Lrfcji Results Costs Only
One Cent a Word.
The Weather Occasional rain to
night and Wednesday.
DETWILEil
IDE
L
MysteryjoiTHis Where:
abouts Causes Heney
and Burns to Worry.
No Word From Egypt
Wife of Indicted Telephone Mag
v nate States That Husband Is
En route to San , Francisco to
Face Accusers but He Falls to
Appear. : '".l. ,
" (Jmritl IdmUI a.rrlse.1 '
Sao, Francisco, March ! The In
creasing mystery surrounding , the
whereabouts of A. K. Detwller, the
missing capltallat and promoter of the
Home Telephone compear, la beginning
. to cause Heney and Borne much anxiety,
Conflicting reports from Toledo are the
- principal cause of the Reeling which ft
added to by the failure to receive re-
" plies to messages sent to Egypt, where.
' according to authoritative information
the Ohloan Is -located.
A dispatch from Toledo quotes Mrs.
Detwller as saying:
"Mr. Detwller and! myself arrived In
Toledo last Friday night and Detwller
left at once for Ban Francisco ' I am
not acaualnted with his business con'
nectlons and cannot throw any light
on the matter for you. '
"We received no reports of any In
dlctments except through the newspa
pers. I can state that -neither Mr. et--wller
nor myself were in Belgium or
Cuba during cur trip. ; We were In
Egypt and Mr. Detwller returned wtttri
ma" ..-. . . . ; . "
Moneys ronUse scade OooaT
Heney'a promise la fllfllled, for the
.law fell heavily last night upon one
of the "big ones- with the arrival
"of the Paclflo Coast Steamship com
panys Bute of California from Los
Angeles, bearing Louis Glass, against
.' whom nine Indictments had been found.
Glass was the first capitalist placed
. under arrest for bribing public offi
cials. J .
Bhsrlff 0"NeU, who had been wait
ing all day for the arrival 01 uiass,
met the State of California last night
at : o'clock and quietly placed the
indicted official of the Paclflo Tele
phone company under arrest. An hour
later ne was reiessea on uiv
.Heney decUres that this Just starts the
good worn ana u mew n
marred other and bigger fish will be
landed In the net. -
".'' Bigger run to Oaten,
- aT. K. Detwller, the Ohio promoter
who la said to be on his way hsre from
Toledo to face the ehargee against
him, will be arrested on arrival, but
' even he la aald not to be the biggest
fish the net will catch. One of the"
aubjecta that wlU soon occupy the time
of the grand Jury Is the relations of
Thorn well Mullally. assistant to Pres-
" ident Calhoun of- the-Unlted -Railroads,
and - Tlrey L. Ford, chief attorney for
the company, to the corruption which
seems to have reached everyone con
nected with the overhead trolley fran
chises. ' Mullally has been emphatic In
his denials of the reports that he was
in any way Involved In the graft scan
dals. Hs Is equally insistent In his
A
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BARGE HAWSER M
SHAPS HI GALE
Atlas Loses Her Tow, and Big
; Oil Carrier Is Seen Wallowing
In - Tremendous Seas ;rand
y Flying Signals of Distress. S
Officers of the oU tank, steamer Ar-V-'gyle
resort that when off Cape Blanco
on the war from Ban Francisco to this
pert lsat Friday the steamer Atlae loot
. her tow, barge No. 1, while bringing
her here from the Bay City. A terrlf lo
gale was blowlnz and the Immense
hawser snapped from the heavy attain
" of the oil-laden barge.
- The Argyle arrived at the IJnnton
i tanks yesterday and discharged her
I cargo of oil and then left down the
- river. bound for San Francisco. She
sighted the Atlas and the barge Friday
afternoon about IS miles from shore,
the barge flying signals of dlstreea and
,, laboring fearfully in the heavy wester
ly aaa. The AUaa stood by, ready to
put another haweer on board of the
barge as soon as the weather would
. permit The rale continued In force
nearly all Saturday and Sunday, how
ever, so It is doubtful if the tow wss
picked up before yestsrday, if at alL
" No word has been received from the
two vessels stnos sighted by the Argyle.
but It Is believed that tbey rode out
the storm In safety. Offers of assist
ance from the captain of the Argyle
wre declined. ' -
The Atlae 1 well known here, having
been la the oil trede on the coast for a
long Urns. Bhe left this port February
to on her last voyage smith snd croaeed
... y,mr the fnllnwln dav. She
rnrrles a crew , of about 10. and the
NINETY. YEARS OLD TODAY
:" ' " '
Kt John ' Flyntf. '
r.lIUISTER KEEPS
HIS HEALTH At
'" . .... -. . . ' . .
fJHlETY YEARS
Rev. John Flynn, Pioneer Metho
., dist, Believes In Clean Living
. . and Plenty of Real Exercise
Every Day In'the, Year Tells
of Early Days of Portland.
. Early rising Is a thing that It la fash
ionable to praise, but not to practice.
Perhapa that is why all eld men prac
tice It, because they have got past car-
lag for fashion. .
Rev. John Flynn, who Is celebrating
bin ninetieth birthday today, gets up
aS o'c'ock every morning, end thinks
lfiatJiels ' thus fulfilling- the Lord s
win. For It Is divine " Ikw that' man
should be strong and healthy, and Mr.
Flynn. with his 10 years, is a splendid
example of ripe, healthy old age. Many
youngor men might .well nnvy.hka..
And his prescription Is: "Plain food,
and plenty of It: lots of air and exer
cise: early- and- regular hours: a clean
body and a clean souj." -- -- ,
- Tjbaff Orosn-OonntiT Bans. '. '
.Mr. Flynn Is a devotee of exerotsa
When a younger. Mr. Flynn' came here
last year and formed his "Hundred-Tear
club." In which he had all the ministers
of the city prancing around the country
over hill and dale in pursuit of rational
health, this olid minister was one of the
most enthusiastic members, and In the
long -cross-country walks he was not
the one that brought up the rear.. And
he has kept up hla gymnast to exercises
for years; and when you ask him If he
la athletic he throws out hla cheet and
expands It slowly, and throws his srms
over his head, snd smiles delightedly as
bs touohes the toes of hla boots without
bending hla knees and with the facility
of a college gymnast
. Mr. Flynn is Justly proud of hla rigor
and accredits It to rational modea of
living. - He has never Indulged In smok
ing, chewing or drinking. He seldom
drinks coffee, though a llttje cannot
hurt one, he thinks. He Insists on plain,
wholesome food, and hs wants plenty
of exercise. He was a great horseman
In hm day, and boasts of having ridden
around the - country on - horseback at
least 110.000 miles. - His walking feeta
are In the same class In proportion.. -Bldea
Spirited Morse. .
Only a fsw days ago "a neighbor
brought a spirited horse to Mr. Flynn'o
door, and the old man, when laughingly
dared to ride It, Jumped on agilely and
rode around the block. And another
requisite to health la cold water, be
saya. Every morning he takes a cold
plunge, and In hia younger days he need
to be a regular frequenter of the swim
ming pools. v
Last night tne Metnoaiat ministers
f the city, and their wives gave a
dlnnsr at Watson's restaurant to the
veteran minister and his wife and
about . 40 guests gathered around the
board. There were old men there con
nected for years with Oregon history,
but Mr.- Flynn. eould look . down
upon tbem with the superiority "of
years. Dr. C -C CUne ' and Dr. L 1 D.
Driver. In their eighties, r were spoken
to by him ss boys. For Mr. Flynn Is
the sols father e Methodism In Port
lands All his companions In- the esrly
work, hate gone to the .great beyond.
m Oharoh I Carpenter Shop. ' )
Mr.-Flynn. came to Oregon in '1150
as a missionary sent by the mala con
ference In New York.' He crossed the
Uthmus, partly, on foot that othera
might ride the -mules, and arriving In
San Francisco, which thsn consisted of
a few frame buildings, he embarked on
the Oregon, the first steamboat that
came up, the mouth of. the Columbia.
With him were Rev. F. S. Hoyt and hla
wife. Dr. Hoyt was the first pres
ident of Willamette university at Sa
lea and la now living at' his old home
In Ohio. Here he met Rev. James Wll
burn, - ths only mlnlstsr In Portland,
who was Just building ths Taylor
street Methodist church, a little frame
building. On the day It was conse
crated Mr. Flynn preached the sermon,
the second sermon preached In the
first church In Oregon. Three ether
ministers assisted la the services, but
all thsse are dead. . At that time there
was no school house In Portland, there
were It bouses, and church wss being
conducted In an t old carpenter shop
situated somewhere . near Third , and
Waahlngton. ..,:.,'. '
All Ore' the Ooesi.
Mr. Flynn went from here to the
upper valley and sngaged In mission
ary work at Salem and Yamhill and the
surrounding oountry. He has been In
work all over the cost mors or Jess,
being for a time In the original Oregon-California
Methodist conference
which was later divided to make the
Oregon oonferenoe and that , later td
PORTLAND, OREGON. TUESDAY EVENING, ' MARCH 26,
to Finn out
TRUTH ABOUT
Judge Fitzgerald to.Ap:
point Lunacy Com
mission 'to Examine
Prisoner's Condition
Trial Will Be Delayed for Weeks
' Pending; Decision and May Be
Summarily Ended Attorneys
: for Defense Confident of Final
" Outcome of Examination;".
(Joareal special Service.)
. New Torlc March II. Judge FUs
gerald this afternoon announced that
he had decided to appoint a lunacy com
mission to examine Harry K. ThaWs
present- mental condition. It Is ex
pected that the alienists will take a
week to study ths case and will not re
port for some time, after, thus delaying
the trial Should a decision of Insanity
be. arrived at the trial will stop and the
prisoner be sent to Matteawan. ' - -
District Attorney Jerome Is confident
that the commission will find that
Thaw is suffering from paranoia, which
la Incurable. The court's decision Is
regarded as a blow to the defense, At
torney Dslmss.' however, expressed him
self as confident that an examination
would clear Thaw of the charge of In
sanity. ;
Judge Fltsgerald named aa a commis
sion to Inquire into Thaw's sanity Hon.
Morgan J. O'Brien. Dr. "Leopold Putsel
and Peter B. Olney. '
When tSeJury"rec7Snveestb6fTOW
the members will be excused, subject
to further call. The lunacy commis
sion will file it report before the Jury
Is called, together' agalWTry.-M.r ..- -.
. Justice Fltsgerald evidently does not
want to take upon his shoulders the
responsibility of ordering the trial of
a man whose sanity nas on queeuonea
to proceed without having a commission
pass on hla condition. Tbaw'a lawyers
believe the snowing tney nave raaue,
backed by an examination of the de
fendant will result in a report de
claring ha is amply able to advise his
attorneys. In such an event it la gen
erally admitted that Jerome has. put
himself In a bad position to go before
the Jury and 'plead for the conviction
of first degree murder of a man whose
sanity at the time he committed -the
killing he has declared he questioned.
WOMAN LION TAMER IS
ATTACKED BY ANIMAL
Wichita, Kan., March H. Prlnoe, one
of ' the largest lions in eaptlvlty. at
tacked and probably fatally wounded
Miss Polly Castle, a Hon tamer, at a
performance in a local, theatre here last
night - The audience was panic atricken
and rushed from the theatre while at
tendants entered the cage and clubbed
the lion Into Insensibility with crow
bare before the unfortunate young
woman waa rescued. - X
In The Sunday Journal's
Great
Beauty
Contest
The Prizes Are: ' v.
First . $75
; .Second $50
Third . . $25 '
. Help the Sunday
Journal find the most
beautiful woman in Ore
gon, .wf.. : t ; v'
L Surely the Chicago
Tribune must have made
a big mistake when it
proclaimed Delia Carson :
of that city as the fairest ;
of American women.
The most beautiful of
all beautiful Oregon
women must be found.
Send photos of all
your beautiful friends, ,
barring actresses and;
professional models. All :
photos accompanied by .'
postage will be returned.
Address Beauty Edi-
tor, The Journal.
ROOSEVELT'S COU SIN SUED
FOR $100,000 DAMAGES BY
WOMAN SHE TALKED ABOUT
HOMO'S LOVE LETTERS
TO HER OWN SISTER ARE
MADE PUBLIC IR LAWSUIT
(Joarsal tpeHel lerrlee.) -Nsw
Tors, Marcli St. Sensational de
velopments sre following fast in the
bitter legal right waged by the families
of John 2. Roosevelt, a cousin of Pres
ident Roosevelt, and Constant A. An
drews, preatilent of the United States
Savings nana, one or tne aeveiop
ments has been a $100,000 suit for
damages brought by Mrs. Hannah M.
Klemme, lormeriy nouaeaeeper anu
nurse In the Andrews home, agalnat
Mrs. Roosevelt for slandsr.
. Andrews has a lawsuit pending
against the Rooeevelto to secure abso
lute control of the property or hie wire,
Mrs. Roosevelt's sister, who Is In an
Insana asylum, S
- Roosevelt has susd to curtail An
drews' powersonihe ewmmltteeon hla
wife's estste. "
Frank Klemme of Philadelphia la su
ing his wife for divorce, naming An
drews. x" i
Mra 'Klemme had her husband ar
rested for non-support -
Andrews' attorneys. In defending the
divorce action, produced letters written
br Mr. Roosevelt to Mrs. Andrewe, Mrs.
Roosevelt's sister, declaring they were
love letters.
Mrs. Klemme' Is suing Mrs. Roose
velt for 1100.000 for alleged slander In a
published Interview.
THOMAS WOULD
......
BE CITY'S MAYOR
Chairman of Central Democratic
Committee Coyly Awaits the
Pledge of Support of Labor
Unions Before Coming Out.
Oeorge H. Thomas wishes to be a
DemocraUo mayor of Portland, and will
enter the lists against Mayor Harry
Iene for the DemocraUo nomination,
provided he can secure the support of
the labor Interests of the city.
Mr." Thomas, aa chairman of the coun
ty central committee, has had much to
do with the canvass that haa been mads
for nominees for the office of mayor,
and It wss to blra thst Mayor Lane sent
his letter Saturday afternoon stating his
Intention to become the canaiaate, pro
vided he eould gala the support of the
Front au suriace inuicwne tng
straw votes which have eo fsr been
noted, the strongest sentiment among
the Democratic organization seems to
be for Msyor Lane and hla candidacy.
At the meeting last night of represen
tatives of the Young Men's olub, the
Multnomah - Demooretle - club -sad -the
county central committee, the Lane sen
timent was Muon in ins majority. Dur
ing the evening it was repeatedly shown
that Lane had many friends In the meet
ing. This Is true of the majority of
the members of the county central com
mittee. '
' The question Cf Indorsement was not
called up at the meeting last night, ths
committee members holding that they
hsd been appointed to urge men to be
come candidates, snd not to Indorse
men j who were announced candidates.
The county central committee will be
called In a ehort time to consldsr ths
candidacy of at seeking nomination for
city office, but until that Ume no In
dorsement will be given.
Awaits Vnloas Action.
County Chairman Thomas Is vacillat
ing between a desire to run and a quee
tlon of expediency. He may run and
then again he may not If the one re
maining Intereet he wishes to back him
doee not come to his aid. ,
"It la being snld on ths street that
you are a candidate for nomination for
mayor en the Democ ratio ticket." Mr.
Thomas was told this morning. "Is ths
report truer . s '
. "1 will be a candidate for the nomina
tion," said Mr. Thomas, "provided I can
be aaaursd of ths support from a cer
tain quarter which 1 think any Democrat
eould expect to receive. If I get that
support I will be a candidate.'
"What Is this support you are wait
ing fort" Mr. Thomas was asked, but
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fflCER FID
$35 in COURT
Steward of Steamboat Owned
by Well-Known Navigator
Tells Cameron ; of Beating
Received. While In Bunk.
Captain' B. W. Spencer, clubman, bon
vlvant, mariner and one of the leading
lights In the contemplated movement
to raise a fund to bring Franola ; J.
Hsney and William' J. Burns to Port
land to Investigate graft In this com
munity, -rubbed elbows j with., the hoi
pollol In the police court this morning
while awaiting trial on a charge of as
sault and battery prafsrred - by C.
Cooper, a steward on the steamer
Charlea R. Spencer. '
Spencer was arrested last Saturday
evening on a warrant Issued upon com
plaint of Cooper, who alleged that the
steamboat owner had, without provoca
tion, viciously assaulted him. Bearing
the tell-tale marks of Captain Spencer's
pugilistic proweee on his countenance.
Cooper appeared In court, accompanied
Jiy Attorney Fouta Prior to ths ca li
ng of ths ease, however, Spenoer en
tered a plea of guilty and no testimony
wae taken. ''
Judge Cameron after Uetenlng to a
brief statement of the clrcumstancee ef
the affair from Cooper and examining
ths scars received by the defendant In
the encounter. Imposed a fine of Mi
on the doughty river navigator.
According to the story told to the
court by Ooouer. Captain Spenoer, eon
aiderably under the Influenoe of liquor,
and accompanied by another freeh wa
ter navigator, boarded the steamer
Chas. R. Spencer early Saturday morn
ing. Unaware that hla employer con
templated securing sleeping querters on
the boat, Codper, In order to have the
quarters of the crew thoroughly cleaned,
had Installed all hands la staterooms
on the upper deck.
Owing to this fart hs wsa unable
to furnish Captain. Spencer and his
guest with lodgings, whereupon, save
Cooper, the former became belligerent
and attacked him. Contrary to the
rules prescribed by the Marquis of
Queenebury, Spencer did not wait for
Cooper to arise from his bunk, but
according to the complainant, beat him
while prostrate. It ie understood
that the enraged mas then started in to
clean out the entire crew but was fi
nally "pacified and Induced to leave the
steamboat.
Bank StatetnrmtJ Demanded.
Joeraal Sreetal srrlre. I .
' Washington. March JO. The comp
troller of ourrency has called for bank
statements showing their condition at
the close cf business en March 11. -
wist eg vr it ii dusaaas
KILLED MOTHER
IN FIT OF RAGE
Oakland Man Confesses to Mur-
derlng His Aged Parent Be-
- ' cause She Asked Him for
- Money- Choked Her.
. (Joarsal Speclat semes.)
Oakland. CaX, March M. -Early, this
morning, after tour hours of sweating
at the bands of Detectives Hodgktns
and Flynn. Erland H. 8odsrberg con
fessed to the cold-blooded and brutal
murder of hla aged mother, Mrs. Martha
B. Sodsrber. In the kitchen or their
home M ill B street. North Oakland,
Saturday night. It was a vision cf his
crime which came to him as the officers
cf the law narrated the awful deed that
brought the tale from the cowering
criminal. With horror clutching at his
heart he told It alL.
"Tea. I killed her." he aald at last
broken by the relentless crosa-question-lnf
- of the . detectives, af tsr they had
pictured the bloody deed. . "I came home
Saturday night about 10 minutes sfter T
o'clock." hs continued, land stayed
around the house all evening. . 1
-"About o'clock X had a dispute with
mother. She wss always nagging me
for more money and told me I did not
give her enough. I called her names and
we had a terrible quarrel. I became so
angry that I did not know what I was
doing. I grabbed her by the shoulders,
shook her and threw her to the kitchen
floor. . Bhe screamed for help, and I
choked hsr. '
- "Then I grabbed a small ' kitchen
knife that was lying on the table. She
struggled frantically and I out her sev
eral times la the abdomen and en the
leg.
"Then I fainted away. When I earns
to I waa lying in a pool of blood and
her dead body was lying beside me, I
picked up the body and got soma towels
snd washed the blood off It aa much as
I could. I then wrapped it In blankets
and stood It up In a oloset" , -
CHURCH SCANDAL IS ' '
, FINISHED BY MURDER
(Joenwl Bperte Bei ee.)
Springfield. I1L, March . Mra Mot
ile Gibson, divorced wife of Elmer
Glbsou, wss shot and killed by Peter
Clark here yeaterday afternoon.' Clark
and the woman he murdered had been
ejected from the Presbyterian church
after a scandal. When she was shot,
Mra Gibson was rending a letter from
her hueiien.l In which ha aaked a re-coni-lllntlun.
C'Inrk surrendered hlm
srlf. He h1 mi1 threats prevloHtiy
that he i'llr.g to kill the womaiv.
WAY
AD
MAY
Y.M.C.A. Workers Visit
Chinese and North
EndPawnbrokersand
Get Real Money
Net Results of First Day and a
Half of the Everybody Gives
Campaigjn Is Nearly Thirty
Thousand for the Building
Fund of Associations. ; ' '
Amount secured from noon Monday :
to noon today. lll.J0l.71. ' . .
Amount reported at noon .yeaterday, '
t,l4. . ,;:Jf. .,.
Amount raised at breakfast yeatsx
day morning, ts.100.
Total about 121,000, or nearly a third
of the amount needed to complete the .
1110,000 building fund. -
The report at noon today of the T
M. C A. workers was the moac encour
aging from first to last of any that haa
been yet given. Every committee far
exceeded Ha total for yesterday and
what waa the high water mark at noon
yeeterday waa less than the committee
average today. T. B. Wilcox increased,
his $5,000 donation to 110,000. which
materially helped, and Wad ham a A Co.
aa a corporation gave 11.000. The rest
of ths big total reported at noon to
day waa secured by bard work by the
100 solicitors from hundreds of people.
The odd cent of the total reported at
noon today was the last and only cent
one man' had who isaw the committee
coming too late , to dodge. ,
- Afte the Pawnbrokers. - '
"Ttwas a pawnnop and Chinese tnorn- -Ing
for the T. M. C. A. workers. Most
of the territory assigned yestsrday had
been covered before noon and the chair
men were Instructed to take their men
to the north end.' The district being
canvassed today la that bounded by
Stark and Burnside, streets and by Bev- .
enth and Second. Down Second street
went the committees, trying to make
the Chineas understand that it waa
money that waa wanted and trying to
Induce a pawnbroker to alga a pledge
himself. . .
The utter consternation that cornea
over the countenance of the average -pawnshop
maoeger-when-ke- finally- un
derstanda that these young men before
him do not want to pawn a watch, but
do want him to give them -money, real
money at that, and algn bis name to a
pledge In the bargain, tneebeolute won
der and voiceless smaae he shows Is
considered one of the features of the
campaign by the men who have been tn
this dlstiiot today. .
" SUrfce Than Sxpeeted.
The result of the everybody gives
campaign so far la all that waa hoped
for by the executive committee. The
hundred solicitors have secured more
pledges than waa hoped in some of the
unfavorable districts already canvassed
and there la not a discouraged man In
the hundred. An average of 111,000 a
day for six dsys means the securing
of the $0.000 needed to complete the
building fund and after a day and a
half of the work the totals show that
the average Is being kept up to.
It waa not expected that when the
men were new to the work and before
the town really woke up to the sit
uation ths general average would
be up to the 111,000 mark, but at noon
today ths total subscriptions for the
first day and a half of the campaign
was nearly 110,000, with promieea in
sight thst will probably boost this to
tal several notches higher. . -
(Continued on Page Three.)
TAX PEOPLE FOR
RErMllllu SINGLE
Clarkston 1 Councilman Intro
duces Ordinance Compelling
Unmarried , Persons , to Pay
for Each Year of Age
(Special thaaatPB e Tfte !erat.t
, Clarkaton. Waah., Maroh 11. The re
cent action of the Fort Dodge. Iowa, city
council on the merrlage question will be
duplicated, here If the wtahea of Coun
cilman S, T. Ramsey, a bachelor ef 44
years' standing, are adopted by othr
members at the council meeting to he
held tonight Mr. Ramsey has outlined
an ordinance which he will prrernt for
eonsldsratlon.
. His plsa la to Impose an annual tas
an every unnierrled male over 2 yeare
of age and on every unmarried fmnie
ever 11 years ef ere, the tax to be 11
for every year of the iellniueoi'e se.
Although a bachelor.. hlmslf, A. r.
Ramsey thoroughly believes In the m.
liage tie and while he mlKht be oi.e t
the unfortunates, he won I I. owing I
the preeent depletes eon.llu.'O f t .
olty treasury, be perf tly i
par hla proportion.
Ikdll.t Ix'ins exr,'''"",' 1 ' ' '
atltutlonaliiv cf i. i '
charHrtprr' ' !
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