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PORTLAND, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. L-XO. 13,G23. LOVETT INDORSES ROAD SUPERVISION BotherAboutSecurities Held Unwise. ME POWER MUST ENFORCE Harriman Official Sees Danger in Too Many "Bosses." HE DIFFERS WITH STETSON Magnate Declares) Regulation of Railroad Need Not Extend to Mocks, Whirli Hate No Ef- fret In Determining Hates. NEW TOBK. SI. Robert S. Utfit, successor to V- If. Ilarrlman president of the Southern Pacific and fnlon pacific Railroad, told tho Rail road Securities Commission today that was In favor of Federal supervision f railroads, but questioned the wis lorn of. or necessity for. Federal laws lo govern tho Issue of railroad secur ities. As a railroad executive, he did at oppose Government regulation of Hock If sues, but lie did Insist tliat If regulation la In rome. the authorities Miard to enact It be vested with full )ow to enforce. The present status of the railroads, harassed on all sides by rnnfllctln state laws, waa bad. he aaid. but further conflict of alate and Federal lawa waa a possibility, from which he Hoped to be delivered. Position Opposes SlctsoiW. In tils Ions; association with the rail roads. Judge lovett has been more corporation lawyer than executive, but sis testimony today waa In direct op soaltloa to that of Francis Lynde Stet ton. counsel for J. P. Morgan Co. ind rated one of the foremost cor oration la fryers of the country. When Stetson was on the stand-Mast areek he told the commission that rates ere of purely local Interest, and h would prefer to see the arrest railroad systems ended at state boundaries, there to connect with other systems. rather than to .have them come under Federal control. Kates and capitalisation, their rela Hon to each other, ami the relation of :he public to both, was the gist of ludgo Lovett's testimony, lie did not see that rales had anything to do with dividends In actual practice, or that the Government should have any con -era In what kind of railroad securities the public bought. Ralra Had No Effect. In rs jsara' experience be bad met with no Instance In whlrh rales had seen changed to affect Interest pay- ttents) or dividends. Ha doubted If :here were a dnsen t raff I.- men In the country oo knew the capitalisation of he companies they represented.. Therefore, there waa no need of repa ration of securities or a control of rates, as for the public, as long as the Indl rldual waa left free to apeculate as he ;hose In wildcat shares, he need not be neertlcally protected from the rail road. The Government was chiefly Interest ed, he thought. In seeing that the rail road companies received value In full for their Issues. Rrtarna. Is Juctln. "Hence the question. he aald. "would seem to be not what the companies now own. but what they get for the securi ties furnUaed. The value of the prop erty now owned would aeem to have no relation to that question." If It la proposed ii make a physK-al sluatlon of the railroad a basis for Silling rates, he could only say any scheme of appraising property by an attempt to estimate the cost of Its re production aa exceedingly mischiev ous and utterly Impracticable. Control Regulation I reed. Samuel Cntermrer. counsel for the Kansas City Southern Hallway and for the receivers of the Seaboard Airline, a-ro followed Judge Lovett. re com -aicaded that no railroad be permitted to acquire control of another except by lease or outright purchase. This Is for protection of the minority stockholders. Where three-quarters of the share holders favored a sale and one-quarter opposed It. he recommended that the court order a sale. Such, he said, was the FngllsH practice, and experience showed ttat It worked well. CAR BRAKES CAUSE WRECK Hoy and Girl Escape by- Miracle; Eniplotcs Are Injured. NELSON. B. C. Dee. 3.-A runaway car caused th injury of three persons and wrecked the car on the new electric street railway just put in operation th'a morning. Th brake feLid to bold on a IS per cent grad. The car ran backward. J' imped the track at a sharp curve and asa wrecked. To Injured ere: Superintendent lnrram. of the street railway company; Votor n an Goby and Conductor Franklin. Two paaserrgera. a boy and a girl, had miraculous escape, a revkars being pUed ail around, them. RICH MAN SAVES LIFE OF ACTRESS EDVl LOrTTS HHELXSTROM IS DRAGGED FROM WATER. I liable to Obtain Work While Hus band Is in As-jlum, Young Wom an Lcaps Into Lake. PAX FRANCISCO. Pec II. (Special. Fished from the shallow waters ot fSnreekel's l.ake. Into which ah had cast herself, her rescuer being a man of wealth, whose name l concealed. Bdn a Lofttis Rhelnstrom. wife of Har ry A. RMelnstrom. of Cincinnati, now confined In a Stockton asylum, lies serl ously 111 at a hotel near Golden Gate Park. Mystery surrounds the rloh rescuer, who since his brave deed la said by frlenda of the young woman to be tak ing mors than a passing Interest In her. The attempt at suicide followed three weeks of unsuccessful effort to obtain engagements In vaudeville or to main tain herself In the luxurious style to which Kdna I .oft us Rhelnstrom had been accustomed. In her desperation, the actress went to Golden Gate Park and plunged Into the lake. The shock of cold water re vived a natural Instinct, and the young woman was soon screaming for help. Help came In the afore. mentioned man of social distinction, who waa passing In an automobile. Ho stopped bis car. waded In and dragged the bedraggled actress out. Promptly the rescuer hur ried her away to a hotel. POSTAL RECORDS BROKEN inflict Figures Arc Eclipsed at Portland Poptoffice. Yesterday's postage-stamp sales broke the record of the Portland FostofBce, the total value being eSTTiM. "The aales of postage-stamps have been Increasing rapidly." Assistant Poet master Williamson said last night, "and today we broke the record. On Decem ber . 10. the chief stamp clerk sold tamos to the value ot WT12. That was the record at that time. November t last the sales went over the fcM notch, the exact figure being K12XS0. December 19 liJSS worth of stampa were sold, and yesterday a brand new record was made. "The figures glveo do not Indicate the value of the etamps sold over the coun ters or at windows to Individual buyers, but is the value of stsmps disbursed by the chief stamp clerk during the day. It would be Impossible for us to give, carly enough for publication the next mornlnc, the exact value of all stamps sold at the stamp windows, as we have a number of rib-stations throughout the city from which w have not received the report of the day's sales, snd the windows at the main office are open until midnight. But aa the chief stamp clerk la a sort of clearing-house for stamps his salca In dliate the sales of the entire city." DIVORCES 33 IN 3 HOURS Seattle Breaks Record, but Helps Some With 1 I Marriages. SEATTLE. Iec. SI. Thirty-three dl vorrea granted In three hours set new records both for continuity of per formance and for speed In the Superior Court today. In view of the fuct that not less than two witnesses were heard In each case, the average time of five minute twenty-one aeconds Is consid ered remarkable by local attorneys. "I do not ascribe the unusually large number of divorce rases to any further loosening ot domestic ties, because they have been plenty loose enough atl along, according to the nnmber of cases that steadily rome before me." said Judge A. W. Frater. In whose court the 33 cases were tried. 'I shall endeavor again at thfcs ses sion to wake the Legislature up on th subject ot our lax divorce lrfws." Fourteen marriage licenses were Is sued today, which. In a measure, re paired the matrimonial damage. GERMAN BIRTH RATE LAGS Menace? of Itace Suicide Seen In Sta tistics by Sociologists. BEUUN. Ie. I1- (Special.) As a reiult of computations recently com pleted. It Is found that the birth rat In Germany Is decreasing. Sociologists are anxiously drawing attention to th menace of race suicide. Last year's birth rate for every 1000 of population Itroughout the Empire was only I J. aa against Is for the decade ending la 1SJ0. and 43 per 1000 In 1S7S. The decline la attributed partly to the Increasing reluctance of prosperous persons.' especially In cities, to accept the burden of raising large families. The unfavorable allowing la causing aome concern among statisticians, who point out that a continuance of this rapid decline In the birth rate would bring Germany ere long to the condi tion of France, where th population has ceasrd to grow. EXPLORERS ASHORE, ANGRY Japanese F.xpcdltlou to Kind South Pole Has Bad Start. VltTTORIA. B. C Dec. 3. The steamer Kalnan Mara, carry Ins. Admiral Shlrase and the Japanese expedition to seek (be South Pole, which left Japan two days before tho sailing of the steamer Ay merlc. wblch arrived teday. had an In auspicious start, going ashore In Tokio Fay following a - dispute among those heading -the expedition. Wore starting, all hands proceeded to the Imperial palace to give three banxsts of the Emperor and then proceeded to a Shinto Temple to be "purlfie- " STRIKE PROSPECT IS Engineers Refuse Pro' posal to Arbitrate. BREAK IS EXPECTED TODAY Labor Commissioner Begs One Day to Influence Managers. ORIGINAL DEMAND STANDS W. S. Stone. Grand Cliicf of Brother hood. Says Railroad Offer ot 1-2 Per Cent Increase Must Be Raised or Men Go Out. CHICAGO, Deo. 11. (Special.) For lowing a day of conference between the Western railroad managers, the locomo tive engineers and Charles P. Neill, I- bor Commissioner, the question of peace or war hung In the balunce tonight. The engineers favored terminating the ne gotiations, but Dr. Neill aske. them to meet blm again tomorrow, when he ex peeled to be able to give a final answer from the railroad managers. The members of the Advisory Board of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers arrived In the city and spent the day In conference with W. S. Stone. Grand Chief. Neither the managers nor Mr. Stone would predict what a day may bring forth, though the former still appears confident that an amicable settlement will be reached. Situation Is Unchanged. "There Is no change In the situation, said Mr. Stone tonight when lie left conference with Dr. Neill. "I expected that this would prove our last confer ence, but Dr. Neill has requested us to meet him at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn ing, and of course we shall do so. Whether he will have anything to of fer at that time, I have not the faint est Idea." Mr. Stone was emphatic that the en gineers will not agree to arbitrate the entlr question of wages and working conditions. He says that lie and his committee spent nearly three months to secure the Sli per cent increase which the managers offer to pay and that he docs not propose to take any chance of losing It through an arbitration board. "If the managers want to arbitrate whether the engineers shall get 9'i per per cent Increase, which the railroads have offered or about la per cent,, which we are asking for, we are ready to agree to that. We are ready to arbi trate the difference between us, but not the entire question. Arbitration la only a gamble at the best and If the railroads are ready to begin at 9Vi per cent and go upward we might take a chance." Managers May Offer 10 Per Cent. Although no definite advance hos been made by either side, it is said the rail road mnnagx-rs are prepared to offer a flat 10 per cent increase, not only to the engineers, but to the trainmen and conductors as well and end the entire controversy. The managers have been Concluded on Ikce WHAT MOST OF US THINK WE DESERVE, MX INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperatpre. 40 degrees: minimum. 32 dexrees. TODAY'S Fair, westerly winds. Foreign. Enclish mine explosion fatal to 300. Page 3 Natlonal. Fraxler dissents from Senate committee's report clearing Lorlmer. Page A. Government believes it has beeu defrauded of millions by fraudulent refunds on ucar exports at New York. Pace Domestic. Lawvers torture Mrs. Turnbull. witness In suit against Baldwin estate. Page 1. Strike of engineers oa Western roads ex pected momentarily. Paso 1. Lovett favors Federal supervision of rail roads, but thinks bother about securities regulation unwise. Page 1. Government seeks to recover $600,000 from Duveea Brothers on alleged unpaid duties n art treasures. Page. U. Alarm felt for British steamer long over due: wreckage seen. Page 7. Score killed at Philadelphia fire when walls crash firemen and tiien rescus workers. Page 1. Woolgrowers point out heavy losses entslled In 1U10. due to tariff agitation. Page 5. Rich man aavea life of Edna Loftus Rheln strom. Page a. Sports. Multnomah Club defines position relative to proposed auditorium. Page & Chl-aao team la lighter than YVenatcbee eleven. Page 8. raelfle Northwest. Balor takes kindly. to commission form of government. Page 7. Investigating committee's report out: may lead to peace between Oregon educational Inatitutiona. Page 8. State of Oregon will require nearly $1.- r't0,0" to operate government in J911- 12. Page S. I Taoma bank teller emneaslca I2O.O0O to In vest In timber business. Face 4. Commercial and Marine. I-r.cal turkey market Is advancing. Tags 21. Ueneral rain reports cause weakness in wheat at Chicago. Pag ST. Storks affected by dividend announcements. I'age 21. Kecord price paid for steer at Portland stockyards. Page 21. Fog hampers movement of large vessels In Willamette. Page 20, Portland and Vicinity. Council amend! proposed liquor ordinance, hut falia to take nnal action. . Heney to announce procedure In Blnger Hermann case today. Page 9. Tom tell Santa Claus hearts' desires. Pag 14. Fourteen blocks In Korth Portland, bought two years ago. Iransrerreel to Marrimau Interests at :i.0O0.O0O. Page 12. ,- Teachers of Oregon meet In annual conven tion. Page 10. W'oolBTOwera' Association plana to fight re duction of tariff on wool, i'age 2u. Alice Lloyd's sister, who was mlstsken for r.tnel ineve, en route- nume. u hen. Page 12. Judge Morrow weds. Psge 17. Heads of Hsrrlmsn merger In Northwest are named. Page 20. Justice . Olson and Attorney MqElroy ex change harsh words. Page 14. Glllner estate la divided. Page 13. Mind of laborer restored by removal of por tion of skull after IS monina' coma. Page 1. GASTON IS NOT CANDIDATE Democrat Withdraws From Knee With Sole Hope Defeating Lodge. BOSTOX, Dee. 21. Colonel . W. A. Gaston announced late today his with drawal as a Democratic candidate to aucceed United States Senator Lodge. In a letter defining; Ms stand Mr. Gas ton says he docs this from a belief that Democrat cannot be elected, in any event and he Is withdrawing that what ever strength he may carry may go to some Progressive Republican. This move on his part, he says. Is taken at this time that there may be no embarrassment of the Governor- elect In his campaign against Mr. Lodge. HORSES TO BE BANQUETED Humane Society to Serve Christinas Dinner of Oats and Hay. KANSAS CITT. Dec. II. All the horses of Kansas City are Invited, through their owners, to attend a Christmas dinner at Hill Baltimore avenue. The Humane Society today chose a place for serving he dinner. r.ach Horse will receive a. large sack, t'f oata and hay enough to make him feel fat. 'TWAS EVER THUS. WOMAN UNSHAKEN BUT SUIT MENS LSWyGT Still T0rtUr6S Mrs. Turnbull, FEW KNOW- OF. "MARRIAGE" Wife Introduced but Five Times, Thrice to. Negroes. CONTRACT IS KEPT SECRET Witness Admits That Xo One hut She and Baldwin Ever Saw It. Two 'Women Fi-iends Told, but in Shame She Forgets Them. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Dec. 21 For three hours today. Mrs. Lillian A. Turn- bull again experienced all the tortures of the "third degree" while being cross- examined in the will contest to obtain for her daughter a 12,500,000 share of the Lucky Baldwin estate. At the end cf that period, her'repu- tatlon for Iron nerve remained un scathed, but meanwhile her alert wit had given way to the determined probe of the Baldwin attorneys, enabling them to get Into the voluminous record ad missions which they declared knock the main props from under her daugh ter's case. Taking her over the ground of her previous testimony, the cross-examiner, Gavin McXab, caused Mrs. Turnbull to repeat , her former declarations that there had been a contract of marriage, but that no one but herself and Baldwin had ever seen It. Then he demanded to know whether she had ever been In troducd to the turfman as his wife, or whether she had been recognised by anyone as Mrs. Baldwin. Wife Introduced Five Times. By a long series of questions, which occupied nearly an hour. McNab drew from the witness the apparently reluc tant admission that Baldwin had re ferred to her as Mrs. Baldwin before only five persons.' Three of these were negro servants, either at the Baldwin Hotel in San Francisco or at the Santa Anita ranch here, and two were white men. She could not recall thaf Baldwin had ever Introduced her as his wife to a single woman. One of the negroes Mrs. Turnbull re membered as Bob. McNab, by another long series of questions, established his Identity as Robert Jackson, who at the time of the alleged contract mar riage, was coachman to Mrs. Lillie Ben net Baldwin, the wife of the turfman. but who later became valet to Colonel Henry I. Kowalsky, of San trancisco. McNab also elicited the information that Mrs. Turnbull had met Jackson within the past fortnight at Kowalsky's apartment in a hotel here. Witness Compelled to Admit. McNab proceeded with questions lead ing up to the query: "Is there not an other human being that you recall to (Concluded on Page 3.) MIND IS RESTORED AFTER LONG COMA OPERATION' OX BRAIX PUTS XORMAL STATE. GREEK IX After 18 Mon His' Blindness and Paralysis, Removal of Two Inches of Sknll Brings Relief. A surgical operation at St. Vincent's Hospital Tuesday restored to a Greek laborer his sight, use of his legs and renewed his mental faculties, after 18 months', blindness, inability to walk and state of semi-coma that made his mind dull and uncomprehenslve. The operation was the removal of two square Inches oj skull over the optic center of the brain, relieving a pres sure that has caused an almost total physical and mental paralysis for year and a half. "truck on the head while at work and immediately lapsed Into a generally disabled condition. He was taken to the laborers' quarters, where for a year and a half he has been waited on by his fellow countrymen. His vision was so Impaired that he could scarcely dis tinguish more than light from dark and he was unable to walk alone. If lie started for a certain point alone he would go in a diagonal direction. His mind was dull and he had difficulty in comprehending what Was said to him. A few days ago Dr. S. Sargentlch, who recently came to Portland, was called to see the laborer. He found that the skull had been fractured, and called Drs. E. B. and Roy C. McDaniel In consultation. The man was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital and the op eration performed. The portion of his skull removed had grown to three times its normal thickness, causing the pres sure on the brain. The Greek is now able to see distinctly and the doctors say he will probably soon recover and regain control of all his faculties. FATHER WOULD SLAY GIRL Jack P. Hubrick, Pasco, and Daugh ter, Ruth, Figure in Sensation. PASCO, Wash., Dec. 21. (Special.) Because Ruth Hubrick. a pretty 18-year-old store clerk, refused to return home to live, alleging indignities. Jack P. Hubrick, the father. Is In Franklin County Jail, charged with attempting to kill her about 6 o'clock tonight, and Pasco is deeply stirred. Professor Walter Dowman, who ran to the rescue of the girl, and knocked the revolver from Hubrick's hand, was shot through the -vrijt. ItPraefced for the arrest. iHubrick entered the Chicago Store here his daughter Is employed and asked to see hei. She was in the back room and started toward the main part of the store, meeting her father. 'Are you coming home tonight?" he I asked. She answered, "No." When she said she would never re turn home, he said, it is alleged, "If you have anything to say, better say it now, it's all over between us," at the same time drawing a revolver. HOLD-UPS STRIP VICTIM Tacoma Man Left .Shivering Thieves Make Good Escape. ' TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 21. (Special.) Two masked highwaymen encountered John Edgar, a department manager for the Pacific Brewing & Malting Com pany, at South Twelfth and B streets. trilght and compelled him to strip off his clothing. One robber was armed with a- revolver and the other with a big club. After getting Edgar's garments they proceeded to go through the pockets while he stood shivering In the cold. Taking about $3 in change the thieves threw the clothes aside and left Edgar to. dress and then give the alarm. They had made good their escape long before the police got word from Edgar, who had been on his way to his home, 1516 South Prospect street. Tacoma Is experiencing an epidemic of hold-ups lately, highway robberies be ing of nightly occurrence. Thus far the police have been unable to secure even a trace of the thugs and the citizen who has to go home after nightfall on dark streets Is doing much worrying. ! CHINESE OBEY; QUEUES GO Bearish Effect on Hair Market Ex pected From Edict in Orient. . VICTORIA. B. C, Dec. 21. The date set for the removal of the queue from the heads of male Chinese was Decem ber 5, and when the steamship Aymeric left China a few days before that time, the edict was being generally obeyed. Assuming that nearly 200,000,000 queues will be cut off, the human hair market will be glutted. The prevailing style of hairdressing In the United States calls for much artificial hair, but not nearly so much as Is available. Hnman hair may be woven into cloth, but the fabric is stiff and unfoldable. EX-HERO COOK DUE HOME Gotham Scribes Will Question Him; Welcome to Be Frigid. t NEW YORK, Dec. 21. Tomorrow afternoon, 1 year and 25 days from the time Dr. Frederick A. Cook disappeared from home, he Is due to sail up New York harbor again, but no longer a hero. There will be reporters to ques tion him, but no welcome such as was given him. on his return from the Arctic regions. Dr. Cook is a passenger on the steam ship George Washington, due to dock tomorrow afternoon 2 ILLS FALL JIT FIRE; SCORE DEAD Fatal Accidents Follow Each Other. SECOND CRASH HITS RESCUERS Firemen Brushed From Lad ders by Tons of Bricks. . POLICE ARE ALSO CAUGHT As Frozen Bodies of Victims of CoU lupse Are Dragged From Ice-Cov-cred Ruins, Remaining Walls Crumble on Heads of Men. PHILADELPHIA. Dec 21. Probably 12 firemen and as many policemen IofI their lives and scores were injured to night in a fire which destroyed D. P. Friedlander's leatherworking planf, s five-story building at ,1116 to 112 North Bodine street. when walla crumbled and crushed them. There were two separate disasteri during the conflagration. Firemen fighting the' seething furnace of the leather factory were caught when tli south walls fell, and while efforts wera being made to rescue the survivors of the wreck and policemen bad been sent in to prevent a repetition of the acci dent at the north wall, that part of the building tottered and fell, burying hall of the 30 policemen at work there. Twenty Injured Rescued. More than 20 injured have beex. taken to the hospitals. At least 13 are still in the ruins. Of those taken. to hospitals, half a doxen have fractured skulls and ara Internally injured. The chances of re covery are slight. ' Six policemen are known to hav been killed at 2:45 this morning when the north wall of the factory fell. At the time the wall collapsed, there were about 30 policemen and firemen work ing close to the tottering pile of bricks. Fifteen of this number were able to -rush from danger, but the remainder were caught, many being -crushed to death. Dead Will Total 20. The total number of dead probably will reach 20. The blaze was first discovered about 10 o'clock and in less than half an hour the Interior of the building of the building was a furnace. Unable to fight the flames from the roof of the doomed structure, firemen climbed to the roofs of three small dwellings adjoining. It was here that the aceident oc curred. Scattered about on the three small structures at every vantage point wenj nearly 40 men, while clinging to their Icy ladders, which were lean ing against the soutli wail of the leather factory, were Patrick Carroll. George Machinsky and John Carroll, all of Engine Company No. 1. Men See Danger. , The men on the houses saw their danger first and called a warning to their comrades" on the ladders, but so sudden was the. collapso of the wall that no one was able to escape the rain of bricks, ' twisted beams and girders. With a roar, the nve-story mass crumbled, carrying either deattl or injury to every one who a moment before had stood, ice-covered, trying to save adjoining property. The scene which followed was sick ening. Thousands of gallons oi water alreardy had been thrown Into the burning building a'ud there waa at least two feet "of icy water in the cel lar. S. . Some Bodies Recovered. The first two bodies to be taken from. the debris were those of Patrick Car roll and George Machinsky. Tneir heads were crushed almost beyond rec ognition. A few moments later the body of Charles Erderman was pulled from beneath a heavy girder, and John Carroll's body was taken out shortly afterwards. Erderman's face waa buried in a mass of ice and John Car roll was frozen. A hurry call was sent to all nearby hospitals and the police department for assistance. Soon nearly a score of am bulances were at the scene. As the in jured firemen were lifted from beneath the debris, they were ministered to by the priests who had rushed to the fire from the German Catholic Church. thre blocks awa'i Groans Are Heard. While the injured were being re moved from one side of the building, the groans of other firemen could be heard at the other end of the burned structure. William Glazier, of Engine Company No. 6. and Harry Bertolet of ; Chemical Engine No. 2, who were pin ioned by heavy girders, were able to talk with the rescuers and direct their work. ' John Carroll, of Engine Company No, 7, also was able to converse with the rescuers, but succumbed before he waa reached. In the meantime, a greater disaster was threatening the men burled in the ruins. The, north wall, which had remained standing, began to totter, and fears were entertained that It would crash down upon the firemen -at any moment '