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PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY,. NOVEMBER 1909. VOL. XLIX.-NO. 15,260. PEARY SONS AID SLEUTHS' HUNT FOR ELOPERS I MOTHER COLLECTS HER 27 CHILDREN PROPOSES DIVORCE GRANTED BUT NO WORD SAID KEEPS UP 4, I DECORATED llflYlS KNOX STORM FOR FINDING POLE COMPACT TO JAPS T SITES 175 DIRECT DESCENDANTS OF MRS. GOULD MEET. MUTE MOTIONS MOTION FOR DETECTIVES HOT ON" TRAIL OF - - MRS. MABEL WATSOX. SEPARATION. SQUEEZED ORANGE Fusionists Get Juice of . City Offices. If GOAS v May Settle Disputes by Arbitration. X MAKE SYSTEM CO? ecretary Suggests Treaty to Commissioners.. ;eep nations in accord At Banquet to Japanese Visitors Knox Proposes Japan Join With Tnited States in Example to Whole World. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. Secretary Knox tonight invited Japan to enter into compact making practically compul sory peaceful settlement of all difficulties with the United States. The Secretary's Invitation was not in the form of a state document. It was a suggestion to the Japanese commercial ' commissioners In an address by Mr. Knox tonight at a ban quet given In honor of the visitors from the Mikado's land. After proposing a tosst to the Emperor of Japan, Mr. Knox said: "Baron Shlbusawa and Honorable Com missioners. It is my privilege und a great pleasure to welcome you to Washington on behalf of this Government and to ex press the sincere hop? that your 'Joumey Ings and observations and entertainments have been and will continue to be com fortable, profitable and agreeable. Ties Which Unite Nations. "This is an opportunity of which I gladly avail myself to speak of ties which have contributed to unite our two nations In amity and essential harmony ever since the days when, to American repre sentatives first of all. you opened your doors for the reciprocal exchange of good will and civilization and trade. We have learned from you as you from us. We admire you for all of your national gifts and virtues and not the least for those qualities in which you differ from us, for the eminent qualities drawn from "a long and glorious past, through which you must teach and we must learn. It is your word 'bushido' that expresses the source and Inspiration of much of the strength and nobility ' of the Japanese tempera ment. Then let western chivalry, which also looks back to lofty origins, learn what eastern 'bushido- has to teach. Unite in Mournlnc 1 to. "Because of these ties between us, we sometimes share a common grief and mourning. This country mourns with you the untimely, cruel death of the great Prince Ito, which, to those among us. like the President, who knew him as a personal friend, was a deep personal loss. He was justly a hero of Japan, a great man. & noble, self-sacrificing pa triot, a statesman of masterly construc tive ability. His career is the history of new. Japan, of the Japan which Is now - on of the great modern powers of the world. "A gifted Englishman of letters has told a flne story of the career and work of Toshlda., whose pupil Prince Ito was, and describing Toshklas Intensity of pa triotic irtue. has used language which well described Ito himself: 'He hoped, perhaps, to get the good of other lands without their evil: to enable Japan to. profit by the knowledge of the barbarians and still keep her Inviolate with her own arts and virtues." Friendly Business KlvaU. "Is It too much to say that such hopes of the great minds of Japan are In the way of realisation? Japin has set her self In that path and every friendly and generous heart believes she will keep the faith and hopes she will attain her goal. "Commerce, exchange, markets, trade extensions these are the fields In which the friendly commercial rivalry now proceeding between the American and the Japanese peoples find expres sion. Each, indeed, furnishes a wide market for the other and beyond their respective boundaries they engage In this friendly trade competition for the various markets of the world and will continue so to engage. Invites Arbitration Treaty. "But the great fimtern movements of accord and good understanding be tween nations are after all the lofty achievements and crown of all inter national relations. The controlling principle of these movements is peace ful and beneficial International inter course and the peaceful settlement by arbltration of differences and contro versies, extending that principle, by friendly diplomacy as rapidly as possi ble to embrace an Increasing number and variety of disputes and ultimately by voluntary international compacts making peace settlements o"f all differ ences compulsory, or practically so. "I am confident you will agree it is altogether in accordance with the honor able and enlightened attitude both of Japan and the United States and that It should be the aim of true statesmanship to continue to .keep abreast of these beneficent movements, in m'hich they have so distinguished part. Will Be Bxample to World. "Thus the long and unbroken friend ship of the United States and Japan, of which your visit and this occasion are uch happy symbols and the laudable Concluded on Fare 12.) ! Silent Witnesses Tell All About Brutal Husband, and Nobody Speaks Decree Granted. ST. LOUIS. Nov.. 3. A divorce was granted today by Judge Withrow of the Circuit Court, to Mrs. Nannie E Burns, a deaf mute, from Joseph Burns, of Granite City, 111., also a deaf mute, on the testimony of deaf mute wit nesses. A woman who could talk and hear Interpreted the testimony. Mrs. Burns told, by word of hand, of an atack made upon her last Christmas day by her husband,' when she told him he ought to go to work. She said Burns choked her and attacked her with a butcher knife. Edward Schale and Mrs. Mart Poyers. deaf mutes, testified that they wit nessed the Christmas day episode. Mrs. Burns said her husband called her names on his fingers, but she did not specify the names. She also charged desertion. They have three children who can hear and speak. When the court announced that a decree, was granted to Mrs. Burns the interpreter Informed her of the fact and she signalled, "Thank you." BABY SOUNDS FIRE ALARM Starts Blaze With Matches in Hotel, Then Pulls Gong. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Xov. 3. (Special.) Three-year-old Terrence Dil lon, son of the proprietor of the Bartho let Hotel, climbed down stairs at noon today and pulled the fire alarm. His mother asked him whji he had done so, and the lad said the hotel was on fire. The elder Dillon laughed at the boy and was getting ready to "square it" with the department when the boy's in sistence led the father and several guests to Investigate. They found one of the rooms filled with smoke and the fire department , arrived just In time to put out a blaze that might have proved serious. The child . had been playing with matches in one of the beds. CHAUFFEUR FACES PISTOL John A. Chanler Forces Auto Driver to Give Kmergency Aid. COBHAM. Va., Nov. 3. John Arm strong Chanler. divorced husband of Amelie Rives, the authoress, now Prin ces Troubetskoy, and brother of Louis Stuyvesant Chanler, ex-Democratic can didate for Governor of New York, today held up an automobile loaded with pass engers on. a public road at the point of a revolver and forced the chauffeur to de scend and lead his horse around the ma chine and out of the way of danger. The horse had become frightened. This is the first time that the Virginia law requiring a chauffeur to render aid in such contingencies has ever been en forced in such a drastic measure and by a private citizen. HELP NEEDED BY 60,000 Survivors of Adana Massacres Want Food and Shelter.' NEW YORK. Nav. 3. Oscar Strauss, American ambassador to Turkey, today sent the following cablegram to the New York. State Branch of the National Red Cross : 'vith the approach of Winter, fully 60.000 workmen and children in Silicia. where husbands and fathers were massa cred last year, are severely in need of shelter and the necessaries of life. Thou sands of people in need. Appeal urgent." BRIDGE WAITS ON BOURNE AVar Department Ready to Act When Senator Is Heard From. 1 OREUONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Xov. 3. The. War Department haa received word that Representative Ellis has no objection to" approval of the plans of the new O. R. N. bridge at Portland, but Senator Bourne has not been heard from. He has been telegraphed at Chicago in the hope that further delay may be avoided. The Department is ready to act. CLEWS COUPLE DISAGREE Son of Wall-Street Banker and Wife to net Divorce. BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 3. That Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clews. Jr.. of New York, have separated and that a divorce prob ably would follow was admitted tonight by Mrs. Clews" sister, Mrs. tJohn C. B. Pendleton. Mrs. Clews" first husband was Freder ick Oebhardt, of New York. In her maidenhood s"he was known as the beau tiful Louise Morris. WONDER FOUND IN WOODS New Giant Waterfall Discovered In Labrador by Explorer. OSHKOSH. Wis.. Nov. 3. Edward Balch Barr. the Oshkosh explorer, who has Just returned from Labrador, reports the dis covery in the wilderness along the upper reaches Oi the Caster River of a huge waterfall which he is confident will prove the highest waterfall In the Western Hemisphere. The fall is said to be higher than Grand Falls, In Labrador, which is 36S feet high. Swollen Streams Are Doing Damage. LOGGING INDUSTRY SUFFERS Booms, Cast Adrift, Are Float ing Out to Sea. WATER TRAFFIC MENACED Lewis River Threatens to Cnt New Channel Through Rich Farms. County Bridge Is Washed Out by the Kalnma. The Pacific Northwest, from the Brit ish Columbia line, south to the Sis kiyou Mountains, and from the Cas cades west to the ocean, has been In the grasp of a rain storm for four days. The prolonged precipitation has cre ated flood conditions in many of the rivers but the damage so far has been largely confined to the logging Indus try. The Willamette. Columbia, Lewis, Cowlitz, Chehalis. Washougal, Satsop, Wynooche, Puyallup, White. Stuck and other rivers are all at high-water stage and several of them have overflowed their, banks. Logs Jam Chehalis. The Chehalis River and Its tributaries are Jammed with logs and are carry ing many of them Into Grays Harbor ana out to sea. The White River, in King County, Washington, has already overflowed its banks, and workmen are blasting out driftwood obstructions In the Puyallup River in the fear, that that stream will overflow the lowlands and cause great property damage. . The Lewis River. In Southern Wash ington, Is out of Its banks and threat ens to cut a new channel through val uable farm lands. One county bridge has gone out on the Kalama River and part of the steel work of a new bridge in Cowlitz County, Washington, has been washed out. (Trains From South Late. In the Siskiyous the heavy rains have caused a cave-in of a tunnel on the Southern Pacific and all trains from San Francisco are from 12 to 14 hours late as a result of the necessary transfer. Conditions moderated to a large extent during the 24 hours ending at 5 o'clock last night. During that period .61 inches of rain fell. The wind moderated down to 10 miles an hour at the North Head station. The barometer was rising rapidly last night and fair weather Is promised for today. River Pilots Are Warned. News was received in Portland yes terday that 3.000,000 feet of logs and 1.000.000 feet of ties had broken from the boom sticks in the Lewis River and were drifting seaward in the Colum bia Pilots were warned to keep a sharp lookout, and the floating logs are a se rious menace to navigation. With the slackening of the rainfall' the tributaries of the Lower Columbia will begin to sub side by tonight. Boats are working below the mouth of the Cowlitz picking up the drift. Above Portland there was no serious rise in the Willamette. The rise was two feet at Portland and 4.8 feet at Wilson- (Concluded on Page T) l... ............... ... ...V....;. .....J Taffy King Hornby and Fascinating Widow Elude Officers -Name Preacher Heard in Case. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3. Armed with a -writ restraining her from eloping with Alonzo Hornby, the millionaire "Taffy King" of Redlands, a squadron of 'detectives hurried through Southern California yesterday on the trail ; of Mrs. Mabel J. Watson, a fascinating widow, who has been sued for $100,000 for alienating the affections of Hornby from his wife.- Hornby's son, apparently convinced that his father is on his way East for the- purpose of eloping with Mrs. Wat son. Is taking part in the search. The suit followed Hornby's departure for New "York, taking a touring auto mobile with him. Mrs. Watson has sold the furniture and belongings of her luxurious home on the "'Heights" at Redlands at private sale and closed the place. ' Detectives were hot on the trail of both. The railroad stations at Red lands were closely guarded, Hornby's sons personally doing sentry duty. Gossip also connected the name of Rev. Lcroy W. Warren, the Presbyterian minister arrested by the Los Angeles police In relation to an Oscar Wilde story. It is asserted that Hornby succeeded In ousting Warren from Mrs. Watson's affecthMis by giving his consent for Warren to, pay- his addresses to Miss Hornby. MAILS CLOSE TO GERMANS Foreign Lottery Agents Refused Postal Rights in America. WASHINGTON. Nov. 3. On the ground -that they have sent circular mat ter through the United States mails ex ploiting the Hamburg state lottery fraud, orders -have - been issued by the Postoffice Department against Franz Stenback and C. S. Wheedt, both of Hamburg, Germany. Lowenherz & Co., of the same city, and Louis Gyrard, of Paris, have been placed under the ban of the Post office Department .because of the allega tion that they likewise have been using the mails in the Interest of a lottery concern. SAN JUAN, P. R., Nov. 3. The Porto Rican police today seized 2700 lottery tickets, which had been received . here by steamer from Santo Domingo. CAUSED WORKMEN'S DEATH Chicago Building Commissioner and Architect Blamed for Collapse. CHICAGO, Ntv. 3. Murdock Campbell, Building Commissioner of Chicago, and Edward Hogan, -an architect, were held to the grand Jury tonight by a Coroner's Jury which investigated the collapse of a building In which three men were killed and many others injured last Sep tember. Special architects reported to Coroner Hoffman that the building had been overloaded. GRIEF FOR DUTCH MAYOR Amsterdam City Father Asked to Quit for Talk About United States LONDON, Nov. 4. 'A dispatch from Amsterdam says the government has called upon M. Van Le Euwen to resign the Mayoralty of Amsterdam because during the Hudson-Fulton fetes at New York he declared that the United States would interfere if Holland was menaced by Germany. ' - AT NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO. "DID YOU GET THE RETURNiT GAYNOR'S VICTORY IS BARREN Move to . Reorganize Democ racy Under Way. MURPHY WILL NOT BUDGE Will Not Resign and Has Heard of Xo Discontent, Though Anti Tammany Men Are Active and lvins Exultant. NEW YORK, Nov. 3. Battle-scarred Tammany, which yesterday elected a Mayor but lost a city, took up t6day the gloomy work of setting Its house In order1 for four years of avowed anti-Tammany government In Greater New York. An analysis shows that the election, which resulted In the defeat by the fusion forces of every Important Tammany Dem. ocratic candidate , below the Mayor, was more of a victory for the anti-Tammany Democrats, who had lined up with the Republicans Under the fusion banner, than for the straight-out Republicans. Anti-Tammany. Democrats elected on the Republican-fusion ticket for four years will "be In absolute" control of the city's purse-strings." 'They will have a ;lear majority in the Board of Estimates and Apportionment, . and therefore the right of spending more than $1,000,000,000 of the city's money. -. Tammany in Hopeless Minority. The Board of. Estimate includes, besides Mayor Gaynor; who m the past has been a strong anti-machine man, five anti Tammany Democrats and two Republi cans. The 16 votes allotted th various members of the Board are so. distributed that, besides Gaynor's three ballots, intl Tammany Democrats will have nin and Republicans four. Mayor-elect Gaynor would not discuss today the probability of his acting on his pre-election statement that he wouid be disinclined to serve as Mayor unless a Democratic Board of Estimates was also chosen. - 3Iay Reorganize Democracy. In this Board, according to anti-Tammany Democrats, Is to be found the nu cleus of what they believe will make for a complete reorganization of the Demo cratic party. It was rumored today that the attempt to "create a new order of things for New York City Democracy al ready was under way. Charles F. Mur phy, who succeeded Richard Croker as Tammany leader, came out with a for mal disavowal of the rumors, at the same , time denying a report that he Was to be deposed. "I have no intention of resigning,'' said Mr. Murphy. "I have not heard of any opposition to me within the party, and I have heard nothing about these reported rumblings of discontent." . Croker Finally Out of It. Richard Croker's presence was a mat ter of speculation to those who were studying the situation, and the an nouncement that he had extended his visit five days longer .was regarded as significant. Mr. Croker's visitors, to day included ex-Mayor Hugh Grant. Lewis Nixon, William F. Sheehan and (Concluded on Page 5.) T t Aged Woman Is Bringing 59 of Her Family Across Continent for Reunion at Berkeley. NEW ORLEANS. La., Nov. 3. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Hannah Gould, 92 years old, accompanied by 27 children and 32 grandchildren, passed through New Orleans today enroute to Berkeley, Cal., where a family reunion of her 175 children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will be held. Though but eight years short of the century mark, Mrs. Gould not only en joys good health, but is healthy and vigorous. She has been East to get such of her children and grandchil dren as have located in that part of the country, and came in this morning over the Louisville & Nashville from Washington with her 59 children and grandchildren, occupying a special tourist car. At Berkeley, Mrs. Gould's home, those 59 will Join the other 116 descend ants of the remarkable woman in the first family meeting of the tribe. Cousins, uncles, aunts, nephews ana nieces from all over the country will get acquainted. STRIKE AGAINST TATTLER department Store Girls Force Dis charge of Unpopular Woman. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Nov. 3. (Special.) Sixteen girls walked boldly out of the altering department of Kaufman's fash ionable women's furnishing utore today because their employer would not dismiss Mrs. Mary Joseph, an alterator, who had been accused of being a tattler. The strikers bitterly complained to their em ployers that they couid not work in Mrs. Joseph's company any longer, because she was a "tattle-tale," saying she ran to the boss with everything she heard. . While the so-called "tattler" had. gained bad graces of her girl associates, she stood well with the firm. Mr. Kaufman, however, discovered this evening that he couldn't spare the services of all the girls, so dismissed Mrs. Joseph, and the others returned to work. . TRAGEDY ENDS ROMANCE Jilted Suitor Follows Girl Across Sea and Is Shot by Spouse. BLUEFIELD, W. Va., Nov. 3.A ro mance of two continents had a tragi cj ending today at a coal mining village near here. A Sicilian girl, who had two sweethearts, , jilted one and came to America recently to marry the other. Michaelo Brunilda, the second lover, fol lowed. He traced the couple. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Falrdnlce, to West Vir ginia, where the husband went to work in the mines. The old sweetheart came here today and found the girl. He fired at her, the bullet entering her breast. The woman secured her husband's pistol and fired a't Brunilda. wounding him, just as her husband entered the door. The latter took the pjstol from his wife and killed Brunilda. PRELATE SCORES GRIDIRON Archbishop Ryan Thinks Football Should Be Abolished. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3. "Football Is barbarous and ought to be abol ished, " said Archbishop Ryan, of this city, today. "Instead they should play association .football. It Is the kind we played when I' was at college, where the players kick the ball and not each other." Archbishop ityan's comment was brought out by the death of Michael Burk. a student at the Medico-Chlrur-glcal College, who suffered fatal in juries in a game last Saturday. COMMONS TO END DEBATE General Election Planned If Lords Reject Finance Bill. LONDON, Nov. 3. Debate in the House of Commons on the finance bill will be concluded tomorrow. Both sides are get ting their followers into line for division on the third reading. The chief Liberal whip, Right Hyji. Jo seph A. Pease, tonight announced the Government's decision to have a gen eral election In January, if the House of Lords rejects the bill. FLATS FOR CONSUMPTIVES Tenements Planned' for Use of White Plague Sufferers. NEW TORK, Nov.' 3. Plans were filed today for four model six-story tenements, to cost $650,000, which are to be used for the accommodation of sufferers from tuberculosis. Roof gardens,' open-air balconies and other features designed to combat the white plague will make the tenements distinctive, and only moderate rentals will be charged. ONLY SHIELD HOME BIRDS Milliners Ask Government to Let Foreign Birds Be Slain. NEW YORK, Nov. 3. A protest against legislative protection of birds not propagated in thiB country will be registered at the Millinery Jobbers' As sociation, which meets here Friday and Saturday. Scientists' Gold Medal for Commander. PRIORITY NEXT QUESTION UP Investigation of Cook's Claim to Be Pushed to End. CONFIDENCE IS UNANIMOUS Xo Dissenting Vote Among Board of Managers of Xational Geographic Society Sub-Committee Also Unit in Approving Records. WASHINGTON. Nov. 3. After voting Robert E. Peary a gold, medal for his success in reaching the North Pole the board of managers of the National Geo graphlo Society declared Its intention to push vigorously the question of priority in discovery. v The scientists will spare no expense in order that they may be convinced on this point. Dr. Cook will be advised immediately of the society's action. The board of managers unanimously accepted the report of its sub-committee of scientists who had examined the explorer's records and proofs, and ' found them to be corroborative of his claim that he had reached the Pole. The society adopted a resolution that the question of whether or not any explorer reached the North Pole prior to 1909 should be referred to a sub committee of experts with authority to send for papers or make such jour neys as might be necessary to Inspect original records. - This indicates that the society pro poses as soon as possible to pass upon the records of Dr. Frederick A. Cook. At the meeting of the board of man agers were 15 men, all of whom are prominent in the scientific world. Af ter the report of .the sub-committee was submitted there was a debate lasyng more than two hours, but finally the board voted unanimously to accept the report of the three experts, who be lieved without any question of doubt I Concluded on Page 12.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTE RD AY'S Maximum temperature, 61 degrees; minimum, 52 degree. TODAY'S Fair; light northwest winds. Foreign. Mme. Stelnhell testifies, repudiating con fessions and saying she has strong de fense. Page 12. ' National. Deficit in Postoffice Department increases, page 2. Census Bureau shows terrible mortality Hmong infants 'which is preventable. Page 3. Taft wins people of Birmingham by jokes and kind words. Page 2 gmoot denies as fa Use stories that Mormons monopol.zed Taft in Utah. Page 2. Knox proposes general arbitration treaty with Jaan. Page 1. Politics. New York Fusionists sweep everything ex cept Mayoralty, and Democracy may be reorganized by an ti-Tammany men. Page 1. Victory of Union Labor ticket in San Fran cisco complete. page 3- Women suffragist gain victory in appoint ment of three women on New York Edu cation Board. Page 3. Tom Johnson to settle streetcar war before leaving office. Page 3 Domestic. Johann Salvator. one of actors in tragic death of Archduke Rudolph, dies at Den ver. Page 32. Deaf mutes divorced because of husband's cruelty. Page 1. Geographic Society votes Peary gold medal and orders Inquiry to learn who reached Pole first. Page 1. Woman of 92 travels .with 39 descendant to family reunion. Page 1. Hornby elopes with affinity in spite of wife's injunction. Page 1- Roosevelt's companions worn out by his ac tivity on African trip. Page 5. Conference on pellagra tells of ravages of disease. Page 5. Cleveland boy confesses murder of child two years ago. Page 5. Sport. Jeffries will not take long theatrical en gagement before fighting Johnson. Page -1. Nelson will be his own manager. Page 4. Strong soccer league will open season Sat urday. Page 4. Women's annex of Multnomah Club makes rapid gains. Page 10. Portland Academy and Salem High School play scoreless game. - Page 4. Pacific, Northwest. Heavy rains produce flood conditions In Northwest. Page 1. McCredie's plurality may exceed 5000; car ries every county except Pierce. Page 6- Industrial Workers arrested in Spokane In sist they will take free jail board, - but will not work on rockplle. Page 6. Woolgrowers of state will meet at Pendle ton November 0. Page 8. Columbia County may be counted dry be cause two ballot boxes are used at Rainier. Page 7- Eastern capitalists file on water power at Laldlaw. Page 6. Varsity Glee Club and manager of Eugene Theater clash. Page 7. Portland and Vicinity. Heavy rains cause freshets in Northwest streams. Page 1. Portland business men head subscriptions for good roads campaign. Page 9. Geo. H. Hill defies accusers in Gadsby dam age suit. Page 10. Upper Washington-street lot sold for $34,000. Page 13. Oregon Trunk I-Ine takes out new papers of incorporation. Page 10. Portland lodge of Elks observes 20th anni versary. Page 10. President Wehrung's report shows deficit in finances of Portland Fair and Live-" Btock. Association. Page 11. Local Industrial Workers of the World send 0 men to aid Spokane society. P&f ft.