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VOL. XX. SALEM, OREGON. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1010. N. 125. 0, The Filing of Suits to h nt the Railroads Raising fa Freight Rates Is Probably the Beginning of a Long Drawn Out Battle. KEPT MOVEMENT SECRET Attorney-General AVickershnm Snys the Roads Tried to ICeep the Movement to Increase tlio Rates Secret Until It Was Too Lnto for. Shippers to Act Commuters on Lines to Jersey City Are Raised From $3 to $5 a Month Protests Filed in Bundles. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIBH. Washington, Juno 2. The filing of the suit against the 25 "Western railroads which resulted in a tem porary injunction against rate in creases granted by Federal Judge Dyer at Hannibal, Mo., is said to bo the first move in a campaign against railroad abuses by tho department of justice. Complaints from all parts of the country where rate in creases are proposed will bo made, It is understood, and theso com plaints it is intimated by the de partment of justice, will result in suits similar to that already filed. .In some cases protests agains In creases have already been made and in other cases the action is expectod to follow tho filing with tho inter state commerce commission the schedules Increasing tho former ratces. A protest against tho rates be tween Chicago and St. Paul, rang Ing from 10 to 30 per cent will be mado, It is understood. Commutors between New England and Now Jersey points have com plained at tho action of the railroads in Increasing the rates so that the tickets cost from $2 to $5 more monthly than the former rate. J suit is apt to follow. , Attorney-General Wtckershdtn to day declared tho administration had been urging a law which gives the terstato commerce commission r to Investigate rates before tlu 3como effective. He declared that the roads already sued had en deavored to keep the rate increases secret until too late for tho shippers to act. When tho resolution offered by La Follette, urging Wickersham to enjoin tho Western trunk lines from increasing their rates was filed came up in tho senate today La Follette was not present and action was de ferred. It is probable that the reso lutlon will be withdrawn. He Crossed Channel Twice. UNITED THEBB LEAKED -WUlE.l Dover, Eng., June 2. Charle3 Stewart Rolls, aviator, established a new world's record with tho aero plane this evening. Rolls flew acros3 tho English channel, landed In France and after a short rest made a successful return flight to England. Rolls' entire flight consumed 35 minutes. It was a most spectacular ono, tho atmosphere being so clear that Dover -spectators could see the entire flight and Rolls landing on the French side. He landed in Franco at 6:35 this evening and after a rest returned, landing near hero at 8:05 o'clock. h Flow Across Channel. Dover, Eng., Jupe 2. Charles Stewart Rolls, tho aviator, flew across tho English channel this af ternoon. The aviator started from the English shore at 6:30 this evening. backed into town, and Mrs. Prossor was arrested. She had been following her former husband, In an effort to get him to return to her over slnco tho divorce was granted. On that day, May 13, sho took dinner with him at a local hotel. Later In tho day she locked) him in a room at tho hotel. Prosser was afterwards hidden by his friends who told his former wife that he had gono back to his, former homo in Lis bon, Ohio. Sho immediately went east, but on arriving at Ohicagp found mat uer rormor nusoand was sun in Seattle. She started West again Mrs. Vera" Prosser, of Seattle Qmet Prossor a-co,dental,y ln 3 and Cleveland, 0., Charged THE WOMAN With Killing Her Husband on Great Northern Train Yes terday. Prosser was accompanied on his Eastern trip by Manager Miller, of tho local Winton automobile garage, and A. H. Schaefer, another garago employe. Prosser was an agent of the W(nton company, Telegrams from Miller and Schaef er confirm tho dlnnntnli from tnn. . a n l "r" n a a " - III.. nijM, WAWItU IU lafcl Him HAUK tana Recently in attempting to slip away from her, Prosser missed his Sho at Ono Time Locked Him in Hotel train. Ho Jumped into an automo Room. But Escanh.ir Ho Was Hid. bll' and ca"Bht the tra'n Ballard ...., ., ;,. m.,., .. a suburb, only to find, upon climbing aboard tho train, that his wifo was Jiau Cone liast blic Hurriedly already a passenger, Followed But Discovering the Trick Returned Met Him at Spo kane by Accident Ills Found After She Left Train. Body I UNITED FREES LEASED WIEE.J Seattle, Wash., June 2. Mrs Vera Prosser, of Seattle, and Cleve land, Ohio, Is alleged to have shot and killed her divorced husband on a Great Northern passenger train near Libby, Mont., yesterday afternoon, according to a special dispatch today JLYSS to tho Seattle Star. Mrs. Prossor was divorced from her husband od May 18, in Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Prosser were riding together in one compartment of the train. A passenger in another com partment heard a shot. Mrs. Prosser left the train at Libby. As tho train pulled out, Prosser's body was discovered. The train was ACCUSE HIM QF BEING A LOBBYIS MEETING ' OF REPUBLI CANS AT JUNEAU, ALASKA, TURN DOWN SHACKLEFORD AS BEING ''UNTRUE TO HIS TRUST." 6reaIEr CHICAGO STORE oIlgo' N We are ready to show you the greatest line of Summer Goods suitable for tho hot days of June and July ever shown in the Willamette Valley. Summer Silk, Summer Wash Goods, Summer Suite, Summer Waists, Summer Underwear and all kinds of Summer Goods suitable for tho hot days. We aro big buy ers and big sellers, therefore we can give you closer prices than our competitors Our competitors' 20 per cent hook still hangs out, BUT THE BAIT IS GETTING' STALE. Prices now so low on ladies' fashionable suits in wool, linen and pongeo that no lady wanting a stylish garment can afford to pass up. Linen Suits $2.45 and $3.G0 Pongee Suite. . . $4.95 anl $7.60 $18 and $20 Wool Suits now ....$7.60, $8.60, $10.50 H6w does our competitors' 20 per cent look when you compare them with the FOLLOWING PRICES 9c Bleached Muslin, yd be 7 l-2c Fancy Lawns, yd 4c 15c Chambrcys, all colors, yard 8 l-3c 12 l-2c India Linon, yd . .7 l-2c 10c White Outing Flannel, yard 7 l-2c t 6000 yards of White Wool 'Dress goods, White Silks and White Silk Mulls, suitable for grad uation suits; wonderful val ues; now. . yard 25c, 35c, 40c 25c Dutch Collars, now ,10c 10c and 15c Ruchlngs, all new, now yard 5c 1 $1.00 Soiled Shirt Waists now only 23c Sio and $1.00 handsome Era brpldered Shirt Waists, now only j 40c UNITED PRESS LE1BBD TV IBB. Juneau, Alaska, Juno 2. Louis P. Shackleford, head of tho Ropub lican territorial committee and ac cused by Delegaio Wickersham and others of being aMbbyist in Wafth- ington for tho Gnggenhoims, aud tho Treadwell mine owners, was do clared "untrue - to his trust" at a mass meeting of republicans held hero last night. Tho meeting was decidedly hostile to Shackleford and declared his elimination to bo "for tho best interests of tho party." A call has been issued for a republican convention to convene at Juneau. Juno 30 to nominate a dolegato to congress at the request of ropubll cans-all over Alaska. Each Judicial division was apportioned 50 delegates. o FOR NON-PARTISAN SUPREME COURT Now is tho time for bargains in MILLINERY Wo have at your disposal tho most complete lino of fashionable mllllnory in Salem, also all kinds of trimmings, flowers and feath ers, so you can trim your own hat. Wo do the volume of busi ness, and can afford to give you inside prices. Misses' Trimmed Hats and 98c. Ladies' Trimmed Hats, $1.95 up. Wonderful values ln Ladies' Misses' and Children's Shoes 5000 pairs of shoes- now on sale. Children's shoos 2o, 35c, 49c and up. Misses' $2.36 patent leather shoes now $1.35. Ladies' $3.50 patent leather shoes $2.21. A luck buy ln KID GLOVES Leavos prices very email. 45c and 50c Silk Lisle Gloves, all .colors, now 25c, 75-cent ChamoiM gloves now 39c; $1.80 French Kid Gloves, all colors, now 98c. 49c, 75c $1.49, Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the State Bar Association, at a meeting some time ago declaring in favor of a non-partisan supremo court, tho executive committee of tho association held a meeting at tho of fice, of Judgo Pipes, at Portland, yes terday afternoon, and settled upon the afternoon of July 19, as tho timo for the holding of an assombly for the purpose of nqminatlng candidates. Tho assembly will bo composed of lawyers from all portions of tho state and while neither tho association nor tho oxecutlvo committee have fhdl cated by any action as to what can- dldatos are preferrod, It is genorally understood that its labors will bo di rected for tho ronomination of tho mombors of tho present court. Under the initiative law, whonovor 100 persons shall assemble for tho purpose of nominating candidates for any ofllco that is provided theso candidates aro non-partisan, it will not bo necessary to clroulato peti tions. It is expectod that not only 100 attorneys of tho stats will bo present, but a great number In ex cess of it. Attorney William Kaiser, of the firm of Kaiser & Pogue, attended tho commltteo meeting from this city. CHEATED Ernest W. Gerbacht, ex-Super intendent of the Williams burg Refinery of the Ameri can Sugar Trust, Testifies as to the System. HAVEMEYER JUST A THIEF Gcrbncht Says "Trust Found It Dim- cult to Cheat Tlantcrs by Under weighing, So They Reduced tho Goods by Fraud" Ho Snys "Hnv enieyer, Now Dead, Ordered Him to Falsify His Polariscopo Sugar Tests, So That tho Company Would of tho wom$B summnod. Jot Have to. Pay Growers So Much." reasoning and of cultivation and com parison of ideas are not of asslstanco in business. "I dissent," said ho president, "from the view that academic odu- cation robs woman of her charm. I am Quite ready and willing to con cedo that marriage and mothorhood are woman's natural status, and, oth- or things being equal, sho Is happier in that condition. "But this far from saying that wo man is a failure because sho Is un marnea. Homo ana tho family aro tho nucleus of tho highest happiness, but if tho circumstances are such that a woman is forced to accept a husband vhom she does not respect and love and who marries only to es capo a llfo of poverty, then homo and tho family aro unlikely to bo models or furnish Ideals." In tho couvse of the day tho pres ident spent several hours with his daughter. WOMEN DODGED JURY SERVICE Boise, Ida., June -2. Tho suit of George Church vs. James Crulk- shank for damages for Bheep tres passing on a rango is on trial today before a jury, but nono of nlno wo mon summoned to servo were la ovldonce owing to tho diplomacy of tho sheriff of, Idaho county, and the willing co-operation of the husbands Under thbsiiffrago laws of Idaho women have a right to voto or to servo on Juries. I When tho Bhoriff had failed to find mon onough to. fill Jho venire, ho summoned women'.' " W. Many objections woro raised b,v Representative H. J. C. Beck meyer, According toReports, Will Make Confession Ex posing Internal Workings of Illinois Legislature. MAY INVALIDATE ALL LAWS Ho -Has Already Confessed to Re ceiving Money to Voto for Senator Lorimor, nnd It Is Said W1U Tell Who Contributed to tho. Famous "Jackpot" Divided Among tho Legislators, What It Was For, Who Got It, and in Fact Exposo tho Whole- Dirty Mess. united rnass L&xrsD Winn. Springfield, Ills., Juno 2. A con fession which, it is said, will divulgo tho inner workings of the "leglsla- UNITED rjtESR LEASED WIItK.l New York, Juno 2. Ernest Gerbacht, ex-superlntendont of tho the attorneys In tho caso and finally 1171111 1 n m V UUU4 TIVIH'UhB V. LUU IWhtDlU" Williamsburg refinery of the Ameri- tho sheriff was unofficially advised ttvo jack pot syndicate" giving, tho .. uubui wuiutjuuy, uross-ox- to recover mo summons ho had arained today by Assistant U. S. At- served. torney General Stlmson, in tho trial With tho asslstanco of tho bus- names of tho men who contributed nnd tho members of tho legislature who received money from It as well of tho "sugar trust" officials charged bands of tho women, tho official as tho bills which wore effected' by with having defrauded tho govern ment of custom duties In his testimony ho said Henry O Havemeyer, now dead, ordered him to falsify Ills polariscope sugar tests so that tho company -would not have to pay so much for sugar to tho growers. Sugar is purchased from tho nlant- ers on weignt ana grade. Tho "trust found It difficult to cheat the plant- ex a ui uuuurwuiKiiinK. uorDracnt testffled, so they reduced tho gfado 1 mi i. ... "T uj iiuu. iuo witness, oujecteu to terming theso low test "falsification." Gflrbracht said. "Wo took polarlscopic tests at tho refinery, and another test was mado at the Wall street offices. Wo made the refinery tests as low as possible, and some times tho Wall street tests were , lower still. In theso lattar cases we wero forced to make our figures lower. Merchants selling au gar wero paid on the basis lower than the lowest tests. TAFT TALKS TO BRYN MAWR GIRLS Will Rebuild Mill. (UNITED rBCHB UMHED WIU9. North Bend, Wash., Juno 2. The South Fork Lumbar Mill, two milee east of here, totally destroyed by fire yestorday, will probably be re built, according to the owners today. The loss is $200,000, half of whloh Is said to he covered by insurance. One hundred and fifty employes of the plant fought the fire. More than 8,000,000 feet of lumber was also destroyed. (CH1TXD PRIM UUUD WtU.) Philadelphia, Pa., June 2. "Love less marriages are almost criminal,' said President Taft today, addressing the graduates of "Bryn Mawr college, whoro MIsc Helen Taft is a student. Tho president also dissented from tho vlow that a college education un fits man and women for a buslnoas enroon He denied that tho power of Was enablod to regain tho papors he had served. o FILLS GUT AT CUL EBRA MORE THAN 80,000 CUBIC YARDS OF EARTH SLIDES INTO TIIE DEEP , CUT ON THE PANAMA CANAL. UNITED rilESS IJ3A8En WIEE.l Washington, Juno 2. Members of tho army board today aro awaiting) further nows M the latest roportodi preparing to spread tho dragnet,' andl it will bo mado beforo tho grand Jury by , Representative H. J. C. Beclcmoyer, according to reports hero today. That this confession will result In a state wido thorough probe of half tho work of the last session of the legislature is tho statement mado by thoso, connected wjth tho prosecutors ofllco hero today. Bockemeyeris one of tho figures who confessed tfiat ho recolyed mon ey, to v'olo 'ior WllUamriiii"erf6r"' the. tfnitodr States sonato. Ho agreed to testify before , the grand Jury but aftef some consulta tion decided to prepare a "confes sion" first nnd apepar later. It wan expectod that he would appear late today but it is now expected that Bockomoyor will appear and bo ques tioned regarding tho statements In tho confession. As a result of his testimony It is said Burko of Sangamon pounty 1st sildo in tho Culebra cut. Tho engin eering operations in tho Panama ca nal .?ono, In tho vicinity of Culobra, havo beon threatened for many months, and tho reports bo far re ceived Indicate that tho slido, which is gratlual, has compolled cessation of operations. According to advices 12 ntoam bhovois woro forced into Idloness. U is also reported that COO, 000 cubic yards of earth fell from the Cucu racha slido and filled the bottom of tho cut for a distance of 900 feet across to tho foot of the opposite bank, Tho serai-landslido la said to have torn up tracks and demolished work- sheds. It will tnke several weeks to clean up tho debris. PROFIT AND LOSS. that legislators from all parts of the stato will bo summoned to toll what they know of thq leglelativo scan dnls. Prosecutor Burke has dropped all othor matters connected wltti the in vestigation he has begun and will devote his energies to developing' tho loads which Beckomoyor's testimony give htm. Burko and Governor Dlnoon con ferred this nftornoon and.lt is, un derstood! that a definite plan of cam paign has already been mapped out and that tho district attorney Is pro pared to act. Tho revelations that havo been outllnod by Beckemoyer are said to bo startling In tho extreme. It is declared that his testimony ghowe that the Jack pot was used to influ ence bill aftor bill In tho legislature. It has ovon boon intimated that tho disclosures aro buqIi thut much Of tho legislation of tho last legislature may be hold invalid. A coterie of "higher ups" afle Raid to bo implicated ln the rovola tlons that Bockmeyor has made nnd it is declared to be the Inten tion of the district attorney not onli to make mattors uncomfortablo fqr tho legislators involved In tho scan dul, hut also to got aftor and Indict the men who contributed to the fund. " o- Hx-Qovemor Doad. Omaha, Neb., Juno 3 John Hop wood Mickey, governor of Nebraskfi from 1902 to 1906, died nt his bonus today nt Osceola, Nebraska. Death was caused by hardening of tho arteries. Miakoy was uncon scious slnco last Sunday. His funer al probably will be hold Sunday. HUnSOlUIlIiitS. If you get your paper by mail kindly watch the tag and see when the time is up, and remit promptly, or notify us to stop tho paper; otherwise bill will be nud for the time the paper comes after explra- Uon of lost payment. I it t. I.-..,. Ci,c Oomparst