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I 1 : . - COVERS THE MORNINO FIELD ON THE OLUMEIA 'publishes pull associated press report i4L vrm lift Qf : UTtH I Willi liwt t ' I " 1 , GRAND JURY IBM On Charge of Conspiracy to Defraud Government , ' .. . IN TOWN LOT GRAB Governor Under $5,000 Bond Furnished by Kit Many Friends WILL MAKE STRONG DEFENSE Haikell In Statement After Learning of Hla Indictment, Dsclares Pro ceadtnga WUI Now b Opto -on Both Sides. MUSKOGEE, Okla, Feb. 3-Eight Indictments were returned by the federal grand jury hera tonight in the town lot fraud Investigation, charges being conspiracy to defraud the aovernment. The namea of those Indicted are Governor Haakell, F. B ...r... A. Z. KaatUh, C.W-Tur ner, V. T. Hutchins, Walter R. Eng ll.h. Tesse W. Hill and Walter R. Eaton. 1 Attorney Owen of Muskogee, rep resenting Haikell, made promise for the governor's appearance Friday morning to give bond In the sum of 15000. Haskell it at Guthrie, the atate capital. There li bnt one in diriment atrainst him, charging him with conspiracy with Eaton and Tur ner to defraud the government. The defendants will probably all be ar raigned Friday morning before Judge Campbell. Eaton is secretary of the Indian ola Contracting Company of which Haskell is president and, which It is alleged, scheduled the namea of dum mies to secure, town lota. Fifteen of the wealthiest men in Muskogee call d at the Marshal's office tonight and signed Haskell's bond- Many more : asked to be allowed to sign it, but there was no more space . on the document. 1 ' ' Gaakell Makes Statement ; GUTHRIE, Feb. 3.-Governor Haskell,' when Informed that he has 'been Indicted tonight issued the fol lowing statement to the Associated ! Press: 1 .-- ; . "I have just heard of my Indict ment for conspiracy coupled with Jseven others of the oldest and high- .est characterized citizens of Musko HOUSE DEFEATS THE STATEMENT 1 BILL I Another Batch .of. Salary Raising Measures Pass . thelSenate . ' SALEM, Or., Feb. 3--By a vote of i 30 to 27, the house this afternoon de feated., the., bill making It a misde meanor to take Statement No. 1 6r any other pledge and the senate by a tie vote icf used "to reconsider (he vote by which bill making it a mis demeanor to circulate any initiative or referendum petition for pay was defeated yesterday. Most of the af ternoon was consumed by the house in debating the anti-pledge bill. Even Statement No 1 men who voted for chaplain under. , protest defended Statement No. 1 and fought the bill. Two representatives only, who were elected under Statement No. 1, Brady and Richardson, voted for the bill, IDIOTS HASKELL II OTHERS g, men who developed and built up that country by their unselfish effort From now on, proceeding! will be open on both lidei. ' "Hearst's crooked manipulators will be at discount. "I am satisfied that th . Interior Department hai been milled by false statements, I am confident thai there hat not been a dishonest act done by the indicted pertoni, and good citixeni, regardleai of politics, feel the tame way. "(Signed), C. N. HASKELL." AHTI-JAPANESE RESOU NEVADA URGES CALIFORNIA TO USS STRINGENT MEAS URES TO EXCLUDE JAPS CARSON. Nev., Feb. 3-The As sembly at the afternoon session to day passed the antl-Japancte retolu' tion as amended. Amendments eli mlnate all reference to federal in terference but urges the State of California to pass stringent measures to exclude the Japanese. It is likely that the resolution will be delivered to the senate tomorrow. Should that body take .up. tha, mure.it,. will further amend It and it is said it's wording will be so changed that the assembly will h&rdly recognize it. BLOWING THEIR COIN. ChicatTO Family Entertains Visitor , Very Lavishly. CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-M. Rlcardo Soriano, the Spanish husband of Itala Blair, had a Jaste last night of the lavish social expenditure character istic of America. He and Mrs. Sori ano, were the guests of honor at dinner and entertainment given by Mr. and Mrs. John Borden. . It was modestly called an "enter tainment" but even the north shore set which is accustomed to a hand some scale of expenditures, was a bit amazed to find that a theatre had been closed for their pleasure and that a company of 35 players, with an orchestra of 20 pieces had been en gaged to givs an abridged represents tion of a local musical play In the drawing room of the Borden home which had been transformed into theatre for the evening. A stage with elaborate and Ingenious lighting ef fects had been contrived. Great secrecy had been maintained, so that none of the guests knew of what was In store. while two anti-statement members, Farrell and Leincnweber, joined in opposing it. The bill imposing a tax of one per cent on the gross earnings of all' railroads within the state was Introduced into the house this after noon. Three bills were passed by the senate which had already passed the house and are now in the hands of the governor. These are garnish ment law advocated by merchants, bill making punishment for highway ribbery life sentence and bill to in corporate ports on bays' and rivers navigable to the Pncific Ocean.' An other 'batch of salary-raising' bills were passed by the senate Qver opposition. ASTORIA, A CUB SLEUTH. Chicago Kid Mad Fool Hero of In Open Court CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-A1 Beck, an , D. T messenger and expert in Old Sleuth literature has been the means of sending George Wall, a burglar, to the House of Correction. The story told by the boy in court rivals his favorite stories in blood thrilling detail. Extracts follows: It was the night of December 28. about 2 o'clock in the morning. I was awakened by some noise in the room, and in the darkness I could dimly see a man moving about I knew it was a burglar and so I lay still thinking what 1 would do. "Once he came over to the bed and looked at me. and I closed my eyes and made believe I was asleep. fThen he went on searching the room and I opened my eyes again and watched him. I could see he was a full grown strong man and I though I would have a hard time taking him red handed and single handed with out any gun or knife. 'So at last I decided there was only one way to capture mm and bring him to justice and that was by a ruse. So I spoke up suddenly in a deep bass vice just like a man and said: Ah, you've got into the wrong place this time its all up with you. I'am a police officer and I've got you where I want you. Don't you move or your re a dead one. I had my finger and thumb pointed at hlra just like a gun and in the dark he certainly thought it was one. He put up his hands and stood there without saying a w rd. So I thought I would scare him some more and make it good. "Cap, I says, calling out loud as if there was another man in the next room, bnn4 -me that forty -four eole and that pair of handcuffs, and jump into your clothes. We've got a little job here to look after.' '"Now you, Mr. burglar, 'I says, still talking deep, 'you turn around to the wall and keep your hands up till I dress." " Young Beck related how he started to march his prisoner to the police station, but about a block away they met a patrolman, who took the burg lar into custody. Wall sheepishly admitted he had been captured by the boy's ruse. MAX BAUMEISTER DEAD. 1 . WALLA WALLA, Wash, Feb. 3, Max, Baumeister, pioneer, capitalist, farmer and real estate dealer, died here this morning of diabetes after a brief illness, aged,, 69. He was s na live of Germany and well , known over the Northwest He began life as a laborer, saved money and was at deats worth $250,000. '. , J GREW h BILL i DEFEATED BY BIG MAJORITY ACTION TAKEN AFTER DE BATE OF SIX HOURS BY 48 TO 28 VOTE. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 3.- After a debate' extending from 11 a. m. to S p. m. today, the assembly re jected Drew a bill . barring aliens from owning land in California by a vote of 48 to 2a The bill had been amended at the request of President Roosevelt , and , Secretary Root so that the clause applying it to Jap' anese exclusively was ; eliminated, making it apply to all aliens, but the measure aroused such a storm of op position that long before the debate closed by Drew, it was apparent that the measure would be defeated. In substance opposition to the bill was that it would drive out at least a bil lion dollars of foreign capital out of the state and might jeopardize , the present friendly relations with Japan. Advocates of bill on other hand con tended that the state was being over run Dy tnrnty Japanese who are gradually gaining Impregnable posi tion as land owners and whose gov ernment is trying to dictate to Cali fornia regarding legislation. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY CUE APLEHTY lEi DENVER Several Killings and One Suicide in Two Hours FORGER CONFESSES Fredrick Rollins Admits a Crim inal Record of Thirty Years POLICE HAVE A BUSY DAY John P. Cradlebaugh Shoots Fred W, Walton, Whom he Claims Ruined His Home -Discarded Lover At tempts Former Sweetheart's Life- DENVER, Feb. 3-One killing, an other shooting affray that may result in a double killing, one suicide, half a dozen or more less serious crimes and the confession by a man who for 30 years has led a criminal life is the police record of Denver for the last 24 hours. . John iLCrarllebaugh of Wallace, Idaho, shot and killed Fred W. Wal ton, also of Wallace, whom Cradle baugh claims had ruined his home. May Toothman of St. Louis, an in mate of a resort, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid following the arrest of her youthful lover on the charge of stealing his mother's dia monds. ' A Japanese supposed to be Harry Nagahashi, discarded by the woman in the case, shot and probably fatal ly injufed .Mrs. Ida Beikson and T. Hamaniti, a Japanese merchant whom he found together. Nagahashi has escaped. . Frederick H. Rollins, locked up on a chanrge of forgery, confessed to the police of a criminal record of 30 years, started from the time he was a 17-year;old boy and was crippled for life and "Cursed God for his affile tion." . " Myrtle and Bertha . Thompson, twins, from Des Moines, Iowa, were arrested on the charge , of stealing $180 from David Siegel, of the same place, who gave the information which led to Siegel's arrest for the robbery. The Walton Shooting . WALLACE. Idah6, Feb. 3.-The events which culminated today in the shooting at Denver of Fred W. Wal ton by John P Cradlebaugh have, it is said, been transpiring several months. It is stated that Cradle baugh, who is an employee of the Federal Mining Company in the Mammoth Mine has disapproved the alleged visits by Walton to his home Walton, it is claimed, has disregarded the warnings of Cradlebaugh to stay away. Finally about a month ago, Cradlebaugh sent his wife to Los Angeles, Cal. About the same time Walton left here.;. With Mrs- Cradle baugh were her two sons, r one of whom she appears to have left in Los Angeles. Cradlebaugh became greatly shocked ; when- he learned that Walton had left .Wallace, and according to the common report, has made threats to kill Walton on sight Thursday last Cradlebaugh, it Is al leged, received a letter from his son Carl at Denver, and the next day he left here, repeating his threat to kill Walton on sight. .DENVER, Feb. 3.-Fred W. Wal ton, former grand master of the Odd Fellows Lodge for the State of Idaho, who was shot twice by John H. Cradiebaugn shortly atter noon today, died soon after being removed to the hospital. As he was dying, he .... i i gasped out: , 4, 1909 "That man thought wife." , According to the chief of police. Cradlebaugh called on him last night and told him Walton had run away with his wife. Cradlebaugh told the chief be simply wanted to recover his children whom their mother bad tak en with her-. Cradlebaught, who was arrested immediately after the shoot ing, refused to make a statement. INSURANCE DECISIONS. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3.-Judge Van Fleet has assessed judgements aggregating more than $500,000 ag ainst the insurance companies which refused to pay in full the insurance carried by San Francisco policy hold ers at the time of the big fire of 1906. In all 104 cases on the calendar of the United States Circuit Court and 88 of them were decided adversely to the insurance companies. The other suits were altered more time on the plea of the attorneys for the defen dant companies that they had not had time to prepare for the final presen tation of their cases. The cases re maining undecided involve $230,000. The judgment .was divided among three insurance companies as follows: Norwich Union $342,616; Williams burg City, $149,347; Indemnity $23,- 44. s .; . PRESIDENT 0! SECRET SERVICE ISIS DECLARES IT AGAINST THE SOUND POLICY TO DIS CRIMINATE CRIMINALS WASHINGTON, Feb. .-Declar ing that if the government is to act with full efficiency against criminals, it must have some kind of secret service agents who can act against criminals anywhere, said ! President Roosevelt, in a statement tonight, fhphatically reiterated his opposition to restricting tne new oi secret service. "Position of administration is," said the president, "That it is against the sound policy to discriminate in favor of criminals by discriminating against the use of secret service to detect and punish" them. President says that while restric tive legislation of last session did not apply in the slightest degree to nor mal functipn of th? service (detect ing counterfeiters), it did so subcur scribe the usefulness of these acted against the possible use of them in the large class cases in which they have been especially successful in the past.- The President says that these restrictions tied the hands of the secretary of treasury so to make it impossible for him to employ these men in many eases of wrong doing in those branches of the treasury de partment devoted to issuing and handling of ' obligations, securities and coins of the government. The President says' that, the administra tion contends that it should be per mitted to use the best means of crim inals case and when legislation is enacted which deprives executive of a particularly desirable and effective in vestigating force the government's interests, which are the' Interests of the people, are injured and the only gainers are those evil doers who es cape punishment. -Viewed in ; this light, the President declares that it is an evasion to answer that in one par ticular and circumscribed the field suppressing counterfeiting and pro tecting the President secret service activities ' are not affected by limita tion. The President a,gain says that if the government," is to have full efficiency against crimes it must have some force of secret agents who can act against criminals anywhere , and concludes by stating that it is against the sound public policy to discrimi nate in favor of criminals by discrim nating against the use of the secret ;rvice to detect and punish them. NO JURORS SECURED. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3. -No new jurors were secured today in the Calhoun trial. I stole hii nlnn All WE mm CLASH Oil Ei NOT IN OREGON. ( CHICAGO, Feb. 3-Small hats' and enormous hatpins are evidently to be the coming style. , Both ap peared upon the heads of thirty wom en who met last evening to form what the men might call a milliners union. The President, however, declared the meeting to be one of the National Association of , Retail Milliners. "We believe the dignity of millinery ar tists should be upheld by an organi zation." said Mme. Maere. Most milliners want $30 to $100 a week and expenses. Chicago milliners started the movement , - MURDERS WIFE WHILE! IN JEALOUS RAGE JOSEPH VIGUE BEATS WOM AN'S HEAD TO A PULP AND HIDES BODY IN CELLAR ' SAND POINT, Idaho, Feb. 3.-! Joseph Vigue, residing a few miles west of here this afternoon killed his wife during a jelous frenzy, beating the woman's 'head to a pulp with the butt of a gun. Vigue then dragged the body to the cellar where it was found by officers. He had been mar- ried IS years. The woman left six children. ' ' - 1 FINE SPECIMEN CAUGHT. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3. On the south side of San Clemente Island, John S. Hendrickson killed a remark- able sea lion. Hendrickson had been on the island about a week with Rob- ert Howland. During a storm at sea yesterday they saw the monster lion fighting its way to shore. As it step- their operations this spring, and also ped upon the rocks Henderson, shot to enable the raec tracks to open for it. It was jet black in color, which a short season. ; This claim Is corn is rare in southern waters where batted by the contention that it is most of these animals are tawny, and unprecedented, to put the emergency weighed nearly 1800 pounds. Great clause on new criminal, legislation, tusks protruded from its jaws and The race track , gambling discus the hair of .the mane was eight inches sion was resumed in the senate, later long. The lion measured more than in the day by the Introduction" of a sixteen feet and Ihe hide is said to be resolution calling on the governor to worth $500. ' enforce the declaring of pool rooms - . a nuisance- the- resolution was. re . WILL VETO. CENSUS. f erred after a heated argument to the " "r, . committee on public morals. The at . WASHINGTON,". Feb. 3-Presi- tempt to untangle the present ; status dent Roosevelt will send to congress of the anti-race track bill was post this 'week a special message vetoing poned until tomorrow. ' The senate the bill which provides for taking of today passed the bill without ppposi the ne?t census on the grounds that tion extending to parents, sisters and the president objects to the thou- minor brothers,' dependent for sup sands of appointments being made port on person killed by wrongful or outside the civil service. . fe. v' (Continued on page 6) t. MUCH DEBATE OVER AGRICULTURAL BILL Members of House. Have Hake Many WASHINGTON. Feb. 3-rThe gen enral debate on the agricultural bill in the house today afforded critics and defenders of the department of agriculture an excellent field day. Lever of South Carolina, led off with an attack on the appointment and work of referee board of con sulting chemists in the department, Heilin of Alabama, asked on behalf of the committee on growers before the- governmental monthly report on cotton. - -.-- - '- Sturgis of West Virginia urgSd the extension "' of the forest service. Humphrey of Washington took ex actly the opposite view, while Mori dell of Wyoming declared the bureau of forestry the most autocratic gov ernment bureau outside of Russia. J PRICE FIVE CENTS IIK BILL Dill CLAUSE Washington House and Senate Disagree POOL ROOHS MUST GO If Clause is Defeated Track Gambling Will Flourish for " Half Season SENATE WILL DECIDE TODAY House Insists That the Attempt to Defeat Cause is for the Pur pose of Holding Part Racing Sea son This Year. OLMYPIA, Feb. 3 Although both branches of the legislature as tne tesult of todays unanimous vote in the senate have adopted the house bill making race track gambling,! felony; house and senate are ? not agreed over the emergency clause, The house adopted thia clause but the senate rejected the entire emer- gency. ' The house refused the con- cur, contending this is equivalent to amending the bill, but the senate is insisting that the action on the emer- gency is not an amendment. ; The emergency clause has constituted the main issue in the passage ot the tmi since its introduction the claim being made that the attempt to defeat the lemergency was for , the purpose of permitting of pool rooms to continue Heated Discussion and Complaints Bartholdt declared for the water way improvement,' and Chandler of Mississippi complained of the tariff on agricultural implements. Chair man Scott of the agricultural commit tee closed the debate with a few re marks on the work done by the de partment during the last year. When the bill, under consideration of the five-minute rule,, the increase of $300 on the salary of Solicitor McCabe, making it $4500, was stricken out on point of order. ' , , The increase of the salary of Di rector Moore of the Weather Bureau from $5000 to $6000, suffered a like fate. Before the bill was taken up in a general debate, the house passed the senate pension bill for the fed eral judges.
