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mi Pages 1 to 12 at J I ' 11 IB 14 ' f 9 BRAVE GIRL FOILS BEAVERS LOSE GRIP VY. COOPER MORRIS SERVANT PROBLEM SOLUTION IS SEEN IMAMS LOSE PBES1DEHT RIDES BOLD.BAD BURGLAR WOMAN GETS $ 1 0 FROM WOULD BE THIEF OF $250. IS OUT UNGUARDED WHEN GLfJHOH DIES SGUQ HID IS GONE IfJ FIRST ROUND T SCIENTIFIC STUDY OP HOUSE HOLD WORK IS PLANNED. EMBEZZLER LEAVES PRISON TO SEE EX-SEXATOR PILES. 74 Pages -1 .ta tTv cTTvn4V -iinnVTVfl. OCTORER 8. 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XXX XO. 41. xuiniu, ov-aa , : i . l MA FOUND DEAD HRDUGH PALOUSE Rolling Farms Claim Deep Interest. HAY URGES REK0MINATI01 Washington Governor Lauda tory in Speeches. y TRUSTS ARE TAFT TOPIC Plrdff- That Law Will Be Enforced Rj-iu-ratcd In Two State aa Chief MagtMrato Xram Wewtern End of Joorney. SPOKANE. Oct. T. Spokane today turned out on of the largest crowd that haa welcomed tha Preeldent on tha present trip, lie motored from tha Northern raclfie station tor a. nU an a half ihrouarn crowded street. The cbeerln waa almost continuous and Mr. Taft stood up In hla auto, hat In hand, bowlnsT right and left, ln atead of speaktnaT at Ihe Armory, the Trenldcnt waa drlren to the Fair around to deliver hla address. H pok from a temporary plattoftra la front of the grandstand. In IntrOduc 'n the President. Oovernor Hay aald lb audience would hare tha privilege at listening to "one of the greatest men of hla generation." Law Will B Kafarred. The President repeated tha apeech on bualneaa and the Government made at Lewlaton. Idaho, earlier la the day. Ha declared onca mora hla Intention to en force the antl-truat act. -Aa long aa I- am President of the t'nlted fUaCea, under the oath of office I took. I propoae to enforce that law against all Illegal combinational aald the President. Mr. Taft touched briefly on tha tariff vetoes, also, and on reform and the peace treaties. The apeech waa well received. The President enjoyed hla ride today through the farnoua Snake River Can yon, and from hla car window aaw some of the best farma In the United States. From the water's edge these farms rose In billows to the benchea and hill topa on either aide of the ranyon. Everywhere waa wheat stub ble, indicating that the laat crop of the year had been aafely harvested. All of the farma were In the dry farm ing district where the crops are raised without the aid of Irrigation. May la fee- Heaeaalaatloa. llovernor Hay. who met the Preal Jent at Walla Walla and accompanied lira from there to thla rlty. declared himself. In the first speech he made introducing Mr. Taft. aa In favor of bis renorelnattoa In 11!. The President spoke In two atatea today. At I-ewleton. Idaho, he reiter ated the views he expressed In his speech at Waterloo, I.. upon the rela tion of the Government to bualneaa. "We have put the rallroade under control.- he aald. "and they arquleace la It. For a time they were defiant. Now. under the eieady action of Congress In Increasing the power of the Inter state Commerce Commission, they hare realised that the whole people are greater than any part of the people; that the whole people. If they move In one direction and are determined to control and bring about a Juat condi tion, are likely to win In tha end. how ever oftan they may ba defeated In reaching that purpose. So, too. with reapect to our trusts. The Industrial combinations that have controlled prices are now under the anti-trust art. be ginning to feel the hand of the law. ataaaard OU Moat I nlaw faU v The President then apoke of tha Ftaadard Oil and Tobacco truat deci sions of the Supreme Court, referring to the Standard OH aa "the eldest of trusts, the one which had been estab lished by more acta of criminality and unlawfulness than any other, the one which did more buelneaa abroad and was. In that reapect. the most use ful. He referred to the American To. bacco Company as a truat "devised by able. Ingenious lawyers for the purpose of evading the anti-trust law. -There ar other trusts In process of prosecution.' the President continued, "but my own hope Is that they will all recognfxe bow that the Standard Oil and Tobacco declalona were epoch-making decisions; that they are bound to change the course and the tendency of bualneaa. If they had not. gentle men. I do not know where we would have gone. Everything would have been in a trust. The only rescue from that would bay been atata socialism. -There are those who aay w could get along without competition, who say that you cannot live If we have compe tition, who say It will destroy every body, and therefore you hare got to have some arrangement by which trust can be kept lawful. We lived by com petition for centuries, and It was not until the last 30 years that there de veloped thla Idea that we could get along without It-" teaistlltlea Held lealrabl. Mr. Taft declared that hla under standing of American business waa that competition waa desired, and that there waa ne desire that the slate should take over bualneaa and fix Xia4 a Pas ! Hood Itiver Folk. Finding; Iomrt.tlc Aid Scare and at Premium, Decide to B Taught How. HOOD RIVER. Or, Oct. 7. (Special.) Domestic servants are scarce and de mand a premium In the Hood River Valley. However, the housewives wfll endeavor to solve the problem by mak ing a aclentirie study of their house hold work and by doing It themselves. Since their hushsnds hsve been so suc cessful In a aclentlflc culture of tlielr orchards, the wives declare that they will make the homes of the community Ideal ones and fend the babies and do the cooking along the most modern and scientific lines. An Interesting coincidence of their proposed plans Is that Mrs. W. H- Law rence, wife of Professor W. H. Law rence, the horticultural expert, who haa charge of the work of the Fellow ship Association. an organisation formed for the purpose of working out methods to prevent disease and to foater all movementa tending toward better orchards, will teach the women of the valley methods that should be used by progressive housewives. Mrs. Lawrence haa had a broad ex perience In teaching domeatlc aclence. She la a graduate of Drexel Institute In Pennsylvania, and took postgrad uate work at Cornell. She established a ' department of domestic science at Alleghany College and conducted the same work at the Washington Agri cultural College at Pullman. The wom en ar enthusiastic over the work she proposes to conduct aa the men are over what her husband has accomplished. COOK'S POLAR CASE BARE "Proof!i" Examined at Copenhagen Contain Broken Sextant. COPENHAGEN. Oct. 7. (Special.) Dr. Cook's Greenland "case" by means of which he said he would be able to prove that he had gone toward the Fole haa arrived here. When it waa opened It waa found to contain a broken sextant, but no papers. Cook's Eskimo. Itukuaab. says that Cook's Fole stories are pure fiction. Knud Rasmussen has given up try ing to find the Mlekelaen expedition and hope that Mlekelaen la still alive la small. FARM" LAND QUADRUPLES Two Score Acres, Bought for $1000, Sell Now for $16,000. The 43 acres of the Al Baker farm. 14 miles eaatward on the Base Line road, haa been bought by L. A. Austin. of Portland, for $14,000. It was owned by Mrs. Baker, widow of Al. Baker, who died four years ago. The farm Is In a high state of culti vation and la considered one of the finest of Multnomah County. It waa bought by Mr. Baker IS yeara ago for $4000. the purchase price showing the great increaae In the value of farm property In that vicinity. PROMINENT HGUP-ES IN COMING f ! J;'' - ;"x i n o - -4m R fife c 11-; ... 1 JP-lA r . : , ill u m;.v . --g-' m-mrn III .A -3 Jl - -J y :":rPE: A BOX K. JOHX J. M'Vt-ARt.DWKAVr, Jito WIIJ. DIRFCT PRO'F.n'Tltlj I or LOS aJIUCLEl COl"TT COURTHOUSE. Judge Favors Self to Try Case. ALL IS READY FOR BIG TRIJL On Eve of Action Doubt as to Who's to Be Tried. STAR WITNESS IS ARTIST McManlgal Whiles Away Time In Cell Drawing Pictures of Xltro Glycerine Cans McNamara Boys Write and Smoke. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Oct. 7. (Spe cial.) Decks were cleared for action today In the McNamara case. Walter Bordwell. Judge of the Su perior Court of Los Angeles County, will preside at the trial that haa at tracts "the attention of the civilized world. He declarea he la competent to try the case, denying that he Is preju diced against the defendants. John J. McNamara, secretary of the lnternn tionai Structural Ironworkera and Brldgebullders' Union, and hla brother, James M". McNamara, alleged by the prosecution, to be James Brlce. The climax In the fight of Attorney Clarence Darrow, chief counael for the defense, to secure a change of Judge lu the case came In the afternoon. Judge Bordwell ruled In favor of him self, but Informally. The final ruling, the formal action of the court, will come either Monday or Wednesday morning. I) arrow Sees Ma Delay. "Thla matter will not delay the trial of the McNamara boys one minute," Clarence Darrow told The Orego-ilan representative. "We are prepared to go ahead with this trial and want to start right away. No matter who pre sides at the trial we will start at, the time set for the trial. "We made an Informal request for a change of Judge last Thursday and Judge Bordwell asked ua to await his decision today. We awaited that de cision and he believes he should try the case. We are filing affidavits to show our point and will make the formal motion for a change of Judge later. Judge Bordwell has given us his Informal decision and that will be his formal decision. We will not de lay the trial In advance of that fact." Almost on the eve of the trial there is a doubt as to who is going to be tried. The defense will ask that one man be tried at a time. The state will try the strongest case first. District M'oncluded on Pag S.I TRIAL AT LOS ANGELES OF .. ... HF.I.UH , ILAHUlIi B. Uinaui vissv Convict After First Respite From Cell Boards Car and Returns. Family Affairs Discussed, j SALEM. Or.. Oct. 7. (Special.) Go ing from the State Penitentiary unat tended and unguarded to hold a con ference with ex-United States Senator Piles, of Washington, W. Cooper Morris, serving a sentence for six years for embexzlement of funds of the Oregon Trust Savings Company, of Portland, was outside the prison today for the first time since he began serving his sentence a number of months ago. Sentor Piles had arranged, through Governor West, for a conference at the executive offices and . when . Senator Piles and Morris had arrived at dif ferent times, the Governor left them closeted and went to his home. They were conferring for nearly an hour be hlndJocked doors. "I am an old friend of the Morris family." said Senator Piles when asked the reason of the conference. "Mr. Morris studied law in my office several years ago. We have Just been talking over family subjects. The conference had nothing to do with the Wilde case. I am not connected with that caae in any manner." After leaving the State Capitol the two men walked nearly to the business district, continuing in close conversa tion, and at a corner near the Court house Morris boarded a car for the penitentiary. Atter Morris had left. Senator Piles reiterated that he had been conferring on aubjecta connected purely with the affairs of the Morris family. WILSON BOOMED IN WEST League Organized in California. New Jersey Clubs Pledge Support. SACRAMENTO, Cal.. Oct. 7. The first gun of the Woodrow Wilson Presi dential campaign In the West was fired today with the organization of the first Wilson League in California at a meeting at the Hotel Sacramento of some of the most prominent party leaders of the state with local "progres sive Democrats. TRENTON. N. J.. Oct 7. The state convention of the Federation of Demo cratic Clubs of New Jersey adopted a resolution this afternoon to support Governor Woodrow Wilson for the Democratic nomination for President of the 1'nlted States. FAST FATAL AFTERWARD Telegrapher, After Long Abstinence, Resumes Eating and Dies. BAKERSF1ELD. Cal- Oct. 7. Fred E. Burnell, leased wire operator In the of fice of the Callfornlan and for 10 years an employe of the Associated Press, died at 2:30 this morning. Burnett's death was due to a re markable fast of 80 days, begun and maintained to cure a long standing stomach trouble. During the entire pertod of fast, though greatly ema ciated, he remained at work. Follow ing the heroic self-treatment, Burnell began taking nourishment and was ap parently Improving. An attack of heart failure, however, ended his life. ALLEGED DYNAMITERS, AND BUILDING WHERE IT WILL BE HELD ,-r tniiw v B-DE-rtli; VIEW v iuj - , ... ... Wife Discovers Body and Empty Coin Jar. AUTOPSY ADDS TO MYSTERY Detectives Think Woman Took Her Own Savings. PORTLAND MAN IS VICTIM Police Deduct That Spouse Seized Home Fund Clasped In C. MoUes Lifeless Hand as He Lay in Sixteenth - Street Home. Baffling mystery attends the sudden death yesterday afternoon of Charles Molies, --aged 42 years, at his home at 253 North Sixteenth, and the simulta neous disappearance of 600 from a secret hiding place beneath the kitchen ftoor. In the absence of any marks of vio lence on-the dead man's body and the fact that an autopsy failed to disclose evidence of poisoning. Molies is be lieved to have died from heart failure, superinduced, possibly, by the discov ery that the money had been stolen. The dead body of Molies was discov ered lying on the floor in the front bedroom of his Sixteenth-street resi dence at 5:30 o'clock yesterday after noon, when Mrs. Molies, who. is em ployed as chambermaid in the Foster Hotel, returned home. She Immediately notified the police and Oscar Carlson, a Twentieth-street grocer and intimate friend of Molies. The body was removed to the morgue, where Coroner Norden last night con ducted a post-mortem examination. Cola Stolen, Saya Wife. Detectives Coleman and Smith and Patrolmen Shaffer and Black were de tailed on the case by Captain Bailey. They satisfied themselves that' Molies had not been murdered and then made a thorough search of the house and premises for evidence that would aid them in tracing the theft of the $600 which had disappeared so mysteriously. Mrs. Molies was questioned closely, on the theory that she might have ap propriated the funds, which consisted almost entirely of her savings. She adhered to her original story, how ever, and insisted that the many had been stolen. "When J left home at 7 o'clock this morning as usual to goto my work at the hotel," said Mrs. Molies, "Charlie called me back, saying he wanted to kiss me goodbye. He was feeling lr. good health and wa in the best of spirits then. That was the last I saw of him alive. He frequently suffered (Concluded on Page 5.) irn. niSTRICT JlTflRSEV WHO . Pocket Knife Used to Protect Safe From Inroads of Man Whose Fist Strikes Cashier Senseless. SEATTLE. Wash.. Oct. 7. (Special.) When a bold daylight robber attacked Miss Edna Frledberg as she stood be hind the cashier's desk in the whole sale cigar and tobacco store of-Joseph G. Cohn & Co., at Fourth avenue and Cherry street, he met more than his match in courage, nerve and clev erness. But the robber, foiled in his attempt to Steal $250 from a drawer in the safe, struck the cashier, a frail lit tle woman who weighs only SO pounds, a heavy blow with "his fist and left her senseless on the floor. Then he ran, frightened, apparently, by the fact that the desk stood only 10 feet from the sidewalk and in plain view from the street. ''When Miss Friedberg was brought to her senses by R. Richardson, a ship ping clerk, who found her lying near her desk, she held tightly clasped in her left hand a $10 gold piece which the robber had given her to change when he entered the store to carry out his desperate scheme, while in her right was a penknife with which she had sought to defend herself and her employer's cash when the thief at tempted to loot the safe. The humor of the situation Imme diately overcame all "other emotions and Miss Friedberg laughed as she ex claimed: "Why, he didn't even get his $10 back. Wasn't I lucky V " GIRL'S FIST FELLS LAWYER Question as to Her Capacity for JJquor Answered by Blow. SAN FRANCISCO Oct. 7. (Special.) Attorney Frank Schilling was felled in Judge Sargent's court today by a well-directed blow from Miss Nellie Burke, a witness, who resented a query from the lawyer regarding her capacity for strong drink. Miss Burke was testifying in behalf of Mrs. Mary DeBaldlnl, who Is suing her husband, Ronaldo, for divorce on grounds of cruelty. She was telling the court of Konal do's sprees when the attorney pointed ly asked her if she ever imbibed free ly herself. ' Miss Burke's response was a right Jolt to Schilling's jaw. The blow con tained so much momentum that in sliding from Schilling's features J it upset Attorney Alex O'Grady, repre senting the defendant. The court rapped for order and the trial was postponed until Monday. . LOOT - IN WHEELBARROW The Dalles Telephone Office Entered While Operators' Work. THE DALLES, Or., Oct. 7. (Special.) Whije seven operators were at work in the next room, robbers entered the business office of the pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company here last night and carried out a safe. It was loaded on a wheel-barrow at the back door and taken to the river beach, where it was blown open. The safe contained $22. Two suspects giving the names of D. Hill and John Young, were arrested this afternoon, while spending money freely in a saloon. Officers believe that they have the perpetrators of the robbery. Their shoes correspond with tracks in the beach sand where the safe was found. ' STEAMER EUREKA AGROUND Cargo Is Unloaded From Vessel in Bering Sea Waters. NOME. Oct. 7. The steamship Eure ka is aground in the mud at Keowalik, Kotzebue Sound. She is lightering 900 tons of freight 10 miles from its destin ation. The Eureka, a steel steamship of 2122 tons gross. Is owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, and was un der charter for one trip to the West ern Alaska Steamship Company. She sailed from Seattle for Bering Sea points September 3 with 3000 tons of freight. She touched at Nome Septem ber 18, and discharged the greater part of her cargo. Captain J. M. Johnson Is in command of the Eureka, which carries a crew of 26 men. SOUTHERN STRIKE ENDED Firemen on Georgia & Florida Get 50 Per Cent of Engineers' Pay. ATLANTA, Ga.. Occ. 7. A message received here today from Chairman Teat of the board of directors of the Brotherhod of Locomotive Firemen and Pnginemen, says that the strike of the firemen on the Georgia & Florida Railroad has been settled. The men will get 50 per cent of en gineers' pay. All men have returned i to work as their contracts requi.ed. The firemen win their contentions. WALLS CRUMBLE IN HAYTI Two Earthquakes Follow I vo rig-Continued, Heavy Rains. CAPE HAYTIE.V, Hayti. Oct. 7. Heavy rains have fallen here for eight days. Earth shocks were felt here yesterday. There were two strong movements at 6:10 o'clock in the morn ing and others at 12:30, 7 and 11 o'clock P. M. The walls of some old houses crumbled but no one was Injured. Vernon Wins 6 to 2 by Hard Hitting. STEWART HOLDS MASTERY Portland Hurlers Conquered by Village Batsmen. BRASHEAR HERO OF GAME With Champions Two to Good and Hooligans Deswondent, He Knocks Home Run and Ties Score, En couraging Hogan's Men. VERNON GETS POSTPONED GAME. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct., 7. Thomas Graham, president of the Pacific Coast Baseball League, ruled today that the postponed game of April 20, between Portland and Vernon, must be played at Vernon. Managers of both teams were advised of tha decision by telegraph. The ruling is Important, as tha game may decide the pennant race. Manager McCredle. of Portland, Is reported as having objected to play ing the game, while Manager Hogan, of Vernon, wanted It Included in tha present series. BY W. J. PETRAIN. LOS ANGELES. Oct. 7. (Special.) Because Harry Stewart, the Vernon heaver, outpltched the Beaver hurlers today. Hogan's Tigers finally won a game from the Beavers by the decisive score of 6 to 2. Portland had won seven straight from Vernon and the victorious fates switched to the Villagers. It was a case of heavy hitting by Vernon against light bingling by Portland, with ' the element of baseball lucic breaking all the way for the Tigers. Koine Gives Way to Silence. Another circumstance, that seemed to favor Hogan's squad, was the elimi nation of the artificial noise-making contrivances. The absence of these deafening Instruments, somewhat as tonished the Portland players and gave Hogan's warriors a chance to come back to earth. . Ben Henderson started twirling for the Beavers, and as before he aemained only a little over four innings and was removed because of his wildness, after Vernon had tied the score. It was Benny's failure to cover first base in the fourth, which placed Vernon- on even terms with Portland. The Beavers had registered two runs in the second Inning, when they made six hits, almost enough to win several games, and. this two-run lead looked good to the Portland rooters. There was no thought that the Ver non team would enact anything sensa tional when Henderson had disposed of the first two Hoganltes up in the fourth Inning. However, Bennle failed to cover first," when Patterson hit to Kappa, and that worthy was allowed to reach first without hindrance, when he should have been retired. Brasbear Is Revenged. This brought the-ever-dangerous Roy Brashear to the bat, and smarting un der the sting of having fanned before Henderson on his first trial, this slug ging Villager laced the first ball of fered him by the big Portland pitcher into the chute park for a home run, scoring Patterson ahead of him and tlelng up the Beavers two-run lead. This seemed to make a new team out of the Hooligans, for they buckled down and played a great fielding game behind Stewart for the rest of the aft- . ernoon, Brashear's feat set the crowd of 10, 000 rooters wild with delight and they expressed it substantially by -"chipping in" $44.56 as a reward for tying the score. In the next inning Henderson walked Burrell, the first man up, and McCredie nagged him quickly and substituted Tom Seaton. While Seaton was fanning Drummond Brown, Burrell stole second on Mickey La Longe, who was any thing but in the form he displayed in the earlier games. Stewart's out put Burrell to third. Carlisle then smashed a single into Kyan's territory and the Villagers took a lead from which they were not headed thereafter. Beavers Cheered la Second. Portland's brace of runs came in the second Inning, when it looked like an other Beaver victory. Rapps opened the inning with an infield tap, which he beat to first. Ryan laced a single to right, but Rapps was called out on a close decision at third, when Stinson tossed to McDonnell, but Buddy went to second on the play. Krueger hit a single to center which tallied Ryan, but he was caught a moment later try ing to take second when Peckinpaugh was at bat and the hit-and-run play was pegged by the Vernon team. With two out Peck then singled and La Longe sent him to third on a double to the right field crowd. Ben Henderson then singled Infield and Peckinpaugh scored. That was all for the Beavers, for Stew art speared Chadbourne's line drive and the side was retired. In every succeeding Inning except the ninth the Beavers had one or more men Concluded oa Page S.)