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JlWfllWf PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY, JULY 22. 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FAST PANAMA MAIL EXPLOITATION OF WEST TO BE VAST NEED OF OREGON PLAN TEST SEEN LAD, LX)ST, LONGS PEERS SURRENDER SERVICE COMING FOR GRANDFATHER AUTO PLUNGES INTO RECIPROCITY wLL ANCIENT POWER RIVER; Tl RURT m ii-i RoseburgCapitalist'and Wife Are Victims, MUSTER GO VOTES SOVTHKKV PACIFIC KXGAGES CHICAGO COLISEUM ANNKX. LEWISTOX, IDAHO, BOY OF 10 TRAVELS FAR; FOUND CRYING. HITCHCOCK ARRANGES FOR 1- KXOT SHIPS OS 2 OOE VXS. Bill to Pass Today by Large Majority. INSURGENTS ALMOST ALONE La FoIIette Arraigns President and Democrats. ALL AMENDMENTS BEATEN smith of MU-hlsan rredk'M Crft Inflax of Brltl-h Capital to Canada to Flood Inlted Stairs With Goods. mow nErrmorTTT Ar.r.rnm wnx nxrr wop ihtii: Pr.nt New t an f f rml. F jtt.r. p pound reals Ire Ess. d.l.n cents Totato. barrel !3 rents free Fml ballb'if. a pemnl I rent fre Apples, a bushel 2.1 cents free) Ttmatoee : pr tl. fre Onmr,. a bu.hel cents fr t-abr.se. ra.:h 3 cms f Pee. bee. a bueMel I"' rents free riilrr llrm)l lb.. "! free Tna'trr (!!. lb... rents f '-e M-lf.rl. a pound ... 1 cent free, Her.. a and hams, a IV . 4 cents free B"t and pork lull, dried or smoked) . ...llprct. fr-e WASHINGTON. July 3. The bitterest f sht for legislation wajed by an Admin titration In many years will coma to a close tomorrow, when the Canadian reci procity bIH will be passed by the Senate fcy a decisive rat. That at least tl Senators of a total membership of fl will rote tn favor of the measure, was predicted tonight by Senator of both political part leu. This will Include all but four or fire of the rVmorrats, and a: so wlU Include a great proportion of the so-called "stalwart" Republicans. Opposed to the bill will be majority of the Republican Insurgents who coma from Northwestern states, a few of the Republican regulars and a liaadful of Democrats. Tart's Signature Delayed. For a time today the Senate leaders hoped they might grt the bill to tha President before he departs for Bererly tomorrow, but a visit by Senators Ten rose and Crane io Speaker Clark soon dispelled this expectation, as tha Speaker explained It would be Impossible to hold the House In session long enouii to re ceive the measure. It Is not expected the Senate session tomorrow will bo greatly prolonged, but tha House, having little to do. rarely has a quorum present these days- That being likely tomorrow, as the Speaker pointed out. It was agreed that the plan was Impracticable. As the House will adjourn until next Wednesday the bill cannot be received until the latter date. Bill to Faa I'namended. The measure has not been, and prob ably will not bo chanced la any respect by the Senate, and when It Is signed by the Speaker and tha Vice-President it will he dispatched to tha President. Senator La Follette featured tha speechmaklng today with a vtrnrous ar raignment of President Taft and tha bill.. He attacked the Democrats of the Senate Tin the ground that they 'were deliberately trying to carry the tariff Is sue over to tha next session for political purpose, and pointed out that they had consistently voted down amendments proposing general t art IT reductions. Their exense. be aald. had been that the President would not aign tha reciprocity bill If It were encumbered with general tariff amendments. I a Follette Doubts Veto. "Talk about his vetoing the reci procity bill with a revision of tha woolen schedule added to It as an amendment." said La Follette. "la pre posterous. Tou might as well expect a drowlng man to relinquish his bold upon a life pfeserver. "Too have voted against these amendments on the pretext that It will Jeopardise the. bill to adopt them. That Is only because you want to save the tariff question for the campaign. Ton do not want to dispose of the question at this time. "Ton know that the President has become enamored of this so-called Canadian reciprocity. Ha la led lo believe that ha had struck at last, after running tha entire gamut, a popular chord, and It la the one thing now upon which he relies to restore his Administration to favor." Several amendments to the reciproc ity bill were defeated. Including those by VI r. Brlstow to reduce duties on lead bullion and lead paints, and similar lead products, and by Mr. Townsend for an alliance with Canada to enlarge the Ft. Lawrence waterways. Smith Fears Danger. Senator Smith, of Michigan, attack ing the bill, declared Canada would not be the only menace to American Indus try. Ha said British capital In great abundance waa waiting to be poured Into Canada when tha reciprocity agree ment was ratified: and that from tha advantageous ground across the "golden bortter British Industries) wtTl tCnasriMled em ?a-e A on Coaet Will Have Chance to Adver tise at Great Land Sliovr. SAX FRANCISCO. July it. Spe cial.) The entire West will be adver tised during the United States Land and Irrigation Congress .to be held at Chicago. November II to December . The Southern Faclflc Company and other Harrlman lines (have engaged the whole of the Coliseum Annex tor purposes of exhibition and every town. county or state tapped by these lines. Ill be given the opportunity to show what advantages It may have to offer to tha prospective homeseeker. To further this purpose, tha space will be divided into lecture halls with movlng-plcture facilities. and the towns and other centers that care to participate In the exhibits will be in vited to send movlng-plcture films and lecturers to show the public the op portunities for homes offered In the various districts. Photographs taken along the lines of the. Southern Pa cific depicting tha rrffit Interesting phases of home, farm and Industrial life will also be shown. Tha Land and Irrigation Congresa has planned to occupy the entire Coli seum at Chicago, but aa the space al lotted to the several exhibits waa thought not sufficient for that planned by the Southern Pacific for Ita West ern patrons, that company concluded to secure the annex for the Western exhibits. HOMESEEKERS IN PROTEST Stenographic Service in Land Con test Case Come High. MEDFORD. Or.. July 21. (Special.) Charging that the men who are con ducting homestead contest cases for the United States have made exorbitant charges for stenographic services; that prejudiced testimony Is constantly In troduced. and that eight persons who have complied with, the law In every respect are being cheated out of their homesteads In township 14. near Butte Falls. O. P. Gribb. postmaster at Butte Falls, yesterday appeared before Jus tice Butler, before whom the cases are being conducted. Fifty-two 3oI tars has been charged Mike Mahoney for stenographers' fees and the expense 111 "break" the homesteader, who la an old war veteran. Mrs. Mary A. Alberts, who filed on claim In the disputed territory five years ago. and who since that time has been working to send her children to school. Is also being subjected to the same kind of treatment. HILL TO VISIT SHIPPERS Western Grain Fx port Call Kali Heads to Coal Cities. SPOKANE Wash- July 71. (Special.) Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway, will come to Spo kane early In August and will remain day In conference with local ureal Northern. Spokane. Portland Seattle and Spokane Inland officials. It is reported at local mil neaaquaners inti Mr. Hill's coming has no particular sig nificance. From St. Paul, however, the announcement comes that one reason la James J. Hill s anxiety shout the wheat nd grain tonnage from vkasnington. President Hill will to to Seattle and Portland, where a meeting of Hill a Pa irle Coast officials will be held. He will snend about two weeks In the state' and In Portland. Definite announcement of tne ouua- Ing of the north-and-south line along toe San I oil Klver mrougn me uoivuie ndlan reservation from Republic to Hell's Gate probably will follow Mr. Hill's visit. At Portland- Mr. Hill will spend most f his time with Carl R. Gray, pres ent of the Spokane Inland and other Hill Northwestern roads. He will be met In Spokane by President Gray. WORKMEN FIND OLD COIN Soldier Believed to Have) Brought It to Vancouver In Early Dajra. VANCOUVER. Wash.. July fl. (Spe cial. An English penny, coined In 183. two yeara after Queen VWtorla as cended the throne of England, waa found here today by workmen who were tearing up an old wooden aide walk, which has been laid so long that no one spems to recall the time. The old coin, covered with tha ac cumulation of several decades, when cleaned with arid, ahowed the profile of Q'lten Victoria as a young girl. The English were here when tha Hudson's Bay Company was In con trol. aTid It is probable that the penny was brought across the ocean and around the Horn In the pocket of a British officer and lost. In what waa then the Western wilderness. The English surrendered this post In lilt. BLUE AND GRAY HEAR TAFT President Speaks at Reunion on Bolt Run Battlerield. MANASSAS. Va, July 71. Thin lines of veterana of the Blue and Gray with faltering steps slowly advanced toward each other and. meeting, clasped hands In fraternal greeting at noon today on historic Bull Run battlefield, where 50 years ago they were engaged in the first great battle of the war between the states. This, one of the crowning events of the Manassas peace Jubilee, waa wit nessed by to. 000 persons. Over the aame dusty reads that SO yeara ago swarmed with thousands of Union soldiers, hastening back to Washington from the first battle of Bull Run. President Taft motored to day to f-- - and spoke at the- re union, " . Fvery State. County and City President, of Cornell Gives His Views. TAFT'S VICTORY PREDICTED Savant Declares Nation's Chief Gains Steadily. INSURGENTS DEEMED WEAK Jacob G. Schurman Is Opposed to Direct Primary In New York, Law Up to Democrats Arling ton Clnb to Be Host Today. "In a r.epubllo like ours, consisting of nearly SO separate commonwealths. I do not deem It advisable for each to adopt Immediately a plan of govern ment which may be Introduced In one section of the country- until the merits of the system have been established." said Jacob G. Schurman, president of Cornell University, at the Portland yesterday, when asked his opinion oi tha Oregon system. "Let there be di versity of operation. When these In novations have proved themselves safe and practicable, then it will be time for their general adoption In all the states. "Personally. I am opposed to the adoption of the direct primary in New York for the present. This method of controlling the electoral machinery has been introduced In a sufficient num ber of states for Its merits to be sat isfactorily determined. However, both the Republican and Democratic parties In New York are committed In plat forms adopted at their state conven tions last year to the drafting of such a system for that state. -We have a Democratic Legislature and the Re publicans are chuckling to themselves that the responsibility for framing a direct primary law devolves on the Democrats. "That the Democrats are at eea Is apparent from the fact that although the present Legislature has been in sesVlon since January 1 and now pro poses an adjournment until September (. It has taken no action- looking to the preparation of a direct primary law or a charter board for the City of New Tork. Regardless of what aotion It may take on either of these Im portant subjects of legislation, that ac tion la going to exert a great Influ ence In the politics of the Empire State In the coming electlona whn the Re publicans may not only carry the state for their nominee for President but elect a Republican Legislature at the same time. "From my observations I am con vinced there has not at any time ex isted a vital demand In the State of New York for a direct primary law. The only sentiment for It was due more (Concluded on Pace. 2.) 1 TODAY. r ft nkmwMkxk Mmmfm i ii i- i il--j-r i After Journey to Salem, Ellis Greer, With i25 Cents His Only Posses sion Sects for Kelnllve. SALEM. Or., July 21. (Special.) Clasping a 23-cent piece tightly In his hand, looking wistfully for someone that might identify him, Ellis Greer, 10 years of age, alighted from a South ern Paclfio train and began to Inquire pitifully for M. C. McFarlane. The boy had just arrived from Lewis ton. Idaho, having been sent to this city to be placed In the care of his grandfather, M. C. McFarlane. When he arrived his sole possessions were the coin and an empty lunch basket, which he had depleted long before his trip ended, passengers on the train taking pity on him and providing him with food to finish his Journey. After alighting, from the train the boy stood on the. depot platform seeking the man supposed to meet him. Bursting Into tears he was noticed by Nelson Tomll son. who Inquired as to wnom ne sought and a search was started Finally the police were called and a thorough hunt through the city and surrounding country was made, but the boy's grandfather could not be located. Tomllson discovered that the search apparently futile and took the lad to his home, where he Is now lo cated and the endeavor to locate Mc Farlane will be continued. - Far as Is known here no auch man resides in the community and every Indication points to the fact that the child was sent here on a "wild goose chase." BRITONS SEEK POLO CUP Americans to Be Challenged for An other Match in 1912. LONDON, July 21. (Special.) Great Britain Is going to make another try to regain the polo cup and will chal lenge America for a match In 1912. The Duke of Westminster has offered to take over the recovery fund and ponies, and the Hurllngham committee has decided to accept the offer. Tha action of the Duke of Westmin ster relieves the committee of the necessity of appealing for subscrip tions for the fund that would be re quired. To carry the team and its mounts across would necessitate an outlay of from 25,000 to $50,000. It Is believed thero will not be any difficulty in getting players, as Cheap'e, Wilson, Lloyd and Edwards are all likely to be available. ACT IS NOT PUNISHABLE Attorney-General Settles Question of Lowering; Flag for "Deadt Indian." SALEM. Or., July 21. (Special.) That M. Peterson, hotelkeeper at Grand Ronde. cannot be prosecuted because be lowered the American flag at the death of a "common Indian" Is the opinion of Attorney-General Crawford, after that official gave the question long -and grave consideration. "The action of the hotelkeeper In low ering his flag to half-mast upon an Indian's death would not be. in my opinion, such a desecration or defilement of 'Old Glory' as would make the act punishable under the laws of the state," says Mr. Crawford, replying to a com munication sent to Governor West. King's Pl-omise Turns Political Scale. FORMAL DECISION RESERVED Hope of Future Restoration Only Gleam of Light. LORDS ARE PESSIMISTIC Lender of Extremists Fights On, but Associates Regard Him as Anach r'onlst King Would Avoid Stern Measures,. ; LONDON. July 2L Tha constitution al revolution tonight appears to be an accomplished fact. Great Britain In the future will be governed practical ly by the House of Commons, with the hereditary upper house possessing only a veto with a time limit of two years. The peers find their one gleam of hope in the prediction that the next conservative government will overturn Asqulth's revolution and restore old conditions, but the radicals ara confi dent that in such matters the hands of the clock never turn back. The future career of the veto bill was apparent yesterday to all politi cians and ita eventual acceptance by the House of Lords not doubted. Pre mier Asquith dispelled all clouds today by communicating Informally to Mr. Balfour, leader of the opposition in the Housa of Commons, the substance of sm announcement which ho will make In that House on Monday. King's Promise Conveyed. Hla letter, which Mr. Balfour com municated to the meeting of tha Lords this afternoon, follows: Dear Mr. Balfour: I think it Is courte ous end rliht. before any pub 11 decisions are announced, to let you Know now wo retard the present situation. When the par liament bill In the form it naa now - sumsd returns to the House of Commons, we hull ha i-omoelled to ask that Bouse to riliarrea with the Lords' amendments. In the circumstances, should the necessity arise, tha rovernment will advise the Kins to ex ercise his prerogative to secure the passing Into law of the bill In substantially tne same form in wnicn it ten me uouse oi Commons, snd Eli Majesty has been pleased to suggest that he will consider it his duty to accept and act on tnat advice, tou sincerely. H. H. ASQUITH. This was a day of conferences. Three meetings were held to discuss the sit uation. The Cabinet sat two hours and later the Conservative leaders of both houses met at Mr. Balfour's residence, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Cur son, the Marquis of Londonderry, the Earl of Selborne, Austen Chamberlain, the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, the Earl of Halsbury and the Marquis of Salis bury, being the principal figures of the conference. j The last and most Impressive gath (Concluded on Page 8.) New Order Becomes Effective in 1914, in Readiness for Opening of Canal, Year Following, WASHINGTON'. July 21. Postmaster-General Hitchcock today ordered tUe establishment of a fast ocean mail service between the principal ports on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and Panama and Colon. The order calls for a service which shall begin in the Autumn of 1914, so as to be in operation when the canal is opened. The contract calls for 16 knot steamers to furnish a weekly service between New York, New Or leans and Colon and between Seattle, and San Francisco and Panama. The entering into the contract will open a new era to the commerce of the country and in opening to the world the Panama Canal, an ocean mail service between porta on both coasts of the United States with points in Central and South America will be es tablished. GIRLS RUN WINS $70,000 Vassar Graduate's Successful Sprint 3 Years- Ago Xow Yields Fortune. CHICAGO. July 21. (Special.) Vic tory over five other girls In a foot race at Calgary. Alberta, three years ago, has brought a fortune of 170.000 to Miss Caroline Caption, of Chicago, who was the fastest sprinter fn "Vassar College, when she was a student there, The year after she was graduated from Vassar, Miss Cantlon went to visit two school chums. The provincial fair was In progress, one of the events being a foot race for young women. Miss Cantlon, her two chums ana three other Calgary girls entered. Before the race started, a Calgary mil llonalre offered a diamond necklace as a prize to the- winner. Another mil llonalre. a mineowner, thereupon or- fered the winner a prize of 1000 shares of stock in a British Columbia mining company. The crowd laughed because tha stock was thought worthless, but today Miss Cantlon received notice that a new management naa ian.eu over the company, the mine had proved rich and that her 1000 shares were worth 170,000. . HOP PRICES ARE SOARING California Crop Short, Foreign De mand Big 35 Cents Predicted. SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 21. (Spe clal.) Hop prices are already soaring and dealers declare they expect to see hops reach the 35-cent mark this sea son. The highest offer lastly ear was 25 cents and the average was 17 cents, This year some of the growers have already refused offers of 25 cents. According to an expert on hops, the California crop will not equal that of last year. He says the foreign demand will be greater this year than in the years past. There are very few old hops In storage and the market will be filled with nothing but new hops this year. In the hop fields near Wheatland, Te hama and Nord, growers are already preparing for the harvest and camps are being prepared for the pickers. Hop-picking machines will be used In the Wheatland fields. POSSE WINS LONG CHASE Alleged Assailant of Crippled Girl to Face Grand Jury. LA GRANDE. Or., July 12. Ending- a search by officers and a posse from Union, which commenced last Tuesday, William Hogg, a young man residing at High Valley, was brought here last night and Is awaiting trial In the county Jail. Hogg is accused of at tacking Miss Moffatt, a young crip pled girl, also a resident at High Val ley. The posse returned last night to Union with one of Hogg's relatives named McDonald, who is charged with having misdirected the posse as to the direction Hogg went A portion of the posse was sent to Baker, from which point tlley went toward High Valley and captured Hogg. MAN ROBBED BY "STATUE" Chicago Visitor Astonished When Bronze Rider Jumps. CHICAGO, July 21. John Anderson, of Roseland. was walking In Michigan ave nue at daylight when a stranger ac costed him with: "Say, what do they mean by having another rider on that horse at the Logan monument?" Anderson expressed doubt. They walked over to the statue and therei sure enough, Anderson saw another figure perched on the bronze horse behind the figure of General Logan. He walked up to make more detailed investigation. As he did so the figure jumped from the horse and landed on top of Anderson. Both men overpowered lm and took 5100 and his watch. They tied Anderson with his suspend ers to the tall of tha bronze horse and escaped. Mrs. Phebe Oolburn Dies. Mrs. Phebe Colburn. widow of A. K. Colburn. a prominent railroad man of Minnesota, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. B. PUkington. 315 East Sixteenth street, yesterday after noon, lived In Portland since 1873, coming direct from Pennsylvania, where she was born, over the then newly-completed Union I'aciflo Railway, of which, her husband was an official. Mrs. Oolburn waa married In 1866 In Minnesota to A. K. Colburn, who died in Portland in 1898. One child sur yiYCA, ilra, Jai'Uitiaglca, DAUGHTER JUMPS; UNHURT Machine on Sugar Loaf Moun tain Drops 100 FeeU FAMILY ON OUTING TRIR Soene of Latest Accident In Southern Oregon Most Dangerous on Rose-burg-Myrtle Point Boa Al Creason Is 3Ian Hurt, .7 ACTO-MOHII.K ACCIDENTS IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Roseburg. Man and wife hurled down mountainside In Cool county.. Tacoma Overturning of auto near Rainier Park kills one man. injures two. White Salmon While owner cranks machine, car backs off 130-foot bluff. Tacoma Automobile run down and kills boy. ROSEBURG. Or, July 2i (Special.X While rounding a sharp curve on tha Ro3eburg-Myrtlo Point stage rood, near the summit of Sugar Loaf Moan' tain, 50 miles west of Roseburg, lata today, an automobile occupied by Al Creason, a Roseburg capitalist, his wlfa and 18-year-old daughter plunged down the step embankment and Into the Coquille River, a distance; of aboutj 100 feet below. Although seriously wounded Mr, Creason succeeded In ascending tha grade and reaching a telephone, where he told of what had occurred. Messages were immediately pent to Myrtle Point and automobiles carrying physicians were rushed to the soene oil the accident. Special Train to Carry -Injured. After giving every assistance possi ble to the Injured. Mr. Creason and his! wife were rushed to Myrtle .Point, where an effort is being made to char ter a special train to carry them to the hospital at rth Bend. According to a message received her from Myrtle Point shortly after 9 o'clock tonight, Mrs. Creason Is se riously Injured and the attending phy sicians entertain little hope of recov ery. Mr. Creason is also suffering considerably from the effects of tha accident, but will probably recover. The daughter, who occupied the rear seat with her mother, jumped as the machine darted off the road and es caped without serious injury. Tha automobile, which was reoently pur chased by Mr. Creason, Is said to ba almost completely demolished. Family Out for Vacation Trip. Mr. Creason, with the women of tha family, left Roseburg a few days ago and were en route to points in Coos County, where they expected to enjoy, their annual outing. The scene of tonight's '-accident IS considered the most dangerous spot on the Roseburg-Myrtlo Point road. Tha road winds around the edge of tlio mountain and In places Is 200 feet above the river. Unprotected at the outer edge, tha highway affords a most excellent op portunity for a person unacquainted with the sharp curves and steep grades, to meet a premature fate. OXE MAX KILLED, TWO HURU Automobile Overturns on- Road to Rainier National Parle. TACOMA. .Wash, July 21. (Special.? E. W. Natheson, a prominent Everett lumberman, was killed and Sandy Thompson and Dan Curry, both of Everett, injured this evening, when an automobile in which they were riding went over a bluff on the road near the entrance to Mount Rainier National Park. A party, including Colonel Hathaway and son, Howard, and four other Ever ett people, Alonzo D. Seeman and H. I. Glamace, of Milwaukee, and H. V. Dunn, of .Tacoma, and the victims of the accident, were on their way to tha mountains In three automobiles and were entering the park when the ac cident occurred. Two of the cars had passed into the park when the third. seven-passenger touring car, went over the shallow bluff about 200 yard( from the park entrance. Although the fall was not great, Natheson was pinned underneath the, overturned car and killed almost in stantly. Thompson's arm was broken; and Curry sustained numerous bad. bruises. The other occupants of the auto. Including O. E. White, of Ever ett. Its owner, and tha colored driven; escaped other Injury than the shock The oause of the accident la hoi known, Tha colored chauffeur says the; steering gear became disabled, but an; examination of the car after the; smashup showed Its steering gear lit order. Tha two Injured men and the; body of Natheson were taken to tx Concluded, on Fae i-X I