..v . 6-". : N1 JOURNAL. CIRCULATION ' The Sunday Journal ' V'" Comprises ' " i jScclionS";76P2ges The weather-4Partly cloudy with i occasional showers; variable winds. TESTEIJPAr WAS s ii 3a j . ; VOL; VI. NO. 52. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1910, PRICE WE CENTS BALLINGER HELD . UPAS F N HON GIRL VICTIM IS To His Attorney He Has Com mended Himself as All That Is Trustworthy in Public Life. GLAVIS DENOUNCED AS LIAR AND OTHER THINGS Challenges Committee to Hear Testimony and Do Other wise Than Acquit. Washington. March IS.1 A few Drop of yertree' vitriol. Plnchot Vuln and flattered by his own publicity bureau. Glvl. Blindly misconcel v Ing; .attempting trv aKsaaslnato Mr. 'Balllnger's (rood name; sus picloua by nature am! perverted by detective service. Conservation Like all sound doctrines, when preached by the vain and self aeeklnif. tins be come ' perverted until It la hera a folly and there a reproach. ' Th renentment of a dIV chargred public aervant and ;"tho program of an unscrupulous political Intrlffur." The Plnchot aorvlce On March 4, 1909. there came the. reign of law; before It was the reign of men. Hevomng urime Keveaiea in New York When Oil Soaked Gunny Sack Is Discovered on Fire Escape. DEATH RESULTED ; FROM STRANGULATION Man Arrested for Abduction Is Now Held by Authorities on Murder Charge. (Dnllrd Prrwi teaiird Wlr. Waahlngton, March 26. The defense had 'Ha first Inning today at the con graaalonal Iriqulry Into the Halllnger Plnchot controversy. Attorney Ver treea, chief counsel for the secretary of IB Interior, In a statement presenting hi case, poured-out wrath upon Oifford Plnchot, former forester, and I.. R. CJla vtn, former chief of tbe rield division of the land office, the two principal in the prosecution. He answered the chHrges against Balllnijer in terms of bitter de nunciation on the one hand, and warm commendation of the. secretary on the other. The. Pinchot-aiavis side finished Its case shortly after the luncheon recesa. Attorney Brandela at that time made a second ineffectual attempt to force the committee to call Secretary Balllnger to testify aa the flrat witness for the "de fense," but the committee overruled the request, as it had previously decided against a demand by Brandela that he be allowed to call Balltnger aa a wit ness for the prosecution. Attorney Vertreea then began his opening statement, which ho read care fully from prepared manuscript. BaUlnffar u Conservationist. "When Mr. Balllnger has been heard," eald Attorney Vertreea, "It wjll be seen that true conservation has no steadier supporter than he. He holds that con servation Is not a thing of caprice, but of law; that those who have already been born and now breathe have rights, as well as those yet to be born and to breathe. ' "Mr. Balllnger did restore vast sec tions of domain, under one pretense or another. He still believes he was right, but If he erred, he denies It Is an error or which the grood. I alth of his official cilon should be questioned: at th .. In stance of those who would substitute opinion for law. "The evidence now be offered will make all things so clear, so undeniably clear, and so plain that this committee will cast about to discover how it Is that men who knew aa much of the truth aa Plnchot and Glnvis and Garfield and Dfivls and Newell knew, would have the daring to present themselves as sincere, honest harborers of a "suspicion, much less casting aspersions, much less he lleving that they had knowledge of In culpatory facts. "Gluvls, sunpielou.3 by nature, be- cartie perverted by detective service until apnprently he hnd become 1 capable of fair judgment. "Mr. Plnchot. vain and flattered as chief of the forest service by his own publicity bureau, had come to regard (Continued on Page Two.) (By the luteriidtlnniil Newi gorTlre.) New York, March 26. One of the most revolting crimes ever perpetrated In Now York was uncovered this after noon when the charred body of Ruth Amos Wheeler, a 16-year-old steno grapher who disappeared last Thursday was found on the fire escape In the rear of 222 Kast 75th street, next door to the house in which lived Albert W. Wolters, now held on a charge of homicide. Wol tors had been arrested on a chnrae of abduction when It was found that the girl had gone to his rooms seeking a po sition as stenoRrnpher, but the charge was changed when the body wits found. Body rrlg-ltfnUy Barned. I lie body was wrapped in an oil son k ed gunny sack and was burned al most beyond recognition. A charred fragment of rope sticking to the neck snowed that the girl , was strangled Wrapped up In the suck with the body was a paekiiifo containing a man's white shirt bearliiK the initial "W" The fire escape mi which the body was first dis covered is of tin- balcony type and was for the use of (hp tenants of both 222 and 224. The fiat occupied by WolteVs opened upon It. De Jails Revolting. The police made a careful examination Of the Spartrnent WoTters had occupied and discovered that a fire hoard pro tecting the wall from the stove had been removed, newly repainted and replnced. The condition of the grate was such that the police Ix-llovo-that (he body was wrapped in cloth or papers, saturated with oil, crashed Into the chimney and set on fire. No blood was found, which strengthens the belief that the girl was strangled. mistaken for (farbaf. The body was first discovered by .Tohn Tnggart, who lives in No. 222. Seeing the bundle on the fire escape he sup posed' It. to be garbage from the apart ment of one of his neighbors and pushed It over the railing Into the yard. The fall burst the bag and attracted the at tention of John Woshl, who lives in 224. He saw the bag contained the fragment ASSAULTS ' ' " ' -'" ' Oregon's Prominent Men Honor Judge Williams on His 87th Birthday ' w : : . T Bound Over to Grand Jury a . Night. Session by Justice Ol son; Pointed Out by Victims of Riot. PROSECUTOR SAYS POLICE "FIXED" Butcher Declares Dickey Head of 60 Men Who Ran Up stairs to Get Hindus. (Continued on Page Ten.) Gordon Dickey was poaltively Identl fled a the leader of the mob of Hindu haters at St. Johns and waa bound over to the grand Jury at the prelimi nary examination held last night be fore Justice of the Peace Olson. 6tartMng statements as to complicity on the part of the police of St. Johns, wherein the night chiel,of police agreed with Dickey that there should be no In terference with the work of the mob, were made by Deputy District Attorney Garland, who was In charge of the case for the state. This part of his testi mony he reserved for the future, but said he would be able to prove the "fix ing" of the police at the proper time. Many Attend Trial. The stuffy Justice court was filled to tho doors with men and women from St. Johns, while the halls of the building near the room we.re crowded with dusky sons of the far east. John Kim, the Hindu Interpreter, and J. J. Cole, pro prietor of the butcher shop over which some gf the Hindus roomed, were the men who declared Dickey was the leader of the mob. Kim said he and his countrymen were first apprised of the arrival of the mob by a tone hurled against the door of the house where he lives along the rail road. The door was broken down, he said, and Dickey threw a revolver In his face, commanding him to hold up his hands. He was seated at a tabje writing, he said, and Dickey went through his pockets, taking J50 out of them. Then he and other Hindus were taken and put on the streetcars and the mob made a. rush for other places where his countrymen were quartered. .Threw Olass of Beer. Deputy Constable W. T. Kiernan tes tified that when he arrested Dickey the latter told blm that he and a half broth er were In ft saloon when some Hindus entered and some one threw a glass of beer on one of them. The . Hindus chased them down the street, he said. He saw there waa about to be trouble. so ho assisted in putting the Hindus on the streetcars to get them out of the range of danger. Cole, the butcher, said Dickey was at Thunderous Applause Greets Him When He Rises to Speak; President Taft Sends Congratulations. (Continued on Page Four.) TafVs Congratulations. 4 The White House, Washing- 4 ton, March 2. Charles E. Dock- 4 wood, Secretary Republican Club, 4 Portland Please present my 4 compliments to your guest of 4 honor, my father's friend and 4 mine, the Honorable George H. 4 W'llllams, and extend fto him from my heart the heartiest con- 4 gratulatlons and best wishes on 4 this, his eighty-seventh birthday. 4 may he have many additional 4 years of future usefulness. 4 WILLIAM H. TAFT. 4 One hundred and seventy-five of Ore gon ' most prominent men met at the Portland hotel last night to pay honor to Judge George H. Williams, the grand old man of the state, -upon the occasion of the Ighty-seventh anniversary of his birth. It was an occasion the like of which has never before been seen In Oregon, and which may never again be seen here, where youth and middle age aa 1 silver hatred cltUenB gathered together to pay homage to one old In years and In service but still young In mind ami vigorous in body. Eloquent tributes to the work and the worth of the guest of honor were paid by different speakers "Widely known for heir forensic ability, but their efforts scaled fur down In word painting, in force. In heart interest and human sym pathy beside the response of Judge Williams., His words touched the hearts of those who listened and bound him still closer to them in sympathy and human fraternity. , Teast Elaborate. Following the feast, which was a most elaborate one and made still more pleasant by the beautiful decorations provided by Manager Bowers of the ho tel. Judge M. C. George, toastmaster, presented the first toaBt of the evening to Judge Wllliama. In his address the speaker touched at some length upon the public life of Judge Williams, and reviewed his publlc'servlce and his political- successes. 1 Judge William) followed Judge George In response to the toas In his honor. and after his address Rev. A. A. Mor rison spoke on the 67 years of public service of the guest of honor. Dr. Morrison paid a sincere tribute to Judge Williams, contendfng that he was rf ' 4 I Honorable firorRe H. Williams, who celebrated his 87th birthday hit night. i V... i PULLMAN FARES fflUST BE REDUCEC GENERAL GORDON WILL SEND RELIEF A f TO ESTRADA FEARFUL PEOPLE IS AS (Continued on Page Kleven.) r CHILD BUTCHERY LS JIJST AVERTED Insane Father -Lines Up Four Children Preparatory to ' Slaying Them. (Br tbe International New Serrlce.) ' Hartford. Conn., March 26. An Insane father was- prevented from butchering his four little children on the banks of the Connecticut river toda by the timely arrival of the police, when lo cated hack of the bushes his four boys uirp nartlv undressed and were lined un in a row, the maniac father standing over them with uplifted axe. A boy ot lour was to have been the first victim. Thev child was standing beneath the hlnlnit blade with . a crucifix "in one hand, calmly wilting- his fate. The oth ers, under ordas of the madman - had partly removed their clothing and- were terrified spectators. Tfie police dashed through the undergrowth, threw the madman aside ..and gare their Immediate attention to the chU.drsm. The- father waa' then taken .to thtr-'police station and locked In a' padded cell.. -He 1 a Pola named Valente Chongle. Hf. h"a been dispossessed by his landlord today. . .,. 'Sr:i 5tbb Prayer OVER the qnalnt old Roman room. Where, on the white stone window till The Kasfer liliea ire In bloom, A tow knock keep re-ecbolnr. till The door Is opened. There he btaoda. The hambie Uttle parish priest With kindly eye and open hands. So gentle he recall "the least Of these, my brethren." Near blm wait The chubby Uttle acolyte With holy water, while be state In English, hajtiug. but polite. - His earnest purpose "Bjr your Jeare May I oot girt this dwelling place An Easter blessing Easter Brer' Who cowld refuse the proffered grace T Not wc. who la a foreign land a Struggling with foreign speech. ha n Of blessings from 'friendly band. Whate'er our creed or lack of creed . And so the gentle little priest. Clad poorly in A shabby gown. Prepares as for the Paschal Feast By sprinkling holy water down In the four ornra. murmuring low A litiii benediction then .With "Buona ScrsT turn to go Onr dwelling place 1 pore sgaln. From malice, wickedness and sin. From evil domination free. Guarded without and cleansed wltbtx By this quaint, kindly ministry Now while the luminous twilight spreads Across the, spacious Roman sky. While folded bauds and bended heads Send many an orison 011 high. The poor poroco's holy mood Stilt lingers In the quiet ghr, " And here, where wrapped in prayeVfie stood. Our deeper thought takes wing In prayer js "0 Master of the Paschal Feast. Grant us upon the Paschal Day. The spirit of the hnmble priest Who bears wit h(a a dish of clay Tlte luatral water, purging still The brutal Instinct from the breast' The poor 4n price from rbe will. The ego from its rain unrest! Prom empty busks w cannot eat. From herdiag with the wallowing twin Bid os arise with esger feet Forerer seeking the divine! New Piisclral Feasts for us be spread. , Unto new Easter lead our Forever rising from the dead ., - To newer Ressiirection Days! ROBERT OILBEBT WELSH. f . And Uppers Will Be Less Than Lowers; Interstate Commis sion to Check Rapacious Pract(ces of Car Company. (Washington Bureau of The JournaD Washington. March 2fi. Pullman fares from St.' Paul to North Pacific coast cities will be materially reduced by an order to be Issued by the interstate com merce commission next week. The com mission has reached this decision in the case begun by the Shippers' league, headed by George Loftua of Minneapo lis. It Is understood tho gommlsslon will also Include In Its decision that the Pullman company must sell upper berths for less than lower. The decision Is based as much upon the Pullman company's own official re ports as from the showing In the Lof tus case. From the company's reports It Is shown that Its $1,000,000 capital stock Is now $100,000,000, but the en tire increase comes not from additional Investments of new capltal' by stock holders, but by . capitalizing earnings. It Is said the opinion at commission headquarters la that Pullman rates to the Pacific coast could be cut In half and leave abundant profit on legitimate capitalizing. The company has paid an g per cent annual dividend and lays by 8 per cent surplus annually, besides "cut ting a melon occasionally. Nicaraguan Government Open ly Defied to Prevent Ship ment of Expedition; Army Has Been Organized. BUTTE MINE IN MERGER (ITnlted Press Seated Wire.) New Orleans, La., March 26. The crisis in the strained relations between the representatives of the Madrlz and the Estrada factions of the Nlcaraguan government was reached late todav. when General ftordon, who Is organiz ing- an Estrada relief expedition, sud denly appeared at the Madriz consulate and entering the room where Luis Corca, Madriz's minister to Washington, and other Madrlz officials were In con ference, defied them to keep him from starting his expedition for Central Am erica. It was a dramatic scene. Corea and General AHschul were seated at' a table when Gordon suddenly entered. He calmly told his enemies that the report he was organizing an army was true. "Tien you are liable to a $1000 fine and three years' Imprisonment, acord Ing to American laws," shouted Corea. "I am ready to sign a statement that I am raising an army here and that I nave -cnanerea a snip ana 1 aery you to do anything," was Gordon's reply. He then handed each of the Madrlz of ficials his card and walked out. Minister Corea was angered by the proceeding and said he would endeavor to have Gordon Imprisoned at once. Local government officials said they would refuse to take official action un- LAVAFIOI'COOLS - v .- ,. ,. - , Mount Etna Becomes Inactive . but Terrorized Villagers Flee for Their Lives;; Foreigners Gathering. . ; ' (Continued on Page Ten.) (United Preaa Leased Wlr. Catania. SIcUy. March 26. Following this morning's violent eruption of Mount rctna the flow of molten'-lava from. the nnm.rnllH craters diminished noticeably - during the 'day and the ' greater peak has practically ceased us activities, a iun,vv null nf ninnke hanes over the " - - j . . -- ------ - - cnrrminillnv cnimtrv .and fine dust of pumice Is settling down, killing crops. The flow of lava down the mountainside which threatened the , destruction of numerous villages has slackened con-", siderably In speed as the molten mineral cools, and unless there should be an- other flow. It is probable that tho vll--J-lages now thought to be doomed will be saved. , ' , people Oiv Thanks. The Inhabitants in the vicinity of Etna are rejoicing tonight over their deliverance. All the churches have been opened for thanksgiving services. The people attribute the cessation of tho urnntinn to the arrival of Cardinal FranciB Neva, who approached the vom ' King mountain wun tne nonesi relic In the vicinity, a portion of St. -Agatha's ' vol) and bade the lava stream StOD. Later in the evening, however, the peo ple grew nervous and then - panio stricken. Fearing that the present lull In th eruption ' is but a calm that Is the (Continued on Page Ten.) Boston and Montana Co. Sells to Anaconda Company for Thirty Millions. Butte, Mont., March 26. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Boston & Montana Mining company today it was voted to go Into the recently formed cop Der mertrer. all of the company's mines and smelters being sold to the AnacoVida Copper Mining company, the holding company of the merger, for 1,200,000 shares of the latter concern s stock, which has a par valueflf $25. The Bos ton & Montana company is capitalized at $3,760,000, there being.. 150,000 shares, of which all but . 50 were represented at the meeting;. - The annual copper produc tion of B. & ii. company .is about lflOvOOO.OOTpounds of copper annually. fThe corrtpany owns electrolytic smelters at Great Falls, the largest of . the kind In-the world. It was the largest sub sidiary, -f the Amalgamated i Copper company, and controls a number of the largest mines in the Butte district. HEADQUARTERS OF Da R. SGENE OF BITTER STRIFE: NSURGEfi (Bv the International News Service.) New York. March 2ii.. The daughters of the American Revolution are lining up for. the bitterest fight of their lives. The Insurgent spirit has entered Into the saced precincts of , the national headquarters of the society Mehiorlal hall at Washington and Madame, the recording secretary general,' "Mary ;WB. Wilcox, Is making a bitter .fight upon Madame the president general, Julia, T. Scott, and Madame, thtreglster general. A. G. Draper.. -i'1: . MaryB. -"Wilcox does not mince, mifti ters. in an open letter tooths heads of the various chapters throughout the cduntry she declares that Mrs., Draper la preparing to seize the 'organization, and through the president general Ia clerks and officer not pleasing to b-rr (Mrs. Draper), summarily discharged or forced to resign. ' , 0 - "f " The Insurgents have' taken thulr-stand upon the dismissal by Mrs. Boon of Mt Agnes Gerald, clerk, lrt ths 0tnply ot the national society, who was appointed In' April, 190. Mrs. Bcott in hr Mt' t of dlsmixaal alleges "csntimid (d pv,i,--st4nt ac ot . nr.fbordt!iB.lo an employe." . . . jRecopdlng' Secretary General Wlico bas'raken th stand tht 'Hnut was dismissed heCatitT ilrw. lira per t I . trouble with .the r?hi .mother t l' -lljfnie ot. tie last tuvtf - ; s .