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OFFICER TELLS STORY OF
THE S
AVED
BOAT WOULD HAVE HELD MODE
DDT PASSENGERS OBJECTED
TO HELPING THOSE III WATER
Pittman Would Have Gone to Aid of Those Strugglng in the
Water But Those in the Boat Feared It Would Be Swamped
Pitiful Scene on Big Ship When Passengers Were Told
There Was No Hope Frederick Fleet, the Lookout,
Swears Company Refused to Furnish Him With Marine
Glasses If He Had Had Them Accident Would Not Have
Happened.
I'NITID l'HESS 1.EAHKD WIRI.
Washington, April 2.'!. Sworn tes
timony that neglect on the part of
the White Star company to provide
marine glasses for the lookout on the
Titanic was responsible for the great
est sea disaster of modern times wa
the sensation of the hearing this af
ternoon being conducted by a com
mittee Into the catastrophe.
Frederick Fleet, who was lookout In
the crowsneBt of the Tltanlo when
the giant liner smashed Into the Ice
berg which dcBttyed her, madti oath
that not a single lookout on the Ti
tanic was provided with marine glass
es, and declared that had his request
for such glasses in Southampton not
lieeu refused the Titanic might yet be
the pride of the seas and hor hundreds
of passengers In their homes Instead
of sunk In the deep.
"I could easily have sighted the Ice
berg with marine glasses In plenty of
time to have had the vessel Bteered
out of the way," said Fleet, and gave
in detail the request he niado of the
While Star line in. Southampton for
the murine glasses. Although all oth
'i' liners are so provided, Fleet swore,
liia request was flatly refused, and he
8 tuld there were no glasses for
him.
Third Officer's Story.
Washington, April 24. Third Offl
or I'ittinnn testified at Borne length
as to the details of the accident.
"If the Impact had been bow on,"
suited Pittman, "the Titanic would
have been afloat now. If two or three
steamers had collided with her she
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would not have sunk. It would have
required about six steamers to sink
her by collision.
The officer stated that he left J.
Bruce Ismay on the Titanic, and did
not see him again until they were
both on the Carpathla. He saw no of
ficers In lifeboat No. 7, he said, so he
fastened It to his own boat to prevent
it from floating away.
Passenger Cowardly.
''I know that my own boat would
have held more," said Pittman, "and
I told my men to try to pick up more
passengers from those who were strug
gllng In the water. Many of my pas
sengers begged me not to do this,
fearing that the boat would capsize.
I turned the boat around to go In the
direction of cries which I heard.
When I saw that the passengers be
lieved that the swimmers would
swamp us I did not go bark to the
spot where the Titanic sank. We took
In our oars and drifted for an hour.
Gradually the cries grew fewer and
flanlly ceased.
When the members of the commit
tee insisted on pressing him for de
tails as to his efforts to reBcue the
swimmers from the water Plttman's
voice choked, and he replied with
feeling: '
A 1'ltlful Slorj.
"I hnd rather you had left that out.
That was all the effort I made to
rescue the people from the water."
"Lifeboat No. 7 separated from us
at 2:30 contonued Pittman. We
sighted the Carpathla at 3:30, when
(Continued on page four.)
S. Department of Agriculture.
.YYEAintiK DUKCAU.
WILLIS L. MOORE, Chief.
I " I 'n J I 1 --
MEM!
AID OTHERS
Saved the Children,
Fresno, Cal., April 23. Saving
the lives of a group of school
children at play In the roadway
while risking his own here to-
day when he threw himself In
front of a runaway team which
was bearing down upon them,
Hermann Sechler was danger-
ously, perhaps fatally Injured.
He succeeded in grasping one
of the maddened animals by the
bit and diverted their course
from the helpless children, but
finally was hlniBelf knocked
down and dragged, the heavy
wagon passing over his body.
E
IS FIFTEEN
MILLIONS
TITANIC'S I0SS HITS THE INSUR
ANCE COMPANIES HARDER
THAN ANY OTHER MARINE BIS-ASTER-$14,40fl,0O0.
New York, April 23. Fifteen mil
lion dollars Is the total amount to be
paid by the various life, accident and
marine Insurance companies as a re
sult of the loss of the Titanic, accord
ing to estimates made by adjusters
here today. The marine companies
will have to pay two thirds of this.
Several American concerns doing all
classes of Insurance business are said
to be hard hit.
All the marine Insurance was car
rled abroad, but the American com
panies are affected through re-insur
ance. "Insurance Field,' a trade
journal published here, says that the
Titanic losses are unaparallelcd In
the annals of marine Insurance, and
estimates the losses as follows:
Accident Insurance, $2,213,000; life
Insurance, $2,193,000; marine Insur
ance (ship), $.1,000,000; marine Insur
ance (cargo), $1,000,0(1(1. Total $14,
40(1.000. S
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INSURAIIC
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 23,
Mayfair Is Safe.
San Francisco, April 23. The
Marine Exchange here this af-
ternoon denied any knowledge
of a reported accident to the
steamer Mayfair oft the coast of
Oregon. The report stated ttat
the Mayfair was picked up off
Cape Blanco by the Steamer
Raymond.
The Mayfair Is five days out
from San Pedro, and the Ray-
mond two days out from the
same port, both bound for Wll-
lapa, Wash.
Supreme Court Holds Friendly
Had No Capacity to Sue,
and Does Not Go Into the
Question of Fraudulent Pe
titions.
PEOPLE WIL VOTE ON IT
This Decision, Which Was Unanimous,
Leaves the Petition in Force, and
Secretary Olcott Will Place the Ap.
proprlutlon measure on the Ballot
to Be Yoted on This Fall Univer
sity Is Kept Out of Tills Money In
the Meantime.
Holding that Injunction proceedings
relative to a political matter can only
he brought under the laws of the
state through Its public officers, and
that an individual cannot Institute
them, unless he can show that he In
jured, the supreme court this after
noon reversed the circuit court of
this county In the case S. H. Friendly
against Socretary of State Olcott, a
suit commenced to have certain peti
tions referring the appropriations
made by the laBt legislature for the
University of Oregon declared void
because of fraud.
The court does not touch the ques
tion of fraud, but devotes Its consider
ations wholly to the nuestlnn as to
whether Friendly could bring Injunc
tion proceedings to restrain the sec
retary of state from placing the title
of the bills on the ballot. After a re
view of the law It concludes that
Frlendley, In the event the bills go to
a vote, will not be Injured either civ
illy or polltlcallyy, and that, In view
of that, he wan not within his legal
rights, and the case Is dismissed and
reversed.
The decision means that the people
at the next general election will be
given the opiKirtunlty of voting on the
question of whether they want to
make the appropriations or not.
The suit was Instituted by 11. S.
Friendly, as a taxpayer, In behalf of
the University of Oregon, against
Secretary of State Olcott to have de
clared certain referendum petitions,
referring to a vote of t,he people, two
bills appropriating money for the
university, the two appropriations
amounting to about $100,001).
The petitions In question were cir
culated under the supervision of If.
J. Parkinson, and, when filed, con
tained something over 12,000 names,
but a little over 6000 names being re
quired. Believing that fraud had been
committed In connection with the cir
culation of the petitions, the Universi
ty of Oregon employed Judge Blnter,
of this city, to conduct Investigations
with relation to It ,and he called uion
the Burns detective agency to assist
him. After considerable of a search
they unearthed enough forgeries and
fictitious names to Invalidate the pe
titions, and a suit, with that end In
view was Instituted in the circuit
court of this county. After listening
to the evidence Judge Galloway held
(Continued on -pag slgat.
THE U. OF 0.
CASE IS
REVERSED
1912.
BATTLE FOR
UA6ED
Stead Still Talking.
Pittsburg, Pa., April 23.
That William T. Stead, the Brit-
lsh Journalist and occult Investl-
gator, who perished on the Tl- '
tanlc, has already conimunlcat-
ed from the world of shades,
was declared here today at the
convention of Pennsylvania splr-
ltuallsts by Mrs. Mary Feldman,
of Carrlck, Pa.
Mrs. Feldman declared she
had chatted with Stead yester-
day. "He is happy and prepar-
lug to communicate with us
more fully," she sa'ld.
PORTLAND
FRANCHISE
HI THE WAY
SOUTHERN PACIFIC ItEABY TO
AXJtOUKCE DETAILS OF SECOXD
UNIT OP ELECTRIFICATION 80
SOON AS FOURTH STREET FRAN
CUISE IS SETTLEB.
Indications are that the Southern
Pacific railroad will soon be ready to
announce the details of the second
unit of electrification of Its lines Into
Portland, which will mean the lines
on the enst side of the Willamette
valley between Portland and Eugene,
says the Oregon Journal. General
Superintendent D. W. Campbell, when
aBked yesterday concerning this mat
ter, stated that he was not ready yet
to give out the details, hut hoped to In
the near future.
Those having studied the situation
closely say that the Southern Pacific
will build a second bridge across the
Willamette at OBwego to bring Its
electric passenger cars of the east
side dlvlBlon by the way of OBwego
and the Yamhill division to Jefferson
street, thence to Fourth street and
the Union dcKt. Freight originating
on both the west and east sides sys
tems, would, In this event, be routed
over the east side, lines to the freight
houses now being built at Kant Sec
ond, KaHt Oak and Fast Burnslde
streets.
May Spend $.',000,W0.
It Is said that the carrying out of
the second unit will Involve an ex
penditure of .',000,000, and this
amount has been appropriated. The
Fourth street franchise Is now before
a committee of the council to be re
ported on April 23.
In regard to the situation as It now
stands, General Superintendent Camp
bell has made the following state
ment: "I fear there Is some misunder
standing In the minds of the people
as to Just what our attitude Is In re
lation to the Fourth street franchise.
Perhaps the present Inwsult has rath
er gotten In the way of a clear view
of all of us of Just what ought to be
done.
"It was with the Idea that there
ought to be some pructlcul fair com
mon ground on which the railroad
and the city could meet that resulted
In the Fourth street property holders
and later In the business men In their
meeting Friday taking it) the subject
and the railroad company agreeing to
what I hope will be found by all who
examine It a measure fair to the city,
lifoservlng every legal right It has,
and at the same time doing what both
the city and the Willamette valley
people are so anxious to have dime,
that It, iiermlt us to electrify Fourth
street and supplant the steam cars
with a modern electric railway ser
vice. The whole state Is deeply Interested
In this movement, and waits Port
land's action with much anxiety. If
(Continued on rage I.)
IJilll
LAR
BY
PUBLIC SPitll
TWELVE THOUSAND PEOPLE
If LIHtl COUfiTY EDUCATED
TO THE MADE JJ OilEGOIl IDEA
Oregon Made Products Cheap
Investgation Campaign to Keep Twenty Million Dollars
Circulating at Home Giving Preference to Oregon Man
ufactures Will Encourage Establishment of More Indus
triesWhen One Hand is Made to Wash the Other Both
Are Better for It.
Fully 3000 people attended the
Manufacturers' exposition at the Ar
mory Saturday night, which closed
Its doors at 11 o'clock after three
days' session, during which, It Is con
servatively estimated, 12,000 people,
many of whom were from Portland
and other valley cUIoh, vlBlted the
8hoWi and gazed upon the attractive
display of goods manufactured In Al
bany Brownsville, ' and Sclo.
The Made-ln-Oregon exposition was
held to educate the people of Albany
aod other Linn county towns, to buy
goods made In the State of Oregon.
Much of the credit for the success
of the exposition Is due A. M. Ham
mer, chairman of the "Industries and
Manufacturing" committee of the
Commercial club, who personally
looked after the assembling of the
various exhibits and planned the dis
play In the Armory, The efforts of
W. A. Kastburn, president of the
club, and C. H. Stewart, the mana
ger of the Commercial club, also
contributed to the success of the en
terprise. The Made-ln-Oregon Campaign.
The Made-ln-Oregan exposition was
opened with an address of Col, E.
Hofer at the Armory, Thursday even
ing, April ISth:
Mr. Chairman, ladles and gentle
men, I am here tonight to make a
statement of what Is known as the
"Made In Oregon" movement, and the
meeting this evening Is a kind of a
buslneHS meeting. We want to talk
to you as business men. We are not
going to peddle hot air, or hand you
any bouquets, We are going to try to
Interest you from a business stand
point. We want to Interest the bual
neHs men through you, and we expect
you to tell some of the facts to the
business men of the town, and by
that means get the co-operation of
the people and the business men In
HUMPHREY
BROTHERS
TRIAL BEGINS
COURT ROOM AT
( KtMVBEB THIS
WHEN IIUMI'HREY
ARE I'LMEI) ON
CORVALf.lN
M 0 It N I N U
BROTHERS
TRIAL FOR
MURDER OF MRS. GRIFFITH.
Corvallls, Or., April 23. A crowd
overflowing the courtroom gathered
today to witnesses the trial of George
and William Humphrey, brothers, oil
a charge of luuiderlng Mrs. Kllza
Orllllth, near Phil ath, Or.. June 2,
1911. The trial will be heard by
Judge Harris.
The brothers are alleged to hare
murdered three others besides Mrs.
Grlfllth and Charles, that younger Hnd
weaker brother, lias coniesHed to
these killings, It Is said, The bru
tality and cruelty with which the
victims were murdered has startled
and nauseated the state.
The brothers are alleged to have
gone at night to the home of Mrs.1
Grlfllth, a neighbor and after chok-
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ted ra
er and Better and Will Bear
the building up of the Oregon Indus
tries. What Started Movement.
Now, this Is the proposition: This
campaign was started by some Port
land business men. We took a trip
to another part of the state to attend
the dedication of a new hotel. They
had built a $150 000 hotel, and when
we got there we found that the whole
hotel, the material that went Into It,
the furniture and everything in that
hotel, had been brought In from Cal
ifornia. It was California- money
that wiis building the hotel. o we
really couldn't Kick very much, but
they bad built that thing from top to
bottom and had brought everything
from San Francisco. They had even
brought the cook from San Francisco,
they had brought the waiters from
San FrancUco; they had brought the
bell-boys the little boys that an
swer the bell from San Francisco,
and they were dressed In clothes
made In San Francisco. The bill of
fare was printed In Pan Francisco,
and everything to eat and drink was
brought from San Francisco. Even
the chambermaids came from San
Francisco,
We thought we wero able to fur
nlhli all thoKe things JiiHt as well as
nol, anil that we ought to try and
seo If we couldn't furnish everything
of this kind. Those Portland men
went home and studied about this
question, and the result Is this cam
paign. Giant Powder and Boulevard.
I had the pleasure of attending a
meeting of this kind in Corvallls re
cently, and missed the train, and I
had to ride over to Albany in an au
tomobile. The man said, "All right,
you are welcome, but I've got a hun
dred pounds of dynamite In this au-
Continued on page two.
Ing her with a rope, attacked her. It
Is alleged they then dragged ber
body to a mill pond, a third of
mile away and disposed of it. Ran
sacking her house, they obtained $11.
William King, another alleged vic
tim, was the brother's stepfather.
All three men alleged to have been
murdered by the Humphreys were
neighbors.
According to the alleged confession
of Charles Humphreys, the favorite
method of George, who did most of
the actual killing, It Is asserted, was
choking.
The brothers are to be tried Joint
ly. o
BORII kEKl'H THEM
ALL A GUESSING
Stockton, Cal., April 23. William
A. Dorr, charged with the murder of
George IC. Marsh, the millionaire soap
man, of l.ynn, Mass., fell In his cell
last night and struck his head on the
cement floor. He Jumped up Instant
ly, came out of the stupor In which
he has remained since his arrest, and
nml(,uttt((lv recognlzi!(i
rr ,,, ,, hl m,
his Jailer.
ind Is a blank
since March 14, the day he left Stock
ton. The police aro puaxled. They ad
mit that if Burr Is faking, he la a
mighty good actor.
Eugene has arranged for Chan
tpuqus.
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