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All the News that's Fit to Print Everybody Reads the Daily Capital Journal tMMMMMMM r i ii TDE LARGEST ii CIRCULATION ... NEWSPAPER I L ' - ' i . . "fcaTT f, a y U LIT THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1913. PRICE, TWO CENTS. WlilM?! 1 (1 If? fl (ft 4lUrtr un HI . r wji ii uir m i . t i if it ri 11 ii 11 tff T I yll 1 It -S. J I II II II U U- 4rii muni yysrww mziij mt i vkvitv ivlva v vk vj 'WEI 1 VVlLdUVJU SI FAVORING RAILROAD Charged Street Chairman Per mitted Raise of Grade on Broadway. COMPROMISE IS REACHED Oregon Electric Promises to Reduce B Grade to Some Extent and Put Street in Shape. t garclcd charter provisions and gave tne Orogon Electric Company permission to raise its tracks two inches above grade f on Broadway, was the charge made to- day against the chairman of the street committee, who has been in the lime- light for several weeks. Stols! ignored other members of the council when he gave his permission to the corporation, and no ordinance or resolution was passed, it was assorted. State acted about three weeks ago, ana ine anair came io a snowaown yesterday. Tjhe railroad officials claimed to have no intention to act otherwise than according to law. It de veloped that Stolz had given the com pany permission to ballast with gravel instead of . crushed rock between the tracks, and that the company had also been permitted to haul mud with the gravel and scatter it plentiful over the street. Today the company has agroed to re move the debris from the gutters and reduce the grade half an Inch, a com- piomisc being reached. The company also agreed to round off the grado, so that drainage would be possible. Today the street was a mudholo, following the rainfall, CHERRIANS HOLD DRILL AND ARE GETTING IN LINE Nearly 40 members of Salem's new booster organization, the Cherrians, mot at the old armory last night and held the first drill, The "drill was carried on under the direction of Milton Mey- rs, C. L. Dick and C. Dyer, and, al though Inst night was the first time the club has over attempted to go through the exercises, the members per formed creditably. The next drill, which will be held next Tuesday even- r . 0 , . . , . 'ii nig at 8 o'clock in the snie place, will r no somewhat more difficult, and the finer movements will be undertaken, Tnmnni-orv mitfnrnin nnvo heftn AT i t 't. l ii x. i. i 4i . rntifrml f hnf tlm nhnraprnr nf tnesft I . . ,' ,. , , . . . -.. will not bo divulged lust now. Tho dolling np equipment of the club will be something rather out of the ordinary, however, and the mombers will appear on tho streets during the Cherry Fair In full dress. TEN CRIMINAL CASES ARE ON LIST Actions Scheduled to Be Probed by Grand Jury During Its Sessions In July. Deputy District Attorney Keyes this morning completed the grand jury dock t for the July term. Thcro are ten criminal cases to be investigated at this term, as follows: Juno 30, 10 a. m., State vs. Fmnk Bristow, lnrceny from au offieo, and State vs. H. M. Baker, selling firearms to a minor. June 30, at 1 a. m., State vs. Chris Laschello, receiving stolen poods. June 30, at 1 p. m., State vs. ' O. W. Tobin, embezzlement, Stnte vs. Charles R. Briggs, lewd cohabitation, State vs. W. Qunrticr, sodomy, 8tate vs. Fred Domagolla, fornication, and State vs. John Sumner, lewd cohabits- tion. Julv 1, at 9:3r s. m., State vs Walter Itadlov, obstructing railroad track and State vs. Antoine Seifer, as sanlt with intent to commit a itatutory crime. DEAD Man Is Killed in Stopping Horse Sensational Incident of Ascot Baces Witnessed by Ruler of England and Others. UNITED POMS LEASED WIS!. Londou, June 19. One man was fa- tally hurt today when he attempted to stop Tracery, the Bolmont entry, as he came down the track in the big event of Ascot week. Eye witnesses of the exploit said four men ran in front of Tracery as the I hnrspfl thmiilai-pil ilnwn tho pnurflA Oiia . ., , , of them, carrying a flag and a revolver, attempted to stop the Bolmont entry, shouting "stop or I will fire." He was knocked down. One of the fallen I man's associates picked up the revolv er and held the crowd at bay until his tw0 uninjured companions escaped, Thon he threw away the revolver and Jockey Whalley was thrown to the turf and painfully but not seriously hurt. King George called the injured ridr to the, royal stand and asked him about what had happened. The injured "male suffragetto" was taken to a hospital where it was found that his skull was fractured. Physi cians at once performed an operation, Dut Btated that the patient has no chance to recover. KILLED BY VILLAGERS Doors Barricaded and Structure Fired by Men Enraged Over Cheap Labor Importation. (UNITED PRESS LEABED WIBE.l St. Potorsburg, June 19. Eighty girls were burned to death at Piriatin, in the sugar beet district, according to a telegram received hero today from Kieff. After barricading the doors of a building where the girls were asleep, villagers set fire to the structure and all the inmates perished. The supposed incendiaries were enraged bocause cheap labor was recently imported iuto the district, DOG FIGHT RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHROEDER'S INJURY A dog fight was responsible for Clif ford behroeder being thrown from a muiun eie lino inuiiiiuu at wiu iihui- B ocnrotMii-r us iruvuiing uiiat uu v-uun street and just as ho arrived at Church two canines bent upon chewing each 1 n other up, leaped into the street and . clinched. The motorcyclist could not get in the clear and his -rout wheel ran over the fighting dogs. Sehroo- der was thrown from the machine and sustained several bruises, but escaped serious injury. The machine was not ilamaged to any extent, while the dogs forgot tho scrap in tlioir violent efforts to get away from the motorcycle. LINE ALONG COAST NOW ASSURED BY RAILROADS It is announced that, as a result of the recent agreement of the Santa Fe and the Southern Tacific to cxteud the Northwestern Pacific, which these two roads own jointly, from Sherwood, Cal., to Shively, Cel., about 100 miles north of Sherwoo.d, Portland and San Fran cisco will soon be linked by a railroad along tho extreme cilge of the Pacific coast STEAMER RIVERSIDE nsiTro piibrs leased wibe.1 San Francisco, Juno 19. Wirelesn messages received here today say the steamer Riverside, belonging to the Charles Nelson company, commanded by Captain Dahlquist, sank off the Mendocino coast this morning. The en tire crew was rescued by the tug Re - liof, the iteamor Admiral Farragut standing by to aid if needed. The Riv- lerside carried a cargo of lumber. !C IN CO Porter Shoots Down Fleeing Thief, Who Dies Almost Instantly. JAPANESE DENIES KILLING Asks Chance to Destroy Some Letters and Pictures and Kills Himself With Gun. united press uuid wiai.1 Los Angeles, Cal., June 19. Follow ing the killing of an unidentified white burglar, Taro Awamura, aged 28 years, a Japanese porter at the Lowell hotel, mitted suicide today by shooting him self through the head with a revolver. The unidentified white man and a companion had robbed C. E. Roper, a guest at the hotel, of $43. The Japan ese, hoaring Roper's shouts, rushed out the corridor and fired at the fleeing pair. One fell, shot through the body, dying almost instantly. The other es caped. When the police arrived, Awamura denied the shooting and asked that he be allowed to destroy certain lotters and pi" s before boing taken to the police station. ThiB he was allowed to do. When' the officers turned awav. the Japanese drew a revolver and kill ed himself. Lettors found ou the porter load the police to believe that he may have been engaged in the white slave traffic and killed himself to escape detoction. Among the lotters wcro sovoral obscene pictures and reports on immoral condi tions in Los Angeles. DECIDE TO PURCHASE FOUR ACRES OF GROUND The board of regents of the State Normal school, at Monmouth, composed of the governor, secretary of state and the superintendent of public instruc tion, met yesterday and decided to buy four acres of lan dadjoining the school. The price paid for the land is $!000. ' Lot of Gold Arrives, I UNITES PUESB LJCABRD WIRE,) Seattle, Wash., June 19. With two tons of gold bullion valued at $780,000, the steamer Humboldt is bore today to unload tho first consignment of yollow metnl of the season. The gold came from Fairbanks, Circle, and Dawson. Most of it belongs to the Guggenheim syndicate which operates the Yukon Gold .uining company. OPIUM DENS Thero is information now in the hands of certain officers of this city which will possibly lend to the arrest and conviction of one or moro Chinese on the chnrgo of selling opium. It is the desire of the officials in question that their names bo withheld from pub lication for reasons known by them selves, but they declare that "hop" is being distributed in lnrgo quantities to both white men in Snlem and to the Chinese here and in the different hop yards throughout Marion and Polk counties. According to records nt tho city martini's office, there hns never been an arrest or even an investigation of the Chinese houses In Salem which have always had tho general reputation of dealing in opium. Several complaints, have been filed with former marshals hut no action hns ever been taken. The locsl officers have been aroused to ac tion of lute on account of the number of young and old white people frequent ing the Chinese dens on High street, between State and Ferry, and the result is they have gathered much evidence to show that tho opium law of this stnte has ben flagrantly violated, but no suf ficient SB yet, however, to warrant s rigid prosecution of those dealing In tho drug. According to the investigators there are two Chinamen In Salem who make it s regular business to act ss u S S)S W ...... ..iLhC.:. E C CA. Eddie Foy Goes Bump over Border Unable to Pay Salaries and All Book ings of His Company Are Can celled as a Result (UNITED PBBSS LIMBO WISE. Calgary, Alberta, June 19. "Ed die" Foy's tour of the Canadian Northwest came to a sudden end when the management' of the "Over the Riv er" company, of which Foy was the jstar, announced that he was unable to pay salaries and that all bookings of the company would be cancelled. Wia TRY TO LAND German Singing Society Off to Walls Walla Sangerfest and Will Boost for Cherry City. The Salem German Singing Society left this morning on the 6:20 Orogon Electric, for Walla Walla, where the members will attend the sangerfest which will be in session for the next five days. The local society has been practicing diligently for the past six months, and it will undoubtedly make an excellent showing when the many hundred Ger man songsters compete for high honors. Tinder the direction of F. G. Decke bach, the Salem Germans will make an effort to secure the sangerfest for this city. The Chorry City pamphlets are being taken along by tho socioty and other information describing the Capi tal City will be handed out to those attending tho annual moeting in Wash ington. In the event Salom is selected as the next meeting place, it will mean great things for local peoplo. Besides the 3000 singers who attend tho sun gorfest, several thousand visitors are al ways assured, and It is hoped that tho Salem delegation is successful. Tiger Reprieved. Sacramento, Cal., June 19. Jacob Opponhoimer, tho "human tigor," sen tenced to hang at Folsom prison tomor row for an assault on a follow prisoner, was today given a new Iobho on lifo by Governor Hiram W. Johnson, when the governor issued a three woeks repriove for tho condemned man. Weather Forocaat. Oregon Fair tonight and Fri f day, excopt Bhowors tonight north- west portion; westerly winds. SAID TO THRIVE middle men for the largo concerns in Portland and San Francisco and who receive consignments of opium through some sccretivo source, These men, It is said, dihtributn the drug to the outly ing districts and even go so far as to opornt a "hop" joint right in this city where their white patrons come. Are Systematic, Tho local Chinese are very syste matic in denting in opium, An attempt was made recently by a local citizen to investigate the dens out of mere curiosity, lie had no more than ap proached one door when a bell sounded fur in the rear of the building and a great scattering took place. White men and bleary-eyed f'hinnmcn stumbled out of a main entrnnce nnd finnllv a bland- looking "chink" admitted the visitor to qunrters which, although dirty, eon- tnined no sign of opium outfits. The air was thick with the foul smell of tho drug, declares the citizen, but precnu tloiiB hail been taken to secrete every thing else which might lend one to be- lievo opium smoking had been going on. Law Strict. Thero can be no grounds for miscon ception of Lord's Oregon laws prohibit ing the smoking ot opium in this stato. Section 215(1, defining an opium den, says: "Any building where opium Is sold for the purpose of being smoked IS McPherson Says Court Cannot Command Respect by Be coming Recluse. CRITICISM IS HELPFUL Practice of Punishing Newspapers for Scoring Courts Now Virtually Obsolete. UNITED PaBh LEASED WIRB.l Colorado, Springs, Colo., June 19. Defending the right of newspapers to criticise the courts, a paper on "The Liborty of the Press ' ' by United States District Judge Smith McPherson, of Iowa, was read at today's Bcssion of the National Press association, in con vention here. Judge McPherson was unable to be present in person. The paper which was the feature of today's session, also discussed tho California- Japanese land law controversy, declar ing that states' rights are subordinate to treaty obligations. Tho paper, in part, follows: "A judge must command rospect. He ennnot command respect by becoming a recluse, or. by wearing a silk hat, or a morning coat, or a white tie, or by speaking in guttoral tones, To say he should be honest is understood. It is not much to tho credit of a man to have said of him that he is honest; Criticism Is Helpful. 'We aro froo in discussing the pres ident of the United States. So should we be in discussing tho courts. Such criticism is holpful rathor than harm ful. ''Some courts in tho past have un dortaken to punish newspapers becauso of articles criticising tho court. That practice is now virtually obsolete. No judge over yet maintained his dignity by bringing an editor boforo his court and punishing him becauso of anlmad versions to the columns of a nowspa- por. ' ' Referring to tho California Webb land law, Mcl'horson's paper said: Cannot Override Treaty, "If there is a conflict between the statute and our treaty with Japan, can anyone doubt which should glvo wayt Can California or any other stato rldo down a treaty! Tho federal constitu tion says that the constitution and all treaties mado thereunder are tho su premo law of the land. If a statute anil a treaty aro in conflict, that which is supremo must prevail." El on or about the premises, whero tho samo is smoked, shall bo considered an opium den." Section 2158, which pro vides that It shall bo unlawful to fre quent an opium den, snys: "It shall be unlawful for any porson to frequent any opium den for tho purpose of pur chasing or smoking opium, or any prep aration In which opium is the principal medicinal agent." Tho penalty for violating these provisions is by punish ment In the state prison nut less thun six months nor moro than two years. According to section 2100, dealing on the same subject, general reputation of the building In whieh nn arrest is made for the unlawful disposal or smok ing of opium is ndinissitble ns evidence. General reputation, provides the sec tion, shall lm received in evidence to establish the character nf any building ns an opium den. and proof that any person freqi ts such den shall be pri- nia facie evidence that such person fre- - quents such den for tho purpnso of - ' smoking opium sow such evidence slinll not be rebutted by the evidence of the defendant not nupported by other evi dence. According to those who claim to know, there Is being more opium shipped In a,nd smoked In Snlem than there hns ever been before, and that the number nf white persons who are using the drug is alarming. Champion Ritchie Fires His Manager Break With Nolan Comes as Result of Dispute Over Salary and Set tlement Is Mads. UNITED PBBSS LEASED WIR1. San Francisco, June 19. Champion Willie Ritchie, of the light weight di vision, has had a final break with his manager, Billy Nolan, it was announc ed today. At a conference here thoy discussed their affairs from every angle. After a long argument they came to an agreement and shook bands on it. By this agreement Nolan will receive $3000 for his services in connection with the Rivers match instead of $4500. Nolan, in accoptlng this compromise, stated that he folt that he was giving $1500 away, and Ritchie declared that he felt that he was giving $3000 away. A few minor matters in connection with the Rivera articles were discussed, among them the forfeit money, which has boen poBtcd by Nolan.' Ritchie asked that Nolan allow this to stand, but Nolan refused and will draw down his $3750 today and leave for his ranch. Attorney-General Rules Men Employed on Fair Grounds Can Work Only Eight Hours. Docs the eight-hour law pertaining to state work, donl with contract work or day laborf This is the question that is up before the officials of the state. A couipla'mt wns registorod with Labor Commissioner lloff yesterday saying the men working at the fair grounds wore day laborers and wero being worked more than oight hours a day. Commissioner lloff took the mattor up with Attorney-General Crawford, who said that the law did apply to day labor and that It was unlawful to work a man over tho eight hours. Before tho Inst legislature passed the eight-hour law tho attornoy-goneral told tho Board of Agriculturo, now tho State Fair Board, that tho law would pertain to contract work only, it is said. The attorney genoral has only given a verb al opinion as yet, but is preparing a written one. HUGE FISH IS HAULED OUT OF CREEK BT BOYS Aftor much wrestling and scrambling around in tho waters of South Mill crock this morning, Lloyd Gantcnbcin nnd a fellow by tho namo of Starr, suc ceeded in capturing a 27-pound dog snl nion. Tho lnds located the big fish under tho bridge on South High street, and Immediately gavo chnsn. They run the salmon Into a shallow pool, and young Oantenbeln jumped astride of It. The fish flopped him around for some time before the youth could get a strangle hold on his gills, and, with tho assist ance of Starr, tho wandering snlmnn wns lugged ashore. This is tho second salmon caught In Mill creek this sea son. The oi, "might by the lads today hnd sharp long teeth, anil looked as though he had been traveling through some rough waters. BUT 14 AMERICANS DIE InxiTtti disss f.svstn wise Washington, June 111.- The rebellious Moms on the Island of Join, have been finally subdued, according to a report nt the war department today from lien ernl I'eshing, who commanded the ex pedition. The fighting lasted four days mid resulted in the killing of 14 men of the American force, Including Captain Taylor A. Nichols, of the Philippine Scouts; two privates of the regular jarmy, and 11 Filipino scouts. E SEVERAL OF THEM Cars Traveling at High Rate of Speed Around Curve at Time. SOME OF THOSE KILLED Victims of Smashnp Resident of San Francisco, Oakland and Towns In That Vicinity. united press leased wire. Valeljo, Cal., June 19. In a colli sion of cars on the Napa Valley Elec tric railway, three miles north of Val lejo, 12 persons were killed and from 25 to 30 injured, several fatally, at 10 o'clock this morning. The cars wet rounding a curve and collided head-on. Both cars were traveling at high speed, and, when the collision came, were tele scoped. Those In the front ends were instantly killed. ' On account of the accident occurriag in the country, it was hard to establish communication and meagre details only were brought here by the survivors. The list of dead, so far as received, fol lows: Ed. Judd, Valejo. William Gable, Vallejo. . . Gilbert, - " ' '; H. G. Hunt, San Francisco. F. E. Juansky, San Francisco. The injured were rushed to the Val lejo general hospital, and all the doctors who could be reached wore pressed into service. As the dead were taken from the wreck, the bodios were piled beside the track. The injured, so far as known, are: C. Willort and wife and two children, San Francisco. Harry Lcamore, San Francisco, head cut. Mrs. Rose Hall, face cut. Maximilllan Leloiam, San Francisco, arm fractured. E. C. Hough, Calistoga, motoruian, legs fractured. Mrs. M. A. Gail, San Francisco, back and logs hurt. Mrs. Silverman, San Francisco, skull fractured. Ed. Brown, Napa, head cut. William Murray, niotormau. 1 P. Motovardo, Berkoley. Horace Richmond, Napa. A. A. Ilofmastor, Oakland. C. A. Johnson, Oakland. Miss Murray, Napa. Lewis Hoffman, Snn Francisco. Arthur W. Bennett, San Francisco. A. F. Ruppcrt, Snn Francisco. J. Wilson, Napa, head cut. IS TO Figure Asked for Flaying $300 Instead of $395 ,and Matter Will Soon Be Settled. An orror was mnde in the report of Ilio meeting held by the members of the Cherry Fair committee last Tuesday evening, in announcing that the Snlem Military band ilemninled $303 to fur nish music during the fair, The quot ed figures should have been $.100. In speaking with tho members of the local musical organization this morning, a Journal representative was told that the band is not trying to tax the fair committee a higher price for furnish ing music, but, on the other hand, de sires to boost tho fair and tho city in general to the best of their nblllty. The band boys are showing tho proper spirit. and the recent dissensions will be set tled In a short time. Great Lockout. fOHITTO PRESS LEASED WIRR.l Chicago, Juno 19. A crusade against organized labor was started here today when the Building Construction Em players association at noon ordered a lockout against 20,000 workers employ ed on $30,000,000 worth of buildings.