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Milium! i'ojmhzrJiitt.lJ:rr(lt-'tic I. Hnskin-' SpccinlScncs of ft t lick 5 oh-the Thirteenth Census.. Don't Fail Jo Rend Jhem in The Jo: j,. r Till: HMI.Y 1 O l7 Jt N A h IH Two Cents h Copy Punday Journal 5 rentes or 15 mita m wvck, for Dull and Sunday Jour pal, bj carrier, delivered. ' ' Th weather nalrj ' tonight and. Friday; southerly winds. i . JOURNAL CIRCULATION ; YESTERDAY WAS VOL. VIII. NO. 202. PORTLAND, OREGON,- THURSDAY - EVENING,' OCTOBER - 88, ; 1809. TWENTY-TWQ PAGES. ' PRICE TWO ;CENTS. tf.KVivsViK. ILIL f I I I I I J . -a A ( M. "1 A. A i. j- , - I w ' rtll f .4. .Jk. A A ' 1 A Jk X A I I II 1 1 !' ' - - . r ...... - ... i , , i , ,. , ,. i ., - 'i .... - I-.- i : .J i ... i i... .r , ,,, S mrnmmm IN ALLEGED LAND GRAB -i. ; -v.. i 0I MEGON TRUST OFFICIALS BttURt CUUlil Oregon Trust Advanced Money on Prop-. erty Said to Have Been . Obtained by Fraud Interior Department "Girders Patents Cancelled. s v AFFECT 1 CASES A WEEK , ' fBT Joaroat raaed gatem Wire.) Sara. Or, ,Oct 21. W. H. Moor W. Coopsr Morrtf and EL E. Lytle, charged , with tb looting of the Oregon Saving , 4b Truat company, are also to .be made defendants In a ault Inatltuted by the .', United State government for the can cellation of the paten ta to about 7509 - acres of land In Columbia Southern pro Ject Fraud la charged by the federal government, which may mean aertoua consequences to the men named, who were the offlcera and directors of the Columbia Southern Irrigation company Notice has been received by the state v land board that the board must .Imme diately show reason why the patenta In question, should not " be cancelled. " Sixty days' time is given by the Uni ted States land office at Washington -within which the board must comply with tha order. . The letter from the Interior department asserts that the , government is ready to prove that the , patent were secured through misrep resentation both on the part of the state and irrigation company. ; ,. ,"""'''', Xoos Contract. Because of the looseness of the first because of their -location and elevation. Because of misrepresentation thus mad to the government . through the negli gence or the state these lands were granted out the patents win now b j annulled by the ' government Thousands of Aores. The entire holdings of the Columbia Southern - include - more than - 17,006 1 acres. Test Made in Bathroom Where Mrs. Osborne Was Found Dead and "Where J. L. Smith Was Picked Up Unconscious. Not satisfied wth the evidence given yesterday afternoon at the Inquest, into the cause, of the death of Mra Jeanette It is understood that the Oreson Osborne, who was found dead in a bath Trust A Savings bank held a mortgage room at the Swarts hotel, the coroner's on the holdings for 1176.000. The com-I Jury ' continued their investigation to pany never has been able to deliver suf- I day, and asked that police detectives be rlclent water to Irrigate the land re-1 again placed on the case. A thorough claimed, and settlers have been dlssat- J investigation is being made,, as several Isf led from the start. I mysterious , features have ' presented W. H. Moore, president of ths Oregon themselves. Trust & Savings bank of Portland, was I . The. inquest is being - conducted by J-also president of the Columbia Irrlga- Deputy Coroner J. X Dunning, and a re turn company, it la charged tnat none I port was made this morning. This re- of the $178,000 loaned to the Columbia port . of the Jury states that Mrs. Os Sauthern company was ever received by I borne came to her death between 5. and the company, or ever expended on the I g b'olock Sunday afternoon from some reemmauon or me z.uou acres ror causa unknown. Thev further rerom wiiiun me company reoetvea me pai- I mend the further Investigation. enta. tnrougn . tne misrepresentations I jamea L. Smith, who was found un- cnargra. v. wiout wu siso in- conscious in the bathroom with Mrs. volved, and ,hA direct charge of the Osborne, and who was revived and taken Company affairs; , tn-St. Vincenfa homltat was bfore the .. ..... w.. i. , The state Instituted suit against the I went to the bathroom together. He in- Columbia Southern recently In ths fed-1 tended to take a bath and Mra. Osborne raucourt to compel it to supply water to settler who had come in in gooa faith and taken, land, together with the nens ox tne company, ana aiso to cancel the eontracts. Fraud waa alleged also by the atate, but Federal Judge Bean. who rendered an, opinion . in. ths . suit. Carey act. the state ha been powerless , to , enrorce tn provisions or the con- tracfeVith-the Olmnbla -Southern.--vr : Tha engineers of the Columbia South ern company were given full awing and their- recommendations were forwarded ; to Washington . without ' examination. .Th state supposed the government was watching ths selections and the1 gov eminent supposed that the atate was. As a result several thousand acres were selected by the : Columbia Southern, which they can never hope to reclaim, IS A PRISONER nraa in h.ln Vilm i, ' , '.. ;. xmdresssd. for , Bath. 'According to Smith, ths tub was half ruled with water, when . he undressed and sat on a board across the tub, and dangled bis feet, into tha water.-bwas k-TC ZZr.TZSX? -T. to warm, and he said hs kept pulling ficials vrho were arrested yesterday responsible Tor the fraud by not keeping ""V,; T.Z i.,i. J . 1 Mwmoon. a closer watch on the recommendations ??rf .Bborne kept laughing at him. Ths of the company's engineers, the sute wt 1 , . "T . " -"mwtu, wa unable to prove the fraud. ' Tbs fed. " ui , u f eral government may, under thesa cir- "n. uhl at him Suddenly all con- CumsUnces. nrov collusion on tha nart "cjoubobbb was iomu ne siaiea, na ns of the state. . j d,d not remember anything until re Federal Authorities Work ing: to Break Tribal Feud in California. E. E ' T.vtle. when' aVA iihnne . foregoing dispatch 'said tbe 'question ,n the room, testified he noticed an had been ) threshed out in the . federal of ln -the nalls' and while pai court and - determined In favorbf the irrigation company, 1 "There la nothing to it, in my Din- ion," said Mr. Xytle. "As I understand It, the -land office has simply' served notice on the desert land board, that it must see that Work on the project is resumed within 60 days, or the patent to the land will be cancelled. - "There are no bonds now out against ths company, only stock. All of the bonds have been taken up and the mort gages cancelled. . Plans are now on foot ftTnIte4 Pi-mi tnirf Wlra 8n Franciaoo, Oct 38. -Held under by which the work of the company la M todiotment of murder by the federal be resumed. I believe that the story 'authorities, James Donnelly, a half- a rehash of the old 'story threshed ; breed. Indian, is In ths -Alameda county out ,n the federal cotirt and that there I jau. uurlng recent -year - a feud hast " wning,Bw is it. . existed between two. faotions of In dians In Humboldt w county, during which 10 men, Indians and whites, have met death by violence. Donnelly 1 ths first of tb alleged murderers to be brouxht to trial. It Is exDected that Hthers will b arrested by the United tates offloers The feud was -started 10 years ago when- the son of an1 Indian was acci dentally drowned. At the time the lad was playing with two little Indian girls. The father demanded that one of them be given to him as a' slave to recompense him for the loss of bis son. Tbs demand waa refused and a few days later Jlmmis James, the father, was found dead, shot through the hack. Following James death. Billy Harper, a member of ths other faction, waa found dead. Several bullet holes In his back told how 'he died. Then fol lowed ths- murder of Chickasaw, an Indian. - t On Thanksgiving day. 1908. Bert Por ter, a white man, was killed at La. goon and tha next morning Jose Vierra,, a Portuguese, met a like fata at the hands of the mountain gun men. uscar Chapman, a storekeener at V. E. Hensley, who wa the first man odor passing the bath room, detected It much atrong- tfiJ- Upon looking over the transom, . hs saw the two bodies on the floor, and that the gas burner bad been turned off. There were no, flame whatever, he states, about the gas burner. , W. B. Hart, a brother-in-law of Smith, who assisted Hensley break open the door, says the gas was burning, and that he turned it off. He says the flame was shooting high along the side of the water heater when they entered the room. Break Open the Door. When the tWo men. broke open the bathroom door, the body of Mrs. Osborne waa found lying on the floor beside th (Continued on Page Fourteen.) REFE1JD1 I EfJGLID Use of This Type of Legislation Is Not Only Discussed but It Has Become a Burning QuestionWilliam T. Stead States Positions of Parties. . By William T. Stead. (Special Correspondence.) Iondon, via New York, Oct 2S. The proposal to settle th dispute between ths lord and commons by a plebiscite of the wh-le electorate voting "yes" or "no" on the budget finds little support in the commons. By a theory of the constitution the conlmons represents the peolji of England and It shows no KJamaJh, was found dead on December dlgpositlrin o abdicate its right to It of the same year, v HI body was riddled with bulleta. s While Investigating the - numerous murders In tb wild mountains. Denutv United States Marshal Prentice of Bu reka : found Donnelly. He subpoenaed him to appear as a witness with' fiva other Indians, and upon Donnelly's ' ar rival hers placed him under arrest PASTOK DIVOKCES ; cmiuoii TOLD TO STEP DOIVH HIS THIRD WIFE Candidacy Would Endanger Success of Republican ' ' Party (CaltrA Press letaed Wire.) -Everett, Wash,. Oct 8. Andrew Mrey Boyd,, a Presbyterian minister, Tt rear old. hi secured a dlvorc from jhl wife on tha ground of desertion. The Mult was brought here from Taklma Chicago, Oct 11 -A dispatch received tocay by the Chicago Tribune from Hel ena. - Ark, says the congressmen and senators accompanying President Taft ounty, to avoid publicity In the tnln I star's home community. Tb suit waa tha ralmlnillna f th i hlrd matrimonial venture of the agedlaow,, Mississippi river enroots ts preacher. Mrs. Boyd defeass- waa I th waterw ays coavenUon at New 4Or- sed upon the ground that her husband 'n bv t0,d Joseph -Cannon of 1111- hoaiht ae para at on to make bis fourth I DolB tht If b is again a candidate for ry at wedded bllas la company with an I reelection as speaker or th bouse el fflnlty. I representatives the success sf ths Rs- Tesumony 'went to show that tPubUca Party will becom endangered, lalntlff ought o bar defendant tn-1 Tbs dispatch Bars that at a confer- MItute the suit, but 'Mrs. Poyd refosed. enc aboard the Qulncy last night it a her answer and rroas ccn-iplaint Mra -TJ charge extreme cruelty and nen urport o the part of her fcutHand. Tbe ctaetody of two manor children, t and 14 year of ate. ! awarded to Ira. toord. together with tt a month . :moay. wa derided That the on It rtnna for fa i son was for Prealdent Taft ts com to hi aid, a be came to the support sf AlArtrh la his Winona speech. It is r"rally believed, however, that there 1 little chance of President Taft going ts Cina' speak in their behalf. ' Mr. Balfour Is known, to be an ardent partisan of the referendum, because he Deueve it will be another clog on the wheels of th car, of. progress. The Right Honorable J. A. Peese, the liber al whip, has spoken in favor of this mode of settling dispute between the two chambers, but w -other liberal of note favo-s It It has been passionate ly attacked by Dr Jtobertson Nlcoll of the Brltlsfi Weekly and until it "was put forward with a general parade of au thority by th Tlmea. no one took it seriously. J For the referendum a a substitute for the lirda there Is something to be said, but to give the lords the rlaht to demand the referendum on financial bill would be absolutely Intolerable. If the referendum I conceded the coun try Imm-dlately would be nlunsed into all ths turmoil and expense of a , gen eral eirrucn wunout any security that It decision would be final. If. for In- atance. the referendum went aaalnst the budget .tbs minister would be com pelled to resign and their successors would Immediately dlawolvs ths parlia ment W should thus har what would practically b two general elec tions Instead of one. ... If. on the other hand, the referendum bouM jveult In a liberal victory, the lords won.4 gtr gray, bat a they will hav to give .way as thins stand, thei Introduction- of th referendum would not Improve the situation. Th referen dum upci aoni grav question of con stitutional r ha or, such a hoen rule or .disestablishment- Is thinkable, but ths referendum oa the budget rveverl mKKmamu it - - c . ... -- ' ' : ?li courts iThii1ir''ti! ' fwrni irnirhi r.-'HOu lOI!dW,f !!' ' I i ' - . '. A s ,'. nmi i w i nninl Irr - - i, .v - HIV N l A x-ilJ UIIILLI LUUI1U! Ill NTfl i nil fl nr a l n f 1 11 . - u ; n ninofliiico i u j ii v rn y i ' DIECTOT.; ' OO - .... . aj mm NO ARTICLES h in ni r n ' i mm TODAY Jeffries and Johnson De cide to Hold 3feetinpfat 3 O'Clock Tomorrow After noon and Beach, an Agree ment for Big Fight. ; rive former officials of the nbw de funct Oregon Trust & Savings bank who were arrested; yesterday afternoon on a charge of receiving deposits after they knew the bank to be. In an in solvent condition appeared, before Police Justice Olson in police court this morn ing and opon application of their at torneys their cases were continued for one week.' . rne rormea officials, who were ar rested on information filed by the dis trict attorney and Worn ta by Abra ham Henkle.'a depositor In-the wrockei 0 GO C Y DRAWS 1,6426 (Continued on Page Fourteen.) HSOLOili Charles A. Clark One of the Comparatively ' Lucky Ones at Aberdeen: 1 (Special Dla patch to Tbe Journal.! Aberdeen, 8. D., Oct 28. Charle A. Clark of Oregon City today drew No. Hit In the drawing for Cheyenne and Standing Rock reservation lands. Calvin Bowdry, the colored man of Bismarck, N, D., who won No. 1 by the TUFT'S FLEET LOSES TIHE President ;and. ( His Entour age Xow Three Hours Behind Schedule. lOolttd Praaa taaaed Klre.V New York, Oct 28. Sam Berger, rep resenting Jeffries, and George , Little, representing Jack Johnspn, hav decid ed to hold a meeting at I o'clock to morrow afternoon, '.-to be- attended by Jeffries and Johnson,, to arrange ar ticle for the big fight- ; ) - The meeting will b held at the Ho tel Albany,' where Jeffries Is stopping. It is expected that the agreement will be reached after a short session but the article may not be actually signed until another meeting can be arranged outside this state. The New York law makes it a felony to arrange for a prise fight In this state. Tbe reason for the postponement of the meeting of the pugilists was because, as Sam Berger, manager of Jef f rtea, explained to the negro's manager, ths meetlnar of the Duellists-could not be held until tomorrow afternoon a noth ing had been - done ' toward securing a private place -to talk -things 'over. Little did - everything' to secure a meeting for today, as both he and John son are anxious ;to get back to Chicago. Jeffries worked for I hour and iO minutes at Cooper's this morning with out a rest' When informed that Little was waiting for him the white pugilist, Sddr!'V.-3BS "'''' 'V.'-' v'i''-V: 'All right' let him wait: we will not get together 'until tomorrow afternoon. Berger and he can discuss things with out me Jn the meantime."' Johnson Is at the establishment of Baron Wllklns, ' a - negroj on iTwenty- f if th street . . Jeffries, and .Little are at the Hotel Albany. The negro pugilist was a surprised man when told that. Jeffries had said h might, name y the . meeting . place. .Johnson said: . f . j "Huh, did he really say that? Sounds funny, doesn't it? I-don't care where we meet, just so we meet I can get ready to fight Jeffries within a-month ; -the earlier the date the better it ' will suit me.- t . t "I'll train as I have' never trained before, and if Jeffries licks me he will turn the trick when I am at my beat. I prefer to., fight In California, 'as I like to train there. I believe it is ths only atate in the' union where the-fight can be pulled off without interference. . 'T - am practically certain that ? Jef fries will be a favorite in the betting. I am witling to post $6000 as a side bot and then bet him all ha cares to put up at ringside odds. But I'don't ' see '"why-' I should . tra up $10,000 or more as a aide bet at even moneyvwhun Jeffries is aura to be the favorite." MACK IS HOT DROPPED r T.,l. n fi.!, rii MJismarca, ix. i UUUC tjatCiia UdllUS Xlll-1 default of the man who drew It Wll- ble by Directing the Liti gants to Draw Straws. Big; Land Dcsl In t' mat ilia. . Pendleton, Or, Oct 1 -One ef th larBt sd8 riscd on record Is tb local office ha bn nisd from L. L. Mann Vrrrr Hoa-r and t eon-4 slderatlon ta !.00. Tb land sold fa s part f th old Am)bt lyrard placy, oath of Pendleton Drawing of straws took the place of lawsuit in Judge Oaten a department of the circuit' court thia morning. Ole A. Jensen, who lost a dlvorc suit to Christine IL Jensen in the saro court few days ago lost again today on the rawing ef straws for a picture of his wife' old bom In Denmark. Jensen had sued hi wife snd Mra J. L. May for poasesslon of f 1000 worth of personal property. Including th family piano. Toed clothing, pillows, flower pots and various household furniture. Wkea th litigants assembled , for th trial this morning they bad aareed on a di vision of th property, with tb excep tion of one pic tar. It develop that while Jensen and bis wifs wrs visiting Jn Denmark many years ago. they . saw two pictures in s Copnhaea art gallery of bis . wife's home piaca. taken from different view point a Jensen gave bis watch ta rhace-e .for tb pictures and wbes the division of property was discussed' Jen sen want4 both "the pictures His wife rowce-ded on but sntende4 that ah should hav th Other. o th. draarlng ef straws wa suggested and finally agreed upon. r i Andy Weinberger, tha- rvsrt balltff. held tha straw snd en of Jenaea' frVMa teprd forward a4 rw the short or. That tt3el th last point of dLfrrene and tbe case wa a dis am J. Engel, of Nebraska, Who waa unable to avail himself of the . homo- stead law because he had already ex hausted .hi right is a native of Missis sippi. He wss born . st Oxford. Miss Bowdry married in 104, separated from hla wife In 1I0I, snd sines then has roved about, the country. He csme to Bismarck In September. l0f, snd short ly after his arrival wa arrested on a charge of theft but was acquitted. He ts now working for Granville Wolfert a hardware merchant at Bismarck, for IX a day. H says he will llv on bis land and comply with tbs homestead laws. . (United Press Leased Wire.) Helena, Ark., Oct 28. Three hours behind hi schedule time. President Taft. who Is due to' arrive at. Vlcksburg t 3 o'clock this afternoon, will proba bly not arrive there until dusk this evening. Thin will mean that the Ole ander, with th president aboard, and the fleet carrying the. 28 governors and 117 congressmen as well a other dele gates .to the waterways convention at New Orleans will sail down the Missis sippi today without making a stop un til Vlcksburg is reached this evening. The delay has been - caused by tb Inability of the accompanying fleet of river craft to maintain the pace aet by the Oleander. - - - - -. - But Democratic ; National Chairman Admits There Are Other Big 3Ien. SPOKANE rOLICEJIAX MUBDERED BY. THUG Co-ll r!r- Tb Joanx! ) " i Sj-eaane. Oct 21. Policeman Water oury, wao was snot last sight by a buralar, died at 4 o'clock this morning. . Watcrbury and tw otker officers la plain clothes war petroling a residence section of the city where there hat- been many- burgUrl recently. . Wall, tern porarllraepsrated from ths other offl cera, witerbury, cecal a men whom con net a) BT-kVaa ' Ho called epoa th ansa (s halt and tb respens wa a ksTW '!.' iae4' through Water bsr body, lodging la bis bsca. Ths thug eatrard leaving so clew but a verroat ahich he cast ld ta bis Greenville, Miss., Oct J8. Th Ole ander, bearing President Taft. passed this city at . 11 o'clock this morning, and at the rat the vessel Is now travel ing will reach Vlcksburg about V o'clock tonight - The nine other ressela making up ths fleet bearing the congressmen and sena tore to the waterways conven tion at New Orleans are straggling be hind, . unable to keep, up . with th ship bearing the president -' President Taft and the other mem bers of the party hope to assemble out side of New Orleans in time to make a triumphal entry Into tbe city at noon Saturday. . Waahington, Oct 28. Norman Mark, chairman , of the Democratic national committee, today denied that he had re pudiated William Jennings Bryan, which report arose from the prominence given : Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio in th current Issue of Mack's National maga- sine. Mack today , said: . . , "It la too early to make predictions for the noxt campaign at thla time. As chairman of the national committee I cannot go on record-as the supporter, of any prospective candidate. "Governor Harmon of Ohio and Gov ernor Marshall of Indiana are both big men and undoubtedly their names will be mentioned at th next Democratic national convention.- ' HONOLULU KOREANS . INDORSE ASSASSIN trait' rraa tea. Wlra.t Honolulu. Oct . XI. Resolution "ex pressing aatlrfactloo over th aaaaasik attoa aof Prlnc Its at Harbin by a Korean wr pae1 by the Korean Patriotic leaga her. The reoolutlon la sroacted In trorg terms a.nd th murderer of th Japanes diplomat Is lauded for hi act TWO PERISH III IHCEHDIARy FIRE New ' York. Oct 28. Two persona were burned to death and It others w' eertoualy Injured today In a fir f la cendlary - origin "- that destroyed two three story tenement bouae n Kaat Fifteenth street. Tb deal: , 11R1I4X TIEDT. 14 year. EMMA TIEDT bis wife. XT year Tbos who ar reaponalMa t-r i 1 blase made careful preparations ta t a end - that the- etrocturs, filled wi n sleeping people anight t burned o , was pored vr the floors in ih (- meat and lower floors ef or, it bulldlns and pllr cf Irf. an-'i.. ' a- tlclea were pill In a t-ai r"i - th fire s-s 'art 1 Tha police era ri".r'-f ' " n- ririty for-tr-e s'lW'r i ' a Th la alii ic I '