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OREGOXIAX, MONDAY. '.JANUARY 2, 1911. MORNING DISABLED CRAFT QEATH OF HOXSEY PULL ON AVIATION CONTEST FOR BERTH AS SENATOR FROM CALIFORNIA Lipman- WAii-a uvx. TOWED INTO PORT . eV L "5 1 - - i V J. I Wolfe & Co Fliers Do Not Have Heart in Work When They Go Up on Short Flights. MEET WILL END TODAY funeral of Wright Aviator Will Be Hrld Torsdav His Mother Will ' Grt Approximately $10,000 of Ills Winnings. LOS ANGELES, J&n. 1. There wer fly-In (rents at aTlatton field today, but they were wholly devoid of spirit nd dartna-. The memory of Arch Honey's death yesterday hung- Hke dark pail over aviators and spectators. The filers were slow and sportless and they worked as cautiously as did early pioneers In their aerUl experiments which, brought man-flight within the realm of an accomplished science. All the aviators ascended, but they flaw apparently only because their contracts called for dally flights, and because there were people In the grand stands who had paid money to see them fly. Th!r hearts were not In the work. None of them remained In the air more than a few minutes, and lone before the proKramme had been completed, the committee dlsmlsed the spectators with the announcement that the meet, which was not to have closed until Tuesday, would be terminated to morrow. Knnrral Is on Tuesday. Tuesday Is the day set for the fu neral of Honey. The aviation event schedulnl for that day were called on so that the aviators may attend the ob ouk of their drad comrade. riven though the flights were rtiort tort ay. they were dangerous, and once or twice d-irlng the afternoon, horrlned shouts rore from the nervous and highly wrousht spectators and attendants as some aviator made a sharp descent, or their frail machines wobblod or danced f..r a second or tao In contending cur rents of air. The wind was ss treacherous almost ss It was yesterday when It caught lloxsey and tossed htm down to death. At no time, however, did It display the strenitth It dl yesterday while the Intrepid con queror of the hlsher altitudes) was making h.s last flight. Itrooklns Is Nervous. Walter Erookins. who coached Hoxaey as a pupil In the art of flying, was pale and nervous when he brought his bi plane on the field today, and during the one or two short flights he made during the afternoon, he never once attempted the thrilling spiral dives, which he orig inated, and which Horsey wss emulating when he was caught and hurled Into the fatal fall. Drooklns confined himself to low flights and attempts at quick starts and accurate landing. He never rose at any time higher than ten feet. I'armalee, the only other surviving member of the Wright team of four that started West a few weeks ago, also kept close to the ground, and aave for exhibition flights by Eugene Ely and Charles Willard. of the Curtlsa team, and Latham In the Antoinette and Kadley In his Blerlot. nothing was attempted but the quick starts and landings. When these were completed, the crowd was told to go home. Had ley Is Cautions. Latham waa the only aviator to keen his machine in the air more than half an hour. Rariley for a time refused to sttempt a flight at all. It was only when the wind lulled a little and the shifting currents showed a tendency toward steadiness, that he consented to ssrend In his monoplane. After rising he encountered gusts that threatened hla control over his mschlne and lie promptly d.scended more than a mile west of the field. He wss able to rise again and flew back to the starting point. After safely alighting he said: "That Is the last for me In winds like this. I am taking no more chances." While Ely waa making his night, a guy wire parted, and becoming tangled in bis propeller, broke a piece off one of the blades. Ely Instantly pointed his machine downward, taking a sharp an gle to set to earth as quickly as possi ble. This was when a shout of appre hension rose from the spectators. But Ely had control of his planes and landed safely, though with a Jolt that Jarred him considerably. Kly Geu Fright. -When that wire broke and struck the propeller, I was frightened and decided to come down." said Ely. The crowd was so somber-spirited throughout the afternoon that toward the close of the events the mechanical clown of the meeting a. tiny monoplane cone true ted by Edgar Smith, of Long Beach. Cal.. was brought out to create a laugh and dispel the gloom. On two or three previous trials the machine never accomplished more than a series of spurts, darting down upon the ground. But today It rose and flew a distance of 1S9 yards at a height of IS feet. The spectators laughed aa this little machine spun and darted about, and finally fell to the ground. Mrs. lloxsey. mother of the dead avia tor, will receive approximately IHXO"), It Is said, from the aviation committee as the winnings of her son during the pres ent meet. Many rrlxes Won. The altitude prise of t3t"0 was won by him last Monday. Ills American en durance record of three hours and 17 minutes, made the day before his death, probably will stand, and this will add IW0 more to the sum. Then. Hoxsey's winnings In daily altitude and endurance prlxee will amount to X additional, ac cording to estimates made by the Judges. After being removed from Aviation Field yesterday. Hoxsey's body was brought to this city. Today It waa re moved to Pasadena, where It will He In a mortuary chapel until Roy Knaben shue. manager of the Wrig team, com pletes his plans for the funeral. . All funeral expenses will be borne by the Wright brothers, and a competent Bum will be given to Mrs. Hoxsey. She said that she had depended for some time on the earnings of bcr son for her living. Mrs. lloxsey Quiet Woman. Mrs. Hoxsey Is a quiet, little woman. (3 years old. She has been a widow 1 years, all of which time she has lived alone with her boy. lloxsey was a fatalist. He believed that when his time came to die. that he would die. no matter where he was or what he waa doing. He talked of th's so much to his mother thst she csme to believe aa he did. which accounts for his fearlessness and for the contentment of the mother. "My neighbors always worried me and wanted me to have Arch stop flying." be said. "But somehow or other I had it. . J 5 , : sri v v. v 4 . JOIIX D. WORKS. r- , r - , if I 99 ? "'? I A j 'fc - . '.'- - S ' ) uv' - - -j Water-Logged Shna Yak Is Kept Afloat by Pumps After Accident. A. G. SPALDI.XG. no fear. When Ralph Johnstone was killed in Denver, my neighbors rushed In to see me snd coaxed me to have Arch stop, but I did not. because I always rather thought he would not be hurt. It seems impossible but. of course, it Is so." MOISSAXT FEAKLESS BIRDMAN Simple Vuneral of ATlator Is Held in Xrw Orleans. NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 1. That John B. Molssant believed himself reasonably safe In an aeroplane under an circum stances, was made known tonight by Alfred S. Levine. connected with Inter national aviators A few days before his death Molssant said to Levine: "I think there Is no danger In mak ing an aeroplane flight if the machine Is properly adjusted before the ascent. I do not expect to die in an aeroplane flight." Other aviators and A. J. Molssant. brother of the dead man. believe Mols sant waa dashed to his death only be cause something suddenly happened to hla machine and not because of mis management. The funeral of the aviator took place this morning at 10 o'clock, the Rev. James Malone. of St. John'a Cath olic Cathedral, officiating. The body was placed In a receiving vault at Meterrle Cemetery, where It will re main until It Is decided where it will permanently rest. The funerai waa marked by simplicity. Among the large list of honorary pall-bearers were teammates of the dead airman: Rene Simeon, Rene Bar rier. Roland G. Garros. Charles K. Hamilton. John J. Krlsble. Edraond Au demara and Jay Seymour. Great banks of flowers. Including handsome offerings from the Aero Clubs of America, of France and of Great Britain, another from the team matea of Molssant and many from all over the country, were piled about the casket. Molssant left an estate. It wss today said, worth from 1100.000" to $150,000. This will be held in trust for his son. now in school near San Franclaco. The iO-horsepower Blerlot monoplane from wblch Molssant fell to hla death will be reassembled, put In rerfect or der and will never carry another driver. The machine will be presented to some Institution, probably the Smtthsonlsn Institution at Washington. Molssant's 50-horsepower Blerlot. known as the "Red Demon." In which he won the Statue of Liberty prlxe and which he used during the meet here, will go to Roland G. Garros, the French aviator, who waa a . close personal friend. . . IVY BALDWIN FALLS 20 FEET Aviator Is Not Seriously Hurt In Accident at Santa Barbara. SANTA BARBARA. Jan. 1. Ivy Bald win. In the aviation exhibition here to day, fell with hla biplane from a height of 20 feet, but escaped serious Injury and will have his machine in repair for tomorrow, which will be the last day of the meet. D. Masson. in a biplane of the Cur-tlss-Farman type, made two successful ascents, reaching an altitude of 3000 feet and covering a distance, of seven miles In his second flight. Although his machine was equipped with a new engine, which he had only tried out once before, he waa not hampered by mechanical trouble,, and reached, as high a speed as 60 miles an hour. CONTEST IS in Spalding and Works Hope to Be California Senator. , LEGISLATURE SITS TODAY Both Candidates Are Slaking Active Canvass tor Votes Among Law makers Who Are About to Begin Sessions. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 1. (Spe cial.) The flght as to who shall wear the Senatorial toga In California Is by far the moat lively topic of con servation In the hotel lobbies tonight. The supporters of both A. G. Spalding, the San Dlago candidate, and John D. Works, of Los Angeles, are doing active canvassing and both are making claims as to what will happen. Under the primary law, by which the advisory of the vote wss In districts. Spalding claims that he should win, as a majority of the Legislators have been Instructed for him. Meyer LJssner, chairman of the Republican state cen tral committee and a boomer for Works, declares, however, that his candidate will receive 73 votea on the first ballot. He claims that the south Is practically solid for the Los Angeles candidate. On the other hand, the supporters of Spalding assert that there is consider able defection from Works In the South. The Works people declare that Spald ing must be elected on the first bal lot or not at all. This might be In terpreted to mean that, if on the line up the Bpaldlng people are found to be dangerous, the Workltes will go to some third candidate, which- might mean the election of several men who have been mentioned including Llss ner, Lee C. Gates. Joseph Scott, the Los Angeles lawyer, and E. T. Earle, the newspaper proprietor. The arrival of the Spalding repre sentatives has accentuated one of the Inconsistent features of the present Senatorial situation. The Works peo ple are urging the Spalding men to vlolata the primary law by voting for Works and at the same time declaring that they are morally bound not to violate that same primary provision by voting for any other candidate that may appear. At 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon the 39th session of the California Legisla ture, a body that will be Republican in political complexion but seasoned to a large extent by Insurgents, as they please to term themselves, will meet. As Monday is a legal' holiday, there Is little business to be transacted and af ter organization both bodlea of - the Legislature will adjourn until Tuesday, when the machinery will start to grind. Governor-elect Johnson arrived here tonight.' Before he had time to write his name on the hotel register he was run through a sort of Informal and wholly unpremeditated receiving line of legislators and politicians in the lobby. COWING TO PORTLAND NOW Captain Ilutton Will Bring Vessel to Pry dock for Repairs as Result -of High Sea's Work Off Mouth of Columbia. ASTORIA, Or., Jsjj. 1. (Special.) The water-logged steam scnooner Shna Yak. Captan W. K. Hutton. which was disabled off the mouth of the river yesterday, was towed into port today by the steamer Asuncion and was docked tonight at the O. K. & N. wharf, where she Is being pumped out by the bar tug Oneonta, assisted by the ves sel's own donkey engine As soon as her hold is free of water, probably to morrow morning, she will be towed to Portland for repairs. The Shna Yak. with a carco of 900,000 feet of lumber loaded at Westport for San Diego, started out over the bar about 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. When about half way across, she was struck by a huge sea that- threw her on one side breaking the main steam pipe. The vessel was then helpless and was carried by the current to the shoal on the north side of the channel where she htruck once hard, evidently start ing some of her seams, and then drifted outside Pumps Keep Vessel Afloat. '. Soon afterwards she was swept by a big sea that broke the deck lash ings. HH'I C.IJ icu nvtaj- . deckload. as well as the main rigging and chain plates. ine uisauieu nn immediately began to leak badly, but the pumps were operated by the donkey engine and were able to keep the ves sel afloat, although the water con tinued to pain a little while rolling In the rough seas and when the steamer r-ichetl th dock tonight, there was nine feet of water In her hold. as oon as the accident occurred, distress signals were set and about 10:30 last night. Captain Brldgett of the tank steamer Asuncion, who was t.i ... .1 a r nnnnrtn n I f V to wo-iuiip, uwko.wc -' - -- - . , cross In. placed a hawser on board the Shna YaK ana towea ner msi" uaJ While coming up the bay the Asun cion's hawser parted and the Shna Yak was drifting rapidly toward the stern of the German bark Wandsbek, lying at anchor. Collision Seemed Certain. A collision seemed certain, but for tunately the launch rilot waa close by and Captain Keating shot ahead of the crippled steamer, threw a line on board her and was able to haul her bow until she passed under the stern of the bark, thus narrowly averting another serious accident. The Shna-Yrk will discharge her cargo at the Eastern & Western Mill at Port land and will go on the Oregon Drydock Company's dock for repairs. It is ex pected that ell the vessel's seams wi.l have to be caulked as the strain which occurred when she scraped bottom has laid nearly all of ihem open. The Ascun sion will keep pumping water from the Shna-Yak's hold all the way up the river In order to keep her afloat. CONDITION OF BAR IS KNOWN Officers of Shna Yak Duly Warned br River's State. That the officers of the Shna Yak were duly warned of the condition of the bar was asserted yesterday by of ficer of the steamer Alliance, after the latter had arrived here from Eu reka and Coos Bay. Mate Hansen stat ed yesterday that as the Alliance had come safely over the bar, she was hailed by the captain of the Shna Yak. who asked how the bar was. He was told in reply that the bar was very bad, but he continued to proceed outward. Captain Albert Crowe, who arrived from Astoria at noon yesterday, re ceived a telegram from Astoria ex plaining the accident to the Shna Yak. Captain Crowe expected orders to re turn to Astoria to make a survey of the Shna Yak for the underwriters. "joyRSsiL in VICTIM OF AUTO ACCIDENT IS HURLED OVER STREETCAR. January Clearance Sale Starts Tuesday Morning, January 3d Full Details of Which Appeared in the Sunday Papers Inasmuch as every store in Portland will bid for your patronage, you may expect to be deluged with pages upon pages of advertising, claiming all manner of reductions, wonderful bar gains and unequaled assortments. Newspaper advertising when judiciously used is the best medium for any store to convey news of interest to its patrons and the public. Throughout the United States the more conservative firms are 6 pJ? vertising, announcements which carry with them plain statements of facts AUTHENTIC AND RELIABLE the truth. Many people have become so accustomed to seeing special sales advertised day in and day out throughout the year that they hesitate to purchase merchandise at regular prices. On the other hand, women who have investigated and have examined, either by purchase or inquiry, have found the bulk of these sales to be false, entirely the product of a clever advertising man s ability to juggle words into flowery sentences, in which fictitious values are used to inveigle the public into buying. . We have eliminated that word "Value" forever from our advertisements. It has been so HO USED and ABUSED, so MALIGNED, that today it means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Have you ever taken the time to examine your purchases made at these special sales? Have you ever compared them in quality and price with those of reputable houses sold at regular? We have We employ shoppers to attend every sale held in Portland of any note. We make pur chases to convince ourselves that the day of sensational advertising and false statements must soon cease There is an old saying, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, but not all of the people all the time." For instance, a few weeks ago there was a widely-advertised sale of ladies' vests at 14c; the value quoted was 25c. These vests were never worth and never sold for more than 15c. Yet throngs of people were buying them as bargains. .... In our store this would have been impossible, for on every sale held here you find two tickets, the original ticket and the sale ticket. It is very easy for you to calculate the saving. The two ticket system costs us about eight thousand dollars a year in extra help. Yet it has been found economical by all the reputable houses who use this system. It does more to build up the integrity and honesty of a firm than twenty pages of advertising every day. In ourajanuary Sale we offer this year inducements in every department throughout the house. Sales of merchandise that has been bought expressly for our January clearance. Reductions will be very marked, offering to our customers the opportunity of purchasing first-class, reliable mer chandise of merit at the smallest prices of the year. Should any purchase not be satisfactory, YOUR MONEY BACK. That's the easiest thing we do. Motorists Laugh Derisively When Asked to Stop Police Given Orders to Shoot Them. OAKLAND. Cal., Jan. 1. As Frank Lathrop. aged 22, alighted from a streetcar within half a block of his homo In Berkeley early today, he was struck by an automobile, hurled over the car and Instantly killed by the fall. His neck was broken, his skull fractured and the body fearfully torn and bruised. The automobile contained a party of Hu..,it,r" inH waa traveling at a IUUI J-'. - high rate of speed. The companions ON young Uitnrop, wno wunntm w dent from the back platform of tho streetcar, yelled to the motorists to stop but a derisive laugh thnt noated back from the speeding quartet was their only reply. The automobile passed rap Idly from sight and none of Its occupants were identified. The victim was the only support of his recently widowed mother. The police departments of Oakland and Berkeley are considerably incensed over the callousness displayed by the motor ists, and Captain Walter J. Parson, head of the local detective bureau, has issued Instructions to his men to shoot, not to puncture the death-dealing Joyriders, but to kill. -. Lathrop's was the third death from automobile accidents in the last two weeks. Richard Eaton, a 16-year-old machinist emploved at a local garase, was arrested tonight and charged with manslaughter, following his confession to the police that he was the driver of the car that killed young Lathrop. Maynard Fostell, a youth of the same age, who was in the machine with Eaton, was also ar rested on the same charge. The apprehension of Eaton was effected through the agency of Vaughn Cooley, a fellow employe, who. when he visited the garage today, found that the hood of one of the cars was badly dented and bat tered. Investigation, it is said, showed Eaton had. without permission, taken out the car last night, and with Fostell started on a Joy ride tha resulted in Lathrop's death. KDRUCEIuDEilD Original Claimant in Duke of Portland Case Gone. FAMOUS SUIT RECALLED Woman Made Great Erfort to Secure Part of $100,000,000 Estate Left by British Peer at Time of His Death in Year 1879. LONDON, Jan. 1. Mrs. Anna Maria Druce, the original claimant of the no torious case in connection with the es tate of the Duke of Portland, died today. William J. Bentlnck, fifth Duke of Portland, died In 1897, his immense es tate, valued at $100,000,000, descending In two lines to William John Cavendish Bentlnck and to Lord Howard de Wal den. In a suit instituted some years after his death, an attempt was made to prove that the coffin alleged to have contained the body of Thomas C. Druce,. who died 15 years before the Duke, was filled with lead, that ho was alive and was none other than William John Bentlnck, fifth Duke of Portland. The grandson of Druce, George Hol lanby Druce, in 1905, set up a claim for title and estates. The suit finally was dismissed by a London court. BLAST HURTS PROSPECTOR Partner Travels Well 'igh Impass able Trail for Help. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Col., Jan. L Bert Abrams and William Richards, prospectors, were periously Injured by a premature explosion of giant powder at their claim In the Defiance mining dis trict today. The claim Is located 15 miles from Glen wood Springs, and is reached by en al most impassable trail. Joseph Peace, a partner of the injured men, made his way to Glenwood Springs, and Dr. C. M. Stewart agreed to accompany him to the claim. They expect to reach the injured men tonight. j FALL SEEMS IMMINENT Provlsonal Government in Portugal Hangs by Thread. LONDON, Jan. 2. The special corre spondent of the Chronicle at Lisbon says that he hears from a trustworthy source that the life of the provisional government hangs by a thread. VETERAN MASON IS DEAD Francis A. Hayden, 33d Degree, Expires in Chicago. CHICAGO. Jan. 1. Francis A. Hay den, 76 years old, author of several volumes on Masonry, died here today. He was made a 32d degree Mason in Washington. D. C-, in 1866. He will be buried in his former home at Rome, N. Y. MAN ORDERS MEAL, DIES Spokane Pioneer Leaves Property to Charitable Institutions. SPOKANE. Wash., Jan. 1. (Special.) After ordering a bowl of bread and milk for his early breakfast shortly after the new year was ushered In, William Egan. aged 77 years, fell life less Into the arms of a waiter In a restaurant, in the pocket of the pio neer was a will which gives his entire fortune of nearly $9000 to four chari table institutions of Spokane, viz: The Children's Home, Deaconness Old Peo. pie's Home, St. Luke's Hospital and the Salvation Army Liberty Home and the Maternity Hospital. Egan came to this region in 1S72 and made his money farming. He was a bachelor and left no relatives. His will directs that his coffin shall not cost more than $30, that "le entire funeral expenses shall not exceed $300, and that no ceremonies or services of any kind shall be held at the under taking parlors or at the grave. PINGHOT ADVISES TIFT EX-FORESTER URGES CONCILI ATION OF COAL CLAIMS. ' Former Official and His Brother Say Evidence Against Cunning ham Crowd Is Conclusive. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. President Taft was appealed to today by ex-Forester Gifford Pinchot and bis brother, Amos Plnchot. to cancel immediate', without further Tiearrng, the1 so-called Cunning ham Alaskan Coal claims. In a voluminous brief filed with the President, in accordance with permission given In a letter written to them by Secretary Norton on November 9. Mr. Pinchot and his brother contend that the record In the case "abundantly proves that the claims are illegal and that from the beginning, the claimants have con spired to defraud the Government.", "The resort to a court for a rehearing of the case is necessary to secure justice and protecc the people's property," says tho brief. "The case against the claim ants is already conclusive. We believe the duty of the Executive in regard to the claims 'b obvious and Immediate. The claims should be cancelled by the President forthwith." "The evidence in this case goes much further than to establish the fraud of attempting by subterfuge to acquire from the Government more coal land than the law eJlows. It shows that from the be ginning, the claimants acted with the definite and sustained Intention of de feating the primary purpose and essen tial spirit of the law the spirit and pur pose to prevent monopoly, and also com petitive development of the Nation's re sources." Regarding the effect of monopoly In Alaska, the brief says: "It is evident that an enormous saving can be made to the people of Alaska, to the whole Northwest and to the Uni ted States Navy if only these coal mines are opened, under conditions of competi tion." It charges that "the Industries of Alaska have been for years largely In the hands of a great and oppressive mo nopoly, the Guggenheim syndicate, which has kept out other capital, throttled com petition and held Alaska at a stand still." Secretary of the Interior Balllnger has forwarded to the Senate and House com mittee on public lands a draft of the pro posed legislation transferring to the Dis trict of Columbia Court of Appeals the Cunningham coal cases. Secretary Bellinger proposes that the court try the cases de novo; that is, to pay, it may disregard tho case made by the general land office and take new evidence if it deems such a course nec essary. The Attorney-General is desig nated to represent, the Government at such rehearing. The judgment of the court In the case would be final. Quake Rocks Sultan's Mausoleum. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 1. A strong earth shock at Bursa, in Asia Minor yes terday damaged the cupola of the mauso leum of Sultan Orkhan Ghazi. No lives were lost but many houses were partially wrecked. Emperor III, Unable to Celebrate. VIENNA. Jan. 1. Emperor Francis Jo seph, on account of a slight indisposition, took no part in the New Year festivities today. In view of the style in the general run of French plays, to which the young peo ple cannot he taken, a group of Uelsinn women, headed by Mile. Marguerite Van da Wiole, an author of renown, are organizing a theater for girls In Brussels to be called l.e Theater de 1 Adolescence. ENTIRELY NEW When an eyeglass-wearing friend says he does not know what eye glass troubles are, you may be reasonably sure that he wears Thompson's eyeglasses. r- We do all our own grinding. Broken glasses replaced while you wait. THOMPSON EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Second Floor Corbett Bldg. Fifth and Morrison GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC Winter Schedule Effective October 30, 1010. Steamships 'Prince Rupert' and 'Prince George' FOR Victoria, Vancouver and Prince Rupert. Connect ing at Prince Rupert with "S. S. Prince Albert" for Stewart and Queen Charlotte Islands. DAYLIGHT RIDE TO VICTORIA tFAVF RFATTTF WASH. LEAVE VANCOUVER, B. C. Every Sundavat 300 P 2 Every Monday at 11:00 P. M. Northbound. Every sdt"hyb"ni 0 Kvery Saturday at 2:00 P. M. Southbound. MEALS AND BERTH INCLUDED NORTH OS VANCOUVER. "North Pacific Coamt Commercial Excursion" to Hawaiian Islands and Return on -S. S. Prince Rupert" February 2. 1911. Rate 2o.OO For Tickets and Reservations Apply to Local Railway Ticket Ajrents or J. H. Burets, Gen'l Aeent, First Ave. and Yesler tVay, Seattle, Wash. !