MmnB the suiiDiw joiRfjiL--7fEte uovj for uext sum ; ; : ; : ; r.-.:-.. .- : - - . i . vvir'v;v-r""- - - ,-. . THE DAILY JOURNAL IS nyo cents a copy; Sunday Journal 5 cents; or IS cents a week, for Daily and Sunday Jour1 nal. by carrier, delivered. : The weather Fr tonight and Fri day; warmer Friday.. ' JOURNAL CIRCDIATIO;! . YESTERDAY WAS ! VOL. IX. NO. 130. PORTLAND,' OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1910. TWENTY PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. ffJJ,0??0 SSS n n I ' I' J U ?L G JIM -UuUlUlL LfuijlL OWE! SIEffl&S TAFTS EFFORTS TO 'NANCE GWYN, THE DANCER in On Complaint Filed With U S. En gineer Has Charged the Dalles City, Loaded With Passengers and Perish- able Freight Delayed 24-Minutes . Proposed prosecution of county offl elals for obatmetinjr navigation ( fea tured today's development! of the draw bridge war. Chars'es against the county were filed with Major James Mclndoe by the owners of the Dalles City. This packet. ' heavily loaded with passengers, from The Dalles, was delayed at the Burn Bide bridge 24 minutes, beginning at 5:2l p, m.. yesterday. Similar charges were filed yesterday by the owners of the Shaver, Paloma and .Vulcan. No charges were filed by the owner of the Hustler, the fourth of yesterday morn ing's delayed towboats. ;; J...5 . i i But, one towboat, the Paloma wltlwa v scow, whistled to pass the "draws during . either ,o the closed periods.1 The Palo " ma was also the only boat to attempt ; f assage at the Morrison bridge during the closed period yesterday afternoon. , She was also the first to whistle yester day morning, making the first test of the draw, closing regulations, and J. Harry Richmond, foreman of the Mor , rlson .,' street , bridge, ' has nicknamed her "Our Constant V8itor.,, , Boats Est Wo Trouble, foreman Richmond of the Morrison street , bridge and Foreman H. Stutsman of the, Bumslde bridge expressed vigor- ouslyt this morning their opinion that the draw closing regulations work no hardship on .navigation interests which is not offset 100 to 1 by the benefit ac t Cl-ulng to facilitated transriver traffic - During the second closed period this morning, 7:30 to t p, m., over the Mor . rleort bridge 'crossed , 81 footmen, (r 69 if-nrS Snd -180' vehicles." The cars were ; each heavily loaded., v The Paloma and , empty scow already referred te were de layed 17 minutes.' The Morrison bridge . : count from 6:15 to 45 p. m., -yesterday , waa 95' heavily loaded. cars, 704 footmen .,-and Sli vehicles. From 6:65 until, tf:30 . p. 'm., there were. 14 5 cars, 172 vehicles and 761 foot passengers. Traffic conditions on , the Burnslde bridge were almost identical., ., Each bridge waa.Joaded to its capacity with CONVICT SERVING LIFE SENTENCE SENDS BEAUTIFUL Tn IU That sympathy can 1 penetrate the walls and bars of a penitentiary was demonstrated today by an odd present . received by Marjorje Mahr, orphan cho rus girl whose legs were cut off more . than a month ago. The present repre sents thtf-labor of days on the part of . George L. Blodgctt, who must serve, according to the sentenCe, all the days of his life in prison. It is a shawl made 'by his -own hands. . -r-':. , 1 Written on tho note paper, of the Ore gon state penitentiary, and accompanied by a large shoe box neatly wrapped, the following letter was received by the edi tor of The Oregon Dally Journal todays ' "I am sending to you today by mail one of my shawls. Will you kindly have - It delivered to little Marjorle Mahr, with 1. my best 1 wishes, as a present from me7 ' God bless the little girl ismy wish. ' "GEORGE L. BLODGETT." - WIRELESS" STOCK NOW UNDER FIRE OF II. S. i v (BperlHl Dispatch to Tb Jonr.nL ' New;York. Aug. 4.-Seven officers of the United Wireless Telegraph company, which has "planted" stock in nearly every gullible community in Jthe United States,, were indicted yesterday on , two ccAint8by the federal grand. Jury. Se cret1 service men charge that the wire less ' grafters used ' the United States mails , to sell worthless stock - and to induce' Investors 1 to buy 1aper atVa price many hundreds of per cent higher than the value as an ordinary com- , , On t of the i indicted men bears the euphonious and historically suggestive name of "Christopher Columbus" Wll , son, the othecs are Samuel Bogar, W, ' W. Tompkins, George H. Parker, C. C . Gallbralth, W. A. Blbolt and Francis , Butler. ' ; ... v. ., . l L 1 L a constantly moving: traffio stream that threatened, serious congestion even with the draws closed. , ' t At the Burnslde draw yesterday even ing the Ocklahama, the Port of Port land's towboat, was delayed 10 minutes. The Hasslo from Astoria arrived Just as the draw was .opening. , , Crowds "Josh" passengers. . The passengers on the waiting Dalles City were Subjected to much ridicule from the pedestrians and street car passengers on the Morrison bridge. It was the first tme in the history of Portland navigation that any bridge had ever barred the progress of the stately packet or the lordly sand scow and the erstwhile lotg-suffering eas. sidera en Joyed the sensation keenly, t c 7 r : County- Commissioner Goddard said today that .the regulations will continue In force as they are.- He does not an ticipate any. serious trouble. The evi dence of the bridge tenders is that with the , exception of : the sand scows and the lumber rafts navigation will scarce ly ever be hindered by the closing of the draws.; . " : :.. The regulation , on the other hand is cause, of gratification and business convenience to nearly the population of the entire east side.., It seems certain that any systematic eff ert to change the existing schedule, would be violently opposed by tne people whom It benefits. ' Major James F. Mclndoe said this morning . that he would endeavor to prosecute vigorously In each case where obstructed navigation has ? been ; com plained of. The boat owners have filed affidavits which--will be submitted" to the United Stat district attorney. . f Aboard the - steamer; - Dalles y'jaty, which wasJ held ' by the , closed draws yesterday afternoon from 5:20 to 6:45 O'clock, were 90 passengers and a large amount .of perishable freight consist ing principally of fruit There wasvalso some livestock , aboard, according to Joseph B. Gross, agent of the Dalles. Portland A Astoria Navigation Co. It was asserted that a number of these passengers aboard the steamer were in tending to catch a $ o'clock train out of Portland, t nADinnir r IflMIIUUIIIL 11 -While serving In the Multnomah coun ty jail in' the summer of 1905 Blodgett learned to. make shawls. ' From the guards in the penitentiary he learned of the plight of Marjorle Mahr, and of the splendid response made by people of Portland to an appeal for help. He im mediately set to work making a. spe cially beautiful shawl for the girl. He spent days on IV - V The Marjorle JUahr fund . reached 16889.69 today, swelled by donations of streetcar men, an amount collected from the employes of the Deschutes railroad and malted to the treasurer of the fund by the assistant chief engineer of the work, and a number of subscriptions re ceived ! from private individuals and firms of Portland.; - With enly a little mbre than $100 lacking to bring the fund up to $7000, patronesses' believe that figure will be reached before night 1 ' All except Baker were arraigned be fore Judge Hough' in the United States district; court and pleaded not guilty. The company has outstanding $20 000,000 in preferred and common Stock, much' of which has been sold in western ities, Including Portland, Or, ' San Francisco, Cal., - Los Angeles, . CaL, and Seattle, Wash. " ' ' : ;. : For i several years these men have been selling "wireless? stock and hav maintained stations In cities, and these 1AUD IMIIII stationseldonWreTeTgotnynfcwthear matlon and , have not made enough money other than by stock, selling, to purchase first class . telegraph sound era. - The graft has been so pronounced and so far-reaching that the govern ment has taken a hand in its suppres sion. - , ALLEGED TO HE . WED IN FRAUD Senator Gore ' testifies at In vestigation of Alleged Offers of Bribes Affecting Indian Land Contracts.' SHERMAN .INTERESTED . . IN CONTRACTS, HE SAYS Jacob Hamon, Oklahoma Na- tional Committeeman Also One of Participants. (United Prm tetird Wire.) Muskogee, Okla., Aug. 4. The name of Vice President James S. Sherman was dragged into the house committee In vestig'atlon" of alleged" offers "of bribes In connection with legislation affecting Indian land contracts by Senator Gore this afternoon. . . ; Gore also named Jacob Hsmon, Okla. noma- national committeeman, , as one man who called upon him in connection with the matter. ' 1 n Senator Gore testified v before ? the committee in ; support of his charges that- attempts had been made to bribe him to" Influence his vote in regard to killing certain legislation irt the senate. Hamon declared, according to Gore, that besides Congressman McQuIre of Oklahoma and former Senator Curtis of Kansas, an official "higher up" was interested :: In the contracts.' When pressed to name the official, 'Hamon saiu it was Vice President Sherman, ac cording to Gore's feetlmony. ; , i . - i Show ITewspaper Clippings. Senator Gore then produced newspaper clippings purporting to stiowmat Vice- President Sherman and exrSenator Cur tie had visited President Taft and rec; ommended that , the . president should approve the contracts. .';,., f ':., V n Gore : testified that McMprray came to him in his office at Washington last winter and asked for his assistance in promoting legislation that ' would pro vide for the payment of attorneys' fees of 6 per cent on the Freedman land con tracts with the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians. - .This .-. increase ' would have amounted to $27,000. Gore testified that he answered McMurray'S f request by telling him that be was opposed to; pay ing attorneys' fees out of the Indian fund except where services ' actually were required and had actually; .been rendered..: He- also told McMurray of his hostility. to individual contracts with the Indians calling for the payment of 10 per . cent of the proceeds of the sales of . the segregated coal lands to the attorneys as fees.. W"' It was because, of his opposition ta these schemes, Gor testified, that he was offered a bribe of $50,000,' Gore said Sherman was named In the so called McMurray Indian contracts, through which it was intended to ne gotiate a $3,000,000 .deal.- - . ' He said that Hamon offered him a $25,000 bribe in Washington, May 6, and When he refused to accept it Hamon offered him .$50,000. Patrolman Sees Two Men at Work on Streetcar, Captures One After Shooting Him Other Escapes. ' -(TJnlttrt tra lAttrl Wlre. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 4. Charles Rev nolds, a notorious pickpocket, wanted in a dozen Cities, is chained to his bed in the city hospital today, with a bullet wound in his right knee. Charles Aub- ney, his pal. made his escape. - . Patrolman Robert Hagen was riding into police headquarters on a Renton car last night to begin work, when the conductor remarked that pickpockets had been working ' the cars. ' all day. "There are the men now,", said the cqn- aucior, ana nagen saw oneor tnem taking his hand from, a passenger's pocKet. v.. :: The officer made his way towards the rear of the car and the pickpockets jumped. Hagen tallowed and captured Reynolds after a seven blocks' chase. As he was leading him bck, -Reynolds broke wayi and taught an lnterurban car. Hagen gave chae again, firing in train. As Hagen tioarded the rear end Reynolds Jumped from the forward vea tlbule and the chase was on again. 1 Af ter another hot pursuit Of, five blocks tne piCKpocKet turnea and .nrea point blank at the patrolman. Hagen returned the fire and dropped his mas, PICKPOCKET TAKEN AFTER EXCITING : CHASE AT SEATTLE " 5 - t , "--J. 11 I 1 1 J HMSpTWI"W If f Nance Gwyft, the Australian dancer (Mr Fabia Caffrey), divorcee , , and heiress, menti6ned byWJ Charles '0lp4lI'-(,!.I.hiUdelpIil In her suit for divorce. It ..was only- recently learned thattthe Mrs.; Caffrey -and Nance Gwyn' were the same person."' The "disclosure 'was' made through the supreme court proceedings which Mrs. Gilpin has brought in New York to have the witnesses vho testified in behalf of Thomas McD. Caffrey in his divorce proceedings testify either in Philadelphia or New York for her. ' - ' . . i. . . : FOREIGNERS 111 , (United. Press Leased Win.) ,, Puerto Cortes, JSpanlsh, Honduras, Aug. 4 Revolutionary rioting which has culminated in the killing of an Italian and the tearing down I of the Italian, flag by maddened soldiers may end In the appearance? of Italian, war ships here. The country today is alive with revolutionary, spirit, following the attempts of former President .Bonlua to start a reactionary movement against President Davllla, and mob violence is reporte ,in all parts of 'the little re public. .A.' score of soldiers who have thrown In their lot with the revolu tionists, enraged at the sight of the Italian flag, rtore it from Its staff and then pursued, andkllled ; an Italian at Tegucigalpa. ? The Duke of Scylla, the Italian representative, mcensed at this, has cabled his government for protec tion and has asked that warships be sent with all possible haste to protect Italian Interest. :. - Other foreigners, terrort stricken by tho outbreak of the civil war spirit, are fleeing to the consulates,' Many. Amer icans have, taken refuge in the United States ' consulate at Tegucigalpa. The uprisings followed the news that Bonllla had (Succeeded in getting arms and ammunition for. an army 'which he intends to send against the government forces. Exile Hondurans are on their way to their own country to Join Jn the uprising. It 1 is declared, , and the situation is considered grave, v " ' MILPITAS, VILLAGE OF THE PLAINS ' WILL NOT . ' EMULATE SWEET AUBURrV -v (United Press Lea Wire.) ' ' 4 Mllpltas, Cal., Aug. . Nothing 4 4 ' but a few scattered dwellings to-; 4 day mark the site of the town of I 4 Mllpltas, long the butt , of mln-' 4 . strel Jokes, and for a' that a fair 4 V ' looking - little -town, "The ' Mllpi- 4 tas hotel, livery stable and scores 4 of business houses were burned, Uhourh-aldws-snl-rm-8an Jose and other nearby towns. i ; Mllpltas Is in the heart of a fruit district, ?and many of t)he residents are ure that the little village 'will be rebuilt, v , ; ' i IN HONDURAS; SHIPS ; ft"' GRAVE DANGER ITALY INSULTED; if TAKE ACTION 'Although the uprisings have been without . organization, theyx have , 00 curred In many cities and considerable damage has - been done,- Scores, of ar rests have been made by the authorities and Jails are already crowded with the leaders of the revolutlpnary movement With the head of the revolution outside the republic, .; however, the repressive measures of the government have little effect and the disorder has continued un abated. The anger of the mobs has been turned largely .against the , foreigners here: and It is reported that plantations owned by foreigners have been -devastated and other property, some of which, it is said, belongs to Americans, has been destroyed. ?";;.'-.; - T E Inspector Dew Says Crippen Has Made Statement; Can't , Publish Confession. ' (United Pratt tsatsd WIii. Quebec, Aug. 4. Inspector , Xew, of Scotland' Yard today admitted that Dr. H. Ii Crippen .had made a definite state ment to him regarding the disappear ance and death of Mb wife, Belle El mors Crippen; .-fJ c -v.;'",? '.- a.-;: Dew, who is awaiting ;the arrival of police officers "and matrons to ' assist him In safely? conducting Crippen and Miss Ethel Clare' Leneve back to Eng land, is on his way to Niagara Falls to day. Before leaving he pen to confess.- We are not anxious to secure a confession, because he has said that' he is not guilty of murder , We believe, however, that We can Secure a satisfactory1 Statement from Crippen. The English law forbids our publishing a prisoner s confession. CONFESSION NO FULFILt PROMISES SHOW PLURALITIES ONLY INDORSED - MUCH INCREASED 'ii.-: .,: ' 1 ... .,: .x- ;... .: 1 ." :..'. ' .". . ..1 -y :.; . v.. ' .... f, owa Republicans Praise Dolli yer, Cummins and Governor . Carroll; ; Insurgents. . Win .Throughout. ' (Hnlttd rren UtMd Wlre. . v Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 4. The Iowa Republican platform as submitted by the committee ' on resolutions yes terday Indorses the tariff plank of the Republican national platform adopted at Chicago; it does not recognize the Payne-Aldrlch tariff law as a revision In accordance with the pledge made at Chicago. ; i - The platform does not approve of another revision at once, but indorses the revision of the tariff on separate articles from time to time.. The plat form Indorses "such efforts as Presl. dent Taft and his advisers have made toward fulfilling the promisee of the national platform which Have been tn harmony with the declarations of this convention." ' '"'' . . ' Commends Dolllver and Cummins. The platform also commends Senators Dolllver and Cummins "for their atti tude on the tariff, railroad and postal savings bank bills 'and their patriotic efforts to protect the public rights from the greed of special interests in the in terest of national legislation." The platform also calls the attempts of Dolllver and Cummins to secure "the largest measure of equitable revlson" of tho tariff a "Republican defense of the people's welfare." It declares "their Insistence largely determined the bene f trial features of the railroad bin." The platform commends the house for revls lng the rules and says "Republicans in Iowa are the best Judges of what con stltutes Republicanism in her 'chosen representatives." Governor Carroll was Indorsed as an able Republican. ; ' , v i The first test of strength of the pro gressives came yesterday when Senator Dolllver was elected permanent chair man xf the convention by a vote of 834 to 649. CINCINNATTCENSUS : ' " REPORT SHOWS CITY HAS GROWN SLOWLY (United PrM Tailed Wire.) Washington, Aug. 4.-The population of Cincinnati Ohio, is 364,463, accprd lng to the census bureau today.' The census of . 1900 showed the city had 326,903 Inhabitants. NORMAN MACK PREDICTS DOWNFALL OF CANNON (United Prett Letted Wire.) Calumet, Mich... Aug. 4. Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic na tional campaign committee and recently mentioned as a Democratic guberna torial possibility In New York, pre dicted today that a Democratic speaker would be chosen to succeed Joseph G. Cannon at the next session of congress. and that a Democratio governor of New York would be elected in November- THE REAL ISSUE "The issue of the forthcoming Republican primary campaign is not to be the 'assembly.' It. is going to-be Bourne and Boumeism." Oregonian. - t 1 The Oregonian is wrong. If it wants to beat Bourne hereafter, it cannot: afford , to make htm a champion of the anti-assembly movement.. That is playing directly in to, his hands. It is giving hira a strength far greater than he possesses. It was his opponents that elected him four years ago, and they did it by exactly such a course as the Oregonian proposes now. . . v ''"The issue "now is not" men," but ' measures;"'! It is ' a bigger; issue' than any rrian or any thousand men. The "claim is set up that the people are too weak minded to select candidates, and too uneducat ed to. choose. a senator,.That contention strikes at the very root of free government. It i$ not only so contended, but attempt has actu ally been made to put it into practice. . An assembly God save the mark--to, select candidates 'for the weak-minded people; so-called, has actually been held. :" That makes a principle. That principle is an issue and a burning issue. What is Bourne beside, such an issue? What are the political fortunes of a thousand men beside such an issue? They are the' chaff in the wind. -They are the mole squeak in the thunders of the ocean surf. ' What care the people of this state about one man or a .hundred men when the stakes played for are the qiiestion of whether they shall rule orlwhether one man from Gilliam county and a' bunch of politicians and cor porationists in Portland shall rule? ' ' There is a record in Oregon -that can be. studied with profit. Bourne bVcame; a senator in 1907. ; ..Eighteen, months later, or in June,' 1908, Oregon voters overwhelmingly indorsed the system by which he .was, elected. They .cast. 69,668 votes for a. law instruct ing all members of the legislature to vote for and elect the candidate for senator receiving ' the highest number j of ; the " peoples' -rotes. Only 21,162 votes were cast against it. At the same election the Republican' vote for congressman ; was 67,468. That is. to say, if every vote cast against the law was a Republican it is still a fact that seven tenths of the Republicans of the state voted for it. Every 'erjtmtyTntrrem ". then been senator for 18 months, Such is history. .Such is the record.' 'Such is public sn'lir i!. Men count for nothing." If is the measure that is deep r- i eradicable and indestructible. The way to,bAt Bourne i t. -I ' , trying to. kill the direct primary and direct election. Insurgents'- Victory in Kansas Greater Than Expected Stubbs Plurality Will Reach 30,000. ; STAND PAT OPPONENT: . CARRIED FOUR COUNTIES Reports-From Every District Gratifying to Candidates for Congress. (United Treti Letted Wlr.) -Topeka, Kan., Aug. 4.-r-Returns today practically complete from all sections of the state increase , the pluralities by which the insurgents won in-Tuesday's primaries. - According' to the latest fig- , ores. Governor Stubba' plurality will reach 30.000. Tom R. Wagstaff, stand patter, who opposed him, carried only four counties; , The results In the congressional dis tricts follow: " ,v First D. R. Anthony, standpat re nominated by 600. , . . , Second--Alexander Mitchell, insurg ent, nominated by 1200. Third P.i P; Campbell standpat, re nominated by 2000. Fourth Fred Jackson, ' Insurgent, nominated by 6000, i. " Fifth R. R. Reese,' insurgent, nom inated by 2000. . Sixth t. X. Toun, insurgent, nomi nated by 1000. , Seventh E. H. Madison, Insurgent renominated, unopposed. ' . Eighth. -Victor Murdowk, Insurgent : renominated, unopposed. 1 1 ... . JOSEPH CANNON SAYS . THERE WERE PRIMARIES " IN TWO OTHER STATES Mackinao Island, 4 Xllch., Aug. , 4. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon refused today to discuss the "resuits. of 'the Kansas primary or the Iowa Republican "con vention, but casually pointed out that there were primaries' also in Oklahoma and Missouri. "I have nothing to say -during my va cation concerning the Kansas primaries or the Iowa convention," , said . Cannon. "Perhaps when all the returns are In, I -wilt make a statement. There is one thing you might remember. -Primaries were held also in Mlssoorl and Okla homa.' - ..,-,,.... . 1 Broughton to Preach In London. New , York, 7; Aug. " 4. Dr.' " Xen O. Broughton, the' eminent preacher of "At lanta, Ga., ' sailed today -, for-. London, where he Is to fill the pulpit of Dr. G. Campbell Morgan during-the next two months. He expects-to return from England about , the first of November. -J TV