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t ftitt Sffittlamr Jill rMtftttm Pages 1 to 16 ! i nsjt yf y Y t t y v Vr v v jr zrrrrrrTTrr TTTTTv ct-xtth a- irnnTft. OtTTfVRFR 27. 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. " ' i JUDGE, JURY AND LAWYERS IN FEAR N OpenThreatsGrowOut of Becker Case. PROSECUTOR IS UNDER GUARD "Gunmen" Want Revenge on All Who Have Done Duty. CITY STREETS NOT SAFE w York Confronted With Critical Situation Since Conviction of Police Lieutenant for Mnr- der of Gambler. NEW YORK. Oct. 26. (Special.) An extraordinary situation for any civilized i .immunity has developed since Lieu tenant Becker was found guilty of mur der In the first degree. The men who did their duty the Judge of the court, the lawyers for both sides. Jurors and witnesses cannot walk the streets with a feeling of safety. Justice Golf was. threatened by letter and over his private telephone before the Jury returned a verdict. When he leaves his home his assistant secretary or an armed guard accompanies him. Detective -Gnarda Prosecutor. District Attorney Whitman Is com pelled by the Insistence of his staff to permit Detective Thomas to keep near him when be is not In his private office or in his home. -Helias received threats . that he will not live to prosecute an other case. ' John F. Mclntyre. chief counsel for Becker, makes no secret of bis belief that his life is in danger. Towards the close of the trial and while he was standing outside of the courtroom a gangman muttered in his ear that his comments about Jack Rose's wife would cost him his life. Mclntyre carries a revolver and Is ready to use it at any moment. Iaformers Are Threatened. Rose, Webber, Vallon and Schepps, the informers,' have received messages in the West Side court' that If they have any property to dispose of they might as well make their wills. These threats are supposed to emanate from friends of the gunmen, "Gyp the Blood," "Lefty Louie," "Dago Frank" and "Whltey" Lewis. The informers are chilled with fear. Shapiro, the . chauffeur, who turned against the gunmen and who announced today that he was ready to Identify them as. the murderers of Rosenthal, has told his lawyer, Aaron J. Levy, that he fears he will be shot or stabbed as soon as he is let out of prison. Shapiro has been threatened With death as a "squealer." ChanfTenr's Lawyer ! Dancer. Lawyer Levy la o longer safe be cause he advised Shapiro to testify against the gunmen when they come to trial. Levy receives venomous threats dally. . Friends of the Jurors who convicted Becker have been getting anonymous letters and telephone calls, some of which have been alarming. Justice Goff. District Attorney Whitman, At torney Mclntyre and others who dis like . sensationalism, have sought to minimize the facts that Indicate that men who hire out for assassination and assaults seek an opportunity to cap the Rosenthal case with a crime more atrocious even than the. killing of Rosenthal, but the facts are that vicious threats have been received and that precautions are being taken by the men threatened. "Legal butchery." is how Becker (Coocluded on Pace 2.) r h x speech o SHO-T rz . I I . i OREGON'S DRY FARM DISPLAY BEATS ALL TILLMAX RECTER TAKES FIRST PRIZES AT LETHBRIDGE. . State Receives Recognition for Fine Products at International Dry Farming Congress. LETHBRIDGE, Alta., Oct. 28. (Spe cial.) Oregon beats the world as a dry farming country according to awards given exhibits from that state at the International Dry Farming Con gress which closed here today. Tillman Reuter, of Madras, displayed what experts pronounce the finest dry ramimr nrnductA ever seen. He was awarded sweepstakes In the following classes: Best sheaf of barley, best Individual exhibit of all kinds of grain, best grasses and forage, best 90-day corn and largest potato. w. motived ' first prizes for six- rowed barley, best Spring rye, best three years' growth of airana ana sand vetch. This Is not the first time that Reut er has won a "world's series" In the dry farming field. He won similar nunc van At the congress in Spokane In 1910 and again at Colorado Springs last year. Mr. Reuter has been a res iiimt of Crook County six years. He went there as a homesteader and Im mediately saw the posslDiuues oi i" volcanic soil as a producer. "T am nrouder of my accomplish ment this year than ever before," ho said today, "because l nave ub.ck.cu Canada clear off the boards." MAN TO WED AGAIN AT 82 Sister of First Wife to Be Bride, Af ter Divorce From No. 2. t no iv-rsT.KS. Oct. 26. (Special.) Robert Allen, of Pomona, a wealthy man known widely throughout South rn f-nfnmia because of business and other interests, obtained a marriage li cense today for hlmseu ana Mrs. Damn Ashcroft, of this city. Allen Is 82 years old, but active as a boy. He was di- innr ntrn from his second wife, and the third bride to be is his sister-in-law. She Is not many years younger than he. They were childhood friends and school mates in uwuj- shire. England. She was the sister of Allen's first wife, who died shortly aftep they came to America. Meantime Mrs. Asberoft was married, but was bereft of her hus i anj nftw thtt twti Tit met Asraln UOllu, . LI . " . ..... and decided to form a life tie. The mar riage is to take place tomorrow. NEW COAST SHIPS ORDERED Fleet of Liners to Run Between At lantic and Pacific Philadelphia!- Pa, Oct. 26. (Special.) A fourth contract for con struction of a fleet of liners for Grace Jb Company of New York, own ers of the Atlantic & Pacific Steam ship Company,, has been received by William Cramp Sons, ship and en gine building company. One vessel of the fleet will be launched probably on KTnvamhei- 6. while the other three will follow undoubtedly before the end of 1913. The vessels, of 10,000 tons capacity, are to be used in the Atlantic and Pacific Coast passenger and freight trade and until the opening of the Panama Canal will make regular trips around the Horn. FATHER AND SON TO MEET The Dalles Lumberman Parted for 36 Years From Boy. GRAFTON, Ill..Oct. 26. (Special.) Parted 36 years ago, when his wife took their year-old son and moved to an other section of the state, John Griffin, 63 years old, now a prosperous lumber man of The Dalles, Or, will see his son for the first time In more than a third of a century tomorrow, when he reaches the latter's home near this place. The reunion will be the culmination of a search extending over virtually the entire 36 years. The son, Wesley Griffin, !s now married and a well-to-do farmer. CARTOONIST REYNOLDS PRESENTS SOME PEN V i ALLIES RAPIDLY CLOSING Oil TURKS Servians Walk Into 'Uskup Unopposed. ADRIANOPLE IS INVESTED Military Men Think Fortress Cannot Last Month. OTTOMANS RETIRE SOUTH Abandonment of Strong Position Surprises Experts All Europe Amazed by Swiftness of Balkan Armies. LONDON, Oct. 26. The swiftness and efficiency of the onward move ment of the armies of the allied Bal kan states is making Europe open her eyes. From the north and all along the line from Greece on the south they are crowding back the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. The often predicted and long delayed "Say when the Turk will have his back against tne wall seems at hand. The two pivotal points of Turkey's defense on the north were Adrlanople and Uskup. The Bulgarian army In the East has defeated the Turks at Klrk-Kllisseh, whicn is the strongest outpost of Adrlanople, and appears to have almost .Invested . that fortress. Servians Walk Into Uskup. The Servian army In the West walked Into Uskup at 2 o'clock this afternoon without opposition. The Turkish garrison there withdrew on the railway toward Salonlkl. How far it Intends to retreat, and why, are questions. The only answer to the last question Is that the strength and supplies of the garrison did not Jus tify an attempt to make a stand. There Is no position between Uskup and Salonlkl better suited for a bat tle than the one abandoned. The strategy apparently is to fol low the line of the railway toward Salonlkl. . Adrlanople Betas; Surrounded. Events about Adrlanople are even more Important. The Bulgarians ap parently are proceeding successfully with the Investment of the fortress. The Turkish army which was defeated at Klrk-Kllisseh did not fall back upon Adrlanople, according to today's news, but took the road to the south, where it could connect with the rail way to Constantinople. Tne second Bulgarian army followed through the mountains, carrying on the fight all day In an endeavor to cut off Lue re treating forces. Garrison May Be Starved Out. The military authorities are asking how many men Turkey has in Adrlan ople and how long they will be able to withstand a siege. There is a gen eral belief that if the Bulgarian In vestment is completed and railway communication with Constantinople cut the Turks will be starved out within a month. In the meantime the Montenegrins are pushing their attack on Scutari. The Greeks have entered a few small towns in the course ot their advance to the north. The fact that Turkey apparently was taken by surprise and that her most Important outposts gave way, does not mean that the allies can push back In definitely the Turkish soldiers, who have a long record for bravery. The Turkish mobilization is only under way. She claims to be able to mass 400,000 men outside of Constantinople, whereas the allies have practically their full (Concluded on Page 2.) TT-rrypx. vikm ' file fi ! Jr ' zJZwwrr- a S Aac nJM yWy , & . u m THE W. CXU. CONVENTION TAFT- INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS 1 The -Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, M degrees; minimum, 44 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional light rain. Variable winds, becoming- southerly. Foreign. Injury to Knaslan .Crown Print causes deep feeling in Russia. Section 1. page 1. Balkan allies driving Turks' to wall. ' Sec tion t, page 1. KationaL President on last lap of Journsy to Wash ington, vacation being over. Section 3. page 2. . Bsveridge testifies he returned Parkins' and other contributions. Section 1, page Republican campaign contributions are shown in statement. Section 1, page 2. - - Politics. Republican Chairman Mo ores' answers fraud cry of Mr. Ackerson. Section 1, page 15. Pre-election forecast in Washington shows Republicans likely to maintain rule.VSec- tion 1, page 8. Governor Marshall scores '"plum pickers at National capital. Section 1, page 8. Harmon roeaka for Wilson; calls Roosevelt greedy 'and brutal. Section 1, page 6. Judge Lowell appeals to young voters. Sec tion 1, page 5. Wlckersham scores third party. Section 1, page 4. McCusker Is advanced by petition as candi date for Congress. Section 1. page 4. Bull Moosa Senate aspirant exposes Bourne's attempt to straddle fence. Section 1,- page 10. Editors throughout state reflect sentiment against Bourne. Section 1, page 10. Governor Marshall says wife Is good politi cian. Section 1, page 1. Hodge denies wife took in washing. Section 1, page 8. Domestic. Mrs. Clark-Tanner wins restricted custody of her baby son. Section 1, page 8. Judge, Jury, lawyers and witnesses in Becker case threatened with death. Sec tion 1. page 1. Explosives taken from' bridge workers' vault In Indianapolis identified. Section 1, page 5. Colonel Roosevelt walks In open and finds strength Is not regained. Section 1, page $. Chicago "Bull Moosette" organization ousts memter. Section 1, page 6. Reverend Thurston V. Vaughan, of Green ville. S. C. sentenced to electric chair. Section 1. page 2. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont clashes with milli ner. Section 1, page 3. Sports. Const League scores: Portland 6-0, Vernon 4-8: Oakland 10-2. Los Angeles 0-0; San Francisco 7-0, Sacramento 5-7. Section 2, page 2. North Central High, of Spokane, defeats . Lincoln High, of Portland, 20 to 6. Sec tion 2, page 3. Pullman defeats Oregon, T to 0. Section 2, page 3. Princeton beats Dartmouth, 22 to T. Seo- tlon 2, page 5. Minnesota defeats Iowa, GS to 7. Section 2 page 3. Portland may cost Vernon pennant. Sec tion 2, page 3. Washington wins from Idaho, 24-0. Sec tion 2. page 3. Government and State plant 7,247.546 fish fry in Oregon lakes and streams in one season. Section 1, page 12. Seven events on card for Multnomah Club smoker. Section 2, page 4. Portland swimmers confident of taking amateur championship events. Section 2, page 2. - -Pacific Northwest. Century mark ts reached by Captain Blake, ley, of Brownsville. Section 1, page 8. President Strahorn guest at Albany banquet. Section 1. page 8. Portland wife wins estate of George F. Vance from Tacoma fiancee. Section 1. page T. Governor Weet gives out details of his pro posed economy programme Section 2, page 17. Oregon dry farm exhibit at Lethbrldge. Can ada, takes first prize. Section 1. page 1. Commercial and Marine. Feed, barley and oats standards fixed by Chamber of Commerce committee. Sec tion 2. page 20. Wheat buying at Chicago on fears of clos ing of Dardanelles. Section 2, page 20. Earlier losses are recovered in stronger stock market. Section 2. page 20. New York banks offset loss of cash b reducing loans. Section 2, page 20. Big cargo leaves Portland for Orient. Sec tion 2, page 7. Portland and llclnlty. Transportation Club formally opens quar ters in Multnomah Hotel. Section 1, page 14. Armstrong Townsite Company affairs to be investigated. Section 1. page 12. Manufacturers will meet during Land Products Show. Section 1. page 13. Volunteer explains canse of and remedy for tuberculosis. Section 1, page 12. Professor Hornaday's deposition read In chimpanzee damage suit. Section 1, page 11. Railroads deny Information regarding pro hibitive Harrlman move. Section 2, page 18. Women police workers form organization with Mrs. Baldwin at head. Section 1, page 11. Reign of high prices for eggs to end soon. Section 4. page 12. Utah college to send blooded stock to dairy show here. Section 4, page 12. Child welfare convention to meet here this week. Section 1, page 13. Farewell dinner to be given for D. O. I4vel. Section 1. page 14. Rose Festival for 1813 will be June 8-14. Section 3, page 7. Calvin Helllg and M. C Dickinson after Seventb-street franchise. Section 1, pare 11. - "Made-ln-Oregon" movement grows. Sec tion 4. page 10. AND INK COMMENTS . jrC BASr- PRINCELY PRANK STARTLES Nation Disturbed by Injury to Alexis. BRUISES CAUSED BY FALL People" Incensed Because of Secrecy Observed. BULLETINS CAUSE ALARM Preservation of Life Is Vital to Romanoffs, Since Male Line of . Succession Has Been Other- wise Disturbed. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 26. The latest reporta from Spala give assur ance of the recovery of Crown Prince Alexis. - Apart from the meager de tails of the doctors' bulletins, not a single fact has been allowed to ap pear In the Russian newspapers re garding the illness of the heir to the throne, and the whole nation is deeply incensed. The secrecy has brought a crop of rumors. The facts are that 11 days ago a childish prank moved the little Prince to climb a high cupboard in the hunt ing lodge at Spala, where the imperial family was sojourning. He slipped and fell, striking a sharp corner of a chair and sustaining numerous bruises. Doctors Startle Nation. The frightened attendants tried to make light of the accident and the Prince bore the sharp pain without flinching. The two physicians who are always in attendance on the Prince re ported, he had sustained severe injuries in the region of the liver. A panic prevailed but no hint of the truth was permitted to become known until his condition became critical, when the country was startled by the physicians- bulletins. According to the law of the house of the Romanoffs, the succession de volves on the males. Only when the male line Is exhausted can the females succeed to the throne. Brother Wants Forfeited. The Emperor's sole surviving brother. Grand Duke Michael, eloped and con tracted a morganatic marriage with the wife of a brother officer In 1910, there by forfeiting the rights of succession. The next heir, Grand Duke Cyril, the handsome young sailor son of the late Grand Duke Vladimir, married the di vorced wife of the Grand Duke of Hesse, thus incurring the displeasure of the Imperial family and the Hesse family. For the welfare of Russia and the Romanoffs, the preservation of the life of Crown Prince Alexis Is of para mount Importance. He Is a lively child and is watched over day and night by an old nurse and the sailor Serevenko, but he has repeatedly caused conster nation by giving them the slip. Last Winter the whole garrison waa scour ing the palace for several hours while the Prince remained hidden in a big chevaz. The official bulletin issued tonight says the Crown Prince .again passed a quiet day. His temperature was iuu. i; pulse 128. Cottage Grove Woman Is Hurt. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Oct. 26. (Special.) Mrs. Lee Roy Woods re turned this morning from Portland suffering from painful injuries received by a fall on the stone steps oi me White Temple, where she was attend ing the Women's Christian Temperance Union convention. One eye is comple tely closed, one wrist is badly wrenched and she Is bruised all over. She had intended remaining to attend the Mothers' Congress, but her injur ies necessitated her return home. ON THE NEWS EVENTS w RUSSIA A MRS. MARSHALL IS CLEVER POLITICIAN VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PAYS TRIBUTE TO WIFE. On Campaigning Tour Governor's Helpmate Travels "Light." En thusiasm of West Appeals. SPOKANE, Wash., Oct- 28. (Spe cial.) "She's a better politician- than I am." Thus Governor Thomas R. Marshall introduced his wife today at the Hotel Spokane. "Like campaigning? I should say she does," he continued. "Her taking this trip Is nothing unusual; she always campaigns with me. We've been mar ried 17 years now, and never been apart a day." "Tea." Mrs. Marshall assented, smil ing. "I like campaigning, and I must say I like a National campaign better than a state campaign. It is longer between stops, and longer stops, too. "And I like the West. The people seem so enthusiastic. We have had bumper meetings at Portland and Se attle." Governor Marshall has contracted an annoying cough that bothered him this morning. Inspired by the atmosphere of a state where women vote, Mrs. Marshall made her maiden BPeech at a meeting of the Democratic women of the city, who entertained her at the Hotel Spokane this afternoon. Proving that she Is an experienced campaigner, the wife of the Democratic candidate for Vice-President of the United States travels "light." She has only one suit with her and today she spent all morning in her room while the tailor was engaged in pressing the gar- A .Irail nnA for A t)hOtO. She explained the difficulty. "Oh, my, no," she laughed merruy. "Not for two hours. I haven't got an other dress with me. Come around later, and if I must, I will face the camera." ' PENSION CLAIMS ALLOWED Representative Hawley's Efforts Benefit Oregon Veterans. SALEM, Or., Oct 26. (Special.) Of ficial notices have been received from the Commissioner of Pensions by Rep resentative Hawley that the following claims have been allowed in this dis trict: Abraham R. Whiteman. . William Miles, Luman Burton, Edward L. Briggs and William H. Simpson, Sa lem; Charles R. Barnhart. Riddle; Amos Beach, Woodburn; ohn B. Bales, Dorena. Representative Hawley a few weeks' ago asked the commissioner to take up applications under the pension act of 1912. These applications were filed by Mr. Hawley's constituents, who are veterans of the Mexican and Civil wars. The "veterans whose claims were al lowed received a substantial increase in their pensions. It Is hoped by Mr. Hawley that by December the majority of the large list of claims which he has filed will be allowed. Many of these claims would not have been al lowed until April or May if they had been taken up in their regular order, but through tne intercession of Mr. Hawley the Commissioner of Pensions has taken early action. GERMANY WILL BE AT FAIR Exhibit to Be Sent Probably, Al though Feeling Is Xot Keen. BERLIN, Oct. 26. (Special.) It Is expected that the German government will soon announce Its decision to par ticipate In the Panama-Pacific Exposi tion at San Francisco In 1915. The ap pointment, of a permanent exposition commission is not favored, but it was virtually decided during the visit here of Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador at Washington, that Ger many for political and commercial reasons could not afford to hold aloof from participation In the big show. There is a lukewarm feeling in big Industrial and manufacturing circles, however,- and up to the present. It has been only through much effort and urging that they have been In duced to promise to send exhibits. OF THE PAST WEEK BEVERIDGE TELLS OF RETURNING GASH Sending of Letters Is Duly. Witnessed. PERKINS REPLIES BY WIRE Honest Man is Noblest Work of God, His Acknowledgment. COUSIN'S CHECK REFUNDED Ex-Senator Disclaims Knowledge of $260,000 Declared by Fomerene to Have Been Furnished to Finance Newspaper. WASHINGTON, Oct 16. After hear, lng ex-Senator Beverldge tell of re turning $57,600 sent to him for cam paign use In 1904, the Senate cam paign contributions committee ad journed today indefinitely. Chairman Clapp believes the committee will hold no mora meetings until after election. Since September 80 the committee had been in almost continuous session, with Senators Clapp, Oliver. Pavnter and Pomerene conducting the examination of witnesses. J. P. Morgan, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Charles P. Taft, George W. Perkins and a score of other witnesses have testified. Campaign Funds Accounted For. The Democratlo and Republican cam paign funds of 1904 and 1908 have been reviewed and the committee secured what purported to be a list of the con tributors to the 82.000,000 fund spent by the Republicans In 1904. In addition the managers of the campaign of Presi dent Taft, Colonel Roosevelt, Judson Harmon, Woodrow Wilson, Champ Clark and Oscar W. Underwood ac counted for the funds expended in the. fight for the Republican and Demo cratic nominations this year. The committee has placed In the record the voluminous correspondence of John D. Archbold, of the Standard Oil Company, with various men In public life, particularly with members of the House and Senate. The private correspondence between the late E. II. Harrlman and ex-President Roosevelt, during his administration, was also placed in the record. State Funds Next In Order. While the general amounts of the various funds have been given to the committee, no detail of the amounts contributed and expended in the various states has been elicited, and it Is ex pected the committee will take up this line of Investigation after election. Senator Beverldge testified today that he received one draft of 810,000 and two certificates of deposit for 810,000 each from Perkins, but could not remember whether the three remit tances were sent together or separate ly. Beverldge said he returned all of the irioney on the day after election. He produced letters to both George W. Perkins and E. L. McLean returning the money. Each was witnessed and signed by L. G. Rothschild, John F. Hayes, Lars Whltcomb and Thomas R. Shlpp. The Indorsement on each letter certified that the witness had seen the money Inclosed In the letters and seen the latter sealed and sent. Beverldge said no other funds were furnished to him by Perkins. Financing of Newsjpaper Denied. "Did he give you any money to finance the Indianapolis StarT" asked Senator Pomerene. "Sir!" exclaimed the witness, leaning forward In surprise. Pomerene repeated the question. "No, I know absolutely nothing of Concludd on Page e. ) i I THAT CAN CAY. THE LEFVAtirS J.0O