Iburnal "Want Ad". Readers XJk to know fot on pxopt(7 o your a will Mil yon konao mora nlo ly it yva rnstmHl tm. wuv '.Coat tm Uttl. 'F:'.;iV-i'?. V The cWeathfer-Falr tonlglit . and Tuesday; westerly winds. ; PRICE TWO CENW '""V; VOL. X. NO. 102. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1911. SIXTEEN PAGES i FOURTH TO ELKS' SPECIAL TO LEAVE FOR EAST AT11:30T0NIGHT WANTS YOU I IV 1912 HEAT R. R. COMMISSION - H :.v ? r7 ill LjA V -.1 kr'fTiVn1 - G.' A' "i,"-'.. JAW A A I I CO AS T : TEMPERATURES IH - u-ry7rTs -ww vy vav sd:::::::::: :: :::::: ;i 2 W. - tlV J Ban Franeiseo ,..tu 80,W PORTLAND BURNING OUT BE GALA DAY FOR ' CITY'S DWELLERS Amusement of All Kinds Is in L IN TIE SIZZLING EAST ESPEE RATE CASE IVES OF INFANTS ri WINS V CTORY Store for Young and Old- Music in Parks Races, Ball Games. MANY EXCURSIONS ARE PLANNED FOR COUNTRY Eagle's Scream to Be Muffled, But Joy Will Reign in Other Forms. : A Ban ronxt3k FrogTfmm. Band concerto tomorrow after- noon. City park. North parkway, Peninsula and Mount Tabor. 4 1 p. m. Boy' program, Soil- wood, North park, Columbia, Po- 4 nlnsula Obstacle, sack, potato, v three legrged and relay races and pole climbing contest. Girls' pro gram. North parkway, Columbia, Sellwood, Brooklyn and Penin sula Eg, obstacle, relay and bO yard races, and Inclined lad der contest. 2 p. m. Field meet at Bell wood. 2:30 p. m. Baseball games North parkway Columbia and Peninsula parks, for cups and trophies. Two groups participat ing, those abovo and those below 4 feet 8 Inches in height The weather man promises a "fair day" tomorrow as setting for the "Glorious Fourth." Independence day In Portland will be celebrated with unprecedented quiet ness. The fireworks that have shat tered the clouds ami lighted the night In other yoars will be chiefly conspicuous by their absence. Nearly all places of business will be closed and toilers liberated to enjoy either the athletic program at the play paras or to join one-or the manyecu, slons to the sea, the mountains' or the valleys. Although the transportation commit tee of the general sane Fourth com mittee has succeeded In securing; at tractive rates for all from all lines, the attractive programs In the play parka will yet keep many who are not anxious to leave the city for the day. It will be the first time general ath letic contests have been held simulta neously at Peninsula, Brooklyn, Sell wood, North Parkway and Cdlumbla parks. Medals Are Provided. Medals and cups have been provided by the sane Fourth committee aa prises for every contest. Competition among contestants la very keen, as the medals are exceedingly desirable. Music will Intersperse the athletic programs which begin generally at 1 p. m. and continue through the afternoon. Music will be provided In all the parks mentioned. The contests. Including fcall games, races, the swimming con test at Sellwood, the games by girls and other events will be commenced In ac cordance with the schedule announced In The Journal Sunday morning. A fascinating variety of outing op portunities is offered all who follow the advice of the sane Fourth commit tee. Railroad rates on the 8., P. A 8. to the sea, on the O. W. P. lines to Cazadero and Kstacada. over the O.-W. R. & N., Oregon Electric to Tualatin valley, and United Railways to North Plains, have all been made exceeding ly low. r The Mt. Hood Railway 9c Power com- (Continued on Page Five.) (United Press Lumm! Wire.) London, July t. Crossing the Eng lish channel today with 12 other avia tors, Conneau, a French entrant, won the flvt priie of $12,600 In the big European point-to-point race from Paris to London. He made the fastest elapsed time. First to reach Herndon, the official end of the course today was Pierre Vedrine, who won $2000 as first In the stage from Calais to London. Vedrine would have been the winner of the big prize but that he Was unable to com Ttete In the stage of the air race from Liege to Utrecht, this making hi elapsed time greater than Conneau's. Birds stream In. Beginning at 4:80 o'clock this morn ing, when Pierre Vedrine landed at Do ver, a constant stream of contestants In the European circuit aeroplane race crossed the English channel. Vldart, Klmmerllng, Conneau, Valentine, Gar ros, Jtenaux, Train, Gibert and Tabu teau also crossed. Blerlot was the first man to cross the channel on July 16, 1809. . , Barra also crossed the channel. Most of the aviators continued to Herndon, six miles north of London, thus completing the 93 mile trip from Calais. ' v ' ," ' .U. ;;, Ronaux carried a passenger on his flight. Gilbert made the swiftest trip, doing the distance - In - $7 minutes, f seconds. ". '.''''.,.;'":. -,: ,:(' t'-.- , y '- Cwwd Cheers ATlators. Great crowds greeted the winner . at Herndon . and the 'other aviators, who arrived later, were also roundly cheered. Train, whose machine killed Minister of War Berteaux at the start of the parls-Madrid race, was forced to d-1 ,"; m''"''-'-' r'''. ' ''-iM'1 "i'i'.i T3SKYMENSW00PD0WN ON ENGLAND, nnnnouin nwrn niiiuiin urmirAnr i'iiiiv v mil" 1 1 1. 1 j i unnin li imi u n x u. v. uiuiooiiio uvLT unniiiiLL id i ii lhol; FRENCH AVIATOR WINS $1 2.500 PRIZE Portland, Lodgemen Have the Honor of Traveling on Fine Steel Train Which Will Make Maiden Trip. COACHES BEAUTIFULLY ADORNED WITH ROSES Best People on Earth to At tend Convention at At-f lantic City. Every preparation, down to the last detail, is made for the Elks' special to leave Portland on schedule time at 1:30 o'clock tonight for Atlantic City, N, J., where the annual reunion of the "Best People on Earth" will be held. As the massive all steel train stands at Fourth and Washington streets, it Is a thing of power and beauty admired by everyone who sees It. The train is decorated with roses, both outside and Inside. It will have the distinction of being the finest and best equipped train that ever crossed the American con tinent. The Portland lodge of Elks Is send ing 110 members to the grand reunion. And the train will pick up several Elks at Everett and Spokane, Wash., and Butte, Mont., Increasing the number to about 160. This bunch of good fellows Is prepared to do some lively boosting for Portland and the northwest, and will leave no effort undone to secure the next annual reunion of Elks for Port land. Many travel reatnxes. Many novel and unique devices have been planned for attracting attention to this city and It Is certain that there will be no one concerned In the choosing of .the next meeting plaoe of the order who will not he Impressed with the (Continued on Page Two.) E Two Thousand Quarts of Ex plosive Set Off in Marietta Torpedo Factory. ftnlted Prota Lsrd Wtr.) Marietta. Ohio, July 3. Temperature of 103 In the shade today caused the explosion of 2000 quarts of nltro-gly- cerina at the plant of the Marietta Tor pedo company. It razed the boiler house and three other buildings, causing $30,- 000 loss. The entire city was shaken. There wore no workmen In the building destroyed and no casualties were caused by the giant crash. OFWCERS TOLD TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY'S SECRETS 'United PreM LMf Wlrs., Washington. July 3. Due to protests In congress and trom various parts of the country that every foreign nation knows the naval and military secrets of the United States, Secretary of the Navy Meyer has Issued orders that every commandant of navy yards hereafter observe the strictest secrecy. As a result, naval stations will be closed to visiting representatives of foreign powers. Aviator Vedrlue who :- was first to finish in the; (at leg of the Paris. I,, toLondon flight. . , . scetid between Dover and '. Ehoreham) Gilbert slighted near Doralng,and De neaux and, Barra near Fatbourne. - All the others who crossed the ' channel reached Hufn.doo, " " ' ?v v'- NITROGLYCERIN MDEWHEAT I ; w j ' WATER OVER BAR DEFER BY FOOT Holes Forming Indicate That Deeper Channel May Break Through With Jetty's Ex tension. General sstlsfactton Is exprfssed by the United States engineers over the result of the 1911 survey of the bar at the mouth of the Columbia river, the result of which has just been made officially publlo and which shows an Increase of at leaat a foot of water over the bar, although the extension of the Jetty has caused a general move ment of the channels to the northwest Major J. F, Mclndoe, corps of en gineers, U. S. A., stated thla morning that the results shown were, on the whole, most satisfactory, the Burvey in dicating that great changes are evi dently taking place In the bar, one of the most gratifying features being the fact that deep holes are forming in the bar as .a result of the scouring pro cess whVh Is taking place, and which, he says, indicate that a deeper channel may break through from one side of the bar to the other a any time. "Yhe survey shows a general move ment of about 2500 feet to the north west," said Major Mclndoe, "of the op ening through the bar. . The opening to the channel remains about the same or 8600 feet, with practically the same area of approximately 8000 feet on the bar. "The controlling depth from deep water Inside the bar to deep water out side the bar is from 26 to 27 feet, with two channels, with a least depth of 27 feet and one channel between with a least depth of 27 H feet, an Increase of 1 foot In the maximum controlling depth over the survey of 1910." Major Molndoe explained that, all depths refer to the plane of mean lower low water, or about 1.3 feet below the plane of mean low water. The fact that deep holes are appear ing in the channel, however, seams to give the most satisfaction to the major, and it Is the Indication that the Jetty Is doing the work which was expected of if, namely, that the action of the water at that point would have a ten dency to scour the channel over the bar, and by so doing deepen the water, which It has been shown that it has been doing by the last two annual surveys. Aa the number of deep holes Increases the action of the water will have a ten denoy, it Is explained, to break from one to the other until, there is a uni formity between them that will give an average amount ot- water of much greater depth than at present. SENATE IS GUILTY Sergeant-at-Arms Diegle So licited Bribe From Burns Detective. Columbus. Ohio, July J. Rodney Die glo, sergeant-at-arms of the .state sen ate, was found guilty here today of having solicited a bribe from Detective Harrison of the Burns agency, who posed as a lobbyist. Diegle, It was said, declared to the detective that he was acting, for Senator Andrews. The Diegle Jury was out 87 hours. There are still 12 membersof the leg islature and lobbyists awaiting trial, for bribery at th fall "term or court," THAN EVER BEFORE MA OF OH O CAMERON S ACTION AGAINST COLLIER'S U. S. District Attorney Mc Court Declares That Use of American Flag Is Not Des ecration in This Instance. District Attorney Cameron's action in notifying the news stands to discon tinue the SMle of the last issue of Col lier's Weekly on the ground that the uso of the American flag on the cover is a violation of the state law has caused a great deal of sarcastic com ment. Attorneys are especially Inter ested in Judge , Cameron's Interpreta tion of the law. The design in question depicts Uncle Earn guiding an aeroplane whose wings are covered with an American flag. An eaglo hovers overhead. The design covers the entire page and across the top are . the words, "Collier's, the Na tional Weekly." No other wording oo curs on the cover. The question raised Is whether the words, "Collier's, the National Week ly," constitute an advertisement or, as the title of the periodical, are mere ly explanatory. Tne Oregon law pro hibits the" use of the flng for advertis ing purposes, but in another section the statute reads: ' "This act Bhall not ap ply to the regular issue of a newspaper or other periodical on which shall be printed said flag disconnected from any advertisement." In regard to his action Judge Cam eron said: "The design was brought to my attention and I notified the police. No action will be taken against news dealers unless a complaint is filed. I feel that the flog has been desecrated and that the words 'Collier's, the Na tional Weekly,' are an advertisement." United States District Attorney Mc Court said: "In my Judgment the statutes have not been Infringed. I do not believe the title of any magazlKft or newspaper can be considered an ad' vertlsement. Attorney H. M. Esterly. said: "I would nol consider t(iat I had a good case were I called upon to prosecute anyone for selling this issue of Col lier's." District Attorney Cameron says that he stopped the sale of Collier's by the news stands because "someone" sug gested to him that It should be done. Yesterday's issue of the Oregbnlan con tained a full page picture In which the national flag was used as a background and border for the figure of a small hoy delivering a Fourth of July oration. The papor is still' on sole. T E" BATTLE IN MEXICO Law Officers and Military Au thorities Clash Over Ques tion of Auth&rity. (Hutted Press Im4 ,Wlr. Galveston, Texas, July 3. Passen gers on the steamship" Disa, here today from Fronteras, Mexico, brought news of a battle between soldiers and police at San Juan Bautlsta, In which nine were killed, Including two innocent per' sons. ''. ,;i 1 ' J ' v ; It was said that the soldiers and po- Una nii.rr.l.il nvi "uthorltv. officer! end men Joining In the dispute. Fifty n.. HA Man na fl4 In th. mmh.L av era! hundred shots being fired. Of the dead, five are soldiers, two policemen CAUSES COMMENT MDPUC "PADDY" MAHER NO LONGER PEERING T "County Detective" Loses His Star and $90 Per; No Value to Office, Says Weinberger; Unreliable Says Collier. "Paddy" Maher. who has been pos ing as county detertive, was anked this Burning by Constable Weinberger to hand in his star and-commission as dep uty constable. County Cleik Fields was notified that tho commission had been revoked, and the constable an nounced that Maher would have no connection hereafter with his office. "I am getting tired of taking credit for having a deputy constable, who stands around the court house and in front of cigar stores, drawing $H0 a iqfinth from the county snd receiving no benefit from him." said Constable Weinberger today. "This Is what Mah er has been doing since his appoint ment a few months ago. He has been of no value whatever to my office, and as far as I can nee he ha.i done the county no good. Work In the con stable's office has grown to bucIi an extent that my present force cannot handle It. I asked the county court for additional help, and have been re fused. The attorneys practicing at the Justice court complain about not get ting papers served, and have also asked the county court to provide more help. They have also been turned down. How ever, Maher is being carried on the pay roll of the county with a deputy constable's commission, and la doing nothing." "Paddy" Maher recently gained con siderable notoriety, when ho and At torney Frank HennesSy started a cru sade to "clean up" the north end. There have been many complaints made to the constable about certain features of this crusado. as Maher usually exhib ited his deputy constable's star In an Investigation. Deputy nistrlct Attorney Frank Collier, who handled the evi dence gathered by Maher, severely criticised htm for representations mnde that did not materialise. He sail Maher was very unreliable, and finally refused to have him In the case against former Chief of Police Cox, who wnn Indicted In view of the investigation. Mnheo can usually he found around the court house and court rooms. Jfegro Mnrdcrea Each Night. (United Prein Lead Wire.) Atlanta, Ga., July s. A negro woman has been murdered here for six consec utive Sunday nights. Tho victim was strangled and the body mutilated, In each case. . Members of Rival Parties in Portugal in Fierce Fight at Oporto. ' .London, July $. rA dispatch to the Morning Leader from Madrid says to day that fierce fight occurred at Oporto between Portuguese republicans and monarchists' : Thirty republicans were killed: The monarchist casualties were, not riven. V. ' i'' V ' The republican troops are now in the northern part of Portugal, and tha mon archists are esaembled Just across the una to' Sptfatf J ROUND TH OWN REPUBLICANS CLASH WITH MONARCHISTS Mortality Among Children Is Reported Alarming Already and Instead of Relief, Hotter Weather Is Promised. BREEZES MAY RELIEVE WINDY CITY TOMORROW Messages From All Parts Tell of Suffering From the Heat. sow Thermometer Keads. V At 8 o'clock this morning, east- em time, the temperature was as follows: Tortland, Or 67 New York 88 Boston 84 Washington 84 Ht. Louis 83 - Pittsburg 80 Chicago, July 8. With 26 persons dead here from heat within the last 24 hours, the thermometer stood at 91 de grees here early today and was mount ing steadily. The weather bureau expects It will be hotter today than on Sunday, and that the mercury will touch 100 degrees by 3 o'clock this afternoon. Only the low humidity prevents the death list reaohlng appalling propor tions and already the Infant mortality Is alarming. All last night the parks were Jammed with people, many thousands deserting their stifling homes to get a breath of air under the trees. A slight relief Is promised for tomor- (Contlnued on Page Two) Accused's Boncjs Raised to $50,000 He Had Failed to Come to Portland. Sheriff Stevens this morning tele graphed to the sheriff at San Diego, Cal., to arrest and hold Louis J. Wilde, wanted here for embezzling $90,000 In connection with the wrecking of the Oregon Trust and Savings bank. This action on the part of the sheriff fol lowed tho refusal of Wilde, his attor neys and brother-in-law to arrange for bonds, or to show any willingness to have Wilde return Immediately to Port land. Tho bonds for Wilde have been fixed at $50,000. since he has not returned voluntarily to face the charge. It was agreed that the bonds wouM be $20,000 if he came back, as his attorneys first advised. Nothing has been heard from Wlldo. Word Is expected this afternoon from the San Diego sheriff, however. In con nection with the criminal charge, a civil euit has been started against Wilde and his home on Twenty-third street at tached. The suit was filed by Attorney A. E. Clark In behalf of the receiver for the bank. This suit la to recover the part it Is alleged he received In a sale of telephone bonds. SHERIFF ORDERS - VIILDE'SIK "EVERYTHING IS EASY," SAID RYAN, AFTER HE'D GOT "BROTHER. CHARLIE" TO TELL TAFT SYNDICATE HIRED Hllfl (Wnnhlnrton Bureau of The Jmirnnl.) Washington. July 3. When R. & Ryan adopted the suoterfuge of ap pearing before tno public as indepen dent of the Morgan-Guggenheim Alaska syndicate in his attempt to get con trol of the harbor or controller nay, Alaska, for the syndicate. It was dur ing tha-.jnost fervent national discus sion of the Ballinger-Plnchot contro- very over the Cunningham coal claims. . It would have been obviously Im possible. pollttcaHy for the national ad ministration under- Mr. Taft to grant rights 'then to the syndicate openly; yet to deny them the rights they coveted on Controller bay woud have been ex actly the thing for which Richard Achilles Balllnger was appointed sec retary of the interior. Held In Abeyance. Plana for getting Controller bay, therefore, were held in abeyance until the Cunningham claims might be for gotten. But Ryan got impatient. He was expected to "make good." For five years be had been working for the syn dicate In their Alaskan concerns, and had as early as 1906 appeared before tho interior department when' Garfield was secretary, asking for that harbor for the syndicate. He had beon denlod through tho vigilance of the Roosevelt administration, 'Plnchot, Garfield, Woodruff and Price working like Tto Jans to. styye the conservation poUc.tea. Byan urged ihe president, to give him the harbor. The president, acordlng to Ryan's statements, seemed disin clined to do anything for him. Charles Taft Assisted, So,", Ryan said, . ri . had: to .v et Charlie (Charles P.) Taft to so to his i brother, tha president, and- assure him t Judge Bean Sustains Demur rer of Commission and Holds Complaint Does Not Show Rates Too Low. RAILROAD MAY FILE -AMENDED COMPLAINT Some of Statements of Com plaint Tend to Show Road Making Good Money. Holding the complaint filed by the Southern Pacific and Oregon & Wash ington railroad companies does not show the rates promulgated by the state rail road commission of Oregon for the val ley lines to be unreasonably low or confiscatory, Judge Bean In tha United. States court today sustained the demur rer of the railroad commission. This puts the railroad out of court unless It succeeds In amending its complaint to come within the rule adopted by tha court. Some time ago Judges Gilbert, Wol verton and Bean heard argument on an application for an injunction against the order of the railroad commission putting the reduced freight rates for the valley Into effect. The Injunction was refused. Later Judge Bean heard argument on the demurrer, the decision today following the lines Indicated by refusal of the Injunction. Must Show Unreasonableness. "The burden Is upon the plaintiff to show the rates unreasonable," said th court. "They were promulgated by the state railroad commission after a hear ing and are presumed to be reasonable. It Is true' the complaint contains gen eral allegations that the rates fixed are so low as to be confiscatory, but this Is a conclusion of law, and not a state ment of fact. "Indeed, some of the statements of the complaint tend to a contrary view. The gross revenue Is placed at $7,000, 000 and the expenditures at $5,800,000, leaving a net revenue of $1,200,000. The expense' la not Segregated, but It la tt to 'Jjre'snm tktt' It Includes interest on bonded Indebtedness, . taxes , and. all fixed charges. This allows a dlvidenj of JOOO.OOO on stock of the par value of $19,000,000, and the reduction of $166,000 which it is alleged would be made by the lower ratea cannot fairly said to be confiscatory." Concurs wittt Wolverton. Judge Bean Indicated his hearty con- currence in the opinion of Judge Wol verton in a case brought by the O. R. & N. Involving many of the same fea tures. He said he was unable , to dis tinguish it from the O. It. & N. case, , so far as the rule to'be applied is con ceroed. The chief questions there. In volved were tho contentions that tha : act creating the state railroad commis sion la unconstitutional because affect ing interstate rates and that the rates threatened reduction of the revenuea of . the oompany below the point of a rea-" sonable profit Judge Bean did not enter a discus sion of these questions at length, say ing he considered they were concluded by tho decision of his colleague on the bench. The counsel for the railroad company asked 30 days In which to file an amended complaint and this was granted. An effort may be mad to frame a new complaint or an appeal may be taken to the circuit court. Mean time the railroad commission holds the field with a clear-cut victory. Drowned While Playing. PifSrte. d'n! ted Press Lensed wire.) ' ' " Kenosha, Wis., July 3. Chester Georgan and Carl Wysocki while play ing pirate with a steel tub for their ship were drowned In Lake Michigan. ' 4-r Y J? 1 2JCAO. TJLJT2 Whom I really represented, Then mat irs moved, alt right." . . This statement was made in Dele gate Wickersham of Alaska, who, Hynn knew, knew that Ityan was in tha em ploy .of the syndicate ' Uf ID llio HM office Her m- ; ,;y (Continued on Psge Twlv.) W .,.!". ..V- "" ',l;j,Tt. r'iv ... .-y