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- SALEM, OREGON, MOXDAV, MAY 1, 1911.
NO. 103.
SITUATIOn i;i CHINA
CHINESE TROOPS
AIL EUROPEANS ADVISED
TO LEAVE CAHTON AT ONCE
GENERAL MASSACRE FEARED
Rebels Have Burned Wenchow and Woo Chow Chinese
Gunboat Shelled Their Position, Kiling More Than 200
Dispatches From Canton Say Situation Is Desperate and
30,000 Troops May Join Rebels and Massacre All Foreign
ers and Adherents of the Manchu Dynasty .
Hong Kong, May 1. Arrange
ments by the consuls of foreign pow
ers to send all the foreign women
residents of Canton here, and advice
to all European Inhabitants of that
city to flee today showed that the sit
uation there Is one of the most grave
in China since the Boxer outbreak.
Dispatches from Canton report the
situation as desperate, and say there
is hourly danger that the 30,000
Chinese troops there will Join the
rebels in a general massacre of all
foreigners and adherents of the Man
ehu dynasty. The rebels, the latest
Teports say, have burned Wenchow
and Woo Chow, after -which a Chi
MONEY FOR
THE ASTORIA
EXPOSITION
Whenever the citizens of Astoria
and Clatsop county shall produce
evidence to show that they combined
have turned over to the Astoria Cen
tennial Committee $40,000 for the
celebration of the Astoria Centennial
Celebration it shall be sufficient
proof to warrant the secretary of
state to draw a warrant In favor of
the committee covering the $50,000
appropriated by the last legislature
for the celebration of the event Is the
opinion rendered today by Attorney
General Crawford.
The secretary of state, however,
does not agree with the attorney
general's construction of the law and
it can be definitely . stated that he
will not turn the entire appropriation
over to the committee to be spent
without any safe guards but will re
serve the right to audit the claims
himself. There Is nothing In the bill
making the appropriation granting
him this power but he will take the
position that he Is authorized to do
under the Dlmlck law which was also
passed by the last legislature and
prior to the act making, the appro
priation for the celebration.
The attorney general holds that the
turning over of the $40,000 by the
citizens of Astoria and Clatsop coun
ty to the Centennial committee Is a
condition precedent to the turning
over to the committee of the $50,000
appropriated by the legislature and
so far the secretary agrees with him.
The preamble of the bill ." provides
that the money shall not be spent in
any other way than as provided In
it and the attorney general, says he
knows of no way of safeguarding
this, unless a bond should be exacted
from the committee, and here the at
torney general and secretary disa
gree. The secretary takes the position
that he Is without any authority to
exact a bond and while he agrees
with the attorney general that the
bill making the appropriation pre
scribes no safe guards he takes the
stand that the Dlmlck law prescrib
ing the manner In which money Is to
be disbursed by the secretary of
state giveB him authority to insist
that all the claims paid by the state
appropriation be audited by him.
That law provides that It shall be
the duty of the secretary to examine
and audit all claims against the
state and "that no public moneys of
any name .' and nature, whattover,
shall be" paid out of any fund or
funds of the state " unless he has ex
amined, audited and Indorsed the
claims. ' v
Th secretary takes the position
VERY
I'M
nese gunboat shelled thetr position,
killing more than 200.
Reports from Shamlen, the foreign
concession ,deny that the rebels have
captured that town. The United
States gunboat Wilmington Is pa
trolling the river there and six other
foreign gunboats are anchored off
the port ready to land marines, if it
should be necessary to repel a rebel
attack.
It developed today that Wusn, a
Chinese, who was educated in Japan,
is leading the rebels, with Luk, a
brigand chief at his side. Refugees
declare that the rebels are commit
ting the most frightful barbarities.
that should the money be turned
over to the committee in a lump sum
that he would lose jurisdiction of It
and that It could be spent by the
committee for purposes in connection
with the celebration or any other
purpose.
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Barry Won Again.
TOXITED PBESS LEASED WIRE.
London. May 1. Before 60,000
cheering enthusiasts who lined the
Thames for the four and one-half
mile course from Putney to Mort
lake, Ernest Barry, the champion
English sculler, today defeated Wil
liam Albany by five lengths. Barry's
time was 23 minutes and two sec
onds. Barry was the favorite In the
betting.
MAY ROBSOX
IS OPERATED OS
UNITED PBESS LEASED WIM.1
Santa Barbara, Calif., May 1. He
ports from the sickroom today were
that May Robson, actress, who was
operated on yesterday Is recovering
and, unless unforseen complications
arise, will be able to fill her engage
ments after this week.
Miss Robson collapsed after Satur
day's performance here and was tak
en to Potter hospital, where an oper
ation was performed.
ftlSITED PBESS LEASED WIHS.
Portland, Or., May 1. Taking the
stand "that, Chie bf Police Cox, un
der indictment'' for 'malfeasance of
office, Is not guilty until convicted,
the police, commissioner today de
clined to accept 'his resignation, when
he tendered It today.
Cox was indicted Saturday for fall,
ure to close notorious resorts. In an
interview he Intimated strongly that
politics are behind the indictment,
and that he is being made to suffer
for the actions of ofiUils higher up
in the city and county government.
SHOT BY HIS WIFE
HE DIED TODAY
UNITED TBEfIS LEASED WIRE.
Los Angeles, Calif., May 1. A. P.
Ford, president of the Merchants Fire
Dispatch, who was shot by his wife
last Friday, died In a hospital here
today. The . Bhootlng followed a
breakfast table quarrel
The desire to sit on the butt end or
a fishing pole has kept many, a lazy
man out of serious mischief.
REFOSES
T0LETC01!
QUIT JOB
GRAVE
JOI'j REDELS
' Tacoma Celebrates.
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Tacoma, Wash, May 1. 4
4 Marking an epoch In the com- 4
4 mercial progress of Tacoma 4
will be the formal dedication 4
4 this evening of the magnificent 4
4 $750,000 union passenger sta- 4
4 tion, which has Just been com- 4
4 pleted by the Hill railroad sys- 4
4 tem on the Identical site of the 4
4 dingy, old wooden building that 4
4 served for many years as a ! 4
4 pot. The new structure Is the 4
4 largest, most modern and by' 4
4 long odds the most beautiful 4
4 passenger station In the North- 4
4 west. It will be used. jointly 4
4 by the Northern Pacific, Great 4
4 Northern and Harriman lines. 4
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IS
PAROLED
FROM PEN
MAN WHO TOOK LAW IX HIS
OWN HANDS WHEN EVICTED
FROM HIS PROPERTY BY THE
S. P. AND HELD UP 'DOZENS OV
TRAINS IS FREE AFTER 17
YEARS.
UNITED PBESS LEASED WIEB.
Sacramento, Cal., May 1. The
panole granted Chris Evans, one time
famous Evans-Sontag gang of train
robbers by the state board of prison
director went into effect this morn
ing, when the old ex-bandit walked
out of Folsom penitentiary, where he
was confined for 17 years and 2
months.
His, youngest daughter, Mrs. Wini
fred Burrell, of Sacramento, to whose
untiring efforts in his behalf for the
past Ave years, Evans largely owes
his liberty, and a party iof his Inti
mate friends were at the prison gates
to meet" him.
A few minutes later, with the men
who had guarded him for nearly a
score of years waving him God speed,
he was whisked away to Sacramento
In an automobile. Evans had beg
ged to to be takem out into the world
In some manner other than on the
train of the Southern Pacific, which
corporation he had fought so desper
ately In times past.
Will Come to Oregon.
Chris Evans will remain in Sacra
mento for a few days with his daugh
ter, and will then go to Portland,
Ore., where his wife and other mem
bers of his family reside. This Is
part of his parole order.
Despite his long confinement,
which has silvered his hair, to the
color of stone walls, and has made
his cheeks lean, I his ndomltable
spirit has not been broken nor his
heart embittered). He was like a boy
In his regained liberty. Everything
waa. wonderful to him, and the pa
thetic smile that is characteristic of
Mm did not leave his face fnrm . the
time he awoke early this morning
until he reached his destination in
Sacramento.
Happy at Being Free.
In an1 attempt to avoid publicity,
which he' keenly dislikes, and In an
endeavor to evade a United Press
representative with a camera, Evans
directed his a tomobile driver to
speed up. At Sacramento, however,
he consented to sit for his photo
graph, the first taken In 17 years.
He had raced with the camera man
all the way la from Folsom.
"The race provided me with more
real enjoyment than anything since I
was hunted by the Southern Pacific's
blood money men nearly two decades
ago," said Evans. "You wouldn't
hare caught me this time, but for a
long freight train that blocked my
path for five minutes. The Southern
Pacific blocked me again."
Mr.- Lorimer thinks this Investiga
tion business can easily be pverdone.
No matter how lazy you get, don't
blame It on the bookworm.
EVA S
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4 4
Saved Ann; May Lose Life. 4
4 Los Angeles, Cal., May 1. 4
4 After a four-hours' battle 4
4 against having his right arm 4
4 amputated, Louis Clark, victim 4
4 of a street car accident, had the
4 Injured member in Its proper 4
4 place today, but probably will 4
4 lose his life. Clark jwas taken 4
4 to the receiving hospital after 4
4 the accident, with his arm near-
4 ly severed. Amputation was 4
4 pronounced necessary by the 4
4 surgeons, but Clark frefused to 4
4 permit it. Today the Injured 4
4 limb showed signs of blood pl- 4
4 soning. ' 4
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BUSINESS
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California Fruit-Canners' As
sociation Contracts for Out
put of Cherries and Berries
of Willamette, Umpqua and
Rogue River Valleys!
WILL CAN THEM AT SALEM
W. O. Allen, of the Allen Fruit
Company, Has Been ' Made Man
alter of the Territory, and Will
Have Headquarters Here Con
tract for Fruit Covers Period of
Three Years This . Means the
Steady HunnliiK of the Big Can.
nery. .
With the announcement here yes
terday that W. a. Allen, f the Al
len Fruit Company, had been made
Western Oregon manager for the ter
rltory south of Portland of the Cali
fornia Fruit Canners' Association,
details of a plan involving practical
ly all the cherry and berry growers
of the western part of the state were
made known. The California com
pany has contracted for the entire
output for three years of practically
every cherry orchard in the Willam
ette, Umpqua and Rogue river val
leys at 4 cents a pound. It Is la alsfl
J contracting as rapidly as possible for
the total loganberry output of the
same .territory at $60 a ton.
Dried Fruit Also Sought.
The contracts have been ctoaed
through the fruit growers associa
tions in the principal towns In the
sections covered, and all the grow
ers will have to do Is to deliver their
fruit at the nearest railroad station
itr at their canenrles at Roseburg,
Eugene, Salem and Portland, and
draw their money. The cannery men
are also looking after all the dried
fruit, particularly prunes, raised In
the Willamette valley, and will even
tually take In the other fruit Inter
ests. The California Fruit Canners' As
sociation has headquarters at San
Francisco, and Is one of the largest
concerns of Its kind' in the United
States. It has unlimited capital at
its command, and Its entry Into the
' Oregon field for business means that
hereafter there will -be a market for
all the fruit grown in this territory,
and at a good price. Their Inten
tion Is to develop the acreage and
the production as much as possible.
Salem to lie Center.
Mr. Allen's headquarters will be
at Salem, where the principal pack
of the canned goods will be made, as
the equipment of the plant there Is
more complete than at any other
point south of Portland. At Eugene
all the cherry crop will be made Into
maraschinos, for which a large de
mand has been had In recent years.
The crop at Roseburg will also be
made into maraschinos, and will
either be packed there or shipped to
Eugene. The original plan was to
ship the entire product to San Fran
cisco and pack It there, but Mr. Allen
objected to this plan, Insisting on
having the canneries located In the
territory in whjch the fruit Is pro
duced. Mr. Allen left last night for San
Francisco to confer with the officers
of the association, with reference to
future plans. He will return In ten
days, and will move, at onc to Sa
lem wners he will 'open heidquar-
Iters for the company.
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WILLDOI
OHIO LEGISLATORE HAS A
FIFTY LEGISLATORS
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Sustained the Secretary.
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4 Washington, May 1. The 4
4 United States supreme court to- 4
4 day sustained the power of the 4
4 secretary of agriculture to reg. 4
4 ulate the grazing of sheep and 4
4 cattle on forest reserve land. 4
4 The opinion was read by Justice 4
4 Lamar. It covered three test 4
4 'cases' appealed to the highest 4
4 court, In an effort to settle a 4
4 great mass of litigation that has 4
4 arisen over the right to graze 4
4 on the reserves. 4
4 It was expected that no deci- 4
4 slons in the cases of the Stand- 4
4 ard Oil or tobacco cases would 4
4 be handed down today. 4
4 4
LOSER SIK
FIRE LAST NIGHT SWEPT DIS
TRICT TWO MILES LOXG AND
QUARTER OF A MILE WIDE
THREE ' DEAD, 50 IJFRID,
THOUSANDS HOMELESS.
Bangor, Me., May 1. With - three
known dead, GO Injured and thou
sands homeless; with the city under
martial law and solders with loaded
rifles guarding bank vaults against
looters, Bangor today sees the last
flickers of a fire which cost her be
tween five and six million dollars and
has wiped out a section of the city
two 'miles long and a quarter of a
mile wide.
Fire Starts in Hny Shed.
The fire started in a hayshed near
the J. Frank Oreen ' building on
Broad street, and in a short time was
sweeping through the city in a north
westerly direction.
Before midnight, both sides of Ex
change street from York to State
both sides of State street from Ken
duskeag stream to Broadway, a con
siderable part of Central Franklin
streets, nearly all of Park street and
Marlow street was In ruins and the
flames had made Inroads of nearly a
mile into the best residential section
of Broadway, Center and West
streets.
Half an hour after the first alarm,
nearly a dozen buildings were in
flames, and the Are was eating Its way
northerly on either side of Kendus
keag stream. In Its path were banks,
office buildings, library and other
structures, all of which were con
sumed.
Beyond AH Control.
At 10:30 o'clock a large part of the
wholesale district as well as the en
tire retail district was In flames, and
few, If any, of the buildings seemed
likely of escape. In all sections of
the city people were moving out their
belongings and hurrying to places of
safety. Many were already homeless,
and with churches and public build
ings In ruins, there were few places
where they could be cared for.
Several alarms were sounded al
most simultaneously. In addition to
the fire at the corner of Broad and
Exhange streets, the firemen found a
blaze In a bicycle repair shop In the
rear of the telephone office. Both
fires spread with such rapidity that
the fire men were helplss.
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CANADA IS PAYING
A HIGH WAGE
Washington, May 1. Senator Stone
of Missouri today delivered the first
speech on reciprocity In the senate.
He declared that the average wage of
a farm hand In the United States is
from $19 to $21 a month, while In
Canada it Is $30. Both Senators Gal
llnger and Ci'mmlns at once disputed
this statement. Stone referred them
to the statistics of the tariff board.
Cummins was still unconvinced and
said that evidently a Berlous error
had been made.
BANGOR IS
, LL 0 S
MEN OFFEBIOG BRIBES ARB
ARRESTED I'D ? THEN PROVE
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TOuBE GURUS' DETECTIVES
One of the Legislators They Tried to Bribe Accepted $100 and
" Then Telling the Speaker Th ey Put Up a Job on the Bribers
and Had Them Arrested The Three Men Show They Are'
Detectives and Say They "Have the Goods" on Nineteen
Senators Investigation Will Follow .
(UNITED FUSS LEASED WIBB.J
Columbus, O., May 1. Sde track
ing for the present even the Impor
tant dynamite case In Los Angeles
William J. Burps will arrive here to
morrow to take personal charge of
the work of his detectives in what
they claim will be the greatest bood
llng scandal ever exposed in the leg
islature of any American state.
Arrested after they had arranged
to bribe Dr. George Nye, a state rep
resentative, three of Burns men
were today arraigned and held in
$5,000 bail each, after they had been
trapped by Nye with the aid of
Speaker Vlnlng. ,
Claim Fifty Implicated.
Undeterred by their arrest, the de
tectives say that in six weeks' work
here they have ' gathered proof that
at least 50 members . of . the legisla
ture hava been soliciting and accept
ing bribes. They, declare themselves
most confident of the result of their
probe and assert that most of the
legislators will turn state's evidence
to save their skins when the truth
comes out
Since the revelation of the scandal
members of both houses of the legis
lature are loudly demanding an in
vestigation, despite the protests of
the authorities that this may mean
Immunity for the crooks.
A Dirty Employment.
Columbus, O., May 1. Through the
arrest here of E. S. Harrison, A. O.
Bailey and David Perry, three detec
tives employed by William J. Burns'
agency, the Ohio legislature today
faces a grand jury probe for alleged
boodling during the present session.
Under the supposition that the de
tectives were lobbyists, the three
men were taken Into custody. They
are accused of having attempted to
bribe Dr. George B. Nye, a represen
tative and were arrested after Nye
and Speaker Vlnlng had laid a trap
for them.
No sooner were they arrested how
ever, than the three men Identified
themselves as Burns' operatives and
announced that they had evidence of
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SCAfJDAL
IMPLICATED
corruption against at least 26 mem
bers of the legislature which would
be presented to the grand jury to
morrow. Notwithstanding ( this
charge, the three sleuths were ar
raigned today and released in $5000
bonds each on the bribery charge.
The detectives allege that 19 mem
bers of the state senat alone are in
volved In th crookedness they have
unearthed. They are alleged to have
been retained by a large manufactur
ers' association, which waa being
bled, and to have obtained their evi
dence by a dictaphone.
Are Guilty of Crime.
The story of the arrests as given
out by Nye is that Bailey and Berry
gave the legislator $100 cash for his
support against a bill limiting ' the
working hours of women to 'nine
dally. BaUey then conferred with
Speaker Vlnlng and the latter ar
ranged to have Nye accept a bribe.' 1
Harrison, the detective In' charge,
meantime had 'arranged for 'the other
bribe. He had fitted up a room ad
joining the -one. where Nye was to
accept the bribe with, a dictaphone
and had a stenographer ready to take
down the conversation. Under thesa
circumstances Nye accepted the sec
ond bribe. The arrests followed and
then both sides found they were dou
ble crossed.
It is feared here that the arrest of
the detectives will cripple the inves
tigation of the legislature which was
under way. They had been wcrklng
for six weeks, and in attempting to
determine If Nye were susceptible,
made It possible for the representa
tive and Speaker Vlnlng to trap
them.
PORTLAND LABORERS
GO ON A STRIKE
omntD rims liibid wibi.
Portland, Ore., May 1. Their
wages cut from $2 to $1.75 per day,
300 laborers employed by Baker and
Scarpelli brothers went on strike to
day.
The men are unorganized. Most
of them are foreigners.
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