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THE SUNDAY OREGON-IAN, PORTLAND. SEPTE3IBER 26, 1909. TAFT'S AUTHORITY REPLICAS OF TWO" FAMOUS SHIPS OF HISTORY WHICH WERE . "FEATURES OF GREAT WATER PARADE AT NEW YORK YESTERDAY. "TWO ARTS THAT MEET AS ONE" The Weavers . and" ; : The Tailors FIND THEIR SUPREME EXPRESSION IN Executive Tells Secretary to . Carry Out Own Ideas After Conference. Thinks " Husband's Alienation mmm mmmm Suit Against Shonts Is Persecution. mfwm IR4S4 rvi. -;-.-. : - .5 ; PINCHOT POLICY USELESS DENIES ALL ACCUSATIONS pmm MRS. HfPSCH SAYS SHE IS HARASSED BEHIND BALL1NGEH ' . 1 i.V&':k;i;Jl:':V:'3 Declares Some Mi. "late lias Been Made and She J -Not Woman Mentioned In Charge IU claims Divorce at Reno. RENO. Nev.. Sept. 25. (Special.) Al leging that her husband. Frederick F. Hlpsch. Is -only -trying- to harass her and bring- -her name Into undesirable notoriety. Mrs. A. .U Hlpsch today made a complete denial of the charges con tained In the suit against Theodore P. Shonts for alienation of affections. "I don't want to be interviewed; I have nothing to say." declared Mrs. Hipach with a stamp. When shown a telegram from New York containing her husband's state ment on the Shonts suit, Mrs. Hlpsch branded the charges as "all rot." "I am not the person meant In that telegram." she continued In a burst of tears. "There Is absolutely no truth In that report; there is not the slightest foundation for such, a charge. This Is the first 1 have ever heard the least intimation of such an action by my husband. "The only explanation I can give Is that my hushand is resorting to such a means to harass me and get my name into publicity. It his method of cruelty to me. If it Is true that he has ever started such a suit. . "I must believe there Is some mis take in that report, as it Is all news to me. I stopped In Reno for a day to see the city on my way to the North west. I thought I would visit the gold camp in Goldfield. but I was told it would not he an opportune time. "I have not consulted a lawyer re garding a divorce and may never be in Reno again. ' I am out here visiting friends." Mrs. Hlpsch left Reno tonight for the West. -tihe registered at the Riverside Hotel -as "Mrs. A. L. Hlpsch." SALEM YOUTH STRANDED Induced to Go to Alaska, He Finds Himself Out of Money. SAL. EM. Or.. Sept. 23. (Special.) Lee Unruh, a Salem young man. is one of the destitute Americans at Nome, to whose relief a Government revenue cut ter has been dispatched. Vnruh and other young men In this vicinity were employed by the Alaska Improvement & Development Company, with offices at that time In the Cham ber of Commerce. Portland. The men were required to pay the company J100 each, in return for which they received tlOO worth of the company's stock, a promise of $2. SO a day cash and a bonus for a period of 9i) days of 12.50 a day In the capital stock of the company. Friends of the Salem young men who went Into the scheme report that when the men reached Alaska they found nothing to do. and that the company was not prepared to carry out Its agree ment with them, t'nruh's father this week telegraphed his son money with which to return home. KERR GETS $800 DAMAGES Condemnation Knit Is Concluded at Oregon City. OREGON CITr. Or., S?pt. 25. (sJpeciaJ.) The Jury' In the condemnation suit of the Beaverton & Wills-burg Railroad Company" against Casper "Kerr and wife this afternoon brought In a verdict of io) forKerr. The case wait on trial two days -before Judge Campbell.- The Tall road company offered Kerr $250 for his land and f0 additional as damage, but he asked for tMO. State Senator Hedges and Carter & Dufur appeared for Kerr and the com pany was repn-sented by R. A. Inciter and Franklin T. Griffith. The condemna tion suit of the-same company against the Bonntl family will be tried before a jury next Friday. The -case is very similar to the on, that was concluded today. - - WATER SUPPLY IS IMPURE - i y Indian Camp Spring Is Source of Typhoid V'ever. ORBUOS UTf, nr. S. pt. 2S.f9p.clal.) The exiHtence"- of vcnU cass of typhoid fever in Oregon City during the last three weeks has resulted in an analysis of the water that came from a spring on the Indian .Camp In the South Knd of tl city. lr. J. W. Norris. County Health Officer, secured samples of the water and sent them to Dr. R. C. Yenney, secretary of the 9tate Board of Health, and they wer given to l'r. Ralph Matfon, the bacteriologist, for examination. He reporLa finding bacillus In the fluid and as a consequence the spring will be ordered closed. ' . FALL DOWN CELLAR KILLS" George Reynolds Meets Tragic Death' Near Old Fort Lyon. 1. t CALDWKL.I Idaho, Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) Word was" received here today of the death of George Reynolds, at the Mirk Hart ranch, on Cow Creek, near Old Fort Lyon, in Oregon. " Reynolds, gun In hand, was leaving the hoik?e when he stepped down a cellar way, the door having been toft open, and struck on his head and shoulders, break ing his neck. He was a. stranger arid there were no papers on his person or hi his possession to designate where .he came from, - He was buried at Jordan Valley. - HIS DOCTORS ARE HOPEFUL Judge Williams' Condition In changed He May Recover. The condition'of Judge'WIlllama prac tically remained unchanged at Good Sa maritan. . Hospital throughout yesterday and last ir'sht.-' The attending physicians ielleve the aged Jurist will r cover. - . j ht -: :-ti.xK ' -'I yLLj'-'' : :- I Pft' r ;- X' ' "AW IKS Hi-Cll Wrn xm I ' Jtf"- ' f . lt ! ;ir' ? , - 1 I . - -jrr .-'vi-- '"'- " ' v..v-:-'"'':r)':iw-i.v.'- . . v . I y .'tJ:,..v,m; i.,;v.iwViwii' ,.jysK:': .": .. r' 1 .m.. r . I li 77iOS" S7O0JV. ii - ii 11 ; VI !- '.'Il l El II ill I III ? III I III - 1 I ,-.4 ; J. J, i J! - J-nU-skf. iP , ill I III ... . J it J t: : r, r.T. .:rr-r'rrffty v,Ej3M(:;c: fcx -S : ; t xfJ I 1 Lr3 NEWTORKJUBLAHT Millions See Naval Pageant Hudson River. in NATIONS VIE WITH AMERICA Foreigners Send Battleships to Take Part in Gotham's Celebration. (Quaint Craft Collide, "out Suffer Little Damage. (Continues From F1rt Pile.) , Moon and th Clermont left St. George. Staten Island, and the events of the day began. The quaint craft were greeted by a deafening outburst of whistles on the rteamern that dotted the uppor bay so thickly that their pilots had to pro ceed with the utmost caution. ' Tlw Clermont, after reaching open wator. cast olf her .tow. black smoke brlched from her near-antiquated funnel and her uncovered paddle wheels beat the choppy waves of the harbor as she chugged alcng. puffing and wheeling, at the rate of five miles an hour. Hudson's shlo, although In tow, started with all sails set and soon was able to dlnoense with the tug. A favorable breeze caught her canvas, the tow line was cast off and with cheers from the thou sands watching from, the Staten Island shore und the surrounding boats, the two little vessels proceeded under their own power. Then occurred an accident, for which apparently both vessels were to blame. When off the St. George ferry landing at the north end of Staun Island, some thing went wrong with the machinery of the Clermont and he came to a sudden Stop. The pilot of the Half Moon tried to steer, clear but failed and she "truck the Clermont broadside abaft the paddle wheel. Immediately all sails on the Half Moon were dropped and the escorting iur hur ried to her side. T le lermont's captnln. Ulster' Davis, was shouting orders; but Fulton's boat rould move neither for ward nor backward. Slowly the tug pulled the Half Mood away. A hasty examination, however showed that the damage was trifling. The ornamental work of the Half Moon mi smashed nearly, to th water line and 16 feet of the Clermont's rail was bcr.t in and considerable paint was scratched from the port side. Saiis were sojn hoijted again aboard the Half Moon and she proceded to Stapleton. The Cleimont droi-ped anchor off St. George to await the. start of the naval parade. Naval Parade Sljrluly. The naval parade went through sub s'antially as planned and in sightly and noble order. Once in the shelter of Manhattan Island, the Clermont cut off her tug and finished her course to the water gates and passed the official ' reviewing stands under her own steam, but the little Half Moon, her sails furled, her 17th-century poop loom ing high above the ships of much heavier tonnage, and her broad orange ensign streaming bravely behind her, was as sisted at the water gates. The exercises culminated with the presentation of the Half Moon to the commission by the Dutch envoys. This ceremony was formal and furnished a picturesque climax as the living shade of Henry Hudson in vel vet and ruff grasped the hand of the descendant of Robert Fulton. As they stood there the thunder of the guns of the warships re-echoed back from the hills and far nj the river. The assembly In the reviewing stand was full with picturesque and brllTiant International Interest. Diplomats oil1 Hand. BeBlde the somber frock of the Amer ican and Japanese officials there showed out the gold dresa of the Brit ish Admiral, the red dress of the Turk ish Minister and the Jeweled cap of Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese representative. Up a gold path laid by the descend ing sun came the Half Moon, behind her the rakish Clermont. Both anchored and S. H. Van Welgen, president of the Dutch Commission, made the speech of pYesentation. Then Lieutenant Lamb, representing Hudson, came ashore and was received with great formality by General Stewart L. Woodford, chairman of the commission, who greeted him as one risen from the grave. Next came the modern Robert Fulton, Impersonated by his descendant, Robert Butler, of Bridgeport, Conn. He also was greeted with great dignity, a ceremony to which Prince Kuni, of Japan, through his interpreter, contrib uted by extending the congratulations of his country and the felicitations of his sovereign. The night naval parade was aban doned. Ships were still coming down stream at sunset and the prospect of further delays, complicated by the con fusion of darkness In the lower har bor, was too formidable to face. But millions flocked to see the Illumination. It Is said that the Chicago Woman's Club is forced to spend $1500 for a new cloak room on account of the present extravagant Ire ot hats. Fischer Pianos The Wiley B. Allen Co. On Pretext of Saving Water Power Sites Much Land Far From Any . Stream Was Withdrawn; This Balllngcr Turns Back Again. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 25. When the Reclama tion Service could not show authority for ' withdrawing lands for "power sites" and It was found much of the land withdrawn could not be utilized for reclamation immediately, and when therefore .2,000,000 acres thus "With drawn had been put back Into the pub lic domain, Plnchot went direct to the President, and there lodged complaint against Secretary Ballinger, charging him with undertaking to. disrupt the Roosevelt conservation policy, especial ly as It applied to water power. The President sent for Ballinger, told him of Plnchot's complaint, and asked what he proposed to do about It. Bal linger satisfactorily explained his posi tlon, and was told to proceed along the lines which he considered proper. This he did, and wifhln six weeks began the re-wlthdrawal of such lands as, upon careful examination, were found essen tial to the protection of power sites, Superfluous lands were not included, From May 24 to the present moment. Secretary Ballinger has continued, pending action by Congress, to make withdrawal of sufficient areas of laiyls to protect feasible power sites on th public domain, and It Is only fair to say that the number of sites which he lias uiacutereu ana pruiccieu, auu iw total horsepower which he has guard ed, greatly exceeds all that Pinchot sought to accomplish in an extravagant, reckless manner. Pinchot Sets Up Howl. But th minute that Secretary Ballin ger revoked the power-site withdrawals which the Reclamation Service had made at Pinchot's request, Pinchot set up howl. The assurance he received from the President was not satisfactory. Pin chot did not rush into print with inter views, but newspaper and magazine writers who have Joined with Pinchot to protect the Interests of the whole peo ple" were called into consultation, and soon there was spread broadcast over the country reports that Secretary Batiin ger was an instrument in the hands of the water power trust, and was turning over to them the valuable water powers owned by the Government. It was open ly charged that the- trust was ready to pounce down and grab every avatianie power site that had been released Dy Ballinger'g cancellation or the i'lncnot withdrawals. Mr. Pinchot conferred freely with the newspaper men whom he could trust, and the scare stories that went out to the public emanated mostly from the Forest Service. It is true that Secretary Ballinger can celed the Plnchot power withdrawals at various dates from March 20 to April lb, 1909, and did not make new withdrawals until May 24 and ' later. But whatever mtv have been the wisdom or iacK oi wisdom In leaving these' power sites sub ject to filing for a period of six weeks or more, the fact remains, as borne out By the records, that during that entire time not a single power site was filed upon; not a single time did the alleged water power trust ' put In appearance. Ballinger Xot With Trust. This is proof positive that Secretary Ballingef was not acting for any power trust, for had the charge been true, that so-called trust certainly would have taken advantage of the opportunity which was offered by Ballinger's order of restora tion. The fact that not a single wator power filing was made, and not a single power site acquired under any law, seems to disprove the declaration of the Pinchot followers that this powerful "monopoly" is taking advantage of every opportunity to grab attractive water power possibilities In the West. But the fact that no filings were made during the period In question was noth ing to the Pinchot exploiter."!. It was nothing to Pinchot himself. He became very wrathy at Secretary Ballinger on account of his course with regard to the whole matter, and while in Washington wrote the famous speech which he de livered at the Irrigation Congress last August, the purport of which w.is never for a moment misunderstood. After he had written that speech. Mr. Uinchot read It to some of his friends. He as told it was highly inflammatory and likely to embarrass the Administration, and' was advised to tone It down. He declined to mnko any alteration what ever, saving it was his purpose to arouse the Irrigation Congress in the hope that his speech would result in a change of policy in the Interior Depart ment. r ' He said, in effect, before leaving Wash ington that he was going to Spokane to make trouble, and he felt confident, if the congress stood behind him. that he would gain the support of the Adminis tration, and that Ballinger would in turn be curbed. If nothing more. Newell Loyal to Ballinger. More than this, before he left for Spo kane Mr. Plnchot urged Director Newell, of the Reclamation Service, to Join him in his fight on Ballinger. He laid bare his plans to Newell, and said that Newell had even greater grievances than he him self, in that Secretary Ballinger s course with respect to water-power sites was a direct slap at the Reclamation Service; in that the old withdrawals had been made on the recommendation of that service. Pinchot assured Newell that the people would stand by him. and expressed the view that the Administration would hard ly dare dismiss him, even if he should show Insubordination towards his chief. But Newell turned a deaf ear to Pln chot's entreaties. He took the position that the Secretary of the Interior .prop eriv haned the Dolicies of the Reclama tion Service, as well as other bureaus of that departrqent, and his superior officer having directed a certain course with re gard to power sites, it was not Incumbent upon him, a subordinate official, to criti cise br condemn. Pinchot became greatly Incensed with Newell because the latter refused to Join him In his fight on Bal linger, and left for Spokane declaring his purpose to make his fight single-handed. If need be. The attack was made; It was Ignored by Secretary Ballinger, but was answered by some of Balllnger's friends. The Sec retary was content to stand by his record and the law. He preferred, he said, to be Judged by his acts rather than his words. And he proceeded quietly along the course he had mapped out for himself. Meanwhile ex-Governor Pardee, one of the extreme Pinchot supporters. Jumped into the arena, assailing Bal- llmvmmm CLOTHIERS Grant Phegley, Manager linger and lauding- Plnchot. Simul taneously the Montana water-power grab story was sprung In a Spokane paper. It was written in Washington by a newspaper supporter of Plnchot's, on data which he gathered from Forest Service sources. That sensation was exploded when Director Smith, of the Geological Survey, cited the facts and utterly disproved and discredited both the story and its author. But through it all Secretary Ballinger said nothing. Yet he ' kept on withdrawing" water powers that Pinchot never heard of, a:id is still doing so. Next came the Cunningham coal-land case in Alaska, but before passing to that a brief explanation of the differ ence between conservation of water- powers by Pinchot and by Ballinger is needed. Along the Owyhee, River fcec retary Ballinger, by the intelligent withdrawal of 60,000 acreS has pro tected even more- water-power sites than Mr. Pinchot had guarded with a withdrawal of 379,520 acres. Mr. Bal linger withdrew only the lands imme diately adjoining the river, and then only at points where there Is a fall in the river and there are possibilities of power development. His witnarawais were made in the smallest legal dlvi sions, 40-acre tracts. Useless Lands AVithdrawn. The Pinchot withdrawal was made by townships, or quarter-townships, and in some instances embraced land six and eight miles removed from the river; lands that under no circumstances could be useful in protecting sites on the stream Of the 379,520 acres with drawn on recommendation of Pinchot, over 300,000 acres were needlessly withdrawn, and might safely have been left open 'o entry, and now are open. But this is not the only difference. The Pinchot withdrawals were made without data as to the conditions of the country or the streams. A drafts man 1n the Reclamation Service took L,and Office maps of the various West ern states, laid off outlines of territory which, to his mind, would protect vari ous rivers, and the withdrawals were made in conformity with those maps. Land Office maps are drawn on a small scale, and townships are the Smallest subdivisions shown. That Is one rea son why these original withdrawals were made on the township basis. But not even ordinary care was used in selecting the townships for withdrawal. and In a number of Instances whole townships, not even touched by a stream, were withdrawn "for the con servation of water powpr. in otner Instances, some of the withdrawn town ships are flat, and the stream crossing them has no drop, hence no possibili ties for power development. Yet those ands were segrctraterl at Plnchot s re quest "tor the conservation or water power." This is the reeond of a series of three arlicles describing the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy and giving a History or tne causes that led up to It. The first of thew articles appeared In Thursday's Oregonian. the third will be printed In an early Issue. Prunes Are Not Damaged. VANCOUVER. Wash., 3ppt. 25. (Spe cial.) "The prunes are past all danger of telng damaged by rain," said A. J. Bigham. a prominent fruit-grower, this morning. 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DRYING BEGINS AT SALEM Crop In Marion County Is Heavy, but Fruit Small In Size Partial Returns Received on Re cent Shipments. SALEM. Or., Sept. 25. (Special.) The Independent prune pool this afternoon authorized w. C. Tillson & Co. to sell a portion of the crop of the pool. The price has not yet been given out. The pool controls about 60 carloads of the fruit. - Drying has commenced and during the next week will be well under way. The fruit is dropping slowly and in most orchards is found to be small In size. Discussing the prune situation this after noon, H. S. Gile, of the Willamette Valley Prune Association, said: "The pulse of tiie Eastern market ap pears to be a little better than it was, but there has been but little buying of any consequence. The heavy buying Is usually done In September, but this year is an exception. The crop is heavy, but not remarkable. Tho fruit Is small and sticks to the trees pretty well. Perhaps a warm spell following these showers will help the situation." W. C. Tillson, of W. C. Tillson & Co., said: "Drying as far as It has pro gressed, shows that there are very few 30s, a small proportion of 40s and a heavy percentage of 5ns and over. The crop' Is heavy, but I think the fruit is smaller In size than ever before. This Is due, I think, to the dry Summer and the fact that the trees are heavily loaded. So far, the Eastern people do not seem to be willing to pay a price for Oregon prunes that the grower is willing to ac cept." only partial returns have been received from the H3 carloads of green prunes shipped east by the Salem Fruit Union, and which were purchased by the Karl Fruit Company on a guarantee of 40 cents per crate of 24 pounds to the grower. Out of this 40 rents, however. the grower has the expense of packing and commission to pay, amounting to about 20 cents per crate, so that It is hoped that the final reports from the Eastern markets will give the grower something over and above the guaranteed price. Kach of the 6.1 cars contained 1000 crates, making a total of 24,000 pounds. The shipping of Willamette Valley prunes to the East in a green condition is an experiment and the result Is being eagerly awaited by growers throughout the state. Thirteen Cases Decided. OLTMPIA, Wash.. Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) Thirteen decisions were handed down today by the State Supreme Court, and It Is announced that between now Between Fourth and Fifth Jawelera and Silversmiths and October 11, when the next trial term begins, decisions in about 50 other cases will be handed down. SETTLERS REJECT OFFER Refuse to Raise Assessment Government Project. for NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Sept. 25. (Special.) 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