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il VOL. jL. NO. 15,363. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1910. PRICE FlYE CENTS. TROOPS WAIT CALL AT PHILADELPHIA GRANGE REFUSES TO OPPOSE ASSEMBLY "FlliErCONIiEBS EAGER FOR FIGHT M. ROSTAND STOLE THE "CHANTICLER?" ASQUITH'S PARTY CITIES' POWER TO ' CONDEMN GROWS HILL PLANS BIG IS MEMBERS AT BROWNSVILLE ESCHEW POLITICS. CHICAGO PLAYWRIGHT DE MANDS INVESTIGATION". WASHINGTON" HIGH COURT REN DERS DIVIDED DECISION. MELT NC AWAY CAMPAIGfi Three Regiment Chiefs Confer on Strike. UNION ORGANIZER ARRESTED Strikebreakers Come by Car . load to Company's Aid. RIOTS GROW, CARS STONED Trouble Expected Today When Im ported Men Run Cars Patrol men., Sympathetic, Shifted. Battle With Mob Waged. PHILADELUHIA. Feb. 21. Folic of ficials took the Initiative tonight in the war being waged between the striking carmen and the officials of the Philadel phia Rapid Transit Company. Clarence O. Pratt, National organizer of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Kleotiic Railway Employes, was ar rested on a warrant accusing him of "conspiring to incite to riot." The warrant was .served on Pratt oa he was leaving n an automobile after he had attended today's mass meeting of the union carmen. He was locked up in the City Hall and held to await a hear ing tomorrow morning. It is rumored that warrants have been irsued for other labor leaders aa a result of a conference late today between Dis trict Attorney Rotan, Director of Publio Safety Clay and Magistrate Beaton. Troops Are Preparing. The police force was augmented to night by the swearing in for riot duty of the State Fencibles, -an independent military organization. Plans are being discussed tonight by the conTmanders of three local regiments of the Pennsylvania Guard to mobilize their troops at a moment's notice. The Mayor is entitled to call upon those troops. Governor Stuart and Adjutant Oeneral Stewart are here tonight and If necessary a call for outside troops can be made any time, but this is not expected. Police Guard Strikebreakers. Five carloads of strikebreakers reached here late today and were loaded on trolley cars at the Pennsyl vania Railroad -Station In West Phila delphia and taken to carbarns In that section. A large squad of mounted po lice escorted the cars and prevented a threatened demonstration by a mob of several thousand. Trouble Is expected to follow the use of these men on the cars tomorrow. Reports vary as to the number of cars in service today. The company claimed that 700 cars were in opera tion, but the pickets watching the car barns reported that only 124 cars were In operation and that nine crews of strikebreakers that left the carbarns Ihis morning had deserted. Cars Stop at Xlght. Cars were withdrawn at 6 o'clock tonight, company officials stating they did not desire to endanger the lives of loyal employes. Rioting in the very heart of the busi jiess section of the city, the attempted burning of another car, and many petty attacks by sympathizers led the police fficlals to enlarge their force and tonstder calling out the state militia. The arrest of Leader Pratt also caused a sensation and resulted in re newed rumors of a general sympathtio strike of all the 100,000 union men In Philadelphia. The first serious disturbance oc curred In the center of the city in front I the Reading terminal station, within a stone's throw of the Central Police Station. Mob Stones Cars. As a. car was proceeding out Market etreet, a small boy jerked the trolley pole from the wire, causing a block ade of cars. A plje of building material on the street provided ammunition for the lawless-element, and soon the standing cars were showered wn.i bricks. An attempt was made to arrest the leader of the boys, and this was the signal for a violent outbreak. In the mean time, a wagon of an electric company had been robbed of incandescent light globes. They were ushed as missiles and exploded with pistol-like reports. Workmen on the roofs of near-by build ings Joined in the bombardment-""" The exploding globes startled the timid and there was a mad rush for safety as the cry went up that dynamite was being used to tear up the tracks. Brickbat Fells Strikebreaker. After a battle of nearly an hour, the po lice drove the rioters back and the cars went on their way with scarcely a whole pane of glass in the long line. The most seclous outbreak occurred in the north eastern mill district, where all traffic was suspended in the day. William Maloney. eaid to be a. strikebreaker, from New Tork, had his skull fractured with a brickbat. Dynamite caps were used by strike sym pathizers in many sections of the city but did not cause serious damage. After stopping a car with one of those explosives, that mob started to set the car on fire. A squad of police with load ed revolvers dispersed the mob but not Concluded va Paso 2- Resolution Opposing Raising of Sal aries of Officials by Legislature Is Also Voted Down. BROWNSVILLE. Or., Feb. 21. (Spe cial.) Ashswale Grange at the regular meeting refused to go on record as op posing the assembly plan, holding that it was a partisan question. The following resolution was voted flown: "Resolved, that we are opposed to any raise of salary for any officer of Ore gon for any cause whatever other than by the initiative, as they are becoming masters rather than servants." The grange agreed that the present law prohibiting throwing sawdust in streams was good enough, and turned down the resolution of Coast Fork Grange on that subject. It was brought out in the discussion that If the Legislature were forbidden to fix salaries, it would in effect be an entering wedge to prohibit the Legis lature from making appropriations of any kind. The people, it was further argued, had a remedy through the ref erendum, whenever extravagant salar ies are voted by the Legislature. The Linn County Council will meet with Ashswale Grange on the first Sat urday of March. DAMAGE GREAT IN STORM English Coast Suffers Earthquake Shocks in Cheshire. LONDON, Feb. 21. Belated reports of the storm which spent itself during the night after having raged intermittently for four' days, show damage In many parts of the United Kingdom. In many places roofB were torn from houses, hundreds of trees torn down and telegraph and telephone lines laid low. In many districts telegraph service was greatly delayed today. Advices from the' Bay of Biscay indicate that another cy clone is approaching from across the At. lantlc. Several boatmen have been drowned at various ports. The French bark Marechal Suchet, from Nagasaki, with exhibits for the Anglo-Japanese exhibition here, which went ashore near Margate on Fri day, is breaking up. Her crew was saved by the lifeboats. The Wilson liner Galileo was blown ashore In the Humber during the night. With some difficulty she was floated and docked. A large steamer was seen off the Berwickshire coast last night helpleas through disabled machinery and drifting toward May Island. Several distinct earthquake shocks last ing two minutes were felt at Cheshire this morning. MILDRED CARTER ENGAGED Viscount Acheson Wins Hand ot Popular American Girl. LONDON, Feb. 21. The engagement is announced of Miss Mildred Carter, daugh ter of John Rldgely Carter, formerly first secretary of the American Embassy here, and now minister to Roumania, to Vis count Acheson, late lieutenant of the Coldstream Guards, and a veteran of the South African war. Miss Carter is one of the most popular Americans in London society. She re mained In London after the departure of her father for Bucharest. Viscount Acheson is the eldest son of the fourth Earl of Goshford. He was born In 1877. CHILD EATS MATCHES; DIES Poisonous Substance Too Much for Little Two-Year-Old's Stomach. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Feb. 21. (Special.) Walter Stedman, 2 years old, son of E. W. Stedman, proprietor of the Barnes Grain Company, of this city, died here this afternoon as the result of being poisoned by eating matches. Abou ta week ago the boy was left alone and, finding the mathecs, ate the heads. It vas thought he was recov ering, but the poison took effect and nothing could be done after the fatal symptoms were manifest. MARYLAND DEEMED UNSAFE Engineer Reports Cruiser Xot Fit for Target Practice Trip. VALLEJO, Cal., Feb. 21. The chief engineering officer of the cruiser Mary land has filed a protest with the Navy Department against sending that ship to sea for target practice. It is sim ilar to that made by the engineer of the West Virginia in regard to that vessel, reciting that human life would be endangered by taking the ships to sea with their machinery in its pres en condition. These protests, it is said, have been favorably indorsed by the commanding officers of the two cruisers and by the Commander-in-Chief of the fleet and forwarded to Washington. BUNCO BRINGS PENALTY Two Young Men Who Advertised Show and Decamped, Sentenced. MOSCOW, Idaho, Feb. 21. (Special.) Albert Bergman and Leslie Couchman, two young men who advertised a show at Potlatch and after tickets were 6o!d to the amount of J19 securedMhe money and dleappeared, were found guilty in the fProbate Court and sentenced by Judge Morgaridge. Albert -Bergman to pay a fine of $100 and serve six months in jail. Leslie Couchman to pay, J50 and serve three months In jail. Albert Bergman has been in jail before for petty larceny. Ieslle Couchman was married about six months ago and his wife is said Lo . be prostrated it .St. iIoju, Or, --- Glad Auction of Judges Is to Be Probed. MAY TELL WHAT HE KNOWS Willing at Any Rate to Help in . Investigation. SAYS MURPHY WILL FAIL Attempt to "Tammanyize" Slate He Says Is Doomed Wants Direct Primaries Urged to Throw His Influence to Hearst. NEW YORK, Feb. 21. William J. Conners, chairman of ( the Democratic state committee, fighting for. his po litical life against those who are try ing to oust him as chairman, an nounced tonight that he stands ready to testify at Albany at the proposed, investigation of the charges that places on the Supreme Court bench of the state have been "auctioned 'off" in Greater New York. May Tell What ell Knows. Conners heard privately tonight that such an investigation would be de manded. Almost simultaneously came an announcement from Albany that resolutions had been formally Intro duced, Conners commented with satis faction on his private message 'that such action "would be taken. "Good," said he, as he read the tele gram. "If they want me on the 6tand, I'll be there. I'll tell 'em what I be lieve and ," after a pause, "perhaps what I know." "What price a judge?" Mr. Conners was asked. "Some of them came pretty high," he said. "That will all come out If they appoint -I legislative committee and put the Judw-." and their friends on the stand I'll tell them whom to call. Conners was sheerful tonight. Conners Eager for Fight. "Last night," he said, "T hoped I was going to win; tonight I believe I am going to win." The prospect of scandals in his own party, the recent visit of President Taft to confer on the situation in the Repub lican party brought on by the Conger Allds bribery charges and the hot fight that awaits the state chairman at Al bany next Thursday, seemed rather to whet his appetite. "I'm not in pllitics for my livelihood, like some of those fellows," he said. "The world does not owe me a living. To tell you the truth, I kind of like fighting." An "amplified description of the move ment against him, as Mr. Coners sees it, followed. "Tammanyiziiig"' State Won't Go. "What Murphy is trying now," he said, "has never been attempted before in the history of politics, and the peo- (Continued on Page 2.) U. S. "GOL DING IT! I'D GIVE Asks French Academy to Expel Rostand if It Finds He Plag iarized Latest Sensation. CHICAGO, Feb. 21. Samuel Eberly Gross, of Chicago, who accuses Edmond Rostant, of Paris, of having plagiarized from "The Merchant Prince of Corn ville," two plays, "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Chanticleer," today cabled the French Academy denouncing Rostant as a "literary thief," and demanding an investigation of Rostand's right to be a member of that organization. Gross asks that a coure consisting of three men be appointed to hear the evi dence submitted by Rostant and. him self and let its decision be final. If Rostand is declared a plagiarist by this court, Gross asks that he be ex pelled from the French Academy. If the court decides in Rostand's favor, Gross is willing to abide by that de cision. A manuscript copy of "The Merchant Prince of Cornville" was left at the Porte St. Martin .Theater in Paris in 1889, according to Gross. He also says the play was published In London in 1896 and that Rostand may have obtained It from' either of these places. NEWSPAPER MEN ARRESTED Grants Pass Torn Up Over Charge - of County Judge. GRANTS PASS. Or., Feb. 21. (Spe cial.) A. E. Voorhies, proprietor, and C. G. Coutant. editor, of the. Rogue River Courier, were arrested this afternoon on a charge of alleged criminal libel. The complaint was sworn to by County Judge Stephen A. Jewell, who is the complaining witness, and whose com plaint charges the defendants with pub lishing libelous matter in their paper on February 11, charging the County Court with taking gravel without permission off private premises. A preliminary hearing will be had next Wednesday before Justice Holman. All parties concerned are prominent citizens. DEATH CAUSED BY HOLD-UP Shock Results Futally to Mrs. C. A. Bates, Aged 0 3. Mrs. C. A: Bates, aged-63 years, liv ing with her husband at 347 Seven teenth street, died, suddenly yesterday afternoon at her home from cerebral hemorrhage. Death, it is thought, re sulted primarily from a nervous shock ssutained by Mrs. Bates a few weeks ago in Idaho, when she and her hus band were held up and robbed by high waymen while on their way to Port land in a prairie schooner. The old couple crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852, and. after living in the state until well advanced In years, de cided to go to Boise. Idaho, and once more make the trip by wagon to Oregon- and Portland. It was while on their way here they were robbed. Mrs. Bates never fully recovered from the shock, and yesterday's tragic cul mination to her life is the result. Albany AYoman Passes. ALBANY. Or.. Feb. 21. (Special.) Florence D. Jordan, wife of Howard C. Jordan, a local contractor, died yester day at her home In this city. Mrs. Jor dan was born in Illinois 42 years ago and was married to H. C. Jordan in Kan sas in 1891. With her husband she came to this city three years ago. She is sur vived by her husband. H. C. Jordan, of Albany; a son, Harold Jordan, who is a member of the United States Artillery company at Fort Stevens, and a baby daughter six weeks old. SIX-BITS IF THAT CHAP WOULD LOSE HIMSELF." toJ1 JP Premier Must Soon Call Another Election. REDMOND FLATLY OPPOSES HIM Radicals Join, in Demand for Prompt Attack on Lords. ASQUITH ASKS FOR TIME British Premier Insists Budget Must First Be Passed Balfour Ad mits It 'Will Pass, but Tariff Bogey Is Raised. LONDON, Feb. 21. The players in the game of politics threw the cards upon the table- In the house of Commons to day. The. government ls without the allies necessary to carry legislation and the prospect is that the country will be stirred up by another general election within a few months. Premier Asquith announced that the financial legislation would be put ahead of "the proposals to curb the power of the House of Lords. John E Redmond, the Irish leader, declared flatly that the Nationalists would not support that pro gramme. The Laborites are holding a meeting to decide their course. They prob ably will follow in the footsteps of the Irish members. Lords Hold Winning Cards. The regular force of 3500 police and 3000 specials was also enlarged today by swearing In 66 park guards and 500 city employes from other departments. The government may be able to adopt the budget by the grace of the Conserva tives, ' who "possibly will vote for it in order o avert financial chaos and keep the wheels of the empire turning. The enactment of the budget win. - as Mr. Redmond points out, leave the winning cards in the hands of the Lords, who then will be free to reject the bill for the reforming of their house and force another election. The meeting of Parliament today was a momentous one, for the Cabinent's policy was not revealed to the country until Premier Asquith took the floor. Mr. Redmond and his Irish colleagues controlled the course of events. His pro nouncement that the Irish members would not support the Prime Minister was the sensation of the day and it ap pears to have settled the administration's fate. Radicals Will Join Redmond. It is said. 25 radicals have declared their intention of supporting Mr.' Red mond against the government's course. and that great pressure Is being brought to bear from the radicals to Induce Mr. Asquith to resign forth, with. Austen Chamberlain will propose an amendment to the King's speech in favor of tariff reform and Imperial Conc1uded on Page 6.) GO TO FURRIN' PARTS AN' Municipalities May Acquire Prop erty of Private Corporations in Public Service. OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 21. (Spe cial.) Cities have power to take by condemnation all the property of pri vate corporations engaged in public service, accbrding to a decision of the State Supreme Court today rendered by a vote of 5 to 4. The majority , of the court holds that the city's right is superior. The appellants contended that un der the constitution and laws a munici pal corporation, desiring to engage in pubUc-eervice work, was on a parity with other public-service corporations, and that the laws regarding priority of appropriation of water rights gov erned. The case came from Pierce County and was the suit of the City of Tacoma to condemn and acquire the water rights in the Nisqually River, owned by the Nisqually Power Company. The lower court allowed .the city to con demn and a jury fixed" the damages to be paid at $50,000. Judges Morris, Mount, Parker, Crow and Chadwick signed the majority opinion. Chief Justice Rudkin says in his dissenting opinion that the major ity has found an easy way out of a difficult problem by satisfying one con stitutional provision by violating an other, and holds that the case should be reversed and dismissed. Judges Fullerton, Gose and Dunbar signed with Rudkin. The decision points out how the Tacoma municipal light plant Is growing, and the need of additional power, to meet present and future demands. Undoubtedly a motion for a rehear ing will be asked of the Supreme Court and an appeal may be taken to the Federal Supreme Court. ESTATE CLAIMED FOR BOYS Mrs. Bradley Revives Brown Scan dal by Contesting Will. SALT LAKE. Feb. 21. A sequel to the sensational killing of ex-United States Senator Arthur L. Brown in Washington, D. C, in December, 1906, began today in the District Court in an action by whicn Mrs. Anna M. Bradley seeks to have ner two children declared legal and equal heirs in the division of the property left by Brown, esti mated at $luo,000. In the will Brown disavowed pater nity of Mrs. Bradley's children. . The will is attacked on the ground that the testator was unduly influenced and mentally Incompetent at the time the will was drawn. Mrs. Bradley was acquitted by a Jury of the killing of Brown. CASKET REMOVAL DELAYED Brazilian Warship Late, Mayflower Waits to Convoy Xabuco's Body. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2L Owing to the non-arrival in Hampton Roads of the Brazilian battleship Minas Garaes, which Is to convoy the armored cruiser North Carolina from that port to Rio de Janeiro, bearing the body of Senator Nabuco, late Brazilian Ambassador to this country, the execution of the pro gramme for the removal of the casket from the vault in this city to the May flower which was to have taken place today, has been postponed. It will take the Brazilian ship at least a day after her arrival in the Roads to take on coal for the long voyage to Brazil, so there will be ample time to make other arrangements for "the trans shipment of the body. JOINT ACTION IS DENIED Pekln Explains Powers' Move. Chinese Ousted From Siberia. PEKIN, Feb. 21. Great Britain and France disclaim Joint or concerted ac tion in advising China not to proceed with the Chinchow and Aigun Railway plan without considering the wishes of Russia and Japan. Great Britain re iterated its representations and the French government followed the same course. Advices from Tsitsikhar, Manchuria, state that the Siberian authorities have for some time belcn expelling Chinese settlers from Amur province. Two hun dred families have been driven from the country, and In some instances their houses have been burned. The Chinese government has filed claims for dam ages with Russia. COUNTY SUED FOR TAXES Assessment Alleged to Be Higher Than Actual Valuation. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash.. Feb. 21.-2-(Speclal.) Forty-six taxpayers have brought an action against the county asking to have the assessment of 1308 set aside on the ground that it is fraudulent and excessive. They say the assessed valuation was placed much higher than the actual valua tion, and ask a judgment against the county for the alleged excessive taxes they have paid. It Is the first action of the kind eevr filed in this county, and involves sev eral thousand dollars. IS ABUL HAMID NOW DEAD Removal of Sons and Harem From Prison, Basis of Ituanor. CONSTANTINOPLE. Feb. 21. An un confirmed report is in circulation here that Abdul Hamld, deposed Sultan of Turkey, is dead. The transfer of his two sons and harem to Constantinople, from his prison in Salonica. is significant. Later it was officially announced that the report of the death of Abdul Hamid was unfounded. Great Northern's Head Backs Move. EAST WILL LEARN OF WEST Car, Loaded With State's Products, to Travel Far. YEAR TAKEN TO MAKE TRIP. In Letter to Oregonian Railroad Magnate Outlines Advertising System, Which Has Proved Ef fective In Oilier Instances. In a letter to The Oregonian, Louis W. Hill, president of the Great North ern Railway Company, announces that lie has inaugurated a plan for adver tising Oregon and its resources and assisting in the colonization of this section of the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Hill has always been an enthu siastic advocate of the Pacific Coast and Its possibilities. He now r"ooses furnishing Eastern people with onstration of what is being pro. the Western States. Representatives of this com now in this state studying c and compiling, information. ' in search of choice fruit a samples produced in Oregoi added to tile exhibit which is now uc lng made in the extreme Eastern states from Oregon, Washington and Mon tana. Car to Travel Over East. Mr. Hill writes that next year h proposes equipping one complete car with Oregon products. Including fruit, grain and timber. Thus supplied with Oregon-grown products, the oar will be routed by the Great Northern over the variouH Eastern railroad systems Mr. Hill's letter, outlining his plans, which he says will take a year to com plete, is as follows: "To the Editor: I am glad to see by your paper you realize we have under taken a great task when we undertak to colonize Oregon. It is our intention to do for Oregon what we have dona for Montana. It will, of course, tak about a year to get the matter in good shape starting now, although w have already given considerable tim and thought to getting the matter un der way, but what we lack is goo4 information about the State of Oregon "We have men in the state now care fully studying and reporting to us and we have what we call the Montana, Washington and Oregon show runnins in Boston, but as a matter ot fact w have not as yet been, able to obtain fruit or grain samples from Oregon. We were successful in a small way at the Billings show,, but Oregon was not represented in a way we should hava wished it to be. "We wish to see Oregon come to th front in all these things in a big way, and now is the opportunity as I view it. In undertaking this we are work ing for our own interest, as your peo ple would work for your own Interest in increasing your circulation in Ore gon, and we claim no credit to our selves in what we intend doing, but ai the matter is one you have long been familiar with, we should appreciate your co-operation, particularly in di recting us as to where we can best get correct information, and get in touch with communities that will work wits us. "Next year we should like to fit out a car and send it over the Eastern rail road systems with displays of Ore gon fruit, grain and timber productst similar to the Washington and Mon tana cars now touring the Lake Shore, Pennsylvania and Erie systems. "I am inclosing you copy of a. let ter just received from the editor ol the St. Paul Dispatch on the question . of fitting out a car advertising Minne sota, together with clipping. We hav at last aroused an Interest in this state which we believe within a yeat will tend to draw people this way. It is our effort to direct them to th northern tier of states and pass them on to Oregon. If they will not stop on the way they will surely stop in Oregon, and as eaeh state is entering? into lively competition for the home seekers we look for great results. "I am inclosing you copies of re ports from the cars we have in the East, which show that hundreds of people attend the lantern show each, evening and hundreds go through the car. As high as 400 or 500 leave their addresses each day. asking for in formation about the country. The. Eastern and Middle States were never so interested In the matter of obtain ing homes in the West as they ara this year, and for that reason we be lieve In striking while the iron Is hot.,- "Hoping these matters will interest you, I remain, "Yours very truly, "LOUIS W. HILL, "President." That Advertising Pays Is Evident. This method of advertising the states of the Pacific Northwest Is not an ex periment with the Great Northern. It has been tried in the Interest of the states of Washington and Montana and bote states have received largo returns from Concluded on Pass 14.) I