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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 27, 1910. 6 GRAFTER HIS STORK Stewart Said to Hold Key Pittsburg Conspiracy of Corruption. to BANKERS MAY BE INDICTED 1" msec ii tor Interviews Hopes to Learn Wlio Stewart ami I'aid II iiu S 4 5.(100 Some Hank Comply "With Demund for Truth. PTTTSBL'Ki:. Pa., March 26. Another rf the couniiliii-n. o;ic charged with Sio-in;? a rlnprlcad r. l.i nclieved to have fiveakcnert today ami told his story of praft conspiracy to the ljistrict Attor ney. This step and the unusuaj activity tof county detectives, serving to indicate ko councilmen that any sudden depar ture from town would be hazardous, isere the only developments of the day In the graft cases. Charles Stewart, with his attorney, rx-Oovernor W.-A. Stone, called on Dis trict Attorney BlaKeley today. Three hours later when t;joy emerged from iiis office Mr. Blakeley would give out iio definite statement. The IMstrict Attorney, however, has repeatedly announced that Stewart held the key to some of the "big ones" im plicated in the graft conspiracy. If jStewart has made a clean breast of St indictments against certain bankers Hr assured, it is thought. Name of Chief Briber Known. The grand Jury yesterday in its pre fctntment said Stewart was the man who was paid $4.i.U0 In the Hotel Im perial, New York. The name of the man who paid it is known and Stew art's evidence would be in the line tat corroboration. Interest today centered about meet ings of the directors of banKs named fiby the grand Jury yesterday. The fcubject of a reply to the. District At torney's demands was not taken up. at the Columbia Nataional Bank or the hierman National of Pittsburg, while the Farmers National Deposit Bank Announced that It would readily com ply. The Second National directorate tprepared a statement, signed and certi fied as ordered, ana forwarded it to U-iarrison Nesbit, foreman of the grand bury. TTie German National Bank of .Albany had no statement to make, while the Workingman's Savings & tl'rust Company held no meeting. How Graft Wag Distributed. The following table compiled from fehef grand jury's latest reports on the fcrtafus of graft. shows where the 4102.500 received from the banks was tiist rl bu ted : "Brand. $15,000: Klein, J14.600; Fer guson. 12.650: Steward. J12.150: Wan on, jl1.1."0: Morris Kinstein. tr.000; 21enry M. Bolger, b0: select council anen. $12,000: common councilmen, $9100: family or William Martin. $2500; two city clerks. $1000: defense, fund, $f000; set aside for newspapermen, $lio-; total. $102,500." The item "family of William Martin" relates to the mone set aside for the 'are of the family of former Council man Martin while he was in the' peni tentiary. Martin was convicted In an other graft case, and was released a few months ago, having served his term. All this money was intended, it is al v leged for the passage of the ordinance, that affecting the banks, and further lietails of the story are to be obtained from the officers, directors and em ployes of these bank on Monday. Little Captain John JT. Klein began today a postcard campaign for parole. A lot of sentiment is crowded onto these cards and a picture of the former kipper's steamer. "John F. Klein," hvith reminiscent stanzas, a picture of a coffin lid with the. philosophical com ment that no man is down until boxed ip and nailed In, a skull and cross tiitnts and appeal for public sym pathy. ROAD CLEARED OF BLAME as-liington lisatcr round Due to Act of I'rovidenee. OLYMPIA, Wash.. March 26. (Spe cial.) The State llailroad Commission lioday gave out the following: "After its investigation, held jointly with the coroner's jury, of the Wel lington disaster. the Railroad Com mission has reached the conclusion that the railroad officials in charge of the train took every precaution that could reasonably have been ex pected In view of the conditions that xisted at the time, and that the catas trophe was due to an act of Provi dence which the officials could not reasonably be expected to have fore seen. "The investigation relative to this wreck by the liailroad Commission will be continued for the purpose of determining what steps should be taken to safeguard operations in the future under similar conditions, and to this end the commission will prob p.bly call engineers of high standing to examine the conditions on the Great Northern, for the purpose of testify ing on the subject before the commis sion." FOUL PLAY IS SUSPECTED lcrdo-ii logger Draws Pay Suddenly Disappears. and A BERDEEX. Wasli'., March 26. (Spc rial.1 Leaving nothing to furnish t lie llght-Ft clue as to his whereabouts. C E. acentz, logger, disappeared four months wpro, and after tireless search It is now bclieved he is dead either through acci dent or foul play. Xovember 20 of last year lie ;ame in from the Nelson Logging company's camp and drew his pay at Hoquiain. Immedi ately after securing the money lie was lost sight of. "I am sure lie does not live." said Mrs. .Alfred Johnson. 109 Curtiss street. Aber deen, niece of Kentz', today. "My uncle always used to come and stay with me when he came in from tho camps." Kentz when he disappeared was In good standing iu both the Oddfellows and Woodmen of the "World. BEND BULLETIN IS BOUGHT George P. l'ntnam Ptirchases Pio neer Paper of Central Oregon. BKSD, Or.. March 3C.. (Special.) Nego tiations Vave been closed whereby the 1 ownership of the fiend Bulletin, a weekly ! newspaper, has become the property, ot ANOTHER TELLS George P. Putnam, with whom, it is an nounced, is associated J. M. Lawrence, who. up to January, was Receiver of the Roseburg United States Land Office, for merly proprietor of the Bulletin In Bend s pioneer days, and once on the staff of The Oregonian. Mr. Putnam has at vari ous tinier done work, for The Oregonian, especially in connection with the .Des chutes railroad building, and has written exclusively upon Central Oregon subjects for both papers and magazines. For the time being, it is understood, the new proprietors will co-operate In the conduct of tile Bulletin. The paper was founded eight years ago. being the pio neer sheet of the Bend country and long conlrolliiiEr. without rivals, the verv prof- itable buwines emanating from the legal notices published in connection with the big timber and homestead rusli to the Vp jyer lesohutes region a few years aeo. It now occupies a, position of considerable importance as a journalistic leader of this FORMFJl RESIDENT OF" PORT-. l.AMJ, IX fttKST OF HIS I1K.1LTII, DIRS AT PL'KJt LO, MEXICO. -J t. (. .;::. -IT;::-': ? S' '-:! : "fS: S It t 3 f f .mtr Victor K. Ford. f News of the death. March 14, . of Victor 12. Ford, formerly of this city. has been received 4 from" Pueblo. Mexico, by his sls- ter, Mrs. Eva Cllne Smith, and his mother. Mrs. Mary A. Knoi, of this city. Mr. Ford was born In Montpelier, Vermont. April 11, 1859, and removed with his par ents to California In 1S6$, coin ing to Portland the following year. In 1S98 Mr. Ford was freight conductor on a railroad In Arizona, and two years later he ran a passenger train out of Parral, Mexico for the Hidalgo Mining uompany. He movea irora f Parral to Pueblo in 1901 and in 5 September, 1905, returned to Portland, suffering from malarin l fever. He was treated for foi.r I weeks at .St. Vincent's Hospital f and returned to Pueblo in No vember of the same year. II returned to Portland in 1907. re maining here from April until July of that year. He went to Mexico again and remuitiec there until last Summer, when he and Mrs. Ford visited Port land in an effort to - regain his health. Mr. Ford went to Vera Cruz February 8, but soon re turned to his home in Puebio, feeling no better. Mi. Ford's father, Abraham Ford, is a res ident of Orting, Wash. Cline, his nephew, is of this city. In 1X8:5 was married to Miss Hornshulie. Or. Jean : dentist Mr. Ford Fre0;-ikii portion of the Deschutes Valley, and of late has particularly come to the fore as a chronicler of railroad and general de velopment news of Central Oregon. MONTAVJLLA PLANS FLOAT More Than 9 00 Roses Set Out as Re sult of Recent Contest.. The Montavilla. Rose Association Is making arrangements to co-operate with the Rose Festival Association and build a float that will maintain the reputation Montavilla gained last year at the Rose Festival. William Bartlett, the president, said yesterday that 900 new roses had been set out in 'Montavilla as the result of the recent contest under the auspices of the association. These rops will yield many thousands of roses- this year, as the set tings were mostl ytwo years old. The as sociation has a balance of more than $300 on hand. The Sunnyside Push Club has not yet decided what action- it will take. The Eubject will be considered at the next meeting. I 1 f V FALLS CITY HIGH SCHOOL DEBATING TEAMS WIN POLK COUNTY LEAGUE HONORS AND H. 0. SEYMOUR CUP. - ' T-- 1. n 1 tTT'ir n'-iti ""' ' 1 m iiMn nm i-mtrryr-rn"r rr -"S l. Affirmative Team. Reading Krom Left t Right: l.nmnr 13. Tooxe, Leader; Fills M. lebrllna and Leslie O. Tooxe, Anrlatantn. egalv Team, n-a.llng From Lelt to Rlchl: Dale Cottfried, Leader C. Kdn Srfiaour and Herbert Hannou, Amsistaat ' T TRY ENGLISH PLAN Deposition of Cannon, Election of Hinds, Non-Member, Is Suggested. MEMBERS HEAR FROM HOME Poiiulexler Says Trouble I" Caused by Com bin iu is- Ofl'iee of Speaker AVilh Party Leadership.. More Reform Is Badly Wanted. WASHINGTON. March 2rt. Many of the insurgent Republieans of the House, who last Saturday vated to retain Speaker Cannon in the chair are "hearing from home." according to reports in circula tion about the Capitol. These advices are said to be not at all reassuring. Following closely upon this information comes statements from several that war againBt "Cannonism" is . to go on to the extent of ultimately causing the de thronement of Speaker Cannon, the elec tion of his successor and the complete reformation of the rules of the House. The overthrow of the Speaker and the taking away from the Speakership of all power to influence legislation unduly are aimed at. Some of the Insuregnts discussed these subjects freely today. Some Would F.leet Hinds. A proposal to remove Speaker Can non by means of the combined vote of Democrats and Insurgents and substi tute in bis place Asher C. Hinds, the parliamentarian of theHouse, is one of the plans which several Insurgents advocated today. The idea of placing in the Speaker's chair a pure parlia mentarian, not a membej- of the House, who would be entirely uninfluenced by considerations of partisan advantage, was pointed out by Representative Poindexter of Washington and others as the logical and proper course. Un der the Constitution the House may J choose a Speaker who is not a member oi t lie oou . Representative Poindexter. who is one of the prominent members of the Insurgent body, said: "This initial reform which we have accomplished must be followed by others. The whole trouble in which joining 'of the power of the Speaker the House finds itself Is caused by the with that of leader of the majority. Knglish Precedent Found. "The English plan of having an ex pert parliamentarian Instead of a poli correct one. As long as we select tlcian as apreslding officer is the only a party leader as Speaker, just so long will we have partisan and unfair rul ings. "When the House adopted the Norrls resolution the other day it was a vote of no confidence In Speaker Cannon, and he should have resigned. As he did not do so, we should depose him. With that accomplishment, I think we should elect Mr. Hinds. I believe a majority of the House would vote for It. the Democrats and the insurgents who voted against Cannot last Sat urday, and I believe a large number of other insurgents and so-called near Insurgents, will vote for it when the temper of the people Is accurately judged on this question." Reform Only Beginning. eRpresentatlve Murdock, of Kansas, another insurgent leader, said: "The movement to reform the pro cedure of the House has just begun. Before this session adjourns we will iav nronmnliBheii a crreat manv things. I hear radicals on this side who never i before were willing to admit that the rules or anything else needed changing now discussing ways and means of re vising the rules and making them bet ter. "Not in 50 years have sucli liberal ideas entered the government of this House. I expect to see, in a compara tively short time, the standing com mittee of this1 House meeting in open session instead of secret sessions, as now. Of course, the military and naval and perhaps other committee, would have to meet In secret occasionally, as a matter of public policy. But secret ways of doing business here are on the wane and soon will be over. Many In teresting and perhaps startling de velopments will result before tills House adjourns sine die." Other insurgents expressed themselves NSURGEN S WOULD I TZtA ClfSZtjrZ.S 3CMXZL Squeezing Pimples Does Not Curs Them, But In creases Them. Treat your blood, scientific ally. Take Stuart's Calcium Wafers, and the pimples will disappear forever, inside of a week. Purify the system and clear the face. 50c a box at your drug store. Send f OP free trial package to the F. A. Stuart Co., 175 Stuart Bldg Marshall, Mich. alonsr similar line.. It is certain that a number of insurgent leadens have in mind it least two things for this session: Kir.st, the deposition of Pprakor Cannon, unless he voluntarily retires; .second, the establishment of a committee on commit tees. AU of the Insurgent s expressed themselves as desiring to see th Presi dent's legislation out of the way before hotilitis broke out again. One insurgent, who would notvailow the use of his name, said: "Unless Spe-aker Cannon resigns we will depose h!m before this session ends. lie is a part of this sytem and must go. If It does not hrfppen before, I look for it to come about the last day of the session." The proposal to elct Asher C. Hinds as Spea-ker elicited much comment from those who were made aware of it. Mr. Hinds Is a Republican and is a can didate for nomination for Congress from Xew fcngland. His present duty is to formulate rulings for Speaker Cannon. COST FIGURES CHECKED ItAILROAD EOAHD GETS DATA OX OKHJOX liAILROADS. Information Will Be Used by Tax Commission In Assessing Prop erties in State. SALEM. Or., March 26. (Special.) The State. Railroad Commission -will go to Portland Monday with the engineers employed by the commission in checlt ing1 up the reproduction cost figures of the O. R. & N. The commission has practically completed checking the fig ures of the road, as submitted by the company, with the exception -of the cost of terminal grounds and rights of way used by the railroad. A man is now at work on the O. R. & N. and branches ascertaining these Items, and it is expected that In 60 days the com mission will know to a cent what it would cost to reproduce the O. R. & N". at this time. Substantial progress also has been made by the Railroad Commission in checking up the figures of reproduc tion of the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad, The Salem, Falls City & Western, the Oregon & Southeastern and the Corvallis & Eastern. The greater part of t..e time of the commission's engineers, however, has been devoted to the O. R. & N., and there are numerous instances in which the railroad's figures and the state's figures do not agree, and these will have to be taken up in detail and re conciled. Chief Engineer Gray, of the Washington commission, will attend the meeting in Portland and will as sist the Oregon engineers. The Southern Pacific has been work ing on Its report -of original cost and cost of reproduction. and Engineer Pope of the Harriman lines has prom ised the commission that the Southern Pacific's report will be in the hands of the commission In June. The Rail road Commission law provides that the cost and reproduction cost jt all the commission shall ascertain the original roads in the state, and although a pro digious 'undertaking, the work Is ex pected to be valuable as a guide to the commission In fixing rates in the future and also as an aid in arriving at an equitable basis for the taxation of the roads, which under the new tax code are to be assessed by the State Board of Tax Commissioners. 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A R APPEALS Ladies' Entrance 148 FOURTH transfers, and in that way arrives at the actual cash value of the railroad's property. ft is expected that the engineers em ployed by the state will be engaged for a week or more In their final re view of the O. R. & N. figures. CLAM SPRING IS PUZZLE J. G. Malone, of Portland. Is In quiring Into Mystery. ALBANY, Or., March 26. (Special.) Joseph A. Smith, of Lebanon, owner of the farm three miles northeast of Lebanon on which are situated three springs In which fresh water clams mysteriously appear, has received a letter from J. O Malone, of the First National Bank of Portland, who said that he was Interested in fresh water bivalves and asked for some specimens. He said that he did not doubt the au thenticity of the story or the University of Oregon's report that the clams so developed were ordinary fresh water clams, but he wanted to see for him self. Mr. Smith sent him a large num ber of the little bivalves. Mr. Smith still holds to the theory that the clams must come from some subterranean lake, which he believes is the source of supply for the springs. Officers Will Play Ball. VANCOUVER. Wash., March' 26. (Special.) A baseball game between teams composed of the battalion sergeant-majors, first sergeants and quartermaster sergeants of the first and third battalions of -the First In fantry is scheduled for Tuesday after noon on the post diamond at Vancou ver barracks. Eight of the 18 men on both teams weigh more than 200 pounds each. The losing team is to give a smoker at the post gymnasium some evening later in the week. If interested in Mosler apple land, see.Thos. McCusker, 329 Lumbermens building. 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