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VOL. XXIX. NO. 20
PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1910.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TUFT
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HILL AIDS WOMAN
BITTEN BY SNAKE
EAST TO WEST LIE
TO GROSS OREGON
FLOOD TO CANADA
WORRIES NATION
SELF
STUDENTS INDULGE
IN GENERAL FIGHT
BRIBE: WITNESSES
CLOSELY GUARDED
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WITH 2 NECKTIES
AUTO TAKES RAVCHER'S WIFE
80 MILES TO DOCTOR.
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GRATIOX TO NORTH.
SPOKAXE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
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COMMON USAGE IS FOLLOWED
Attorney - General Submits
Documents to Committee.
PUBLIC INTEREST KEEN
"Suggested Form" Often Submitted
by Officials to Superiors, Is Ex
plained Not Regarded as
Dismissal of Glaris.
WASHINGTON, May 14. Oscar Ixaw
ler, Assistant Attorney-General of the
Interior Department, of which Richard A.
Ballinger is the head, did in fact prepare
a draft of a letter addressed to Secretary
Ballinger and in such form and phrase
that it might have been adopted ver
batim and signed by the President as Mr.
Taft's exoneration of the Secretary from
the charges of L. K. Glavis, and author
izing the dismissal of Glavis from his po
sition of special agent of the Interior
Department.
This draft by Mr. Lawler was deliv
ered this afternoon to the Ballinger
Pinchot committee and ordered spread
upon the records of the investigation.
Careful comparison of the Lawler draft
with the letter of the President 6hows
that In fact Mr. Taft did adopt prac
tically verbatim two short paragraphs of
Mr. Lawler'a language.
The substance of the two documents is
otherwise widely dissimilar.
Washington Is Stirred.
The subject was on every tongue to
night in Washington, where almost every
man. woman and child is bitterly either a
Ballinger or a Pinchot partisan.
The thing came to a head today in the
publication of a statement attributed to
Frederick W. Kerby, one of the stenog
raphers in the office of Secretary Bal
linger, in which Kerby related at length
the circumstances under which he al
leged the Lawler draft to have been pre
pared. Kerby assorted further that all of the
preliminary drafts used in the prepara
tion of the letter were burned in a grata
in the Interior Department at the sug
gestion and under the supervision of Don
A. Carr, Mr, Bailinger's private eecre
tary. Kerby drew the inference that
tho Lawler draft had been adopted by
the President essentially as his own; that
Mr. Ballinger and his legal adviser had
therefore virtually prepared the exonera
tion which Mr. Tf.ft had Issued over his
own signature.
Copy Is Submitted.
Almost simultaneously with the pub
lication of the Kerby statement, Attor-ney-Oeneral
Wickersham sent to the
Ballinger-Pinchot investigating- com
mittee, then in session, a copy of the
Lawler draft, accompanied by a letter
to Chairman Nelson, in which Mr.
Wickersham declared the document had
been overlooked in sending the papers
requisitioned by the committee at the
request of Attorney Srandeis.
The publication of the Kerby state
ment evoked from the White House a
statement declaring that there was
"absolutely no foundation" for the
statement that the President's letter of
September 13, 1909. was substantial'y
prepared for the President's signature
by Assistant Attorney-General Lawler,
and asserting unequivocally that "the
President dictated his letter personally
as the result of his own investigation
of the records and consideration of
documents and paper- In his posses
sion at the time, and upon the report
of the Attorney-General."
Custom Pointed Out.
It was further pointed out, both at
the wntte House and by Attorney
General Wickersham himself, that a
comparison of the Lawler draft and the
President's letter would s ow that the
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Railroad Man's Party Reaches Lake
view, Where School Children
Give Cheering Welcome.
LAKE VIEW, Or., May 14. (Special.)
The Louis W. Hill party, now touring
Central Oregon, made haste for 80
miles of its Journey today to save the
life of Mrs. George Gibbs, wife of a
rancher in an isolated section north of
Warner Lake, who was bitten by a rat
tlesnake last night.
The woman's arm had been found
to be in a serious condition, and Mr.
Hill voluntered to bring her with all
possible speed to the nearest doctor,
who lives here. Mr. Hill telephoned
from Plush to a physician, who went
out part way to meet the travelers.
The party arrived here at 7:30 o'clock,
being met by a delegation in 12 auto
mobiles six miles out of the city. The
children assembled at the schoolhouse
and waved flags and cheered as the
procession of automobiles passed.
The party traveled 150 miles today,
beginning at the ranch 7o miles south
of Burns, whore the members spent two
days.
EUGENE TO VOTE FILTER
Changing Debt From Warrants to
Bonds Also T7p.
EUGENE, Or., May 14. (Special.)
Eugene will hold a special city election
Monday to vote on funds for the instal
lation of a filtering pjant for the city
water system and the extension of
mains, and the issuance of S150.000 in
bonds to take the place of the same
amount of city warrants.
The city proposes to install a filter
ing plant that will be practically a du
plicate of the one in use at Oregon City,
which is reported as satisfactory. The
University of Oregon faculty has
passed a resolution in favor of a filter
plant, and the committee on munlclnal
affairs from the Commercial Club has
indorsed it. The proposed appropria
tion, which is not to exceed $40,000, car
ries also a provision for $20,000 in
bonds fo the extension of water mains.
The rapid growth of Eugene has made
it impossible to furnish water to the
outlying resident districts.
The proposition to bond the citv for
$150,000 is not to incur any new debt,
but to change the form of its present
debt and to save the city 1 per cent,
for city warrants bear 6 per cent and
the bonds 5 per cc-t interest.
HYDE JURY LOCKED UP
Rumored Eight Are for Conviction,
Four for Acquittal.
KANSAS CITY, May 14. It Is generally
believed about town that the Jury delib
erating on a verdict in the Hyde case la
hopelessly disagreed.
Shortly after 10 o'clock tonight the Jury
pleaded with Judge Latsh&w to be al
lowed to go to bed and resume delibera
tions in the morning.
"Try it an hour longer,", said the court.
and the men went sleepily to renew their
labors.
At 11 o'clock no verdict had been re
ported and the men were locked up for
the night.
It is said that the men stand as they
did this afternoon, eight for conviction
and four for acquittal. This is a change
from last night, when it was rumored
that one man was for conviction and all
the rest for acquittal.
FARMERS PLOW UP WHEAT
Hessian Fly Believed at Work Xeac
Forest Grove.
FOREST GROVE, Or., May 14. (Sne-
clal.) Farmers north of town are
plowing their wheat crop because the
Hessian fly, or an insect resembling It.
is working -at the roots of the plant.
The wheat looks thriving, green and
healthy, but where it emrrges from the
ground the plant is slightly yellow.
In pulling the wheat out of the ground
two or three bugs are seen gnawing at
the tender stem.
Fortunately no other section is re
ported affected by the pest. By some
It is thought foolish lor the farmers to
plow their wheat now.
SPAIN AWAITING STORK
Madrid K.vpectant "With Visit Due
Sometime in June.
MADRID, May 14. It is learned that
the accouchmont of Queen Victoria is
expected within a month.
IN THE GENTLE SPRINGTIME HARRY MURPHY'S THOUGHTS TURN (AS USUAL) TO HUMOROUS PICTURES.
800,000-Acre Tract Is
Put on Market.
HILL FRIENDS SO ANNOUNCE
Colonization Firm Has Capital
of $12,000,000.
ROAD'S ROUTE IS OUTLINED
Boise & Western Will Enter State at
Ontario and. Continue Westward
to Bend Publicity Scheme
Gigantic In Scope.
FACTS ABOUT $12,000,000 COLONI
ZATION SCHEME.
The Boise & Western Railroad 1b an
nounced as the east and west road to
be built by the Hills in Oregon.
Bend will probably- be the junction
of the Oregon Trunk, line and the Boise
& Western.
Oregon & Western Colonization Com
pany, with a capital of $12,000,000,
takes over the holdings of the Wil
lamette Valley & Cascade Mountain
wagon road grant, and will colonize.
Lan d s to be sol d to actual set tiers
at from $15 to $200 an acre, and upon
contracts which will allow all the time
necessary for development and payment
for the landa
A feature of the dealings of the new
company will be the elasticity of selling
contracts, each tract of land and each
person being fitted together on equitable
term.
Portland to be the headquarters of
the operation of the largest develop
ment and settlement project ever under
taken on the American continent.
Colonization company will join Louis
W. Hill and his plans for advertising
Oregon.
The new company announces Its
willingness to stand behind irrigation
plans for reclamation of its own lands.
With the arrival in Portland yester
day ot John E. Burchard, of St. Paul,
definite information became public as
to the building- of the Boise & "Western
KailroaoY as the east and west branch
of the Hill system in tapping Central
Oregon.
Entering the state at Ontario, the
Boise & Western will build in a north
westerly direction, through Malheur
Canyon to a point directly east of Mal
heur Lake. From that point two sur
veys have been made for a continua
tion of the line.
One of the projected lines passes to
the north of Malheur Lake and the
other between Malheur Lake and Har
ney Lake. The objective point of the
road will be attained through the use
of either line.
Hill's Visit Will Decide.
Bend will in all probability be the
junction point for the new line with
the Oregon Trunk Line, the railway
owned by the Hills, and winch is rap
idly creeping toward the heart of Ore
gon by way of the Deschutes Kiver.
Whichever route may be finally se
lected will depend upon the visit now
being made to that section of the state
by the party of which Louis W. Hill
is a member. It is believed that the
northern route, following the survey
and grade of the Willamette Valley &
Cascade Mountain Wagon Road, will
be the first constructed. It will open
a larger territory which is soon to be
populated, and wnich wiU.be shipping
to the markets of the world before the
Hill lines reach the south boundary of
the state.
The southern survey will be retained
for the Hill road to California, which
will be built in the near future.
Realty
Deal World's
Largest.
Following close on the announce
ment as to railway routes, came that
concerning the final closing of the
largest real estate transaction, from an
acreage viewpoint, ever consummated
in the history of the United States, and
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Coincident With This Are Efforts of
Administration to Settle Con
servation Problems.
WASHINGTON, May 14. (Special.)
Washington officials of the Depart
ments of Agriculture and Commerce
and Labor have a sharp sense of the
need of something:, no one knows Just
what, to stop the flood of emigration
that is flowing on its way from the
Western United States Into Canada. The
Administration proposes to take the
matter up seriously.
It Is probably only a coincidence that
the high tide in emigration to Canada
has occurred at a time when this coun
try is engaged in trying to settle the
problem of a proper way to conserve
the natural resources of the country.
The sharp fact is that Canada Is re
ceiving thousands of Americans every
year, men who have made good citizens
at home and who will make good citi
zens of the country to the north of lid.
We are getting immigrants enough
to offest the loss, but the class of in
comers is so inferior to the class of
outgoers that the United States gains
nothing from the fact that the former
outnumber the latter.
MANY AUTOS ARE SOLD
Studebakers Do Big: Business in
Portland and Seattle.
Thirty automobiles sold and delivered
during the past 14 days is the record
made by the Seattle house of the Stude
baker company and, just to show that
they were also in the game, the officers
of the local branch of the company de
livered nine cars. Besides the 30 E. M.
F.s which were delivered by the Seattle
house, the same number of touring cars
was also sold.
Five electric delivery trucks were taken
by the Meier & Frank Company of this
city, similar cars also going to the Carey
Creamery Company and one to the City
of Tacoma. A Studebaker- Garford, 40
horsepower, was purchased by W. B.
Fechheimer, of this city, and F. P. Swin
son, of Tacoma, bought a like car from
the local concern.
Since taking the agency for the E. M.
F. and Flanders cars, the local Stude
baker branch has sold nearly a score of
the popular machines.
RIGO SUED BY DOMESTIC
Musician and Wife Must Answer to
Doctor's Complaint Bill, Too.
Suit was filed in the Justice Court yes
terday against J. Rigo, musician in a
local cafe, and Elizabeth Rigo, his wife,
to compel them to pay a 450 doctor bill
and $3 which it is alleged they owe to
Goldle Rhodes, a domestic.
Dr. W. M. Killtngsworth is the com
plainant in the $60 suit. He alleges that
he was called to give Rigo medical serv
ice which he values at the sum of $50, and
Rigo has since refused to pay. Goldie
Rhodes alleges that she worked Jive days
as a domestic in the Rigo household, the
agreed wage being $1 per day. Of this
she received $2, and is suing for the bal
ance. Rigo is the man who eloped with
Princess Chimay, the American wife of
an Austrian nobleman.
TRACT SOLD AT AUCTION
1000 Acres in WTiltman County
Brings Average of $81.
COLFAX, Wash., May 14. (Special.)
John B. Young, of Thornton, through
George Larue & Co., of Colfax, sold 1000
acres of improved farm land, two -miles
north of Thornton, in Whitman County.
Friday. The land was sold In 14 tracts
at auction, averaging $84 an acre. Three
hundred and nineteen acres were sold to
S. T. Evans, of Calgary, at $101 an acre.
Eight hundred and fifty acres, is in
wheat, of which the buyers will receive
one-third at harvest. Two hundred buy
erf attended the sale.
OREGON COAL DEAL CLOSED
Spokane Capitalists Invest; Pur
chase May Mean Road Terminus.
MARSH FIELD, Or., .May 14. (Special.)
It is reported that the sale of the Ore
gon Coal & Navigation Company prop
erty, consisting of over 3000 acres of land
the LIbby mine and the steamer M. F.
Plant, has practically been closed.
The purchasers are said to be Spokane
capitalists. The land adjoins Marshfield
and as it is about the only large, tract
in this city " which would provide a rail
way terminal grounds, it is thought that
the negotiations may be for one of the
railroad companies.
Pioneer Alaska Pros
pector Suicide's.
COIN NEEDED TO WORK MINES
Failure to Interest Eastern
Capitalists Leads to Death.
TAKES LIFE IN CHICAGO
When Success Seemed Within Man's
Grasp, Well-Known Seattle-Miner
Goes to Hotel and Strings
Neck to Bedpost.
CHICAGO, May 14. (Special.) Harry
F. Waugh, of Seattle, mining prospec
tor, member of the Arctic Club and
leader of the Waugh sledge expedition
to the delta of the Mackenzie River,
commlttd suicide today by hanging him
self to a bedpost in a room at the
Rest Hotel, 78 Vanburen street, with
a rope mad of two neckties.
Failure to Interest capitalists in his
mining project when success seemed
within his grasp, is believed hv th
police to have prompted him to take
his life.
Waugh Pioneer Prospector.
Quartz containing fine veins of gold
and specimens of pure metal were found
in his baggage. He was one of the
first Westerners to enter Alaska when
the rush for gold was made in 1896.
Waugh, it is believed from his let
ters and papers, came East for the
purpose of obtaiinng the backing of
capitalists In his quartz proposition of
the Peel River, 200 miles northeast of
Dawson. Machinery had been shipped
to Alaska, supposedly to be taken by
dog teams to the mines, but it is be
lieved thousands of dollars were needed
in taking iut the gold.
Two pawn tickets, $11 and a .tele
gram reading, "Funds running low,"
found in his room, told the story.
Dead Man Was Melancholy.
Besides the mineral specimens in his
room were found a number of letters
and a copy of the Rubalyat of Omar
Khayyam, in which several melancholy
passeges were marked.
The letters included several from Mrs.
Laura Waugh, his widow, who is- in
Grafton, California. A copy of an 4 -ventory
wherein he had been advanced
$1000 on the Feel River prospect April
by merchants in St. John, N. B., also
was found.
Waugh left a form of will giving to
his wife the unspecified contents of a
bonx at the Bank of Seattle Safe De
posit Vault Company.
TRADE TREATY UNDER WAY
Vncle Sam Negotiating With Canada
Over Tariff.
WASHINGTON, May 14. The Federal
Government has taken Bteps looking to
the negotiation of a trade treaty with
Canada.
It was officially announced today that
last Thursday Secretary Knox had sent
a communication to the British Ambassa
dor here transmitting to the Canadian
Government a formal proposal that tariff
negotiations be instituted as soon as pos
sible. NORTH YAKIMA GAIN BIG
Census Enumerator Places Present
Population at 15,500.
NORTH YAKIMA, Wafih., May 14
(Special.) Conservative estimates of the
population of North Yakima made by
Special Enumerator McSpadden and Sec
retary James, of the Commercial Club,
who have been in close touch with the
work, place the figures at 15,500. The
special campaign of Thursday added 659
names to the list.
The population of the city, according
to the census of 1900, was 3156.
While Excursion Is ou Way to Pull
man Track Meet, Hostilities
Break Out Two Injured.
SPOKANE, Wash., May 14. (Special.)
Blood flowed and heads were bruised In
a free-for-all fight between the Spokane
High School students on their way to the
Pullman interscholastic meet and a crowd
of citizens about the depot at Garfield
at 6:30 last evening.
E. O'Callaghan, choir director of the
All Saints Cathedral and president of the
Spokane Junior Baseball League, a mem
ber of the excursion, had his hand badly
slashed by a saw swung by one of the
suburbanites. J. "W. Clark, of Garfield,
was cut on the hand. Two-by-fours and
other less formidable instruments, includ
ing carpenters tools, were freely used in
the melee, according to the reports.
The clash, lasting for about 10 min
utes, grew out of the theft of several
Spokane pennants by a Garfield boy, ac
cording to the report.
The train. Northern Pacific No. 11, was
waiting at Garfield for the Lewis ton
train when the trouble started. While
the 100 Spokane youths were 'singing
songs, waving pennants and shouting
their "rah-rahs" a loyal son of Garfield
stepped beneath the car window and
grabbed pennants. Spokane students at
once gave chase, Harry Goetz, Bill Rice
and Ned Edris, local high school boys,
locating the offender.
Goetz gobbled the young man's hat and
started back for the train, the Garfield
boys now being the pursuers.
Just as he reached the coach two men,
one a gray-haired carpenter, grabbed
Goetz and tried to take the hat away
from him. He succeeded in getting into
the train with the hat.
A Garfield youth grabbed the hat of
Charles Galbrolth, the one-legged ath
lete of the South Central High School,
and started to run. He did not get far,
however, before he was stopped by Spo
kane boys, and the general mixup ensued.
TREES WANTED IN STREET
Springfield Old Residents Object to
;'Marcli of Progress."
SPRINGFIELD. Or., May 14. Two
large oak trees that stand at the Inter
section of Main and Second streets have
been the cause of much strife between
the City Council and some who think
Springfle! dis too big to have trees in
the middle of the streets. Others who
dislike the horse-trough that for the
past 30 or 40 years has watered passing
animals and trie trees and those who
have 'played under the oks s children
re also involved.
The City Council, with plans of civic
improvement, intended to do away
with the old watering-trough and place
a concrete basin at the side of the
street. Likewise, the trees were to be
cut down and to the street commis
sioner was given orders to remove them
at once. Then a storm of protest went
up from the old residents, who at once
drew up a remonstrance petition that
was well signed and will be presented
to the Council at a meeting Monday
night.
FIRST C0UGAR IS KILLED
Bounty Secured by Clackamas
County Man on Huge Beast.
OREGON CITY. Or., May 14. J. M.
Park, residing at Dodge, brought to the
city the hide and scalp of a cougar to
day which he shot near his home on the
North Fork of the Clackamas. Mr. Park
received $10 for the scalp. This is the
first cougar scalp brought to the County
Clerk's office for a bounty since the law
went into effect at the last session of the
Legislature.
The animal was immense, and Is con
sidered one of the largest ever killed in
the state. Mr. Park sold the skin to a
firm in Portland.
POINT LOST BY HOFFSTOT
Habeas Corpus Writ Granted Head
of Car Company' Dismissed.
NEW YORK. May 14. The writN of
habeas corpus obtained by Frank N.
Hoffstot. president of the Pressed Steel
Car Company, who was indicted in con
nection with the Pittsburg bribery
cases, was dismissed today by Judge
Holt in the United States Circuit Court
here.
Judge Holt, however, said he would
grant a stay if Hoffstot desired to ap
peal. Hoffstot's extradition to Pennsyl
vania was recently ordered by Governor
Hughes.
State Hampered in
Lorimer Scandal.
TWO PROSECUTORS CLASH
Wayman Fears to Let Evi
dence Get Out Down State.
BURKE'S WORDS SIZZLE
Sangamon Attorney Emphatic in
Asertlon Cook County Official
Shall Xot Block Investiga
tion of "Vote-Selling.-"
CHICAGO, May 14. (Special.)
State's Attorney Wayman today pre
pared to use all the powers and re
sources of his office. Including armed
guards, to prevent the bribery case
against Representative Lee O'Neill
Browne, which comes up for trial be
fore Judge McSurely Monday morning,
from being placed in jeopardy by any
action on the part of State's Attorney
Burke, of Springfield, and the Sanga
mon County grand jury.
Representative Charles A. White,
whose confession that he had accepted
a bribe of $1000 for voting for William
Lorimer for Senator and $5000 out of
a "jackpot," started the inquiry into
conditions in the late Legislature, sud
denly was transferred to the custody of
a deputy sheriff, and similar precau
tions were planned to keep Representa
tive H. G. C. Beckemeyer, who mad
confession No. 2, in Chicago until the
trial is finished.
Xigger Seen in Woodpile.
A fear that the testimony might leak
out at Springfield and thus put the de
fense in full possession of all the evi
dence collected by the Cook County
prosecutor in the Browne and Wilson
cases will lead Mr. Wayman to fight
to the last ditch any further efforts to
get his witnesses before the Sangamon
County jurors.
The news that the Springfield pros
ecutor will swear out an attachment
for Detective J. J. O'Keefe for not ap
pearing before the Sangamon grand
jury today caused considerable aston
ishment in the Criminal Court building.
The detective arrived in Chicago dur
ing the morning and after an interview
with Mr. Wayman took up his work on
the Browne case, taking stray ends in
preparation for the commencement of
the trial.
Wayman Is Determined.
"Detective O'Keefe returned to Chi
cago simply because he had his duties
here to attend to," said Mr. Wayman.
"I understand that an atachment has
been issued for O'Keefe. I wisli to say
that despite State Attorney Burke's
efforts to have my office force In
Springfield when the Brown trial
starts Monday, O'Keefe will be here.
His presence is necessary in that trial
and the attachment will be made in the
usual way when that issue arises."
Attorney Frank Reed, counsel for
Michael S. Link, returned to Chicago
early in the day and conferred with
Mr. Wayman. He said that counsel for
the defense In the Browne and Wilsoa"
cases were busy at Springfield, and
that Attorney J. "K. McMahon, one of
the attorneys for the defense, had in
terviewed State Attorney Burke.
Burke Resents Charge.
In a. sizzling statement issued at.
Springfield tonight State Attorney
Burke clearly intimates that he in
tends to make a vigorous and persis
tent attack upon State Attorney Way
man, of Chicago, for an alleged at
tempt to blockade the investigation of
crime committed in this county. Just
exactly what Mr. Burke desires to do
to the Cook County prosecutor has not
been disclosed, but it is believed that
he will try to force Mr. Wayman into
court to defend himself.
"We have a right," read Mr. Burke's
statement, "to be let alone in our ef
fort to discover and punish crime In
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