lieurtyol, which has been besieged, will bo able probably to hold out against the fanatics. Advices state that 14.000 refugees In Adana bsve been transferred to the suburbs and that a relief corps la now combating an epidemic of smallpox. LEAD MINERS STRIKE GROWS Suspension Underground Causes Mils In Missouri to Close. BONNE TERRE, Mo.. May 1. The strike of lead miners In Leadwood spread to this place today, when the under ground employes of the St. Joseph Lead Company quit work. The big mills of the company here were forced to close and 1700 men are now Idle. About S00O other workmen' are threat ening to Jain the strikers. POTATOES ON 200 ACRES AVhitman County Farmer Will Raise Spuds on Large Scale. SPOKANE. Wah.. May 1 (Special.) Thomas Warwick, the "potato king of Whitman County." who owns several hundred acres adjacent to Tekoa, will plant approximately 200 acres of potatoes this season. He recently purchased 885 acres at 75 an acre, of which 120 acres has been leased by O. D. McKeehan, a banker, and Leroy Brooks, a druggist, for potato field. Thirty acres on another farm will be worked by Mr. Warwick, on which he expects to produce 12,000 bushels of spuds. CONDENSED NEWS BY WIREi York J C. Jurenn, chief enjrtnr t th Hotel 8t. KKl8. ha resigned to C ume a. chair of nsrineertng-piaut Instruc tion at Columbia Ualvrslty. "w York Jam A. Henderson. f Cht-- o l iuilOin railroad ayatua throughout- Honduras, will equip txlu Una with wlreleaa telegraphy. Detroit An attempt of Italian Social lata to hold a parade Saturday, carrying red flags, resulted in a amall riot in Kast Grand Circus Park. One hundred and fifty po licemen attacked the Socialists, tore down their flag and arrested aeveral of them. Elkhart, Ind EL Lavergne Roeder was shot Friday In the parlor at the home of the parents of his sweetheart, Leon a Ie vis ton. The County Coroner is making an Investigation to determine whether he com mitted suicide or was murdered. 5 CincinnatiAt a meeting of the Unem ployed Associations of this city a memorial was drawn up today asking for the passage of a hill for the construction - of a Na tional, transcontinental highway in order to give work to the unemployed; also that the Federal Government lend the country's money to roads. Cincinnati L.- TX Plowman. 40 years old. a printer, of Canton, O., was shot and killed Saturday by Mrs. Elizabeth Forsyth. Mrs. Forsyth heard sounds at her window on the ground floor, and getting a , revolver she went to a side door. When she opened it a man bounded by. She fined, and the man fell, with two bullets in his body. San Francisco As a result of 'the recent exposure of a plot to smuggle French finery and foreign Jewels into this country on a gigantic scale by employing the names of rich Americans returning home from Europe, scores of men and women who have planned to go abroad are registering their valuables at the local customs house. MYSTERY MADE DEEPER CONVICT SATS HE IS KIMMEL, SUPPOSED DEAD MAN. Adds Hew Complication to Insurance Case by Saying Relative Drugged Him. ST. LOUIS, May 1. Another develop ment in the strangest Insurance case in legal history was revealed, today when attorneys .for the New York Life In surance Company filed , In the United States Circuit Court the deposition of a convict In the Auburn. N. Y., State Prison. The convict, Andrew J. White, declared he was George A. Kimmel, cashier of the Farmers' State Bank of Arkansas City, Kan., who disappeared more than ten years ago. . The witness tells a story of having been drugged and imprisoned in a St. Louis lodging-house for three weeks. His identity as Kimmel is denied by Klmmel's relatives, who are suing for Insurance on his life. Kimmel had been declared dead by the St. Louis court, but the United States Circuit Court of Appeals has de clared the evidence insufficient and the judgment against the Insurance com pany was reversed. Shortly after in suring his life for 925.000 in 1898 in favor of his sister. Mrs. Edna K. Bonnslet, lie disappeared from Arkansas City. The deposition consists of 700 type written pages, throughout which ha endeavors to Identify himself as Kim mel. lie explains his disappearance by declaring a relative was implicated in embezzling 1100,000 from the Pacific Express Company and that he had dam aging evidence against this relative. He declared the relative and others caused him to be drugged and kept a prisoner in St. Louis. After escaping from -St. Louis, the convict says, he went Kast. He was given a prison sen tence for forgery. The case will be retried here. JOHN D. MISSES CHANCE CANADIAN FINANCIERS GAIN $4,100,000 IX DEAL. Clever Bit of Eucliering Causes OH Magnate to Sell Stock, Which at Once Rises. CHICAGO, May t (Special.) How John D. Rockefeller was euchered out of J4. 100,000 by a group of Montreal financiers Is a bit of gossip which floated around today. Long ago John D. took on 100,000 shares of Wisconsin Central stock and 6000 of the railway's bonds. He had his confidential lieutenant, Frederick T. Gates, placed on the directory. A receiver later on took possession of the property, financial stress was weathered, and finally the road reached a stage where It was barely breaking even. Later the controlling element decided to pay 4 per cent dividends on the stock. John X. said he could not sanction this seemingly reckless plan, and Gates was told to dispose of the stock, which he did after the market had been given the stimulus of the 4 per cent dividend information. Once they had John D.'s certificates in hand, the previously matured plan to have the Canadian Pacific absorb the struggling Wisconsin Central was put into effect. Wisconsin Central soared, and the Canadians cleaned up $4,100,000 in profits on the rise. Congress now has seven Smiths, three In vhe Senate and four in the House. The states contributing- th, eaven Smith .are Michigan, which gives two: Maryland, Texas, Iowa California, and South Carolina- NEW LOCATION New Route to the Commencing May 2 the Canadian Pacific will inaugurate THROUGH FAST service between Portland and St. Paul. A solid -train will run over the tracks of the O. R. & N. to Spo kane, thence S. & I. RyM C. P. B. and Soo Line. A NEW TRAIN DELUXE Wide vestibuled, electric-lighted trains, consisting of first class coaches, standard sleepers, tourist sleepers, dining-car, buffet-library-compartment-observation cars. A MODERN PALACE ON WHEELS For rates and full particulars apply at local ticket office or address F. R. JOHNSON, General Agent, 142 Third St, Port land, Or. SOUTHERN STORM REACHES ATLANTIC Seaboard Cities Suffer Se verely as Wild Hurricane Passes Out to Sea. UNROOFS SAVANNAH HOMES Death List in Devastated States Will Not Be Known for Several Days, and Property Damage Is Gigantic. ATLANTA. Ga. May 1. The storm which for three days has been sweep ing eastward across the Southern States was passing over the Atlantic Ocean tonight. At least 200 were killed and perhaps 400 injured. News of 34 more deaths in Georgia were received today. At Savannah the storm tore through the old town, unroofed many houses and destroyed much property. Towns in North Carolina and Florida suffered devastation. The casualty list will be incomplete for several days. Property worth probably several mil lion dollars was destroyed. The southwestern section of Savan nah was struck at 11:30 o'clock today by a severe storm which uprooted trees, unroofed houses, tore down fences and injured several people. The McKane Hospital for . negroes was badly damaged. A factory was un roofed and one man badly injured The storm lasted not more than half a minute. DEATH LIST SWELLING DAILY Tennessee Now Reports 60 Fatalities and Many Towns Ruined. LiOUlSVILLB, May 1. May day, follow ing the windstorm which caused perhapfc 100 deaths throughout the Southern States, will be spent by the t'egrapn companies in repairing their wires. With the over land line of communication from Louis ville to New Orleans once established, au thentic lists of the victims of the storm may be secured. II. has been years since the winds have gathered so many victims. Tennessee, sloping westward from the Virginia Mountains to the dunes along the Mis sissippi, provides an angle for the wind to pivot upon and the list of GO dead In that state seems to have been corroborated. Arkansas, Alabama. Mississippi and Georgia also suffered. "Word from Guth rie, Ky., early today Is that six persons were killed there, he only fatalities in Kentucky, so far aa is now . known. Louisiana and Texas seem to have been unscathed, but poor communication makes even this doubtful. As far east as Mount Sterlinjsr. TCy., LAST WEEK OF ' ' DUR REMOVAL. SALE Take Advantage of the GREAT REDUCTIONS In every department, consisting of Diamonds, Jewelry, Watches, Sterling Silver, Leather and Art Goods, Etc; Established CORNER THIRD AND WASHINGTON STREETS - 283-285 Washington Street, Near Fourth barns and houses were unroofed, tobacco beds washed away; turnpikes made rivers of water and firea- started In overturned dwellings. At Frankfort the same conditions pre vailed, only less severely. All counties from the Mississippi River to the Big Sandy have similar reports. COLD WAVE THROUGHOUT KAST Weather Bureau Bears News of Gales and Storms. WASHINGTON, May 1. A great storm, sweeping from the Upper Lake region over the Middle and Southern Atlantic States, with heavy rains, high winds and snow In spots, figured conspicuously on the weather maps today. A May-day snowstorm prevailed in the vicinity of the Upper Lake and Upper Mississippi Valley States, the temperature dropping rapidly in the Central states; and there is freezing weather all the way from the eastern end of Lake Superior south ward to New Mexico. The official fore casts today predicted a cold" wave through the Kast. ANOTHER STORM IS BREWING Arizona Prepares More Trouble for Atlantic Coast. "WASHINGTON, May 1. A fair Mon day everywhere east of the Rocky Moun tains, but yet another storm brewing out in the West and headed this way are the promises held out by the Weather Bu reau tonight. In Arizona a storm cen ter Is moving rapidly eastward and offi cial figures tonight schedule it for the Atlantic Coast Wednesday or Thursday. May day snow flurries fleck the coun try in spots, especially about the Great Lakes and Ohio, and even in the South. i ' HEPPNER'S CLIP IS SOLD Over Million Pounds Change Hands at Prices Prom 18 to 20 Cents. HEPPNBR, Or., May 1. (Special.) Wool has been transferred In Heppner this week to the extent of over 1,000,000 pounds. W. W. Smead has purchased nearly 800,000 pounds of this for William Ellery and the balance has been secured by Frank Lee for F. Frankenstein. i The lowest price paid is 18 cents and j the highest 20 cents. Smead is now of fering 21 cents and It is likely he will socure several more clips before the rush is over. Sheep are all sold and the wool will be practically all oft the market by the middle of next week. AVIATORS GIVEN PRIZES French Enthusiasts Banquet Weights and Load With Medals. LB MANS, France, May 1. The Sartbe Aero Club gave a farewell banquet to night to Wilbur and Orvllle Wright, the American aeroplanists. The president of the club, M. Bollee, presented Wilbur Wright with a bronze group representing the genius of aviation revealing the se crets or night to the brothers. .The Mayor of Le Mans presented Mr. Wright with a medal on behalf of the city STid a second medal on behalf of the citizens, while President Bollee handed him checks for the club's two prizes, which were won by Mr. Wright. 41 Years WAR ON IN ZION CITY VOLIVA REFUSES TO PERMIT NEW MIJNICIPAL REGIME. Declares Election Fraudulent and Swears In Armed Guards to Hold Peace. CHICAGO'. May 1. (Special.VA civil war is facing Zion City, the Northshore suburb whose identity with "the promised land" was first discovered- John Alex ander Dowle, its founder. Seven spe cial policemen were sworn in today to prevent the muncipial of fleers elected ,by the independent . faction not long ago from taking office. verseer wiiDur voiiva, Dowie's sue- i CeSSOr. is OrmniOner th lnil0naiirianta ' tooth and nail. It Is" expected that ha will add some 15 or 20 more to his staff of special guardians, armed with clubs and revolvers. The strictest vigilance is being main tained around the City Hall and th tire department station. Vollva has given or The Champagne by which other s R r are judged VlfUSUilUi' Extra Dry Made of selected grape of the choicest vineyards Naturally Dry and Pure SELECTED BRUT Made only of the choicest Vintage Wine? 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