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PRICE- FIVE CENTS VOLi X. - NO. 24 PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY" MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1913. ... , ' ' ' , 1 ' SULZER DENIES HE RECOGNIZESjRIGHT -OF: GtYljTilOB Habeas Corpus Secured for Garrison, Sulzer's Press Agent; Who Is eld in Jail for Contempt of Assembly. SULZER IS REMAINS IN HIS STUDY Burden of Proof -;That Cam paign Fund Was Misused Laid UponjStatei ; (By tu International !Nw Serrlct.) Albany, N. Y., Sett. 20. Deyelop menu iti connection wjlth the lmpeac raant trial of Governor Sulzer which la to bo resumed Monday, were: , Valentine Taylor, legal adviser of the lmpeachtd govorijor, denied that there had been any admission by Sulzer of the rlgbr of Lieutenant Governor Glynn to act as governor. Friends of Suiter strongly denied the persistent rumor tha he contemplates resigning. Sulier was announced as being. in disposed today and under the care of his wife, who has decided that he needs a few days of complete rest. Louis Sarecky, former confidential se cretary to Sulzer, left Buffalo today after announcement that he would ap pear at the impeachipent trial and tell what he knows regarding the Sulzer campaign fund. Habeas Corpus Tor Garrison. A writ of habeas Corpus was secured tonight by counsel for James C. Carrl son, the Sulzer press agent who was committed to the Albany penitentiary for contempt of the assembly. The writ was granted by Justice Cochrane of Hudson, who made it returnable Mon day at Troy. Until ithen Garrison must remain in Jail. The application for the writ asserts that Garrison has been perfectly willing t testify regarding the charges of brlbtry of assemblymen but has insisted on; having counsel. When the trial is resumed Monday afternoon Louis Marshall of counsel for Sulzer. will resume his argument againat the right pt the legislature to impeach at an exttja. session. -The vote on tills question will probably be taken Tuesday morning. J Counsel for-.4hi Impeached governor claim that they have won two distinct victories thus farf in the trial. They have succeeded in focusing public at tention upon Senators Frawley, San- ner and Rampsptrger by questioning their right to sit 'In the impeachment court after they had drawn up the ac cusations against' the man on trial. Judge Cullen, it- 1 claimed, liaeby .his presentation, mads the retirement of the three challenged senators an obli gation of honor despite the vote against their vlthdrawal. I The . other victory claimed by the Sulzer forces is in the exclusion of hearsay evidence under the rules adopted by the court. An abso lute denial of the qharge that campaign contributions were' used In Wall street speculation will bej entered and burden 01 proor win ran upon trie accusers. Acta Antedate Election. .Following the voje on the legality of the Impeachment it Is announced that the next move will be to ask that the three articles of impeachment referring to the use of campaign funds be stricken out. It will be claimed that these are not impeachable acts because they ante date the election and Inauguration of Sulser as governor. Acting Governor Glynn spent most of the day In the temporary executive quarters with several of the department heads, endeavoring (to bring some sem blance of order out of the chaoa that has resulted from the impeachment and the determination Jof Sulzer to retain yuBBGBBion oi ine executive oirjces. " 1 ' " HOPS AT 30 CENTS Independence Growers, How ever, Hold Oijit in Hope of Still Better Price, BID FOR OPTIONS 8pelal to fhr Journal.) Independence, Or.j Sept 20. Another unexpected advance In the price of hops was freely offered sellers in this community today, Tfhen Dorcus Broth ers were trying to get options ' for one week at 80 cents. Yesterday they pur chased over 100,000 pounds at 25 centi The growers .are Inclined to hold off, as they feel .confident a better price will be offered .themi later, and late o day no sales were; reported. Offers for !Babe hops wetmafe at 28 cents and 27 cehts tor tWiw'toble crop. IndependenceXnever had a mors sen sational day a - tar fas the hop situa tion Is , concerned, and several large deals are expected t be closed within the next few days. (Growers are de termine that they ihall get. the fu.l benefit of the advance Jn prices and ai holding off for, the Ipresenti. STEALS SUIT OR CLOTHES FOR UNGALJANJ SWAIN Chicago, 111., Sept. 2f Pretty 18-year-old Eva Parker confessed to the police tonight that she entered a man's room and Stole a $30 suit pf clothes because' she wanted; her 16-year-old sweetheart, Clarence Collins, "tevJook swell like Other fellows." ' ) VMe was out of a Job and his clothes got to looking tough," explained the girl. "I don't mind being arrested, but lie kicked because he suit was too .small for him."-" . The unchlvalrous Clarence, who de nied that he was a partner In the theft, was locked up -with the girl. " -i . , ' I; y ' . 1 : ; - . 1 '. 1 . " '' " JUDGES CONCERNED IN SULZER TRIAL l rt I U 1 iv', ?ti . if us ; - -tee' fi&BYI( mmmm .mi in kiiipuiii in n ..i. . ''l I TopCfilet Janice Cnlleii tot -Hew York court of pjea!Sj which,', with thi state eienatej will iass upon the Impeachment of Ntfw YoVk's governor. Bottom Associate judges f Xew Xork courts onppettls-Jieft Jo jisht Judge William E. Werner, Judge Collin, Judge Gray. HIGH SPOTS I N TH E SU LZER-MU RPH Y ... WAR Villiam Sulzer was elected governor last November, with the sup port of Tammany. t Soon after election, he proclaimed himself "leader of Democracy in New York state" this being construed as a direct challenge to Charles F. Murphy, head of Tammany Hail. i First big breach came when Sulzer last "winter espoused the direct primary and opened a fight for a "real direct primary law." The legislature, with Tammany readers, defeated the Sulzer direct primary bill and substituted one which the governor denounced as a "fraud and subterfuge." Sulzer called an extra session and made a tour of the state "appeal ing to the people" on the primary issue. The extra session of the legislature flatly turned down Sulzer's di rect primary bill and directed the "Frawley committee" to investigate the official acts of the governor. The Frawley committee made the charge that Sulzer appropriated campaign funds to his own use and bought stocks with them. Sulzer issued a blanket denial. The committee's report was adopted by the. legislature and the im peachment voted. T Several Million Dollars Decrease tion for Wheat, Lumber, Each Year, It Producers and shippers of the north west are beginning to measure the dol lars and cents savings on the tons and bushels of varied exports that will be effected for their benefit through' the opening of the Panama canal. Figures Indicate that the decrease of transportation cost on present produc tion of wheat, lumber, wool, fruit, pota toes and so on will be several million dollars annually. As the canal "brings world markets thousands of miles nearer, the incentive for populating and farming unused mil lions of acres in the Columbia district will be proportionately furnished. It is the opinion of all who have stu died the situation that transportation savings will be added to prices received by producers. Lessened cost or commerce, it is point ed out, depends on getting carriers for It The attracting of vessels to this port is divided between tonnage and harbor facilities. The latter includes and recognizes the necessity of the deepened channel across the Columbia river bar. For this reason, perhaps, the people of the Columbia district have been awakened as never before in aid Of thev campaign to get from the gov ernment mor'e dredges on the bar, and to have increased appropriation made so that the.uis years' of time estimated as necessary to complete the north Jetty reaucea to tnree. it is said that suo- cess of the effort to get more dredges on the bar by next spring will mean a 35-foot bar channel within a year. - . ine rate via the canal to an Inland PANAMA CANAL 0 MEAN E AND ak I wV- , diiiij u 1 TO OF in the Cost of Transporta Wool, Etc, Will Result Is Declared, City like Pittsburg will tic cut to $15 probably, in comparison" with the $20 per thousand rate by rail. Ureater use Of Oregon fir on the Atlantic count may be expected, also, for the reason that the production of southern pine Is de creasing una the southern states market for It la growing up o the production. It is'potnted out that Oregon with the greatest body of standm timber In the Unltf&rl RtntAu inn nnn nun nun tct win undoubtedly Increase prod-ittion us the tnnvlfA, . j Look at a few of the savings definite ly estimated: Oregon and Washington are credited with producing annually 6,000, oou.ouu feet ofj. lumber. The iivvsent rate from Portland to New York, suld Frank H. Ransom,, ntanager of the Kaatcrn & Western Lumber company, yesterday, is 75 cent a hundred or about $25 per 1000 feet. The cost of transportation through the canal, he estimates, at $13 per 1000 feet If all the lumber produced in the two states were aent via the cunal to New York it would mean, on the basis of present production; a saving of $72, 000,000. The figure, of course. Is excess ive. A :)arge .consumer of lumber from this district L California. It is also "hipped to South America and many other ports.. But'' wnerever shipped through ! the canal blg reductions in transportation . coat are assured. Significant saving muy be expected on wheat, it is .variously estimated at a and 10 cents a buuhel decrease in wate transportation. The present rail rates prohibit transcontinental ship ments of wheat. . lf, for the sake of (Continued on Page Five.) SAVING PRODUCERS NORTHWEST E OUT TO BE A GIRL After Two Years of "Married" Life With Another Meeker, Colorado Girl, She Admits Impersonating Man. THEY SAVED TOGETHER SO AS TO GO TO COLLEGE She Made Such a Hit as a Man She Married to Keep Girls Away. (Called i'reaa Leuurd Wire. I Meeker, I'olo., Sept. 20. Hound over to the next term of the district oui t on charge of impersonating a man, Helen Hlllsher, who, masquerading us "Handsome Jack" Hill for two years, broke the hearta of lovelorn maldcna of Meeker and finally "married" Miss Anna Sllfka, was released on bull to night after u sensational court hearing. "Handsome Jiick" and Attorney Cham bers, her counsel, left late tonight for Denver where the girl holies to en cape the notoriety attendant upon her escapade. Miss Sllfka, "bride" of "Handsome Jack," refused to prosecute her "hus band" but Victor Slifka, the girl's fath er, announces he will prosecute Miss Hlllsher to the limit of the law. He alleges "Handsome Jack' grossly de ceived his daughter and led her to believe that 'lie" was a "man.'' When Miss Hlllsher was arraigned be fore Judge Sanderson this afternoon, Miss Slifka testified that she did not know her "husband" whom she "mar ried" ten months ago, wus a girl until a few days ago. She admitted that sha had been deceived but tuid she did not want to cause trouble. The defendant was next called and made a tearful plea In her own behalf. She swoiV! she re- (Continued on' Page four.) E IS T OF r Senator Borah Will Introduce Bill Abolishing Practice in the Islands, (By the International Ne &h-U'. Washington, L). C, Sept. 20. Aboli tion of slavery in the Philippines will be urged In a bill undtr preparation by Senator Borah of Idaho. "Tne revelations of a human price list of $30 for children 3 years old, $B0 for those of H and $100 for adults needs Immediate remedial legislation.'' an nounced Senator Boruh today. "1 shall Introduce a bill which alms to nlpp out slavery of every kind In the Philippines In the near future. "There Is no need for an investiga tion of these conditions. Time should not be wasted In bucIi proceedings. The representations of Auditor I'hipps prove conclusively that slavery existo." The startling dlaclonure.-i of the report of W. H. Phlpps. auditor of the Philip pines, filed today, moved other members of congress and government officials to predict speedy action on ijny legislation drafted to abolish slaverylin the Philip pines, y Phlpps charges that Filipino women are -sold to Chinese us wives, that It Is a common practice for the Negrito Fili pinos and the fill! classes generally, to sell glr!8 into slavery and that the ex cuse offered Is that these slave boyi and glrlM are "adopted" Into the fami lies of their masters. It is asserted in tlio report that the price for a child ranges from $;)() up to ubout $50. The astuteness of the nius terB Is demonstrated by the way the purchase is made. In every ease the origin of the sale Is covered and 1s sel dom known. It Is asserted In cold blood by some of the slave owners .that it ii better to adopt the orphans than to kill them as was the customs of the hill tribes. Mr. Phlpps states: "That there Is larpre trafficking in girls. I have personally had a num ber of offers of this kind, and it is generally known that a large percent age of the Chinese who have Klllplno wives actually .bought them." The effect of the report will be a call from the war . department upon the service In the Philippines to push the Indlviduaj slave cases vigorously. Milk Show Section THE SUNDAY JOURNAL for to- day Includes an additional news section devoted exclus ively to the pure milk prob lem. EIGHT PAGES of text and il lustrations present the several phases of the problem which confront the producer, cream ery man and consumer. , , ARTICLES by persons who know and ' covering a , wide : range of subjects make this a SECTION Of AUTHORITY. SEE SECTION SIX : mm urn ARRESTED TURNS PfilPPIN SLAVERY PROVED REPOR GOVERNMEN OFFICIAL CONFESSED MURDERER AND HIS CAPTOR I 1 I , , , , L tJ AN OLD 1 CAN HELD ss MAN'S fflRin MAN Ton. left to riaht Dr. Ernest Muret, held by police for his as (tociation with Kev. Hans Schmidt Rev. Hans Schmidt, the confessed murderer of Anna Aumuller. Rniinm Insnector Joseph A. Faurot who solved the Aumuller murder mystery. E DINNER; FINDS CORPSE Irs. Rizzls of Bend Says She Shot Intruder for . ... Reason, . ... (Sprcial to Tha Journal. Bend, Or., Sept. 20. When Peter Rlzjsis went home for his dinner today, he found the body of Tomo Sealpara lying on the floor, the head of the corpse resting on a tlnpan. Sealpara's lft breast had been' torn oprn by a charge from a shotgun, and upon o,uentlonlns Mrs. Hlzzis said she shot Sca-lpara after he had made sev eral Improper proposals to her. Mrs. Illiiy.lK said uhe took her baby and fled as soon as she fired the gun. The presmcf of the tinpan pillow Is puzallntc the coroner's jury, which is In vestigating the tragedy. Rizzis says the Dan was there when he entered the room, and his wife disclaims all knowl edge of how it got there. It i bclit-ved there is more to the af fair thun litis been told, and a thorough investigation will be made. PHOTO MEN PROTEST AGAINST PAYING FEE Recent Plan of Kxpcwition Officials Who Say That They Need the Money. San Francisco. Sept. 20. The Call fornla Camera club, reprenenting 6000 amateur and professional photogra phers, ba published an open letter pro testing againat the fee which the Pan ama-Pacif Ic exposition directors are ex pected to charge visitors who take cameras within the exposition grounds, A standing plea is made to have the exposition management Insert a clause in the proposed photograph concession contract to allow small hand cameras at least to be used by visitors to the exposition. The club tells of the precedent at other big exposition and says that the proposed ruling Is absolutely contrary to the practice that has prevailed here and abroad, with the single exception of the Buffalo exposition, held over 20 years ago. "The only reply the concessions com mittee has made to our protest," says the letter, "la that the exposition needs the money." FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED BY FRIENDS OF "BIG TIM" Declared That Bowery Politican Was Lured From Brothers Home by Phone Call. New York, Sept. 20. The report that "Wg Tim'' Sullivan was lured from the residence of hte brother, Patrick Sul livan, where he was living, by a tele phone call, and later murdered before being left on tho railroad track, is be ing carefully investigated tonight. Each day the opinion becomes strong er among the friends of the former Qnv nnlttlrlkn. -that he was mur dered and placed on the track of the New Haven railroad. Detectives from the office of Dis trict Attorney Whitman are now inves tigating the death of Sullivan. The lnquesr wlll be held 'bn September J9. Exhibit ion Exhibits Free of Duty. Washington, D. C, Sept. 20. Exhibits intended for the Panama-Pacific expo sition of 1B15 may now enter the United Ktatos duty free. President Wilson to day signed the bill enacting' Into law this exception to the exlBtlng turiri law. GOES HOM , I ii li u liuiuiL. iv mi in Prospector Buried His "Pal" Lonesome Pine for a Monument, (Siietlal to The Journal ) Pendleton, Or.. Kept. I'O. Deep in the fastness of the almost impassable mountains of the Seven Devils country In Idaho, William Flnley, a pioneer prospector, discovered that which clears up half of the mystery sur rounding the disappearance six years ago of "Gentleman Jack" Howard and Jim Wilder, two gold seekers who had been partners for a quarter of a century. It was an epitapn sealed by pitch In an old tin can, and Flnley found it at the fost of a r'tall pine tree beneath which a"grave had been dug. " It was written by Howard upon the death of Wilder three years ago, when the two were far from the haunts of civil ization. Flnley copied the epitaph and exhib ited it for the first time upon his ar rival In Pendleton today. It is a touch ing tribute from one comrade to an other, as follows: "Old Pard. it mat ters not In the eyes of the Creator whether you are buried with all the pomp and pageantry of a king or the simplicity of a peasant. This giant pine that marks your last Tenting place seems to say, 'Here lies one man who has lived the life of the twenty-third Psalm. Old Pard, I trust when the great trum pet blows you and I will be Pards again In the land of gold and perpetual hap piness. Now all I can say is God bless you, old Pard, good-bye Old Pard, good bye. Jack Howard. Flnley knew both men for 26 years and he is now searching for trace of Howard. THAW ASSUMES CHARGE OF HIS OWN PUBLICITY Fugitive Threatens Agents With Dis missal for Talking About His Case. Concord, N. II., Kept. 20. Angered by the reports of a split la his legal staff, Harry K. Thaw today took entire charge of the publicity end of his bat tle for liberty and threatened to dis miss tho first lawyer, secretary or de tective who tells of anything concern ing him. Karly today Thaw called a meeting in his "throne room" In the Eagle hotel and laid down the law according to his own Ideas to his attorneys. Fol lowing this he was in telephonic com munication with the New York attor neys, whom it was intended to with draw from the case. The announcement that the Duchess county Jury had failed to indict Thaw on the charge of conspiracy In connec tion with the escppe from Matteawan caused much Jubilation In the Thaw camp. It Is believed that this failure will influence Governor Felker and (tie hope Is running high that he will re fuse to sign the extradition warrant. UNIVERSITY TRAINING FOR PRISON OFFICIALS Innovation In College Curriculum's Is Prescribed at Berkeley. San Francisco, Sept. SO Announce ment was made at a luncheon of the Comonwealth club today that Dr. David P. Barrows, acting president of the Uni versity of California and Dr. Jessica Peixotto, a woman member of "tha fac ulty had decided to establish a course of training for prison officials at the state university. " " ; ;s "It is agreed that there is something radically wrong with the management of our statp prisons," said Rev. Father Lathrop who made tne announcement, "and ( Students sr Inclined to believe that the trouble lies with the men em ployed In the prisons.' i Th theory is that their lack of train ing makes them unfjt td cope with prob lems ol criminology. The faculty of the University of . California, hopes to bring about an, Improvement In prison conditions by training young men for the work., - SB Johannes Schmidt, "Father Schmidt," and Adolph Muel ler, "Dr. Muret," Held for Murder, Are Cousins. POLICE ARE RETRACING TWO CAREERS OF CRIME Both Fled Their Homes in Germany, One to U. S.. the Other to England. (By the Internatlondl J!w Srlee. 1 ! New York, Sept. 20. Since the appre hension of Hans Schmidt as the mur- -derer of Mips Aumuller and his confes sion, not a day has failed to add soma details of the man's strange life story. It seems to the people that the 'whole , world is interested. A thread has been nicked up here and there, this tangle has been unraveled, and from warp and woof, the narrative of his career . in . crime has been woven. The police and the court authorities now realize that , they have to deal with one of the arch criminals of the age. Inspector Faurot Is not alone iti be- 'lieving that time will brand this as the world's most celebrated murder case. As the inspector says the Rev. Hans Schmidt has been shown to be one ef1 the brainiest criminals in any land, If this man had not made one UUi mistake and bought a pillow different from any other pillow sold, Faurot de ; clares that Schmidt would have de veloped into a master, plotting for a band of small criminals around him launching out and abandoning half way criminality to make himself a factor in the big crimes of the world. Here fs his story so far as it is now known : Chapter I; Sends Picture to Mother. . An old gray haired woman, sitting by the fire In her little home In Aschaf fenburg, Germany, two weeks ago, wi handed a photograph by the mall mw, and the picture proved to be that of her long absent Johannes Schmidt in Ameri ca. On the back of the card was -the sentence in German: "Af etn frohea wiadershen" (to your nappy meeting) On a post card that came" two daj s later was the .encQuntging promiaei, "I rejoice that 1 soon' may be with . Tears of Joy came into the old frau'e eyes, as ahe told the newe of her aon and hie plait to return to. tier and ,to her husband, Helnrich Schmidt, who "a 65 years of age. Yet the Rev. Hans Schmidt when be sent the likeness and the message was undoubtedly already planning the cruel ; murder-of Anna--Aumuller-r- the- omeiy young girl he said he loved. He had ; looked at flats and stolen a death co tifieate. had a copy made of it, by pho tography and had obtained In some way blank, death, certificates Chapter XX. Els Touth was Wild.. , Frau , Schmidt sat gazing into the flames in the grate and thought of ti;a youth of her boy Johannes. Time aud again in those days he rad brought tears to her eyes. At Mains seminal y his pranks had scandalized her. He even had on one occasion sat in a bath tub naked, playing a guitar, - while ot.lt r students and the learned teachers looked aghast through the open door. At Munich again, where tie was sent for further schooling, his love affairs with women of questionable character became a public scandal and led to his disgrace. Nevertheless he was ordained and sent to officiate at St. Elisabeth's church. He once abandoned - the altar In a solemn part of serivces at Gonzen helm and ran crying through the ais it and later disappeared from the town aft er an affair. Then he was Involved Jn forgery and dismissed. ' A close companion of Johannes Schmidt In these youthful days of rev elry and affairs with women was a cousin, Adolph Mueller, none other th.tn the dentist and associate ' of Schmidt here in New York ; under arrest ant booked by the ' police as Dr. Ernes; Muret. Cousins Keep la Touch. Mueller fled to England and Schmidt : fled to America.. Constantly they kept in touch but secretly, of necessity. Mueller became first Dr, Estein and in that guise was employed to teach languages in the Hugo Language In stitute in London. He padded his ac counts and was discharged, immediate ly afterwards, launching out in an other quarter of the city as "Dr. Ernst", teaching a fair knowledge of a foreign tongue In ono month. Next he became a surgeon, Dr. Muret. and was an organiser of' a medical aid so ciety, that provided families with medi cal attention and medicine for their three pence weekly. The medical de fense union caused th arrest of the bogus doctor and Muret dropped out of sight While Scotland Yard held war rants for white slavery, Illegal opera tions, attacking a young girl and: fraudulently posing as a physician. Chapter HI. Priest Appears at Xioui. , , vlUe. ' - . , ' In Louisville, Ky in 1909, .a yonmf man - appeared" in clerical garb and in troduced himself as Rev. Hans Schmidt to the priest of St. Johns church,', lid war not appointed to any place himself, but to bis new friends, the- young prti . showed . what purported to , be dlmi aorta! letters from Munich proving him self a priest That same year the bod of Aim Kellner, 8 years o,ld. dUmen.. , bered and cut into' li pieces, 'was foun-l In an old cellar under the school build ing of St. John's church. About that time Joseph Wetvdllng, a Frenchman and the only person known to have the keys to the building, left his family an. J disappeared. He -j was pursued ll.aift? miles, Drought back and sentenced i life imprisonment, always protesting- hi Innocence. Also at that time the Uev. Vttu Schmidt left I.oulnvlllo and present))' letters believed to be forgeries In Tren ton, was received as a vlMltlng prUht and allowed to assist at a -hurh. While the Kev. Hnn Hctmildt wi in Louisville, Dr. Arnold Held rnl'l Continued on Pag Vour.J 1 A "r1 Vic .1 (:. !-.;:; V?;.