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PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
VOL.. XXXI NO. 38.
JURORS AND JUDGE
CONDEMN LENIENCY
ACTIOX OF COMMUTING DEATH
SEXTEXCE IS CRITICISED.
LETTERS FEATURE
BEAN, CENTURIES
OLD, PRIZEWINNER
ROGUE RIVER VEGETABLE AT
TRACTS AT JACKSOX FAIR.
WARNS HIS
HEIR TO MILLIONS
TO BE MISSIONARY
E
E CASE
POLICY
WILLIAM R. BORDEN WILL
TEACH HEATHEX CHINESE.
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WILSON
PARTY
NATIONS AGREE ON
DIVIDING PERSIA
ID
RQ IS IGNORED
IKING
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DYNAMIT
Ambassador Asks Re
lease of Americans.
MARINES BEADY FOR ACTION
Governor of Temaulipas Re
ceives Peremptory Note.
COURTS SLOW IN ACTING
Henry L.
thority
Takes
Wilson, Acting With An
of State Department,
Short Cut to Secure
Justice for Fruitgrower.
MEXICO CITY. Sept. 21. Ignoring
the usual channels of diplomatic inter
course, the American Ambassador,
Henry Lane Wilson, has made a per
emptory demand on Governor Matlas
Guerrera, of the State of Tamaullpas,
for the Immediate release from the
Jail at Tamplco. of W. G. Nichols, an
American fruitgrower. Nichols was
arrested six months ago on a charge
-of having killed a bandit. Caballos.
whose apprehension the authorities
had attempted for many months.
The embassy was authorized by the
; Administration at Washington to em
ploy -whatever means were considered
necessary to bring about an ameliora
tion of Nichols' condition. Ambassador
Wilson declares he will secure Nichols'
release even If It should become neces
sary to land marines from the United
States cruiser Des Moines, which is now
In port at Tamplco, with 280 marines
aboard.
Actios la Like Persecution.
The American Ambassador regards
the treatment accorded Nichols by the
Mexican authorities as persecution, and
has so declared In his message to the
Governor. He points to the fact that
a Mexican has confessed In court to
being the slayer of Caballos, In support
of his belief. This confession was dis
regarded by the court, which declared
It was prompted by belief on the part
of the witness that a reward had been
offered for Caballos. dead or alive.
The Mexican was not arrested, and
the process against Nichols was con
tinued on an appeal from the sentence
of eight years' imprisonment imposed
upon Nichols by the Tamplco court.
The appeal Is being heard before the
court at Cludad Victoria, the state
capital.
Message Carries Authority.
In his note to the Governor the Am
bassador reminded him that his mes
sage was not official, but that it was
to be considered none the less authori
tative. The killing of Caballos occurred near
Tamplco. Nichols had been vested with
authority to arrest the desperado,
which he succeeded In doing. He was
taking him to Tamplco on a train
when. In the confusion at the crowded
station, the captive escaped. Nichols
and a big crowd pursued him. Nichols
admits tiring, but the evidence showed
that he fired In the air. The body of
Caballos was found later several hun
dred yards from the spot with a bullet
through the heart.
Nichols" high character had been tes
tified to by a petition signed by 100
American residents of Tamaullpas,
which was sent to the embassy begging
intercession.
Pe La Barra Is Acceptable.
EI PASO. Tex Sept. 21. Minister
Calerc when he departed from Wash- j JTafrTrok'preclpitaUng them
ington two weeks ago. conveyed toln(0 the water William and Harvey
President Madero warning from the I Ripley, aged 8 and 10, were drowned,
Conehdd on Face 2. land the others saved themselves.
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Foreman of Jury Says George Fig
ueroa, "Tiger Man," Should Go
to Gallows for Crime.
' LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21. (Special.)
The1 jury which convicted George Flg
ueroa, wife murderer and characterized
throughout this county as the "tiger
man." expresses strong disapproval of
Lieutenant-Governor Wallace's action
In commuting the death sentence to
life imprisonment after Governor John
son had repeatedly reprieved him.
N. Currier, a prominent business
man. was foreman of the jury, and dis
cussed the commutation freely.
"Figueroa was as guilty as any person
that ever has been charged with mur
der," he declared. "The crime was one
of the most fiendish of which I have
any knowledge-and he should be pun
ished for it accordingly. It required
only three minutes for the 13 of us to
reach a verdict and that time was occu
pied by the formality of casting the
first ballot. I think Wallace's action
is outrageous and the others who
served on the jury feel the same way
about it."
John R. Woy, who was on the jury,
expressed himself in even stronger
terms, and many leading men and wo
men are criticizing Lieutenant-Governor
Wallace.
Judge Willis, who trie,d the case,
telegraphed as follows today from In
dependence, where he had gone on
business:
The report that I recommended the
commutation of Figueroa is incorrect. I
agree with the Governor that he was
poorly defended, but I do not agree
with him on other matters. I am op
posed to abolishing capital punishment
for this class of offense."
AGED UTAH JURIST DIES
Stephen B. Twiss Attracted Notice by
"Huling Against Bigamy.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Sept. 21. St
xj Tuiis. formerly a Supreme
Court Justice in Utah, died here today.
after a lingering Illness, nt
years old. ,
Mr. Twiss was appointed Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Territory of Utah by President Hayes
in 1880 and served until 1885, when he
retired. While on the Utah bench his
i..n,tin nf the Edmunds law
against polygamy attracted widespread
notice.
2 ARMY AVIATORS KILLED
Aeroplane Plunges to Ground "With
German Officers.
i-REIBURG; Saxony, Sept 21. Two
German military officars were killed
while flying near here today. This
makes the third double fatality in Eu
rope within the present month in which
members of army flying corps were the
victims. The machine, of the mono
plane type, piloted by Lieutenant Ber.
ger, who carried Lieutenant Junghans
as 'a passenger, when passing over
Frelburs: suddenly plunged from a high
elevation to the ground.
DOMINICAN CRISIS OVER
Gunboat Petrel Leaves as Danger of
Revolution Diminishes.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 21. Danger of
more revolution in Santo Domingo is
thought to be passed.
The gunboat Petrel, which has been
watching events In the troubled zone,
left Guantanamo yesterday for New
York. She has as a. passenger Captain
Kline., commander of the Guantanamo
Naval Station.
TWO BOYS DROWN IN LAKE
Raft Vpsets and Six Lads Plunge
Into AVatcr.
ANACORTES. Wash.. Sept. 21. While
I six boys were poling about on a raft
CAETOOfKIST
Government Prepares
to Go to Trial.
M'MANIGAL STAR WITNESS
Prosecution Says McNamara
Acted Under Orders. v
EVIDENCE IS REVIEWED
Almost Entire List of Bridge and
Structural Ironworkers' Union
Officials for Past Ten Tears
Among Defendants.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 21. (Special.)
The United States District Attorney
and a corps of assistants are at work
on the dynamiting cases which will be
called for trial Tuesday, October 1,
when 61 defendants, representing al
most the entire list of officials of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers for ten
years back, will appear in the prison
ers' box in the Federal Court. The
District Attorney has marshaled his
testimony, consisting largely of docu
mentary evidence, in such a way as to
expedite the trial as much as possi
ble. The records and letters taken
from the offices of the iron workers
have been arranged in the order of
their dates and in the order in which
the writers stand .toward the conspir
acy that the Government charges ex
isted In the organization to dynamite
property. At the front of these stand
the letters purporting to show what
part Frank M. Ryan, international
president, took In furtherance of the
alleged conspiracy.
Board Declared Implicated.
John J. McNamara, the international
secretary, handled all' the correspond
ence, and gave practically all the In
structions regarding places where ex
plosives should be used, but "the Gov
ernment contends there . Is. evidence
showing that he was acting under the
orders of the board, that the boarfl
appropriated the money with which t
buy explosives and pay the dynaniitera,l
and that the men indicted were cog
nlzant of all that was going on and In
a majority of cases actually "planted"
the dynamite.
The letter from Ryan to other mem
bers and from them to Ryan constitute
an interesting part of the correspon
dence. In one of Ryan's letters, writ
ten to John J. McNamara from New
York in April, 1910, he gave explicit
Instructions as to how and, where the
dynamiters should operate and named
them in the letter. How well and ex
peditiously these jobs were handled
the Government, as alleged, will show
from records in its possession and from
the testimony of contractors. It will
be Bhown that' the McClintock & Mar
shall works at Mount Vernon were
dynamited on the night of April 19;
that the Davenport works, under con
struction by the same company, were
wrecked June 5; that work at Peoria
was dynamited the same night; that the
Cleveland job was dynamited on June
22; that the Pittsburg job, for which,
it Is alleged, Lelghtner was selected, as
it was his home city, was dynamited
on the night of July 15, and that a
bridge at Kansas City, which the Mc
Clintock & Marshall Compaany was
constructing, was dynamited on Au
gust 23.
McManIgal Quickly on Job.
On Janpary 20, 1908, Ryan wrote to
McNamara from San Francisco- that
as he was passing through Clinton,
Iowa, he noticed ,that piers had been
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Unique Feature Is Exhibit Grown
' From Seed Discovered in Crevice
of Cliff-Dweller's Home.
MEDFORD, Or., Sept. 21. (Special.)
t-O. J. Ames, from-a small garden on
the Rogue River bottoms, won the
first prize of 60 for vegetables at
the County Fair and Pear Show today.
A unique feature of his exhibit was
the beans grown -from a seed dis
covered in a crevice of a cliffdweller;s
homo in the Aztec ruins In Arizona.
The original, bean had lain there, ac
cording . to Mr. Ames, for hundreds,
perhaps thousands of years, when he
secured, it. In 1909.. .
It was planted the next year, the
germinating element having survived,
and the present crop resulted. It is
similar in appearance to the Lima
bean, but more prolific.
Mr. Ames had 48 different varieties
of vegetables In his display.'
MRS. HARRIMAN .EXCUSED
Estate Will Produce Papers for In
spection by Committee.
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. Mrs. Harri
man, widow of Edward H. Harrlman,
the railroad magnate, and Miss Bliss,
daughter of the late Cornelius N. Bliss,
ex-treasurer of the Republican National
committee, will be excused from testi--i
h.fnri the Senate committee in
vestigating campaign expenditures. Sen
ator Clapp ana senator ruiuci
cided today.
A sergeant-at-arms sent to New York
m xnhnena them was assured by C. C.
Tegthoff, formerly private secretary to
Mr. Harriman, that Mrs. Harrlman had
no personal knowledge of any con
tributions, and tnai ne wouiu uo
ing to produce any documents of the
Harriman estate for the inspection of
the committee. -
Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr.. has assured
a representative of the committee he
would produce every paper the Bliss
estate has relating to contributions.
RECIPROCITY SAVES TAX
Kansas Will "ot Collect From Estate
of Late Edwin Hawley.
TOPEKA, Kan.. Sept. 21. No inheri
tance tax need be paid the State of
Kansas by the estate of Edwin Haw
ley of New York, according to the de
cision here today of Judge Dana in
the-District Court of Shawnee County.
The State held it was entitled to
the tax b?ause of stock held by Mr.
Bawley In the Kansas City, Mexico &
Orie-.dt and the Missouri. - Kansas &
Texas railways. The administrators
refu.W to pay the tax on the ground
that ihe reciprocal relations law made
Vm ectate exempt. This law in Kan
sas provides that tne state will not
tv inheritances Jrom states that do
Wt tax Kansas inheritances.
BRITISH MEMBERS ARRIVE
Nationalist Will Explarn Home Rule.
. Unionist to Study Milk Purity. -
NEW x YORK. Sept 21. Two promi
w YORK. Sent.
nent members of the English Parlia
ment arrived In New York today from
Liverpool. '. One of them, W. H. K.
Redmond, a Nationalist member from
County Clare, will devote his stay to
explaining the Irish, home rule bill to
various associations of Irish-Americans.
The other, Waldorf Astor, a, son
of William Waldorf Astor, is a Union
ist member of Parliament from Ply
mouth. He bas been advocating health bills
and came Ijere primarily to investigate
the pasteurization of milk.
YOUNG SURVEYOR IS LOST
Searchers Fear John SI. Kecnan Has
Perished in Mountains.
BRETTONWOODS, N. H., Sept. 24.
A thick bank of clouds on Mount Wash
ington impeded today the efforts of
searchers for John M. Keenan, a young
surveyor of Charlestown, Mass., lost in
the mountains since Wednesday.
Keenan had no knowledge of wood
craft, and as he was without pro
visions and , heavy clothing he may
have perished.
PICTORIALLY ON SOME LEADING EVENTS OF
Leader Makes Plea for
Progressiveness.
FIVE FELLOWS' UNWELCOME
People Urged to Choose Men
Who Understand Needs.
NEW JERSEY FIGHT IS ON
Governor Speaks Againstex-Senator
Smith, Calling Him Reactionary
and Advising Voters Nation
Is in Critical Stage.
JERSEY CITY, N. J., Sept. 21. Gov
ernor Wilson proclaimed tonight In a
speech on the New Jersey Senatorial
situation that the only condition upon
which the Democratic party can gain
the confidence of the Nation is "That
it should have itself through and
through absolutely committed to a
progressive policy."
The Governor spoke here and in Ho
boken in opposition to the candidacy
of ex-United States Senator James
Smith, Jr., and In behalf of Represen
tative William Hughes for the office
of United States Senator to be voted
on In the state primaries next Tuesday.
The Governor declared that it was
his duty as spokesman of the Demo
cratic party in the state to warn the
people that James Smith, Jr., was not
a progressive, but a reactionary. He
declared it was no personal-contest, and
that if Mr. Smith was his "dearest
friend and held the same opinions that
he does," the Governor would feel ob
liged to oppose him.
"Fine Fellows" Not Wanted.
"I have never been aware of any per
sonal feeling on my part in any politi
cal contest against any individual,"
said the Governor. "There Is no man
In New Jersey that I care to fight or to
oppose because of his personal quality.
The United States Is not choosing men
now by their private characters mere
ly;, it is not choosing them for their
likeability; it is not choosing them be
cause they are fine fellows but Is
choosing them because they understand
the Interests of America at the present
moment. And many a man bred in the
old school of politics is being rejected
now; not because the doesn't hold his
convictions honestly, but because he
holds convictions from which the coun
try has turned away.
"We are at a critical juncture in the
history of America, and at a very criti
cal juncture in the history of the Demo
cratic party. There is only one condi
tion upon which the Democratic party
can gain the confidence of the Nation,
and that condition is that it should
have Itself through and through abso
lutely committed to a progressive pol
icy. Turning Back Means Defeat.
"Just so certainly as it turns back,
just so certainly as It makes any other
choice. It would be rejected now, and
,we need have no hope whatever of be
ing chosen again for our generation.
"In a statement which he has just
Issued. Mr. Smith distinctly takes part
his side with those who mean to
maintain the present protective tariff.
He puts it upon the ground that it is in
the Interest of the American working
man. Now, I am not going to stop and
argue whether it was in the interest
of -the American workingman or not
that the monopolies grew up monopo
lies that are now trying to break tne
backs of organized labor. But the men
who have grown so big as to threaten
the power of the Government itself by
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Vale Graduate Whose Share of
Father's Estate Is $5,000,000 .,
Accepts Post at Kansu.
CHICAiJo, Sept. 21. William Whit
ing Borden, son of the late William
Borden and Mrs. Mary Borden, whose
share of his father's estate is said
to be 5,000,000, is to become a foreign
missionary and will take up his life's
work at Kansu. China, as soon as his
studies are completed.
He will be ordained a foreign mis
sionary by the Island Missionary Soci
ety at a local church tonight. Borden
was graduated from Yale University in
1909 and last Spring finished a course
at the Princeton Theological Seminary.
SILETZ FISHERMEN FINED
Two Caught Obstructing River With
Setnets, Others Destroy Evidence.
NEWPORT. Or., Sept. 21. (Special.)
Angus Goar, fish bailiff, of Astoria,
and James Gatens. deputy game warden,
returned yesterday from a trip up the
Siletz River, where they went to in
vestigate reported violations of the
state fish laws. 1 '
They arrested Roy Butterfleld and N.
Hanula, on acharge of obstructing the
stream with their fish nets. They were
caught with the set-nets extended al
most across the river. They both
pleaded guilty and were each fined 050
and costs. Many of the fishermen had
their nets similarly set. but learning
of the presence of the deputies hastily
removed them and the officers were un
able to secure evidence for other con
victions. -'
They report an unprecedented run of
fish in the SUetz River. Great com
plaint Is made of the practice of fish
ermen setting their nets so as to ob
struct the passage of fish to the
spawning grounds.
COINS MADEJN PRISON
Ekyptian Officials Trace ' Silver
Counterfeits to Convicts.
CAIRO. Sept. 2-. Officials have fin
ally traced the silver counterfeits which
have been in circulation to the Tourah
Prison, where they were made by sev
eral convicts.
One of the convicts was found in pos
session of an 1 ingenious instrument,
made to coin five piastre pieces, and a
quantity of silver bullion.
The prisoner confessed and impli
cated a fellow convict. . '
An Investigation has been ordered,
as the authorities believe that several
prisoners and minor officials of the
prison were concerned in the plot.
MAID OF MJST ON ROCKS
Skillful Maneuvering Saves Vessel
Xear Niagara Cataract. '
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Sept. 21.
The Maid of the Mist, the little steam
er that for years has carried tourists
close to the tumbling waters of Ni
agara Falls, ran 'on the rocks today
a short distance below the cataract.
The situation was so grave that life
boats were made ready for launching
and the 20 passengers were equipped
with life-preservers. By skillful ma
neuvering, however, Captain Carter re
leased the steamer by its own power
and brought the passengers to the
landing.
AUTO ACCIDENTS ALARM
French Government Plans Stringent
Supervision Over Chauffeurs.
PARIS, Sept. 21. The alarming in
crease In the number of automobile
accidents has led the Minister of Pub
lic Works to urge the magistrate to
Inaugurate a more energetic prosecu
tion of violations of the laws govern
ing automobiles.
Ihe French government plans a
more elaborate examination for per
sons seeking drivers' licenses and the
revocation of licenses temporarily or
permanently in the case of serious or
repeated accidents.
THE WEEK.
British Public Being
Prepared for News.
EXACT TERMS NOT DECIDED
Russia and Great Britain to
Absorb Buffer State.
LIBERALS OPPOSE PLAN
Party Newspapers Intimate Plea of
Trade Interests Is Subterfuge
and Predict Increase of
Military Establishment.
LONDON. Sept. 21. The practical
division of Persia between Great Brit
ain and Russia appears assured as a
result of the conferences which Serlus
Sazanoff, the Russian foreign minister,
has bad with their statesmen.
All the newspapers, which sre in
closest touch, with the foreign office,
particularly the Times, looked upon
recently as Sir Edward Grey's mouth
piece, are forecasting this arrange
ment and apparently preparing the
public mind for it. The necessity of
preserving order In the Interests of
trade is the principal reason advanced.
Liberals Oppose Project.
The Manchester Guardian and other
Liberal papers oppose the project bit
terly. - The Guardian says:
"The foreign office, although"- not
ordinarily over-sollcltous about trade
Interests, knows well how to quota
them for its own ends. Since the sign,
ing of the Anglo-Russian convention
of 1907, for the maintenance of Per
sia's independence and integrity and
incidentally for the division of the
country Into British and Russian
spheres of influence, there has been a
steady growth of this Influence and a
corresponding shrinkage of Indepen
dence in Persia. The exact division of
territory will not be easy. Tho Rus
sian papers claim Teheran. If the Em
peror gets the capital, Great Britain's
share will be decidedly the smaller
value.
Increased Military Predicted.
Some of the Liberal papers bewail
the disappearance of Persia as the buf
fer state and foresee a great Increase
in the British military establishment
when the British-Russian boundary Ii
drawn across the middle of what is
now Persia.
Nowhere Is the outcome of the con
ference between Sir Edward Grey and
M. Sazanoff awaited with greater in
terest than in the capitals of the
Balkan States, and it Is believed they
have a vital bearing on the crisis in
the near East, the gravity of which,
unless the powers Induce Turkey to
introduce reforms In Macedonia Imme
diately, all are agreed upon. The rep
presentatlves in London of Bulgaria,
Servla, Greece and Montenegro are
watching closely the progress- of the
conversations which began In London
today and will be continued at Bal
moral Castle on Monday.
There is no confirmation here of the
reported alliance of the four Balkan
states to make common cause against
Turkey, but it Is acknowledged that a
reapproachment exists for their pro
tection. Most Capacious Cable Is Laid.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21. The
largest submarine cable, in point of ca
pacity, ever laid is being connected for
telephone business today between this
city and Oakland. It contains 153 pairs
of wires, weighs 1S4 tons and is 23,000
feet long. In diameter it measures
three and five-eighths inches'.