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V- -& Ck Umt j--i TOj.XEC. DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, uAliKM, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1000. IfO. 85. CITY COUNCIL NEW YORK GREETS n .Ma I Iknuuol aassWMJ Inllnllnllnllnlln sfflya fnftnl TTfini in (H?5s ay; & ORDERS TWO BLOCKS MORE PAVIN6 v ALSO 1MPRQVMENT OF WINTER STREET MAIN SEWER ORDERED BUILT FROM STATE FAIR GROUNDS TO HIGHLAND , In ho absenco of Mayor Rodgcrs Aldarman Stolz presided us mayor pro torn. Hunter drop (fonder adopted In plnco of present fendors, on report of ways and moans committee Ordinance granting stato right to Iriy wator pipes on cortaln strootB. Passed. Claims reported by Mr. Green ordered paid. Mr. Low aiked that bids be asked for 000 fcot ot cotton hoso. Whon purchased tho council will oqup tlio South Salem flro company. Remoiutranco of W. If. Darby and others against improvement of South Twelfth stroot. Roforrod to street committee Communication of Mlnto brothers rend rotating to uso of gravel from Mlnto'B lBlnnJ for streets and sowers. Messrs. Ho for, Grocnbaum and Hill woro nnined as committco to confer 'with tho counsel of Mlnto brothers and city attornoy and report Wed nesday night Pin us and specification for crushed rock pnvlnc for Winter street from Stato to Oak. Adoptod. Hosolutlon adopted for bltullthlo pavomont on Llborty Btroet from 8tato to Ferry. Resolution for samo . on Court Btreot from Commercial to Front. .Adontod., . . ,, ""Mr. Grecnbtfunraskucffor opening of alloy 1 block boundol by Court, DENIES HIS FATHER WILL MAURY WIDOW United I'reea teaeed Wire Los Angolcs, May 11. Despite tho reiteration of tho roport that his father, H. E. Huntington tho trolloy t magnate of southern California, Is eoon to marry tho widow of his undo Co!" P. Huntington, Howard Hunt ington, son of tho trolloy king, today dnnlod nny knowlodgo ot tho Intend ed mnrrlngo. "If my father Is going to bo mar ried I know nothing of it, nnd I think I'd bo llkoly to know If ho Intended to bo murrlod.'t said tho hod, who Is general mnnagor of tho Pn clflc Electric railway. Desplto this denlnl by Huntington's son. friends of tho Huntlngtons still affirm that tho trolloy mnknato in tends to wed tho accomplished widow. Howard Huntington ndded that ho oxpoctcd his father to visit Oak Knoll, Huntington's estnto, toward tho ond of tho present month. Thoro hnvo been rumors that Huntington Intonds ' to resign from tho railway company In which he Is said to net morely au nominal piesldont. Thoso familiar with. tho traction affairs horo sayHhnt E. H, Hnrrlman controls moro than i.alf of tho Pacific Electric Company ana that tho lust word on all im- portant mattors comes from W. F. Horrln ot San Francisco, Harrlman's right hand man in Callforihn. THEATRICAL GHOST : " GETS "ATTACHED" (Uulted rreas keaied Wire. 8an FrancVco. V.-iy 11. Tho the atrical ghost of Mrs. Horton F. Phlpps, the society woman, who re cently mado her debut on the stage ' ns a professional dancouso, Is hob bling about on crutches today after haviru; ho toes.atoppcd on while do ing hU first "walk" for tho new por- former. The blow which folk on tho "ghost" was adm'n stored by a col loctlon agency, which yesterday at- . tached $20,50 of Mrs. Phlpps' Balnry The collectors acted upon behalf ot ' ajqwolry firm which has filed anilt for tho amount named, alleging that it Is due them for two silver loving cups roiu airs,- rnipps in i07. , JOHN CUNNINGHAM SUSPECTED OF MURDER (United Tttn Leased Wire San Jase, Cal., May 11 The sher iff's office here today was advised by the Oakland authorities to keep In ' solitary jaflnemeut John Cunning ham, hejd.n Rueplcon of being the man wfc attacked Minnie Withrow near College Park last week. The description of the prisoner is almoat identical with that ot the man who murdered A. Griswold, a deat and dumb farmer, near Sunol Saturday. Tho Oakland officers will arrive here late today. 18th strcot aid Mill creek. Granted. Mr. Presnall asked that local op tlon ordlnanco for drugglsto go ovor to Monday night. Resolution for Hunter drop fond era adopted on report ot ways and means committco. RoportD and specifications for sow er through Highland from fair grounds woro submitted by City En gineer Perrott. Cost Is $23,939;- Stato Fair Board to pay $2400 to connoct. Plans adopted. Mr. Wators reported In favor of a $1200 hospital for Infectious diseases city to pay $400. Committco au thorized to ontor Into contract. Mr. Stockton roportcd on garbago plant, to bo located on west bank of Wlllnmctto rlvor. Stockton, Moffltt and Hill. Mr. Hofcr reported an Impasslblo condition ot brldgo nt Washington and Sixth street. Roller Diffcuimlon. Scaled bids from tho Dnrbor As phalt Company tor steam road rollers Included a ten-ton roller at $2750, and a twelvo-ton rollor nt $2080. Anothor roller was offored for $2200 Offer of nuffnlo-Plttfl Co. to leaso now ton-ton stonm rollor until noSY year nt $700, and $2083 on May 10, 1910, was read. Tho report was adopted. 8 to 3, Adjourned to Wednsdoifc-evonlng to tnko up Court street patJng- ordl nanco. CALIFORNIA TO FIGHT THE CEMENT TRUST i (United Preea Leaaed WlrO Sacrnmonto, Cal., May 11. Wnr to tho death with tho alleged com bine in force nmong the cement man ufacturers of tho state Is bollovod today to bo tho dotormlnatlon ot State Engineer Elley. Tho onglnoer nas laid me facts of what ho believes a pact nmong tho manufacturers ot iul and other Pacific coast states, aided by tho railroads, boforo Attor-noy-tjoneral Wobb, asking that It bo proaocuted under the provisions of ino unriwrigtit anti-trust law. The charges nroso over Elloy'a in ability to seouro at what ho doomed a reasonable price tho 100.000 bar rels of comont nooded for proposed sinto worK. Tho companles'allegod by Elley to no involved in tlio comblno are, tho uiugee, or aianuaru uomont com pany, Mount Diablo Comont Com pany, Pacific Cement Company and the Santa Cruz companies. A PATHETIC PHASE OF. TRAGIC SUICIDE (United r'reas Leaaed Wlre.J Ban Francisco, May 11. A pa thotlo phase of tho tragic suicide of Mrs. Pierre Lorlllard last month, nt Wanhington, was disclosed today, fol lowing the arrival of hor son, O. Lor lllard, who lias been at Manila. Tho Son returned In Amnrlrn In rntnnma to n message which simply said -aminer aeaa. no aid not know anything about Jthe suicide until lute yesterdav. when ho innrfnrf nnS.i. pier here. Clarence Pell, who nccohVinled Lorlllard, learned at Honolulu that his COmnanlon's mother, whn m n leader in New York society, had taken her own life." He kept the newsnaners pontnlnlni- l-Mmi. nr 'the tragedy away from Lorlllard, and mu Aim urvuR mo news io mm until meir arrival Here, CASTRO MAY ALSO GO TO AFRICA SanUdera. Spain. May 11 Re ports are circulated here today to the effect that ex-President Castro of Venezuela, and his wlfo are planning to buy a large estate on the Island of Tennerlffe, off tho coast of French West Africa, and take up farming. These reports are in direct contra diction of the general supposition that Castro was planning to return to . enexuela and regain control of that country. It has been thought hero that he had formulated a plot to hwctly return to his former homo and start another revolution. In some quarters it is still believed that rumors of tfce purchase of the Ten nerlffo estate are being circulated to- cover some such attempt. THE United 1'reaa Leased Wire Now York, May 11. Moro taciturn and impassive than ever, nnd unim pressed by their new fnmlllarity with tho crowned heads of Eurone. tho Wright brothers, aviators, nnd their sister, Miss Cnthcrlno, arrived horo today. Tho Wrights appeared far moro interested in tho accident which occurred to an Italian lieutenant who wns oporatlng their machlno nt Rome a few dnyB ago, than In tho recep tion n delegation from tho Aoro club tried to tender to thorn. In unison tho famous aviators hcavod sighs of relief whon they lenrncd that tho nccldont was not duo to nny fault of tnelr machlno. Among tho mombors of tho recep tion committee which grootod tho Wrights nro A. Holland Forbes, act ing presldont of the Aero club, Dr. Wllllnm J. Van ot tho Aoronnutlc do clety, and Robert L. Morroll ot tho Automobllo Club of Amorlcn. De splto tho fnct that thoso prominent men mado every offort to draw tho aviators out from their shroud of modesty they mot with no grontor success than did tho individuals of loss prominence Refusing a scoro ot Invitations to social affairs, tho Wrights announced their Intention of departing tomor row for Dnyton, O., whoro their work shops nro located, and bugin work nt onco preparing their machines for shipment to Fort Myer for trial. It was almost impossible to socuro n Btntcmont from tho Wrights re AUSTRIAN PRINCE A LABORER IN FRISCO United I'reea'Leaaed Wire. .Palncsvillo, Ohio, May 11. Jo halm, princo of tho rolgnlng Aus trian' Iioubo, and first cousin of Bin poror Francis Joseph, for 10 yoars a wnnderor on tho two American con tinents, tday declared his Identity in this city. For TZ weoks ho hits been employed as a machinist in tho shops of tho Coo Company. Prince Johnnn lived In this city under tho name ot Johann Salvator. His photograph has boon submitted to Otto Qraff, Austrian consul-general at Chicago. Upon soolng tho plc trtiro, Graff stated there could bo no doubt as to tho man's identity, and tho authenticity of his claims. Tho Austrian ambassador at Washington tins been nollflod. According to the story ho told to day PrlnCo Johnnn ronouncod his titles, nnd any possible claim to tho Austrian throno In 1800, and married Ludmllla Stubol, a Vleunezo opera singer in London. After a rosldonco ot several years In Montevideo, during which tlmo CLAIMS TO KNOW THE San Francisco, Muy 11. Doclarlng that bolng shipwrecked whllo search ing for $60,000,000 Peruvian gold In tho South Seas Is "Just a llttlo hard luck," Captain James Drown, who claims that ho is tho only man on eartn who knows tho whereabouts of tho famous Cocoa Island cache. Is making arrangements today to start out again In quest of the treasure. The captain returned from tho anti podes Sunday and after resting for two days bogan putting things Into shape for another search. Captain Drown left San Francisco for Sydnoy last February. At Syd ney he bought tho 25-ton schooner. Lo Matin, shipped u crew of four men and March 5 started for the South Seas. Two day lator tho schooner ran into a typhoon and was wrecked on a reot at Point Doisy on tho north- MILWAUKEE CREW Tacoma, Wash., May 11. Tho newa Just received that the Milwau kee surveyors navo won their excit ing race with Great Northern survey ors through the Flathead country means that the victors, numbering 22, will share In a prize of $10,000, offered by the Milwaukee line to Its crow, if it outdistanced its rival. Encouraged by this big bonus, the AIR SHIP KINGS garding their trip abroad. They had llttlo to say and that Ilttlo wns tnnrk od by Its deprecntlon of their own nchlovomonts. They donlod that thoy Intondod to U8k American army officers to wlt noss tests ot tholr machines nt Fort Myor. They stated that tho aero planes would bo In condition to mnko all of tho required tests by tho tltno they wcro Bhlppcd from Dayton. Tho Wrights had Intended to de part tor Dnyton inter this afternoon, hu. whon it wns oxplalned to them tnnt arrangements hnd been complet ed by tho Aero club for n lunchoon In t.iolr honor tomorrow, thoy agreed to remain hero ono day longor. Thoy wl.. start for their Ohio homo to morrow night. An enormous crowd assemblod at thij Hobokon docks to wolcomo tho Wrights. A mighty cheer nroso as th6 men enmo ashoro and tho nvln toiii smiled tholr appreciation. Thoy denlod tho report thnt J. P. Mqrgan had arranged to finance tho manufacture of their machines but declared that their Daton factory wonld bo kopt busy. Thoy announcod thnt tholr first flight at Fort Myor would bo mudo jtino 18, nnd thnt thoy would con tintio thereafter until tho dotnlls ot tno trovornmont tosts had been mado. Wilbur Wright In spcnklng of tho nccldont at Home, said that ho had warned tho Italian lieutenant not to unuertuko too much ns ho was not In good physical condition. ho accumulated n consldorablo for ttlr.o, Ortlu as ho called hltnsoir, wont with 'his wlfo and chtldron to St. Plorro, whoro ho sottlod on n plan tation. His wlfo nnd chlldron woro klllod In tho torrlfflo eruption of Mount Poloo In 1902, and, onco moro a wnndoror, tho princo returned to Europo, going to Paris. Upon tho advlco ot a relative, ho stuted, ho returned to tho United States, coming to this city, and no curing omploymont in tho Coo ma chlno shops. Asked why ho did not roturn to Austria and claim his rightful po sition, Salvntor said: "I wouTd rather hnvo comfort, yes, but not cqso. I am Independent. I would rather work than return, Thoro aro many reasons why I should not go back to my fathorlad, but theso I can explain to no ono but my family." Salvator's facial resemblance to his royal kinsman, Emporor Francis Joseph, is marked, LOCATION OF TREASURE wostorn coast ot Now Caledonia Tin? captuln and his crow were rescued by the liner Paclflquo and taken to Sydnoy, from whonco Drown return ed to this city Captain Drown, whose family ilvos nt Providence, It. I., tolls that hu shipped as first mate of tho schooner Sea Foam under Captain Henry Smith, in 18G0. Tho expedition was ostensibly bound for the pearl fish eries but in reality went to Cocoa Island, whoro $00,000,000 Peruvian treasure waj burled years beforo by Captain Smith's father. Tho Sea roam party removed this treusuro to anothor island In tho South Seas and returned to Amorlcn. Through a series of mlahans every member of, (ho party except .Drown aled soon after returning hero and the treasure1 has remained undisturb ed ever sluco. BEATS HILL OUTFIT Milwaukee mon worked like Trojans, and not Only broke all records for fast work in their lino, but finished ten days ahead of tho Hill crew. Major Gamble, who Is in charge t-f the Mllwaukeo survoyors, wired hero today that bis mon aro wlthn fte mles of tho Canadian border. Tho surveyors of the other road are fO mile fro tSe Canadian line; MEXICAN CITY OF ACATLAN BURNED HUNDREDS SUFFER BLAZE FANNED BY FIERCE Wl KB DESTROYS LITTLE CITY FRIDAY' RIM-TOWN OF 5,000 GONE AND! IIS PEOPLE ARE WlTrfMTFQOa Acapulco, Moxlco, May 11. Hun dreds of porsons without food' or shaltor, tho city of Acntlan practically destroyed by flamos nnd a reign ot torror from lawlessness following tho disaster, nro 'tho reports' rocolved horo today from Ghllpunclngo, 20 kllomotorB from Acatlnn. Owing to tho ovtont of tho disaster but fow dotnlls can bo loarnod, al though tho flro which wrought dev astation started Frldny night. As jot no cnsunltlua hnvo-been ro ALL ENGLAND UNEASY ABOUT HER FLEETS (United rrea lotted Wire. London, May 11. England Is in susponso lodny awaiting tho report of tho Biib-coninilttoo of tho Drltloh committco of tmporlnl dofenso upon chnrges ot Inomcloncy brought against tho navy by Admiral Lord Cbarlos Derestord Whllo It n std that tho. findings ot tho nub-commlt-too In tho main will rofuto tho charge brought by Admiral lloroo ford, thoro Is known to bo a differ onco of opinion among tho commlttoo mon, nnd n minority report by tho dlssentors would occasion no sur prise. Tho Investigations nro tho result of .celticisms. laid, boforo tho cablnot by Admiral Dorcsford at tho tlmo of his enforced surrondor of tho com mnnd of tho chnnnol squadron n fow weeks ago. Dorosford contondrd that tho navy Is wholly unfit for war service, and that tho disciplinary measures recently enacted by tho board of admlrallty was prompted by party, motives. Promlor Asqulth Is acting as chair man of tho Investigating commlttoo. Tho admlrallty board, Itsolf under in vestlgutlon, of course, Is not repre sented on tho commlttoo. Tho body Is composed of non-pnrtlsan mom bors. and, ns a conBoquonco, it will bo imposslblo for Its roport to bo col ored by party loyalty. Tho findings of tho committco probably will bring to an ond tho long controversy botweon tho ndral rnllty board t headed by First Lord of tho Admlrallty Sir John Flshor, and Admiral Dororfordr A donlal of Doresford's charges will ond tho po litical career ho has ninpiwd. out for hU declining years. His official llfo is ouded already by tho ordor which doprlved him of tho command of tho chnnnol squadron. Should tho chnrgcB be substan tiated, tho board will bo placod In a light of permitting the dctorlorla tlon of tho navy, and the roslgnn tlon of Hi inombors logically will fol low. 8ich a finding undoubtedly would bo disastrous to tho hopos ot tho Liberal party In tho coming oloc- tlons. Tho sea lords wlii mnko no fcoiu ment further than tlfOy aro glad the Investigation has been ordered. Her esfnrd's attltudo li epitomized in his declaration- "If the country know what I know, there would be a panic." TACOMA HAS A . $10,000 BLAZE I Culled lTFK Leaacil Wire. Tncoina. May 11. -Damage to tho amount of $10,000 was dono to tho Donnoll building u't "757 Souti""0 streot this moinlng by a flro that or iginated in tho supply room of Elli son & McMnstcrs' cumorn store. Throe firms were henvy losers by tho flro, tho Commercial Dlndory and Print ing Company, tho Skldmore Decorat ing Company and Ellison & McMus tors. TAFT'S uncle elopes WITH 20-YEAR-OLD GIRL (United l'reaa Uautd V"re.l Escanaba. Mich., May U. After a quiet disappearance from Green linv vairnrAoi liv fi( rlAnrlft fl, nti elopement, to avoid undoslred pub licity, unarics wminuy, an uncio ot Presldont Tatt, wag married to Miss V.vn llnrardln. of Orasn Ilnv. hnm voitftrrtav. and today the cOunla nro annnrlfnff n linnAvmnnfl In Phfitacn ,(WUI.IH M ..W..H ...,. . . W...V.pV wmimiy is a wuauuy HicrciiKQi and U 60 years of age. Hfs twWo Is 29. portcd; but it Is learned that many ot tint cJty fostabitanta escaped from tho!r hose baroly In tlmo to savo tholr lhtee. A high wind fanned the conflagration nnd few buildings woro spared, by the morolless olomout. BYxjd: supplies wero licked up by tho tinmen nnd hundreds nro said to bo starving-. Appeals hnvo been sont for nlir nnd preparations nro under ray for dispatching provisions nnd tents to tho refugees. Acatlnn num bered fiOOO inhabitants. HAINS FOUND GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER (United l'reaa Leaaed Wire. Flushing, L. I., May 11. Cnptalu Peter C. Hnlns, slayer ot William E. Annls, wns found guilty today ot manslnughtor in tho first ddgroo. Captain Petor C. Hnlns, Jr., U. S. A., shot and killed William E. Annls, advertising managor for Rocrcatloa nnd.lDurr Mcintosh's Monthly, Satur day afternoon, August 1C, Ias, at tho Daysldo Yncht Club, at Dayslde, L. I. Th.o troniblo nroso through the al logod Intimacy ot Annls with CaptAla HnliiB' wlfo, Claudia, an4 tho affair caused ono of tho greatetr sensa tions of rccont years In army &Bd social life in Arlc. - Thornton Jenkins Halns, brother of the captain, wlio stood noarby wltk a. rovolvor, nnd provontod anyone from Interfering, wns tried on the chnrgo of murder, through complici ty, nnd was acquitted. Dehind a thin voll of format in sanity plea, .tho dofenso of Captain Ha'nt war TmseJT mainly upon the "unwrltton la,w." his counsol ap pealing to tho Jury on that ground. Tho caso has Involved hundreds ot porsons promlnont In army and so cial llfo throughout tho country. Tho most pathetic foaUiro of tho remarkable Trial wns the presence ot Mrs, Peter C. Hnlns, Sr mother ot tho dofondant, gray-halrod, grief brokon woman, wha sat beside her son through much of tho mosOicart ronf ng part of the testimony. Spoclal Prosocutor Gregg, who took up tho caso on the retirement ot District Attornoy Darrln, mado a poworful ploa today, arraigning Mains bitterly, denouncing tho at tempt to oitabllsh an "unwritten, law" dofonso, and attacking as a, sham tho plea of Insanity. COURT OF APPEALS STANDS BY TRUST (United I'ltM Leaaed Wlrc.l Albany, N. Y.. May U. Court of ai,?ls, tlio hlshe-it stnto trlUurml, handed down ft doclslon (oday affirm ing tho action of tho lower court In illsuiIssliiK I ho complnliit of John A. Locked at III. luminal Ihn Amnrlinn Tob-cco Conippny. tho Metropolitan looncco company Adolphus Dond helm nnd Arthur Btorn. Tho plaintiffs allognd that tho de foi.uunlH owned ami controlled n largo share of tho staplo articles uud VUrlOllH klniln nt Klllirr-ny mnrli.la.1 In this country. Thoy nssorted thnt hv Kuuurui uunier or jouoor could tlo business HiirrpHHrniiv witimni i..... llllniC tho inorchfinfllBn nvnnl nn controlled by tho American Tobacco lompnny nnd Its allied Interests. A FEW FACTS ABOUT , THIS OREGON OF OURS Oregon gives two sections of ovory township to tho state Bchool- fund. Has now an Irroduclblo common school fund of to, 600. 910. G2. Has an irreducible collego and uul verslty fund of $300,064.18. Every school district tins at least six months of school annually. Every school district has a good library. In J 008 Paid $3.061,P94.00 for tho suppoit of common schools. Average monthly salary of teach ers in rural schools, $49.00. Average monthly salary of princi pals, $80.87. Avorago monthly salary of assist ant teachers ,$50.36. Enrollment in puollo schools, 107, 493, Avorago dally attendance, 93 8 per cent.