THE. DAILY JOURNAL. IS SOLD ON ' THE 'STREETS OF PORTLAND AT TWO CENTS A 'COPY MORE HELP WANTED? BOARDERS WAHTED? Advertise in The Journal N The Weather- Occasional rain to--night and Tuesday; , cooler tonight. VOL. VII. . NO.' 220. Portland, Oregon; Monday evening, ; November; 23, isos. sixteen -pages- - TO Sb :::p::,Sy 31250 .-.. . . , .. ,.. ....,,, ... ,i... 1 '" " " " ' ,...i.-n...i. -. ,, " - ' """.T""Tr"''. ' " J '"'.' " " " " " lAwm s V ADMITS THAT HAS FAU HE SWORE 1 HONOR OF FALSELY S0L0HS Involves v Botlr : Burns and '' Ruef and Damages Case of Defense Exciting Scene When Man From Portland Was Questioned. .(United Press Leased Wire.) San Francisco. Nov. 23. Abraham Ruef, charged with offering a bribe to a ' former , supervisor to secure ; a vote for '.the passage of - an overhead trolley franchise for the United Rail roads, wag charged today on the wltnoss stand by Alexander 8. Lathan, hla for mer chauffeur, who had recently been brought here from Portland, with In fluencing him to commit perjury be fore the grand Jury at the time of the graft In vest! (ration. Lathan, who has been searched for by the prosecution for more than a year, declared that he knew nothing of the affairs of ' Roef. ' He was then con fronted with his own affidavit. In which he admitted taking Ruef to the office of the United Railroads. . - .Make Admission. 'j. Becoming badly rattled. Lathan ad- .''I e then said he did so at the request of Special Agent William J. Bums. He later declared that Burns also had told film to -tell ' untruth a ' under oath to the - grand Jurors. The testimony of Lathan was admitted into evidence after one of the bitterest rows between atr torneys that has as yet marked the trial. .-.-.-v.. -. - I i Lathan was represented ror uage J. taking the stand, on the. ground -that lie had been extradited for another pur pose. Judge Lawlor overruled the ob- waa then pleaded by Harper and saiu Harpr at thi point became excitoW ana rinsiiy ws umouiaireu m court to remain quiet and-to keep his Affidavit eread. read averred that he had accompanied a shirtbox was obtained by Ruef. in Jy placed, to the offices of tha United Railroads, mis wo in jr f y- (The affidavit was daiea January x. im, and purported to have been made In trie presence of Burns and Miss Kate Conj don, at that time stenographer f or the rBefo?e the affidavit was presented r Afterward he became a stammer 11: ..JtZZimtn witness. He "ruessed" tWi feigned the document but did so "be- dyouVnder oatlC tiu 'untruth, to .-J?Z-La 4.. waa naked. With ap- f arent nervousness the witness testified "Whydmd you swear .to these un truthsr ; "I was told; to." "ly Bu1'!! and Ruef," came tbeunex rected answer. The time ,fee-fd to was when Ruef was under immunity. Throughout Lathan's examination Herv Ach attorney for Ruef. constant oblected' to the lfne of questioning by nistant District . Attorney A accused Judge Harper &t whispering In structions to a young man seated near Ruef, who in turn, he said, signaled to thHZrper"and Ruef sprang to their feet. Warner denouncing Dwyer and accus ViK Mm of misconduct, Ruef excitedly wMsperlnr to Ach. Judge Harper de nied th charge and the court made no Tnoncludlng his examination of the witness. Hiram Johnson summed up his U.7.ti0th"er.non.' iS'sgjtement-mad. (Continued on Page Three.) HINDUS TO I'JIPE OUT EUROPEANS avaaS-aaaaaaBBasaVSSSaaBSawav Beturning Missionary Says Grand and Final Efface- ment is Planned; - (Cnlred Prras Leased Wfre.J San Francisco. Nov. M That the Hundus and Mohammedans in India - have laid aside ., their prejudices and united in a gigantic conspiracy, to wipe cut British rule In that country in one Woody stroke Is the sensational story told by Miss A. Helen -Wileox. s med ical missionary who returned from the orient on the steamer Mongolia yetr- 4lM'lss Wilcox says the manufacture of bombs by the revolutiohlsts is iwell known, the women being active in making these infernal machines as the men. wholesale arrests have been made by the English authorities but the pur pose of the natives Is not broken. Miss Wilcox says that for s while very English resident in India feared assassination, dynamite outrages being of almost dally occurrence, but the na tives src now thinking of wider ranges of activity and have decided that It . will be easier to wipe out the British rae in lmlla at one swoop Instead of 1 wasting time on petty outrages. JJajor J. P. Kennedy, Chair man of Bepublican County Central ; Committee, Con vinced That Statement No. 1 Men Will Keep Pledges. : "And what Is more, I have faith enough In the honor, the Integrity and the citizenship of the' members of the legislature to believe that- Governor Chamberlain will be "elected Wnlted States senator on the first ballot" 'This Is from Major J. P. Kennedy, chairman of the Multnomah county Re publican' central committee, one of the hardest workers in the state .for the election of laft in the recent election and "a Republican whose standing and record is unquestioned. - Major Ken nedy is optimistic He believes that there will not be found any man in the legislature who -will reDudiate . the pledge given by him to the .people and he sets out his belief emphatically, as mown Dy nis concluding Biaiemeart in a discussion held this morning. Major Kennedy was the chairman f the Multnomah county campaign last June and- directaef the fight in this county against the election of Governor . "Continued on 'Page Three.) VOICES FKOM THE MULTITUDE e, "Whereas, -When the people of. , e Oregon elected the 'members tot their legislative assembly onHlie 4 first day of last June, e,6S voters cast their ballots In favor 4 of the bill tnstructlng members of the legislative assembly to al- ' e ways, as -such of fleers, ' vote for . , and elect for United, States sen- e ator the candidates who receive the- highest number of the peo- pie's votes, and only 21,162 voted e against that bill, and as at the f same election George E. Cham- berlaln received the highest num- ber of the people's votes, there cannot possibly be any doubt or . misunderstanding of the will of the people of Oregon; and "Whereas, The election of a, 4 d .United States senator by the leg- : 4 s Islature next . January la now wholly a question of morals, and e not of party politics, because SI e members of ths legislative as- ' 4 ' semblr stand pledged by their statement No. 1 agreement with e s the people of Oregon, and of e their several legislative districts e to vote for the ; candidate for United Stated senator who re- e celved the highest number of the e people's votes at the election last e June, as well as by the people's . instruction -law; therefore, be It "Resolved, By the Central La- e bor council of Portland and vl- olnity, that we view with pro-. found regret the attempt now ; being; made by certain politlo- e ians, led by Harvey W. . Scott, , the Daily Oregonlan, and Senator - C. W. Fulton to Induce and per- e suade the Statement No.'l mem- 4 bers of the legislature, to violate their pledges to -the , people of 4 Oregon and to the voters of their ' e several districts, and we deplore w the fact, that any man or poll- tician In Oregon should be .so A e t wholly lost to all sense of honor and moralltyjthat, he would for a , e moment countenance or approve . thetttempt to cause' the elected: representatives of the people- to betray their trust .by the com- mission of perjury In any man- ner. and especially a form which 4 can not be punished by lmprls- onment 'In ; the penitentiary, or w other legal sentence; and further be -If.- ; :.-'-' - ." , ."Resolved, That ; we most ear-'' neatly urge all members of or- s ran lied f labor, ; and other good e cltlsens, :to refuse s their slgna- d tores to any so-called petitions to members of the legislative as- aembly to directly or indirectly ' eV violate their pledges or - disobey ths people's Instructions given " at the general election- r "We, the undersigned.. Joint legislative committee of the Ore ; gon Btate Federation of Labor, w . and the jrjregon State Grange, ; e heartily Indorse and concur In the senthnents and recommenda- 1 tions of : the above . resolution. "H. M. LORNTBEN, Astoria, - "W. H. FITZGERALD, 1 i. ; PorVand. . For Oregon State Federation of Labor. : ' ' . .: : ; ,s "A. J. MASON. Hood River. ' "F. M. GILL, Estacada. . "EUGENE PALMER, Albany." s -4usVsJhaVw4v s Marconi Does r Not Get Prize 1 ,::: v (DnlUd Prcis Leaa Wrre.l . Stockholm, Nov. 23. Gugllelmo' Mar coni, was Ignored by the committee in the distribution of the Nobel prizes. It was '' unofficially announced about two weeks ago that the inventor of the wire less : telegraph would be awarded a prise In physics but ths honor was be stowed upon Professor-' Max Planck, of the University of Berlin., The awards were as follows: For .ehepilstry, , Professor Ernest Rutherford, director of the physical la boratbrlee of- the i University of Man Chester, Manchester, England; literary, Algernon; Charlea .- Swinburne; physios. Professor ' Max Planck, professor of mathematics and physics (n the Uni versity of Berllnr medlcln, divided be tween Paul Erhllch, of Berlin.- and Pro fessor Elle Metchnikof. of the Pasteur Institute. Paris. f mm bill Three Hundred and Fifty Nine Dollars the Total Spent in Oregon. i (Special Dlipateh to The Journal. ) Salem, Or., Nov. 23. The Independ ence and Democratic parties filed their sworn detailed expense accounts with the v secretary of state today. It Is shown by the statement of the Inde pendence party that the national com mittee was drawn upon as money was needed by the 'state committee. Alto gether, but. 3359 was BDent by the In dependence organization in this state. The Democratic account Is a copy of me statement - rued several days ago with County Clerk Fields of Multnomah county, and shows 31.29S.S5 to have Deen auDscriDed Dy diriereni inaiviauais, all In small sums. Disbursements were 31,165.97, leaving a balance in the treas ury of 3129.38. The) Republican statement filed Sat urday, falls to account for the source of the $4,000 turned over to Chairman C, N. McArthur by Treasurer Ralph E. Williams. - The Huntley corrupt prac- tlces act requires each treasurer to mak a report showing the source of all funds. Several electoral nominees also filed today sworn statements of funds ex pended during the campagn. 1. TiiiiLlil PEfllTEHTIARY Work Discovered in Mis souri Prison on Eve of C Wholesale Break. i , . (United Pma Leased Wire.) Jefferson City, Mo.. Nov. 23. Fol lowing' the discovery of an attempted Jail break Which would have released hundreds' of- convicts In the ' Missouri penitentiary, a rigid investigation of the 'prison management was begun to day.' A , serious scandal may be un earthed.' v The Jail delivery, which came close to being successful, is believed to have been engineered by life-sentence con victs. The plot haid been carefully worked out and was discovered in the nick of time. A long tunnel was found, leading underneath the prison yard to the wall. . When the work was discov ered the hoi had been bored nearly through...' . . NATIONAL ELECTION Z OFFICIAL RETURNS . (SvedU Dispatch to The Journal. , Boise, Idaho, .Nov. 32. Official re turns of the vote in Idaho: Taft, 52,(88; Bryan. 86,080; Deba ,24S; . Chafin, 1.704; Hisgen, .207. Hi (Snectal Dtanatrk T JoaraaLl the vote In WlsconRln; Brvan, 166,707; i5.t?3;-CliaXln, .ILJTi; Debs. IHDEPEiEIITS SAYS THEORIH WASSEEflli: ALBANY Chief of Police of That City Sends Word That Murder Suspect in the Rasmussen Case Was Recognized hy Man Who Knew Him. (Special Dtspateb to Tba Joornsl.) Astoria, Nov. 23. A special to Ths Budget reports that the steamer Sus Elmore, on which the suspect Theorln was supposed to have taken passage, is barbound at Tillamook, the sea run ning very high off the harbor. F. Theorln, for whom Sheriff Stevena Is looking on the suspicion that he is the murderer of Watchman M. C, Ras mussen of the steam schooner Washing, ton, was seen lh Albanyhts morning", accordlnar to a telephone message re ceived at the sheriffs office shortly before noon. The message came from the chief of police of Albany, who sava that Theorln was seen there about breakfast time by a men who knew him through having worked on board the same vessel with him. If this story is correct, it disposes or tno ineory tnat xneorin, aner mur dering Rasmussen. . Wednesday after noon, marie h If escape in some sea-going vessel. Theorln until recently was eap tain of the gasoline schooner Condor and is well known bv seafaring men along the coast The only clue tne snenrr has in the Rasmussen case is the . fact that ths man who was seen talking to Rasmus sen that afternoon, and who it Is sup posed shot and killed him, answers the description or Theorln. Zs Merely a Theory. Whether or not Theorln is the right man is conjectural, for the description given by L. earner of the harbor boat Palmer of the man he saw aboard the Washington does not tally in some par- . J ...1,1. a T r uiiuwi d wihu iiibi a iimii i u, nun- ever, earner does not know Theorln. The strongest reason for suspecting the ex-captain of the Cordor of being the murderer is that he disappeared rrom the city Friday. But this link In the chain of circum stance Is not as strong as it was first thought to be. as It has been learned that more than a week before the mur der of Rasmussen, Theorln had an nounced his intention of going to San Francisco in search of employment Morover, Theorln was seen about the cltv as late as 3 o'clock Friday after noon, nearly 26 hours after the account (Continued on Page Three.) UP TO OREGON DELEGATION laasMa-saariasaaaaf Government Ownership of Oregon City Locks Now Rests With Congress. The last spike has been driven, so far as any action by the engineering au thorltles can be taken in advance of congress making the necessary appro priation for the government ownership of the locks and canal at Oregon City. Major McAdoo Is completing his report on the basis cost of labor and materials to supplement the report of the board of engineers formerly made, and It will be forwarded this week to ths chief engineers at Washington. "This means," said Colonel Hofer, who as chairman of the Willamette Val ley Open River association, has been flushing the preliminaries all along the ine, "that when congress meets all the official data and engineering Informa tion will be officially at the disposal of congress on which to base an appropria tion. It will be up to our delegation to secure the proper clause in the rivers and harbors bill that la going. to be put through at tuis session to make avail able the money already appropriated by the iu,. and whatever else Is neces sary 10 secure the locks and canal and make them forever free to the people. "Free locks and canal on ' the Wil lamette means a reduction of from $7.60 to 325 on every car load or freight that comes In or out of the valley, because the 60 cents a ton tolls collected at the falls of the Willamette by a private corporation Is added and absorbed as a differential ov au rauroaas nanonng fralrht in that territory.- I .am assured by the steamboat companies doing busi ness on tne river mai mey win imme diately reduce their taritfs-50 cents a ton when the locks are made free. "There will not only be a large num ber of new boats put. on the upper river, but the money .spent ror Keeping sn open channel In the WfUametta will be doing the people some good. A large amount of traffic that is now Impossi ble! on account of the prohibitive tolls will be created, such as piling, sawiogs, railroad ties, cordwoo4 and - building materials like brick. Many owners of land will be able to Clear- the same and put the cordwood Into Portland on barges, reducing the cost of fuel at Portland -possibly from one to two dollars a cord, as the ruel will more than pay the cost of -clearing the landj The people of the Willam ette valley rejoice.-at every , step taken ifl" the direction of their commercial freedom, but in nothln'g more than the, possibility - ci tree iocks. , HENEY DEVOTES HIMSELF ANEW TO WAR ON GRAFT if t ' s t l" , ? V 2 '-"i -ir 'if . ' - , ? $ "X , Jb.'-a-iuxiis i .nil ,ji i,i,. ', y y .! ;.rl1. - --e-rfj , . . JBnM rsas-l4Ms-WlM. ." ' " San Francisco. Nov. 23. Francis J, Heney, the- graft prosecntor, who Is recovering -from the shot-fired by Mor ris Haaja, the would-tte. assassin, today Issued the following statement: '. " T humbly thank Almighty God for ray miraculous escaped from-death. It was the corruption of man that leveled the murderous weapon, but a divine Providence" directed the bullet. Hence forth my life shall be consecrated to the just enforcement of the law and to tne principle tnat no man snail te above tne law. In this great human battle atrainst vice and corruption, let no one believe tnat trie true source is to be found in the Individual dynamiters. 1urv bribers. kidnapers and assassins, and that their extermination means ultimate victory. Such beings sre but the bubbles ema nating from the pool of filth that has been years In the making. The seed has been sown and we must reap the Harvest, but in gathering -tne tares let us be satisfied with, nothing but the roots. 'Let us all now hlghlv resolve that we snau not oniy not tolerate crime in any form, but that wo shall likewise cast out and discredit the toierators, the apologlsers and the abettors of crime; that Justice shall . not be made mockery in oar courts, either bv vio lent methods or through debased per formances of men. professional or otherwise, sworn to uphold the law; that the plausible shall not be accepted for the, true, whether uttered bv the higher-ups or lower-downs, by honest minded weak men or by designing trim mers, "It has been a terrible sacrifice, but it my blood has not been shed in vain, if the aasassln's bullet has suddenly disclosed to the public eye the hldeous ness of the glgantlo Conspiracy to de feat the' law, then I shall feel that I have not lived in vain, that my poor BODY OF GIRL FOUND 00 TRACK Tramps Believed to Have Committed Brutal Crime Near Lbs Angeles. (United .Press Leased Wire.) Los Angeles Cal, Nov. 23. the mu tilated body of a young girl was found on the' Southern Pacific railroad tracks near Albambra yesterday. No clue to her Identity has been found. The offi cers believe she was murdered. - Tho body was found ; by W. Lmon, who, flgbtened at the eight of her corpse lvlng between the rails, rushed to a nearby house for assistance. While he was gone, a train paased and severed the head and right arm from her body. Minute investigation revealed a small hole near the right ear, which the of ficers believe is a. bullet wound; Basing their theory upon this they declare the belief that the girl was murdered by tramps, who threw her body across the tracks.. e) $ w 04d444)4dd)d4J'dd4)td i COULD BUILD FACTORY i J "If the men of Portland would buy hats .manufactured in this city. they would save from 25 per cent to 50 per. cent of their hat money," J sayt ; I. Kaufman, proprietor'of he Eastern hat factory. ."It is to X the people's credit to state that' our hat industry, which is the only r;T T one in the city, has, increased wonderfully, and if the majority of 2 X ' citizens would insist on getting Oregon-made hats it would be nec- essary for us to build an immense factory, which would be Only one J of many similar plants.. tThe same is true of all other kinds of home X e: industry. If home patronage, was for home-made articles the. pay- rolls (df scores of the industries of Portland and Oregon would soon I t'"be doubled. , " a -,.?-. -'-. ? .,..-.-.; - . . . ; -. ; X rc" id S W I ' " S ,t i ' e Francis' Jf. Heney 'at th Top. Chief of Police Blggy at the Bottom; lie Is Said to Be Balking Progress of the Graft Prosecution and Will Probably Be. Removed From Office efforts have met . with . Immeasurable benefit to my beloved city and state. "Toward the poor, wretched instru ment of this crime I have no feeling but pltv. "To my friends and the nubile who have so ions and so faithfully stood by me and cheered me on during days of (Continued on Page Three.) PERSIA DENIED HOPE OF LIBERTY Withdrawal of Constitution Maddens Liberals Re actionaries Gloat. (United Press Leased W.t Teheran, Nov. 23. Street fighting be tween the liberals and reactionaries is going on today In' all parts of the city as the result of the posting in the mosques - of the shah's proclamation withdrawing the promise of a constitu tion for Persia. ' The-clashes ere not serious, but it is feared the unruly element In the popula tion will get -beyond control before nightfall.-': Many arrests have already been made.' The liberals, on account, of the failure of the constitution, are In belligerent mood and their- temper has been made dangerous on account of the acts of the reactionaries, who are taking every opportunity to Insult them publicly. 4Jd)4)4)w4)dwt4)4)$d4)4)$wwwdt4)) t4 HD.T IIS Kellogg Endeayors tq Find Out Names of Standard Oil Stockholders in 1874, but Fails to Obtain Required Information. . - (United Press Leased Wire. I - New York, Nov. 23. John D. Rocke feller was on the stand again today In the government's suit for. the disaolu-, tlon of the Standard OH company of New- Jersey, -and-waa even more stub- -bornly resistant. ' under ' the cross-examination of Frank B. Kellogg, than he was last week. He dodged behind fail ing1 memory and resorted to various means of avoiding direct replies to ths questions put persistently by ths "trust buster." y - Kellogg endeavored to find out the names of the Standard stockholders In 1374. but -Rockefeller would gjve little Information- Kellogg went over the list of capitalists whose - oil business was swallowed by the trust. In an endeavor to establish their Identification. wltU the Standard Oil company.,,, , ' It was shown that the president of the New .York Central, the president of the Erie and three directors of the; Lake Shore were connected ; with the Standard jprior to 1871. . . -. , At the beginning of th hearing Rock, e feller answered a , few questions with, animation but he soon took an' ob structive attitude and used every means to ' defeat Kellogg's . purpose. ,;j ,r , ' Bared rem riaats. ef Twenty.. '. Kellogg "questioned, Rockefeller closely concerning the financial standing of his competitors and forced from him the admission that the Standard ' absorbed between 20 and 26, plants from 1872 to 187S.-:--' . -v.-'-"'" A ; . !,..:-., i.',.-;' .-, - - , TAfter you ' took the plants, did you continue to operate them?" asked Kel logg. - Y'My memory falls," was the reply. Coached and aided by Kellogg, Rocke feller succeeded in recalling four plants which, he said, were continued In opera tion, saying their geographical situation and Improved physical condition, waa the reason for saving them. - . Kellogg then resumed his questions regarding the manner of buying plants with stock certificates of the Stand ard. ' The witness admitted that he purchased the Imperial Refining , com pany, . the Devoe Manufacturing com pany and the Jett Carey company with stock, taking deeds for the plants. Rockefeller admitted that the principal stockholders in these companies re ceived Standard stock. VJRIT FILED Taking the $29,000,000 Oil Case Up to Federal ; Supreme Court. (United Press tMsad W'rs Washington, Nov. 23. Attorney-General Bonaparte today filed In the Unit ed States supreme: court a petition-for a writ of certiorari to review the Judg ment of the United States court of ap peals In the $29,000,000 Standard OH case, under which the case was re manded for retrial. ' ....... .,. HIS MONEY GONE III I fEIIIDSE J. G. Johannes Accepts Less Than: He Sued MiUincr Partner for, However. Half rates were" accepted by J. O. Johannes In the circuit court this morn ing In settlement of his suit against Florence Evens jl milliner. He slleged that she owed him $152 and possibly more as the result of a ioint enterprise In the sale of merry widows. . Johannes says that in August snl September,- last year, he advanced I'i'io to the milliner, who wrs to a.id $:.' Of her own and sell a stock of the (inv est kind of headwear In Tacoma, rU-.u U and Spokane. She was to rray l ,m $600 and divide the profits with Mm. In defense the milliner declare.! tl,ni the financial dlsturbnnce la-r f., -i thwarted .her plans. hl.e said lii it it tightened the purse strings of v. Mi'i, v purchasers to whom she cirr- l. ,-. !. i UESTIO CERTOM sne succeeded in selling i.nlv a of-the hats. ; Bet'lcs, h i Johannes did ntflll tti mri.i, . -,t he was to put In IL.Ooo, an. I c.i v f nished half that sum. - When, the -rasa .was raiiul f before Judge lironsuirli !. ,, . court this MioriiitK u s-,.-. tiled hy wl.li-h ,...; i rn-- .. In 'full pa yr..: i. nt !')-. prevloue! y i . ': i " V