ojo JOURNAL CARRIED2.713 INCHES MORE ADVERTISING LAST VEEK THAN Gfic TrLLEGIl.I .. -4 Little i Ad brfHE JOURNAL Journal Circulation Brings Result. Costs Paly One Cent a Word. , . Yesterday JfJ The Weather Rain tonight and Wednesday; high southerly winds. r i ' VOL. VI. NO. ' 30. ' ,. v ' ; PORTLAND. OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL " 0, 1907. EIGHTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. fAlHfJiro,S i 7 At t X 1 "rr- 'm&r. r-rrT . iH I ROBBERS ARE ; Brianfai)dFefwdOrafbryMarfs Cosng or case ror wcrense. Retells Evelyn's Story arid Its Effect Upon Wrongs Drove Jhaw Insane , , - (ImI Special aerrlce-l . f ' ' Anrli aAttornev IX M. Delmas all day hsld crowded court, room spellbound by hie eloquence, aa lit ono of tha moat brUHant oration heard In Nw Tork, ha concluded hie masterful defense of Harry K- Thaw, charged with the murder' of Stanford -White. - Aarely hae there been ouch a Jam In court and eeldom hae a throng bean more carried away by the tnagnet ' lam and pereuaslveness of a lawyer's tisa a , r : ... ...iv .han tha attorney eonoluded his powerful appeal for the - . . i a "a.aa a.wA HMTMII lire OI nia unni. i v...... - iiturnn . Jerome will meas - . . lha atata. nnv iaMww aw. Attorney Delmas announced before ne entered court mat na ww "."11.: . , - i a mr than ever loaay. in- - - today. Harry Thaw appeared Orient and cheerrui. . me ',"" " ' 7 preaent. hi. alater-ln-law. Mra. Kdw.rd 1 Thaw, appearing for the firet time. On . opening Delmaa aald: . J,;- "I . will end the suspense of meny . : ... k. di.f.nu la eon- weeas, avziu wv - - j MraJd will nlace. this cnsa'ln your hands. He reviewed briefly what ne Zid to u!. jury r J"2 .could keep cloee to the thread of hla argument. ' us opvnew y.. . ' Miimmai and said: n v. , Ai Miajaaael. "May I bever see a high officer of the peopl Stand upon the teeuraony m a eonyloted felon, and aall 11 wea i to return a yerdlot that will make this young man's wire a wiaow. . .iw jt- t.n.a in vAr haarta. TOU 1 LIU WV ' a-- 7 - - know, that no human Imagination could .have lnTentea tne , awry you: that no aetreee day after day could T.-a. mtiA all ha trlrka known to law. yere to break downa witness, unless the story were true, now Try w u"p Ah. ainm Mkd rjin tha mind ox t Harry Thaw. I shalV prove -it from ' many eourees, , prove- It nrst in the words of Evelyn testifying to you ona aald: - ; : eteHs Svelyn's Mozy. , " The effect , of my statement of my . - t.a .rv tarrlhla. Ha said It muat have been frightful to think of me, so young and tenaer, in ins hands of this big. yellow brute. He kept biting Ms nails, walking up and down, sobbing and moaning. He waa not crying, but awful ooba shook him. He would cry out, "Oh Ood! - Oh God!" ."Tie said that no right-minded per son would blame we: that I waa only a poor, unfortunate little girl, but that In spite of what had happened he Intended to marry me anyhow. I told him It waa not right, beeauee White's friends knew. SEEK NORTH POLE 6lx Motdr Car Being Built for Dash Across lc ; to Froxen Polar Regions Each Ma chine Intended for Research. - (Journal Bpadal Barrlee.) ' 1 New Tork. , April I. Admiral B. 8. Osborn of the Arctto club Is authority : fof the statement that six eutotnobilee are being built here .-and abroad for Individual "dashee" to' the-north pole. " His secretary eays two of the care have been perfected by Dr. Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn, who once went to the far north with : Commander Peary A brother Of the doctor Is sold to hare " built the machlnea at Callooon, in thla '- state, under a closed shed, atray from , the eyee of the Inquisitive, .. The third automobile for exploration In the polar regions has been built by the order of Anthony Flats, the leeder ef the Zelgler expedition. which was ' wrecked in the tea In the winter . of It 01-04. Admiral . On born announced T thle feet and added that he was not at liberty to tell for whom the other three i sutos were planned, but sold they were Intended tor three different expedition The admiral pointed to a model of an ' automobile which hung In the club rooms and said;. . "Each of the lx automobile which Is Intended for polar ,. research was either Copied etter or Is an Improvement on that model up there. This model was built by a letter carrier In Alaaka. He hae a route covering hundreds of miles near the Arctto re glone and uses the automobile of which that Is a model. He navigates Immense bodies of water with tha machine, for It le a water traveler as well ss an Ice trotter. The revolving gear, which turns the rear wheels while the ma chine la on aollil tr or land, i fitted With bleflea wMi-li flrnp rtnwn and pro pet the craft - n .;ci -enter is en count'r' '. , Ifl AUTOMOBILES Prisoner's Mind. that they would sneer at him, and that It would hurt him with bis family. He wouldn't hear me, and renewed his offer of marriage, . "1 didn't think it was right and told htm I would go back oa the stage, that I would not tie him down. I wanted to marry him but couldn't. I loved bin too muoh to let him make that sacti. floe. I alwaya thought It waa my talh Ing this way which In part affected him so.; . . v . ' atllme Beaaiwlatioau. , ' M 'A sublime renunciation,' says the district attorney. ; It was . a eubllme sacrlflee for a poor ' girt, earning her Uvng by the hard work of an artlat's model and act rasa to -reruae a Men man's offer of' marriage. But I wtll ahow you by evidence that you cannot doubt that the sublime renunciation waa true, that It waa true that he proposed marriage and that she refused htm, end that this refusal waa the act of a noble. eaerlflclng woman. It -may be that man cannot rlao to the heights of aeliw sacrifice and self-abnegation, but, thank Ood. the Creator has placed la the nobler, mora -tender breoat of woman the power to rlee to thoso belchta v - . TWhen this power appeara In ' our daughters it beoomes ' the Joy of our homes, . When it appears far our' wives it becomes tha balm of our uvea.-'- Bona to Sublime XeJfM. ' 1 ' Delmas referred to Thaws letter to ZiOngfellew and eontlnued:' The genu Ineness of this letter la unquestioned. That It tells the truth la not denied. "Tee. It was a sublime renunciation. In her little but noble heart the spirit of self-saerlfloe roao and she said: "Harry, I won't drag you down.' I can't make yoa aa object at which every alow finger of soorn may point. I will be to you all a woman) can be to a man, but I won't tie you down. The moment you think best I will go back to my sad, dreary Ufa while you return to your own life, to your mother and etatera, while I drop lower, lower, until I dla appear.' " . - That's all, exclaimed Delraas. "She wouldn't become his wife because she feared she would shut him out from his mother and sisters and from that so ciety to which he had been accustomed. Men of sordid affaire may not rlee to that conception, but thle little girl did rlee to that sublime height." Street tTpoa Therw. ,' Then -the speeker went lata the great main theme of the defense the effect of Evelyn's story upon Thaw's mind. He said: ,...,., - "Consider the - fatal consequence of (Continued on Page Four.) LENGTHEN . TIME OF COAST TRIP Only a Few Hours Longer, How everRailroads- Not Cancel : ling Orders for New Equip . merit. ir , ; '.: V- : 1 ' ' (Joarael Speckit Be-rle.) Chlcagor-April .Western ; railroad ofdolala have practically decided upon new schedules for paaeemger tralna be tween Chicago and tbe PacUlo coast and Intermediate potnta. Tha schedules wtll no i oe lengxnenea as muon as was at Brat proposed. If the time now agreed upon la put into effect the schedule of the faateat train from Chicago to San Francisco will be lengthened from H to Tl hours: from Chicago to Denver. from 17H to II hours; from Chicago to Mlaeourl river, from It hours and II mlnutea te 1 hours and IS minutes. It. Is said tha. the cnangea will make little practical difference, except that the tralna will be on time at terminal Officiate of equipment companies eay that the railroads have not been can celing their orders, as reported, for equipment to be delivered during the current year. " There la no doubt that the roads wilt have argent demand for all the equipment they have already or dered. ' It will not be much more than sufficient to meet the shrinkage to which they will be subjected by the or dinary wear and tear of the year. Under the pressure that baa existed there has been no time for slight, re pairs when they were required and consequently much equipment will ulti mately ' go to the scrap heap which might have seen muoh longer life had It . received proper attention. ' All the equipment (companies are booked ahead aa far at next September and many are run to tne end or the -year. Moot ef them are In shape to ta.ke orders for rert year's delivery. Crders for loco-motlT- ju-t now appear to be more tir- ft t an f."-e for freight oar a. i 'V,:X. c.--., ' - ' 'V Binaaaaaa.aeuMateMaMaai Attorney D. Dal mas. FORCE PETITION BY f.lANDAMUS With Half the Names Stricken From McKenna 'Ordinance, Fight VVill, Now 'Be ; Carried Into Courts. : " ,:. -There, Is IlfTle , doubt of the fata of the McKenna 11.000 liquor Uoense and Sunday cloalag .ordinance If the check ing off of namea to the petition con tinues In the same proportion . as to day's developments. This morning's count shows that the -ordinance is de feated so far aa a aufflclent number of namea connnHg. r uiiy ev out oi 100 namea examined were stricken from the list as not being registered voters. However, advooatee of the measure have been greatly encouraged by the opinion of Judge Seneca Smith. Aa a result of hla opinion the Municipal as sociation will institute mandamus pro ceedings against the city auditor to force him to place the measure on the ballota should the petition be refused. Judge Smith contends that -the con stitutional amendment that a certain number of legal voteraMa sufficient to bring an initiative measure before the people holds - rather than tha'. McNary ordinance providing that a certain num ber of registered voters Is necessary. Aocordlng to Judge Smith's contention tha signers of the McKenna petition may be legal voters though they have not registered, . . . - . Carelessly ryea Addresses. ' Thoae who. circulated the petition aar that many in algnlng gave merely their street soaresses, railing , to designate whether they lived on the east or west side or whether their eddreeses were north or south on- certain etreets. As a result confusion ' has followed and there has been difficulty In finding the names and addresses In the registration book ' ' , - In ease tha McKenna' measure - le omitted from the ballots aa a result of the checking oft of namea during the Investigation now In progrees, . Judge Smith's advice will be followed by In stituting mandamus proceedings agalnat tha city auditor and the queatloa will be decided In. the courts. The Investigation of the namea to the petition wae resumed thia morning. Repreeentatlvea of advocates of , the measure and of tha liquor Interests (Continued oa Page Two.) ti. ROOT TO LEAVE THE CABINET Secretary bLState Reported to Be ; Given Harrim as Legatee of Roosevelt Mantle Cortelyou With Root ; (Jaareat "pedal gerrVeJ Washington, April t. It is reported that -Secretary of State - Root Intends to resign to show hla displeasure be cause the president dleregarded hla ad vice hi anme eaeea and Ignored htm In others. ' He did not favor the president's course regarding the Harriman letter. It le said, aad favored the president making a reassuring speech oa the rail road Question. Root la expected to re main In the cabinet only to , sea that certain measures he le Interested tn are carried out. Loeb declares that there la ao truth la the story. ' ' . - Another etory le that Root. la aald to recent the fact that tha president has undertaken to play favorite In the cabinet by the selection of Teft as the legatee of the Rooaervelt mantle. Root hae frtenda around the cabinet board and friction enough haa been gen erated already so that It haa become aalgoble te poliUalaaa , Nine Youths, All Under fourteen, Arrested for Complicity With Junk Dealers Had Organized Gang and Un ' sorewed Hundreds of Dollars " Worth of Brass Nuts From O. R. & N. Engines Were Sold ' tp Albina Junkmen. -' - A gang of undereised criminals, whose specialty faaa been to take full-grown locomotives to pieces and work tha brass fitting off on the market as Junk, have been rounded up by railroad de tectives, sheriff's deputies and proba tion offlcera Thla afternoon at I o'clock nine of the gang will be lined up In the Juvenile court and Judgefra ser will try to Induce them to tell tbe whole history of their exploits, Includ ing their connection with three Junk dealers who are alleged to have played the Fa can lit their Crimea All Under TaurUen. The nine boys range In age from f to 14 yeare-ahd all are residents of Albina. Ths Junk dealers also do busineaa In Albina. They sre H. Bloom of Williams avenue and Russell street, "Junk't Smith of 801 Williams avenue, and Jake Frey berg, a wagon man. - The flnr two are believed to have bought freely of the boye' booty, using Freyberg as a go between. - If the Inquiry .this afternoon does not develop the feet that a recog nised partnership existed between the Junkmen and the ooys tne oracere wno hare been working an the ease will be creatly euronsed. Bloom, Smith and Freyberg were ar rested thla morning and were enargea with contributing to the delinquency of minora. Each aeoured hla release by depositing ball In the sum of 1200. Heavy Brass Stole. . The evidence on file In the juvenile court against the boys consists df three colossal brass nuts,, such as are used in ths piston, rod gearing of the largeat locomotives. The nuts weigh 40 pounds apiece, but they were actually : taken from locomotives In the O. R. A It. shops In this city not from locomo tives laid permanently on the ahelf, but from locomotives In ordinary .running condition. ' The boys boldly entered tha shops, secured a monkey wrench of larga slse and, unobserved, unscrewed the auta from tha engines, put them la a sack and dragged them laboriously away. . Detective Kuey or. tne R. at N. Is responsible Tor the arrest of the boys and their allies, the Junkmen. Hun dreds of dollars' worth of brass fittings have been lost from the railroad shops during the past several weeks, and after a few days on tha case, Riley found his criminals. , ,. - t Boys Confess. r- : i-r Some ef the boys have made a partial confession. Implicating tha Junkmen. While driving about the streets of Lower Albina in hla ramshackle anc hors wagon. : Innocently ahoutlng. "Raga, bottles, sacks," Freyberg.. accord ing to the boy'a etory, wea really pay ing, most of his attention, to organising a gang ef child thieves to bring him his Junk, and at a very satisfactory price. The three brass nuts which were re covered are new and probably worth til or $11 apiece. As mere Junk they are worth from II to 10 cents a pound. But ths price paid by the thrifty Mr. Freyberg was only IT for the three. . Two Buildings Burn, , (Jearaal Special Serrtee.) Columbus. Ohio. April I. The Xts patch and Butler bulldlnga were burned thle morning. The loss to the Dispatch building was, 1100,000. ' The tout loos IZI0.000. ' Co rt el yoa. for -Instance, is aald to be one of thoae who are elding with Root and are willing to pat him on tbe back and eay that he la being , badly treated. Cortelyoa. although a young man, haa some ambltlona himself and eees clearly that under the preaent management he could never become president unleee be eoneented to wear the Rooeevelt collar. It Is believed to be only a. question of a little more time before Root will find It convenient to follow the ' lead of Shaw and retire to New Tork, and like Shaw, "await the. call of the people." Another thing which Is worrying the ambitious cabinet members la that the president haa fixed on hie policies as the only policies long before the meeting ef the national Republican convention. Some of the big Republicans are quick enough to say, privately of course, that they always thought that tha national convention made and adopted Ite own BoUc4efc and that thtv ware not liU Im CLERK COULD POINTERS John Bouillon t nd Wife. Ha Lived Like Week Salary. HEUir BADLY MIXED II! STORY Government Flashes ' Telegrams Sent Maysf Which He Stated Yesterday Had Not Been Sent 1 Contradictory Evidence. ' rWaihlactee Boreas ef The JeoraaLl . Washington, D. C. April . The gov ernment sprung a sensation this after noon In the cross examination of Blngar Hermann by reading the original tale- gram he sent to F. p. Mays from tbe general land office July It, 1101, say ing: "Fifteen patents of timber land en tries forwarded Roseburg office. I have recommended the withdrawal of the original Strawberry mountain, and later addltlona, to the secretary..: He hae approved the mm." Hermann admitted that he eent the telegram.- Asked by District Attorney Baker, why be eent the telegram, he aald: I wanted to Inform Mays, who wss Interested In forest reserves. I probably had a request from htm for Information.' ' - Baker then read Hermann's testimony of yesterday afternoon, saying that he never had communication with Mays regarding any land business and never knew that Maya waa interested In land matters In any manner, and bad abso lutely no dealings with Mays whatever. Pressed. Hermann developed startling contradictions tn ths statements today and those he made yesterday. Hermann explained the contradlctlona by saying that his memory was defective. The croae-examlnatlon now proceed ing Is remarkable for its vigor and a msatlon la Imminent. ' "1 acquired several 1 thousand acres of public lands while I was receiver of the Roseburg land omee from nil to 1171. I did not know that I was vio la tins: the law In doing so. I was not removed beeauee I acquired those lands. I wae removed because I worked for H. W. Corbett for senator. 'John H. Mitchell won the fight and had me thrown out beeauee of my activity for Mr. Corbett." old Himself Zaiada. Hermann made this statement on cross-examination, clearing up the con troversy- as to whether he had acquirea (Continued on Page Two.) advance by the "president... Secretary of War Taft for president and Governor Cummins of Iowa for vlco-preetdeot are the candidates for the Republican nomination next year who are favored by the administration, and by . favoring them the, administration haa developed friction within tbe cab inet. - Thoueh Roosevelt has disclaimed any. desire for.a third term, it le known that he does desire very much to see hie poli cies ef government carried out, and hae aelecte-1 the fat eecretary aa the Repub licaa who would adhere to them moat faithfully. Both Taft and Cummins are tariff revtstoalata Cummins Is a -firm fitend of Senator La Valletta and of Roosevelt. Senator foreker continues hla plans to block the president's effort to dictate the Republican nomloeea for next year rear I r ,h!o r and haa unlii oeriarel that the C fiv will s ta finish.,. GIVE RUEF ON GRAFTING a Millionaire Upon ?3 a GRAFTING CLERK A UIAIRE When Arrested for Soliciting r Petty - Bribe, Clerk Springs Surprise by Showing Deeds to ; Brick Blocks in Lieu of Bail; . ( (Special Dispatch The JooraaL)' New York. April . With a notebook filled with dates of religious events, living in a private mansion and owning half a dosen buslnees blocks, John Bull ion, a clerk In the tax department, waa arrested here this morning charged with having solicited end aocepted a bribe of 121 for exempting a corporation from paying taxes on personal property. Bullion was arrested at his deak tn the tax department with three marked bills In his possession, which he had Just received from the corporation. , He wae taken before Justice Barlow In the Tombs court, pleaded not guilty, and held in 15,000 bail. Hla wife appeared with deeds to three brick buildings on Second avenue valued at I12S.000. and Bullion waa released until next week. - The Hamilton Bulldlna comoanv had contracted to purchase an office build ing for 1400.000. and had paid 111.600 la cash to bind the. Bale, but the deed had not yet been executed..- Harry HaU, treasurer of tbe company. In 11a Una- the company's property for the . aaaeasor. waa unable to determine .whether - the 111,500 should be classed as real or car. aonal property, ne went to tha tax de partment and aakad for Instruction Bullion told him at once It waa ner- sonal property, the taxes on ..; which woufj amount to $180. Hall says that Bullion then offered to fix thlnge for m iw personal taxes wouia aot have to be paid.' and told Hall to come again at I o'clock. , HaU went back to hla office and com municated with the district-attorney. Detectives were sent to accompany him to the tax department and Hall ' re turned with two statements, one show ing that the company'- had pereonal property valued at llt.SOO and the otner placing the pereonal property at oniy (.6. He asked Bullion which to eign, ana uuioa told him the emaller one. , . . . -':..; - . a viera nen signed , nia i name as notary public, and was . paid 121 in marked bills, which he put. Into hie pocket Hall signalled to the detectives, who stepped forward and arrested Bull ion, ne men declared that ha was only going to. take his notary's .fee of 21 cenie irorn toe amount and was about to give the change, amounting to $24.76 Among tha papers found oa Bullion's desk were applications from a number oi oiner corporationa for reduction In taxee on their pereonal property. In his pockets, besides the-marked bills waa found a notebook. When thla was taken from him Bullion protested vigorously, saying that be could not oonduot hie choir services Sunday with out the book, which he needed ao as to send notlcee to the members of the eholr. Bullion Is ths organtat. . Bullion's salary In the Ux department -i.su v a year, less tnan one . fourth ef the amount of the taxea he pays on real estate. His total holdlnss are said to amount to more than $ 1.000,000. He hae two daughters, who are married to the eons of millionaire WAGE DEMAND HALTS V BUILDING AT BUTTE tlutte, Mont, April . The refusal of the mlllmen and contractors to grant the demand rf tlie carp-nlers end ee merit workers f-- increased par haa preolt'lfntM r-rsct'raiijr . a hulldine par'. ri a t-''t el n'tnr-a gel- : - ' i , v , 'I th I i m',. I r i h-r t i n fits v ': 1 - - . ......, tt Whole Pages ot Signa tures Upon Wagnon Free Water Petition Work of Individual Law Not Complied With and Pe tition Full of Cross Irregular . ities- Several Pages Signed by Some Person in Pencil and ; Others by Another In Ink. One man,' the secretary of the plumb ers' union, signed f ivs pages of the Wagnon free , water Initiative petition with namea of the members of the plumbers' union, and aent the paces in to be recorded. by the Vity auditor. Ac companying ths names he sent his affi davit as follows, written at the bottom of one of the pages: . . ',To whom this may concern. I, the secretary of the plumbers' . union, waa authorized, to copy these namea and send them In. Signed, . C. 3. Qulnn. , .Passed by CounoQ.' Although the city council has passed the Wagnon petition In spite of various Irregularities in Its construction, and It is now ready to be placed on the ballot. It has been discovered that the petition Is fined throughout with groan Irregularities of signature. Five pages were filled out by the secretary of tbe plumbers' union, in ink, and in addition to this throughout the pages are to be found- large bunobee ef names which have been signed by soms person, all the slgnaturee being made in tha same hand and with the same pencil or pan... Several pages are, signed - with an in delible pencil by thv same person, other pages are filled either entirely or in part with signatures In Ink, written by the same person, and , others still tn common lead pencil, the writing all ap parently by the same writer. This fact was known to some of those who objected to the petition, but has not been made public so far. Tha chief objection to the petition, how ever, as argued before the council, was that the signers, in a great many in stances, did not give their precinct ad- drees or their street numbers. Fage after page of the petition bears sim ply the word "Portland" at tbe top and ditto marks following down to show that the signer was a - resident and voter of Portland.. , WO! Oo ITpoa Ballot. It la not probable that the discovery of the Irregularities In the petition will affect It now that the council has de cided to allow It to go upon tbe ballot. but the cloee examination of the docu ment baa disclosed that Its lrregulsvrl tles are auch that, had It been checked up, aa Is being dons with the McKenna ordinance petition. It would have shared the ssme fate that la now confronting that measure. -The-Wagnon ordinance, by the action of the council, wtll be placed on the bal lot, but had It been aubjected to exam ination It would to all appearancee have been found that It does not have genu ine signatures enough to gtva It stand ing ander the Initiative law. T BMI1D CUPID Details of Matrimonial Cam . paign ' by Noble Englishman to Find Rich American Girl for Wife Spoiled by Love. (J-ermat Special BW,k-. . New York, April . f inanced for a matrimonial campaign tn New York, tn which he was to match a proud name and an ancient lineage asalnst millions In American dollars. Captain AlosnncW Elphlnatoa of the Kings Own Knval Lancaster regiment of England, con fessed in ths Tombs this mornJng that his failure was due, perhaps, to an un avoidable and uncontemplated happen ing. The captain fell In Inve with a little milliner, "who haa not a shilling to bless herself with." aa he declared Never before from the Hps of a prm ctpal tn an International matrWuoni 1 enterprise has the cold-tlomle, i. i of the pursuit of the American h ur -been revealed aa waa done ry (Ma I n i aome young Englishman. "A man In my regiment vVi-e tn- I aha.ll not dlvultce." seM he. "f.rt.t rested that he put no tti., m -m- eulp me f r In America, a 1 waa atM-ftr I tU!r1r-,1 pt,r.: po k -t a. A inn t n : nori I 1 tr.e flr- ( .1 r: "I l.-l- SOUGH El