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AUTO RACE M THE DESCHUTES
I ENDS IN DEATH OF FIGHTER
LIFE OF
ANOTHER
Comes Upon Wife, Compan
ion and Pugilist When
. Long's Machine Breaks
Shoots Fighter in Clinch.
: (Icwrtal TMaiMtea to Tk .orl
" Prtnevtlle, Or., June S. Traveler on
; th county road between Opal City and
Redmond stopped yesterday afternoon
to watch an exciting automobile race
between a machine in which were Loots
Long, the . Vancouver (We eh.) prise
fighter, lire. ' J. L. Riley of Portland
and Mlea Mono Adams, end a light
runabout driven by J. L. Riley, a ctrar
salesman of Portland and the Riley
woman a husband. While the spec
tators were cheering Riley on to vlo
tory when Long's machine broke down.
they aaw him atop his machine near the
ether carr draw a revolver, send three
bullets into Long's body, killing him,
and then ahoot hla own wife, wounding
her painfully.
The race, was exciting and many
stopped along the road to watch' It
Long's car wee ahead and racing madly
when a .tlra blew, off. The' driver, Joe
SaUman, got out to repair It and waa
working over the wheel when Riley
drew up. -Riley without a word care
fully took out his revolver and fired
at Long. The first bullet missed, but
the laet three shots tpok ef feet. Riley
fired once at his wife, the missile stiik-
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MRSIW.C; BARKER REX OREGONUS
FILES SUIT ASKING TO REACH PORT
COURTFORDIVH MONDAY, JUNE 5
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Louie Long, who waa m ordered hj J. L. lUley, near Opal City.
ROOSEVELT TRUST
REME
BY HEAD OF STEEL
DTI ED
Gary Says Time for Absolute
Governmental Supervision
and Enforced ' Publicity of
Affairs Is Coming.
PRICES TO BE FIXED
BY STATE AUTHORITY
History of the Formation of
the American Institute
Is Told.
m
LAND
; TRADE,
DELEGATES VISIT
Son of Late Lumber Manufac- King of Rose Festival Will Be
Uurer Defendant; Plaintiff Met by Flagship and Dec-
Alleges Husband Addicted
to Liquor Habit.
orated Fleet; Visitors Pour
ing Into City. ; ,
William C Barker, son of the lata CI Rex Oregonus, king of the Rose Fes-
C Barker, who waa founder and large tival, is nearlng Portland. Invitations
holder of the Peninsula Lumber " coin- to a favored few who will have the
pany, la made defendant In a auit for Privilege of going down the river on the
divorce filed today in the circuit court n h,p- Ro"e, clty' t0 meet the k,n
Hla wife charge, habitual drunkenness. w5?..iV"?."rn,"f by .thl5?s
I i no vi v ami mauouiciik a uuno lUVlVCU u
U in now In th hospital.
I meet Rex Oregon u have been asked to
, a , I V cfwwu ate v w eywu uac
jaiw. Mr wu iormor. v-onnno asiemble on the Ains worth dock' at
Riiey, daughter of Charlea Riley, a io:io Monday morning. The flag ahlp
prominent real eeUte dealer. She mar- and the decorated fleet will escort the
rled Barker In December, 1908. and the king into the city, arriving at Stark
event was one of the society functions street dock, exactly at noon, to tne ac
of that season. While there haa been companlment of rlngg bells and whla
trouble between the two cersons forltIes
aeme time over the husband's drinking! Managers of motor boat races to be
MENDOTA MINES
Lewis Product Is Marketable
but Facilities for Handling
It in Great Bulk Are Not Yet
Installed.
habits, the closest friends did not a&U
tlclpate a divorce. -
The Barker estate of which the de
fendent is an heir is estimated to be
worth $750,000. Barker Is one of th
beat known men about town. Some
weeks ago Mrs. Barker quitted hir
Portland residence and went to Grants
Pass,, whera she visited her mother un
til. recently when sha, returned te Port
land and Is now stopping with friends
In the Nab Hill district.
tin spite of the fact that the suit for
a divorce waa filed several days ago,
Mr Barker denied absolutely this morn
ing that she had sued for a divorce or
that she contemplated such action.
.Friends of the Barkers are making
very effort to reconcile the pair and
it Is believed bytheir most intimate
friends that the ault will be withdrawn.
Mr. Barker waa divorced from his
first wife In 1903. Mrs. Barker .Mo. 1
is now Mr. Hay, who. It la reported.
haa taken up her residence in Reno,
Nev.,f or ,t he purpose ox' obtaining a dl
vorce from her present husband.
held Monday opening day, of the Rose
Festival, auled attention - today to
(Continued on Page Five.)
COYOTE FIGURES
E
HAV
FUNNY LOOK
(Called Preee tetied Wire.)
Vancouver, B. C, June J. At Arrow
head, ISO miles north of Nelson, a bad
bush fire a mile in .width broke out yes
terday .and la now raging throughout
that lection.- According to Information
received here SO fire fighters from Ar
rowhead' have- been fighting the flames
since the fire started but are unable to
cop with the situation and assistance
has been summoned : from Revelstoke
and surrounding '-.towna.j. .a; a. -.s.
' Unless the wind changes the town of
Arrowhead is safe. No lives have been
lost so far as can be ascertained.
? The district wher the fire ia raging
is : heavily timbered and the outbreak
threatens to spread rapidly unless fur
ther 1 assistance can be -obtained.
Thrifty Umatillans Suspected
of Running Varmint Farms
- forsake of Scalps.
Pendleton, Or., June l.-Ii coyote
raising a new ' Industry In Umatilla
oounty? That is what County CJerk
Frank Baling tlrnks is being brought
about by the. scalp, bounty.. Jaw. - He
came to this conclusion after summing
up the amounts paid out for the scalps
of predatory animals during May, The
total waa exactly seTV.DO, there having
been . 441 coyote scalps, four bob cat
scalps and one cougar ecalp brought Into
the office. . ""
This- amount breaka all previous rec
ords by far, the next highest amount
being-$403.60, which was paid out-In
May a year ago. ' A careful study of the
records ehowa that all the sums for the
months .this year are considerably; great
er than those of last year, and there
baa been a steady monthly. Increase this
year. . 'w - 'i.X';.
Clerk Baling admits thla increase may
be the result of greater seal on the part
of the foes of the arm!nta" but thinks
It much more probable that the buntera
are sparing the old coyote ao that they
may. raise many' offspring V the finan
cial benefit of the hunters. This theory
Is borne out by the fact that nearly all
.tne scalps presented are those of pups.'
(8peetl DUp.tch to The Journal.)
Chehalis, Wash., June 2. An excur
sion to the Mcndota and Tono coal
mines occupied the forenoon hours of
the Southwest Washington Development
association. A - special train left Che
halis at 7:30 o'clock this morning, bear
ing the delegates and a large number
of friends. The trip is about 20 miles
In length, aid covers all the working
mlnea in the district.
The coal development Is past the ex
perimental stage, although facilities for
handling large quantities of coal have
not been installed. The Oregon-Wash
In ton Railroad & Navigation company
has tried out local coal for use in loco
motives, and a large number of freight
e
e What moosevelt Said.
Colonel Roosevelt, in an article
on the oil trust decision said:
"As a means of grappling with
the problem created by what are
4 commonly called truetn theantl-
trust law Is radically and vitally
defective,
"What is urgently needed Is
4 the enactment of drastic and far
reaching legislation which shall
put the great Interstate business
corporations of the type of the
4 Standard OH company, the steel
4 trust and the like, at least m
v completely under the control of
the government In each and every
respect as the Interstate rall-
ways are 'now put"
DEMOCRATS DECIDE .( vm mi COMMITTEE TO
TO CUT WOOL DUTY; REVISE CHARTER
MAYREMOVELATER NAMED BY SIMON '
J Fifteen Representative CitI-:
K1 zens Wil1 Work on p,an "
V Looking to Commission ;
''"r Form of Government . .
-VV J&jt
(tTBtttd rrM ttM4 Wire.)
. JjrashJjigtH, Juna ..J .Ckrem4.
aupervision ana enrorcea - puouciiy oi
corporation affairs Is the remedy seen
by B. H. Gary for the present trust
evils. On the wttneee stand before a
congressional oommlttee investigating
the steel trust which be, heads. Gary
outlined his cure for corporation abuses.
"I think It Is a question of the great
est Importance," he said, "to determine
how the people may e protectea
against great organizations or capital.'
Then he expressed views almost Iden
tical with thoee of Theodore Roosevelt,
made public in a recent article in the
Outlook.
"Personally." the head of the United
States Steel corporation continued, "I
believe the Sherman law does not and
never can prevent the impositions of
great aggregations of capital. In my
opinion the time Is coming when there
will be absolute governmental super
vision and enforced publicity of the af
fairs of big corporations."
"Do you mean a governmental control
of prices T" asked Chairman Stanley.
"Yes." replied Gary, l mean prices
Party Split Avoided by Piedg
ing Support of Caucus to
Underwood Measure Pro
viding for Heavy Cut.
WAY IS LEFT OPEN
FOR FREE TRADE MOVE
MEMBERS TO MEET AND
ORGANIZE NEXT WEEK
Compromise Resolution De
dared Not to Mean a De
sertion of Principles.
Men Chosen to Act on Com
mittee Represent All Lines f
of Business.
(United Pre Leased Wire. I
Washington, June 2. Leaders of the
majority In the house today are active
ly planning the fight to put the Under
wood wool tariff bill through at the
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fHlH?,H,lbl9Kmomtnt- T.h"t T0,t of ReprearnUUre Oscar W. Underwood
the difficulties have been cleared away I . . , .
of Alabama.
SENATOR
01
EXPECTED TO QUIT
BEFORE
INQUIRY
(Continued on Page Fourteen.)
(Continued on Page Fourteen.)
SHOOTER S FREED
Frontier Point of View Holds
in Brady-Gallagher Af
fray at Huntington.
FIRE PROTECTION
Fl
Iff WATERFRONT
and that tne measure will be passed
without delay is the general belief here
following the long and at times turbu
lent caucus of the Democrats which
ended shortly after mldnlaht In the
unanimous adoption of the Underwood
bill.
The party difficulties that threatened
the measure were fought out In the
caucus which was In session IS hours
and ended in a victory for the Alabama
chairman or the ways and means com
mittee. The indorsement waa net gained
until the underwood supporters pre
sented a resolution sidestepping the is
aue of free trade as a Democratto doo
trlna.
Support Is Pledged.
The resolution adopted .pledged the
rtiBp&ft df artiheDemocrats in the
house to the Underwood measure aa a
revenue measure, but specifically left
open tne partya advocacy or free trade
In wool to be aettled in the future.
Although the final vote was made
unanimous, even that waa a compromise.
Congressman Rucker of Colorado, Ash-
brook, Francis and Sharp of Ohio and
Gray of Indiana were excused from the
pledge to support the measure.
The compromise resolution was pre
sented in the caucus br Kltchln of I . (Halted Vrwtm Leased wire.)
North Carolina. Kltchln, who has been! Washington. June 2. That Senator
an advocate or free wool, stated In pre- William LOrlmer ef Illinois win' ruin
sentlng the resolution that he had not M . rem,u 0f the vote of the senate
ucacrieu ma principles, uiu mil nw i vmmtmrmmv fttr . - j l-ii.
wanted it distinctly understood that his ,y.'?y . C01 ""ItIoii
edvooeev of the Underwood measure. P"10 raemoa wi aim ejection was
which places-a duty on raw wool, should predicted in a Washington newspaper
not be construed as meaning that he today. The newspaper predicted, that
no longer ravorea rree wool. Lorimer would resign before June 20.
The measure he intimated was one or The renort caused wlda diuuulAn
Investigation of Blonde Boss'
Entrance to the American
House of Lords Ordered Af
ter Long Debate.
Members ef Committee
T. B. Wilcox, miller.
Dr. Harry Lane, former mayor.
John M. Gearln, lawyer.
Gay Lombard, capitalist
Adolphe Wolfe, merchant.
Rev. Benjamin Young, paator
Taylor Street Methodist church.
W. P. Olds, retired merchant.
Earl C. Bronaugh, lawyer.
W. F. Woodward, merchant. '
R. D. Inman, lumber dealer. -'-
George B. Cellars, councilman.
': W. H. Daly, labor leader.
J. K. Werleln, city treasurer. '
H. W. Fries, real estate dealer.'
fl. ' Grutse, chief deputy city
auditor. .
party expediency. Champ Clark, speak
er of the house, strongly urged the com
promise as the best method of prevent
ing a party split
Burleson of Texas presented the Mil
(Continued on Page Fourteen.)
Chairman F. W. Mulkey of
Port Commission Submits
Plan.
(Special Dliptteb to Th ImnuLI
Baker, Or., June 2. Tom Brady is
now In the county Jail on the charge of
assault on with attempt . to kill Dan
Gallagher and the latter goes free, even
though he fired on Brady with a rifle.
Inflicting wounds thought for several
days to be fatal Brady will recover
entirely. . i ,
At the hearing at Huntington it was
shown that Gallagher had shot at Brady
purely In aelf defense after- the other
had attempted unsuccessfully to take
hla life. Gallagher was merely held en
$600 bonds to appear aa a witness.
Brady waa brought here yesterday by
officers from Huntington and ia receiv
ing medical attention at the jalL
Gallagher snot a man in this city
three years ago but as In the present
case waa exonerated. - - .
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Senate Passes Election BUI
" (Tatted free Leaned Wlre.i
Hartford. Conn.. June 2. The state
aenate adopted a resolution for popular
election Of senators, if the house con
ours enough statea will have acted to
compel congress to call a constitutional
convention. , ' . ?.-
The plans for better protection of
the waterfront against fire was pre
sented in outline to the public docks
commission yesterday afternoon by Its
chairman, F. W. Mulkey.
Mr. Mulkey wll draft an ordinance
requiring the erection of bulkheads and
fire walls, and limiting the life of fire
trap docks in accordance with the pol
icy of the commission adopted some
time ago. This ordinance will likely
be adopted at the next meeting of the
commission.
The commission, also, at its meeting
yesterday unanimously Indorsed the
waterfront ballot measure. No. 186, pro
hibiting the vacation of public prop
erty or rights within 2000 feet of the
harbor, after J. B. Zlegler, chairman of
the east side committee proposing the
measure, had appeared before the com
mission in advocacy of the measure.
There were present yesterday F. W.
Mulkey, Ben Belling, C. B. Moores and
Henry Ladd Corbett. Mr. Mulkey and
Mr. Corbett expect to leave soon on a
tour of the world's great public docks'
ports.
OPAL CITY DEPUTY
KILLS HIS MAN
Puts Bullet Into Back
Thomas Miller, Fleeing
Prisoner.
of
ARTESIAN WfflOi
GILLIAM
IS
STRUCK
(SpecUl Plpteh te Tbt Jonrn.H
MayVllle. Or., June 2. Artesian wa
ter was struck at Mayvllle this morning,
the first In Gilliam eounty. The drilU
were only 108 feet deep. A four pound
pressure from a alx inch pipe exists
and the flow is SO gallons a minute. The
strike waa made by the Investment So
ciety of Oregon. The drill had been at
work ten days. Three other wells have
been "attempted In Mayvllle, hut , none
was successful.
(Bperial Dlxpitrh to The Journal.
Prlneville. Or.. June J. Thomas Mil
ler was shot and killed yesterday near
O'Nell by Deputy Sheriff Claude Wil
liams of Opal City.
The deputy sheriff had Miller under
arreet and was bringing him to Prlne
ville from Opal City by auto, when Mil
ler attempted to escape. Williams fired
two shots In the air and ordered Miller
to stop, but he kept on, so Deputy Sher
iff Williams lowered his aim and shot
Miller in the back.
The prisoner was accused of stealing
three hams from the cookhouse of the
Oregon Trunk construction camp at Opal
City, and waa arrested by William on
Information given nlm by William F.
Rogers, general superintendent of the
boarding branch of the construction and
Improvement work along the Oregon
Trunk and Spokane, Seattle ft 'Portland.
Mr Rogers, George A. Jones, ware
houseman at Opal City; James Boland,
night watchman at the warehouse, and
three others were eye-witnesses of the
shooting of Miller.
TAFT STUBBORN AS
MULESAYS CARNEGIE
(United Prees I-ed Wire.)
London, June 3. Speaking at a na
tional Liberal club banquet. Andrew
Carnegie was cheered vociferously when
he said: "When President Taft has
made up his mind to 4o things he la aa
stubborn as a mule."
HE SUES FOR $10,000;
JURY GIVES Hllij 1 CENT
Indianapolis', Ind., June . J. Nathan
Schnlman of Clnoinnatl. who aued
Frank Lemon tree f Indianapolis for
10,000. for the alienation of Mrs, Schul
man's affections, waa awarded one cent
among the politicians here. It is gen
erally believed that the change. In the
aenate alnce the previous Lo rimer In
vestlgatlon tnsuree .. the ousting -of the
'blonde boas." -
Since It ia almost certain that hla
fight to retain his seat would be use
less, politicians say, and since so long
as the question Is before the public,
many of Lorimefs friends will be in an
embarrassing position. It la generally
believed that the Illinois senator may
voluntarily leave.
After a debate of aeven hours yester
day, the aenate ordered another Lo ri
mer investigation. The Investigation
Will be conducted by a committee com
posed of four Democrata and four Re
publicans. La Follette's plan to submit the case
to five senators who were not members
when the matter was voted upon before
was defeated, although, it had. the sup
port of most of the Insurgent Republi
cans. -
J
Mayor Simon yesterday afternoon ap
pointed, a-oommlttee of J men, repre-'
sentlng various Interests cf toe city, .
revise the present city charter and draft
a new one providing or a commission
form of government The" mayor an
noonced ' that he would assemble1 the
commission In the council Chambers of
the city hall early next week In order
to bare It organise and begin the work
of charter revision. ' , ,
In announcing the personnel of the
commission Mayor Simon declares that
ha haa selected the members with a "
view to obtaining- ons that would b
thoroughly repreeentatlve. of every In
terest In the city. He aays he haa ab
solute confidence In the ability of the
(Continued on Page Five.)
C. & N. W. ROAD TO
REACH PORTLAND
OVER N. P;S LINE
Work ' Now Being Done in
Western Montana Will Cut,
283 Miles Off Distance to
Coast From St. Paul. , v
VANCOUVER UNIONS
WALK OUT MONDAY
Eight Thousand Men Prepare
to Go on Strike Unless De
mands Granted.
(United Prrae Leasee Wk.
Vancouver, B. C, June 2. Unless the
Master Builders' association consents to
refer to arbitration its dispute with the
carpenters, 8000 -union workmen will
cease work " Monday. The carpenters,
machinists and bakers are already on
strike and 13 other unions have agree
to walk out, contending that the mover
ment haa gone beyond the mere ques
tion of wages or hours On the part of
the carpenters or of any other organi
sation and that they are about to fight
for the principle of the closed shop.
The unions who have agreed to walk
out. In addition to the carpenters, ma
chinists and makers are the builders'
laborers, iron workers, marble cutters,
plasterers, plumbers, cooks and wait
ers, clgarmakers. orchestral musicians,
pattern makers, tinsmiths, tile layers,
painters and electrical workers, t ' ; :i
. The street railway men and tele
sraohere are taking a referendum rtm
the question and the printers and brick?
layers wait the consent or their Inter
national unions.,. .. .', v K'- ;,-;;'
The unions declare that ; there ft a
scheme . ,to make 1 'Vancouver,:? a ' Los
Angeles and break the back of organised
tabor.;-..;... . t-rl"-
Railroad developments of the past
few days make it practically certalii'
mat tne cnicago o pioriuwvwii wi-ji
atlng In conjunction with the Northern .
Pacific, will come Into Portland In the ;
near future, and that it will, by the -.
completion of work now planned In.
western, Montana, Idaho and Washing
ton, cut off 288 miles- from the present ,
mileage on the Northern Pacific ,be-, ,
tween Bt Paul and the coast. . ' , 4 "
Northwestern ' , Influence over the r
Northern Paclflb haa been galnfnir
ground steadily and the gradual trans,
fer of all Hill etrength.to the - Great
Northern, including ownership In the
North Bank, -Oregon Trunk and other
Oregon lines, Indicates that the empire ;
builder haa , ao , fortified hla position .
with the Great Northern's new lines ,
that he is willing to let the, Northern , .
Pacific : go over to the Northwestern
while he devotee the Hill wealth and
influence to the development of the
Oreat Northern and Burlington, and its
BUbeidiary lines, '
Any doubt aa to the ownership ef the
Gil more ft- Pittsburg, running from
(Continued on Page 6Ix.
BANKS MILL BURNS
I
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'-' "(8peHi Waoateb t Tae oert.t.
Forest. Orove Or.. June 2 The r'n-
lhg mill of Bchramel ft Davis at Ian,
seven; wiles northwest of here on
p, R.& N. and present terminus rrf th
United Rallwaye, was burned yeeteMay
afternoon, together with a resilience be
longing to Mrs. Dodda.. The loss la sv.
ral thousand dollars. Lumber In l!
yard waa destroyed. The town m m
Sanger until a bucket brigade r I ',-,
trol, extinguishing Incipient hi., i- ) i
other building. There was no Inut'" ''
on th milt The fire began Ii t
gin room of the mlU.
ucceasful. V 'W-"' ' :YT a Jury. ; AH'V ; -v
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