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(iWlY ' A A A-C . liilitU .otl.ii-k.u..Li TUESDAY AIID TBiDAY I 'w- I - lllIIIIfllJT nrTY-nrnx year no. p. BAI.TTM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 2L 1905. SECOND SECTION SIX FAGE3. INSURANCE BY GOVERNMENT CHAEITIES AND CORRECTIONS SESSION DISCUSSES METHOD DOES NOT FIND MUCH FAVOR Poor Ventilation One of Great Causes of Disease Among the Poorer Classes. - Dr. Frenkal Suggests Means of Caring for Convalescents Urges That Provi sion Be Made for Support of Families While Sick Are In Hospital. ' PORTLAND, July 20. The general session of the conference ox charities and corrections was today devoted to receiving reports of committees. Of these, one considerably out of the ordi nary was tie preliminary report on tbe German system of workingmen 'a insur ance. The report was made by Fred erick Hoffman of .Newark, N. J. Mr. Hoffman showed that almost one half of tbe total expense of the govern ment insurance system in Germany has been contributed by the employers of labor. "From whatever -point of view the subect is considered," said Mr. Hoff man, "there seems no escape from the conclusion that the annual payment by employers of lalor for the insurance protection of their employes is a direct tax upon the industry which must be either met by a resulting improvement in the health of employes and a higher degree of industrial efficiency, or by factory economics generally, or by a direct deduction from wages, since in ternational competition, especially with the fnited States, the industries of oth er countries are not subect to this ex pense." -Government Insurance. ' According to Mr, Hoffman a large majority of German workingmen in dif ferent industries and trades are under government insurance protection. The accident branch. of the insurance sys tem is much more general than the branch for sickness which has not been fully developed as yet. In conclusion Mr. Hoffman said: "In marked contrast to the elaborate and detailed reports required from pri vate insurance companies, the' German government has given but the most meagre and unsatisfactory data to the public regarding the finances of tbe compulsory workingrnan fs . insurance. Only cjjregate results have been pub lished and it is extremely doubtful whether all the items and factors which enter into the operation of the system have been properly accounted for." In the sectional meeting two papers affecting the neighborhood improvement in Han Francisco were read. One was by Dr. Dorothea Moore, who recounted the manner in, which Uto Telegraph Hill district, tenanted by The poor and un informed foreigners was reclaimed from the grasp of corjtoration which persist ed in blasting away a part of the hill to secure a ieeuliar blue clay. The other paper was by Henry A. Fiske, su perintendent of the People's Place, who described the difficulties encountered in bettering the condition of the Chinese, Greek and Italian fishermen in Han Francisco bay. Disease Among Poor. "The Prevention of Diseases Among Poor" was the subject of an able pa per read by Dr. Norman -Bridge of l,os Angeles and Chicago. He said in part: "The influences that are potent in causing disease and death among the poor are not numerous ami are easily catalogued. First, there is bad ventila tion of houses in cold weather. Most of even the rich people, and whose coal bills need not terHfy them, live witu insufficient ventilation. More tbn 1(m0 cubic feet of fresh air per hour for each jwrson should enter the house for even fair ventilation. The bad air causes disease in various ways, chiefly by first producing ilebility and lessened physical resisting power. "It is safe to say that the breathing of bad air , produces more diseases among the poor directly and Indirectly, than nil other influence combined. Per haps tne second most important .cause 1 J'l Rtsmon ywe.-r.w, try irr tw; owH suet CO . 1 B1UUE RIBBON, SHOES ) REPRESENT THE HIGHEST TYPE OF MODERN MAJJIJO; WE SHOW THEM IN FINE VICT HID FOR MISSES AND IN VOX CALF". UPPERS FOR BOYS. EVE EYJPAIR JtJjtgZFZlS1'' THEY ARE VERY LOW IN PRICE WHEN YOU CONSIDER QUALITY. ; SAliiM CHEAPEST 0 . ... is the danger of disease germs coming in water, nullc, and other foods. Flies aad , mosquitoa . often carry disease to peojde. Flies carry typhoid germs on their tangled feet from infected exere tions of the body to onr food "supply; they also carry tuberculosis in the same way. , Doors and window should be screened in the summer time. A fourth cause of disease is poor , food, often poorly and even foolishly prepared, and too much stimulation." . i Provide for Families of Sick. I Dr." Lee K. Frenkel read an interest ing paper on "Canvalescents." discuss ing their care from the medical stand point, saying in part: "If onr hospitals, and dispensaries are unable to provide properly for the sick from the standpoint of time, if they must be discharged when they are technically eared, but still weak and Impotent, additional institutions' must he created to meet their needs. Of equal importance, however, in egecting a complete cure of our patients, is pro vision for his family in his absence. It is better public policy, viewed from the standpoint of economy or any other, to make adequate provisions for the man's tamily who is incapacitated by i Ho ess and whose savings are exhausted than by permitting him to return to work in an enfeebled condition, to sow the seeds of more serious illness and probably bring into the world off springs puny and undersized. ("Another plan which will commend itself to many because of its simplicity is the subsidizing of the patient him self by giving him the wherewithal to regain strength and health after a per iod of debilitating' illness. If this is supplemented y relief for his family, we have almost an ideal method of car ing for the convalescent." 1 The Visiting Norse. An interesting paper was read in an other session on the visiting nurse as an adjunct to tbe hospital. The paper was read by Miss Charlotte Aiken. The - report said in part: "Nurse training schools are recognizing that the women they send forth should go with a sense of their duty as publie ser vants as well as their consciousness of technical skill. Hence they are intro ducing into their curricula more of the general knowledge of peoples and con ditions. The women who are leaving the seclusion of the hospitals are in creasingly feeling their duty as citi zens. Among the unsolved problems of the nursing profession perhaps the most puzzling one at present is how to provide adequate nursing for the mod crate wage earner." ' ANOTHER BANK CLOSES DOORS. KANSAS CITY, July 20. Up to the r-loso of banking hours no flurry affect ing other local institutions had follow ed the failure today of the City Nation al bank. Nothing bordering on a run was exjerienced by any of the local banks, and according to the officers at jacb. place, none was expected. ' The City National has been in a weakened condition for some time. Its failure had been anticipated and therefore ho surprise was shown when the announce ment was made that it had been taken in charge by the national bank exami ner, Ames. The failure of tbe City National bank was due in a great measure to the fact it held upwards of (100,000 of C. J. Devlin's paper, which is tied up in the recent failure of the First National bank of 'Topeka, of which Devlin was the principal stockholder. LOAN WAS SECRETLY PAID, Neither Jordan Nor Alexander .Will Deny the Mercantile Trust Company Loan. NEW YORK, July 20. The World tomorrow will say that the loan of S3,000 to the Equitable Life Assur ance Society by the Mercantile Trust Company has lueen paaid. The World says: "This payment was made last Friday by Former President Alexander and former Comptroller Jordan, or by persons unknown, for their account.',' Jordan, when called over the tele phone last night at his summer honre, refused to say a w,ord in regard to the matter. Alexander was very ill at a retreat near Babylon. His attorneys declined to mako any statement. State Banking Superintendent Kilburn said to The World correspondent at Allmny last night that the loan was made by the Mercantile Company to Alexander and Jordan as trustees without any security. wa JCIWW Vll ww , Wf ifjume stockfoe-.r wy d nV - AM kUO aiucs Diwsiwwswaw-. NE PRICE CASn 8TORE. . . ... ': J DEFECTIVES AND PROGENY CHIEF TOPICS OF CHARTnES AND : CORRECTIONS MEETING. FUNCTIONS OF ORGANISMS. Subject of i Report Upon. Defectives Submitted by Dr. H. A. Tomlin ' son of Minnesota. . Charles D. Hlllis.of New York Makes a Report Upon 'Children "aod Touches Upon Two Types Physical and Men tal Defects Should fee Stndied. PORTLAND, July 18 "Defectives" was the subject of today's session of the conference of Charities and Correc tions. At the evening session ' Chil dren " was the topic. The report -of the committee on defectives was read by Dr. II. A. Tomlinson of St. Peter, Minn. The report is in part as fol lows: , : " -i Moilern methods of investigation have taught us tbe intimate, relation and eorelation of the functions of the brain and tbe general organism 'and tneir interdependence. We have also learned that tbe functioning of tbe brain is dependent upon the bodily or-- gans. 'lhererore tbe direction in which we are to look for advance in tbe study, care and training of those who are defective mentally must be by the eo relation of. the physical with tbe men tal, based upon the fact that tbe two are always associated. Provision should be made for the thorough investiga tion of physical conditions associated with mental defects and the pedagogic aspect of the work should be supple mentary rather than dominant, as it is now. ' "That these same methods should apply to the work in our hospitals for the insane Ought to be obvious. VMuch has been said in tbe direc tion of providing room and agreeable surroundings for the chronic, quiet and well behaved patient; but practically nothing is said about or thought of tbe proper provision for the disturbed pa tient, either acute or chronic: The dif ficulties that have arisen and still per sist, are due to the retention of the asylum regime and the effort to make it applicable to the performance of hospital work." Jail Type vs. Segregate Type.s. At the meeting tonight the following report of the committee on children was submitted by Dr. Hillis of New York: .; "In order to breed out the congeni tal or acquired criminality "of the boys, we must first breed out the hereditary traits of tbe institutions. The last vestige of the. jail disapiears when the congregate type gives way to the cot tage home type. The segregate type is now no longer a splendid novelty. Kroad acres have replaced high warts. New element have entered, many things are taught. When indifference or incaacity or ignorance dominate the results are disappointing. ' The chil dren who are learned in the cruel knowledge of the street come to us with life's unfoldings. We must turn the friendly side of our nature toward tbem. Wholesome foods, habits of reg ularity, trades instruction are all good, but in order that a symetrical man may be developed the souls must bo nour isbed. To be kept from evil is a nega tive influence. Jt is a palliative. There will probably not be a permanent cure nnless there are positive moral influ ences. We must feci a real friendship for those who are making tbe long, unequal fight. Our larger usefulness and hopefulness is expressed by ex ample and .comes with tersonal influ ence and companionship." ' he subject of George Vanx, Jr., of the Philadelphia, (Pa.) Refuge, was "A Plea for' Kstbetie Surroundings." Mr. Vau.X said: "We disclaim against the squalor and barrenness of child life iu the congested districts of our great cities, nut do we use our influence to provide public builuings and school bouses and institutions of beautiful architectural proportions.' As a rule no building costs less solely because it is ugly, beauty does not add to expense. 1 am not referring to mere ornamentation, but to tbe essentials. And to have lines well proportioned, curves grace ful and colors harmonious,, does not make a building costly either in money or in ultimate, usefulness." .lit the sectional meeting on defec tives Dr. Richard Dewey of Wauwatosa, Wis., read a paper entitled " ihe After Care of tbe Convalescent Insane.?' Mr. Dewey spoke on tbe assistance of destitute convalescent and recovered patients discharged trom hospitals .for the insane, saying in part: : The objects which suitable assistance and after care would secure would be, first, tbe permanent restoration or many eases that relapse and self-support in stead of public support for years or a lifetime.? ? i m . :. . , Second, the return to useful activity of many who remain permanently in the' asylum who could care for them selves if they could get a start. . In tne same section, vr. Walter Lind ley, of .Los Angeles, read a paper on "The Evil of Institutional Child hood."; r, i ; ' - Dr. LinJey said ia part: f "The best the state can do to help the children is to foster t hi? home and tbe homo spirit. There should be or ganized - assistance provided for .indi gent widows left with enildren, by a cash allowance if neeessaary,: so that t hey could keep their children at home while small and helpless." v . Dr. Lindley showed how California and New York were , far behind many ctb?r 1 states in their efforts to glaee children in homes.' 7. ' ' W;- T. Gardner' of Portland, Oregon, read a paper entitled "Tho Child Sav ing Agencies ef tbe Paetfie Coast" be fore the section on Children.' v' , TJkfr. Gardner said: " "Our greatest seed bow is a state board of .charities and corrections, with full power to inspect and sake sugges tions for the . betterment ef onr state and charitable institutions; ami to con trol thip issuing of charters to all new charitable corporations. -With , this law in force many evils would b. corrected. I do not knew of any law that is more necetsary to the. work ef caring for de pendent and delinquent children than the compulsory education act. . With a good eompnlaory education Jaw, the child labor, question will t take care of itself. But when vacation time comes, I must say I would rather a?e a law en acted compelling children to work, for in my : experience idleness is a prime factor in the' generation of delinquen cy, and honest employment, no matter if it is attended with some dangers, as factory work,' is much better than idle aess for the well being of tbe child. TRADE GUILDS PUT UP BARSr . .. . CHINESE BOYCOTT OF 'AMERICAN GOODS IS ON FOR SURBL, WILL HAVE BUT LITTLE EFFECT, Chinese Government Said, to Oppose ;Mfre and Will Do All Possible s .to Discourage It. ..t ... ' 1 : . Five Porta in "Chink" Kingdom Re fuse to Receive Merchandise From America Believed Boycott Will Suc ceed Only in Canton and Shanghai. ; WASHINGTON, July 19. Tlw state department has been -informed by its consuls that the Chinese boycott against Amvricarf goods instituted to- day,vwas organized by trade guilds in five different ports, Shanghai, Canton, Tien Tsin, Hankow and New Cbwang. It is believed that tbe boycott will not be successful or do any particular In jury to American goods, except, in the cities of Canton and Shanghai, where the guilds are stronger than elsewhere. Th.?re is no official aetion which' the United States government can do as long as it remains a boycott or a re fusal to purchase Amorican goods, but it is thought tnat the boycott will be discouraged "by the Chinesj government as fas as possible. COULDN'T AGREE JURY IN WILLIAMSON CASE IS DISCHARGED BY DISTRICT JUDGE DE HAVEN. Is Out Forty-Five Honrs and Takes as Many Ballots but Fails to Reach De cision Vote Stood Ten For and Two Against Acquittal. POKTLAND, July 20. After stand ing ten to Two in favor of conviction for forty-five , hours, the jury. in. the Williamson-Gessner-Biggs cane, was wn able to reach an agreement and wae discharged today.. According to the Evening Telegram, O. II. Flook, Olalla and G. O. Walker, or Walker, Lane coenty, favored acquittal. Juror Cook of Eugene, who, it was rumored, .was nangmg the jury, it develops, was an ardent advocate for flie conviction of all three , defendants from the begin ning to the rnd of the deliberations. NOT A SUCCESS ANGELUS MAKES INEFFECTUAL ATTEMPT TO SOAR ABOVE , CTTY OF PORTLAND. Engines of Airship Too Weak to Re sist Gentle Breezes and Vessel Is Driven ' Toward South Aeronaut Lands Ship Safely on' Ross Island. PORTLAND, Jnly 18. The sight of tbe airship " A agelus" floating over the city this afternoon created a great sensation, causing the people for hours to watch the progress of the "An gelus" in its flight. Manned by Lin coln Beaebey, tbe airship ascended from' the Lewis and Clark exposition grounds and to all appearances was at first un der the control of the aeronaut, but it soon developed ! that the propeller was not working, at full speed and, borne by a light 'northerly wind, the "Angelus" sailed over the city in the direction of Oregon 'City. Finding he was unable to get the full power from the motor, the aeronaut sought a con venient landing place. Gradually tbe airship descended over Ross island ia the. Willamette. and as the ' ship ap proached land Captain Bene hey shouted to some bathers to catch his tow line, wbieh they did, bringing the airship to a standstill uninjured. ROOT TAKES OATH OF OFFICE. New Secrttary of State Arrives in : v .Washington and Today Will , Be Sworn In. WASHINGTON,,- July 18 FJibu Root arrived; here i tonight from New York. and tomorrow will take the oath of secretary of state. He will remain in the city only one day. j vi: A REGULAR THING WITH - SANDY BOSTON July 18. -Jack Johnson of California, won In the seventh on a foul 'from Sandy Ferguson of Chelsea, Mass tonight. t CHINA WANTS TO HAVE SAY ULTIMATUM IS DELIVERED TO POWERS' BY MONGOLIANS. :- .i MUST FIRST BE CONSULTED Before the Fnal Disposition . of the Province of Manchuria Is Decided Upon. Washington Hears From Pekin It Win ; Not Recognize Any Arrangements - Regarding That Province Unless It Is Consulted Beligerents Notified. t WASHINGTON, July 20. China's official notification to tbe powers that she would not recognize any, arrange ment regarding Manchuria " concerning wbien sue - was not consulted before hand, has reached V. ashingon. Tbe arrival of the text of the note dis poses of the unofficial report reaching Washington recently i f rom Europe which found credence in official circles tnat China had requested that she be allowed to participate in the confer ence. China has not taken this step for several reasons. The Chinese govern ment is anxious, so far as possible, that both belligerents be allowed to nego tiate directly with each other and is adverse to being forced into the nego tiations. China's motive in addressing to; Russia and Japan such a notifica tion was to remind them that she had never acquiesced in tbe alienation of t-he province of Manchuria from Chi nese sovereignty and that she expected as the first result of the war a full restoration to Chinese control of that province. FREE PICTURE SHOW AT FAIR. Resources of Nebraaxa Interestingly Shown by Biographic Pictures, Every Hour. PORTLAND, July 19. The state of Nebraska, which has an interesting display in the palace of agriculture and horticulture at the Lewis and Clark exposition, has adopted a novel method of exploiting its resources, by means of free biograph lectures. The lectures are interesting and the pictures are distinct and wonderfully true to life. The lecture room is filled at every per formance. The scenes are of the everyday sort, and their charm is due to this fact. Different pictures are; thrown on the screen at different hours of the day, and most of them depict farm scenes. For example, a series of pictures shows the methods of harvesting alfalfa, which now occupies 275,000 acres in Nebraska. The opening picture shows' a young man standing waist high in alfalfa. Succeeding moving pictures show a procession of mowers cutting down the grass. Then follows a series of moving pictures which show bow a plialanx ;of rakes gathers the hay into long windrows. The operation of stacking the' aiialfa by means of a big stacking machine is pictured also. A team hauls a section of a windrow to the stack, and a second team pushes tbe hay onto the outstretched arms of the stacker. This . oferation is known as "bucking it on." When the hay has been "bucked on'are arms, with their burden, are eievted to tbe top of the stack, and the load dumped onto tbe heap, where men place it with pitch forks. Tbe moving pictures were, taken in an actual hay field, and represent everyday operations .n tbe harvesting of alfalfa. Kvral dogs are seen in the pictures, running in and out among the machines, ami their presence adds to tbe realism. Other farm scenes are shown in the same life-like manner as tbe alfalfa harvesting time pictures. Besides tbe moving pictures these are a number of beautiful lantern slide views. An old sod bouse,-one of the first to be built in Nebraska, in tbe early days when tbe country was young, is shown in contrast with a modern farm house' such as fine crops have made it possible for the Nebraska farmers to build. There are, too, street scenes in Omaha and other cities, and one picture shows a shaft created to tbe memory of Sergeant John Floyd, the only member of the Lewis aad Clark expedition wbo died en route' to the Pacific ocean. ; . Some interesting moving pictures of a parade during tbe Omaha exposition are part of the; progranf. . Ia these the late President McKinley, .bareheaded and bowing right and left, to tbe cheering crowds, is the moat conspicu ous figure. The pictures are explained by a lecturer, who tells, of Nebraska aad its possibilities in a straightfor ward manner, without attempt at ora torical effect. AGED . INDIAN DOCTOR SHOT. Old Man Is Fired Upon From Rear and ' His Body Dragged a Distance ..of Fifty Feet. ; ... EVERETT, Wash., July 19 The dead body of Doctor Jim, an Indian, aged one hundred and six years, was found under a bridge on the Darring ten branch of tbe Northern . Pacific, three miles from Arlington, today, with a bullet, hole in tbe back of bis head, lie disappeared Monday. The trail in dicated that he was dragged fifty feet from a point on the bank of the Stilta guamiah, where, it is believed, he was sitting wbea shot. ,y- FUNSTON IS FOUND GUILTY. ' Father ef General Convicted ef Dis turbing Peace and Carrying i -v Weapons. , IOLA, Kan., Jnly 19. K II. Punsfon former congressman from this district, and father of General Frederick Funs- ' ton, was found guilty today in the po- Jliee ecurt ox distorting tne peace ana with having carried 'concealed wet pons. He was fined $5 en each charge and tbe costs "of the suit were eharg! a&Ainst bim, making a total of $31. - The charges against Mr. Fonston grew out of the wrecking with dvna mite by a-temperance fanatic on July 10 of three lola "joints," or-saloons. The explosions follow! an agitatin againt the saloons, in which Governor lloch was appealed to in an effort, to secure the enforcement of tbe state prohibition law. Inten excitement followed the act of the dynamiter, and for three . days the city was crowded with" peopl, who came "from many points of the state to view the wreck age or join in a hnnt 'for the dyna miter. ' ; "' During the height of the excitement Mr. Funston, tt is charged, bad made inflammatory utterances to Crowds that gathered about him on the streets. When Patrolman Cannon tried to per suade Mr. Funston to desist, a quarrel betwen the two ensued, and Funston, it was alleged, attempted to draw a re volver. Funston was arrested and a formal charge made against bim, after which he was neleased upon his own recognizance. m ! FIVE MINERS BLOWN TO PIECES. Lightning Explodes , Dynamite in, the i Powder House Where They . Sought Shelter. DES MOINES, Ia., July 19. Fiv miners were literaly blown to pieces by the explosion, of twenty-five ,ound tf dynamite in a storage powder bouse n) the West Riverside coal mine, two miles from this city. The dead ere: Charles Brown, engineer; Duke Miller, sinker; Harry Belknap, sinker; Dell Vance, sinker; George Arrowwood, a pump man. Brown, Vance and Arrow wood leave families. ' Heads, arms and limbs were scatter ed for a distance of 00 feet. The ex plosion was not known until the day shrTt appeanc-d to go to work. The victims were engaged in sinking a new shaft, and during the oarly morn ing hours a rain storm came up wnich compelled the men to stop .work. They sought shelter in the powder bouse. Lightning struck a tree near' the build ing and ignited the dynamite as well as two kegs of powder. The building wa blown into fragments. Some of the bodies wre so badly disfigured that' identification is impossible. Th near est house was 800 feet away r nd the inmates knew nothing ci tin? acci'ient. attributing the noise to to.? bolt of lightning. FALLS TO FIND NOTE OF LOAN.. Books of Mercantile Trust Company Do Not Show Any Loan to tbe ' Equitable Company. NEW YORK, July 20. State Bank Examiner Judson'late today made tls following statement: "I have examined' all the ats ol the Mercantile Trust' Company and not only could find no trace of the large mortgajpr for the' loan of 683.000 to the Equitable Life Assurance Society, or to James W. Alexander or Thomas D. Jordan as trustees, but I found no record of any such loan to any persons connected with the Equitable.? Judson, in further conversation this afternoon, explained that although be was absolutely certain tnat the .loan did not at the present moment appear on the books of the Mercantile Trust Company, tb?re was nothing in his ex amination to show whether or not it existed a few weeks ago and had since been taken up. . CHICAGO STRIKE IS OFF. . Strikers Give in Absolutely and Are Now Seeking Their Old Jobs Back. CHICAGO, July 20. The teamsters' strike, which began 10.1 days ago, was at 12:30 o'clock tonight officially de clared off by the niemlters of the team sters' joint council. Tbe men were or dered to seek their old positions and it is estimated that less than one half of them will be re-employed. . .'The strikers have' made a complete surren der snd will apply for work as individ uals without an agreement of any kind with their employers. The action of the teimsters joint council was. taken at the end of a day whose events clearly foreshadowed col lapse of the strike. "Three .unions had already voted to return to work as far as ; possible' and certain unions which bave not yet voted on the question will take similar action. The council, be lieviug further effort useless, decided to call off the strike at once. AFTER FRENCH COMPANY. NEW YORK, July 19. The Venezue lan authorities hare, according to a Herald dispatch from Caracas, institut ed proceedings against the French Ca ble company for damages incurred by the government, for the cable, com pany's alleged participation in the Ma ton revolution.' This is a different aetion than that decided against the company on March 31, which resulted in declaring the company s concession null and voul, and assessing it ia damages for failure to falfill the terms of its contract. Ca blegrams form a large part of the evi dence claimed to be in possession of the authorities. According to common re port, they were taken trom the cable office hy an operator. They .were first offered to the French legation for sale, but the proposition was declined, after which they were sold to General Castro; It was the common belief that the French minister, Charles R. Weiner, left Venezuela for Paris in May for the purpose - of settling the matter, but nothing has come of it, and the long deferred suit has begun. 4 , r MILLIONAIRE PLOWMAN KILL: T KTLLED 20.-M. LOS" ANGELES July Hancock, . tbe well known millionaire plow manufacturer, was killed in an automobile aeeidaut on Mai q street tonight. His automobile, while being driven at a high rate of speed,, erasbed into a buggy and . was wrecked. BARONKOMURA ARRIVES HERE JAPAN'S PEACE ENVOY LANDS IN SEATTLE ZASX NIGHT. HE IS FETED - IN THAT CITY. Makes Only Brief Stop and Leaves in Hurry for His Destination in the East. Jap Associations of Sound City Give Plenipotentiary a Warm Greeting Special "Train Provided by 'Jim Hill Carries Him to New York. SEATTLE, July 20. Baron Komura, the foreign minister of Japan and tbe peace plenipotentiary, wbo, with Min uter Takafcira- will, me.-t tbe Kussiaa represcntatiw at Washington, arrived this morning on the Hill liner, Minne sota. Komura was welcomed by Mayor Ballinger and a delegation of more than 1000 Japanese residents of Ht at tic. Tbe baron and his-.suite left Seattle tonight for New York city. Tbey will travel in private care as the guestof President J. J. Hill and will make all hat, to their destination. Hill's invitation to a tour of tbe great lakes was declined by the envoy, with the plea that bis instructions for haste were imperative. As a conse quent the party will go to Kt. Paul by tn Great Northern, thence to ( hicago and New York. The only hospitality accepted by the baron during his stay here was an in- ' formal dinner tonight given by John U. Jarrell, president of j.the Great Northern Steamship Company. The peace parfy was escorted to tbe train by the leading citizeus of tbe city and by the entire Japanese association Of Seattle. A heavy police guard es corted ""t he baron's carriage. ThelGreat Northern traftice officials provided a eompkde train for the party including a diner, a baggage and obser vation cars. , WILL FIGHT EXTRADITION. Accused Perjurer Oeorge D. Collins Says He Will Carry His Case to Highest Courts. VICTORIA, July 18. Detective Gib son of Han Francisco arrived hern to day with a warrant and depositions from 8an Francisco in readiness for tbe resumption of the extradition trial of George D. Collins, accused of per jury. Gibson met Collins at the Driard hotel this afternoon and told him in a conversation that he had rone tolako him back. Collins replied he would not lie taken back until ho had ex hausted every effort at law, even car rying the case to the highest court of British Columbia. HENEY CAUGHT NAPPINO. Judge Bennett Springs Surprise and Jury Takes Case No Agreement Up to Late Hour. - PORTLAND, duly 1. The case of tbe United Htates against Williamson, Gewsner and Biggs went to the jury at 3:15 o'clock today. Thi jury had not agreed on a verdict at 10:30 tonight and was locked np for the night. The sudden termination of tbe case cinso like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky. Hen-y tnis morning made bis argu ment for tbe government and when be had closed and the defense was-to be gin, Judge Bcnmdt announced that as the jury bad had the exidence explain ed to them step by Step as tbe trial progressed, br did not Ihink it neces sary to occupy their time further. This afternoon, wh"n the court recon vened. Judge ) Haven instructed to jury, saying in substancv, if they found Williamson, Gessner aud.Bigg had ad vanced -money to claimants with thr understanding that the claims, wLen patented, should belong to Williamson and Gessner, there wss a conspiracy. Should there be reasonable, doubt about this tl-n be directed tbem to find for the defendants. .ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN. Rail Placed Across Track at Scappoose With Intent to Hold Up Twin City Express. 'PORTLAND, July 19. An unsuc cessful attempt was made shortly after midnight this morning to wreck tbe northbound Northern Pacific, passenger train, known as the Twin City Express, at a point two miles west of Heappoose, Or., by placing s, steel rail, weighing 750 pounds, across the track. At the point where the attempt was made the track is slightly down grade and par allels tbe fiver. Tbe engineer saw the obstruction in time to slow down the train, but the impact, when the cow catcher, struck it, was sufficient, never theless, to bend the rail into the sLape Of a horseshoe.. The rail was carried about a hundred yards before the train waa brought to a dead stop. CRIME OF RIVER PIRATX3 Body of Captain King Found in CaUa of Yacht off Bath, Leach Yesterday. NEW YORK, July lS.-What the po lice of Bata Beaeb, Brooklyn station, believe to be a deppcrate attempt to murder, and one tbat will probably le successful, was revealed today wl.r-n Captain William J. King, whose L so is in the Bronx, was found near ! r.i in teh cabin of th yacht Agiai. TL nj was a bullet wound in the left t ! another In tbe right shoulder an J i! lower jaw was fractured. The c' i was In great disorder, snow-in ; a t r rifle fight had taken plare. Th j 1 believe tbat river pirates committed t: crime. 4