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92 Pages Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXIX. NO. 12 PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CANNON SHORN, BUT RETAINED AS SPEAKER fHouseAmendsRulcs, Then Insurgents Break Ranks. SCENES WITHOUT PARALLEL Nine Republicans Join Demo crats in Vote to Declare Office Vacant. HOUSE ACTS ON CHALLENGE Efforts to Compromise Fail, Preceding Final Vote. "'UNCLE JOE" IS DEFIANT Pisorder of Day Has Xo .Precedent Since Civil War Caucuses to Be Called to Choose New - Committee on Kulcs. WASHINGTON". March 19. Joseph G. Cannon, of Danville. 111., is still Speaker of - the House of Representatives. But he lost today the ancient prestige and weapon of that office when the allied Republican insurgents and Democrats took from him not only the chairmanship of, but even membership in, the all- powerful committee on rules, the chief asset in his stock of power. Amid scenes of wildest disorder, for the like of which one must go back to the exciting days just prior to the Civil War perhaps even those times might not duplicate It the veteran Speaker, almost 74 years old. stood erect and defiant, his head "bloody but unbowed. Party Nearly Reunited. At the end, when a bis Texan Democrat accepted the Speaker's daring- challenge and introduced a resolution to fling him out of the Speakership, the Republican regulars and insurgents, with few excep tions, rallied with almost unbroken party front and gave him a vote which almost offset the "repudiation of Cannonism." This is what happened: By a. vote of 191 to 155, the Republican insurgents voting solidly with the Demo crats, the House adopted the resolution of Representative Xorrls . (Rep.) of Ne braska requiring a reorganization of the rules committee, increasing its member ship from five to ten and declaring the Speaker ineligible to membership thereon. By the curiously identical vote of 191 to 155 but with a decidedly different per sonnel of alignment the House defeated a resolution of Representative Burleson of Texas, declaring the Speakership va cant and ordering the immediate election of a successor to ' Mr. Cannon. Speaker Out of Committee. The Norris resolution was as follows: "There shall be a committee on rules, elected by the House (hitherto the committee of five, like all other House committees, has been appointed by the Speaker), consisting of ten members, six of whom shall be members of the majority party. "The Speaker shall not be a member of the committee and the committee shall elect Its own chair man from Its own members. Resolved, further-, that within ten days after the adoption of this resolution that there hall be an election of this committee, and immediately upon its election the (Concluded on Pape 2.) J : I-iir5ssssSii?K"1 t' MZk' wn -wnoae 'ittie Rag-Baby Is '"of" The Cae Aggluat Balllsgcr. ESTATE OF VICTIM OF SLIDE ALLURES BOGUS HEIRS ATTEMPT TO GET JACOB BRACKMAXX'S BODY. With $50,000 Unclaimed, Many Pose as Relatives, but Undertaker Refuses All Demands. SliATTLE, Wash., March 19. (Special.) Lured by an estate valued at $10,000 to $50,000 left by Jacob Brackmann, who was killed in the Wellington avalanche, bogus heirs have made repeated demands for Brackmann's body. Thus far Gilbert M. Butterworth, of the undertaking firm of .Butterworth & Sons, has refused to take them seriously. , ' Demands for the body, the identifica tion of which Is srtyi in doubt, began sev eral days ago. Telephone -messages at all hours of the night and day have poured In on Bulterworth. Some of the "heirs" pose an brothers, others as cousins and some as nephews. Butterworth's curiosity was aroused several , days ago. and he began an in vestigation. He learned that Brachmatin left no immediate heirs, and that his es tate is valued close to $50,000. It is most ly in cash. Disgusted at the cupidity of the numer ous "heirs." Butterworth determined to await positive identification of the body before allowing it to leave his establish ment. The body is either Xo. 6 or "o. 81 of those in the morgue. Each corpse has been "identified"' by friends as that of Brackmann. Butterworth's disgust turned to anger yesterday afternoon when one of Brackmann's '"sons" appeared at the morgue and demanded the body. "I"m sure this is my father's body," said the man. Buttyworth questioned him closely. The young man became confused and when Butterworth openly accused him of falsehood, the bogus son fled from the morgue without a denial. PORTLAND GROWING RICH Bank Clearance Record Broken $1,000,000 Figure. by Bank clearances for the week, closing yesterday, broke all previous weekly records in the history of the Portland clearing-house. The total reached $12, 918,174.82 or nearly $4,000,000 in excess of the clearances for the corresponding week in 1909. The increase is more than 43 per cent. The clearances for the correspond ing week one year ago were $9,009,055.23. A part of the large volume of banking business during last week Is accounted for by heavy taac payments. The week was the last for paying taxes and this factor, added to the large normal increase over the preceding year that has been main tained since January 1. brought the total to the unprecedented figures given. t The clearances for Saturday aggregated J1.72S.142.25, showing an Increase of more than $800,000 over the corresponding Sat urday in 1909. when the clearances aggre gated $918,085.43. SHACKLETOM TO EXPLORE Lieutenant Holding Antarctic Record to Make Dash for South Pole. LONDON. March 19. Lieutenant Shackleton, who holds the record of "farthest south," and who is sailing for the United States today, has his plans well advanced for another Ant arctio expedition In 1911. The British explorer professed that his main ob jects are scientific investigations and geographic studies, but the character of the preliminary arrangements shows that unless the American and the Scott expeditions reach the South Pole, Lieutenant Shackleton will make another dash for that goal. He pur poses to use two ships at. Cape Adair and Adelia Land as his bases of sup plies. GIFT TO TEACHER STOLEN Boy's Generosity Leads to His Arrest for Burglary. - ABERDEEN, Wash., March 19. (Spe cial.) Edward Dugos. aged 13. gave his school teacher a gold bracelet- as . gift and it developed that he had robbed a house to secure the gift. Jewelry and other articles valued at $50 were stolen from Frank Damitio's home and the gift to the teacher having drawn suspicion to the Dugos urchin, he was arrested. The lad confessed to the police and showed them where the rest of the loot was disposed of. -- HARRY MURPHY AGAIN CENTERS HIS PICTORIAL FIRE ON SOME OF . THE FADS, FANCIES, FOLLIES MOORE KNEW BANK TOTTERED, IMPLIED $7000 Started Oregon Trust, Is Testified.' ONLY WORDS SECURED NOTES Jurors in Trial of Banker Ask Many Questions. INNER DEALS ARE TOLD Bookkeeper, ex-Director and "Found er Testify 50,000 AVithdrawal Unexplained Accused Man in Bank All of Last Day. Three witnesses examined yesterday at the trial of Walter H. Moore, ex-presl-dent of the wrecked Oregon Trust & Savings Bank, intimated that the bank, with a capitalization of '$100,000, was started on nothing but paper, only $7000 having been paid in when it opened its doors. They testified also that $94,963.04 was wiped off the books by telephone stock acquired as a bonus with the purchase of questionable telephone bonds. How Mr. Moore was present at the bank the last day, when It was common talk among the bank's employes that it would close, and that he must have known its condition before the depos-it of Minnie Mitchell was received at 4 o'clock that afternoon, was also recounted. The three witnesses - were Adolph Schultz. head bookkeeper of the bank when the crash came; A. -T. Smith, a director of the bank before it changed its name and location, and L. O. Ralston, its organizer and former president, who sold his interest In the institution to Mr. Moore, now n trial. Entry Xot Explained. Mr. Schultz was the first witness of the day. He was called to elucidate the entry concerning $50,000 which H. A Graves, assistant cashier, said the day before, had been withdrawn from the bank and had been entered by him on the teller's blotter under orders received from W. Cooper Morris, cashier. The witness devoted considerable time jn hunting through the books, but was unable to ex plain why the entry had been made. Deputy District Attorney Fitzgerald en deavored to show by this witness that from the bookkeeping it could be de ducted reasonably that Moore's and AJor rls" notes for $25,000 each, which had been given for stock, were wiped out and a surplus of $50,000 created. Mr. Schultz said he did not know how the surplus was created but that he had been in structed to enter it upon the books and had followed his orders without question. In the examination of Mr. Schultz, John Y. Richardson, manager for Lester, Her rick & Herrick, accountants, sat at the table of the prosecution. W. Ferguson, also an accountant, sat In an advisory capacity with Attorney Fulton and his associates on. the Moore side. Mr. Schultz said that a debit slip of $35,000 marked the entry of E. E. Lytle into the bank's affairs and that he could not throw much light on the missing $50, 000 other than to say that amount was withdrawn. An analytical examination of the bank's books, he said, showed that the money must have been withdrawn, as the cash account showed $64,6rt less on hand tJian the day before. He also testi fied that the withdrawal did not come from overdrafts, as overdrafts for $3615 less than the day before were recorded on the day of the $50,000 withdrawal. Jurors Take Notes. Mr. Schultz was asked questions' re peatedly by the Jurors, several of whom have note books and are taking memo randa of the testimony for future ref erence In the Jury room. One point brought out by the testimony of .Mr. Schultz was the first intimation in the trial that Moore actually knew that the bank crash was impending. The witness, in response to a question as to when and how he had first become cognizant of the (Concluded on Pa so 3.) f)F THOSE FOOLISH W.E5T&rfiEft5 WOULD J lci. uj tunjersve THEIR NATURAL- RESOURCE THERF OULfc'N'T )3t ANY Cl OUT THtf!S" WIm Man of the East. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS . The Weatber. TESTERDAT'S Maximum tenperature. 60 degrees; minimum. 47 dejrrecs. TODAY'S Showers, probably followed . by clearing- weather during; the afternoon: northerly wind. Insurgent Revolt. House eliminates Speaker Cannon from rules committee, -but refuses to depose him. Section 1, page 1. Speaker Cannontells House that Republi cans have no coherent majority: refuses to resign, but would welcome vote to de pose him. Section 1. page 8. Speaker Cannon, in ruling" our Norris reso lution, finds precedent In act of Samuel J. Randall in 1878. Section 1, page 8. Moodell. - Mondell pigeonholes Administration conser vation bills; President vexed by indiffer ence of House. Section 1, page 1. Time of decision in Government's suit against Oregon & Washington Railroad matetr of conjecture.. Section 1, page 2. JT orelffn. Rupture- between British liberals and Irish on House of Lords issue attain threatens. Section 1. pagre 6. T- O'Connor says situation satisfactory: House of Lord a doomed. Section 4. page 1. Domestic. Carnegie sitting In bellboys' row in Los An geles hotel, clerk yells "Front"; Laird enjoys Joke. Section 1, page 1. New York's fine insurance Inquiry may ri val life insurance scandal. Section 1, page -2. Board of Election Commissioners orders ex amination of names on anti-saloon petl . tlon at Chicago. Section !. page 3. ... Pacific Northwest. Mapy hpitus heirs try to get hodv of man killed in Wellington slide; SOU. O00 estate lures. -Section 1, page 1. Indications good for big fruit crop in Boise Valley. Section . page 9. Gobi, alleged Aberdeen murderer, has hear ing postponed to May 2. Section 1, page 6. Ballard and Seattle merchants . making strong fight to kill provision for 1-ake """'f,' canal, in rivers and har bors bill.- Section 1. page . Washington Capitol Commission orders sale of timber land to build capitol. Section 1. 1'a.se 6. Walla Walla fruit crop to be bumper farm ers compelled to reseed wheat. Section 1, page 7., xtaitroaa franchise , disoute tears Spokane .... . , .-iia M.iiu may cause cause spe cial election. Section 1, page 7. Aged AUiany man creeps behind son as he eats, inflicting wound with hatchet. Sec tion 1. page 7. Sport. Jeffries attracts much attention from crowds; training on woodpile. Section 3 page 8. Great throngs will flock to big fight July 4. Section 3, page 8. Corbtat says Jeffries is rounding into good .. form. Section 3, page y. Petraln sizes up team from play with' White sox. Section 3, page 1. r. M. c. A. offers tlon 3, page 9.' cup to swimmers. Sec- CUs",rde autM mkes b's business, bection 3. page 10. NeT. rtDaI1 rues nearly formulated tion.3, pace 10. Sec- Hoppe gives pointers on billiard page IO. . Sectlon 3, Jeffrie, and McCredie both want Trainer Cornell. Section 3, page 11 B" MrSo road, '"sept rMrj r.nge rrln y8,era Tr,iC'sectblo" ie"age 2DenS Saturda' April Gto s by i-Av-jsssrs Scotch lads win soccer football u ul iujv. section Portland and Vicinity. page 2. 0rHVnnt TiU"t atarted with $7000 and Presi dn Jl00re mvst hve known concern page I t6B,lfled I" trial. Section Ma2tfo8.'tf, fr '"dffins-house sale money, attorneys for couple In legal documSnti assail each other. Section Be Slaughter of furious tons war barelv avert ed in Portland. Section .1, page 4. Eastern Oregon cities in dead earnest In their progress. Section 3 page 7 Council will probably adopt streetcar fenrior next Wednesdaysection a. vi,c ii Merger of Oregon Electric and United Rail way, under Hill. J. prubableT Section". manifest ;;-. . c. 3 or progressive spirit in astern Oregon. Section 1, page . resKw,mr.Hd. Wash'nn lumber mills swamped by orders, unable to supply de mand. Section 1. paga Prifran,Ine ,,an1nounced for ' convention of Laymen's missionary movement. Section -i. jvage to. O. R. & ls Demonstration train will bee-ln nine-day trip tonight. Section 1? page 10 c,tv0fYY?PKr dlck of new 8teel bridge by KiXnt be,cheaper for Portland thai building viaduct. Section 1. page 11. Jteal .Estate' and Building. Famous Hume Rogue River estate of 13 000 acres sells for 350.O00. Section 1, page L Week in realty busier than usual. Section 4, page 4. Work rushed on Mount Tabor reservoir bv hydraulic. Section 4, page 4. . rirsi r-resDyterlan Church to build story annex. Section 4, page 4. Home, spring -up all oer Irvingion. tlon 4, page 4. . , three- Sec- Many large deals put through on East Side, section 4, page 4. . '"'pageT"' property oln8 up. Section Be o'wiir"'8 eing bulIt ,n BIytheswood. on Heights. Section .4. page 6. tour new tracts soon to he nin.H ket. Restrictions to make Mcllnda Heights good district. Section 4. page 7. su Demand is strong for acreage for platting Section 4, page 7. """a. Oregon City to spend $200,000 on It. streets.' Section 4. page 7. Oddfellow, to build Section 4, page 7. hall at Forest Grove. Syndicate of Portland men buys liso acre. at Medford. Section 4. page a. Sylvan wants to be annexed to Portland Section 4, page 8. "iana. Upper Aider street takes on changed ap pearance. Section 4. page 8. New metal works at Park and Everett com pleted. Section 4. page fl. Building operations become more numerous big total is promised. Section 4, page 11.' Jl 1 . "Who'd a. Thought It" MONDELL POCKETS TUFT'S LAND BILLS One Member Balks Ad ministration Plan. WEST COUNTED ON FOR AID President Resents Indifference to Conservation. SENATE WORKS EARNESTLY Nothing Accomplished by House, but Prospect Is That $30,000,000 Irrigation Bond Issne Ulti mately AVill Suceed. BY HARRY J. BROWN. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 19. Although Congress has been in session nearly four months, prac tically nothing has been accomplished in the way of conservation legislation, and so far as the records show, not one single recommendation of the President has yet received final consideration at the hands of the legislative branch of the Government. The Senate, it is true, has done a little, but the House of Representatives has yet to pass, or even consider, the first one of the bills so strongly recommended by the President in his special message last December. House Willing to Act. The failure of the House to act Is not due to lack of interest on the part of the members, for whenever any one of the conservation bills is reported, it' will be discussed with fervor and it will be passed. But the House can not consider a bill until it has been reported by a committee, and up to this day, not a sin gle one of the conservation bills has been reported, or even considered, by the House committee on public lands. ' It Is seldom that blame for the inaction of Congress can be placed upon the shoulders of a single man, but in this instance there Is an exception to the rule. The failure of the House of Repre sentatives to give consideration to Presi dent Taft's conservation programme; is duo to the refusal of Representative Mon dell, chairman of the committee on public lands, to bring before his committee any of the bills Introduced at the request of the President. Mondell Is to Blame. Mondell personally does not favor these bills; therefore he has exercised his arbi trary power as chairman to suppress them, and deny the committee the right to consider and report them. Exception should, perhaps, be made in the case of a single bill which Mr. Mondell introduced, which embodies a single feature of one of the most im portant of the Administration meas ures the bill permitting the surface entry of coal lands. Wyoming has a vast quantity of coal land within its borders and Mondell has reported a bill of his own which permits the home steading or other entry of the surface of such lands which are underlain witTi coal. .But in this instance he has culled out one phase of a big subject and completely Ignored the recommenda tions of the President as to the dis posal of the coal Itself. In other words. Mondell's bill will permit an entryman .to establish himself on the surface over a coal field, but it does not prescribe conditions under which the coal may be developed, and this, to the President's mind, was one of the most important features of the Ad ministration bill. Senate CommU'ee at Work. Over In the Sen .e a sub-committee has been appointed to consider and re port upon all of the President's conser vation bills, and that committee Is at work earnestly endeavoring to get to gether. It has not yet been able to reach an agreement, but assurance is given that in due time reports will be made to the committee on public lands, (Concluded on Page 5.) ( Prune It. CARNEGIE SITS IN BELLBOYS' ROW IT IS HIS TURX TO JUMP WHEX FRONT" SOUNDS. Youngsters Walt for Laird to Move. "It It's Icewater" All Right, Says Multi-Millionaire. IX3S ANGELES, Cal., March 19. (Special.) "Front!" cried the day clerk at the Redmond today, looking sharply over his desk at a row of grinning bellhops. He raised his voice when the first call started no "buttons" and roared "Front!" At the secondcall Andrew Carnegie, a hundred times a millionaire, awoke to the fact that the call was directed toward him. He had chosen the first seat on the bellboys' bench, and they, thinking it an Immense joke, waited quietly for a chance to move up. Mrj Carnegie was "front." Walter Ray mond proprietor of the hotel. hap penetT along just at this moment. "'This is bellboys' row," he ex plained, "and they seem to enjoy havlng you among them. It seems to be your turn to answer the call." Mr. Carnegie is a true Scotchman for a joke and laughed heartily. " 11 s ' water, - he said. "I can do it." BRYAN TO STOP RUNNING "IVrenifla Undei-.siood to Have Quit Seeking Office. LINCOLN. Neb., March 1 9. tSpecia 1.) The statement of Representative Gil bert M. Hitchcock, of the Omaha dis trict, in announcing his candidacy for "ator- tIlat he Had the promise of William J. Bryan that the Democratic leader will not stand in his way. Is in terpreted here as meaning that Mr Bryan will abide by his declaration L"dt ne is a candidate for not even the Presidency. no office. Politicians now assert with a good deal of positiveness that thev Have in side knowledge that Mr. Bryan has made fiis last race for office at least for a good many years. Mr. Hitchcock does not sav he Is to be regarded as a favored Bryan candi date, and it Is a matter of record that the latter Jias said that he would take no sides among the different Demo cratic aspirants. Mr. Hitchcock's chief rival for Demo cratic Indorsement for Senator will be William H. Thompson, of Grand Island, who nearly two months ago an nounced his candidacy. MAN FALLS 60 FEET, LIVES I-'armer Tumbles From Kir Tree and Is Unconscious 12 Hours. ELK CITY. Or.. March 19. (Special.) After a fall of po feet. Jake Jacob son, although he was unconscious for over 12 hours, Is still alive. Jacobson is a farmer, past 50 years old, and lives on the Yaquina River, about two miles from here. He was cutting limbs from a fir tree and had climbed nearly to the top. Sud denly losing his footing, he fell to the ground and was picked up sense less. Members of his family attended him at first, but after he regained his senses Dr. F. M. Carter was summoned from Newport and found him in a fcerj ous condition from Internal injuries. MATIN WILL SUE RIVAL French Paper Resents Accusation of Complicity In Scandal. PARIS. March 19. The Matin an nounces today that it will institute a suit against Le Journal for $100,000 damages because of a series of articles which the latter paper published con necting the management of the Matin with the Chartreuse affair. The liquidation of the property of the Carthusian monks is a part of tha scandal now under investigation by the government. LYNCHING JS "SUICIDE" Arkansas Coroner's Jury Blames Victims for Own Deaths. MARION, Ark., March 19. According to the verdict of the Coroner, Bob Austen and Charley Richardson. the negroes lynched here yesterday charged with aid ing and abetting a recent jail delivery, came to their death by suicide." AND FOOLERIES OF THE YES.fY ChilPjT0 BE A SUCCEbSPUL) UnftDOtn Or rrfANCHIiti AND WORKER. OF THE Public OEfER ALLT mm , m jut now n:tmen EltCooD oFHvnArny gSERvAo ION 5UCH CxftCj. InHfde Information. E ESTATE 15,000 Acres Bought by Portland Firm. vasttractisonroguerivf; V Southern Oregon District t Be Opened to Settler. 'KING" HUME ECCENTRIC Man, Who Acquired Thousands of Acres. Starting Modestly, u Jealous of Holdings Town of Wedderburn Sold, Too. Thousands of acres of land In th Rogue River Valley, embracing an estate which has, become historic in Oregon as the rea lm of the late R. I . Hume. "King of the Rogue River" and the "Laird of Wedderburn," yesterday passed into the hands of Portland men for a consideration of 350.000. Keasey, Humason & Jeffery, a real estate firm of this city, have purchased the holdings of the Hume Estate, in cluding the transfer of 15,000 acres of land, extensive filiiiijr rights, salmon canneries, a wealth of water power, a part of the town of Wedderburn. a larg tract of timber land, sawmills, fruit canneries, farm lands and a varied line of Industries in the Southern Oregon district. Starting with practically nothing In the early days, Mr. Hume, who died a year ago, began fishing operations on the Rogue River and little by little in creased his holdings. He developed his particular section of the country in a. wonderful manner and only ceased his strenuous operations, which had earned for him the title of "King of the Rogue River," when he died. How Hume Won Name of '-King.'' Much has been written of the eccen tricities of the former owner and of his methods of building up his country. One anecdote which illustrates the character of the man, is of his opera tions in developing a pea cannery and pea-raising industry along the Rogue River. He set out several hundred acres with peas and started a cannery. His pea fields offered employment to thousands of pickers. One day he met with a strike. Arbitrate? Not at all. He simply shut up the plant, locked the doors, plowed up his pea fields and let the cannery rust, despite the money which was- loBt through its non-operation. It was uch operations as these which did much to earn for him the titles which, he secretly loved, but affected to scorn. The great wealth developed by Mr. Hume Includes 15,000 acres of land. This is located along the Rogue River Valley 18 miles from its- mouth and also a ions the coast for a distance of five miles. The town of Wedderburn Is located on the property and the sale Includes the transfer of a general store supplying tha ' surrounding country, a hotel, a big sal mon cannery,' two cold storage plants, one located at Wedderburn and the other at Port Orford, two salmon hatcheries, one at Trail Creek, on the Upper Rogue River above Medford, and the other near the mouth of the river. The Gov ernment operates the hatchery at the up per river and the Hume people have been operating the lower one. 5000 Acres Set in Timber. The eale also Includes two sawmills lo cated near Wedderburn, in the heart of heavy timber. There are about 5000 acres of timber land, a. part of which Is the celebrated Port Orford cedar and the remainder is Oregon fir. The timber is all heavy and will be retained by tha new owners. Of the 10,000 acres, in addition to tha timber land, there are S000 acres of tilla ble land, well supplied with water and which Is a rich land, well adapted for ag ricultural purposes. It Is the Intention of the new owners to open the territory -of the Lower Rogue River, long shut off from the rest of the world, by platting (Concluded on Page 5.) DAY. t i t BIG HUM BRINGS 350 00 It' Oh, Vou Taxpayer.