The Sunday Oregonian., March 01, 1914, Section One, Page 2, Image 2

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. 3IARCII 1, 1914.
SHERIFF
PROTEST OF ITALY
CLIQUE OF ENEMIES
Committee Members Inclined
Scandalous Story Framed by
to Stick to Plans to Push
Immigration Bill.
the Daily News Is Nipped.
Ex-Patrolman Held. '
STEAMER LINES BLAMED
WOMAN SAYS "MISTAKE"
8
SENATORS DISCO NT
CANAL'S GENIUS AND MEDAL TO BE PRESENTED TO HIM NEXT
WEEK
OIIS
f-WvJ
Intimations of Non-Participation In
San lanclsco Ynir and Re
fusal to Sign New Treaty
Xot Taken Seriously.
WASHINGTON". Fob. 28. Members of
the Senate Immigration Committee are
Inclined to ignore intimations that the
Italian government 'Kin not sipn a new
arbitration treaty with the United
States unless assured that the section
of the pending- Immigration bill pro
viding for the United States health in
spectors on immigrant ships, shall not
pply to Italian steamers and that the
proposed literacy test shall not Inter
fere with Italian immigration.
The committee similarly views the
assertion that Italy will not participate
in the Panama-Pacific Exposition If
immigration legislation is unsatisfac
tory. Notification reported to have been
jriven to the American Ambassador by
the Italian Foreign Office has not been
brought officially to the attention of
the immigration committee and discus
sion was informal.
Members to Follow Plans.
Members of the committee say, how
ever, that they see no reason to change
their plans and that the bill will be
pushed to final' consideration early
next week and reported to the Senate
without changing tho provisions for a
literacy test and for health inspectors.
Senators are inclined to attribute
Italian opposition to the influence of
steamship companies. They point out
that Italy is the only country that has
remonstrated, though it would be no
more affected than other countries,
and that no country is likely to be so
Interested In having Its citizens leave
as to oppose restrictions on immigra
tion by other countries.
Steamship C ompanies Interested.
Steamship companies, they believe,
are interested for two reasons.
Restric tions on immigration would
cut down receipts, and the duties of
the health inspectors aboard vessels
would be to observe and report viola
tions by the companies ot laws for the
protection and care of immigrant pas
nger9. Committee members believe that even
If they were disposed to favor Italy,
there is no way to frame a provision
for a literary test so aa to make an
exception of any country and that they
are not disposed to let the attitude of
one country change their position on
the entire question.
wiM J$ III
QUARTERLY TAXES IS PLAN
C'lsti'kantafi County Jlan lo Present
Such a Bill to Legislature.
OREGON CITY. Feb. 2S. tSpecial.)
Payment of taxes on the Installment
plan Is the scheme devised by Rep
resentative Schuebel, who expects to
introduce in the next legislature a bill
permitting property owners to pay 23
per cent of their taxes on the first
Monday in April. July and October and
the first day of January, making the
first payment In April. The bill pro
vides a penalty of 10 per cent and 12
per cent interest on taxes not paid on
tiie dates specified.
Mr. Schuebel says he tried to secure
the indorsement of the State Tax Com
mission to such a bill, but was unsuc
cessful. He is willing to add the 3 per
cent rebate feature, which was re
pealed by the last Legislature, to his
bill, if he finds there is any consider
able demand for it, but he personally,
is not inclined favorably towards it.
MODERN WOODMEN ELECT
Head Officers Indorsed and Chosen
for Another Term.
TjINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 23. Head Con
sul Talbot, of the Modern Woodmen of
America, in a statement tonight, made
the following assertion:
"The head office has received re
ports in sufficient detail from the 45
states comprising the jurisdiction of
the order to show that elections held in
February have resulted in an indorse
ment of the administration and indicate
the re-election of the present head of
ficers it the meeting to be held in To
ledo, O., in June.
"The head officers, several months
ago, agreed with the membership that
the rate Increase, question should be
left entirely with the membership with
out suggestions from any head officer
as to plan or rates."
Photos Co pyright by Underwood & Underwood.
COLOAEL GOETHALS, FROM HIS LATEST PORTRAIT OBVERSE AND RI3
v VERSE SIDE OF MEDAL OF HONOlt.
D
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WA
EUGENE TO GET OFFICE
Oregon Power Company Will Move
Headquarters From Portland.
EUGENE, Or Feb. 28. (Special.)
After the election of Attorney Richard
Shore Smith, of Eugene, as a director
in the Oregon Power Company and
secretary of the board of directors, the'
monthly meeting of the directors will
be held in Eugene, according to an
nouncement by A. Norman, vice-president
of the company. Hereafter there
will be enough directors here to' hold
meetings, without Elmer Dover, of Ta
coma, president of the board of direc
tors, or Frederick W. Stearns, of Chi
cago, coming.
Records of the company kept in
Portland will be moved to Eugene and
this place made the headquarters of the
H. M. Byllesby Company interests in
the Northwest.
Carloads of Poles Received.
EUGENE, Or., Feb. 28. (Special.)
Seven carloads of cedar poles for the
Western Union telegraph line along
the Willamette-Pacific Railroad from
Eugene to Coos Bay arrived in Eugene
this week and are being unloaded for
sorting. General Foreman Mendenball.
of Seattle, is directing the work, and
expects to have crews busy before the
middle of March preparing to set the
poles. Two carloads of line hardware,
crossarms, insulators, wire and creo
sote, were received several weeks ago.
Kugene Fund Meeting Set.
EUGENE. Or., Feb. 28. (Special.)
Subscribers to the Eugene promotion
fund for 1914 have been summoned to
meet at the Commercial Club on March
15 for the election of a board of gov
ernors for the coming year. Upon this
board will devolve the selection of the
promotion manager for the coming
year. So far, all the comment has been
for the retention of M. J. Duryea. pub
licity manager for the past two year.
Goethals to Have Warm For
mal Reception in New York.
PRESIDENT MAY ATTEND
Presentation Cnder Direction of
Civic Forum to Be Occasion of
Most Formal Gathering Since
Day of General Grant.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23. (Special.)
New York people will see the most
noteworthy gathering of public men
when Colonel Goethals is formally
welcomed on March 4 next, that has
been called together here since Gen
eral Grant returned home from 'his
famous trip around the world.
Colonel Goethals is to receive on
that day the Civic Forum's medal for
public service rendered. The ceremony
of the presentation will be conducted
at Carnegie Hall. It is expected that
President Wilson will attend and pre
sent the medal in person if he is able
to leave Washington at that time.
Should the President find it impossible
to be present, he will be represented
by Secretary of War Garrison, Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels and Secretary
of Commerce Red field. Among the
many other public men who have
signified intention of being present are
ex-President Taft Major-General Wood,
Colonel Townsley, Governor Glynn,
Mayor Mltchel. various other National,
state and city officials, and other
civic as well as church dignitaries.
Colonel Goethals docs not expect to
attend the ceremoines of opening the
Panama- Canal. His mission in the
United States is to confer at length
with President Wilson on matters of
canal administration and to appear be
fore the committee on appropriations
to appeal for more money to construct
fortifications and to find out when
the big guns for the defense of the
canal will be sent down.
DEWEY READY FOR WAR
(Continued From First Page.)
of the neutral commander's word. In
his letter Admiral von Diederlchs ac
cepts Admiral Dewey's disavowal of
the claim to the right of visiting neu
tral warships and accepts his preten
sion of a right to enter into commu
nication with ships coming into Ma
nila Bay.
This was to be done by signal, hail
ing or the exchange of visits, but not
by sending officers on board neutral
warships.
Admiral von. Diederlchs sent the
cruiser Kalserln Auguste to meet the
Cormorant, which was expected to
reach Manila, and to Inform her of the
situation.
Germans Cleared for Action.
The two vessels, according to a let
ter from a German petty officer, came
up the bay cleared for action, but the
Americans did not attempt to demand
their identification.
The relations between the German
and American Admirals were after
ward more friendly. Finally, July 81,
the text .of the German-American
agreement made in Washington,
reached him, according to which "the
names of German warships must be
communicated through diplomatic
channels before their arrival in the
blockaded harbor. Afterward it was
necessary to signal only the name of
the ship on passing the blockade.
In summing up the matter. Admiral
von Diederlchs says:
"Admiral Chichester expressed the
opinion that Admiral Dewey had been
made suspicious of the Germans by
outside influences namely Manila
go.ssip--but more or less malicious re
ports coming from the shore cannot
explain an incident like that described
by Flag Lieutenant von Hintze, which
is exceptional in the intercourse of
representatives of modern civilized na
tions. "I repeatedly asked myself how such
ugly misunderstandings could arise be
tween the openly well-intentioned Ad
miral Dewey, who was always trying
to moderate the rigors of the blockade
for those innocently suffering, and me,
who was always sincerely endeavoring
to meet all the wishes of the com
mander of the blockading fleet up to
the limit which the honor of the flag
sets. I can see only one explanation.
British Newspapers Blamed.
"The misguided public opinion of
Manila, repeatedly expressed with ex
aggeration, raised unjustifiable hope of
German assistance and thereby
awakened wide suspicion of Germany's
intentions.
"Many newspapers, particularly the
English ones on the East Chinese Coast,
devoted themselves zealously to nur
turing this suspicion.
"Admiral Dewey, with an insuffi
cient force, was confronted with the
double task of holding down a de
feated enemy and preventing the
rebels from attacking this ' enemy
without attracting their hostility.
Under the pressure of heavy responsi
bility, his mistrust grew to anxious
jealousy when by a chain of unfor
tunate events several German ships
under an officer of higher rank than
his own arrived in Manila.
"I regard it ae certain from later
press reports and other sources that
malicious trouble-makers fanned this
suspioion, and it was even related thai
Admiral Dewey had already worked
out a plan for the destruction of the
German ships."
THMS SISTERS SUING
OIL SHARES DECLARED ONLY POR
TION OP ICUMK.
Accounting by Trust Company of Hun
dreds of Thousands Indrr Will
of Father Disputed.
PITTSBURG. Feb. 28. Claiming that
several hundred thousand dollars'
worth of the securities of subsidiary
companies of the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey should be credited
to her as income and not as principal,
Mrs. Alice Thaw Whitney, sister of
Harry K. Thaw, filed suit in court here
today against the Fidelity Title &
Trust Company of Pittsburg.
Mrs. Whitney alleges that the trust
company, trustee for her under the
will of her father, accounted to her
for $866,540 In principal and $121,754
income, but of. this, she contends, the
value of 1497 shares of Standard Oil
subsidiaries should have been counted
as income.
She also takes exception to the ac
counting of 382 shares of stock of the
same companies issued as stock divi
dends which the trust company listed
as principal and as to $16,000 cash divi
dend of the Standard Oil Company,
also counted as principal.
Her sister, Mrs. -- Margaret Thaw
Carnegie, filed a similar action.
$650 PLAYERPIAN0S $395
1914 models, metal tubing, 8S notes;
$15 cash, $10 monthly. See Graves re
moval, adv., page 10, section 3. Adv.
Ethel Smith, About Keady to Make
Affidavit Accusing Sheriff, Meets
Him Without Knowing It and
Scheme Is roiled.
n'onlinued From Ftivt Paire.)
Dry wood, $5.60. Edlefsen. Adv.
you to Sheriff Word, so that you can
identify him," said the Sheriff.
With some hesitancy the woman
went into the office.
"I am Sheriff Word," he then said.
"Then it is all a mistake," declared
Miss Smith, "you're not the man I saw
at the Gooding at all."
Woman Breaks Down. -
Under his cross-questioning she de
nied and affirmed everything she had
said before, and finally, hopelessly
tangled in her own statements, walled:
Its all mixed up and I never
thought, when I told it to Mr. Fuller
last night, that it would come to this."
Then she endeavored to deny the
statement that Bhe had made coming
up the street, saying that she had not
intended to sign an affidavit with
out first verifying whether or not the
man she had teen at the Gooding was
the Sheriff, and finally ended back in
the same hopeless regrets that she had
ever talked to Fuller, or had ever
agreed to meet the editor of the News.
She finally insisted that there had
been a man at the Gooding frequently
who had been pointed out to her as
Sheriff Word.
"I had seen your pictures, but sup
posed that you had shaved off your
mustache." she said, "for this man was
smooth-shaven. Otherwise he looked
pretty much like you.
"He had a woman there and they said
that he was paying for her room, and
he came up there and visited her nearly
every night,"
. "Fictitious" License fr'lcures.
She mentioned the name of another
woman there who she said had a fic
titious marriage license that she used
in case of raids, and she declared that
the house was the "rottenest place she
had ever been in."
The woman mentioned was sent for
and came with her husbanu.
"I never pointed out anyone to Miss
Smith as Sheriff Word." said she, "for
I don't know him. There was a Deputy
Sheriff or some kind of an officer
brought a little woman there and left
her there for about a week. He used
to come up and see her, but he never
was with her except to take her out to
dinner and to be with her'ln the parlor
where the rest of us were."
Finally she divulged the name of the
man whom Miss Smith had fastened
her story of Sheriff Word upon. It was
Jim McCollough, deputy in the con
stable's office.
McCollough's Fmrr Radtr ' -1.
McCollough was asked to come down
and came down, radiating a fine Irish
fury.
"Sure I took the little girl there,"
he said, "because we were holding her
for a witness while we were trying to
catch her husband, who had brought
her up from California and deserted
her. I took her there and I watched
the place pretty close and it always
looked like a square, clean place to
me. Her husband not only deserted her,
but he was married to two other wom
en at the same time and he was wanted
for passing bad checks In California.
Here's his picture how the little girl
ever came to fall for such as him I
don't know.
"She didn't have any money and she
was heart-broken and it looked like
a good place to me to leave her, for
there were several married women
living there that sort of took her in
and made her forget her troubles. And
I paid for her room, because there
wasn't any money regularly available
to pay for it. Then I sent her down
to her sister in California, and there's
still a bill for her lodging at the Good
ing for the county to O. K., and If
they don't do it, it's up to Chauncey
Depew me, out of my millions to make
good on it, with no come back."
Hereupon Miss Smith launched into
more declarations. She identified Mr.
McCollough as the man whom she had
seen at the Gooding and had thought
was Sheriff Word. She now declared
that so far as she knew, his conduct
toward the woman he was taking care
of was exemplary, but that she had
"heard others say things about them."
Fuller Tries to Blame Woman
Miss Smith made a few ineffectual
efforts to shield him, and he at first
attempt"-", to disclaim any knowledge
of the matter.
Then he began an attempt to place
the blame upon Miss Smith.
Grudgingly he allowed the Sheriff to
wring admission after admission from
him. At ffrst he insis'ed that he had
no motive in carrying the story to the
News. Then he said that his motive was
not clear to him.
He admitted, however, at last that he
had heard the story from her on the
night previous and that he had carried
it to the News.
For half an hour he sat sullenly an
swering reluctantly anil in monosylla
bles, while Sheriff Word scorched him
with the bitterest words he could com
mand, the lightest of which were "liar"
and "cur." He showed no anger at the
bitterest invectives that were heaped
unon him. but sat sullenly drumming
with his finger, shifting his eyes and
answering shortly and reluctantly at
times, tne questions ino.b weie aoncu
him.
. Fuller Is Blamed.
Further pressed she became uncer
tain as tp whether anyone had told
her anything as to any unbecoming be
havior on the part of the deputy con
tahlB Then she went clear back to
the beginning of the whole affair and
insisted that it was a miserable mis
take on the part of Mr. Fuller."
"I didn't think when I tola' it to him
last night that he would come down
and go blundering an over town me
wav he did." she said tearfully.
Roy Gooding, proprietor of the Good
ing Hotel and several others brought
in, further witnessed that the Smith
woman's story had slight origin save in
her own imagination and talkative
ness. Deputy McCollough, on whom
Miss Smith had loaded the precarious
role of Sheriff Word's double, was
vindicated as completely from all the
charges she had made, as she had in
sisted earlier in the day, when she
thought ha was Sheriff Word, upon his
deep moral turpitude.
After an all-day search Sheriff
Word's deputies finally found Fuller
and in the evening he was confronted
with the woman in the Sheriffs office.
In reply at last to the reiterated
question as to what his motives had
been in taking the story to the News
and in trying to arrange for Miss
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Smith to give affidavit to it, he said
that he was a friend of Dana Sleeth
and that he hoped "to secure a Job"
by doing this.
"Perhaps I thought that the story
was true " he began finally, when the
question of his motive was reiterated.
Sheriff Shakes Fuller.
At this the Sheriff sprang at him in
fury, seized him by the throat and
shook him like a rag.
"You knew it was a lie when you
took it to the News, you cur," he cried.
"You know that a man cannot be in
office and do the things that I have
done, without walking a straight line.
If I hadn't walked a straight line all
this time your crowd would have got
me long ago, and the only reason they
haven't done it is because they haven't
anything to get on me. You knew that
that story couldn't be true when you
took it up to the News, and you know
it now. I ought to break every bone
in your body."
Out of the long grilling the statement
was extracted from Fuller finally that
he had expected to receive some kind
of a consideration from the News if
he would "get tho dope" on the slander
about Word.
"There was no stipulated considera
tion or sum mentioned," he said, how
ever. "Now I'm going to send you up to
jail." said the Sheriff, when the hear
ing was through. m
"And I want you to understand that
if you let my name pass your lying
lips hereafter," he continued, "I'll, fol
low you to the end of the earth and
the things I will do to you will be a
shame."
Fuller Held Without Bail.
Fuller was taken to jail without bail
and charges will be filed against him
Monday by the Sheriff.
"A man of his character oughtn't to
be allowed to run loose at any time."
he declared.
Sheriff Word declared that he now
has in his hands sufficient material to
'make a fight against the element that
has been attacking him through the
News and vowed that it will be a
fight to the finish.
"I am ready t" eo right down the
line and get them" all," he said. "I
shall see that the grand jury makes a
thorough investigation and before this
thiig is done, the News and the men
back of it will be punished for eevery
one of the lies that they have printed
against me. This latest frame-up has
put them in a position where I have
them just where I want them."
Woman Is Released.
Miss Smith, from whose story to Ful
ler on the preceding night the whole
thing had originated, was dismissed
after the hearing was over and depart
ed, reiterating with tears that she .had
made a "big mistake" and was sorry
she had ever come over to town to
meet Fuller or the editor of the News.
She asserted at the last that Fuller
was to blame for it all and that she
had "never dreamed things would come
to all this."
Guy Fuller is one of the patrolmen
who were dismissed from the police
force as a result of the recent inves
tigations of certain conditions in the
department. He has been associated
with the News for some time and has
been a contributor of special articles
and versa to It. .
MERGING OFFICES URGED
Hoquiam Club Declares for Federal
Land Headquarters at Olympia.
HOQUIAM. Wash., Feb. 28. (Spe
cial.) Consolidation of the Federal
land offices of Western Washington
into one, to be located at Olympia, will
be urged by the Hoquiam Commercial
Club. This was embodied in action
taken yesterday by the club at its
weekly luncheon, when the report of
a special committee appointed a week
ago to Investigate was submitted. Dis
continuance of the Olympia United
States Land Office, as now proposed,
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club members say.
Frank H. Lamb gave figures showing
all the Federal land offices In Wash
ington do less business than the one
state land office.
Paris Postoffice Van. Robbed.
PARIS, Feb. 28. More than J200.000
in cash was stolen from a postoffice
van today at one of the railroad sta
tions in Paris. As today is the last
day of the month, large sums were be
ing transmitted to various points for
the payment of monthly salaries and
accounts. The police would give no de
tails of the robbery.
"I heard you crying in your sleep,
pet," said Adam, as he buttoned his
wife's waist before they went down to
breakfast- "Yes, dear," said Eve, smil
ing: "I dreamed the cook had made a
salad out of my new guimp."
ANNO U NCE M E N T
Uye
Mysterious Lady
in the
Black Mask
has been secured to appear
for one week commencing
TODAY
at the
GLOBE THEATER
llth and Washington -
In Addition to the Excellent Bill of Photoplays
Who Is She? Is She a Portland Girl?
See her in films riding wild horses. Hear her in the
works of the masters.
Although we are paying the highest price ever paid here for
a single attraction in a 10c house, there will be no advance
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