VOL. XX.
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1010.
No. 120.
SHAKEN BY
Earliest Dispatches Say 200
Were Killed and Property
Loss Will Run Up Into Mil-
, lions Earthquake Occurred
; This Morning.
PEOPLE ABANDON HOMES
Tho Temblor Lasted Only Seven
Seconds, But Sid Almost as Much
Damage as the Great Earthquake
at Messina Nearly Two Years Ago
Hundreds of Refugees Are Comp
ing In the Fields, Fearing a Re
J 'currenco of the Shocks Death
List Will Grow
Naples, June 7. Two hundred
persons are reported killed and a
property loss of more, than $2,000,.
000 inflicted by an earthquake In
.tho provinces of Campania, BaslU-
cata and Calabria today. Ten bodies
have been recovered at San Sossa.
Eleven persons are known to have
been killed at Castel Baronia.
Scores of killed are reported from
other cities.
Hundreds of wounded refugees
are camping in the open country,
having abandoned their homes
through fear of recurrent shocks.
King Emmanuel left Rome today
for the seen of the disaster. The
Italian Red Cross already has taken
action and is forwarding supplies of
food and clothing and sending de
tachments of doctors and nurses.
The government sent $10,000 to
be used for urgent relief and to pro
vide shelter for the homeless and
injured.
The great cathedral at Foggia
sustained serious damage and other
buildings were shaken.
The temblor was volcanic In Its
nature, apparently lifting and then
subsiding. The vibrations lasted
only seven seconds but the damage
done Is second only to that of the
earthquake at Messina nearly two
years ago.
The Italian parliament today vot
ed $100,000 for relief of sufferers
from the earthquake In Southern
Italy. Tho money will be placed at
the disposal of government agents
in the stricken region for tho pur
chase of supplies of clothing, medi
cines and of lumber for temporary
shelters, homeless.
Big Area Is Shaken.
Naples, Juno 7. A heavy earth
quake in which scores of persons are
reported killed and thousands of
dollars damage done to property,
occurred today in tho 'province or
Campania.
The towns of Galatri, Avellino,
Benevpnto, Castellamaro Dl Stabls
and Rotenza suffered tho most ser
ious damage.
Thirty persons wore killed and
scores wounded at Galatri, where
many buildings were wrecked by the
temblor, according to dispatches.
Casualties are reported at Vallata
and many of the towns in the moun
tains of Campania.
Communlcaton has been inter
rupted. The government Is sending
troops to the stricken refelon.
WILL FLY FOR
MOVING PICTURE
New York, June 7. Aviator Glenn
H. Curtlss is planning to duplicate
a portion of his record making
flight from Albany to New York to
enable moving picture agents to get
photographs. If weather conditions
are favorable the latter part of this
week be will ily from Spuyten Duy
vll creek down the North river,
around tho statue of liberty and up
the Manhattan side of the river. Ho
will endeavor to remain in tho air
half an hour.
Get Your Canning Jn
Top and jelly glasses at Forrlng
ton's. A large aaedrtment to seleot
from at Farrlngton's. 4S6 State St
Goldwln Smith Dead.
Toronto, Ont., Juno 7. Goldwln
Smith, llterateur and historian, died
here this afternoon. Smith was born
in 1823 and his writings mado a
name for him throughout tho Eng
lish speaking world. He broke a
thigh bono last winter in an accident
and never regained his health.
Smith was educated at Eton and
Oxfoiti, obtnlned degrees from many
of the leading universities of Europe
and America, was an ex-champion of
' t north throughout tho civilized
w .', wrote many historical and ed
uci oal works and was a lecturer
of n
-leans Slaughtered.
El Pk Texas, June 7. The
slaughter 1300 Mexicans In the
Yucatan pt ula Is recounted In
reports recel. , today over railroad
telegraph wires. Tho reports have
not been confirmed. Tho reported
massacre is said to have been car
ried on by Maya Indians and their
Mexican allies. Among the slain are
said to be many women and chil
dren. The towns of Valladolid, Miguel
and Chama are reported to have
been attacked, looted and their in
habitants slain or dispersed.
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IiEE O'NEIL BROAVNE INDICTED
IN CHICAGO FOR BRIBERY IN
CONNECTION AVITH ELECTION
OF SENATOR IiORIMER, MUST
FACE THE MUSIC.
rtmiTEn raaan leased wibb.1
Chicago, -June 7. Lee O'Nell
Browne must stand trial for bribery
in connection with the election of
William Lorimer to the United States
senate. Judge Scanlan today denied
the writ of habeas corpus sought by
Browne's attorneys. The decision
is based on two points, one being
that the Chicago courts have juris
diction in tho case because It is al
leged in tho indictment that the
money said to have been paid to se
cure a vote for Lorimer was paid in
Chicago. The second point Is that
the election of a United States sen
ator does not change the state leg
islature into- a federal department,
freeing its members from any obli
gation to abide by tie state laws.
Browne was at onco remanded to
the custody of the sheriff. His at
torneys moved for an appeal and ar
gument was begun. Counsel for the
defense also asked that Browne be
released on bond pending tho deci
sion of tho appeal court
Judge McSurely waiting to try
Browne on tho indictment charging
bribery, ordered the sheriff to bring
Browne Into court immediately.
Browne's trial had been set for
yesterday. It was postponed on mo
tion of his attorneys pending the de
cision of the habeas corpus proceed
ings. Browne was minority leader of tho
lower house of the Illinois legisla
ture. It is charged that he paid
Charles A. White, a Democrat, to
vote for Lorimer for tho senate.
Auto Scorcher In Trouble.
UNITED PJIKSS LEASBP WIRE.l
Seattle. Wash., June 7. Ralph J.
Leavltt, of Los Angeles, an automo
bile salesman, Is on trial today on
tho charge of manslaughter.
While demonstrating a machine,
Leavltt's automobile ran down ami
killed an Italian street sweeper
named Itafolla Sago, a year ago.
Much trouble was experienced :n
selecting the Jury.owing to the pre
judice of prospective Jurors against
automobile "scorching."
The case la being tried before
Judge Gilliam in the superior court.
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Negotiating for Feace.
Now Orleans. La.. Consul General
Sussman, general Estrada's official
representative, cabled from Bluo
flelds today that peace negotiations
have been opened secretly with
President Madrlz. It is believed
here that this indicates that a set
tlement of tho Nicaraguan troubles
is at hand.
Despatches state that no trace of
Plttraan, the American engineer re
ported captured by the admlnlstru
Mon forces at Rama, wag found.
Insurgents and Regulars Clash
This Morning Over a Motion
to Send Railroad Bill to Con
ference Votes Scattered.
LINES NOT CLOSELY DRAWN
Some Insurgents Voted With Regu
Inrs and Some Democrats Also
Vote to Disagree With tho Senate
Amendments and Ask a Confer
enceResult AYas tho Insurgents
Lost Out by a Vote of 102 to 155,
and So tho Senate . Amendments
AVero Rejected nnd Regulars AVln,
I" UNITED PBE88 LEASED TV IKE. 1
Washington, Juno 7. By a
vote of 162 to 165 the house
today voted to reject the senate
regulation bill and asked for a
conference. Several democrats
voted In favor of the confer-
ence. Most of the insurgents
voted in favor of accepting the
senate bill.
Washington, June 7. Insur
gents and regulars clashed today
when Representative Mann , (Rep
Ills.) asked unanimous consent to
take, the railroad regulation bill
from the 'speakers table and send it
to conference.' Representative Lon-
root (Rep. Wisconsin) objected.
Cannon ordered the senato amend
ments read.
Not since March 17, when the In
surgents made thefr fight against
tho rules committee, defeating tho
speaker and regulars, have tho re-
puDiican wnips oeen as active as
they were this afternoon when the
railroad bill fight started.
While tho senate amendments
were being read, tho whips wero
scurrying around getting tho repre
sentatlves into tho house chamber
from the cloak rooms. At the con
clusion of the reading Mann moved
that the house disagree with tho
senate amendments.
Lenroot jumped to his feet and
moved that the house concur in tho
senate bill. Ho claimed that his
motion had precedence over Mann's
motion. Tho speaker ruled in favor
of Mann. Disorder followed and
for a few minutes the session was
stormy. Finally the speaker'3
banging gavel restored a semblance
of order and Representative Mann
secured unanimous consent to close
debate within two hours.
Senator La Follette, who, was In
the house chamber, was conversing
with Representative Sulzor. After
a particularly vicious bang of the
speaker's gavel, Cannon, looking
directly at La Follette, said:
"Gentlomen who are occupying
seats on the floor of this house,
through courtesy must not con
verso." When debate began, Mann took
tho floor.
"The senate amendments," he
said, "make changes In the bill that
would make a mule laugh. In one
place the senato declared its inten
tion of amending the orglnal bill by
adding a 'paragraph" and then it
wont on and added two paragraphs.
"Tho bill absolutely opens the
door to robates and absolutely re
peals existing rebate laws."
Mann also declared that the su
preme court has held that no courts
can pass on 'the reasonableness of
rates, hence tho senate bill empow
ering courts to do so would make
endless litigation.
Lonroot who spoke In favor of
tho son a to bill declared that the
senate bill was bettor than any that
the conference committee could be
expected to report.
"Tho senate bill provisions In tho
interests of the public probably will
not remain In the bill after confer
ence," ho Bald.
He asserted that tho clause forc
ing railroads to prove tho reasona
bleness of rate increases was enough
to warrant the .aeeaptanco of the
tieasure.
Is American Sliip American Soil?
Olympia, Wash., Juno 7. Is tho
deck on a steamship on a San Francisco-Portland
run American soil?
That is a question the supreme court
will have to decide. If tho answer
is in the affirmative tho Continental
Casualty company will havo to pay
O. L. Lewis ot Seattle tho Insurance
on tho life of his wife, who was
killed on a steamer en routo from
San Francisco north.
Tho company refused to pay tho
policy on tho grounds that It ex
pressly stipulated It would on? cov
er the policy holder on United States
soil. The tragedy occurred at sea
three miles, from shore. Tho case
comes to the supremo court on an
appeal from King county.
Tho Poor Jap Is Tired Too.
UNITED FBESC LEASED WISE.
Carson City, Nov., Juno 7. Tho
predicted suit for divorce of Mrs.
Helen Gladys Aokl, whoso wedding
with Guhjlro Aokl, a Japanese ser
vant, attracted nation wide atten
tion a llttlo more than a year ago,
is pending in the district court here
today. Aokl is in Seattlo and it is
believed ho will not contest the suit.
Mrs. Aokl has bee in Carson City
witji her mother for the last two
weeks.
AVILL DESCEND M'KENZIE RIVER
CROSS TO THE PORCUPINE
AND FOLLOAV THAT INTO ARC
TIC circle: avill travel
7000 MILES IN ALL.
UNITED FBE83 LEASED WIRE.
Dawson, Y. T., Juno 7. Frank
Oliver, Canadian minister of the In
terior, Is to make a tour of tho nor
thern wilds of tho dominion such
as few of tho hardiest sour dough3
of tho Klondike would care to un
dertake. He has wired Major Wood, In
charge of the Northwest Mounted
Police here to send a dotachment of
four men to meet-him at Fort Mac
Pherson, July 3. Tho minister is
to descend tho McKenzle, then cross (
uie ponago to me nuiu oi uio por
cupine, descend In canoes tho cir
cles of 7,000 miles by tho timo he
returns to Ottawa. Ho has not de
cided whether ho will return east
from Prince Runert or from Van
couver. Tho police escort leavos
hero tho twelfth and will have to
hurry to roach Fort MacPhorson by
July 3.
MacPherson Is located at the
mouth of tho McKonzlo far Up in
tho Arctic circle within a fow miloa
of tho Arctic ocean.
THE HUNTER
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Citizens of Lawton Are Up in
Arms against Negro Soldiers
Since One of Them Brutally
Assaulted a Woman in the
Park.
NEGRO IS UNDER ARREST
Black Fiend Attacked Mrs J. A Red
ding in Lawton Park Sunday Ne
gro Under Arrest Is Indontlflcd by
Mrs. Reading's 0-Ycar-Old Son,
AVhoso Screams Attracted Aid and
Frightened Her Assailant Away
Soldiers Are tho Same That Had
Trouble at Brownsville.
UNITED MB8S LEASED WIRE.l
Seattle, AVash., Juno 7. Demand
ing tho immedlato removal of tho
Twenty-fifth Infontry colored from
Fort Lawton following a series of
insults to women which culminated
Saturday night when a negro sol
dier entered tho homo of Mrs. J. AV.
Redding in Lawton park and at
tacked her, copies of resolutions
passed by indignant citizens of tho
Lawton 'district at mass meeting last
night were forwardod to each sena
tor and representative of 'the stato
at AVnshington. today.
The city council likewise adopted
resolutions to the same effect. Cop
ies of these resolutions wero also
malleid to "Washington today.
In communications which ac
companied the copies Washington's
congressional representatives are re
quested to take tho matter up with
tho war department and seek to
have tho npgro troops transferred to
some other garrison.
Private Emanuel Blotsor, com
pany D, is undor arrest at tho fort
suspected of having attacked Mrs,
Redding.
Ho Is under strong guard as there
has been much talk of doing him
vlolenco on the part of citizens re
siding near tho barracks.
Blotsor was identified as tho man
who attacked Mrs. Redding by hor
tilno-year-old son, whoso screams at
tracted aid and frightened hor as
sailant away,
Tho man Is being hold In solitary
confinement. Ho declares that he Is
Innocent.
'"The Twenty-fifth Infantry is tho
samo regiment from which four
companies wero dismissed from the
sorvico bodily for rioting at Browns
vlllo, Tex., several years ago. None
AT HOME.
Minor In 8t Louli Pott-Dlipatch.
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of theso soldiers havo yet been rein
stated although many men in the
regiment wero members of the
Twenty-fifth at the tlmo ot the
Brownsvlllo outbreak."
Lieutenant Colonel W. S. Miller,
commanding the regiment, today
said that Bletser will bo dealt with
strictly according to law. Ho did
not state whether tho negro would
bo turned over to tho civil authori
ties or mado to stand trial beforo
court martial.
Black Admits Defeat.
Pittsburg, Pa. Juno 7. Dr. Rob
ert J. Black admitted today that John
Dalzell defeated him at the primaries
for tho congressional nomination.
Black is being urged by his friends
to run for congress on an Independ
ent ticket against Dalzell. Ho has
not yet determined whethor ho will
do so.
Counterfeiters in Portland.
Portland, Or. Juno 7. The pres
ence of a squad of federal detectives
was explained today by S. A. Con
nell northwestern superintendent of
tho secret division, who said that
thoro Is a gang of clever, counter
feiters operating here. He said they
are not only manufacturing tho notes
hero but are passing them.
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PRESIDENT OF PRESSED STEEL
COMPANY, UNDER INDICT
MENT IN PITTSBURG, ESCAPES
ACROSS STATE LINE IN PRI
VATE. OAR.
UNITED PBEBS LEASED WIEE.l
Pittsburg, Pa June 7. That F.
N. Hoffstot, indicted presidont of
tho Pressed Steel Car Company,
mado a dash into Pittsburg on his
private car last Sunday and dis
tanced two officers who pursued him
with a locomotlvo when ho loft tho
city, bechmo known today. '
Hotfstot, who is fighting extradi
tion in Now York, found that busi
ness matters necessitated his pros
onco hero for a fow hours, no matter
what tho risk.
His prlvato car was shunted onto
n side track at Schoenvillo at 0
o'clock Sunday morning.
Hoffstot's arrival was telephoned
to District Attorney AVIUIam A.
Blakoloy. As ho boarded his car
for tho roturn to Now York a group
of detectives whirlod up to tho sta
tion in an automobile. AVhon they
rushod toward tho car, tho engineer
oponod tho throttlo and left them.
Tho officers hastened to tho yards
and requisitioned an engine. Be
fore tho pursuing locomotlvo got
fairly under way Hoffstot was
spooding toward tho opposite stato
lino. Tho officers abandoned the
chaso whon It was apparont they
could not overtake Hoffstot bo'rorc
ho loft tho stato.
Attorney General Summoned.
Washington, Juno 7. A resolution
is ponding in tho houso today, intro
duced by Ropresontativo Ralnoy of
Illinois, asking that Attorney Gen
oral Wlckorshain ho summoned to
answor Ralnoy's chargo that Wickor-
sham proparod a speech for Repre
sentative McKlnlay of California.
Rainoy flret mado tho charge Sat
urday and it was denied by McKln
lay, Tho spoeoh in question was do
livorod by McKlnlay in answer to
provious statements by Ralnoy con
corning AVickorsham's oorvlcos as at
torney for tho "sugar trust."
Ralnoy's resolution Is designed to
ascertain If AVickersham wrote tho
answers for McKinlay's use on tho
floor of tho houso.
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Tho AVireless "Struck."
UNITKD J'KEBS LEAHE1) WIU.J
Seattle, AVash., June 7. When
tho foreman at tho United Wlreloae
company's foundry came to work
thlB morning ho found tho 30 ma
chinists undor his supervision on a
strlko tho first, it Is believed, In
tho history of a wireless foundry.
Tho men are domandlug an eight
hour day. The factory turns out all
varieties of' apparatus used in wire
less, telegraph and telephone
No man is so great hut that he
would trade it all for somo unat
tainable thing In the past.
DIAZ WILL
Revolution in Yucatan Is the
Most Serious Mexico Has
Had to Face Since the Re
bellion of the Same Section
in 1840 Was Put Down.
INDIANS LED BY MEXICANS
Entire Standing Army of Mexico AVUI
Bo Used in C rustling Revolt Tho
Maya Indians Cruel and Blood
tliirsty and tho Hardest Fighters
on the Continent Havo Massacred
Hundreds of Mexicans and Devas
tated and Sacked Many Yucatan.
Cities.
UNITED MESH LEASS0D WWII.
Mexico City, Juno 7. President
Porlflrlo Diaz personally will direct
tho military campaign against the re
bellious Maya Indians of Yucatan.
Tho decision of tho president to take
actlvo part In suppressing tho revolt
leads to the bollef that the govern
ment faces a crisis in the province of
Yucatan
Reports reaching the government
offices horo Indicate that a well plan
ned revolution by Indians and insurg
ent Mexicans has broken out to gain
freedom for Yucatan. The uprising
is considered tho most serious that
has occurred since 1840, when Yuca
tan nearly won her liberty
v The rbvolt 'fi being led by disgrunt
lod Mexicans. Tho agents of the gov
ernment wero tho first objects of at
tack. Tho Indians are woll armed-
Entire Army Ordered to Scene.
Mexico City Juno 7. General or
ders to the army to prepare for ac
tlvo duty in Yucatan In suppressing
the revolt of 10,000 Maya Indians
wero Issued today. Tho entire stand
ing army of Mexico will be used to
crush out tho rebellion if necessary
Varying reports indicate that hun
dreds of porsons in Yucatan have
been massacred and that thousands
of natives are joining In tho revolt,
Tho government Is rushing troops
to Merlda to protect hundreds of
Mexican rofugeos who havo fled for
their lives from tho towns which the
rebellious Indians havo sacked.
Tho gunboat Morelos, with 500 sol
dlors aboard, Is steaming under
forced draught for Campocho, where
tho forco will loavo for Merlda. Tho
gunboat Zaragoza is at Vera Cruz
taking on supplies, ammunition and
troopos for Yucatan.
Tho Indians are reported to have
destroyed telegraph and railroad com
munication between Campecho and
Merlda.
GOVERNOR MCGRAW
WILL RECOVER
Soattlo, AVash., Juno 7. Formor
Govornor John II. McGraw, who has
boon near death with typhoid fever,
passed tho crisis in his illness dur
ing the night and la oxpocted to re
covor, according to his physicians to
day. A week ago tho physicians
practically abandoned hopo for tho
ex-governor's recovery on account of
weak vitality and the sovoro chills
accompanying the fever,
STRUCK OUT BY
LIGHTNING BOLT
Butte Mont., Juno 7. A dispatch
from Salmon, Mont., today says that
Elmer Rankin and Arthur Malcolm,
farm laborers, were Instantly killed
by a bolt of lightning yesterday aft
ernoon during a thunder storm at
Salmon. The two men were sitting
undor a tree on a honoh,
Neither their bodies nor the tree
was marred by tho olectrldty. but
the bench on which they were alt
ting was torn up and splintered.