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Portland, Oregon, : Wednesday evening, july ; 12, 1911. eiphteen pages.
"PRICE TWO
CENTS 2H ais inroriwt V . - ,
't'111a STAMPS mi CEJ1TS. 1 '
WE'VE GOT IT
ED
TO THAT OF HILLS
' WeathFatr and warmer tonight T j'l ' TySi - ' ' ) '
j and Thursday; northwesterly winds. jj , ' . , -yTT- "," V--' T- "ft-; QjsU vt '; ''f ' ! v-" '
rainier Bunr
PROVES PARALLEL
0
NAMES MAY
WAT USE
AY
HAVE BEEN FORG
PORTLAND
SERVICE
SCORES CREMATED
Terrific Forest Fire : Devas
tates Towns of State; Hun
dreds Crowd Into Lake
Town Hall Human Torch.
WOMEN AND BABIES :
FALL IN PATH OF FIRE
Racing for Safety, Many Drop
Exhausted and Are Soon .
Burned to Death.
(T7nlt4 Press Leased Wire. I
Bast Tawas, Mich., July 13. Their
fcomee awept by a terrific foreat fire
which baa already deatroyed two cities
aJH Is menacing others, hundreds of
i tiicnigin peopie may D9 aeaa acorea
jf surely are In the worst timber confla
gration In the history of the state. .
Two towns Oscoda and At Sable, In
northeastern Michigan have been swept
clean. Not a building remains In Os
coda, ,
Driven Into Xake.
Hundreds of persona were dlven by
the flames Into Lake Huron, passing as
they fled dead bodies of their friends
and neighbors lying In the streets of
the town, In the churches and In a hall
packed to the doors which was soon en
veloped In flames. How many have
perished today Is unknown and possibly
will never be known, as the flames were
ao fierce that every vlstlge of many
of the victims will be destroyed.
The fire started last night in the
dens forest near Oscoda, and fanned by
a gale, swept unoheeked through that
city and jumped the Au Sable river Into
the town of Au Sable,
Steamer Offers fug.
Driven from their homes by the on
rush of the flarties', the people of Oscoda
fled In panic through the streets with
out a moment to save the bodies of
their fellow citizens who, struck down
(Continued on Page Fourteen.)
RIGHT IN FRONT
AT
They'll Make the Biggest
Showing in Parade Tomor
row, Just as They've Done
in Everything.
(Spexial to The Journal.)
Atlantlo City, N. J.. July 12. In the
j'SMurads tomorrow Portland will be aa far
i to the front aa It has been In everything
i U this reunion or li. P. o. Elks.
J. H. Delta has ordered the two big-
Mgest rubberneck cars In Atlantlo City
tor ths day, and Is now having them
(decorated with Oregon roses and other
I flowers typical of home. It oosts $600
(or this showing, but Delta says he does
not oare what It costs, that he wants to
Show the Elks the kind of a town Port
land, Is, so that they will all come out
'there in 1112. On the two floats will
be 4 persons, men on one and women
an the other.
Every Girl 'pretty.
Every girl who will ride In the big
automobile Is pretty.
From, the time Portland headquarters
in the Islesworth were opened a crowd
has been there always, day and night.
The aouvenlrs passed 'out by thousands
are everywhere in. evidence on the board
PO R IiAm 0 ELKS
CONVENTON
V walks. In the streets, even on' the bath
I Snif benches. Stop any man In Atlantlo
I ty In the crowd of 300,000 and ask
1 Man where the Portland headquarters
re ana no says in.ianuy, vroy, over
at the Islosworth."
' Nobody has called who has failed to
feel ths warmth of Oregon hospitality.
Scores of tolegrams from Oregon bring
congratulations for Elks who came here
to land the grand lodge of 1912.
Lodges Send Congratulations,
v One from the Astoria lodge reads:
- "Astoria clubroom hilarious tonight
over your magnificent success, 1911
clambake oommlttee In session in
vites all members of the grand lodge
(Contlnued on Page Four.)
V-Mayor Rushlight Instructed Superin
tendent Frank T. Dodgs of the water de
otrtment yesterday afternoon to prepare
yflata showing what other large cities of
the United States have done In the mat
' ter of installing meters. The object is
to gather information in connection with
.', the proposed plan of putting In a mater
ayatem la Portland. -. . -.'Wc-'
The .mayor declared that 'he doea not
favor the acquisition of any more pri
vate water plants. Under the preceding
administration the board completed ne
gotiations for the purchase of theWood-
, mere and Woodstock planta. , - i1 U
H. D. Cummlnga, representing various
. improvement clubs of the Mount Scott
.district, told the toard he thought the
E. '? ? Morris water plant aould 4 be
bought' for- $10,000, and. he said ha
i thought this would be a fair price. Chief
Engineer JX D, Clarke of the water de
Archie Coble, Exemplary Man
';. of 25, and Nettie Coble, His
H Bride, Aged 17, Slain With
Ax, in Bed. -
MAN'S SKULL SPLIT FIRST,
THEN WIFE'S; AX IS LEFT
Weapon From Coble's Wood
. pile Used; Murderer
Vanishes".
(SpeHsl to The .Journal)
Olympla, Wash., July 12. John Mul-
veen, held here following the! murder of
Archie Coble and his wife at Rainier,
will be released. Deputy Sheriff Mc
Corkle today wired Sheriff Oaston at
Rainier that the prisoner had proved a
domplete alibi. He was at the New Eng
land hotel at Olympla,' he showed, when
the killing occurred.
Tacoma, Wash., July 12. Did the
same man who four weeks ago last Sat
urday, with an ax, crushed the skulls
of William H. Hill, his wife and her
two children, as they lay In their, beds
in their home near Mllwaukle. Or., mur
der In exactly the same manner Archie
Coble, aged 26, and his 17-year-61d
bride, Nettie, at their home In Rainier,
Wash., Monday night?
The police and sheriffs' offices in
three counties are today working on
the possibility of that theory. The
murderer ot- Monday night left abso
lutely no clues behind him, nothing save
the grim work of his blood stained doa
ble bitted ax, which was found under
neath the .Cobles' bed. Believing the
theory tenable. Sheriff Robert Stevens
of Multnomah county this morning tel
ephoned to Sheriff Robert Longmtre of
Pierce county at Tacoma to get the de
tails of the Rainier tragedy. The Hill
crime was committed In the same man
ner as that of Rainier. - The murderer
evidently Blew the man first, then, beat
in the skull of the woman with the ax
and . fled. The motive was apparently
the sameA , v . ' :
The arrest today at Olympla of John
Mulqu.een,,-,bQut (0 yearavot ,-a-..WBO
has been in the asylum for the Insane,
may possibly have some bearing on the
Rainier murder alao. Mulqueen waa
seen In Rainier at 9 o'clock on Monday
evening, the night of the tragedy and
at 7:26 yesterday morning was In
Olympla, about 18 miles away.
Wo suspected Man sen.
W. A. Larkln. Northern Paclfla rall-
Sagent at Rainier, says he saw no
peeled men either enter or leave
Rainier from Sunday until yesterday,
although there were several strange
faces among the ticket buyers.
Sheriff Qaston of Olympla, In charge
of the search for the Rainier criminal,
today formed a posse to take up the
man. hunt His efforts laBt night to ob-
, (Continued on Page Fourteen.)
T
Multnomah Trunk & Bag Co.
Closes Deal for Land on
the , Peninsula.
' The Multnomah Trunk & Bag com
pany closed a deal today With the Pe
ninsula Factory Sites company for the
purchase of eight acres on the penin
sula near the Monarch Lumber com
pany's mills, as a site for a new box
factory, which la to be erected at once.
The main building of the new plant is
to be 200 by 72 feet, one story.
D. C. Pelton and S. E. Wrenn are the
controlling stockholders in the Mult
nomah Trunk 4 Bag company. Until
recently thia company operated a box
factory at Seaside, but. owing to the
failure of the lumber company at Sea
side, from which the box factory se
cured Its lumber, the factory was
forced to shut down. It has been dis
mantled and a portion of the machinery
will be Installed in the new peninsula
plant. . i
S. E. Wrenn, who negotiated the deal
for the eight acre tract on the penin
sula, paid (12,000 for the holding.
partment once Investigated . thla plant,
and reported that It waa not worth mora
than 13000 to the city. At that time the
owner asked-f 25,00C'for ifc
Frank W. Winn, the newly appointed
member of the water board,- waa sworn
in yesterday, and attended the meeting.
J. C. Ainsworth and W. B. Mackay, who
wera reappointed by Mayor ; Rushlight,
alao took the oath of office.- Theodore
B.-' Wlloox, the iourth member of the
board, waa not present - It la probable
that Superintendent Dodge will remain
during the present administration, as
Ma resignation Waa not accepted by the
board ytstrday.!.:'-'r'i'Hjvi-!v''.'': ;i
The water board will consider iri the
near future a number ot applications for
Bull Run water from residents of sub
urbs that have not been annexed yet A
fixed policy aa to these raqueata will be
adopted. - , r ' r' . '
ours
10
NEW
BOX FACTORY
5,?i ,y.ivyfr! -' - ... t- - .. ,
EMMA EAMES WEDS
DE GOGORZA; POPE
Through Special Dispensation
Diva, Though a Protestant,
Is Permitted to Marry in
Roman Catholic Church.
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Paris, July 12. Emllo de Oogorsa
and Mm e. Emma Eames were married
today In the mayor's office in the Rue
d'Anjou, ' special dispensation having
been secured. Through a dispensation
of Pope Plus, Jffme. Eames, although a
Protestant, may be married In a Roman
Catholic church and through the dis
pensation of the attorney general of
France the couple were relieved from
the law requiring the banns to be posted
at the mayor's office 10 days before
the ceremony.
The civil ceremony-today will be fol
lowed by a religious ceremony, the lat
ter taking place tomorrow morning at
10:30 o'clock in the Church of St. Pierre
de Challlet
A concert tour will be taken up fol
lowing a month's honeymoon In Ger
many. Mme. Eames Is the divorced wife of
Julian Story and De Gogorza was di
vorced a year ago. It Is reported that
Mme. Eames paid Mrs. De Oogorsa
$100,000.
WOMAN'S BROTHER IS
HELD ON MURDER CHARGE
(United Prm Lwi Wire.
Orovllle, Cal July 13. Arthur Lewis,
brother of Mrs. Emma L. Rumball, was
today held to answer a charge of mur
der In connection with the killing of
Helen Rumball, 13, In Orldley. The
trial of Lewis and Mrs. Rumball was
scheduled to be held In September.
UNITED STATES SENATOR
(United PrM Leased Wire.) -Atlanta,
Ga... July 13. Hoke Smith,
former governor of. Georgia, and one
time member of President Cleveland's
cabinet, waa today elected United Statea
senator here on the first Joint ballot of
the Georgia aaaembly. ., ' j
"SMUGGLING" JURY MAY I
INDICT MILLIONAIRES
(United Press Leased Wire.!
New Tork, July 13. The federal
grand' Jury which Is Investigating the
gigantlo smuggling case which involvea
Mrs. Helen X. Jenkins as the central
figure announced today that It would
conclude its labors on' Friday. It la
believed that both 1 the 1 mllllonairea
charged with complicity In the ' smug-,
gling case will be Indioted and detso
tlvea. are said today to Aa shadowing
ths men -y.- f Hi -u: fc' ,:"
gives h mw
T I sssatat at saasa sbbm si at ass Bk aa. mm si I
EVERYBODY WILL
JOIN WITH ELKS
IN JOLLIFICATION
Whoop-'er-Up Parade to Start
at 7:30 Tonight and Red
iFire Will Be Only One of
Celebration Features.
formation of Farads. 4
4 Platoon of police.
4 Police band.
Mayor Ruehllght and city 4
4 council. 4
4 Members of Elks lodge 142 and 4
4 visiting Elks. Esquire Roland 4
4 commanding. 4
4 Members of other fraternal or- 4
4 ders. 4
4 Tork's military band. 4
4 Automobile section. 4
4 E. J. Arnold's band. 4
4 Vehicle section. 4
4 Equestrians and rough riders. 4
4 4
' Whoop 'er up for Portland's victory
In winning the meeting place for the
1912 annual reunion ft Elkst
That is the feeling that possesses
every member of the Portland lodge
whloh will have the honor of enter
taining the an tiered herd next year.
This feeling Is infectious and has
spread to nearly every publicly inter
ested cltifcen of the Rose City.
So tonight the Elks will let off some
(Continued on Page Nine.)
Trail Lumber Company Sells
to Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Men, 50,000 Acres.
: Medford, Or., July 12. The Grand
Rapids Lumber company of Grand Rap
Ids, Mich., has purchased the holdings
of the Trail Lumber company In this
county, paying, it Is said, about $1,009,
000 for the tract which consists of
60,000 acres of timber on Trail and Elk
creeks. Roy Harrison, representing the
company, is now In Medford, and has
just closed the' deal.
, Tha, purchasing company declines to
make an announcement at this time re
garding development of the traot .A
number ef small mills owned by the old
company will continue in operation, but
transportation must be solved before
the traots . are .opened on an extensive
eoale.':W,'Svv:V';'i: H'4?..i.. i
The iracta changing hands are owned
by -the Trail Lumber Company of this
city, 1. E. Wakeman and George L.
Daria. both officials of the Farmers A
ITrultgrowors bank of thla city.
JACKSON HER
BRINGS ft LION
WALLA WALLA HAS
5,000,000 BUSHELS
IN WHEAT HARVEST
Ideal Weather Conditions and
Increased Acreage Combine
to Make New Record for
Rich Washington Valley.
By Ilyninn H. Cohen.
Walla Walla, Wash., July 12. Walla
Walla county will this season harvest
close to 6,000,000 bushels of wheat. The
production will probably be either a
fraction above or below this round fig
ure. All depends upon weather condi
tions until the harvest is concludsl.
Last season the county produced
4,000,000 bushels of wheat, therefore
I the likelihood is that the- county will
snow an increase or pracucany 10 per
'cent over a year ago. Some of this In
crease Is due to ths greater acreage
sown, but most of It is the result of
weather conditions the lika of which
is unusual even in the Walla Walla
valley.
There are many fields In this section
that will harvest 40 bushels 'per acre,
although a few will range tiown to 85
and 30 bushels, while In other instances
the output will reach very olose to the
60 bushel mark.
Foothills Yield Waa
As usual far the best results are
shown' In the foothill country. Here the
average will be 40 bushels or better.
Some are forecasting an average of 43
bushels In the bill lands.
In any event, the wheat Is better to
day In all sections of the Walla Walla
country than ever before. This is the
opinion of all interests whether deal
era or growers. The opinion is that
this year's crop Is as close to 108 per
cent as could be expected. Baaing the
percentage on the averages, h tndl-
(Continued on Page Nine.)
GOTO LOSlGELES
(tTnlted Prrts Leamd Wlra.t
Rochester, N. T., July 12. Following
the selection Of Los Angeles, as the city
for Its next year's convention the
Knights of the Mystio Shrine today
elected John F. 'Treat of Fargo, N. D.(
Imperial potentate of that order for the
ensuing term. Treat received the unani
mous vote of the xonvention. E. Lewis
Garretson of Tacoma was elected Im
perial captain of the guards.
TRAIN'S PLUNGE COSTS
12 PERSONS THEIR LIVES
ftnlted Pirns Lrr4 Wlrs.
Bridgeport, Conn.,- July 12. Comple
tion of the death roll In . the . wreck ot
the jNew York, New Haven Hartford
Federal' express here v today . shows a
total of 12 fatalities. ,i AU of the In
jured are expected to" recover. An In
quest Into thereausa of the dlaaatar will
SiiRINERS ELECT TO
be held Frldaj, i-i ' ,
BY CIRCULATORS
Harry Coler, Arrested, Tells of
, Wholesale, Fraud Perpetrat
ed by Men Seeking Signers
for Referendum.
HIGHER-UPS MAY BE
DRAGGED INTO FRAY
Fraudulent Work Not All Done
in Portland Other Ar
rests Expected.
Following an investigation by men
of the Burns detective agency lnto for
geries alleged to have been committed
In the referendum petitions against the
University of Oregon appropriation,
Harry Coler was arrested last night,
another warrant is out,, and Coler la
said to have made a statement to the
officers that will lead to 10 or 12 ar
rests and exposure of wholesale frauds
Involving men In higher station than
the lowly circulators.
Coler Is one of the circulators of the
referendum against house bill 210,
passed by the last "legislature, provid
ing for an additional building and
equipment for the state university.
This is one of the series of three bills
which were blocked by referendum pe
titions circulated under Ihe same aus
pices, the others being another appro
priation for the university and the
third an appropriation for a dormitory
at the Monmouth Normal school. All
three of these are declared by former
Justice W. T. Slater, attorney for the
university, to be reeking with fraud.
The arrest of Coler was made by
Deputy Constable Nicholson and George
E. Constable, the latter being assist
ant manager for the Burns, detective
agency In Portland. After his ' arrest
he gave the officers a complete story
of the operations of the referendum cir
culators, confessing that' he was one
of several who copied names . by the
score, exchanging petitions with each
other and takjng turns In writing in the
names. In this way, he said, whole
sheets were filled with bogus names.
Had Meeting- 3lce
' The work. of forgery was done, prin
cipally, he said, in two poolrooms on
Washington street which were used as
a common meeting place. He and other
circulators met almost dally for the
purpose of exchanging petitions and
writing in bunches of names.
The detectives at work on the case
say they expect to show 7000 or .8000
fraudulent names on the university ap
propriation. H. B. 210, toswh!ch atten
tion has principally been given. There
were about 12,700 names on this peti
tion when it was filed with the secre
tary of state by W. 8. Parkison. If
this number of names Is bad the refer
endum is worthless, over 6000 names
being required.
Bad Hamea Front Other Cities.
The investigation indicates that most
of the fraudulent work was done ln
Portland, but there are also said to be
several batches of bad names filed from
Astoria and Salem. Nearly a dozen
Portland circulators are Involved in the
statements made by Coler, who will be
used as a witness for the state.
With the start that has been made a
full airing of the university referendum
Is made certain in the courts, and this
(Continued on Page Fourteen.)
Startling Phases Will Be De
veloped in Inquiry in Few
Days, Is Promise.
(Wa.hlngtua Bureau ot The Journal.)
Washington, July 12. The Controller
Bay Investigation will develop startling
phases In a few days. Subpenas issued
today but not published yet will bring
Important witnesses before the Graham
committee and the investigation in
volves features of the entire Alaskan af
fair never before hfhted at.
It can be said that evidence is at
hand showing that important officials
were to receive money compensation if
the syndicate's plans went through.
Washington, July 12. That the Mor-gan-Gu'rt;enhelm
"grab" of Alaskan coal
Industries through their acquisition of
lands on the shore of Controller Bay
Is not yet consummated was positively
asserted here today by Secretary of the
Interior Fisher.
Discussing the mysterious "Dick to
Dick" letter, supposed to be from Rich
ard S. Ryan, the Guggenheim man, to
former Secretary of the Interior R, A.
Bellinger, Fisher declared he was eager
to cooperate in hunting for the , docu
ment. So far, however, he said, search
of the files of the department had re
vealed no letter from Ryan to Bellin
ger in which Charles P. Taft's name was
mentioned. '
Fisher is not expected to be a wit
ness at the hearing by the oommlttee
on expenditures in the department., of
the Interior, which Is Investigating1 the
Controller Bay entries. Of them he
said today:
"I certainly am most interested la
the case and would appreciate any In
formation the oommlttee might give
as to whether conditions at Controller
Bay would Jeopardise the public . In
terest So far I am unable to aee that
the publlo Interest will be Jeopardised,
no matter what procedure Is decided
upon, I have found that Ryan's Con
troller' Bay, entriea have been submit
ted to the aepartment, but that no ac
tion has been taken-v These elaima are
till pending and are etui absolutely
In . the .control of the . Interior depart
ment" , s, ,v .. ) v. 'v, - . ' ,
CONTROLLER QUIZ
HOLDS SENSATIONS
IS TO BE ENLARGED
Boat From Orient Is to Come
to This Port Every 20 Days;?
Recent P. & A. Purchase Is
Explained.
IBSEN AND STRATHLY0N
GO ON AUSTRALIA RUN
Other Chartered P. & A. Boats,
Rygja and Hercules, Will
Be Used a Year.
(Special to The Journal) . ,
Seattle. Wash., July 12. Increased
service with better vessels will be the '
result of the purchase of the Portland- r
Aslatlo Steamship company by Frank r
Waterhouse & Co., Inc., according to a
statement made today by Frank Water ,i
house, president, who, with Vice Presl-' .
dent A. M. Gillespie, has just returned,
from San Francisco, where final ar .
rangements were made for the transfer '
of the Portland-Aslatlo holdings by dl- '
rect purchase. . ...
Mr. Waterhouse is engaged In working ,
out a new schedule which he believes
will be satisfactory to both Puget
sound and Portland. The Intention of
the Waterhouse officials Is to run a line
both to Puget sound and the Columbia
river from the orient, on practically
the same lines as the Waterhouse ves-?
sols have been operating for more than
a year. Heretofore, the Waterhouse
steamers have been furnishing a sail- .
lng from Portland and Puget sound
every 28 days, but It Is planned to die-,
patch a vessel every 20 days, -Additional
steamers will be placed on.
thla route, and under the new schedule '
each 'will have about eight days on"
Puget sound in which to complete cargo. -This
will enable the fleet to maintain
schedule, which It has been impossible
to . do heretofore. As has been done
since the Waterhouse company invaded,"''
(Continued on Page Nina)
UNITED STATES IN
L1
Lahn and Barry, Winners of
This Week's Contest, and;
Hawley, Last Year's Victor,
Will Be Entrants. ;
(United Press Leaaed Wire.) '
Kansas City, Mo., July 12. -John .
Barry, Lieutenant Frank P.- Lahm and -Allan
R. Hawley will represent A mer-i
lea in the International balloon race to
be sailed from here in September. Lahm
and Barry were winners in ths national
race that sailed from here Monday, and
Hawley was winner last year in the
International race sailed from St Louis; t
Lahm, In the balloon St. Louts IVr .'
landed at La Pas, Ind.. 40T miles from
Kansas City, and Barry came to earth -at
La Crosse, Ind., 410 miles. He sailed .
the "Million Club."
'Pilot Assmann, in the balloon 'Miss
Sophia." landed at Franklin Park. III.;
295 miles; Wade, In the Buckeye, at
New Holland, III., 300 miles, and Jacobs,
In the Topeka II, at Le Harpe, 111., 21
miles. -J.
The "New York." piloted by Clifford
B. Harmon, and the "Kansas City." H.'
E. Hunneywell, made only short flights ?
before being forced down by thunder-- I
storms in Iowa. c - 1
FRENCH PAPERS DISCUSS
PAY OF CONGRESSMEN
ilre
I BA
LOON RACE
1 (United Pr-as Leaaed Wlra t i
Paris, July 18. -"La Depechea,, ! of
Toulouse, In urging the cause of high
er pay for French lawmakers, 1 who re
cetve $3000 a year and much criticism
for paying themselves as well declares
that congressmen In the United Statea -receive
$7000 a year and ''gratification'
of their least caprice" towels, night ;
shirts, toilet articles, perfume. . and v ;
"probably the rest, as La . Fontaine v.
says." This last, of course, refers to .
women. Gustave Tery of "Le Journal," ,
says:" ;. ' , ' .., . '
"Well, well! Our democracy le !n
retard; she has not yet thought of the '
rest' What an oversight! Can it be " ,
that a real, republic can fall to ln :
stall a boudoir- back of her capital
building and appoint herself an A-"
paste?" i.'; " f, ;t-".'.-":v4''-'f'f;l'
The Sunday J Journal
KFFICIENCT AND '
SHORTER HOURS ,
' A Efficiency. Expert Taylor
1 ' foresees bigger national
output In less time. See
Magagine Beetle. , .,
OUTB INDTJSTRT ' '
IN ITALY ?V
, - George Burton writes eft
i.,;-,- Italy's, olive groves an '
- ,v I" ' comparee conditions thn
" with, those on raclflo r
1 , '