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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.
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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.
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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. )
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