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VOL. VIII. NO, 16.
FIVE CENTS
;, ' PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY ' MORNING, JULY 16, 1911. PRICE
Bank wreckers1
arrest near in
( vancouver quiz
Indictments May Be Drawn
Against,. President Phillips,
Cashier Daniels and Maybe
Two Directors.
INVESTIGATION BARES ,
ARRAY OF. EVIDENCE
Juggling of Accounts and the
Transfers of Stock Alleged
by Examiners.
Wbt .port Bbowe. .
Bank hopelessly Ineoivent
nhen It wa-cioed, e.nd for some
time previous.
Officers and director knew of
Us condition at all times.
Bank's blotter, which would be
valuable to prosecutors, la miss
In if.
Deposits of nearly $20,000 were
made the day, the bank cloaed.
Bank's reserve seldom reached ;
tha minimum required by law.
County Clerk Wilkinson made
a preferred creditor by giving
him security tor deposits th day
the bank, closed. .
. Note given on afternoon of
last day to . cover heavy over
drafts. ' Bonds held by bank aa collat
era.1. and not Owned by It, ap
parently disposed of for $8000.
-Fifteen ! thousand dollar In
notes cancelled day the, bank
cloaed by" accepting : property
turned over by Moor & JiardJn.
Property, and note y now both
gone.' , s' 1:. -
Exactly. $$20,924.01 loaned to 10
Interests, or per -cent of the
total loans.' '.'H".:-' ""
Forty thousand dollar loaned
to PhilUps A.AldrJch leas than
two weeks after bank was pur-,
chasaoV. , ' .
KTotea of Phillip & AWrlch and
their companies Juggled back,
and forth continually for five
'
year.
Fictitious remittances entered
as having been made to oiner
banks, notably $40,000 to the Or
egon Trust & Savings of Port
land. t
Loans to rlilllips and A. U
MUler Juggled eo they would not
appear in their personal ac
counts. .
Cash mysteriously Increased
one day by J100.00O by certifi
cates of deposit, wiped out the
nDeUberate falsification of the
books to mislead bank examin
ers, depositors and minority
stockholders.
9 WW WW
. a a. a. A.
v.n,ur Wash.. July
15. Uhfold-
lnr a riot of high finance, leading all
the way from loan, by the officers to
themselves and juggling of figure to
show fictitious cash balances down, tp
desperate manlpulatlona' on the last day
and the concealment or destruction, of
valuable records, the story of the Com
mercial bank of Vancouver U told
detail in the report of Experts John W.
Ferguson and John Y. Richardson, ren
dered yesterday to the depositors com-
""Bas'e'd on the records of the bank, the
experts had no hesitancy in declaring
that the bank was hopelessly insolv
ent, not only when its doors were closed
by State Bank Examiner Mohundro on
December 17 last, but for a long time
before. With equal positivenesa the
, opinion Is given that the offlacrs and
director Of the bank knew at all time's
V -that tney were uyu .. -i
Following the announcement of the
I Veport cama, the statement from Prose
I Xting Attorney .Tempos that itiforma-
lion Will 1 jjicjio .
upon which the officials held respon
sible for the wreck will be arrested
and placed tn trial. Martin I Plpea
of Portland, who performed a like aerv
lce in the Title Guarantee & Trust cases,
will draw the Indictments In consulta
tion with Tempe and will be the chief
flrura Jn the prosecution.
, Warrants to Be Issued.
Warrants are expected to be Issued
next Tuesday or Wednesday, after the
report of the experts has been fully di
gested and care' taken -to draw paper
that will stand the assaults of tech-'
nlcal lawyer, The tenor of the report
Is such that charge are believed a cer
tainty against President H. C. Phillips,
Cashier 'Gilbert W. Danlpls, Director
(Continued on Page Six.)
SEEKS ANNULMENT OF HER MARRIAGE,
TO INDIAN WHO WEDDED ANOTHER
': (8,-iaeial to T"' Joarnnl.)
Los Angers, July 15.--Mrs. Hart M.
Schultav whoa secret marriage last
arch to Schult. a run uiooa , Biacg-
foot Indian, caused a sensation in in
art circle' of oao urancisco ana ,ftew
j ui it. in wniun nuv im mm. ww-n ..
Mn the exclusive ' Arroyo Dinner club
of trinr. city, Of which she 1 a" member,
ha filed cult for the annulment of
her' marriage.-: ., .itj-.-j . -y
. Mr. Schulta charges tht"hr hus
band already, had a wife at the tithe
of their marriage.,;' .'.. r i
. Thla -wife, she declares, is a full
blooded; Indian girl named Margaret
Strong, whom Schultx - married on thai
Blackfoot reservation fcl fj)3. Her uit
; is accompanied by inte'.k .'iom the In
dian agent at FtiV -Browning. Mont,
bearing out i 'statement. ,ilv.W!
fh',j.i---:9M Xal Oharga,tv"lr.-'
Hrh-iilt la almost as well known" In
Two Sordid Chapters Disclose
' Suridicate's Grip, oh Alaska
VJICKERSHAlli GETS '
RESPITE;
DELAYED FOR TIME
Attorney General, Apparently
Undisturbed, Departs for a
Week of; Speechmakjng
Dickinson in Scandal.
(Br the International News Service.)
Washington, July 15, The prompt In
vestigation of Attorney General Wick
ersbam in connection with the newest
Alaska spoliation scandal was delayed
unexpectedly today by the absence of
Judge Henry D. Clayton, chairman of
the committee on the Judiciary.
Judge" Clayton is to report the reso-
lutlon of Delegate Jamej Wlckersham
caning on Attorney uerverai Wlcker
sham for all information In - connec
tion with the alleged frauds in the
award of coal contracts for use in
Alaska and for an explanation why no
prosecutions were undertaken until
after the statute of limitations made
criminal action impossible. The house
adjourned today until next Wednesday.
Judge Clayton is expected to push the
resolution through.
Another Important end to this scan
dal became known today when it
was learned that General Dickin
son, while secretary of war, had' sim
ilar Information aa to the frauds in
the. war department's Alaska coal
awards ' submitted to him by Delegate
Wlckersham. Dickinson ignored the
complaint Bo far aa is known he
uev gave any reason wny ne lanea
to Investigate- these contracts under
the proofs of frauds submitted.
The department or justice is appar
ently unruffled by the threat or im
peachment ald. allegations of crime
and misdemeanor by Attorney General
VVIckersham.il
Tha attorney general left here this
afternoon -on the Congressional Lim
ited for r New- York for , a .week's ab
sence, .which ; will be spent principally
In the reat, where he will make ome
speeches. V , ' - i
Byadleata StIU XOabl.
The department . of Justice points out
that while in ail probability th Btat-
ute of limitations In the Alaska affair
ha rtih ' against prosecutions ror per
jury, it has not rim against the syn
dicate or its members for prosecution
of conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment.
The house committee on xpendltures
In the agricultural department nas
taken up the part the attorney general
has played In recommending the dla
ml'ssal of Dr. Wiley. This committee
will attempt to reconcile Mr. Wlcker
sham' opinion tr.at Dr. Wiley should
be dismissed for hiring a $1600 expert
with the fact that the attorney gen
eral himself saw nothing wrong In pay
ing his own experts sums running Into
the thousands. Frank B. Kellogg, for
Instance, received $59,000 fees and
$22,000 In expenses in lump sums and
unltemized accounts. '
. The Committee on expenditures In the
(Continued on Page Seven.;
PACIFIC COAST
STEEL MILLS IN
T
Consolidation of Steel Inter
ests in Seattle, . Portland
and San Francisco Being
. Worked Out Is Claim.
(By the Intmationl News Kertloe.l
Seattle, Wash., July 16. Following
the trend toward consolidation of the
steel Interests throughout the world, a
merger Of three principal steel concerns
of Seattle, Portland and Ban Francisco
is being worked Cut In, the latter llty.
As regards this' city the plant of the
Seattle Steel company la to be taken In.
William Pigott, the principal financial
force In the concern; E. Mi Wilson, Its
president and general manager, and D.
E.'McLaughlln, vice president and treas
urer, are now In Pan Francisco. , ' '
Seattle is to b the headquarter .of
the merged concerns. (phe Seattle Steel
company's plant, some five? acres Jn ox-
(Continued on Page Four.)
art circles aa Mr. Schultx, who "be
fore her marriage wa Annabella Mc
Farland. r He ha, done soma fin work
with - the ...brush,, and it wa , through
their -mutual Interest ln.; painting: that
the two , met. ! They eloped; to Santa
Ana and , were married- and 'it wu
net until a month later that the secret
leaked out. -Schultx declared today that
the allegations made against "him In hi
wife' complaint; are untrue. He1 ad
mits that he did go through a cere
mony with an Indian maid, but -later
found 'out thafit was' Invalid. .'This
ceremony followed a meeting at a res
ervation dance, followed by. hi flight1!
witn me gin., xney roae away on the
same horse and ipon their return three
day later-the girl; father forced' them
to! go ;. though i the! wremonr Hchult
declares that hla present wife was told
all of thla prior to their marriage, Thl
she denies. ;': f
MERGER
REPOR
CONTROLLER CASE
.i
EXPLOSIONS DUE
Developments Probably Will
Bring Under the Light Men
Close to the Administration
and Guggenheim.
(Washington Boreati of Tbe Journal.) ,
Washington, July 15. Plans are
bejng made to bring Into the Investi
gation of Alaska and Controller, bay
matters an attorney of national note.
whose experience will make It possible
for him to analyze the evidence and to
bring from the case the tremendous
possibilities that It la known, to con
tain. Effprts have been made to get
either Francis J. Heney or Louis B.
Brandels, the latter of whtyh conducted
thy examination . of witnesses for the
PJnchot side ""In ' the Uallingor-Plnchot
Investigation. Heney has been com
municated with, and It is thought by
some that he will accept, the position.
Hints given in original dispatches to
The Journal, upon which Senator Poln
dexter based his resolution calling for
all Information" on the matter, were
conservative. Developments since June
27, when the resolution was intro
duced. Justify the statement that this
case holds more dynamite than the
Cunningham' case, and that the facts
brought out Will exceed In public in
terest thosa Elicited In (he Ballinger
Plnehot . inquiry.
Exaggeration Is Impossible.
. Many -wild' state'fneltts- have been
made, which in detail are Inaccurate,
but they do not exaggerate the dy
namic character of the scandal, which
will Involve persons not hitherto be
lieved to have Interests In Alaskan op
erations. Investigation in New York
reve'als that men close to the admin
istration were Interested In the opera
tions of the Morgan-Guggenheim Alaska
syndicate, while It Is probable that It
will be established beyond question that
every act connected with that syndi
cate's deai was known to th White
House. .' . ' '
' After- denial ha . Ween made of the
xiatem:t..tilcU&sJe1
Dick" pontscrlpt connecting C. P. Taft
with B. S. Ryan and' his Controller
Bay railroad, for which the president
restored ll'.SOO acres on the shores of
Controller has, which postscript was
seen by Miss M. F. Abbott, a partial
denial has been now made that Ryan's
map Of the structure across the mud
flats of the bay had been filed with
the war department, although that map
was seen by more than one person.
Miss' Abbott was one of them.
Disappearance of the map, however,
continues to create Interest, and the
war department attaches feel keenly
the Intimation,, that it might have been
abstracted - from the department's files.
No department here has such a clean
record for Integrity, and the most earn
est search has been made to find a
trace of such a map as Miss Abbott
says she saw there.
Persons who know the inside of the
case regard it as so remarkable that
they hesitate taking up the burden of
ferreting out all the facts that may be
brought to the light of day.
Task Unpleasant One.
They say that the duty Is unpleasant
because the necessity will arice of in
volving, persons to whom an attack
would be most unwelcome. But the de
termination has been declared to go
to the bottom once and for all, and to
clear up the maze of scandp.! which has
wrapped Alaska until It has become al
most unsafe for anyone to touch any
thing connected with that territory.
However, while the alleged corruption
is being brought to light, it Is the de-
(Continued on Page Two.)
Spectacular Blaze Threatens
Iowa Capital Until Checked,
by Fruit Trees.
Learntd Wire.)
Dea Moines. Iowa, July 15. The
hated enemy of the pioneer when Iowa
was -still an almost, unbroken prairie
was nreaented In miniature here this
afternoon, when thousand of people In
De iioine office buildings viewed a
spectacular prairie fire that knocked at
the city' door.
leaping a if by magic from an un
known cause, tha flames awept over zo
acre of prairie grass just south of the
city and paused at the edge of th
Dea -Moines river, north of which lies
the city of Des Moines. For two hour
the fire raged,; wnne a nunarea iarm
ers and a lago' portion of the city fire
department fought the tongues of fire
that leaped as-high as 80. feet In the
air.". ;v ' ' . '" . '
During, the fire fight thousands of
employes in the city office building
ascended the roof of various, high
building and watched the scene. Busi
ness practically was suspended for the
time. The - first check - to the - fire
fiend, whloh threatened to sweep : over
hundred . ot acres of - wheat and oat
standing in the shock.; was met in. an
Immense orchard. : ' . u ;
The fire ate its way slowly, through
the tree and gave the firemen a Chance
to ''get It under control i before L H
reached the field of grain. ", i- , i
. Prairie fire ar almost unknown ' at
this time of the year In Iowa, but the
long drouth ' cued . the gras to be
unusually dry, and the flame spread
with great rapidity., , :. ..',', ( , ,
The river, coupled with the wind that
carried tha flames southward, prevent
ed
sd. danger to th city., :;
PRAIRIE FIRE AT
DES MOINES' DOOR
SECRET 0PDEATH
IS OBSERVED BY
P.
Chicago Physician Explains
a Remarkable Experiment
Performed on Dying Patient
in Charity Ward of Hospital.
X-RAY EXPERT TRIES
TEST ON FOUR GIRLS
Claims to Have Witnessed the
Phenomena That Accom
panies Passing Away.
fBr ttie International News BerTIc.)
nicago. juiy 15. "I have actually
observed the spirit leaving the hody of
a dying man who was a charity patient
at Mercy hospital."
This startling announcement' was
made by Dr. Patrick O'Donnell. an X
ray expert of Chicago today. Ho adds
to the statement that he believes he has
discovered what in fact constitutes the
soul or spirit.
According to Dr. O'Donnell's storv. an
Invited number of Chicago physicians
attended his latest demonstration at
Mercy hospital last Thursday night.
Previously he had held demonstrations
In his office In the Heyworth building,
using four young women as models for
the detection of the "human aura."
Using a film of dicyanln and other
chemicals held between two small plates
of glass all of the physicians Invited
admitted that they had seen the "human
aura" or "halo" of light waves that
surrounded the bodies of the women.
This "aura" developed as a strong radl
ata of light surrounding the outline of
the body and the head.
Secret of Death Explained.
Following up these experiments Pr.
O'Donnell,' believing he bad found the
secret of death and the way the soul
passes from the dead clay when dissolu
tion comes, went further. Here Is his
own story of his version of what hap
pens when death, comes and life de
parts. .
"The patient was reported as having
only a few minutes to live. I looked at
the .man. throusrh thl' .chemical screen
for almost half an hoirrV The aura was
tending, said the patient was sinking
rapidly and I did not take my eyea from
the screen. Suddenly It was announced
that death was about to occur. At the
name Instant the aura which as a bright
light had been radiated from the hedv
at all points began to spread from the
body and disappear. Further observa
tion of the body revealed no sign of
the aura."
Dr. O'Donnell says he does not claim
that this aura Is the soul or splrft. Ho
says he docs not know what It Is but
declares that ha has witnessed the fact
that it is radio activity that Is present
during life and passes away after death.
Dr. O'Donnell promises to go further.
He wants to solve the question 'has an
animal a soul or spirit kindred "to that
of man?" '
Tomorrow he expects to test a h'orse
or a dog to see if It, too, haa an
aura.
NEW YORK CITY;
NEGLECT CHARGED
Health Officials of Eastern
Metropolis Engage in Strug
gle to Prevent Dread Mala
dy From Gaining Ground.
'T'ntted Prew f.nM Wire.)
New York, July IB. With cholera at
Its gates, the health officials of New
York are taking more energetic precau
tlona than ever tonight to prevent the
disease gaining a foothold In tne city.
Allegations of carelessness on the part
of the quarantine officials were freely
made and It Is likely that, as the re
sult, of today's developments, stringent
regulations will be adopted to prevent
employes and attaches of the Quaran
tine station mingling with outsiders. '
Patrick dishing, a night watchman
at quarantine, lay for 34 hours in the
public ward in St. "Vincent's hospital
at Livingston; Staten Inland, before It
was known that he had cholera. Two
hour after ha had been rushed back
to quarantine he died. 1
Allegations that Dr. A. H. Doty,
health officer, "permitted his employes,
who guard the 'detained Immigrants, to
come to' New .York without being sub
mitted to any fumigating process and
even without changing their clothes,
were also made today by Attorney
Charles Dushklnd,, counsel for persons
who want Doty removed. In support of
h( charges, he produced Charles Lea
vltt, carpenter at Hoffman Island, who
said that he and live . others come and
and go from the contagion disease
hospital ' without Interference.
, Dr. Doty insisted tonight th t every,
thing possible was being cone to pre
vent cholera getting.- Into this country.
"There Is absolutely (no danger of the
disease getting ', here,' he said. "There
might be a sporadic case, such, as the
Cuahlng 'case, 'but . all . such would be
Controlled' from the' very moment they
were discovered." ; . -. '4 ,
fv'tsV Grande Has Eastern Night, .
' (Special to Ttie Journal.), '
' La Grande, Or.. July 15. La Grande
ha been sweltering in - almost record
heat ,, here today and the night keep
to aVplteh of as extreme heat as one
night before this week when- t he. 'mer
cury went down only to 75 . degrees
here. 35 .Is a normal night summer
temperature.,;: :j;x;v;,; I v" ;.'r.'!xj
ODONNEL
OA
MENACES
Cabinet Members Involved in
investtaation
,
Drawing h;- Homer Davenport.
Copyright 1911 by C. J. Mar.
With Dr Cathey He Will Visit
Scene of Recent Crime in
Effort to Gbnnect Perpetrat
or With Hill Murder.
If Swan Peterson, the section laborer
lnJall at Olympia charged with the
killing of Arthur Coble and his wife at
Rainier, last Monday night, Is guilty
of the crime a strong link in the evi
dence will be added tomorrow when
Sheriff Mass of Clackamas county and
Dr. C. C. Cathey will make a thorough
examination of his clothes and endeavor
to trace him every day since the Bar
bara llolzman murder last March. So
fully docs the Coble crime duplicate
the Hill crime at Ardenwald that Sher
iff Mass has concluded to go over the
ground and get the facts first hand. Dr.
Cathey will go to test the clothing of
the accused man, for there sre two men
In the Olympla Jail charged with the
crime, In an "effort to. trace the blood
spots that must Imve fastened them
selves to the clothing of. the murderer.
On the floor of the Coble home where
the crime was committed, small spots
of blood were found as far as four feet
from the aide of the bed In which the
dead couple lay. The blood had been
forced from the head of Mrs. Coble when
her skull was split open by the blow
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
Five Thousand rjhicagoans
Seized With Fright When
Wind Downs Tent.
Rt the International News Service.)
Chicago, July 15. rive thousand per
sons at Buffalo Bill's wild west show
were thrown Into a panic this afternoon
When half the large t?nt vs blown
down In the electric storm. Several
men and women were Injured by col
lapsing seats and falling tent polos.
Tbe great damage was done in the "ex
tension" tent, which Is just beyond the
entrance pavilion, and which was occu
pied, by., an audience of nore than 2000
persons. The band naa just xinisnea
the Becond overture and the performers,
mounted on horsvi, were crowding In
the approach of the arena before the
grand march when the accident oc
curred. I . .
A blinding flash 'of lightning was
followed by a wind flurry that lifted
the roof from the-tent, tore the canvas
walls from their anchorage and sent
seats and tent poles flying. Enveloped
In thousand of yards of flapping can
vas, terrified men '.and women strtig.
tied to escape. Cries of the f. ghtened
audience could be hrd above the storm
for many blocks. All or the people In
the fallen tent managed to extricate
themselves with the help of canvas men
and other employe of the show. ... ,
The presence ..or a squad of police
and the coolheadedness of show attaches
alone averted, a serioas catastrophe
. ' : v--. V
At Mcdford .106 Legreea. ,)
5- ) limited PrcM "Lesatd Wlru.t
' Medford,.Or., July 16. The thermom
eter thl .afternoon' stood it 106 de
His. Proper Place
mFJEEN TELLS OF
JMk CONFERENCE WITH
fcmb SECJACVEAGH
SHERIFF MASS OF
CLACKAMAS TO GO
: jorainier, una.
. - ww'i,; , ' 'ST '"'I'"'" 1 I 17 t - ' "
CU CROWD IS
THROWN IN PANIC
No JroatraUona .war .tporta-'.motjh'
or sen. Monmer
Governor of Illinois Testifies to
Having Told President's
Agent of Part He Played in
Lorimer Election.
(United rre teA Wlre.t
Washington, July 16. As a result of
developments at the Senator Lorimer
hearing this afternoon, a second mem
ber of the president's, cabinet will be
called as a witness.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher al
ready has been named. He was appealed
to by Senator Root. Republican, New
York, to get from I'dbllsher Kohlsaat of
Chicago the name of the men who told
Kohlsaat about tho Lorimer "slush
fund."
The climax of Governor Deneen's tes
timony came when the name ofSecre
tary of the Treasury MacVcagh was
mentioned -today.
"In August, 1909, three months after
the election of Lorimer," said Deneen, "I
was asked to meet Secretary MacVcagh
at the federal building In Chicago. He
wanted to know "for the Information of
the president the part I had placed in
Lorimer's election.
President X Mentioned.
"I told him to tell the president that
ho. President Taft, wn the one who
had" kiector; )r!mj.t)Mijt h;V4 I.
one wno was. unaei suspicion ana mat
he had sent a telegram favoring Lori
mer. t told him 'that "Mr, Hlnes had
telephoned to me "that President Taft
had sent that werd to me through Sen
ator Aldrlch." " . ,
Four witnesses were- summoned for
Monday Herman II. Hettlcr. WHllam
Burgess, JameB Keeley and Henry Tur
rish. Hettler will be asked regarding
an alleged statement made to him by
Edward HInen, that he (Hlnes), "elect
ed Lorimer." Burgess will be asked rel
ative to an alleged conversation he had
In March, 1911, on a train In Minnesota
with O. F. Wlehe.' secretary of the Hinea
Lumber company. In which Wlehe is al
leged to have remarked that he con
tributed $10,000 to the Lorimer slush
fund.
TWO LOSE UVES
Windstorm Strikes Presbyteri
an Meeting House and the
Walls Fall, Crushing Car
penter and Hindu.
(tToltcd Preia tenneil Wire.)
Kl Centro Cal . July 15. Two per
sons lost their lives and several others
in lured here this afternoon by a
cyclone, which destroyed property to
tha extent of about $50,000.
The storm came shortly before 3
o'clock and was very torrlflo while It
lasted The principal damage was dono
In the main business section, especially
to the high buildings and churches.
The Presbyterian church .was raed
and It was when this' structure was
felled to the ground that the lives were
lost The victims were Leslie Novant. a
carpenter, and Singh Hunt, a Hindu.
Both were crushed by the falling walls
and died a short time later at the St.
Thomas hospital. .,.,
Of others who were struck by flying
nieces of timber and debris, none was
seriously injured. Several small fires
were
canned oy tne cyiuimw. um nm
damage
by flames was very nominal.
CYCLONE
BLOWS
CHURCH
WN
MAYOR MCCARTHY FREES:PRISONERS ,
FOR HIS OWN POLITICAL PURPOSES
(Special to TV Journal.) -San
Francisco, July .-arollng
prisoners from the county Jail and lib
crating them for the sole .purpose of
distributing banners and 'ction cards
la the latest phase of the coming elec
Uon W h Mayor . F- H., McCarthy is
bavins worked at the rate of on a
dav through Sheriff Tom Finn . and
District A '"?
Una: fact was brought out by an, In
vestigation ' today into the record, of
the district .attorney's of Ice. which
shows that McCarthy; and .his friend,
the sheriff. -" have - been .working the
scheme literally ''to death,y; for -the past
The' iBtestcas to come; to . llghi
thrniith investigation i the liberating
of Frederick Bahrt. isanrt wa corw
though in reality, the charge should
have been "battery. ' Evidence wa ad
duced to enow tna tsanri Deal run aged
in a -jr
mother in a pruiatr issnion, , .. romicai
IT SPELL KILLS
A FARM
LABORER
IS
Suns Rays Beat Down P. F.
Mahler in Field Near Fair
view Portland Man Over
come, Falls Off Dock.
TEMPERATURE FALLS
AS COOL WINDS BLOW
Forecaster Beals Says Indica
tions Are That Relief Is
at Hand.
Hourly Temperatures.
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7
8
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The first death due to the prevailing
hot weather occurred yesterday, -when
P. F. Mahler, an employe on the farm
of C. W. Clute, near Falrvlew, died in
the hay field. After the body wa
brought to Portland, Deputy Coroner
Dunning examined it. with the 'result
that he learned death was caused by
the heat.
The man appeared at the Clute farm
Friday morning, and asked for work.
He worked that day, and yesterday un
til about 2 o'clock, when he became ill.
A physician was called, but the man -died
before he arrived. He was about
68 years old, .. ' . .....
Overcome by the excessive heat of
yesterday afternoon, John Vlgar, a la
borer, fell from an East) Burnside street
dock to some logs ten feet below, break,
lng one of his leg. When searched at
police headquarters, where he wag taken
for attention, $410 was found in his
pockets. He was quickly revived after
being relieved of hi clothing at tha!,
With a promise of cooler weather to
day, a slight breeze sprang up" last
night ' between t and 8 o'clock, putting
an end to a day which. If not the hot- '
test of "the season, was' a sirzler, the
lack of any wind during the day caus
ing the" people of Portland to suffer -
more than they did last Thursday, when
the thermometer reached the highest
point of the summer so far 97 degree.
Freakish atmospheric condition are
held responsible for the weather that
has made Portland pant for the last "
three days, according to the weather -
man, and yesterday presented an un
usual condition for this part of ths
country by an Increasing temperature
until the thermometer reached Its high
est point ror the day at 6 o'clock, when
Old Sol ran the mercury up to 94 de
grees. Xallef Come.
After 6 o'clock perspiring Portland
era began to draw long breaths of relief'
as the breeie began to freshen and the
tiny thread in the thermometer began
to drop. Two degrees were lopped off
hy 7 o'clock and by 8 o'clock the gov
ernment thermometer read 85 degrees,
a fall of eight degrees In two hours, v.
Among those who felt the heat yes.
terday was the usually genial weather
prophet. District Forecaster E. A. Beals.
who said that condition were none
his making, but one of those unusual
conditions last year on the same date J
the thermometer stood only at 70 de
grees from 4 o'clock In the afternoon
until 7 o'clock in the. evening which '
sometimes prevail, the heat being caused
by a Blugglshness in the atmosphere,
there being np movement In it He said,
however, that the wind was blowing at
the. rate of 18 miles an hour at North
Head yesterday, and that there was but'
little doubt but that Jt would find it
way up here. . ;
Above the wormaL
Temperatures, he said, were still de
cidedly above the normal on the Pa--clfic
slope, and the 100 degree mark
was reached at North Yakima, Wash.,
Roseburg, Or., and at Red Bluff and
Fresno, Cal.
A peculiar feature of the hot aneU.
as pointed out by Mr. Beals, was th
fact that after Thursday the hour -at
which themaxlmum temperature , was
recorded was later each day until yes-,
terday, th greatest heat occurring th
first day at the normal parted of 3
o'clock, Friday, it i came at 5 o'clock.
the mercury then beginning to fall.
The official forecast for todaje- for
Portland and vlclnltyris fair and cooler .
with northwesterly winds,,:
Old Sol made every possible use of
his time yesterday and out of a pos-
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influence . wa brought - to bear- whan
the case was called, in pie courts and
Bahrt wa copvlcted of vagrancy and 1
sent to the 'county, jail to serva 90
aay..?''rS."",.,Y, v- "r; "i:cit;i;t
' Bahrt started hi sentence, but after ,
serving 1$ day m Flnnl "hasttte, wa
liberated by Finn and Dlatrlct Attorney
Flckert. ' Bahrt Is now distributing
banner for McCarthy, and ' Finn, an
nouncing, their candidacy fox I, ra-eleo-tlon.
f From people who 'are In touch
with the affair of the present Admin
istration come th word that JlcCsrtny
and - Finn', will ' practice the . m sort
of: tactic until th election In Novem
ber'ls over.'. .' ' ; -'. '' '
-5 Examination of .-the record In th
district ' attorney's ' office ; today tw)
that McCarthy and Finn hhve libera
petty offender from th county ji I
for 'the past month . at n v-mi i,t
one a day., Most ot the prisoners -rv
about 10 to JU days when pnmUA ei, i
have "been sentenced for aui-h ofVi.r 1
battery, drunk and. - petty, lr -.-iy.
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