Newspaper Page Text
VOL. XXII. CURTISS 3p FALLS TO HIS DEATH If LOS AN6ELES Rutherford Page Celebrating His First Flight as a Licensed Aviator Is the Victim ACCIDENT WAS DUE TO HIS RECKLESSNESS Page Had Been Cautioned by Glenn Curtis Not to Attempt Anything Spectacular But Was Carried Away by His Success LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22.—Ruther ford Page, aged 24, graduate Yale '10 and son of Airs. Helen Page of New York, flying as one of the Curtiss aviators fell 150 feet to his death this afternon on Dominsuez field a few moments before the close o£ the third day's programme of the third Interna tional Aviation Meeting. His death was Instantaneous. Page was endeavoring to "turn on a pivot" When a swell of air over Hangars caught his planes. He made a vain effort to regain control and when 60 feet in the air jumped clear of his machine. He cleared the ma chine and fell flat onto the paved ground. Page was flying for the first time as a licensed aviator, having been award ed a license last Saturday. His flying early today was recklessly spectacular and Gleen Curtiss, who taught him, cautioned him against attempting at his llrst meet to perform feats of fly ing that required long experience to learn. Page merely laughed and assured Curtiss Be Was "nil to the good." Dur ing the afternoon Page had remarked he would beat iieachty "or break my tool neck." First victim or 1912. NEW YUItK, Jan. 22.— Rutherford Page who was killed at 1..0s Angeles ilWMlieHSflft of -Mrs U'ni. D. >'agt> of this city. Page's death is the first aviation fatality in this country in 1912 and the 1 14 th in Che world since actual flying began. BNOIIMOI'S I'KOI'ITS ON STKEIi r Oarryinjt Roads anil Ore (. omnauies Should Mot t«t> Tojfctlier WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. ; —The Un reasonable profits made on the iron ore of the lake region and excessive earnings flow into the treasury of the United States Steel Corporation from its ore transportation facilities which suggest the necessity from the stand point of public policy of segregating the ore railroads from the giant cor poration and the large inter-company profits which are made by the con solidated ore, iron and steel compan ies accorded to the preliminary report on the cost of production In the steel industry filed by Commissioner of Corporations Smith and made public tonight. Grant Increase of AYiikcs SEATTLE, Jan. 22.—Approximately 575 telegraphers, telephone operators and station agents of the Chicago. Milwaukee & Puget Sound railroad between Shuttle r.nil Mobridge, S. 1-)., are talking a strike vote as the result of the officials of this city refusing to grant a wage increase of about 5 per cent. STARVATION DOCTOR HYPNOTIZED PATIENTS Had Williamson Girls Write Let ters Saying They Were Well Treated When Starving SEATTLE, Jan. 22. —Dorothea Wil lianisun testified today in the case of Jlr.s. Linda Burfield Hazzard, charged vith the murder of Claire Williamson that Mrs. Hazzard was unkind to her and thnt she feared the woman to such extent she would have long cry ing spells when she thought of meet ing the starvation doctor. Thia statement was made during cross examination. Miss Williamson could not say whether her sister had been similarly treated as she was not permitted to see Claire. To refute Miss Williamson's testimony letters were Introduced by the defense writ ten by Claire expressing her apprecia tion for the kind treatment accorded them and saying the bisters were happy. Dorothea testified she weighed Bl pounds fully dressed when taken from Olalla to Tacoma In July and that she could not have weighed more than 48 pounds during the Al-iy prevl.ug. She expluined ihe letters bj saying that Claire wan so eufeebled she did things under tire. Haeztid's direction* Blie would not have done of her own ULiui'd. . , The Yakima Herald. JUDGE DONWORTH RECALLS RESIGNATION OF FEDERAL JUDGESHIP President 'Pa ft About to Turn In Hum phrey's Name Is Embarrassed ■WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Announce ment was made at the White House that Federal Judge Dunworth of Se attle who recently resigned had with drawn his resignation. The president had about concluded to send to the senate the name of Representative Humphrey as his successor but the withdrawal of Donworth's resigna tion has complicated the matter. Judge Domvorth, la is said, resigned on ac count of bad health. The reasons for changing his mind are not made pub lic. NOT TRUE, SAYS MR. PERRY Statement to Kffeet Thnt Roosevelt Is Candidate Is False COLGATE, Jan. 22.—Statements attributed to Edward Perry, chairman of the fourth district congressional republican committee that he has been instructed by a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to have him en dorsed for the presidential nomina tion are untrue, according to Perry. TAFT TRUSTS HITCHCOCK Will Not Believe That His Cabinet Officer Is Against Him WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—-Twice to day President Taft denied emphatical ly to White House callers that he placed any credence In thp reports that Postmaster General Hitchcock had been politically active to prevent his renomlnation. He also denied that cabinet officers urged him to oust Hitchcock from his official family be cause of the alleged antl-Taft activity. PEACHES DAMAGED Report of Illinois and Missouri Uli -• znrds "WitT Affect the Price The reports of the blizzards In Illi nois and Missouri are that great dam age has been done to the peach crop. The following telegram under a St. Louis date, tells what to expect: A big advance in the prices of peaches next summer will be one of the results of the blizzards which have swept the middle and .southwest dur ing the past two weeks, according to market men here. Reports from south ern Illinois and all parts of Missouri, great peach producing sections, state that the crop was seriously damaged by the cold last week, the first week of the spell, and that the zero weather has now completely killed the crop. NEW TRIAL REFUSED FOR BILLY GEORGE Prisoner Sentenced to 10 to 20 Years in Penitentiary at Walla Walla Billy. George, the Indian convicted of murder in the second degree for the killing of William busby near Al falfa last April, was before Judge Pre ble on Monday, when his application for a new trial was denied. The judge thereupon passed sentence upon the prisoner, giving him from in to SO yearss' imprisonment in the peniten tiary at Walla Walla, It Is rumored, but not definitely an nounced, that the case will be appeal ed to tlie Hupreme court of' the. state. Jim Johnson, held as an accessory, has had his trial set fnr the opening day of criminal court, Thursday, Feb ruary 1. JOHNNY COULON IS STILL BANTAM CHAMP KNOCKING OUT FORBES Champion Puts Out His >lmi in the Third Round of the tight KBNOSHA, Jan. 22.—Johnny Cou lon, bantam weight champion of the world, tonight knocked out Harry Forbes, former champion in the third round of a scheduled ten-round fight. The end came when the. round two minutes and 34 seconds old, a right swing to the jaw and a counter to liie stomach doing the work. Forbes never had a chance. He had trained to such a flue point he was outclassed when he entered the ring. He made a fair showing during the first round but by the middle of the second it was evident he would not latrt long. On two occasions he went to his knees and rested without being hit. < Villon quickly followed his advant age in the third by putting Forbes down three times, once for nine s«c. ondß and again for citlii ami linally for thu count. THE YAKIMA HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1912. Millionaire American Woman on Tour of World in Yacht With Two Famous International Women as Her Guests NA.r.LriSH) Jan. 22. — Mrs. W. B. Leeds, the widow of the man once known in the United States as the tin plate kin*;, will sail from- here, about Jan. 16 for a tour of the world in the yacht Semiramis. She will have as her guests the Duke and Duchess MONEY IS RETURNED TO COAL CLAIMANTS Further Proceedings With Refer ence to the Cowlitz Fields at Vancouver Next Month Messrs. Fred Parker and A. B. Whitson of this city have received from the federal government a return of the money paid out by them to the government on coal claim In the Cowlltz district on which they filed, others of the claimants have received word from Washington that the mon e., amounting to $l,fiflO In each in stance, will be refunded. Practically all of the score or more of Yakinia. holders of claims have decided to take their money back, hut the.ro are sev eral claims which will lie fought out. The government has admitted that thcro are 280 acres of coal land in the Co-wllta field and Messrs. John P. Hartman and associates, Dr. Court* right, and the KaiilTman and DrUSS claims are being fought through the; land office of the United States at Vancouver. These claims make an ag gregate or 940 acres, which Is four times greater than the total admitted by the government. Attorney Fred Parker has represented the greater number of the local claimants in the the negotiations which have been had with the federal authorities. NO THRONE ABDICATION IS CHINESE SITUATION Premier Yuan Shi Kai Is Playing to Galleries and Is Being De nounced for Bluffing PEKIX, .lan. 22.—Premier Yuan Shi Kai's efforts to bring about the ab dication of the throne have, failed and the situation In China has entered S new and perplexing phase. Owing to the absence of several ■princes from the conference today of the Imperial Clan, the decision was left to the reactionaries and the dow ag*r empress, being reluctant to ab dicate has accepted the advice of the reactionary primes. Yuau's bluffing is becoming 'jlivious. He has held B special train ready for his departure and asked for snothei so called sick leave, Indicating no Inten tion of relinquishing the premiership. He is now recognised as an anti-man* ,hii, therefore iiiis distrustful country accuses bias Of personal Ueulgns. of Manchester and L<a,dy Sarah Wil son. The Duchess •>! Manchester Is the daughter of Kugene Zimmerman of Cincinnati. Lauj* Sarah Wilson went through the lioer war in South Africa, where she acquired the so briquet of "the heroine of Mafeking.' TOO MUCH PUBLICITY SAYS JJ. FARRELL President of the Steel Corporation Says That Foreign Business Is Being Ruined WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—James Q Farrell, president of the United States Steel corporation, protested before the, Stanley steel investigating committee today against the unnecessary pun tlclty of the manufacturer's cost of steel products as ruinous to the for eign and il"iin'Btir manufacturers. Farrell nlso discussed tho Gary din ners, declining while they might have had influence to maintain the stability of the market they had no Influence in fixing or maintaining prices. He told the committee he favored pub licity In corporations and he though/ there should bo a governing board but ho believed it to he Impossible for the government to flx even the. maximum prices. Farrell said he did not believe the Sberman law should be repealed but It should be clussllled so business men knew exactly what they could do. aOYAMPX TO VISIT TAVB Now GOfCnor of C nnaila Will I'uy His MMQMOU U> the President RVW YORK. Jan. 22.—One eur prtoe of the first dßy's visit of the I>uke of (.'onnnught was his unexpect ed d«cl*ion to go to Washington to pay bis respects to President Tali Ai oordlng to his altered plan the Canadian guvernor-genernl will leavo here Thursday for Washington. He will probably not be accompanied by the Duchess and Prineesa I'ntiicla. The vice-regal party spent the day rattier quietly although the Duke re ceived several callers. Ambasaador Reid tonight gave a dinner in honor of the vie regal party. Xo Official list Of guests Ik given out, but it Included Cardinal Farley and Governor and Mrs. Dix. A(iKI) WOMAN DIICS Mr*. A. I*. Hoffman I'a- ,-, A«a.y »t Home of Her liiiu^h'.i Mrs. A. I' [loffman, aged b?, years, died at 6 O'clock on SundHy mf>rninK at Hie home of her daughter, .Mrs. f l'. G. Blackburn, of Miles avtniie. The at'eil ladj la survived by two daughter! in addition to Mrs. Kla'-kburn, and by two song, as follows: (ir.c married dangbtaP ;ii Portland, Oregon; Mrs. .1. J. -Me■( 'OMMI.-11, PendtetODt OreKon; two sons. Dun ami Bajnnati >loffiuuii, of Pendleton, OresjM< The remulii.s wUJ be Hluppvd today Lv i'onUlului., Uit-guiJ, for inUruieut. BROWN HOLDUP VMS A HOAX Confessed to the Police Depart ment That Midnight Robbery Was Imaginative WAS AFRAID TO GO HOME, MADE UP FAIRY STORY Search for Burly Negro Was Fruit less, for There Was No Such Man, and Boy Confesses That Whole Tale Was a Myth "\Ve trared his little footsteps In the snow." are the opening words of ■ sad and tender suns in reference to the death by treating of ft small boy In the middle west ciutte a number of years ago. They might be applied, with variations, to the holding UP, ga'gglng and binding Of Frederick BrOWn by a burly negro footpad List Saturday night—but they would lie lacking in one of the essential details of a newspaper story. They would not state a fact. The boy's footsteps could not bo traced, for ho did not make any. Ho rolled over and over <m the ground. Therefore, it would be better to state that "we traced his rolling pathway through the snow." It would be. better to give the true story, and by so lining show how easy It is to fool newspaper reporters, ■when a report is sprung late at night and there is no opportunity to verify the alleged (aots, Holdup Was a Hoax The story that appeared in the Her nld Sunday morning regarding the sensational holdup of young Freder ick BFown was a hoax. The boy, who Is only 11 year.s old, is not a young man. 'He is very much of a kid. When he was found gagged and bound at the side entrance Of the Yaklinu hotel at an early hour Sunday morn ing, and told his tale of woe about having been robbed by a burly negro, his listeners fell for the tale as though they wire absorbing a dlmu novel story. Search by the, police Sunday and ? onday morning of course found M trace of the man who had enmnill ted the outrage, for there was no such man. The police became suspicious early in the game, and mule a careful Investigation, Tiny became convinc ed that the boy hail uol been held up, but was acting a part, so they started OUt to llnd the reason for his aotton, There was a reason, ami it was quickly found, after the correct scent of the, trail had been secured. The boy had left home Saturday morning, alter lie had been told not to leave. in the evening he visited a number of picture shows, and at II o'clock lit night. WSI afraid to so home to face the music. Monday morning the father of the boy gave the. police a clue, and It did not tnke long to get the true story. Monday afternoon the boy wiih taken to the police station, where be was closely questioned. After n few min utes of that kind of Inquisition by De tective H. a. Qrantj Frederick the Qreal Hoaxer admitted that he hail tied himself, bound himself nnd gag ged himself, and thut there was no negro who assisted In thn work. it is the Intention to not allow the matter to stop where It ia at present. There is talk of having the boy exam ined as to his mental condition, and If nuceHsury he will lih placed In com fortable quarters where, he will not have the, opportunity, anil where there will be 110 necessity fur him to Jo the hero holdup act. Thus for the time being endeth th« Frederick Brown hoax holdup story. DRAINAGE DISTRICT NO. 12 POSTPONED County Commissioners in Session Monday Give Engineer Further Time to Report Yakima couniy commissioners were In HeHHion Monday and transacted tha following business! Consideration of drainage district No. lii was postponed until February lit, in order to hhi. Count) Engineer Marble time i" gel his reporl ready, tiilk dUUiat is In the Bunnyslde coun try, and the outcome or tii" movement to form the, ilistri't i:f being a a .111. ■ J with considerable Interest, in regard to the W. K. Bnyder road matter, thu right-of-way iian baeß I cured except from I>. B Pai ten His damages were ii\ed by Mm- commis sioners at $7.">. If Me dors Mot |il thai, sum, condemnation proceedings will bo commenced against him. The Butterfield loud wus vacated as petitioned for, and another Hut terfleld road established in the Ter •ace Heights country. The Hi'in of $6-5 85, received from the forest rcnri c fund,was apportioned pro ratu between the general road md bridge fund ami the general oouaty suhuol fund a. C, Waiiin whs appolntnd to the vacancy us jn.ui' v of thi peai v uf S'aches City. LA EOLLETTE INVADES EAR EASTERN STATES Has a Large and Enthusiastic Audience in New York Where He Scores Supreme Court XKW YORK, Jan. »3. —The politi cal atmosphere In the east is further changed tonight by the first appear ance In this section of Senator La Fol lette since he announced his candl d.-uy us n progressive republican for tho presidential nomination. In con nection with tho senator's coming, there was political gossip to the effect that Hnoseve.lt atSJO might appear but the Colonel was not prosent. Clifford Piiichot, h q}MS friend of Roosevelt, who has been regarded as a staunch Roosevelt lieutenant, appeared with La Follette however, and presided at the meeting. While the meeting was under way tho crowd was so large that the police had to be used to keep It away. When the senator was finally led to the platform, he was greeted With the waving of handker chiefs from the women and cheers from the men us the "next president of tin; United Stales." t%VUM ItiM-all of JiMlgfs In his address La Folletto doclared that, the senate was created to repre sent all the people of the state, not the steel trust, the money trust or Standard oil. Answering a shout from the gallery whether he favored the recall of tho judiciary. La Folletta declared he did. a statement which was received with great applause. He said, however, he would place lim itations on It, thnt did not surround other officials. He declared that when the court forgets Its function to con strue law as it Is written, and usurps the function of the legislature, he saiii there was a justification on that k oro alotie, for tho recall of the judi ciary. He said ho was not trying to veil his inclining, that he meant the I'lilted States supreme, court when It wrote Into the Sherman Law the words that congress refused to write Into It. He declared emphatically for equal suffrage- I'llHllOlS llllDxllK linn In introducing La Follote Pinchot said there, were two principal ques tions before the public today are con servation and the progressive move ment. Both of them took their origin In the principle of making efflcteut line. 41 uh.it we have for the general wel fare. Declaring that efficiency is op position of waste, Pinchot described strikes, the discrimination by the great corporations against the people ami political rings and bosses as forma of waste, the remedy for all of which is the effective participation of the people In the control of their own af fairs. To tlie speaker he was about, to in troduce he paid high compliment ag a constructive statesman, and declaring La Pollette had taken up the stand ard of progressives in order to pre vent the nomination of s reactionary with little expectation of winning the nomination he said It appears now as If he stood a "good chance of captur ing the fortress." PASSENGER AGENTS TO ASSEMBLE HERE Dr. H. P. James of Commercial Club Receives Word to That Effect From Mr. Charlton Forty or fifty railroad men, repre senting the passenger departments of their respective roads will fiuneiiibie in this city either late In March or early In April for their semi-annual gather ing. Dr. H. P. James, secretary of the. Commercial club went out some time ago to get the next meeting for North Yakima, |! It »iik possible, to so arraflgs It A loiter received by Dr. .lames Monday from A. 1). Charltoti, general pessenger ag«nt of the North ern Paolfle railway with headquarters v Portland, who announced that tho meeting will be held In this city. Tha North Pacific Coast Passenger Agents' association comprises In n i member ship the representatives of an the |ooal railroads In this part of the states, and also the North Paeiile representatives of aji the eastern roads, it is an tm portant body and contains a type of men II Is well tn have Iti this city for a day or two. \v.\ rvro OOMMEWDKD Prides 11 -fit on Business Administra tion <>r Municipal Affuirs OI.VMPIA. Jan. 12.— "The city of Wapato justly prides itself upon a business administration of its munici pal affairs, its mayor ami council from iMe organisation of the city to the present time has been In the hands of men win. proved their ability by that most strenous test —success tm indi viduals in trade nnd commercial Hf« " This is tha I omiMent of the examiner for the mate bureau Of Inspection In Ills report on tho town nf Wapat'i, Viiklma county, Am a roHiilt of tho efficiency .ir ths officers tha munici pality Is in escelleiil ' "iiditiuu. The assets of th« ■ iiv amount to |17,t00.39 and the liabilities of the tit) are ) 11, 4Tt.1t. EVAPORATORS 10 JE BIT W. W. Butler Say. That Five Large Plants Will Be Estab lished in This Valley ■ INDIVIDUAL COST WILL BE ABOUT $15,000 Over a Million Dollars of Fnrit Is Now Wasted Annually in This Valley of Which Good Use Could Be Made Five evaporating plants ar« to h« erected In YuUima county by the Washington Fruit Evaporating asso ciation, whloh |s a Biibsldlary organl zntlon of the. Washington Fruit Dis tributing: association, and of which W. W. Butler of Orandvlew is the leading Washington representative. The mon ey 1» largely outside capital. Th« plants, according to Mr. Butler, will bs thrue in the territory below Union Gap and two in the territory above tho gap. They will cost on an aver ago of 115,000 each; will operate ap proximately five months each year. will employ twenty or twonty-flve of a orew each, and will expend in money for labor practically half a million dollars each season. About the l'o-wtMiitie* As an Indication of the oharacter of the possibilities, Mr. Butler, who was In the city Monday a guest at tha Yakima hotel, produced a few figures he hM been collecting. There aro in this valio.v. according to Commission er of Horticulture Huntley, 3,500 000 fruit trees. Taking half of these to b* of bearing a X e and yielding tlva boxes of fruit to the tree, there is a total of 8,760,000 boxon of fruit, of which at least one-third, or a total of 2.916,(100 i» not packed and marketed. This figured to a. total of 78.916 tons, which will reduce to 10,000 tons of evap orated fruit or thrcreabouts. At tho prosent market tig.ires of such stint it should have a value of *2,000,000 and tho handling of It should require the payment M a half-million dollars for the labor Involved. ■H Q—nHty vv..s(,,i Thero am now wasted, according to Mr. Butler, :i niillli.ri dollars' worth of fruit annually In this enmity, and this iiione, in addition to wnstiiiK sueo a total, spemls annually $6U0,000 tor cured fruits in California. An a further Indication of what the processed fruit Industry moans, Mr. Hutlnr says that last year the export business of California in those lines, and there aro no morn trees in that state than In this, WM «. total of JlO, --800,000 in valuu and that tho total of canned and vaporated fruit was Iti lfllO. 127,000,000. He.ro it "mounted to absolutely nothing, that ontlia aourco of profit being lost. W lini l,\ii|ioiiii<.rs Pay In California, the evaporators pay from »7 to »io per ton for their fruit and Mr. Butter says that the expecta tion would bo to pay about thn mima llgures hnre. The work on construc tion, he says, will be taken up In time for tha operation of the evap orators by about August Ist. Molj llanjm Four N«yrroo« HAMILTON, Jan. 22.—A mob of 100 men broko Into the FTarrls county Jiill here, overpowered the Jailer and took four negroes, three men and on« woman, ont and hanged them. Tholr bodies wore riddled with bullets, tt la entlmated that threo hundred shots woro fired. ELECTRIC PIPING PLAMT FOR GRANGER Pacific Power & Light Company Planning to Irrigate Land for Ranchers (MANSER, Jan. 22.—(Special to the Herald —An important meeting was held In Oranger Saturday after noon, when otllrialH of the Paelflo Power & Light Co. to-Wlti Oeo. V. Ar rowsmlth, general superintendent of the Irrigation department, and L. X. Fry of ■UAByslda, and A. R lln> iv-«, representing the Ueneral Bleotric Co, of Portland, met to dlscuiM with tho rancherß residing above Qrangar, the advisability of Installing an »lectrlo pumping pi. mi for the purpose of pumping watw to the high lands Ij In the vicinity of tha Bunnyside < which, although they are bi canal, do not receive watei n • present time. This, ir , v.. i. - bring into produottveness man; r an<ls of acres tributary to that will make the fluesi kind ■ Fruit lati'i when watered owing to theii ele vat ion. The question of supplying the ranchers in that vicinity who desire i-iui.i.i for lUlitlng purposes was taken up. Th« visiting officials de parted .Siiiniii.i' afturno -iing to return Tuesila) lv umku tiiial ar- IJllKvllUiil.-i. NO. t