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VOL. XLIX. NO. 15,296. PORTLAND, . OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER:; 6, ? 1909.' ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. E KILLED, 7 HURT GEORGE OF GREECE ANXIOUS TO QUIT PREFERS - ABDICATION" NOW TO ONS IN CHICAGO SWEDEN'S MONARCH TOTES SHIP'S COAL T QUEEN OF P0RT0LA F WILL WED GRIPMAN IN CRASH OF SLED STRIKERS TO BE HEADED OFF ROMANCE BEGUN IN ITALY KING G C STAVE DISGUISES SELF TO WORK WITH' POOR.1 - - SEES AMERICAN CLIMAX. DISGRACE LATER. REASURY ARMER BUNCO MIX BANKER SAVES WILL AID Party of 13 Coasters y Hurled Into Pole. BLOW INSTANTLY KILLS GIRL Boy Fatally, Six Others More or Less Seriously Hurt. OVERLOAD BREAKS RUNNER Sterroman, Himself Uninjured, Is Beside Himself With Grief, but Says He Is Not to Blame Dead Girl's Mother Forewarned. While dashing wildly down Hall-street hill, about 8 o'clock last night, a bobsled carrying 13 young Portland pleasure-seekers careened from the beaten path on the north side of the street and crashed into a telephone pole. The blow dashed one of the occupants of the six coasters to death, another, it is expected, will not survive and others are injured. Starting at the foot of Portland Heights, the sled gained tremendous momentum in two blocks. Then because It was over loaded, the rear sled spread, destroying all control of the steering apparatus. The crash was heard for blocks and the im pact with the pole was such that few of the coasters escaped without injury. Dead. The girl killed is Miss Onetta Serra, aged 21, residing at 432 Aider street. Fatally Injured. Frank Smith. 16 years old, a son of Mrs. S. T. Smith, of 362 Fourteenth street, was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital suffering a fractured skull, internal injuries and a fracture of the right arm. He is not expected to live. Seriously Injured. ' Mies Magdalena Weber, of 461 Seventh street, suffers from a fractured right arm and severe contusions of the' "hips. Her condition is not dangerous, it is thought. Miss Marie Tynan, S74 Third street, a milliner employed by Olds, Wortman & King, Is severely bruised. She was re moved from the scene of the accident by friends. A son of William Brandes. of 496 Market street, has a fractured nose. Miss Jennie Boehmer and a small brother, residing at 505 Market street, are both injured, but were not sent to the hospital. James Wilson, of 326 College street, is at Good Samaritan Hospital with a broken jaw and his front teeth knocked out Hill Has Killed Many. It was after making a number of trips down the "death-trap slide" on Hall street, which has claimed toll of reckless coasters many times before, that the young people climbed aboard at Sixteenth street last night." Some body in the crowd asked who would steer, and young Fred Stewart re sponded "I will." .ie had guided the sled down the hill on three previous occasions without mishap and possessed unlimited confi dence in .lis skill. livery boy and girl who could find a 'place on tho 12-foot board connecting the two sleds got on and the slide to death began. The party traveled on the sidewalk along the north side of the street, and because of the great weight on the smooth runners, the solidity of the Ice and snow and the shape of the sled runners, the coaster was soon making tremendous speed. Steerer Loses His Control. Nearlng the corner of Fourteenth, Stew art seemed to lose control of the sled. It careened from side to side as it crossed Fourteenth street, and when about 50 feet past the comer, the rear sled evi dently collapsed, veering the bob to the right and hurling it into a telephone pole. Miss Serra was evidently thrown first against the post, and the others, together with the sled, were piled upon her. Her left side was crushed and the ribs driven Into the internal organs. She was the last to be picked up from the wreck, and was carried Into the near-by home of Dr. T. J. Payne, who happened to be at home, and who attempted to resuscitate her, but without avail. Dr. G. B. Story and Dr. Allen W. Smith were called and cared for the in jured. Steersman Beside Himself. While hurrying .to the accident. Dr. Storey met Fred Stewart hastening to the home of his uncle, R. F. Walters, secretary and treasurer of the O. W. P. Land Company, residing at Thirteenth and Clay streets. The boy was wildly excited, crying: "It is too late, doctor. The girl is dead. My God. I wish I had not been steering that sled." Seen at the home of his uncle a few moments after the accident, Fred Stewart said: "I don't know how it happened. When we left the top of the hill I realized from the way the sled feltand ran that we were overloaded, but it was too late to do anything. About the Fourteenth street crossing the sled left tho rut in the snow that we had followed on the three or four trips I had steered before and I could not get it back. I was lying Believe Crown-Prince Never Can Ascend Throne Efforts Made to Turn 'His Purpose."-.-' - V BERLIN, . Deo. 5. (Special.) Kins George of Greece, says the "Wiener Allgemelne Zeitung," which is inspired by the Austrian foreign, of flee, has re--turned the idea of abdicating for 'him self and his dynasty. The Kin? cannot overcome the ' fact that his sons have been forced to quit the Army and the Navy, a -fact which he believes renders It' Impossible for the Crown Prince ever to ascend the throne, after having been excluded from the country's service. " .. . . Effort 6 are being made on the part of several courts to dissuade the King from taking this step. His Majesty last August determined to resign, .and. made, all, preparations, only giving up the idea on receipt of a telegram from King Edward, who was then at Marlenbad, Imploring him not to resign in order to avoid great political complications. King George, however. Is now great ly depressed by reoent events, and is afraid of being deposed unless he ab dicates. The chances of maintaining the dynasty appear to him very small. ITALIANS, IN RIOT. SLAY Drunken Coal Miners Create Havoc in Illinois Town. MARION.Hl, Dec. 6. One man was killed, four others narrowly escaped and a mother and her children were driven from their home in the village of Scottsboro, this county, last night when 50 Italian coal miners, crazed by drink, rioted. The town was at the mercy of the Italians all night. When the body of Luther Williams, of Marion, was found this morning, the Inhabitants threat ened the Italian. The first attack was made on the home of Jacob Newton, who had aided in prosecuting a number of petty criminals. Newton was not at home, but the rioters fired 100 shots Into the house. Mrs. Newton and the children escaped through a rear door.- The rioters continued firing shots at Americans all night. Williams' body disclosed knife and bullet wounds. He was going "to Scottsboro to visit his father, a min ister, when he was killed. The Sheriff and State's Attorney .have received black hand" letters. CANADA OPENS WAR ON U. S. Grain Men See Fight if Erie Chan nel Is Not' Improved. OTTAWA, Canada, Dec 5. (Special.) The Prime Minister has practically as sured a deputation of shipping interests that the government has decided to re construct the Welland Canal. New plans will reduce the number of locks from 25 to seven, and this is , re garded by shipping men as the first step in a long war between the grain-carrying Interests of the United States and Canada. Since the Welland locks were deepened to 14 feet, the Erie barge canal, from Buffalo to New York, has been doing practically no business. It is pointed out that an appropriation from the State of New York of over $100,000,000 was made a short time ago, and the Erie Canal will be deepened to 12 feet. The Erie when six feet deep could carry grain through to New Tork cheaper than it could be carried via the Welland Canal when that canal was only eight feet deep. With the Erie 12 feet deep. It is argued that the United States would get all the business. "Ui 'v, -ar:, ,i-w'f ' tsrrrTTTTTTFT 1 , .' . Men Fully5 Expect Call to Go Out." INTERNECINE STRIFE APPEARS Switchmen Accused of Taking Striking Trainmen's Jobs. PROOF IN COURT HINTED Conference of Committee of Switch men With General Managers to Determine Whether or Not East Is Involved in Walkout. CHICAGO, Dec. 5. (Special.) Indors ing the stand taken by the switchmen in the Northwest, unions affiliated with the Chicago Federation of Labor today pledged the strikers moral and financial support. . Bitter attacks were made on the railroad brotherhoods who have re fused to aid the switchmen. That the men in Chicago expect to be drawn into the struggle was made plain by James B. Connors, vice-president of the Switchmen's Union, who declared that if a ' strike is ordered here, the union men belonging to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen will go out with the switchmen and "refuse to be led by a wolf In sheep's clothing." Easterners Ready to Strike. President Hawley. of the Switchmen's Union in St. Paul, announced tonight that the men at all Eastern points were prepared to strike on a moment's, notice, but that the situation at this time does not warrant ordering them -out, as the tieup in the" Northwest is practically com plete. . Against the" optimistic views of Presi dent Hawley, dispatches from the cities affected stated that the movement of trains was being hindered more by the -heavy fall, of snow than by any lack of men to throw the switches. Nearly 100 cars of wheat were moved into Minne apolis today by the Great Northern, and freight - was handled at the Minnesota Transfer for the first time since the strike began. Treachery Is Charged. "We have everything tied up from. Du luth to Seattle," said Mr. Connors, "and we are going to keep It tied up until the railroads are ready to treat us fairly. The only thing that can defeat the switchmen in this struggle is the treachery of kindred organizations. All .we want those organizations to do is to keep their hands off and let ut attend to our own affairs. It has been charged by ' President Lee, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, through his press agent, that members of our organization took the places of other men on strike. That is a lie, and I defy any man to show that a member , of the Switchmen's Union ever 'scabbed' in his life." Union Gravely Accused. "I shall be pleased to answer the com munication,", said Mr. Lee tonight, "and I will prove by court records that my statement is . correct, and that members of the Switchmen's Union deliberately falsified the date on a contract and took (Concluded on Page 8.) TYPICAL SNOWY DAY S4 .m f A'i VIEW IN CITY PARK AT RUSERVOIH. Strike v Troubles Cause Sovereign : to ..Take New Tack to Learn ! ' .'" - Facts First Hand. ,- STOCKHOLM, Dec. 5. King Gustave on Saturday inaugurated a new departure for sovereigns. Disguised as a stevedore, he spent most of -the day carrying sacks of coal 'from a lighter. In an interview, after it was all over, the King said this was only the begin ning. He intended to mix with all classes of laborers so that : he mlgh ascertain their opinions and wishes. Already, he added, he had obtained many valuable hints from men with whom he worked. The determination of King Gustave to. learn of the conditions of the working men by mingling with them and 'taking part in their labors has resulted from the recent great tie-up of the business life of the country by a strike. King Gustave intervened last August in an endeavor to obtain a compromise but' without avail. The strike contin ued for months and involved thousands of men. Eventually arbitration was undertaken by the Swedish government and in the interim many workmen returned to their tasks, although the number of unem ployed remained large. King Gustave and other menYbers of tho royal family contributed to a national fund raised to make loans to the work ing classes. Conditions remain such as to cause His Majesty grave anxiety. The King found difficulty In ascertain ing the real facts and in the last week or two had .made arrangements to Join various' laborers at their work and in such a guise that they would not recog nize him. RICH, HE DIES IN POVERTY Kit Carson's Friend Dead In' Cali fornia Worth $70,000. SAN DIEGO, rial- rAi '15 fSncxIsiH S. L; Waite, said, to be a relative of the late Governor Waite, of Colorado, and- an old-time friend and companion of Kit Carson, was today found dead in his hpd 7" Patli yiart ns.-.,, -v,1 nmA time during last night and was due to heart failure'. Waite was about 90 years of age. He first -'Cam to' San - Tiip-.arn n Krtit fnnr- years ago and though he often bragged mat jie naa considerable money, '-he lived almost 'lh poverty. In his trous ers which were found under the pillow of his bed, were $400 in $20 gold pieces. About his. bpdy . he wore a money belt in which was currency to the amount of $5620. Papers 'found In' his trunk show that he held mortgages on country property in Illinois and Mis souri to the' amount of about ifis non. Nothing is known of his relatives here,! aimuug u n is oenevea ne nas two sis ters In ' Jamestown, N. Y. FEARS FELT FOR STEAMER Passenger Vessel Bound for Halifax Is Long Overdue. HALIFAX. N. S., Dec 6. It is feared here tonight that the Red Cross liner Rosaling, commanded -by Captain Smith and bound from New York for St. Johns, X. -T, was a victim of a furious gale which swept the seas of Southwestern Newfoundland last week. She had a large passenger list. - The steamer, which sailed from here for St. Johns on Tuesday, .was last heard from by-, wireless Wednesday morning, when she reported a terrific gale and a hard passage. ' " The steamer at midnight was 100 hours overdue. SCENE IN PORTLAND. . -,iynCT" .. Economy; to Be Watch-l- word' of Session. ; "INSURGENTS" ARE LYING LOW Action Unlikely Until Full Pro gramme Is Developed. HOUSE RULES WILL STAND Disposition Is Strong to Favor President, Though He May Not Get All He Asks Freak . Bills . Are Numerous. OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, ' ' Dec.' 5. President Taft Speaker Cannon and the Senate leaders, in . their effort to follow a policy of economy, find them selves face to face with startling reck lessness on the part of the members of both branches of Congress more par ticularly of the House. There are many representatives who seem to think the Treasury should be raided at every op portunity, favorable or otherwise. Thesa men introduced bills in the special ses sion of Congress which ended in August last whose purpose is to lift in the aggregate from Uncle Sam's treas ure box the enormous sum of nearly half a billion dollars. - Action on all of the measures at the session of Congress which ' begins to morrow Is fondly hoped for by their authors.. There are some weird and wonderful bills among the number, and it is scarcely ' necessary to say that most of them will never see the light outside of a committee room. In league with President Taft against the au thors "Of -such measures as these is Speaker Cannon, of the House; Repre sentative "Jim" Tawney, of the House committee on appropriations, and the Republican organization- leaders. Many "Freak Bills" In. The bills are mostly what -are called "freak' measures by the: leaders of the House. It is interesting to note that the' "insurgent"- Republicans of the House, whose "chief objection ' to the "system" - Is , that measures - of public importance cannot be gotten out of the committee, to-. which they are referred, introduced at the last session few bills of any kind, and most of those they have introduced are for the purpose of taking money from th Treasury for extraordinary purposes. ' It Is certain that the heavy hand of the real legislators in Congress, in spired by President Taft, will fall hard on all of these measures, and their authors will be given to understand that the time has come for doing' some thing besides spending 'money reck lessly. Members" Just" Waiting. There have-been few sessions in recent years for which there has been so little planning among members. . Ordinarily Speaker Cannon, and Senator Aid rich, who speaks for the majority of the Senate, have a programme. . at the beginning of a session, but this year they have none; or if they have, they are not talking '(Concluded on Page .2.) Former Portland Girl, Miss Virgllia Bogue, May Come Into Title in Italian Family. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 5. (Special.) Carlos Baron, who, it was ' reported last night front New. York, is to marry Miss Virgllia Bogue. the Queen of the San Francisco Portola Festival, and a former resident of Portland, worked as a grlpman on the United Railways here until recently. He is said to come of a good Italian family of Peru gia. Miss Bogue's father, Virgil Bogue, is still in this city, where he is finishing up his work as chief engineer of the Western Pacific Railroad. It is also said that Baron formerly received re mittances from his family in Italy, and that as long as he was prosperous he devoted his attention to art work and lived at a club in this city. Miss Bogue and her mother met Baron first in Italy, where it is said his family is of royal lineage and th.it Baron himself will some day be vested in a title of royalty. The marriage is to take place during the Winter. LIGHT RATES ARE SMASHED Edison Company, in War on Pasa dena, Makes Deep Cuts. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 5. (Spe clal.) The electric light war between the Southern California Edison Com pany and Pasadena is growing fiercer. The corporation, in what is supposed to be an effort to put the municipal light plant out of business, has made the lowest rate in the United States. It has announced a sliding scale which provides for a charge of 2 cents per kilowatt for consumers us ing 2000 kilowatts or over a month; 2. cents for consumers using mora than 1000 or less than 2000 a month; 4 cents for consumers using more than 500 or less than 1000 a month 4 cents for ' consumers using more than 100 and less than 500 per month and for the first 100 or less per month the rate of 5 cents a kilowatt. Before the city built its plant the Edison charged 12V cents a kilowatt. PRAIRIE'S CARGO REMOVED Tugs Work in Vain to Pull Stranded - Warship From Mud. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5. Despairing of quickly freeing the auxiliary cruiser Prairie from the mud flats at Pea Patch Island In the' Delaware River, where she has been stuck since last Thursday, marines and stores aboard the stranded cruiser today were removed to the auxi liary cruiser Dixie. It is probable that the Dixie will get under way tomorrow and continue to Colon, the original destination of the Prairie. Vain attempts were made today to free the Prairie. Lighters removed 800 tons of coal and the 800,000 rounds of ammunition. Half a dozen tugs strained and pulled in an effort to get tho Prairie to deep water at high tide. The warship did not budge. COOK DATA AT CHRISTIANS Secretary' Lonsdale Reaches Den mark With Explorer's Records. CHRISTIANIA, Dec. 5. Walter Lons dale, secretary to Dr. Frederick A. Cook, arrived today at Christianla aboard the steamer United States. He said he had with him all of Dr. Cook's records and reports concerning his North Pole ex pedition. Mr. Lonsdale said that when he left New York Dr. Oook was suffering from overwork, but could not be described as "broken down." He added that when he had delivered the documents to the Uni versity of Copenhagen he would be ready to give information concerning Dr. Cook's plans. BODY OF LOST BOY FOUND Identification of Johnnie Stopple man Made Through Shoes. SOUTH BEND, Wash., Dec. 5. (Spe cial.) At low tide today was found the body of Johnnie Stoppleman, the little boy who disappeared from his home here last August. Identification was made through the shoes and stockings, for the head and one arm were gone. The body was found imbedded in the mud of the river about 200 feet above the docks, on which he was last seen alive. After the little boy disappeared, per sistent search was made of all the coun tryside, and so close was the combing given the vicinity that when no trace was found, many people believed the boy had been kidnaped. FIRE IN ZOO; LIONS DIE Lioness, Freed, Hears Cubs Cry and Rushes Back to Death. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 5. A full-grown male lion, two lionesses, two lion cub3 and a leopard were burned to death today when cages in a local zoo took fire from an overheated stove. Keepers feared to open many of the burning cages and liberate the beasts, as they had no means of preventing their escape. Queenie, a lioness with cubs, was lib erated, but jumped back into the cage when she heard the cries of her cubs. Her trainer attempted to drive her from the cage, but she refused to abandon the cubs, and' died with them. Youth Lured Twice to San Francisco. $2000L0ST,M0RTGAGEHALTED He Answers Woman's Ad for Husband-Fake Race Next. BRIDES'S FATHER CICERONE Carl Dickman, or Wllsonvllle, about to Lose Ranch to Swindlers in Third Game When Brought to His Senses. Twice lured from WiHsonvllle, Or., to San Francisco by "bunco" men, losing $1000 to them. on each occasion, and re turning to his Oregon home to mortgage his farm for $3000 to recoup his losses in a third trial at the swindlers' "fake" Tacing game, Carl Dickman was finally saved by J. H. Thornton, of Thornton & Son, Wilsonville bankers. Young Dickman was led into the costly trap by answering an advertisement pub lished by a San Francisco woman, who sought a "wealthy and congenial" hus band. Dickman, bearing $1000 in gold, set aside for his wedding and honey moon, was accompanied on his first trip from Wllsonvllle to San Francisco by a one-legged mam, the putative father of Dickman'B would-be bride. He Courts by Mail. Dickman wrote to the woman and re ceived a reply making solicitous inquiries as to his financial rating. Later Dickman received a call from a one-legged man, who pretended to be the father of the woman. The cripple gave his name as Thomas, and was accompanied by an other stranger,, whose name the young farmer did not learn. The men first appeared in Wilsonville as prospective purchasers of- farm lands. At Doyle's store, Thomas, the peg-legged man, made numerous inquiries about Dickman, and finally announced that the young man was to wed his daughter. Cripple Sees Coin Given. A few days later Dickman called at the Wilsonville Bank, conducted by J. II. Thornton & Son and offered a draft on Ladd & Tilton for $1000, which he desired to have exchanged for gold, saying he was going to San Francisco to make real estate investments. Thomas stood across the road from the little country bank and watched the delivery of the money. Dickman, Thomas and the other stranger then went to San Francisco. While standing on the street soon after their arrival there they were approached by an "old friend" of Thomas', who was Introduced to Dickman as Mr. Dugan. Dugan said he was employed as bet- (Concluded on Page 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TODAY'S Cloudy; light east winds. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 31.8 degrees; minimum, 28.2 degrees. National. President and Congress leaders to suppress extravagance from start. Page 1. Radical order issued By which Indians of country will be taught to economize. Page 0. President orders examination of Ambassa dorial secretaries, to determine ntnoss and govern promotion. Page 2. Commissioner of Corporations Smith con demns dea'ing In futures on Cotton Ex change. Page '1. Congress may ask Secretary Wilson to ex plain his' stand on irrigation project. Page 3. Central American diplomats meet In secret dallv in Washington cafe to discuss Nlcaraguan situation. Page 4. Taft and Knox confer on Zelaya; decisive battle believed Imminent. Page 4. Iomrtlc. . Champion aviator Curtlss and seven others to ny In aviation meet at L.oa Angeles. Page 3. Chicago unions fully expect to join in atrlka of switchmen. Page 1 Twentieth Century Club, of Chicago, invites William Watson, poet, to address it; some members refuse to attend if he ac cepts. Page 3. Evelyn Thaw will ask for annulment of marriage. Page 4. Queen of Portoha will wed grlpman. Fae i. Pacific Northwest. Dr Peacct-k's assailant convicted at Cath lamet. Wash.-, friends see In verdict vindication of doctor. Page 6. Oregon City in limelight today In election contest; one of several. Page 4. Sports. New Tork fight fans wondering if Jeffrlos fears Johnson. Page 8. Catholic Young men's Club promises some boxing surprises in athletic tourney to night. Page 8. Trio swim Willamette River despite cold and snow. Page 8. Six-day bicycle race begins at Madison Square Garden. Page 8. Industrial. Oregon Trunk will tap rich Klamath tim ber country. Page 12. Irrigated lands of Southeastern Oregon very productive. Page 12. Weston dam will be big project. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Wilsonville farmer, lured to San Francisco twice by "bunco" men, loses S200U in two "fake" race games. Page 1. Warm weather west of Cascades melts snow. Page . - Eleven county officials may seek re-election In November. Page 13. Oregon State Dairywmen will meet in Portland this week. Page 13. Polar hear at City Park is gay over ap pearance of snow. Page 0. People's Institute benefit for charity opens tonight at Armory. Page 7. Girl killed, boy fatally injured, six others badly hurt, in coasting accident. Page 1. Condition of streets for coasting brings Joy to heart of small boy. Page 0. Dr. Buchanan says stock brokers are real anarchists. Page 14. L,lttle Krnest 'Harps reported as again showing mysterious power at VaUey -Hotel. Page S,