1 Do You Wanta Home? . There ara many ada lo Tht Journal'! , t Room an Board 1 and Furnished J ' .room columns that offer complete' -, . comf ort. ; Read them. ; - I The weather Fair tonlgnt and Saturday; northwesterly wlnda. ' . COAST 7EMPERATU?,L3 ,t t A. II. Today. ie .......... 9 Seattle atpokaae eo Xarsfcruift so a rraaoisee ta VortlM4 ,,,. .............. M "." (TORTLAND, ; OREGON, FRIDAY EVENINO,' JUNE l6; U91Uf TWENTY.TWOypGES; ''' : VOL. X. NO. 83. PRICE TWO CENTS ew TArw" ir grwa 4. SHERIFFS' MEN Oil. WATCH ALL WIGHT; Woman Baseball Magnate Wants Divorce; 1 ' J OF VANCOUVER TO GIVE-UP HISTORY E pi iiniun . rirrmrhiv Inm ninrn Mirrn fr7 COMMERCIAL BANK LOVE CASE STOPS; MRS. BURNES HAS A SLIGHT STROKE auu iih urr ti. idiii mm liinntn . j BOY BANDIT BRAGS MUSTSTANDTRIAL; ? - y. 'fi ' ';''', J-r:,,' in i i !.". ' Y'' -e ' ' . ... i I . . MAKE NO CAPTUR Crawls Down ' Dry' Creek Bed i;. Through" Posse of 200 Who T Surround Hill on Which Lad v Made Stand. Millionaire Thomson;, to Be .Tried for VAIIeged Attempt : to. Buy Recommendation on Postoff ice Contract.' ! CUSTOMARY BRAVADO J -LEADS HIM T0H0USE SUPREME COURT DOWNS MOTION FOR DEMURRER Saunters. Into. Inn, Proudly Tells of Fight; and :Then Flees. ; j.- One Hundred Dollar Bill Sent to Major Zantsinger Basis of Action. . I) (D1IIN (TW UMM l Whln Tun- I Th-m Vallejo. Cat. Jun IS Fred Melville, Mn millionaire tuner msnuraetiirr at poy eancii, was oapiura twui i Hamilton, muit stand trial for attempt- today a,V Benlcla. Ha wa arreatad by ed bribery In connection with a contract Constable Billy .Hyde. for paper tor the postofflce department The lad. wounded in ice enouiaer ana he wn trying to secure. aide, crept Into Benlcla quietly list night I Judge Wright in the supreme court ana secured a room at an ooscure xoag-i or the district or Columbia, today over ln house. ' . . Irulrd a motion for a demurrer ' filed This mornlna the boy did not come by Thomson's attorney and ordered that from hia room. ' Then the proprietor the caso must o to trtaL went up and found him evidently auf-l Thomson, who Is president tof the ferina treat pain from wounds. The Champion Coated Paper company. It is proprietor notified Constable Hyds who alleged, sent a $100 bill to Major Zant went to the lodainf house, made his I sinter, who was at the time passlnt way to the room and arreated the boy. I upon 'samples of cardbjoard aubmltted He assert that the lad admitted that I for sale to the postofflce department ha was Melville. Much of the bravsdo that haa marked his career of the last few daya has Vanished and the boy la said to preaent a pitiable spectacle. His wounda are not believed serious, though they are very painrui. '. .. . , Vallejo. ' Cal.. June !. Fred Mel Tills, . 11-year-old boy bandit, surround ed by 200 men in three posses, haa escaped. Today he la believed to be on his way to Sacramento, ' While the posses surrounded the hill en whose crest the boy had hidden him aelf and fired occasional shots to make certain . that ha did -not escape, Mel DOCTORS 1 DEGREES GRANTED TO OF 87. 89 AND 94 Vtfa'tfWW Honors at the Sunset of Their Lives, Rev. John Flinrt, Asahel Bush and Francis S. Hoyt. ' : ; through the llnea of men who were watching for him. 't . ' With hla customary bravado, he ap peered at the Three Mile house and told Mrs. Adolph Strubel. who was In charge of the pUoe, that he had fought the poses to a standstill and escaped. He tied from the place when she tried to call men . who were sleeping In the (tibia Bar. of Tbe Journal.) building. By the time . then -war Baiem. Vr June ifcsix tw-Hwn aroused, Melville was nearly a mile I wSr 1 2 r " , away. ' I FItnn of Fortlahd was given the degree JThe posses which had encircled thel" aocror oi aivmuy oy wuiimnu mi- hill at whose erect Melville was hid. ersity iaat evening. - epoKen or py den, 'did not If am until early today that tne ltd Jiaa suceeeaod in eluding them. President 'Homan as "a' man of sub limity of spirit, honored, known and saw v a t-. 4 i- w a. asi John"W. Ferguson, Expert in Such Matters, May Be Re tained to Examine Books Since Bank's Beginning. OFFICERS WILL BE PUNISHED IF GUILTY i May Already Be Case Against j Officials; Ferguson Val- uable Man. Mr. Schiller Brltton, principal owner of. the St. Louis Rational baseball club. (L'olttd Prase Leased Wlre.V Cleveland, Ohio, June IS. Mrs. Schuy ler Brltton, of the 8t Louis National ball club, only . woman baseball mag nate, has filed ault for divorce, charg ing cruelty and gross neglect. Mr. Brltton Is out of the city. Mrs. Brltton Inherited three-fourths of the stock of the St Louis club on the death of her . uncle, Stanley Roblson, last March, her mother getting the other fourth. Her father wae Frank DeHass was 'one' of The' owners of the old Cleve land Spiders of the National league. and although only a slip of a girl Mrs. Ik. Roblson a t anions. Jbapbjpol,,,, runor thaVshe r"lnUilded Brltton was regarded aa the mascot of the team, Mrs. Brltton la tl years of age and the mother of two beautiful children, a boy and a girl. She has been married about 10 years. Her holdings alone In the St. Louts baseball club approximate 1800.000 Expressing her pleasure with the showing the Cardinals are making, and saying she was particularly grateful to tbe fans for their support, Mrs. H. Schuyler Britton, principal owner of St. Louis National league baseball to sell her holdings. She denied a re port that there .was to be a reorganisa tion of the olub officials. When word, from the Three Mile house ,oved . throughout Oregon." thle nona wae finally sent to the host of depu ties, a hasty consultation wss held. An lnvflt1AHmt anin nrnv.il that rh U. formation was correct. Then the nm.b were given doctor's degrees, Asahel man suddenly became active. Instead Bu,h- 87i nd Francia Southhack, of Mmnin. .t thm h... .f h. hin k age 89. Bush waa a trustee of Wll- epread out and began a search of the lamett university In ISSt and Dr. Hoyt neighborhood. . The search was soon or- w p . i ganlsed and the posse sUrted on the supposed trail tbe boy had taken. Ai . .vi .11 T i . Hoyt'a degree of doctor of laws and JLlLTI'Z neW' Ct.thZ his response. In a few distinct and I-V-'S"1" h'? be? well chosen words this man of 8 years -" 1,,;, '''u. told of the chsngee wrought in Oregon genarian pioneer may enjoy for the re malnder of his life this distinction Two other patriarch ef old Oregon 1850 to 1861. The commencement pro gram was brought to an Impressive clos ing climax with the presentation of Dr, Sn. 2?m .!!?i5 roa. which event- Edward Laird Mills of Butte. Mont, and rS'i J hm. Sacramento. hv1Utm Henry Whitmore Rees of Kv. and It was believed that he -was en deavoring to reach the capital city. In this belief, the posses today, gradually . worked In the direction of Sacramento. Warning was sent to the police there to lb on the lookout for the lad. Melville when he appeared at the Three Mile house late yesterday, ac- erett. Wash. The masters degree waa conferred (Continued on Page Five.) (Continued on Page Five. QUAKES TEAR ASSURES SENATE FAVORS TREATY i PENROS E (Bolted prsas Leased Wire.) Washington, June 14. -"A canvass o the senate shows that 60 senators favor reciprocity and It also shows that more than that number are against the Root amendment to the reciprocity bill," was - the statement given out today by Boles Penrose of Pennsylvania. ' Senator Penrose served notice that he would hold the senate In 'dally session opposing any proposition to adjourn. until the vote is taken., He expects that the bill will pass as soon as its oppo nents rinish tneir speech making. DOG FIGHT SPILLS AUTO WITH TRIO OF PORTLAND - MEN INTO CLARKE DITCH 4 : (Spedsl Dispatch to The Journal.) Vancouver, Wash., June 18. ' .Three Portland men who abso-. lutely refused to divulge their names, but who. were driving a, e ' small Ford runabout carrying II- ' cense tag No. 143, went Into the, ditch 13 miles out from Vancou- .... m A A'Ta.I. noon by coming in contact with two dogs that were fighting In ( ," , .the road. The dogs were eo In- tentlv engaged In the encounter . with each other that the sound of i warning failed to, attract them, . and the amall car when It struck, W was nunea Dottom up in me . . ditch.' - -VH -v;-; Sylvester McKee, the Callfor- , ntan who Is touring the country, .picked the mon up and. brought . them te Vancouver, where one . was taken to the office, of Dr, R. D. Wlswall. He was notvserlous- ly Injured, and later he and. his companion left on the ferry f or ?Portland The caAwas brought :, In last night by Clydf Moss, and i was found lo . have a twisted " .axle and a. broken wind guard. IN SURFACE OF EARTH Daltfl Press Lsssd Wtnt.) Melbourne, June 16. A landslide, be- iievea to nave oeen aus to ine recent seismic disturbance, has taken place at Leongatha where the ground for an extent of 15 acres has been riven asun der in all directions. In some places the fissures are eight feet across. In attempting to cross one of these earth chasms a mailman fell to the bottom. He Was rescued with considerable dif ficulty. Huge trees lies In eevry direction torn apart by the violence of the earth shock and In one place the course of river was completely changed. The stream was forced Into a new Chanel right through a number of rich malse fields, the former bed being left almost entirely dry. So far no loss of . life Is reported. v.-r a i LONELY CAPE BLANCO WIRELESS MAN WEDS GIRL AT OTHER END OF PHONE (pedal Wioitch to 11m JooraaL) r. Marshfleld. Or., June 16. A pretty romance Is attached to the marriage of Mies Ines Jenkins of Bandon and James U. Bennett of Cape Blanco, which oc curred a few days ago at Bandon. The jrroom is a member of the United States navy and la - stationed at the naval wireless station at Cape Blanco, which. It Is claimed. Is the most lone some naval post on this continent Cape Blanco is dowa in Curry county, about four miles off the main stage road, with a view only or tne rocity rort orrora cine chest On the wrapper he found the name and address of a girl. He wrote her, and learned that she worked In a wholesale drug house and . had placed her name on the bottle to see what faraway sailor might write. It turned out that the homes of the sailor and the young lady were close together In the far east, pictures were exchanged, sn engagement was made, and when the lonesome sailor not long ago left Cape Blanco his term of enlist ment In the navy had expired, .and he announced to his friends that he was J Determined to lay bare the history of ! the Commercial bank of Vancouver, i Wash., which failed recently, and obtain J the facts upon which sctlon may be taken by the authorities to punish those responsible for the crash. If criminal liability Is found to exist. John W. Ferguson will be employed to expert the books of the defunct Institution." It was Ferguson who exported' the bonks of the Title Guarantee A Trust and the Oregon Trust A Ravings bank of Portland, both of which went under in a cloud and In both of which con victions were secured of the hesds of the Institutions for violations of the banking laws as a result of the revels tlons made by the tangled books. Experlenoe Y tillable. Negotlatlona with Ferguson have not been concluded. It Is understood, but Martin L. Pipes, who has been em ployed as a special prosecutor for Clarke county in the case, stated today that Ferguson probably will be chosen, and It is known that he has been consulted with reference to the Job. His expert Mrs. Love Granted 30 Days to Take New Testimony; Pro ceedings of Morning Please Fair Defendant Mightily. EFFORT TO SHOW LOVE IS NEW YORK RESIDENT Whereabouts of Little Muriel Said to Have Been Told Him. (Continued on Page Four.) LITIGATION LIKELY TO BE FORESTALLED BY IB S ACTION City Attorney Grant Wins in HiV Contention That Audi torium Commission Should Be Named Early. reefs, which have -caused so , many 1 going east to marry the girl he found wrecks. His only company was com posed of the two or three others at the wireless station and the lighthouse,, the latter of: which has been in charge of one man. Keeper Langlols, for the past 36 years. " Miss Jenkins was night operator at the v Bandon telephone station. Many messages were taken up at the naval wireless station, and sent by telephone to Bandon for transmission, and It waa frequent . that the Bandon night hello girl had occasion to talk to the wireless man. A love affair over the telephone, an engagement and the marriage ' followed. The bride waa on the occasion of her wedding dressed in a khaki riding habit, and after the ceremony, with the groom, rode on horseback to distant Cape Blanco, which for years has been taught to school cniiaren as tne moat westerly point In the United States. The : wireless post st cape Blanco seems to result In a romance for the unmarried sailors sent there. A few years ago a young man from the battle ship West Virginia was the only one at the cape who waa not married. n the occasion of a slight Injury he used a bottle of liniment in the naval medl- by getting hurt on the Blanco rocks. QUAKES STILL SHAKE REGION NEAR VOLCANO (Cstied Prew Leasee W1rs.l Mexico City, June 16. Earthquakes continue In the neighborhood of the volcano Collma, according to reports re' ceived here today. Houses In Za pot- Ian and Qusam have been thrown down and the people are in a state of terror. Poisonous fumes from the two craters of the volcano have been blown down the valley and are killing cattle and vegetation. . POKER-PLAYING YANKEES GRAB PANAMANS' CHANGE United Preiw Leased Wire. I Panama, June 16. Because American employes on the canal succeeded In get ting most of the loose change of the natives by introducing them to the "great American game," President Aw mena today signed a decree prohibiting poker in the republic. UNITED STATES COURT WHICH HAS TAKEN UP THE TOBACCO TRUST PROBLEM I m.r II zr-. i i lis 1 1 i ii. ji II 1 r, C' III 4?- V' i t MU V I 1 . 7 f- Ml a. - askj:i - lasers . l, ; , ti: - exsT j rvi i? 4 M f eV-e, Prom left "to right, the Jurists reJudge Walter Chadwlck Nojrea, of New London, ,Conn,i Judge Alfred C r Coao, of Utlca, N ln and Judge Emlle Henry Lacorabe of Aew iork. The task to wblchthoae inter pretera of the. law have been assigned Is new one In the anhalg of American court history. , City Attorney Frank 8. Grant fore stalled a threatened move of obstruc tionists by persuading Mayor Simon to appoint the auditorium commission yes terday. The city attorney had been waltln for the mayor to announce this commission from day to day and when the eve of the tenth day following the adoption of the amendment had almost arrived Mr. Orant visited Mayor Simon and told him that, under the provis ions of the amendment he was com pelled to appoint the commission at once In order to be within the 10 day limit set by the electorate. Obstructionists had been on the alert, too, and it is said that if the commis sion had not been appointed yesterday a suit enjoining the appointment of the commission would have been filed. Kayo" Idea of Time. Mayor Simon holds that an amend ment Is not In effect until after the mayor has proclaimed It so. He. there fore, waa of the opinion that he would still have 10 days In which to appoint the commission after he had proclaimed the auditorium amendment law, yester day afternoon. . . City Attorney . Orant. however, does not concur In the mayor's belief. Ha is of the opinion that an amendment is adopted as soon as the voters have cast a majority of votes In its favor, on election day. The city attorney was not able to shake the mayor's convic tion, but succeeded In securing Mr. Simon's consent to appoint the com mission yesterday in order to save a point in case obstructionists should en- Join the construction of the auditorium. Commission Warned. The public auditorium commission of five, as appointed by Mayor Simon, con sists of T. B. Wilcox, Hugh Hume, Dr. (Rpeelil DliDitcB to The Jnantal.t Bsker, Or.. June 16. The hearing In the Love divorce case came to an ab rupt stop today following the Introduc tion a copy of the divorce decree granted Love's first wife In 104. The hearing will probably not continue until Mrs. Frances Humes, who Is suffering a slight stroke of paralysis In a local hos pital. Is able to take the stand. The defendant has been granted SO days by Judge Smith In which to take new tes timony. Smiling, radiant and In rare good humor after her testimony on the stand yesterday, Marjorie Burnes Love sat beside her counsel In the court room this morning during the hearing In the divorce proceedings, tbe Issue of which, according to her' testimony yesterday, means tne clearing of her good name. One particular thing, she emphasised, was her denlsl of a statement published In a Chicago newspaper that she had given her husband 180,000. She char acterised it as "absurd." ' There was very little of interest brought out at the hearing this morn Ing, the greater part of the time being taken up by Attorney Tusks, who went on the stand to explain the New York state divorce laws and the details of the suit In that state In which hla client was granted an Interlocutory decree from tbe plaintiff In the Oregon suit The first witness called wae Helen Thompson, Mrs. Love's maid, who tea Mysterious Prowler Suspected of Murder of Hill Family Does Not Make an Appear ance to Law Officers.' ' INCENTIVE OF REWARD GIVES IMPETUS TO HUNT Keen Interest Shown by the Numerous "Clues" Sent to 4 the Sheriffs. Watchers stationed by the sheriffs ef Clackamas and Multnomah counties, at the various farmhouses In the vicinity of Ardenwald, where the four Hills as evldencs by the defendant of t wer" killed a week ago today, saw naming u ins mysterious prowitr wno every night previously for several weeks has shown himself momentarily ' to the farmers. The houses . along the Wlllsburg ' road within half a mile. of the Hill . house, snd particularly those near the fringe of woods that covers the John son creek bottoms, ' were carefully shadowed by the deputy sheriffs end the men were so placed that It Is thought Impossible for the 1 man . te have ventured out without their-bar- ing seen him. If he did leave the wood . It was to steal into a pasture and back" again without attempting to approach the houses. Ardenwald Much Disturbed. ' ' f None of the residents of Ardenwald! slept very soundly last night and many . of them sat up In the dark with deputy sheriffs to Veep vigil over1 their wives' (Continued on Page Four.) DHDTI AMn nDllCD hU l LrlllU Ull iL1l DIES IN HELL GATE John Powder, 91 Park Street, N., Drowns at Wild Can yon of the Rogue. (Continued on Page Four.) ROOM ARM SPILLS CAR, KILLING MAN Tons of Steel Fall Among 30 rVorjcmcrnjiri f rghisrri- ' man Willow Creek Span.' p (ffpsclsl Dtspsteh te Tbe JnarasL) Grants Pass. Or., June 16. A party of Portland men. composed of John Powder of 91 Park street north, Anton Powder and Charles Stler, left Grants Psss Tuesdsy for Galloe, going down the Rogue river in a boat The little craft was wrecked Wednesday at Hell Gate and John Powder waa drowned. The body has not been recovered. The drowned man had all the money of the party In his pocket. He was a driver for Marshall-Wells Hardware Co. of Portland, and Anton Powder, also a resident of 91 Park street north. Is a baker. (Special Dtspatrh te Tie Journal.) 1 Madras, Or., June 16. One man was.' killed and two Injured as a result of, the overturning of a derrick car at the , new Willow .creek bridge on the Har- rlman Deschutes- railroad this morning. A. A. Parne of Seattle . wae struck across the chest by a piece of falling steel and died In a, few moments. Der rick Foreman Shtpman waa struck on . the arm by a falling timber and Engl-1 neer N. J. Canlon was slightly eut on the temple and the eye. : -The big boom had Just picked up three steel girders to be carried onte the bridge and be put In place The 4 steel carried the hoom arm too far to one side before It could be stopped. ' tipping the car over. - The accident happened on the brink , of. the 250 ; foot canyon, v The 60 foot? boom arm and the three tons ef steel It was carrying fell tn the midst of 10 workmen, who were following up the car to place the steel on the bridge. It was miraculous that only a few were , injured. . , $ ' 11 : (Continued on Page Five.) GENIAL INDIANS TAKE SQUAW'S BERRY COIN AND GO "H0NKETING" CRICKET PLAYER FI AND VAINLY TRIES TO JTH II (Speclan Dispatch to The Joeraal.) Kennewick, Wash.. June 16. J. Clark, an English carpenter who recently came to Kennewick from the "old country." is familiar Indeed with the prolonged but pleasant game of cricket, but up to yesterday had not been In America long enough to know the tricks of baseball. This is why Mr. Clark dM not recog nise as aVatcher's protector the useful but vulgarly named "belly pad" onto which he stumbled while ambling be side an Irrigation canal near the Ken newick baseball grounds. The catcher of the Kenewlck team had carelessly left the pad behind. Clark, soberly pondering .what the blooming thing might be. mentally pro : ; nounced It either a life preserver of a swimming float ; Finally his Judg'''1 ment swung wholly to the latter and', last evening, equipped With Ma pneu- . matlc friend, he set, forth . te master swimming, 1 - '' 1 ' . - Good though the contrivance looked to the .Englishman, It worked poorly In ' , the unresponsive water of the Kenne wick canal. Clark's vain - efforts te , keep above the surface were discourage ' ing. He chanced on Captain Martin of the ball team, to whom he confided his ' inability to keep the Invention en hla . back. ' 4 . Martin looked.' gasped, explained. . (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Hood River. Or., June 16. There Is nothing slow about the Indian after he and his squaw came to HOod River, and his squaw has spent a week or so in the "ollalle" fields. About the first thing on the program Is to get enough of the squaw's money to Join his fellow companions, who have a secluded place some where under the trees and are ready for a gambling game, where the 10 cent ante prevails until the gambler becomes broke. Thereupon he strikes a desperate pace and gambles away bis blan kets, saddle, cayuse and all. At the close- of the day's berry picking pr gambling spree, aa the case may be. the young red bloods come to the city snd hire the best automobiles the Hood River livery can afford, abd with the air and dignity ot a multl inlllionalre, proceed to loop the 120 mile loop ol the Hood River valley, each closely nestled be side a dusky; maiden, whose painted, face, la hidden under the gaudy colors of a crimson silk haedkereWet Kr--" The Sunday Jouwat LEADING MAGAZINE FEATURES' FOR NEXT SUNDAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: f WHEN MORGAN. WAS MADE A MIDDLE-AGE GOURMET; Weird Italian bacuet that our Amerkan financier in such good humor that he yielded great art collection to King Victor, ' , HOW ENGLAND CROWNS HER KING-Impreisive ceremony at-' "tending formal establishment of reign of George and Mtryv, ? ' . HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY Another of Mrs. Lora ::C LittleV straight-from-the-shoulder talks on mental and bodily rigor, -i HUMANITY SCORNS THE IDLER AND THE WASTED DAY Illustrated by Homer Davenport, . , . : . '. 'I THE CONVERSION 6F A FOSSIL A. Batch contributes the fourth story of his series,; "'City and Country Sketches,-" that i replete with the element of human interest. "i'V , i ; - i," THE DANCE OF MID-SUMMER EVE IN THE LAND OF" THE MIDNIGHT, SUN-Tripping'the light fantastic in the mystic twi light of Sweden's welcome to spring. ,: , 5;.,,,, DO ELOPEMENTS ' INSURE; HAPPINESS? Marriage erftici, the oretical and practical, believe the course of true love, impromptu, must run' amotlu..j..'Vf:ei .'.'v''';4i5.'55- - - ' ' FICTION PAGE. -POPULAR N0"rAG-CHILDREN'S PAC, '.A- AND FOUR, WOMEN'-S PAGES. rVT