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r - PORTLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1911. - . PRICE FIVE CEXTS. VOL. LI" O. l,o-i. GARLETOH. LONDON MUSICAL EARS OF JUDGES'RECALLTO PRISONERS JARRED REGULARS REBEL AT MOXKEY DITTIES OF JAILMATE. ". I . . . InAonl I 1 1 f llrtPT I MfiBMHNQ sTRivj- mm rPTfl nMr m l al l rL muo TO rnRNFR LAND NUninBtai HLUIIt GAY AT NEWPORT RAVAGED BY FIRE American Actor Loses Life in Blaze. DELAY STATEHOOD FELT OVER PROSPECT DULLNESS OF EARLY SEASOX . FORGOTTEX. , OF BEIXO OUTVOTED. ii in imnniir n iiinnii HHSduivirtHbBur ! Taft Will Veto Bill With Provision. NEW MEXICO IS UNFORTUNATE Fate Coupled With That of Arizona, to Disadvantage. p PRESIDENT MUCH STIRRED Mhmi Will DerlT Vlgorou Op position to Principle of Prr mitttnc Politic, to Ror round Judiciary. WASHINGTON. Aug. t. Strong dis approving tha statehood bill buon of the provision In tha Art ion eonstltu tlon providing for the application of the recall law to he Judiciary. Preel dent Taft will veto the bill which be tewa statehood upon both Artsona and New Mexico. The Prealdent haa no objections to tno admission of New Mexico on the tenna of the bllL and la not oppoeed to Artsona'a admission except for the recall of Judges pro vision. Thla he abhors. ll waa eaid In Washington today on good authority that the President will write a stinging message on the sub ject. Ma rlewa upon which are of tha deepest-set and moat positive, nature. He believes that any action that would tend to draff the judiciary In the mire of politics la fundamentally dangerous and fraugM with danirer that will not end In the local application of tha rule. New MerWa failure to obtain atate hood through the lnalatenc of both tha Hodm and the Senate to couple the two territories In one bill la a aouroa of regret to Preeldent Taft. but ha feela Jiat even the Injustice that New Mexico 111 auffer for the time being will not offset the grave menace of the recall provision a appbed to the Judiciary. The President had Indicated aome time ago that he would take thla ao ;on unleei tha Nelaon amendment waa sdopted. Thla amendment would have required the people of Aiisona. aa a condition of statehood, to vote down the provision In their constitution for the recall of Judges. The amendment frs defeated and the Senate passed the bill aa It came from the House, aim ply r -quiring that a rote' be taken on ;he recall feature. Flood Rallies Forces. Chairman Flood, of the House Corn nlttee on Territories, author of tha resolution, declared today that then would be plenty of votes la tha House to pass it again orer the Presldent'a veto. Aa to the Senate, he oould not apeak. He urged the Democrats of the House to get together aa soon aa the veto message waa announoed. Flood waa surprised to learn that tha Preeldent would register his disapproval of tha resolution and aald that It bad been drawn largely to meet Taft'a objection. Senator Culberson la authority for the statement that the Senate would likewise pass the bill over the Preel dent's veto If the question Is presented to that body. It waa also said the atatehood ques tion would result In prolonging the session. JUDGE IS . THREATENED Jurist to Try MoNuuru Receives) - Menacing Letter. LOS A.VGELE& Aug. . Judge Walter Bordwell. before whom the Mc Namaraa will appear October 11 for ' trial on the charges of conspiracy and murder, said today that he had re ceived threatening letters In connec tion with the oase of tha accused labor leader and his brother. ' He declined to disclose the contents of the letters, but told Attorney Lecompt Davla, of counsel of the MoNamara defease, that Davla waa In a position to put a stop to them. Davis said that If the letters re ceived today were like another three. tenlna letter the Judjres had shown hlra previously, he could not condemn It too severely. He declared ha would be only too glad to take any step sug geeted by the court for the prosecution ft the writer. He added that he would confer with the court on the subject later. CHANNEL TO BE DEEPENED Army Board Would Have Govern ment Cut Hoqulam Waterway. I OREOONLAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Aug. . The Army River and Harbor Board today recommended to the Secretary of War that a Government dredge be utilised In deepening the channel at Hoqulara. Waab, aa baa been urged by Senator Jonea and Rep resentative War burton. It Is found that If a Government dredge la uaed. thla channel work can b done for 11.9 leas than if by contract and the board favors this conmy. appropriation by Cos yrees will be neoessary. however, De fer U work can be undertaken. Leaders. I nepect All Available Un patented Areaa In Fonr Coon ties, for Colonising. 8ALT LAKE CITT. Aug. . (Ppe claLl Alarmed by the prospect of be ing outvoted by Incoming residents, the ofTlclaJa of the Mormon Church. It became known today, have been making an exhaustive Investigation of ail the unpatented lands In four of the richest counties of the state, for the purpose of colonisation on their' own account. The admitted purpose of the investigation la to find homes for con verts to Mormon Ism. -Recent Immigration to Utah from Gentile aourcea haa been a cause of much eonoern to the leaders of the hierarchy. The arrival of 600 famlliea from Pennsylvania this season led them to take particular notice. They have settled on fertile lnds and. com ing from communities noted for their hard-working farmers, threaten to outdo even the thrifty Mormons them selves in adding to tha natural output of the soil. A deal Involving $7,000,000 for re clalmable lands la reported to be pend ing and It la said that a large Jewish colony will be located there. MILITARY LOSES TO CIVIL E. W. Brodlne Will Not Bo Delivered to Guard Authorities. SALEM. Or, - Aug. 9. (Special.) Civil authorttiee won In the first round today in the dispute with the military authorities, which started here when Private E. W. Brodlne was arrested for falling- to pay alimony to his wife. The military authorltiea demanded hla release, but District Attorney Mc Nary refused to grant It. Attorney General Crawford waa appealed to today by Adjutant-General Flnxer. Deputy Attorney-General Van Winkle found that the military code prevents the civil authorities from enforcing process on a soldier who Is on duty, but does not exempt such a soldier from criminal process. As the pre senting proceedings arc In the nature of criminal process Van Winkle tele graphed tha Adjutant-General to that affect. BOYS ARE ADRIFT AT SEA Channel Patrolled for Fugitives From Reform School Camp. AVALON. Catallna Island. Cnl- Aug. t. After turning several powerboats adrift because they did not know how to operate the machinery, two boys from the Whlttler state Reform School camp set out In a rowboat for the main land before dawn today and tonight were still somewhere out In the chan nel. The lada escaped from the school camp about midnight. Searching1 parties were sent out. PERSONS WHO ' J. v ( ' f " ' y r C'FVjvz-a j am? sf&v akr J . J5 --rx Y ' ' V xArjvr wz? srjs zZMSztiASSA JZ"" s&5 jeer? f ' 'f "'.s- . . : ;il S A1 ill Aimv - L A) u General Situation Is Worst in Years. CONDITION OF CORN DROPS Increased Acreage Atones In . . Part for Deterioration. YIELD OF OATS IS SMALL Hay Is Lightest In 15 Years and Po ' tato Crop Has Been Smaller Only Twice In Part 1 0 Tears. Apple Condition, 68. NORTHWEST WHEAT CROP WILL LARGKLY EXCEFD THAT OK I.A8T YEAR. OFEOONIAf NEWS BUREAU. Washington. Aug. Preliminary es timates by the Department of AfTt culture on the wheat rtop. made pub lic today, fix the 1811 Winter wheat crop of Oregon at ll.7fl9.000 bushels, or 8SH.0OO bushels orer the crop of 1810. The quality of thla crop Aurust 1 Is reported to be M per cent and the yield per acre S2.2 bushels. Wash ington's Winter wheat crop Is esti mated at 1S.S20.000 bushels, as asalnst J3.SM.000 bushels last year. Its conditions Is reported ss ST per cent and the yield per acre aa 27.3 buehels. Spring wheat figures are given for Washington only and show tha con dition on August 1 to be BA as com pared with 3 on July 1. The Wash ington Spring wheat crop was 42 on August 1. 1910, WASHINGTON. Aug. . A tremen dous decline In crops generally through sot the country, traceable to drought and Intense heat, occurred last month, as Indicated by official figures and es timates made today In the monthly crop report of the Department of Agricul ture. ' The report today Is the worst, as to general crop conditions, that the de partment has Issued for any one month since 1901. The area most seriously affected ex tends from New York and Pennsylvania westward to the Rocky Mountains, em bracing all the great corn, wheat and hay-producing statea In the country. In the southern states, with the ex ception of Virginia and North Carolina, (Concluded on P 2 ) FIGURE IN OAT SUMMER SOCIAL ''-v i'- .i,-7. . ' -yf v I 1'.--;", . ll eK:LAt1 - V ' V J' zA Church Lawn Fete avnd Polo Matches Engross Members of Smart Set at Xarragansett Pier. NARRAGANSETT PIER. R. I, Aug. . (Special.) With return from Eu rope of members of the smart set who went abroad in the Spring to witness the coronation and Its attendant fes tivities, the social season bera and at Newport has become very gay Indeed. Colonel John Jacob Astor haa taken his fiancee. Miss MadeMne TJorce. and her, mother to his Newport cottage and there will ba lively entertainments in their honor. Colonel Astor's first wife' never' achieved her ambition to be the leader of social life there and it is unlikely that the new Mrs. Astor will have any better success, but the (100.000.000 of Mr. Astor would lead almost any social community. The lawn feto and fair of the Epis copal Church.- St. Peters-By-the-Sea, was one of the most brilliant affairs of the season here. The grab bag pia gave much Joy to the children. Maaters David and Maltland ' Arm strong and Thomas Wanamaker and Misses Barbara Norman and Elizabeth Pflxenmayer figured at this booth. One of the events of the week was the polo - match between teams cap tained by Miss Emily Randolph and Miss K. Perm Smith. Miss Randolph scored four goals for her side. Life here and at Newport Is In marked contrast to the dullness of the early season, when even an attempt to stir up a controversy for leadership between Mrs. Drexel and Mrs. Mills had no effect. Harry Lehr, who for many years has been the Merry An drew of Newport. Is In Europe, suffer ing from nervous prostration. MIDDLE WEST HOT AGAIN Temperatnre Goes to 103 With High Humidity at Kansas City. KANSAS CITT. Mo, Aug. 9. Kansas City, Mo, and Oklahoma sizzled today in a heat wave which began yesterday. The mercury reached 103 at 4 P. M-, with high humidity at Kansas City. B. A. Barrett, 53 years old, of Philllps burg. Kan., Jumped from a window, of a hospital after being overcome by the heat. He died from his Injuries. The temperatures recorded were: Jop II n. Mo.. 99: Wichita," Kart. 96; Oklahoma City. Okla 98; Topeka, Sallna. Atchison and Emporia, ' Kan, 104: Manhattan, Kan., 105. . , PRUNES AT 71 -4c BASIS Felida. Association Obtain Record Price for 4 00-Acre Crop. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Aug. 9. (Spe cial.) The highest price on record for prunes will be received by the members of the Felida Fruitgrowers' Associa tion. The price for 30-s to JB's will be 7 4 cents a pound. A Portland firm is the buyer. SEASON AT NARRAGANSETT PIER MANY HAVE NARROW ESCAPES Billie Burke, Clad in Wrapper, Flees From Flames. YANKEE TOURISTS SCARED Two Floors of Famous Hostelry In British Metropolis Are, Gutted. Well-Known Actress De scribes Experience. LONDON, Aug. 9. Fire destroyed a portion of the Carleton Hotel 'tonight and resulted in the death, of one person. After the flames had been quenched a body was found on the top floor. It was identified as that of Jameson Lee Finney, an American actor. The Carleton is one of London's most fashionable hotels, and many Americans were among Its patrons. Practically all had narrow escapes. Miss Billie Burke, the actress, was among the first to get out of the Carle ton Hotel. She says she was dressing when she heard a noise andsaw the smoke. Jewels Left Behind. Of course, she did not mles the oppor tunity to lose her Jewels. This is what she said: "When we saw those sparks, my French maid was nearly crasy. Mother wanted to take the elevator down, as her knee are rather stiff, but I saloj to mother, "You Just come on down tha stairs.' "We had Just got out when ' mothen asked me about my Jewels. I said neven mind the Jewels, and by that time wei were on the second floor. Mother said that she Just could not go any further; and she' was going to Jump the rest of) the wayv Actress Thinly Clad. "Of course I wouldn't let her Jump, and we managed to get down to tha first floor. I was dressed only in a peignoir, but someone wrapped a coat around mo in the cloakroom and a nice woman, stuck a few hairpins in my hair." The fire burned for two and a half hours, but was confined mainly to that end of the hotel adjoining His Majes ty's Theater. The fifth and sixth (Conoluded on Page S.) AND NEWPORT. ill I.--S- . I Tortured by Fallen Vaudeville Star's Ragtime, Men In Cells Declare for Classics Only. Nothing but classics are to be sung In the City Jail hereafter by prisoners with musical tendencies. This was the informal decision of the long-term men at the Jail Tuesday night, after Charles Murphy, who asserts that he was once a singer on the Tantagej circuit, had insisted on glvTng "coon Bongs" for half an hour. Murphy started In with negro ante bellum melodies, switched to minstrel songs and ' degenerated into ditties about monkeys in tropical trees. The climax came, however, when he began to sing a melody about a certain "LIzzy-Mandy who was a winner and a dandy," or words to that effect. He sang with enthusiasm and persons passing by in Oak street wondered what was happening In the police sta tion. "Can that!" came a loud command from the rear cells. Drunks and men accused of petty larceny or disorder ly conduct, two of whom claim to have had musical merit at better periods of their lives. Joined in the command. Murphy's cellmate was asleep and deaf to both music and protest, so he was encouraged to brave the musical criticism.. He sang bravely a few bars, wavered over a few more notes and Anally gave up the effort. "Why can't ye sing something decent, like The Hat Me Father Wore?" said an Irish prisoner. "Or Old Ben Bolt?" said another. But Murphy had re lapsed into sullen silence. AMERICAN GARB IS LIKED TVife of Japanese Consul-General Goes- Back Home "Hobbled." SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9. (Special.) When Matsuzo Nagal. Japanese Consul-General at this port, came to as sume his post two years and a half ago, his bride, a beautiful daughter of the land of th,e cherry blossom, was clad in the picturesque costume of her country. When the couple left on a visit to Japan today. Mrs. Nagal was attired In a tailor-made hobble, and that she had assimilated more than tha Occidental garb was evidenced by the number of local society and clubwomen who bade her bon voyage at the pier before the Chlyo Maru started for sea. The floral tributes and other tokens sent by Mr. and Mrs. Nagal's American friends, as well as prominent San Fran cisco Japanese, filled their handsome suite to overflowing and there was a constant stream of callers to pay their respects. A little traveler who was not with tne Consul-General and his wife when they arrived here accom panied them. She Is their year-old baby daughter. Ahzal. Consul Nagal expects -to be away from his post until next November. -He takes the trip principally for his health, which has been undermined by too close attention to his duties here. POSTAL BANICHOCK FULL Bremerton Depositors Have to Be Turned Away; Relief Sought. BREMERTON, Wash., Aug. 9. (Spe cial.) The Postal Savings Bank is full. Not another cent can be accepted. The two local banks are accredited deposi taries of postal deposits, but they are full. too. The Citizens Bank can ac cept only $10,000 and the First Na tional 17500. Postmaster Gala telegraphed today to Postmaster-General Hltchcook an ap peal for Immediate relief. He sug gested that each of tho Bremerton banks be permitted to carry ,20.000. "That tvill give us only temporary relief." said the postmaster tonight. "If deposits keep coming at their present rate we shall be full up again In three months." Among the patrons of the Postal Bank are many enlisted men and offi cers in the Navy and employes at the Navy-Yard. RECALL . M0VE DISDAINED Seattle Officials Treat Action Against Them With. Indifference. SEATTLE, Aug. 9. Mr. and. Mrs. Frank Stlrtan, who have directed the circula tion of petitions for the recall of Mayor George W. Billing and Councllmen Max Wardall. F. S. Stelner, E. F. Blaine and J. Y. C. Kellogg, said today that the peti tions would not be ready for filing to morrow, as promised, but would be com pleted next week. The officials against whom the peti tions are directed . profess to treat the movement with complete indifference. The only candidate mentioned for the Mayoralty Is ex-Mayor Hiram C. Gill, who was recalled by an enormous major ity last Spring. No Councllmanlc can didates have announced themselves. CHALCRAFT IS INDORSED Salem Board of Trade Wants Cho mavra Man Kept at School. SALEM, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) Superintendent Chalcraft, of the Che mawa Indian School, received unquali fied Indorsement of the Salem Board of Trade in a lone resolution tonight and the Board asked not only that he be reinstated In the service, but that he be retained at the Chemawa school. The Board also commended the South ern Pacific and condemned criticism of fhat road. A committee was appointed to obtain the necessary 500 visitors to the Asto ria Centennial on a special train on Salem day,. August 17. New Century Bright for Fair Sea City. HER HISTORY IS OREGON'S Centennial Dawns New Era for One-Time Trading Post. VISITING THRONGS COME Old John Jacob Astor Might Well Be Prond or Sturdy Town That Surviving Handicaps, Comes to Its Own Through Failure. BY ADDISON BEXNETT. ASTORIA, Or.. Aug. 9. (Special.) If old John Jacob Astor could 1t up In his grave today and take notice of tho things doing in this little old world. h 3i would perhaps divide his attention be tween the East and the West, having one' eye on hie descendant and name sake In New, York, and the other on this little city at the mouth of the Co lumbia. ; For both John Jacob, the younger,: and Astoria are Just now much In the limelight, both on the first page. The former because he recently emerged.' eomewhat battered in reputation, front a divorce court, and now seeks again to take upon himself the obligations of matrimony, his partner-to-be a young1 lady still In her 'teens, while J. Jacoti has passed the half-century mark, or soon will pass it. The first John Jacob, loving husband) and stem parent that he was. would perhaps come to the conclusion, aa many of the readers of The Oregonlan have, that matrimony Is becoming with the rich a matter of money, shortened Into an expressive word matteromoneyj with the accent strong on the money. Astor'e Motives DoubtfuL But Astoria, at the - mouth of th Columbia.' The, old gentleman could look at the town which was named In his honor with great pleasure and great pride, for Astoria is about to. celebrate one of the epochs of tha thrifty old German's life, the founding of the first trading post on the west ern shores of our country, which event took place a hundred years ago.- When the first John Jacob, then a fur trader in New York City, and one of the richest men In the country, organized the Pacific Fur Company and started the little Tonquln and her cargo of goods and chattels, and her misfit complement of partners, clerks and assistants on the way to the mouth of the great river of the Pa cific, It is an open question whether he was fired with ambitions of pa triotism or pelf, glory or gold. But whatever his motives, the fact remains that he selected as his emissaries about as illy an assorted lot of under lings as ever sailed the seas. The Journey was a oomedy of er rors from the very beginning, and end ed In one of the great tragedies of the early days of the last century, for after discharging a portion of her cargo and men the little vessel pro ceeded north and was lost with all on board. These things are all matters of history; but they have a peculiar bearing today when we are gathering here to rehearse them a century later. Astoria Happy Name. And we must not forget that what ever the motives of old John Jacob were, the founding of the little hamlet called Astoria was a mighty fa.ctor in saving all this country from the British. And perhaps it Is true that Astor was more interested la serving his country than In filling his" purse. No one can say he was not. In looking back at the works of the old fur trader we find that of all hi business ventures only his Astoria; scheme, or his great Pacific Fur Com pany, failed, and It did not fail through any fault of Astor's but through th mismanagement of his partners wh came here to take charge of the busi ness. But Astoria survived, the "Oregon country" waa saved to the United States, and Aator should receive the full meed of credit. Astor. Astoria. The words bring up happy memories ot pleasant cheer and goodly viands, for they have been the names of a long line of hostelries. plain and hyphenated. In the earlier days of his career, when New York waa more the promise of a city than a metropolis in reality, Astor went high up the Island, more than a mile from the Battery, where the business was mostly transacted, and built a great hotel the Astor House. It was said to be the finest hotel In the world, surely there was nothing In this country to equal lt It must have been erected before 1840. for Mr. Astor died In 1848. and it was running quite a number of years be fore his death. ' Welnhard Like Sturdy Astor. To show how the thorough-going old German did things It Is worthy of note that It is a good building to this day, and as a money maker it has never had an equal in this country. Had the later generations of Astors simply Invested the income from the .(.Concluded--iod-F aaa. U