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VOL. L. NO. 15,437. PORTLAND, OKEGOX; THURSDAY, MAY 19, , 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 2 TOTS SUFFOCATE IN CHEST, AT PLAY HIDIXG FROM CHUMS, THEY ARE SHUT TIGHT IX BOX. LOGAL OBSERVER FIRST SEES SPOTS SPOKANE CONSIDER SEPARATE SCHOOLS CLOSING OF DRAWS IS UPTO PORTLAND EAST APPRECIATIVE, ASSERTS BROUGHER CROOK COUNTY TO PLANT ORCHARDS EARTH CUTS TAIL SEGREGATION OP SEXES PLAN BEFORE SCHOOL. BOARD. - NEW ATTITUDE SAID TO . BE HELD TOWARDS COAST. PORTLAND CALM S Sky Gazers Fail to Get Glimpse of Comet. PATIENT EFFORT UNREQUITED Illuminated Streak in Heavens Claims Attention. MANY SEEK HIGH HILLS Observer With Homc-Made Tele scope Asserts He Traced Passage of Visitor Across Sun's Face., Deep . Interest Felt. Halley's comet has come and gone without mishap to Mother Earth and without appreciable manifestations. Nothing: was harmed, scientists are proved correct in their assumptions that nothing would happen and now the comet is whizzing its way through space with its course marked away from the earth. The earth passed quietly through the comet last night and to the ordinary person not equipped with astronomical Instruments there was nothing to dem onstrate that the long-expected had really occurred. No poisonous gases were inhaled by the inhabitants of the earth, no ill effects were xelt and even the glow which was expected in the evening sky was missing as far as Portland was concerned. Scientific Interest Felt. Portland took the advent of the comet quietly and there was not pres ent even a feellng of fear such as was reported from many other points. In terest was at a high pitch, but it was scientific rather than dreadful; curious rather than excited. Everyone wanted to see such signs of the passing of the comet's tail as might appear, but all were disappointed. The day came and went as usual. In the morning the sun rose in a clear sky, but the few early morning watchers who thought the scientists might have been wrong in the assumption that there would be no visible signs of the comet's rlne found their vigils in vain. All day on the streets could be seen people stop ping to stare in speculative manner at the sky, but when the head was lowered the reply to the question, "See any thing?" was a negative. ' When night approached, interest was greater than earlier in the day and the streets were lined with watchers looking toward the sun as it dropped below the horizon. Owing to a light haze occasioned by the fires from slashings in the vicinity of Portland it was possible to gaze direct ly at the sun. The entire disk could be watched steadily without injuring the eye and of all the observers " not one could be found who said he saw any trace of the comet passing across the face of the sun. "Watchers Look, in Vain. At night many journeyed to Council Crest in a further hope that the comet would be visible from there. Here Pro fessor J. W. Daniels, the head of the department of astronomy and mathema tics at Hill Military Academy, was sta tioned to make observations. Professor Daniels failed to find any trace of the comet, although he stayed until after sunset. He delivered & lecture there on the subject of comets to the assembled multitude of curious sky gazers. Pro fessor Daniels' services have been in demand as a lecturer since the comet became a subject of Interest. He has several lectures scheduled before dif ferent church and social organizations for the ensuing two weeks. About 10 P. M-, however, something appeared which, many believed the tail of the comet. A great band of light was first discovered by Mrs. Charles E. Chenning, whose home Is on the top of Portland Heights. This band at first showed dimly and appeared like a long cloud, the fact that it was straight giving rise to the belief that It was the comet. The band then separated into three or four distinct parallel bands of light, running across the dome of the sky from southwest to northeast. These then became dim mer and soon were lost to view. Light Streak Tapers West. The character of the streaks was much the same as that of the halo sur rounding the moon, which was decid edly pronounced. The shape of the largest light streak, tapering some what to the west, added strength to the belief of many that this was the tail of the comet. In accordance with the reports sent in from observatories of the appearance of the comet's tail, this band of light was much narrower than the expected width of that' body. Professor St. Martin, from a position on Mount Tabor, and fortified with an astronomical telescope of his own manufacture, asserted that he observed the passage of the comet across the disk of the sun at 6:40 P. M. "I had a specially prepared telescope of rather crude design and my own manufacture," said Professor St. Mar tin. "It was made of several lenses ar ranged in a darkened tube, much after the fashion of Galileo's first telescope. The comet passed across the face of the sun much like a haze. In only a (Concluded on 2.) Boise, Idaho, Scoured for Missing Boy and Girl, and Sister Makes Gruesome Find by Accident. BOISE, Idaho, May 18. (Special.) Climbing into a carpenter's chest yester day afternoon to hide from their play mates, Agnes and Willie Scheer, aged 8 and 9 years, were shut in and suffocated when thereover closed down upon them. The bodies of the youngsters, pitifully huddled together, the little boy in his sister's arms, were' found this morning after an all-night search by parents and neighbors. The city was scoured for the missing children. The frantic parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scheer, of this city, feared that they liad fallen in the river but the waters failed to yield the bodies. The mystery of their disappearance was cleared quite accidentally. The tool chest is located in a woodshed 60v feet from the Scheer home and Is used, to store odds and ends.- A' sister of the dead children, wanting some rags, went to the chest, pulled up the cover and made the gruesome discovery. BRAVE FIREMAN REWARDED . Chiefs Job for One Who Risked Life to Save Hotel Patrons. PHOENIX. Ariz., May 18. No authen tic information upon which to ground a belief that there was any loss of life in the Hotel Adams Are early yesterday morning reached the city officials after 24 hours search, and it is their convic tion that all patrons of the hostelry es caped. Search of the ruins has failed to reveal anything bearing the appear ance of human bones and no one has come forward to report a friend or rela tive missing. , Fireman Peter Sullivan, who made the round of many or the rooms of the hotel after the fire started, found them all de serted, indicating that the alarm had been generally heeded and the hotel quickly deserted. Sullivan was rewarded by the City Council for having risked his life in the search for unconscious sleepers. The position of Fire Chief was created and Sullivan was given the post. PORTLAND CLEARINGS BIG Bank Business Shows Good Lead Over Seattle. Portland bank clearings, the barometer of a city's prosperity, are soaring. For several days Seattle has been left away in -the rear, the difference being from $20,000 to $600,000 a day in favor of Port land. Monday was the day things began' to show up with a vivid brightness for the home town. On that day the Portland clearings were $1,8S4,019. while Seattle's total was $1,801,704. Tuesday's course was the same. Portland registered $2,048,094; the town on Puget Sound notched but $1,886,847. The Increase was still maintained yes terday, the Wednesday totals showing Portland $666,290 in the lead, the exact figures being Portland $2,394,812; Seattle, $1,728,522. OREGON MIDSHIPMAN BEST Herbert O. Roesch Honored in Gun nery Exploit. ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 18. (Spe cial.) The sword offered by the mem bers of the class of 1871 for excel lence in practice and practical ord nance and gunnery has been won this year by Midshipman Follett Bradley, at large, a member of the first class. The honor of having his name en .graved upon the cup offered by Na tional Society, Sons of the Revolution, for excellence in practical ordnance and gunnery, will go to Midshipman Herbert O. "toesch, of Oregon. Roesch won the individual champion ship at the National matches last year, and is considered one of the most pro ficient users of modern firearms in the world. ANOTHER OUTBREAK DUE Anti-Foreign Movement at Xankin Said to Be Critical. WASHINGTON, May 18 United States Minister Calhoun at Pekin reports a se rious situation at Nankin. In a telegram to the State Department he says the consulate at Nankin advises the legation that there are disquieting anti-foreign and anti-dynastic rumors, not unlike those which preceded the Boxer outbreak. The consular body at Nankin has pre sented a memorandum to the Viceroy, emphasising the importance of Immedi ate measures to stop the anti-foreign movement. The minister has telegraphed Rear Ad miral Hubbard, now, in Chinese waters, to hold a warship in readiness to pro ceed to Nankin in case of necessity. SALOONMAN UPHOLDS LAW Xame AVithdrawn From Bond of Violator of Sunday Ordinance. VANCOUVER. Wash., May 18. (Spe-. cial.) Carl Lulthle, himself a saloon keeper and the owner of the Log Cabin saloon here, has ' withdrawn his name from the bond of Charles Beers, who was sentenced to 90 days in jail for violating the ordinance against selling whisky on Sunday. Beers' former license was re voked by the Council Monday night. Lulthle does not believe he ought to be on the bond of a saloonman who has been convicted of an unlawful act. H. C. Stumberg signed the bond in Luithle's Portland Man's Discov ery Is Verified. OPERA GLASS HIS TELESCOPE Friends Share View Before Astronomers Begin Looking. COMET NOT RESPONSIBLE Observations Made All Over Country Confirm First Report of Opti cian Major Spot May Be 100,000 Miles hong. It was the lot of D. Chambers, a Port land optician, to be the first to discover spots on the disk of the sun yesterday, hours before the great observatories which all had their telescones tralnmi heavenward found them. Mr. Chambers found the spots by using a piece of smoked glass and an opera glass. He described them as one large spot and two smaller ones in conjunction, and on. advising others of what he had seen was able to tell them how to ob tain the same view. Everyone who looked found the same sun spots and many er roneously believed them to be the comet. Mr. Chambers' discovery was tele graphed to observatories through the country. He found the spots in the morning but when the astronomers were told of the find they scoffed at it for several hours and. then suddenly announced finding the spots, exactly as reported by Mr. Chambers several hours earlier. All hold that these spots are in no way connected with the comet. They are the first sun spots which have ap peared for some time and, as with comets, their origin is a mystery. A&tronoinerjr-polnt out that the comet, being 76,000,000 miles from the sun, could not possibly have formed these spots. They maintain that there is no possible connection between the sun spot and the comet and that the spots will remain after the comet has gone away. According to various scientists, the spots which Mr. Chambers found are between 40.000 and 100,000 miles across, all being bridged together. They also reported that there were three, one larger than the two others. . As 'a re sult of the spots a severe electrical disturbance is expected, but not until Friday. COMETS IMMATURE PLAXETS Professor See Advances Theory After Years of Research. MARE ISLAND. CaJ., May 18. Profes sor T. J. J. See, astronomer in charge of the United States Naval Observatory at Mare Island, announced today as the outcome of years of research in cosmlcal evolution, a theory on the origin of com ets, which, he said, were -ome of the primitive masses once forming the solar nebula and could be popularly described as immature, undeveloped planets. "In the course of researches made at Mare Island during the past two years on the origin of the solar system," said Professor See. "I have proved that com- (Concluded on Pasre 2. EARTH "GOOD-BYE, OLD MAN; I THOUGHT FOR A MINUTE LOADED." High School Principal Says Girls Prove Distraction to Boys . ... in Classrooms. SPOKANE. Wash., May 18. (Special.) The boys and girls of South Central High School may be separated in their classwork and their recreation next year, according to plans now being discussed by the faculty and the Board of Educa tion. The change, if tried and if found successful, may later be adopted in the North Side High School and later in the grammar schools. The segregation of the students ac cording to sexes Is in accordance with the methods now being used with great success in many of the high schools of many ; Eastern and Middle West cities, but will be a novelty In the Northwest. Principal Halt said: "The change will mean giving instruction to the boys and to the girls In separate classrooms and by different methods, and probably will mean also arranging their recreation pe riods at different times. This will keep them apart to a great degree. "The change is being considered for several reasons. I believe that both the boys and the girls will do more satisfac tory work if they are not placed in the same classrooms. " Soys are often at a disadvantage when asked to recite be fore pupils of the opposite sex. This is particularly true in boys of the lower High School classes. The girls, more over, often prove a distraction to the boys." ' INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Tho Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 69 degrees; minimum, 60 degree. ' TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwest winds. Comet and Bun. Sun spots caused by Intensely heated metal lic vapors, says Carnegie observer. Pag 1. Portland takes keen interest in comet, but falls to see It. Page 1 Portland man first to observe sun spots. Page 1. National. Ballinger's files show no letters from Gug genheim or J. P. Morgan & Co. Page North Pacific Coast Lumber cases due for retrial before Interstate Commerce Com mission. Page 5. Republican regulars form alliance with Dem ocrats in Senate to pass railroad bill. Page 5. War Department will revise tridg order if shipping interests and citizens can agree. Page 1. , Politics. Falling sight causes R. L. McCormtctot of Tacoma, to withdraw from race for Senate. Page T. Domestic. Ir. J. "Whitcomb Brougher says TCast nhows new attitude towards Pacific 'Coast. Page 7. Los Angeles woman sus rich Mrs. Gladys "Woodward for $ 30.000 for alienation oX husband's affections. Page 2. Sport. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 8, Oakland 2: Los Angeles 3, Vernon 1 ; San Francisco 5. Sacramento 4. Page S. Ex-Stars will hlne in baseball game be tween Klmonas and Overalls. Page 8. Johnson boxes nine rounds with, three dif ferent men. Page tt. v Stenographer's error may cost Oregon track meet with O. R. C. Page 9. Commercial and Marine. Hop market quiet pen&ing crop develop ments. Page 21. Wheat declines sharply at Chicago tinder heavy selling. Page 21. Stock dealings at New York, smallest In over a year. Page 21. Pacific Northwest. Commencement exercises at Willamette University begin this week. Page 7. Seven hundred Oddfellows and. Rebekahs march in parade in Eugene. Harrlman line stops tunnel work and will ue Hill tracks into Tacoma. Spokane may abolish co-ed. education in high schools. Page 1. Portland and Vicinity. Bids to be asked at once for construction of r ai 1 r oad f rom. Carl ton to Fai r v 1 ew. Page 20. r Harrlman lines announce new crack train between Portland and Spokane. Page 14. Boston girl says week is too short notice on which to wed; suitor sues to recover ring. Page 12. Army regulations exclude Major Martin. U. S. A . as possible successor of Colonel Mc Donell in National Guard. Page 20. 1 i War Department Only Awaits Agreement. ENGINEERS INFORM MR. ELLIS Shipping Interests and Citi zens Must Get Together. OFFICIAL ACTION NEEDED Rates for Delivery of Cargoes Above Draw Bridges at Boston Are Ad vanced, Because of Delay ' Due to Closing Draws. ORBGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 18. "Whenever shipping in terests and citizens of Portland get to gether and agree upon some plan for closing draws in Willamette River bridges during rush, hours, the Secretary of War will modify the bridge regula tions to conform to that agreement," said an officer of tne Army Engineer Corps to Representative Ellis this afternoon. He added that until some such mutual arrangement is made, the War Depart ment will not amend its Portland draw bridge regulations. Representative Ellis conferred with sev eral officers of the Engineer Corps and discussed fully the situation at Portland which renders the closed periods essen tial for the convenience of a large per centage of the population. He urged in every 'way that the present . regulations be modified, but . the department in formed him it had received vigorous pro tests from shipping interests and navi gation companies at Portland against any such modification, and in the face of these objections did not. feel at liberty to. establish arbitrarily a closed period. Kates liaised Result. Representative Ellis was told that mod ification of the regulations which Boston secured by Senator Lodge, providing a three-hour closed period in that city morning and evening, was the result of an agreement between the citizens and the shipping interests. In compensation, for the delays due to the closing of the draws during the rush hours, thug im peding river navigation, navigation inter ests in Boston are now charging higher rates for delivery above the bridges than to points below, and in the judgment of the engineers this same change in rates would be enforced at Portland if the drawbridge regulations should be modi fied. If, after a conference, an a-eement can be brought about whereby shipping interests at Portland will agree to any closed period on conditions acceptable to the citizens of Portland, as expressed through the Mayor or City Council or through the recognized commercial or ganizations, the Engineer Corps will rec ommend the establlshmenet of such closed periods If they Judge reasonable. Situation Is Unchanged. If. as suggested to Representaive Elite, solution of this problem really rests with the people of Portland, the department 13 unwilling to take sides and will not im Concluded on Page 2.) THERE THAT THE TAIL WAS West Now Recognized as Land That Does Things, Says Clergyman on Return From Chicago. LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 18. (Special.) Greater recognition and appreciation of the Pacific Coast is evident on the part of the population of the other side of the great divide, in the judgment of Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher, formerly of Port land, who returned today from Chicago, where he attended the Northern Baptist Convention and the Laymen's Missionary Assembly. The ohange in attitudo is very notice able to me," said Dr. Brougher today. There is a feeling that the Pacific Coast is doing things faster than they are being done In other sections; that when we start things we finish them. "There is a disposition to recognize that we are accomplishing great work, be tokened by keen interest manifested when ever the Coafct is mentioned. This attitude Is general toward tho West as a whole also." Dr. Brougher took an active part in the discussions at the Northern Baptist con vention in the University of Chicago. "One evidence or the feeling I. men tion," he continued, "was tho enlarge ment of the executive committee from 15 to 30 members, and the representation of about 15 of these went to the West, al though It took a fight to win It." ' JUDGE FORGETS HIS GOWN Defendant in Suit Says Judgment Is Illegal Because of It. - VANCOUVER. Wash., May IS. (Spe cial.) Because Judge W. W. McCredie did not wear a Judicial gown, as pre scribed by law, when he heard a suit against and found a judgment against Henry Van Atta, the latter declares the judgment is invalid and refuses' to pay his share of the costs. The Superior Court has levied on some of Van Atta's property to secure payment. A sale will be held at the Courthouse June 25. Last year City Attorney Kirwin brought suit against Henry Van Atta and a num ber of others, to prevent them from fenc ing a strip of land on Reserve street. Judge McCredie granting a permanent injunction against the defendants and as sessing the costs, about $54, against them. RAINIER TO GET FACTORIES Several Companies Make Offers for Water-Front Properties. RAINIER, Or, May 18. (Special.) Within the last 48 hours L. E. Thomas, who has control of a large portion oi' the water frontage in the Rainier har bor, has been approached by three large manufacturing concerns for sites. It is evident that negotiations are un der way for important deals. That Seattle people are interested is evident from the fact that prominent business men of that city are now in Rainier. A short time ago it leaked out tl.Et a big real estate deal, involving about six miles of Rainier harbor and sev eral hundred acres of city lots, valued at between $250,000 and $300,000, would take place soon. APPENDIX IS LONGEST EVER Portion Is Found Wrapped Around Dead Man's Liver. BUTTE, Mont., May 18. (Special.) An autopsy over the body of W. G. Moffatt, who dropped dead today, re vealed a vermiform appendix nine and a half inches long, the end being wrapped around a portion of the liver. No similar case is known in medical annals. Death was due to apoplexy. SHOOTING TOO GOOD FATE So Says Speaker Cannon of Some Members of Republican Party. NEW YORK, May 18. Shooting was too gentlemanly a fate for certain Repub llcana, thundered Speaker Cannon, of the House of Representatives, tonight, u he addressed the annual banquet of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers at the Waldorf Astoria. SAFETY IN MINES SOUGHT Californian to Find Reason for Rel ative Security Abroad. LOS ANGELES, May 18. Dr. John R. Haynes, of Los Angeles, left for Europe today to search for the rea son why the United States has four mine accidents for every one in Eng land and five for every one in France. He goes under special appointment from Governor GUlett and will spend six months at his task. KIEFER GETS NOMINATION General Wins in Seventh Congress ional District df Ohio. COLUMBUS. O., May 18. Almost complete figures from the seventh Congressional district show that Gen eral J. Warren Kiefer was nominated by about 600 votes. Albert Douglas claims he won by about 2600. Congressman W. Aubrey Thomas now says he has been renominated by ziuu voces in me lazn district. Oil Prospects Bright. W'OODBURN, Or., May 18. (Special.) Parties are here prospecting for oil and after a mineral right lease of 10.000 acres of land. They are confident they can rrt oil. claiming surface Indications prove it a Dairying Will Soon Be Extensive. WATER IS SECURED CHEAPLY With Sale of Large Holdings Development Begins. TOWN .PROPERTY BOOMS Callveit Warns Against Retarding Growth by Holding Lands at Fictitious Values Farms Sell at $15 to $75 an Acre. BT R. G. CAI.LV ERT. PRINEVILLE, Or., May 13. (Staff Cor. respondence.) Next to railroad transpor tation the placing on the market of the lands' of the Willamette Valley & Cas cade Wagon Road grant will probably do more for the immediate development of Central Oregon than any other factor The policy of the French owners of the lands in withholding them absolutely from sale in am all tracts is seen in no more forcible effect than in the vicinity of Prineville. Of 70.000 acres of rich agricultural lands in the Crooked River Valley and tributary to Prineville. ap proximately one-half is embraced In the wagon-road selections. One thing that strongly draws the at tention of the traveller into Prineville is the sight of alternate sections of sage brush land set in among well cultivated fields of hay and grain. With the ac quirement by friends of James J. Hill of the wagon-road grant and the prospect for railroad extensions eastward through the state, strong hopes are held through out the interior that these lands are to be put to some use. Fruit Culture Conies to Fore. If these hopes are realized, railroad feeders into the Crooked River Valley should make that section of Oregon one of the show places of the West. The best future for the Prineville Coun try Is apparently in the extension of the dairying Industry, but If late frost dis appear with more extensive cultivation a Is predicted by many, the Crooked River Valley should become another Rogue River. KfaS frUlt ha been ' almost v. holly for home consumption and prac- h' y T bCl"K made at "clentino horticulture. The smudge pots used even in Oregon's best applegrowlng districts to prevent frost damage are unknown In the vicinity of Prineville. With its halt uncmuvated fields and Its rounding hill. VZSF'J!0 hIh6r Ovations Crooked River Valley In general a p. pearance Is not tinlike Rogue River Val ley of several years ago. Water for Irrigation Plentiful. thT-fl18 Plentl'ul to irrigation. All of 1 aCreS that l' e,ther ln thf bot tom lands or on the table lands between Prineville and Redmond can be Irrigated the former from the Crooked end Ochoco Rivers and the latter from the Deschutes wf, & Power Company, system While the success of horticulture Is a matter for the future to determine, one creamery has already demonstrated the latent possibilities of the country as a dairying district. This creamery, a co-operative enter prise, was started as an experiment about one year ago. In the, first year the farmers were paid for milk on a butter fat test 1 cent below the Portland butter market prices and the creamery was un able to supply the demand for its prod ucts. It is the only enterprise of the kind in the Deschutes Valley at present and Us products, which include ice cream as well as butter, found a market in all the other towns of the district. This year its production will be trebled and what is till more to the point, its success has caused numerous farmers to bring fine milch cows into the district. Irrigation Not Costly. The bottom lands of Crooked River are naturally adapted to the raising of al falfa. There are tracts in the vicinity of Prineville that have been growing alfalfa for 20 years and getting better year by year. Six Prineville residents are en gaged in building a ditch that will water lfluO acres at an estimated cost of $10 per acre. Great quantities of water are now going to waste In the valley. Prineville is about 18 miles off the main lines of the two railroads building into the Deschutes Valley. Where the Oregon Trunk Line and the Deschutes Railroad will cross the river on a Jointly-owned bridge no intimation is given of nro.. extensions eastward along the shores of stream. At the railroad crossing the valley has pinched to a narrow gauge with perpendicular rock walls. Prom th crossing- a railroad route Is feasible east ward up the river and with two miles of neavy rock work the branch road .-ani.lrl enter the level meadows where the river . valley has widened. Grade to Prineville Easy. Sixteen miles along this valley by litrht grade would take the road to Prineville. It also would be feasible. It Is hlivoH to extend such a road on up Crooked River to Fife, where the divide between Crooked and Harney Valleys Is found, and thence on down eastward to the MaL , heur Rver. Both the Oregon Trunk aiuI Deschutes Railroad surveys, however,' existence, tAJen eluded on Page 7.)