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THE- SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 13, 1913. .OPIUM CATCH MAY BREAK UP TRAFFIC Federal Authorities Believe Ah Hong Soon Worst Offender in City. SEVERE SENTENCE LIKELY Chineso Merchant Liable to Flue and Prison . Sentence Young Son Caught Delivering Drug Is Xot Blamed for Act. Th local Federal authorities re lieve that they have broken up the main Portland distribution depot for contraband opium in the conviction yesterday in , United States Circuit Court on a charge of having: opium in his possession and. of selling the same, of Ah Hong Soon, a Chinese merchant with a. store at 83 North Fourth street. Ah Soon now faces a possible sentence at McNeil Island of two years or a fine of $6000, or both. The fine may be as small as $50, but as this is Ah Hong- Boon's third ap pearance in United States District Court for virtually the same offense, it is not anticipated that he will es cape with a fine. In fact, his attor ney offered to compromise with Deputy District Attorney Johnson and have the Chinese plead guilty and pay a small fine. The offer was turned down, as Johnson felt that to extend leniency to Ah Hong Soon would be simply to encourage him in a traffic at which he is known to be a persist ent offender. Ah Hoag Pays Finn, Two indictments were brought against Ah Hong June 28, 1912. The cases came up In September and the Chinese pleaded guilty and was fined $100 in each Instance. When his place was raided last June a case of 17 6 tael cans of opium was found con cealed between the floor of an upper chamber and the celling of the room below. Ah Hong Soon' place has long been notorious as a supply store for opium users, and when he was arrested March 15, following a raid by Deputy Collect or of Customs H. F. MccJrath, a quan tity of pipes, lamps and other para phernalia were taken. Many empty opium cans were found. To enter the place it was necessary to batter down two heavy doors. Ah Hong Soon had done his best to dis pose of damaging evidence. As Dep uty McOrath entered an upstairs room he noticed that a plant sitting In an open window was agitated, although there was no breeze. From the plant a small bag was suspended by a string. It contained a small quantity of opium, and had been dropped out of the win dow just before the entrance of the of ficers. Jurors Visit Opium Den. Near the conclusion of the trial Fri day afternoon Judge Bean, on the sug gestion of Deputy District Attorney Johnson, consented to have the jury go down to the store at 83 North Fourth street and , view the premises. Tim jurors were trailed up and down stairs and into blind closets, shown Cal.se par titions, trap doors, cubby-holes and other manifestations of the "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain" of a successful retailer of opium. Th.y gained an Idea of the extent ol the business from a sight of between CO and 75 pounds of copper, melted down from empty opium cans. One of the witnesses against Ah Hong Soon at the trial was a negro, who tes tified to having bought - opium tiiat came from the Chinese store at 8.1 North Fourth street, and it is said that many negroes, as well as Chinese and whites, have been regular patrons of the place. It Is said that Ah Hong Soon told another Chinese that his busino-.s netted him $1000 in the month of Jan uary last. It was from Ah Hong Boon's piace that a white girl was taken by the police less than 10 days ago under circumstances that left but little doubt that she was there to smoke opium. Son I nert as Delivery Boy. Ah Hong Soon has a family, includ ing a son, L,ee Hong Soon, 16 years old. The boy is under indictment for hav ing had opium in his possession, an-1 his casB is something of a puzzle to the Federal authorities. He was ar rested when riding his bicycle away from his father's store, and eight pack ages of opium were found on his per son. The authorities believe that he had been used by his father to make deliv eries of opium to all parts of the city. The District Attorney's office feois that "the younger Soon is not to !jc blamed for the par he took in h'3 father's business. Lee Hong Soon is described as a bright boy. He attends the public schools, speaks English as well as his schoolmates and is regard ed as a youth of promise, if he is di rected In the right way. NHls case has not yet been set for trial. Ah Hong Soon was released yester day on $2000 bail to appear next Fri day for sentence. His ball was fur nished by Lee "Wing, who qualified as a bondsman with a property valuation of $10,000, and Lee Sing Sew. with $20. 000. BANK BADLY CONDUCTED Controller Says Pittsburg Depository "Grossly Mismanaged." WASHINGTON, July 12. "The report of special examiners as to indications or criminal violations of law found in the closed First-Second National Bank of Pittsburg is now in the course of preparation by examiners and will be referred to the Department of Justice as soon as completed," said Thomas P, Kane, acting Controller of the Cur rency, today. Mr. Kane added that there was no doubt that the bank had oeen "grossly mismanaged. Lawrence O. Murray, former Con troller of the Currency, who approved tne merger or the' First a.hd Second banks, -today Issued a statement de nyiris mat any national bank exam. iner had ever reported to him that the First National's capital before the mer ger was impaired. . ' Bankers' President Is Dead. NEW YORK. July 12. Charles Henry Hutting, president of the American Bankers' Association and of the Third National Bank of St. Louis, died today at his Summer home in the Adlron dacks. according to word received here tonight by Frederick E. Farnsworth, secretary . of the American Bankers' Association. Roseburg Oddrellows Buy Site. ROSE BURG, Or.. July 12. (Special.) With a view of erecting a modern lodge home, the local order of Oddfel lows today purchased a small tract of land adjoining their present structure on Jackson street. It is the intention of the lodge to remodel and enlarge their present quarters in order td ac cwmmodato the Increasing menbership. PHOTOGRAPHERS FIND NEW FIELD IN WATER . . . - Submarine Experiment With Camera Successful and Motion Pictures of : Sea Life Possible. i I Crr -; - . -V -' J A m s ' , n - C -w" s U cs M . m, li i il i in li I r i I NEW YORK, July 12. (Special.) Some experiments in submarine pho tography were made recently at Hamp ton Roads -with the Williamson sub marine tube.' This tube- is a well, six feet square, which is sunk In the water through the bottom of a ' barge. To take the underwater pictures, a funnel shaped attachment six feet long, with a two-foot heavy glass port at the large outer end, was bolted .to the work chamber. This gave an open space be tween the lens of the -camera and the area of focus. ' This specially fitted work chamber, attached to sections of the submarine tube, was lowered into the water, and a reflector with a cluster of electric ltghts giving 1000 candlepower was lowered from the deck of, the barge in a position to light the area about the BOOSTERS TO V.SIT CITY CHAMBER OF COMJIEKCE TO EX. TERTAIX VISITORS. Automobile and River Trips Planned for Touring Party to Reach . Portland July IB. . Preparations are being made by the Portland Chamber of Commerce for the reception and entertainment of the di rectors of the National Chamber of Commerce, who are touring the United States and who will arrive- in Portland from San Francisco on . Wednesday, July 16. A .committee from the Portland Chamber will meet the visitors at the station and escort them about the city. Part of the programme includes a din ner at the Commercial .Club at 6 o'clock in the evenin. Thursday morning an automobile trip about the city and the suburbs and luncheon at the Commer cial Club will be followed by a short conference between the visitors and the members of the board ot directors of the Portland Chamber.: In- the aft ernoon there will be a trip on the river and in the evening a dinner will be port through which the pictures were to be taken. The lights were then low ered, and section after section of the tube was added till the work chamber was 30 feet down. The operator, equipped with an ordl nary camera, was lowered to the work chamber through the tube, the lights were turned, up and the photographs were taken. The experiment made a different depths showed that depth made no difference when electric lights were used to illuminate the water. Day light tests were made also, and it was found that at depths of 10 to 15 feet photographs of fish and other objects could be made with exposures of one tenth to seventy-five hundredths of second with natural light. It is ex pected to get moving pictures with the aid of this machine in the clearer wat ers of the tropics. held either at the Commercial Club or at the Arlington Club. The visitors will leave Portland for the Sound cities at 11:15 Thursday night. ' A. H. Averill and J. N. Teal, both of whom are members of the National board, have gone to San Francisco ad will accompany the party to Portland. In San Francisco a hearing of the lum ber boycott case will be held. Members of the board of directors of the National Chamber of Commerce are: J. H. Fahey. of Boston, Mass.; H. E. Miles, of Racine, Wis.,: H. A. Wheeler, of Chicago; A. B. Farquhar, of York, Fa.; J. N. Teal, of Portland, Or.; J. G. Cutler, of Rochester, N. Y.; R. G. Rhett, of Charleston, S. C; E. H. Good win, of Washington, D. C; H. H. John son, of Cleveland, O.; T. L. L. Temple, of Texarkana, Ark.; A. H. Averill, president of the Portland Chamber of Commerce; J. W. Philip, of Dallas, Texas, and Paul T. Carroll, of San Francisco. Cal. Grand Ronde Complains of Indians. WASHINGTON, July' 1 Senator Chamberlain has filed with Secretary Lane a petition from the citizens of Grand Ronde, asking more adequate protection from the Indians than is' af forded by tho administration of the present superintendent of the Grand Ronde reservation. They assert too many Indians get drunk and disorderly for the' comfort and peace of the whites in their vicinity. CLAir.1 PUT IN FOR STRATTON mlLLIOHS Woman Who Says She Is Widow Sues for $4,000,000. WEDDING IN 1874 TOLD OF Colorado Millionaire Mining Man IVho Left Fortune for Charity Said to Have Deserted Wife 38 Year? Ago. DENVER. July 12. Mrs. Michael Kennedy, of Leadville, Col., filed a suit today in the District Court of Denver County against the trustees of the W. Stratton estate, the Myron Sratton home and the International Trust Com pany, in which she alleges that she is the widow of the late W. S. Stratton, millionaire mining man. who died in 1903, leaving his esate of 18,000,000 to the State of Colorado tor a: home for Indigent miners of the state. Stratton was believed , to be a widower at his death. The home has not been built. Half of Fortune Demanded. Mrs. Kennedy demands one-half of the Stratton estate, and that the trustees proceed to the erection and maintenance of the Myron Stratton home, as provided by the Stratton will with the other half of the estate. As a part of the complaint is a specifica tion of the property ' said to be owned by the Stratton estate in Denver, in cluding the Brown Palace Hotel, the First National Bank building, the Cor- onado building " and other property amounting to a total value of between (3,000,000 and $4,000,000. The complaint alleges that the com plainant and Winfleld S. Stratton were married in St. Augustine, Tex., January 1874. According to the story of the attor ney for the alleged Mrs. Stratton. she was left a young widow by the death of her first husband when she was 23. Three years -later, according to the at torney, she met Stratton. who was then 26 years of age. In St. Augustine County. Texas, and they were married there in 1874. From there, the sory continues, -they went to Fort Worth, where two children, Francis and Scott, were born. Stratton Said to Have Left. In 1875. it is said, Stratton started for the North with $10,000 of his wife's money for the purpose of buying a cat tle ranch, and never returned. Believ ing that her husband was dead, accord, ing to the attorney's story, she mar ried again, and in 1886 she came with her husband, Michael Kennedy, to Lead ville, where Kennedy died. In 1890 she heard some miners at dinner talking about Stratton and his Independence mine, and as a result of this conversation, the lawyers says, she went to Cripple Creek and found her husband. She upbraided him, the story continues, and he promised to make a settlement of $10,000 with interest, and from time to time gave her a few hun dred .dollars, but did nothing toward making the settlement and did not men tion her In his will. . The attorney says the . alleged Mrs. Stratton has three living witnesses with a personal knowledge of her marriage and who will testify that they talked with Stratton and that he acknowledged his marriage with the present claim ant. SUICIDE TESTS WEAPONS PACKER MAKES CERTAIN PIS TOL WILL NOT FAIL. Family Troubles Cause Tragic Act of Chicagoant of 60, Whose Business Was Prospering. CHICAGO, July 12 Kohauth H. Bell, formerly general manager of the Ham mond Packing Company, killed himself with a revolver here today after spend ing the morning in visits to banking houses where he methodically settled his affairs. He was 60 years old. His last act before the fatal shot was to fire a test shot from his revolver be fore' placing it to his temple. The act was witnessed by half-a dozen boys playing on the prairie south of the city. Mr. Bell had caused his chauffeur to drive him to the end of a boulevard. "Wait here while I go for a stroll, he said. He .walked a few hundred yards out on the prairie and was seen by the boys to stand a few moments as if in thought.. Then he took out his revolver and . after examining it, fired a shot into the ground. His next and last act was to shoot himself in the temple. Death was instantaneous. Mr. Bell -was wealtny and his busi ness affairs were in prosperous condi tion. His wife, however, was suing him for separate maintenance as a re sult of family troubles extending over several years. WAVES DELAY PERRY'S SHIP Xaval Officer Refuses to Risk Re built Vessel in Gale. ERIE, Pa.. July 3 2. The wind on Lake Erie kicked up such a sea to day that Captain William I Morrison, commanding the naval training ship Wolverine, decided he would not trust the rebuilt Niagara, Commodore Per ry's flagship, to the waves tonight, and the little fleet did not leave Erie Harbor at sunset. Captain Morrison hopes to be able to tow the Niagara, convoyed by the naval training ship Essex, out of port to morrow. , WINDSOR CASTLE OPENED King Makes Order After Hearing Complaints of Tradespeople. . LONDON. July-12. (Special.) The tradespeople of Windsor have been complaining for some time of the seri ous losses they have been suffering since the state apartments were closed as a precaution against the militant suffragettes. The King has, therefore, issued in structions that the castle shall be re opened on Monday." Detectives will ac company all visitors to the palace. CHINESE STOKERS MUTINY Knives, Crowbars and Hatchbars Used as Weapons on Ship. !."" NEWPORT NEWS. Va.. July 12. Fourteen Chinamen, stokers and fire- men on the British Bteamer Norman Monarch, bound from New Orleans- to Hamburg, mutinied Thursday about ISO miles off this port and attacked tne ship's officers with knives, crowbars, hatchbars and other weapons. The chief engineer, third engineer and boatswain are lying near death as the result of the fight that . lollowed and the second mate and one Chinaman also are in a serious condition. Upon the arrival of the vessel in this port late today the Chinamen were placed under arrest by action of the Immigration authorities. They are be ing held under $7000 bond for deporta tion. . Enraged because one of their num ber was put In -irons, for some minor offense, the Chinamen attacked the third engineer. The noise of the uproar attracted the officers. Hurrying to the engine-room they were met by con certed attacks on the part of the China men. Knives, crowbars -and other weapons were used by the mutineers, the chief engineer and boatswain fall ing before their blows.. The officers were reinforced by sailors and over came the Chinamen. FOUR SALOONS CLOSED WASHINGTON" COUNTY RESORTS OBEY SHERIFF'S ORDER. Proprietors Will Make Application for License Under New Law. Raids Anticipated. HILLSBORO, Or., July 12. (Special.) Four Washington County saloons were closed today by Sheriff J. Reeves as a result of an opinion by Attorney- General Crawford, that saloons outside of incorporated cities, unoer the new law, must surrender their licenses to the County Court and proceed to take out new licenses in the manner pre scribed by statute. All four 'of the resorts immediately closed upon request by the Sheriff, and will conform to the statute as inter preted by the State Counsel. The four saloons involved are one at Timber, two at Banks,, the trio being on the Tillamook Railway between here and the coast: and one at North Plains, on the United Railways, six miles north of this city. It is understood that all four of these saloons will be' raided tonight under the direction of Attorney Baker, of the Anti-Saloon League. When the raiders arrive they will find all doors locked. There are hotels in all of these resorts. Each will apply to the County Court for the money for their unexpired li censes, and start new proceedings. All of these saloons have been conducted in hotels accommodating 50 guests. SUMMER SITE OFFERED JOHNSON WOULD HAVE TEM PORARY CAPITAL IN WEST. Washington Member of Congress ' Suggests Real Glaciers Instead of Artificial Refrigeration. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 12. Representative Johnson, of Washington, nas taken a hand in the Summer capital agitation. which has aroused this city this season more than in any previous year. The subject was first brougnt up this year by Representative Borland, of Missouri, who proposed a Summer capital in the Blue Ridge Mountains about 50 miles distant. The newspapers here took up the subject, 'discussing It pro and con, and at a dinner of Pacific Pioneers at Marshall Hall, Representative Johnson called attention to the desirability of maintaining a Summer capital in Para dise Valley, high on the slopes of Mount Rainier, in the State of Washington. Encouraged by the applause or nis audience, Mr. Johnson proposed a reso lution changing the official name of "Rainier" to "Mount Tacoma." - "Representative Borland says that a Summer capltol building can be erected of concrete and steel near Harper's Ferry, with two legislative chambers and the necessary committee rooms, for a limited amount of money, probably for 'as little as $250,000," said Johnson. "A great Summer capltol on Mount Tacoma can be built with giant fir logs which will-last 200 years, and which, if taken from the 12,000,000 acres of terri tory in our state now conserved by a benevolent and paternal Government, will not be missed any more than would four grains of wheat from the great fields of the Palouse. "With free timber, rough hewn, the United States can build a Summer cap ltol for one-half the sum the Missouri Congressman would spend for a house on the Blue Ridge. "Then, no longer will the chambers of the Senate and House have to be chilled with drafts blown across blocks of artificial ice, for in our Summer Cap itol we will be surrounded by glacial peaks of solid Ice, topped by the master peaks of the western world. "Above the din of oratory in , that Summer capitol above the Speaker's cry, "the House will be in order,' will gurgle the swift-running glacial streams that make the rivers of Western Washington the Puyallup, the Docewalllps, the Muckleshoot. the Humptulips, the Sky komish. the Nlsqually and the Stilll maguwamlbh." DIPLOMAT SEES BASEBALL Mailer' Recognizes That Brains Arc Required in Game. NEW YORK, July 12. The American game of baseball attracted the inter est of Dr. Laure S. Muller, the Brazil Ian Minister of Foreign Affairs, this afternoon. With Third Assistant Sec retary of State Dudley Field Malone, Raillegis Oliveira, Brazil's Minister to Cuba, and others, Dr. Muller attended the game between the New York and Cincinnati clubs League, occupying grounds. Dr. Muller said of the a box at National the polo he was -much im pressed with the sport and regarded the. game as "extremely hard to play." He observed that the brains as well as the strength of the players is required. It was the diplomat's first glimpse of professional baseball. LIVING COST STILL RISES Government Contracts Are Barora. eter of Trend of Prices. V WASHINGTON. July 12. The con tinued high cost of living is reflected in a report today to Sherman Allen, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, by the Government's general supply com mltee on the contracts it has let for supplies for the executive departments of Washington for the fiscal year, be ginning July 1. This barometer of trend of prices shows that the cosf of groceries and houshold supplies has increased 17 per cent as compared with last year; lum- Think of those times when you have yearned for a real home of your own when you have grown impatient with the barriers that have forced j'ou to exist in hot, noisy, ill-ventilated, cramped flats, offering no privacy! Don't you often get a longing to put on some old clothes and work around your own garden and lawn, and when you feel like it lie down on the grass and smoke your pipe and reflect that you have been fixing the place up for yourself and not your land lord f , Many of your friends have achieved this whom you know to be no more capable than you I It is merely a matter of developed opportunity. You pay rent, do you not ? Suppose you applied that same check towards this dainty little home in LAURELHURST ! It would not cost you but very little more, and at the end of a few years that pass very swiftly instead of being the owner of a pile of musty receipts, you would be the owner of this lovely house and lot in LAURELIIUEST, a district your wife and children will always be proud to claim as their home. We will give you the figures and you can prove to yourself that it can be done. Don't walk down and throw any more of your money into the river. Will you not let our home-selling department, having, its own auto service, show you TODAY how" you may reach out and grasp this opportunity? Call at Laurelhurst Co.'s office, 2702 Stark St., or see Clements & Delahunty at Tract Office, East Thirty-ninth and Glisan Streets. Listings of first-class homes desired. MEAD & Sales Agents for , The Addition with Character ber 10 per cent; fuel and ice 7 per cent, and drygoods 5 per cent. While these essentials are -soaring the report showed decreases in the prices of the following: Forage, flour and feed, 20 per cent; paint and oils, 12 per cent; hardware, 7 per cent, and furniture, stationery and electrical and engineering supplies, 6 per cent each. . CROWD GREETS T. R. IN BED Roosevelt Calls From Stateroom to Throhg at Station. WILLIAMS, Ariz., July 12. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by his sons, Archibald and Quentln, reached here late tonight on the way to the Grand Canyon of Colorado. 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