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,1 Ml fill I -IB I B II B W . PUtUSHCS MIL ASSOCIATED PRCSS IMPORT 1 COVCRSTHC MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA VOLUME LXIII, NO, 290 AS. oRIA, OREGON, FRlflAY, JANUARY 17, 1008 PRICE FIVE CENTS L and MI CASE OPENED Ikney Explains Senator Fulton's Actions. neededsthwer;svote Reviewed Manner In f Which a Vast Area, of Government Land Was Secured. STALLED OFF TAKING ACTION Ball Wat Approaching thi End of Hii Term and Wanted to S Mitchell r-Elscted-Polltlcal Debts Wert to be Settled AU Around. PORTLAND, Jan. 18. - Fundi J. Mcncy launched hit Bret Javelin at United Slate Senator Fulton during hi opening speech today In the Hall Mays land fraud cms. Heney reviewed the manner In which the Butte Creek I And, Luntlier & Livertock Co., are al felt to have secured through Illegal methods, a atrip of government kind ree tangular In ahape and enclosing vaat area of other government land, and pre vented the publle from locating on tbla land and by preventing thlr crossing the atrip owned by the company, ilall and Mays, ha aaid, had been repeatedly notified of the actions of the Butte Creek Company, but In various waya "stalled" off the taking of any action. Honey aald Hall's term of office waa approaching the end. and Hall wanted to ae Mitchell reelected. W. W. Stel wer, a member of the company, waa In the legislature, and hi volo waa needed. Hall threned Steiwer to taka Jown the fence, a threat Ifcney anid wai to coerce him to vote for Mitchells Hall had not been reappointed In 1003. Ful ion waa a candidate for Senator. Ful (on to be elected needed George C. Brownell't support, but Brownellwa a candidate for district attorney also. fStaiwer'i ixole was wanted (or Fulton. About tills time a apodal agent named Dixon was told to investigate the Butte Creek Company's operations by Score tary IUtchook. In October of that year-, Ilall told Steiwer to get his fence down, but Steiwrer sparred for time. This Hall refused, but he was finally brought around, llcney docared, by Senator Ful ion, and ngTced to take civil action against ptelwcr Instead of criminal as Dixon liad ordered. ' '. , ' It came to Hall's knowledge that Brownell was after the district attorney hip and that lie had the promise of Fulton and Mitchell.4, He also learned . that ncney Insisted that Browncll had been taking acknowledgment of forged names In publlo land mutton, Hall told Browncll ithat if he was Indicted It would destroy him politically, but Honey aid that Hall agreed! not to prosecute Urownell If ho withdrew from the on . test. "Brownel! agreed, but mis-stated to ITency, and wrote to Mitchell and Fulton that he still wanted the office.' Heney stated that ItnlJ bad heard about this and ordered Brownell to with draw from the raoa or be prosecuted. " Then, the apedal prosecutor , said; in order to make euro thnt Brownell would not double the game, Hall went to Wash ington and secured promises from Mitchell and Fulton of their support in consideration of immunity for Brownell. Judge Wjebster, counsel for Hall, de clared Mi untrue that Hall mixed politics ..with the working of his office' and de puted that Hall ever bartered immunity from punishment to secure reappoint ment. He stated Hall's reason for not prosecuting criminally the cose against the Butte Creek Company was because Spedal Agent Loomis told him it was a piece of spite' work. Attorney Wilson, for Mays, stated that Mays had nothing to do with tha fencing case, other than acknowledge, tits receipt of one or two letters. The afternoon sesdon of the1 court was devoted to the Introduction of documentary evidence consisting of eorrepndenr to and from Hall which the government declares show that Ilall wss Informed of the actions of the Butte Creek Company, and shows tlie method In which it is alleged he "stalled" off tlxrae complaints. AGAIN ELECTED PRESIDENT, PU1U.LV, Jan. Ift-At a meeting of the l'nk4 Irish League yesterday John E. Redmond was elected president. A re port was submitted showing that more than 1200 evlctod tenant had been re Instated during tha last three years. EDWARD H. STR0BEL-BEMIS DEAD, BANGKOK. 81am, Jan. lo.-Edward Henry StrobelBemls, general advlier of tha government of Rism. died yesterday after a long illness, due to the bite of an Insect in Egypt two years ago. Edward H. StrobelBemis, professor of International law at Harvard, resigaej from that chair In 1006 to aaauine a posi tion permanently with tha government of 81am as general adviser. Prior to this, from 1003, he had been acting In a similar capacity while on an extended lesva of absence granted by Harvard. EXPECT W mm From Europe to Appear in Thaw's , : , , Defence. , LITTLETON FILLS IN THE TIME By Piling up Testimony From Sources Which Seem of But Little Importance, But Which in the Aggregate Will Con Finn Mora Important Witnesses. , NEW YORK, Jan. 10.--WSth some of the ame tcaUmony that was Introduced at the tint trial and with numerous wit nesses who are appearing for the first time, the defense in the trial of Harry K. Thaw for the killing of Stanford White continues to pile up evidence in tended to show that the young defend ant was nut mentally sound when lie fired tlio fatal shots which caused the death of the architect. To fill In the time until the appearance of witnesses who are on their way from Europe, Mr. tlttloton, Thaw's chief councsel, Is put ting on the stand witnesses who detail In some cases taut that in themselves seem of little importance, but which the lawyer believe will, in the aggregate, confirm the sorie of the more import ant witnesses, This morning August Weber, who was a butler in the house eceupied by the Thaws in 1003 in New York, resumed the stand to finish the story which he be gan yesterday. Little incidents in Thaw's life at this timopare recalled by the butler; incidents Of liis nervousness, for- gwtfulncss, and his seeming ? irresponsi bility, counted on by the defense to show that for a long time preceding the night of . the actual shooting of White, Harry Thaw was mentally irresponsible. It is evidently tha object of ithe defense, a planned by" Mr. Littleton before the jury every person who knew Thaw throughout the years before the tragedy on the Madison Square roof garden, pre pared to detail any incident whtoh, even in the remotest degree, might tend to convince the jury that the defendant was irrational. House servants and club servants, teachers and medical attend ants, in fact, all classes of people who knew or saw Harry Thaw have been sub penaed by the defense to add their tes timony to that of men and women who aotualy witnessed ne shooting, in the effort to show that no only was i irra tional at the time of the tragedy but that his Irrationality on that occasion was only tho continuation of (irrational acts which marked his life for many yeafs before, andi which were the result CREDIT INI ASSOCIATION Plans for Commercial Clearing House. BUSINESSSETTLEMENTS Proposal Enthusiastically Receiv ed byRepresentativesof 350 Large Business-Houses. APPOINTS SPECIAL COMMITTEE To be an Institution Through Which Business Bouses Could Settle and Col lect Their Bills Without Recourse to Bankers' Clearing-House System. " CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-A plan for a "commercial clearing house", an institu tion through which business bouses could settle their debts and collect their bills without recourse to banks, waa launched last night at ttie meeting of the Chicago Credit Men's Association. The proposal was enthusisstically received by repre sentatives of 350 large businesses houses. A resolution was passed to appoint a apodal committee to make an investiga tion with a view to devising -ways and means to put the plan into operation. The plan is ximply the adaptation of the "banker' clearing house system" to the needs of mercantile affairs. Large mercantile houws would proceed at once to effect debtor and creditor setlsments among themselves, by the exchange of canceled checks, in a manner similar to the settlements made by banks, with no necessity for the exchange of real money. , These mercantile settlements will be made on tlio basis of the values of sound mercantile accounts. ALDRICKS FINANCE BILL. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. After two sessions of the Senate finance committee t he members were in possession of a fair idea of what ahape Aldrkh's finan cial bill is to be in when it is ready next week. - It is said he is practicaly certain that the limit of extra currency which the bill provides shall be raised is from 250,000,000 to $500,000,000. Most of the member believe this figure is not too high for the time of emergency. The tax on emergency issues will not, it is believed, be higher than 0 per cent. Bailey's amendment reducing athe 're quired population of county or munici pality whose bonds 'are to figure in currency issues from $220,000 to $10,000, is , expected to receive s the support of the majority of the committee. , Colli ver will probably offer an amendment excluding the railroad bond feature of the bill, and this may call for the elimi nation of such securities. Bailey will no doubt support him in such a project There is thought, however, to be suffic ient opposition to such an amendment I in tlio committee to defeat it. ried the mother of his last two sons, the las of rnidiignn legitimatizing them. The caM has been in court three years, GOLDFISH FOUND IN RUINS. NEW YORK, Jan. lO-Searchers oin the ruin of ths Parker building, the skyscraper which was burned Friday night, entailing a loss of more than $.', 000,000, diovered among the ruins yes terday a gla tank in which there were three live goldfish. The tank bad been a portion of an exhibit in the offices of a company making ecientifle instruments on the second floor of the great building. The office waa wrecked, the fire having been particularly severe at that point but the debr!a had fallen in such a way that the glam containing the fish was protected. The fish did not appear to be any the worse for the experience. SENATOR DICK INTRODUCES BILL, WASHINGTON. Jan. R-A bill to create a bureau of mining technology was introduced y eatenlay by Senator Dick. It assigns to audi a bureau the duty of making exhaustive metallurigi cal investigation and administering to the mining iuterests of the country un der a director who shall draw a salary of $0000 per year. Senator Dick also in troduced a joint resolution creating a bureau of mining technology as a branch of tha geological survey and requesting the director of the survey to report when such a bureau could be operated independently of that branch, y TETRAziTvOICE Captures New York With "La iraviata' '4"r STANDING ROOM AT A PREMIUM SOMEWHAT C0MPLICATEL SUIT. (Continued oa Page 8.) NEW YORK. Jan. 16.-The Court of Appeals he decided, in a somewhat com plicated suit, that a decree of divorce given i Michigan when one party is a r? sident of New York and is served only by publication, Is not legal in New York State. The case, it is said, will go up to the United States Supreme Court. ' Stale Olmatead, who lived in Tarry town, died and left an 'estate of $8000 to be divided between hia two sons, or their "lawful heirs." One of the sons, Benjamin F. Olmsted, married in 1850, Mliry Jane Olmsted, and by her had four children. In 1870 he maried again, He then secured a divorce from his New York wife by default). He then remar- Manhattan Opera Bouse Crowded to the Doors New York's Verdict Was as Enthusiastic at Wat That of London Is a Second Pattl XEW YORK, Jam lfl.-Seldom in the history of the stage has an artist creat so much enthusiasm as greeted Mme. Tetraiaini, wheu she made her first ap pearance in New York' last evening. The Manhattan opera house was crowded to sush an extent that standing room was at an enormous premium. New York's verdict was as enthusiastic as was that of London, and the diva was heralded as a second Patti. Singer from the rival Metropolitan, as well as well as from the Manhattan Company, overwhelmed Mme. Tetraszini with their congratulations after the first act of "La Traviata," and the singer herself expressed her appreciation and her gratitude. She said: "I am content. : I am happy. Yea! So very happy, The audience is enthua- oastic. Never have I sung before an audience : so quick , to see. I was so nervous, like all" artists, before I began singing, but now there is only that feel ing which come . when one feels that recognition has been accorded in full to the degree that t is deserved. "I was .sure I would succeed beyond any doubt. If I had not been, I should not have oome to New York. Yet, I was anxious because it meant much to me. Now, after the first act I am sure of my success. ( ' ' "The great audience was most kind. My voice responded to every demand I asked of it, and I could not ask for greater good fortune in the things which contributed to the achievement of this night. ' , ." "I shall sing Lucia next ,and perhaps please them still more,1 eht Telly them all the people I am happy, very happy." ,; ;,( : J h-;, MAUD ADAMS IN NEW PLAY. f DASTARDLY ASSAULT Two Men Meet in State House. BLOWS. EXCHANGED They Walk About Two Blocks To gether and Another Assault Takes Place. . VICTIM A WASHINGTON MAN Clemmona Again Attacked Dosh and This Time With Such Fierceness That Dosh Wat Felled and Bit Skull Badly Injured by Striking the Curbing. DES MOINES, Jan 18 An absolute mystery surrounds the assault upon At torney Dosh of Stuart, Iowa, yesterday by Carl L. Clemmona, a rieh .lumberman of Snohomish, Wash., in the office of the attorney-general at the state house end later on the street. The victim now lies in a critical condition at the hos pital and his assailant was arrested to day and held in bonds awaiting develop ments. The two men met by aeddent in an ante-room of the attorney-general's ofltee. They engaged in a discussion. which was followed by an assault by Clemmons on Dosh. Strangely enough the two men left the capital together. Two blocks down the street Clemmons again attacked Dosh and this time with such fierceness that Dosh waa felled and his skull badly injured on the edge of the curbing. Clemmons carried his vic tim upstairs to a doctor's office nearby, Clemmona registered the name of Mrs. Harriet L. Clemmons, though his wife was not with him. Clemons save he cannot explain this except it waa a fool ish joke. Chicago A Alton of the railroad organ ization, they constituted only a small proportion of these questions that liar riman refused to answer. The clash be tween the witnesses and lie eornmisaioii occurred February 25th last year. For eeveral days the investigators have been endeavoring to get at the bottom of Harriman's railway manipulations with the Chicago and Alton. Both Harriman and Kuhtt were ex amined in relation to the affair of tha Alton, A. T. & Santa Fe Illinois Central, St Joseph, Grand bland, New York, Central and Hudson River k Southern Padflc. ' ' Harriman declined to answer whether he owned any of the stock deposited aith Kuhn. Loeb A Co, and Kuhn da dined to answer any questions regarding the ownership of the Union Pacific & Alton stock so depom'ted. Harriman also refused to answer whether he bad so quired any Alton stock with the in ten ton of selling it to the Union Pad fie or whether he procured it at a lower price than that paid to him by the Union. ROBBER KILLED BY POLICEMAN. . CHICAGO, Jan. 16. In a pistol duel William Fenkerhauaer was killed early today by Detective Michael Kern. Fenk erhauscr was attempting to rob two men when he was eapied by a policeman and the shooting followed. - Ml IT BE LOST British Ship Hartfield Reported Wrecked on Vancouver Coast SEATTLE. Jan. 1& A special to the, Poet-Intelb'gencer from Snohomish says that Carl Clemmons was president of the Chamber of Commerce and a prominent land owner and timber dealer. He lived in Snohomish eight years and was form erly publisher of the Snohomish Trib une. He was a graduate of Stanford and was a prominent athlete there. His wife and two children live here. Clem mons was raised in Iowa. BOHEMIAN BAZAAR BANKRUPT. , CHICAGO, Jan. 16, -An involuntary petition in bankrutpcy threw the Bo hemian Bazaar, a ', co-operative depart ment store, into the hands of a receiver yesterday. The stock was held by 1800 Bohemian residents. The largest amount of stock held outside of the directorate was to the value of $50. The total capi tal stock waa $180,000. The assets are valued at $60,000. The liabilities are placed at $105,000. ' ' HARRIMAN AND KUHN NEW YORK. Jan. 16.-"The Jesters," a four-act play, translated from the original French of Miquel Zemacois, was given for the first time in America, at the Empire Theatre last night. It was Miss Maud Adams' first appearance in a new role eince ehe created Peter Pan, the play in which she took the part of the young man. Are Directed to Answer Questions Asked By Interstate Commission. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. Judge Hough of the United States drcuit court handed down today- the opinion directing Otto H. Kuhn, as a member of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and waa called to answer all questions propound er by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. E. H. Harriman was directed to answer all questions except those rela tive to the purchase of the Union and Southern Padfio stocks in connection with the dividend of August, 1906. While exceptions were regarded aa to important questions by the govern ment lawyers, who were investigating NO SPARS SEEN IN WRECKAGE Marine Department Will Not Send a Steamer to Investigate Unless Further Reports Are Received Warranting the Despatch of a Salvage Steamer. . VICTORIA, B. C Jan. 16 The ma rine department will not send a steamer to investigate the reported finding of wreckage at Estevan Point unless furth er reports are received warranting a salvage steamer bdng dispatched. A dispatch from the Estevan to the marine department states that wreckage con sisting of cabin fitting, doors, bells, life boat fittings, and a small imitation buoy lettered in pencil "Hartfield, Liv erpool" found at Hejuoit, Mariners point out that if the vessel had found ered and pounded to pieces, spars would have been included, and they believe that while the news may cause anxiety, that the chances are that ber decks had been swept and the wreckage washed overboard. SEATTLE, Jan. 16. The revenue cut ters Perry and Thetis leave Seattle to night to seek the posible survivors of the British ship Haart field believed to be lost off the west coast of Vancouver Island. The two cutters were ordered out upon receipt of the news of the finding of the wreckage from the Hart field. The Perry deared about midnight after all handa had worked feverishly several hours getting her coal bunkers full. The vessels have about 350 miles to travel before reaching the scene of the supposed wreck. . " . INSPECTOR OF POLICE BAD SHOT. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 16,-Edward S. WTalker, inspector of police, entered tha office of the Morning World tonight and fired two shots at Joseph Ml Leveque, the editor, neither shot took effect The shooting tonight followed eeveral attacks npn Inspector Wptaker in the editorial and news columns of the World. The head of the New Orleans police depart ment was criticized for "Attending races daily while he woe drawing $6000 a year salary. ; ' At 6 o'clock ths inspector started for Leveque, who waa talking at tha tlma to a young woman reporter. Blowa were exchanged, and it waa then that Whit aker drew a revolver and fired twice. One of the reporters, who rushed to tha editor's aid, struck the police inspector's erm and caused the shots to go wild.