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All the News that's Fit to Print. Everybody Reads the Daily Capital Journal t ifl THE BEST NEWSPAPER THE LARGEST f I CIRCULATION t THIRTY-S1XTH YEAR. SALEM, OEEQON, MONDAY, OCTOBEE 20, 1913 PRICE TWO CENTS. ON TBAIHS AND N1WB STANDS, FIVB CHNT8 ML mil il JMiliWlULL J 10 I . J JlftJ . PI FREED BY English Militant Suffragette Will Be Permitted to Give Lectures. AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION GIVEN President Wilson's Influence Exerted to Secure Her i. Admission. I UNITED rRESB LEASED WIRE. Now York, Oct. 20. Freed by Immi gration Commissioner-General Camiuet ti's order, Mrs. Emineline Pankhurst, English militant suffragette leader, loft JOllis Island toduy, crossed the bay to New York, was met by Mrs, O. 11. P. Belmont's automobile and drove at once io Mrs. llclinont's home. Sho wus to have addressed a mass meeting at Madison Square Garden to night, but in consideration of tho or deal she has been through, the gather ing was postponed until Tuesday. Tho English visitor's rolease was not vntirely unconditional. Sho was admit led on her own recognizance and with out a bond, but was under pledge to lenvc the country at tho cud of her lec ture engagement. Sho is understood, also, to respect American laws. Welcomed Enthusiastically. Mrs. Pnnkhurst received an enthusi astic reception from tho throng of wo men who met her at the pier. She is a delicate looking, elderly woman, almost super-refined in appearance, with a low, gentle voice and every mark of excel lent birth nml line breeding. She hud little to suy about her de tention at Kllis Island, but her tunmior and a. few casual remarks dropped in dicated that the promptness with which tho New York authorities' decision was overruled from Washington had remov ed from her mind the unpleasant effect produced on her mind by the nature of her curlier reception. Those who met her were profuse in their apologies lor tho treatment she had received, but Mrs. Pankhurst waiv ed aside their protestations with the nulling intimation that, after the ex periences she had gone through in Eng lish prisons, her stay on Kllis Island whs rather to be reganled as a pleasure than as a hardship. Tells Why Ha Did It. Washington, Oct. 20. Following the Issuance of his order for Mrs. Finnic line Piinhl'urst 's release from Ellis Is laud on her own recogni.iiiice, Immigra tion Comniissiniicrdonorul Cuminetti formally tiled an opinion in explanation of his decision overruling tho New York authorities. In the first place, ho held, it was doubtful whether the offenses charged ugainst Mrs. l'nnkhurst in England In volved mural turpitude, nml in the sec ond, she can' lie prosecuted here if she violates American laws, or, if preferred, she inn lie deported. Mrs. I'liiiMiinst was ordered set free following a hearing grunted by Com mi.sioncr Ciiiuiuetti to her lawyers, and Inter, a conference between himself, President Wilson nml Secretary Wilson ' of the labor department. Provident Wilson was said to luive ex pressed much sympathy with the suf fragette lender and to luive mid he was decidedly ill fiivor of admitting her. ACCUSED OF CRIME. ttMTKn TRANS LEAKED WIRE. London, (let. 20. I'limcis Sliackletnn, brother of Sir Ernest Slinckletoii, went to trial in Old Itniley today on a charge of cnihc;'.lenietit. Thomas (inrlick was A co -defendant. Tlie two men are ehnrged with converting to their own use a check for t-'pOUO entrusted to them for investment, ACCEPTS NEW POSITION. Miss Miinnie ShuU leaves this week for Portland, where she lias accepted a new position. Miss Shuts has been chief operator nt the P. T. k Tel. Co.'s office for the past eight yearn, and will be greatly missed by her many friends. CAMINETTI Murphy Granted Probe by Jury Charges That Tammany Planned to Import "Eepeaters" to Defeat Mitchell to Be Investigated. (UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. New York, Oct. 20. Acting on a re cent demand by Charles F. Murphy, leador of Tammany Hall, Judge Ma lone today ordered a sweeping investi gation by tho grand jury of charges by John Purroy Mitchell, fusion can didate for mayor, that Tammany Hall planned to import "repeaters" 10 ac complish his defeat !n the corning elec tion hore. Witnesses probably will ap pear for t Katnination tomorrow. . 10 BAR LIQUOR RULING United States Supreme Court Holds Business Can Be Restricted in Former Indian Lands. UNITED FRESS LEASED WIRE. Washington, Oct. 20 The United States supremo court upheld today tho right of congress to admit New Mexico to statehood with tho clause in tho now state's constitution giving tho federal government authority to re strict the liquor busines sin former In dian lands of the state. It reversed a decree by the district court of New val, that tho regulation of the liquor Mexico in the easo of Felipe Sando traffic is not subject to federal inter ference. IIINITKD F1IESS LEASBD WMIE.J San Luis Obispo, Oct. 20. A slight earthquake shook San Luis Obispo at ;i::i() o'clock this morning. Tho temb lor lasted several seconds, and was followed by two less severe shocks. Paso Hobles and Santa Maria also re ported having felt the disturbance, With the exception of a few broken dishes, no damage is reported. HEARING ADVANCED. Washington, Oct. 20. The United States supreme court today advunced for hearing when it sits in January, tho "bleachod flour" case, involving an interpretation of the pure food law. ALBERT TAXES EJAM. Washington, Oct. SO. Hurry Albert, of Salem, and L. L. Mulitt, of Ash land, aro in Washington tuking the competitive examination for national bunk examiner. "MOVIE" ACTRESS CLAWED. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Home, Oct, 20. While posing for tho "movie" today, Adrinna Oni-tamaugn, an actiess, was badly clawed by a leop ard. SERVIA BACKS DOWN. UNITED MESS LEASED WIRE. Vienna, Oct. 20. Soniu promised in a note received from Hnlgmdo today. to comply Immediately with Austria's demand to cvneuato Albnniii. PRINCE MEETS WILSON. (UNITED 1-liS LBASKO WIRE.) Washington, Oct. 20. Tho Prince of Manoca was received President Wilson todnv. SNOW IN KENTUCKY. (tlNTlEIl I'llKSS LEAKED WHIR. I.ouisvile. Kv.. Oct. 20. A general snowstorm prevailed throughout Ken tu'ckv todav. This wns the earliest snowfall recorded in veins. SMITH RETURNS. County Superintendent Smith hns returned after attending a corn show held by the schools iu tlm vicinity of St. Paul. Superintendent Smith states that the show was a grand niece's and St. I'oiil youths lire there with the goods, when it comes to raising com. JUDGE GALLOWAY HERE. Judge William (Inlloway, of depart ment No. 2, of the circuit court, is hearing a civil case In the county court chambers this afternoon. Judge flnllo way arrived this morning from Me Minnvllle, nd, after attending to few matters here, will leave for Tilla mook, where he will hold court In Judge Holmes place, the latter being indisimsed st the present time. E Professor Whitney, of Har vard University, Says He Found Arsenic. MORE THAN ONE DOSE Declares Some Dope Given From Two to Six Hours Before Death of Naval Commander. tUNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.1 Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 20. Damag ing testimony to the defenso was giv en here today at tho trial of Mrs. Jen nie Eaton, charged with poisoning her husband, Admiral J. O. Eaton. Professor W. M. Whitney, of Harvard University, was today's first witness. He testified that he examined the stomach of the baby adopted by the Batons, but found no poison. Mrs. Eaton had charged that the child was poisoned by her husband. A letter ad dressed to Whitney, written in 1909, and signed "J. M. Eaton," was intro duced. It said the writer was anxious to provo the admiral was insane. Professor Whitney also examined Admiral Eaton's stomach. Ho sworo that ho found arsenic "in practically every organ arsenic could affect." He thought more, than one dose had been givon, asserting ho believed some of the poison had been given the admiral from two to six hours before his death. UNITED MESS LEASED WIIIE. New Vork, Oct, 20. Practical en dorsement of Socialism wns provided for in a resolution introduced today by Ttnthbono Gardner, a lay delegnto from Providence, in the house of deputies at the Episcopal church convention here. The resolution declared for a "new social order in which shall bo a more oqnitnlilo distribution of wealth, with diminution of the present gross luniLitn waste, the cause of poverty. ' ' It was referred to a committee with out dissension. FIND INDIAN SKULLS. While digging a ditch for a water pipe in itichniond addition to Salem Saturday morning, employes of the Sa lem Water Co., unearthed tho skulls of two Indians nml many old trinkets which were evidently buried with tho two bodies. The bones fcdl apart when thev were touched, but the skulls were better condition and it could bo plainly seen that they belonged to the red tribe. Heads, jars, bracelets and many other articles were dug up along with the bodies. The find was made two feet under ground. E E iiNirrn viiksk leased whir.) Vein Cruz, .Mexico, Oct. "0. Despite ail his promises to the contrary, it was considered piucticnlly certain here to day that Provisional President lliiertn will be a candidate to succeed liiiuselt lit the election next Sunday, October 20. n A campaign to have people use more enre in addressing lettcis has been in augurated by Postmaster Angut Illicit est iu, who declared today that the gen oral public hns no idea how much Iron lile and contusion rcxult from the im proper addressing of mail. The return address in tho corner is nearly as Im portant as the other, according to the postmaster. The campaign for better addressee it Campaig E Two Leap Through Plate Glass Window of Hotel and the Guefcts Flee. FIREMEN CAPTURE PAIR Six Lions Shot in Street by Policemen or Amateur Hunters and Trainer Gets Tiger. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Leipsig, Oct. 20. Eight lions and a tiger were liberated by a collision be tween a circus wagon and a street car here early today. Within five minutes tho entire city was in au uproar. Two of the lions lost no time in leap ing through the pinto glass windows of the Bluehor hotel, where, after frightening evory one from tho office, they proceeded to roam the corridors, tho guests meantime barricading them selves in their looms and shrieking from the windows for help. Finally Lassoed. First firemen and thon troops were called to the hotel, tho liom were lassoed and tied, pnd finally both were taken to police headquarters undoi or dors to be exocuted, In the meantime a third lion bad jumped onto tho drivor's seat of an auto 'bus, tho drivor plunging head long to the pavement. A policeman shot tho beast before it could follow. Tho other five lions were shot in the streets, either by policemen or by un official amateur big game hunters. The tiger was captured by a woman tinin er. I UNITKD I'HEKH IK AS TO WIIIE.1 Mobile, Ala., Oct.-20. Thirty soldiers were killed and III!) injured, over a si-ore fatnlly, when a special train on the Mo bilo & Ohio railroad plunged through a trestle near State Dine, Miss., yester day. Twenty-four corpses had been taken ! from tho wreckage nt noon and it was believed there were six others still in the ilebris, which would bring the total fatalities to 110, It. was also stated at noon thut of the injured, "" might die. . HOTEL IS FIRST-CLASS. 0. N. Fullenwiiler, deputy dairy and food commissioner for this state, has completed nil inspection of the Hotel Marion and gives that hostelry a total standing of illl.S. This standing, de clares Deputy Fullenwiiler, Is considered more than first class nnd the big hotel is iu Al condition. The Weather The Dickey llird says: Oregon, fair east, rain west portion nnd Tne dayi southerly winds. for Better OTS fiONNA eflAJl on Letters is Being Pushed to be carried on through the schools I in it nt f i i-i-K mill rural routes and it will result ill a saving of time iu piistof ficcs as well as better si rvi '", it is believed. More than i:t,o .o.omi pieces of mail mutter were sent to the division of dend letters ttt Washington, D. C., last year nnd a large proportion could not be de livered because of careosnes Iu writ ing addresses. The following sugges tions are made b; the postoffice department; Girl is Hysterical When Told Man She Shot is Now Dead UNITED rilESS LEASED WIRE. San Francisco. Oct. 20. Miss Leah Alexander, who shot and killed J. D. Van Banlen, a newspaper advertising man, here Saturday, learned today for the first time of Van Baalen's death when she was formally charged with murder. She became hysterical and at first refused to believe that ho was dead. "Oh, I'm so sorry for ymr Van," she kept rexw.ting over and over again. AGAINST 'PHONE TRUST UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 20. Damaging testimony against the American Tele phone and Tolegraph company's subsid iary in Tacoma was given by two wit nesses subpoenaed today by O. J. Smythe, BKicial assistant attorney-general apgwiiited to investigate for the United States government, the so-called telephone monopoly iu tho Pacific northwost. The two witnesses 'oxnminod wore Colonel B. W. Coiner, former United States district attorney for western Washington, and A. M. Richards, a for- liner city councilman. Both tcstifiod that tho servico of tho Boll system in Tacoma wns extremely poor prior to tho advent of the Homo company and that after the Independent company luid been absorbed tho service was but very little better. Sheriff Esch this iniirning received a telephone cull from Sheriff llodine. of Linn county, saying that, two pris oners, ('. II. Smith and a man by the name of Adams, sawed their way to f'-''l" from the county jail, at Albany last nignt, ami nave not been henrl from since. C, II, Smith is the man who gave the authorities in the valley such a chase recently, being wanted by Eugeiio nnd Albany officers on the charge of ob taining money under fnlse pretenses. Deputy Sheriff Nceilliiini played Die leading part in the capture of Smith. The lleciug man passed through Salem In an aulo and the deputy succeeded in rounding him up by notifying the marshal at Woodbine. united pubke leaked wiiie. " Portland, Ore., Oct, 20,-Aftor de-iiimiii-iiig him iu iiiiineiisuri'd terms, I'cdernl Judge Mean toilnv sentei I John Algen, a wealthy Spaniard, con v'-ted if white sin vi".", to ten yer.n In the government penitent iiuy at Mc Neil 's Island. Music may lie the food of love, lint Hint doe. n't seem to prevent the cor ner ei-ocer from piling up a fortune. Addresses " Tre ink in addressing letters or oth er until mutter, "Write plainly the inline of the per on nddre-ed, street nnd number, post office nnd state. " Place your name nnd address in the I. jmt left liiiud comer of the envelope or Rekage, " A model form of address hns been Is- ued for distribution from the postof fice to the schools and elsswhere. "But you wee to blame you know you were." Van Bnalen diod early Sunday morn ing. No date has been set yet for the inquest. Throughout the morning Miss Alexander sat with her face pressed closely against the bars of her coll, looking straight ahead. Her mother is with hor almost constantly. Van Baalen's body will be shipped to the home of his parents in Minnesota during the noxt few days. GOES TO JAIL FOR 10 To be sentenced to servo teu days in the city jail and thou be sorved with a civil suit whilo confined in the has tile was the somewhnt disconcerting oxporiouco of Frank Wanamakur this morning. Wanamakor was arrested here Satur day night on tho chargo of being drunk and disorderly. When searched a com plaint and summons to appear in the justice court of Tho Dalles was found on him, tho complaint nlleging that the man owed $2.1 'to J. Karis, as money loaned. Judgo Elgin this morning gave Wnnaninker ten days and shortly after sentenco had been Imposed, Dep uty Sheriff Needham called at tho Jail and served papers in a suit brought against tho prisoner by John Young, of this city. Tho complainant iu the Inst suit avers Waiiainaker owes him meney on a note'. UNITED PRESS I.EABHn WIRE. New York, Oct. 20. Hans Schmidt pleaded guilty today before Judge Mil lone to the murder of Anna Aiimul ler. The former priest put iu his plea before his lawyer. Attorney Knoelbe, had an opporatiinily to scnk. Knoel be changed his client's plea to one of not. guilty, on the ground that. Schmidt was insane. Knoclho's plea stands. ANOTHER LAND SUIT. Attorney (leneial Crawford, having brought suit, In five counties against F. A. Hyde for acquiring timber land fraudulently by the use of dummies, and Mr. Hyde having facetiously asked him to "not overlook any," au addi tional suit was brought this morning. The suits aro to recover some .'10,000 acres of timber lands which it is alleged Hyde secured through the use of dum my entry men. INSANE MAN AT LARGE. Deputy Sheriff Needhiiin this morn ing was called to Hie home of A. Lar son, mist of Salem, to look after au un known man who is supposed to be In Kline. The neighbors in the vicinity of the Darnell home Informed the officer that the st ranger seemed anxious to se cure mutches with which to burn up some liarn. WEIST CASE 13 UP. The ciio of W. A. Wiest. vs. School District No. 'J I is being tried before .1 il I l; Kelly today, Hie work of select ing a jury having cnniiuouecd at II o'clock this morning. Wiest is suing the district for if-'UO which he alleges is duo him on a" emit met to teach the Kn glenood school. DKOWmED IN RoaUE RIVER. I is mm i'iiksk IHAsr.u wiiik.) (Irauts Pu-s, Ore., Oct. 'JO.-- Harold Schilling, 1 1. ven r old son of William Schilling, merchant, was drowned In the llogiie rier while fishing today, f s DEATH NOTICES. 0 4 WALKER At the Willamette Saiiitorium, Sat urday, October III l:i:i. at II p. in., W. II. Walker, at the nge of til years, OWEN. At the family home in Highland, Monday. October 20. tlHM, ut It a. in., W, It. Owen, aged Ml years. SULZER OUT WITH STORY 0 Declares He Was Ousted Be cause He Insisted on Pun ishing Thieves. MURPHY'S EFFORTS TO CONTROL HIM Tammany Leader Declared War When Sulzer Refused to Heed Wishes. UNITED rEESS LEASED WIKI. New York, Oct. 20. Declaring that he hod been deposed because he insist ed on punishing Tammany thieves, and refused to obey the commands of Boss Charles J. Murphy, William Sulzor to day issued a statement in regard to hiB troubles, which load to his Impeach ment. Ho said in part: Murphy's Demands. "I talked over tho telephone from Albany with Judge Eflward McCall about tho public service commissioner ship. McCall met mo with an auto mobile at tho 17i street station when I got to Now York afterward. Ho said Murphy wns nt his house waiting for us. "I met Murphy in the, front room. He urged me to appoint John Oalvin public, service commissioner in place of Mr. Wilcox. I urged tho appoint ment, of Henry Morgenthau, George A. Penbody or John Temple Graves. Murphy wouldn't hear of them. He Inlked long and earnestly on behalf of (lalvin. Finally suggested that we com promise on Mr. McCall. "At this meeting and subsequently Murphy demanded pledges regarding legislation and especially concerning appointments. Gaffney or War. "Murphy finally said; 'I am for (laffny for highway commissioner. The organization demands his appointment. I want you to iipHiint him.' "I replied: M. will make no prom ises.' "'It will bo (iaffny or war,' ho said. "I had several talks with Murphy, and nt snmo of them I told him I was governor, and intended to bo governor, lie laughed ami suid I might bo gov ernor, but that he controlled tho leg islature, and unless 1 did what he wanted regarding legislation and ap pointments I could not get my nomi nations confirmed hi) would block everything." Demands nnd Threats. "When Murphy found ho could not use or control me he sent his emissar ies to demand that I do certain things, and to threaten me If I refused, "My efforts for progressive gov ernment were blocked bv the refusal of tho legislatoro to let mo install men capable of and willing to do the work. "A final interview I had with Mur phy on the night of April Dl, is marked in my memory, for his Insolence and the sordid brutalitv of his demands. Ilefore we parti-l that night 1 warned Murphy that he would wreck the party and accomplish his own destruction, if he persisted lu shielding grafters and in violating pl.it form pledges. "His angry retort was that I was an int; rate, and that ho would disgraiu and destroy me. Says Ho Knew Odds. "I knew the terrible odds there were against mo iu the fight, 1 courted when I declined to submit to Mur phy's dictation; declined to turn my office into an Instrument for the cor ruption of the government mid for de bauching the state. "I was reluctant to break with Mur lid v. I did it only liccitune it had lie ciime Impossible to do otherwise with out betraying my oath of office, ami forfeiting my self res) t. "When I returned to Albany I care- 1 i, ! I I I!.. 1. 1 1 II,.. Hilly i-onsmi-rril ("'Km, " whole state situation. It was only the.i, and not since, that uny thought of ru signing entered my mind. Three Paths Open to Him, "There were three paths to travel to surrender to Murphy and to H mindful of everything except his or- K'.uil limed on page 'our. I TROUBLE