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SALEM, OREGON, SATTJBDAY, JUNE 21, 1913.
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GOVERNOR
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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
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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
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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
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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.