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m Best in the Oregon Country JOURNAL CIRCULATION YESTERDAY WAS , 29,620 Ui Th Journal's Want Col umni to get results. The weather Occasional rain to night; cooler. VOL. VI. NO. 242. .PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1907.-TWENTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. &Blwri$PSil AUD CASES W1L NOT BE PROSECOl f 1 I I L 1 1 T L C"l ' rfV , W 'W iriiv ill I AA A UA A AA II LANDm IB journal's ma ION SEEMS H) BE FULFILLED Removal of Bristol and Refusal of lleney to Indicate Intention of Com ing to Portland Bears Out Assump tion Indictments Will Not Be Pressed With over 20 Indictments still pending and over 100 defendants still untried, the government has tacitly called off the dogs of war. Francis J. Heney, the most redoubtable protweutor who ever came to Oregon, and William J. Burns, the famous sleuth, will come no more to this state to carry terror Into the hearts of violators of the land laws. United States District Attorney William C. Bristol, upon whose shoulders the mantle of Heney was to fall In the further conduct of the prosecutions, is slated for removal from office and his political foes are already eagerly debating the choice of a successor. No Incumbent of the office has ever worked harder or more realous ly than Bristol, but when congress convenes next December he will be without a friend In the Oregon delegation to urge bis continuance In of fice. Journal, September 3. 1907. LICENSES 10 E GITY LEVY rrolmblo That Tax Will Not Exceed 4.0 Mills Latter Would Yield Kevenue of $1,000.000 Several Thou sand More Than Last Year Full Income of $350,000 From Saloons for First Time deduction of -1.2 Mills Likely on Both City and County Rolls. III'S HIS NOW HUNTING HI T. W. Lumsden Posed as English Army Officer, War Correspo n d e n t , Ed i t o r i a 1 Writer, Globe Trotter- Caught Many Dupes. Oregon' larld fraud cases ara now rel egated to the rear row more than at any time since the two-yeur-old Indictments were found and Mr. Heney left for San Francisco. There will bo no further ef fectlve land fraud prosecutions. The strenuous life that Mr. Heney is leading In Ban Francisco, the action of the department of justice In withdraw ing Bristol's name from ths senate, too heavy handicap a new m.m wonld have In undertaking the prosecution of these r a si- now penu.ng, all mese ronaiiions and circumstances make it plain that there will be no sudden activity In the federal court. If It takes the land fraud trials to hrlng the activity. As yet Bristol lias received no notifi cation that his name has been with drawn from tiie senate, and until such communication comes he declines to make anv statement regarding himself or his office. Unless the office ra niled at once there will be no Immediate change In the situation, for Bristol will continue to hold office until he Is either officially removed or until his successor is named and confirmed by the senate, which, of course, would be virtually an official notice of removal. Xeney Has Departed. Francis J. Heney, who started the land cases and carried them througn as far as they have gone, has, to all ap pearances, shaken the dust of Portland from his heels for good. No one be lieves that he will return to try t lie land cases, not alone because he appar ently has no Inclination In that direc tion, but because he Is becoming more and more entwined with bands which will tie him In California. He Is fast to Ran Francisco, with the graft cases there, and he has taken up the tight of th shippers against the' Southern PhcIHc, which promises to become a protracted struggle, and he has been I drawn Into public affairs to such an ex tent In California that every indication points to his speedy entrnnoe into poli tics there. The probability of Heney's prosecution of the land trials at Port land, herefore, apparently dwindles into very remote possibility. Neither does it now appear possible that Bristol will try the cases. It Is exnected that his successor will be ap pointed, and very probably confirmed by the senate at almost any time, sure ly before the close of the present con gress In June next. Eliminating Heney and Bristol from the land fraud prob lem. It throws the prosecution of the rendlnar cases up to whomsoever Is an pointed to succeed Bristol when he Is finally out of office. Webster May Be Chosen. Who la to be Bristol's successor Is a question that Is bringing Incipient heart trouble Into many a legal breast these days. A dark horse who has suddenly loomed up Is County Judge L. K. Web te.r. Judge Webster would like to bo district attorney, and according to the story has good hopes of landing the job. (Senator Fulton, so it Is said, has vlr- MANY KILLED BY CLIMBING ALPS Seventy-Five Die and Three Hundred and Fifty Hurt During Past Year. (Special Dlnpatcta to Tli Joarnid.) London, Dec. 13. Official statistics, just Issued, supply the death rate In 1907 due to misadventure in the Italian, Swiss and Austrian Alps. The number Is 75, the majority of which were Swiss and Germans. Next came the British and after that the Italians. The chief cause of the fatalities was foolhardi ness, which is becoming more prevalent every year In attempting difficult as- ' cents without a guide, and often even without a companion. ' Fourteen deaths were caused by at tempts to gather flowers In dangerous localities. The number of accidents which wore put down as grave, but not fatal, was 80. - a The compilers of the statistics recom mend tnternatlonal action by Switzer land, France. Italy and Austria to pre-1 vent ascent of dangerous mountains prohibitive unless the climber la accom panied' by a duly qualified ana; accred ited guide. . v.-fc-x -i tually promised to send Judge Webster's name to the senate, while Senator Bourne, bv the same report, will make no objection to the procedure, in racl it Is believed that Bourne is not very anxous to mix up In the district attor ney appointment to any great extent preferring to allow Senator Fulton the honor and the responsibility of naming the man Who will nave to wind up the land cases. Chris Kchuetiel of .Oregon City, whe has made nppl'cation for the pbta, -had a string to ins plea, so it is saia. Mr. Schuebel does not want the office until after the land cases have been cleared away. He has stipulated that he desired to clean no dirty decks, and It is supposed that he lias not changed his mind. Besides theso two, Harrison Al len, Sanderson Keed. and a whole bunch of others are also trying their wings to find whether they could fly so high. Hard Work for Sew Han. If Mr. Heney does not return to Portland. If Mr. Bristol Is ousted and a new appointee tins to prosecute me remaining land cases, there Is not much danger of their coming to trial very soon. All 'of the Indictments are budd ed on very Intricate evidence, and It would take a new man some little time of deep and undivided study to grasp the cases in all their details. There fore it seems practically certain that the defendants will have some time yet In which to wait. In Court of Appeals. The charge made that Bristol has refused to prosecute some 25 lan'J fraud cases indictments in wnicn were re turned by the grand Jury empaneled March 11 Inst and discharged Juno 1 Is1 shown t.v the records to bo untrue, i Since Bristol went' into office about two years ago there have been but three land frnud Indictments returned under his charge or direction and all of these are now pending tne oecision or me United States circuit court or appeals in various districts. The three cases were one brought against Joseph Black and 11 co-defendants on April 3.. 190K. ore against Richard D. Jones und 21 others returned April 9. 1906, and the third against F. W. Gilchrist and 26 others returned May 6, 1906. All of tlusc cases involved men resident out of the state or district and it Is upon lemovnl proceedings that the cases are now pending In the appellate courts. Bristol having made all efforts possible to bring the defendants to Oregon for trial. The only grand Jury since that tlin was that of March, 1907. which 're turned the furniture trust, the Sellwood postoffice robbery and various other miscellaneous indictments but no land fraud indictments. The story of Bris tol's refusal to prosecute 25 land cases started under his charge is, therefore, without foundation. Incidentally the records of the clerk of the federal court show that during Bristol's two years in office there have been more convictions, more fines paid when Imposed by the court and more cases cleared off the docket than ever before In the entire history of the office In the same length of time. If the Oiegon delegation does not recommend a successor for Bristol the latter will continue to hold his office until the close of the present session of congress in June. It Is thought to be practically certain, however, that a new man will be named within a few day. That Tortlanders will receive the benefit of a greatly reduced tax levy next year Is the opinion expressed by seven! members of the ways and means committee who favor placing the city levy at 5 mills or less. This year's levy was 6.7 mills, from which the city derived a revenue of 949.71. With the valuation of $215,669,950 as fixed by the county board of equal lsatlon. a revenue of 11,000.000 could be obtained with a levy of about 4.6 mills. Even this levy could be cut down and the city's revenues would not bo de creased because a full year's revenue will b re oJvd from the- Increase!! liquor license. This Income will amount to about 1380.000, based on the $800 license for 438 saloons. Next year will be the first full year the cltv will se cure the full benefit of tlfb license, as It was not passed until the election last June. Tavors Seduction of Levy. Councilman Hushllght. chairman of the ways and means committee, stated today that he was in favor of cutting the levy down to less than 5 mills. He said : I want to see the levy cut as mii-h as possible. The people are entltlej to as low a tax as wo can make anJ believe that with the Increased val uation the levy can be made less than five mills. The fact that we will re ceive the full benefit of the saloon license next year means that our rev enue will be greatly Increased. There ara 43X licenses now issued from which we will derive about $350,000. "Of course It is impossible, to state at this time what the levy will be. We win nave to wail until Mayor r.ane nds down his budget. As soon hh we have gone through this and learned what the needs of the city will be for the next year we will be in a po sition to determine what the levy will be. But I think that it will be less than five mills. Councilman Vaughn is also in favor Of reducing the levy. He said toduv that five mills would be amply suffi cient to carry on the city's business next year. Further, that the city would have a balance of about $100,000 this year and that lie believed In cutting down the city's taxation as much as possible. Saving to Taxpayers. Countv Assessor Slgler stated j-ester Landladies, Holders of Bogus Checks, Creditors and Many Others Now Search in Vain for Smooth Trick sterWarrant Sworn to. CLAYTOX IS GLAD ROOSEVELT IS OUT nnlb1 Pri LeaMd WIre.t Washington, D. C, Dec. 13. Clayton, a Democrat from Alabama, the nuthor of the rencent anti-third term resolution has Introduced a resolution In the house congratulating the country upon the declination of the president to run again. day that a lew of about 13 or 13. u mills would be sufficient for the county taxa tion for next year, which would mean u reduction of about 3 mills. The levy this vear was 16 mills. If the county lew is dropped to 13 mills, and the cltv's to 4.5 mills, the general levy wil be cut down to 17.5 mills for next year, a reduction of 4.2 mills. To a man pay ing taxes on $10,000 worth of property this reduction would mean a saving of $42 a vear. Mavor Lane Is busy preparing his budget for the coming year, and it wll orobablv be ready for the ways and means committee next week. Nearly everv department of the city govern ment has rued its estimate, ana as soon as the mayor can prepare the estimates he will send it to the ways and means committee. GREASE ON STOVE- LEAF FOR LIFE (Special OIimtch to The Jnornal.) Fnrft Grove. Or.. Dec. 13. An ex pert pool artist who drifted Into this city a rew days ago. Known as jveroy Lampman, escaped with his life here late last night by Jumping from the uoner storv of a horning building. LAnrmman had gone home about 10 O'clock and lighted a fire. He put some rrense on the stove and went to sleep. The flames playing about him and the Intense heat awakened Lampman, and he made his leap for life. The buildintr. which was owned by J N. Hoffman, attorney, was practically destroyed. It was to have been made Into a fruit cannery next year. PRESIDENT WATSON EXPECTS MERCHANTS NATIONAL TO RESUME 'Special Dlipitch to The Journal.) Washington. D. C, Dec. 13. J. Frank Watson, president of the Merchants National bank of Portland, has been here and has outliffed a plan, for the reopening of the bank. He has been in consultation with the-comptroller of the currency-who says that every assistance will lie rendered watson.. , . v. Mr. Watson has gone to New York and it is understood that be is working out a plan of resumption. The treasury department does not expect him here again. Negotiations with the comptrol ler were complete. President Waltson will return to Portland to put into op eratlon&ils resumption plan as soon as he has completed arrangements.' T. W. Lumsden. bon vlvant, alleged rx-Engllsh army officer, war corre spondent. fHncler of blooded horses, fol lower of athletics and all 'round good fellow. Is wanted by the police. In the same connection there are certain alio gatlons concerning bogus checks, de frauded landladies and landlords and a horde of anxious creditors who express great willingness to assist In any Inter view that may ensue should the police and Mr. Lumsden succeed In effecting a Junction. Police Detectives Jones and Burke are .the medium through which IL, is Jhppe4 ft meeting may be arranged" between the missing man and the duly constituted authorities, hut up to the present writ ing all efforts to locate the once popu lar gentleman have proved unavailing. Kor several days bt has been con spicuous by his absence from the haunts tliut once seemed graced ny ins pres ence and which were edified aforetime by his sprightly conversation, good clothes and deft 'touch." Hed Position of Star Boarder. For some months past Lumsden was the star boarder at a private boarding house on Morrison street near Thir teenth and occupied a position in front of the spot light during the entire period of his sojourn there. Even the demand of the landlady, reluctantly and sorrowfully made though It was, that he pay his board bill or get out, could not shake Mr. Lumsden s urbanity. With the high-bred air that has always distinguished him from the common herd in the eyes of his many acquaint ances, he sought other quarters. Two days later the police were called in. it was while searching for Informa tion concerning the truant at the Mor rison street hoarding houe that the de tectives uncovered some of the many glowing chapters of Lumsden's local history. During his stay among them the young man had much that con cerned himself to tell to each of the boarders, male and female. His exploits by flood and field were related In detail and Incidentally he borrowed greater or less sums from each of those whom he entertained, ued their fuel, sampled their private stock of cordials and Invited himself to their private parties. SmootU Touch In Evidence. To the landlady he confided the Infor mation that he was employed In an edi torial capacity by a morning dally news paper, but that since the financial panic began the paper had been unable to pay us neip. in tne meantime ills remit tances from the east had been delayed, anu ne nan wired demanding an explana Hon. i-iy representing Himself to bo con nected In an executive capacity with one of the great press associations, Lumsden secured free passes to many of the theatres, football games and other places of amusement, and on these occasions acted as genial host to as many friends as the number of his tickets permitted. Those who were permitted to bask In the sunshine of the Lumsden presence during his stay In the city, and their names are legion, declare that it was almost worth the money. It is not every day, they say, that It is given to prosaic stay at homes to listen to the personal experience of one who was with Kuropatkln or Kurokl, as the case might be, and who had alone end unattended searched tho battle fields by night and counted the stark corpses of the thousands slain; who had ridden through the Simplon tunnel on the pilot of a locomotive: who hail been a shining mark for the deadly bul lets or noer riflemen in South Africa: who had Judged the merits of bun blooded equlnes at a score of famous race meets, or who 'had graced tne banquet board where In the flush of years of ante-panic days were gathered tne elect or this our nave land. Warrant for I.umsden'1 Arrest. All of which Is of course highly com plimentary to tne now somewhat tainted memory of Mr. Lumsden, but is wholly without value in aiding the search now being so vigorously prosecuted by De tectives Jones and Hughes. Beinn nlain clothes men, these gentlemen prefer to deal with plain facts regarding tho pres ent whereabouts of tne man they seek which brings the subject back to those certain allegations concerning the pass ing or bogus checks and the special anxiety of some scores of credulous In dividuals, victims of the "hasty touch." A warrant has been Issued for Lums den's arrest. OREGON DAIRY EXHIBITS EXCITE FROM COMMENDATION NOTED AUTHORITY FROMIXEXT DELEGATES TO THE DAIRYMEN'S CONVENTION ' f ' '. ' : , Y 'r.-.:. jf y ".' ',;,' ' Top row, reading from left to right Tom Richardson, manager Commercial ' club; E. 'BJ. Klckerson, Columbia county; D.' Perozzl, Ashland; Dr. James Wlthycombe, Corvallls; Q. A Hlckleym, Scappoose; M. . A. Jones, Brooks; W.'L. Crlsaey, Portland. Bottom row Professor. P.? L. Kent, V?orerrVnrfl' T-s-eCi rnon's association, Oorvillls; J. W. HugbesForesV'GroTn AV WW'P"'- .t ... Brown, Oregon City.: ' ..'...., v-U." '.'V'v BEST ElfER Mil. 1Y PLACE III II. S. D. D. White Compliments Exhibitors on-High Excel- 4 lence of Their Display. .''..'. ORCHARD TELLS BIURS TRY 10 ABOUT LETTERS BLOW OPEN SAFE Ends Direct Testimony With Destruction of Alleged Written Evidence. (United Prci LfMed Wire.) Boise, Ida., Dec. 13 After telling of his arrest fat Caldwell, his Imprison ment In the penitentiary and his con fesslon to Detective McParland, Harry Orchard, chief witness for the stato in the Pcttlbone trial, was turned over to th'j defence toihiy for cross-examination. Orchard mild Ills arrest came tho day after tho murder of Steunenberg, but he wiih Hllnweci to remain under guard at tho hotel until the following day when he was taken to tho county Jail. He said that after his arrest and before he wns taken to Jail he destroyed all the papers In his possession. Including let ters from Jack himpklns and Pettlbono lie was shown the Copy of a letter which ho received while in Jail, and said that It had been written by Pettibone. The letter was not Introduced at that time. He also told nf receiving a telegram from Fred Miller at Spokane, In which the attorney said he would come to de fend him. Orchard said he had sent no communication to Miller. A letter which Orchard said he wrote to hi wife and gave to Marlon Moore to mall in Alaska was introduced, as was also a letter written by Haywood to .Mrs. Orchard, In which he said he un derstood Orchard had gone to Alaska. Orchard was asked If he had any per sonal feeling against any of the men he had killed or tried to kill, and ho said that lie bad not, and that he knew only a few of them. Heck and McCor inai k, he said he knew and thought a great deal of them. Harrow began his oross-exitminatlon at II.. la. He first questioned him con cerning his autobiography, recently pub lished In a magazine. Orchard said lit) began writing the story" of his life In June, 1 !")fi, and gave the manuscript to the publisher last spring, before the Haywood trial. Marrow then asked him about his early life, and the witness confessed that before ne left Canada he had burned his cheese factory to collect the Insurance. Robbers Make Futile At tempt at the 3(arquam Leave Note of Warning. Safe Loaded. Be Do Not Handle, Careful." That wns the warning scrawled on the face of an envelope which the burg lars, who attempted to blow open the safe In the box office of the Murquam theatre last night, left pasted on the door of the safe. They got $1.35 and left behind $1.11 chunge. There was nearly $2,000 In the safe, but the rob bers were unable to force the door. The attempt to blow the safe was dis covered at 8:30 o'clock this morning. The burglars entered the office from the washroom adjolnoing. Holes large enough to Insert a hand were cut In the door and the latches raised. The office furniture was turned topsy-turvy and all the ticket racks broken open In the search for coin. Last night as Charles Ryan, assistant manager, was locking the office he found u. man In the washroom. Kvery one had passed out of the auditorium. which had been locked. The man was asked to step out through the office to the entrance. It Is believed he came So large and enthusiastic Is ths at tendance at the meeting of the Oregon Dairymen's association at the Woodmen building this week, and so excellent is the average of dairy products on exhf bltlon In the basement of the building; that B. D. 'White of the dairy division Of the United States denartmunt nf nar. ' rlculture, said tbls morning he had never -attended a better dairy exhibition any where In the country. . . (Continued on Page Two.) WAS1GT0H IS MOOT FUNDS SEARS-ROEBUCK FIRM INDICTED FOR FRAUD Des (United Prew Leased Wlrt. Moines, Iowa. Dec. 13.- -The Sears-Roebuck company, a Chicago mall order house, was Indicted for fraudu lent use of the mails. It Is alleged that the company misrepresented articles listed In Its catalogue. The Retail Gro ceries association is behind the Investi gation. .-.. Mwlford's School Enrollment. (Special DiSfiatch to The Journal. Medford, Or.. Dec. 13. Medford shows a school census of 1,066 on November 2r. The enrollment In the high school is as follows: Business department1. 40; academic courses, 80; total, 120. There are enrolled In the grades 712. The grand total Is therefore 832. Twenty live teachers are employed. State Is Broke and Begins Issuing No Fund Inter est Bearing Warrants. (Unltod Pre Leased Wire.) Seattle, Dec. 13. A special from Olympla to tho Star says: "The state is broke today and began issuing 'no fund' Interest-bearing warrants on Its general furd. It has about $400,000 cash on hand In state depository banks but this money Is In special funds and cannot be diverted. Oregon Sunday Journal LEADS THEM ALL Next Sunday The Journal will Issue a particularly interest- - X lnsr newspaper, much of the maga2lne section of which will k filled with Christmas, stories and illustrations prepared for this paper by the best writers and best Illustrators in the country. The magazine section will consist of , 2Q pages. Among other of its features will be a Christmas story by Elizabeth Jor dan, another by , "Q," a review by MrsvJohn A. Logan and a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Four spectar"Oregon"8toriea will appear in the magazine section 'and six four-color process Illus trations by famous artists. f mi v '-''; ,Be sure that you get The Sunday s Journal..'- Tomorrow's paper wis contain the Ml list of good things it will contain. "I am astonished at. the splendid showing made by the Oregon dairy farmers," said Mr. White, "I had no Idea that the Industry which Is com paratively so young In this state could have reached the stage that It has. Tha quality of the butter we have seen has been excellent,' while the cheese Is of remarkable flavor and quality. It's as good a show as any state exhibition that I have seen in my travels . over th country." To the one who Is a stranger to th dairy interests of Oregon the sight In the hall during this morning's session was an enlightening scene. Four1 or flva hundred men and women' were In at tendance, all of them apparently of x ceptlonal intelligence. They might have been a convention of Massachusetts bankers or of the New York Stato Bar association. They were what H. h. Blanchard of Hadlock, Washington, called "white collar farmers"; prosper oua men of affairs who had made the) study of dairying their specialty and who knew more about It than anyone outside the cult could hope to under stand. : Besnlts of Study. It wasn't merely a meeting of men who had stumbled onto conclusions as to the best time for dairying, the right kind of feed to use, and the proper tests for butter-fat they were men who bad studied the subject of dairying from every possible standpoint. from book. In laboratories, at the farmers" Institutes, In their own fields and sta bles and who are as good specialists In tne subject as any body or men m tha world. . , f. , . Dairymen the world over represent. the highest type of husbandry. anA those of Oregon demonstrated . at this convention that they are leaders In their ' worK. ' "Some of the farmers laugh at tnt because ' we wear white collars" 'said, Mr. Blanchard, ."but I'm proud of th fact that we do. We combine practical experience and book-learning and tight . here In Oregon ive've got the finest herd of Jerseys In the country out at the Ladd farm near Portland." . ' . . i Last night Mr. White, who Is tha official r "Judge of the exhibition com- . pleted the Judging of butter and special displays. The awards made are as fol- lows: creamery butter, flavor to count 45 per cent, body 25 per cent color 15 per cent, salt 10 per cent, packln 5 per cent, highest award,. l2S,;oll medal and S pounds of salt, J. Frost, Portland. 8 P' cnt , highest, prise i bottles Babcock test. Albany Creamery association, Albany, 94 per cent. J - ' . , Dalrr butter, lJlghestiaw;rJ. ;5 goM medal and 6 pounds salt, C. . I.eV Corvallls, M per -cent; second h!gnet. Dan Bleu, Brooks, S3 M - per cr, t. . For best display of dairy products,-.; 165 cash prize, llaselwood Crriii iy company, Portland. , , , , Special prljse were award 1 . f- lows: Albany Creamery .. ,. tt points; C. W. I.eVee. iv.ri.-:-. !' 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