VOL. XIII. NO.. 116.
PORTLAND. OREGON, ' WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1914 c- PAGES.
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WIDOW AND DAUGHTER TESTIFY AT MYSTERY INVESTIGATION
NOTED ADVOCATEDEFENDING MME. CAILLAUX
OF THE
NEVER SeD
WN
3 0
ASQUITH IS ON
VERGE OF FM.
GRAB
Writes Senator Stone of For
eign Relations Committee
Asking That He Be Exam
ined About Panama Canal.
"I DID IT ALL," DECLARES
THE FORMER PRESIDENT
Stone Says Roosevelt Should
Put His Facts Down in
Writing.
(Unite PrM Leaaed Wire.)
Washington, July 22. Assuming: en
tire responsibility for all" acta con
nee ted with the acquisition of th
Panama canal cone during; his admint
tratlon aa president, Colonel Roosevelt
made a formal request today that he
be examined by the senate foreign re
lations committee in Its hearing on the
treaty between the United States and
Colombia, by which it la proposed to
pay Colombia $25,000,000 in settlement
for that country's claim to the canal
territory
In a letter to Senator Stone of Mis
souri, chairman of the committee.
Roosevelt said:
"If there la any Intention on the part
of your committee to act favorably on
the proposed treaty with Colombia, by
which we are to pay Colombia $25,000,
000 and express regret for action taken
In the past, X respectfully request that
1 be heard thereon.
Admits Responsibility.
"I was president throughout the time
negotiations were in progress with Co
lombia, ' and later with Panama,
by which we acquired the right to
build tbe Panama canal.
"Every act of this government In
conectlon with these negotiations,
and other proceedings for securing
possession of the canal son and begin
ning building the canal was taken at
my express direction, or else in -carry
lng out a course of conduct which I, as
president laid down.
"I had full knowledge of everything
of any Importance which was done in
regard thereto by any agent of the
government and I am solely responsi
ble for what was done. John Hay.
then secretary of state, now dead, had
almost as complete first hand knowl
Liberal Government Seems
Tottering Between Devil
and Deep Sea as Confer
ences Proceed.
KING'S CIVIL WAR TALK
STIRS UP CATHOLICS
They Have Always Contend
ed Ulster's Talk of Re
sistance Was Joke. x
Miss Ruth Dawson (on left) , testifying before coroner's Jury, while Mrs. Dawson, her stepmother, listened.
MRS. DAWSON HELD
PENDING
INQUIRY
DEATH OF HUSBAND
f-
Coroner Makes Recommend
ation , in Verdict Laborer
Died From Poisoning. -
DEFENDANT IN LAND
LOCATOR CASE TAKES
STAND IN HIS BEHALF
Literature Describing Grant
Which .Was Sent Out by
Promoters Read to Jury.
BRIDGE FRANCHISE IS
PASSED AND CITY TO
GET MORE
ME
Action of Council Means the
End of Litigation' of Many
Years1 Standing. ,
(United Press teased Wirt.)
London, July 22. With political
feeling growing tenser almost hourly.
another hour and a hairs session of
the conference concerning Irish home
rule waa held by the leaders of the
opposing parties at Buckingham palace !
today.
When It adjourned until Thursday It
could not be learned that any material
progress had been made.
One thing was very evident the
home rulers, anger at King Georges
remark, in receiving the conferees at
the palace Tuesday to the effect that
"the crx of civil war is on the lips
of the most responsible and
sober minded of my people.
"The cry of civil war having been
freauently on the lips of the "antis"
and never on that of the home rulers,
who have contended that such talk
was mere bombast, the expression was
taken In home rule circles as a tol
erably open declaration of royal sup
port for the antis.
In the house of commons, following
today's session of the conference, Pre
mier Asquith sought to divert criti
cism from . the king by himself ac
cepting responsibility for his majesty's
utterance. He insisted that George
had acted within his constitutional
rights throughout the entire proceed
ing.
His statement, however, did not ac
complish much in the way of turn
ing tne tide of political comment.
vine unronicie. the chief Liberal or
gan, in its todi
warned tho king
country's political bntroveriM -
Ut c? nviotton was growing that tbe
With every probability that the case I T w Wan. one of the three de-
By unanimous vote the city council
this morning passed the bridge fraa
win h nrr tn th mnit inrv tnr I ' endants charged with misusing the
consideration. Mrs. Joseph Dawson is I mails in connection with the location of chise giving the Portland Railway,
e" of what occurred, but no man b.ld for further investigation in con- "ler. on the Oregon- Calif orn a
now living except myseit naa mis wm me uemn vi nr nusoana, i " I Willamette river on the navment of
first hand knowledge, and no man, llv- George Dawson, laborer, who died of Judge Bean in federal court, took the 3 cent8 tor eacn car " J
lng or dead, shared with me the re- J strychnine poisoning last Wednesday J stand in his own behalf this morning.! This action means th end of all
sponslbillty for the action which I at hi home in Lents, immediately af-1 E. J.-Sellers of Tacoma and W. F. litigation over the use of the Haw
rook, save in a wholly minor degree. ter breakfast. I Mlnard of Portland are the other de- thorne bridge, and that the citjrwill be
ao aouob jraaeu. i Orders to hold her were given by J f endants. ' I nearly 1100.000 richer because by the
I request to appear before you, -so the coroner's lurv late last; niarhtl in wo. ..no.-i m,n9 th I franchise the company is to be re-
that I may make a full statement of 1 -rt.- tt haA ,,t fo t ,n..rn Ua I r. . .. , t..- quired to pay that amount for back
tly what I did. of what was done 71 " " "ZZ"' Z2 T " " rL. rentals.
Defense Scores Important
Point in Trial of Mme.
Caillaux; Political Docu
ment Not Held by Calmette
POLITICAL' MURDER IS
NOT SUBSTANTIATED
Moroccan Scandal Hinted at
as Real Cause of the
Assassination.
Maltre Fernmnd Laborl, who played leading part ' In the Dreyfnsa'
case, and who -is chief counsel for -woman who killed Editor
Calmette of Le Figaro.
NE
FAKE IS ENOUGH; BAD CHECK ARTISTS
TOTEMS MAKE HAUL
ON THE NATURE-MAN THE PAST FEW DAYS
FORES
H N
(ta.'ted pt-s rtt Wirt.)
Parts. July 22. The defense won an
Important victory today In Mme. Hen- -rlette
Caillaux trial for killing Editor
Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro.
Throughout the trial . up to that
point, hint after hint has been thrown
out concerning a mysterious document -Calmette
was said to have possessed.
proving that ex-Finance Minister
Joseph Caillaux, .the prisoner's bus-,
band, was party to a compact wltt '
Germany la which France's Moroccan
Interests were sacrificed to Caillaux '
personal financial Interest.
According to Frencn Ideas the drag
ging of .such a subject as a politician's
relations with 'a woman Into a politi
cal controversy, as was done by Cal
mette In publishing Caillaux' letter to
his wife, written prior to their mar-,
rlage and at a time when he had 'a
wife and she a hueband living aud un
dlvorced. la so heinous an oflense that
it was deemed quite posnle a jury
would consider Mme. Caillaux justified
in shooting him. .
Oainaus reared exposure.
The prosecution's plan Plainly "was .
to make it appear that tbe fear of. tha '
publication of more of these letters -
waa not what led to the shotting,
however, but that Caillaux, afraid Cal-
mette would make tmblio th noiltiral
document, exposing his transactions -.
witn Germany really Inspired blm to
Incite his. wife to assassinate the dl-'
tor.
1!'' "Deri .r- 1 A r ninnln;' nl!..-J a" ;ii ' I'""w "ais Latsarua of "L4
wiHon, plainly 1 rUIUYY ICS CAUUSCU nilCI r ICUI I Uailg DClltJVeU 10 .naVo dO-f "' """ stand late yes-
iol. nl.w mix in the X- O "J T!l. ' O..LI!- v ' .Ji J erx . : reierrea outspokenly to
this
(Ctenelndxl QB pay, x. Colaan Serea)
Tor oecouQ Inchon ruDiic curea : ouuu dv UDera-iaocmeot reutmg to what was knows
1-lrj JlJt-L?-.li ft-L r - l" incident." -asserting
iucameu.
-"1ions;;SimiJie Scheme.
Plan for Guarding
Against Accidents
In Street Adopted
When Allle Demlng. trapper, and Using stolen. blank ehecks, a gang
guide of the great north woods of of bad check artists, believed to be a
Maine, exposed Joseph. Knowies, tne
"nature-man. aa one of the signal
fakers of modern times, it was because I over 2000 worth of bad checks.
woman and , two men. . have flooded
Portland during the past week with 1 5aon. saiO. that Calmette gave
utat - Cajmatu-atrtoall ahowed it to
htm, though he said . tha editor told
blm he did not Intend to use It, as it
might make trouble for France.
- Caillaux promptly demanded that
Ltzarus tell what the document con
tained. Latxarus refused for the aam
exactly
by my orders,
to
state my Reasons the story of events and cir- ance company of North Yakima, and The Jneasur e was not discuBsed but
cumatances Rurroundlncr DniMnn'i U..m. tt.r.aA tn hm. .nt I a ne measure was not aiscussea, dui
, I - - . w w w a igywutq vwii hvu " w o
therefor, and to answer any questions
your body may choose to put to me."
No quorum of the foreign relations
committee was present when Roose
velt's letter was received fend no ac
tion upon it was taken. Senator Stone
indicated that, personally, he was op
posed to hearing the ex-president's tes
timony. "I can see no reason," he said, "for
turning the foreign relations committee f v , . C. 1 , , , ' f I
hearing, into a town baH. proceeding. ""
If Colonel Roosevelt naa anything new
rru ,i . , . I . w . j i , ,r.. ,, . i who ui
ly before midnight, reads: the papers. He - gathered promising nd will be to f mttl ! It
, "George S. Dawson m tn hl nnnn, r. v, it,. .( ln? wiu De la. xorco until 11 prJ-
death by meant of strychnine poison- rom lawyer. and Talso talked to othci e LTaVorinl
' .Iff Lkfln locators before going into the business tVtiIJZr
Sna DL t 5f;aaH.tfJ1AinMUe city is allowed to raise the rate
, , . ri . . 1 QUI DUI W Eil'BCU IWU BW1 WO-tnim
mends that Mrs. Johanna Dawson
ne,.XL IT. ,rluer "vesugaon oy tne ne sald. Later he met Mlnard in Ta
authorlties. I k- io.i- .. DO
3? ZV1 iye? to.1fava attorney In filing the applicatlona.
Mlnard was to get 915 for each loca
to say regarding the situation that
ought to be known by the president.
the part of the authorities: That she i
(,ro Lit iviaviif cuav iuua I i. XII-
tentionally, or that it came to be in
XtOgaa's "Llteratnra Bead.
"Timbered Lands; Tour Opportunity
of tbe aggregate of the gross receipts
from passengers crossing the bridge
on the company's cars. The bridges
on which payment will be received are
the Hawthorne, Morrison, Burnslde, O.
W. R. & N. and Broadway.
There Is now due for back rentals on
baa been' held up until disposition was
the chemists have made a thorough Y.: '" Z . T J"f made of this blanket iranenise. -This
test of all foods left from the break
fast, foods in his lunch basket and the
coffee remaining in the pot from which
both procured the
poison was found.
"With the exception of Dr. W. T.
tmnniit la tn Ha nRld When tha. r nm.
umer ins iu , buhbiubui .ec-ota" tha measure.
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Washington, July 2 J. That th gov
ernment's dissolution suit against the
New Haven railroad will be filed be
fore, the end of the week unless the
directors reconsider:: their refusal to
dispose or their Boston-Maine hold
ings was definitely announced today. -
Attorney General McReynolds will
bring , tbe proceedings in tbe federal
court of the southern New York dis
trict, it was stated. ' "':
Criminal actions against . the indi
vidual directors were expected to fol
low in accordance with President Wil
son's letter to the attorney general. In
.art as follows:
"I request ' and direct that a pro
ceeding in: equity be filed, seeking the
dissolution of the unlawful monopoly
of transportation facilities in New
ngland now sought to be maintained
by the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad company, and that the
(Concluded oa Pare Nine, Column Three.)
Scotch Lass Lost r
On Way to Be Wed
She Xft Toronto for San Trandsco
July 15, Baggage Arrived but CHrl
Dropped "from Sight.
San Francisco, CaL, July 22. The
San Francisco police were appealing
today to the departments at cities be
tween here and Toronto for aid In
rinding Miss Lottie Milne, 4 a " pretty
Scotch girl of 20, who was on her
way to the coast to marry Allen Wat
ton, and disappeared somewhere, on
the road.
Wat ton and Miss Milne became en
gagea in ecotiana two - years ago.
Watton came to San Francisco and
Miss , Milne accompanied her mother
to Toronto.
Watton sent for his fiance," who
left Toronto Jmy 15. Her ticket waa
over the Grand Trunk to Chicago, over
the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul to
ThU will
saia: "xnere is some nag in me ow h. within ed dava.
beverage and no come or tais sun. Appiica.nxa were i Tne controversy over the use of the
oast mu i-v ciVcv..ij "u""vl I TTawthorna' hrldea naa been waored
irnces nenuonca lur bl iuuluuu wen
(Concluded on Pge Ten, Column Six)
vT - ... T . his coffee by accident. rrlT , . There is now due for back rentals on
the secretary of state or the aenaU, i:. , I If You Will. riving history of the . ,v. v... ....i. ni aim .tui.
I. kin, .mn.l.l.lt. (k. f.At. I. .rlt. i er IS "IUB OOUDl QUI MSI IBB . . x 1 u VI luo uw. , nmu,
lng. What happened 11 or 12 years
ago is of no great moment at present
in considering the treaty."
CRIMINAL ASPECTS OF
NEW HAVEN CASE TO
BE GIVEN ATTENTIOI
President Directs Grand Jury
Have Chance to Act; Dis
solution .Suit Prepared,
The first step toward curb
e ing pedestrian traffic on the
busy downtown intersections
in an effort to prevent accl
e dents will be taken by the de
e par t men t of public works next
week. White lines will be
painted on the sidewalk and
street; at the intersection of
Fifth and Washington streets
4 and will define the place for'
pedestrians to travel.
The scheme Is in the nature
of an experiment and la aimed to
keep pedestrians from cross-
lng the " Intersection except at
right angles.
The line are to be six Inches
from the building lines and six
lnchea from the curb going dl
4 rectly across the street They
will form a square In which no
e pedestrians will be allowed..
Records ahow that 26,740
people cross Fifth and Wash
ington In eight hours of each
day.
Doming had learned a very few weeka
ago that his erstwhile accomplice and
comedy plotter waa planning a boax in
The greatest amount has been drawn I
on the United Statea National bank. 20
checks, totalling about S1000. having
southern Oregon elmllar to the one he been written against that Institution.
perpetrated in Maine last year.
Until that time, Demlng "stood pat"
with Knowies In asserting that the
for not publishing It t but it . might
roaae irouDie zor, trance. . .
Xaborl Demands 2cxuaeat. '
uauiaux insisting. However. Maurice
Chenu. attorney tor the Calmette fam
ily, interposed with tne explanation
.Kb f-t 1 . . . . 1 . . - .
uh miuii,b wiwuicr luraig , tot -
document over to President Polncare'
after the editor nad been killed and
mat foincate paaaed rt on to the rain.
FANNED OUT!
NSANE
PHYSICIAN
II
COLORADO RELEASED
AS "CURED" KILLS 3
Dr. Hutchison of Glenwood
Springs, After Trying to
Wife,' Slays Daughters. !
(United pieas Leaced Wire.)
Glenwood Springs, Colo., July 22. A
triple tragedy was revealed here to-1
day In which Dr. T. L. Hutchison
killed his two daughters and then com-1
Omaha, over the Union Pacific to Og-I mltted suicide. It was the second at-
den, and over the Southern Pacific to I tempt Hutchison had made to destroy
San Francisco.
-., Her baggage arrived In San Fran
Cisco July 19,
Cossacks Break Up
Workers Parades
his entire family.
Two weeks ago Dr. Hutchison went
i violently insane as a result of exces
sive use of drugs, and severely beat
I Ms wire. He was overpowered and
sent to a sanitarium. ' A few days ago
be was pronounced cured and returned
to Glenwood Springs. Last' night
Hutchison again - went violently in
sane from tbe use of drugs. He went
criminal aspect of the case be laid be-1 Thy Patrol Viborg Quarter of St. Vo-ito a hotel where Mrs. Hutchison was
tore a grand Jury. I tmtart ' roiiawiu I under the care of a trained nurse re-
Writing to the president, the at-1 . ; . . covering from bis first attempt on
tomey general said: mhhuw noiv s her Ufa HuteMson dragged hla wife
"The "criminal , aspects of the case ' 8t. Petersburg, July 22. Cossacks from her bed and again attempted, to
have been kept continually in mind were patrolling the Viborg quarter to- kllM her.': The - nurse, Mary ; McCahan,
and care has been exercised to permit day following Tuesday's workingmen'a threw him out of the room and locked
nothing which might interfere with demonstration in 'protest against .the the door. - . -
proper prosecutions at the appropriate drastio methods adopted by the author- Hutchison then rushed to his office,
time. . v. - ltles to put down strike rioting else- where he found bis two daughters,
Some of the : directors responsible where throughout tht country. No Fay, 10, and Lois. 12. Without a word
ror the conditions the government will l crowds were allowed to gather and j he drew : from - his pocket a f revolver
auacx are Charles . B. Mellen, William I there were many arrests. - Fully : 100,-1 and began shooting at the . two girls. I
Rockefeller and Lewis Cass Ledvard. I 000- took - part in resterdav'a demon. I vhrv h wa mir. ihrv vr. knth
' Th late J. P. Morgan was also among stratlon. which waa broken up after I dead, he turned the weapon, on himself
fcuwu. ,,.'.-.'-.-. , 1 COOSiaeraDie HKnunX.. . - land Mimmlttid auielda
'THANI
'( &OODM.SS!
The First National bank, the Lumber
men's National, the Scandlnvalan-
American - anil Athr lval k.i.1,. ...
Maine exDloit waa true. He xava out I .i. . -
i .r v. I! " . V. " , " Jr uiBT1K 01 ' rxe- kh. uk(ll that t matter be allowed to
ciose. icucvm uiiuii uwu stoien xroxn cnac 1 imtanti, vmn - rKn.i tr.
Whether It was because of Dlaue I "irm S. short time ago. The checks are I Caillaux MnnicL brokn Into tha im-
that he waa not being taxen on the j numbered aerially beginning 37.760. it i cuaslon with ea vociferous a demand
second cave-man expedition or simply Jls-said that the bank will not be the I that the document b produced tuet
oecause ne xeit tne joxe naa gone rarioer out raioer tnose wno casnea ine tne court was thrown Into an unroar.
enough when Knowies emerged in I cnecxa ror the bad check artists. . 1 There was no gainsaying him and al-
canaaa ciaa in a tear skin and deer-1 -xneir scneme I or raising money la I though Judge Albanet ruled that it
hide breeches. Doming finally, ac-lsald to be comparatively simple, tbe I was too late to go further Into so im-
knowledged that the whole affair was I artists using, blank printed checks of Jportant a matter, at nm Tuesday ses
a fake. Iwell known firms which are slimed I sion. Prosecutor Herbaux aroee, .on'
Demlng. according to his own storr. I with the nrlnted name of tha bualnaaa. I the government's behalf, when court
was an accomplice of Knowies in the I The penmen nave made the checks look I opened toaay, to answer iatwn.
Maine woods comedy. -. He helped dig I good by 'ualog a "check protector. I rio such document as the one ra
the fake bear pit to deceive the in 4 1 Tha checks bave been invarlabiv mad I f erred to, be said, existed.
qulsltlve into believing Knowies story I out-for small amounts and signed with I ' Chenu protested that the trial waa
or trapping , ana oeating tne Dear-to 1 scrawlina alsnatures to reoresent I iiui wnuw wniie
death and skinning it with - a - sham- I worklnrmcn. Thev hav bn eht 1 washing- of CailUux. but there was
He made the Iron-wood I in saloons and store. I no queauon concerning tn importance
niacin drawn an tha First TCatlnnal I 01 tn aavaotage ,. gamea . vr in ae-
were on blanks of the West Oregon Ion"e " m .
Timber aV Lumber company, the Than-1 wamaaa a arcaaa again.
hauser Hat company. whUa th Lum- i Aitr Meroaug- statement fauiaux
bermeos bank ha -six cnecka on thelaln took the witness stand. His .tea-
Spadr Manufacturing company blanks. I umony dia not tak long and consisted
Inasmuch as -the checks are not 1 01 a aeiense 01 nis pouticat acta ana
aimed with 'th names of eashlera or la defiance of his enemies.
other officers -of th companl from I Next on tbe stand was a faleaman
which th blanks have been taken, but I named Fromentin. employed by . Gas-
bear- only the printed company slgna-1 tinn Renette. th gunamtb, from whom
tures. the checks, ar not really am waitiaux oougnt tne pioi wita
fcraeiies. - iwnicn sne Kiiiea tjaimette.
'-According to Cruet 01 Detective I Dn maae tne purrnas on tne aiter
Baty th men operating here in Port-1 noon of th day of th killing, said th
edged rock.
(Ooocladed on Pace Tea, Column jrtvs)
land hav also passed back checks suc
cessfully recently In Astoria, Inde
pendence and Tacoma, Local banks
bave recognized tbe checks as forgeries
throwing the ' loss on. the merchants
who cashed tnenv
(Coaclwted fm Vte Two. Colunn Two.)
Fred D. 'Fislier
To Be Promoted
Xdna County Astaa Is aTomlaatd
Ooasul Oenaral at Tl em Tain, Calaa
', a SUnbUeaa, , 5 ' '
President Wilson today nominated
FredD.- Fisher,,-a former resident of
Linn- county,' to be consul general at
Tien T sin. ; China, according to di
patches, from Washington. . '
ar. isner is now in tne government s
dlplomatl .service V and Is In China.
Trie appointment comes a a promo
tion. ' H-entered the servlc "under
th Taft administration and Is a Re
publican in politics. . 1 -
He la a son of th lat E. T. T.
Fisher, who for-year was tbe county
surveyor for Linn county; . -
U'Ren Says He's in
Hace to tne rinisli
Rumor "current today", that W. .'S.
ITRen of Oregon City Independent
candidate for governor and also nomi
ne of the Prohibition party, intended
to withdraw from th race, is dented
by Mr.' URen.' Mr. ITRen say a will
Utay In tb raca to th UaC JJ. ; '
VARIOUS THINGS
"Wanted George H. Baker to
come to Elgin, Or at once;
father very ill; last heard ' from
at North Bend, Or." , Class. 22. - ,
"Thoroughbred Stietlands at re-'
raarkably low prices; gentle, used
to children.. Claas. 18. ' . t :.
iA bargain -for cash, one Peer- j
less 1 .. passenger, 1911 model :
automobile, mechanically perfect; .
has new tires snd juat been re-
painted and overhauled; th beat,
buy lit PorUand at $I5. Claaa.
-. . . ; . .. . -. - -. ';:
"Piano studio, lessons ? S0c. '
Business Directory,
j. . - - - - ' .
"Homers and Cameaux pigeons
for sale or trade; about 350 or .
more; j will , take runabout or ,
motorcycle with side car." Class. .
.27. ; f . " - - . : L
. '"Lower" flat, furnished con- .
plete,- with, piano,, lawn, phone":
Class.' SO. - ;' '?'
"For al - by adminUtratoV
general mrchandJ store, coun
try point; stock, buildings. I acre
ground. $7(oe; trm half cash -and
timyon rest.; Class, 20 ..
1 These ar?a'few of th varld.
items-in Tbe Journal -Want Ads :
today: th dasslflcation number
follows each item, c--' .: , ;