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EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITION WEATIIEK KEPORT. TO AhVEHTISKKS Th East Orcgonlan tins the largest paid circulation of any paper in Oregon, east of i'ortlaod am) nearly twice the circulation lo I'cnilletoD ot any other newspaper. Showers tonight or to morrow. COUNT? OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL 25. I'ECTLETOX. OREGOX, WKKXKSIUV, JU.VK 2.1, 1913. XO. 7911 .3 v "j"" ri bto-1 iiw'- 1 " """'" j-''j'r ' i i ii hi in i 1 111111 i ii m t ii HUB AY ATTORNEY GENERAL TRIED TO THROTTLE JUSTICE Parting Word is Delivered as Federal . Attorney Steps Out of Office Resignation Accepted. WOULD SAVE FRIENDS McXab Declares That Mclleyolds Tried to Keep Thom from Facing Just Trial Says Attorney General IMayed to llave Cases Quashed Successor Will He Named, San Francisco, June 25! John L. McNab, In a bristling statement to day, uttered his final word to the de ' partment of Justice with which he no longer Is connected, his resignation having been accepted. He charges that Attorney General McReynolds attempted to throttle Justice to save his rich and powerful political friends from a Just and righteous trial. McNab said: "No one In Califor nia will be deceived by the lame and puerile defense of the attonrey gen eral to the president. He says I should have wired him a reminder that I'd thrice warned lilm a postponement would destroy the cases and that boasts had been made that political Influence would halt the cases. He wanted the cases postponed so they would be throttled." McXab appeared In Judge Van Fleet's court and announced his ser vance from the department of Justice. He expressed his appreciation of the courtesy with which his office had been treated- He declared the last year was the most useful and pleas ant of his years In the public service. The Judge answered, "Without ref erence to the nature of your depart ure. I will be saying leas than the truth if I did not state the govern ment is losing a painstaking and ef ficient prosecuting officer. It Is with sincere regret that I learn of your re tiring from office." Washington. June 25.-Sati8fi-Jd with the Information that Dlggs and Caminettl as well as the fuel cases will be pressed immediately. Repre sentative HInebuugh said he would not Insist upon his resolution that the house rules committee investigate the reason prompting McNab's res ignation. Kahn of California, still thinks the house should demand that papers In the case be produced. Kahn said he thought the fuel files of the correspondence In the McNab matter should be shown to the house. The statements so far are only ex cerpts. The people should know the motives that caused the order to post pone the cases. The names of Heney, Matt Sullivan and Thomas Hayden are being con sidered ns a successor to McXab The appointment probably will be made this afternoon. At the executive of fices it was stated the president and the attorney general Intend to select a prosecutor from the standpoint of his standing before the bar rather than from his political influence. His only Instructions will be that he pros ecute the eases Immediately. Pan Francisco. June 23. Following the acceptance of the resignation of McXah by President Wilson, the for mer federal attorney has received hundreds of letters and telegrams, congratulating him on his stand In EXPLOSION KILLS 4; INJURES MANY Buffalo, N. Y., June 25. Four men Are known to be dead, sixty were In jured, some fatally, and four are un accounted for as the result of an ex plosion late yesterday In the elevator and grain store of the Husted Milling company here. Fire followed the ex plosion and destroyed the wooden part of the elevator. JUDGE HITS AT , RAIL BOND EVIL San Franclscp, June 25 Judge Frank Dunne of the superior court In Instructing a newly empanneled grand Jury laid special emphasis on police corporation and what he termed "the ball bond evil." "The svstem." he said, "which pro fits off police protection influencing police courts and controlling bail bonds and other essentials of protect ed and profitable vice, or at least the captain's office of the system. Is within a stone's throw of this bulld inir fthe hall of Justice) In the offices and saloon of a firm operating as both saloon keepers and ball bond brokers." Regarding the police, he said: "Corruption of a police department cannot exist without the knowledge of officers higher than patrolmen and detectives. You will go to the bottom or the top, whichever It may be, and not stop with a mere scratch ing of the surface." COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS lOltM EXAMINING HOARD Salem, Ore, June 25. In compliance with a law making them a bourd to pass on the ex- amtnation papers of the teach- ers of the state, county school superintendents representing the counties of the state assembled here and went into session. It is expected that the meeting will last 10 days, as there are a vast number of papers to be passed upon. Most of the papers are for one-year certificates, though the number of teachers seeking life certificates is considerably greater than In past years. the controversy with the attorney general. In a statement McNab de clares the president cannot change the facts. If It Is right to prosecute in May It Is wrong to stop the prose cution now. If It Is right to drop the prosecution now. It Is wrong to order the cases to proceed. MOB TEARS OFF WOMENMIRTS ARE ROUGHLY HANDLED Suffragists Waiting to See President Polncare of Fruncc, Who is In IiOn doii, are Attacked by Men and Hoys. Visitor is Itoynlly Welcomed in Capital. London. June 25. After a busy morning. President Polncare of: France, drove to the city to lunch j with the lord mayor. Full dress was J the order of the day. Troops lined the route from York House to Guild hall. King George did not accompany the guest. The welcome of the crowds In the streets for the presi dent was entirely personal. Among those present at the banquet was the Prince of Wales, his first official banquet, the Duke of Connaught. Pre mier Asqulth, Secretary Grey. Chur chill and other notables numbering a thousand. Suffragettes who thronged oxford street to see Polncare were roughly handled by men and boys. Several had their skirts torn off. ONE KILLED IX ACC1DEXT. j Motorcycle Collide, fatally Injuring Second Rider Skull of One Fractured. Seattle. June 25 F. B. Forbes Is dead and Charles Colbert Is In a crit ical condition nt a hospital as the re sult of the collision between their motorcycles. Both suffered Internal Injuries. Forbes did not recover from an operation to relieve him of a fractured skull. HUNTS CLUB OPENS MEETING AT BELMONT New York. June 25 A two days" meeting of the United .Hunts opens at Belmont Park this afternoon. The second day card Is set for day after tomorrow. NEW INCOME TAX CLAUSE AGREED ON Washington, June 25. Radical changes in the Income tax plan of the Underwood tariff bill and alteration of the administrative features of the measure to overcome most of the ob jections raised by foreign govern ments, were agreed upon In a provi sional way yesterday by the demo cratic members of the senate finance committee. The Income tax, under the new plan would apply to Individual incomes over $3000; but would make Import ant exemptions for Individuals, mu nicipalities, civic bodies and mutual insurance companies, under certain restrictions. Changes In the administrative sec tions Include a new provision giving the president authority to Increase tariff duties against certain articles coming from countries that discrimi nate against the United States. The proposed five per cent conces sion In tariff on goods brought In American ships; the anti-dumping clause; and the provision giving Unit ed States authorities "Inquisitorial powers" to examine books of foreign manufacturers when the valuation of goods Is In dispute, were stricken out. The committee made it clear that some further changes might he made In the Income tax and administrative sections before they were reported to the senate caucus, but the revised sections aa made public are expected to stand with but little alteration un til the caucus reaches them. MEXICAN FEDERALS AT GUAYMAS CUT OFF; FORCED TO EAT SNAKES Nogales, June 25 Mexican federal soldiers Hbove Ouaymas are reduced to Soto straits, and forced to eat snakes Is the report here. The rebels are reported to have cut off the base SATISFACTORY PLAN AGREED UPON FOR DISSOLUTION OF 0. R. MERGER Washington, June 25. Attorney General McReynolds announced a sat isfactory agreement had been reached In the dissolution plan of the South ern and .Union Pacific ' companies compliance with the supreme- court decision against the merger jn the Hurrlman roads. A special session of the Insidious POCKETED $50,000 GRAIN THEFTS CHARGED AGAINST 2 YOUNG MUX Are Arrested at Seattle by Burns De tectives After Weeks of Watching Cash Sub's of Grain Alleged to Have- He;n Tunic! Into Themselves Held for Trial. Seattle, June 23. Charged with pocketing the proceeds of cash sales, Frank Tustin, a shipping clerk and George Conning, foreman were ar rested and held without bail for theft from the Galbraith and Bacon com pany, grain'dealers. They are said to aggregate $50,000. Tustin is said to have confessed but Conning denies knowledge of the, thefts. The men wen trapped by Burns detectives after weeks of watching. A detective dis guised as a farmer bought grain pay. ing with a marked coin. Hrutally Ilea's Daughter. Augusta. Ga., June 23. J. J. John son, a butcher. Is charged with hav ing beaten his daughter with a whip after he had suspended her from a meat hook In his shop by a chain around her neck. The beating, he said, was because he could not con trol the girl. DAMAGE BY RABBITS IS GREATLY . EXAGGERATED; PESTS SAID TO BE NO GREATER THIS YEAR THAN LAST There has been some damage done to wheat crops In the country border ing on the desert lands but such dam age Is small and no greater than it N each year. Assuredly it does not Justify the statements to the effect that "already territory extending over 2SS square miles has been swept clean." that the damage already done Is "enormous," and that it is "con jectural" as to "how many more thou sand acres of grain will be ruined within the next two or three weeks." This sums up the situation relative to the libelous story that an army of jackrahbits has devoured "the wheat end rye on 1R4.000 acres" In Uma tilla county, according to creditable Information obtained from farmers of the alleged devastated district and from gralnmen and others whose business it is to keep in touch with the crop conditions. John Peebler, well known farmer who owns and operates a ranch near the forks of Juniper canyon, about nine miles northeast of Holdman, Is in the city today and made the fol lowing statement: "I came In last evening from my rnnch and while on the way in and during the time I have been In the city, I have been asked by many peo ple whether or not the jackrabhlts have damaged my wheat. At first I didn't know what to make of the queries for I had not seen the papers for several days. Since reading them I have noticed that my ranch Is in the district supposed to be eaten up by rabbits. I want to say that rab bits huve done absolutely no damage to my grain and I have not heard of anyone in that neighborhood being damaged. I think it Is very probable that some of the farmers over toward Hermlston have been damaged some by rabbits but no more than they are every year." John Kerr, whose ranch Is six miles from Cold Springs ,1s also In the city and states that the rabbits have both ered him some but hnve done no more damage than they usually do. Joseph Dellwo, a farmer living two miles below Holdman. Is another who declares that the rabbits are no more numerous or harmful than they al ways have been. While here he or dered a thousand sacks in anticipa tion of a good crop. Homesteaders Encroaching. E. W. MeComas, well known grain man of this city, owns a considerable acreage In the Holdman district of supplies. Fighting still continues aroun.l Ouaymas. It Is said a small pox epidemic in the insurgent camp partially equalized the lack of food In the federal camp. The fighting again has become desultory. lobby investigation will be held to night to hear the testimony of Judge Robert S. Lovett. head of the Union Pacific Executive board. Lovett was requested several days ago to appear. The announcement was made fol lowing a conference with Judge Lov ett. and Attorney-General McReyn olds. TOOK VOW TO KILL WOMAN' DETERMINED TO UK AVENGED UPON MAX Mrs. Anna Dot Mm Is Sentenced to Five Days in Jail for Manslaughter Says That She Made Vow She Would Kill the Man Who Wrecked Her LIl'c Admits 1 tola lions. Nashville, Term., June 25'. Mrs. Anna Dot.son Is under sentence of five days in jail for manslaughter for kill ing Charles Cobb. She admitted il licit relations. She said she had vow ed that !f she could obtain divine for giveness and not be separated from her husband she would kill the man who wrecked her life. SHORTAGE FOUND IX FUND. Industrial Workers leny That Money Was Misappropriated $1990 Are Missing. ' New York, June 25. The executive committee of the Industrial Workers of the world which recently staged the Madison Square pageant for the striking silk workers at Paterson. Is sued a statement showing a deficit of $ 1996 as a result of the pageant. It denied criticisms that the money had bten misappropriated. which Is supposed to be swept clean by the little long-eared animals. Ask ed whether or not he had received any reports of damage being done, he: declared that he had not. "The whole situation is that the home steaders have been encroaching upon the territory of the rabbits rather than the rabbits encroaching upon the farm lands." he exDressed him self. "Some of the homesteaders have i pushed out Into the pasture land which has always been the home of! the rabbits and, as a matter of course they are being damaged some. But I do not think there Is more than 100 or 150 acres of wheat that is dam aged by them." . H. W. Collins. J. E. Montgomery.! Will Moore and C. O Rlnehart alii local gralnbuyers. declared that all reports that they had received from the so-called Infested district do not warrant in the least the reports pub lished in the Portland and a local paper. Mr. Collins stated that he Is selling more sacks to the Holdman farmers this year than ever before. Will Wyrlck Is authority for the statement that rabbits do eat green grain around the edges of the field, stating that when he was farming in the Prospect Country that he never cut around the edges where the rabbits had been eating. A. F. May, who owns a farm In the Holdman country, declared he was in conversation with another farmer from that locality yesterday who stat ed that the total acreage damaged will not exceed 500 which is but a small per cent of 200.000 acres. Don Prultt Is up from Stanfield to day and declares he investigated the reports from that part of the county and found that they had been grossly exaggerated. As a matter of fact, such of the local people who aro not Indignant over the reports, treat the whole matter as a joke and the subject Is made the stuff for countless street Jibes. START FOR THE WEST New York. June 25. Bound for the west to take up farming lands, 1371 farmers and their families are here, having arrived from Hungary and Austria on the steamer Carpathla Families of a dozen members are not uncommon In the party. One hund red and seventy children accompan ied the immigrants. 10 PASSENGERS WESTERN EXPRESS LEAVES RAILS WOMEX TO FIGHT C A PITA L PUN I SUM EX T San Francisco, June 25. Prominent Frisco women Inter ested in the abolition of capital punishment plan a mass meeting Thursday to form an organiza- 'tion and launch a campaign to abolish that penalty. Judge Hen Ington will preside. SEVERE CRITICISM MADE OF WILSON Berlin, June 25. "A lecturing so cialist who is convinced he must re form the world," Is the characteriza tion of Wilson In the National Zel tung In an editorial on the president's latest message to congress. It says, "God help anyone who still doubts that Wilson Is one of the most dan gerous agitators of modern times In one of the highest offices In the world." PEACE PLAN IS SEEMINGLY NEAR BULGARIA-SERVIA AGREE Said to Have Accepted Russia's Pro posal for Arbitration Humors, However, Have Not Been Officially Confirmed Bulgaria at Least is Said to Ik? Willing. London. June' While reports that Bulgaria and Servla have agreed to accept Russia's offer of arbitra tion in the territorial disputes have been circulated, they have not been officially confirmed. It la hellevod here that prospects of peace in the Balkans are brighter. Belgrade dis patches say the new Servian cabinet is strongly peaceful. Sofia says that Bulgaria is willing to submit the dis pute to arbitration. Russian pres sure is believed responsible for the change. WILSON WILL HEAR BILL OBJECTIONS Washington, June 25. President Wilson will consider tonight the ob jections to the administration curren cy reform bill advanced by bankers affiliated with the American Bankers' association. The conference was ar ranged by Representative Glass and Senator Owen and bankers. The bankers expected to urge that the bill be strengthened along certain lines. . NO RABBITS ARE SEEN NEAR ECHO (Special Correspondence.) Echo, Ore, June 25. The heavy rains of the past few days have been of uncaleulable benefit to the wheat farmers of this district. The grain while headed is green and still grow ing. The yield is far more promising than it was at this time last year and the farmers feel Jubilant over the prospects. The statement regarding the de struction of the grain east of Echo and north of Pendleton hy Jack rab bits Is so absurd as to be ridiculous. MAX CHOPS FAMILY" TO DEATH. Furious Decause Wife Prevents His Suicide, He Takes Frightful Kevense. Budapest, June 25. Furious be cause when he attempted to hang himself his wife cut him down. John Salfek took bloody revenge. Secur ing a hatchet, he butchered the wo man and her four children. All five victims were chopped to pieces. BREACH OF PROMISE CASE TO BE FOUGHT New York. June 25 The $225,000 breach of promise and maintenance suit by Miss Mae Sullivan against Ar thur Hoe, son of the late Robert Hoe. the press builder, will be fought to a finish, according to an an announcement of Hoe's secretary. Miss Sullivan alleges Hoe promised to marry her after maintaining her In an apartment at the rate of $50. 000 a year. He Insists their friend ship was purely platonle. KILLED WHEN List May Grow Coaches Plunge Down Embankment Into the Ot tawa River as Train Speeds On. MANY BODIES RECOVERED Feared That There Are Still Many More n the Wreck Train Ym Loaded With Immigrants Spread ing Rails Said to Have Been the Cause of the Aeocident. Ottawa, Out., Juno 25. At least 10 iiersons were killed outright when lite Western Express on the Canadian Pacific, loaded with immigrants, was wrecked three miles west of Ottawa today. Four coaches plunged down an embankment Into the Ottawa riv er. It is reported ten bodies already have been recovered. The total fa talities it is feared will be heavy. Tle accident wag caused by spreading rails. i:xiositiox OPENS. Stamp Collections from Scores of Countries, Valued at Millions. On View. Paris. June 25. The International Philatelic Exposition is on here today. One interesting feature of the exhibit traces the history of the stamp from the time It was invented In 1840 by Rowland Hill, an Englishman, up to the various uses of stamps today. Bra zil, which was the next country to adopt the stamp and France which did not use it until 1S49. had the most Interesting exhibits. The exposition is held under the auspices of the French government and the ministers of posts and telegraphs and of the colonies are directly In charge of the affair Stamp collections from scores of countries valued at many millions of dollars are on view. HYDROPLANE TESTS. French Airmen Will Take Part ' In Events for Prizes Aggregating S2O.0O0. Paris. June 25. Government offi cials announced today that there will be a hydroaeroplane contest at Dau ville. France, in August with $20,000 in prizes. The ministry of the marine contributed $10,000 and the French Aero club contributed the remaining $10,000. The winning machine and motor must be of French construction and it will be purchased by the min istry for $12,000. The winner of sec ond prize, under the same conditions, wilt be purchased for $10,000. WILL ATTEMPT TO GET HIS FORTUNE Seattle. June 25. Litigation to break the will of H. W. Peter, a bachelor who left $200,000 to pro mote the teachings of Swedenborg. is expected by relatives in Germany who were cut off with $12,000. KILLED BY TRACTION ENGINE Man nt Work Stumbles and Falls in Front of Machint Crushed to Death. Edmonton, Alberta. June 25. Ar thur Young, an employe of the Case company of Calgary, was killed on the farm of George Melleck when he tripped on a stump and fell in front of a traction engine which crushed him to death SEVERAL BIDS TO BE RECEIVED BY COUNCIL TONIGHT Tonight Is bid night at the city council. Sealed bids on the city wa ter bonds and for the sweeping of the streets will be opened at the regular meeting. Indications are that there will not be more than one bid on tha $200. 000 water bonds and that this bid will not be par. The bond market Is not in a healthy condition and par bids are almost out of the question. In fact, many of the big companies are not bidding at all. It is reported that one company, having local rep resentatives, will put In a bid at about 95 but it is doubtful whether or not it will be accepted. The city authori ties may decide to abandon the plan to sell the bonds at this time and wait until the market grows stronger. That there wilt be a number of bids on the Star street bridge Is evi denced by the fact that several have already been sent In to the tity re corder and that a number of the bridge-building companies have rep resentatives here today. No street sweeping bids were filed up until noon today but the council expects several to be received before meeting time this evening.