, 88 Pages Pages 1 to 16 VOL. XXIX. XO. 18 PORTLAND, OREGOX, SUNDAY MORNING, MAX 1, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HUGE BUILDINGS TO GO UP ON FOURTH COURT BLOTS OUT RACE DISTINCTIONS BALLINGER TELLS OF OBSTACLES MET DAY'S PROFIT ON COTTON $320,000 PATTEX A XI) FRIENDS MAKE SMALL CLEAX-tP. LQRIMER ACCUSED, DENIES BRIBERY RICH RANCHER AND FORESTRY MEN LOST CENSUS TAKERS MISSED 30,000 Portland's Population Over 200,000. 'JIM CROW" LAWS OF LOUIS IANA MEDDLED. TRIO DISAPPEAR AS THOUGH SWALLOWED BY EARTH. $750,000 Hotel Will Cover Block. THOMPSON ESTATE IS BUILDER T. B. Wilcox Will Erect Ten Stories at Same Corner. LEWIS BLOCK GETS ANNEX 'Estate Will Add to Present Space Ten Floors, Ousting $200,000. Meier & Frank Will Have $300,000 Warehouse. roi'R m n.mxGs announced. Six-story hotel. covering entire block bounded by Third, Fourth. Pine and Ash streets; R. R. Thompson estate, huilder; cost. $750,000. Ten-story office building, covering quarter block at southeast corner of Fourth and Pine streets: T. B. Wil cox, builder; cost. 4O0.000. Ten-story annex to Lewis build ing, covering 40xloo feet on the south aide of Fourth street, near Oak; cost, 9200,000. Nine-story warehouse, covering half block on south side of Irving street, between Fourteenth and Fif teenth; Meier Frank Company, builder; cost, f 300,000. Definite announcement was made yes- - terday by C. K. Henry, agent, and R. O. Tates. secretary, of the R. R. Thompson "Estate Company, of tlie erection of a gigantic hotel on the entire block bounded by Third, Fourth, Pine and Ash streets. it is to be a high-grade, commercial ' hotel, containing 650 rooms. The hotel will be six stories high, absolutely fire proof and will cost $750,000. The, plans have been prepared by Gib- aon & CahuIT The work will proceed im mediately, the tenants having been noti fied to vacate their quarters, in some in stances by tomorrow. Demolition of the old structures on the block will be started as soon as they are vacated, and the work of actual construction will follow ; promptly. Wilcox AIho to Build. This building means much to the up- ! building of Fourth street. Simultaneously comes an announcement by T. B Wilcox that he will at once start the erection of a. 10-story office building on his quarter block at the southeast corner of Fourth find Pine streets, diroctly across Pine . street from tho Thompson estate property. This is. tho result of an agreement en tered into by Mr. Henry and Mr. Wilcox some time ago that they would start their Improvements at the same time. This will also be a handsome Class A build ing, and will cost about $400,000. Further announcement is made now that the Lewis estate will also proceed with the erection of a 10-story fireproof annex on the 40 by 100 feet, completing the iiuarter block, on which stands the present La wis building;, finished early this year. This work will require an ex penditure of about iuO.000. Plans have already been made by David C. Lewis. ' The building, when originally designed by him. included the annex. It was hardly thought when the building was constructed that the demand for loca- 1 Hons would be as great as has been the 'x'aso. Cost Is Over S 1 . 1 00.000. These throe great buildings, represent 'ing an expenditure of over $1,100,000, will have a great effect on the future of . Fourth street, which is destined to be come one of the best improved thorough ( fares in the city. Plans are now pre pared for a 12-story building, possibly 13 stories, for the Union Bank & Trust Company, to be built on a 50-year lease on the lot at the northeast corner of Fourth and Washington. This work will "begin this Summer, or as soon as the U'omlutle.i on Pas- 12.) l"b Blamed for EverytBing." Decision Hodls That "Xegroes" Does Xot Legally Include Per sons of Mixed Blood. NEW ORLEANS, April 30. (Special.) "There are no negroes who are not persons of color, but there are persona of color who are not netgroes." This is a salient sentence in a deci sion that has thrown the race laws of Louisiana into a state of chaos. All statutes made and provided to keep separate and distinct whites and ne groes practically are affected by the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court that octoroons; quadroons and mulat toes are not negroes. The court holds that where the text of the law merely says "negroes" It cannot be applied to octoroons or other persons of mixed blood. It defines the negro as a member of the black or African race, having in his veins no trace of Caucasian blood. This means, in effect, that existing laws in regard to "Jim Crow" cars, miscegenation and ' separate saloons cannot be enforced, except in cases where the negroes involved are so som ber in hue that not the least doubt re mains as to the human family to which they belong. Persons of lighter or darker skins than mulattoes can evade the laws by demanding that the state prove they are negroes. MISS FEAR HELPS SCRUB Portland Girl Takes Part In Welles ley College Ceremonies. BOSTON. Mass., April 30. (Special.) Before 6 o'clock this morning the girls at Wellesley College started to jolt a little extra life into the ordinary decorous routine at the select insti tution and there is no telling what would have happened if the maidens, had not had their frolicsome ardor dampened by a rain storm. The May day celebration was sched uled for today and the affair this morn ing was by way of prelude. Miss Lois M. Fear, of Portland. Or., was among the active ones who plied scrubbing brushes on the unoffending statues of Harriet Martineau and the backwoods man until they shown resplendently clean. Meanwhile members of the freshmen class stood by, wearing crowns of flowers and making; remarks. HERMANN PASSES CRISIS Wife, Too, Doctors Report, Is- Im proving Rapidly. ROSEBURG, Or., April 30. (Special.) Spending a restful night, Blnger Her mann awoke this morning much im proved, and Dr. K. L. Miller, the at tending physician, says that he has passed safely through the critical stage of his illness. According to a bulletin issued by the physician late today, Mr. Hermann sat In a chair for nearly an hour this morning for the first time since his condition became serious. His appetite has returned, and he partakes of lim ited rations regularly, while his voice, at one time practically paralyzed, is now normal Mrs. Hermann Is also much improved, and the physicians state that she will be able to leave her bed the first of the week. MAN GOES TO PARK TO DIE Preparations Surprise Friends That It Is Not Suicide. BAKERSFIELD, Cal., April 30. After bidding- Ms friends goodbye, and leaving- a note for the proprietor of the Union stables, saying that he wished news of his death sent to his mother at San Luis Obispo, Abraham Adriance went out to Hudnut Parte here to com mit suicide. His dead body was found a few hours later. Beside it was an empty bottle, supposed to have contained poison, but upon an autopsy being made it was found Adriance had died of fatty de generation of the heart. There was no sign of poison in the stomach and the bottle had contained only sweetened alcohol. HARRY MURPHY ONCE MORE OFFERS TO A W bat Va nor Did. Confidence in Newell Is Lacking. SECRETARY'S AVOWAL FRANK Subordinates in Plot to Dis credit His Accomplishments. ATTITUDE NOT HOSTILE "Hands Have Been lp for Months," He Declares, When Asked Why He Does Not Make Change in Reclamation Service. WASHING-TON. April 30. Secretary Ballinger continued to contradict and deny statements and accusations against him from the witness stand in the Bal-linger-PInchot investigation today. He was still under direct examination when the committee adjourned until next Th ursday. Passing from the "subject of Alaskan coal lands, Ballinger gave a justification of his attitude toward the reclamation service. His most important denial was of the charge made by Director F. H. Newell and Chief Engineer A. ,-P. Davis, of the service, that he misrepresented to the President that the reclamation serv ice had recommended the restoration of the waterpower sites withdrawn by Sec retary Garfield. "Hands Up" for Months. The reclamation service officials swore that (Ballinger ordered them to recom mend these restorations. Ballinger swore just as positively that he made no such order, although he felt the land had been Illegally withdrawn and should be re stored to entry and had so stated to the reclamation officials. Ballinger made no secret of the fact that he would like to see Newell superseded as head of tho reclamation bureau. He told the commit tee that-n8 "tit -not "have-much confi dence in Newell's administrative ability, though he denied hostility to the Govern ment's policy and said that many of the projects under way had great possibili ties for the development of the West. Asked by his lawyer why he did not make a change" in the reclamation service, Ballinger retorted sharply: "Because my hands have been up for months, and I have not been able to get them down." Vet-trees said tonight that he hoped to -finish the direct examination of Ballinger by mid-day next Thursday, when he will turn him over to the opposing counsel for cross-examination. Ballinger probably will be on the stand three more days at least. Two hours of today's cession were con sumed by the committee over the ques tion of granting Brandeie' request for papers and documents bearing on the summary of the Glavis charges prepared for the President by the Attorney-General. The committee again denied the request, though making a small conces sion. The opposing attorneys argued the question and threw some additional light on the controversy. Conspiracy Is Intimated. Vertrees- charged that there wag a con spiracy afoot against the advisers of the President, who appeared to be distasteful to the conspirators. He intimated that ex-Secretary Garfield and ex-Forester Plnchot were the chief conspirators. For the first time. Mr. Brandeis openly stated his belief that the AttorneyGen eral had antedated his summary with the "idea of making that appear proper which was not proper when done." He had reference to the dismissal of his client. L. R. Glavis. by the President September 13, and was intimating that the Attorney-General, months after that date, had drawn up the summary in an effort to justify an error of the Presi dent, and in order to make the decep tion complete had dated it two days be fore the President's action was taken. In answering Brandeis, Attorney Vertrees, counsel for Ballinger. assert- t Concluded on Page 2.) Shorts Shiver When Price Steadily Advances-1 Real Pinch Is Feared in July. NEW YORK. April 30. (Special.) Profits very near to 1320.000 were shown today by a careful calculation of the work of James A. Patten, of Chicago, and his associates. In the great bull clique which has manipulated May cotton al most to the exclusion of every one else. Victorious In deals for 200,000 hales, the clique is now turning its attention to "buying all of July cotton that Is -offered. Mr. Patten is believed to have carried In his own name about one-half of the May cotton handled by the bull crowd, and his individual profits' were estimated today t approximately $160,000. The cotton was taken over at 14.50 cents and today, the price had risen to 14.82 cents, the closing price for May on the exchange. The buying of July cotton by the bull crowd gave the shorts a shiver, and the price for July was driven up from 14.61 cents, when Patten and his associates began to buy, to 14.65 cents at the close of the market. It was predicted in Wall street that the real pinch in cotton would be felt in July, and the shorts were making every effort to cover. URGES FORT ON CANAL President Sends Special Message to Congress. WASHINGTON', April 30. In a spe cial message sent to Congress today. President Taft urges that the defenses of the Panama canal be completed and ready for business on January 1, 1915, on which date it is also proposed to open the canal to navigation. "It is the right and duty of the United States to defend the work upon which it is - expending such an enor mous sum," the President said In his message. "An adequate defense requires suita ble fortifications near the approaches to the terminals. "I am of the opinion that such works may be erected for the defense of the canal and should be completed, occu pied and ready for operation at the time "the canal itself is completed and opened to the passage of vessels," the President concludes. WIRES GO UNDER GROUND TelephoneCjnjMue; Xa. .Place Lines in Conduits in East. BALTIMORE, Md., April 30. Applica tion has been made here to the State Good Roads Commission by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company for per mission to lay conduits in Maryland along the state road between Philadelphia and Baltimore and continuing on to Washing ton. This move is a part of the plan of the company to inaugurate a general conduit system which will connect all of the Important cities throughout the coun try. This action is a result of inconvenience caused by the great storm of March 4, 1909, when, through the collapse of over head wires, communication was practi cally cut off. APRIL RAINFALL IS SHORT Five and One-Half Inches Not Enough for Astoria. ASTORIA, ' Or., April 30. (Special.) The records in the office of Local Weather Observer Gilmore show that the rainfall in Astoria during the month of April was 5.05 inches, or 28 100 of en inch below the average for the corresponding month during the past 59 years, which is 5.33 inches. The maximum precipitation during any April since records have been kept here was 13.39 inches, in 1893, and the minimum was 6-100 of an inch, in 1857. 1 MOTHER AND 3 DIE IN FIRE Flames Cut Off Escape; Father Saves Two, Himself Burned. TACOMA. Wash.. April 30. A special to the News from Enumclaw says Mrs. Jenn Sorenson and three children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home this morning. Mr. Sorenson had startel a kitchen fire at 6:30 and when he first saw the fire from the bam it had gained such headway that all avenues of escape were cut off for the mother and five children. Sorenson managed to save the two youngest chil dren, but was himself badly burned. DISCERNING PUBLIC A Question la, Is He Padded t Democrat Says He Got $1000 for Vote. MONEY PAID IN ST. LOUIS Willing to Suffer, Expected Ig nominy, Member Declares. "BLACKMAIL" IS DEFENSE Alleged Agent or Illinois Senator Says Story Follows Attempt at Extortion--Four Others, One Dead, Are Implicated.. CHICAGO. April 30. Representative Charles A. White's sensational story that he received $1000 to cast his vote for William Lorlmer for the United States Senate and that he also accepted- $900 as his share of an alleged legislative "slush fund" met with general denial today. Lee O'Neill Browne, of Ottawa, Demo cratic leader at Springfield, arrived here today, as did Senator Lorimer, both em phatically denying the use of bribe. Mr. Browne, alleged by White to have been the distributor of the Lorlmer money, declared that White had rushed into print because he had failed in an attempt to use the story to secure "hush" money. Wilson Joins Denials. Robert E. Wilson, a Democratic Repre sentative from Ciiicago. declared by White to have dealt out the "jackpot" at St. Louis, joined the chorus of denials. Browne admits having been at St. Louis at the time White alleges the "jackpot" was distributed, but declares that the Democrats who had assembled there were partisans of Browne's, who wished to arrange a banquet for him at his home town. Browne, according to himself, frowned on the enterprise of his par tisans, and the banquet was called, ofC- According to Browne, White formerly was a streetcar conductor in East St. Louis and. later appeared at Springfield as a lobbyist in favor of labor hills. Then he was called to the lower house. White in his charges said that the pub lic might expect to hear him celled a blackmailer, but that he was prepared for that; he was willing to suffer igno miny in order to expose the corruption which he declared exists at Springfield. Blackmail, Says Browne. In the course of an interview today Mr. Browne said; "Since I became acquainted with White at the last session of the Legislature he appealed to me several times for loans, saying he was In debt, hard up, and so on. Ort three or four occasions I let him have $50 or so, for which I hold, his notes. Finally, this borrowing part of It be came too common and I wrote him a letter advising him to go to work and earn a living like other people. I even secured a position for him, but It paid him only JT5 and he refu4 to take it. Then a new Job sprang up. The next I heard from him was a remarkable letter. It ran: " T have written a full story of my experiences at Springfield Legislature. Those who have seen it declare that it is the best story that the world has seen. I wrote It for publication. I have used your name in It with deep regret, for I cannot avoid it and still set forth t,he facts. I also have told Senator Lorimer about it.' "Inference Was Plain." ' "He did not ask for money," continued Mr. Browne, "but the intimation was as plain as if it had- been in scare heads that unless money was paid the story would be published. It .was my first in timation that he had gone into the thug business. I looked at the situation from every anKe and at last concluded there was but one thing to do to ignore the letter and its writer." 1 White was Interviewed by States At torney Wayman today, but Wayman would not divulge the nature of the talk. (Concluded on Page 5.) SERIES OF PICTURES Real Thine, or Mlragef Noted Elk City Trapper, Recent Heir to $30,000, and Rescue Party Disappears. STITES, Idaho, April 30. (Special.) Word was received here today from Bd Harbison, of Elk City, that Vic Bargiman, who has a ranch a few miles from Elk City and who hunts and traps during the Winter, has not been heard of since starting on his trap line March 7, In the region where the rich Ten Mile strike was recently made. Forest Ranger Gardner E. Porter and a companion went in search of Bargi men two weeks ago and they, too, seem to have dropped from sight. Mr. Har bison, at the time the letter was writ ten, was forming a searohing party to leave Elk City in quest of the three men. It is feared they have been lost In at tempting to cross swollen streams. Mr. Barglmen has been in the Elk City country about 10 years. It was reported last year that $50,000 or $60,000 had been left to him by his father in Virginia. He runs a trap line and photographs wild birds and animals for a pastime, deriv ing a good revenue from his furs and pictures. A year ago two black fox hides were sold by him in the London market for $1500. GARAGE FIRST, THEN AUTO Waitsburg's Eccentric Millionaire Buys Car at Last. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. April 30. (Special.) Alexander Stewart. the wealthy and eccentric citizen of Waits burg, who recently built a 30-room house, at an approximate cost of $30, 000, with plate-glass mirrors for wall panels, and who built an automobile garage several years ago, at last has an automobile. The machine cost $5200. Owing to his lavish and Inexpedient expenditures on his house, friends of Mr. Stewart tried to have the court appoint a guardian for him. but this move was defeated after hundreds of dollars had been spent in litigation. The house has been termed the "House of Folly." It Is constructed of con crete, has cut-glass doorknobs on each door, while the entire front yard is concreted. The garage is located In front of the house. INDIANS MUTILATE. DEAD Mexican Soldiers, Building Road, Are Attacked by Mayas. MEXICO, CITT. April 30. News of a murderous attack by Maya Indians upon a small detachment of Mexican troops In the territory of Quintana Rao was brought by the passengers arriv ing on the government transport Pro gresso, according to a ' special to the Mexican Herald from Vera Cruz last night. A lieutenant, a bugler and a private are reported to have been killed, and one private taken prisoner. The bodies of the dead were found hacked to pieces and partially burned. The soldiers- were building a road through the brush when they were fired upon by the Indians. Troops sent in pursuit of the savages were unable to overtake them. WOMAN ADVISES; IS DYING Ex-Representative Rader Starving Self to Death in Seattle. SEATTLE, Wash., April 30. Ex State Representative L. E. Rader, who, on the advice of a woman physician has eaten no food for four weeks, and whose death is looked for soon, was located today at the home of a friend on Broadway, whither he had been taken to elude the lunacy commission appointed to examine him. It Is unlikely that he will be molested In his new abode. The city health office cannot prosecute the starvation doctor, and It Is doubtful whether the patient would be declared insane if examined. One patient of the woman died of starvation three weeks- ago. Woodland Becomes Dry Town. WOODLAND, Wash., April 30. (Spe cial.) A very peculiar situation exists in Woodland regarding the two sa loons that have been operating here, and as a consequence, both of them will close their hoors tonight, probably for good. The town went wet laBt No vember, but the Council refused to grant licenses. OF CURRENT EVENTS. Mill Have to tiet Bnsy. ! 700 VOLUNTEERS WORK HARD Few Indignant Citizens Found Among Those Counted. OFFICIAL COUNT IS WEAK In Many Districts Missing Xames Run Into Hundreds, Giving Proof That Government Employes Were Extremely Careless. COMMIRCIAI. I.l I PRESIDEXT THANKS 700 "VOLUXTEEKS." "On behalf of the city of Portland and the Commercial club I desire to extend warm thanks and hearty con gratulations to the TOO workers whose efforts have resulted in a completed count of the population of this city." said President Beckwlth last night. "The generosity of firms supplying their men on a Saturday and the last day of the month cannot be too highly praised, nor can be the men who accomplished the work. They have one and all shown what Portland can do In an emergency, when her citizens realize the urgency of a situation. "We have tried to see that Port land has an honest count. I think we have done It." Over 30.000 names were turned in yes terday by the volunteer census-takers, every name of which was reported to have been missed by the official enu merators. It is probable the count will be the result of an addition of lS.OfiO names to the list of" tlioso fhe Govern ment enumerators furnished. This count leaves practically no doubt that Portland will be able to put the cov eted prefix "2" in front of her population total, and indications are the total will run closely to 210.000. On the census, based on the school pop ulation, the city should have a popuatlon of 187.000. But Portland, in common with all Western cities, has a large popula tion of unmarrried folk, estimated to total 20.000. Thus, on the basis of the school count, Portland will have climbed over the fence Into the 300,000 class. Everybody Enthusiastic Over Work. Probably no city in America could dis play the .energy and enthusiasm ex hibited in Portland yesterday. Headed by ten captains, men prominent in city life, 700 enumerators started yesterday at 8 A. M. to round up the Portland residents the census men had missed. And out of the 30,000 coutned, there were not more than a dozen who received the volunteers unkindly, or who gave any basis to the story the official enumerators have been giving of discourteous treatment and in dignant citizens. In a number of districts not more than eight or ten names were missed, showing the officials had been thorough, but In others the missing names ran into hun dreds, giving just as infallible proof that the enumerators had been negligent in the extreme. It is now known that many enumera tors, rather than confess they have scamped their districts, have been omit ting to make record of the many names turned over to them as missing and have reported them as collected. Unless there is now most careful supervision of the enumerators in their check-up this week, it is believed they will repeat their pre vious offence by declaring they can find no trace of the people so painstakingly hunted up by the volunteer corp of cen sus enumerators yesterday.' Among the captains working out their districts several showed a more thorough and careful drilling in the work than any official enumerator. In the case of H. (Concluded on Page 12. ) Help!