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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1911)
t v 3 . ttte ronyryo QREooyiAN. JioyDAY. April 10. 1911. GIANT TURBINES STEAMER CHEATS GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS NOW UNDER WAY IN RAISING ILL-FATED BATTLESHIP MAINE IN HAVANA HARBOR. TO PLY TO COAST I r American-Hawaiian' Company Liner Irene Slips Off Sand as . Unexpectedly as She Went On. Orders Four 20-Knot Pas-V senger Steamers.' CANAL OPENING IN VIEW CAPTAIN KEEPS COMMAND - I 1 . - - - - - -- - --,iilg I OCEAN GRAVEYARD 5T IT7 - j - ' -; .- .. - " - - I s.T cT in jtjerciiandis& of " :; ... .r; - ; "r ' : - V I"ct That Veteran IVrrMn Will Take Yeel Bark to Europe I Taken to Mean German Line Will Set Kale Aside. XKW YORK. April . Bearing- no risible scar except a shattered rudder post, the North German Lloyd liner Prinzes Irene slipped away from Fire Island this afternoon as unexpectedly a ah went on In the fog of Thursday morning. After II hours of Imprisonment In the sand, she cheated the "rvvrd of the Atlantic" and was floated with the aid of turs at S OS I. M. At S io. she left In tow for Scotland Ught to anchor for the nlKht. Tomorrow mornlns; the Irene will come up to hrr dock and after divers hare examined her bull she will be taken to Newport News tor more thor ouch examination. Her stay will de pend upon what this disclose. The Trssel has not taken a drop of water and her plates are thought to be Intact. Captalu to Keep Slilp. It has been an Iron rule with the North German Lloyd Company that a captain who igxea his ship shall be dis missed from the service. But as the veteran Peterson of the Prlnzess Irene will take his ship back across the At lantic under hrr own steam. It la the assumption that Ms personal grief will be his chief punishment. To the tlfesavers who followed the work to save the Prtnsesn Irene, her sudden floating this afternoon was a distinct surprise. Skip Seen to Hock. Two hours before the water was due t reach Its full height, the ship was s-en to rock In the tide and 10 mtnut-s Ijter she raised stlrhtly. The wrecking tuxs Rltf and Hnroe were pu;!ln on her strrft.to starboard and port, and the Irene's donkey engine were straining at the keds anchors to seaward. , At 2:0. the anchor cable brsan to slacken the first stjrn th.it the ship votiM free hers-lf. Another pull snd her stint was free In 30 feet of water and at 11 the six feet of the ship hull which had shown while she stuck In the sand, dwindled to a narrow ribbon as - in slid Into deep" water. She was afloat. ENTOMBED MEN ARE DEAD Xo Jlope Held Oat for Savins; Ban ner Mine Victims. LITTLETON". Oa.. April . At mid night IS bodies had been recovered from the Ilanner mine of the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company. In which US miners were entombed early Sat urday morning. Twenty bodies. It Is said, are at the first landing and will be brought out within the next two hours. There Is no Itger hope of finding men alive underground. Of the I3S dead only it were whites. it was 1 P. M. when the rescuers succeeded In establishing working conditions In the mine and at S:2i the IS bodies were brought to the aurface. They were all negroes. State Mine Inspector James Ulllhouse expressed the belief that, the mine would be cleared tomor row. James Oakley, president of the 8tate Convict Board, accompanied the party Into the mine. The general belief Is that powder caused the explosion. There are prac tically no mourners at Banner, as none of the convicts had relatives nesr. but a few curteus negro women stood around the opening and would break Into low mournful dirge-like chant when the bodies were brought up. The first party of ten Government rescuer, headed by Dr. J. J." Rut ledge, who entered the mine at 1 o'clock this mornlne. had a narrow escape from death. An accident happened to the fans and the air was stopped for a few minutes. Within a few seconds a cry for help was heard from below and men with oxygen helmets hurried down. The en tire party was overcome by the after damp and when brought to the surface physicians worked over them for near ly an hour before they were able to be moved to the rescue car. Mr. Kamsey estimates IU0 will cover the financial loss. NATRON LINE PROGRESSING Kail-Laying Reins; Rnshed Work May lie finished la July. SPRING FIEI.D. Or, April t. (Spe cial. Operations on the Natron Rail road have again become active and carload of men are being- shipped through Springfield dally. Th princi pal activity la eight miles above I.well. where the tracklayers have gone with the path of steel rails. Every effort Is being made to rush tits work toward the end of the pres ent line. as. If this ran be done before the Hummer Is spnnt. further contracts will be l't for the balance of the dis tance. The baee of supplies will be established at the end of the I-mlle track from Natron, and all work will proceed from here. It la thought that possibly the rail layers may reach the end of the grant, by June t. If so. the railroad mrn de clare, contracts will be lot. Between where they are now an 1 the end sev eral of the grade have been washed out or covered by slides during the Winter. There are only It miles to complete. Ballasting will begin toon over the track already laid. FORT ASTORJTO BE BUILT Astoria to Break Ground for Kepi lea of Struct are Wednesday. ASTORIA. Or- April . SpeclaL) Th Centennial committee has evlected next Wednesday. April 11 th l.th anniver sary of th naming of Astoria as the dste on which to breaJt ground In th City Park for th construction of a reproduc tion of oid Fort Ator. . - A special programme of exercises has been arranged for the occasion and the Mayor ha ben rquetaed to declare a half holiday Wednesday afternoon. Th contract for building th fort has been awarded U Jacob kVlvta. tot aA v ' y" Lj sb tmm m ssesMeanBSstJi""esssM" - "-"' 1 . ". ' F "T '' " . .,. I - -i ' ..... . ejL i . - .' s.Z-- if1 - l i '. . i v -' , Wwtr r i J ' r ABUVll-Blfi CtH0 I FORWiROtSD GIVM IDHA OF HUW IMO.00O ArrlturnlATrau WVlsF HIP IS BKl" I'-EO. COPRlGHT V AA:RICA PRESS ASOCIAT10Sr, BELOW VIKW " r WARSUlV tUOWMtt COrFEROAM ABOMD WRECK. (BAIS JES SERVICE). DEATH PACT SHOWN Man Who Killed Child Shoots Self and Foster Daughter. GIRL BEGS HIM TO FIRE IxM Angeles Slayer la Hospital Tses rutol Brought by Adopted Lass, Who, Only Wounded, 'courts More Bulleu. LOS ANGELES. April k As a result of a suicide pact. B. L. Dan I a, a Spaniard (7 years old. and Eva Bovee, his youns adopted daughter, II at th County Hos pital tonight la a critical condition. It U not balieved that lthr will lire. Th attempt to end th two lle waa made late last night, and. according -to th Investigations conducted today. It la believed that the shot were fired by I'anla from a revolver that the young woman had brought to the hoepltal her Danla lay in a serious condition as the result of another shooting affair In which he participated a week ago. It was In a revolver duel with George Koerner that Dan1 killed his S-year-old daughter, saving he wanted her to dl with him. That murder took place after J Danla waa badly wounded. Noose Is Kearetl. Th authorities todsy found letters In Danla's room and a girl's purse which ndlcated that Danla feared being hanged for killing hla daughter. Ther was a strong attachment between the man and bis adopted daughter, and ah has been visiting blm constantly at th hospital. In thee, vlslta they wr not watched closely. Tb letters, sla In number, wer writ ten In the hospital ward. The deed, carefully planned, was carried out after the lights In the ward had been extin guished. Girl Beg to Die. Miss Bore, learning that Panla would die. today made th following statement: "Father shot me befor h shot him self. I had him keep his promts that he would. Th first bullet struck me on the top of the hesd. He then shot him self, but I cried to him that I wss not hurt and bgd hlra to shoot me again. II did. He shot me four time and I hop I will die." Three of the bullets entered Mis Rovee's body. Danla shot himself one in the hesd. Woman's Taunt Blamed. A woman's taunt deriding a tailor whom she declared to be a wife-beater lies at the bottom of the Bovee-Danla triple tragedy, according to th ant mortera s'.atementa of Eva Bovee and her foster father. The quarrel between th tailor and George Koerner. whose wife la assarted to hav mad th slurring remark, ended In a street duel In which Danla was wounded. The death pact, aocordlng to Miss Bovee. wss made then, and the little girl was 11 first victim. Later she carried a revolver to Danla as he lay In the hospital. The doctors y both Th'wtter written by Miss Bove ex plaining th hootlng and which waa found In her purs read: "1 promised my father I would get - . r-.rU') TT7" him out of this unjust position If he would take me along with him and little bah. I hav had to beg father to keep, his promise to take me along, too. I resjlxe now tnat ratner waa i the time be killed Ledalla. But he Is not now, and I have to remind him of hla promise constantly. He wants to go but thinks It Is cruel to taka me and at the ame time he doea not want to leave me behind." Miss Bovee called early last night to see Danla. At S o'clock she was Informed that she must leave, but her pleadings won the attendants who granted her permission to remain all night, which had been grafted on two former occa sions. The young woman has admitted that she brought the revolver In a hand bag. Non of Danla's letters deal with tho shooting, but refer largely to his matrU monlal troubles. 295 FILE ON L 3LVRCH MOST BUSY MONTH AT THE DALLES. S48 File on Homesteads Settlers Com From Every Part of Union. 1141 Letters Answered. THE DALLES, Or.. April t. (Spe cial.) There wer 298 filings, all told, at th local Land Office during March. This was th largest number ever mad In on month In th history of th of fice. Of these entries. 248 wer for homesteads. Others wer for desert and timber and s.tona claims. Th entrymen wer from over all th I'nlted States, many of them giv ing their addree as Seattle and other Washington towns. Others came from Willamette Valley towns, but Just whore they came from originally was hard to determine, as they left Imme diately for Central Oregon In the col onist travel period. It was a-noticeable fact -that th entrymen were for th most part native-born Americans, although ther were a number of Russians and' more Auetrtan. Aside from the work Involved In making th 25 entries, settlers made final proof on 14 homestead filings last month, and 1141 letters wer answered. Very many of these letter wer In quiries regarding land. April bids fair to have to Its credit more entries than March. Th first week witnessed the filing of i appli cations for Government land. The Dalles Land Office was moved the first of the year Into Its present quarter on th third floor of the new Masonlo block, which had been fitted with vault and other furnishings . es pecially for Its use. Four men are employed by the Gov ernment in the office Register C. W. Moore. Receiver. L. H. Arnrson and two clerks. William A. Wilkinson aua William T. Evnns. Th'ey were so swamped with work during the past five weeks that they had to rush to get out last month's reports, and were 1st at that. Camas Joins League. VANCOUVER. Wah.. April . Spe cial.) Camas has Joined th Southwest ern Washington Development League. E. F. Johnson, cashier of a bank In Camas, was elected as the Camas mem ber of the executive committee: J. F. Self. Its good roads committeeman, and A. A. Hay. editor of the Camas Post, on th publicity committee. Th Camas Commercial Club, although organised in February, has already a membership of pearly 40. MAINE IS CIRCLED Recovery of Sailors' Bodies to Have Precedence. SEA TO BE. SHIP'S GRAVE Great Feat of Marine -Engineering Progresses Expeditiously, but Work Mar Continue Until Close of Year. (Continued From first Fags.) known to do In drydock when Insuf ficiently secured. As soon as th wreck is fully ex posed, th work of exploration in search of human bodies will tak pro cedence. It Is practically certain that when this stage of the work Is reached, a United States man-of-war will be ordered to Havanna and will lie close to th vsreck to receive bodies as fast as they are recovered, and transport them to their final resting place.' After that will com an exhausting scrutiny of th shattered wreck by experts, who, in the opinion of engineer offi cers, will be -able to determine beyond all question precisely th character of agency by which th destruction of the Main was effected. Probably many months will elapse before the final stage of th work th extraction and disposition of th wreck. It is known that the forward part of th ship, about on third of her length, is practically detached from th rest, and is so shattered It will have to ba extracted piecemeal. Hulk to Be Sunk at Sea. When the after part has been stripped, so far as possible, of all heavy weights. Including the two . turrets, weighing with their pairs of ten-Inch guns about 200 tons each. It will be possible to build a bulkhead across th shattered end and float the hulk out of the basin, to be sunk In all probability hundreds of fathoms deep in th straits of Florida. Finally will coma the extraction of th thousands of steel plies composing the 10 caissons and th dredging of the material with which they wer filled. Thla may not be completed befor th nd of th year. Man Arrested as Robber. Alex Bvltln was arrested at Second and Burnslde streets yesterday eve ning by Detectives Craddock and Mal lett. on a warrant Issued at Kalama, Wash., charging him with highway robbery. Evltln was arrested on de scription furnished by th Kalama of ficers. It is charged that Evltln robbed his roommate In Kalama early yesterday morning of $30 and came to Portland on the train that leaves Ka lama at 5 o'clock In the morning. Evltln waa returned to Kalama by Deputy Sheriff Kaufman, of that city, last night. - $6,000,000 to Be Spent on Palatial Craft Each Able to Carry 1000, to Run From Xew Tork to Pacific in Ten Days. L03 ANGELES, Cal., April ".-(Special.) Six million dollars for the purchase of four new 20-knot turbine passen'ger steamers to be operated between Portland and San Francisco, Stin Pedro and New York as soon as the Panama Canal Is opened. Is to be spent ,by th American-Hawaiian Steamship! Com pany. This announcement was, received here yesterday from George S. Dear born president of the company, whose head offices are In New orK. A fortnightly service will be estab lished between this city and New lorx, the ships going directly to the East ern metropolis without any calls except the necessary stops at the Canal, after leaving here. As soon as the trade de mands, steamers will be put on the run and the sailings will be. increased to one a week. Information to this effect was re reived bv H. P. Durdan. Southern Call f ornla . agent for the American-Ha waiian Company, In a letter from Mr. Dearborn, who reached New Tork re rpntlT from an extended trip of in spection all fclong tho West Coast of America. . Only Freight I&ndled Before. It Is said that the move on the part of. the American-Hawaiian Company to go Into the passenger business, it hav ing formerly handled only freight Is the direct result of Mr. Dearborn's trip lii the West, at the conclusion of which he has recommended , that passenger boats of the nyost Improved type be ordered Immediately by the company. Several Eastern shipbuilding com panies are already working on plans Tor the steamers, and as soon as tne bid of one firm can be approved, work on construction of the boats will be be gun. Boats making 18 knots an hour. It Is said by Mr. Durdan, wll be able fb make the trip between Los Angeles and New Tork In ten days, even in foul weather, while In fair weather they may be able to do It In less time. 1000 Passengers Is Capacity. - The ships are to be built exclusively for passenger use and It is- said that they will be as palatial In accommoda tions as many of the best ships now crossing the Atlantic in the American European trade. The only cargo carried other than baggage of the passengers, will be fast express, which does not, however, need to come through from the Atlantic Coast in as short time as the trains carry It. The four new boats will b able to carry about 1000 saloon passengers, will be in the neighborhood of 10,000 tons in size, and will measure about 600 feet In length. CORVALLIS GIRLS CONTEST Feronlan Society Women Take All Events on Programme. rx rrviv a n WTrrm.TtrRAL COLLEGE. Corvallis, April 9. -g (Special.) The Feronlan Literary society won an inroo events in the girls' literary contest held in the Gymnasium Friday night. The programme Included contests in Impromptu reaaings, orations uu im personations. rh imnrnmntii readlnsr contest was won by Miss Alice Shepard, of Port- lana. me preiunum uivimuu w by Ruth Smith, of Marshfleld, whos theme was the "Dreams at Youth," and the Impersonation contest was cap tured by Ielleen Leech, of Grants Pass. All were members of the Feronlan Lit erary Society. Each of th six gtrls literary socie ties were represented in the various contests by members chosen by a serlee of tryout contests which have extended through a period of several months. m i Monmouth School Bonds Win. MONMOUTH, Or., April 9. (Special.) Bonds for $20,000 for a new school were victorioua at the polls here Sat urday. 'The vota was 32 for and 23 aeatnst. -out sale of ! In the great closing'- from S85 for a prices ranc-inff I.... - . , Krn o vnoiw nfrpllfint and serviceable Player Piano, i'on- little Bapy uranaa ana iesa man .puw m ""j land has never witnessed such piano selling as now, and prices on dependable, warranted highest r.ia.nn, will not be so low again for many, many years, if ever. Everything in the old premises is to be closed out, so as to commence at the new building, Seventh and Alder streets with entirely new stock and equipment, y , . . -HiiP'l':? f 'I I !t ,1 AjiV7" Easter Glove Sale For Women, Misses and Children 5000 Pairs of Gloves In a Great Sale Lowest Prices of the Year 6000 BURIED OUT Notorious Yoshiwari District of Tokio Destroyed. 5000 BUILDINGS IN ASHES Fanned by South Wind, Flames Quickly Iiay Waste to Palaces of Sin Covering Area of Over Four Square Miles. .TOKIO, April 9. The notorious Yoshi wari quarter of Toklo waa destroyed by fire today. Many- of . these houses were almost palatial in appearance and 1000 of them were burned in a little more than three hours Six thousand women were rendered homeless The Are, which began at 11:30 o clock in the momlng, spread over a vast area. It was fanned by a strong southern wind, and the flames went to the surrounding structures to the north. . Altogether It Is estimated the 6000 houses are In ruins, covering an area approximating four square miles. A large number of women were se verely Injured, but so far as known no deaths have occurred. Five hundred troops are guarding the territory to night. When the wind died down on the clear night th entire skies of Toklo were ablase from the glowing embers. It la Impossible at present to estimate the total loss. . Structures Are Gorgeous. The workl-famed Yoshiwari was lo cated about one mile to the north of Asakusa Park. The district presented a spectacle probably unparalleled In any other country, but was reproduced on a smaller scale In the provincial Japanese cities, and whb remarkable for Its gor Wow tion of some of its sweetness. Much of this can De avoiaea vy use of Mover's Friend. This great remedy prepares the expectant motWs system for the coming event, and its use makes her 90m Sle during all the term. Mother's Friend assists nature m grad ually expanding all tissues, muscles and tendons, it strengthens thj " 3 Y 1 u v-acfc in P-ood condition. The use or ligaments, ana ccy m. Mother's Friend lessens the pain quick ana natural recovery ?u- ,,V,.r -Rnr Rale at dniET iilw lllVkM" sa, stores. Write for free book for expectant mothers. THE BRADFIELD CO., Atlanta, Ga. Eilers Mngin House at 353 Washington Street., Pianos are going at asaassasssssssssssssssssssss---- i. serviceable Fischer Upright, to less & . i n, .mnav nrr trirnVmll -sM AUC DUUU AAV- uuuwwM a- IVa Wat.ivn'e uvct as uuo vi imw ..vv Hwr.-VH-W piano-inaking. All the latest designs are included in the great closmg-out sale 01 raiers music iiouse, soon wj uo Seventh and Alder. geous structures, guarded by iron bars, directly on the street line and it thou sands of gaily bedecked residents. The whole quarter was under special municipal surveillance, with the result that at all times perfect order pre vailed, enabling strangers to observe, while walking through the streets, the manner in which the Japanese solved, in their own manner, one of th vexed questions of all ages. FJresAre Disastrous. The district to th north was occupied largely by small and flimsy dwelling places. In August, 1907, a conflagration at Hakodate destroyed 1300 houses, with an estimated lose of 15. 000,000. In March, the following year, fire at Noda Boy, near Tokio, destroyed 400 houses, the damage being $2,500,000, and a few days later 4000 houses were burned at Nligata. ; ... In August, 1909, a fire reduced to ashes a large part of Osaka. The offi cial report placed the number f houses 'destroyed at more than 1100. Theae In cluded ten business blocks and 20 tem ples. The most disastrous fire last year was at Wajlma, 1806 buildings being burned. WOMAN'S SKIRT IS CUT San Francisco Man Arrested as a "Jack-the-SIasher." , SAN FRANCISCO, April 9. (Special.) Accused of being a "Jack-the-slash-er," Simon N. Witt, a civil engineer,' who resides in the Golden West Hotel, was arrested tonight on the complaint of Mrs. A. Allen, whose husband Is con nected with the Sunset Magazine. Witt denies his gulU and he was released on $10 ball, being instructed to appear In the Police Court tomorrow to answer to an aecusatlon of malicious mischief. Mrs. Allen's story Is that she was coming down town on a Powell-street car shortly before o'clock tonight and that a man, later Identified as Witt, was seated next to her. She felt some thing tugging at her skirt, which was lifted slightly, and examination showed that the garment had been cut in sev eral places. The young son of Mrs. Allen was with her and when the car arrived at Market and Powell streets. Bhe sent the lad to the Press Club, where she knew her husband to be. and he joined her lm- med I ately. , Every woman's heart thrijls at the cooing and prattling of a baby, and motherhood is her. highest and purest joy. Yet the suffering incident to this great consummation of her life'a rlesire. robs the anticipa- . 1 1 1 aI. , , ' , when baby comes, and assures a jr srs C K Y, I P 1 l-N. VOV 00 era than $600 for one of the choicest Pianos - reftooTiipd now the world , 0 " . crmrpmp n.r. h i e Vfm pn t,S in fine i