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rORTLAXD, OREGON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 31. CAUGHT IN SLIDE, TELEPHONE SES Man's Rescue From Peril Thrilling. ELLENSBUHG YOUTH FROZEN Imperiled Lineman from Moun tain Sends Call for Aid. VICTIM REACHED BY CABLE Slowly Ilracurrs Make,Wajr Over Treacherous bnmrirld lo In Jurrd Comrade, Who, the While Reports Procre by Phone. nJjntPBVTlO. Wash Iff. ,-8pe-rial.) J. C. Hutchinson, a Sunset Tele phone Company lineman, while ascend ing the East Side of the Hump, one of the most precipitous hUla In the Cascade Mountains located roar Northern Pacific tunnel No. I. whlrb Is between Martin and Stampede, was caucht yesterday In a soowslide and carried KM feet down the. steep Incline ajd burled under sev eral feet of snow bsids a telephone pole. Three, hours later h was rescued. After a frantic strugsle Hutrhlneon worked Ms way up the pots to the top. rat In on tha wire and. with his pocket telephone set. railed Cle Elum. He was confused and bewildered by the terrify ing experience and bis directions as to location were vastus. Itrwarrs Arc Summoned. The telephone company appealed to the rallmad and telegraph companies for aid. and a freight train crew at Martin was ordered to cut an engine loose and run tp the, tunnel with a rescue party. Jkrrtrlnc at the tunnel the rescue party found Hutchinson was several hundred feet above them on a mountain with a precipitous bank of snow between them and the Imperiled lineman. Meanwhile Hutchinson's clothing-, which had been dampened by his exert tons, be ean ttt freete In the bitter cold, as he clung to Ms perch at the top of tha pole. The railroad men. finding they could not poaslbly reach the man. sent back for a party of Western Union linemen under Koreman Smith, who were repair ing a cable at tha tunnel. They Inspected the huge banks of snow and realised It would be suicide for one to attempt the ascent of the bank. Cable Serves) aa Llfrllne. After brief deliberation, a swinging seat used by linemen In working alone sua pended rabies was brought out and. start Ing a quarter of a mile distant, two line men slowly worked their way alone the telephone cable toward the Imperiled man. Tbeir Journey toward him. up a' steep Incline, necessitating a halt at every telephone pole, seemed ages to the frees. Ins man on top of the pole, yet he never Inst courage, sending hopeful messages In both directions to El lens burg operators and tha wire chief at Seattle, and only briefly mentioning; his terrible agony aa bis lers and arms slowly frose. He told them bow he w.j kicking: his feet against the pole and U' .Ing his arms and hands to keep the bio. J clrculattn-:. yet every movement hsd to be cautious to prevent a fatal fall Into the banks of snow below him. Injarlea .May He Permanent. The man was placed In the cable seat and the two linemen helped It back down the Incline, working hand-over-hand. The frosea man was quickly taken to the Cle Flum Hospital, where It was re-ported one arm waa badly froaen and that probably the man would be crippled for life. Telephone officers state today the Hump Is considered the most dangerous place for slides alona the telephone lines cross ing the Cascades. Hutchinson Is a com paratively new man In this territory, and wliea a wire trouMe report was given htm yesterday morning he was warned ty the wire chief that It waa suicide for anyone to attempt to ascend the Hump. I.I nr man Coveted Rccnrd." Ho ten! n '!. on tracing the wires for trouble, found that the tiorrp waa the location of tlje break. Finding It a phy sical Impossibility to arcend without snowshoea be borrowed a pair In his effort to make a record for himself. He succeeded In partially ascending the east side of the Hump when the snow-slide struck him. csrrylng htm feet down the side of the mountain, and planting him at the foot of one of the poles, cut off on all sides by a steep snowbank over which a man with full strength could not pass. Only oce avenue of escape was left, the climbing of ttie telephone pole to sum mon assistance be wtre. PIME BRINGS $3,500,000 Frnns) Ivanlaa Sells 46.000 Oregon Acree la Fs.trrn S -indicate. MEDFORO. Or.. Dev. SV-tflpeclal Representative Hopkins, of Penna) Ivanla. sold his V'-a-scr timber tract on Janney Crea. between Ashland and Klamath Falls, today. The purchase was ma!e by an Eastern syndicate for Ri'.ss through the nego tiation of J. 8. -SU-by. of A.'.'and. The tract Is one of the finest pieces of ir plre In V-it,-rn Oreton. The ivber wCl be logged and n-illed at once. . . r INOCULATION KILLS VIRUS OF TYPHOID KXPI.RIMKXTS WITH THOOPS IX GKORGM SVCCKEI. Cavalry Slake Prartk-c March of S00 Milt-. Prinking; Vnbollcd Water, but None Are III. WASHINGTON". I "- JO. Remark ably su.-cessful results obtained by the experimental Inoculation of troops with typhoid fever virus are reported from Fort Oglethorpe. On- There Is now ground for the hope that by the gen eral adoption of this system of Inocu lation troops In the Hold msy be abso lutely safeguarded against the dis ease. Last September Colonel Parker, com manding at Fort Oglethorpe, ordered that all officers and soldiers under years of age be Inoculated against ty phoid, the medical officers having: re ported that there was danger of an epidemic at that post. Tha Colonel reports to the War De partment that the Eleventh Cavalry, having been Inoculated, made a prac tice march of 21 days, extending- from Oglethorpe to Knoxvllle and return, a distance of 300 miles. -During this period, by authority of the department commander, no attempt ,,He to boll the water." says Col onel Parker. "On October IT. the date of return to this post, the sick report of Ihe commander In the field numbered none. No cases of typhoid have since developed. PORTLAND LEADS COUNTRY City Shows Gains In Bank Clearing Every Week of SS In Tear. In the list of S of the largest cities In the United States. Portland takes fit- place In showings made in bank clearings for the week ending yesterday. According to Bradstreefa report. Port land's Increase over the amount of busU nem transacted for the same week last year was equal to !M per cent The nearest competitor was Atlanta. Ga.. which showed a gain of 20.t per cent over the volume of business for tha cor responding week In ISO. Portland's totals were tS.SM.0DO. Seattle showed a lor of 1C1 per rent, the totals of that city being tS.'TS.OTO. With this the last week In 1910. Port land sets a new record for Pacific Coast cities In maintaining an Increase for every one of the U weeks. The week's buslneew will help In swelling the totals for the month. It Is expected thst the rlesrtngs for the month will exceed those for the same month last year by 110,000,000. BALL GIVEN HELEN TAFT White House Scene of Gayety In Honor of Taft'a Daughter. WASHINGTON. Dec. JO. For the ball held tonight at the White House In honor of Miss Helen Taft. the East room was enlarged by tha building of a small wooden house outside one of the windows for the accommodation of tha Marine Band orchestra, which fur nished the music. This gave consider ably more spare for dancing. The musicians house, which looked Ilka a large woodshed, waa on the roof of tha east colonsde of the ex ecutive mansion. Several hundred young people gilded about under the massive chandeliers. Among the guests waa Miss Louise Taft, daughter of Charles P. Taft. brother of the President, who, with her father, arrived today as a White House guest. Several of MIsa Helen's college chums and frienda of her brother. Robert, were present. SPOKANE LADS ON METTLE Portland' Winter Aquatic Sport In spires Daredevil Effort. SPOKANE. Wash.. Dec. JO. (Special V- Inspired by the accounts of Oregonlans surfhathtng at Christmas and competing In swimming races In the Willamette River. Hpoksne lad- have hunted up the "old awlmmln hole." Never before In December bas anyone voluntarily bathed In the liver, hence hslf a doxen naked bors swimming In the Icy cold Spokane River waa the extraordinary eight wit nessed shortly after t o'clock today. Say. isn't that some sd for Spokane's Winter climate!" exclaimed the proprie tor of a Spokane toilet supply company, who witnessed the spectacle. Tha boys built a bonfire on the bank and warmed themselves between plunges. ESTATE OVER 17 MILLIONS Widow and Children of Henry O. Havemeyrr Get Kortune. XBW TORK. Dei;. Jo Tna estate of Henry O. Havemeer. of the American Sugar Refining Company, la appraised st l'.T.lT.l In the report ef the transfer Tax Appraiser filed here todey. Mr. Havemeyer died on December i, . Heleft all his property to hie widow and tl.ree children. COLD WAVE SWEEPS LAND from Atlantic to Rockies It Extends. Storm Warnings Fly. WASHINGTON. Dec JO. Cold weather throughout the country le) predicted for the next 4S hours. Storm wamtnxs are flying on the Atlan tic Coast from Maine to Florida, the tem perature Is falling between the Appala chian and Rocky Mountalna and In the Northweex the cold wave hae already ar rived. Tie temperature at Duluth. 3d Inn-, and Detlls !.ake. N. D- Is in below aero and at Winnipeg 42 below aero. I t BATHTUB LORDS PLEAD FOR MERC! Wickersham Says They Must Go to Jail. THEY OFFER TO SURRENDER No Concessions Offered to Penitent Monopolists. TRUST ALREADY DISSOLVED Attorney-General Announces Deter mination to Send AH Convicted Trust Magnates to Jail in Fu ture and Show No Mercy. WASHINGTON. Dec. JO. Attorneys for the Individuals Indicted as members of the so-called "bathtub trust" for alleged violation of the Sherman art came to the Department of Justice today In the Interest of their clients. These. In the event of conviction, are threatened with Jail sentences. The trio of lawyers was headed by Rush Taggart. of New York, and included Wil liam L. Carpenter and Lao Ttutzel, of Detryilt. After .an hour's conference with W. & Kenyon, Mr. Wickersham' assist ant, and to whom the Attorney-General baa delegated the whole matter, the law yers refused to say a word as to the pur pose or result of the conference. Wickersham Insists on Jail. It was said at the department that they had been given no reason to believe that the Attorney-General would consent to the acceptance of a plea of guilty and tlte. Imposition of fines rather than Im prisonment. They were given to under stand. It waa said, that Jail sentences will be Insisted upon and were Informed that their clients will be expected In the United States Court In Detroit on January 4 to give I4G00 ball each. Attor neys for-the Indicted men Indicated they would not make It necessary for the Gov ernment to start 50 removal suits to get the M defendants together on that day. Trast Offers to Dissolve. The offer to compromise said to have been tendered was that the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company and other defendants In the civil action ap pear before the Circuit Court at Balti more and consent to the permanent In junction the Government asks. If the Government would be satisfied with fines and no Jail sentences in the criminal ac tion. It was pointed out that an effec tual dissolution of the offensive combina tion the Government charges would be effected if the injunction were agreed to. The Department of Justice, however, thinks the combination Is as good as dis solved. This week It learned that four concern In the combine seat out notices that they were no longer parties to the alleged prlce-flilng agreement Jail for AH Future Trust Kings. The recent declaration of the Attorney General that he would Insist on prison sentences In all future convictions in trust cases wss the answer to- the second proposition, ffrank H. Watson. United States District Attorney at Detroit, re ferred questioners to Mr. Kenyon. who declared the porltlon of the Department of Justice wss well known and admitted of no discussion. ywmm ms&pA Aimum f THE OREGONIAN ASSUAl The Oregonian Annual has become an institution. " It is read by almost every person in Oregon, and many thousands of copies are sent each year to the East and to foreign countries. The Annual is universally rec ognized as the most valuable ex ploitation publication printed in the Pacific Northwest. The Oregonian Annual trill not be issued this New Year's day, the usual time of publica tion, but will be combined with the Fiftieth Anniversary Edi tion to be printed on February 4. It will be more complete in every way than Annuals of the .past. More than the usual space will be devoted to the state's in dustries, every county will have a separate write-up, a large amount of historical informa tion will be included and the illustrations will bo finer au-i more numerous than ever before. All who are interested in Ore iron, or who desire to inform their friends abont this state, will find just what they want in the Anniversary Edition. Remember the date of publica tion February 4, 1911. EARLE MARRIAGE KILLED Artist's "Soul-Mate" Has Court An nul Matrimonial Bonds. NEW TORK. Dec. 30. Mrs. Julia Kut- -tner Earle obtained In the appellate divi sion o the Supreme Court an annulment of her marriage to Ferdinand Pinney Barle, an artist, at Venice, Italy, on March 17, 1908. Earle was divorced from Marie Emllie Glshbacker in Parle In 1906, on her emit for desertion. Her failure to transcribe a portion of the decree in the register where the marriage waa recorded until three months after Earle'a marriage to his second wife) suspended the divorce for that period and gave the second Mrn. Earle grounds to contest the validity of her marriage. Earle's marriage to Julia Kuttner caused a sensation, his first wife having con sented to divorce herself so he might lawfully Join Ills "eoulmate." He coined the term "soulmate" applied to affinities. FACTORY IS DYNAMITED Kansas City Sheet Metal Works, Run as Open Shop, Damaged. KANSAS CITT. Dec JO. Dynamiter tonight wrecked the rear end of Wal ter Vanstone's furnace and sheet metal works, at 2910 East Eighteenth street. Vanstone run an open shop and em ploys five men. He says he haa had no trouble with the labor unions. The explosive was placed on a stair way outside the building leading- to the .basement. The damage will not exceed $100. There was no one In the build ing when the explosion took place, i PAPER TOWELS COME NEXT Adoption In Kansas Schools May Follow Abolition of Cups. TOPEKA, Kan., Dec SO. E. T. Fair child. State Superintendent of Public In struction, said today that he would pre pare at once to hy.ve a test made of paper towels for use In Kansas school houses. If the test Is successful, all schools will be equipped with the Indi vidual towele, which come In rolls. The towel after use is turned. The State Board, of Health has abol ished the comwm chinking cup from public places. Use of roller towels In hotels and trains may also be lorbidden. HINGING- IN THE NEW. LISBON SI MMERS WITH NEW REVOLT Republican Factions in Humor for Fight. CAMORRA PLOTS FOR POWER Extremists" in Portugal Are Corrupting Army. EXPLOSIVES IN ALL HANDS Distributed With Firearms for Use to Dethrone Manuel, They .May Now Be Used to Tear Down Provisional Government. LONDON, Dec. 30. The correspond ent of the Dally Chronicle, who wrote the brilliant account of the Lisbon revo lution, says In the Chronicle today that everything points to a coming conflict In which the battles will not be between Royalist and Republicans, but between the moderate Republicans and extreme revolutionaries. The hidden sprinr of the conspiracy, the correspondent says is the Camorra or secret society, which corrupted the army from its allegiance to the mon archy and Is now busily engaged In cor rupting it afresh in order to have a powerful lever ready at hand against the provisional government, which has never been firm in the saddle. People Have Explosives. The correspondent considers that a source of great danger to foreign busi ness men in Lisbon is the possession by the people of large quantities of ex plosives and firearms, which were dis tributed on the eve of the revolution, but not needed then. All the govern ment's attempts to regain possession of them .have failed. Questioned concerning the Portuguese rumors last night. the Marquis de Sou veral, Portuguese Minister to Great Britain, said he knew nothing of them. If there were any unrest in Lisbon. King Manuel bad nothing to do with It, and neither had he, and the suggestion that It was due to the Duke of Oporto was absurd. Ministry Is Divided. A special dispatch from Madrid re ports . dissensions in the Portuguese ministry. It says the Minister of Jus tice has alienated his colleagues and made himself unpopular by violent leg lalatlve projects, and that he 'will soon be compelled to resign. REPCBLICAX PARTY IS SPLIT Portuguese Representative Discusses Situation la Lisbon. ' , PARIS. Dec 30. Senor Bandelra. the Portuguese Charge d'Affalrea here. In an interview today, said his government is embarrassed by a radical and conserva tive split among the republicans, each factor struggling to gain control. There la some discontent among the people and some strikes of employes of public service corporations, but Senhor Bendelra declared these disputes are on the eve of a settlement and the "situ- Corjcludxl on Page. 5.) "SPUDS"WILLS00N C0ST$3PERSACK 'POTATO KIXG" HAS 900,000 BAGS ON' HAXD. Sliiiua Makes Prediction of Highest Prices for Tubers 4 Cents a Pound Not Unlikely. STOCKTON, CaL, Dec. 30. (Special.) That potatoes will sell for $3 or over per sack is the prediction of George Shima, the potato king, who Is said to have on hand about 900.000 sacks. He also mys that when potatoes are sold in small quantities before the coming Spring, they will command 4 cents a pound. Shlma has made a close study of the potato crop throughout the United States and not a section bas been overlooked. He is said to bo the shrewdest man in the business and every point is given close study. In summing up his belief that potatoes will be unusually high, Shlma points to the fact the crop throughout the United States is far less than usual and the yield, in this section was less than the preceding year, yet more than the aver age for the past five years. The high prices have caused most of the growers and commission men to sell. Shlma has refused to dispose of any of hbs best grade of tubers, with the result he baa a large supply on hand. Inside of a month, he areerts, the supply here will be almost exhausted and then he will come near naming his figures for spuds. SUFFRAGE IS QUESTIONED Voting of Women at Dr.yton Brings Official Inquiry. SALEM, Or., Dec. 30. (Special.) Quo warranto proceedings will be Instituted in a short time, by District Attorney Mc- Nary to determine by what right Coun cllmen Harris and Stuckny, of Dayton, are holding their official positions. This Is the outcome of the now cele brated city election at Dayton, at which women of the city were allowed to vote. Female suffrage was allowed under a city charter granted to Dayton by the Legislature, according to letters received from there by the District Attorney, but Attorney-General Crawford has held that these women had no right to exercise their suffrage.. There were 28 women challenged at the polls at this election, the communications state. The District Attorney is inclined to be of the opinion that the constitution does not prohibit women from voting at city elections when such a right is granted in a city charter. He believes that the constitutional provisions extend solely fo state elections and wishes to see this point tested in the courts. Dayton people have given assurance that a fund has been raised there to bear the burden of the expense of testing this question in the courts. SON IS GIVEN TO FATHER Mordo McDonald Winner in Habeas Corpus Proceedings. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Deo. 30. (Special.) Upon a decision in the ha beas corpus proceedings brought today by Mordo McDonald to get possession of his little son, Hector, who has been In custody of McDonald's daughter, Mrs. Jessie Marsh, the lad was turned over to his father. Mrs. Marsh nearly collapsed when forced to give up the child and became hysterical. This suit followed one instituted by the daughter against her father, alleg ing he mismanaged her mother's es tate, asking that he be relieved as ad ministrator. This the court denied and the habeas corpus proceedings were brought. The trouble is said to have -started through the second marriage of Mc Donald, and his brothers cme from Oregon today to take the witness stand In behalf of their niece and against their brother. UTAH GIFT JNIOT CENSORED Protest Against Mormon Pictures on Sliver Service Ignored. - NEW YORK, Dec 30. If pictures of Brigham Toung and the Mormon Tem ple are engraved upon the silver ser vice presented to the battleship Utah by the citizens of that state the United States Government is not perturbed over the fact. Formal protest against the decora tion of the service was lodged with President Taft some time ago by Hugh G. Miller, of this city, actli.g for the Women's Republican clubs Mr. Miller received a letter today from Assistant Secretary Beekman Wlnthrop of the Navy Department, say ing that the department did not feel It could supervise such matters. AIRSHIP SELLS FOR $105 Flying Machine Sold at Auction to Meet Judgment. One hundred and five dollars was paid for the first airship ever sold under the Sheriffs hammer In Multnomah County yesterday. Deputy Sheriff Proebstel sold the flying machine In storage rooms, at Thirteenth and Everett streets where It has been held under attachment pro ceedings, a Judgment for more than 3600 having been entered against it. The machipe was triced up to the ceil 'ng and was viewed by several dozen men who called out bids. The first bid was 'for 325 and the amount increased steadily until it reached 3105. the price offered by Bugene I Wledeman. The airship is In readiness for flight and waa wheeled away by the new owner. OREGON CURIOUS UNIQUEAND ALONE Freak Legislation En tails Penalties. STATE WILL SUFFER IN END Whole World Is Astonished, Says College Professor. MAJORITY DOES NOT RULE Neither Switzerland Nor Xew Zea land, Homes of Fantastic Laws, - Deserves Comparison Dear ' Price Will Be Paid. That Oregon will pay dearly for its direct legislation and suffer heavily in the end is the opinion of Henry Jones Ford, of Princeton University, who is at the Portland. Mr. Ford is professor of political economy and has courses of study in Federal, state and municipal governments. He Is regarded as an au thority on those subjects, and is taking: his present trip to study the govern ments of the Western Canadian prov inces and Oregon. "Oregon Is the only place in the world," said he. "where the initiative exists in the form you have It. It seems to me that you have run wild. It furnishes to students of political economy a practical illustration of di rect legislation, and its outcome will be of much interest, although i apprehend generally that those who have made a special study of the subject can predict the ultimate outcome. World Is Astonished. "It sometimes is necessary for tha body politic to have an emetio to clean out the old infection and corruption of some system which has proved harmful to the people at large. The convention principle of government has proved a disastrous failure In America and has done more to create graft than any thing to be found in our form of gov ernment. "I do not blame people for rebelling against it. But your direct legislation is the astonishment of the whole world. Generally, when we speak of freak leg islation, we think of Switzerland and New Zealand, but Oregon outclasses them. It Is so far from them that I doubt if there is a comparison. No one In Switzerland ever heard of such form of direct legislation as you have out here. In the first place, their referen dum system is a relic of the Middla Ages. It is little used, and for the masses to initiate laws would be as strange to them as some of your Hood (Concluded on Page 5.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 4i degrees: minimum. 40 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rain; southwesterly winds. Foreign. Faction In Portuguese republic ready to be gin civil war. Pass 1. Keport from Mexico says 600 Diaz soldiers are slain In battle. Page 5 ' National. Terms for international railroad commlesioa arranged between United States and Can ada. Page 2. Wickersham refuses to let bathtub trust magnates escape jail sentence. Page 1. Chief Forester Graves says nearly all for est fires can be prevented. Pace 5. Innoculated troops brave typhoid in feves swamps; none fall 11L Page 1. , Politics. Race for presidency of Oregon Senate may result In deadlock. Page 10. Domestic. Potato King" says price of tubers will g over ti a sack. Page 1. Robin takes deadly poison, but quick appli cation of remedy may save life. Page S. Armistice arranged In Chicago street cat war. Page 2 e Hoxsey breaks American record for endur ance. Page 3. Suggestion of marriage scorned by Miss Ella Flatrir Young. Page 3.. "United States will be without babies by 2015. Cornell savant lays, j-ukv . Sports. Oak Park, Chicago and Washington High School, Portland, meet on gridiron for United States championship today. Page 10. Pacific Northwest. Woman appeals to court to get her child from grandmother. Page 2. J. C. Hutchinson, telephone, lineman, at tempts impossible feat and is rescued from death. Page 1. Last review and muster of troops at Van couver Barracks tomorrow to be fol lowed by mask-ball. Page 11. Commercial and Marine. Local hay market overloaded. Page 15. Large world's wheat shipments cause de cline at Chicago. Page 15. Stocks and bonds are stronger. Page 15. Large wool stocks at Boston. Page 15. Good outlook for trade In t coming year. Page 15. Lumber mills make repairs during inactive, season. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Commercial Club waging Oregon's fight for readjustment of reclamation fund. Page 9 Barber is jailed tor non-support of fourth' wife. Page 8. Circuit Court to be asked for Injunction to restrain police from interfering with prizefight pictures. Page 7. Bids for Broadway bridge substructure opened. Page 7. Woolmen favor tariff commission, says see. retary; SO00 visitors expected. Page 14. Professor of political economy says Oregon-- -lessons in government will be costly. . Pag 1. Tetrazzlnl's gown Is scorched by flajftlight; concert delights big audience. Page 4. -Holly Lodge roadhouse proprietors arrested following secret visit to place by grand jurors. Page 10.