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Newspaper Page TextAH the News that's Fi to Print Everybody Reads the Daily Capital Journal 4 i mc DEM : THE LARGEST f I CIRCULATION . NEWSPAPER t -0 1) TH1K1 Y -SIXTH YEAH. SALEM, OREGON, SATTJBDAY, JUNE 21, 1913. PRICE, TWO CENTS. EaIIPcKK t W ciflHtttjlM ' ' r -"' - " GOVERNOR . i SENSATIONAL LETTER Charges Attorney General Or ders Favor to Criminals of Wealth. TELLS OF INSTRUCTIONS Does Not Propose to Have Guilt or In nocence of Rich Defendants De cided in Washington. (UNITBD FRBSS LSASBD WIKS. San Francisco, June 21. John L. Mc Nab today tendered his resignation to President Wilson as United States dis trict attorney, because he had been or dered by the attorney-general to post pone the trials until autumn of Drew Caminetti son of Commissioner-General of Immigration A. Cnminetti, and .Maury Diggs, charged under the white slave act. McNab 's message to the president reads: "I have the honor to tendor my res ignation as United States attorney for the northern district of California, to take effect immediately. I am ordered t)y the attorney-general, over my pro test, to postpone until autumn the trials of Maury Diggs and Drew Caminetti, indicted for hidoous crimes which have ruined i-'.wu' respectable homes, and -shocked the morals of the people of California, and this after I have advised the department of justice that attempts liave been made to corrupt the govern ment witnesses, and the friends of the defendans are publicly boasting that the wealth and political prominence of the defendants' relatives wil procure my hand to be stayed, through influ ence at Washington. "In these cases two girls were taken from cultured homes, bullied and fright ened, in the face of their protests, in to going to a foreign state, were ruined find dobauched by the defendants, who abandoned their wives and infants to -commit the crime. Other Rich Men Favored. '"On receipt of the attorney-general's telegram I prepared my resignation, to take effect at the conclusion of the trial of the Western fuel directors and the J. C. Wilson stock broker cases, both of wWh I had instituted, and which I wished to bring to a successful eonclusion. Before I could send my resignation I received another telegram from the department ordering me to postpone the cases against certain de fendants of the Western Fuel Com pany, and not to try them unless or dered by the department. "In bitter humiliation of spirit I am compelled to aeknolwedge what I have heretofore indignantly refused to be lieve, namely, that the department of justice is yielding to influences which eripple and destroy the usefulness of this office. "I cannot consent to occupy this po sition as a mere automaton, and have, the guilt or innocence of rich and pow erful defendants, who have been indict d by unbiased grand juries on over whelming ' evidence, determined in AVashington on representations on he- tialf of the defendants without notice t me. I seem unable to convey to the department an understanding of the serious situation in which its action will leave this office. Might as Well Quit "If the department in future Is to review the findings of grand juries and nullify thoir indictments, then this of fice might as well be abolished, for its functions have ceased to exist. Neither" my private honor or sense of public duty can permit me to thus destroy the prestige of this office. "With profound respect and regret hat such step is necessary, I hnvo the honor, in view of my absolute inability tO( agree with the department, to ask that I be, by wire, immediately re lieved from duty on order that the de . partment of justice may be permitted to carry out Its policy in these cases without further obstruction by me. (Signed) "John L. McNab." Lured Olsls to Reno. Caminetti and Diggs took Marsha Warrington and Lois Norris, two young WES Reject Carnegie s Gift of Million College of Bishops of Methodist Epis copal Church Says They Cannot Afford It (UNITE) rasas uusi win. Nashville, Tenn., June 21. Andrew Carnegie's gift of $1,000,000 is rejected today by the college of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. Af ter a stormy session the bishops decided that the church "could not afford to be dishonored" by complying with the terms of the donation, which already had been complied with by the board of trustees. The board 's action was ve toed. Favor Court of Commerce. (united rassa lsasbd wiks. Washington, June 21. Continuation of the federal court of commerce was recoin'mendcd today by Assistant Attorney-General Denison, Congressman Broussard, of Louisiana, and Special Attorney Esterline, at a hearing before the house judiciary committee. Final action by the committee was postponed. SEATTLE EDITORS I Demurrers Entered by Star and Times on Ground No Offense Has Been Committed. UNITBD FRBSS UiSBD WIBB. Seattle, Wash., Juno 21. A demur rer to the indictment for libel returned against the editor of tho Seattle Star was filed by Attorney John H. Perry in the superior court today, on the ground that the indictment does not constitute an offense. The indictment grew out of the publication by the Star of a report made by the King county grange and the attorney for the Star contends that this was privileged matter, and that a newspaper had the right to print it and to comment upon it. Demurrers were also entered in the cases of the editors of the Seattle Times who were indicted for libeling a Socialist. Chemical Schedulo Approved. UNITSD I'M 88 LBASED WIBB. Washington, June 21. The chemical schedulo of the Underwood tariff bill was approved today by tho senate cau cus, practically unchanged, as it passed the house. OF IS DYING IN POVERTY Stooseel Is Physical and Financial Wreck and Lives on Bounty of Former Adjutant UNITBD FUSS LSASBD WIRS. Moscow, Rus., Juno 21. Physically ami financially wrecked, General Stoes sel, the defender of Port Arthur, Is re ported to be at the verge of death hero. For some time past ho has been partly paralyzed, and a few days ago entirely lost the power of speech. Latoly his the Information gleaned by the commit country eBtate and mansion had to be tee was such that the police department soM to pay his debts, and he is now bo- ng sheltered and maintained by an of- ficer who served as his adjutant in the Russo-Japanese war. society girls, from Sacramento to Reno a few months ago. The. two men were arrested and brought back under a white slavery charge. Both are mar ried. After a preliminary hearing in the federal court here some weeks ago, they were released on bail. "I have been ordered to do things that no man with conscience would do" declared McNab today. "I have told them to take the job. No man with an ounce of manhood will allow some one to dictate to him on s question of prin ciple. There is nothing more to be said in addition to my telegram to the president." ESCAPED CONVICT AIDED BY UNKNOWN ' PERSON PROBABLE Every Indication That Suit of Clothes Was Secreted by Friend of J. W. Keith LEAVES YARD QUIETLY Would Bs Impossible for Keith to Se y cure Suit and Hide Them in ' Brush. J. W. Keith, a prisoner at the peni tentiary, quietly walked away yester day afternoon from his work at the brick yards and up to the present time he has not been eaught. Keith was sentenced from Lane county on the , charge of larceny. It is strongly hinted that Keith was aided in escaping by some unknown party or parties. Upon missingHhim, guards began searching and found the prisoner's uniform hidden undor a log in the brash a short distance from the place he was working. Every indica tion shows that Keith ducked into the brush and donned a suit of clothes he iound secreted there by a friend and fled under a new guise. It is a well known fact that there have been mrny attempts made to aid, prisoners to escape from the prison heretofore by other cons who have served their time or have been paroled, but the present case practically clinch es this matter. It would have been an i impossibility according to the prisonau thorities, for Keith to have socured a ' brush near the brick yard, and tho only deduction that can be made on the es- cape is that some one placed a new suit in the brush and that Koith deliberate-1 ly sneaked away and donned the same. Keith is 30 years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall, weight 153 pounds, and is dark complexioned. MERCY IS SHOWN MAN WOUNDED BY OFFICER UNITBD rilSBS LBASED WIKS. Seattle, Wash., Juno 21. Because Emil Sorenson, wounded by Customs Inspector MacArthur, while effecting his arrest last February, is paralyzed for life in his lower limbs, tho indict ments charging him with opium smug gling, were dismissed on motion of the government attorney, C. F. Riddell. Judge, jury and attornoys held court in Sorenson 's home recently when his tes timony was taken in the smuggling case against Harold Benson, who was convicted. The final hearing of the police inves tigation was held last night in the council chambers, and it proved to be largely the snme old hearsay story from start to finish. The score of wit nesses that were to be brought in the limelight by Councilman Minton didn't appear. In fact, two or three wandor ing "witnesses" were examined, and annot be '"'KM "th one single vio- mllon 01 ,ne """ "lu uown DV 11,9 m 'narier. About the only excitement during Inst night's hearing was when Council- men Minton and Rigdon crossed swords and squared off for battle. Charges Negligence. "Had Councilman Rigdon and May or Steevos shown more spirit In this in vestigation, there would have been more witnesses 6n hand and a more thorough investigation would have re sulted," declared Councilman Minton at the close of tho meeting. "I have reasons to believe that Sa lem is the rottenest city on the Pacific coast," continued the councilman. "1 know personally of five disorderly houses in this city. They are the Eld ridge lodging bouse, the Owl lodging 1 ON RAPS MAYO DECLARES Caruso Must Pay for Girl's Finery Girl Lost' Her Breach of Promise Suit, But Must Pay for Her Trousseau. UNITED PBBSS LBA8BD WIKS. Rome, June 21. Enrico Caruso must pay for the trousseau of Elisa Ganelli, who Bued the tenor for breach of prom ise, according to a decision of the Milan court of appeals. The girl lost her case, but the court holds that Caruso must pay for the unsued wedding outfit. Denies She Introduced Girl. (united pkbm lbabed wins Los Angeles, Cal., Juno 20. Flat de nial that she introduced Marie Brown Levey to Millionaire George Bizby, of Long Beach, for immoral purposes on the witness stand here today by Mrs. Josie Rosenberg, awaiting trial on the charge of pandering. Mrs. Rosenberg was called as a defense witness in the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Espey, charged with contributing to the delinquency of tho Levey girl. TO SECURE RELEASE Hunger Strike Does Not Win Freedom for Alice Hall, as in Case of Mrs. Pankhurst UNITED PUBS LBASKlr WIBB. Loudon, June 21. Home Secretary McKenna has not yet seen fit to give Alice Hall a "ticket of leave." Tho prisoner, who is not a suffrag ette, but a cook, convicted of stealing several hundred dollars worth of jewel ry from various houses where sho was employed, has been on a hunger strike in Holloway jail for the last fortnight. When the judge sentenced her to thrco years imprisonment, the same sen tence recently given Mrs. Pankhurst, Alice Hall declared. "Three years didn 't mean even three weoks fo Mrs. Pankhurst, and it won't mean any more for me. Tho suffragettes haven't any copyright on hunger-striking. I shall tako no food until I am released." Thus far she has kept her word. Go to Big Turner Meet. UNITED PRESS LSASBD WIKB. San Diego, Cal., Juno 21. To the ac companiment of folk melodies, applause cheers and waving of pennants, nearly 100 membors of Concordia Turnevoroin of San Diego loft today for the Inter national meet of Turner societies at Donvor. Ten young men and 12 ath letic young women, the pick of the or ganization, will represent Concordia in the contests. I AND house, the Tioga rooming house, the Freemont hotel and the Cottage hotel. Appoint me chief of police, and I guar antee you, gentlemen, that 1 will clean up this town in short order." "I wouldn't trust one of our police men or, I mean, some of them to aid in cleaning up the city, but I know of a man right in Snletn who is living off the earnings of a fallen woman. Tho district attorney or his deputy will .,ot recognize me when I bring cases before him, and I can't get an officer of any description to aid me in Investigal .ug these houses of ill-fame. If thp polic-j officers don't know these houses mit-t, they are a band of the most ignorant people in Salom." Rigdon Talks. Councilman Rigdon took the floo,- lif ter Mr. Milton hail finished his speech. He said in part: "Brother Minton hi.i given Salem a black eye In reninrltlng that this city is the rottenest one on ,tho coast. The police committee, not long ago, hired a special officer, or do tcctive, as some put it Mr. Mintou told me personally that that special sgont hid been 'really responsibe for catch ing two suto speeders.' , "Now Councilman Minton declares that he can clean up the city. I want to go down on record as purposing that 5 TO FLY FROM BAY Frenchman Drops Bomb on Decks and Two Battleships Hurry Away. REBELS WIN VICTORIES Scores of Soldiers Said to Havs Been Hilled by Bombs Dropped From an Air Craft. DNITBD PKBSS LSASID WIRE. Douglas, Ariz., June 21 Dropping1' bombs on the decks of two Mexican warships today, Didier Masson, French aviator, forced them to flee from Guay mas harbor, and take refuge in the open sea, according to insurgent reports from Oritz, Sonora, this afternoon. Masson is employed by the Mexican rebels, and is said to have wrought great havoc among the Mexican forces during a six-days battle at Oritz. Complete victory for the constitu tionalist rebels, after a five-day battle at Oritz, Sonora, is claimed here to day by the Mexican constitutional junta. Federals Routed. According to the dispatches received over the wires from Oritz, all of which are in the hands of insurgents, Didier Masson, the French aviator, played a big part in the battlo, dropping bombs into the federal entrenchments, at Oritz. One bomb dropped yesterday by Mas son, is said to have killed 52 fodernl sol diers, The federals under General Ojcda are reported to be retreating on Santa Rosa, Sonora, in disorder. All sources of information in Northern So nora are in the hands of the rebels and no communication with Ojeda 's forces can be had. Tho rebels say if Ojeda is captured he will bo shot In reprisal for his butchering tactics against the in surgents. Those who know Ojeda best, however, say ho will kill himself before allowing the rebels to capture him. Tho insurgents, confident of carry ing Sonora, are planning to organize an additional force of 5000 men to invade the states of Sinaloa and Chihuliua. Will Meet in 'Frisco. San Francisco, June 21 T. J. Kind lon, chief special agent of tho South ern Pacific, who returned today from Salt Lake, announced that tho Interna tional Association of Railway and Spe cial Police decided to hold its 1915 con vention in San Francisco. J. W. Con nolly, chief of tho Southern railway's special agents, was elected president to succeed Kindlon. The convention will meet In Norfolk, Va., next year. RIGDON HARD Councilman Minton resign as coun cilman and be placed on tho police force, In order to give him a chance to clean up the city. Mr. Minton states that if he was chief of police that there woud be several people leaving town, ile also declares, or intimates, rather, that I and the Mayor are some what responsible for keeping some men out of the penitentiary. I have not in terfered with any man on tho way to the pen, and T hardly believe that the mayor has. If Mr. Minton knew that some person was ripe for the peniten tiary, why didn't he take somo definite action! "' I Two witnesses besides Officer Flake, wore questioned by the committee in re gard to the alleged gambling in the 'back room of the confectionery store ' conducted by Cnrl Tnndruh, on East IStato street, There was no evidence In the testimony given to show that either boys or Officer Flake gambled In the I rooms in question, and no one seemed to have any knowledge of the allega tions made by Mr. Minton In regard to tho house being disorderly, The committee then announced that the investigation was completed, and . that s report will be made at the next j meeting of the council. He Will Be Only Man in This Camp Frank S. Wallace Will Be Chaperoned by President of Y. W. O. A. Asso ciation, However. ONITSD PRESS LSASBD WIKS. Pasadena, Cal., June 21. Frank S. Wallace, capitalist, philanthropist and brother of Lieutenant-Governor Wal lace will be the one man at the summer camp which the girls of the local Y. W. C. A. will open Monday morning in the Arrpyo Seco, near here. However, Wal lace will be accompanied by Mrs. Wal lace, who is president of the associa tion. Gets Lot for Little Finger. I UNITBD PUSS LBABED WIKS. Seattle, Wash., June 21. The little fingor of Alton Louis Gregg, six years of ago, is worth $3002. So said a jury in Judge Tallman's court when he was awarded that amount of damages against the county. He lost his finger when a steamboat bumped ints the Juanita dock, where he was sitting on a piling. DEATH OF GIRL MAY Tl Mother Arrives from San Francisco to Take Charge of Victim of Elec tric Car Accident UNITBD rKBSS LBASBB WIKS, Vallejo Cal., June 21. The death of S-year-old Holeu Bandy, who was killed with 12 others in the wreck of oloctric trains near here Thursday, may result in the reconciliation iu Sacramento of her parents, who have beon separated for two years. Mrs, Nellie L. Withercll came hero from San Francisco today and made arrangements for shipping tho body of the littlo girl to Sacra mento. Mrs. Calla Bandy, mother of the child, met the bodv at Valloin and ' accompanied It to Sacramento, whore it is expected sho will meet her hus band. The 30 or more injured in tho hospi tal here aro doing as well as could bo expected. No additional deaths have occurred, the death list standing at 13. Littlo progress has beon made in the investigation into the cause of the wreck. Conductor Richmond of tho northbound car is still unable to make any statement. E 111 Western Company Charged With Con spiracy to Defraud Government Out of Duties. . UNITBD PKBSS LSASBD WIKS. Kan Francisco, June 21. Additional ludictments charging conspiracy against eight officials of the Western Fuel Co. aro on file here today through actiou by tho federal grand jury. Tin Western Fuel company officials arc charged with having entered a con spiracy to defraud tho government out of duties ou coal, l!H)l being set as the date on which the alleged violations or ciirrcd. Tho indicted officials are: John L. Howard, president; James B. Smith, vice-president; James L. Schmitt treasurer; Hubert Itruco and Sidney V. Smith, directors; K, '. Miles, superin tendent uml Edward J. Smith, weigher. BUSINESS DISTRICT IS WIPED OUT BY BLAZE UNITBD PUSS UtASVO 1KB. McKittrick, Cal., Juno 21. Practi cally the entire business district of this city was wiped out by a disastrous fire wrly today. The total loss was $100, 000. McKittrick is in the west side of oil district, a few miles west of Hakors field. Several of the fire-fighters were serl burned, none fatally. IN! il Ui ITUini'SBID Insists That Action Was Based Entirely on Unsatisfactory Work Done Here WILLIAMS MAKES PROTEST Manager of Pacific Heating St Engin eering Company Asserts Knighton Is Incompetent Governor West today declared that P. A. Williams, local manager of the Pa cific Heating ft Engineering Company, was s damned liar. Williams appeared before the board of control today to protest the action of that body in swarding the contract for the Installation of a heating plant in the new supreme court building to Mr. Cox, when, in fact, the Pacific people were the lowest bidders. The contention of the board was that tho work done by the Pacific Com pajiy on the heating plant at the tuber cular institution was of an Inferior quality, and that they felt justified in rejecting Mr. Williams' bid. Mr. Wil liams argued that he was furnished with convict labor, which was inferior, when it was noted that the conduit built at the tubercular institution was Only .120 feet long,, whereas Mr.' Wil liams built one in Salom 1500 feet long, with free labor, in the same length of time. 1 Short of Funds Then. The governor admitted, when forced to do so by Mr. Wiliams, that at the time the work was being done the state did not have very much money to gc ahead with the work, thus account ing for what West supposed to be s poor job. The governor and secretary of state both said that they would abide by the decision of Mr. Knighton as to ths dsss of work the Pacific people put out, and when Mr, Knighton said it was inferior that was enough, and out went Wil liams' bid. Treasurer Kay was some what on the fence, hut said that he would follow the majority. Says Knighton Is Incompetent When seen afterwards Mr. Williams said that the whole matter came down to the fact that Knighton was incompe tent, and that the secretary of stato and governor were afraid to buck the labor unions because of their scalps. Williams bnses this on the fact that the Pacific Company mns an open shop and naturally would have the unions against them, and the unions, in turn, would bring pressure to bear on tho of ficials. When the matter wns put up to Oov ernor West, he declared that Williams wns "a damned liar," and that no rep resentatives of the labor unions had visited him, and, furthermore, he knew what class of work Williams did, and he did not propose to have tho state re ceive less than it paid for. Mr, Williams said that it would de cide upon the advice of his attorneys whether or not he will take any action In the matter. It Is probable, however, that he will bring suit enjoining the state from going ahead with the work. DIES DESPITE HEHOIC SACBinCE OF ANOTHER UNITBD PH-BS LBASBD WIBB. Run Francisco, Juno 21. The heroic sacrifice of 10-year-old Oussio Silver to save, through a blood transfusion operation, tho life of her mother, who was accidentally overcome by gas, prov ed unavailing early today when the aged woman died in tho emergency hos pital. Mayor Kolph who was present at the operation whore mother and daugh ter lay side by side, told Miss Silver when the transfusion wns over that she was "tho bravest girl In Sun Fran cisco." Weather Forecast Oregon Showors tonight or Sunday; south to wost winds.