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!fc TRY TO PICTURE FISHER SANTA GLAUS AGGRIEVED POLITICIAN M
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ZOIJE
House Committee to Visit
Uncle Sam's Isthmian
Possessions and Thence to
Frame Self-Rule Act -Zone
on Military Basis.
Will
iDoltcd Press Leased Wlre.
Washington, Dec 2S. That the real
object- or -tne visit' or ma uuua iiurr
lata rammcrca committee to the Pan-
. m i..nni nn during the holiday recess
Js to get data for the formation of a gov
ernment for the sone la the statement of
one of the government officials. It la ae
rtjiri that the son, which is now a
sort of duchy under President Roosevelt,
will be given a government of Us own.
Under the present system, which has
grown up under the Spooner act and the
various appropriation bills that have
passed, former Senator Blackburn Is
really governor of the canal zone by rea
son of his designation for that service
while he is a member of the canal com
mission. '
The members of the houso committee
make an especial stuay or me some
t mm nlicateri croblem of the rela-
nn Tlti'nH- between the American ad
ministration of the sons and the republic
or Panama. t y. ,
Two schemes have been proposed for
the government of the sone. One Is the
federal district plan, like that in force
in the District of Columbia with its own
code of laws and governed entirely by
a commission appointed by congress and
with no franchise and no legislative body
of its own.
The other Is similar to that In force
In the Philippine Islands, which Includes
an executive commission and an elective
assembly. The first schema Is regarded
mm mnra fenaihle. hnraiiKe. most of the In
habitants of the sone are either clt liens
of the . republic of Panama or cltisena
of the United Suites, retaining their
legal residence at home.
It 'is regarded as certain that the
governmental plan that will finally be
adopted, therefore, will be a patriarchal
nn to be administered by authorities
appointed by the president but under the
strict supervision of congress. This will
be a compromise between the two plana
suggested. ' . -
There Is considerable opposition f to
any plan that will make It necessary for
congress to legislate for any more fed
eral districts. The District of Columbia
is regarded as occupying more of the
time of the national law makers than a
city wiwl oou.uuv iimauiu&nia) jusimen,
and it Is desired that Panama, with Its
complication of jurisdiction and respon
sibilities snail not pecome anotner our
rten nn onnsrresa.
One thing Is certain, the government
will be primarily one that can be in
stantly adapted to military conditions
and win De approximately military in
character, because of the necessity for
the United States to be In a position to
defend the canal at a minute's notice
, if the occasion should arise. . It Is rec
ognised that the government must have
at its command the machinery for mill,
tary operations not only in case of de
fense against possible outside attack but
also to quell Internal disorders.. .
The house committee -recognizes that
its work Is entirely, without precedent
ana me suojeci win can ioru consider
able debate after the committee makes
a report. - A '
AS WOULD-BE ASSASSII
Attorneys for Defense In Finch Case
Again Shift Position Now Planning
to Prove Plot to Kill Their Client
Existed.
"Do you wish, then, to be under
stood as swearing that after Ralph
B. Fisher had twice called you up
to invite you to his of f lep, after you
had apparently enlisted his sympa
thy by telling of your reduced cir
cumstances, and you had been led
to believe that he would sign your
petition, that you went to his office
and opened the door, spoke to him
in the most kindly manner, and that
a few moments later without any
apparent reason he hurled his no
tarial seal at you and brought you
to your knees?"
"Tea."
"How long were you In Fisher's of..
flea before he threw the oeal?'
t waa nnlv . short Interval. I
would not attempt to say how long It
was, but It was just after I started to
plead with him to sign my petition. It
was just a short Interval."
-Ann h threw it backward at you?"
"T. that is. it wds over and back.
thtnit hia chair turned a little, and
then he threw it, half over his shoul
der." .
Develops a aw xnevry.
Tluu mentions, asked bv Arthur C.
Spencer during the cross-examination
of James A. Finch yesterday, with, the
answers of the defendant, show that
the attorney for the man accused of
Ralph B.' Fisher's murder have devel
opend a theory of the case that Is
startling. k ,
Finch is to be pictured as the meek.
unsuspecting "victim of a trap, as he
once referred to himself yesterday.
Ralph B. Fisher is to De representee
as the malevolent, cunning, ireacner
nus schemer, who enticed Finch to his
office by words of kindness and the 'in
spiration of false hopes. . f
The defendant's lawyers have not yet
openly charged that Fisher called Finch
to his office to kill him, but their de
fense, which has shifted' several times,
Is now plainly tending in that direction.
Yesterday afternoon the defense became
suddenly anxious for admission in evi
dence of one-of the 'unsigned threaten
ing letters received by Fisher just be
fore his death. - .
When -the state first ' offered this
letter in the earlier part of the case
the defendant's attorney denounced It
as an outrage and said the threatening
missive was not a letter, but a "thing.
It would be "cruelly unjust to let such
a thing- as that go before an American
Jury where a man is on trial for his
life." he said. Yesterday this same
lawyer Jumped at a chance to get the
letter In evidence, and said the defense
would offer It If the state did not.
Season Can Be Ooassed.
Tha' reaspn the defense wants this
letter, which was shown to Finch and
which he said he had never seen before,
may be guessed without wide stretch
of the imagination. It will be argued
that Fisher became alarmed by receiv
ing leiiers or tnis cnaracter, that fie
(Continued on Page Two.)
SHUT 1
lion in ms
UTIIE SOCK
That's mat the Wee Grand
son of Colorado Mil
v . lionaire Gets. .
Colorado Springs. -Dec. 25. Just - a
bagatelle of fl.OOO.OOO, Is the Christ
mas " present dropped today Into the
stocking of the month old son of Leo
pold yers of London by his grand
father, General W. J. Palmer,, the Color
rado railroad builder.
The Infant . millionaire was born In
liondon while his grandfather was on
the ocean coming come from Europe. -
80 overjoyed was the rich man with
the news cabled to him thst he prompt
ly settled fl.OOo.QOO on the chlldi the
understanding being thst the Income
on the gift shall- be used for the boV
until he becomes of age, when ha shall
receive the principals 4 J . . ;
COLFAX PASTOR
"COMES TO lift"
J. E. Bradshaw Drops From
Sight and Then Drops
' Back Again.
(Special Dispatch to Tha Journal.)
; Spokane, Wash., Dec. 25. J. R. Brad
shaw, a Baptist minister, has returned
to his .horns at Colfax, Wash., after a
month's mysterious absence. The fam
ily thought him dead. The sheriff had
offered $300 reward for the minister's
body. '
- Bradshaw says he has been on a trip
to Portland and Medford, Or., and Cali
fornia: that he did not tell his famlLv
because thev were opposed to the trip. .
He-disappeared In, Spokane a month
ago, after selling a carload of hay.
SHORT AHSWEK
Non-Union Fatally Wounds
Union Printer WTio
Rebukes Him.
United Pwm Leased W1r.
Chicago, Dec ti. "Merry Christmas,"
said Dell Doherty, a nonunion printer,
to W. F. Getts, a union printer, whom
he saw sitting in the lobby of the
States hotel today.
"Christmas would be merrier If you
scabs would join the union," Getts Is
said to have replied. ,
Stung by the retort, Doherty fa al
leged to have' drawn a revolver Im
mediately and fired one shot at the
union man.
Getts, with a fatal wound In his
abdomen, fell to the floor without ut
tering another word. His assailant was
instantly placed under arrest and is
now being held pending tha outcome
of his victim's injures.
MOLARS PULLED TO
. CURE LOCKJAW
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.) -
Vineland. N. J.. Two SSA H Kti
who was thrown to the ground when a
20 foot electric light pole on which he
was at work snapped, has had a re
markable experience in recovering. In
tha fall some of his teeth were iaj-red
ana otners naa tne lining Knocked out.
When he was thought to be recovering
his laws suddenly locked and remained
so ror nine days. Medical skill was
pusiled until a dentist suggested that
the trouble was caused by an injury to
the molars which affected the glands of
me nectt. . K.oeta'8 moutn was Dried
open little by little and corks placed be
tween his front teeth until the dentist.
Dr. F. 8. Walls could apply his forceps
to me moiars ana remove mem. The
young man is now recovering rapidly.
Shlpa in the Caribbean.
(United Preaa Leased Wha.1
Washington. Dec. 26. The iravv de
partment announced today the receipt of
news inai me uoipnin naoiert tjuracao
for La Guayra. TheDes Moins has ar
rived at Curacao. Both ships have been
hurried to Venesuela to represent the
United States in case American interests
may demand protection in the event of
hostilities. :
REH1RS
PORTLAND
Good Things for Rich and
xPoor Crammed Stocking
of Rose City Church Mil
itant Does Noble Work
for Needy.
Did you hear the Jingle of the
elelgh bells last night and the pat
ter of reindeer hoofs? Perhaps you
didn't, for a Portland Christmas
wn't exactly suitable for sleighs.
But that made no difference. There
are other 4 methods of travel in this
country, and Santa Claus got here
somehow. And if the chimney was
too small tor him to come down
that way, he managed to get into
the house soma other fashion.
There is no doubt but that the Jolly
old gentleman was here some time dur
ing the night, for Portland's Christmas
stocking was well filled. In fact. Indi
cations are that the saint came direct
from hla mysterious abode up In the
frozen northland to Portland without
making any stoDs on the wav. anH that
consequently, Portland got the pick of
all the good things he had in his pack.
And the old gentleman must have put
In a busy year alno- riirUima. i!n?
making a supply of gifts calculated to
gladden the hearts of his friends, big
and little, who live In Oregon's metropolis.
now Hot Kissed.
Hot could a little thins Hk rain
dampen the Christmas cheer. Of course
a snow storm, would have made more
of a picture book Christmas, but we
aren't used to snow storms out here
and we get along just as well without
them. A foot of snow could not havn
made Portland's Christmas any merrier.
There weren't many people on the
streets todav. but even thoM vhnm thi
necessities of duty called out had Merry
Lnrniraa wnunn on meir ices, and
the expression was ready on the ends
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
IHITIAL TRIP OF HEW BOAT
Steamer Inland Empire Carries 120 Tons of Freight for'
Pasco and Kennewick Captain Edwin Baqgh
' man Sounds the First Starting Bell. .
ALL DEAD Oil
CiSTK
10R1G
GRAPPLES
President Attacked As He Dines As
sailant Seizes By Beard, and Shoots-
Bullet Passes Through Ear Wound
Not Serious.
(United Press Leased Wlre.
Paris, Dec. 25. President Fallieres
escaped death at the hands of a youth
ful assassin today, by a hair's breadth.
The vouni man fired at the Presi
dent and the bullet passed through the
president's ear. Inflicting a painful but
not serious wound.
The young would-be assassin gave
the name of Mappls. The police say
he admitted he was actuated Dy polit
ical spite and wanted to kill the presi
dent. Fallieres showed great presence of
mind and betraved no sign of excite
ment. He said the Injury was hardly
worthy of mention.
Tha nrnslrient was dining with a
small Christmas party in a restaurant
fSWOLSKY FfJR
THE STATUS QUO
Expresses Russian Friendli
ness for Turkey, Be
fore the Douma.
(United rresa r.cd Wire.)
St. Petersburg. Dec. 25. Foreign
Minister Iswolsky, in a statement to
thm, linumi todav. denied that he In
dorsed the Austrian course of procedure
in the late Balkans crisis. He recounted
the numerous attempts that were made
to rnmnlete an Austro-Russlan alli
ance, all of which failed.
Iswolsgy renearsea uie dbiksih sit
uation. He expresseu the friendship
of Russia toward Turkey and recom
mended the passage of a resolution ask
ing the government to sio in sirengin-
enlng tne present aiaius quu in mo
Balkans.
Diplomats who listened to jswoisay
declared that his . mild tone was in
tended to hide the "war skeleton."
The Austrian and uerman amoassa-
dors-were not present.
in the Palace d'Etolle. when Mappls
suddenly aonroached and before any
one could Interfere seixed Fallieres by
his flowing beard.
The restaurant was crowded with the
holiday crjowd and the greatest excite
mnnt prevailed. Women screamed and
fatntedr
, Fallieres and his assailant ' grappled
and fell to the floor together, locked
In an embrace.
The cries of women attracted the
gendarmes, who rushed Into the place
ana seized Mappls.
Both the president and the prisoner
were bruised In the scuffle. Fallieres
Immedlatelv left the restaurant.
Rumors that the president had been
assassinated or seriously wounded
spread swlftlv throughout Paris.
Mappis Is an insignificant politician.
He is said to have made a complete con
fession to the police as soon as he ar
rived at the chambers of the prefect
Premier Clemenceau confirmed the
story of the attack upon the president.
Mappls' friends admit that he was the
aggressor In the struggle with the
president. l nev explain inai ne sui
fers from acute neurasthenia and as
sert that he was in the midst of an at
tack when he assailed tha president.
Mappls was employed as a waiter In
the restaurant, where the president was
dining at the time of the attack.
MISSION BELL TOLLS '
AFTER 50 YEARS
(United Preaa Leased Wtre.V
Oakland. Dec. 25. The pealing Of an
old mission bell, whose tongue has been
silent for 0 years, was the unique
ceremony that opened Christmas at St.
John's Catholic mission at San Leandro
today. The bell was hung last week
sr.d dedicated on Sunday by Bishop Da
Silva. a relative of the late king of
Portugal.
It was over 100 years ago that the
bell was brought to this country-from
Cadis by Don Francisco de Valdes and
presented to DOn Luis Peralta. one of
the old Spanish families which once
owned nearly all of Alameda county. It
was hung in San Leandro church and
tolled for all the services of the mis
sion fathers for half a century, being
replaced after the civil war by a modern
bell
GUARANTEE 0
F
DEPOSITS
T
State Grange Will Lead
Fight for Orton Bill in
Legislature This Winter
To Be independent of
Other Legislation.
State guaranty of bank denosits
ill be one of the big questions to
come before the next session of the
legislature. . Already s bill has been
roughly drafted by A, W. Orton',
representative from Multnomah
county, and has been submitted ta
the banking committee of the Ore
gon state grange.. The measure has
been gone over carefully and' a sec
ond draft of the measure has been
prepared." This is now being sent
to the different local granges
throughout the state for ; their Bug-,
gestion and approval.
The bill will be prepared In .time, for
the opening of the legislature; and will
be . backed by the state grange, which,
will make the enactment of the law on
of the chief objects during the coming
session. i ,
It has been decided to .' confine the
provisions to the question of bank
guaranty aione, leaving otner amend-
ba
menis or tne existmv
other bills. This will be done In order
banking law to
While Preparing. Overnight
for the Day'? Festivities
Wealthy Chicagoan Opens
Gas Jet Man, Wife and
Little Girls Asphyxiated.
(Special Dispatch to The Journal. )
Roosevelt, Wash., Dec.. " IS The
steamer Inland Empire - of the Open
River Transportation company - made
her maiden trip between . Celilo Falls,
Ppseb and Kennewick yesterday, carry.
Ing 120 tons for the two latter, places.
On the trip were Captain Riggs master
of the" . new boat: Chlif Engineer C
Kellogg, who has Installed the machin
ery and is in charge ofjthe engine room;
Arthur I Wylie, general agent for the
company; and Dorsey B. Smith, genera)
manager. ,.
Captain Edwin Baughman, for 50
years the veteran captain of the upper
Columbia, river, was invited by Oeneral
Manager Smith to make the Initial trip,
and it was he who sounded the first
bell on the Inland Empire to Chief En
gineer, Kellogg. , Captain Baughman
claims the boat Is the best nn tha river.
On completion of the steamer Pel llo
Falls, about March 1, regular Portland
Low.1s.Vb i service will be established.
f "" .1
(United Press Leased Wira.V
Chicago. Dec. 25. While filling the
stockings which his daughters had hung
on , a gas jet In their home ' lata last
night, Morris Lukeman or his wife ac
cidentally turned on the gas and when
Christmas dawned all four members of
the family were .dead.
Lukeman. who was a wealthv grocer.
had planned an elaborate celebration
for his -family. Hia wife had ordered
and superintended the arrangements for
a rich Christmas dinner. The two little
flrls, Anne, IS years old, and Lillian,
5. had purchased presents for their
parents.
The tragedy was discovered early this
morning by Isidore Hansen, a milkman.
When n entered the hallway of the
home' ha detected the - odor of gas.
Hastily investigating hs entered the
room Ailed with gaa and saw the forms
of the two little girls in the bed with
the overloaded stockings hanging above
them. The next room was found full
of gas also and in It' were the father
and mother, dead In their beds, i -
Hansen immediately threw , open the
windows and doors and summoned assistance.-
All four victims, however, had
been dead some time. .
Under the pillow . of each little girl
were found two packages neatly wrap-
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
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Voice of the Press A State on Trial j
From the Philadelphia North American (Rep.). $
In the distant state of Qregon a contest is in progress of far more i
than local significance. A systematic and persistent effort is being Z
made to bring about a breach of faith with the people, which would j
shame and discredit the Republican party not only in Oregon, but ,1
throughout the country.
By legislation, approved by popular vote, that state adopted a plan
which virtually provides for the direct election of United States sen
ators. By that arrangement, candidates for the legislature give their
pledges to vote for the senatorial candidate who receives the great
est number of popular votes at the polls.
The people of Oregon have been heart and soul in favor . of pro
gressive Republicanism and the policies of Roosevelt and. Taft.
But the Republican party in the state has been, dominated by a
corrupt, unscrupulous, reactionary machine. There have been few
more nffensive recent examples of misrepresentation than was of
fered in the course of Senator Fulton, training continually with the
Aldrich-Cannon clique in congress. "
He paid the price when he was beaten by the leader .oflanother
faction in the party primary. But the people of Oregon still were
not satisfied. They looked beyond faction and beyond party to find
a man they could wholly trust.
It is a Republican state! It voted overwhelmingly for Taft. It
elected a Republican legislature. But it elected those legislators
bonnd in solemn obligation to choose as senator a Democrat George
E, Chamberlain, the choice of the people for that office as he had
'been made theif choice for governor by Republican, votes in opposi
tion to the ruling ring. ,
The duty of every Republican legislator so pledged is plain. As
honest men like Bourne point out, the Republican is a traitor to his
party who fails, in this instance, to vote for a Democrat.
Ytt the strongest possible pressure is 'being brought to bear upon
those legislators to perpetrate the treachery of supporting a leader of
the machine the criminally absurd reasoning being that because the
people suported Taft and defeated the men who had fought all that
Taft advocates and represents, one of those ejiemies should s be
returned to the senate instead of the man expressly chosen by the "
popular vote. , , ,
, For a word of protest against the "prostitution of Republicanism J
by a gang to go to any other state from Pennsylvania may seem too
much like satan rebuking sin. But it is fair-warning to the men of
Oreiron that they would do' even ureater dishonor to the oartv hv i
defeating Chamberlain than would be wrought by the reelection of a
! rcnro , i .
that tha guaranty Dlan mav not he am.
barrassed or hampered by some objec
tionable clause or provision rolnllnir in
other bank leglslatfon. i
iThe main purpose and intent of ths
law is set out in the first two sections
of the proposed bill, which set the.tim
for the law to become operative and
prescribe the manner of the operation of
tha law. , These sections ara aa follows:
Tsxt of the juiL-: .
Section,!, Ninety days after th
passage and approval of this act.' the
board of bank commissioners shall lew
against the capital stock of each and
every bank organized, and existing un
der the laws of this state, an assess
ment of 1 per cent of the bank's aver
age deposits, which shall consist of in
dividual deposits subject to check, time
certificates, cashier's' checks outstand-'.
Ing, and in fact all moneys deposited
in each bank, less the deposits of tln
- (Continued on Page Five.) -
MILLER ID LUX
HOLDINGS SOLD
Enormous .Values , in Lands
lind Livestock Are In
volved in theDeal.
(Cnlted Pre Learnd Wtrv.l
San Francisco. Dec. 25. Negotiations
are under way today confirming the r
Forted sale of the vast holringa of tha
amous firm of Miller & Imx in CaliforT
nla, Nevada, Oregon and Id ho.
- It- is rumored that a den I of-in
magnitude of (20.000,000 will be mad
between Henry Miller and the heirs if
the late Charles- W. Lux, w her by Hit
firm of Liggett & Myers, a firm of Ht.
Louis capitalists, will lake over 30.
000 acres of oil-bear In g land and thoi.
sands of acres of agricultural land In
the San Joaquin vallov. together with
valuable water and power rUhta. alt
be. developed ror colonisation pirifae.
and the CudahyS at Omaha and ft
wealthy German-Americans of Kt. UuU
and other eastern cities -'will -take t(.
180.000 head of ? cattle, together win.
the slaughtering, cold storns nd rtii r
plants, and the graslng hinds it On
gon, Nevada and Idaho. t
Miller & Xux Wilt retain cinsi-d -rn?,!.-property
4n this state, tngh tt,' Mii.t
of the firm's immenxe hnMiug v'i t
disposed of in this glniitir I I
ts alt negotiations nl ! t.fr.i.gi.t i ,
a termination In Jannxry.
Mea-iwhlle the wl'oin -nn i
op in the vmirtM Ui!jik!i i
which la Involved tins .!ir -( i ,
(ihfhloll I.HX I'l.ll'f, !
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