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Pages 1 to 12 PORTLASD; OKECiO.X. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1910. FRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL,. XXIX. XO. 23 SEE FRIENDS BY TELEGRAPH, NEXT TELEVISION GOES TELEPHONE ONE BETTER AT LAST. MORGAN RUSHES TD ATTACK OF PATTEN WHISKERS CAUGHT INDOORMAN HELD CHAMBERMAID GOES TO RES CUE OF IMPRISONED GUEST. LENGTHY RAILWAY FIGHT HEARS END BERLIN'S DEMANDS STIR UP POWERS BRIBE TO VOTE FOH L0R1MER ADMITTED NOT IMMEDIATE PERSIAN CONTROVERSY MAY BRING ON CRISIS. j 76 Pages i C SI OF DRAWS OneSenator Confesses, Another Indicted. MORE MEMBERS IMPLICATED Disclosures Come as Principal Asserts His Innocence. NEW SENSAHON CREATED Latest Member to Be Accused Is Leading Chicago Democrat Im munity Promised for Confes sion of I uka Member. SPrUNGFIISLD, III, May 28. Within a few hours after United States Sena tor Lorlmer's speech at Washington, State Senator; John Broderick, a lead ing Chicago TDemocrat, was indicted In a. bribery charge by the grand jury here today. Broderlck's indictment was the direct result of a confession made to x the errand Jury by State Senator r W. Holtslaw, of I uka. 111., who says that Broderick paid him $2500 to vote for Lorimer for Senator. A capias was. at once ordered for Broderick and a bench warrant 4as issued for his ar rest. Immunity Promise Given. The unexpected turn in the Lorimer scandal was an offshoot of State At torney Burke's investigation of alleged graft in the legislative furniture deal. Senator Holtslaw had been indicted on a perjury charge In connection with the furniture contract, and upon ad vice of his lawyers, when Immunity was offered to him, agreed to make a confession. Then he told the - grand Jury that he had received $2500 for his vote for Lorimer, $700 of his share of a legislative "jackpot" and a prom lseof J1500 as his share of the state house furniture deal. Part of Confession Coroborated. Senator Holstlaw's confession re garding the furniture deal was cor roborated before the grand Jury, by Otto Freier, who as agent for the Ford Johnson Furniture Company of Chi cago, obtained the furniture contract. The two confessions regarding the furniture contract resulted in two ad ditional indictments on conspiracy charges. These were State Senator S. C. Pemberton, Republican, of Oakland, 111., and Representative Joseph S. Clark, Democrat, or Vandalia, 111. Capiases and bench warrants were Issued immediately for Pemberton and Clark on the conspiracy charges in con nection with the furniture contract. Bribery Story Told. Although an indictment charging conspiracy was returned against Sen ator Holstlaw, it was immediately nolled and immunity for Holstlaw was ordered by Judge James A. Crelghton. Before going to the- grand Jury room, Holstlaw made a statement to State Attorney Burke, in which he said, in part: "I voted for William Lorimer for United States Senator and received there for $2500. I also received $700, which was given me without explanation, with the statement that it was coming to me. I was promised $1500 for my connection with the letting of the furniture con tract." Holstlaw later repeated his conversa tion to the Associated Press. He told in detail of the meeting he had with Sena tor John Broderick, of Chicago, in front of the St. Nicholas Hotel in this city, the day before Lorimer was elected Senator. . Fellow Senator Accused. After some desultory conversation, Holstlaw said Broderick asked him if he could vote for Lorimer and he replied that it wan possible, since some of his (Conchaded on Pare 3.) HARRY in The preside n That some Jobs are not as easy as they look. That there seems to be a lot of office seekers in tbe world. That he would like to see hi critics In hi place. S a I J T. 3. 1 French Scientist Perfects Apparatus to Take Photograph Telegraphically. PARIS, May 28. (Special.) Television, the science of seeing hundreds of miles by the means of a telegraph wire, is a step nearer realization. EdouayJ, Belin, a young French scient ist, has perfected and soon will test pub licly an apparatus which actually, it is said, will take a picture telegraphically. Thus the Image of a person or article before an objective lens in New York would appear practically instantaneously on a negative in San Francisco at the other end of the line. About two years ago, it will be remem bered, a German professor named Kom interested the scientific world by exhibit ing an instrument capable of transmitting photographs telegraphically. Pictures ob tained were imperfect, however, and showed practically no details. M. Belin. following Professor Korn's lead, has perfected telephotographic ap paratus in which the Senate committee on posts and telegraphs is much inter ested. CITY OFFICIAL PAYS FINE Man Reprimanded Catches Council man Hiding on Sidewalk. SPRINGFIELD. Or., May 28. (Spe cial.) Charles" RIvitt, a Councilman of this city, was. arrested last night' and paid a fine of $3.50 for riding a bicy cle on the sidewalks, while hurrying to a special Council meeting to trans act city business. The arrest was made by Special Policeman Lyons. The violation occurred in the middle of the week, but the arrest was not made until today. Rivitt, who lives on his farm three miles out of the city had left home before 6 o'clock in the morning to get to Springfield in time for an .early Council committee meeting. He chose the Second-street sidewalk, where1 rid ing is prohibited, because he thought he could make better time. The fine was paid this morning. Lyons, who made the arrest, was censured by Rivitt, as Councilman, a short time ago. This Is probably the only arrest made under this ordinance. CREW OF GRACE L. SAVED Two Men Believed Lost Are Picked Vp and Their Vessel Rescued. SEATTLE. May 28. The United States Collier Saturn arrived at the Puget Sound Navy-Yard today with A. H. Smith and J. R. Marshall, of Aber deen, Wash., engineer and captain of the gasoline launch Grace L., who were supposed to have perished off Cape Flattery, the launch having been picked up a derelict. The men report that the launch was tossed like a cork In the storm that hit her oft the Cape and sprang a leak. The men hoisted distress signals, which were seen by the Umatilla Reef light ship. The lighthouse tender Relief was sent out and took oft the' men, who were afterward transferred to the Saturn. The Grace L. was towed to Seattle today uninjured. YOUNG WOMEN PEEL BARK They Camp in Mountains, Wear Male Garb, Lead Strenuous Life. MIDDLETOWN, Cal., May 28. (Spe cial.) Gertie Nevins and Crystal Par ribt, robust young women of Lake County, have taken a contract to peel tanbark and have pitched camp on the side of Mount St. Helena, where they are hard at work. The young women peel as much bark in a day as a great many men do and are none the worse for it. They wear men's clothing, ( camp alone in the mountains, at least two miles from any other habitation, and are leading a "strenuous life" with a pace that would make Roosevelt gasp for' breath. They say that peeling tanbark Is "preferable to lolling" In a hammock and having some young man to. fam them." MURPHY FINDS THAT rAKriEK That all hired men think they are doing yon a favor to work for yon. That a follow kick's at tbe railroad!) when they don't build, and kicks harder than ever at them when they do. That he Isn't saying anything- against the high cost of 11 vine- Wall Street Looks for Battle of Giants. EASTERN MAN IS VERY ANGRY "Upstart Westerner" Spoils His Bull Campaign. PATTEN IN DEEP STUDY New York Cotton Market Is to Be Scene of Conflict in Which Re venge for Last Year's High Prices Is Dominating Aim. CHICAGO, May 28. Special.) Patten versus Morgan in a desperate contest for supremacy In the cotton market. That Is the situation now. . James A. Patten, still nursing the bruises received in his recent encounter with the wheat bears on the Board of Trade, is preparing to engage in the "fight o his life," with an army of Wall-street bears marshalled under the formidable leadership of the house of J. P. Morgan & Co. The battle will be fought out in the New York cotton market and millions of dollars are involved, in the outcome. Mr. Patten, in his Chicago office to day, made a deep study of thev situa tion. Behind the approaching conflict lies the story of how Patten, "that up start of a Westerner," as he Is fre quently spoken of in the town on the Hudson River, has incurred the an tagonism of Morgan by boosting the price of cotton and grain, thereby up setting certain plans which the New York financier had formed for engineer ing a bull campaign in stocks. J. Pierpont Morgan, as the story goes, looked, on with increasing anger as the price of cotton last' Fall continued to soar under the leadership of Patten on the bull side of the market. Finally, a few days before Christmas, when the price of the May delivery rose above 16 cents a pound, it is said, he arose in the power of his wrath and enormous wealth and set about to smash the market. MAY WHEAT BOTHERS OTHERS T. H. Waterman, "Albany Miller," Out $125,000 on Day. CHICAGO, May 28. (Special.) May wheat prices acted like a tumbler pigeon today, except that they did not rise again after the tumble. As the result of a sen sational drop of 64 cents in the price on the Board of Trade, it Is estimated that Theodore H. Waterman, of Albany, is $123,000 poorer this evening than he was at dinner time last evening. The price for May delivery closed yes terday at $1.02. The opening today was shaky and. the bears at once charged to j hammer the price still lower. They were 1 successful, for at the close of the board the price for May was 96 cents, a drop of more than 6 cents a bushel. Small - Dealers Shaken Out. A considerable number of the smaller bull dealers who had not been shaken out of the market by the heavy slump of Thursday and yesterday's further decline, lost heavily today. The one big loser, however, -was Mr. Waterman, the "Al bany miller," as he Is called on the local exchange. Some time ago Mr. Waterman acquired a line of 6.000,000. bushels of May wheat, confident that crop conditions and the general market situation would keep up the price and return him a handsome profit. It is estimated that his wheat cost him 'oh an average $1 a bushel and his expectation was that he could And a ready market for his holdings at $1.25 a bushel. As sometimes happens on the Board of Trade and In other places, his plans went (Concluded on Pa-e 2.) VARIOUS WELL-KNOWN PERSONS HAVE CERTAIN OPINIONS, WHICH GRSTTi SOME That there Is lots of competition in his line. That grafting Is a fine art unless you are caught when It Is a crime. That it's a wise grafter that knows when he has enough. Hirsute Bunch Protruding From Doorjamb Attracts Maid's At - tendon as She Passes. SEATTLE, Wash., May 28. (Special.) As Katie Merrill, who handled the Mnen on the top floor of the Hotel Seattle, was tripping down a hallway In that hosteiry today she saw apparently hanging from a doorknob what looked like a woman's switch. It was gray and fully 20 inches long. "Mercy l" quoth Katie, "what a peculiar place for a. switch." Then Katie looked closer to discover that the hirsute bunch -was held fast in the doorjamb. So Katie, with a pass key, opened the door and Morris Steigers, from Salt Lake, toppled backward, his 28-lnch growth of whiskers free. Steigers, while writing a letter, felt a draft. He had gone to the door to close it. A gust wafted his whiskers outward and they were caught when the aoor slammed. It was a catchlock and Steigers was held a prisoner for an hour because the mechanism of the lock was new to him. MRS. FANNY BAKER IS DEAD Woman, Noted in Pioneer Days as "Tim Baker,"' Passes. Mrs. Fanny Barry, 47 years of age, died suddenly at her home, 188 Car ruthers street, last night. The body was removed to the morgue. Death ap parantly resulted from natural causes. A post-morterr, examination, however, will be held to determine the exact rea son for the woman's sudden demise. For the past three years Mrs. Barry has been an' invalid. Recently her health declined rapidly. Last night, while conversing with her daughter, Mrs. Katherine Fisher, the invalid sud denly expired. Dr. S. H. Sheldon was summoned. The woman had died be fore the arrival of the physician. She was the wife of James Barry, who, -for several years prior to the time "of his death from heart failure ten years ago, was a police detective In the local department. Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Barry re sided with her only son, John K. Barry, and her aged mother, who, with Mrs. Fisher, her only daughter, and a brother, survive her. Mrs. Barry, because of her various escapades in her maidenhood, became known . on the street as "Jim Baker." She was the daughter of Perry Baker an olri and wealthy resident of this city. She was a sister-in-law of City Council man John Annand. PACIFIC & IDAHO TO GROW Weiser Delighted Over Extension Planned to Meadows, Idaho. WEISER, Idaho., May 28. (Special.) Cile M. Helgho, president and gen eral manager of the Pacific & Idaho Northern Railroad, that runs from this city north to Evergreen, a distance of 76 miles, returned today from an ex tended trip to New York City and St. Paul, where he was in consultation with the leading stockholders of the company, having been called there In regard to an extension of the railroad. His mission was successful, and he said that work on the extension will begin Immediately and that trains will be running into Meadows, about 15 mi'es from the present terminus, by Fall. The Pacific & Idaho Northern is owned principally by the Weyerhaeuser syndicate and the United Rubber Com pany, both said to be closely identified with the Hill interests, and it is the general opinion that the road will con nect with the Northern Pacific or the Pittsburg & Gilmore road next year. The Weyerhaeuser Lumber Company owns several thousand acres of the finest timber land in Idaho, a few miles beyond tue present terminus of the road The extension to Aleadows will bring the railroad just inside some of their holdings. The citizens of Weiser are delighted with the news of the pro posed extension. MAN FLOATS AWAY TO DIE Builds Raft and Lets Tide Carry Him Into Pacific. NEWJORT, Or.. May 28. A man whose name is not known in this city committed suicide at Slletz. He built a raft just large enough to carry htm. sent It adrift with the tide and allowed himself to be carried out to sea. The raft reached the bar and got in the breakers, It capsized. The man was drowned. -Zr REFOftHER That he Is the only spotless character In American politics. That the magazines help some. That it pays better to tell the people what they think they need than what they really need. Tfl Spokane Expected to Admit New Roads. RATE CAUSE NOW ELIMINATED Franchise Terms to Be Like Those of Other Lines. . POPULAR VOTE NOW ISSUE One Faction Wants Privilege Sub mitted Attempt by' Milwaukee and North Coast to Enter City Drags Along for Year. SPOKANE. Wash.. May 28. (Special.) One of the most outer and most deter mined fights which has taken place In Spokane in many years has been waged here for over a year upon the applications of the North Coast and Chicago, Milwau kee & Puget Sound Railroads for fran chises to enter the city. That is. it las been more than a year since the first ap plication for a franchise was made, and neither has yet been granted. The question did not assume the pro portions of a" violent public issue, how ever, until after the first of this year, when it became evident from the atti tude of the City Council that the rail roads would have tcj grant terminal rates to Spokane or they would have- to stay out. Then It was that the city became divided into two factions, bitterly opposed on this particular matter, each led by capable and representative njen and each consisting of a following which un doubtedly believed In the absolute justice and public spirit of its attitude. The fight Is not yet entirely over, but it Is a. fact generally conceded that the City Council will admit the railroads without the terminal rate clause, and upon such other terms as will be ac ceptable to the roads. The one point which remains unsettled In the public mind Is whether the fran chises should be put to a popular vote before they become valid. This conten tion Is supported by those who opposed the entrance of the railroads without terminal rates, while the men lined on the other side declare that the popular opin ion has bn expressed fully and that an election would be an unnecessary and burdensome test. Referendum Election Proposed. At present there Is a resolution before the City Council Introduced by Council man Nelson, one of the minority, and which has not come to a vote, providing that the franchises shall be validated only at the polls and that the railroad companies shall bear all of the expense of a referendum election without the peti tion of 8 per cent of the voters, which the law requires. The organization in the fight has been all on the side of the railroads. Back of them in their refusal, to consider the terminal rate clause has stood the Cluim ber of Commerce and practically all the other commercial, organizations, as well as many of the labor unions and the largest business houses and " leading pro fessional men and property owners of the city. Petition Signed by 14,000. 'Combined under the name of the cit izens' committee, the business men of Spokane circulated a petition which gained the dimensions of about 17,000 names. Women, children and other non voters were eliminated until the petition had been trimmed to 14.000 names. It was then submitted to "the Council, listed by wards and precincts. After verifying enough, names In their own wards to satisfy themselves that their constituents were In favor of a reconsideration . of the terminal rate- clause, the Council rescinded. . The only organization which was ar rayed on the terminal rate side of the (Concluded on Papa 6.) SUGAR TRUSI fa tEY KNOW. That If he had his life to lire over attain he would be honest or almost. That he didn't do anything himself It was some . misguided wretch of an employe. That this Isn't what he expected after contributing to the campaign fund. Germany Resents Anglo-Russian Invasion, unci Expects Support of I'nited States. LONDON, May 2S. (Special.) Ber lin's demands as to Persia, It is no exaggeration to assert, may bring on a crisis, compared with which the ten sion over Bosnia-Herzegovina, and ear lier over Morocco, would be insignifi cant. Emperor William and his advisers' will not permit London and St. Peters burg to convert the domain of the Shah Into an Anglo-Russian satrapy by an exclusive exploitation of the Per sian railway and commercial conces sion. George V finds his reign open ing with an International controversy of the first rank. In this matter the Germans profess to believe that Washington will give them Its full moral support. Last December the Teheran govern ment made a formal application to Russia and England for financiaiaid. The reply was In the affirmative, 'and In March the conditions desired by the leaders were laid before the Mejllss. While the project was before the Mejllss Berlin got in Its fine works, sounded the Teheran authorities and offered financial assistance in return for railway concessions. KNOX DIPLOMACY SCORES America's Course in Chinese Rail way Loan Commended In Paris. IiOXDON. May 28. (Special.) President Taft and Secretary Knox are congratu lated by the French press upon the skill with which the Washington Government, re-enforcing New York financial repre sentatives, has secured one-fourth of the Hankow-Szechnen Railway loan. Paris capitalists at Just this moment are particularly gracious to undertakings of American capital, as is attested by the co-operation they, offer in financing tha latest requirements of imptrtant rail ways In the United States. But the applause bestowed upon the achievements of Mr. Taft's Administra tion in the Chinese loan matter arises from the fact that French public men are pleased on the whole with the Knox idea of international co-operation to eliminate China from the list of "troublous Oriental states." That the loan will be taken ultimately and that anti-foreign outbreaks will not spread far beyond Hunan Is the conclu sion reached In I-ondon. JEALOUS DOG BITES OWNER j Seeing Mistress Fondle ' Chicken, It Tears Her Throat. SAN FRANCISCO. May 28. (Spe cial.) Prince, a prize-winifing bulldog belonging to Policeman Luke Living ston, Jealous of the attention Mrs. Liv ingston was lavishing on a sick chicken, jumped at her throat at the family residence this morning' and burled his teeth In her flesh. Mrs. Livingston fought frantically to break the grip of the infuriated canine, but only aggravated the fury of the beast, and, had it not been for the ar rival of neighbors, attracted- by her cries, she would have been killed. When the dog's hold was finally broken, she fainted from weakness and Iocs of blood. Mrs. Livingston's' throat was torn in a frightful manner and she will carry the scars of the encounter. She had raised the dog from a puppy. CURTISS MAY FLY TODAY Wind Prevents Aviator From Soar ing Down Hudson River. ALBANY. N. Y., May 28. A brisk wind prevented Glenn H. Curtiss from making an attempt to fly from Albany to New York today. He may start tomorrow if weather conditions are favorable. Lonely Peak Honeymoon Resort. LENNOX. Mass.. May 28. The honey moon of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey. who was Miss Mary Harriman, following their wedding Thursday, will be passed in the Whitney cottage on the summit of lonely October Mountain. HE INTERPRETS FOR That it's funny a simple private cltl xen can't take little trip about the world without attracting attention. That It is a good Idea not to take another term when the tariff Is to be fixed. That if reduced to poverty the maga zines will still buy his stuff. Secretaryof War Delays His Approval. EVENING-HOUR FIGHT LOST Bourne's Threat of Legislation Taken as "Pure Bluff." AMENDMENT REVIVAL FAILS Conference Committee of House Not Agreeable to Plan to Demand by Latv Closing of Bridge Draws In Portland. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 28 (Special.) The Sec retary of War has not yet approved the modification of the Portland bridge reg ulations, authorizing the closing of the draws daily from 6:30 to 8:30 A. M. with two 15-minute open periods, al though a recommendation to this effect was submitted to him yesterday by the Chief Engineers. Until approved by the Secretary such modification has no effect. Morning Rnle May Go Into Erfeet. Secretary Dickinson, however, has transmitted to Senator Bourne a copy of General Marshall's recommendation, as explained in these dispatches yes terday, and stated that this was as far as the Department felt It could go In granting relief to the people of fort land. He intimated he would ultimately approve the regulation closing the raws during the morning rush hours, but gave no intimation of a purpose to grant the closed period In the evening, inasmuch as that proposition had been so strongly opposed by General Mar shall Speaking to The Oregonian corre spondent today. General Marshall said under no circumstances would he agree o recommend that the draws be closed for any length of time in the evening, although Senator Bourne had threat ened to close them by legislation if the Department refused to do so by regu lation. He regards this threat as "pure bluff." He said he would oppose any legislation looking to that end, al though if Congress saw fit, over the Department's objection, to authorize the evening closed period, he would carry out the law. Marshall Fears Move. Tn consenting to give Portland a. two-hour closed period in the morn ings. General Marshall said he had gone further than -he should and had made a concession to the citizens which he feared would injure navigation in terests. The conference committee on the rivers and harbors bill expects to meet again Monday, when on effort will be made to dispose of the Bourne amendment and get a final agreement on the bill. Senator Hourne, failing in his effort to induce the War Department to close the draws during the evening rush hour, is again trying to revive his amendment, or that part of it closing the draws from 5:30 to 0:30 P. M Out the House members of the conference committee have shown no signs of re lenting and indicate their belief that the amendment will be stricken out before the bill is submitted for final approval. Com m It lee Gives Reasons for Action. They assert that the amendment closing the draws for only one hour in the evening would establish as much a precedent as If it closed them three hours, and they refuse to open the way for future legislation of this charac ter. It seems, from all that can be learned (Concluded on Page 2.) THEM. That he has earned his salary. That some people are so ornery that a man can't even kick them and retain his self-respect. That there are worse things than the simple life by Elliott Bay. Jim 4 v V f