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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-27
THAW REFUSES TO
TESTIFY BEFORE THE
SULzER COMMIT TEE
Declines to Answer Ques-
tions Regarding Proposed
Bribe for His Release.
Halts Investigation

FishlIill, on Hudson, n. Y, February
26-Harry X. Thaw, slayer of Stanford
F., White, refused today to testify before
Governor Sulzer's committee of inquiry
which is investigating an alleged con-
spiracy to obtain Thaw's release from
the Matteawan hospital. Thaw said he
would answer questions only IL al
lowed to testify 'in the same place and
under the same circumstances as other
Witnesses" and without pretense of
! insanity" He said he had taken this
position ION advice" but refused to say
who had advised him.
The committee came here from AL
bany today after hearing John Mich
olson Anhut, New York lawyer, tes-
tify that he had received a s25, 1000 fee
| from an agent of Thaw to obtain his
release, ,Anhut also testified concerning
his relations with DR.. John w Russell,
superintendent of the Matteawan hos
pital, denying the latters accusations
that he had offered the doctor a 500
600 bride to aid in securing Thaw's
freedom, and making the counter
charge that DR.. Russell had said he
wouldn't do anything for Thaw unless
he got money for it."
Had Questions Prepared
John T. Norton, counsel for the COM
mittee, had prepared a series of ques-
tions for Thaw to answer which he
hoped would clear up some of the CON
Trajectory evidence the inquiry has
ELECTED.
Thaw's refusal to answer thwarted
this hope and the committee returned
to Albany tonight uncertain as to what
step should be taken next.
Thaw was brought into the chapel
| of the institution to give his testimony.
He was not sworn. AS soon as he had
given his name, without waiting for
further questions, he explained his
position.
! 81 have been advised not 10 answer
any questions he said unless IT Is
| in the same roopl in which the other
witnesses an dwith no pretense of in
be no distinction apparent. / have been
advised that | should answer questions
under the same circumstances as other
witnesses and with no pretense of in
sanity / regret to incommode you in
any way, but / decline by advice"
| 'It is a confidential natter which,
have been advised. is not necessary to
state" replied Thaw.
Confessng that 1t was powerless TO
punish Thaw for "contumacious con-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-27

Washington, February 26.-After
four days of debate. accompanied at
times by scenes of disorder seldom wit
messed mt the capitol, the House to-
>pIght passed the naval appropriation
bill, carrying approximately $111.0OO.-
900 and authorizing the construction OF
one battleship, six torpedo boat de-
stroyers and four submarines.
An amendment to provide for one bat
tleship instead of two, as recommended
by the committee. was carried by q vote
of ia to 156.
An amendment offered by Representa-
tive Calder Of New York and adopted,
requires that the battIesnap @shsts be corr
structed in government navy yard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-27
s146.OOO, 900 Appropriation

AS reported by the committee the bill
carried appropriations aggregating s146-
100000 and provided for two battleships,
a transport and a supply ship. Points
of order by Representative Sisson of Mis-
sissppi in the committee of the whole
struck out the transport and supply ship,
Representative Alexander of Missouri, the
chairman. holding there was no authority
for the appropriations because no YES
sells of this type ever had been authorized
before.
Until today the big navy men. headed
by Representative Hobson of Alabama and
Representatives Ayres of New York, had
been confident that the two battleshiP
programme would go through and the re-
suit was by no means certain until the
final roll call on the amendment 1t had
been contended that the democrats were
about equally divided on the proposition,
and that the democratic leaders would
take no active part in the fight against
the committees report
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-27
Underwood Speaks

Todas, however, Democratic Leader I'm
derwood spoke for one battleship, and
when the vote ON the amendment came
146 democrats voted for the amendment
and only 54 against it. OF the republicans
1O2 voted against the amendment and IS
for it.
There was no roll call on the passage
of the bill as amended, but Representative
Roddenberry of Georgia held up the vote
long enough to predict that the Senate
would send the measure back with the
provision for two battleships inserted.
While the amendment for one battle
ship wnicn was offered by Representative
Tribble of Georgia was pending, Repre-
sentative Hobson introduced amendments
to authorize four battleships, three bat
tleships, and one battleship and dread
naught cruiser. Each proposition was lost
by an overwhelming vote.
Throughout the consideration of the pill
there were heated exchanges between
members and frequent disorder. The eli
max came today when Representative
Murray of Massachusetts, standing be-
fore the speakers table demanding rec
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
rs BADLY HURT WHEN
WHEEL GETS AWAY

AS the result of his bicycle running
into the railroad track at the intersec.
tion of cath and State streets today
and throwing him, Tom Forsyth, a
.plasterer, sustained broken collar
bone and other injuries which will lay
him up in bed for number of weeks.
Mr.. Forsyth was on his way to work
on building which the firm of Mock
& Weeks had contracted to plaster, and
in some way his bicycle got caught in
the car track and threw him on the
hard pavement. Messrs. Mock &
Weeks heard the fall, and Immediately
came to the aid of the injured man. An
ambulance was called and Forsyth was
taken to the hospital, where DR.. E. E..
Fisher administered treatment.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
Schearer Is Caught in Some
Maner While Making Trip
to Fourth Floor.
RECENTLY MADE CAPTAIN
Elected Head of Lincoln High School
Football Team and Was Prominent
in Sport Circles.
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Seattle, Wash, July 1O.-R. Lewis
Schearer, aged 10 years, elected captain
of the Lincoln high school footgall
team for next year, was instantly
killed in the elevator shaft at Eilers
music house at 9 O'Clock this morning.
Young Schearer, who is the son of
H, F. schearer, of Foy Station, was
working as a carpenter on some repairs
on the building. He loaded some lum-
Der on the freight elevator and started
it for the fourth floor. No one saw
the accident, but it is supposed that
the lumber jammed and threw the
young man against the side wall. His
body was crushed between the elevator
and the wall and fell into the shaft
from the third floor.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
CORPORATIONS BARRED
BY NEW COMMISSIONER
Watson Refuses to Allow Diving Bell
Concern or Photo Process Firm to
Do Business.

Corporation Commissioner Watson
today refused to admit the Inter-Con-
tinental Salvage Company of Portland,
capital stock $500,000 and the Photo
Zlnco Company, capital stock $250,0O0,
to do business in the state Of Oregon.
The Salvage Company is engaged in
promoting diving bell which is un-
patented, and Commissioner Watson
holds that an unpatented articles does
not constitute an asset to make an
investment safe. The company has
been under fire for some time. 1t was
reported some time ago that the gov
ernment would put it out of business
The company has a patent in Can
ada, but none in the United States, and
the same ruling applies.
Corporation Commissioner Watson
has been informed by the First Trust
Company, of Portland, that it desires
W uloouiNC anu ~ OuL VI DuSlueoS dJ
once. 1t was organized April 10, 1912,
with a capital stock of $5OO,OOO, with
100000 paid up, Soon after the cap.
ital stock was reduced to 100000 A
preliminary statement of the com.
pany's business recently filed with
the corporation commissioner did not
meet the requirements of the law. Mr..
Watson instructed the company that
it would have to make a more satisfac-
tory report, The officers replied that
the business would be dissolved.
The matter of appointing a reeeiv-
er has been put up to the attorney
general, and at the same time Watson
has asked the district attorney of
Multnomah county to act in cOniunc-
tiOn with the attorney-general in en-
forcing the law and protecting credi,
tors.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
KILLS HERSELF WHEN
FOUND WITH LOVER
Bellingham Woman Commits Suicide
When Husand Comes Home Late
and Finds Man in House.
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Bellingham, Wash, July 10.-FOund
alone at home with her paramour late
last night, Mrs. j. Chase killed herself.
j. Young, the man who was with her,
is in Jail. Chase today said;
81 had been in Anacortes, and de.
cided to return home on the late boat
last night. As neared my home / saw
light in the bedroom window. I
walked to the window, and heard q
man 8 voice within.
"I went for an officer. We returned
together. raped on the front door,
but my wife did not answer. / called
out to her, and, receiving no reply,
went to the kitchen door Finally she
let me in.
Gas I walked into the parlor I
heard a noise upstairs. A moment
later some one sprang through a win.
dow to the ground below. The police.
man had run to the rear Of the house,
and grabbed the fellow as soon as he
struck the ground.
at went with the two to headquar.
ters, and saw the man who had been
with my wife safely in Jail. Then we
walked OF the house together
'T knocked on the front door and
called to my wife to let me in, but she
made no reply. Leaving the officer at
the front Of the house, went to the
rear and found the kitchen unlocked I
walked to my wife's bedroom, but she
had locked the door, and refused to
unock IL and let me in.
"After trying TO reason with her for
a minute, 7 went to the front door 20
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
Nero's 5 Plan Is
FaUored BY Meyer
London Preacher Would Handcuff Mill.
tant suffragettes to wardresses
When Paroled.
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London, July lO.-That militant suf-
fragettes released from Jail under the
"cat and mouse" law should be hand
cuffed to wardresses in the manner
laid down by Nero for dealing with per-
sons who were "centers Of disturb.
ance," is the suggestion made today by
the Rev. F. B. Meyer, noted London
Baptist minister. Rev. Meyer says:
elf I were home secretary certainly
would try this method. Why should not
these people, who cannot be let off
scot free, be attached for so many
months to female warders, who could,
of course, be relieved at state intervals.
The warders could then maintain con-
slant vigilance on their correspondence
and actions, and there would be no
question Of the mice disappearing T"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
A MultnOmah County Superin-
tendent Asks Permission
to Go Before Jury.
CANNOT RECALL ANY
BRIBE FROM SLEUTH
Says It Was Loan if CraddOcIk
Brought Him Money to In
fluence Him.

Portland, Ore, July lO.-Reaffirm-
ing his innocence Of any wrong in con-
nectiOn with the operation Of the civil
service commission and his candidacy
for Multnomah county superintendency
Of schools, County School Superintend.
ent A. H. Armstrong today asked Dep
uty District Attorney Mcguire for the
privilege Of going before the grand
jury and telling his side Of tho charges
that he had solicited or accepted mon
ey from applicants to positions in the
city employ while he was civil service
commissioner. The grand jury is in
vestigating charges of this character.
Mcguire stated that he probably will
accord Armstrong the opportunity to
present his case, though at what stage
Of the grand jury proceedings he would
not state.
Foolish But Not Crooked.
"I have been foolish, but I was not
crooked" declared Armstrong today.
"If Detective CraddOck brought me
money from any applicant, for a posi-
tion, cannot recall IT, He ray have
done so, but if he did 1t was only mon.
ey borrowed from him. At this mo.
ment Craddock holds my note for 800.
"Why, / was far too lenient with
applicants for positions. see now
how I graded papers too kindly. But
not a penny came to me for that"
Detective Sergeant Robert H. Grad.
dock, who underwent the most pro-
tracted examination during the grand
jury hearing thus far, admitted mod
icum Of folly in his dabbling in poll
tics. While he refused to discuss what
he gave the grand jury, or to comment
on public statement purpOrting to
review the nature Of his testimony, he
said before he took the stand today:
Says No Money Stuck.
"I was a id fool for trying to
boost another fellows game. But I
can tell you this that none of the
money ever stuck to my fingers"
Captain Slower, formerly acting chief
of police, was among the first witness.
es called before the grand jury today
It is presumed that he told the jury
Of the system of recommendation Of
the head of the police department for
applicants.
Other witnesses called were n broth
er Of County Superintendent Arm
strong Police Captain Keller and
Secretary of the Civil Service Commits
sion Tupper.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
Attorney Saws he Will Return.

Chicago, July 1O.-"Jaek johnson is
just doing a little press agent stunt for
his Paris fights. He will return to
Chicago"
This was the way Attorney Bachrach
who represented Jack johnson, the ne.
gro pugilist, in his trial here on white
slavery charges, received the Havre re-
port that johnson intends to make his
home in Paris.
johnson" continued Bachrach,
"wired me from Montreal to not permit
the forfeiture of his bond, asserting
that he would appear in court when a
decision is made on his appeal"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
BODY OF EUGENE
GIRL IS IN RIVER
Edna Baxter, Who Disappeared Tues
day Evening, Probably Jumped
Into Willamette.
UNITED PRESS LEASED wnr.1

Eugene, Or, July 1O.-The body of
Miss Edna Baxter, who mysteriOusly
disappeared from the home of her
brOther-in.law, Professor G. W. Con.
verse Tuesday evening, was found to.
day at the bottom of deep hole in the
Willamette river by Sheriff Parker and
a number of men who had been search
ing all night on the suppOsitiOn that
she had either fallen or Intentionally
leaped into the river. She was the
daughter of S. R. Baxter, recently de.
ceased, and was aged 90 years.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
HUMAN TIGER" MUST
PAY PENALTY FOR HIS
CRIME IN MORNING
Governor johnson Is Firm in
Refusal to Grant Another
Stay in Case.
LEAGUE is TAKING HAND
Anh-capital Punishment Members
Call on Executive in Final Effort
to Save Lives
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE ]

San Francisco, July 10.-Unless some
extraordinary event intervenes within
the next few hours, Jacob Oppenheimer
and Frank Bauwaerts will pay the full
price Of the law tomorrow morning on
the gallows.
Oppenheimer is awaiting execution at
Folsom prison for an attack on fell
low prisoner He has been reprieved
twice. Bauwaerts who killed a pros.
pector in Riverside county, is in San
Quentin.
Half a hundred leading representa-
tives of the Anti.Capital Punishment
League called upon Governor johnson
here today and pleaded for fully an
hour to have him grant a stay Of exc.
cution for at least six months, in the
cases of all condemned men at the pris.
Ons, that the league might have time to
carry out its plans of initiating legisla-
tion to abolish the death penalty.
Although he appeared somewhat NOV.
ed by their supplications, Governor
johnson was firm in his refusal to
grant their request.
Has No Alternative.
"No one feels any more horror at the
thought of the state taking a human
life than / do" said the governor,
"but I have no other alternative but
to enforce the law. If / acceded in
your request I would be violating my
oath Of office. You must see that
there is no other course open to me but
to enforce the laws which I am sworn
to uphold. Try any court in the state
on similar proposition and you will
be told the same thing that ! am tell
ing you"
Miss Philoleta Nicholson asked Gov.
ernor johnson if he would not be uisti-
fled in carrying out the principles of
the spiritual law, rather than the law
of man and, although the executive
stood with bowed head and appeared
deeply thoughtful, he did not swervo
from his previous stand.
The fact that $4,000 people have sign.
ed petitions favoring the abolition of
capital punishment was strongly set
forth in the leagues argument to the
governor
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
BICYCLE THIEVES
ARE ACTIVE IN SALEM
Several Machines Disappear In Last
Few Days and Twenty-threo Since
First Of the Year.

A "fiye.spot" will be the present re.
ceived by Constable Cooper in the event
he locates a new bicycle belonging to
+, A. Erixon, which was stolen last
night. Mr.. Erixon is a local contractor
and he stated today that if Constable
Cooper would find the wheel, he would
receive 49, The victim of the theft de.
clares that he will get mad pretty soon
and locate the miscreant who made off
with his property even If he has to
spend 5000.
Bicycle thieves are becoming numer.
GUS In Salem and II behooves the own.
,ers Of that most handy vehicle to keep
close lookout.
Since the first Of the year 90 wheels
have been stolen.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
MAN WHO FIRED
FIRST SHOT DEAD
Colonel s. G. Riggs Dies on Special
Train on His Return From Fa-
nous Gettysburg Battlefield.

Tacoma, July lO.-said to have been
the first to fire a shot at the battle
OF Gettysburg, Colonel S. G. Riggs, of
this city, is dead today, and his body
is on the way to the soldiers home
at 0rting for burial. Colonel Rugg
attended the reunion at the famous
battlefield, and was returning to the
coast when his death occurred on the
Washington veterans special train in
Idaho yesterday The intense heat en-.
countered in the East had sapped the
old soldiers vitality.
Colonel Rugg spent two years and
two months in Andersonville, being one
Of the few hardy enough to withstand
the horrors of that prison for so long
a time.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
DEDICATION CEREMONIES
OF OKLAHOMA POSTPONED
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San Francisco, July 1O,-Owing to
the serious illness Of Judge Jesse Dunn
of Oklahoma, and the activity Of Pre-
sidio soldiers in fighting the brush
fires on Mount Tamalpais, the 1915 ex.
position site dedication ceremonies Of
Oklahoma, Guatemala and Honduras,
scheduled for today, have been post.
poned. The Guatemala and Honduras
dedications will be held Monday, but
the Oklahoma ceremonies have been
postponed indefinitely. Judge Dunn is
threatened with appendicitis.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
Lives Because His
Necktie Is Weak
Tacoma Man Tries to Commit Suicide,
Following Arrest for Shooting,
and Falls to Floor.

Tacoma, Wash, July 1O.-Failure of
necktie to bear his weight is all that
saved c. W. Patten, aged 27 years,
who is in Jail here today for an al
legged attempt to shoot his wife, from
death by strangulation in his cell.
Patten, following his arrest last night,
fastened the tie to an iron window
bar, and, winding it around his neck,
drew up his feet. The silken cord broke
and Patten fell to the cement floor,
receiving a bad scalp wound. Other
prisoners made no. attempt to stop him
from killing himself.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
Officials Secretly Glad.

Washington, July 10.-officials of
the department of justice today say
publicly that they are ehagrined over
the escape Of Jack Johnson, the negro
pugilist, who arrived in Paris this af.
ternoOn, but privately they admit they
are pleased because he left the country.
They will not demand that France re-
turn him to America, or seek his depor-
tation.
"It is a case Of good riddance of bad
rubbish" said one official.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
HIS ESCAPE
FROMDEATH
WONDERFUL
Hunt Tossed About by Electric
Train and Only Brakes
Save Him.
LQsES ONE FOOT
UNDER CAR WHEELS
lf rrain Had Gone Two Feet
Fnrther Would Have Been
Crushed to Death.
.QSES ONE FOOT
UNDER CAR WHEELS

Dtc to the fact that the motorman
m h6rth-bound Oregon Electric work
train applied the brakes in time, John,
|Hunt V laborer on the farm owned by
Mark Savage, three miles south of Sa-
lem, Is Alive today, but minus foot.
Huns stopped to rest evidently, ON
HE D y. track mile south Of this city
act night about 1880 o'clock. Being
IA an intoxicated condition, he failed to
hear the gongs and whistles of the ap-
lroathieg work train and the result was
AS Aoay was thrown from the track
,es bia right leg failed to clear. The
V.,s,s+1--''''v ~, v-liiIslo lis 7 II I'll the
Knee Was crushed by the car 'wheeis
ma the foot was amputated last night
gy pp Morse at the Salem hospital.
Makes Effort to Avoid Accident.
When the motorman first observed
innt, he was sitting in crOuched po-
Jition near the west rail at point near
he foot of Miller street in South Sa-
em. The gong and whistle was used as
nuch as possible and the emergency
brakes applied, but the train of heavy
avs carried the electric locomotive sew
irnl Feet past the man on the track.
The plot of the engine struck Hunt
ind threw him to one side, but not
buick enough to save his leg, which was
|3auglif The wheels of the car passing
tver HINT s leg must have drawn him
Jack under the train, as when the line
i cars was brought to q standstill,
Hunt Was doubled up under the trucks
| VI one Of the cars in such manner that
lad the train proceeded two feet fur
her, the man would have been manglel
beyond all resemblance.
The injured man was carried to an
Empty Ear and brought to the city and
NE ambulance took him to the hospital
shere the operation was performed.
Would Not Tell Name.
Hunt would not tell his name ac-
oFaiag to physicians and others who
ieslfVd TO assist him in every way pos
ihle tlit it was learned today that his
eql name is John Hunt and that he has
aihicf residing in Polk county.
The bat which Hunt wore was today
aentihed by Oscar johnson as being
'ne which was sold to the injured man
some iime ago by Frank Dewitt, a
leFli 70 the clothing establishment. The
iat, aishough showing effects of having
Jeen I'M over by the cars, was in good
'ondiSibn and was readily recognized by
10th MA johnson and Mr.. Dewitt.
Why Hunt would not reveal his iden-
ity Is unknown, but it is thought he
'id not want his relatives to be ap.
isoa ef the fact that he had been in
|urfa
Hant has been employed by Mark
ayage on the latter's farm south of
be eiiS for some time. He is consid-
rgq 70 be a good worker. He is un.
qar9ea, it is said, and his only relative
tlhs country is sister who resides
Npl& county. Although the operation
na 'he shock caused by the accident
eis evere, the injured man will re.
0YNN
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
ALDERMAN HONORED
AT EDUCATORS MEET
orogonian Recommended for Third
President Of National Educa.
ton Association.
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Salt Lake, Utah, July l0.--The nom
mating committee Of the National Ed
ucation Association, in convention
here, reported today, recommending the
election of Joseph Swain, president Of
swarthmore University, for president,
and Miss Grace shepperd, of Idaho, for
treasurer The other nominations rec.
commended by the committee include
L, R. Alderman, Of Portland, Ore, for
third vice.president.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
DIES IN HIS OFFICE.
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Chehalis, Wash, July lO.-J. Y. Coff.
man, for 90 years prominent business
man, died of heart disease in his Of.
flee here today, He was owner Of the
local telephone system.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-10
ENGINES TO FIGHT FIRE.
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Mills Valley, Cal, July 1O.-Three
engines and 20 men, together with the
fire boat Scanned, arrived today from
San Francisco to aid in the fire fight
on Mount Tamalpais.