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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 6, 1910. SHALE RDGK GRAFT AMAZES CHICAGO Every Contract Tainted, Says .. Member of Grand Jury ' - Which Indicts 14. CITY'S LOSS $30,000,000 City Officials anil Contractors' and Their ' Kmployes -Included In Sweeping Denunciation In quirjXot "Completed.' CHICACiO, Feb. 5. (Special.) Four teen indictments wtre returned today by the January grand jury In the two Kraft gcundalH arising out of the con struction of the Lawrence-avenue in tersection sewer one email corner 01 the carnival of crime and thievery in the City Hall in which $30,000,000 has been stolen from the people in the last two years, according - to a state ment made by a grand juror. Kour of the Indictments were in "shale rock graft" in section U and 10 were reindictments in the concrete "graft" in section N. "Taxpayers have been mulcted of J30.Ouu.0UO in the last two and one half years. Conditions in the City Hall are rotun," is the statement credited to a member of tlte grand jury. very Contract Tainted. 'Every contract that" came before us was tainted with graft. Testimony revealed to us an orgy of extravagance and reckless expenditure. Instead jt the city officials trying to save money for the taxpayers, their sole purpose seems to have been to see how far they 'could go how much they could make .the- city pay for everything it bought.'-' Indictments are found against four principal defendants John Krickson, City Jnirineer: Michael H. McGovern, contractor; Paul Redieske, ex-Deputy Commissioner of Public. Works, and Kalpli A. Honnell, Assistant City Kn ' gineer. All except Erickson were in, dicted a short time ago in connection with an alleged attempt to defraud the city of about $1:60.000 In the build ings of "section N" of tho Lawrence avenue sewer.- The "shalerock" scan dal also was unearthed In the con struction of "section L" of the same sewer. The city paid the McGovern Company more than $45,u00 for the removal of a large tiuantity of so-called shalerock. Upon examination' by experts, it was stated that the "shalerock" was noth ing more than hard clay, and offered little obstruction. McGovern was the contractor In charge of the construction, and the man who was paid for the removal of the "rock." .Bonnell, certified that It was rock, and Krickson approved Bon nell's decision. Itedieske then put his stamp of approval on the work and the city paid the money. I'rieiulsllip Prompted Gift. Seven others Included In the grand jury Indictments are Otto Nlehoff, Max I-andKiith and George Moore, employes of the McGovern Company, and John C. Paikes. Richard Tiurke, John McNich ols and Joseph Maher, city employes. itobert Green, a foreman for the Mc Govern Company, who was indicted last week, was not Included In the second Indictments because, it Is said, be testified before the grand jury. In its ltnnl report the grand Jury stated that it had heard 195 cases, of ifhich It returned 141 true bills and 45 no hills and passed 10 other cases to the nxt grand jury. It is said that another grand Jury will be summoned to continue the investigations. PARIS FLOOD IS OVER Streets Are Clear of Water and Ac tivities Resumed. PAKIS. Keh. 5. The river Seine Is today more than 13 feet below its flood maximum and the city has begun to 'assume Its normal appearance. Tho streets are clear of water and the wreckage left by the flood is rapidly disappearing. Above and below the. city the waters have returned to the river bed and the householders are cleaning and drying their homes. Train service In all di rections Is being restored and some of the factorles have resumed operations. In many quarters the gas and electric light service has been renewed, but it will be many days before the trans portation facilities. telegraph, tele phone and other public utilities are In complete operation. The hospitals and other places of refuge, as well as the soup kitchens, continued crowded today and the dis tribution of food and clothing proceeded systematically. Premier Brland. presenting the flood situation before the cabinet today, ex pressed the belief that the effects of the disaster would be somewhat less grave than had been anticipated. He felt confident that the measures pre scribed to prevent an epidemic would be effective. The cabinet decided to ask Parliament to grant new credits for the furtherance of the work of res toration. Tomorrow, by agreement, the author ities and relief societies will dlscon tiue the promiscuous distribution of relief supplies, confining the list of those- aided In each arrondissement to the residents in that particular com mune. Many industrial concerns are allowing thi ir employes half pay for the time they are in idleness. ART CRITIC UNDER BONDS Carew Martin Charjreil AYitta Korgry and Kmbezzlement. l-ONPOX. Feb. 6. Carew Martin, widely known as an art critic, was re manded in the .Bow-street court today, charged wit h embezzlement and forg ery. The prosecutors are the directors of the Royal Society of British Artists, of which body Martin has been vice president and secretary since 1S98; It is chained that he has robbed the society of larjce sums. He was ad mitted to bail under a $5000 bond. Mar. tlnWaa born in New York of British parents, in J SCO. MINERS MAY WALK OUT Strike April I Is Threatened Vnless Wujriv soale Is Adopted. TOLKI0. O.. Feb. 5. President Lewis of the United Mineworkers said today tht there would be a general suspen sion of work In the pltujaiaoua- field V" ' of the country April 1, .if agreements on the wage scale were not reached ry that date. This, will not Include Canada and four Western States in which the present contracts do not expire April 1, according to Peter Patterson, of Pernie, B. C, member of the international ex ecutive board of the United Mineworltr era. This "board'met here today. President Lewis having notified the members When the wage conference adjourned last night, in a deadlock over the ad mission, of the Illinois miners. Lewis said the situation in the central com petitive field would not be considered, and that no statement would be given out after the meeting. "The situation as it now stands will be taken up by me Individually," he said. The four states excepted are Wash ington. Montana, Colorado and Wyoming-. In these states contracts do not expire until- September. In British Columbia and Alberta contracts con tinue until April, 1311. Nova Scotia is now involved in a strike. "We will not violate our agreements with the operators." said Mr. Patterson, "and new contracts cannot be negoti ated until the present ones expire." WORK DEMANDED IN BILL STARTLING MEASVUE MAY BE . BEFORE PARLIAMENT. If Municipality Does Not Furnish Job, Defendant Must Be Kept on Taxes, Is Provision. LONDON, Feb.- S-(SpeciaI.) Uneasi ness is expressed In many quarters on account of the determination of the labor party to press tho "right to work" bill before the new Parliament. The meas ure caused small concern In the old Par liament because the labor party was too weak to compel respect. Though the party is weaker numerically now. It Is much stronger because of the need .of the radicals for votes to support the ministry. Expressed in a sentence, the right to work biil consists of a proposal to force local authorities to find work for unemployed In several jurisdiction. Even in these days of so-called revo lutionary proposals it is doubtful if a more radical scheme was ever presented to the House of Commons. It requires Borough and County Council to keep registers of unemployed, and if work cannot be found an applicant and his dependents must be maintained at pub lic expense for sMx months. Residence place entitles a citizen to apply for work which must be provided In six weeks or the citizen dependent will begin to live on taxes. Moreover, work must afford wages and hours of labor not lower than those of the standard In that district. Conservatives calculate that this bill. If It becomes a law, will cost the country more than 30,000,000 ($150,000,OOOJ . an nually. TARIFF TREATY PASSED German Vice - Chancellor Tells Wherein His Government Won. BERLIN, Feb. 8. The Reichstag without debate today adopted unmodi fied the bill approving the Govern ment's tariff arrangement with the United States. But for the protest of a few of the extreme Conservatives the measure would have passed all three readings unanimously. Vice-Chancellor Delbrueck, in intro ducing the bill, gave a brief recital of the course of the negotiations and said the United States had demanded a number of concessions, the granting of which would have been an encroach ment on Germany's legislative and po lice autonomy. Particularly was this true In respect to the veterinary po lice regulations. He said: "It was our first duty to leave the United States In no doubt that would Interpose insuperable resistance to such attempts to attack our legisla tion and policing measures In connec tion with the tariff negotiations." Discussing the bill Itself, the Vice Chancellor pointed out that the Ger man Government had given the agree ment such form that. If the United States failed to adhere to the conces sions made, Germany could shape her course accordingly. Herr Delbrueck further assured the Reichstag that the Government could expect that Germany's constitutional relations with the United States would guarantee a conciliatory and broad minded observance of the agreement- GRIDIRON HEATED FOR TWO (Continued Ffom First Vage. ) were fairly roasted In another skit por traying the "Infant Industries" the Lum ber, Whisky, Beef. Coal and Tobacco Trusts seeking protection from a number of ugly-looking customers Identified as "The Ultimate Consumers." This was a verse from one of the chants of the trust magnates, to the air of a popular song: "Oh, the ultimate consumer always has to come to us; "Cause he hasn't any other place to so. "Ho will rise In indignation; he will make an awful fuss. Cause he hasn't any other place to g-o 'Why are all our guests assembled here to night In g-lau array? "Why do Congressmen keep coming; to our city, day by day? "Why did Roosevelt grab a gun and beat It clear to Afrlcay? "Cause he hadn't any other place to go." "Shirt-Sleeve" Diplomacy Portrayed. The new order of things In the State Department was disclosed In a skit illus trative of a gathering of Secretary Knox and his faithful assistants and bureau chiefs of recent creation. There was an Under Secretary and a "Secretary or Nearsighted Affairs" and one of "Far sighted Affairs." and there was a won derful exhibition of "Shirt-Sleeve Diplo macy," resulting in the summary settle ment of the Nicaraguan question and the Chinese Railroad imbroglio and other matters that have engaged the attention of the diplonTatic branch of the Govern ment for the past few months. Among the guests were President Taft, Vice-President Sherman, the Chinese Minister, Chang Yiu Tang, Senators Bourne, Oregon; Carter, Mon tana; Guggenheim, Colorado; Represen tatives Clark. Missouri; Rucker, Colo rado; J. A. Dreckons, Cheyenne, Wyo.; L. R. Glavis, Portland. Or.; William Guggenheim. New York; Admiral J. N. Hemphill, Assistant Secretary Hill. Brigadier-General Humphrey, c. N. Jameson. Peking, China, and W. R. Wheeler, San Francisco. More Join Machinists' Strike. SOUTH BETHLEHEM. Pa., Feb. 6. Committees representing the 1200 striking machinists of the Bethlehem Steel Works who quit work yesterday because the company refused to pay them time and a half for extra work, succeeded today in inducing about 400 more machinists to join them. The leaders estimate that between ISOO and 1S00 men are now out. The spe cial policemen employed by the company have had no trouble In maintaining order. The strikers were disappointed with the result of their Interview yesterday after noon with Charles Schwab, president of the company. Mr. Schwab asked the men to return to work and then submit their grievances, promising thwn an adjust ment In 10 days. This the men refused i,to do. GQHL CASE STRONG Jacobsen Tells Story of Boasts - by Accused. KILLING WORK OF FIEND Sailors Cnion Agent Charged With Luring Victims on Hunting Trips and Shooting Them From Cabin. Window. Continued Prom First Pass-) lng -was burned. It --was occupied by the Aberdeen ship Chandlery Company which Gohl had declared he would put out of business. Gohl Is a man of vio lent temper and unrestrained anger. y Any one who crossed his will, whether iin union matters or .not, was promised a speedy death and Gohl invariably re peated his threats to other people. He boasted to several people that he would kill Hoffman and Hedberg and upon his "death list" were Included many promi nent people, even the Mayor fing one of these whose life he threat.fted. Hedberg Visitor at CaUin. The search for a motive In the mur der of Hedberg has brought out the fact that Hedberg was alive in his company. This duck cabin, which was built on a scow and. moved from place to place, has developed into six cabins in the reports circulated, about the city during the recent excitement, but the police declare there is but one cabin and that It had been moved to the different locations. Gohl often in vited sailors and other people to go on hunting excursions with him and in many Instances this i sthe last that has been heard of them. Locally the man is regarded as a mental pervert with a lust for power and a desire to make all men fear him. Food Is Almost Gene. When the Victoria arrived at Iliamna Bay the food of the castaway's was al- most exhausted. They came through their ordeal well, the chief suffering being from the Intense, cold, the tem perature on many days falling to 40 degrees below zero. Tents, blankets, plentiful clothing and abundance of wood supplied from the timbered hills were insufficient to keep the people warm. There were 30 members of the crew and eight passengers. , Signal Light Seen. Captain McGilvray, of the steamer Portland, which arrived from Alaska several days ago, said today, after learning of the wreck of the Farallon, that early on the morning of January 20, just after the Portland left Sel dovia, on the southeast shore of Cook Inlet, he saw a signal light at sea, and headed the Portland in the direction of the flash. However, it was not re peated, and in the darkness the Port land could see no vessel in distress. Would Not Alarm by Report. Captain McGilvray, on his arrival here, made no report of chasing this phantom light, thinking his vague story would only increase the anxiety of the people already distracted over the missing Farallon. Now Captain McGilvray thinks the signal flame may have been made by the small boat which put out from Iliamna to seek assistance. Hedberg was quite Intimate with Gchl and had been on several hunting excursion with him. He may have known of the disappearance of other men, and, like other people in the city, have suspected Gohl. One of the rea sons given by Gohl in his boasts that he would get people was that they "had something on him." "Dead Men Tell NoTales.' 'I will put him where he can't talk," he often said in talking of men whom he was set against. Immediately after Gohl's arrest scores of accusations were made against him by people in the city though the. members of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific stood solidly by him, and It is reported that the union engaged a San Francisco attorney to come here and defend the man. This cannot be confirmed. . In the County Jail today Gohl de clared that If any attempt was made to press the charge against him he would divulge secrets about men "higher up" In the union that would cause the greatest scandal organized labor had ever known. Immediately after this threat the accusations so freely mada against him in some quarters ceased. Public Cannot See Gohl. The county authorities have forbid den any one to see Gohl, and the report of his utterances comes through at tendants at the pail. The Prosecuting Attorney, Will Campbell, also refuses to discuss the case before the prisoner Is aralgned in court. Gohl's attorney, A. M. Abel, of this city, said today that the first move he would make in the case would be to seek a change of venue to Lewis or Thurston counties, so that his client may have a fair trial. Mrs. Gohl, speaking for her husband, gave out a statement this afternoon to the effect that Wilson Buttner, the at torney 'who first took Gohl's case and who was reported to have withdrawn from it. did not do so willingly but was discharged by his client for cause. The search of the decolate reaches of the harbor near the mouth of Indian Creek continued today, but without the finding of Hoffman's body, which is now being sought by the authorities. Depu ties armed jwith long poles poked through the mud seeking a buried corpse. The search will be continued until all the shallower portions of the harbor have bean, gone over. Hedberg's body was buried . in Potter's field this afternoon, there being no ceremony of any nature held. Public Sentiment Cools. Public sentiment here Is gradually cooling and- it is not believed that Gohl has murdered all the men found in the bay during the last five years, as at first charged. A. C. Girard, ex-Coroner, who held of fice at the time of the tamoua "floater fleet" of 14 bodies three years ago. said today that he believed many of the bodies found were those of loggers and sailors who had beer? drugged and rob bed and then rolled from the wharves. "I examined the bodies minutely," he said, "and found no signs' of violence. It was also known at that time that knock out drops were used in some of the re sorts, and as nearly all the bodies found had the pockets of their clothing turned Inside out. I think they were the work of an organized gang of thieves. 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The stomach is constantly coming in contact with foreign substances, which Jt must reduce in form to give strength and health to the other organs of the body. , It is the commissary department of the human system and must furnish from such supplies as come to it all that such a system demands. If the stomach becomes deranged and cannot furnish all that is neces sary, it weakens the entire machinery of man - and is itself placed out of commission. It cannot cure itself be cause the curative powers of Nature receive their force from the stomach so that ,if the stomach Issues Imperfect nourishment it cannot receive perfect curative means for its own benefit, Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets impart all the power, vigor and strength neces sary to the stomach. They do the stomach's work and. without calling on this organ for assistance. If you would put your meal in a glass jar and with it place the correct amount amount of . Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets you could sit down and watch these little tablets digest the meal, as per fectly as the most .healthy stomach. This demonstration has been made In almost every state in the Union by these tablets, one grain of a single ingredient being capable of digesting 3000 grains of food. If you have the slightest doubt about your stomach, go to the nearest drug store and buy a box of Stuart's Dys pepsia Tablets, price 50c, or send us your name and address and we will immediately send you by mail a trial package free. Address F. A. Stuart Co., 150 Stuart Bldg.. Marshall, -Mich. strict surveillance , we have had no floater fleets.' I know Gohl personally, and he made several threats to kill cer tain men while he was talking to me. Relieves Gohl Killed Hofrman. "The only one of these men that he told me he would kill who Is now miss ing is Hoffman, and I have no doubt that Gohl killed him. In fact, he boasted to another man here that he had sent Hoffman out In a boat and then shot at hfm from his hut. I think the man was Insane and that his main motive was to Inspire fear and make himself apepar a great man. -He never spent much money and I do not believe he Is rich, so if rob bery wahls motive he made but little at the g?me.' Mr. Girard never analyzed the stomachs of any of the bodies to trace poison, be cause when recovered they were too far decomposed. LOVELORN LAD ARRESTED PARENTS SEEK TO CURE IXFAT. UATION FOR WIDOW. Juvenile Court Releases 1 7-Year-Old on Promise That He Will Discontinue Suit. COLUSA, Cal., Feb. 5. (Special.) Because he persisted in courting a rich widow, after being admonished by his parents not to do so, and because he had planned to elope with her to Mexico, Harry George, 17 years old. was arrested on complaint of his father, James George, a prominen't farmer of the East Side, tried in the Juvenile Cotfrt in this city, found guilty of dis obedience and sentenced to a term in the Preston School of Industry. Sentence was suspended, however, on condition that young George cease courting the widow. - Mrs. John Caney. who owns a ranch near that of the Georges, won the boy's heart, according to testimony given at the hearing. She recently purchased a ranch in ' Mexico, and to this, it is asserted, she and her boy lover were to go. She 'is said to be 15 years older than George, but the infatuation of each for the other has defied all efforts of relatives and friends to disrupt. MOUNTAIN CLIMB IS AIM Barrlll and Browne to Try McKinley From Northern Side. TACOMA, Feb. 5. Thirty pack horses are being engaged here by Jack Browne, brother of Belmore Browne, for the climb of Mount McKinley In the Spring. Ed Barrill, Fred Printz and Professor Parker, of the University of Kansas, are to be In the party. Belmore Browne and Edward Barrill were with Dr. Cook on his trip to Mount Mc Kinley. NEW YORK, Feb. 5. B. H. Browne, of the Explorers' Club, has announced that an expedition to the summit of Mount McKinley will start in the Spring. The expedition will approach the mountain from the north by motor boat, and proceed up Cook Inlet- FAfiALLON L0ST;s5 MISSING (Continued From First age.) glneer, W. B. Duke: first assistant en gineer, F. G. Tracy; second assistant engineer, J. Hoffman; oilers, B. C. Brownfield and B, Kyle; firemen, S. Shepherd and Archie Morrison; chief steward, J. E. Farrell; chief cook. B. Edginton; second cook, C. Johnson; mess boy. Harry Baker; waiters, Ted Powell, F. Stacey and F. C. James; seamen, J. Morse, N N. Tonlngas, J. Chalmers, N. Johnson, C. H. Patterson, D. McKinley, Otto Nelson; watchman, M. Christie. Captain Fears for Men. CaptaHn Hunter in a aispatch re ceived tonight expresses fear that the men perished. , A cable dispatch to the Associated Press from Valdez to night says: "The Farallon went on a reef be tween Interkln Bay and Iliamna at 10 A- M. January 5. The passengers and crew, who got to shore in the ship's boats, lived in tents made of sails until they were taken off by the Vic toria on February 2. The Farallon :s not yet broken up, but is full of water and her keel- is gone. Although it Is unlikely that she can be saved, five of the craw are standing by ' the wredt" ' M!ii!i:iiiiiiiiiiii:iii;iii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii!iiiiiii!iiiii!ii!iiii!!iiiin A Most Remarkable (Clearance at Less Than Cost H 1w. The best selected line of Men's and Boys' Clothes in H V, - Portland you'll find at this store. Our stock is treble V- what it should be. 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Brandels had- complained yesterday of the delay of the Interior Department in forwarding these papers, and the com mittee decided this morning to dispose of them at once by fixing rules under which they could be examined by coun sel. Following a session of an hour. Chair man Nelson announced that the commit tee had adopted a resolution providing that the papers should remain in tho custody of the clerk, who would make a complete schedule of them and allow the attorneys to peruse them in his presence so as to determine which should be of fered In evidence. Postponement Is Refused. Mr. Brandels said he bad only a few hours to remain in the city and would like to begin inspection of the papers at once. Chairman Nelson said it would be necessary first for the clerk to make tne schedule. Senator Flint, however, of fered a compromise by suggesting that, as fast as the papers were scheduled, they should be ''turned over to the at torneys. This was agreed to. but it was announced that ' the attorneys alone should have access to the papers, and that no one else would be permitted In the room while they were examining them. Brandels said he would have to be absent from the city on February 10 and 11, and suggested that the hearing might go over until Monday, February 14. The committee, however, adhered to Its purpose to resume the hearings next Friday. The brief session today was marked Free Rheumatism Cure A Home Cure WU Be Given FREE by One Who Had It In the spring of 1S93 I was attacked by Muscular and Inflammatory Rheumatism. I suffered aa only thoaex who have It know, for over three year. I tried rem edy after remedy, and doctor after doc tor, but aucb. relief aa I received was only temporary- Finally I found a remedy that cured me completely, and it has never returned.- 1 have given It to a number who were terribly aftllcted and even bed-ridden with Rheumatism, and It effected a cure In every case. I will aend a free trial of this preclou remedy by mail, postpaid, to any sufferer who writes for it. Just fill out the cou pon below and mail It to me today. Mark H. Jackson, No. 482 Jame Street, Syracuse, N. Y. Xame Address JAHN 384 Yamhill Street. Hair on the face removed by elec tric needle; warts, moles by expert. Of Men's and Bovs' Clothing M by two interesting incidents, Gifford Pln chot making his first announcement In the case, and John Vertrees. of Nash ville, making his first appearance as chief counsel for Secretary Balllnger. Mr. Pln chot asked that Nathan A. Smythe. of New Tork, be added to the list of coun sel, as his personal representative, and that he be permitted to examine the pa pers. Representative Denby asked Mr. Pinchot to what angle of the case his testimony would be directed. "The story I have to tell," replied Mr. Pinchot, "Is my connection with conservation." Merchants Savings & Trust Company Statement of Condition at Close of Business JANUARY 31, 1910 . RESOURCES Loans and Discounts. $ 252.592.13 Bonds and Securities 168,457.99 Real Estate 1 39,553.43 Cash and Due from Banks . 140,803.36 $ 601,406.91 LIABILITIES Capital . $ 150,000.00 Undivided Profits 44,180.56 Deposits 407,226.35 $ 601,4061)1 Total Trusts ."$4,000,000.00 Increase in Deposit Since Nov. 16, '09,25.9 Per Ct. DIAMONDS Our great display merits your consideration, not only because of the enormous selection, but the qual ity and price as well. The Solitaire or fancy King, the moderately-priced or more expensive Brooch, or the most elaborately-designed Necklace they are all here for your consideration. 1 DIAMOND DBALHiS IN OREGON - 283 2VLOKKI50T $T. SPECIAL THIS Purity Is One Essential Feature of All Wines -and Liquors We Sell 8-year-old very choice Sunnybrook Rye or Bourbon Whisky, $4.50 value, this week only, per gallon $3.50 Extra fine old choice Port or Sherry Wine, $2.50 value, this week only, per gallon 51. 50 5-year-old fine Cognac Brandy, $4 value, this week only, gal. .$3.00 . NATIONAL WINE CO. FIFTH AND STARK PHONES MAIN 6499, A4499 DELIVERED. Mail orders will receive prompt attention. 35o will be charged for demijohns. ' H Sa e "And that includes the Alaska coal land cases and waterpower sites?" In terjected Senator Sutherland. "Yes." The committee agreed that Mr. Pin chot would not be called until after the . cross-examination of Mr. Glavis was con cluded, and adjournment was taken until Friday. The attorneys began immediate examination of the papers sent by the Interior Department. 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