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Pages 1 to 12 76 Pages MAN DIGS UP SHELL TAYLOR IS LASHED- 400,000 YEARS OLD TOltTOISR XSSIIj rRESEHYES COI.OIt THROUGH AGES. BY WIFE'S TONGUE TOLD IN BILLIONS RELIEF ORIGINAL- MILLION DOLLAR KID HEIR TO LEGACY. XLFAX MAN IS ELECTROCUTED WHILE TALKING. v vsr ar W l X H V TT v w v t 1 v r- y. T rx jfK-M .V.-' I - A T - IT I 11 . rORTLAXB, "bltEOOX, SUXDAY MOUSING. JULY 10, 1011. .PRICE FIVE CEXTS. i mm nine no cuci i fTminn ip iiPiirn lfiPFRATflR Kll 1 FD IrflDriPM TDIinr IP I KINDLY OLD LADY PVPI flRIC CTPIIfCC n rnn nv n iyiaii umo ur ohlll i ii II iks I ninrii : : vr" r nr h nH r n nmrmno MmmM i i u i d lu mm mm rt mm r rnii r i ft ""aw mw iui i i 1 u i ""atr w mmm ar m m ar m m -aw nnxiTHi niinr nriT PROMISED bflmflLuurt dtn Weatherman Predicts Cool Breezes. 29 DEGREE JUMP IS MADE At 5 A. M. Temjerature Is 65, at 6 P. M. 94.1. PENDLETON SWELTERS, 112 Two Dealh Reported In Northwest an RronK of Extreme Heat. One Babe at Eophrata, Wash.. Other Man at Fairfield. 6r. iuxgi or TEMrr.R.Trr ix r .trine jtorthwest ciTir- TKaTTCKD.lY. Ij rcran.1. Or.10" rmxllln. Or.. US i.;d-od, ...!.' Hobur(. Or..l"l W tariv or. Spoaan. Wash. M Zaa-en. Or... J I.uioii, ld..l"4 o;nd.!. Dr..1fl E:inrturf ....lM The iMllaa.. .I" ixTtoa. Wash. Ill exi.m. or.-... . wail. Wa;ia...lu" Aibtiy. Or... tWi Portland sweltered yesterday with I ho mercury reaching- a. nulnom of ti. The- atmosphere, wit "sticky" and altogether It wu a most uncomfort able day. rrora o'clock la the morale until ta th evening the mercury cl!mbd tf aTn. At o'clock the Govern ment Weather Buraat reported a tem perature of IS. "Cooler'" la th forecast for today. Pendleton reported the. highest tfm porature la tho Paclflo Northwest yes terday, with tho mercury at IIS. Lew Iston. Idaho, reported 19. Two Death Reported. Two death In tho Northwest were directly attributed to tho heat jrntfr Say. ono a baby at Eltopla, Wash., and tho second a sua la a hay field near Falrvlew. In Eastern Multnomah County. P. P. Mahler, a laborer, 54 years oil. was stricken with Illness while work Ills; In a hay field at tho ranch of C. W. Clute a mil west of Falrrlew. and died within a couplet of hours. Coroner Norden has taken chars of tho body. Mahler started worklna- at tho ranch Friday forenoon. Word from Spokane Is that the 14-months-old daughter of Frank A. Rec tor dler Boar Eltopla yesterday as a result of tbo heat. Even If the official record does say that It was hotter at o'clock last eve ning than at any other time of the day. Portland people felt the heat from early morn till late at night. There ar some people who are will ing to wager that It was hotter right at noon than at o'clock, while others are sure that the early afternoon hours brought the thermometer up to the highest point. An aggregate of about 40t loyal Portland folks declare. that the temperature In the vicinity of Vaughn and Twenty-fourth streets was highest between the hours of 3 and ( P. M all the Oovernment reports to the contrary notwithstanding-. Many Vnfortanatew Had to Toil. Numerous and divers methods were adopted by the sweltering populace to overcome the effects of the torrid sun. Those unfortunates who were com pelled to toll all day could do nothing but work away and bear It. Fortun ately for many thousands the Satur day half holiday gave them an oppor tunity of adopting original Ideas In the aim to keep cool. Ice cream parlors and thlrst-quench-tng parlors proved to be popular all day. The midnight closing hour found both classes of resorts well filled. The various amusement parks at tracted big crowds In the afternoon and last night. The Oaks and Council Crest were crowded, the cooling breezes at either place being In striking relief tfonrlttded en Pas 1 ' ,a &-Chi- m." ' 1 ''-r .....i " .... ( Arrlirologlst Say California Sea Sjx-clnn-n Browned" Wlwn CoaM Itansc Formed. UOS ANGELES. Cal- July IS. (9pe- rlal.) Three thousand feet above sea level on the slopes of Mount Baldy. and 69 miles from the coast In Orange County. Thomas Ponlon yesterday found the perfect fossil of a huge sea tortoise which Hector Alllot. curator of the Southwest Museum, pronounces the most Important discovery of the kind ever msde In Southern California. Donlon has a bee ranch and was seeking a rock to hold down the lid of a hive when he saw the shell protrud ing from the ground. The stone weighs 100 pounds and shows the exact markings and some of the original col or on the bark and yellow bottom. The specimen Is nearly 30 Inches in diam eter. Alllot estimates that It Is 400.000 years old. the most ancient specimen ever picked up on the Western Hemi sphere. The tortoise swam In these seas, he says, when California and all the territory this side of the Rocky Mountains was still a mile or two un der water. When the great earth spasm occurred, which lifted the peaks of Mount Hood. Mount Shasta. Mount SL Helens: Mount Rainier and Mount Whitney out of the depths and brought a new land Into being, this tortol.m undoubtely per ished. Alllot believes, and already petri fied, was subsequently rolled and ground In the glacial period Ice for 70.009 years. 67 TO CLIMB HIGH PEAK Mount Adams and Goat Hock Will He Acenfled on hong Jaunt. SEATTLE, Wash July IS.- (Spe cial.) Sixty-seven mountaineers with their alpenstocks and packs, began their lung Summer outing this morning, when they left In a special car of the Milwaukee Railroad for Asliford on the flank of Mount Italnler. From that point they will walk up to the summit of the Cascade Mountains In Cowllts Pass, then south to the Columbia River, ascending l!at Rocks and Mount Adams 1 12.307 feet) on the way. The party will be gone three weeks and will walk more than 100 miles, be sides the mountain ascents and the side trips. At the station today the veter ans, who had climbed many peaks, wore their old khaki suits, carried battered alpenstocks freshly filed and looked with some contempt on the checliab coes whose equipment was new and shiny. Among the climbers were girls and boys In their teens and gray-haired men and women all noisy and happy over the impending plunge Into the wilderness. WEALTH DUE TO WIFE John I. Sajs Her Sagacity Kept Hint From Being Poor Today. CLEVELAND.. Or, July 15. (Spe cial.) John r. Rockefeller says that It was a woman, and that woman bis wife, who made him the richest man In the world. To her assistance In his financial ventures and her good advice at crucial periods he admits he owes his fortune. From early days, when the business had its beginning, she has known the details of every transac tion of the trust. Mr. Rockefeller said today: "Had It not been for her business sa gacity and her clear Insight Into af fairs, I would be a poor man today. Many times her advice has been coun ter to my Ideas, but her Judgment has Invariably proved better." MACRAE GOES TO WYOMING Portland Newaernian Hopes To Recover HI Health. Will a. MacRae. formerly a member of The Oregonlan staff and one of the members of the board of trustees of the Press Club, left yesterday mornlnfr for the home of his sister at Laramie, Wyo. Mr. MacRae hopes to recover from an Illness, which has held htm bedfast at Good Samaritan Hospital for the greater part of seven months, at his former home. President Vincent and several members of the Press Club bade their comrade good-bye. HARRY MURPHY OFFERS A FEW Millionaire's Discarded Mate Is Voluble. SHE EXPLAINS FOR FIRST TIME Husband Called Ingrate and Affinity Is Named. GIFT OF MANSION DENIED Woman Seeking Revocation of An nulment or Murrlugc Heolares Tie AVa Severed by Fraud. Fighting- Spirit Shown. A woman whose romantic career as the wife of a man who sprang into public prominence when he sold to capitalists a mine for a cool $1,500,000, becoming vastly rich In the twinkling of an eye. where before he was so poor that he never paid more than $10 for a suit of clothes, has attracted the at tention of America and Europe, and yesterday she overcame her great dread of reporters for the first time in her life and told for publication her side of a celebrated case. She Is Mrs. Minnie Taylor, the beau tiful and accomplished principal in one of the most sensational cases that ever came to light In this country, and Is now suing her husband for mainten ance In an Oregon City court. Oowned In an exquisite lace dress, wearing a diamond brooch and Jewels to match. Mrs. Taylor was seen In the law offices of her attorney. Austin F. FlegeU In the Falling building, yester day afternoon, and talked. IirsllAM CAIXKI IXGHATE. lirandlng her husband as an Ingrate, a man who had slandered Jier for no cause whatever and charging him with gross mistreatment, she discussed her case freely, after explaining why she had never before submitted to an Inter view. "I am glad to meet you," said Mrs. Taylor, rather falterlngly. when her at torney Introduced the reporter, and she extended her hand to give further ex pression of friendliness, as she scanned her Interviewer aa though she had ex pected to see a strango. monstrous be ing. Instead of a mere man. "You see." she faltered, "I have, never met a reporter before never. I have shunned them, for I dislike all this publicity. But Mr. Flegel told me that I ought to give the world my side of the. case, to let them know how terribly I have been wronged and what an aw ful miscarriage of Justice there has been In the annulment of my marriage to Mr. Taylor. That is why I consented to see you. Mr. Flegel said you wore not a sensationalist, and I trust you will tell tho good people of this country how I have suffered In silence through all of this trouble. I want you to tell thorn that, if given a chance, I will prove, that what Charlie Taylor has said against me Is a series of false hoods so terrible as to be almost un believable." Fighting Spirit Shown. Having decided to detail her side of tho case, Mrs. Taylor did so without sparing the. man who went to Oregon City last July, filed a plea for annul ment of his marriage to her; published his summons In an obscure paper at Canby, and later obtained all that he asked, his wife not having been noti fied of his suit. In his suit he charged her with "overy crime 01 misdeed that a woman can be guilty of," as put by Attorney Flegel. Taylor charged her with Immoral conduct, with drunkenness, with flirt ing with strange men In public cafes and with other things of a similar na ture. There w-as no one to deny It, for no one on her side knew of the suit, and the Judge granted the annulment. "Did you ever hear of a case so ter rible as this?" queried Mrs. Taylor. (Concluded on Psce 11.) HUMOROUS REFLECTIONS, WHEREIN HE CAREFULLY AVOtDS ADVERTISING THE LOCAL THERMOMETER. Li. 31. Gujton Is Found Dead After Having Touched Bell of Elec tric Line Instrument. COLFAX. Wash.. July 15. L. M. Guy ton, aged 31. single, son of John Guy ton, of fiullengent, Ala., acting as re lief operator on tho Spokane Inland Electric lino at Oakesdale, was found electrocuted at his keyboard by Agent Fitzgerald and his wife, this afternoon. Guyton was called by a city tele phone and while talking over tho city line moved In his chair so that his leg pressed against the telephone bell of the high power electric line telephone. Heavy voltage passed' through his body, burning the left arm and right leg. Guyton had been dead 30 min utes before he was found. Coroner Brunlng investigated the case and will hold an Inquest Monday. Guy ton was a Mason. It Is thought the body will be taken to Alabama. DECISION CAUSES PROTEST Corporations Object to Payment of Annual License Fee. SALEM, Or., July IS. (Special.) Following a recent opinion of the Attorney-General, which has evidently been widely misinterpreted, hundreds of letters have flooded the corporation department of the Secretary of State's office as well as the State Treasurers office from companies that are protest ing against the payment of their annual corporate license fee. The Attorney-General recently sub mitted an opinion to the effect that even though a corporation Is a corpora tion for educational purposes and at the same time Is a corporation for gain, that It will be compelled under the law to pay an annual license fee and will not be exempt from the por tion of the act providing an exemption for religious, educational and charitable Institutions, formed not for gain. Those that are now protesting are companies that declare that they have made no money out of their business and consequently argue that they can not be corporations for gain. All of these companies will be compelled to pny their fees, however, as they were formed as corporations for profit and all such corporations, the Attorney Oeneral held, must pay their license fee. MADER0 TO DISBAND ARMY Mexican Revolutionaries Prove Menace In Time of Peace, PUEBLA. Mex.. July 15. Professing surprise at the many Maderlstas he finds yet bearing arms, and realizing the danger of maintaining an undis ciplined army In time of peace, Fran cisco L Madero has determined upon a policy of Immediate disarmament. Ho said today that the work of mus tering out revolutionary forces would be started at once and would be prose cuted vigorously until Mexico hue but one army. Madero said his chief object in going to At'iixlco Instead of continuing to Tehuacan was to supervise the mus tering out of the forces. It Is believed that the battle In Puebla was started by shots fired by young men of the town on both the barracks of, the Federals and head quarters of the Maderlstae. PROMINENT MEN COMING Eminent Educators to Lecture Oregon Agricultural College. tit OREGON" AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallls. Or., July 15. (Special). State Superintendent of Instruction Fatrchlld of Kansas, Dr. Harlan D. Updegraff of the United States De partment of Education, Dr. A. C. True, United States Director of Experiment Stations, President Showalter of the Cheney, Wash., Normal School, City Superintendent Greenwood of Kansas City these are some of the eminent educators Just secured for the special week on rural supervision at the Ore gon Agricultural College Summer ses sion. July 17 to 81. Most of these will give dally lectures on special problems In supervision of rural and town schools. In addition there will be during the week two evening lectures by speakers of note from the East, a twilight promenade band concert on the college campus, and a lawn party at the hom of the dl I D. rector of the session. Professor K. Ressler. United States Breaks All Records. HOME BALANCE $520,000,000 Half of ITnports' Enter Country Free of Duty. EXPORTS MOUNT HIGHER Total Business, Incoming and Out going, of $3,500,000,000 Is Largest Ever Known Gov ernment Gives Figures. WASHINGTON, July 15. All foreign business records of the United States were broken during the fiscal year ended June 30. Figures of the Bureau of Statistics issued today show that tiie volume of foreign business amount ed to the enormous sum of more than $3,500,000,000, which exceeded the rec ord year of 1907 by more than 1263, 000.000. The country's exports for the first time exceeded the $2,000,000,000 mark, while the imports were second only to last year's. The year closed with a balance of trade of more than $520, 000.000 In favor of American business. This is $332,000,000 more than last year's balance, but was exceeded by the record years of 1908 and 1901 and 1900 and 1899. Fifty per cent of the Imports en tered the country free of duty, being greater than at any time In the history of the trade, except In 1892-93-94, when sugar was being imported free under the McKInley tariff law. Th4 total value of merchandise entering free, however, was larger than In any year heretofore. The exact figures of the foreign trade are: 1011. Total exports and Imports. .$3. n7R.67B.4S0 1910. $3,301,932,130 1.656.947.4:10 l,744.4.72o 188,037.290 7S5.3U.S06 801.63U.V30 Imports l,:.27.tl.K.OH Kx ports Z.04.0'J1.3U2 Excess exports over imports. Imports free of dutv S20.706.3O4 777.9SS.452 74B.9tfli.7Jtf Imports dutiable For,ien merch- andlse expor'd 35.77174 84.900,722 Domestic merch andise expor'd 2.012.910.918 1.710,083,998 35.77174 WINLOCK MAN PRAISED Committee of Six Pays Tribute to Memory or Night Watchman. WINLOCK, Wash., July 15. (To the Editor.) Owing to the many misstate ments concerning the death of Night Watchman F. F. Prehm. of Winlock, Friday night, July 7, a number of his friends, as well as the people of Win lock In general with to correct errors, that his memory, his family and his friends may not suffer the stigma at tached to statements made concerning the incidents leading to his death. After listening to the evidence brought - forth, the Coroner's Jury brought In the following verdict: "F. F. Prehm came to his death by a fall from a walkway, the direct cause of his death being a broken neck," In the many years Mr. Prehm has been a resident of Winlock his honesty and integrity have never been ques tioned. The key in his possession which would unlock the padlock on the door leading to the feed room under the Elliott store was given to him sev eral months -before by a reputable cltl xen of Winlock and the fact that the key In question was to a lock on that citizen's private property goes to show the confidence reposed in him. He also carried night keys to the leading hotels in Winlock and this trust Imposed in him has never been abused. We, the following committee, do hereby express. our earnest belief and conviction that F. F. Prehm came to his death In the honest, conscientious discharge of his duty. Signed. WALTER TOT, F. L. BAIRD, I.OTTIS KRUOER, J. V. WARNE, G. W. BLAKE. GEORGE W. RHODES. Mayor. Byron Chandler, Who Followed Show Girl Across Continent, Is Favorite Grandson. BOSTON,. July 15. (Special.) Byron Chandler, the "Million Dollar Kid." of Manchester, N. H., whose second wife Is Grace LaRue. the actress, has a mil lion dollars more to spend. This new block of money comes from the estate of his grandmother, Mrs. Benjamin F. Martin, of Manchester, whose death was announced today. Mrs. Martin, who was 90, was tho ma ternal grandmother of Byron, who was her favorite grandson. It is expected that Benjamin M. Chandler, a brother of Byron, also will inherit a part of the estate. In the Fall of 1908, Byfon became enamored of Grace LaRue. following her show all over the country and finally marry ing the actress. PORTLAND EXPORTS LEAD Port First in Wheat Shipments, Of ficial Figures Show. OREGOSIAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 15. Monthly statistics compiled by the Department of Com merce and Labor and soon to be pub lished will show that Portland far out distanced all other ports in the United States In the exportation of wheat dur ing the fiscal year ended June 30. 1911. These statistics are not yet in final form but will show that during the past 12 months Portland's wheat ex ports aggregated 7.345.784 bushels, valued at $6,314,305. Puget Sound ex ports were slightly more than half this aggregate and placed Puget Sound In second place. Baltimore Is third. The combined wheat shipments of Puget Sound and Baltimore barely ex ceed the exports from Portland. Puget Sound shipments for the year were 3,997,435 bushels, valued at $3,461,200, and those of Baltimore were 3,525,388 bushels, valued at $3,456,128. 190 FAIL OUT OF 1200 State Superintendent Reports on Teachers' Examination. SALEM, Or., July 15. (Special.) Figures not quite complete, but ap proximately correct, were given out at the office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction today and show that out of 1200 taking the teachers' examinations recently there were 190 failures. There were 90 who took the exam inations to make up credits and those for whom certificates were issued to date number as follows: One year, 710; primary. -83; five years, 57, and life; 70, or a total of 900 certificates issued so far. SAILORS SHANGHAI KITTEN Charm Against Bad Luck Seized by Crew of Destroyer. ABERDEEN, Wash., July 15. (Spe cial.) "Jimmy," just a plain black kit ten born on Grays Harbor, was shang haied by the crew of the torpedo-boat destroyer Truxton last night and this morning left on its first ocean cruise as official mascot. Since the loss of "Bo," the vessel's regular mascot, the Truxton has experienced nothing but bad luck, and the petty officers of the vessel were determined to provide a substitute upon the fleet's visit to Grays Harbor. "Bo" was swept overboard while the Truxton was entering Eureka harbor last Monday. Springfield to See Portland. SPRINGFIELD. Or., July 15. (Spe cial.) The entire Springfield Council, consisting of the Mayor. W. M. Sutton, and Welby Stevens, L. J. Lepley. J. W. Mathews, Charles Rivett and the City Engineer, E. E. Kepner, left today for Salem and Portland where various types of pavement will be Inspected In order that the civic legislative body may make the best selection in regard to paving of Main street in this city. A fact, however, that Is worrying the members of the council. Is that no bids were submitted this week when due, and a conspiracy on the part of the paving firms seems to exist. Bids will be received again on July 24. G: 106.2 Two Killed by Falling Buildings. CALIFORNIA TOWN TWISTED Presbyterian'Church Wrecked, Warehouses Blown Down. PROPERTY LOSS IS $30,000 Tornado t EI Centro Carries Big Timber Through Plate-Glass Win dow; People in Streets Dodge Flying Debris. EL CENTRO. Cal., June 15. A storm of cyclonic violence, in hlch two lives were lost, several persons Injured and buildings throughout the business dis trict badly damaged, struck this sec tion today. While it lasted only a few minutes. It damaged property to the extent of at least $30,000. The two whose deaths were caused by the storm were Leslie Novak, who died in St. Thomas' Hospital two hours after being injured in a falling build ing, and Singh Sunda. a Hindu, who lost his life In the same way. The Injured were W. H. Hamilton, of the Hamilton Supply Company, whose leg was broken; Isaac Lowthlan, a car penter, cut about the head and face; three Hindus, who were caught be neath the fallen warehouse of the Cal ifornia Cotton Company; Leslie Novak, Jr., 11 years old, whose leg was broken by the collapse of the walls of Dick's Restaurant, and L. P. Novak, who suf fered Internal injuries when he was. burled under the tiling of falling walls. Church Is Demolished. The property'damaged included the First Presbyterian Church, which was demolished; the warehouse of the Cali fornia Cotton Company, which col lapsed, burying beneath its heavy tim bers three Hindus, who had sought shelter from rain under its roof; J. B. Whitaker's feed and fuel shed col lapsed; the storage and drying sheds of the Valley Lilmber Company, which were completely wrecked; the whole sale house of the Hamilton Supply Company, one of the largest buildings In El Centro; the Marble Livery Stable and residence, the roofs of which were blown off; the Abbott cement sheds, destroyed; the cantaloupe Bheds of the Crutchfleld & Woolfolk Company; the establishment of the Valley Laundry Company, the engine room of which was unroofed, the Iron roofing crashing through the laundry; the Valley plan ing mill, collapsed; the Blacklngton building, roof and plate front destroyed, and Dick's restaurant and lodging house, 100 feet front, collapsed. Many Have Narrow Escapes. Besides the buildings wrecked, there was much minor damage to others, and many persons besides those named suf fered Injuries of less degree. Many persons had narrow escapes', while In buildings which collapsed, or in the streets, dodging debris, which was car ried by the storm for more than two blocks. One heavy timber was thrust through the plate-glass window of the People's Abstract Company, and many light structures about town were completely razed. El Centro is In Imperial County, and the center of a famous cantaloupe belt. Peculiar Accident Injures Two Men. SPRINGFIELD. Or., July 15. (Spe cial.) A peculiar accident occurred on the new Natron railroad extension near Lowell yesterday, when two men were hurled from a gasoline speeder and thrown over a 20-foot embankment as the result of running Into a dog. The men were J. P. Ried, who suffered a fractured thigh, and F. J. Malleck, whose nose and ankle were badly in jured, both probably broken, and whose head and body badly cut. The men were sent to a hospital in Portland. The dQg was not killed