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I ' , . v.- THE LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE UNITED PRESS, COVERING THE NEWS OF THE' WORLD, AND LEASED SERVICE FROM SAN DIEGO TO, SEATTLE, Covering the News Up and Down the Coast, BEGINS IN THE JOURNAL-TODAY ii '' v-v-.,'.' Mi WHEN YOU NEED MORE HELP I Advertise in the Journal ;-; A ' ' I . I I I ... i i I V v r Help Wanted Columns ; The ; WeatheivPalr ; tonight and tomorrow; northeasterly winds. Journal Circulation Yesterday iii VOL. VI. NO. 155. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 10O7.SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. STAX&B, mi 0MTi if f yi BR STOLWiLl BE. REMOVED TIOM IJSTRICT ATTORNEY IS TO BE AT NEXT DROPPED CONGRESS Open Hostilities Between President Roosevelt and Senator Fulton Will Cease Hundred Defendants Who Are Still Untried Will Never Be Brought to BarHuge Political Deal Prosecution of the Oregon land frauds is at an end. With over SO Indictment still pend- lnr and over 100 defendants still un tried, the government has tacitly called off the dogs of war. Francis J. Honey, the most redoubtable prosecutor who ever came to Oregon, and William J. Burns, the famous sleuth, will come no mora, to this state to carry terror Into the heart Of violators of the land laws. .: ' TTntt.il fltnte District Attorney Wll Ajif "ft -."VtriatoL boon whose shoulder ., the mantle or Heney was ta fall In the further oonauot or tne prosecutions, is slated for retrieval from office and his , political roes are aireaay eageriy oudhi lnr the choice of a successor. No incumbent of the office has ever worked harder or more zealously than Bristol but when congress convenes next December he will be without a friend in the Oregon delegation to urge hie continuance fn office and there is the strongest reason to believe that President Roosevelt will not even send in his name to the senate tor reap polntment. Bristol Must Oo, When Bristol was placed In office it was with the distinct understanding that he would continue to hold it until the land fraud prosecutions had been disposed of in the trial courts and to this plan President Roosevelt was supposed to be definitely committed. But powerful political Influences have been at work ever since Bristol's ap pointment, with the twofold object of ousting him from office and prevent ing the resumption by Heney of the prosecutions. With the presidential campaign close at hand, it is believed that Roosevelt has abandoned Bristol to his fate. The bitter feud which existed between the president and Senator Fulton is vir tually at an end and amicable relations have been reestablished. Fulton has : been after Bristol's scalp for more than a year and he is now actively aided by Bourne who expects to name the next appointee to the office. And Roose velt is expected to acquiesce in Bourne's choice. It was not easy to Jar loose the bull dog grip of Frank Heney, but this, too. has at last been accomplished. It is a year since h tried the Blue Mountain case, the last of the land fraud prose cutions In Oregon to be brought to trial, and ever since that time rumors Jiave been current from time to time at he was soon to return ana resume tnWytork of sending -offenders against 1 the land laws to the penitentiary. But the months have slipped away and still he did not come. Xsnsy Stripped of FOwe. The explanation has at last come to light. Though willing and anxious to resume the proseputlons. Heney found himself suddenly stripped of the means to carry on the fight. From Washington came the significant information that the department Of Justice had no funds with which to carry on the trials. Then Heney found that his own charges for me services aireauy renuerea in past land fraud cases hnd been hung-4ip in definitely. It he 'resumed the prosecu tions, Jt wouia ds wun me strong prop ability that he would not receive a cent for his services and might even find himself Without the aid of the secret service men ana land agents who have played so large a part in procuring the evidence In past cases. In a word, the munitions of war had been withdrawn. - Inspector T. B. Neu- hausen, formerly assigned to the duty or aiding Heney ana Bristol in tne firosecution of the land frauds, has been nstructed to confine himself to the ordinary duties of his position. He no longer occupies offices with District Attorney Bristol, his headquarters hav ing been removed to the custom house building, and his corps of special agents now devote their attention solely to the routine examination or everyday land office business. Evidence Is Badly Scattered. Much of the evidence upon which ending indictments were based has een scattered to the four winds of heaven. Some of it is in the posses slon of Neuhausen, some Is in the hands of Heney and Burns or Irvin Ritten house. some of it is held by Bristol. But scorces of witnesses whose testi mony would be essential have scattered to other states and the task of bringing them back would be an enormous one. Amona- the more noted of the men who were indicted by Heney are ex- Congressman Blnger Hermann, accused of complicity in the Blue Mountain frauds; R. A. Booth, formerly president or the Bootn-Keiiy isumoer company. and John Hall, former United States District Attorney. There are many more of lesser note, but there is no likelihood that any of them will ever be called upon to face trial. If the improbable should nappen. ana they should be brought into court to meet the charges of the Indictments, it ill be by some new prosecutor wno knows not the ways of Heney and Bristol and who will have to find out for himself on what evidence the In dictments were based. milhj wn mi ii un u i ii ii ii il l iiiiu h-h i i iiuii m i il i ii o n it ii.iimmnmm iii,.iii,iii)iiih.iIi.ui.h n.i ... iw nu.nii i h"Ki':;i;?:.: .wir V;:: :! 'l!?srkl f I till "tl j-'lf : U Ik t:iJ,W '?'!' 2 . .. ... ,v,.;.. ..,.. mmw - i i::?w;?K!?:?::( i i " r. ....v.................-..,.,.:-:. . ... inr"r77. r ,Ti- 4 VIKING SHIP ARRIVINQ WITH QUEEN HARRIET AND ROYAL SUITE, POSTAL RECEIPTS BREAK RECORDS Last Month's Stamp Sales JShow Great Increase Over Same Month Year Ago. Portland postal receipts continue to increase from month to month and the stamp sales for August were $48,692.67, an Increase over August 1906, of $4, 709.96, or 10 7-10 per cent. August Is considered the dullest month of the year in point of stamp sales and the receipts this year are exceedingly grati fying to Postmaster Minto. The sales would have been much larger Jt month had an order for about $7,000 worth of privilege en velopes' been filled by the department at Washington. This order was held up for some reason and could not be count ed In August sales, but will count in the September figures. Had the en velopes been Included in last month's sales the per cent of Increase would have been the largest e-er recorded in any August in the history rt the Port land postofflce. To one who visits the local office every day the Increase 1n business Is very noticeable. - Lines of people are in constant formation before the stnmD and delivery windows. Clerks on duty are busy from the time the office opens until It closes, attending to the wants of the patrons. This condition held true in August, despite the fact that thousands of Portland ers were away from the Rose City on vacations. TEACHERS MAY LOSyiACES Maxhirie Politicians Angry at Pedagogues Who Lis tened to La Toilette. MAKE A PRICE FOR FLOUR Situation Firm With Prospects of Advance to $3.90 a Barrel Shortly, Which Would Be Record for This Season in Fully Ten Years. Export flour is today selling at the highest price for this period of year for Over 10 years. The 10 cents a bar rel advance which was put on the price yesterday advanced the value to $3.80 a barrel. Knowing ones In the flour market predict that within a very short time the price will be advanced another 10 cents a barrel, making the prica $8.90 w the highest on record for this time . t. year, nd the highest for, any part of the season for fully 10' years. Never before, has the flour situation been so firm at the start of the year as it this time. The situation Is an eye opener even to the veterans Of the busT nes WhO havo seen some high values In their days. In some seasons there have been high values at the start of the year, with slumps in prices lster on, but this year will likely prove an ex ception to the general rule, for there la every prospect at this time that not onlv will the n resent nrice be main tained, but that the value will be added to as the demand from abroad grows heavier. Ho Mow Shipped Tst. . The milling fraternity believed last season, when the high mark of flour values was made, that it would be many a season before it would be reached again. Today, before a single barrel of new flour has been shipped, the price has already reached the high est mark of last season, and the season is Just starting. What the market will POLICEMAN MURDERED BY DRUNKEN CROWD (Pacific Coast Press Leased Wire.) San Francisco, Sept. S. While at tempting to arrest one of three young roisterers at 4 o'clock this morning, Po liceman Ed McCartney was shot in the throat and instantly killed. The mur derer and his companions escaped. (United Press Leased Wire.) Pittsburg, Pa., Srpt. $. Effort are to be made, it Is said, to discipline the Allegheny county school teachers who Thursday crowded around Senator -Robert M. La Follette to hear the closing part of his speech on "Representative Government," after he Bad been driven from Carnegie's Musid hall, where the teachers had assembled, La Folletee's attack on machine poli tics angered Superintendent of Schools Hamilton of Allegheny county, who is a machine man. Several of the teachers fear that efforts will be made to drop them from the rolls. Machine politicians will see that Senator La Follette's advice to inform school children fully of the methods of the trusts and their Influence on repre sentative government is not adopted in the Allegheny county schools. ' Several members of the school board are In favor of adopting La Follette's ideas. There will be a clash between these opponents of machine rule and other members, who are strong organ ization men, at the next meeting of the board, when a resolution denouncing the treatment to which La Follette was sub jected will be Introduced. UNION FARMERS AT LITTLE ROCK TODAY (United Press Leased Wire.) Little. Rock, Ark., Sept. 3. Hundreds of union farmers are in attendance to day at the national convention of the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative union. Over a score of states are rep re Hen tod. Many important problems vi tally affecting the agricultural interests of the country will be discussed during the sessions of the union. The union is most perfectly organized In the southern states, where, with the South ern Cotton association, it praotlcally controls the price of the fleecy staple. OFFUWSTOGA Cake, Coe, Mulkey and UTlen Smack Lips at Sena-torship. Harry M. Cake is after the toga now worn by United) States Senator Charles W. Fulton, and will undoubtedly make public announcement of his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the office within a few days. While Mr. Cake himself will neither affirm nor deny this statement, the affirmation Is made by close friends who allege that the race has been decided, upon and tne course of campaign mapped out. Mr. Cake stated this morning that he had been closely considering the ques tion or his canaiaacy ror some time, dui as yet had not reached any aenmte conclusion. He said that until he had canvassed the situation more fully he did not care to make a positive state ment. It Is taken for granted !n political circles, however, that Mr. Cake will enter the battle within a few days and will at once commence an active cam- raign for the nomination. Already here are two known and certain candi dates for the office, and several who are hovering In the edge of the shadow. Senator Fulton is out for renomlnatlon and reelection and has about completed an extensive tour of the state In the Interest of his candldacv. At Corval 11s not Ionr ago he outlined his posi- doing practically laid down the plat-1 people. lorm upon wnicn ne win go Deiore tne ILaflU U Ut lL : FROM OEMm MtioirlctiisiPOPr DECISION IS Supreme Court Reverses Rul ings in Referendum Cases "ancTl'copTc Will Pass on the University Appropria tion. Sheriff Stevens Defeated in His Fight to Retain the Feeding of County Pris oners Anti-Pass Bill Also to Be Submitted to Vote. (Special Dlipttcb to To 7oanaL) Salem. Or., Sept. S In all three ref erendum oases of Robert L. Stevens va F. W. Benson, John F. Logan vs. Sec retary of State F. W. Benson and Eu gene Palmer and Cyrus H. Walker va Secretary of State F. W. Benson, the decisions of the court of Marlon, county wef ' rvmd today by the supreme court, and the people will ballot on the three bills. AU three opinions rendered today were by Judge Kaktn. xnese tnree oases were the result of referendum petitions presented against -Pass Dill, the bill for the rni. latlon of sheriff's fees in boarding of convicts and the state university appro- None of the petitions had the warn. lng clause at the head provided bv law. and the petition against the university ipropnuion nao pan or tne title ol e act omitted besides. On the svlca of the attorney-general the secretary of state filed the first two petitions on the ground that the warnintr clause was not absolutely essential and he refused to file the third on account of the omla. slon of part of the title. Suit was brouaht by Sheriff Stevens enjoining the secretary of state from Verbal Skirmish Engaged In When Yuma Valley Kick efs"Askhat Resolutions Be Reported to Convention at Large. I - 1 . 'I California Delegate Sidea -With President ChambejV" lain Gifford Pinchotl r ' Scores Laiity of Publia Land Laws. filing the petition on the bill concerning the feeding of convicts and the case was decided in his favor by Judge Qalloway ui us circuit court or Marion county. John F. Loxan. the real author of tha anti-pass bill, also brought suit against tne petition against that bill and also won the case. Both tnese decisions were reversed on the ground that the legislation concerning the warnintr clause was only meant as an aid in carrying- out the provisions of the act and was in no respect mandatory. The Palmer and Walker vs. Benson case was a mandamus suit brought to compel the secretary of state to file the petition against the university aDnro- prlatlon bill. This wfis)lost in the low er courts, but today snon before the su- reme court, bo tn petition will be lied and the law be referred to the neonle. Frederick W. Mulkey is also out after the tora with great earnestness and 1 iret tin ir his friends and supporters into line for the campaign in the coming spring, w. b. u Ken, ratner or tne in ittatlve and the referendum, and pro moter of the corrupt-practice act, is one who is supposed to be planning to break into tne ringr at the proper time, though as vet he has held aloof from any state ment to that effect. Dr. H. W. Coe Is also supposed to be tossing political straws into the wind in an effort to de- (Continued on Page Three.) IttTTTTT f f f f f f TfFfffff W V WWVf ???f f?f f TTfl 4V (Continued on Page Two.) HARRIMAN RECEIVES WHILE IN PAJAMAS tarifl Coast Press Leased Wire.) . ' ? Medford, Or., Sept. . E. H. Harrl man held a pajama reception In his special carjihortly before S oWekjrats " mOrnitig. greeting Mayor Roddy and other leadlng cltlsens who were on hand ' to inform , the railroad , magnate con , earning ths richest rogion on the coast ' ilarritnan -was. pauch interested, aad asked for literature giving a descrip tion oftho Rogue river valley. He promised to Jnake an extended visit here next summer and go bear hunting wltfe hie-- 4n the Aeeiekata eeunt-v. tsehere he was promised plenty of sport , - nurrinwn was accompanied oy J. u. Farrem, who left him here to Inspect the oaI mines around Mdfor4 iater returning; to ths aorUu. -, , f j i - . - i 1 1 . , - i JOURNAL SERVICE tiOW BEST ON COAST Today The Journal for the first time offers the public its new full day leased wire service of the United Press. This announcement is of the greatest importance to the people of Oregon and the north west, because it means that The Journal's readers A to have the greatest news service of any afternoon newspaper in the Oregon country. 44 By this latest and best addition to The Journal's features a new era in Pacific coast journalism is begun. It means that everything that happens on the Pacific coast from San Diego in southern Cal ifornia to Seattle on the north, including all the territory tributary to each, is 'carried by a leased wire directly into The Journal's offices on the day that it happens not the day after it happened. The United Press is the only service on the coast that is able; to offer its subscribers any such service. It is the only news gathering association on the coast that even pretends to get Pacific coast news for Pacific coast readers. By it headquarters have been established in every city of importance on the coast in San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. , Between each of these cities a trunk telegraph line a leased wire controlled absolutely . by the United Press and the newspapers taking its service, is operated. This wire has its own operators -men who afe paid the union scale of wages that is now demanded by the telegraphers of the Associated Press and which that company.. refases to pay. This means that The Journal's operators are the best men that cah be found anywhere and it further means that there willbe no interruption of the. service by strikes or any other cause. But unrivalled as The Journal's new Pacific coast service is to be, it is not thereby neglecting its eastern news reports. At the same instant that the new coast-long leased wire went into service a new and unequalled coast-to-coast leased wire began sending its news from every point in the United States and every world center on the earth into The Journal's office, In the eastern pair of the United States alone the editorial staffs of more than five hundred of the best papers in the world are Working night .and day to see that everything of interest to Pacific coast readers and to the people of Portland and Ore gon is collected and sent exclusively over The Journal's new leased wire to this paper. Nothing can happen in-New York or Washington or Chicago, in Paris or London or Berlin, but l it is gathered and sent immediately to The Journal. And The Journal publishes it the day that it happens. No other paper in Oregon caa begin to equal this service. The best they can do is to publish a ' part of the news on the second day when it is no longer news. The afternoon oaners with the Asso- X dated Press service are so slow that competition is practically eliminated, , even in eastern serviced r -ms aeouwu4n is an gpnsiva-4na t 4S making -r na-journal ona f Ttne-inetcostly papers in the west, but it is in line with the paper's policy that nothing too good for .The Journal's readers and tnat ine journal must oe Kept tne biggest, ongntest, oest newspaper in uregon. Creek Indian Crosses the Divide. (United Press Leased Wire.) Vlnita, I. T., Sept 8. General Pleas ant Porter, chief of the Creek Indians, aged 66, died here this morning follow ing a stroke of paralysis. (Pacific Coast Press Leased Wire.) Sacramento, Cal, Sept I. The first clash on the floor of the national ir rigation congress between the Turns valley ."kickers" and, ib friends of tha reclamation service occurred this morn-. lng Immediately after the- 2,000 " as sembled delegates had been, called to) ,. order by President Chamberlain. , A disastrous skirmish for, the kick- era They were squelched before they were fairly started. Delegate Mathew Dougherty of tha Utah delegation led the "kickers" fight He took tha floor ' and demanded that the resolutions which are to be nresented to tha reso lutions committee be first reported t the convention at laree. President Chamberlain thought such action was not necessary, but Dougherty was in sistent Delegates Baker of California came to Chamberlain's relief. aVeported om Title. "Let the resolutions be reported nv title" he suggested, "and then If there is to be any debate it can ba carried, on after the resolutions committee re port." . This was ordered and Dougherty re- -tired. Oifford Ptnchot of the forestry depurtment was then introduced and ad- dressed the convention. Mr.'- Pinchot said in part: - i "We nre in the habit of speaking of ' the solid earth and the eternal hills aa -though they, at least, were free front the vicissitudes of time and certain to furnish perpetual support for prosper- ; ous human life. This conclusion ia aa false as the term Inexhaustible' applied to other natural resources. Tha wasta , of aoli is among the most dangerous of all wastes now In progress In thd United States. . , , Enormous Soil Wash. In 1S96 Professor Shaler, than whom no one has spoken With greater author tty on this subject estimated hat lit the upland regions of the states south. of Pennsylvania, 1,000 square miles of soil had been destroyed as tha result of forest denudation, and that tha de 1 structlon was then proceeding at tha rate of 100 square miles of fertile soil per year. r . . "No seeing man can travel through the United States without being; struck! (Continued on Page Three.) ONE MINUTE FOR Acting Police Conrt Judge Disposes of One Hundred and Twenty-Two Cases in Becord Time No Court Held for Three Days. . ;.'" For rapid dispensation of justice. Act ing Police Judge V. K. Strode holds the world's record, having tried or oth erwise disposed of 122 cases In 122 min utes in the municipal court this morn ing. The exceptionally large docket was due to the fact that there were" no sessions of the Oak street "Justice foundry" on Saturday. Sunday or yesterday. As the result of the two hours and two minutes of strenuous, rapid-fire Ju dicial interpretation of tha laws made UI1U va, v v kva vva v , j vhub J aSW WVQlf enriched to the extent of I47S from fine and forfeitures. Every character of cas from drunknness to assault with a dangerous weapon appeared On tha Mo ter. Tha manner in which th magis trate, who is temporarily sitting in th place of Judge Cameron, disposed of tha various cases puts him in tha front rank of eligiblea for the police Judge Jhip In the event tha latter Is success ful in his fight for gubernatorial hon ors. ; ft U drivers who were arrested for leaving their teams untied on tha pubilo streets, in violation of the ordinance, 29 were assessed 13 costs apiece, eight forfeited t$ ball apiece, and seven cases went eyr until later In the week. "As there was no moral turpitude in. volved in any of these cases," said Judge Strode, "and tha fact that tha (Continued on Page Thirteen.) WOMEN BARRED FROM STANFORD 'VARSITY ,- (Paclflo Coast Press Luted Wire.) ; ' Stanford University. CaL. Sept, A number of senior - woman who 1 at tended tha university last semester and whore,turni.iftQ. Jala, to register this year, hav been- refused entrance, on the ground that the limit of taa had m I peen reacnen ana that no more women could, be admitted until s"ne rr 1 J ) t ) ( out i As a coLte'iufcuca . cU atu ... . ,. h . have been placed On the waiting ltt. Considerable :" criticism has 1. aroused by the1 fact that to or f senior women have h.i ft enoimrh freshmen t i " register to t, l t- ' ' " Th rul'.' i : ' wom-n ah.... verii i -v ' I V i
