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THE MOBSIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAr, FEBRT7ARTT 4, 1910. PflULHl BARELY ESCAPES DEATH French Aviator Hits Fence at Denver and Is Dashed Headlpng to Ground. BIPLANE COMPLETE WRECK 3ozen Spectators Are Knocked Down by Machine, but They, as Well as Aeronaut, Escape Injury. First Flight Successful. TBNVER, Feb. 3. Louis Paulhan. the French aviator, had a narrow escape from death this afternoon when his Farm an biplane collided with, the fence fpiardinf? the racetrack at Overland Park, mashed through It and came down In a hap of wreckage on the track. Paulhan was thrown headlong, but beyond a se vere shaking up escaped unharmed. Previous to the accident Paulhan had successfully guided his machine up in the rare mountain air and had circled the Overland racetrack a dozen times or more. He then came to the ground and It was announced that the French avia tor would attempt to fly over the- busi ness district of Denver, three or four miles away and return, Runway Is Too Short. But the runway for his machine, not over 140 yards in length and cramped by the racetrack fence and irrigation ditch running diagonally across the grounds, proved too short for Paulhan on his sec ond attempt. The machine left the ground, but too close to the fence, along which were clustered hundreds of spec tators. Paulhan scattered the people like chaff, many escaping injury by falling. He struck the fence, rebounded and ricochotted on the bank of the ditch, breaking one of the-starting wheels. Paulhan shut off his motor and brought the machine to a standstill at the far end of the course. The machine wa trundled back, repaired, and Paul han again attempted a flight, this time with disastrous results. Wreck Lands on Racetrack. The biplane was not three feet from the ground when the end of the run way was reached, and, although the frame little Frenchman tried desper ately to swerve his machine, he was unable to do so and It crashed Into the fence, through it into the ditch, 're hounded and came down in a mass of tangled wreckage in the middle of the racetrack, v Paulhan was fairly catapulted from his seat, but he lit in thje soft snow and slush and escaped injury. Me scram bled to his feet In an Instant, made a dive1 for his engine, which was still whirring madly, and shut It off. Then, mounting the bank of the ditch, Paul han waved his hand in the direction of the big tent, where his frantic wife was standing, looked disgustedly at bis wrecked machine a moment, and then trudged across the field, leaving the wreck to his assistants and the police. An ambulance and two nurses were there almost as soon as Paulhan scrambled to his feet, but he did not need them. A dozen or more persons were knocked down by the machine when it tore through the fence, but no one was seriously injured.. DAY OF LOW PRICE GONE Advice: Admit a Million Chinese to Work on' Farms. PORTLAND, Feb. 3. (To the Editor.) A mo n icst all the twaddle printed and heard nowadays regarding hish prices, boycotts, tc. it ! most refreshing- to read such a rommon-sense article as appeared in The Oregon ln of yesterday. Some years aco, when California was exporting- ISO cargoes of wheat per season, one would have been ridiculed if one had said that California would be importing wheat for home consumption. Ten years ago our "Willamette Valley was raising 13,000.000 bushels of wheat, and now we are import Ins: for home use. Six years ago James J. tt-Ult warned us that production in all lines mas rapidly approaching; the consumption tnark. People know, or ought to know, that land forked continually for years does not pro duce as much or anywhere as cheaply as tiew land. "While it is true that new rfat comparatively small, however are being opened up, people do ot seem to realize that for every acre of , new land opened up the decrease in production on old acreage seems to more than or nearly coun terbalance any such new production. In the meantime, our population is in creasing at an enormous rate; it is esti mated at 10. 000,000 to 1 5.000.000 a year. These millions must be fed, clothed, etc., tut they apparently do not care to do their hare towards production of necessities all want to be physicians, lawyers or real es tate dealers. At any rate, the chief requi site seems to be a town job, white bands, vhite collar, short hours and big pay. The tact that the "New Agriculture" is one of the .most Independent and best-paid voca tions does not seem to count. As demand for houses, stores, land, etc., JnsreaFes. it naturally increases the fixed charges and rentals of these commodities. flThe demand for labor has greatly Increased Its cost. Land taxed at present values can not raise potatoes at 40 cents a sack or 'other commodities at the values of ten years ago. It would be jut as reasonable to expect people to work for same emolu ments of ten years ago. while under present conditions. Taking all these basic facts Into consideration, it would seem to me to be most foolish and futile to rail and kick at conditions. I should like to Inquire If these union ind othere boycotters want to com down to the level of ten years ago T They certainly rio not. Then, w hy should they want prices reduced to tht level? It's nothing but rant and cant. What this pacific Coast specially needs mr than any other Is 1,000.000 Chinese to work our orchards and farms. Everybody knows that white or American labor can't be got to do this sort ot work, ut if it could, where would the prices be, with wagus at present level ? It la also useless t "kick' at the middlemen. TheWmSre get ting no more than their share of increased fixed charges and valuations.- The farmer, commission man. retailer, landlord, rall na!s and the working men are all getting more, have to have more and will continue to earn as much as they can. If these on ton and ot her boycotters insist on prices rullnir ten years ago. then naturally the tame reduction will have to occur all along the line, people may as well make up their minds that the day of low prices are over, and. X sincerely hope, never to return. N. A. N STUDY COURSE OUTLINED Domestic Science for Gfrln, Shop Work for Boys, Favored. OL.TMPIA, Wh. Feb. S. (Special.) Although the high schools in the larger cities of Washington for some time past have been teaching: manual training; and domestic science, the tudlea have not been adopted by the Btate Board of Education, but at the meeting to be held February 21 the fcubJot will be taken up. The new suggestive course, which has Just been issued from the office of H. B. Dewey, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, proposes a new course with English running; through the four years, algebra and geometry for the boys for . three years, and physics in the fourth year. For the girls and boys there will be free-hand drawing- the first year, and for the next three years for the girls, and mechan ical drawing and ehop work will be taught-to the boys after the first year. In the last three years the girls take a course in advanced domestic science. LABEL'S USE PROHIBITED Supreme Court Vpholds Registration of Printers Insignia. OI..YMPIA. Wash.. Feb. 8. (Special.) The Supreme Court today affirmed the conviction in the King County Courts of J. Montgomery, of Seattle, who must pay the penalty for using the label of the Allied Printing; Trades Council of Seattle without authority. John E. Praul. of Chelan County, who trespassed upon the claim of J. E. Shore and Dan Ryan, known as the Pride of the West," has lost, the lower court-being- affirmed. In the Montgomery case the Supreme Court holds that the label was prop erly registered and thai it cannot be used unless authorized. , ' C. II. Wilcox Burled. OREGON CITY,- Or., Feb. 3 Special.) C. H. Wilcox died yesterday at 12 POIND EXTER IS CONGRESS ENIGMA Spokane- Man Proves Real Mystery to Associates and Friends. ' SHORN OF ALL POWER NOW Ever Since His Election, Lawyer Has Been Against Administration and Hsa Proved One of Ballinger's Most Bitter Enemies. OREGONIAN NEW BUREAU, Wash ington. Feb. 2. Is Representative Miles Poindeiter, of Washington, de liberately and purposely reading him- DARING AVIATOR IN TYPE OF BIPLANE WHICH FELIi WITH HIM YESTERDAY.- mm hix z.L LaL.;Aj i- : VL8v -,i r1f 1 .. PAtLHAN AINU NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPHER PR2PARIXS FOR FLIGHT AT LOS ANGELES. o'clock at the home of, his sister, Mrs. F. Hampton, at Canby, from injuries re ceived several months ago in -a railroad accident. Mr. Wilcox was born at La Porte, Ind.. 48 years ago. He is survived by a wife, who resides at Turner, Or.; a daughter, whose home1 is in Eastern Ore gon, and three sons. Interment was made today In the Zion cemetery at Canby. Railroad Sues for Timbers. OREGON CITY, Or.. Feb. 3 (Special.) A suit has been filed in the Circuit Court of Clackamas County by the Bea verton & Willsburg Railroad Company against William Kelso, P. Harlow, W. A. Mack and F. Brown, over 29 pieces of piling and ten pieces of squared timbers, valued t 400, part of the false work of the railroad bridge being constructed over fhe Willamette River near Oswego, which was washed out by the high water November 25, 1309. The timbers and piling were found floating down the Willamette River by the men sued and were moored at Mll waukie. The men, it is said, refuse to give them up to the railroad company. The latter is represented bv William D. Fenton, R. S. Letter and Ben C. Dey. State Fair Books All Right. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Feb S .opecial.) Senator Fishback, of the legis lative investigating committee, today com pleted his investigation of the books of the State Fair Commission, on which he has been working for twoweeks. He says he has found the accounts all straight and that no charges will be preferred against anybody. He found that loose methods were followed at different times in the past, but discovered no evidence of any crooked work. Roseburg Man Weds Girl of Post. VANCOUVER. Wash., Feb. 3. (Special.) Miss Evelyn E. LeMay, niece of Dr. and Mrs. LeMay, of the Vancouver garrison, was married at noon today at the home of her aunt end uncle in tilts city to Charles Hamilton, a young attorney of Roseburg, Or. Only the members of the Immediate families were present. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H. S. Templeton, of the First Presbyterian Church. Hoyt to Appear as Witness. WASHINGTON. Feb. 3. According io Information received tonight from San Juan, P. R-, Henry M. Hoyt. Attorney General for the Island Government, is to appear before the Ballinger-Plnchot investigating committee. His name was brought into the case by Louis R. Glavis. who said he conferred with Mr. Hoyt as to the construction placed on the coal land law of 1908 by Assistant Secretary Pierce, of the Interior Department. Attorney's Fees I7npald. DAYTON. Wash., Feb. 3. (Special.) Although left an estate of about 13000 hv the death of his grandfather, Anthony Rockhtll. D. A. Pompella refused to pay an attorney- fee of $78, "according to a complaint filed in the Superior Court here yesterday by M. M. Godman and Benton Ejmoree, attorneys or Seattle. Pompella left Dayton soon after receiving his share of the Rockhlll estate. It is said, and Is believed to be living in the Palouse country. Solvent Estates Escape Fee. (II VfPI A T " T..-. i- - , . ' ' o. cpeciai.j The Attorney-General ruled today wuwi an estate is solvent and is so reported to the court and needs on further intervention from the court, then the County Clerk is not authorized to collect the $5 demanded when an executor makes his final report. Sailing Cruise, Says Admiralty. - LONDON. Feb. S. It was stated at the Admiralty today that the sailing of the British squadron from Malta was for practice cruise and had no bearing whatever on the political situation in Greece and Crete. It was officially said the fleet was not going as far 'as Pi raeus. Premier Hob 11 n Must Rest. WINNIPEG, Feb. 3. Premier Roblin. of Manitoba, has been compelled to give up all work on account of a severe ill ness. His physicians have ordered that he go South for a complete -rest as soon he is able to travel. A Cincinnati man has oatented an ietr4n air heater for barbers use. comprened air j?aslnf through a cylinder containing a re siatance coil. self out of the Republican party, or has he some other motive for arraying himself with the Democrats of the House of Representatives? That question has long puzzled the other members of the Washington Congressional delegation, as It has the Republican leaders of the House, and up to the present time no one knows the answer. Poindexter is an enigma. Ever since his election to Congress, the Representative from Spokane has acted and usually voted with the Dem ocrats in the House. On many oc casions he had the company of some or all the Republican Insurgents, but not always. Only recently he dis tinguished himself as the only Repub lican In the House to vote against the Republican caucus slate for the Balllnger-Pinchot investigating com mittee the occasion above all others when Poindexter. as a man from Wash ington, was expected to stand by nis party. t Senate Seems Ambition. Poindexter has proclaimed himself a candidate for the United States ben ate to succeed Senator Piles, and has declared his purpose to run as a Re publican. In view of this fact, his anti Republican course in Congress, and his open allegiance with the Demo crats has tended to.still more deeply puzzle the other members of the Washington delegation, and has caused them to ask If Poindexter is merely seeking notoriety, preferring that to party regularity, or whether he is playing a game of politics pe culiar to himself. If the latter is the proper answer. Poindexter' colleagues have serious doubts whether the voters of the state of Washington will approve politics of this new and novel order. According to the view of old-time politicians men who have long been in the game the Congressional career of Miles Poindexter is not such as would ordinarily be reckoned- on to promote the political fortunes of a Re publican in a state so overwhelmingly Republican as Washington. In short Pomdexters colleagues do not hesi tate to say that the man from Spo kane is no politician at all; that he knows nothing about politics. In the special session, Poindexter Jiad no sooner taken his seat than he began his fight against the Republi can organization of the House. He was against Cannon, against the rules, and In favor of a sweeping reorganization of everything. Like other insurgents he wanted something different, and some of the changes in House rules (which he pro posed would, if adopted, have made the lower branch of Congress the laughing stock of the entire country Of course. Poindexter had never had any Legislative experience, but he wanted to run the House on theoreti cal lines, rather than along lines that are the result of many years of ex perience. Poindexter Lines Vp With "Dems." After tlie House organized Poindexter lined up with the- -Insurgents" and Democrats to defeat the Administra tion's tariff bill. He voted with the Democrats at the close of the session to prevent the passage of the Payne Aldrich bill, pronounced by President Taft to be the best tariff law the coun try has ever had. and in the course of the fight, advocated and voted for free lumber, notwithstanding the de mands of the enormous lumber inter ests of his state. At the close of the session he was assigned to committees that never meet. When the regular session opened, Poindexter ,wi! one of the first In surgents to advocate a .disturbance, and he rapidly forged to the front of the Insurgent movement, until he found himself so far ahead of the move ment that not even Victor Murdock had the nerve to follow. Seemingly, Poindexter "insurged" merely for the sake of "Insurging Then, when the Balllnger-Pinchot In vestigation resolution came up. Poin dexter offered, and secured the adop tion by the House of an .amendment, which, if finally accepted, would have done more than anything else to dra out the investigation, and place the Administration at a disadvantage: the amendment permitting all witnesses to appear with counsel. The witnesses are not under fire-. Secretary Balllnger is under fire, but Poindexter proposed" to allow all wit nesses to appear with counsel, some thing unheard of in Congressional in vestigations of the past. This amend ment was finally cut down so as to permit only witnesses In the Govern ment service, and ex-Government em ployes, to appear with counsel, such men as Plnohot, Glavis, Price and The Home Furnished Complete Toll Gifobs, Inc. MORRISON AT SEVENTH Housefurnishings Sold on Liberal Terms A Thirty Days Free Trial and These Easy Payment Terms $5 Down and $5 Month, Is the Splendid Inducement We Offer to Those Who Wish to Place a Modern and - ' ' Dependable Range in Their Homes. Tlbese Opportomiities in AND MISSES Tolb Dresses will 'be welcomed by many VALS. FROM $3.95 to $20 at The woman -or miss who has in mind one of these garments for house or street wear could not wish for better variety of styles and materials than in this assortment. And one finds the best of washable fabrics absolutely color fast percales, linens, repps and French ginghams made up in so many different style effects that selection to please every taste is assured. Women's sizes, 34 to 44. 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This was - done to avoid the charge that the Administration was attempting to prevent a full and fa!r hearing to men, who, after starting the Ballinger-Plnchot controversy, now find themselves on the defensive. Democrats Cause Trouble. ' Just a bit later, the Democrats, in caucus, picked two men to act as mem bers of the Investigating .Committee, one of them, Rainey of Illinois, a partisan of the worst type, and a man who knows no principle when it comes to manufacturing Democratic campaign material. Fortunately. Rainey had given serveral exhibitions of his intense partisanship in the la.it Congress, when he unjustifiably as sailed members of the Roosevelt and yTaft family in connection' with a ficti tious Panama. Canal scandal, which he had cleverly woven - out of noth ing. , It was apparent to everyone that Rainey had been chosen not with a view of assisting in the investigation, but to manufacture Democratic cam paign capital out of the Pinchot-Balr linger affair, regardless of the facts and evidence produced at the inquiry. On this theory, all other Republican insurgents got back into their party and voted to elminate Rainey; Poin dexter was the only Republican to support him. This was strange enough on its ao, but doubly strange in view of the fact that Poindexter hails from Secretary Ballinger's own state. His action was the most-pointed Indication of his hostility to Balllnger. which seeming ly can be explained only on the theory that Polnrtpxter fears Balllnger may be a candidate against him for the Sen ate, and therefore he wishes to de stroy him. Along with his "insurging," Repre sentative Poindexter has done a num ber of other things that are incom prehensible to his colleagues. He de clines to attend Republican caucuses; he does not confer with other members of the Washington delegation with reference to local legislation; he has Introduced but one public bill since he entered Congress, and that a bridge bill, and thus far has made no effort to secure legislation for his state. On the contrary, when tTiere is legis lation to be promoted for the benefit of Poindexter's district, it is always introduced, or pressed by Senator Jones, both in the Senate and House. Poindexter takes no part. Whitman College Affair Is Evidence When Whitman. College wanted to get possession of the Walla Walla military reservation. Poindexter did not introduce the bill in the House; he has taken no part in securing legisla tion for the Yakima reservation, no public building legislation has he sought, and no move has he made to help along appropriations for the Columbia and Snake rivers. whicll penetrate and run through the heart of his district. His Legislative record is blank. Yet he has had the opportunity. Instead cf attempting legislation, he has been "insurging" in season and out. and pursuing a course that is mystifying to his colleagues. As a result of his open opposition to the Republican Administration, the President and Secretary Balllnger in and he found himself so far ahead of particular, and his fight against the Republican majority in the House,- lie has been shorn of the right to name postmasters in his district, find because he has been more extreme than: other Insurgents, his punishment at the hands of the powers that be, is ac cordingly severe. If Poindexter is . pursuing this course on the assumption that it is promoting his chances of election to the Senate, his fellow members in the House are, as yet, unable to decipher what benefit he will derive from his line of action. It is all a mystery. Mexican Packers Not Connected. CHICAGO. Feb. 3. J. Ogden Armour and others prominent In Chicago's pack ing industry, declared today that tha failure of the National Packing Company of Mexico would not be felt by the trade in the United States. The National Pack ing Company of Mexico has no connection with the National Packing Company of Chicago. DISK FROM A BAD STOMACH, GAS AND. INDIGESTION WILL END Your out-of-order Stomach feels fine five minutes after taking a little Diapepsin. Take your sour, out-of-order stom ach or maybe you call it Indiges tion, Dyspepsia, Gastritis or Catarrh of Stomach; It. doesn't matter take your stomach trouble right" with you to your Pharmacist and ask him to open a 50-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin and let you eat one 22-grrain Triangule and see if within five minutes there is left any trace of your former misery. The correct name for your trouble is Food Fermentation food souring; the Digestive organs become weak, there is lack of gastric juice; your food is only half digested, and you become affected with loss of appetite, pressure and full ness after earing, vomiting, nausea. heartburn, griping In bowels, tender ness in the pit of stomach, bad taste in mouth, constipation, pain in limbs, sleeplessness, belching of gas, bilious ness, sick headache, nervousness, dizzi ness or many other similar symptoms. If your appetite Is fickle, and noth ing tempts you, or you belch gas or if you feel -bloated after eating, or your food lies like a lump of ?ead on Tour : stomach,' you can make up your mind that at the bottom of all this there is but one cause fermentation of undi gested food. " Prove to yourself in five minutes that your stomach is as good as any; that there is nothing really wrong. Stop this fermentation and begin eat ing what you want witnout fear of dis comfort or misery. Almost instant relief is waiting for you. It is merely a matter of how soon you take a little Dia.nnsin. 12 HOURS TO SPOKANE A good night's rest or a pleasant day's trip is insured by the fast time, perfect track and latest patterns of equipment of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. "North Bank Road" OBSERVATION CARS, PAKLOR CARS, COMPARTMENT SLEEPERS DINING CARS, MEALS A I.A CARTE. TOfHIST SLEEPERS. FIRST - CLASS COAC HE. i Leave Portland 7:00 J. M. 9:00 A. M. Arrive Spokane 7:00 A. M. 9: IS P.M. Dinner served on evening train. Luncheon and dinner on day train. Passenger Station 11th and Hoyt Sts. CITY TICKET OFFICES Third and Morrison Sts. 122 Third St. 100 Third St,