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PORTLAND
BURNING OUT
BE GALA DAY FOR
' CITY'S DWELLERS
Amusement of All Kinds Is in
L
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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. '
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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 '
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