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33rd YEAR. NO. 58
IEF FILES
AFFIDAVITS
Wishes to Withdraw Plea
of Guilty.
INADVISEDLY TENDERED
r ...
Substitutes a Plea if Not Guitity
In One of the French Res
taurant Cases
AGREEMENT WITH LANGDON
That ha Wat Induced to Enter the
Pica of OuUty by Virtu of an Un
demanding With Asaiaunt District
Attorney Francia J. Heney.
SAN FRANCISCO, March .-Tomorrow
Abraham Rucf, through hit
attorneys, will present to Judge Frank
M. Dunne, a motion to allow him to
withdraw bit plea of guilty entered
May IS hut and substitute a plea of
not guilty on the indicement No. 305,
one of the French restaurant extor
tion caici. To support this motion
Ruef will file affidavit! the substance
of which will be that the pltfa of guilty
wai improperly and inadvisedly ten
dered and that the defendant it not
guilty of the offense charged; "but
that he was Induced to enter the plea
of guilty by virtue of an agreement
and understanding with District At
torney Langdon, AisiMant District
Attorney Francis J. Ilency, Special
Agent William J. Burns and the
financial backer of the district attor
ney In this prosecution, Rudolph
Spreckles, and because of the agree
mcnt and understanding of the judge
presiding in this department of the
suoerior court. Itidirc Prank M
Dunne, that the plea of guilty should
be subsequently withdrawn and the
plea of not guilty substituted and the
case dismissed against the defendant.
The motion will also stated that
Langdon has heretofore consented to
ljie withdrawal of the pica of guilty
and that this plea was obtained from
the , defendant by fraud, coercion,
duress and false pretenses. The affi
davit repeatedly accuses Burns, Lang
don and Heney of subornation of per
jury in their attempts to make Ruef
swear falsely in the case against Pat
rick Calhoun for bribing the Super
visors. His whole plea is based on
the statement that an immunity con
. tract was abrogated by the prosecu
tors when they found he wGuId tell
the truth on the witness stand and
when he refused to sign false affida
vits and swear falsely in court.
Ruef goes Into detail in the other
matters connected with the bribery
and graft cases claiming he wanted
to aid the prosecution by false testi
mony and that Burns, according to
the affidavit was particularly anxious
to incriminate William F. Hcrrin, E.
II. Harriman and Governor Cillctt
for connection in political matters
and that Heney had to support Roose
velt in this matter. The affidavit says
that on his information and belief the
grand jury which indicted him was
nt all times under the complete con
trol and domination of the. prosecution.
GOVERNOR JOHNSON NAMED.
ST PAUL, March 6.-The Demo
cratic state committee after a bit
ter t'i h li t adopted the resolution er)
dorsing Governor Johnson for the
Presidential nomination recommend
ing he be nominated at tho national
convention at Denver in July. The
Johnson resolution was carried by a
vote of 68 to 23 after the Bryan ad
hcrents had. forced two test votes on
both of which they were defeated.
They gave notice that they would not
be, bound by the action of the atatc
committees and will make a fight for
a delegation from the state instructed
to support Bryan. Over two hun
dred Bryan men assembled at the
Ryan Hotel after the committee ad
journed and organized "Bryan vol
unteers of Minnesota." '
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COVERS THE MORNING FICLO ONTHK LOWER COLUMBIA
URIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
NON-PARTISAN TARIFF.
NEW YORK. March 6.-Approval
of the non-partisan tariff commission
bill introduced in the Senate , by
Senator Beverldge of Indiana, was
registered yesterday In resolutions
passed by the Merchants' Association
at a special meeting. The association
also adopted resolutions approving
the movement for a special school
for government appointees to the
diplomatic and consular service. J .
WITHDRAW3 FORFEIT.
LONDON, March 6.-Tommy
Burns has withdrawn his forfeit for
fight with Jack Johnson, the negro
pugilist
FEARS FOR FLEET
What Could Have Happened in
Straits of Magellan.
riEIML
PROCESSIONS
SHOT THE SOLICITOR.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 Fred
Icklcr, a waiter, shot and killed Floyd
Bedill In the office of Dr. Niles, a
specialist. Bedill was a solicitor for
Niles who has been treating Icklcr
for a blood disease. " Ickler claims
that Bedill promised that he could
e cured and that he had been victim-
V . . J
izea. iCKier Burrenuereu.
OF HIGH IMPERATIVE DUTY
"We Must Have an Auxiliary Fleet of
Our Own," Said Jas. T. McCleary,
Second Assistant Postmaster-Gen
end In a Speech in New York.
NEW YORK, March 6. -Official
Washington was filled with grave ap
prehension that the American fleet,
on its way to the Orient, would be
made helpless at the Straits of Ma
gellan, according to the state
mcnt of James T. McCleary, second
assistant postmaster-general, in the
course of a speech at the dinner of
the New York States Postmasters'
Association at the Hotel Astor last
night. Mr. McCleary is in charge of
the transportation of United States
mails by sea and he had adduced this
argument in favor of a subsidy for the
restoration of the American merchant
marine.
He especially deplored that all but
one of the auxiliary fleet concerned in
the carrying of coal and supplies for
the fleet of Rear Admiral Evans
should have been foreign.
"It is a matter of duty, of high
imperative duty," said he earnestly,
"to change all this. A fleet without
proper auxiliary vessels, without coal
and supplies, is like a fleet without
guns. There is a nation which has
the reputation of striking first and
declaring war afterward, It did it
with China and it did it with Russia.
Supposing that splendid fleet of ours
to be approaching the Straits of Ma
gellan, and suppose that the Japanese
fleet anticipated them.
"Suppose that fleet struck and none
of us knew where that foreign fleet
was. I can tell you that there was
grave anxiety in Washington, but
that is all passed now. Suppose, if
you will, that fleet had met our col
liers and carried them out to sea,
taken what coal they wanted and
sunk them and our fleet had then
arrived. Then what? What could
that $200,000,000, fleet have done
then? The telegraph lines would
have been cut. This is only a hint
of what might be. We must have an
auxiliary fleet of our own."
Bearing the Bodies of the
Children.
GRIEF CRAZED PARENTS
Mutterlngs About the Janitor
Could Be Heard About
the Village.
28 BODIES NOT IDENTIFIED
Fully 500 Persona Gathered But
When the Coffins Were Carried to
the Doorway the Crowd Spread
and Opened the Way For Them.
CLEVELAND, March 6.-Funeral
processions today began to wend
their wijy toward the cemeteries bear
ing the battered and charred bodies
of some of the 167 children who per
ished in Wednesday morning's Are at
the Like View school. One of the
saddest funerals was the three chil
dren of Janitor Hirter, held jointly,
with services for three other little
ones. Muttcrings against the janitor
could be heard about the village as
the grief-crazed parents sought an
object on which the wreak their ven
geance, forgetting that Hirter him
self was walking with bowed head,
and broken heart behind the bodies of
three of his loved ones. A detail of
police was placer about the Hirter
home. Fully 500 persons gathered
but when the coffins were carried to
the doorway the crowd spread and
opened a way for them without a
protest of any kind or an expression
of hostility.' There were 50 burials
today. Tonight 28 badies are still
unidentified.
EQUALIZING PAY.
WASHINGTON, March 6.-The
navy pay bill equalizing the pay of
the officers, of the navy and marine
corps with the pay of the officers in
the navy was ordered favorably re
ported to the House today by the
committee on naval affairs. An agree
ment was reached by the committee
to report favorably on the naval
militia hill introduced by Chairman
Foss which gives the navy department
control over the naval militia.
PASS COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6-Mrs.
Edward W. Brady and Airs. Mae
Flint, her daughter, were arrested on
Wednesday night in Napa by Deputy
V. S. Marshal Nolan on an indict
ment charging them with passing
counterfeit money. They ,were ar
raigned before U. S. District Judge
De Haven yesterday and released on
$100 bail each.
IMPRESSIONS
ERRONEOUS
The Emperor's Letter to
Lord Tweedmouth.
CONSIDERED AN EXPERT
STATUES OF WASHINGTON
NEW YORK, Mar. cV-Pains-tak-ing
search by Dr. John Quincy
Adams, assistant secretary of the
municipal Art Commission, has re
sulted in the tracing of five bronze
copies of Houden's famous marble
statue of Washington, another bronze
copy of which stands on Riverside
Drive in this city. The information
was obtained by Mr. Adams recent
ly while compiling an authentic re
cord of all the city's monuments.
The whereabouts of all these copies
had been lost sight for years al
though diligent search had been made
for them by many art lovers. Six
bronze copies of the original Houtlon
statue were made in 1851 from
plaster casts taken at Richmond, Va.,
by W. J. Hubbard, a Virginia sculp
tor. One, it is disclosed by Dr,
Adams, researches is now owned by
North Carolina and another by South
Carolina and are in their respective
state houses. A third statue is in the
military college at Lexington, Ky., a
fourth in La Fayette Park, St. Louis,
and the fifth, owned by private in
dividuals, is in the Corcoran Art Gal
lery in Washington. The sixth
statue has been in New York since
1858, standing in the rotunda of the
city hall for years'. In 1884 it was
removed to its present site. As the
statue, being only life size, instead of
heroic size, is not especially effective
when on view out of doors, it is pro
posed to remove either to the Metro
politan Museum of Art or back to its
old resting place in the city hall.
TO FOUND A REPUBLJC.
ITHACA, N. Y., March 6. -A
pioneer band of 12 boys and four
girts and Wiliams A. George, founder
of the George Junior Republic at
Freeville, left here last night for San
Fernando, Cal., where a republic will
be founded. The hope - for a nation
organization of the work of the Geo.
Junior Republic is . based on this
movement Elmer Jones of Buffalo,
citizen of the Freeville Republic,
will be president of the new republic.
ciiildTIr bill
President Favors a Law to Regu
late Child Labor.
BEVERIDGE FATHER OF IT
Roosevelt Has Addressed a Letter to
the Indiana Manufacturers' Asso
ciation Which Placea Himself in
Favor of Enactment by Congress
WASHINGTON, March 6.-In re
sponse to a letter of protest against
the Beveridge child labor bill, Presi
dent Roosevelt has addressed a let
ter to the Indiana Manufacturers' As
sociation which places himself in favor
of the enactment by Congress of a
bill regulating child labor in the Dis
trict of Columbia and in the terri
tories if the States fail to enact such
a law.
Considerable of Sensation Con-
tained In Allegations of the
London Times. ,
REPUDIATES INTERFERENCE
TROOPS TO LEAVE.
WASHINGTON, March 6.-The
troops which were ordered to Gold
field to suppress the mining riots
three months ago will break camp
tomorrow, and return to their posts.
POSTPONEMENT REFUSED.
DENVER, March 6-Robert ,H.
Whitcomb, the attorney for Alia, the
slayer of Father Leo today applied
for a postponement of the trial set for
next Monday and the appointment of
alienists to examine the prisoner. The
postponement was refused, but Judge
Whitford named G. Tosti, Italian con
sul, and Dr. Joseph Cuneo and an
other alienist whom these two might
select to examine Alia.
TO PAY FOR DAMAGES.
WASHINGTON, March 6.-For
several hours today the House dis
cussed the bill to pay the Archbishop
of Manila of the Roman Catholic
Church $403,000 for damages to
church property by the forces of the
United States. The bill passed. The
House unanimously advocated Lilley's
resolution to investigate the charges
of corrupt influences on members of
naval affairs committee in connection
with the authorizations for subma
rine torpedo boats. The resolution
gives wide powers. i
SHEA ELECTED PRESIDENT.
BUTTE. Mont.. March 6. -The
ejection of the Butte Miners' Union, '
the largest local in the Western Eed-1
cration of Miners, has resulted in a
victory for the conservatives, James
Shea being elected president.
Sea no Reason , Why Letter Should
Not be Published But it is a Matter
For Emperor William and Lord
Tweedmouth to Decide.
BERLIN, March 6. Considerable
of a sensation contained in the alle
gations of the London Times' in ref
erence to the letter sent by Emperor
William in February to Lord Tweed
mouth. The foreign office admits
that the letter was sent but the asser
tion of the London Times that his
majesty endeavored to interfere in
the naval plans of Great Britain was
characterized as untrue. His majesty
in his letter corrected certain erron
eous impressions England bad in re
gard to the development of the Ger
an fleet In naval matters the Em
peror is entitled to consideration as
an expert was the explanation at the
foreign office and he is recognized as
such in England as well as in Ger
many. As the Emperor of Germany
he would reject any foreign attempt
to decide the proportions of the Ger
man fleet and on this basis would re
pudiate the idea that he had interfer
ed in the naval affairs of Great Brit
ain. The German official can see no
reason why the letter should not be
published, but it is declared the mat
ter is a personal one between the
Emperor and Lord Tweedmouth.
Asserting that Emperor William
recently sent a letter to Lord Tweed
mouth, first lord of the admiralty, on
the subject of the British and Ger
man naval policy, the Times this
morning calls for the production of
the letter in parliament together with
Lord Tweedmouth's reply, on the
ground that it is an attempt to in
fluence the British minister respon-
for the navy in German interests.
In an angry editorial the Times
says that the letter will cause a pain
ful surprise and just indignation to
the British people.
"Emperor William holds the hon
orary rank of admiral in the British
navy," says the Times, but if that is
held to warrant inference in our do
mestic affairs by secret appeals to
the head of a department on which
naval safety depends, all that can be
said is that the abolition of dynastic
compliments of this kind is an urgent
necessity. Had King Edward taken
such a step there would have been
an outcry of anger universal through
out Germany and an overwhelming
demand for a doubled shipbuilding
program as a fitting reply.
"If the emperor has anything to
suggest concerning arms," concludes
the Times, "he has the regular official
channels of communication and no
private relations can excuse a depart
ure from the regular methods. Lord
Tweedmouth is a public servant and
therefore it cannot be contended that
the letter is a private matter. It calls
for the fullest publicity.
"The lesson for Great Britain is
plain after an attempt of this kind to
make it easier for German prepara
tions to overtake our own."
BODY DID NOT ARRIVE.
CHICAGO, Mar. 6.The Inter
Ocean to-day says:
To mystery surrounding his life
and mystery in the motive for his
attack of Chief of Police Shippy,
another mystery was added last night
when the body of Lazarus Averbuch,
disappeared.
The body was sent from the county
morgue to be taken to Dunning in
the afternoon. It was to be buried
in the potter's field, but it failed to
reach the poor farm.
Up to two o'clock this morning the
body of the dead anarchist had not
reached the potter's field at Dunning,
and the night superintendent said
that though he had been on duty six
o'clock in the evening, he had heard
nothing about the corpse. I hired
an undertaker to take the body away
and see to its burial," said Coroner
Hoffman. v
Later Dr. Gavis, supt. of the county
morgue said: ...
The body was taken to the potter's
field in the ; county wagon." The
body failed to reach Dunning.
Whether friends of the dead anar
chist agents in the employ of the
sister, or medical students spirited it
away no one can say.
CHARGES AGAINST DAY.
BRANDON, Vt, March 6-Cbarles
preferred by the Rev. George A.
Cooke, the pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Brandon against
Chancellor Day on the ground that
Day defamed the character of the
President in defiance of the rules of
the Methodist Church. -
IN YAKUT AT BAY
Revenue Cutter Thetis Finds
Starving Japanese Sailors.
WIRES TREASURYDEPARTMENT
Captain Henderson Notified the Gov
ernment That he Picked up Eleven
of the Starving Survivors of the
Wrecked Japanese Schooner.
WASHINGTON, March 6-A tele
gram to - the Treasury Department
from Captain Henderson, of the rey
enue cutter Thetis now on the Alas
kan coast, stating that on the 3rd
instant he rescued 11 of the starving
survivors of the Japanese schooner
Satsuma wrecked on that coast The
men were picked up in Yakutat Bay.
ENCOURAGEING HINDOOS
NEW YORK, , Mar. 6.-Hoping
that Hindoos may be encouraged to
come to this country to study, the
Society for the Advancement of India
yesterday announced the opening at
No. 1142 Park Avenue of India House
in which preparations have been made
to lodge 40 Hindoos.
Bishop Potter, Judge Martin J.
Keogh, Prof. Chas. J. Lanman of
Harvard University, and others vice
presidents of the organization have
formed plans which provides that the
Hindoos who live in India House are
to be furnished with food and furni
ture will remind them of their native
land.. The principal foods will be rice
and curried vegetables.
President Phelps said last night
that he had received assurances from
the scientific and industrial society of .
Calcutta, that forty students will be
sent from India to this city within a
few months. Most of them will enter
scientific schools as one of the pur
poses of the society for the advance
ment of Indiai is the revival of in
dustry in that country.
INCREASED PAY BILL.
Washington, March 6. The Senate
passed the army bill increasing the
pay of the officers from five to 20 per
cent and an average to the enlisted
men 40 per cent. Depew spoke at
length in favor of the pending cur
rency bill.