a THE SUNDAY
OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. JULY 25, 190.
BATTLE IS RAGING
AMD HIDE DUTY
Indications Point to Free En
try With Lower Rate
on Products.
IRON ORE RATE REDUCED
Question "Whether Conferees Can Re-
dura Duties on AVhich House
Agreed Oil to lie Free and
Taper at $3.50 a Ton.
WASHINGTON, July 24. The hide
question was settled and unsettled to
day. and, while there seems little
doubt that eventually hides will go on
the free list of the new tariff bill, the
contest over their status cannot be re
garded as closed. None of the ques
tions made prominent through Pres.
dent Taft's Interest in them was
settled today, although the conference
was in strict executive session all day.
The conferees expect to spend a large
part of Sunday wrestling with these
problems.
The indications are tonight that the
conference rates upon the important
questions still in dispute will be as fol
lows: Probable Final Duties.
Hides, fre.
Oil. free.
Lumber, rough, $1.25 a 1000 feet with
proportionate differentials.
Coal. 45 cents a ton, without the House
reciprocal clause.
Iron ore. 15 cents a ton.
Print paper, $3.50 a ton.
Practically one full week hss ben oc
cupied by the conferees In an effort to
iuJ these questions. Most of the time
has been devoted to hides. This subject
Is complicated by statements coming
from boot and shoe interests that they
ere ready to agree to a substantial re
duction on leather goods If hides are put
on the free. list. These interests appar
ently felt sure that there could be no re
ductions on boots and phoes below 15 per
cent ad valorem, the House rate.
Difficulty About Shoe Duty.
President Taft stated to a number of
hm callers that he would Insist upon a
reduction to at least 10 per cent ad
valorem with proportionate decreases on
the rates for other leather goods. Re
ports reached the conference room late
today that Fpe-aker Cannon and Parlia
mentarian Hinds had decided that it
would be out of order for the conferees
to adopt, a rate on bqpts or shoes lower
than the rate adopted by either branch
f Congress.
Hide Men Cause Consternation.
Advocates of protected hides declared
that there must be a proportionate re
duction on leather to offset the aboli
tion of the duty on hides, if their votes
were to- be counted In favor of the
conference report. This statement came
from such men as Senators Warren
and Smoot.
They said the same views were held
by others, including Senators Carter
and Heyburn.
As a result of the declaration of the
men Interested In protected hides, some
of those who are looking for an early
adjustment of the tariff differences were
filled with consternation.
Lead Man Also "Grouchy."
Pome of the Western Senators are
said to be greatly dissatisfied wita the
action taken by the conferees in de
creasing rates on lead and its pro
dints. It was said that it would take
very little to induce them to vote
sgafnst the conference report.
Mr. Aldrlch was of the opinion that
the conferees could reduce rates below
those nxed by either House without the
adoption of a concurrent resolution. A
canvass will be made to ascertain
whether such a resolution can be
adopted.
Iron ore was taken up at the after
noon session today, but the rate was
not fixed.
Hale Fights for Paper Trust.
Senator Hale Is making a stubborn
fis;ht for the retention of the $4 a ton
rale on print paper fixed by the Senate.
Little consideration has been given
t h us far to Umber, coal or oil. The
Senate conferees are Insisting upon
$1.50 on rough lumber, while the House
members say they will hold out for a
dollar rate.
Coal, it is said, will be made dutiable
at 4i cents a ton. It is settled that the
reciprocal free trade provision adopted
by the House will be eliminated and
that oil will go on the free list through
the rejection of the countervailing duty
adopted by th Senate.
The glo-r and hosiery schedules,
which were materially increased by the
House over the Dlngley rates, remain
unsettled.
DROPS DEAD IN HALLWAY
H. G. Drl&hnnt, Railroad Freight
Clerk, Psse Away Suddenly.
H. G. Ielahunt. 85 years old. a clerk
In the freight department of the South
ern Pacific company, dropped dead at
S.30 p. m. yesterday In the hallway of
the New Western Hotel, corner of Sev
enth and GUsan streets, where he
roomed. Pr. C. IL Francis, who was
railed Immediately, pronounced the case
a one of heart failure. C. Cogeshall.
also a clerk of the hiu railroad com
pany, and J. B. Morris were witnesses
to the sudden death of their fellow
toomer and notified the authorities.
Prlahunt had been stricken by an
epileptic spasm on the sidewalk at Sev
enth and lavis streets yesterday after
noon at 1 o'clock and through the
orders of the police, had been sent to
th? liood Samaritan hospital in the Red
fross ambulance. Several hours later
he had sufficiently revived to return to
his hotel, lie was on his way to his
room when he was stricken.
Uvlaliunfs home is in Olathe. Kans.
lwpnty t'oroner Dunning, who took
vhsrpe of the remains, telegraphed the
news of his death to his mother. Mrs.
M. ". Kelahunt. The body is being held
pending the instructions of the victim's
relatives.
ENTERTAIN NEW YORKERS
Visitors From Kmplre State Mads to
Keel at Home in Portland.
Portland enhanced its reputation for
popltalitv yesterday when members of
the New Tork Society and the Portland
Commercial Club entertained the party
of :00 New Torkcrs which arrived here
yesterday morning. Tin visitors wen
most appreciative of, the courtesies
shown them and were deeply impressed
with the scenic beauties of the sur
rounding country. The fruits and flow
ers also called forth sincere praise.
Many members declared it was the
most beautiful city they had visited on
their entire trip.
The special train of eight cars ar
rived yesterday morning. The party
traveling under the auspices of the
Brooklyn Eagle, comprising 100 people,
made the Portland Hotel its headquar
ters during the day: while the other
party, consisting of the same number
under the direction of V. V. Beard,
stayed at the Oregon. At 2 o'clock
committees from the New York Society
called at the hotels and took the visit
ors for a trolley ride about the city.
These committees were composed of
th fniinu-inir- Miss Llda M. O'Brya
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Mi. Huhh- Thomas Hague, Mrs. D. H.
Forbes. Charles C. Fisher. Mrs. N'ordan,
Mrs. Alary cnapei, ji. . j"-
The members of the two parties wer
guests of the Portland Commercial Clul
at an informal reception. Addresses
i v. r wllllnm S. Jackson
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of Brooklyn, on behalf of the visitors.
and Tom Kictiaruson tor me i-uiinuri
cial Club. A buffet luncheon wa
served. The travelers left for Seattl
at midnight.
AVERT WIFE'S PERJURY
DIVORCE SUIT CAUSES IICSBAXD
TO SLASH HIS WRISTS.
ne Discovers False Allegation In Pe
tition Member of Prom
inent Family.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.. July 24. (Spe
cial.) Obsessed by a fear that his wife
would perjure herself if allowed to
press her recently filed divorce suit
against him, Walter Wright attemptea
suicide last evening in his private wara
In a local hospital by slashing his
wrists. He is weakened from the ef
fects of an operation performed last
week and will probably die.
The papers in the divorce suit were
filed July 21. and it is alleged that
Wright was formerly married and that
the previous marriage had not been
discovered when he married the woman
who filed the suit.
Wright is the scion of a wealthy fam
ily iti Chicago, where he practiced law
and was prominent in politics for a
number of years. Among his mends
are Governor Deneen. Senator I.a Fol-
lette and Judge Joseph A. O'Donnell.
He has several brothers prominent In
business, one being cashier of the
United States Bonding & Trust Com
pany, of Washington, and another su
perintendent of the Paciilc States Tele
graph & Telephone Company, Grants
Pass, Or.
BOY HUNTER IS KILLED
Meets Accidental Death While in
Woods Near Goldendale.
GOLDEXDALB, Wash., July 24.
(Special.) A large party which had
been out since Wednesday searching
for the 17-year-old son of J. A. Se'lers,
returned late last night with the body,
which had been found about two miles
from the house.
The boy had left home with his dog
and a 12-gauge shotgun, promising to
return by 10 o'clock of the same morn
ing. Falling to come back by night, the
father, who was at Cliffs, was sent for
and the party organized.
From the position of the body when
found the coroner, who was in the
party, decided that death was unques
tionably due to the accidental discharge
of the shotgun, and that death had been
instantaneous, the charge entering the
back of the head and tearing away the
lower part of the skull.
The party were led to the place of tha
accident by the dog, which was seen
and which had been guarding the body
since the fatal accident.
ADMITS HE FORGED ORDER
Joe McGovern, However, Maintains
He Had Permission.
Joe McGovern, alias Joe Douglas, a
teamster recently working for the In-man-Poulson
Lumber Company, was ar
rested at Second and Couch streets last
night through the Vaughn detective
bureau for the United Slates authori
ties at Spokane. Wash. The United
States Marshal at Spokane holds a war
rant for McGovern's arrest on the
charge of having forged a $25 postal
money order. The order was sent from
England to Jack Aulton, an acquaint
ance of McGovern, in Spokane, and Mc
Govern obtained possession of it and
cashed it.
McGovern admitted last night that he
had obtained the money by signing the
other man's name, but maintained that
he had done so under arrangements
with his friend. His story Is discredit
ed. He is being held awaiting the
arrival of an officer from Spokane.
UNCLE SAM NOT LIABLE
Employe Cannot Get Damages for
Mistreatment by Doctor.
WASHTNGTOX, July 26. C. B. Su-
sort, a Reclamation Service employe
at Concolully, Wash, who haa sought
damages as a result of alleged medical
mistreatment by a Government phy
sician, has been advised that he can
secure no redress from the Govern
ment. The Controller of the Treasury
in his opinion rules that:
'A person who enters Into contract
with the United States which provides
for the performance of a service by
one of its agents, must be presumed to
do so in recognition of the well-known
rule of law that the United States is
not liable for the negligence of its em
ployes." Susort was Injured by a rolling log
and was treated by a physician under
Government contract.
BRIAND CABINET FILLED
Appointees to War and Marine De
partments Accept Office.
FARTS. July 24. ML Briand today defi
nitely succeeded in forming a new
Cabinet to succeed the recently re
signed Clcroenceau Ministry, his offer
to General Krun and Admiral de la
Payrere to take the portfolios of Min
ister of War and Minister of Marine,
respectively, having been accepted.
I-ogger Is Badly Crashed.
Caught between two logs. C- J. Web
ster, a logger in the camp of the Penin
sula Lumber Company on the line of
the Columbia River A Astoria Railroad,
waa terribly injured yesterday morn
ing by being crushed about the hips. He
was sent to Portland on the 12:15
o'clock train, was conveyed from the
depot to the Good Samaritan Hospital
in llolman's ambulance, and Is said to
be in a serious condition.
FLOWER OF LAKES
START LONG RACE
Eleven Yachts Leave Chicago
on 331-Mile Course to
Mackinac.
SEVEN-KNOT WIND BLOWS
Start Is Auspicious, Except for One
Schooner, Which Has to Return
for Getting Orf Too Soon, and
Muny Craft Cover Harbor.
CHICAGO, July 24. Eleven yachts,
said to constitute the finest squadron
west of the Atlantic seaboard, started
today on the Great Lakes classic, the an
nual Chlcago-Mackinac Island race.
The revenue cutter Tuscarora, with
Captain Perry In command, wtfl police
the course. The cutter carries on board
a wireless outfit by means of which
progress of the race will be flashed to
the shore.
The Amorlta, the yacht which Dr. W.
L. Baum, of Chicago, purchased from
the estate of tha late Richard Mansfield
and with which he all but won the
recent racs from New York to Bermuda,
carried the heaviest impost.
The contestants and time allowances
followr
Naiad, yawl. 10:13:31.
Zeeboomock, sloop, 9:48:35.
Illinois, sloop, 8:35:39. .
Nahma, yawl, 8:22:01.
Naniwa, sloop, 7:48:03.
Alice, schooner, 3:37:04.
Vencedor, sloop, 8:12:32.
Mistral, schooner, 3:16:39.
Hawthorne, schooner, 3:04:32.
Valmore. schooner, 2:42:32.
Amorlta, schooner, allows.
Boats Make Good Start.
Five schooners, four sloops and two
yawls crossed the line at 3 o'clock this
afternoon when the starting gun was
fired for the 331-mile race to Mackinac
The 11 yachts, all dressed In new white,
sailed out of the basin into a brilliant
blue sea, with a stiff northwest breeze
blowing.
It was an luenl day. Thousands of per
sons lined the lake shore and the harbor
was dotted with small craft to give' a
parting cheer to the contestants.
William L. Baum's big schooner Amor
lta, the largest boat In the fleet, Samuel
Thompson's schooner Valmore and
George Tramell's sloop Vencedor. were the
first to cross the line. Close up were tne
yawl Naiad, the sloop Zeeboomock, the
sloop Illinois, the yawl Nahma, the sloop
Xaniawa. the schooner Alice, the schooner
Mistral and the schooner Hawthorne.
Back of them were the revenue cutter.
Tuscarora and the steam yacht Manza
nita. One Compelled to Start Over.
The Illinois took the lead at the sfart
but was soon overtaken. The Mistral was
crowded and made a poor start. The
schooner Hawthorne crossed the lino
ahead of time and waa compelled to come
about and rccross, losing seven minutes.
The boats all headed for Point Betsey,
north of Frankfort, Mich., under a seven-
knot breeze. Half an hour later the
schooners Valmore and Amorita and the
sleep Vencedor passed the Lake View
crib, close In the order given, running
seven knots.
When the Grosse Point licht was passed
the Amorita and the Valmore were in
view, the former sailing close behind.
TRAIN FALLS IN RIVER
TWO KILLED, ONE MISSING,
MANX' INJURED IX WRECK.
Track Collapses Along Missouri and
Wabash Cars Plunge Into
Muddy Water.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 24. At
least two persons are known to be
dead, one trainman is missing and be
tween 25 and 30 are injured ae a re
sult of a wreck of Wabash passenger
train No. 4, 30 miles east of here to-
nigh t-
The train fell Into the Missouri River,
where the track had been weakened
by a landslide.
The dead:
Engineer Phillip Flowers.
Fireman D. Bond.
The engine, baggage car, mail car,
smoker and a dead-head sleeper,
plunged Into the water and were com
pletely submerged. Many of the injured
passengers are seriously hurt.
The train left Kansas City at 9
o'clock and was due In St. Louis at 7
o'clock tomorrow morning. It was com
posed of eight cars. Including a bag
gage and mail car.
The wreck occurred shortly after 10
o'clock, two miles from Orrlck, the
nearest telegraph station. The Injured
were placed on a freight train and
started for Kansas City. This train
was expected to arrive here about S
A. II-
COMBINE AT RATE HEARING
Bay City Asks Other Ports to Join
Against Interior.
SAX FRANCISCO, July 24. While no
statement was given out, it Is authol
tatively stated that the meeting of the
governing body of the San Francisco
Traffic Bureau today was to devise
some means by which the bureau could
appear as an intervenor In the coming
rehearing of the Spokane and Reno
cases by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. If the Spokane decision Is upheld and
Its provisions applied in the Reno case.
Jobbers fear that their monopoly of
Nevada trade will be wiped out and that
Reno will become its own distributing
center.
The aid. not only of the local bureau
but those of Portland, Tacoma. and Los
Angeles. It is said, will be invoked. The
coast jobbers will be asked to mi
common cause with the railroads to
present the strongest possible case be
fore the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion which for the first time In Its
history, will convene on the coast to
rehear the cases of Spokane and Reno
on the ground.
The traffic managers of the trans
continental railroads have been In ses
sion for three days.
Vive bo.k pf 'Hctioa are published dally
la LLK couaU7.
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SPECIAL
Saml
RUSSIA RESORTS
TO USE OF KNIFE
Sends Assassin to Paris to
Kill Betrayer of Man Who
Sought Czar's Life.
NOW HE'S HIGH IN OFFICE
League Seeks Death of Mau Who
Exposed Harting, Plotter Against
Alexander III, Who Now
Heads the Secret Police.
PARIS, July 24. Jean Juarez. Social
ist leader In the Chamber of Deputies,
today publicly warned the French Gov
ernment that he had reason to believe
Dr. Dubrovin. president of the League
of Russian People, had sent emissaries
to Paris for the purpose of murdering
M. Bourtzeff, an exiled Russian revolu
tionist. Bourtzeff recently exposed General
Harting, chief of the Russian political
police In Paris, accusing him of being
the organizer of the dynamite plot
against Emperor Alexander III. The
charges were confirmed by the French
authorities and the expose came Just in
time to prevent General Hartlng's pro
motion to the Legion of Honor.
HAKTIXG FREE IX HIS TALK
Denounces Bourtzeff, Who Exposed
Him, as Base Tngrate.
ST. PETERSBURG. July 24. General
Harting, ex-chief of the Russian politi
cal police abroad, who recently was
denounced by M. Bourtzeff as being
Implicated in the plot to assassinate
Emperor Alexander HI, has been in
St. Petersburg for the last "two weeks
arranging his affairs. He has been re
tired from the police service at his
own request on an annual pension of
J2500.
In an Interview today. General Hart
ing, known also as Michael Landesen,
made the Important announcement that
Azeff, a leader of the Fighting Revolu
tionists and a noted police spy whom
the Russian police had been seeking
throughout the world. Is now in Russia
occupying an Important post in the so
called Third Section, or political police.
General Harting is residing In one of
the apartments maintained by the
police where they can meet the re
volutionary agents. He consented to
talk when convinced that he was recog
nized. He readily admitted his identity
with the Terrorist, Landesen, saying
that in early youth he sincerely be
lieved in the principles of terrorism
and went under the name of Landesen
In planning with others the assassi
nation of Alexander III, in 1890. He
denied, however, that he had betrayed
his comrades to the French police, as
M. Bourtzeff has charged.
His ideas changed after he secured
employment as a clerk in the embassy
at Paris. Later he was transferred to
the police service, but never was an
agent provocateur or traitor, citing as
proof of this his continued friendly re
lations with his old revolutionary ac
quaintances. He served the Russian
Government, he said, honorably and
faithfully and his services were recog
nized by commendation from high quar
ters on his retirement.
General Harting was very bitter against
Bourtzeff. who. but for General Harting.
according to the latter's assertion, would
have perished in a French or Russian
prison.
The French government had proposed
to expel Bourtzeff. On such occasion
General Harting had interposed and now
France is in possession of evidence that
Bourtzeff was hand in glove with the
active terrorists and had decided to ex
pel him.
General Harting talked about the
famous government agent, Azeff, who,
from an inside position in the councils
of the revolutionists for years had kept
the government informed on terrorist
plots against the Emperor and high of-rli-lals.
General Harting. who had longer
and more intimate relations with Azeff
than any one else, .declared that Azeff
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had never played a double game with the
government, nor sacrificed the life of a
single official to further his own ends.
He asserted that Bourtzeff's charge that
Azeff had participated In the assassina
tion of Von Plehve was absurd. Azeff
owed everything to Von Plehve and sin
cerely loved him.
Continuing. Harting delcared that Azeff
was clever, hard working and honest and
had repeatedly risked his life to serve
the government and that he was still
highly appreciated at St. Petersburg and
was now rendering valuable services,
though in what capacity he had no right
to state.
LOW INTEREST EXPECTED
State Board Waives Right to Buy
Astoria School Bonds.
ASTORIA, Or.. July 34. (Special.) In
accordance with the request of the local
school board the State Board of Land
Commissioners has waived its right to
purchase the $75,000 in bonds to be issued
by Astoria school district for the pur
pose of erecting a new high school build
ing, i
As the State Board has under the law,
the option of buying school district
bonds and fixing the interest at 6 per
cent, it is expected that the action of
the Board In waiving its right will re
sult in a material saving to the dis
trict for the reason that the Board be
lieve it can readily dispose of bonds
bearing not more than 44 or 5 per cent
interest.
While the detailed plans for the new
building have not been prepared the
structure will be 100x100 feet, two stories
high with a basement and will contain
16 school rooms in addition to an as
sembly hall, gymnasium, laboratory and
superintendent's ofllce.
Breach of Contract Charged.
ASTORIA. July 24. (Special.) A suit
has been filed in the Circuit Court by
W illiam O. Heller vs. the Ilwaco Mill A
Lumber Company. The complaint alleges
that on December 8, 1808, the defendant
enterd into a contract with the plaintiff,
whereby the defendant was to erect an
electric light plant at Ilwaco; that the
plaintiff was to operate the plant and
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Season Tickets, from Portland $4.00
Saturday-to-Monday Tickets $3.00
Five-Trip Commutation Tickets $15.00
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parties. The plaintiff asks for damages
in the sum of JOT0.
National Bank for Vale.
OREGONIAN NEWS BIT RE AU, Wash
ington. July 24. The application of EI
wood L. Clark, of Vale. Or., D. M. Bro
gan. J. F. Kelsey. L. J. Hadlcy and K. L.
Cole to organize the First National Bank
of Westfall, Or., with 5.00 capital, ha
been approved by the controller.
Tourists
prices are so low and terms
of the result.
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