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tMEB BY STEIWER
AMY WEDDING AGAIN TOSTPONBD.
EVIDENCE
Case. Against Hall Appears
to Be Drawing to Close
and' Conviction May De
pend on What Is Brought
Out Next Monday.
Franklin Pierce Mays, already con
victed of on offenno against tho govern
nent by Illegally acquiring government
lands, tame into the United States court
this morning and, after the chargo
pending Against him Jointly with John
H. Hall Rnd Edwin M. Vy .had been
dismissed by the. government, took the
stand In "the "broiwicutlon's behalf. His
story contained nothing .of startling lm
rort, either fo th"govrnmelit or Tor
tha Hranu and ns wan reieitaea a iiur
time before noon without having drawn
blood, for either side. The witness told
of having been the attorney for Mr.
Ki.lw.r in the land fencing case and of
having Interceded In behalf of his client,
urging the prosecuting attorney, then
Mr Mill, to waive criminal prosecution.
and, if he muat prosecute at all, to bring
a civil suit againut Mr. Stelwer or the
Butte Creek Land, Lumber and Live
stock company. That in brief . is the
gist of the story he told.
Mr vinnsv la drawlnff near the close
of his case and In all probability the
last government witness will be put on
the mand some time next Monday. ,Lp
to this time he has unwound many
strands of testimony and has opened,
nanv avpmipa leading- to the door of the
H.fonaa hut none of them so Impregna
ble that'they may not be blocked by the
testimony of the defense, whatever that
may be.
EaU Beluctast to -Tocsta.
Tha rjuse to the weHent point as
chnnrn kv Dm mveriimenl maKes
apparent that Hall was reluctant to be.
gin criminal pruwuuiiun ,a,iiii.
wer and ns company. i n iiuri
a aood deal of the past political his
tory of the state, giving plctlures or
th Intrliuea and strinits by which of
fices were sained and held under the
old regime. But It has not yet directly
brought Hall Into a conspiracy by
which Hall was to violate '.he law. un
less Mr. Heney is able to establish his
contention that an officer is guilty
criminally -when he falls at once to
Ljimmence prosecution as soon as com-rjilaint-ls
made to him of he violation
of a statute. Bo far as Mays is con
rir.iwl arood deal , of the record in
naa ham hnn numbered bv the in
tertectlons of Counsel Wilson to the ef-
rnt that the testimony aia nui- nc
F. P. Mays followed W. W. Stelwer on
the stand this morning arter steiwet
i,aA hn nroHH-examined for some little
time by Judge Webster. Before Mays
was DUt on the stand the oase against
him of consoiracy to fence lands was
dismissed and his bondsmen freed.
Mavs was one of.thp co-defendapts with
Hail and B. M. Mays, his brother, but
Mr. Heney in asking for the dismissal,
said that there was not sufficient evi
dence in the possession of the govern-
ic
mnnt tn convict him
. Miiys look the stand and said that he
had been retained as 8tclwer'8 attorney
In the :and fenctns- esse, and that in
thrtt cannclty he had telephoned to Hall
asking him to call at his office and then
the two hud discussed the case.
- Informed by Stelwer.
"I ssld to him." the witness testified. Lnnnforonms
tnat tne reason i naq asKcn inra m ran
as because i nau neen inrormea oy
Steiwer that criminal prosecutions
wnulrt he instituted bv Hall aaatnst in
dividuals of the Butte Creek company,
r lold Hal! I wanted to talk the matter
over with him and gave my reasons for
arguing that It would Be Deuer to
bring a civil milt than to proceed crim-
tinaliy. 1 told him that Mr. Steiwer was
a matt wlio was well known througnout
the state and thnt It would be a source
of much humiliation end disgrace If he
'were errested and brought to Portland
for trial In a criminal case.
"I discussed me law or me case wun
Mr. Hall." the witness continued, "and
tnl him that T understood there was
Isome doubt that any violation of the
i'law . had been committed. I told hfm
that the fencing statute provided ror hoth
criminal and civil actions to be brought
Mt the discretion of ti district attorney
rtllO UrKeO Hint. I IIC UIVH BUH m uiuuftm
hecause of Mr. Stelwer's position In the
community. :; I also urged that the civil
;suit would determine the merits of the
k-ase better than a criminal action be
foause' It would he tried out more closely
to the point while crtmmai sun wouiit
."lie liable to run -wild on some techni
cality; I told Mr. Hall that I was au
thorised bv Stelwc to accept service of
la civil suit, and that T would accept
service. - thus saving, much In expense
nnd causing no delay In the hearing of
tne case,-
STAVE OFF
PLEAS WITH
DE1RRER
OREGON mn
DO BIG BUSINESS
Indicted Officials of Title
Guarantee Gain Another
10 Days by Filing Objec
tions to Informations Ik
turned by Prosecution.
Attorneys for Defendants
Allege Facts Set Forth Do
Not Constitute Crime-
Will Also Ask Discharge
of Accused Bankers.
The wedding of Miss Evelyn Fitzhtfgh, niece of General Fltihugh
Lee, to Lieutenant Hilary H. Herbert, son of, .$he former secretary of
the navy,,-has again been postponed by a recent illness of Lieutenant
Herbert. Pictures of the young couple are here' shown.
BOLTERS OPPOSE CORBHflOHER
BS- s-BWB-MB-asSM MSiSMM J
Bryan Does N6t Believe Opposition to His Candidacy
Comes Frd)n Real Friends of Democratic Party
Goes to Washington to Learn the Truth.
(United Prea Leased Wire.)
Washington, D. C, Jan. 25 The
Democratic political pot starts boil
ing In and around the capital tonight
when William J. Bryan arrives for
a three-day sojourn, and iAany prom
inent men of the party will hold
with: the Nebraskan
while he Is here
That there Is - a movement afoot
to dissuade Bryan from taking the
Democratic nomination for the presi
dency has been made plain to him.
Bryan is coming to learn if this
movement is being fostered by any
considerable number of real friends
of the party. ' He believes it has its
inception among, the bolters of 1896
3. Thorburn Ross and the other ac.
cused officials of the Title Guarantee
and Title company -did not plead to the
indictments against them this morning,
as had been expected, but filed demur
rers. This means another week or 10
days of delay before the defendants are
brought to plead, providing the demur
rers are overruled.
In behalf of Boss, Attorney Wallace
McCamant raises four points of de
murrer in two of the four cases, five in
another and one in the other. The ob
jections which are urged may be sum
marised as follows:
That the district attorney has not al
leged that the crime was committed in
Multnomah county; that the facta set
forth do not constitute a crime; that
If the informations are otherwise suf
ficient, more than one crime is charged
in the same Information: that the dis
trict attorney has failed to set forth
the particular circumstances of the
crime charged and the defendant not
given notice of the nature and grounds
of the charge preferred; that no alle
gation Is made that the acts charged
were committed three years prior to the
filing of the informations, as required
by law.
Carey and Kerr as attorneys for T.
T. Burkhart and John E. Altchison filed
demurrers on substantially the same
grounds, the demurrers in each of thu
four caies being identical and seven
points in all being brought to the at
tention of the court. j
in addition to tne demurrers a mo
tion is to be presented asking for the
discharge of the defendants on the
? round that the informations were not
lied on the first or second davs of the
next term of court following the time
tne defendants were held to answer.
Judge Cleland. before whom all the pro
ceedings will be heard, has already stag
ed that he does not regard this point
as well taken.
Although Shipments Are Not Quite So
Large as Last Year, Which Was
Helped by Earthquake, Total ls Far
Beyond Usual Amount
(tToIted Prei Leased Wire.)
Seattle, Jan. 25 The cargo lum
ber business of Oregon, Washing
ton and BritlBh Columbia for 1907,
as shown by figures Just compiled
by the Pacific Lumber Trade Jour
nal, was, with the exception of that
of 1906, the greatest and most sat
isfactory In the history of the lum
ber Industry In the northwest.
When the actual figures show a
decrease of 57,453,444 feet in ship
ments from 1906, the total for the
year of 1,610,290,122 feet represents
an increase of more than 400,000,
000 feet for the normal year im
mediately preceding the San Fran
cisco disaster which created an ab
normal dema'hd and swelled the to
tals for 1906.
The mill reports show that the
increase of 1907 over 1905 is made
up largely by mills that catered to
the rail trade prior to the time east
ern markets were handicapped by
car shortages and rate troubles and
that four per cent of the rail mills
located on tidewater are under con
tract to enter the cargo business
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WITH GOULD
Owners of the Western1 and
Southern Pacific Roads
JUiiry Hatchet and Agree
to Cease Fighting Over
Territory. ' V "
No More Political Battles
and Only Competition
Will Be for Purpose of
Blinding Interstate Com
merce Commission.
GOVERNMENT ORDERS
JAPANESE TO KEEP
AWAY PROM HAWAII
(United Pres Leased Wire.)
Toklo. Jan. 25. An Imperial' order
prohibiting all Japanese from emigrat
ing to the Hawaiian islands, excepting
those who have relatives there, was Is
sued today.
The steamship companies are vigor
ously opposing the order, and thel
managers have personally appealed tt
tne roteign orriee to moairy u. bo rai
they have met absolute refusal.
Another order declares thut the de
cree prohibiting emigration to the
United Statea and Canada must be rig.
idly observed.
FIGHT PRU
BREAKS WINDOWS
TOJEJIJPITE
French Plate Class Perfor
ated With Rifle Bullets
in Montgomery Home.
Oil
n
f The witness further testified that he
Mid not know what Hairs intentions
,were when ha left, the office after t,h
jllscussion, ' t:i ' .'iv .
I Mr. Hemey then attended to go Into
jthe history of the -conditions prevailing
at the time th tndictmwit arainst him
find riiter wart returned -forhaving
Accepted Illegally, acquired government'
(Continued on Fas Two.) :
Plans of TwoMen to Extort $)00 From Mrs. Rachel
Hawthorne Foiled by Clever Coup of George Black,
" Attorney for the Estate Crooks Arc Arrested.
Without calling in the aid of the po
lice ' or professional , detectives until
nothing remained to be done excepting
the actual act of arresting the two sus
pects, friends and -relatives of Mrs.
Rachel Hawthorne, a wealthy resident
of East Portland, worked a successful
scheme to catclt two men who eto al
leged to have threatened Mrs. Haw
thorne's lifo unless she paid them $500.
Both men. Merman Haffner and Leo
Honsig,' are in th- elty Jail,' charged
with attempting v; trt extojrt ,. money.
George Black,, attorney -r for r the Haw
thoome estate." who planned the coup by
which the two' -inert were-taptured, has
sworn ' to . the complaints against thenu
They wets arraigned; tn police court this
morning and the case was Continued on,
motion of- the district attorney. -
It is alleged by Mrs. Hawthorne and
her representatives that the prisoner i
wrote 'the wealthy widow twice, each
time demanding 500. Haffner, who has
made a confession, inplicating Honsig,'
an Austrian 28 years . old, - telephoned
Mrs. Hawthorne "twice, "the second time
he attempted to -communicate with her
affording the officers their opportunity
to make the arrest which took place
yesieraay ancrnoon m me Arion nail,
at Second and Oak streets.
According to Haffner, his partner.
Honsig, planned the affair and got him
to write the two, letters to Mrs. Haw
thorne, as he was unable to write Eng
lish. Haffner, who Is a Swiss but was
born in the East Indies, claims that he
was out of work and needed the money.
He writes : welt and -appears - to be a
man of some education and considerable
nattvejability,,,, t - -
. He drew a " akull and cross-bones on
Some unknown person, actuated either
by a spirit of vandalism or a desire-to
satisfy a grudge against the owner of
the property, has been breaking the win
dflws in the new residence of Lewis
Montgomery. Twentieth and East Sal
mon street. During the past week sev
eral large and expensive panes of glass
nave Dcen DroKen, 'tne work or destruc
mypiTE
Georgia Liquor Interests
Adopt Strenuous Methods
of Stopping War.
(United Freaa Leased Wire.)
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 25. Dynamite
will be used by the liquor interests lo
check the activity of the Law and Order
League, which is going to enforce the
prohibition . law.
Evidence of the determination of the
liquor people to resort to this measure
was found last night when bombs were
exploded in front of the residence of the
president of the league and the new
parsonage of the two local ministers.
Gifford, president of the league, found
nailed to his gate-post the following:
"This is but a, warning. If you don't
heed it, you'll be extremely sorry!"
COLLEGE GIVEN
TO BRIUSO
Des Moines Artisan Finds
White Elephant Thrust
in His Hands.
(United Prtaa Leaaed Wire.)
Res Moines, Iowa. Jan. 25. Not hav
ing fitted himself to become the owner
of a big educational Institution. J. C.
Felon, a brick mason of this cltv. dis.
covered today that he has a "whito ele-
hant on his handei in .Shurtleff col
ege of Upper Alton. Illinois, to which
he Is heir. One of his wealthy ancestors
to spite immediate heirs, bequeathed all
his money to round a colltsire providing
that after a certain number of vears it
hould revert to his lineal descendants,
"his time has now elapned. Mr. Felon.
the brick layer, is ono of the descend
ants.
(Continued on Fag Two.1
tion being perpetrated at night
Last Tnursua
plate class win
building wsb broken. Investigation
made the following morning' showed
that the work had been done with a
small caliber rifle, the marks of several
buplleta being plainly discernible on the
bits of broken glass. One of the bullets
had struck the window sill, indicating
that the- arun from which the bullet
came had been fired from a distance, as.
miss the glass at short ranare.
The police have been asked to make
an investigation.
TACOMA BURGLAR IS
EIGHT YEARS OLD
(United Press Leaaed Wire.)
Tacoma. Wash., Jan. 26. The burglar
who robbed :'two stores bye concealing
himself Inside the, building during the
day ' has ' been "captured' and proves to
be art 8-year-old boy named Fred Schjf
f er. . Wednesday - he - concealed himself
in a clothing store and Watched the
proprietor conceal $3( before locking up
for , the night. Later the boy took the
money and - left the store by a back
door. Last week he concealed himself
in a grocery store and stole about 40
eenta In pennies, " ;- - 1
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The Sunday Journal I
(Uuit4 ?rcsa teased -Wire.) " '-"'
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 25 E.
H. Harriman and George Gould
have at last got together, . have
smoked the pipe oi peace and hav
burled the hatchet. The hatchet'In
this particular warfare means - the
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Here are a few of the features:
WOMAN OUR REAL RULER How she actually controls the
industries, education and literature of America.
AS W. A. BRADY SEES LONDON AUDIENCES English play
goers differ in many respects from American. Director of
Grace George's tour tells interesting story.
DEAN OF HUMORISTS America's great author, Mark Twain, at
72 is hale and hearty..
HOW ANCIENT IS THE INDIAN? Study of human bones un
earthed on the continent.
UNIQUE PALACE AT WASHINGTON Alfred Sears graphic
. ally describes international building. ;
MUST MARRY EARLY IN LIFE Mexican women have little
chance of matrimony after passing thirtieth milestone.
SPECTRE OF WANT IN ENGLAND Poverty is literally sap
ping the manhood of a great nation. .f . ' : :
A QUESTION OF WOMEN'S GOWNS What physicians, mot!-'
TRADING MONEY FOR HEALTH Nature offers relief to peo-
pie in pain in all four corners of the earth. : , " :V-'"';-a'V.'.
HAPPY, HOOLIGAN MARRIED ALMOST See the unexcelled X
comic supplement this week. There are some new funnies that '
, are screamers; , " i - X'i-'-rt'i i
SPECIAL, DISPATCHES AND BEST PRESS SERVICE The
Sunday Journal gives you the news of the world. . " . ,
- The Paper of the Oregon Country
rival interests of Harriman'8 South
ern Pacific and Gould'B .Western Pa
cific railroads in California.. .
The peace agreement, which was
ratified by Messrs. Gould and HarrK
man this week in New York, in an
11 embracing treaty and is sweep
ing. Its main points are: The two
rival railroads will cease fighting
each other. The pending lawsulu
over the Oakland waterfront and tho
Western Pacific's right-of-way.
which, have been bo bitterly contested
during the last three? years, up to
the United States supreme court, are
to be amicably compromised out of
Court, dismissed - or allowed to las
until ; they, die . a, natural death.
Mutually agreeable traffic rates aro
to be established, aud - the trafTic
managers of both roads agree to li vo
up to the rates outlined. There will
be no cutting of rates and no em
barrassing competition although tho
semblance ot opposition, Is to b
maintained ' ' on"' both : sides just
enough to keep beyond the rlulchrrj
ot the interstate, commerco law ami
the federal statutes against pooling.
Politically, too. the wo rival road i
are to cease fighting each other.
; Thus It was agreed at the last
meeting of the higher ups" ti.u
week to keep-'. the. agreement qm! ,
if possibleV until after the prt Ki l i:.
tiai election. '.'
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-Aberdeen, Wash;, Jan. 2'.Ti
council's htitldiux eonin i; i h ,, .
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and specific! !!! tn i
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