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: EXCHANGE r IT COAST TEMPERATURES , ' T ami Wu & MevAla. Bavin maahla ,. ! diamond that r wlel eaohear to advantage, let ml wtiti kaown ' i A.' M. Today." tkrougk Jonntal waat adTMY - PttU , 4 4 pokajia , aa ' ; Krnnid aa COtrr But UTTUi ..- - y , ! 4. j ' 1 ' The ' weather Fair tonltht and 'I Tburdr; northwesterly winds. a rntnoitoo ..; a .1 0 (JkVOL,X.ll?0.75. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1911.-TWNTY-TW0 PAGES aTtM riTi ClkTI "i 1 v ii f ' i i s w x w at " k r . w. mam. a" whmiimmbiu''bi - , . i m. 'a m sw m rMai m m mm m ii :ii ill ii , xrmw ii m x ' i v "vr r p i . , j - ' i - a v x- lv v II- . Mm A H75 l . k n .Hk ... VICKERSHAM AND HENRY TAFT WERE WT ATTORNEYS Attorney-General ' Admits He and the President's Brother Represented Sugar Trust for Which He Got $26,000. After the Oil Trust LATER HE PERMITTED SALE OF FRIAR LANDS Confesses He's Made No Ef fort to Attack Combination for Violating the Law. (TnlUd Pmi Imn4 Wire.) Washington. May II. Attorney Oan ral Wtckcraham teatlflrd today befora tha tiouae committee appointed to In vestigate the axpendlturea of the de partment of Juatlce. H aald that Henry ,Taft. brother of the prealdent, aa a mrmber of the law firm of Strong A Cadwallader acted upon ona occ alon aa counael far tha American Sugar Refining company (tha trua-t). Hla fea, aald the attorney general, waa turned to the flrm'e aerount. of which ha (Wlrkeraham) waa a allent member. Hla own ahara of thla fea, Wlckerehara teatlfted, waa 116.000. Henry Taft aald tha attorney gen eral, later waa retained and appeared aa apeclal attorney for tha government In the prosecution of the ltcortoe truat and the affiliated tobacco truat. Aftr he hlmaelf left the firm. Wick ! ham teatlfled. John Henry Ham mond became affiliated with It and aub- aequently repreaented the augar truat MABEL WARNER IS LOSER IN H COURT'S DECISION (Continued on Page Two.) LOCKSLEY HALL . AT SEASIDE BURNS IV b Fifty Room Summer Hostelry, Two Cottages and Turn! ture Destroyed. (SpeeUt. DUpatch to The Journal.) (BoecUl IlUoatck to The JmraaLI Paaalda. Or., May II. Fire .at 11:10 o'clock thla forenoon totally destroyed SO room Lockaley hall and half Ita furniture. Two cottage Just eaat of tha hotel were alao destroyed. Mrs. I A. Carllele of Portland la owner of both Lockaley hall and the cottage and her loaa la StO.000 partially Insured. Tne name of the burned cottagea are Bo llnaa and Mlra Monde. Tar for the roof waa being boiled in , the Lockaley hall kitchen and - over- flowed onto lhe atove. catching fir. The- place burned too fast for tha fire department to acoompllab much. There waa plenty of hose but a water abort? age, it being poaaible to connect only two hydranta. Lockaley ball Is being run by J. W. and D. Carlisle, the former of whom waa burned trying to put out the fire. The cottage of Adrian McCalman on (Continued on Page Six.) i Senator A tie Pomerme of Ohio, who. want the United Btatea era ate to make an InTeeUgatlon of the Standard Oil truat on Ha own ac- count and to direct the depart ment of Justice to hold John D Rockefeller and his associate be fore a court to account for their actions in regard to the Sherman anti-trust law. EXPLOSION HURLS 6: THREE MAY DIE Missed Shot Fires as Crew Peers Into. Crevice 4t Lents; All Are Hurt. With a roar . that shook the buildings In the vicinity of .Lenta, breaking win dowa and shattering dishes in the near by housea, a blast of powder exploded, hurling aix men In all directions, and perhaps -fatally injuiinartbree, , The oth ers received minor injuries, and were taken to their homes. The other man were taken, to a hospital. Tha tX men were blasting rock for the rock crusher at the Mount Scott cemetery. They put In a shot- wblob failed to respond to the fuse and at ter waiting fora abort time the entire crew went to ascertain the cause of the non-explosion. Just as they stepped for ward.! peer. Into. the. crevice, the pow der exploded. The two men most seriously Injured are August Dolphin, fractured hip and leg and Internal Injuries, and C. . M. Johnson, broken .foot and other injuries. Another , man . whose name was not learned suffered Injuries to the back and perhaps internal lnjuriea. The name or tne otner men were not learned. Their Injuries were not severe, however. Three Wills of James Young in Her Favor Considered by Justice Moore "Bold, Impu dent Forgeries." FAMOUS WESTON CASE IS SETTLED AT LAST INCORPORATED ClISITEJflPT FROM OPTION LAW Supreme Court Decides Con 1 stitutional Amendment of November 8, 1910, Does Not Throw Down Bars. Old Grey Eagle of Mexico Goes Into Exile With His Family Criminal and Civil Actions Since 1905 Have Marked Fight for $40,000. 8tlrm Burvta of The Jnurnsl ' Salem, Or., May Jl. The feature of decisions handed down today by the su preme court was a ruling by Judge Moore In the matt-r of the estate of James W. Young, deceased, a contest of will. This caae l notorious In eastern Oregon aa the Mabel Warner will case, as Mrs. Warner Ir one of tha leading figures In the long struggle for this 140,000 estate In Umattlla county. In which three sJlegnd wills have been pro duced, and both criminal and civil ac tions fought out. The decree of the circuit court of Umatilla county la re versed and the conteatanta of the third will gat a decree In their favor. "We ar forced to the conclusion." de clares Supreme Justice Moore, "that the alleged will is a forgery. It Is prac tically conceded that both alleged wills previously produced, which purported to convey the bulk of the property to the proponent were bold, Impudent forger ies. It Is a fair presumption that they were made at the Instigation of the person who was to profit by them. They wern discovered In possession of the proponent, and there Is nothing In the evidence to show she had friends who would forge wills In her favor." Judge Moore's decision contains II typewritten pages. O rig la of Warner WU1 Case. Jamea W. Young, a resident of Wee. ton, died August It, .1905. .leaving" hi farm willed to his niece, Mrs, . Jior Waitsbat niakint Wd3si6Ulbn f His other, property, which constated among other things of valuable brick buildings In Weston. The will was admitted to p rebate in 1005, and B. B. Hall was ap pointed administrator. Mabel Waxner, formerly Mabel Young, (Contlaued on. Page Five.) AFFIRMS CONVICTION IN TEST WALLOWA CASE Makes Same Decision in Case From Josephine; Other Opinions Today. (Ktleni Bure.o of Th- Journal.) Salem, Or.. May 31. The first ruling of the supreme court on the question whether the amendment ratified by the people In 1910 exempted Incorporated towns and cities from the local option law came today. The court decided In corporated towns and cities were no, exempt Thus the local option law ia not Invalidated In these runes. The decision camn In state, vs. Schluer, Wallowa county. In which the defendant was convicted of violating tne local option law In Joseph. The judgment of the lower court Is affirmed. Defendant appealed on the ground that the amendment to the constitution, ex empted incorporated towns and cities. Salem. Or., May II. "The decisions recognise the validity of the home rule amendment aa applied to cities and towns," said Chief Justice Eakln today In commenting upon the two local op tlon rullnKs, "but holds that the home rule amendment .does not annul the or dera of lower courts made prior to Its passage. Both Wallowa and Jackson counties were dry at the time of the passage of the home rule amendment. "In Wallowa county, the town of Jo seph attempted to license snd open saloons without previous action of the voter of the municipality. This was held to be Illegal." Judge Moore, who wrote the decisions. said: 'Where the county Is dry a vote of the people In towns must be taken befora the order Of thing can be ehimre.'-'Jt wULm seen that while the legal voters or every city and town are authorised to license or prohibit tha sale of , liquors therein, the clauae making the municipality aubject to the local option law "within ita limits.' requires an election of voters of the munici pality before the sale of liquors can be fi'"v- Ml ?U3 f l' win I PRVCtS LIBERALS SHOOT CAPTAIN WHO ; KILLED AMERICAN Commander Tony Vegas Dies at Sunrise for the Murder of a Yankee Soldier in His Command. REBELS ARE FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES Reported That Lower Califor nia Insurgent Army May Disband Today. (United Ptms UuH Wlra.1 Fan Diego. Cal.. May 11. Captain E. E. Kirk, attorney for Oeneral Pryca. declared today there waa no special sig nificance in Pryce's ansence. He has gone to Los Angele to con fer with members of the liberal junta,' said Kirk. (Continued on Page Six.) MAY STATISTICS SHOW PORTLAND TO FRONT IN LINE OF PROSPERITY; POSTAL RECEIPTS LARGEST SHOWN JOHN C. CARSON, SIDEWALK I WHO BUILT FIRST After an illness of hut a few days, John Crosthwalte Carson, former state senator, educator and ona of Portland's foremost citlsens of the early days, who built the first sidewalk In the city of Portland and who establiahed tha first planing mill north of San.Francls oc, died last night aMiie noma In this city. Mr. Carson first took 'up his resi dence in Portland In September, 18(1. and continued to reside here until hla death. Me was one of the first school teachers outside Of Portland, but aban doned his position to take a job of carpenter work at Oswego. Later he, with' his brother D R. Carson, built a planing and lumber mill, which , was the nucleus of the pioneer milling In terests of tha northwest. He waa one Of .the most prominent lumbermen- of the early days and waa one of the . state's most . progressiva citlsens. . Built rirat tt4ewalk. :: - About eight years ago Mr. Carson retired from active, work and had resided in ease at his beautiful home, built by- him in 1881, at 661 Johnson street, Hla death , waa due to old age and a general; breakdown. He Buffered an attack of lagrlpp In March and ; April. which is believed to have hastened tha end.' '..r;;.' ?v. Mr. Carson was at all times pro gressive and was ever Identified with the upbuilding and growth of th city He waa tha champion and promoter of hundreds of "needed' reforms, and in 11(4, he obtained permission from the council to construct a- sidewalk, the first to be built In the city. , He had been a member of .the council .from . his ward ' many times, - and waa for ona term president of that body. He was also .foremost In ; securing, better ed ucational facIIUlea for the dry. ? : .. , In 1870 Mr. Carson was elected to the state leglalatura, an off lea which' ha held for six yeara Then he wa ale- fContinued on Pag Five.) - ,!) - . . , ,ji A f Mav statistica 1n bank clearings, poat al receipts, building permits and realty transfers are auch as 10 show that Port land Is still well to the front among the country's most prosperous cities. Notable Increases were made In postal recelpta and bank clearances over the figures of May, 1110. There is prac tically no difference In the volume of building permits issuea ror me monm In the two years. Realty transfers show a decline on 10 per cent as com pared with" a decrease of 44 per cent in March, ahowlng conclusively that In this line of activity Portland Is again catch ing Its stride. When compared with the May recorde of other coast cities, Port land's showing sounds a distinct note of optimism and shows that this city continues to hold first place In general proaperlty. Postal ataealpts Greatest Recorded. Postal receipts, conceded to be the most reliable index of a city's prosper- lts, record the largest gain In the his tory of the local orrioe. in May. 13 iu, postal supplies to the value of 168,260 were aold at the Portland office. While the exact figures for this month could not be given at noon today by Poat- ? naster Merrick, he estimated that the otal will slightly exceed 180,000. which will make th gain fcver last May 18 per cent. The same evidence of progress is to be seen in the bank clearings. In May. 1910, the total clearings amounted to 141,386,82. as compared with 144,518, 877 for the month Just ending. The in crease amounts to 7.5 per cent. Bal ances for May of last year were 14,- ., ' ' t- f 707,440, as compared with 85,231,482 "for this month. - - 648 Building Permit. Building permits, taken out this month will total close to $1,750,000. At the close of business Monday night 648 permits had been issued calling for an expenditure of $1,617,280. Building In spector H. E. Plummer estimated that today's permits will run close to $128, 000. During May, 1910, 698 permit wer issued Involving the investment of 81,803,435 In new construction. Transfers of realty filed for record up to Monday night numbered 1688 with consideration amounting to 12,541,956 compared with 1663 transfers and 32, 804,142 for May one year ago. Foreign cargo shipment nearly doubled In value the shipments of tha same month In 1910, the figure being, 1910. $379,626; 1911. $696,410. Th larg est gain in exports .was shown in flour shipments, 116,800 barrels having left thla port for foreign ports this month and 11,567 barrels in May of last year. Table Tells Story. The following tables compare the totals In postal receipts, bank ol eatings, building permits and realty transfers for the first five months of 1910 and 1911;. 1910. 1811. Postal receipts ! 345,709 $ 404,488 Manic clearings zo7,nce,ooi 274.205. 098 Hide, permits. t,Kta,oi7 7.SZ4.881 Realty transf's 15,924,183 11.492.256 Foreign lumber shipments and ship ments coastwise showed but little change this month from the totals of one year ago. Mrs. Porfirlo Diaz, who la said to ham urged her husband to leave Mex ico after hla resignation aa president. (United Pre. !.eet Wire.) Vera Crur, Mexico., May 31. The steamer Yplranga. with Oeneral Por firlo Diaz, the "old gray eagle" of Mex ico, on board, was scheduled to sail this afternoon for Bpatn via Havana The former president, surrounded by hla family and 20 faithful officers, was es corted to the dock by a picked detach ment of federal troops. There waa no ( Halted PreH leased Wire.) San Diego. Cal., May II According j to a report that reached San Diego from Tla Juana this morning, Captain Tony ' v " 1 wiiiuiniiurr .11 in. MCIldQ troops under Oeneral Rtfys Pryce, waa shot at sunrise this morning for hav ing shot and killed an American sol dier In his command. A court martial found him guilty yesterday. There Is a report that th men nnder Pryce are fighting, and that th rebel band may break up today. This re port, however, could not be verified. Pryoe and Aide Gone. Following th execution of Captain Francisco Visa or Vegaa, at sunrise. It was learned that General Pryce and demonstration. Diaz was calm and I his aide. Captain Mefvln Hopkins, wer bade hia friends and few raltnrui i missing from th camp. troops farewell. I Whether Pryce had left tha rebels The Madero element here expresses I for good, whether he had gone to the the fear that Diaz and Oeneral Ber-1 Los Angele junta on business or nardo Reyes may conspire to combine I whether he had met with foul play with Llmantour to bring about the I questioned by his men. It was genr- electlon of a Diaz adherent tn the com ing general election. (Continued on Page Two.) RAILROAD BUILDING WAR NOW LOOMS SEVEN BANDS BETWEEN HARRlMAN AND HILL LINES iL N RICH NORTH CENTRH WASHINGTON TO APPEAR IN ROSE F I ESMPARAD E That north central Washington will be the Been of the next big railroad building war Between the Harriman and Hill forces is the report that cornea from Seattle, the report being based on ac tivity shown by the Harriman forces up north under the guidance of R. E. Stra- horn, general manager of the third dis trict of the O.-W. R. & N. eompany, with headauarters In Spokane. Oeneral Man ager J. P. O'Brien, of the first district,! with headquartera In thla city, says that any activity on part of the Harri man system along the upper Columbia, above the confluence of the Snoko would come under Mr. Strahorn's Jurisdiction. Surveys were made by the Harriman people along the upper Columbia some tiro ago into the territory which so far haa been covered erxcluslveiy ny tne Great Northern. That these surveys will be followed up soon by the right of way men and eventually construction orewa. Is now the prediction coming from th Puget Sound city. Freight Trafflo Heavy. North central Washington embrace Grant Douglas, Chelan and Okanogan counties, containing 11,000 square miles of which 5,000,000 acres aro said, to be suited for agricultural purposes. About one-fifth of this enormous area is now under cultivation, and producing a ton nage that is said to be one of the rich est resources of the Great Northern. It Is this tonnage and that to be developed by further railroad building, that the Harriman people would share. That the people of that district are anxious for a competing line was In dicated at the Transportation congress an'mStee0 Musicians', Will :furnish ' flo furnished th Great Northern, and this report was submitted 'to other rail roads, including the Harriman system, with the result it Is said that a great deal of activity has been noticed. Rivalry la Xaeu. Since the Transportation congress, there have been developments which In dicate -that there is "something, doing,' says one. report The- commissioners of I Chelan county have two application on Stirring Music; 25,000 Peo ple From Outside ; Already Come to See Pageant ' i. SPECIAL OFFICER ATTACKED BY UNION PICKETS BADLY HURT: CAPTURES ONE 5 The -latoVMm&rCrvoii;? A battle between Special Officer J. W. Griffiths, a machinist st the Smith & Wataon foundry and two union pickets at o'clock this morning resulted In th frightful injury of Qrlfflths, who waa kicked In th face by both pickets, and frightfully torn by the teeth of one man and the final arrest of John 8. Sharp,' on of th ploketa. ' Griffith waa on his way to the f oun- dry when th two roan sprang him from behind a wan. throwing mm to the ground. They kicked him several time, but Griffith waa fighting all the time, finally 1 throwing Sharp tof thtr) . . . . - . 1 I .Tl i grouna wnere ne overpowereu mm. j fiig companion,' whoso nam Is not known. finding himself unaoia to aaaisi jsnarp, mad hi ecp but h will be arrested ion, a warrant. . v Grirrrths appeared at police dquar ter bleeding profusely from t'. wounds on his hands and face, dmk.ng his bleeding prisoner. A complaint charg ing Sharp with assault aad battery was filed. As soon as th complaint waa signed against Sharp, Griff Una, 'who had been supplied with a new set of clothes to replace th ones torn in the battle, started out In search of a phy sician to dress his wounds. "That; flg;ht this morning is the result f trouble of mroe than a year's standing ' between ' the striking machinists and the men em ployed at, this foundry. Endless trouble has been ekparlenced with these picket. and. Griffith who was but recently ap pointed a apeclal officer haa been threat ened aevaral time a , . . ' DRIVER COLLAPSES WHEN RACE ENDS 11 IUP r '1 Knight, Nervous Wreck, Prob ably Never Can Drive An other Racing Automobile. Unrtl Press Leaned Wtra.t Indianapolis, Ind., May 31. A nerv ous wreck? after- the terrible strain of yesterday's 600 mile automobile race, Harry Kirlght,' who drove the Westcott car, waaXinder tho influence of opiates today. Although Knight was uninjured yesterday, the strain on his nerves was too severe for him. and after the race waa ended ha, collapsed. Today It is predicted' that he will never be able to drive another racing car. Ills physi cians fear he may suffer a permanent nervous breakdown. Th men Injured In the race yesterday ar resting easily tbls afternoon. Archie Grelner, Whose Amclex was" dashed from the track" following a tire explo sion; was improved today, and his physi cians believe he . will surely recover. The body of his mechanician. & P. Dickson, killed in the sam accident. was snipped ta Ctyeago. - - One hundred and fifty musicians,' con- file for franchises for permission to con-1 t,tutin"" vn hands, marching tc- struct and operate electric line up and gether and playing together, will fur down the Wenatchee and Columbia nlsh music for the Bos Festival pa rivers, outside of Wenatchee; while the radea of next week. No uch outlay for city council of Wenatchee has three ap- muslo was ever before attempted by plications for franchises to construct the Rose Festival management ' The) and operate electric lines over the I great concourse of muslo makers, George streets of that municipality. There ia I L. Hutchtn, manager of the festival, an- a keen rivalry for these privileges and I nounced thla morning, will ba under th the authorities are proceeding slowly, to I direction of J. R. Tomllnson of. the make sure that the Interests of th po-1 Musicians' association. Tha muslo is pie will not fall into the handa of mere I now being rehearsed, each band under speculators. I its own director. It is of the stirring; martial kind the happy, thrilling. In spiring sort that will. It la expected, waken Into keenest participation of th festival spirit, even th staldest ... of Portland. " Already the city la filling up with festival visitors. The . hotel report greatly Increased guest lists. Tha streets sre crowded Incoming trains are filled. Many of the peopl of th city are entertaining guests. . . t ( : . (United Press Leaned Wire.) 85,000 Peopl Com. , , Chicago, May 31. Notices sent out to I The traffic departments of th South' union men in the building Industry to ern Pacific. O.-W. R. A N Northern, return to work with the steam fitters on Pacific. Great Northern, Milwaukee buildings now In course of erection are Une Mtliw,,t T." E?T,W wti,n expected to bring a crisis, today In n"J W mo'r Chicago's 140.000.000 building tleup. preparations tor the Horse' and V- caused by tho Jur sdlctional warfare nlcle p4ra4o ar( attracting wide-spread . between the tanifUtr and plumbers attention. Indications ar that it win , A joint board of arbitration composed K- of representatives of the unions and FUval weeh The judge wer aa, ' h.nintC.?'mm?i,r,d Th n,Tt. ?,J "rd Uounwd. today a. follows! .W. 8I by the steamflttera. This puts the con-I iaa rnk h i. BROUGH no tinuance of the tleup squarely up to the plumbers. (Continued on Pag Two." REPUBLICANS TO CLOSE CAMPAIGN : WITH AN ORATORICAL BATTLE ROYAL The final days of the city campaign this week will produce a spurt of ora tory from all sides. This Is the result of the announcement of meetings to be held under the auspices of the Re publican city central committee. In be half of A. G. Rushlight for mayor and other candidates :n the v Republican ticket ' Speakers for Simon probably, will be sent out as an offset to the Rushlight talkers, but no arrangements for meet ings hav yet keen. made.-' Th Simon committee has, a number of volunteers In .reserve, hut " it wa apparently not Intended to' make us of . them' unless the Republican committee 'Mnt out speakers for Rushlight. It haa not been determined who shall do-the talking for, Simon, but prominent men will bt i r-" vs.- " ' s . ' ; :- . '.," ' elected, as th ' ordinary spellbinder la no longer much of a drawing card In a city campaign. . , ; . Two Republican meet lags ' will - be held Friday night. On In Sellwood. t Strahlman's hall, wlll be addrsel by John F. Logan and Waldemar Se ton. Th other will b n open air meeting In Sunnyslde, at East Thirty, fourth and Belmont streets, on of th speakers ther will be Councilman KubH, who 1 a candidate in. that ward. Final meetings will- be. held Saturdny night In South Portland and. Mort4 villa. The South Portland metin will: be at Jones'- hatL with John y. Logan and'Seneca Fouts as th sps. - v. The Montavlll speakers will be (Continued en l'r Fivt) ' .-Vf '