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Pages 1 to 16 PORTLAND. OIIEUOX. SUNDAY 3IORNING, JANUARY 21, 1912. PRICE FIVK CENTS. VOL. XXXI NO. 76 Pages 3. V BANKERS ACCUSED OF ILLEGAL ACTS Stockholder German American Sues. ASSETS JUGGLED, HE SAYS Ashley, Rumelin, Devlin, Reed and Willis Are Accused. LOOT $100,000 IS CHARGE Sale or Sixth and Washington. Prop erty at $0,000 by P. L. Willis to . His Son-ln-Law Part of Prorit Sharlng Scheme, Is Alleged. General mismanagement of the German-American Bank. Including the mis appropriation of about 1100.000, alleged to belong; to tba stockholders of the bank. Is on of tlie sensational charges In a suit against Mark A. 1L Ashler. Charles E. Rumelin. Thomas C Devlin. Samuel Q. Reed and P. L. Willie filed In the State Circuit Court yesterday by Arthur U Flnley. a stockholder In the German-American Bank. Mr. Flnley demands from the defend ants an accounting of their transactions with the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank and the German-American, together with damages In the luo of 110.000. 8. T. Jeffreys Is attorney for Mr. Jfinley, ('asplrae-y Is Chanted. In liia complaint Mr. Flnley charges t'uat the defendants, Devlin, as receiver of the Oregon Trust A Savings Bank and cashier of the German-American Bank; Ashley and Rumelin as Individ uals and members of the partnership of Ashley & Rumelin; Reed, president of the German-American, and Willis, director In the latter bank, through tba organisation of a conspiracy acquired at a big discount the obligations of the suspended back, disposed of Its assets at a heavy discount and so manipulated Its affairs that the stock of the German-American Institution, in which plaintiff owned stock to the amount of f 10.000. was rendered value less. As a result of the dissipation of the assets of the consolidated banks. It Is charged that the defendants shared In lha distribution of about 1100,000 In profits. Cmi- Bell Ahaawd. The complaint of Flnley Is a sequel to the arrangement by which the German-American Bank took over the as sets and liabilities of the Oregon Bar ings c Trust Bank, under tha receiver ship of Devlin and by order of court, under a contract to liquidate In full all claims against tba suspended bank within two years. Plaintiff alleges that In pursuance of the conspiracy charged. Devlin. Reed and Willis, fol lowing the confirmation of this agree ment, proceeded to secure possession of the affairs of the German-American by , causing themselves to be elected cash ier, president and director, respectively. Having thua obtained charge of the management of the German-American Bank. It Is alleged In the complaint that Devlin. Reed and Willis In further pro moting the alleged conspiracy took into their partnership Ashley at Rumelin as agents for the purchase of certificates of deposit and other evidences of In debtedness of the Oregon Trust Sav fngs Bank at a big discount. ate-rkbaldera Said te Be ejac-sed. Tha certificates of deposit and tha liabilities of the defunct bank ao ac quired, tt Is charged, were exchanged at par for promissory notea and other property which came Into the pos (Concluded en P i Gtress't 4r SUICIDE ON WANE, STATISTICS SHOW RATE IX 1910 LOWER THAX IN" PRECEDING VEARS. Firearm Method Still Popular and Is on Increase, With Poison Close Second. WASHINGTON. Jan. SO. Fewer per sons committed suicide during 1910 than In 1)0. according to the latest statistics on the subject, announced to day by Dr. Cressy L- Wilbur, chief vital statistician of the United States Censu Bureau. The death rate from suicide In 110 was 10 per 100.000 of popuIaUon In the census bureau'a death reglstra tlon area, which comprises about one half of tha country's population, and covers ti states and several larger cltiea In other states. The rate was lf.S In 190. Thera were S90 suicides in 1910. finlclda bv lire srms was the favorite method of self-destruction and showed an Increase over 1909. Poison was rinse second. California led the states, with i suicides to the 100.f00 of population, while Maryland with 10.S had the lowest rate. In the district of mora than 100.000 population. San Francisco, with 44.2 suicides to tou.uvu. ieo. -am. rial., with 13.4 was third, am Seattle, with 31.1. fourfh; Los Angeles. 10, fifth. The Portland. Or, rate was S A . n.l KnnlcilUl'l Wll 23.1. JSeW York's rate was K.4 and Chicago's 20.9 TRADE METHODS VIGOROUS Kan Francisco Organises to Get Steamship Line to Alaska. SAX FRANCISCO. Jan. 20. (Special.) Arrangements for the establishment nf - Arrt .teamshlo Una between San Francisco and Alaska In order that the merchants of this city may get tnai share of the business of the territory which they have not heretofore en- Joyed, are expected to follow trie re .ur of a committee that today began work on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce. It Is pointed out that the conditions which msde It impossible for Fan Fran cisco merchants to do as much trade with imii was to have been ex pected are due to circumstances over which the merchants individually have no control, and It Is proposed that fu ture efforts be In the nature of mass plays. The committee consists of A. L. Scott, W. K. Oore. C F. Michaels. James Ty son and Francis J. Baker. PUPILS DEVELOP THRIFT School Savings Bank Has $35,000, All Children's Own. EAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20. (Spe cial.) The achool savings bank system of Sao Francisco has attained a great er aucceas than In any city in the world. $35,000 having been saved by pupils in the city schools during the last five months. Director James E. Power, to whom waa delegated the task of Installing the system In the school department. Is enthuslastlo concerning the possi bilities of the plan. He believes that It not only teaches children the value, of money, but Inculcates In them a de sire to save.. Tha savings plan la fashioned after the postal savings system, but Instead of permitting negotiable certificates, each account Is kept In bank and subject to withdraw al only when parents or guardians ac company the depositor. 112 MINERS ARE ENTOMBED Six Known Dead In Disaster at Kemmerer, Wyo. DENVER. Colo, Jan. 20. It Is re ported from Kemmerer. Wro, that 112 miners were entombed In a dust ex plosion In mine No. 4 of the Kemmerer Coal Company tonight. Six are said to be dead, with a num ber of Injured and th'e fate of tha rest Is unknown. Details sre lacking. - TAKES WIDOWER REFUSES. TO PA! PHYSICIAN Novelist's Husband to File Counter-Suit. AL'ENATION TO BE CHARGED McCulIough Says Wife Told Him She Loved Doctor. MAID REVEALS SECRETS Woman Who Wrote "Lavender and Old Lace" Declared to Hare lieen Neurotic, Too Weak to Resist Temptation. CHICAGO, Jan. 20. (Special.) Dragged from tha closet by the "model husband, aa she once called him In one of her writings, the skeleton In Myrtle Heed McCullough's "Paradise Flat" waa exposed to the world's view today when James Sidney McCulIough declared Xhat If Dr. Edmund George Sugg pressed his suit for (7960 against him as sole executor of the woman novelist's estate he would put In a counter claim for damages for allena tlon of his wife's affection. "I see from the attitude of Dr. Sugg that he Is going to force publicity, so I might as well tell the facts," said Mr. McCulIough. Lava for Doctor Cafeaed. "Dr. Sugg did attend my wife pro fessionally. for which ho waa well paid. The trouble waa ha did not stop with professional attentions. She fin ally admitted to me nearly a year be fore she died that she loved him, al though stoutly protesting that she had done no wrong. . v"Her nerves were all gone to pieces because of drugs and when she told me that she would be strong and give up Sugg I promised to forgive her everything It she would only live up to that resolatlon, but I am sorry to say that she. In her nerve-racked state. was too weak to do that. 'Not long after her admission to me I learned from our maid. Annie Larsen, that Dr. Sugg was visiting her at our home, 5120 Kenmore avenue, and that she waa returning the visits at his of fice and taking him on long automobile rides around the city. Hoabaad aad Wife Quarrel. 'The continued attentions of Dr. Sugg to my wife caused several quar rels between us. Mrs. McCulIough was becoming mora of a neurotic every day, and aha told me that she had to take the. automobile rides with Dr. Sugg almost dally as part of the treatment. 'An effort was made at the time of her death to make It appear that my neglect of my wife and my frequent absences - from home In the evenings was the cause of her suicide. The facts are that I stayed away from home be cause of my wife's affection for Dr. Sugg. In other words, I was the neglected party." Dr. Sugg declared that he never had given McCulIough the slightest cause for jealousy and that his only asso ciation with Mrs. McCulIough was that of a physician with a neurotic patient. "Mrs. McCulIough constantly called me to her home and called at my office in her semi-hysterical moods," said the physician, who Is a good looking man of IS years. Physician Dealea Charges. "She never paid me anything on ac count, for there was a mutual under standing thst I would let her settle the matter In her own time. That she recognised that she owed me a debt was evident from the fact that she left a (Concluded on Pas 2.') CARTOONIST REYNOLDS TAKES IVIUAM Z.WBAfZSr A1A V 0JEC One A OAfZH INDEX OF TODAFS NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY' 8 Maximum temperature, 86 asgrees; minimum, 38 degrees. TODAY'8 Fair: southeasterly winds. Foreign. Socialists will fall to et majority of German iteicnstag. section 1. page 4. London unable to explain why Duke of Con naught will not visit Wasblnston. Sec tlon 1. page 4. Cuban crisis past; Veterans" Association out uses policy, bection 1. page 4. Panama described as peaceful city. Section l. page s. Domesltc. Novelist's husband refuses to pay physician's dui; tnreatents counter suit for aliena tion, bection 1. page 1. Physician says Mrs. Ida von Claussen not crasy but conceited "like many other women;" asylum doors open. Bection 1 page 3. Suicide rate in 1910 lower than in past. statistics show. Section 1, page 1. Aviators thrill throngs at Los Angeles. See- tlon l, page S. National. WIckerahara gives assurance case against Harvester Company will be prosecuted. Becuon 1. page 4. Taft outspoken In denouncing recall of Ju dietary. Section 1, page 4. Detective Bums to submit phonographic conreesion to Lorlmer committee. Sec tlon 1, page 2. underwood's threat against pension bill shows political aim. Section 1, page 8. Graham's committee will mske scandal nunt despite protest. Section 1, page 9. Politics. Anti-Tan forces all agree in working for uninsiructed delegates, section 1. page 4. Multnomah County Clerk Fields to file can didacy for Republican nomination for oecietary ol state Monday. Section 1, page 12. "v. Progressives'" in Illinois may desert La rouette (or Roosevelt. Section 1. page 2. C V. Gantenbeln. State Circuit Judge, an nounces candidacy lor nomination at Representative to Congress. Section 1 page 13. senator cummins, of Iowa, announces can didacy for President. Section 1. page 2 E. W. Ross out for Congress In State of Vt asninston. Section 1, page 4. Sport. Thirty Spokane Indians will report for training at walla walla. Section 2. page o. Portland asked to support Narragansett pier ior tennis tourney honor. Section 2, One-Round Hogsn arrives In South for train ing. Section 2. page 3. Northwestern League schedule announced Section 2, page 2. ban Francisco team again first in trap snoot. bection i page 3. Vernon soccer team detests' Portsmouth by one goal to none. Section 2. page 3. Fielder Jones and Cnnny Mack famed for snrewdnesa in picking players. Section Pse 2. Commercial and Marine. Oregon onion prices advance another quar ter. Becuon z. page 17. Wheat higher at Chicago, owing to famine prices prevailing in Russia. Section 2, page 17. Advance in stock market is continued. Sec tion z, page 17. New York ranks excess surplus largely In creased. Section 2, page 17. Low water In boiler la thought to have caused explosion on steamer Sarah I'lxon. Section a,. page 10. Pacific Northwest. Spokane girl graduates' 10 gowns are fash ionable. Section 1. page 1. Dr. Hasxard's method of treatment told at trial, ejection 1. page 1. Short course at Oregon Agricultural Col lege nas sso students. Section 1. page 7. Woman who whipped Seattle Judge Is fined .x. Becuon i, page 9. Salem, full of idle, destitute men, faces grave proDiem or providing tor them. 8ectlon 1, page 0. Hay and Lawrence central figures In Wash ington gubernatorial race. 8ectlon 1, page e. Member ef parole board champions reforma tion ot murderers, section 1, page T. Gasoline launch capslxes In Coos Bay aad live men perisn. section 1, page 1. Portland and Vicinity. German-American stockholder brings suit. cnarging orticers witn looting to extent of 410O.0O0. Section 1, page 1. E. L. Oetlnirer, saloonman. seised as sus pect, confesses killing E. W. Match and dragging body away. Section 2. page 18. Dan Kellaher, re-elected president of East Bide Business Men s Club, reviews or ganisation's work in lli. Section L page 11. Inland Empire excursionists arrive In port- land, bection 1, page 13. James J. Hill asked to be honor guest at "Kose-Fiantlng day" ceremonies. Section 1. page 10. Report of health officer shows city death rate is on decrease. Section 1. page 14. Klamath land dealer says real need is home- seekers' rate throughout year Instead of colonists' rate period. Section 2, page IS. Jury-getting In Wilde case may be com pleted ty Wednesday, section 1. page 10. Little Jeanette Meier entertains tiny friends on ber 10th birthday, section 1, page 10. President Sproule. of Southern Pacific, says all Haxrlman Improvements In Oregon are to be rushed. Section 1, page 14. Apple unions said to be against "Big Four" merger, as originally proposed, section 1, page 14. Scottish Rite bodies close session. Section 1. page 10. Cats rejoice at close of show. Section 1. page 14. Excursionists from Inland Empire. British Columbia and Grand Ronde Valley are guests at bsnquet. Section 1, page 13. A FLING AT SOME POLITICAL TOPICS OF THE DAY. AT LK ST ACCOUNTS WAS MAMYOr ry-roov jTCAffS OA SHS 1 WRECKED; 5 LOST Skipper and Passen gers Are Drowned. CRAFT DRIFTS ON JETTY Capsized There, It Is Swept Out to Sea by Tide. LIFESAVERS' EFFORTS VAIN One of Their Own Xuniber Narrowly Escapes Drowning Darkness Shuts Down and Hides Over turned Launch From View. MARSHFIELD. Or., Jan. 20. (Spe cial.) Five men were drowned Just at dark this evening when the little gaso line launch North Star No. -1, control of which had. in some unknown man ner, become lost, capsized on the Coos Bay bar. Those who perished were: Joe Yonkers, the skipper. . Frank Tanner, married. Ira Albee. Con Ferrl. William Brainerd, married and father of four children. Though tt is impossible to learn to night the cause of the disaster to the little craft. It is believed by members of the lifesavlng crew that the engine broke down down and it was Impos sible for Yonkers to manage his boat in the strong current and ebb tide. The four men who, with Yonkers, went down to a watery grave were the last of a score of passengers who had taken passage from Marshfield for Empire. At the latter place late in the afternoon all but the five men went ashore, and the craft continued its ourney toward South Slough, a tribu tary of the bay. Launch Strikes Jetty. ' Suddenly the launch's progress ceased and It started to drift. Finally it was seen td strike the jetty, where it turned over. The lookout on the bar immediately rushed word of the disaster to the life savers, but It was too late to help the men in peril, and the strong current carried the North Star No. 1, still cap- 1 tied, far out to sea. The little 20-foot boat waa built only for inside waters, and, therefore, had little chance on the bar, and the men aboard had little or no opportunity to save themselves. Llfesaver Washed Overboard. In the attempt of the llfesavlng crew to get within rescue distance, one of the members of the crew was washed overboard and with difficulty was res cued. The work of the llfesavera was. therefore, distracted from the North Star to the rescue of one of their own number, after which it was found Im possible to reach the rapidly-disappear ing ill-fated boat, as she grew dimmer in the oncoming darkness. Skipper Yonkers was one of the best known navigators on Coos Bay. Marsh field and 8outh Slough residents who knew Yonkers well are inclined to be lieve that an accident happened to the machinery of the North Star No. 1, which caused her to be carried before the current. Yonkers la Accident Two Years Asm It was two years ago that Yonkers had an accident In the bay when the boat he waa operating sank from some unknown cause, but on 'that occasion he and his passengers saved themselves by swimming ashore. All the men drowned with Yonkers today lived at South Slough. cou. AU AS Woootzouu FASHION KIND TO GIRLS' $10 GOWNS SPOKANE GRADUATES FROCKS ARE TJP-TO-MIXTJTE. Limit of Expendture Indorsed, by Class Xo Detraction From Charm ing Tailored Effects. SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 20. (Special.) When the girl graduates of the Lewis and Clark High School adopted $10 as the maximum price to be paid for their graduation gowns, they not only acted In a most sensible way, but in the most fashionable, according to the universal statement of the best women's tailors in the city. Fashion has decreed that the most up-to-date gowns for girls must be the most simple. White Is bound to be the prevalent shade, and unless the graduation dress be white and simple, it is decidedly a back number. "Thin, sheer goods of any kind are to be had at very low prices," said one women's tailor today. There are hun dreds of kinds, but the most popular are organdies, white Swisses, polka dot Swisses and dimities. "Seven or eight yards of cloth will make a dres3 for most girls." The Lewis and Clark High School students will hold their graduation ex ercises on January 31. The girl stu dents will dress in plain 'white dresses costing not to exceed the sum of $10. FARE TO NORTHWEST, $25 Union Pacific Announces March- April Colonist Rates. OMAHA, Jan. 20. (Special.) The Union Pacific Railroad today announced a resumption of its low colonist rates to the Northwest, effective for six weeks of March and April, during which time the fare from the Missouri River to all Oregon and Washington points will be $25. Each day of the colonist rates through train of tourist sleeping-cars, with special dlnlng-car service and greatly reducing dlnlng-car prices, will be run through from Omaha to Portland, DAILY MRS. BELMONT'S AIM Newspaper Will Be Managed by and Devoted to Women. NEW YORK, Jan. 20. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont said today she was planning to start a dally newspaper to be man aged by women and devoted entirely to their interests. She said that wo men did not have a fair representation in the news of the day and thought the time was ripe for women to come to the front editorially. Mrs. Belmont's Ideal, she announced, "would be a paper which Is not bound by any financial, political or social ob ligation to suppress one bit of news or to alter its tone." ' BUTTER PRIZE OF THIEVES Gangs Steal Thousands of Dollars' Worth of Valuable Product. NEW YORK, Jan. 20. The high price to which butter has soared has made It the prize loot of city thieves. It developed today that gangs of clever operatives have stolen thou sands of dollars' worth of the commod ity In the last few weeks, a load valued at $1000 having been taken In one Instance in daylight from a truck in the wholesale district. BILLIARD TOUCH VALUABLE Verdict of $6000 Awarded Player for Injury to Nervous System. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 20. For the loss of his billiard touch, Charles Peterson, a local professional, was given a verdict of $6000 by a Jury here today. He was thrown out of an automobile when a streetcar ran Into the machine and he sued the streetcar company for $25,000, alleging his nervous system was Injured. ivArrfit'Soy &nos USiSO A COJ.O ojzoposnrov GIRL GAVE CRY AND DIED, SISTER TELLS Treatment by Dr. Haz zard Explained. TALE OF LAST KISS TOLD Dying Woman Led to Believe Kin Is Insane. EX-ARMY MAN TAKES CASH Husband of "Starvation Cure" Spe cialist, "Dr." Hazzard, Admits Williamson Maids Turned' Over Power of Attorney. SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 20. "Mrs. Hazzard said, 'Would you like a treat ment, Claire.' and putting her hand on my sister's abdomen, she pressed down hard. Claire gave a cry and became unconscious. I said: 'Is it all over? and Mrs. Hazzard replied 'Yes.'" Thus Miss Dorothea Williamson told a Jury in the Kitsap County Superior Court at Port Orchard today of the last time sho saw alive her sister Claire, the wealthy English spinster whom Mrs. Linda Burfleld Hazzard is ac cused of murdering at her "starva tion sanitarium." Miss Williamson said that she re turned at once to her room, which was beneath that occupied by her sister. She heard people walking about the room all night, and wondered what they were doing. Sister Told of Death. "I didn't know that Claire was still alive, but was told later that she did not die until 4 o'clock in the morning of Friday, May 19, several hours after they led me from the death bed," she said. In a simple, straightforward manner that apparently impressed the Jury deeply, Miss Williamson, recounted tha events of the night her sister died. While at the Olalla Sanitarium Dora said she saw Claire several times. Once she saw her body and said the girl's chest was all mottled with purple patches like freckles and that Uie veins stood out in Claire's hands. Both girls still kept on thinking they were getting well, as they were getting rid of the "poisons" in their bodies. Food Kothlng bnt Broth. Their food, or Dora's, as she testi fied, consisted of the usual broth, wh'ch now had six tips of asparagus in It- Here the state began its similarity of proof in its attempt to prove that Mrs. Hazzard had deprived the girls "of and kept from them food necessary to sustain life." Dora said she often asked for' ham, biscuits, honey and other things and though she was led to believe that she would get them the next diy, they never came. 'Once I was given a few Inferior raisins, but for a fortnight I had noth- Ing but asparagus, and sometimes this was so stringy I could not eat it. I Just felt destitute for food. I used to wake in the morning, and the first thing I would think about would be what I was to get to eat." Because their relatives might give them food, Dora said Mrs. Hazzard would not let them notify their rela tives where they were, but insisted that they must go on with the fast, "until our tongues became clean." In the meantime, the prolonged sne.nai were continued. It Is to be alleged by the defense's witnesses that Do rothea (or Dora) often had fits of men tal aberration in her early life. Along this line the state deduced the fol lowing testimony from Dora: "Mrs. Hazzard told me I was men- (Concluded on Page 7.) SEMATOfZ CUA7MHS Of? OlAA SHJES AyS cSTofz rr-a TAjE PZS0VTA4. f?&ZE AZAYG- L :