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7"! , - Srr i '. . This Ium ! . The Sunday Journal ; ; - , , ' Comprises . "',) v'jV' 5 Sections 58 Panes Journal Circulation Yesterday Was , r -Tha . weather Occasional ;: fain;. southerly winds., . , V ; ;"'-; VOL IV. N0. 9.', t V PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY, MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1907. , PRICE FIVE CENTS. ' . v i ill a mm isr "V - at- wr . .sr-m sw- i . .tiw'"?'jwx - , f a -aw rw jf m m m mm h DECWRE&MNOCEMEWHEN MRESMDm VANCOUVER ASSERTIONS 7 laughs as if Not Aware of Seriousness of Situation- Does Not Appear to Feel Any Remorse Mandelay and Radding Out on Bail. WOMAN PROTESTS HER INNOCENCE. i Mrs. Belle Waymire is under arrest at Vancou ver, Washington. The woman was taken into cus tody by Sheriff Sappington on orders from police headquarters at Portland. Mrs. Waymire had been stopping at the Columbia hotel. When interviewed Mrs. Waymire declared that she was innocent of an attempt to blacken the char acter of Mayor Lane. She said that she would try to prove that she had never plotted to make trouble for the mayor, but during her conversation she appeared to have had her story well framed for the purpose of convincing those who questioned hefthat she was f telling the truth. The testimony of other persons in the case is conflicting wi HMhat of the woman. 4 At midnight last night L. L. Man- delay and E. . Radding, the two alleged to-conspirators . with Mr. Waymire racceeded In raiaing the bail required to eciire their leaae. The bond waa fixed at $500 Jn each caae and Mandelay fur nished $800 CAflh of this amount and Radding gave' the remaining $200. Attorney Seneca Fonts for the prisoner declared that as soon Mrs. Waymire reached Portland he1 could arrange to secure her release on bail. He aaid that be had never seen his woman client and advised her to remain In Vancouver until today, so that lie might talk with her over there. ( MIRERS IF! CITY Covington and Burilson Escape Seattle Police by Few Hours Supposed to Be in Hiding Here Stopped at Davis Hotel Few Days Ago. With a contemptuous laugh as her only answer to the charges of attempting to blackmail Mayor Lane, Mr. Belle way mire waa arrested by Sheriff Sappington of Clark county In Vancouver, Waih Ington, last evening. When an officer from Portland went over to Vancouver last night Mrs. Way mire declined to return to Portland without extradition papers and she will be allswod to remain in the custody of the Washington officers until tomor row morning. Mrs. Waymire has been stopping at the Columbia hotel, Vancouver, since Thursday night, the evening of the sen sational scene in the office of Mayor jjane, during which Mrs. Waymire ana ner alleged conreaerates attempted bMmirch the mayor's. reDUtatlon. Yesterday she was located by The Journal, and afteolffivlng it an exclu sive interview, in 'which ahe declares that she has been greatly wronged by the charges against her and asserts that she can show that the mayor has not - told the truth In Tils account, of the af fair, she waa taken in custody by Sher iff Sappington. Peeks Through Doorway. A knock at Mrs.- Waymlre's door in the Vancouver hotel yesterday, after noon brought forth the sharp Inquiry "What's wanted" ..in rather uncertain tones through the open transom. ' When Mr Waymire was told - that she herself was wanted she opened her room door-just enough to reveal a wo man of perhaps 26, petite and with a most attractively rounded, figure, a head crowned with a great mass of golden brown hair and a face, the prln cipal feature of which was the eyes, larre. brown and exoresslvs. If the charge of a conspiracy against Frank Covington and Charles Burll- eon, ths two men wanted oy m Well ington authorities for the murder! of Mrs. Agnes Covington, the wife of the former. , nave been tn Portland for the past few days, though Covington la supposed to have left the city a lew hours ahead of the detectives from Seattle, who wars on .his trail. Coving ton and Burilson are the two men Im plicated In the "trunk murder" of Alkl Point in which ths dismembered body of Mrs. Covington waa found floating in a trunk in the bay. Covington appeared at ths Davis ho tel. Clay and Water streets, on Thurs day afternoon and after staying a Short time left the house but returned dur ing the evening and remained part of the night.' He left during the night or early Friday morning and had been rone but a couple of boura when two Beattis- detectives arrived In search of TRUSTS ARE IT TO BE ABOLISHED Hockefeller Declares That Corporations Are Friends of AVbrkingman and Time Is Coming When They Will Supercede Banks. Industrial Combinations Are Here to Staj Believes Present Laws Are Wholly Adequate to Deal With Dishonest Magnates.' (Continued on Page Tsd.) FEMALE YELLOW PERIL ARISES i Chinamen, Have No Use for Women's Clubs and Suf frage Movement. the mayor -are true the men behind the plot could not nave pioxea a more cesir-1 ame Dait xor weir game. "Well, what Is it V she said. "Mrs. Waymire. The Journal wants you to give It your story of what nap- "Well, I'm not going to givs it! snapped back the little woman. ' "If I want to make a statement later f '11 do Continued on Page Four.) (United Prcae Leased Wire.) , Hons- Hong. Sept. 28. The newest peril here, according to the authorities, Is the "Chinese new woman." So great Is the fear of it that a native writer with wide Christian Influence was pub licly flogged today for inculcating western ideas of independence among women. .". . After many thousand years or . nia- den existence the women of the em- ?Ire are beginning to make some claim o the privileges of existence, but of ficials are determined to check tne movement and prevent any show of female Independence. la Canton the police sre enforcing an order prohibiting females from be In? aerved In tea houses and restaur ants even when attended by men. The Proclamation .also prohibits women rom Rambling and heavy penalties are provided. Orchard Case Continued. (United Pry teased Wire.) Boise, Ida., - Ifept 28. Harry Or- charp was taken to Caldwell today where he appeared In the district court ana bis case was continuea xor a term. Orchard was accompanied by Guard Ackley and Deputy Warden Mills of the state prison. SUM CRUSHED IN AH ELEVATOR ! John Edgehill Caught Be tween Floor of Cage and Door Casing. (United Press Leased Wlr.) New Tork, Sept 28. His ribs crack ing one by one, John Kdgehlll, an ele vator operator, was slowly crushed to death today in the lift in a West eighteenth street apartment house. Edgehill left the car for a moment to do an errand on the ninth floor. In stead of coming to a dead atop the car slowly ascended, and the operator, returning, tried to crawl between the floor of the car and the celling. He became wedged In the crevice ana was killed by the car, rising so slowly that us motion was almost imperceptible. John D. Rockefeller Is the poorest man M the world physically. He the richest man in the world financially. He makes money so fast that the very minutes work for him. Recent developments in the Standard Oil cases have made It a matter of court record that John D, has an income from Standard Oil of $42 minute. Forty-two dollars minute or $2,520 per hour, or $64,480 per day. future: 772,800 per year. There are Other. interests which materially Increase this estimate of John P.'s annual drawdown. By Willam Hoster. (Hearst Kcws by Longest Leased Wlrs.) Cleveland, Sept. 28. From the Idyllic retirement of Forest Hill.- John D. Rockefeller on Thursday gave this message on the economic "My faith in the future is bound less. We are but in the infancy of our economic development, which must proceed, as it has followed during the past 40 years, the line of consolidation end cooperation. ."If you ask me particularly what think of the future of the busi ness corporation or trust, so-called, I say that my faith in the Standard Oil company, for instance, was never greater than it is at the present hour. It has a future that will far transcend its achievements of the past. So will all the great industrial corporations. I II --iV fS&ZC st:. ' III y ' ' -' ;- r COUNTESS OF WARWICK WHO ARRIVED IN NEW TORK YESTERDAY ' . - Z W W III EXB RACE Shoots Through East River Belmont Tube at Mile a Minute. (Continued on Page Two.) (United Press Leased Wire.) New York, Sept 28. Racing far be low the bed of the Cast river from cremation or suffocation in the new Belmont tunnel a party of IS men es caped so narrowly today that several were obliged to beat the flames from their clothing when the car in which they were making a trial trip shot from the Long Island end of the tube. The car took fire from the overhead trolley rail. The motorman turned on full speed and the car covered a mile In less than a minute. Its motion fanned the flames to such an extent, however, that a three-foot hole was burned In the roof as it sped. Hicks-Chatten Engraving Company Sued by Mrs. Rose Parker, Wife of Army Officer, for $50,000 foHTs ing Her Likeness in Advertisements. Mrs. Rose Parker, wife of Lieutenant Hugh A. Parker of the, regular army, well known in Portland society circles, and a daughter, of Mrs. J. N, Sutton of 784 Hoyt street, yesterday afternoon "-fllefl suit w th Circuit court for 150. 000 damages from the . Hicks-Chatten Enrravlng company, alleging that then t company had used her photograph in a ' magaxlne advertisement without her consent. . ; (. . -, vl , ... , . . - ) " It Is charged that tths company Lss cured two of Mrs. Parker's photographs and used them in advertisements of the f company's business, which were-printed 'in the Pacific Jtfonthly magazine in the months of December--February and IMarch. . -- I Mrs. Parker knew nothing, of ths use f her likeness by the cdmpany. she iays, Until . mi saveruaemenia p- xiarea. ens ny. ww nwvr ivuiiii iuu- llclty. was never - oerore ine puDiio in rty way, imu hc.e f. m. wmwij ,ie right to use bpr photograph. - lone alleges mat bud, uig wu. d Ii ofiloer or me regular army, nn ip Xivf with her husband to the differ- army poets In ths United States and the various islands to which he is ordered.- The use of her Dhotos-ranh waa a wrongful invasion on the privacy of her life. It la alleged, -bad caused unfa- voraoie comment everywhere she had to go, and had a tendency to bring her into disrepute among her friends and ac quaintances generally. "Mental aUigulsh.v sorrow and chagrin are alleged by Mrs. Parker to have re sulted from the publication, damaging her to the extent of 850,000. Lieuten ant Parker i new stationed In Cuba. He went to that island about five months ago from - Fort finelling. He waa for merly with ths Twenty-eighth United estates inrantry in ins rouippines. XO IMIIOTEST I'OE . BAERIM4K EETUENEB -;'v. ; (Colted tPrsss , Leased Win.) - yaahlngtan, D. C, Sept 28 Ths de partment of Juatlce authorised ths an nouacement tonight that to Ha knowl edge. E. II. Harriman had not been In dicted in San Francisco in the rebate cases against the finuthem faoifio and eON FIGHT COST T OF WAY HIGH Government Rebukes Gug genheims by Granting Rival Concessions. (United Press Leased Wire.) Washington, Sept 28. The govern ment's answer to the fatal assault by the employes of the Guggenheim Inter ests upon those of the Alaska Horns Railway company, over a right of way through the Keystone Canon, a mili tary reservation In Alaska, was the dis patch today of a telegraphic right of way to the home company. This will enable both concerns to reach the new copper field which the Guggenheim ln- icresis iriea to seal up. General Greely. commanding the de. partment of the Columbia, haa been In structed to prevent further bloodshed. BEAUTIFUL WOMAN VISITS NEW YORK MULCTED VIC OF HUNDREDS T. S. Howard, Manager of Willamette Cream Com pany, Robs Prominent Firms and Business Men of $1,500, Then Vanishes. Lived in Lavish Style in Ele gant Apartments Busi ness College and Advertis ing Company Heaviest Losers Through Con. Man4 , JIN UNEVEN. BALANCE; WILL THE SCALES GO HIGHER? , V (tTnltsd Press Leased Win.) New York, Sept 28. Ths Countess of . Warwick, one of England's beautiful women, a friend of King Edward, noted Socialist despite her titles and riches, arrived today on the Cunarder Campania. "I shall stay only a fortnight" says tha countess, "and I wish It were but two hours. My visit Is purely social." T. S. Howard, manager of the Willam ette Cream company, haa left Portland. m f MflH. ...... I . I ' firms out of money amounting any ' where from 81.600 to 15,000, and a war rant will be sworn out for his arrest' this week by L M. Walker, secretary of the cream company, for embesslinftV $11. . Howard left Portland September 14, - oatenalblv tn m tn T sm 1 n mU. but it Is believed be has gone to Hone- - lulu. He had telegrams sent to him at his apartments, stating that his mother was dangerously ill at Los Anaelea. but an examination in the telegraph-of floes showed that no such telegrams wars ever received. : , Little is known of Howard save that he comes from a a-ood famllr in Naar Tork. where he la said to have a wealthy uncle and several brothers. The woman who posed as Mrs. Howard Is said not . to be his wife. She is known to hare oome from Denver, where ahe worked In -a shirt factory. She is described as a . beautiful, modest yosng woman, who Is not believed to have known of How ard's crooked deals. The couple lived ' In the fashionable Wellington Court apartment bouse. 621 Everett street. Van of Great Attainments. ' Few men have come to Portland, set ' up so good an appearance and fleeced cftlsens of the Rose City with the) ' aplomb and Skill Howard did. He ot talned credit wherever he aaked for It. and when he could not get credit he waa -not loath to reach in and help himself. -He hss the reputation of knowing mors men in more cities of the world than any other man In the world,, and can manage any business from tinned goods to cooklnsr Philadelphia aauab on toast, . He has a marvelous memory and a won derful grasp of detail, which makes him an expert in any branch of business. Howard came to Portland last sprinc snd went to work for the Beaver Stats Hotel Supply company in April J. W. Thompson, manager of the supply com- f any, met Howard and the latter asked ' he manager for a position. Mr, Thompson employed the man and stated last night that Howard had lain awake nights for six months trying to think up some plan to rob him, Howard even went so far, said Mr. Thompson, t as to try to break open the cash door drawer In the supply company's of-' '. flee In the Fliedner building, aa well as to break Into me safe. - 1 Catches Drug firm. " " ' Howard lft Portland two vtka ut yesterday, but the day before leaving he . . caned up Keaci & .Bates, oruggists at 494 Washington street, and ordered a "wedding present" for a "friend" in ths shape or an expensive dreas suit case. The drug store does not carry dress suit fnnpK hut nnt waa ordered from ai - wholesale house costing $4S. This was filled with toilet articles, bringing; ths total cost to 65, and then turned over to Howard. Howard went away the next day without paying for ths suit ' case. . 1 Howard went to work for the Willam ette Cream companv about two weeks : before he left Portland. - Behnke and . (Continued on Page Four.) Daughter of Wealthy Kansan Walks Into Back Yard and Is Found Dead a Few Minutes LaterShe Was Never Engaged and No Motive Is Found. , (Hearst News by Longest Leased Wire.) Iola, Kan., Sept 28. Miss May Sipp, the beautiful daughter of John N. Sipp, a wealthy man who lives with his fam ily In the little town of Moran, 10 miles east of here in this county, was found dead, with her throat cut in ths back yard of the family home last night There appears to be no reasonable ex planation of the cause of ths deed. . The townspeople ars divided in their theories regarding the caae. . Some as sert that it Is a case of murder, while others say it could aa well be suicide. Miss, sipp : was an unueuauy pretty young woman, one naa aamirera, nut none who called upon her so constantly that It could be termed a love affair. She was 2S years old and In excellent health. Because she had -not so far as anyone- knows, -ever been' engaged, ' she was regarded? as ratner a peculiar gin, when her wealth and beauty were taken Into consideration. At dinner last night the young woman chatted -with her father and mother and appeared to be Id the best of spirits. Later the father i want down to ths postooioe tor tn main and ths mother busied herself about ths house. The daughter stepped out into the backyard. It was about 1:20 o'clock. -She had not. according to her mother, , been gone two minutes when she. hoard a soream of "Mother, mother I" - - The mother rushed Into the yard and found her daughter lying in a pool of blood. The daughter apparently waa dead- when tre mother reached her side. At first nothing was found, but later in the night, about 10 feet from where) the body lay, was found a raior which bore the firm name of Montgomery Ward A Co., ..Tha raior was closely . a mined, and here ths mystery deepen. There . Is no trace of, blood upon tho handle or blade. This was s great sur prise to the coroner, who had arrived ay short time before, and the thortta be gan speculation upon the palilttty e tha murder, if It was murder. The coro ner says it ths cuts were small - on ther' would not nfteeiuitrilv leava trai T on the blade, but whr tne !tr throat waa cut severing uA the vaina, it would be) sure to stain tiio blade or un . handler ;- ' . The murder theory Is wli sualslri 1. however, because the tloui.: of n young woman were torn auI m e I been cut upon ths bands as if a, mi -, (l had occurred, . ,