Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, April 26, 1912, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textgift ; Vd M EMI: inT ' i in nnnnnTrrff EPS- vouxm SALKK. 0BE60II, NtlDAY, APRIL M, 11!. NO. 10L DUE $11 IS QUIETLY TO STOP THE IHICil CRUISER ADD TORPEDO BOAT AI1D BIG TRANSPORT SENT TODAY TO BAN COAST The Transport is Loaded Wth Supplies, and Both the Fighting Vessels Are Carrying All the Coal Possible This, in Con nection With the Sudden Recruiting of the California Mili tia and Secretary Meyers' Inquries as to Location of All Col liers Leads to the Conclusion That Intervention is Only a Matter of a Very Brief Time. San Pedro, Cal April 26. The cruiser Maryland and the torpedo boat destroyer Whipple cleared San Pedro shortly before noon and headed south, presumably bound for San Diego. The Maryland Is known to be heavily pro visioned and coaled. It was rumored here that her officers epect orders to proceed to the West Mexican coast. Ordered to Mexico. Washington, April 26. The trans port Buford, ordered to Mexico today, will visit Topolobampo Altata, Mazat lan, in the state of Sinaloa; Sun Ulan, Tepic, Mansanlllo, In Collma, and Aca p ill co, In Guerro. Carries 'o Troops. San Francisco, April 26. Preparing TAKING OF TESTIMONY HAS BEGUN DNITID rnKHS IXiBID WIHK. Corvalls, Ore., April 26 Rapid hend way was made In the trial here of George and Charles Humphreys. Inothers, charged with the murder last June of Mrs. Eliza Crlfflth at her home near Philomath. Six witnesses for the slate were on the stand during the forenoon. Oho of theBe, Mrs. Nancy Franklin, testified that Mrs. Griffith reared George Humphrey might do her harm. Several other witnesses, nelghbori of the murdered woman, told of the miss ing of the deceased, and the anuslng of the neighborhood. It was testified that the Humphreys, although near neighbors of Mrs. Griffith, professed U. VWk Li- 8alem and Vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday. Light rrost tonight. i KXPbANATORY NOTRt). 'itiMTrllon token it 8 . m,, 7lth mrrlilliin tlmr. Air prruure rrdiicrd to ih- IptcI. Iiohnrt (contlndoat line) ptn thrnufh BOfnn of Hiul ilr presiure. iMiiberms (dulled lines) past through pnlnu of equil u-niparatiiro; drawn ouljr fur mid, (toning, DO0, and llu, O clear; Q partly cloudri 9 cloudy; rain: anow; report mliulni. Arrowi fly with the wind. First trurei, kwet tern ppraiiire pant 1 hours; second, precipitation of 01 inch or more for past U hours; tblrd. maitmum wind Telocity. - Forertnt Till 4 p. m. Saturday. Oregon and Washington: Fair tonight snd Saturday. Light froBt west, heavy rrost east portion tonight, f.ortberly winds. suppers' Forecast. Protect shipments tt far north as 8eattla igalnst mlnlmuni temperatures of about Z degrees: cortheait to Spokane, it degiee; southeast to Rotse, 25 degree; south to C'lklyou, 22 degree, M'n'ruuiu' temperature .t Portland tonight, bout 44 decree. Hirer Itracait. Tb Wlllimette rlvtr at Portland will Has slightly (or the next two or three days. EDWARD A. DEALS, District rot-Master. for her trip down the west coast, the army transport Buford Is taking on coal here today from barges in mid stream. The coaling will continue to night with double crews, and tomor row, after she goes on the drydock. It is expected she will come out of tho drydock Saturday night and have the compasses adjusted previous to sailing. The liuford hag been out of commission aince she returned from China a your ego, after serving as a Ited Cross ship there. It has not yet been decided who will he in command of the Buford on the Mexican trip. She will take a great variety of supplies, but, so far as bus been learned, no troops will sail. ignorance of her disappearance, and this aroused comment. J. L. Henkle a neighbor, testified ie- gutd'ng as to the search for the body, and how he round It In a mill pond a third or a mile from Mrs, Griffith home, where, It Ib alleged, the Hum phreys dumped It, after brutally at tacking the woman and killing her. The two defendants today main talni'd their attitude of Btolld lndltftir. once. ,. .. Connor ltefns'd Hall. UNITED FHEIIS I.B1RBD WIRS. San Francisco, April 26. Superior Judge Sargent denied today the mo tion for the admission to bail of for mer Captain or Police Conboy, sen tenced to three years In San Quentln for the murder of Bernard Lagan, pending the outcome of an appeal taken rrom the Jury's verdict. A lSlM'oiiiid nab). UNITED MEASIED W1IM0. Salinas, Cal., April 26. A baby weighing 180 pounds was born here. It Is the son or AUce and Jumbo II, members or a circus now here. It Is the rirBt Infant elephant ever bred In and born In capIUvlty. S. Department of Agriculture. WILLIS L MOORE, ChW, PREPARING REIL0TI0O Missouri Delegation SnliL St. Louis, April 26. The re- suit of the convention here Is unsatisfactory to all parties. The situation Is as follows: ; Instructed for Colonel Roo'se- velt, 14; Instructed for Taft. 8: contested, 10; unchosen, 4. Subseauent to the close nf the Roosevelt-controlled convention the adherents of President Taft held a rump convention and elected contesting delegates at large. They also adopted res'o- luttonB condemning Governor Hadley and praising the Taft administration. MILITARY POMP AT THE FUNERAL GENERAL FRED GRANT LAID AWAY WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS PRESIDENT TAFT AT TENDED FUNERAL THIS MORN ING. UNITD 1-HK8S MUSED WIRJC, New York, April 26. To the fifing of solemn salutes, escorted by troops or the United Ssates army and veter ans of he Grand Army or the Repub lic, with whom his rather fought, the body of General Frederick Dent Grant late leader of the eastern division or the army, and son or the late Presi dent U. S. Grant, with full military rites, was buried today In the ceme tery on the West Point military res ervation. Services were held In the chapel of St Cornelius Centurlo, on Governor's Island, with Chaplain Edmund Smith in charge, assisted by Bishop Fallows President Taft, Vice-President Slier man, Major General Loenard Wood, Chief of Stuff U. S. A., and other high officers of the army attended the ser vices. From 8 o'clock until the body was placed aboard a steamer en route to West Point, the battery at fort Jay fired a salute of guns. The remains were pluced on a casalon, escorted by a battalion of the 29th Infantry, (Continued on Page 5.) f-O- Apr. x.ljl. m ML 7 LJHrvA ' ski r Victims Died on' lechers;. -; New York, April 26. Officers of the liner Princess Irene re- ported here today that while re- turning from Europe, their wire- less operator caught a message from an unknown ship stating that a dozen bdies bad been sighted huddled together on the base or an Iceberg. This lndl- cates that some or the Titanic, victims crawled on an Iceberg where tbey rroze to death. - Dan Gleason and Heda Startz . Speeding on Motorcycle Get in Front of Car ahd Narrow ly Escape Being Killed. TRUCK CATCHES) GLEASON Starts Jumps, Ilut Gleuspn Dashed In to Cur at Corner ofi Liberty and Court Streets, mid Was Caught liy the Trucks Ills Head Iludly Cot and Knocked UneonttclonnEitcnt of Iu Juries Unknown Yet, But He Will Probably Recover. ' i A collision occurred (his afternoon lit 1:15 o'clock between a motorcycle and a street car that came near cost ing Dan Gleason his lire. Oleaaon and Heda Startz were going east on Court Btreet at a high rate or speed, both mounted on the same motorcycle, when reaching a point about 60 feet west of the street car track on Liber, ty street they discovered that a car was coming north, with which they were sure to collide. Young Startz jumped off the motorcycle and at tempted to hold It buck; but without effect. The street car struck Gleason and hurled him and the cycle of near ly 20 feet throwing him almost In rront or the car, but Just enough to one side so that the car did not piiBS over his body. The trucka or tho car struck his head, however, and Inflict ed some very ugly wounds. A convey ance wns soon at hand, and he was re moved to the offices of Dr. Carleton Smith, where, after a Bhort con sultation, it was decided to move him to the hospital, which was accordingly done. When Gleason was picked up he was unconscious, but' regained consciousness before the hospital was reached, and at the time of going to presB It Is reported by the doctors In attendance that he has a fair prospect for recovery. Seattle, April 26. The steamship Alameda crashed Into the Coleman dock while coming Into her berth Inst night. Several persons were knocked Into the water and many others were Injured. The Alameda struck the pier 100 feet from the end and plowed through It, sinking the Round steamer Tele graph, whlch lay at W mooring on the other side. The severed end of the dock fell Into the water and the deck of the Alameda was covered with wreckage. The Injured are: Miss K. Andrews. Seattle, broken ankle; Mrs. George Lynch, Seattle, right eye Injured and body bruised; Mrs. F. C. Rench, Sea beck, cut about head; and Mrs. S.J. Wilson,' Set beak, wrist (ashed, Mlsa Andrew was knocked from the dock to the deck of the Telegraph and rescued few : seconds before that vessel sunt THOTOil CYCLIST HIT I) CAR STEALER SL1ASHES THE DOCK D! ! ' Sur RlehesoH Is Insane. Boston, Mass:, April 26. De- clarlng that Rev. C. V. T. RIche- son, pastor, until the time or his disgrace, or a fashionable Cambridge church, was insane when he killed his 19-year-old sweetheart, Avis I.lnnell, by cyanide poisoning last rail, At- torneys Lee, Morse and Dunbar today appealed to Governor Foss ror clemency In the minister's behair. They urge that punish- ment be commuted to lire lm- prlsonment. Meanwhile Rlcheson cowers tn his cell, a physical and nervous wreck, awaiting his fate. He Is under sentence to die during the week beginning May 19. SOUTH PART OF THE CITY IS A CHOICE COLLECTION OF THE WASTES OF CIVILIZATION MAKES SOUTH SALEM BLOSSOM AT ALL POINTS. South Salem feels very grateful to Councilman Lafky this mornlug, for It certainly shows up like a display wl!v dow In a junk shop. Acting upon his request thut residents gather the waste stlufr and have it near the al leys, boxed or barreled, the citizens of that section got busy, and such a collection of cans, wire, old Iron, pans dilapidated cooking utensils, all the odds and ends or domesticity, the flotsam and jetsam of kitchen wreck age. Everything rrom a busted demi john to a broken promise, was guth ered as has not been Been since I'eep Ing Tom brought out all the old maids In Coventry. The alleys burst Into bloom with them and at their en trances they blossomed like a con ii' wedding In June, or a millionaire's fu nerul, though, perhaps, not In the Bttme clu88 Tor rragrance. This, of course, was expected but It wns not expected that Councilman Lafky would Inveigle South Sulcm people In to making a display of a year or two's accumulation, and on circus day, ton, when everybody and the children were out to see. A Christmas ox would look ub plain and commonplace by the side of that South Salem display as Hetty Camp would 111 juxtaposition with Mrs. .lack Cudaliy or a coon with lavender pants. It .was not Intended as a floral tribute to Mr. I-afky, but It "Is hls'n" with best wishes of nil, and the hope that he will graciously ac cept the same. No Sign of War. Sacramento, April 2fi. Colonel 8. 8. Cannon chief aide to Adjutant-Cenerul Forbes, stated today that, while nu merous ex-Bolcllers nre dally volun teering for service with the California National Guard, In case of Intervention In Mexico, the department bus hud absolutely no word from Washington on which to base a belief thut the na tional guard will be called upon. He said the orders Issued lust Sat urday for the recruiting and com plete equipment of all state troops was merely designed to avoid confu sion In esse any call should come. To Hpeak Monday Mght. ftfNiTSn rums i-hahhd wins.) rtrookton, Mass., April 2.6 Chulr- nian Keith, of the city Hepubllcan committee, announced this afternoon that he arranged ror President Taft to return here Monday night for the final speech of his Massachusetts campaign. From France to London. Dover, Kimlnnd, April 2(1. Aviator llammel, with Miss Davis ns a pas. senger ascended from Hardelot, Franco, today, crossed the Kngllsh channel and continued toward Lon don. Ko Ball Rala. At Pittsburg: Clnclnnatl-PIttsburj; gam postponed; wet. At fit. Louis. Dotrolt-St. Louis, (am postponed; wet (rounds. CIIFO DID jOT IVAlIt ABLOOM ion OEiED nlilLS SAILORS SAW HER ROCKETS COAT WAS THEIl OOLY TED PILES AWAY FOOr.l TITAH1C Testimony Shows That Most of 2ged- But One Did Heroic Work, Saving 75 or 80, After Wreck Went Down Sailor on Steamer California Says He Saw the Distress Signals and His Ship Was Wthin Ten Miles of Titanic, But She Ignored Them, Not Even Waking the Wireless Operator. Washington, April 26. Chairman Smith stated this afternoon that a dozen members of the Tltanlc's crew had been examined individually laBt night A message from the United States marshal, at Boston, to Senator Smith, stated that Captain Lord and Wireless Operator Smith, of the liner California, were held tn Boston, both men having been sorved with subpoe nas. Vice-President P. A. S. Franklin de nied today that the White Star line objected to these men testifying, ex. plaining that the company only want ed their depositions taken In Boston, Instead of coming here, so they could sail this afternoon, Senator Smith In sisted that the 'men must come here, and Franklin ordered them to come to Washington. Boats Badly Munngcd. Senator Smith privately exumlne.d FvO. Evans, a member of the TlUnlc's crew. He testified that. lifeboat ' No. 16 was swung three feet rrom the deck before women passengers were told to get In. Many jumped over the space between the deck and the boat, which was suspended 70 feet above tho water. Others refused to take the risk. Many babies and children, he said, were tossed over the rail Into the boat. A woman, he said, Jumped, struck the boat, and almost fell over board. She was saved, Evans said, by her shoestring catching In a rowlock and wns hanging head down when pulled Into the boat. The committee published the testi mony which wns taken at sepernte ex ecutive sessions yesterday. Ilout Curried Fifty. Albert Haines, bontBwaln'B mate on the Titanic, said that ho took charge of a lifeboat and helped In DO pas sengers and members of tho crew. Hearing cries he called to the sailors aft or the sinking liner, asking If tbey thought he should return to the ves sel's side. They ugreed thut Haines' bont was already bo crowded that It was difficult to use the oars, and that It would be useless to go back. Haines snw no Icebergs until dawn, he said. Samuel Hemming, a lump trimmer, testified before Senator Smith that the shock of the collision awakened him, but that he remained In his bunk until the bontswnln rushed In, shout ing: "Turn out, fellows, you haven't an hour to live!" One Man's Good Work. Stewart George Crowe testified be fore Senator llouriie that be was In llfelKMit No. lti, and with Fifth Officer Lowe tried to go buck and rescue the drowning. He said Ijowe transferred many passengers to other bouts, and then returned to the scene of the wreck. He found one man, who died Immediately, and rescued several oth ers from the wreckage, who revived and recovered. Luter, Crowe said, Lowe took -5 off the submerged raft, and also towed a collapsible boat, containing 00 persons, to safety. Chalrmnn Smith made Vloe-I'iesl-dent Franklin repeat the story of how he first received the news that the Ti tanic was In distress. Franklin de nied that the White Star company tried to enjoin silence and secrecy up on the officers passengers and crew aboard the rescue ship Carpnthln. Franklin insists that he gave the newspapers all the Information In his possession on Monday, the day after tho wreck. F.arnest Gill donkeyman aboard the Callfornlan, testified before the com mittee that the California Ignored the distress slgnsls sent up with rock ets from tho sinking Titanic Usorei Distress Signals. ''I wis ' on the deck on Sunday the Boats Were Badly Man- night at 11:56 o'clock," said QUI. "The Callfornlan was drifting through the Ice fields with tier engines stop. red. I saw the lights of a big vessel going at full' speed on our starboard ride .about 10 miles away. I went below and told ir,y bunk mate. "Hair sn hour later J raw a wj'.e rocket on our starboard, and then an other. I said It must be a vessel la distress. It was not my business to notiry th bridge, and the officeis tr.ere could not have helped seeing It." Did fiot Wake Operator.' GUI said that on Monday morning he Via ordered out at 6:40 o'clock and round tho Callfornlan steaming at top speed toward tho Tltuulc. He after wards heard the Callfornlau's engi neers and members ot the crew toll ing seeing the Tltanlc's rockets and Mrse signals of distress. . "I heard on of them say, why dld'nt they waka ther wireless opera tor?" " continued Gill. The entire cretr discussed the conduct or the captutn for not going to the rescue. I, am sure we were less than 20 miles away when I saw the rockets, as I saw the vessel plainly." GUI added that he expects to lose (Continued on page four.) THE T!i TO It V DO MYKF.PS NKBKASK.l AM) KANSAS A!SD DOES MUCH DAMA(SE-2 IIl'KT WHEN' TRAM WAS BLOWN OVKII. Omaha, Neb., April 26. Twenty nlne persons were Injured, one of them perhaps futally, when a cy clonic wind struck Union Paclflo pas senger train No. 35, one mile weBt of North liiiup, Neb., late yesterday. The entire train, the engine excepted, was blown from the truck and all the cars were overturned. A mile of telegraph line was blown down, cutting off direct communica tion. 'The truln. composed of a oomblna- the mall, baggage and express car and two day coaches, w as running at a moderate rate when the gale struck It. Knglneer O'Brien ran the engine to Ord and returned with a car In which the Injured were taken to Ord. Wichita, Kan., April 2.i. Three per sons are dead at Ponca City, Okla., ns the result of one of four torna does near the Knnsns-Okluboma lln esterdny. The tornado at Ponca City swept through an addition In the west part of town, destroying about 75 houses. Those killed were a mother and child and a mnn who was carried nearly a mile and dropped on the prairie. At I'ncns, Okla., 7.1 miles southeast of Arkansas City, the Santa Fe dopot and a number of huses were de stroyed. Another storm near Ouoda Springs, west of Arkansas City, de iitroyed several farm houses. A fourth tornado passed between Arkansas City and WloHeld, destroy ing a farm house. At Gueda Spring a near cloudburst flooded the Ink and the large concrete dam Is a-dsDgered. 1 TRAGI!