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5-1 Till! IkbUS Ol TIio Cundny Journal Comprise GSeclions-G2Pcs. The weather Fair with westerly -winds. , . . ; . . JOURflAL ClRCULATIOri YESTERDAY WAS PORTLAND, OREGON SUNDAY; MORNING AUGUST . 21, ,1910. V PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. VII. NO. 21. WALLACE OA i I - - W r - f ..." ' . v. i VH1 H ( . .JL '- - V!svl IIAIO ... j ".' . ,. ; I MY HUNDREDS FLEE from Hungry flumes pic sliti ONES CONVEYED TO Ml Entire Male Population of Tpwn . , Fightsy f Oncoming Flames, .' ' But, It Is Feared, in Vain ' Loss About $1 ,000,000. , (Soeelat DlMMttii to Ttie Jonrosl.) ' Spokane, .Wash., Aug. . 20. The destruction, by fire of Wallace, Idaho, Is Imminent. . Believing the town to be,: doomed and abandoning their home's In ,the ( hope, of saving 'their lives, panic-stricken residents are to night fleeing the town. . The ides is Inestimable. Sweeping upon the town from the west,: late .this afternoon, the fierce, flames created a general alarm that, brought, every available! fire fighting force into play.... Shortly - after ' & o'clock tonight; the iire chief ordered 6U the people ou of the town 'and within 10 rnln utes more thereat side of the town Wrst fhto flames,-- Switching crews of the. O. It. & N..? 'under orders from thfti off lclals of v the road, had hurriedly made up trims' of all avail able' freight and passenger cars In the local yards. ' To one string of 1.4 freight cars two fast engines were coupled and into them were loaded hundreds' of 'votnen and children pre paratory' to leaving at the sound of the fire bells which were'o' .soiind , the signal for. flight. ; r V .'l'; ' UponJhe Issuance of the order to flee byitb.eN;hief of police,- the loco- motive ' whlstlea shrilled forth, the (Continual on Page Eight.) v Woman and Children in Heart - of Burning Area Near Crater Lake Send Frantic Appeal for Aid. : . ij v ' (Special DUpatrh t The onrgtl.) Wedford, Or., Aug. 20. pate this, af ternoon there came Into the acting supervisor's office In this city" a tele phone message from Mrs. John Holts, a ranger's wife at Mosquito swamp In the iieart of the burning area which -Was pitifully short. , , - 'V-': t "For God's sake send help.' The fire is so near and there is - no way t out. come and save my babies I" Here the message was cut short whether by the flames at the cabin of by the tele phone line going down ts not known,' but Acting Supervisor Swennlng of i the Crater National 4 Forest tonight has ; party making. Its ! way "as rapidly as possible to therscue.,vr 'i s In the meantime, the supervisor. !i awaiting anxiously for word as to the uccess. j It may.be that they win . reach the spot only, to find, the charred, re- ' tnatns of a mother and four children'.or It may be that Prpvldenca has provided sv way-of escape, : " ' Death Almost Certain. Mosquito' swamp, where Mrs. Holts, whose husband is one of. the forest guards, la living,, Is In. the. heart of the , great fire Which Is sweeping the coun try In ,the' neighborhood of 'Four "Bit , creek.', The .timber js heavy About the ; little cabin in' whiijh sire lives and if me names , naa surrounded the cabin , Derore sne attemptea, to. get away it almost certain that she has perlsheU : The forest fire' situation s worse- to night jhanet any time since thev start- ed over1 a week ago;; 'By tomorrow the forestry, officials, will v have between 750 and 1000 rtienj fighting the flames , Two distinct sections of the country are affected. -One is-in the-neNrhbor-hood of Ashland, south .of this citand the other is raging about , the bas of ; Wt. McLoughnn. (jirectly east of tills cjiy. aoxn or tnese nree are beyond control and doing Immense-.damage: con. i etantly spreading over additional terrl- tory.- The estimated damage dorie by - the fire was placed tonight at 1,600, 000. .- , . , ' ' i Vrgeat Calls Tor Help, The forestry- olfficlals yesterday sent a muutsi lo urants n ror so man . .' .v,l - - ' - ii i ". " i ' yJRosekurgwaa. asked .for SO ,sbi1 -Uied pmuueni in ii'ortjana was . asked, ti tane up tho matter of securing, "the woseDurg company or ' militia , to fight local fires. In addition to this the office was notified that 280 additional troops would, be rushed to this., section mm msmmm wmp ' DEVOUR FORESTS : TmWBSWi: Although Struggling Desperate- y,r Fire' Fighters r Unable to Cope. With Situation' Which Rapidly Grows Alarming. The governor 'undoubtedly, will be: callel vpon to-order out tfrn-full force the state militia to fight forest fires la, Oregon. ; Though tailed , upon for 600 troopers In addition to th 110 alr'nady gent to Crater Laks park. General Maun waa unable yesterday to furnish a single additional manV '"v',, t .";.h .' Driven by high Winds that give no promise of ralrt, the fir Tront in Crater Lake park mttalned yesterday a 25 mile itretch,1 : The flames 'traveled at race horse speed. ' The homrS of squatters were censtimed. Terrified men, women find children ran for their lives. Three hundred men desperately fought the on rush of the flames; where m thousand wdre needed. By traveling more rapidly at tha sides than In the center the fire fighters nere hemmed in As hlght came and the danger of their being' burned alive was great.' The -people 'are pray ing for, rain. -, .1 - - A "Hell's broken loose!" exclaimed' Asso ciate "District Forecaster George II. Cell grimly as he '-received the reports Just epitomised, by lonir distance tele phone yesterday evening. Came Immediately a message saying that tremendous. fire had, obtained Tan uncon tollable start in the 4Jmpqua' val ley 16wlands not far f rom Roseburg. Twenty-five men were available t ruslvi to the conflagration. One hundred ar. the-yr?-la'mt'r'.nt!tatlt-!l "f , Another fire "broke out on Ashland creek, arid as?lt headed for Ashland with terrible1 speed, the militia was ordered out to fight it. ; ;.. . , Tire which bad been burning slowly In Green River valley along the line of the tforthern Pacific burst out Jnfury yesterday, ; Fifty men were hustled to Seattle tq fight It. :; ' -4 s,Uv .., v the situation in the Wallowa national forest became bo serious that all the troopers remaining at Vancouver - bar racks , were ordered" to. the scene.' The soldiers 'prooably will leave today, go ing by way of Huntington and Roblnette to the ytcinlty of Half Way. Mr. Cecil telegraphed District Forecaster , Chap- (Continued on page NUie.V SHERMAN TAIL Congressional Committee; Of ficially Exonerates Vice president Shermar) -arid Sen :ator of .Graft Charges. , ! . . (United Fiees Leased Wlre.y Sulphur, Oklav Aug.i 20.The congres stonal committee investigating the brib. ery charges brought by Senator Thomas P. Gore in connection with, the sroDoaed Indian lands contracts Sield by: John H," McMurtiy, today formally and offici ally exonerated Vice President Sherman ano aenaior minis. oi Kansas of any connection witn tne contracts. , ' Before the.sdjournment-today Chair man Burke t read the following . state ment:: : v . -r., 'The committee 'has heard and "care fully considered all testimony submit ted and 1 unanimoutly of the opinion that thfre Is and was.no warrant for any person to authorize the names of Vice President James 8. Sherman and Senator Charles Curtis in connection with any; improper relation with any Indian contracts wnatever, and , com. mends the statement - Of Senator -'Gore in this connection." - v , (.,, ', -Gore Statement' ltead..v. v .' : 'Th readlna of this followed the-rejui lng of a statement prepared by Senator Gore, exonerating the two men and urs lng the committee to take formal action on the matter. , - . . 'Gore in his statement said he felt duty bound and "was Impelled by con tlrieratlons of justice" to. clear the names of Sherman -and Curtis. Senator Gore's statement says:'. :.'- ; -i ; v? ,ri .'.-,. ,"I feel In - duty and in honoV- bound to make the following statement It la also dictated by considerations of common Justice toward he parties con cernea. "fweuner the name or vice Pres ldent Sherman, nor Senator Curtis was mentioned by me on tb'flobr of the United States' senate., That the name of either of these 'parties was alluded JtaJiy aic..,Hfunon, a-ia-SUftdXaatly held from the public until this invest! gatton began. . No public mention of either name Was made, either "drectly or indirectly by me until I was required, and obliged,: to do. so In testifying; as witness under oath, and detailing the nW put or pl 'f. ' ' - I ' ' 1. IIl .ti I : ; Sv-'.:'; WAKE' UP v , 4 ,;,-IT-S TO LATE' v . . 1 iliiiVcviiiii tbv; lofi nnis- rin has pniiuri ranee n lull it r o vii i in iiii.iiiiiiii. in 1 1.. imii :i i .11 1 ui IIIULILI if ILL Ml I r OFFICIAL PAPER Congressional . Candidate Will Bring? Mandamus Proceed ings; Against Secretary of State Tomorrow Mornirjg. B. F.. Mulkey, candidate for the Re publican nomination for congressman from the First district against ;W.'jC. Hawley, has decided to bring action against the Secretary of state tomorrow morning to force that off Iclal to' allow him to file his campaign arguments In the state pamphlet provided for by the corrupt practices act' r The secretary of state has. ruled that candidates for office must - have filed their signed petitions prior to August 22 to entitle them place In thef state pamphlet. (Mulkey contends that the law Intended that all candidates who had filed their declarations are entitled fp place In the pamphlet. Accordingly Mr. Mulkey will bring mandamus proceedings against the secretary- of state tomorrow morning In Salem. In an effort to secure the ln- (Contlnued on Page Four.) F ER AGAINST I. ROCKEFELLER Organize $10,000,000 Corpof , ation to Clip Tentacles of the .'.Standard.. Oil Octopus" in rennsyiyania riems. ' (Bf tbe Internstloruil News 8fTlre.) Butler, Pa., .Aug. : 20. A . gigantic r struggle between the 6000 oil produc ers In Jhs Pennsylvania fields, repre senting a dally production of 30,000 bar rels high grade crude Oil, and the Stand ard Oil company, was foreshadowed this week when producers from Washington, Allegheny, Butler, Clarion' ; Venantro, Armstrong.. Warren, Forest and McKean counties launched the High Grade Oil movement which haras Its slogan, ."Pro. ducer. refine ydir ownOil."-- Strongly organised and encouraged by ready support the leaders of the move ment to tie up the production In the high grade oil fields adopted a plan of or PRODUCERS 1 MERC 617.029 POPULATION (United Press Letscd Wire.) " Washington. Aug. 20. Th 4 census bureau tonight announced that ' the 1910 enumeration showed: a. population of fi87,OZ5f for St. Louis, Mo., which la an increase of 111,791, or 19.4 per cent since 1900, when St. Louis 4 had 57B.2S8 inhabitants. - '-- 4 In '1900 Boston had'tBlo,892 people, and not until the new tensus for Boston Is announced will . it be known positively. k whether St. Louis hold her place 4 ' as tne fourth, Amerlcah city. Pressure on Taylor and Others So Great "They Threaten Still Higher Higherups Harahan Relentless. (Br the International Nejrs Serr'ce.) ' Chicago,- Aug 20. The criminal prose cution following years of grafting by high Illinois Central officials took t peculiar and sensational turn today wherf former .-Assistant United States District Attorney Frank R. . Ried opened negotiations with State's Attor ney Wayman, , it , Is said, to the dis closure Of the real "higher ' up," who profited to the : extent of $1,600,000 , in the' extended mulcting of the railroad, . Mr. Ried Is a member of the law firm of Knight, Ried & Tlrrell, retained for the defepse of Frank. R. Harrlman, John M. Taylor and Charle L. Ewlng, forme of fltlals Of the railroad, who were ar rested yesterday charged with conspir acy and playing a confidence rame. Th proposition to Mr, : Wayman was made ins benair ot one or ail, three of , them It is said that' Information t is promised (Continued: on- Page Eight.) PEACE DOVE ROOSTS ON i OLIVE BRANCH-BANANA LAND CHANGES RULERS X : ,'. (tTnlted Ftees ''Leased Wire.) Managua,-Augii 20. The Nlcar augiian war ! Is 1 over. This is l conceded tonight fwlowlnjf ad- 4 vices received here that General Louis Mens of the revolutionary - 4 rin3L-nal'-Tlaken. Grarmdatjblt.4 , mom mjpoi uuu cuy uu uie riv clfhrtoast of Nacaragua.- Presl-j dent MadHa has resigned his of fice, and Jose Dolores Estrada, brother of the revolutionist-lead-' er, has taken his place.; NDMIIIN ON ASSEMBLY TICKET Managing Committee Meets Behind Closed Doors at the Cornelius and Contemplates "Busted" Slate of Beach. The "managing committee", held a star chamber session last night In the Cor nelius . hoteL. , Johnv H. Gibson, the Clackamas county bosslet, was there. So , was J. F. Clark of Oregon. City. There, was no '.one there from Columbia county. A. B. Manley was there. J. W. Beverldge, McKlnley Mitchell, M. C. George, A. J. Fanno, Jimmy Kert chem, Charley Lockwood, Major Ken nedy and one or two of the other lead ers . were present. Nothing was done, except to talk, so it is said. How, hot the talk was, Is not related. It. is a fact, however, that the slate of.S. C.-Beach was "busted." Sam Connell withdrew as a candidate for the state senator from Clackamas, Co lumbia and Multnomah counties. He was Beach's candidate, and headed the neat little ticket that Beach had print ed and distributed. When he saw what (Continued on Page Four.) New. York Assemblyman Charges Vice President With Insubordination and Dis loyalty to Taft and Party. (TJnltrd Press L-tsed Wire.) .: Utlca, N. Y.', Aug. 20,-rFollowlng for mer (Assembly man Merw(n . K. Hart's long ij conference V with ex-President Roosevelt In New TOrk yesterday, -Hart this afternoon, - speaking before ' the Oneida County. Republican league here, denounced Vice President Sherman for rplaying' petty politics' and threatening the disruption of the party." He charged that , the vice president con- nlved with the so-called machine lead - ers,"Barheir:wooJrUff andWard, have himself chosen as temporary chair man of the state convention and inti mated that Sherman personally solic ited votes to that end. "i assert," said Hart ' "that Mr. Sher man knew full Well that It was Mr. SHERMAN CALLED JO ACCOUNT FOR PEANUT POL TICS ANTI-ASSENIBLY ORATORS GREETED WITH ENTHUSIASM Opening Shots of Campaign Rred by Malarkey, McGinn, Dimick and Mulkey at Open Air Oregon.City Meeting. SENATOR BR0WNELL ACTS AS CHAIRMAN Frantic Efforts of Corporations to Keep Control of Public Affairs Disclosed, ; Oregon City Aug. 20. Anti-assembly medicine In ,lrge, old-fashioned homeo pathic doses was ladled out In the Plaza here this afternoon to a representative and enthusiastic audience gathered from different sections of Clackamas . coun ty, George C. Brownell presided at the meeting and the spjakers Vere Judge Hnry E. McGinn and Senator Dan J. Malarkey, of Portland; Walter A. Dim ick, of Oregon City, and B, F. Mulkey, Of Jacksonville.., '.;. i-, n Judge McGinn is a candidate for clr cult Judge In Multnomah county, but was In Oregop City for the purpose of opening up the anti-assembly light in Clackamas county. George C. Browell Is a candidate for state senator from Clackamas, W. A. Dlmlck Is a candlate for representative from Clackamas. Dan J. Malarkey is a candidate for Joint senator from Clackamas, Columbia, and Mulnomah counties, and B. F, Mulkey . is a candidate for congress from the first dlstrtQt in opposition to W. C. Hawley, the assembly nominee, .. . , .,, i Andienoe Is Appyeelattve. .....- ' The' meeting was a most enthusiastic one and the vigorous applause given the . different speakers showed . very plainly the' overwhelming khti-assem-bly sentiment in Oregon ;CHy and vi cinity. 'J - - ' .' '. ' r . The hot ahot poured into the-assembly camp by Judge McGinn, the earnest talks of the legislative candidates and the straight out Insurgent statements of Mr. Mulkey were met with -f repeated outbursts of applause, while at the close of their addresses each speaker was surrounded by men .Who pledged their support to the antl-asembly cause. Senator Brownell opened the meeting. In his opening he said that the ques- (Contlnuedxn Page Five.) IN STRONG TALK Hon. Henry' E. McGinn Explains Motives That Prompt the Big Interests to Back This Insti tution of Bossism. (Spedsl Dlspstch to Tb irmrnsLt Forest Grove, Aug. 20. "Are the people of Oregon to rule, themselves or are they to be ruled by 'Big Business'?" This question was asked in Its vary ing forms by Honorable Henry B, Mc Ginn during the course of his address tonight before one of the largest mass meetings of voters ever assembled here. The answer, which 'was as emphatic as the .question, was expressed in the cheers and hand clapping that followed each denunciation of the methpda' and motives of the so-called assembly, and the rapt .attention given to what proved to be one of the most notable addresses ever delivered here by a political speaker, "When you go into any community In mis state," saia tne speaker at one stage of his address, "who dO you find aligned In favor of the assembly? You find the old fellows who used to; hold political Jobs, but don't any more: you will find the fellows who hold the elec tric light franchise, the water franchise and the street sallway franchlse--all those who are enjoying special privil eges. AH of these men you will find in the ranks of the assemblyltes, and Wltft them you will find such of the cltUens as are engaged in tile task of exploiting the public, end those who hope to have the privilege or exploiting tne public." Townspeople and farmers from the surrounding country, who made up the throng that filled , to overflowing the great tent that stretched on the cam pus of the Pacific university, gave adu ihle evidence of the fact that the dl rect primary, fcha initiative and refer endum and Statement lvo,.j have caught and held ther poular mind and that they lwut navp .none. OI.tne ?'Q V."1 maemne; will have none of the old time machine Mil JOLTED AT FOREST GROVE toTY "J, BU1- " - .rr l"v "MliuraL lands, no matter. nluU ti.ir l... a- me sBKiuuij, . ivi . mo utuiunuv riv lessor n. u cam,, mnii- .i""' ui x utiiaitn academy, introduced the principal speak er of the evening, Henry E. McGinn, of Portland, until thrt- rousing cheer gave final expression to the, apprecla- 1RLSKM AT INSURGENTS John Hayes IJammond Divides 1 Them into Four Classes and ' Calls Three of the Classes .' the Dreadfulest Names. .. ON FOURTH CLASS USES STANDPAT BLANDISHMENTS Feels Sure the Dear Progress ives Would : Never Think of Shaking Grand old Party., , (United Press Leased Wire.? , Cleveland, pblq, Aug. 20.-"Calamlty howlers," , "unintelligent ; Intellectuals," "unctuous rectltudltionlsts.rf were some of the, terms applied to the insurgents of the' Republican party by John. Hays iioiniiniim in pcecn at tne picnic or -the Ohio Republican clubs In . a local amusement park this afternoon. 1 ; Hammond, . as president ; of the National League of Republican clubs, went to the last national , Republican, convention with vice presidential aspir ations. He has since been one of the moat constant political associates of, President Taft, both in Washington and at Beverly. .. , , . i ,r ' , To newspaper men, Just before his ad dress, Hammond admitted that be had come direct from, the golf links at Bev erly, and he took occasion to deny posi tively tha,t President Taft bad , taken any hand In. the New York 'state polit ical squabble. ' . ' . . , The report that such. action on the part'of-presldeTr'Taft was responsible for the , present breach between Taft and Roosevelt, he characterlxed as "ab surd ana wholly preposterous."., i 1 . First, Calamity Howlers. , -. In his address. Hammond Said: , . "Let : me analyse Insurgency by dlf-,- ferentlatlng the varieties of insur- (Continued on Page Eight.) Senator Chamberlain Bares Scheme. of Railway Com pany and Weyerhaeuser In- ' terests to Gobble Up Land. , , . ,-. , - "I have been informed that the Northern Paolf lo Railway com- e pany has a contract with th Weyerhaeuser Interests under the terms'of which much of the right of Indemnity selection - has been 'sold to the Weyerhaeuser inter--ests." United ' States Benator George E. Chamberlain. Senator "Chamberlain declared yesterday that 1 Louie W. Hill, president of the Great Northern railway, favors opening up Ore gon timber lands for settlement ' because' under the terms of the Indemnity selection act he baa t ' traded worthless-areas in Wash lngton for Oregon's best timber lands, which will be available when the lands are offered for settlement. - Similar ' plans have been made, he says, by the Santa -Fe railroad. ' ' When President Taft, at the Instance of Richard A. Bellinger, secretary of the Interior, opens ! up the timber lands of Oregon to settlemenV,the big timber In terests win gobble up what they and . the railroads do not already possess, and the homesteader will have, as b-. fore nothing! ".,:'s,;- i .;i "Such is the Ballinger brand of con aervation, declared United States Sena , tor George E. Chamberlain yesterdy. Such Is the preparation for serving the Interests tftat the secretary of IWSntiz. rlor has made while apparently plan ntng for the small settler. . t . , XUfhs at BalUnger. Senator Chamberlain laughed at the statement made by Ballinger while In Portland recently that h favored the restoration of all land to.'pubUs n try that are-available for agricultural or-commerctal purposes. ' "If a homesteader finds agricultural land in he middle of tfe for-t n-serve he can settle on it lawfully,'' iie said. "There la nothing In the withdrawal a i that rayents bomfst l!?ggn, Bgrt,. : j0n ... rhe " assertion , or tn eeilry that all lanaa, inciunmg jn mnr,-r areas, must be restoml to efitry. If dry are-restored. Is ridiculous. Senator Chambrl1n rdne 1 ; ' he meanf'by saying ttt r.. i . - ' TIMBER BARONS PLOT TO -GRAB OREGON'S FORESTS (Continued on Page Mne.) (Continued on. Page Four.)! ,, iCuniinucd on 1'uge lght) (Confirmed on rW Eli Eight.) (Contlnued on Page l-'uur,) (Continued" on paee - 1 v
