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J 11 PORTLAND, OREGON, 3IONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NEW YORK-POLICE STILL UNDER FIRE Mitchel Does Not Favor New Commissioner. FORMER OPPOSED TO 6AYN0R Magistrate Says Gotham Was Nsver So "Wide Open." JUDGMENT IS SUSPENDED resident of Board of Aldermen Doubts If Crops Will Slake Good Mitchel Is Now at OuLs With W. R. Hearst. BT LLOTD T. I.ONEROA!f. NEW YORK. Oct. 30. tSpeclal.) With the enmity of President Mitchel. of the. Board of Aldermen, increasing with each day and with the fear of his new Com missioner of Police. James C- Cropsey. coming a cropper. Mayor Gay nor Is hav 1ns a time of it putting hla municipal house In order. The removal of Commissioner Baker by Mayor Gaynor ws distinctly pleaMng to Mitchel. who tried to oust Baker while he was Acting- Mayor, during; Mr. Gaynor's Illness, but he does not look with favor upon Cropsey, who Is a Brooklyn lawyer, and freely predicts that he will not "make food." lie- ls willing to admit, however, that Cropsey' is en titled to a chance and has screed to sus pend Judgment on him until after elec tion. . . City Wido Open. Kays Judge. To add to the troubles into which the police department seems to have .cast Mayor Gaynor, Polloe Magistrate House, an able. Jurist of the minor bench, has declared that New Tork, was never so wide open as it Is at the present time. Despite the fact that the Mayor's fac tion In the city administration has al ready "pointed with pride" to the fact that the new Police Commissioner has drawn the deadline around Chinatown and revived the "vice squad." wlgch Baker killed. Magistrate House says that the streets are chock-full of disorderly women and that gambling dens are to be found as easily as saloons. House Is a Democrat but as his term outruns that of Gaynor. he cannot be disciplined. First. Deputy Drlscoll Is the most ac tive commanding officer as Commissioner Cropsey declines to be interviewed or outline his plans if he has any. It la known, however, that he agrees with Mayor Gaynor that the first duty of the force is to preserve "outward de cency." New Yorkers Get Surprise. It was a complete surprise to New Torkers when they woke up one blight morning a little over a week ago and found that Mayor Gaynor had called for the resignation of William F. Baker as Commissioner of. Police, snd that self same gentleman had been forced Into retirement together with hla first and second deputies, Frederick H. Bugher and Charles W. Klrby, respectively. The surprise part of the move was from the fact that but a few days before the Mayor had declared that he was satis fied with the head of his police depart ment. There is an Interesting story behind the demand for Baker's resignation, but It is only known that on the third call within one forenoon, the resignation was forthcoming. On the first and second trips Baker demurred to quitting under fire, but It is said Mayor Gaynor told him. on the second visitation, that If he didn't resign, he would relieve him V)f his office by nightfall. I Immediately Cropsey was appointed to J Baker's place, with Drlscoll, Com mi s r -: - A tiii- t r.. .. - o.uiic v i m inn a.' 1 14 .hcboiuh. . 1. . . deputy to succeed Bugher, and William J. Flynn. chief of the Secret Service Bureau of the city, as second deputy. Salaries at Bis; Figures. Drlscoll and Flynn will receive salaries of JO XX) annually and Cropsey will get J7300. unless the Mayor Is able to in duce the Board of Estimate and Appor tionment to advance the salary to 113.000k as is planned. The story behind the removal of Baker is told in the resignation of Bugher, who. in this, his fourth attempt to quit office, told Mayor Gaynor that the police department has become utterly demoral xed since the first of the year, and that It was Impossible for him to remain longer as First Deputy Commissioner and at the same time retain his self respect. Pusher's first attempt to resign was made March 31: the second on-April tOt the third on May 1. when, he says, be withheld definite action on the promise of the Mayor that conditions would be Immediately Improved. Just as he had promised twice before. The last resignation of Bugher la In teresting reading, and was dated October 19. reading In part as follows: Police Department Demoralised. I naTS the honor to hereby trader my rcslinatlon as First Deputy Commissioner of ponce. u . . . Since the nrst of the year I have seen the m department umm uciuulu i 1 . ni.ilmi nf mnr. anil mnrtt y ua 1 1 1 . . flacrant. natll now I am convinced that I m --.nMf Mtsin hit Doniion who rix-rvsoeci. Nothing short of a complete reorganisation uf the department and the appointment of a Commissioner who will roake It deer that XCopcludeA on fags Jl .. DESERTIONS FROM ARMY DECREASING GENERAL. MACS URGES CLOSER "TAB" OX OFFICERS. Commander of Department of Co lumbia Believes in Better Knowledge of Men. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash., Oct. 80. (Special.) According to General Ma rlon P. Maus, Commander of the Depart ment of the Columbia, there has been a decrease of over SO per cent in desertions during the past year a total of 277 this year against 659 of last year. In the different arms of the service, the greatest reduction in the number of desertions has been made in the Coast Artillery Corps and the unusually large percentage" of last year greatly lessened throughout the districts. Quite a pro portion of organizations , had no deser tions at all. The largest reductions in desertions were in Vancouver Barracks, Fort Casey and Fort Wright. Wash. "It is recommended." said General Maus. "that the marked . excellence of officers for command, be made a matter of closer' individual record and credit. It is believed that this would stimulate effort, and being of record would give better knowledge as to officers for future command." The strength of the Department of the Columbia, June 30. 1310. present and ab sent, was 338 officers and 6153 men. REVOLUTION IS SERIOUS 10,000 'Armed Rebels Being Con centrated In Uruguay. MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay, Oct. 30. tvim -Riienna Avres.1 The revolution ary movement is taking on a serious aspect. There are now 10.000 armed revolutionists who are gradually being concentrated. Several skirraishe have taken place, but the casualties nave been suppressed. Dr. A. Bachlni, the foreign minister. recently issued a nuinlfesta decJarlnc that the govern ment was unable to prevent the revo lution from spreading, because outside nf the eanital the sympathies of the people were entirely with the revolu tionists. It was partly because or tne Influence of this manifesto that Presi dent Wllliman 1 requested Bachlni's resignation. The opposition papers predict tnat President Wllliman will be forced to lrn and they prophecy the return of ex-President Jose Battle y Ordonea. EXPLOSION INJURES 17 Firemen and Newspapermen Hurt In Bluze In Apartment-House. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 30. Seven teen persons were severely hurt to night In an explosion from a fire In an apartment house in Ellis street. Four of the number were newspaper men and the others were members of the Fire Department. Most of the lodgers had left the building before the explosion occurred and those who re mained on the upper floors escaped on fire ladders. Captain Joseph Cappelll and Hoseman Thomas Bell of the Fire Department were overcome by gas and were rescued by their comrades. The force of the explosion com pletely wrecked most of the rooms, on the five floors of the building, shat tering the furniture and crumbling the walls. Plate glass windows for sev eral blocks In the vicinity were broken. above, a. c. moPSEYi Sew pouch ! f-A; '& ' ! i PR0MINENT FIGURES IN NEW 1 1 ' ? It! ' 1 Iff li f itJ? USED TO SET BROWNE FREE Juror, Vexed by Small Payment, Confesses. ILLINOIS SCANDAL GROWING Two New Indictments in - Hands of Grand Jury. LAWYER IS IMPLICATED Majority of Men ' Who Acquitted Lobbyist Openly Wined and Ta ken on Tour of Resorts After Verdict Is Given. CHICAGO. Oct. SO. (Special.) Discov ery of several new sources of Informa tion today resulted In the uncovering of more corruption and bribery that attend the acquittal of Lee O'Neil Browne of the charge of bribing legislators to vote for William Lorlmer for United States Senator. ' It was shown that a majority ff 11 men who voted to discharge the Demo cratic minority leader who was charged with handling the purse strings, in the campaign to buy votes for Lorlmer had been the guests at a great Jollification and banquet that concluded with a tour of various places of amusement at a late hour of the night. Browne's .Attorney Accused. So secure did the participants. In this affair feel that they held the wine dinner and "rounding up" less thsn a week after the verdict was returned In court. In this function Attorney Charles Erb steln. one of the trio of lawyers who represented Browne, and who now is charged with having "fixed" at least one juror, is declared to have played an important part But even in' the face of this open Jolli fication, evidence of the use of money in the handling of the case might not have reached the State's Attorney's office but for the fact that the two men who already have confessed Grant McCutch en, -a Juror, and Harry T. Stacy, a chauf feurwere dissatisfied with the amount paid them and believed they were being "double-crossed." Meager Pay Causes Row. McCutchen, the Juror, and Stacy, the man who "discovered" him and admits that he "fixed" him under direction of Attorney Erbsteln, say' that they ex pected more than the meager paid them. In this connection the name of Representative Erlckson. who was sup posed to be in possession of political pull and the ability to get Jobs, is brought in by the two men. At any rate, their Jobs were not forthcoming and, according to their stories, they got only the 3125 and nothing like the large amount of money (Concluded on Pase 6.) comm,9moEk-bKlow. w.,.,am BRIBERY INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS . The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60 degrees; minimum. 48 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; westerly . winds. Foreign. French Premier flays Socialist and wins Jlsht for government. Page 8. China on verge of rebellion. Page 2. National. Federal ' Government to Inspect dealers' weighing devices to reduce cost of liv ing. Pase 1. Desertions from Department of the Columbia ibow 50 per cent decrease. Page 1. Patent expert says Inventions csnnot sup plant brains of air navigator. Page 2. Battleship Delaware has best gunnery rec ord. Page 7. Secretary Knox to take steps to extradite five dynamite suspects. Page 4. Politic. Republicans predict sweeping victory; Bow erman starts Multnomah campaign. Page 16. Re-election of Harmon in Ohio Is predicted. Page 6. Dan J. Malarkey discusses Initiative and ref erendum measures. Page 16. New York police ahakeup results in many accusations. Page 1. New York Herald forecasts Democratic vic tory November 8. Pase 2. New York Democrat attacks Roosevelt for refusal to dismiss non-union men from Government employ. Page 3. Dorursile. Trial of California actor, charged with mur der, develops grewsome evidence. Page 7. Mrs. Galvln disregards mother's wish and is reconciled with father, ex-Senator Oas sam. Page 3. Lee O'Neill Browne Jury briber, member confesses: indictments coming. Page 1. Panama Canal gates will be largest In the world. Page 5. Express strike grows rapidly In New York over Bunday. Page S. Una Cavallerl says she wouldn't take penny from Chanler. Page 1. Four men killed and four hurt when pass enger train hits freight. Page . Sports. Pscifle Coast League results: Portland 14-1, Los Angeles 8-0; San Francisco 4. Bac- . ramento 3; Vernon 1-1, Oakland 0-3. Page 13. Lest week of baseball season opens with pennant In Portland's grasp. Pp.ce 13. American contestant . wins airship race around Statue of Liberty. Page 1. Multnomah football team expects victory oter Pullman. Page IS.. . FaruV Northwest. Portland Councllmen travel to Salem to look into Oregon Electrlo franchise Issue. Page a. Health of troops In Paelfle' Northwest Is good. Page o- Portland and Vicinity. Bates A Cheesebrough steamer Asteo Bear ing. port with big oargo. Page 17. Woman orator says Prohibitionists will fight Portland City Council. Page 10. Childless wives are scored br Rev. W. B. Riley. Page 17. Mrs. Kersh says Jealousy may have caused murder of Johnson Page 6 Greater Oregon Home Rule Association would divorce liquor business and politics. Page 4. . . Greek laborer found murdered. Page lO. Liquor licenses make up large part of city's revenue. Page 10. WELLESLEY IN BLOOMERS College Girls Hear Housework Will Supplant Mathematics) In 1911. WELLESLEY, Mass., Oct. SO. (Spe cial.) "The Mocking Birds," of Flake College. Wellesley, entertained students at a barn party recently. Hosts and guests wore sailor blouses and bloom ers. ... The "blind man" in blind man's buff had a tough time, the girls having to take "three steps, two rolls and a hop every time she approached them. She was pinched, pushed about and tumbled over. One damsel announced that the presi dent of the college declared that a course in housework will take the place of freshman mathematics next year. PARALYSIS KILLS STUDENT Pennsylvania Freshman Succumbs to Infantile Disease. PRINCETON, N. X, Oct. 30. Marcus Crawford, of Franklin. Pennsylvania, member of the freshman class of the university, died today In the univer sity infirmary of infantile paralysis. Crawford went to the infirmary on Wednesday, complaining of pains in the head. In a short time his limbs were paralyxed and despite heroic ef forts to save him, he succumbed to the disease. This is the second death from the same disease in the freshman class within the last three weeks. bAdo.ph hkahst.who ;hto AMERICAN LEADS E Flight Is Made Around 'Statue of Liberty. JOHN B. MOISSANT IS WINNER Englishman Second, French man Is Third. MILE A MINUTE IS MADE Cold Wind Blows In Face of Bird men Over First Half of Course. Molssant, Grahame-White and . ' DeLesseps Are Contestants. NEW YORK. Oct. 30-Three aviators flew from Belmont Park, L. I., this afternoon, circled the statue of Liberty In aeroplane, swept back through the upper air without a mishap and alighted, chilled, but exultant. John B. Molssant, flying for America, covered the estimated 34-mile course In 34 minutes 88.4 seconds; Grahame-White of England was second In 35:21.30. and Count DeLesseps of France was third in 41:60.26. Molssant used a 60-horsepower Bleriot purchased from the Frenchman today for ,10,000. He had previously smashed his own monoplane. He did not start until 4:06 P. M.. after both DeLesseps and Graheme-White had finished. DeLesseps started at 3:08 and Grahame-White less than a minute later. The written rules prescribed that no contestant should start after 3:30 P. but they were not enforced today. $10,000 Prize Xot Decided. None, however, wins the 310,000 for the flight offered by Thomas F. Ryan, as the rules prescribed that the "contest ants can start any time between 2:46 P. M. and 8:30 P. M.." any day of the international aviation meet. Under this Interpretation Molssant, although he pro tested, must await the result of any possible flights tomorrow. He is-at lib erty to better his time of today, as are Grahame-Whlte and DeLesseps. Hardly had the bomb announcing the Statue of Liberty flight exploded In mid air when up from the field scurried De Lesseps in his 60-horsepower Bleriot. He circled across the starting line and as though to make sure that his machine was ship-shape for the fllgnt. flew about the course, and then pointed its prow up ward and west and went sailing majesti cally over the grandstand. Grahame-White Makes Gain. Grahame-Whlte In less than a minute was in the air In a Bleriot of 60-horsepower, with no preliminary skirmishing. Once past the starting pylon, the Eng lishman was off on his Journey and. fig uratively speaking, at the heela of De Lesseps. Grahame-Whlte's machine appeared to be the faster of the two. Passing the grandstand at an eleva tion of about 1000 feet, both aviators headed above the railroad tracks, which took them over Jamaica Plains and across the town of Jamaica. Here they were sailing at an elevation of about 3000 feet, with the Englishman still chas ing the Frenchman half a mile astern. On over Jamaica, still following the rail road as a guide, DeLesseps and Grahame-Whlte held their course into Brooklyn. The aviators kept up their express AIRSHIPS YORK POLICE UPHEAVAL, WHICH IS BENDING THE GAYNOR ADMIN IS litaiiufi. Photos Copyright. 1910. by George Grantham Bain. ZTollZrlZh0 CAVALILRI WON'T FIGHT CHANLERS FAMOUS DIVA COMIN'G HERE; MUST EARX OWX LIVING. Friend Says Italian 1 Songstress Takes Exception to Being Styled Vampire Wants Not. Penny. NEW YORK, Oct. 30. (Special.) Lina Cavalierl will not take any legal pro ceedings against the Chanler estate in order to establish her rights under the famous pre-nuptlal contract She will not even demand that Chan ler shall maintain her, although she us his wife. She will not live with him again. She has never received so much as a penny from him, she says, nor has 6he any expectation that ehe ever will. She will return to the United States in order to fulfill her theatrical engage ments, as it is necessary for her to earn her living. These statements were made today by a woman more than well known in operatic circles; who has Just returned from Paris and who for some years has been an intimate friend and advisor of Cavallerl. This woman eald:- "Upon everything connected with the controversy, Lina Cavalierl prefers to remain silent. She is at a loss, to under stand the attitude of Chanler's family to her or to divine the reason of their unit ed opposition to her, especially as mem bers of their family have been received at her house. The representation of her as a vampire was only too ludicrous to those who know the real facts of the case. The bringing of the name of Prince Dolgoroukl into the turmoil. In order to create sympathy for Mr. Chanler Is pe culiarly absurd." JOKER STALLS EXCURSION Power Turned Off at Order of Pre tended Train Dispatcher. CHI CO. Cal., Oct. 30 (Special.) Last night an excursion train carrying a large number of Marysville, OrovlUe and Chlco business men and women, who had participated in a river excursion from Sacramento, was stalled for some time, on the Northern Electric Railroad between Marysville and Sacramento. - Some person representing himself to be Chief Train Dispatcher Rogers in this city, telephoned to a substation in Sac ramento to shut off the power as the trolley wire was down. The order waa 'obeyed and traffic was stopped. The excursion train stood on the main line until the conductor walked to the near est telephone and asked Rogers for or ders. Rogers did not know the power waa off and immediately notified Sacra mento to turn it on end then rushed new orders to aH trains to prevent trouble. Whether the person who issued the bogus order was a striking electrician or a practical Joker Is a point now being investigated. PROHIBITION COIN STOLEN Mrs. Armor Tells of Theft of $160 Not Reported to Police. Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, prohibition orator, who has been stumping the state in the Interests of a "dry" Oregon, an nounced yesterday at her afternoon meeting that 3160 of the funds donated to the cause of prohibition had been stolen Saturday night immediately fol lowing the contribution at the Armory Mrs. Armor told her hearers that they would be expected to make up the de ficiency. There was a general response. The theft was not reported to the police station or the detective bureau. FRANCE BIRTHS GAINING Deaths Exceeded by 21,189, Revers ing Statistics for 1909. PARIS, Oct. 30. During the first half of the year 1910. it is officially announced, the births in France exceeded the deaths by 21.1S9. During the year 1909. the deaths exceed ed the births by 28.203. DEALERS' SCALES TO BE INSPECTED Federal Expert Making Tour of Northwest. FRAUDS FOUND WIDESPREAD Honest Weights Will Reduce Cost of Living. PACKAGE FOOD FAR SHORT Portland to Be Visited In Two or Three Weeks, and Inquiry Will Be Unrestricted Prosecu tions Hot Contemplated. V BT HARRY J. KROWS. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Oct. 30.-The United States Bureau of Standards is preparing to demonstrate to the people -of the prin cipal city of the Northwest that they have it within their power materially to reduce the prevailing high cost of living. Under existing law, neither the Bu reau of Standards nor any other bu reau of the Federal Government is em powered to take steps which will actu ally force down the cost of the neces saries of life at least in the way pro posed but it can and' is preparing to point the way whereby state and muni cipal authorities, if there is adequate local law, can accomplish this end for themselves. If state laws are not ade quate, then the work which the Bureau of Standards has planned will indicata the manner of laws that must be enact ed in order that the people, through their local government, can protect, themselves against fraud. For it is by the elimination of fraud that tha cost of living can be reduced. Inspector on Tour. F. 8. Holbrook, assistant physicist and inspector of weights and measures of the Bureau of Standards, is now making his way across ihe northern tier of states to the Pacific Coast, and thence southward to Los Angeles, stop ping en route in all large cities to as certain in what ways the public Is be ing Imposed upon by dealers who, knowingly or Innocently, are selling short weight goods. Mr. Holbrook, moreover, while en route will make a study of state and municipal laws gov erning we'ghts and measures, and will look Into the manner and effective ness of the enforcement of such lawa as are on the statute books of the dif ferent states visited. In the course of two or three weeks Mr. Holbrook will reach Portland, making Inspections in the meantime in the big cities of Montana, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and Olympla. From Portland he will go to Astoria, Oregon City, Salem, Roseburg,- and thence into California. In each of these cities, Mr. Holbrook, bearing credentials from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, will visit representative stores of various types, but particularly grocery and provision shops, and there inspect weighing and measuring devices that he finds in use. He will visit stores of the best class, and shops of the lowest type; those with fashionable patronage as well as those that supply the slums. Stores Chosen, at Kundorn. The lengt of time' at his disposal will not permit a thorough canvas of any one city visited, but Mr. Holbrook will select his stores at random, after arrival in the city, and his coming will be unannounced. Any store is likely to be visited, and under the authority which he bears, all scales and meas ures will be within his reach, for Con gress made a special appropriation for these investigations, and that is con sidered sufficient warrant for an un restricted inspection by this represent ative of the Federal Government. Under previous appropriations, Mr. Holbrook has made similar investiga tions in the cities of New England and the East and at some points in the South. This is the first visit to the West. In all his travels, Mr. Holbrook has never failed to obtain access to weighing and measuring devVes in any shop he has visited, and rarely lias ha been called upon to produce his creden tials. - . Prosecution Xot Conteiiiplatcd. It is recognized by the Bureau of Standards that it can do nothing more than investigate and ascertain the amount of fraud that is being practiced upon various communities. It is not at liberty to prosecute dealers who use short weights or give short measure. That function now lies wholly within the. states. But the disclosures made by Mr. Holbrook and some of his as sistants have aroused public sent'ment. and the people themselves, through agitation, have brought their local sealers of weights and measures to a realization that state laws entrusted to them for enforcement were intended to be enforced. In this indirect way, the work of the Bureau has brought results, and has largely resulted in tha elimination of faulty scales. It was the Bureau of Standards that first probe3 into the frauds of New York, and in reality brought about the re form of which much has recently been heard. It has done the same in other eastern cities, but less has been heard (Concluded on Page T.) IFT1 1 05.2