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........ ' :, 1 n. '.' ; . : : . ' ' ' ' ' j ' 1 ' . : X i t A Hotter . Position 1 COAST TEMPERATURES 5 A. M. Today. Boua ..... . 4 Mttla 4 Marahnaid 44 "i la awaltuir tl mam o? wh lata - tibia a her ability fe kmowm tar Journal Waal Ad. Tay will aort yom , I feat llttl. .Cv'! -i.; V "' 'r ' t Wether4-yIr. (tmlght and Wed-.., , nesaay: north . to northeast wind. j Traaolaeo ' , vol: x. no: cCPQfo may 83, ; isiltwenty-two -pages. PRICE TWO CENTS S&FSAE? REPORT OF AGENT REPORTED DIAZ. . 10 RESIGN TODAY: . PRISONS OPENED Wireless Head Sen teheed for Contempt Aviator Loses Actress, t ft All COAL CLAIMS 'J, . j ION CAMPAIGN PROVES FRAUD IN MEN 105 STRONG NOW ORGANIZED 1? BRITISH KiKS V , When Machine Strikes Worn :an -Sightseer,; His- Majesty Lifts Her Into Car,' Rushes to Hospital, ' C ' EXTENT. OF INJURIES , : . NOTYET, DISCOVERED Accident Occurs on Olympia Road While Party Is Speed ing to Tournament. IObIM Pnas Uuai 71r. - London, Mar II. After an automobile accident today In which the royal oar ran down and aeveraly Injured a woihan. King- Oaorfa leaped from th machine and himaelf tenderly lifted th victim Into th tenneau. The automobile, at the kins' a com mand, waa ruahed to B. George'a hoa pftal.' wtiera th woman. waa taken In and eared for. It la not yet known whether bar lnjurlea will prove fatal. The accident ocnurred on the Olympia road.. Th king, with Queen Mary, the prince of Wale and Prlnceaa Mary left BOCKinsnam pauce to motor to the naval and military tournament held to day. The woman who waa hurt waa one of th alghteoera rathared to watch th passing of th king and queen. It ia not known how aha happened to gat In front of th car. URGES ACTION IN i OIL TRUST CASES j i, ' . . , - . ienatdr Pomerene Wants Re- port From Attorney Gen . eral on the Subject. , (United Press ttss Wire.) -Washington. May - ti. Senator A tie Pomerene (Democrat, phlo) today in troduced A resolution in the aenata de claring that John D. Rockefeller, John D. Archbold and other defendant In the Standard OH trust oases, are aubject to prosecution under the Standard Oil d cision or tn unitea oiaiea supreme court, and Instructing the attorney gen- - sr4 - to-report - whether preseouUons-i "have been or will be started against them." " . Th resolution was " adopted without debate; - . : 25,000 PETITION; FORfe : , BASEBALL ON SUNDAYS Boston, Mass., May 2S On the ground of publlo aafety, 25,000 people signed a petition aaking that Governor Fosa per mit Sunday baseball for the benefit of boys who are employed on week days. The name of many clergymen appeared among th signers. V' CATHOLIC CHURCH DENOUNCED BY SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN (Unlt Press te1 Wire. I . Louisville, Ky May: Denuncia tion of the Roman Catholic church as a "menace and a blight" of the govern ment for ''fa vorlng'V Hi of the press tor failure to criticise It, and of Chief Jus tice White of the United States su preme court because of his education In a Jesuit school, stirred the Southern Presbyterian assembly, to its depths The Roman Catholic denunciation was' .nntntned in a resolution intro' a,,sA hv th "Rev. r. C. Painter of Yancey Hill, Va.i who spoke fn Ua sup port.' The resolution reads: . "Resolved,; That this assembly vlewa .wHh serious concern - the growtn a.rio pernicious activity of the powerful po Htlco-rellglous organisation ; known as the-Roman Catholic church, ' Which la ami siwavs has1 been a menace and hHa-ht to the civil and rellgloua liberty of every land where It ha obtained a foothold! that tnia assemoiy yews w rrious concern ino paiiiy. vi umra men oanoernlnff : this menace, the' evi dent disposition of the general govern ment to grant special favors to 4bla or ganisation, and -the! ominous silence of the public press; concerning sayerso criticisms of this body, and at the Sam time Ha readiness freely to advertise alt that Is Interesting ( to wis- so-caueo church. r" :!'-.' . . ..tResolved, That this assembly ap point a committee of five to report on a i practical; method r of advising 4 the whole, people of -the dangers' of this de nomination and t Invit th influence and cooperation of other Proteatant bodies -to offset it" - -" In his speech, Painter, accused ; the newspapers,,, for business reason a, - of suppressing . adverse criticism -of the Roman Catholic church; charged . con gressmen and senators with, fearing It, and declared that the appointment of Chief Justloe Whit waa a menao to ,th couotry. "Th. nrr f act"-' h Sftlfl. . , "that L wMt was eauoatea m a jau cnoei , i f i v 11 v . ., . - r ' f '!"'',. f ' V sXi T i . . k f I , V.?n-.' v -. ., ..L.I TV . -Jj -:.-,. l-'i, Christopher O. AVHaon, president whose recent sentence for contempt, imposed vj tne circuit courx In New York because he had refuaed to permit the examination of the company' books, waa approved by the United States supreme court. By the decision, a far-reaching legal controversy was won by the government, In that officials of corporations1 no longer can refuse to surrender corporation books for examination by grand Juries. ' ' LAST PROTEST NOB 'v - 1 Waahington, .May 28. Like- the Earl of Warwick back to the wall -fighting for the maintenance of the statu quo Justice John Marahall Harlan of the fedarar suprsm court utters that -Whlon la known in the national,, capital , to twk ! rut nroteat from - th bench against th moderirftln of large busi ness. ' . . , ( r Natwfthstandlna- th general concea- alon here, that the court .read into the law that which congress naa repeaieuiy refused to writ Into the anti-trust sta tutea. limitation of th meaning of "restraint of trade" It la being recog nised her that henceforth big corpora tions will b permitted to do nuaineaa In combination with other big corpora tlona, without the danger of having their organisation deatroyed by applica tion of the anU-trnst law's Inhibition., That th supreme court did arbitrar ily modify the statute In a Way congress has refused to do, wnencn law was ae- bsiM for aaoption, n welt as msny times later when amendatory Dins nave been offered, haa passed beyond doubt A few publlo men gloss over the court's action In that respect, but the writer found no man who, In private conver sation, would seriously contend that the modification Of the meaning of restraint waa intended by th law making-body. gUaas All Alone. So that, with virtual unanimity, the national caplUI agrees that, perhaps remembering the firm grasp that aitef Justice Marshall took and, more or leas arbitrarily, fixed certain elements of the natlon'a Jurisprudence for all time, ao Chief Justice Whit and all the Jus- Chief .Justice White, whose" appoint- . ment, "Virginia preacher: says, ' is ' menace to country. i ' ahould disqualify him for .that nigh office." - r T A special -.committee, was-appointed by the- assembly to consider th Pain ter resolution, -ry - ' - ' ' r " BENCH 01 '4 ,.,.'v..,.li f . K . . if : i jj ! ' :-4-.v(t.:'.,:v.', ' of the United Wlreleaa company. SUPREME FilODERIJIZIHG BUSINESS tlcea but On seised th situation, and fired "th permanency of th principle of combination as legitimate in this country. y Although there la this lnvectlv against the alleged assumption of leg islative functions by the court there la along with it frank recognition that th Sherman anti-trust law would create ehaoa in the business world, were it to be construed and enforced aa inhibiting every combination in restraint of trade. And. although it is recognised that there Exists no apeclflc assurance aa to th status of any particular business ooro bfnatlon, the manifest Intention of th court to discriminate between honest combinations and) those which' employ piratical methods of destroying com petition la accepted, as sufficient as surance forth business world. ticks to Strict Construction. It la, nevertheless, romantlo.and in spiring to witness the 80 year old Jus tice Harlan,- grUsled and veteran,-cllng-lng to the strict, construction of th statute, and fighting with grim persis tence for th retention of the individ ualistic system of industry which never but one before failed to obtain the in dorsement, of the supreme court ' - It-waa IT- years ago, 184, four years after :the Sherman anti-trust law was adopted In 1880, that this same deter mined old Jurist dissented from th court's decision In the Knight case, a decision that ftave life to the augar trust At that time, Harlan wrote into hla dissenting opinion grave warning that unless the court stood unequivo cally , against mddifloatlon of the stat utes meaning, the nation would wit- ness a riot or trust organisation ana would later, face issues that might en danger the existence of popular govern ment. " : ' ' He ' enumerated the slaughter and marketing of livestock, the lumber in duatry, coal, iron and ateel and .others in which there has been later formation of ; gigantic trusts. He predicted ex actly that' which has followed the or ganisation, of large combinations and the elimination of competition In many Industrial lines. . ; ' Sro Chang la Tlews. So Harlan, now 80, called his asso ciates' attention to his former prophe cies, and telle the nation that the de cision Just handed down is- fully as abhorrent to hi views aa' waa that .to which he dissented 17 years ago. There Is much talk Of amending the Sherman law so as to define precisely what shall be Illegal combinations tn restraint of trade. But men who do not aocept every proposed plan' as good as adopted, and who realize that the na- (Continued on Pag Thirteen.) EJEFIES "TRUST" Austrian - Homesteader - Holds ' Off Logging Gangs With High-Powered Rifle. ,-! Volted Frew Leased Wire.) Biwabik. Minn., May .23. Emulating John F. Diets, "defender of Cameron Dam," Peter : Vorbanlch, ; an Austrian homesteader with a high-powered rifle today sits in front of his cabin on Water Men Creek, IS miles south of here, and defies th f lumber trust"' as Diets did. For four days VVprbanich has held Off logging ganga of the Northern Lum ber company and prevented their float ing loga down the stream past hiacabln. Sheriff Melwlng 'today is organialng-a posse to oust Vorbanlch, and a battle ia Wd to- Ui ilklr. "i I Tm'A Chief of Field Division, After -Thorougji Investigation- of Alaska Cases, Said to Have Shown 774 Fraudulent. CUNNINGHAM GROUP INCLUDED IN LIST "Dummy" Claimants, by Their Silence, Make Inquiry Most Difficult. (Oalted Pres. UuM Wire. Seattle, Wash., May 23. A complete report has been made to Secretary of th Interior Walter Flnher on 774 of the 1100 coal claims In Alaska The re prfrt waa made personally by Andrew Chrlstensen, chief of the field division here who returned from Waahington last Saturday. While the nature of the report Is not given out by Christensen, the rumor that all the clalma have been proved fraudulent after a thorough Investiga tion, ia not denied. AH of the Cunning ham claims, 33 In the group, are In cluded In th 774 already Investigated. More or leas difficulty has been ex perienced In making the Investigations, as clalmanta, most of whom are "dum mies" have been advised to decline being Interviewed. OPENING OF ALASKA LANDS IS URGED BY CITIZENS OF SEATTLE (United trass Leased Wirt. I Seattle, Wash., May 23. Reaolution demanding the Immediate opening of Alaskan coal landa and self government for the territory are today on their way to Waahington, after being. adopted by a mass meeting of aeven hundred, pro moted by commercial organizatlona. Falcon Joalyn of Fairbanks, Alaska, th chief speaker, denounced Clifford Plnchot for "using the government's money to buy magasine articlea tell ing th people what aa honest and great man he was, and he waa , not Indicted either, while honest men entitled to Alaskan landa are under Indictment" Raking 'Roosevelt he aaid: "We had a president who had little knowledge and no respect for the sac- redness of the constitution of the United States. Plnchot went straight to Theo dore the First, and. th president of the United Statea wrote the order ab rogating the act of 1904. "Th czar of Russia, would not have had the courage to do such an act Thia order of 1906 by President Roose velt waa illegal and everybody 'knows iti: . RETAIL LUMBER Association, Operating in Ore gon, Washington, Idaho, Al leged to Be Violation Anti Trust Law. Prosecution of the Western Retail Lumber Dealers' association. Including retail lumbermen in Oregon, Idaho and Washington, la contemplated by the federal government it ia said. Special agents of .the treasury department ro known to have been investigating the workings of the organisation for some time. One of them left for Washington last week with Information concerning the association and its alleged agree ment in violation of the anti-trust law. It Is probable that no case will be filed in Portland but that either Spo kane or Seattle will be selected as the filing place for proceedings against the northwestern retailers. The headauar- ters of th western association Is at Spokane. Benefit Manufacturers. According to one man who has talked with Attorney General Wlckersham con- (Continued on Page Four.) UNITED STATES' FARM PRODUCTS FOR 1910 NEARLY $9,000,000,000 (I'nlted Press Ledsed Wife.') ' " Washington, May 23. In. his introduction to th "Tear Book" for 1910. Just Issued, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says: "Nothing short of science can grasp the value of the farm 4 produots of this year. At ao . time in the world's history, has a country produced farm prod- ucta wlthlnjone year with a value a reaching 18.921,000,000, which is th - value of the ' agricultural products . of this country . f or , 1910. This , amount Is larger than that of 1909 by tSOS.OOO.OOO, an amount of Increase over th preceding year which Is smalt P for th mor .'-iV;.,,; s DEALERS IN WEST TO BE PROSECUTED Aamoadp.-tta MMhUnn la Oikaiy. t', jfu 4 t - ivjf ev A-Wi' Pauline Chase, the well known ac tress, whose engagement to Claude Grabame-Whlte, the Eng lish aviator, has been broken, ac cording to word from London. Miss Chase met the Englishman last year, when he was in this country participating In the inter national aviation races . at Bel mont -Park, Lonj, , Island.. . The reason given by the actress for the breaking of the engagement is that "the engagement was a mistake. -After knowing him I concluded that he could not com pensate me for retirement from the stage." CHICAGO POLICE BEGIN EIGHT Killing of "Dutch" Gentleman Brings on War Against La bor Battlers Two Are Sur rendered to Authorities. rTntti1 fra.. rnirf Wlre.l Chicago, May 13. Determined to crush out union' slugging which, after a long war, culminated here yesterday in th killing of William or "Dutch" Gen tleman, Chief of Police McWeeny today Instructed Inspector Revere to arrest every labor slugger. In the city. Chief McWeeny declares that Gentle man's death is the direct result of the killing' of Vincent Altman, another slug ger,, two months ago. The men, he says, were sluggers for rival unions. Edward' Ryan' of the Ornamental and Architectural Iron Workers' union and John Aschor, Its business agent, were today, eurrendered to the police by At torney Charles Erbsteln. ' The police declare both mm participated In the killing of Gentleman. Inspector Revere declares that the union men will tell nothing of the trouble which they wish to fight out among themselves, and In spector Hunt, who is also working on th case, says ther Is little chance to convict anyone of the crime. Sen Yee. taken From Mojh erfs Side in San Fran- ! cisco., . (United rrsss Leased Wire.) - San Francisco, May 28. Tong war threatens her today aa th result of the kidnaping by - Chines highbindei a of HtU Sen Tee,' daughter of Ten Hop, a. Chinatown merchant, Th Jlttle" girl waa stolen from her mother's aid In Chinatown yeaterday and so far neither the- police nor Ten Hop' tong brothers hava found trace of her. I Ten Hop la prominent in his tong and If the child ia not-oon returned war . UNION SLUGGERS CHILD KIDNAPED BY HIGHBINDERS Representative Business and , Professional Citizens Get Behind the Present Incum bent in Mayoralty Fight. SMALLER COMMITTEE WILL BE CHOSEN, TOO Effort Will Be Made to Have the Registration Books Reopened. Organisation of the campaign for the reelection of Mayor Simon waa put under way today with the announce ment of a general committee of man agement conalating of 10S members. This Is chosen from all parts of the city and IS composed largely of business and profeaalonal men. Aa the result of conferences being held today by members of the general commutes it la expected that an active campaign committee of 10 or 12 wll' be chosen, which will assume charge of the detatla of the campaign work. An effort la being made to extend th or ganization to all parts of the city and a vigorous fight will be made from this time on. The general committee la com posed aa follows: Henry Albers, J. C. Alnsworth, John A. BelL Paul C. Bates, Philip Buehner, Charlea F. Beebe. W. C. Bristol. M. F. Brady, O. F. Botkln, J. P. Buchanan, A. A. Bailey, F. E. Heachl A. F. Biles, E. (Continued on Page Four.) NOVEL ACCIDENT . I KINNEY ON HOSPITAL LIST Tottering Drunk on Capitol Stairs Falls Against His Legs, Both Rolling on Down ' Clanton Reappointed. (Salem Bnresa of Th JonrniL) Salem, Or. May 22. A ludicrous but dangerous mishap that' befell M. J. Kin ney, member of th new fish and game commission, last night in the state house is th reaaon why that body la holding: its session today in Kinney room, instead of at the meeting place of yesterday. Kinney la too lame to leave his hotel; he Is In almoat too bad a humor to meet with th commission. and this is th way It happened: When Kinney was coming down the rickety state house stairs Jaat night, a rickety individual was Just coming up. Stumbling from step to step in his struggle to get higher, he stopped jvhen Kinney got down that far and mumbled that he wanted to "see th' guvner," Kin ney s reply evidently startled tn jpja fellow for h collapsed, knocking from under him the legs Of the fish and game commissioner and aerUing him rolling over and over, the stranger In the heap with him, to. the foot of the long stair way. When the stranger waa picked op, intoxication was found responsible for his tottering condition. No one thought to ask his name so quickly was he hurried on his way. Despite Kinney's being hors de com bat, the commission transacted one im portant item of' business this forenoon when R. E. Clanton was reelected fish warden for the state. Within the next three months the commission will visit all the hatcheries in Oregon. FRENCH RELIEVE FEZ; SAFETY NOW ASSURED (Uoltrd Preu L.M1 Wlrt.l Tangier, May 23. The safety of Fca from sack and massacre Is believed tn be assured today. Dispatches have reached her that Colonel Barnard's French relief expedition has reached the capital, where the sultan Is beleagurert. and that "it haa either entered or1 Is camped outaide the walls of the city. The arrival of the French haa dissi pated all fears that the foreigners who were bealeged with the sultan by the rebellious tribesmen will be slain. In order to aid a dying man In th last struggle for life, Mayor Simon this morning asked City Engineer-Morria to close Vancouver avenue, between Broadway and Hancock streets,; every morning fram 4 till 7 o'clock, i JDr. H. F. Ortschil, a pioneer resident of Portland, whose raaldence, Is at 8i Vancouver avenue,' la making, a last hsttie acatnst a nervoue complaint. Th buay thoroughfare is -crowded -at glt hours-of-the-day- and a contlnttooa tream ef.trarrio pour- aipng in av au naarlx all night a well. Th suf MAYfflR SIKk MAN'S BATTLE FOR LIFE Corral Said to Have Retired From Vice Presidency - and President's Retirement to Come This Afternoon. ALL JAILS DISGORGE POLITICAL PRISONERS Madero Expresses Great Sat isfaction Upon Receipt of News From Capital. (United Press Leased Wire.) ' Juares, Mexico, May 23. Reports reached here today from Mexico .City: that Vice President Ramon Corral had ' already resigned and that President i .. Dlas will do ao this afternoon. So far .. these reports are unconfirmed. ' Madero expressed the greatest sat isfaction at the news when he arrived. at .his office at the customs hous her. A 'telegram from th capital advised ' him that Dial this afternoon win re lease all political prisoners, more than . ' 1000 in number, from the Jails through- , out th country. Many of th moat prominent prisoner are Maderlatas and .a at least 30 of them are personal frlenda . of the rebel chief. t - Several Mexican congressmen today , telegraphed to Madero aaking -him how they were to vote on certain matter e ,. Madero replied: 1 ; "Th time has passed when th presl-' dent of Mexico shall dictate to con- , greaa. Vote as tne people want you to . vte." . ' : 1 T IS Chiefs Refuse to Withhold Attacks on Federals--They Threaten to Fall Upon Leon Is Abused V (Doit Pnes Letstd WlrO . Juarea, Mexico, May 23 Francisco ; Madero Jr., would-be president of Mex ico, sees today his chances of power likely to gov glimmering if he cannot . control the fighting spirit manifested i by -Ms-:foHdwr,-' who,' despite his or der to cease fighting, are threatening 5 to attack Leon. . Alarmed by the refusals of the rebel chiefs to withhold attacks on the fed- - erals, Madero has sent his two brothers, r Gustavo and EmlLlo, into the Interior to attempt to bring about peace upon) which Madero's chances seem to depend. . Madero la greatly disturbed through the reported slaughter of 225 Chines and several Japanese by the insur rectos at Torreon. He fears that if th killing is a bad as reported It amy mean th Intervention of European powers, as welt as Japan, and that his present commanding position will he ' lost A family council of the Maderoa, t held here, decided to make every effort to control the rebels, and the power and . Influence of the family will be exerted ', ; to that end. Copies of La Rofeneracion, an Insur-'" recto newspaper, which called Madero a "' slave driver and demanding the ele?- 1 tlon (ft Rlcardo Magon, head nf the Los . Angeles rebel Junta, as president, wero u confiscated here today by orders if Madero, and the boys selling the paper .' were sent across the line into El Paso. Discussing the issue of the neaspa . per, Francisco Madero 8r said? . i "Figueroa, Magon and the Los An ' (teles Junta members are all socialists. ;-; They want to cause trouble here, as . y they do everywhere." ,.. v. TORREON MASSACREf MAY EMBROIL NATIONS IN -MEXICAN REVOLT (Cnlted PreB -Lrad Wire.) r Mexico City, May 23. Grave fear ' that Japan, China. Germany and Spaiitt . may become Involved In the Mexican revolution ar felt, her twtiir monj ; officials as the result of protests eK'.- (Contlnued oa Pago Two.) ferer la accustomed to the not duiinff the ordinary hours, but in th early morning the incessant rattl of mtiJc wagon and scavenger carts shatter hi nerve. vrU v; ' . ' The nurse attending "ithe sick mn called Mayor'.Wmon: on the telephone this morning" and asked Mm If any thing could b done on btfhaif f lr, Ortschll,"'Th mayor Immediately went over tth Orlsfhll - residi-nc In H tr-etnjs t!i - street. If he shouW find that e an gl aeer had the authority to t v REBELS FIGHTING BEYOND