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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
Crazed by Hunger, Famine
Stricken Refugees PIunder
PIunder and Kill in All Dis
trictS Which They Invade.
CREMATED BY WHOLESALE
One Gang of 500 Invades Small
Town and Plumbers It-Citizens,
Out of Revenge Close the Gates of
the Walled--in Village, Then Set
Fire to It-SOme Escape, but Most
Meet Horrible Death.
[uN1rrp PRESS 1rAsrn w1nr.1


Victoria, B. c., March 2.-Starv-
ing and desperate, large bands of
refugees are plundering, killing and
being killed in mad fight for food
in the famine districts of China, ac-
cording to dispatches just received
here from China. Horrible stories
of suffering and wanton slaughter of
human beings in the frightful battle
for life is told According to one
report 500 refugees were walled in
and burned to death in a village near
Kunshan. They had previously TAX
en- possession of Kunshan, had ran
sacked it and had killed many Of the
inhabitants.
When the band moved toward an
other town the citizens of Kunshan
decided to revenge themselves. They
waited until the refugees had reached
the village, and then crept up to the
city gates at night, locked them,
threw kerosene on the buildings and
set fire to the town.
Though many of the raiders es-
capped, it is reported that 500 Of them
were burned in the holocaust.
Afterwards the refugees, reinforced
attacked Kunshan again, and desper-
ate fighting resulted. The bloody
clashes ended with the arrival of
troops, the reports say,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
THE BAR PAYS
TRIBUTE TO
JUDGE LORD
LEADING ATTORNEYS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE STATE GATHER
TO PAY HONOR TO THE DISTIN-
GUISHED MAN AND JURIST.

Attorneys from Portland and other
cities of the state, together with the
attorneys of the local bar, assembled
at the circuit court room this after
noon and in open court before Judge
Galloway paid tribute with addresses
and appropriate resolutions to the
late Ex-Governor and Supreme JUS
tice w. P. Lord.
At former meeting of the bar as
sociation a committee consisting Of
Justice F. A. Moore, of the supreme
court; Attorney General Crawford.
John A. Carson. VIM Kaiser and Dis
trict Attorney McNary was named to
draw up suitable resolutions and At
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
UNITED PRESS LEASED wIRE.l
lBy Francis j. HeneY.l


The fact that the supreme court of
California has reversed itself to sus-
tain the conviction of Abraham Ruef
is important as sign of the times,
significant of the new era in which
the people are beginning to rule.
That Ruef must go to Jail is of rel
ative Importance only. 1t Is impor-
tant that criminals of all stations
should be punished but 1t is far more
important that the people themselves
should control the administration of
justice.
The Irony of II.
There is a peculiar irony and a
tremendous significance in the fact
that what Ruef claims to be techni-
cality forced the supreme court of
this state to reverse itself on a pre-
vious ruling which granted Ruef a
hearing. On former occasions tech
nicalities have weighed only in favor
of the graft prosecution defendants.
Schmitz had been freed because the
indictment upon which he was con-
viCted failed to state that he was
mayor of San Francisco at the time
his crime was committed. The su-
preme court unanimously refused to
give the people of California a hear
ing on the merits in the Schmitz case
and based its refusal on a fiimsy
technicality which was not anticipat-
ed and hence was not even mentioned
in the brief accompanying the appli-
cation by the people for a hearing.
Court Reversed Itself.
Ruef had been granted a hearing on
technical grounds. Then the court
reversed itself because the attorney
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
TRY TO KILL
FORESTRY
BY JOKERS
HEPBURN AND CAR
TER INTRODUCE AMENDMENTS
THAT WOULD PUT THE MA.
TIONAL FORESTRY SYSTEM
OUT OF BUSINESS.

UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE
Washington, March 2.--Charges
that Senators Hepburn and Carter
were the chief movers in plot to
kill the national forestry system
through jokers in the agricultural
appropriation bill were made here to-
day by Clifford Pinchot, former chief
forester OF the United States.
Speaking to a convention OF lum-
ber merchants, Pinchot said the Hey
burn and Carter Amendments would
cause a complete abrogation of the
countrys forestry policy.
The Hepburn amendment" he
said provides that all land upon
which there Is growing less than 1000
feet of merchantable timber in CON
tlguous areas of 100 acres shall be
excluded from national forest re-
serves. This would practically end
the use of the national forest reserve
by westerners, and would prevent the
practice OF forestry. The amendment
was supported by arguments so false
as to be ridiculous. It was obviously
intended to destroy the national for
est system, which It will do II trouble
is enacted.
Another amendment, this time in
the interest of fraudulent mining
claimants, was introduced by Senator
Carter. and was adopted 1t prohib-
It's the forest service from interfering
with fraudulent claimants, except
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
DICKINSON
IS OVER HIS
OWN BARREL
If HE INCREASES RATES ON PAN
ANA CANAL TO DOWN THE S.
p. HE PUTS THE LINE HE IN
DUCED TO START OUT OF
BUSINESS.

Washington, aMrch 2.-Secretary
OF War Dickinson today called a meet
ing for March 6 of all parties inter
eSted in the rates of freight handled
between the Pacific and Atlantic via
tne Panama railroad, which ST ex-
pected to do something toward
strengthening out the rate war be-
tween the Pacific Mail Steamship
Nompany-owned by the Southern
Facihc Railroad-and an independ-
ent San Francisco line, the California
q Atlantic Company.
The Independents allege that the
southern Pacific steamer line is try
Tug TO freeze them out and thus Gre
ate manopoly, and San Francisco
snlppers have appealed to Dickinson.
These demands for action have
put the secretary of war in quan-
uary He thinks the government s
snare 80 per cent of the rate, for
hauling shipments across the Pana-
ma railroad, is too small, and will
discontinue that proportion after
April "a The Southern Pacific line
says II can stand a reduction in Its
proportion. The i-eependent COM
pany claims a reduction would force
1t to the WALL.
AS dickinson secured the estab.
nSnment of this line to break the
hartman monopoly, he is puzzled as
" now to adjust the rate without
,'eaking his own trust busting eff.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
May ELECT
HARTMAN
SENATOR
CONRAD AND WALSH CANDI-
DATES FOR SENATOR In MON
TANA WILL THROW STRENGTH
TO HIM AFTER FIFTH BALLOT.
UNITED PRESS LEASED w1nr.l

Helena, Mont, March 2.-Unless a
United States senator is elected here
today, the Montana legislature will
expire by constitutional limitation,
leaving the Office vacant. To avoid
this it is planned to vote continuous
ly until senator is elected or until
the hour of expiration comes.
1t is reported that unless a choice
is made, Walsh and Conrad will with
draw after the fifth ballot today, both
throwing their support to former
Congressman Hartman.
On the first ballot today the result
was: Carter As, Conrad 20, Walsh
20, Hartman 7.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02

which, he claimed, was gold dust.
The hotel proprietor has had consid.
cradle experience in mining, and
gives 1t as his opinion that the gold
was not gold dust, but that It was
bullion reduced by some process to a
dust form. Barr and his clerk swear
that during that month man. giving
his name as G. G. Sims came to the
Barr jewelry store and purchased
lady's watch, and gave in exchange
for 1t gold dust to the value OF $25.
In this they are corroborated by the
hotel proprietor, The watch, It
seems, was sent to Barrett's mother.
who resides at Mehama. Barr and
his clerk also say that he exhibited
at the time of the purchase of the
watch gold in a leather bag, which,
they judge. to have been of the value
Of about $500.
The affldavits are the result Of In
vestlgations made In the city by de-
tectives on the case, and have been
forwarded to the proper authorities.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
AN EXTRA
SESSION is
CERTAIN
REPUBLICAN SENATOR'S FRIEND
LY TO 1T, TODAY ABANDONED
ALL HOPE OF GETTING A VOTE
ON RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA
[uN1rEp pREss LEAsEp WIRE. ]

Washington, March 2.-Confession
that a senatorial agreement existed
whereby President Tafts tariff COM
mission bill is believed to be doomed
to defeat at this session of congress
was made today by Smoot Of Utah in
the debate on the measure. Smoot
fatty declared that a compact had
been made whereby the bill is to be
left as the unfinished business -
even if the appropriation bills are
thereby blocked of passage.
When debate on the measure opened
Smith, OF South Carolina, took the
floor and explained why he was OPP
posed to the tariff board. He pre-
dicted that If organized, they would
divide and return majority and minor
ity reports. He urged that the only
reasonable plan was To unite on franz
ing tariff law for revenue only.
Shively, of Indiana, who followed,
deprecated haste at this time. why
should the Republicans be in hurry
now?" he asked. "They had IL years
in which to create tariff board and
did not do so. Can 1t be that their
haste now is because the next con-
gress will be Democratic?"
Then came Smoot's admission.
shively denounced the policy OF
preventing action on the appropria-
tion bills, and thus forcing an extra
session.
"The plan is," he said, Ito appoint
committee of archangels to deter
mine tariff questions. Thus, they
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
OFFERS REWARD FOR
ARREST OF MURDERERS

In compliance with telegram
received today from Senator McCul-
loch, Of Baker suggesting that re-
ward be offered by the state for the
apprehension of the two highwaymen
who night before last murdered Ed
ward Mccullough, a saloon man at
Haines, Governor West this forenoon
offered a reward Of $1,000.
Mccullough was shot and killed by
the highwaymen because, when they
attempted to hold up his saloon, he
declined to throw up his hands. Ever
since the murder posse has been In
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02

general called its attention to the
fact that one of the concurring JUS
tices was out of the state when the
order for hearing was signed, Why
did four members of the court first
ignore, then reckon with this point?
Because fearless public officer
demanded attention and because the
weight of an awakened public was
behind the demand-a public inter-
ested in its own affairs, demanding
speedy and substantial justice, the
right to remove faithless judges, the
creation of laws to stop jury tamper-
ing and miscarriages of justice.
This awakening came in time to
work against Ruef. That is all.
Bitter for Reuf.
1t is probable that the bitterest
thought of all to this formerly pow
erful man is that he must go to Jail
while his more powerful and richer
companions in crime go free. There
Is bitterness in that fact to all right
thinking persons as we'll. Yet the
very conditions that predicted these
misoarriages of justice were the in
stFuments that worked toward per-
manent good
The prosecutions OF the rich law
breakers, while they failede in their
immediate purpose-to send the rich
and the powerful criminals to the
penitentiary-were wholly successful
in their ultimate purpose-to expose
the causes behind the corruption of
public officers, the solicitude of
courts for criminal corporations; to
demonstrate to the people the neces-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
CHARLES BARRETT UNDER ARREST
FOR STEALING BULLION, WAS HERE
Chicago Politics Mixed.

= Chicago, March Am official =
= canvass of the mayorality pri- >
= mary began here today. Form =
= er Mayor Dunno alleges that the =.
= police returns of the voting are ,
+ crooked, and expects that the =
= canvass will show him to be THE =
= nominee. =
+ If Dunno is shown to have =
4 won, Carter Harrison probab- =
+ ly will run as an independent. =
r and Dunno is being urged to =
+ pursue the same course II Har- +
= rison's apparent victory is con- =
+ frmed. 4,
+ The Republicans assert that =
+ Prof. Merriam will be a sure =
+ winner, If either Dunno or Har- =
+ rison runs independently. 4
r =
Il j. Il 4. 4 4. Il i. 4. 4 n a
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
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Reurs Last stand.

= San Francisco, March A.
= Whether Abe Reuf will attempt 4
= to carry his case TO the United 4
= States supreme court probably 4
= will be finally decided late this
= afternoon at a conference pc I
= tween the former political boss 4
= and his attorneys at the county
= Jail, where Reuf Is held, pend 4
+ ing his transfer TO San Quen-
= tin. 4
+ Henry Ach, who has been
= chief counsel for Reuf, declares 4
= that he does not believe an ap- 4
+ peal will be taken.
+ Reuf said today he believed
= he should take every possible 1
= action to avoid his IA years
= sentence. but, If there were no 1
= legal grounds for appeal, he
= would face the inevitable philo
+ sophically.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
ALL RAILROADS WILL
SUBMIT TO RULING

Washington, March Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Franklin X.
Lane today predicted that the rail-
roads would fully submit to the re-
cent rate decision Of the commission
within a week.
Representatives of Eastern and
Western railroads already have in
formally notified the commission that
they will comply with the decision"
said he, "and there ls no doubt in
my mind that others viii follow
suit"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02

search Of the murderers, but so far
it has succeeded in securing no trace
Of them. 1t is believed that they are
hidden in the mountains, and that, in
view Of the fact that they are with
out supplies, that hunger will force
them to come out from their hiding
place, and their apprehension be the
result.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02

couldn't be mistaken in their conclu-
sions.
"The same president who declared
the 1909 tariff bill the best ever
enacted will make the appointments
to this board. The Payne bill has
been approved and eulogized by him.
This bill now before the senate is an
admission that previous enactments
have been arranged on an entirely
different basis than the relative cost
of production here and abroad"
After the Smoot admission, Senator
Bankhead, of Alabama, assailed the
Republicans and moved that a veto
be taken on the postoffice appropria-
ton bill. His motion was lost, Sc to
"a. I
Until today the president has not
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
NEGRO WOMEN ARE
PORTLAND HOLDUPS

Portland, Or, March Believing
that the two negro women who held
up and robbed William Schachner,
Of st. Louis, OF 1920, at the point Of
gun shortly before midnight, at
Sixteenth and Yamhill streets. are
pickpockets who have operated in
Portland for six months, the author
tiles today began a house to house
search OF the negro quarter today.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
Orepon Pcstmasters.

frvfTED PRESS LEAHEu WIRE
Washington. March 2.-The SEN
ate this afternoon confirmed the
nominations OF the following Oregon
postmssters: Madras. Fred Davis;
Marshfeld, w. 3. Curtis,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
HENEY ANALYzES The REUF TRIALS
AND ARRAIGNS THE SUPREME COURT
t+++++++++++++ =
Reciprocity, Or Extra session

> Washington, March 2.-On +
= authority from the White House I.
= of a person close to the presi- =
: dent, the United Press is able Z
= to unqualifiedly announce today I.
= that only the passage of the =
= Canadian reciprocity agreement =
= will prevent an extra session of +
= congress. =
= President Taft understands =
= that the report is circulated :
= that he will be satisfied If he :
= gets a vote on reciprocity, even :
+ If the proposition is defeated. =
= 1t is stated authoritatively, in +
= contradiction of this, that no =
= compromise will be acceptable, 4
= as President Taft feels that he =
= has the power to get the pas =
= sage of the agreement. 4
+ =
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
Conflrmeu Appolntments.

Washington, March 2.--The SEN
ate this afternoon confirmed the nom
ination of Robert o. Bailey, to be as
sistant of the treasury, and Henry s.
Boutell, to be minister to Portugal.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02

torney General Crawford in the alb
sence of Justice Moore presented
them.
Resolutions.
The resolutions were as follows:
Whereas, Hon. William Paine
Lord, late justice of the supreme
court and governor of this state, has
suffered the common lot Of humanity;
therefore
Resolved, that the bar of this state
has lost by the death Of Hon. William
Paine Lord one of it's most distin-
guished jurists in the fullest sense Of
that term and the state one of its
most eminent citizens;
Resolved, that his long public SER
vices as soldier, Judge, statesman, and
diplomat reflected honor upon his
state and himself. AS soldier, he
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
SAYS IT REVERSED ITSELF
OUT OF FEAR or THE RECALL
ANO AN OUTRAGED PUBLIC

II Cleared SChmitz on FimSy TechncaIy, and Thereby
Freed Ruef from the Penalty of Imprisonment for Crime
to Which He Had Pleaded Guty---Pubic Opinion Forced
the Change and Those Who Oppose the Recall Seem to
Fear That Public Opinion viii Always Do This.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-02
HIS MOTHER is AT MEHAMA
THE GANG SWIPED $4,000
FROM STEAMER HUMBOLDT

He Showed Considerable Gold Here in the Shape Of "Dust"
But, Which It Is Claimed, Was Bullion Reduced to Small
Particles Bought Watch Of the Barr JeWeTy Company
Which He Sent to His MOtherCaSe Worked Up BY DeteC-
tVeS Who Were Here Recently.
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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-21

there is no chance for the disposition
to wander to grow rapidly.
Chicago's experience is that of every
city and town i'm America and large
proportion of hoboes must have started
this way. For of the boys who run
away, n majority do not return.
Perhaps a boy never runs away from
a home worth while; but this state
ment is so cruel that it must be made
with caution. Still. it is quite true that
If children are carefully nurtured and
BEAUTIFULLY entertained beneath their
own rooftrees. they will remain there,
happy and satisfied, except in obscure
instances
Not but that the lure of the life of
the hunter, the soldier and the cowboy
is strong in all children. 1t is to coun-
teract that lure and change that hong
ing into useful activity that the Boy
Scouts-which some ind time to OPP
pose-were inaugurated
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-21
UNIFORM LAW NEEDED.

The rabid personal attacks made up
on Colonel John Jacob Aston because,
having been divorced, he purposed to
remarry have served to direct general
attention again to the chaotic condi-
tions i'm this country growing out of
the hodge podge of divorce laws I'm the
various states. Spasmodic efforts have
been made in the past to bring about
federal legislation having for its pur-
pose the enactment OF divorce laws
which shall apply all over the Union.
These efforts, although earnestly pro-
NOTED by men and women who have
seen the unfortunate results of laws
differing radically in one state from
those in another, have never come to
anything largely because general pub
lie sentiment could not be aroused
Those who believe in and have
fought for the establishment of a uni
form divorce law are of the opinion
that this is the time to strike the
blow that will do away for all time
with the abuses which the conflicting
divorce laws make possible.
The abuse Of the laws in some of
the states is well known, but the main
difficulty is the failure of one state to
recognize the divorce laws of another
state. leaving undetermined the status
of divorced men and women who mar
ry again.
In 1905 the Pennsylvania legislature
took the divorce matter up and passed
formal resolutions favoring a uniform
law. Governor Pennypacker sent
letters To the governors of all Of the
states on the subject, and many Of
them went on record as favorlng such
federal legislation. Theodore Roose-
welt, who was then president. called the
attention OF congress to the matter,
and i'm November, 1906. the National
Congress of Uniform Divorce Laws met
and drew up n model bill. Before the
bill could be weaved into law some
thing happened to It.
a uniform divorce law is concededly
the solution Of the problem, and those
who have studied the subject believe
that the time is ripe for the passing
of such a law.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-21
MOVE TO Raise
PULPIT SALARIES
METHoDlSTS, BAPTlSTS AND ALL
OTHER DENOMINATION
CONFESS THE NEED
OF IT.

New York. Aug. 2l.-At last there
is movement among many Of the
largest Protestant churches in the east
to take up seriously the question of
ministers salaries In the Methodist,
Baptist, Presbyterian and Congrega-
tional churches the feeling has been
growing for some time that clergy
mems salaries, as n rule, are too small
to enable them to maintain sef-respect
and be free from worry-two things
very necessary to good parish work.
Two recent occurrences have added
to the interest taken I'm the question
one was the employment of the Rev,
Dr. ]. H. Jewett of Birmingham, Eng
land. by the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church at a salary Of $4,000 n year
The other was the announcement that
the Rev. Robert A. Brown of the First
Methodist Episcopal church of Rah-
way, n. j., had resigned and that one
reason for it was inadequacy of sal
airy. He quit the Methodist ministry
to become assistant rector of ST. Ber-
nard's Episcopal church at Demands
Vile, and to take charge of the chapel
at Basking Ridge. only few years
ago his salary was $4,000 a year II
had gradually dwindled until at Rah-
way he was getting only $500. How
ever, the Rev. Il. A. Conover, rector of
st. Demands, was assured by Mr.
Brown that the cost of living had
IA.
Methodist church.
zone of the reasons why the salaries
of ministers should be sufficient to en-
able them to escape worry and ankle
ty," said the Rev. III. Paul Douglass
secretary of the American Missionary
society, at Twenty second street and
Fourth avenue, "is that to do the best
work a mans mind should not be cen
tered upon his own personal affairs
The average annual salary of minis
ter in the United States is about $685.
| hardly living wage as affairs are
| in America today. Congregations want
| to be proud of their minister and want
him to live as well as the average
middle class families of the parish al
least. He is expected to maintain a
respectable appearance before the
enemy | might say. Also he is ex-
pected to contribute something toward
the charity and religious work that
the church is interested in.
"The self respecting minister is
averse to making a personal appeal to
his congregation or to the members
whom he is supposed to spiritually
lead. Some ministers, it is true in
desperation at the sight of suffering