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33rd YEAR. NO. 80 'STORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1908 PRSCE FIVE CENTS FAIIIBAIS ON REVISION Submits Views to Indiana State Convention. INDORSE FOX PRESIDENT On the Platform Adopted Local Option Is One of the Strong est Planks. REDUCE DISTURBANCE PERIOD There It One Potential Pact Which .Must Not Be Obscured, .and It Ii When Revision Occurt It Mutt Be Along Protective Lines. INDIANAPOLIS, April l.-The Indinnapolix Republicans, in State convention today, cleared the way for the adoption of a platform and the nomination of the State ticket tomorrow. t The organization was completed with the selection of Rep resentative Jesse Ovcrstrcct as tem porary chairman and John C. Chancy as the permanent chairman. Ad dresses were made by these two gen tlemen and by United States Sena tors Bcveridge and Ilemcnway and Governor llanley. The resolution committee tonight completed the platform. The principle features arc the vigorous endorsement of Vice-Pre-idcnt Fairbanks for the Presidential nomination, and the plank .written by Fairbanks himself, in which he insists on tariff revision at aspecial session of Congress im mediately after the Fall elections. Fairbanks also wrote a letter to Overstrcct to be read before the con vention, which outlined his tariff views as reflected in the plank which was adopted. Washington, March 28, 1908. "My Dear Ovcrstrcct: "There seems to be no division of pinion among Republicans with re- III l 111 IIIS III1L3IIUIII I I III k lJ . , ., be embodied in the State platform except possibly with regard to the time when the tariff should be rc- vised. I venture, therefore, to sub mit to you, and through you to the committee on resolutions, briefly my views on this subject, The senti ment in favor of a revision of the tariff has so far crystallized as to make it reasonably certain that re vision will be undertaken at no dis tant date. It is morally certain that lmth of the leading political parties will declare in. favor of some form of revision in their national platform. It has been frequently suggested that revision should be undertaken at a ', special session of Congress, to be " convened immediately after the in auguration of the next President, A ,' number of Republican State conven ,'; tions have already made declarations to .'this effect. . . "The time when revision should be made Is second only in importance ., to revision itself. It is obvious that there is a wronar and a riirht time to attempt it. If revision had been entered upon during the past few months incalculable injury . would have been inflicted upon the country. i i . . . . . . . j n . . . .. ii, iikvc Hiuifr-iiiiiinwrii rue liiirrrri v, Inintv and strain of revision noon the acute, nervous financial conditions we have experienced would have ag gravated immeasurably the distress, "It is well understood that revision is attended with more .or less busi ness disturbance. Pending the issu ance of new schedules, merchants and consumers will hesitate. They will make no contracts for the future beyond their immediate necessities, I J w .1 .1.. - 1- J..... 0 ior me reason inai a cnanyc in uuj-' vy may effect the basis upon w' ,0cV,r .1. .. ! 1. l. 1. mcir uiiHiucsf is uonc. ii r jr fore, important that the pe 0 , of uncertainty be reduced to the mini mum in order that business may soon resume it ordinary activity and com plete resumption will not occur be fore the schedules are definitely dc termined. "We should not close out eye! to the fact that there . will be a de termined effort by the opposition to control the next Mouse of Represen tatives. If it should succeed, a Re publican Senate and a Democratic Mouse would be charged with th tremendously important subject of revision. The two branches of Con gress would stand for diametrically opposite theories, the one for a pro tective and the other tor a revenue tariff. It is manifest in such event that the contest would be pro tracted and the ultimate result com promise. It is easy to conjecture what effect this would have upon the business of the country, "Why subject the business of the country to a possible hazard which we can readily avoid "We are in control of the legisla live and executive branches and wil of course, so continue until the close of the present Congress. It would be manifest folly to attempt revision on the eve of a Presidential election We can, however, revise such sched ules as may require revision imme diatcly following fie constat Nstlooa election and before the font of Mxt March. If Cotgrest wtt tonusil in special session irmaedlately a!M the election, it could probably EXHAUSTED (Continued on page 8.) LEFT FOR SPRiNGS Rear Admiral Evans Arrives San Diego. at BOARDED TRAIN FOR O BISPO The Admiral plainly showed the Ef fects of His Suffering From Rheu matism and Admitted That the Pain Waa Sometimes Unbearable. SAN DIEGO, April l.-The battle ship Connecticut, bringing Rear Ad miral, Evans for a course of treat ment at the hot springs at San Luis Obispo, arrived off Coronado beach today. Evans was transferred' to a private car which had been held here two days to await his coming and left on the afternoon train for San Luis Obispo. : The Admiral, in an interview given out here, expressed the hope that he will be benefited sufficiently to be able to rejoin the fleet "For. frolic on shore" soon after its arrival in Am- encan waters. Admiral Evans plainly showed the effects of his intenes suffering from rheumatism and admitted that at times the pain had been almost un bearable. The Connecticut returned to Magelena Bay tonight. During the Admiral's absence Rear Admiral Thomas is the senior officer and will act as commander in chief. He is also to bring the fleet to San Diego where Admiral Evans hopes again to hoist his flag an the Connecticut. A crowd of several hundred persons gathered on the Sante Fe Dock on to which the private car Sacramento had been run, and when they caught sight of Admiral on the gun boat Yankton, which brought the officer from the Connecticut to the shore, they gave a lusty cheer, which he acknowledged by lifting his hat. Admiral Evans found waiting him a letter of commendation from the president. In the warmest terms the president reviewed the t achievments of the fleet ans its journey from Hampton Roads to Magdalena Bay and was most liberal in his ' share' 6f praise and credit bestowed on Evans. Rucfs Trial Almost Willi Insight. THREE MOTIONS DENIED Judge Doollng Was Requested by Judge Dunn to Preside it the Utter's Department V ; DOOUNG'S DISQUALIFICATION Denied the Motion of Ruefa Counsel to Transfer the Cat to Another Court and Refused the Request to Make Any Orders. SAN FRANCISCO, April 1.- Abraham Ruef, the former political boss, suffered three adverse rulings today, one in the superior court and two in the appellate court. Judge Dooling was requested by Judge Dunne to preside, in , the. latter de partment of the superior court in the trial of Ruef, denied the motion of Rucfs counsel to transfer the case to another court and refused to make an order upon the showing of the de fensc, disqualifying himself, ruling that he was not biased or prejudiced and that he was qualified to sit in the trial. The district court of appeals late in the afternoon denied Rucfs peti tion for a writ of prohibition restrain ing Judge Doolii.g from proccding with the trial on the ground of al Icird disqualification, and also re fused to grant his application for writ of mandate compelling 'Judge Dooling to transfer the case to some other department of the superior court. With these rulings today the pre . . - r iminarv dctcnsive resources oi Rucfs counsel seem about exhausted and the actual trial of the former po litical boss seems to be within sight. operators of a competitive field con sisting of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to attend a meeting in this city April 6 with the representatives of the miners, looking to an effort to agree on a call lor an interstate wage convention, and if necessary, to decide upon the general resumption of mining opera tions, Lewis said tonight that he had received a number of replies fa vorablc to the move, but he had not yet received enough to definitely de termine the result. ANOTHER SHARP TEST. PARIS April l.-Dr. Leo de For est yesterday conducted the final test of his wireless telephone system on the Riffel tower in the presence of a body of French naval and army of ficers . Messages were exchanged in the satisfactory manner with gov ernment wireless stations through out France. STARTLING IF TRUE. PARIS, April 1. Advices received from Ceneral D'Amede commander of the French forces in Morocco states that during the clearing opera tions in the Madakra county a small detachment of cavalry was surprised by 300 tribesmen. The cavalry lost eight men killed. BUFFFALO BILL ILL. CHICAGO. April l.-Colonet Wil liam F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) is seri ously ill here, suffering from a gen eral nervous breakdown caused by a recent attack of grip. SUIT FILED lllll DIVORCE Mrs. Vanderbilt Wants Absolute Divorce. BOTH ARE WEALTHY Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt is Son of Cornelius and In herited $60,000,000. a heritcd something like, $60,000,000. The domestic affairs of the Vandcr bilts have engaged public attention since March 24, when Mrs. Vander bilt, accompanied by their son, left Oakland Farm, near Newport, and went to her brother's home. Neither Vnaderbilt nor his wife would discuss the 'matter. It was learned tonight from an official in the county court house, who saw the papers, that Mrs. Vandcrbilt nor his wife would discuss divorce. , , . ' RUDDER GONE. Steamer Asuncion Towing Disabled Steamer Hornet to Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO, April l.-The steamer Asuncion, which sailed yes terday for Portland, returned today, having in tow the steamer Hornet from Grays Harbor to San Francisco. The Hornet was picked up off Point Arena with her rudden and part of her propeller gone. THEY HAVE ONLY ONE CHILD HEDEIIANDEDlNElf PRESIDENT'S CALL Miners and Owners Getting To gether. " ' ; INDIANAPOLIS, April , l.-Bitu- . . . oen mmous coal miners, numoering y,: 000, are idle today on account of the failure of the United Mine Owners' of America and. the coal operators to agree upon a wage scale to g6, into ffect today.- . . . District-meetings are being held in an , effort to .reach art agreement in th ediffercnt states, and it is believed that the strike will be a short dura ion.'' - ; ' ! ' Centra Pennsylvania and Indiana mines are in operation, as an agree ment has been reached in the former istrict and in Indiana miners and op erators have agreed to continue work pending a settlement' which is being negotiated by meetings at . Terre Haute. , All he miners of Western Penn sylvania; Ohio, ' the' trans-Mississippi and outlying districts have quit work. At the international headquarters of the United- Mine Workers' - of America today Vice-President- Thos. Lv Lewis of Ohio! 'succeeded John Mitchell :;of Illinois as president of. the organization; . William D. Rya of Uinois succeeded , Mr- Lewis, as vice-president, and' J.' P. White, of Iowa succeeded Congressman W. B. Wilson of the Central Pennsylvania district as secretary-treasurer. The first official act of President Lewis of the United Mine Workers in assuming the office today, was to send a telegraphic invitation to the Physician Insisted Upon Dentist Paying His Bill. A DRUG CLERK IS INVOLVED An Information Signed by A. L. Fin ley, Charging Whitney With Man slaughter, Filed in Justice Reid's Court Yesterday. PORTLAND, April i.-Aimost in state of collapse and constantly watched by other prisoners at the county jail to prevent him from com mitting suicide, as he has threatened, J. B. Whitney of Forest Grove, den- tist, charged with manslaughter, as a sequence of the death of Miss Mabel Wirt! made a complete state ment; this morning of his connection wtih the Affair'.- His statement brings into the Case "Bud" Watson, a jeweler of Forest Grove, and Dr. J. Allen Gilbert. Whitney alleges that Dr. Gilbert had agreed to sign the death certi ficate with the cause of the girl's de mise given as ptomaine poisoning, in the event that he should sign a state ment protecting the physician and exonerating him from complicity in the affair in any way and that he and Watson should pay his professional bill of $102. He declares that he did sign such a statement and made des perate efforts to raise the money, but that Watson "threw him down." Fail ing to secure the money, asserts Whitney, Dr. Gilbert waited until two hours before the funeral of the girl was to be held and then accompanied her uncle to Coroner Finley's office, where Deputy Coroner A. L. Finley was .informed that Miss Wirtz had died of mercurial poisoning. ' j In. the main, Dr. Gilbert admits the facts to be as stated by Whitney. He says that he did, at first, believe the girl to be suffering from ptomaine poisoning and;' afterwards thought she had diphtheria, being enlightened as to the, real caure of her sickness by Whitney himself. As. regards the signed statement which . he procured from Whitney, he admits that on re- Justice O'Gorman, Before Whom the Proceedings Were Instituted, Ap pointed David MiClure, Local Attorney, As Referee. NEW YORK, April l.-Within an hour after he sailed for Europe today Alfred G wynne Vandcrbilt was made the defendant in a suit filed with the supreme court by his wife, Ellen French Vanderbilt. The nature of the actiori is not immediately dis closed" and counsel for the plaintiff refused to night to say whether Mrs, Vanderbilt seeks a divorce or a legal separation from her husband. Jus tice O'Gorman, before whom the pro ceedings were instituted, appointed David McClure, a local attorney, as a referee to hear the testimony and report his findings and recommenda tions to the court Mrs. Vanderbilt is a daughter of the late Francis Ormond French, who was the president of the Man hattan Trust Company and a director in many railroads. Eleanor, or Elsie as she was generally known, was married to Vanderbilt January 11, 1901. A year later their only son, William Henry, was born. Vanderbilt is a son of the late Cor nelius Vanderbilt from whom he in- "SPIKE" ROBSON SPIKED, A PHILADELPHIA, April l.-Joe Cans stopped "Spike" Robson, the English featherweight champion, in the third round of a six-round bout tonight. DR. WM. M. CAKE DEAD. PORTLAND, April 1. Dr. Wil Ham M. Cake, father of H. M. Cake, the Republican condidate for United States Senator, and of William M. Cake, Jr., the'ex-county judge of this county, died here tonight, aged 82 years. Dr. Cake's death was due to the effect sof a fall received about a year ago. SUBMARINE BOATS Special Committee is Still In vestigating Charges. FROST AND TAYLOR TESTIFY ceipt of this and the amount of his bill for treating the girl he agreed, to place in the death certificate the cause of her demise not as ptomaine poisoning, but as toxocmia. Dr. Gilbert asserts that he followed the course he did because he desired to protect the name of the dead girl and save her parents from the mental anguish which would follow a knowl edge of their daughter's error. As regards the bill for his professional services, he declares that in his opin ion Whitney and Watson were prop erly the ones to pay this, because they had caused the girl's condition, thereby relieving the aged father of the debt. . Deputy Coroner Finley acted vig orously as soon as he learned of the real cause of death. He allowed the funeral services to proceed at the chapel of the Edward Holman Un dertaking Company, but refused per mission to cremate the body of the girl until the facts could be elicited j in connection with the unfortunate affair at the inquest to be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock. . Moreover, Mr. Finley was eager The Only Money Ever Paid a Naval Officer by the Company Was When It Bought a Patent For $1,500 From Lieutenant Nelson. WASHINGTON, April l.-Frank-lin A. Taylor, of Waterjbury, Conn., today testified before the special com mittee investigating the , charges against the Electric Boat Company, that he had heard Representative LiUey make a statement in Water bury last Saturday that it was quite likely that he would get an adverse decjsion from the committee and that in that event he would tell all he knew about the whole matter of sub marine boats on the floor of the House. Elihu B. Frost, vice-president of the Electric Boat Company, referring to the time when President Roose velt made a submerged trip in a sub marine, and denied that the company had paid any newspaper men at the trial and said he did not know who was responsible for the publication of that event. Frost said the only money ever paid a naval officer by him or his company was when the company bought for $1,500 an inven tion which is used on submarine boats from Lieutenant Nelson, U. S. N. Frost' said no naval officer nor member of Congress ever owned FIERCE STORM. for the arrest of Wats'on, but Deputy District Attorney Stevenson in-stock in the company. formed him that the crime of Watson was committed in Washington coun ty and there he would have to be prosecuted. Nevertheless the deputy coroner conferred with Presiding Judge Cleland and learning that he had authority to subpenoa witnesses for an inquest within a radius 'of 30 miles, sent word to Sheriff Connel of Washington county to 'have Watson here at 3 o'clock this afternoon. ; , "Watson is "just as guilty as this prisoner," said Mr. Finley, "and if he escapes prosecution.it will be, a dis grace to the State." ' ' ; ' Gales and Snowstorm Delays Great Northern Trains. ST. PAUL, April l.-A terrific gale is blowing today and it is ex pected the mercury will drop ten de grees above. There are very low temperatures today in most places in Manitoba and the! Territories.' A heavy snowstorm is delaying the Great Northern trains near Grand Forks, N. D. The Soo Line is tied tip from Ardock to Kenmare.