PRICE TWO CENTS g i a n d sINr i v Dc
VOL.X. NO. 225.'
Portland Wins in Fight for Lower Distributive Rates ; to Interior Points
Beattie- Confesses Before Execution .:. Gipsy Smith Commends Governor
PORTLAND, OREGON; FRIDAY , EVENING, NQVEMBER 24, 1911 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES,
-
'?
BEAM CALMLY
MHTS END AFTER
FULL CONFESSION
Virginia Banker Who Murdered
i Bride of Year Walks Unhes
; itatingly to Electric Chair
One Shock Extinguishes Life
BOY'S SIGNED STATEMENT
-, itmr mini ih nv niornn
WIMUC rUDLIU p I rng I Un
layer Tells of Killing Wife-
' t - . ' v.. a a , a . .. . ,
p "i-or mis am I Am iruiy
Sorry."
Announces Seattle's Conf ession..
. ! first tad Piww Leaiftd wire.v
Richmond, Va.; -Nv.' 24.--Rev
J. J. Fix announced today ths
following 'confession by Henry
Clay Batti Jr.'.. ' -
"I. Henry Ctay Beattle Jr.; de-
slrous cf ietan.'Jng right before
God end man, rto on this twenty-,
fourth day ypt November, -19U,
confess my guilt of ths crime
charged against me. . ,,.,!
Much .has been published eon-"
cernlng the detail which was
not v true, but the awful fact,
without ' the harrowing clrcum-
Stances, retrains. For this ac- O
tlon I am truly sorry. Believing
that I am at peace with God and
am soon to rasa Into his pres-
cnce this statement la tna.de. ; '
((Signed)
"HENRY CLAY BEATT1B: .JR.".
(United Prata Leased Wire.) "
f -Richmond. Va. Nov.. 24 Henry Clay
i Seattle Jr, 'died In the "electric chair
; here thl morning. -A few minutes later
signed confession was given to the
public
ft -i
Walk Calmly to Death,
5 . vaimiy ana smiling y,iii3v imui
!ferntly. '" Henry Clay Beattle, Jr.,
walked to hla death In the electric
? chair at the, state prison here .this
i morning and paid the penalty for the.
' murder of hla young wife. He showed
no Indication of ; physical or mental
weakness. r' V'".-r.t
II The execution required just three
minutes from the time Beattle stepped
j Into the death chamber. .. The two
guards entered side by side with the
'doomed man. Rev. J. J. Fix and Rev.
Benjamin Dennis, the two clerygytoen
' who have been attending- the doomed
man la his cell, and Dr. W. T. Oppen-
Tfcelmer, the prison physician, follow-
lng.' . t :.,v.. ,,.v" -
Sleep 'Wm TJntroubled. V
:' Throughout ' "the ordeal Beattle re
mained with - nerve unshaken. Hla
sleep last night was untroubled, and .a
' gloomy,', rainy momln failed to bring
In a tremor to the silent steadiness of hU
' If. 1 1 M - w,
pea
nd then began his march to the death
(Continued on Page Two.) .
DEPOSITS ARE OFFERED
; ALMOST EVERY DAY AT
; 'BUSTED' CLARKE BANK
'Eleven Months Shut Down, Presence
of Receiver aqd the Woes of
Former Depositors-- Are ' Not Yet
Known to All the .World.
' C I Special to Tbe Journal.)
Vancouver," Wash., Nov. 24. Despite
the fact that the Commercial bank of
Vancouver, has been closed 11 months;
that a receiver is In ' charge, and that
officers of the Institution are on trial
for alleged misdeeds in connection with
.receiving funds when they knew the
bank to be insolvent, scarcely a day
passes' but what some one offers a de
posit or asks for an exchange certlfl-
;, Testerday a , man walked Into . the
-t. tl. tend In Milrl nn tha
counter ana toia . Keceiver " r.iaw no
wanted to make a deposit V "
VWliy, this bank la. broke," aald Mr.
Kies, "and wo- are, not receiving ; de
ponitsr -a vy.-- - ','.''. 'J
. With much repugrnance after the slt
UaWfon had been explained, the would
brfTdeposltor scraped the coins from the
Jlbunter' and departed. . ;r iVV-vyv- j-zV-f
4 "Scarcely a day t passes,' said Mr.
Kles, "that an Instance : Of , this kind
does not happen." i , ,
i, , ,;,- ,, ,. (-
11
(United rri-M MtiM Wire.)
:i New York, Nov. E4. Sentence of not
more than eight years ant! eight months
and not less than four years and eight
months was Imposed today upon Vf. J.
Cummins, former trustee of the Carne
s:le Trust company.:' Ha waa found
guilty Monday of having stolen $140,-
ii0 mi msinuuon a lunaa.
CARNEGIE TRUST CHIEF
GETS PRISON
SENTENCE
PHILLIPS' WING
METHODS EXPOSED
TO COVUTZ JURY
Cash Blotter of Wrecked Bank
Gone When Experts Came;
Certificates Totaling $1,00,-
; 000 Merely, "Arithmetical."
STATE BANK EXAMINER
STICKS TO NEW ORLEANS
Wires Prosecution He Can't
. Get Back Till Dec. 1 Too
"Late for Trial..
,i (EpeeUl to The Joarnal.)
Kalama. Wash., Nov. J 4. State Bank
FvnmlntK Hf nhimilrn. who la blamed
by many depositors for holding the de
funct Commercial bank the run so
daya allowed by law after It . failed,
though reorganisation was deemed Im
possible, .and who has been ordered to
Kalama by Governor Hay, telegraphed
District Attorney Tempeajast night he
eould not come until about December 1,
when the trial is likely to be finished.
He is attending the Bankera conven
tion at New Orleans, teavlng the state
about 10 days ago. . Tempes replied,
urging him to report here before the
trial enda. '- ,: -.' .v. ..
(United Pms Leaaed Wire.) i '
- -v-oiorr.. w. Nnv t Kl r h tlnr his
Lway "step 1 by , step -oveif objections by
attorneys for the aerense, Martin u.
Pipes, attorney for the depositors of the
defunct Commercial "Bank of Vancouver,
today made aubstajjtlal progress In pre
senting the testimony upon which , the
state hopes 'to secure the conviction of
Hugh Phillips, ex-president of the bank,
who Is on trial In the circuit court on
the charge of i receiving deposits after
he knew the bank waa Insolvent. f
y n.m.irlii ' i.ailmnnT . waa nlven by
John Y,-Richardson of Portland, an-ex
pert accountant, wtio wun ' Jonn . w.
Ferguson experted the books last sum
mer. He told f the failure to locate
the missing cash blotter among the
books of the bank and the difficulty of
conducting the batik'a business without
such a- record. He entered upon ,. the
story of the entries shown by the books,
leading quickly to. the Increase of the
bank's cash account by $130,0)0 on Pe
oember.6. 190 1, by means of two f 50,000
cerUfJcatea of deposit, payable to the
bajik Itself, and. Wiped .out by reverse
bookkeeping on the following day.;
L As "ArlthmeUoal" Bntry. ;
This Is contended by the state to rep
resent a fictitious Increase of $100,000
in the bank's cash and it Is expected the
(Continued on Page Seven.)
IS
Witnesses Bay Motorman Failed to
Stop Car st Crossing G. W.
Clark Driving Automobile; Other
Collisions Reported.
Mra Bessie Duke of East Thirty-first
and Main streets was seriously Injured
last evening when an automobile of
which she was an occupant, driven by
Q. W, Clark, collided with an East An
ken y street ar at First and Yamhill
streets, hurled her into ' the street on
her head, inflicting a long cut on the
forehead. The woman was taken to
the operating room In the office of Dr.
Hegele, where eight stitches were tak
en In the wound. , She is believed also
to be injured internally. .
s According to . the atory told by wit
nesses, ther street car crew was O blame,
for, instead of stopping at First and
Yamhill streets, the car merely slowed
up, and without ringing nhe bell pro
ceeded across the street. Clark, believ
ing that the car -would stop, proceeded
across the street -and met the car in
the middle of - the sueet.1 v
Another ;: collision ' occurred " shortly
afterward at Second .. and Jefferson
streets when ' as auto driven by M.
Heldford and a Rivervlew car In charge
of P. 8. Anderson col'lded. No one was
injured,' but the- automobile and the car
were both, damaged, j . ', .
Shortly after 6 o'clock trafflo across
the Burnslde bridge waa delayed for
nearly 0 minutes when a street car
collided with a milk wagon, scattering
milk bottles all over the street crossing
at East Second and Morrison street.
T
(United Pfeas tcaaed Wire.) ;
;fliverpool i -Nov, 24: Thirty-three
persons were killed and 73 injured In an
explosion at Blbby & Company's oilcake
mill here. A boiler " exploded, burling
mangled bodids to all parts 'of the
Wrecked building. Many of those injured
are -expected to swell the death list
WOMAN
SERIOUSLY
INJURED
WHEN STREET
CA
AND
AUTO
CRASH
33 KILLED AND 73 HUH
WHEN BOILER EXPLODES
GYPSY APPROVES
WEST'S OPPOSITION
TO TAKING OF. LIFE
f x .
Great .Evangelist Lauds GoV-
ernor for His Action in Abol
' Ishing Capital Punishment
During His Term. ' '
CALLS HIM BRAVEST
. OF BRAVE CITIZENS
Has Caustic Word for Govern
or's Critics; West follows
Teachings bf Savior.
Gipsy Smith, world famous evangel
ist. . applauds " Governor West's an
nounced opposition , to , capital punish
ment and calls the governor the bravest
of brave men ; because, when he com
muted the death sentence of Jans M.
William Hasslng to life Imprisonment
last night he also declared that so long
as he Is governor there shall be no more
BtChgings in Oregon. ; .
The evs-ngellBt. too, had a caustlo
word to say thla morning concerning
the 'critics of the governor's action. -
"Any little dog may bark at the
moon," he said, "but the moon goes on
shining Just the same.
"Any man who follows his conscience
and. In the sight of God. tries to do
what he ought to do, Is going to be
target for the gibes and sneers of the
critics who have no generous or good
motive In their criticism. -
"I admire the governor of Oregon. He
isj a brave man to stand . for . his con
victions In carrying out a splendid work
of reform In the face of the kind, of
opposition I am told he baa.
"Let the people of Oregon uphold their
governor in his opposition to the prin
ciple of -capital, punishment. He has
given. a sinning man a chance to seek
God and live a regenerated life, though
In nrtson. ' 1 ..
?My; heart Jea4 toward "keeping ih
man in-a prison rather than snap of I
his life and with it his opportunity to
turn from evil.
"Capital punishment Is not a proper
attribute of civilization. In this day
we live to eliminate vice and crime by
Instilling the prlnoiples of lovo and gen
tleness and peace. This was the mis
sion ' of Jesus Christ and we. his fol
lowers, could not do less and do right
and be brave. God bless your governor.
I think he has done a splendid thing."
NO MORE NECKS TO BE
BROKEN IN STATE WHILE
WEST IS THE GOVERNOR
! (Salem Bnreau of Tci Journal.) '
Salem, Or., Nov. 24. The last official
act of Governor West t before he left
Ealem on the 1:40 train yesterday after
noon was to announce that the death
sentende of Jans M. William -Hasslng,
sentenced to hang December 19 for mur
dering hla wife, would be commuted to
life imprisonment. The governor went
further and declared there would be no
more necks broken by the state of Ore
gon as long as he was chief executive.
"The old rule that bloodshed should
be expatiated by theBheddlng of blood
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
T
fATAL TO YOUNG
ON AUTO HONEYMOON
Goldfleld Couple Arrives at San
Bernardino Braised and Bleed
r lng From Score of Lacerations
, Caused by ,4Whipping.M
.(United rreas Lao Wlra.V
8an Bernardino, ,' Cal., ' Nov. 24.
Bruised and bleeding from scores of
lacerations, the 'result of a. sand whip
ping on the desert east of here, George
Young and his bride, of GoldfieM. Nov.,
reached San Bernardino today more dead
than- alive. .;.::;:.'. . '.",;
Caught in a terrific, sandstorm while
enroute to Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco on an automobile honeymoon, the
couple were marooned on the desert for
three days without food and water and
would have perished but for 'the bravery
of the four day bride. ' - t
When Young fainted from exhaustion,
Mrs. Young started out In the whirling
storm and walked 1 miles to a mining
camp. Miners guided the couple to the
railroad station. ., , ,', . .,','.
BERESF0RD ASSERTS,
ONLY 12 OF ENGLAND'S
SHIPS READY FOR FIGHT
: 7 ' (Special to Tli. Journal.) . ' !
4 ,:, London, Nov, J4. England : is
4 .. aroused today as the result of
4 Lord Beresrora s declaration,' in
s his speech at rortsmouth that of 4
4 the 244 snips in me navy but 12 4
4 ' are ready .for service. , He , de- 4
4 . clared that the others are manned ' a
by boys and l alf drilled stokers,- 4
4 and that the fleet Is. not only in- 4
4 sufficiently manned, but divided.' 4
" . ; :4
SANDS
ORM IS NEARLY
PI
' r,,i ' 11 11 ,1 1 1 ill 1 i"i . 1 1 1 li
mm
RJDERS TO
VIE FOR HONORS
Grand March to Be Longest in
History of the Hunt Club;
Elaborate Mounted Drills to
Be Feature.
Ring Master Chester .Murphy will
crack his whip and start the Hunt
club's fifth annual horse show promptly
at 8 o'clock tonight The grand march
of dainty, high-bred animals, ridden by
Portland's most graceful equestriennes
and their partners, will be one of the
longest In the history of the Hunt club's
series of shows, and wil be followed by
one of the most elaborate mounted drills
ever1 given by the club; sight couples,
on beautlfulnlgh-stepplng mounts, will
ride through the Intricacies ot thla
number. "
The elaborate scheme of decoration, In
the club's colors, with lavish use of ever
green branches and brilliant electrlo
Illuminations, Is being completed today,
and will form a gay setting for the
fashionable audience and the maneuvers
of the prancing thoroughbreds within
the show ring.
Two different children's, drills, mads
up of two juvenile classeswill take the
place of the Hunt club drill at tomor
row afternoon and tomorrow evening's
performances. There will be various
interesting events, and the showing of
different classes at each performance,
the concluding event tomorrow night
being the judging of the hunting horses
and the awarding, to the winner, of the
handsome silver cup which has been
hung up: ' . '
The awards are to be-made by Jobs
Johnson, who arriyed early today. He is
one of the most famous judges of horses
in the' country, having been for several
years In the service of the British gov
ernment buying cavalry horses for tbt
British army. . 'V " -
Lieutenant Rucker, of ths Post at
Vancouver, will act as entry 'clerk, and
John E. Cronan will be the announcer.
T
WORKER FOR PEACE
- Toklo, Nov.; 24. Count Komura, for
mer foreign minister of Japan and for
many years one of the foremost' man
In the nation,' died hers this morning
of consumption. ,;'..,'-.". ..
,. Komura, after being prominent In the
conduct of the Russo-Japanese war, was
the leader, of the commissioners from
Japan who made peace at Portsmouth,
N. H.; after extended conferences with
Count Wltte, the plenipotentiary for the
ctar.," ,:.':-:,-:':r-' : ..." : .,
OPENING TONIGHT
COON
KOMURA DEAD
SHOWING OFF!
'THE STATE PASSES'
S;
DEFENSE HARD HIT
J "
Sudden Action on Part of the
Prosecution Compels . Mc
Namara's Attorneys to Ex
ercise Part of Peremptories.
.
4 - remanent Jurors Sworn to Try
4 McNamara, ' 4
Robert F. Bain, carpenter.
4 F. D. Green, rancher.- 4
4 Byron Llsk, mill president .
4 Jj B. Sexton, '. orange grower ' 4
4 and real estate broker.
4 , William J. Andre, carpenter. '
F. A. Brode, retired hardware
4 . merchant and lumberman.
4 K. S. Blsbce, rancher.
4 J. II. Coke, rancher. 4
(United Treas Leaned Wire.)
Hall of Records, Los Angeles, Nov.
24. As the climax of one of the most
tense situations In a noted criminal
case, four men were peremptorily chal
lenged by the defense In the 'McNamara
murder case today when District Attor
ney John D. Fredericks,, with an inscru
table smile on his face, "stood pat" on.
all of the men ln the box and reserved
all of his. five remaining peremptorlea
The men eliminated were .F. A. Mo
Burney, builder and architect; A. D.
Stevens, retired cattle man; s. P.
Olcott, rancher, all of whom had said
they believed McNamara guilty,- and J.
H. Marshall, a retired hardware clerk
and near neighbor of Captain Freder
icks. By having to utlllxe its precious per
emptories, the defense was put to a
decided disadvantage, now having only
seven remaining of Its original 20. v.
--'':,,-; Sxerotslar.Xs Delayed. .-.',':
Exercising of peremptories was de
layed for 20 minutes until the arriving
of the prosecutor and the result was a
(Continued on Page Fourteen.)
POSTPONED BY JUDGE
? (United Preae Leaaed Wlra.) ,
Chicago, Nov. 24. Acquiescing In the
plea of J. Ogden Armour and nine other
beef kings indloted for criminal con
spiracy In Violation of the Sherman
law, United' States District Judge Car
penter today postponed the packers'
trial until December . 6. , ; : 1 "
,i The' .United - States.supreme court
meets December 4 whon It will .receive
the packers' appeal on the constitution
ality of the Sherman sctr i
SNAPS FREDE
IK
TRIAL OF BEEF BARONS
LA FOLLETTE SAYS
GREAT RAILROADS
GOVERNMENT
"Senator Bob'Asserts He Will
Continue Fight Against the
Postal Car Service. "Graft"
Has Continued Decade.
(United Preaa Leaaed Wlr.V ; ,
.' New York, Nov, 24. Declaring that
the fight against the alleged railroad
graft of millions of dollars ' annually
In charges for postal car service will
be taken up vigorously at the next ses
sion of congress. Senator Robert M.
La Follette exposes a graft which he
says has been continuing for a decade
under powerful protection. In a new In
stallment of his autobiography In tbe
American magazine, out today.
"Senator Bob's" story goes back to
the administration of Grover Cleveland,
when, says the article, Postmaster Gen
eral Vilas of Wisconsin made the dis
covery that for the rental which tho
government paid annually to the rail
reads. It could "actually build outright,
equip and keep In repair all the cars it
used and then save $500,000 a year. "
" Pits Facts Before Committee.
Vilas hastened to put these facts be
fore the house committee, believing that
they had only to be made known to bit
remedied at once. He could not even
get a vote in support of his proposi
tion for reforming the evil.
"If he had tried to get It upon the
floor of : the: house, there would not
have been a corporal's guard io sus
tain him," declares the autobiogrphy,
I'The railroad lobby outside and the rail
road members inside would have pre
vented any action. Seventeen years lat
er, when I came to the senate, I looked
the matter up and there was the same
old abuse.' During all these years the
(Continued on Paee Two.)
JAPANESE DESTROYER,
EF,
45 OF CREW DROWNED
v
Great Part of Hen on Board War
Vessel Die When, LUtle Craft,
After Banging on the Rocks All
Night, Goes to Bottom. ,.'
V
(Unltad rraaa f.M.art Wlra.
Toklo, Nov. 24. Forty-five members
of a craw ot 60 of the torpedo boat de
stroyer Harusameh"were drowned today
when the vessel was sunk off Cupe Slma
during a terrlflo gale.
The destroyer was driven on a reef
, last night, and sank toOay.
DRIVEN ON RE
SINKS
OA
ERINAS
ARE GIVEN LOWER
BACK HAUL RATES
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion Orders Reduction of 20
Per Cent in Distributive
Freight Charges to Interior.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ,
BEGAN FIGHT IN 1S09
Decision : Affects - Shipments
Over N. P., 0.-W. R. & N.,
and Connections.
(Washington Bnnaa of Th Journal.)
Washington, Nov. 2 is The Interstate
commerce commission In an Opinion by
Commissioner McChord today holds in
terstate class .rates from Portland, Se
attle and Taooma to points In Washing
ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana are un
reasonable and. should be reduced, ths
commission orders the Oregon-Washington
& Navigation company,' Oregon
Short Line, Oregon-Washington & Idaho,
and the Union Pacific on or before Jan
nary 2, 1912, and two years thereafter,
to maintain : from Portland , to points
east, northeast and southwest In Wash
tngton, Idaho and Montana first class
rates not In excyss of the following:
For distances less than 100 miles,. SO
cents; between 100 and 200 miles, -73
cents; between , 200 and S00 - miles', 91
cents; between. 300 and 400 miles, $1.10:
between '400 and- 600 miles, $1.29; be
tween 600 and COO miles,' $1.47; between
600 : and. 700 .. miles, $1.64. , , Other class
rates sre graded In proportion.. The re
duction amounts to 20 per cent, t " ! "
Maximum rates, for distances exceed
ing i 700 . miles are not prescribed . but
are. left to the' carriers for adjustment
The Northern Pacific; Great Northern
and other roads operating In the states
mentioned are made party to tbe order.
This Is the-famous "back haul"' case
that has been before the interstate com
merce oommlsslon since early In the
year 1909 when it was filed by Attorney
J. N. Teal of Portland for the Trans
portation committee . of the Portland
Chamber of r Commerce, the Transporta
tion Bureau of the Seattle Chamber .of
Commerce, and the Taeoma Trafflo as
sociation. Testimony was taken by ths
commission at the time the - Spokane
case was heard. :'; "";
The petition set forth that the- dlu-,
iritutlve rates from coast; ports into
Oregon, Washington. Idaho and Mon
tana were unduly discriminatory and un
reasonably high, and according- to th
above dispatch . the commission found
that the evid nice Introduced had au
t aired these contentions. . . 1
Mr. Teal stated, this morning that he
does not expect the United States Com
merce court will grant , an injunction in
this case as was done In the Spokane
case a few days ago because-the com
merce court at that time refused to en
join the enforcement of the commis
sion's rulingr in the Salt . Lake f case
which was brought upon a reasonable
ness of the rates established. - .The Spo
kane case differed in that the rates
granted Spokane were not based on 'their
reasonableness-but the commission. In
stead; established the' Missouri river
coast rates as the maximum to Spoknne
and common points, a basis which would
flu:tr.ato with the change of water com
petitive rates If the railroad saw fit
to advance or reduce its rates to thi
coait . accordinrly. ,.a, .y-. '. . ' '
"I would incline to think that the
(Continued on Page Seven.)
1 -
1
JURY IS STILL OUT
Men Who Pleaded Guilty Go to
. Prison for, Long Terms; Fate
of Those Who . Stood Trial
Undecided. - . 5
(United Frees taaed Wirt.) '
" Lincoln Center, Kan ., Nov. 21. At
noon today the Chamberlain jury en
tered the courtroom and asked for a
copy of the testimony regarding the
defendant Slmms.
Lincoln Center, Kan.. Nov. 24. One
yeareaoh in tbe penitentiary was the
sentence meted out here today to F.ver
ett G. Clark, a miller, and Wntwa
Scrahton and Jar Fltswater, fhrmor,
all of Shady Bend, who pleaded guilty
last week to the charge of "assault an!
battery brought against thera for tar
ring and feathering Miss Mary Che tn
berlain, school teacher. .
At 11 o'clock today no decision hs.t
been reached by the Jory in
hands rests the fata of. N. 8. Finn . ,
SherriU Clark .and John ffrni.
charged with having tarred an t t
ered Miss Chamberlain.
When it , was. fonuu'!.v r: '
him that the Jury h'i " r '
Grover annmnpil t J t l-t '
would keep them ti:. " '!' i
row.
THREE OF
E
HYEAR