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Newspaper Page Textr 1 Tlils Ixu or Tho Gunday Journal Comprlae ' - 7 ScciioKs-yGPcggg The weather- Fair and warmer; northwest winds. . JOURNAL CIRCULATION V rjESTEKDAY WAS Mill I J I 'M. IJU- (TV vv VOL. VII. NO. 7. PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 15, .1910. , V; PRICE WIVE CENTS JixJtL' V.Jiii v7 H 3 oT) L' 1 " : . 'I DiCMAY . ' . . ., j v. , .SL r 'STEmmAPHER'mmTEMENT: ' ; : . CtlEPi TES CONSTERM T10N IN: ',- we. mmmsfRMioN circles PARALLELS DRAWN SII011FI1P DICTATED LETTER Lawless Draft, Sent to Investi gating Committee, Is Com . pared With Taft Letter. Sent to Country; Confirms Kerby. (Catted Free leased Wire.) -- Washington, May 14. Like a thunder ImU In hailstorm of sensations, today cua the statement of . rrederick M, ' ZeftiY, stenographer In ths Interior de ' part tarn, that Oscar trawler bad dio- tated to him a letter prepared for the i ah of President Taft and which Presi dent Taft need, even to the extent cf ', copying the exact lang-uag In som In-v- stanoos, when he exonerated Secretary Balllnger and, dlsoharged K. J- Olavis. ..: The mort astounding1 feature waa that immediately After the publication of the i. Statement, Attorney General 7 Wloker Shaw went to the congressional commit- tee Invert lga tiny the Ballinger-Pinohot , controversy, a copy of the &swle draft, ". which t ota the interior department and the department of Justice previously had repeatedly atated , could not' he found. ' ' , Xerby to Teitify. - ' r . ,- Oscar Lawler is a Balllnger appointee and holds tho title of assistant attorney , general for the latexUm department. . Kerby asserted also that HaUinger " hlm-elf reviewed and revised hi own Utter of exoneration before the draft Went ' to ',tlig president. Kerby will be called , before the congressiohal . investl- rltor committee within the next fw tiaya tr tubatantiate Ha ., remarkable . Matemeni'iJTKler oath. He said tonight that he was anxtoua to be bijard. , x The, Tiwler draft was written with the personal pronoun "I." The languafre Ioarl'y Indicated that the "I" meaat the ' president 'hlmselr anor the "you" meant Secretary Balllnger. ; As Issued, the letter, of President Taft of Sep- timber 13, laOS,' Which exculpated SnU llngrer and discharged Glavls, tallies per !fectly In iom paragrapha with the lawler draft anu In its arrangement of . sequence of facts Is almost identical. ; i j ' - Denial Trom the ,Whlt House. ; A Bpwlsl statement, issued ! at .".the Tjite House this afternoon by- Becre "tary Carpenter at the Instance et Pres ident Taft and Secretary Balllnger rloea . not cover deffifftely the exact accusal tions tnade ' by the" etenosrapher. , It , putes emphatically that Taft did not sign statement prepared by- Lawler and It declares that the' president dic tated the letter himself. Kerby did not charge that the presi dent actually signed the draft as) pre pared by La wler. He peclflcally as serted that the draft was . changed in THE DAY'S DEVELOPMENTS' . . .: ; Stenographer rrederlok M. Ker- ' by makes pnblio statement telling' of letter diotated by Oscar Iw- . , lor,, Malstant attorney general for v the Interior department, , and the . text of whloh was used subrtan tlally by President Taft In his , eommunloatlon dirmissiaff Special Agent X . Olavis from the I0T srnment servloe. ; : Simultaneously ' with - Xerby's t 1 statement, Attorney General Wick- . ersham turns over to the Bailing ' ger-Flnchot investigating commit- .tee s copy of the tawlor draft, whloh . both . the .interior depart ment and the department 'of Jus-', ties had said repeatedly could not . be found. s . ; ; ' A special statement Is forth- . coming from Secretary Carpenter at tho Whit Bouse at the JboV , stsnoe of President Taft and Bee-' retory Bslllnger, stating- emphat ically that Taft did not sign ; statement prepares by laawlor. . Attorney Erandeis , points ' out striking parallels in ' the presl- ', dent's letter and the Lawlor draft, . showing somo of the passages . to be identical. . GLAVIS IS VISIBLY JUTECTED AT NBVS FRGMVASHNGTON WHO RULES? Displays KeenInterest in J y's Statement Giving Reas j ops for Making Public1. His Allegations 1 . . . v 5 ID1B VE TO W; L TAFT TO BLUNDER Sudden . Storm Finds President and Advisers Scattered Taft Denies in Ignorance of , ; Wjckersham's' Surrender. - . By John E. Lathrop.- . Washington, May 14. -Frederick JM. Kerby, persona stcnograiiher for; Bal llnger who tKued a emarkalsY state ment tbday. ia said by his friends to be an illustration of a' man answering, the demands of his conscience, risking cen sure fer revealing confidential matters, from a. sense of bis high duty to the public, nmch as Glavls did earlier in the fammist pontrvniv'i"' -r ' i , Vvs' ) Kerby Is a young married? man with a year apd a half old boy baby,, - His wife and mother are dependent pn him. He' Was devoted .to - former ' Secretary Garfield and was a ''joya! advocate of conservation. fWhenrTBallinRer came In to the secretaryship. He Bays,' he was imprssod with the obvious hostility of the new regime to that for which Gar field; had stood. However. ' he made a living from his position as stenographer, and was 'moreover honorably impressed Ihy his sense of duty to his new chief. -(Continued on Pae Nine.) (Continued on Page Eleven.) R HASKELL MUST STAND TBI III ALLEGED . WHOLESALE LflHD FRAUDS , ; (By the International Hews Serrlce.) Washington,- May 14. Governor as Veil of Oklahoma must stand trial for . his alleged participation in the whole sale land frands for 'which he has been indicted In that state. . President TietVand Attorney General .Wlckersham , reached this decision 'af- ' ter their bad heard the plea, of ISena- tors Gore and Owen and Congressmen Carter and Ferris that before any fur ther action is taken lit the proceedings against Governor Haskell the president should appoint a epeoial investigator to report whether the government is - Justified in continuing the prosecution. Neither the president nor the attor ney general can see it that way and tbe latter repeated that he would have a petit 5ury pass on the guilt or inno cence of the governor ' in June next. To Discredit Attorney.' The prceecutJcn of these town lot cases and of tho aoveroor hav been in . charre of S. R. Hush, a epecial exist ent to the attorney general. Mr. Rush In the city and has rwn in confer ence with Attorney General Wlcker sham. , ' ' ' " The Indirect purpose of the recnest made on the president toflar was to discredit the fairss'of this special ettornev and that to Intimate thf mo tives beside legal ones animate the prerut ion. The attorney gnral sa'l that the rase had heen n'Ti bf "re he terd tr dpartmnt of 1i.t:r: that h had lookod into ttim wuh nmi mit and that be ronMred te bt wr to de?rrr1ne he;hr fn'!io t:nc 1on -ar to (rnbr-'t 1 ' (jr1! a .'-Try . rf rttite-' rf r'k'ho--a proe,u,l'- ; of Justice ' to have don clean work throughout his Connection wltk"he cases. : v . v-. i r t". STRIKE OF ILLINOIS i MINERS IMMINENT : i) r ' tv at char ft Mr. le i artmer.t ' trmted Preaa Leaare WtiV Peoria, 11U May 14. Indications to night are that no agreement will be reached between the Illinois miners and operators and that a general strike will follew throughout the state, affecting Ji.OOo miners. Following a long executive session to day by tho miners, preparation's were made for the establishment of a com mutuary department for the various dis tricts. . - . A committee ef nine was appointed to take up the" matter in anticipation of a strike. It waa the belief of dfWgmn attend, r.j the convention tonight that when the points in difference coma be fore the epeolal commute of it ap polnte.l ttxinv to take thfm un. nn-ntru. mint ran be "reached. Th erieie will I (Special Dispatch to Tbe Journal.) .-,, Bristol, .Wash., May : 14. -Jjouls IL Glavls, deposed chief of the special agents of the department of the : in"- terlor, whom informed this afternoon of Frederick ' M. Kerby's sensational allegations- relative to . the "Lawler memoranda," authorised The Journal to publish-.the following statement: ' "I have no recollection of a personal acquaintance with Mr. Kerby, although I may have met him' on the - occasion of a visit to "Washington about three roars ago,, when I met a- number of the clerical force In the offlco of the sec retary of the Interior. 1 T have no com men): to make upon Mr. Kerby's action, Was "News" to Glavls. , , Glavls had not heard" of Kerby's statement when interviewed by The Journal, ' , tie had been "back in the mountains" and was" ignorant of 1 the fact that his name had again caught "the banner line' of the national press The man whose case has stirred the political world and partially disrupted the ariniinisi ration , was located late this afternoon after every telephone and telegrnih,Jrte In Klickitat oounty had been utilized. Glavls arrived In town about 6 o'clock. He bad Just come In from hl fruit ranch. "Charges have been made at Wash Ington, Mr. Olavis, that Taft's letter of September 13, 1909, was drafted under the - personal supervision , or Balllnger, and that, Taft s active participation in the drawing up of the letter was limited solely to the - affixing of his official ignaturm-," said the : correspondent. . "Should Have Created Stir.", . Glavls- was visibly affected, but all he said was: , , "That ought to have created a stir. Th? letter . In question is now known as ' "Tart s -.whitewash letter.;' It -'exonerated Secretary of the Interior Bal llnger: In the matter of the charges filed by- Glavls in connection with the Cunningham coal land eases . In .Alaska and granted Balllnger's request - for authority to dismiss Glavls 'from the service of . the government for, as the letter declared, "unjustly Impeaching the official integrity, of .his superior officer." - - -..-. -- -. -. 7 (..-." : - Vnwls to Talk. -"It is impossible at this .time for me to make any direct statement 7 relative to - Mr. Kerby's apcusations,' . said Olavis when pressed ' for an expres sion as to the possible effect upon . his case of Kerby's action. , - "In view - of the fact r that sny case li now in progress of bearing at Wash ington and that my attorney, Mr. Bran- dels, Is conducting it, , it would 'be-un wise for me to discuss It. - However,' Glavls displayed "keen ln trest in the latest phase of . the Bal-llnger-Pinchot inquiry. He waa espe cially ImprVaaed- with that part . f Kerby's statement, giving -his reasons for' making i public- th circumstances surrounding the drafting of the "Law- ler memoranda."-which is as follows: 7 "I believe that any allegiance I may have owed to-Mr. Balllnger was can celed . absolutely when by his - silence he became a party to ' an ' attempt to smother that which ths ,: whole coun try ought to know.", Glavls would not - say - whether ne would be called to Washington In the near-xuture. t"-u''7;7;-,;iV ., '; ..- V ALICE LONG WORTH JUST WONT TALK; SO THERE! New York. N. T., May 14. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt ; !ngworth is angry at the newspapers. - She never will be inter viewed again If she ran help It. Mrs. Long worth' Is now en route for Eng land to meet her family. When the re porters tried to get an interview from her on the Mauretanla, she sent a net from her stateroom, saying: ' "I must refuse to grant any future Interview. I shall say nothing mors to the press." Congressman Longworth wiQ join bis wife abroad later. " ' .' Is the Mayor Boss of Portland or Portland Boss of Itself? - - ' - ' 1 JUROR STANDS PUT PLAIIKS ON , RUSSIA ONE VAST jinniiTO fnAOi nninrnnnnrno .. mmuii i-x iK ill. ii i i iru i ir ifii.vi.rtf IILIUIIIU IIIHUII ULI1UI IIUUULIIU I :. . Tfl CTflD A PAD! IPJ lADAWPQITlVAD . ; . iu oi ui n umi ; iiuni miilul m STRONG EVIDENCE AMASSED AEAIHST GEORGE L PEPOOi : ' V" , "' I ' Resume Shows State Has Built Concrete, Substantial Case Against , Man Accused of . , Murdering Girl Wife. 1 DEFENSE SEEKS TO .IMPEACH TESTIMONY Directs Chief Attack : Against k Morton Crossan, Aged Stevens Farmer. - OF DR. 0. C. HYDE He Is a Friend of, Prosecuting Attorney Jurors Laugh and Jest Which Hyde Thinks Is Encouraging.-: ' (United Press Leased Wire.) Kansas City;, Mo.. May 14. At 11:10 Judge Latshaw ordered the Jury In the Hyde case to their hotel. , No verdict Is expected tonight ' ' - - ' ' Kansas City,. May 14. After , remain ing -out 20 hours, the Jury that is to decide . whether; or not Dr. B. Clark Hyde,; president of the Jackson County Medical association,, poisoned his wife's uncle. Colonel . Thomas . H. Swope, for the latter'a millions,' is said to stand 11 to;l for acquittal. Tho Jurors can be seen in their Toom whenever the mar shals open the-door.' Nearly all of them chat and laugh as if their. minds were free from any grave problems.': This Is regarded br Dr. Hyde, bis wife and their friends as a hopeful sign.. They are John E. . Cronan, 1 Wealthy . Ra Vvensview Drive Resident, Ar . rested Last Night Says He Committed the Act. (Continued on Pago Nine.) REBELLIOUS REDS OE in no TO GET OFF EASY COL ROOSEVELT WILL ' ; HAVE DISTINGUISHED . , RETINUE AT FUNERAL come Tuelay or Wedne1ay. WIRE FHOTOGRAPHY SUCCESSFULLY SHOWN N"w Tcrk. May 14 Wire photoara thy rsd Its Ir.iti&l demonptrati .r In tilie coontry todav whpn- potcrar of rromin-nt mn wre trans-rttil Yy nftsr, r f the. irTat h a.t.ra fro-n the r-'Tlr-r et the l..ton A -.r ! an to the Kew Torli Ameri-an mi t, k aiili. 7 he tt were prpr."!ri. , ,1 i v a pmy m 't'e rf w'l knows t.- m v o a k r'd at tie AT-erl-an t.'.'i t to t- la U;..r. -i liadl. 1 TiMte4 Pi ImiH !Trm Waahtnrton. May 14. Special Aftibaassdor Booeerelt, while on h t mission to attend tbe funeral of Kli-c Edward, will have In Ma retlnu the highest ranking dip lomatic officer r f the United piatu that has over served aa 'K-h. This Is Henry Whlta, ex arr,r.atair to I'arts snd Gee-ita-.t, aad ch airman rt the deie gatiuri Of the Lotted ftatea to the 11i-American - rotiferenra, who fcas beei r-r:'td aa a rr.r,'ter Tr-'PO'enUarr. C-,i. rrl P.oovit wi.l b e--Tt"d if Corr.tr,Ti" Aw T. lAr-t ef tt e rre e"4 Vit T. l.fsO' j Kott ct the ir-.f. After lengthy .Conference In dians Sign Peace Pact and . Return to Reservation Im munity Is to Be Given. - I r site Pnwe Leew Wire i Fast Imu Vegaa. S. M, Mar 14. Bloodshed snd a threatened Indian war was narrowly averted' tonight when the rebillkus redskins at Taos. N. M-, were peranaded to declare) a truce pending settlement of their difference wlth-tho territorial authorities. For a time i war between all of tho Indian In North era New Mexico and the United 8tatea troops appeared to t Inevitable. Tho combined" efforts of Francis C WHeon, special attorney of the Indiana and Superintendent Crandall of tbs Taos reservation, brourtt about tho peoe pa-t. After a lengthy conference the rMt agreed to return to the reoerrva tion and make no hoetlle move when Troop I. t'nlted states cavelry arrive) from Fort Wingate earir tomorrow morning. Certain F. K. McCoy tom nnilr,g the troop wi.J be ali-Wod to apum full rharre of the situation and ll ef tve !dTe of the revolt rave tgre-1 I i I trtaj bfpr Jurfre John MrFv the ot wt ! pobahly be t.-."4 fT rer rg triay ad it l ii n ': ra ' cx-t en tw):h'i's that the pf ("lin ei'l t- ;fwd to go url't John El. Cronan,, capitalist, , president and general manager . of the Western Supply company, was arrested last night at 1ft o'clock and acknowledged, placing planks on the .Portland Heights car Hue for the purpose of stopping the car. Tho car at .the .time was. loaded with 110 passengers -and a terrible accident was. narrowly averted by the . applica tion In time of the emergency brake. The arest last night was made by W. P. LUlis, special agent for tho. Port land Eallway, Light. and Power com pany. W LllHs has been working on the case , since last Sunday, gathering wit nesses and evidence. Ljiat night, when he .walked Into tho Cronan home at CSO Ravensvlew Drive and -confronted: Mr. Cronan 7 with the accusation. Cronan confessed Immediately, aayjng: , "'Of courso I. did It. - I had waited at the stopping place , while eight car passed and the motormen in each, case refused to etop or. even slow up. Bo I decided that if I could not stop the car any. other way I would do it by placing obstructions In the way.." , : . ; Cronan was released last night on bis own recognisance at the request of Attorney Malarkey and Judge Bennett Tho case will . com up tomorrow in the Municipal court. Cronaa's ball is flxed at 11000. -, .; . " . Tho car was in ehargo of Motorman if. K. Baxter and Conductor Lamb, v It waa loaded with 110 passengers and was going at a good rste of speed down the steep grade. ' Af the place where Cro nan stood there - Is a sharp curv on the edge of a steep embankment. Before tho emergency brakes could b applied, tho front trucks of the car went over the planks, -Had the brakes , failed, tbe car would probably nava gone over the embankment and some of the pas sen gers crowded Insido undoubtedly would have been dashed to death. The two planks placed on the track . were each l?xl and 10 feet long.- The penalty for placing obstructions en tracks with the Intention of derailing or stopping cars or trains ts from one rear In the county Jail to 10 years la th penitentiary. Bureau Chiefs and All . Under- lings Concerned With Army ' Supplies; Grafted Incredibly ' and Navy " Was Worse. - (United press Laaaed Wtre.t v St.- Petersburg, May 14. "Every bu reau chief in St. Petersourg either stole or accepted bribes In connection with government contracts in the Japanese- Busso : war.":.a's:; - - 't i This statement, made by one of the government ; investigators today, ex plains .why: so many; of the officials involved are today either fugitives from the country or are facing prison terma The government is wow investigating the army supply department in St. Petersburg,-Warsaw and Kleff and tho re. suits " bid j fair to disclose a rottener NAVY DEPARTMENT WILL INVESTIGATE , NEWPORT "SPLASH" v rt1te4 re Teewd WJr J W a h ington,' Mar T4. Tho navr department today isaued In structions to trie Doara or in OTJiry, which is Investigating the recent "splaah at Newport, la which employes of th torpedo "station were Involved, to take tbe -l!d rlur off." At the "splash" the rame of a certain beanl of evening enter tainment la Newport th chief feature wa a dancer "who p- ' feared in variona coetarne. fron the Americas flag to nothing at alL Tho cae was taken op by the parish prieat at , Nesipe-t ri preerr.tfd to th department bv f -ator Wetmore. (Continued on Page Seven.) By Verne Hardin; Porter, Journal Staff Correspondent) Colville,: Wash.. .May 14. After con suming one, week,' during which all the Jirect evidence of the stato was laid be ore the Jury, the trial of George L. Pe-, poon,: charged with the murder of his Wife, Edith, on August C9, 109, in order that he might get the amount of her life' insurance1 and marry the 7 woman with whom he was Infatuated, waa halt ed at noon today to be resumed Mon day. ;s With the former theological stu dent , enmeshed by a web of the most enthralling mass of circumstantial evi dence In the criminal Jurisprudence Ij. West, counsel, for the defense l labor ing in an effort to Impeach the testi mony of the principal witnesses for th state and .bast suspicion for, the crime on -either : of two persons, Ray - Wilcox, tha missing convict, or Morton Crosi an, 'the aged homesteader, or to ad vance tho theory that the woman killed herself. 4 -From beginning to end, from the time when George and Edith Pepoon migrated from Fergus Falls, Minn., four yeais ago, and settled . on a homestead and later went to live with Morton Cross.tn. 65 - years old, the homesteader who owned a quarter , section nearly, to tho time when Edith Pephon. died suddenly one Sunday afternoon from - strychnine poisoning and then up to the date of the arrest of Pepoon; the story was told by witnesses. Especially forceful was ths testimony of Mrs. Wolcott. who forfeit ed, her health and expended her savings to compel the law to do Justice to the man she. alleges slew her daughter. !'" , . 7 . . &esiims of th. TrlaL Beginning with the testimony of Mor ton Croasan," who loved Edith Pepoon as : a father - and ' who knelt over her dead body after his attempt to resim tlcato her failed and sobbed that every thing had gone out of his life, 'tha state took up the first chapter of the history of crime. In sequence, after Croasan had testified to the purchasing of a half ounce vial of strychnine on May7 2, -1909,- for the purpose of killing gophers and of hiding it frtora the chil dren ln tha old - "claim , shanty," and of telling George Iepoon of its where abouts, the story was told as follows: ; ' Mrs. Anna Rogers said she was clerk of the Northport Circle of Women of Woodcraft, and- that several weeks he for Edith Pepoon'a horrible death thu girl wife was enlisted as a beneficiary member of the order, holding a life in- (Continued on Page Eleven.) CAR I'IIIS BEHIND Hi RACE -J . .-- i- ; . V (United Press Iiaa wire.l - '... Brighton Beach Motor Track. . K..T, May 14. Final score in 14 hours autompou - races wnen w ended at :1S o'clock: - , Simplex. C Bast and Al Pool . e "-drivers. 1145 Wiles. " ' ' .. Btearns No. I. Asa Muirord and e, C Patschke. 1110.. . e . Fiat R. Depalma and K. Par-. ker, 1107. , - . Bulck. Chevrolet Brother. 1949. ;"':'. ''- 7 Rapier, W. x Owen and K DIs- - brow, 19Jf. '. Croxton-Keeton. W. Spenay and C Lund. 1804. ... - " Marion. L- Strang and Q An- derson. f.- , Bulck. K. Burman and G. -De- wltt 917. Cole. W. Endicott I Edmonds and F. W. Wormlngton, "5d. - geMen. G. .Mack and T.- Me- Nishon. HI." Houpt M. Rtbert and S. Rob- Icsoo, 171. - - - ftearas, R. Howard end F. -Dearborn, iTi. Former Brlahten Peach record. 11 mllea made by Mulford la a Loeler. October l. lr. World's record. IS1 mlla. tn.ie br S. F. Elgev in a Napier, at the Prook'an'ia. Enr!and, il tail trark. in Jona, lvT. of $1060 in the International 1 1 hour raea" tonight Baslo was driving at the flnish..The: Stearns car driven altr. batfily by Al Mulford arid Cyrua rt sebke i was second. The Flat driven by. Ralph Do Palma and E. H. Parker, was third; Bulck No. 1, Louis -ajid Ar thur' Chevrolet. fourth, while the Ka pler, driven by Louis Disbrow and Wel ly Owen, wajay fifth. , ; Fifteen thousand people were prepert to witness the spectacular' fininh n l-tbe brlillanilr Illuminated track. A large a crowd had, earlier In the 1v, witnessed th death of Mechanician V. ! Ham Bradley In the Marlon car. wh,- h crashed through the fence ard ft'.'.- I Into the "paddock. lriv r tiiitw-rt An- deron mlraruloualy eerape4 1fat1. Shortly afterward H'll.k No. 4 t -.t throunh .the fer,.-. Mpchanicln-i Ji x. Tower. Sfrioi!y hi:it.-as tW-n n th Coner Inland lo5 ,;... ii wi l r cover. 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