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All the News that's Fit to Print Everybody Reads the Daily Capital Journ imv ... t Ssn i n a M. fi -nrss n n tin n j i -7. Bert- rffHA a w'jy 5 MYr 77ieiargerf THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR. salem, oeeqon. thtjbsday, febbtjaey 12, leu PRICE TWO CENTS. SjSSS'S'cSSH par DEFIES JAP BflB TON Passes Budget Providing for Naval Expansion at Cost of $62,000,000. For Improvement of Willamette FOB LOWES POETION AND LTJMBIA 1300,000 AND FOB FES POETION $30,000. co-up- HEAVY MILITARY GUARDS FOR SOLONS Fierce Riots Continue and Many Think Action 111-Advised. UNITED FIIESS LEASED WIRE. Tokio, Feb. 12. With fiorce riots still iii progress horo and elsewhere throughout Japan against the present .crushing taxes, parliament passed to day a budget providing for extensive maval expansion at a cost of $02,000,000 to be expended in the course of the next five ycarB. Parliament house was undor a heavy military guard while tho lawmakerj worked and the latter came and went with strong armed escorts. Many be lieved passage of such a budget at this time was ill-advised, but tho govern- meat was determined not to 'give up its program. This was the third day that disorders have been going on and the authorities were straining every nerve in the effort .to suppress them. UNITED PBESa LHABBD WIRI. Washington, Feb. 12. It was expect ed the rivers and harbors bill would be reported to the house today. For the northwest it includes the following ap propriations, though, of course the in itial allowance will be but a part of the totals in each case. Coos Bay, $116,000; Willamette Falls, $80,000; Coquille Biver, $90,000; Coos river, $3,000; Siuslaw river, $5,000; Snake river, $10,000; Columbia, above Celilo Falls, $20,000; Columbia river, The Dalles to Cecilo Falls, $525,000; Columbia river canal aUCascades, $10, 000; Willamette river, above Portland, $30,000; Columbia and Lower Willam ette river, below Portland, $300,000; Columbia river mouth, $1,000,000; Wil lapa harbor, $100,000; Grays harbor, $30,000; Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, $16,- 000; Puget Sound and tributaries, $25, 000; Skagit river, $10,000; Columbia river, between Bridgeport and Kettle Falls, $25,000. CHINESE MAY EXPLAIN MURDER OF COUNTEYMAN UNITED I'REBS LEASED Wilt!. Chicago, Feb. 12. Airs. Fay Scoy, Chiuesc, was arrested hero today and field pending the arrival of authorities from Seattle, Wash., and Pendleton, Or, The police believe the woman holds the key to the mystery which grew out of the finding of tho dismembered body of a Chinese in a trunk shipped from Pendleton to Seattle The police al lege that a woman was responsible for the mured. The dismemberment of the Jiody indicates that the murder was tho work of a maniac. Airs. Scoy npfmreut Jv is sane and denied the charge MRS. MINNIE BOND FIREARMS USED BUT TELL OF AN ALLEGED ATTACK BY SENATOR F( Says She Was Trying to Get Job for Husband When Ad vances Were Made. FRAME UP IS SUGGESTED T HE HE DID NOT MURDER Attorney for Gore Intimates She Grasped Gore and Had Bobertson on Hand to Break in Boom. UNITED PBES8 LEASED WIB. Oklahoma City Okla. Feb. 12. Sworn details of the assault she alleges she suffered at the hands of Thomas P. Goro Oklahoma's blind senator were given from the witness stand here to day by Mrs. Minnie E. Bond. Senator Gore, and his wife listened intently as Mrs. Bond testifiod. Mrs. Bond is suing Senator Gore for $30,000 alleging dofamation of charac ter. She declared Gore assaulted her on March 24 last in a room in the Wins ton hotel at Washington rented by former Democratic Committeeman J. G. Jacobs. She told of meeting Gore in 190!) and described their acquain tance politically. Manager of Detective Bureau Engaged by Mine Owners Gives Testimony. TELLS OF DEATH SPECIAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN Feb. 12,1809 April 15, 1865 WANT EVEES FOB FEDEBALS. (EXITED PHES8 LEASED WIIIB. cw York, Feb. 12. Tinker tried to lay to induce Evers to join the Fedor-,-al league. Oi'fiieals of the outlaw or ganization say if ho does it will abso lutely assure them of success. Tinker and Gilmore. conferred here for several liours this afternoon. BOMB IN BESIDENCE. I UNITED I'llKHS LEASED Willi. Birmingham, England, Fob. 12. Late today an uuexploded bomb was found .it tl0 unoccupied residence of tho late Arthur Chamberlain. Suffragettes were suspected. UNITED PRESS LEASED Wins. ' San' Francisco, Fob, 12. Tears stood in "Handsome Jack" Koetters' eyes as he swore here today that he was in nocent of the murder of Mrs. Emma Kraft in the Saratoga hotel, Chicago, November 14, 1912, for which he was arrested last evening and held pending the arrival of Illinois officers to take charge of him. That he was in Chicago in November, 1912, he admitted, but was not sure whether he was there November 14. "I am all confused and worried," he said. '"This is the first time I ever was arrested." He knew Mrs. Kraft, he owned free ly, but ho declared in answer to storieb that he borrowed freoly from her and never repaid tho loans: "I nover took a dollar from her." Told that his mother had identified as his own tho bloody shirt found in Mrs. Kraft 'b room at the Saratoga hotel wrapped around the hammer with which she was beaten to death, he ox-claimed: "I'm suro that's a lie." "And that's all I'll say," ho con cluded, ' ' When I get bnck to Chicago, I'll toll all I know, but I'm not talk ing any more now." Koetters is a telegraph operator and says he has worked in Sacramento, Los Angeles and nan Francisco, He came to San Francisco in January, 1013. In his pocket when arrested was found a letter Bddrossed iu his hand writing to "Mrs. Emma Kraft, Camp Washington, Cincinnati, Ohio." The po lice kept its contents secret. SURPRISES By NOT GUILTY PLEA uxitld nir.ss leaned wwe. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 12. President C. Hunter Knine, of tho defunct Mer cantile bank, pleaded not guilty to an embezzlement charge before Judge Falmer hero today. His denial of guilt wa a general sur nr!n. It had been exnocted ho would make a confession and accept a prison though only 30 years old, had been eu Leaves to Bring Him Back, Chicago, Feb. 12. Four detectives wero detailed today to go to San Fran cisco to bring back "Handsome Jack" Koetters, wanted hero on charge of murdering Mrs. Emma Kraft at the Saratoga hoted in 1912. Captain ot Detectives Ilaipin said if Koetters re sisted extradition ho would go after him himself. ' Mrs. Kraft, a wealthy Cincinnati wo man of 05 yenrs, arrived at the Saratoga hotel in Chicago the day before her death with a man much younger than herself, They were shown to then room ami some hours later the woman was found moaning, in bed, her head so badly battered with a hammer that she died without regaining conscious ness. Her companion had disappeared. The police believed it was Koetters, who. sentence without fighting. His attor- neys raised the point that tho indict ment nuainM him was defective, In that it failed to specify tho exact amount of his alleged shortage, which was re ported today to exceed l,000,n00. The prisoner's brother, Gilbert Raine, editor of the New-8oimiter, reconciled to him by his trouble after a long es trangement, was with the former In the court room. Fending an application for release on txind the ex-banker was locked up Spain. gaged to her. JAPAN PROBES BOOKS. ll'NITKD MESS LEASED WINE.) Mexico City, Feb. 12. To satisfy Japanese dealers in military supplies that President Hucrtn. can pay for can non, rifles and ammunition, which he orders, I). Mori, a Japanese official, was Investigating the government's fi nancial condition today. Hnerta showed him the treasury department books and records. Sought Office for Husband. The witness said she saw Senator Gore first in his office regarding a fed eral appointment for her husband. The noxt interview, she said, was at (be Winston hotel after she had declined to visit Senator Gore's office again. At the suggestion of Jacobs, Mrs. Bond said she took Senator Gore to Jacobs' room. She said during the in terview Gore inquired regarding her size. During our talk," eaid Mrs. Bond, "Gore sat in a rocking chair. I sat on the bed. Tho telephone rang and I answered it. When I returned I found Gore had moved near the bed. As I sat down he attempted to fon dle my hands. I told the senator that I was hot the kind of woman he had been accustomed to associate with and that if ho had no respect for me he ought to respect his wife and children. Gore then begged my pardon and said ho could not have my husband ap pointed to any federal position. Says He Attacked Her. "As I started by tho senator he tried to pull me into his lap, I remonstrated and threatoned to call tho police. Thou he rose to a half stooping position and pushed me back on the bed. Ho put one of his hands over my mouth and noso. One of his knees was on the outsido of mine and the other was between my legs. He fell over on top of mo. 'During the strugglo I tried to hold my skirts down with one hand and push him off with the other. My glasses wero broken in the struggle. Then Mr. Robertson entered tho room. I was crying and Bcrenming, Then Mr. Rob ertson told me to go to the bath room. Goro followed me there and tried to get mo to make a statement that nothing hail happened." Mrs. Bond identified brokon louses which she Bnid were broken in her struggle with Gore. Gore showed no emotion throughout the woman's testimony. Insists She Seized Him. Mrs. Bond was ciossexamiucd by Norman Pruitt. Ho attempted to dis credit the woman's statement that she could not escape Goro when ho tried to seize her. Mrs. Bond flatly denied that she rose when Goro attempted to leave the room and caught hold of him. "You seized him and pulled him ovc on the bed upon you and then Robertson broke iu. 1 believe that Is correct, isn't it!" asked Attorney Pruitt of Mrs. Bond, "It most certniulv is not," wns the answer. The Robertson mentioned In tho rase is Thaddeus Robertson, a local attorney. one of tho men the defense alleges (dot ted to destroy (lore. Her Record Is Bad. Asserts One Thousand Shots Wero Fired In One Colorado Battle and His Men Repulsed. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRI. Denver, Colo., Feb. 12. How he went about the work of breaking mine and railroad strikos was told today by A. C. Felts, Colorado manager for the Baldwin-Felts detective agency, before the congressional committee engaged in in vestigating tho coal mine war botween employers and employes in the South ern part of the state. That firearms wore used freely he did not try to deny but in all the engage ments he mentioned he (aid the strikers were the aggressors, his men acting on the dofensive. In the "Battle of Lud low," as he reforred to it, when a force of deputies attempted a run in an arm ored train to the strikers' camp at Ludlow, his forces were even repulsed. A thousand shots were fired, he said: on each side. lie asserted too that several of his men were individually attacked and chargod that "a unionist, at the insti gation of union Organizers, assassinated Detective Joseph Belcher." Tells About "Death Special." Under cross-examination by Congress man. Byrnes he said h.: so-called daaih, special, or armored automobile used by the mine guards, was equipped with a steel body turned out by the Colorado Fuel and Iron company's Pueblo steel plant. On it was mounted a machine gun and the guards always carried laod ed rifles. Tho witness admitted that the ma chine gun was the same one used by his agency in tho West Virginia mine strike. Tho mine owners, he added, paid for bringing it from West Virginia to Colorado. Altogether he had imported Into tho Colorado field, ho continued "about four" rapid fircrs. Who owned themf" asked Con gressman Byrnes. Well," Bnid Felts, "they've been owned, some of them, by the Colorado niino owners." Told Him to Import Guns. Did tho owners authorize you to import gunst" inquired Byrnes, When thev wanted them they toll me," replied Felts. Two or three of the machino guns used by tho guards, he said, wero now being used by tho militia, hfv v ' v- ." I 1 J VCS. I Is J VAX ii " i ..N. .ct-CT V DEIS I COMPELLED TO TRADE Attorney for Mining Operators Indignant Over Story as to Stores. MINER TELLS HOW HE WAS BEATEN IN HOME Says Soldiers Invaded Place and Pounded Him for No Reason at All. The following is Lincoln ' Immortal address delivered on the battlefield of OMtysbarg, Noveu.ber 2fl,,13C": Four score and soveu years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a now .nation, concoived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all mon are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whother that nation, or any nation so concoived and bo dedicated can lung endure. We are mot on a groalt battlefield of that war. We havo como to dedicato a portion of that fiold as a final resting place for those who hore gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that wo should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot do dicftte, we cannot consecrate, wo cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, liv ing and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it fair above our poor power to add or detract.. Tlii world rill little note, nor long romombor, wrhat we say hero, but it can nevor forgot what thoy did hero. It is for us, tho living, rath er, to bo dedicated here to tho unfin ished work which they who fought hore havo thus far so nobly advanced.. It is rwthor for us to bo here dedicated to the grent task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take in creased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devo tion, that we hore highly resolve thai those doad shall not havo diod In vain; that this nation under God, shall have a now birth of freedom, and thut govern ment of tho peoplo, by tho pcoplo, for tho pcoplo shall not perish from tho onrth. . (UNITID PRESS LBASED WIRI. Hancock, Mich., Fob. 12. "That's an absolute; falsehood," exclaimed At torney Iieose today in answer, for the mine owners, to a statement by Judge Hilton, the striking minors' representa tive before the congressional investiga ting committee hore, to the effect that excessive prices wore charged at the "company stores" and the miners who failed to trade at them were dismissed. "You muBt modorato your language for the record", said Chairman Taylor of the committee. I "But I meant just what I said." insisted Bees. Striker Sea tan, . Patrick Dunnigan, a striker, testified that on one occasion a force of armed deputies invaded his- home, without a warrant, to search it, and knocked him down, and clubbed him when he pro tested. "And when I wrested a gun from a deputy's hand," he sadded, "they had me arrested for larceny." Mounted gunmen, he continued rods about Ahmeek threatening to "blow the strikers full of holes," unless they got off the streets. He described the working conditions In the mines, told of the miners' wage complaints, and concluded: "Six months before the gunmen in vaded Ahmook we had peace. After that wo had hell." T POETLAND HAS LOWEST DEATH BATE OF BIO CITIES UNITED I'llESS LEASED WlllB.l Washington, Feb. 12. Mortality sta tistics for 1913 were Issued hero yes terday by the census bureau. The national death rate was 13.8 per thousand for Inst year, against 13.0 tor 11112. New York state had the highest death rate, with 13.2 pur thousand, and Minnesota the lowest with 10.7. Of the cities in the regiiiration area, Mcmnhis had the highest, SM, and ...... WW Portland, Ore., the lowest with 11. Tho leath rato of Han Francisco was 10.7 and Los Angeles 14,0. EOADS WANT TO EAISE BATES. UNITED PIIESS LEASED WIIIE.) Washington, Feb. 12. The Interstate Commerce Commission today opened a hreo day hcuiing which will cover the subject of lake and rail rates in con nection with the general request of tho astern railroads for a five per cent nereuso in freight charges. Henatnr Gore cross-examined Mrs. Bond personally. Hie admitted she married Akin larrar in HUM giving birth to a child four mouths later. The rross examination developed that Farrsr had another wife living, and that a second ceremony was (icrformed after Farrar secured a divorce. Mrs, Bond was then excused. SELLING SINCE IS UNITED I'llKSS LEASED Willi!. Now York, Fob. 12. Charles Webb Murphy, owner of tho Chicago National league club, grinned broadly today whon told here of an alleged movement under way to drive him from organized baseball. "They have a fat chance to put mo out of the game, ' ho suid. "These newspnper fellows have been 'putting me out of hnrness' four or five times annually sincn I have been in organized ball. I am used to it. 1 go along just tho sumo anil rake hi my slinro of the coin iu spite of knockers. "I own tho Cubs, and I'll do what 1 pleoso with my club, Ban Johnson has nothing to do with me. Any old time ho wants to start anything, let him go to it. I am not currying favors from niy of the other towns in tho lenguo. Just tell the people 1 expect to be In organized baseball for several yenrs yet. And I am not going to retire un til I get good and ready, "I should worrv about little .Toll n n v Evers." NEGOTIATING FOB LOAN TO REBUILD KEY ROUTE Joo Peory was served with a warrant of arrest last night which charged him with keeping a place where intoxicat ing liquors are kept and sold, According to the chief of police, Pocry is guilty of selling or giving liquor to David Snydor, the convict, who was arrosted day before yesterday on tho charge of drunk and disorderly conduct, and who was taken back to tho penitentiary from which he was paroled last August. , Mr. l'eory will plead his case before Judgo Klgin tomorrow morning, The polico claim toluy that they have a lino upon several other parties in tho city who aro violating tho local option law, and thoy are now securing evi dence with which to launch a proseou- tiin. The Weather WAOE DEMANDS OF COAL MINERS REJECTED fDAVS CAME. I . 1 Tho Diekoy Bird says: Oregon, rain we-t, rain or snow east portion to night and Friday; soul hea i t e r I J winds, increasing along tho coast. (united rnrss leased wins. Oaklan-i Ce!., Fob. 12. George C. Moore, now owner of tho Koy Route System is negotiating in London for a -loan of in,0O0,000 with which to re habilitate and extend the Koy Eoute line. This is in addition to the $20,000, 000 for which ho has beon negotiating to buy up outstanding bonds. Announce ment to this effect was made here today by A. W. McLlinont, president and gen eral manager of the company. "In udiiltion to the gonoral Improve ment of the lino," said McLimont to day, "the money Is wanted to construct the long promisod line to San Jose and to build an office building in Oakland covering an entire block." HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE IS FEARED IN FIGHT IN EC TO SELL HIGH SCHOOL FIO. IN 111-u 1'IILSH LEASED WIIIE.) Philadelphia, Feb. 12, Wage dr iiiniids of coul miners presented by rep renentatives of the CiiMed Mine Work ers of Aineib a were rejected yesterday by tho operators of the Western Penn sylvania, Ohio, Illinois mid lii'linns. "The wage increase requested would be ruinous," the thine owners said. "We are willing to renew agreement now in effect, but that Is best wo can do." UNirrD I'llESS LEASED WIIIR.1 Dallas, Ore., Feb, 12. Tho pupils of the Airlie High Hclmol are today fat tening a pig for the market to obtain funds with which to purclinso books for the high school library and equipment for the gyniiiaidiim, The pig, donated bv a patron of the school, is kept, at the sclioolhouse, and the children daily bring such food as will soon make it reinlv for conversion into chops and spnrcrihs. WOBLD'S BECOBD MADE. UNITED rUKSS LEASED WIHK.l Johiinniiistlial. Germany, Feb. 12. A world's altitude record for a flight with four persona, was made hero yes terday by Hubert Thelen, a Gorman aviator, who reached a height of B,3.'if feet. UNITED 1'IIKSH LEASED WISH. Sniitingo, Chile, Feb. 12. That thoro was heavy loss of life lit Ksmeraldas, Kcusldor as a result of tho city's bom bardment by government troops was re ported hero today. Tho story that it had been recaptured from the rebels had not been confirmed, and doubt was felt concerning Its accuracy, since it catnrt from government sources. The town has o considerable foreign population, Including a good-sized Chilean colony, and much anxiety was felt concerning Its safety. May Bond Warship Through Canal Panama, Feb. 12. Colonel tloehals said today that he could pass a smalt warship through the canal at once, if it should become necessary to sc-nd ni l to foreigners at Ksmeraldas, Ecuador, where fighting was reported between government troops adtt rebels.