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T HE DAILY "JOURNAL I S m'ocEUTsncopy naL bv earner, delivered. The weatherRsla tM. afternoon1, tontght and proD&Q'y ou.,. PORTLAND. OREGON. FRIDAY EVENING. APRIL 1, ' lSlO.TWENTY.FOUR PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. J?JliPeaM VOL. IX. NO, 23. - - nn ess ME MS 3D' Slit ii inn ur' J.UUU HI II STRIKE TODAY IS THE ESTIMATE ny , MIncowncrs' in Various Uates Come to Agreement .Vith-Strikers,. Who Return b Work immediately ' I --: i -I '" 1 - WIS CONTINUES TO : ? TAKE OPTIMISTIC VIEW W Loss in Wages $900, ;00 Daily; Only 2 Months I Coa) Supply VnHarid f . t7nlted Ftm &sased wls.V "'' ndlenapolls, Xndy : AprU , U Official imates : by leaders ' 'United n ; Workers ' t ; America today are it 870,000 nUners'ai oa strike. They to uUmtti that U falling off la the tpnt of, the iaines"eahes 1.30,000 a aaliyw The loss to the iniasrs la iges Is estimated. at 300,000 dally, ia loss to ths mine owners will teach xnuoh larger sum. i ' -," . 1 v ' .'y'.r-'.A " Chicago April l.-No call for a eon enoe between the mine uperatora and e mine workers has been Issued here I far as can ba aaoertalned Urdayr Re rts from Indianapolis referring to a opoaed conference next Monday can it ba iverlfted. Mioera of flclala here pe for an amicable aettlement, but do ft expect to. reach an agreement with jiployera within 10 ctaxa. - ; v! RESIDENT LEWIS ' PYPHFRSPfi HflPfe OF EARLY SETTLEMENT tndlanapolla, , init, April l. Three usaplmftjeri CfJBOUtGTjnBiftu otlnued work today owing to the ra my ,Hh which operatora and repre itatlva mlna workera reached an emer t on wairea and houra--r Tne-en.d. a. atrlke, of 17,000 rnlner. In-, .tliat ltory la ln.aight and proliably will brought y about , today, rrealdent la, of th United Mine Workers, to ; predicted that all contraeta-eteept i Xlllnola and In tha'aouthweat would signed within week. k He added that bably tlltnoia mlnera and-thoaeof oraa.' Oklahoma1 and . adjacent atatea ould be back at work under Ironclad rreementa " within "10 daya. Ha aald (Continued onPage Four. r. Warner Thinks Gallagher Fled Because) He Feared J 7 Assassination. - ''fe;;'''5','trnW Pm 'taaaad Wire. San Francisco, April , l,Dr.. Alexan- !er Wartier, a well known phyalclaa and lubman of San Francisco, who baa juat eturned from a, tour of-Eurep," today tha first direct new ef Jamea I Gallagher, the mlsHlng wltneaa In tha graft caaea that haa bean received lnje Gallagher disappeared lact jautumn. 1 J According to Warner, he tmet Oalla khar and hie wife ori tha North German Uoyd eteamar, Koenlg Albert, an route Jror Naplea, la December. ; I "Oa board ; QalUgher talked to ma freely of hia plana," aald Warner. "We jiad aeyeral conversation, and waa purprlaed when I learned .of the trouble hnd diacuaalon hia absence hadrcauaed Jin San Franclaeo. Ha did not appaar, to a running away, . Neither did he aeem w have an ...unlimited amount" of money to apend "Ha told me ha had no definite Itiner ary outlined,,, but Intended , to ' go Into Germany art w a trip through aoutnern Europe. .He Intimated that ha might be gone for six montba or a year, 'As I aised thing up, Oallagher aim Ply feared far hia life In San Franclaoo, and so took tha first oportunlty to get , 1 f DEATH III BUZZARD 1 I II . ie t -- , In Unfinished House When the Storm Strikes Plains of -" . Colorado .'; V , Xoveland. Colo. April l.-Two boys Were frozen to death in the biieiard that haa swept thla section for the past three daya. accordfcgr" t0u report brought fronv Greeley today, Thejc are Kost -Nasua, IT- years old, and Willie Hayworth. ll. The bodies of the boys were found In ; the Hayworth - ranch house, near Greeley, last evening.! The Hayworth boy's father had ' left- the boya to complete a ahanty he waa build ins wnne bo journeyed to Greeley for tnoro material. - He was delayed b the blizzard and returns,) tn flnH hnlh UAa ?SSE 30YS FROZEN TO 0. II. & II. LOSES $1SLEUTHS J. B. Moran Faces Charge Qf Embezzlement as Result of Shortage In Auditing Office at Spokane. - . TAKEN WHILE ENROUTE. "TO INTERIOR OF STATE 'A 3 f Railroad Detectives Clover and Wood Apprehend Hirna, :rW::;iyf. Burns, Oregon. . . '' T fltk4.1 TMaMtX a TM Xaanvaaail ' , Ja-VWBV I WVWMHWa- - i: Ontario. Or.. April 1.- Railroad detectives 3. P. Clorer and- D. D. Wood; passed : through Ontario yes terday with I..B. Moran, e& route .to Spokane where Moran Is wanted on a charge of embezzlement. : v .' He was chief clerk in the audit ing office of the Oregon Railroad ft Navigation company at Spokane and la accused f embezrilng-112,000 ot the-O. R. ft N company ' . moneys. . Moran wag arrested at Burns while endeavoring to make his way to the Interior of central Oregon, where he had gone, with his father, presum ably to buy land. ; . 1 T MrsTQulloulin Alleges Former II Minister Too Affectidriata i and Promiscuous'- , vv San Francisco, April M. -WaiterH.'Du Moullni" formerly . nT Epracopal ihinli ter, who- Is now In Seattle waa notified today that hia suiter dtvoros"pndlng befova the Washington courts, waa un- neceaaary for the reason that Mrs. Da Moulin was granted a divorce from hlra In San Franoieco yesterday.' Eh ob tained her divorce oa the grounds ot de sertion;' vyl-'y;;"' yS ; fei'Vyj;i'"'v ; v In her; complaint she alleged that Du Moulin, while at the head of a parish, neglected her ;to apend much ' of hia tima In- theicompany-of-falr-parlBhloii-era.' She also alleged, that.be uaed to rise at i fn the morning for strolls with young women. .:.' :--i- It Is reported here that tu MouUa Is working; as an Insurance canv&aser In Seattle. ' Ha cornea of a . family promi nent in religious Work. in tha eaat. . JAMES'FISH, 70 YEARS : v OLD, WILITMAKE TOUR . ?f W0F.4W0RLD ON FOOT ' ;;-y:;-y- sj, ',:. .y. S : Vaides,';.'1Alaaka,t--;ApHl w James Fish," 70 years old, sailed S for Seattle toda,y on the steamer ' S .'-cheater, England, hia "birthplace. . ) Ha will cover the land portion of . 4 his trip afoot. 'r-,,-' y:,. ,v-. ' ' He ;' will wal from Seattle e down - tha . coast to Santa Crux, S Cal., and there will turn eaat . across the continent " tq . Boston,' ey where he will take the steamer e , to .Liverpool. Arter rvisuing; la e Manchester he will travel on foot ; across Europe, visit Che Philip- e pine islands and return to Alaska 4 , by w.ay of the Pacific. No one la e ; Valdez believes Fish' will be able e : to finish his journey exoept Fish 4 . himself, who looks with scorn - e ) upon the Inconsiderable records S of Edward Payson Weatoiu - . '. , Fish yhas been a ' resident of e Valdes f or y 10 . years, during ; e which time he "has never been : e ''outside Alaska. . JURY IN BANKER : STANDSFJINE Nine -for-acquittal, thre for eonvie-tlon-thls la how the Jury stands la the case of Walter H. Moore, former president of .the Oregon Trust ft Savings hank, according to. the best information obtainable this morning. 1 i rt J That this is the true standing of the Jury.' despite a general" ppinlon to the contrary, la likely to be confirmed when the Jury Is discharged; At noon there was no prospect of agreement, after re porting , to Judge Bronaughriwb hours before that .there appeared . to be.BOi chance f or . a ' yerdict. y- -Vl After . spending a lohgy night la' the Jury room, taking; only ? a:v few hours' sleep, the 13 men who heard the evi dence showed marks of the siege when they filed Into co,urta few minutes 0 DIVORCE COURT AND THREE FOR GONVIGTlOfJ " ' , . ' ' ', in i ' .. in nn ' rm i ,i i ! ii i H i ii i I'm" " ' . v . ' . "; ' y -",1 .', "'r .". rJ .-k.':":MA , :JCXsZ Wll -WALKER Miss' Eleanor Sears Compelled to Give Up 103 Mile Race 1 AgainstiTimeJ When J Pace ? maker Quits. ' ; (TTnlted Jrese tessrt Wb4 jOllroy, 4at, April 1. After covering a distance of 5, miles In 20 hours,. Miss Eleanor Sears, the society girl who was walking against time to Del Monte from Burllngame, waa compelled to give up the race today. Miss Soars was In1 ex cel lent condition to continue but her male escort refused to sot as pacemaker out of here and her chaperon. Mrs, Frances Carolan, refused to allow jMlss Sears-toproeeed -without man to.ae company them. . Miss Bears; Lowery and the Cardan party la the automobile that carried the pedestrlcnne's supplies arrived here at z:10 this morning hav Insr covered approximately 68 miles , to a little more thanJtfr hours. - . : . u Pacemaker Quits. '.. T 4 ' Miss Sears was assigned a room at the hotel, and? a call was left for 6 o'clock thla morning. At 5:30 Mis Sears was up and ready to proceed toward Del Monte. " Lowery, however, announced that he had been called to San Fran cisco, on business and could not go on with the party. 'l;Ml8S Sears expressed a willingness t advance alone under the chaperonage. of t Mrs. Carolan but Mrs, Carolan wodld not permit the race to continue under those : condltlona (Con tinned on Page Twa) before 10 o'clock this morning. a I Pettis.' the foreman, was spokesman. ', t-A.i: Cannot Agree. y "y -r-y . Judge Bronaugh' asked If the Jury de sired further Instructions or assistance front the court. ' "We have not come to an agreement, your honor." said Pettis. ; .'1 do not think it will be possible for us to agree. We stand nok jmf4he same as we did at firsts . :l - si: . yti-id;!; Judge Bronaugh ' asked if there was any point of -the law aBMt which" in formation wia desired, or whether his instructlona needed any explanation. ' . . 1 "No, v anawered the foreman. "The only thing; about which, we might-' ask would be If there -is any obligation on (Continued on Page Four.) , iv: y ;:;..- iii ' ' -? Hiii Antonio Torres v at Highands, Cal.,nafchesJ Rein ?From ! Hand lof Dismounted Horse woman and Escapes. I4 , , (United Press Leased tnre.1 'J -' -San Bernardino, Cal., April 1. More than a score of attendants at the High land state asylum for tha insane,, re inforced by a dosen deputy v sheriff a from this city, are searching the desert country In every direction today ; f or Antonio Torres, a violent patient who Is at large and thought to be armed. : Torres made r his escape from ithe asylum' last eyening. Eluding the guards of ' his waru, ne oasneq into toe asy lum yard and ruehed upr;n Mrs. Edwin Walte, a San Bernardino society , woman. who , was standlnx with the- bridle of her saddle horse across her arm. -u- , t- With a Tvild yell, the maniac hurled Mrs. Walte to the ground, seised the bridle and leaped Into the saddle. He dashed from the grounds and along1 the county road toward the foothills. Within half an hour attendants had taken1 the trail. They were Joined later by deputies - from the offloa Of Sheriff Ralphs. Torres turned into a trees: Dad near the outskirts o the Highlands and It was diffioult'to follow his tralL From a. deputy who returned to the asylum shortly r before noon,' it was learned that Torres' pursuers believe he is armed. It was said that as he was leaving-, the 'asylum grounds-, after at tacking" Mrs. -Walte . and taking her horse he turned la' the saddle and bran dished a revolver. Later shots were heard far the direction he was supposed to have taken, when he left the ereek had. .. . . ' Torres waa considered one of the most dangerous of 800 patients at Highlands asylum. Orders wer issued that - he be 'captured, 4ven if extreme measures were .necessary.;.' -:-!' . ' - Call for Bank Statements. , "7 ? 'Washington, April 1. -The" comptroller of the currency today called for a state ment from ' the . United States national banks at the closeiof business on Tues day, March 18. V , - . , ' CHANTICLEER. HATS DO NOT APPEAL TO ; : ; WOMEN OF. PARIS e. ' Paris, April r L Chanticleer . 4 hats are a drug on the market. ; f - It IS regarded as a "straw In the wind," showing; that the barn : 4 yard and wildwood bird and anl- ' mal, play by Rostand la not' so popular- as .once It promlaed tot be. Modistes who made quantl-. ye) -ties or . xne - -unantcteer-- nats . have taken them from windows ' e and. relegated them to the back - e '. room with the down end outs 6f e e last season. ; Woman won't have Je. them. . - -. . - it,, - ; IN CHINATOWN "j Don't Know That They Are Gambling, Says His Honor; Chairman Clarke Opposed to i Games In Any Form. ' Mayor Simon positively refused to talk about gambling In Chinatown yea terday afternoon at 4 o'clock, whep asked his policy on, the matter. I O. Clarke, chairman of the police committee, aald this morning that he did not know gambling was wide open in Chinatown, or that there is any pol icy of the city administration, whereby tha Chinese sre allowed to gamble among thenfaelvea. , .'.- "I am against all forms of gambling bar anyrace It Is against the laws of the city and the state, and If there is gambling In Chinatown it has been with out my knowledge," said Mr. Clarke. . When Mayor Simon was naked y eeter dav for an official expression on China town gambling, he said; "I don't know that they are gambling." Mayor Simon Bat loan." It has been given out that It Is the policy of the present city, administration ta allow the Chinese to jgamble, providing- they allow no other, race to play in their games. Will youTtay whether or not this is the policy f your adminis tration T" he was aaked.- - -i don't want to talk about gambling In , Chinatown. " I know pothing about It," he answered. jf Do you want any Information on the "(Continued, en Page Fifteen.) NELSON nni MM' UADn DV II IllillU Ur IN THE BALL (MM rmilMM wln.1 Washington. April L The, Balllnger- plnchot controversy threatened today to DreclOltate a row among; members of the congressional investigating commit tee. The trouble started when Chair man Nelson of the committee accused AttorneyyBraodela, representlpg Louia R, Glavls, of oonceaiing certain tesu mony from the committee.. With up raised flat- Brandeia ad vanoed pon Nelson and yelled:,. ; yj- :--i" "I be y 6 u r d af a onTou t r dia not con ceal anything from this oommittee, and I strenuously object to any more Insin uation a that I have ' eonoealed - any-. thinf.,f:-,.'-.,'..';'.';.'1 ? t . A number of committeemen were on their-feet in-an instant.'S? "I move that the chairman's remarks AUTO STOLEN CHICAGO SOLD TO LAWYER IN CITY Stearns Machine Bought by4H. f H. Riddelt pf Portland Held y in Local Garage - to -'AWait Positive Identification! ; DISTINGUISHING MARKS' PARTIALLY EFFACED Authorities Detect Work of Or: ganized Gang of Daring --itomobile- Thieves. Portland la beginning to reap the re sult of the harvest gathered by an or ganised gang of automobile tmeves in Chicago and New York, i Already one Portland man, H, H. Rlddell. an attorney fn the Chamber of Commerce building has been bilked by the aale to him of a stolen machine and- the detectives and peace 'officers are working on the clues which It is expected win aeaa to ine arrest of the agent of the thlevea For Some time past the police of 4 CIUcsko and NeWTork have been send ing; descriptions or, stolen autorooDues to the titles of the west, asking that a BharpT outlook be kept for these ma- (Coninued on Page Fifteen.) REGISTRY RIGHT Delegation "Storms Office at SaaFranclsco,teit Reg Istcr' Repels. v , rt"'.,:A' , VvtfvLlswA taWshaast 'VmbssssI Visa f Ran Francisco. April 1. While local suffragettes are seeking new ways 1 to give publicity i to. ''the -cause, -Deputy Register Cameron -H. King 18 receiving congratulations from politicians on the stand he took yesterday when a delega tion demanding "votes . for women" flocked into the registrar's office claim ing that they ahould be allowed to reg later as ' votera. They baaed this" de mand on the ground that they were "pits Isens of the United States." , - Mra. William. Keith, wife of the dis tingulshed artist, led the suffragettes, and many well known women were In the Tanks.1 1 . :Ll-r. . King stated. firmly that he could not register-any of them. Miss Solomons, president of the local organisation,; then asked what waa meant by the sign over the door, which reads, "All citizens are required to register."' . ''0-- 4 "We axecitizens of the United States,' she saldTT- '.',-' ''. ':'-; ."Certainly you are," replied Kin. "But you see the Sign Is off; It ahould read,-'AH qualified voters are required to register.' ' i "The pamlsr of that sign didn't have enough room to get it all on." .. U Beaten the auf fragettes then tried to enroll King as an honorary member of the "Votes for Women." but he feared the bright emblem which they desired to pln4OB his coat lapel, v , I J - , They then retreated in dignified or-. der, not however, until they had an nounced that 4he delegation wOUld ejine before the election commissioners April 4 and protest that the sign ovea the door was misleading. It Is understood they want it changed so as to show that, women are discriminated against C., M& P. S. TO TAKE H OVER OLD MONTANA ROAD AT, $5,500,000 Butte, ' tont; April 1 Tha Chicago, Milwaukee ft Paget Sound railroad com pany tas annouaoaA its intention of tak Ing over tha Montana Railroad company, operating from Xiombardc Mont, to X.ew lston, Mont, a dlstsnoe of 187 miles. The deal Involves $5,500,000. be withdrawn," shouted Representative Graham. . ri ; - Nelson then called upon the clerk "to read a transcript, of the testimony of District Attorney Todd of the western district of ' Washington. r -It was . to -the effect that Todd had denied be ever told Special Agent Jones that Federal Judge Hanford of Wash ington was "constitutionally" opposed to the . land r.uds cawst and. that it was no use ' to attempt any prosecutions. ef f ecf as. being absolutely false. '. V-... Opinion as to the merits of each party to ? the contention, based Op the evi dence,, appeared to be about evenly dl- Vlded. - -.'j.f -K'iytJ 'ri'"."' " . i The - committee. 'however,: practically (Continued nn Page Fifteen.) WOMAN DENIED INGER INQUIRY ENCOURAGE MORE CREMATORY DIDS J yy - : " ' ' - : v- ' , 1 - - Amendment Adopted by Health Board Provides 30 Per Cent '. Be Paid Contractor When . ; Incinerator Half Cpmpleted. ' 'y v.. -; ' " .' THIRTY PER CENT UPON - COMPLETION OF PLANT Balance Six, v Months Later-r Builders. Objected, to Old ; ' Specifications. ' - In order to Induce more creamery - construction .companies' to submit bids y for the installation of the proposed new plant to replace the Guild's Lake burner the city health board this morning maae , an Important amendment to the plana and specifications under which bidders are aaked to submit their of fera The amendment adopted today pro vides that SO per cent of the cost of . the plant shall be paid to the contrac tor when the construction work, oa the plant shall have been half completed. 0 per cent when it is entirely com pleted and - the remaining 40 per cent . six months after completion, provided the plant Is then accepted by the city. y Before Amendment Adopted. , " Before the amendment to the specifi cations was adopted' they provided that , 60 per cent of the cost of the crematory should be withheld until Six months after lta final completion. The purpoae of this was to protect taxpayers by re talnlng a sufficient part of the contract price-' until-after .the incinerator should have been given a thorough teat, The Willamette Steel iron works, , manufacturers of the modified type Of tha Decarle garbage crematory, refuted to bid under - these conditions. .The . company officials pointed out -to Mayor Slmort'tb' fact"that the rlty'would- be . amply aafeguarded . by the five year bond required 'of contractors by one of the provisions in the plana and specifi cations. ' - ' i i ' ' ' . Oonuanaleatlon Returned. , ""The1 board 1 referred to Mayor Simon and Superintendent Napier of the city crematory a ' Communication from the health and police committee of the city council. In which a recommendation of Superintendent Napier's that a strip of , ground for ; roadway purposes -- be" ' so quired, was' returned, to the board with (Continued on Page Two.) Uncle of Little Girl Takes $10,- 000 Ransom to Appointed ; A . Place to Get Child, y ' a ' . yA. '. . .y J" ' V " r vrtftiited Press leased Wire.) ' ' , J Tjouisvllle, Ky April X. That 1-year old Alma Kellner, who- was kidnaped last December, will ' be . returned to hes parenta next Sunday In' return '.for a ransom of 110,000 was the statement to day of friends ef the Kellner family; Frederick Kellner, the child's father, ia a wealthy breweref tWa .city.. Aside , from several'-' demands for - ransom, he ' baa heard nothing front his daughter's abductors orfroiri her. since she disap peared while' on- her -way to, mass .one Sunday morning. ' - ' ' -''."',. '", " ' According to the friends of the Kail ners. who-' told . the story, ' the vanaom was delivered by .Fred Fehr, the littla girl's uncle, who may already have pos session of the child, f It i was known, they stated, that Fehr left ; Louisville several daya ago to go to an appointed place to deliver the money and get Al ma. He expected tp return Sunday. It was also stated that no criminal pros ecution would follow the return of the little girl. . . j . - , Says He Shot Night Watchman v Whyfcack, at Santa Clara, v - in Self-Defense. : ' . f San Jose, Cal., April-1. Charles Chtf-. ten. said to be an ' Oklahoma - cowboy,' has confessed that he killed Nlghtwatch man George Whyback in an early morn ing .pistol duel at Santa Clara, March 14. He pleaded aelflefensa -When alven his preliminary bearing before Judge Thompson at Santa Clara, . Chlften said ha had- coma down from San Jose early In the evening. He said he misaed the last car, so went to sleep In a summer house at'the rear of a sa loon. Shortly , before dawn Whyback same to the door of the summer house . and asked who was in 4t- "I answered, 'If a tnp,' said chirtea. "Then the watchman ordered ma to , come out 'Aa I obeyed I fell over a chair. He flashed his searchlight In my face and then fired, i I pulled my gun and ' fired several shots. Then,. I ran - down to the railroad station and wa'.a to San Josa . v . v . . ; - ALMA KELLNER TO :'. BE RETURilED ; "y. .. y,yyy : CHARLES CHIFTEN ' ADMITS KILLING ; -in