COAST TEMPERATURES , , S A. SI. Today, , , Boise i. .Bt ' .' Seattle '1!!"I.!!m Spokane ,-,.. M ' ; Mershfield ,;....!......,,'!.4 Ban rranolaoo ; .... ..i .6 ' ? Portland , .6a "" Koiaborf .53 ' jon iu MAMV mot. Tall what job on o -what yon ean do wall -la a Journal -"WAJTT AS." - - - '; WANT." ADS COST BUT LITTLE The weather - Fair tonight and ; Wednesday; variable winds. , i '; -V VOL. X. , ' NO. 150. ' ' ' PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST, 29, ' 1911. -TWENTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS ow tsawh akb rwtw 1 ;UXou Arc norm nore- , , , . QVX'W "Vv: lAA. fe.' (f C A A A JAA rtX. V GRAFT CHARGES QUIZ! BY GRAND JURY, V- ' ' ' , vf. :T " 1 . . , ' ; Chief of Police SI oyer and Ser geant Keller Called Before Inquisitors Following Ap pearance of Mayor. NAMES OF WITNESSES GIVEN BY SOCIALIST Methivier Ready to Testify as I to Fercot's Denial of Jack pot Affidavit. Grand Jury activity has taken a turn at last toward the stories of graft t In the north end and corruption In the po lice department. Sandwiched In between the witnesses In larceny and bad check cafces the grand. Jury Is calling those from whom it la thought that light may be"., obtained concerning; the tales of widespread graft. Chief of Police Blover and Sergeant Keller were among those closeted with the Inquisitors this morning, following a two hour session with Mayor Rush, light . yesterday. These officials have been cautioned to keep counsel and lit tle has been allowed to leak out as to the exact lines of examination pursued. Another lead that is being followed waa furnished by Julius Knlspel, a So cialist party organiser, who has at tracted large street crowds by open air speeches on the north end Jackpot al leged to have been collected by F. L. Perkins, a newspaper man, for himself and P. J. ' Matter, the county detective. Jack Pot Inquiry. " Knlspel was' first called before the grand Jury last WedneadayJ He waa again called today, and was asked to bring witnesses to prove charges he rnado concerning the north end Jackpot alleged to have been raised by dive keep ers In the north end. Today he declared he had secured some of the evidence and would present it. .Knlspel was asked by the district at torney to furnish a list of witnesses, and this ha gave today. One of those he brought with him was Alex Methi vier, proprietor ef the California Plat ing Works. Methivier , is one of the 1 II I i I i H . i I i i i ii i i II nil . - " (Continued on Pace Two.) CITY HELD IIP FOR DECLARES CITY AUNCHED PAST 2 YEARS BY PAVING COMPANIES, Committee Appointed by Mayor to Investigate Produces Figures to Show Paving Concerns Have Overcharged to aQ Enormous Extent for Work Performed; City Execu tive Says Competition by Municipality Is Only Remedy. Careful investigation by City Engi neer Hurlburt results in the startling declaration that in the last two years the property owners of Portland have paid practically 2,500,000 more for street pavements than is Justified by a ' reasonable cost for such pavements. During the last two years ISO miles of street pavements have been laid in this elty. The average cost, according to the city engineer's estimate, has been 150,000 a mile.. This places the total eost of this one kind of improve ment In the city during that period at 17,600,000, The average cost per square yard has been 11.85. Mr. Hurlburt fig ures that the pavements, including bltulltbie, asphalt, westrumlte and bitn mass, can be laidl-at- . a reasonabto profit for not more than $1.25 a square yard. This figure allow 26 cents a square yard for the maintenance of a paving; plant and interest on the in vestment ' According to these figures the city has been held up by the paving com panies to the amount of the difference "I ACCEPT TAFTS ONSLAUGHT AS A BADGE OF HONOR iOolted Pwffl leased Wlrs. Qulncy, 'HL., Aug. 19. Replying to President Tart's speech delivered at Hamilton, Mass.. last week, Speaker Champ Clark of the house of represent atives today gave the executive a sharp ..niirr aavlnar that if It had not been for the house Democrats Taft would beJ r today a thoroughly aiscreanea ornciai. In charging the president, with In gratitude Clark asserted that the Ham 11 ton speech waa a "bold misstatement of historical facts." " "I personally accept Taft's onslaught as a badge of honor.," said, the Demo cratic speaker, adding that if the tariff board delays revising the tariff down ward the Democrats likely will cut off its appropriation. ........ Attack .Is Ungrateful. ' - "His ' attack on the Democrats . Is .ungrateful," insisted, Clark, "because if It had not been for the Democrats in the house of the Sixty-first and Sixty second congresses, In llntngup unani mously in favor of Canadian reciproc ity he would have been the most thor- . oughly discredited president since the day of Andrew Johnson, Wi. ': "The only politics we played were to keep faith with the. people and rellg- ' iously redeem the promises wade in or der to win the 1319 eleetionsn-tlie best Sort of politics. , . i "If any politics was played on reci Henry Beattie's Cousin Paul Gives Very Damaging Testimony ; it h ' ' i - 'h - h t'jn tt n t t tt it h Unsanity May Be Made the Defense. of the Accused Virginian Interior of the Chesterfield, Va., courthouse, where Henry Clay Beattle Jr. is on trial for the murder of his wife. Below is a likeness of Paul Beattle,' a second cousin of the accused, who testified that Henry had practically confessed the murder of his wife. . i ) U f:( J' 4 OREGON DAIRY HERDS WILL BE AUGMENTED BY EASTERN STOCK Oregon dairy herds are so badly depleted that it has been found necessary for local people to start east George W. Bruce of the livestock c-mmisslon firm of Bruce & Co., will leave for Illi nois within a short time to bring back a nurabor of Carloads of Holsteln cows to this - market. According to Mr, Bruce, the Hol steln Is the best milch cow for this section- ,,; $2,500,0001 ENGINEER HURLBURT between $1.85 and 11.25 a square yard, or practically one third. In the a-gre gate the holdup amounts to the enor moui sum of $2,600,000 which' will come out or the pockets of the people as roy alty for the use of these patented im provements. This Investigation was made at the request of Mayor Rushlight and mem bers of the street committee of the ex ecu ilve board. When the astounding figures were submitted to Mayor Rush light they increased his determination to bring the paving companies that are doing business in the city to proper terms or else have the city enter the field in competition with the companies. City least Compete. Mayor Rushlight instructed C A. Blgelow, a member of the street committee, to act at once in call ing the heads of the various paving companies in the city before his committee and demand on behalf of tha eity that the price of paving be (Contlnued on Page Two.) " n procity the president played It per sonal, at that He seems to think we snouia nave adjourned as soon as reel prociiy was ajsposed or, He seems to think congress is composed of a, -lot of school boys, to be ordered about by blm as teacher. , He. appears to hone that the consumers will kiss his hand tne nana mat smote tnem. BUI ThoronglOy Oonsldsred. "The president -Implies that he re fused to sign the wool bill because it was introduced and rushed through without consideration, Let us see. The Democrats met in cauous January it and selected a committee on ways and means. The bill was reported the mid dle of April, three months in the prepa ration of one schedule, whereas - the hearing on the Pwyne bill with 14 schedules required little mora than four months... v ; , , ,; . "W devoted ten and one half times as much time to each , schedule as did Brother Payne and his Republican coad jutors on the ways, and , mean, com mittee. Nevertheless and notwithstand ing, the president signed the Payne bill and vetoed ours. A: ;v; j, :0' ..-;. "Instead of being slapped together hastily without due Consideration, It waa one: of the most, thoroughly and ca mf ully considered i tariff, bills ever presented to any president for signa ture," i mm LARK x 4 ,Np . v-4 i vsV'i ' if .liiri JI.ILLHST I' iirm.. i mil ii i iisMsl ' 8W i i'Wl 1 - t " Mess s sWWl iff ' I sspai---""gstgl' faSaSaSaSaSJpaSBjSJ BEATTIE TO TAKE SCORE SHIPS SUNK, STAND; HIS COUSIN MANY IMS TAKEN STICKS TO STORY BY TERRIFIC STORM Accused Probably Will Be Called to Testify in His Own Defense Today; Paul Se verely Grilled. . (United Press Leased Wire.) Chesterfield Courthouse Vs., Aug. 29. Suoh a grilling as has rarely been heard In a Virginia courtroom waa given Paul Beattle here today during his cross examination by Attorney Harry M. Smith who is defending Henry Clay Beattle, Jr., from he charge of wife murder. As an added feature Attorney Smith stated today that Henry Clay Beattle, Jr.. would alee the stand In hia own de fense on the charge of having murdered his wife. Beattle probably will be called late this afternoon. Shaken as he was by the lawyer's merciless denunciations, Paul Beattie stood to his guns and. though he con tradicted himself in minor details, he stuck grimly to his story that he had purchased for the prisoner, his cousin, the gun with which the latter Is ac oused of having shot his wife to death on the lonely Midlothian Pike. Paul Beattle denied that after the tragedy he told his fellow workmen that he believed Henry was not guilty. The poorer relative seemed hasv in remembering the tihme of the pawnbrok er from whom the ehotgun was pur chased, and Attorney Smith :ook the opening to attack the integrity of too witness by saying that Paul 'had bor rowed money there; - The court silenced. Prosecutor. Weri- dsnberg'a efforts to assist the witness. ' Took Clothing- to Olrl, Paul said that during hit four years' acquaintanceship with Beulih -Blnford. "the girl in the case" he carried hoee and clothing; toner from Henry, but never knew her on intimate terms, j Paul told Smith that Henry did not insist on him keeping, the-purchase of the shotgun a secret. The witness de nied that he Is an epileptic. Before leaving the stand 'Paul was given an opportunity to deny that he said after the Inquest' that'he was glad to "get even," with his Uriels Henry's fsmlly. ' John sanairrer corroborated Paul's testimony about Henry Beattie's tele. Shone call on Thursday before the inur er . when the latter asked his 'cousin to meet him after whloh the shotgun was ordered.1, , v, , During the cross examination Smith ' . jtConUnuad on Page Two-i , t ' ', Charleston Hurricane Beaches Navy Craft, Sends Fleet to Bottom and Crushes Water front Property, Wharves. (United Press Lcssed Wire.) Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 29. The Clyde liner Apache, reported last night in dis tress off the Carolina coast. Is being towed toward Charleston, according to wireless reports received here today. Brief dispatches from Brunswick, Oa., state that a terrific storm passed over the town and caused much damage. Charleston, S. C, Aug. . 29. Six tor pedo boats are ashore here, a score of other vessels have been sunk and some are still pounding agalnsc ths seawall as the result of Sunduy's huriicane, In which, it is believed, more than a doten lives were lost. The seawall was damaged In a num ber of places, and the whole lower part of the town was flooded. Wire com munication, whlcn was quite destroyed by the st5rm, wns rtstored today. So severe was the loss here, and so widespread the damage,' that even yet after the lapse of many hours It ha not been fully estimated. No bodl;s have been recovered as yet. Wire connection with the outside world was maintained for only a brief period. Almost as soon as communica tion had been established the wires again went down. The damage caused by the storm wss enormous throughout the whole region. Unless later reports swell the death list, trie loss or nre. nowever, wu compara tively .small considering the magnitude of the storm. The known dead numge live ana inciuae; . Two unidentified women, drowned when their homes were flooded. Numerous small steamers and harbor craft were sunk during tne storm but It Is believed their crews escaped. Grave fears are felt, however, for vessels of the coast ss it is thought that many of them must hare been unable to weather the terrlfio blow. ' : ; r : ' . Much apprehension was also felt tor dwellers on the Sea Islands south' of Charleston.. With the wind blowing the water Over the seawall into the city itself until It was several feet deep in nearly all 'the streets, , there, is evei-y likelihood that the low lying Island were submerged. to a depth ox many, jCeeu . PRESIDENT OF BAR ASSOCIATION RAPS AMERICAN TRUSTS Louisiana Barrister, Edward . H. Farrar, Startles Fellows by Scathing Denunciation of Combinations. CORPORATIONS CONTROL MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE Lawyer Says Agitation for Re call One Symptom of Pol itical Unrest. (t'nitl Press Leased Wire.) Boston. Aug. 29. Scathing denuncia tion of the pirate trusts and the evils they inflict on the body politic created a sensation here today in the conven tion of the American Bar association, when voiced by Edward H. Farrar of Louisiana, president of the greatest body of lawyers'ln the United States. . "The burning question agitating the minds of the American people today," said Farrar while his fellow lawyers listened with the deepest Interest, "Is how to control corporations, how to break up aggregations of capital seem ingly as powerful as the government Itself and how to prevent the formation of such combinations In the future." Agitation One Symptom. 'The agitation for the recall of Judges," said President Farrar, "Is only one symptom of the political, social and economic unrest pervading the nation," and added: "The radicals propose deetroying things generally, while the conserva tives see a real danger In the growing excitement of the masses and seek a way out of the situation awhile con serving political liberty and industrial pro6perlty." Farrar defended the corporation prin ciple, saying that it had come perma nently and that It was necessary to the . industrial development of the country. "If there are Frankenstelns in cor porate form," he continued, "stalking the land, terrorising and threatening destruction, 'the people themselves have created them by their legislatures. In 41 states there is no limit prescribed to the capital stock in the 24 perpetuus charters permitted. Mergers and con solidations are specifically prohibited in only two states. Greedy for Revenue. "In the last 10 years there has been competition between the states to in vent and adopt the most unrestricted corporation laws. The spur has been greed for revenue; the encouragement has been the state of New Jersey. "From the bosom of New Jersey have come the. great trusts, holding com panies and other gigantic monopolies. How will it stand with this republic a generation from now if the estates of its millionaires are perpetually Incor porated as Is done in New Tork and (Continued on Page Seven.) SEES 2 SOLUTIONS Good of Whole Community Is Interest to Be Considered in Settling Coal Problem, Says Cabinet Member. (United Press Leased Wire.) Cordova, Alaska, Aug. 29. In a talk with, leading citizens of Cordova, where feeling on the coal question is so high that some months ago a mob dumped a part of a cargo of British Columbia coal into the bay as a demonstration. Secre tary of the Interior Walter I. Fisher outlined his fundamental policy in deal ing with the resources of Alaska. He said that In settling the larger problem of the remaining natural re sources oa Alaska, the interest to be considered Is the goodof the whole com munity. This end will not be served by turning the coal over to unrestricted private exploitation. The object should be prompt and wise development. Two methods are especially prominent before congress and the country. One method is private operation under pub lic supervision by means of a liberal but carefully guarded leasing law. The other method Is direct operation by the government and the, sale of the coal to the people at actual cost, including, however, all elements that make up the cost. "If government ownership should be adopted, where would you have the gov ernment stop In dealing with such mat ters V he was asked. "At the point where It appears that, taking the total effects into considera tion, private enterprise can better serve the needs of the whole community than public enterprise," he answered. "Un derstand me," he continued, "I am not now committing myself to cither policy. I have not . finished my investigation. But I shall reoommend the policy which In my judgment seems to promise the best results for 11 concerned." In their formal address to Secretary Fisher, Cordova eitisens have urged that present laws be so amended that the title to the coal lands con be ae mitred bv those having the desire and the ability to mine and ahlp the ooaL Taken literally, this could mean nothing but handing, ths coal over to millionaire exploiters, v v ' r Fisher appears to neve won tne con fidence of Cordova cltlsens, and the significant thing Is that the people here now seem entirely willing to do some further thinking about what tne Amer ican people topgnt .tor do t. with K their wealth p Aiiaa .oos4 .. . ... fit SECRETARY FISHER TELLS CORDOVA HE Railroad . x e -' H H It st It Kruttschnitt s Stand Disquieting Labor Leaders Believe Harriman Manager Will Refuse to Receive Representatives of Shopmen's Federation and Will Pre cipitate General Walkout Two Sides of. Dispute Between Railroads and Unions Ry jnlins Kruttachnitt, 'Vic President and General Manager of the Harriman Lines. The policy of the Union and Southern Pacific has always been one of Justice, liberality and even generosity toward their employes. The effect of these demands would be to place the whole body of work ers In all crafts behind a demand made by any one of them, encouraging un reasonable requests. . . The entire demands average an Increase of 36 per cent in addition to 12H per cent granted on the Southern Pacific within the past five years. The Harriman line shop payrolls would be increased $7,000,000 an nually. The federation plan would mean chaos; would abridge or deprive the' corporations of the ability to fulfill the duties imposed upon them by law. We decline to surrender to an irresponsible committee representing a very small portion of the public. By Ernest L. Reguln, President of the Federated Shopmen West of the Mississippi. There are only three essential things we ask Shorter hours, Increase In pay and change In hospital conditions. I admit these are enough to make the situation serious, but I believe It will be amicably settled. All we ask of Kruttschnitt now is to talk with us. He says we are an Irresponsible body of men. If he will see our ln ternatlonal officers I am sure he- will change his mind. What of it if the workmen get a $7,000,000 yearly increase? Who get it? The workmen, but it will all get back to the railroad. All we get Is Just enough to live on. The trouble is the increased eost of food and higher rents. I think that when we come to present the facts to Kruttschnitt he will see it our way a little more. We are not making any threats. We are asking only Justice and fair play. (United Press Leased Wire.) . San Francisco, Aug. 29. Practical certainly that Julius Kruttschnitt. vice president and general manager of the Harriman lines, will refuse to receive as representatives of the shopmen's system, federation the heads of five unions now coming westward, and that a strike on the Harriman lines will re sult was the declaration of labor lead ers here today. Disguising his declaration In a maze of words, Kruttschnitt states that the railroads under his control cannot and will not recognize any federation of the unions under their employ. He has an nounced formally that he will confer with J. W. Kline as president of the blacksmiths; J. A. Franklin Ss president of the boilers; M. F. Ryan, as president of the carworkers; M. O'Sulllvan as president of, the sheet metal workers, and J. D. Buckalew as vice president of the machinists. But the Harriman manager today makes no secret of his Intention to refuse to meet the labor leaders as representing one united body. Sanger lies in Men. The danger In the situation lies in the fact that the men o( the shops, al ready disgruntled over wholesale dis missals, will escape control should the federation's officials fall to gain an au dience with Kruttschnitt In that case It is feared they may not wait for an offlcal order to strike. Although when he left Chicago on August 25 Kruttschnitt announced "that if the federated trades council want any conferences with me. they must come to San Francisco," on his arrival here his first declaration was that he did not come west In connection with the strlkd controversey, but for "personal and family reasons," Today he Is holding and has been holding since his arrival, conferences with Vice . President E. E. Calvin and the heads of the operating COMMERCIAL CLUB PICKS SITE FOR NW HUM E Organization Outgrows Present Home and May Sell Prop erty to T. B. Wilcox, Who Has Made Offer; New Loca tion Adjoins Site of Proposed New Home of Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, at Park and Oak. Members of the Commercial club, who are well Informed as to the Inside man agement of that organization, are re sponsible for the report, which has gained wide circulation In the past day or two, that the quarter-block at the southwest corner of Seventh and Oak streets Is about to be taken over as a site for a new and larger home for the Commercial club. The site Is the east half of the Benson half-block, the west half of which was sold last week to the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company as a site for a now administration build ing, and is considered a better location for the Commercial club than the site of the present club building at Fifth and Oak. May Sell Old Location. Involved In thy plan of the' Commer cial club to secure a new location and build a larger cluhhouse, is the sale of the property st Fifth and Oak streets to Theodore B. Wilcox. It is understood that Mr. Wilcox has submitted an offr for the property, nd that the club's governing body la In favor of accepting the offer and closing with Mr, Benson for the new site, ust what Mr Wilcox la nuriDOsed to have offered far the Fifth knd Oak streets property could not be learned, but It is known that Mr. . Ben son named $250. K)u as his figure for the quarter at Seventh . and Oalc, and that a number of the prominent and. in fluential members of the Commeralal club are earnestly ' in favor of buying the property ana pauing up a new i.ome for the club. ' ' ' An official or tne wud, wne reruaca to allow the use of his name, admitted this mnrnlna- that it is nigniy prooaoie tne deal will go through as here outlined. .... i. ' Outgrow Old Home, That the Commercial club has out- arown" it elegant clubhouse, although was completed less than four yeais Workers Predict Strike department of the Southern Pacific. On their side the labor leaders her , headed by President Ernest Reguln of the shopmen's federation, are preparing . .. for the arrival of the heads of the sev- ' eral unions composing that body. . When these leaders arrive the demands of the men will be placed before Kruttschnitt If be refuses to receive the leaders as representatives of the fedratlon or.it he refuses to meet them at least in a com- promise, labor leaders say there is little doubt that a strike will result. ; Reguln added to his previous , com ment on Kruttsohnltte- statement- by specifying the apprentice question s,nd -the physical examination issue as hav- lng been misrepresented by Kruttschnitt. ' "The vice president of the Harriman lines," he said, "has misled the public in the matter of apprenticeship, because that rule is already in operation. He de- v fends the physical examination when he knows that such examinations have already been abolished. They are stated in our proposed agreement simply be- cause we want them to remain settled . as they now are. 1 . . : trnlons Seek Settlement. ' , ' 1 ' "We do not want to place the slightest obstacle in the way of a peaceful settle ment of the Issue that will be discussed by Mr. Krulttschnltt and the presidents ' of the craft unions when ' they meet ' here this week. For that reason I will v not discuss the policy which the com- t pany seems bent upon pursuing. ; Should the attempt of the presidents of the craft unions to secure recognition for :, the federation meet with failure then V. the federation wlU be heard from." 1 The 1600 men In the San Francisco- and Oakland st)6pft are understood to ' have voted almost unanimously to strike v if the federation were not recognised and the eight hour day granted. T agol. Is shown from the fact that every department is cramped for room and ; the management has been unable to fig- ' ure out any way to relieve the situation. President Beckwith ! has twice recora-. mended in his, 'annual report that addl- tlonal stories be put on the present structure or that it be abandoned as a ' home for the club and a new and larger building be erected elsewhere. t Only recently it becama necessary It change several cardrooms Into small .. dining rooms, which change by no means relieved the presaure in the main dinlngroom. The kitchen should be at i least doubled in else, while all the de partments occupying the sixth and sev- enth floors are demanding additional space. ,,' rj CORPORATION LAWS LAX . IN OREGON, SAYS WEST (Special to .Tn. Journal. I ' : Astoria, Or., Aug. 3w "President Tar. rar. of the American Bar, association, !. undoubtedly was right, when he said In his Boston speech today that lax state, laws are responsible. In a Urge measure for the pernicious actlvltlea" of the ; trusts," said Governor-West of Qregrm after reading a : report of Tarrar'n speech. - ':.,'.'. ."i-vC;''. ":;.-. .. "Although we in the west, have not suffered much, ' directly,' our turn win come,", added the governor. 'The Ore- , gon laws are lama In restricting for- , porattons from Issuing watered stock. and In- other wsys also. v "I believe Farrara plan of having the governors of thai different '(, at tempt to arrange for the enactment of similar restrictive laws, in ginwi If it were pomslble for me to etieml t meeting of the house of gownior New Jersey next month I ("iti would take at active tirt in 1 such a step." AT OAK AND SEVENTH