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J N WARSHIP STOVES BRITONS A-WEARY FAMINE IS MENACE ELLIOTT TELLS OF sota xr OREfiO IIISDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1911. ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LI XO. 13,837. ' ' - m ASSASSIN I DAI RECIPROCITY WILL LIVE OR DIETODAY Canadian Voters Are Ready for Ballot. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS OF JACK JOHNSON FROM IRISH STRIKE FOOD TRAFFIC 13 HELD VP ON FOtH RAILWAYS. SLAYS G IN BEDS Tb Weather. TE5TERDAT Miilfflum temperature, 6T decrees: minimum. 46 deaieea TODAY Talr. followed by lnoreaslng clood Inema with lower temperature : win as ehUtlng te southerly. IN LARGEST LINER LIL artha chtixs welcome BY BOISTEROUS COXDTJCT. W AT OREGON HAS V LIBERAL CLAIMS ALTERED Trouble May Ccme in Ontario and Manitoba Provinces. QUEBEC BATTLE GROUND With Great Mass of French-Canadians and Their Opposition to Navy, Ieaders Are la Doubt as to Result There. TORONTO. Out. Sept. !0. (Special.) -Canadians arc preparing to decide wlta their votes tomorrow the fete of reciprocity. Eleventh-hour news from Quebec la bad for the Government and Liberals are moderating their claims of a Ursa majority. It Is now admitted In Liberal circles that the, combination of Conservatives and Nationalists may carry up to 15 rat. In Quebec This would be a net loss of 11 seats for Sir Wilfred Laurler's government In the province whlrh has been his stronghold. If this reverse docs materialize and the. government still holds Its own in the rest of the country. Its majority will be only about JO. That Is enough to put reciprocity through, aa some of the Nationalists, while elected In op position to Government pro-reciprocity candidates, also are pledged to support reciprocity. Xavr Objected Ta That the value of previous forecasts la largely off-set by this development In Quebec, which Is not due to opposi tion to reciprocity, but to the hostility of the French-Canadian Nationalists, led by Henri Bourbajtsa. -a- the Govern ment's creation of a Navy. Information tram the lominlon outside of Quebec Is that tlie Government will bold Its own la tae Interior, where It has now It seats; In New Brunswick, where It has 11: In Nova Scotia, where It has 11: In Sas katchewan, where It has nine: In Al ter to. where It has four, and In British Columbia and Prince Edward, where It holds two each. Prospects are good Cor a Liberal gain of two or three seats IB Manitoba. reaaervattvea are Beeefal. On the other hand. Conservatives declare they will Improve their posi tion In Ontario and New Brunswick If not In the west. Reciprocity Is an Is sue la the maritime provinces. Ontario and the west. If the desperate anti rectproclty campaign of the protected manufacturers gains many seats in these provinces, the Government will be beaten out; otherwise the Laurler Governments victory for reciprocity will be purchased with the price of a materially reduced majority. rereraat la PlTlcelt. Quebec la the big factor. With It French population and Invisible Influ ence of the clergy, which In this cam palgn appears to be exerted against the Government and In favor of tha Nationalists. Quebee la aa hard to fore cast aa India. Conservative predictions of victory are based upon estimates giving It. L Borden, who would then he Fremler, a majority of 1. An es timate made by the representative of targe Interests opposed to reciprocity, however. Is that the Government will be returned with 2i majority and per haps more. One of the stortes tonight Is that In Ontario and Manitoba there ia a Con eenratlve plot to arrest a number of Liberal scrutineers In doubtful con stituencies. The result of this would he te give the Conservatives a freer hand to "plug" votes. Two arrests of Ontario scrutineers were made today at Markham. Both were balled out ramedtate:y. Ttsae Weald Be Vomt. The general arrests. If made at all. would tie up outlying dlstiiots. where o- magistrate could be reached with out losing half a !ay or mora. Once Inside the polling booths, no arrests ran be made without the returning of ficers authority, and these officers are all Liberals. The contest has become exceedingly bitter on both sides. It Is the hottest campaign since ISSi. when the Lib erals came Into power after It years In pppoetilon. Trouble Is anticipated all over the rout try. rOXSEKTATlVK CHANCES BEST Liberals at Great Disadvantage In British CohxmbLa. VICTORIA. B. C Sept. 20. On the eve of election. Premier McBrtde. of British Columbia. Conservative, asserts that his party wia win all the prov ince a seven seats In the Canadian Par liament. At present the Conservatives have Ave seats, the Llberala two. The Liberal party waa virtually annl. Misted at tha last provincial election and has only one member In the Pro vincial Parliament, aa against two So cialists. William Templemaa. Minister Labor Strife, K Faulting From Trivial Canse, May Spread Over Whole d British Isles. JDCBLTJf, Sept. 10. (Special.) Ire land has been plnnged Into a state of anarchy by the strike movement. Trade and Industry are at a standstill over a large part of the country. Food traffic Is suspended on three of the four main railway systems, and food supplies cannot get through. In Dublin, prtcee of bacon, butter and other commodities are going up. Importers are having a great oppor tunity, as sea-borne traffla has not been affected. Row soon It will be af. fected nobody can tell. The strike movement has been devoid of Intelligent direction and tha slight est mischance may cause It to spread over the whole of Great Britain and Ireland. The desperate state of affairs orig inated In an insignificant trsde dispute among a few carters, laborers and other employes of timber merchants in Dublin. The cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, haa now spread over the country. The situation Is far worse than It waa a month ago. when the National railway strike was proclaimed In Eng. land. RUGBY STARS SEEK HONORS Canadians to Organize Team to Lower Stanford' Colors. PALO ALTO. CaL. Sept. 10. An all star Ragby fifteen, chosen from the crack players of the Victoria and Van couver teams, will play Stanford and the University of California for the American championship In November. Although both Victoria and Vancouver have met the American colleges Indi vidually, this Is the first time they have combined forces to represent Ca nada. The Canadians will meet Stanford In two games here November 1 and 4. The Stanford coaches are delighted at tha chance to meet the Canadian cracks and count on the two games to put the final edge on their prepara tions for the bfg game of the aeason with California. 2000 CHINESE ARE SLAIN Military Commander of Cheng-tu Says Rebel, Rave Artillery. CHENG-TC. Sept. 10. It Is estimated that a total of :000 Insurgents besieg ing Cheng-tu have been killed. The foreign residents bavs not yet been able to leave the capital. Chao Ehr Feng, military commander of Cheng-tu. reports that the Insur gents have organised poeses of artil lery and are numerically strong. As fast as one force is disposed of others appear, he said. Refugees arriving here from the dis turbed districts of Sse-Cbuen, report that they received fairly good treat ment while traveling. prominent figures in hot political campaign in Canada. ; tv r wA V.;; 5 I V M . V 1 . i $ Vvf 1 v H I . . ' , eJ t T. , wi '.' ; V ' ". i ; ' ' ) : ' r -v'- ; ' N ' '.A. ' i ' V t . ABOVE, miXRI BOIRKM, OPPOSET OK PKBMIKR QIF.BEC. AD SIR WII.KKIO LU RIER, MBKHA1. PREMIER-BKI.OW, B. P. ROBI.I, PKF11KH Or rROVLUB OK alMTORA AD B. 1 BORDEN, OPPOSI TION LLAJOtRS. Rail Chief Devotes His Speech to State. LANDS HOMESTEADER'S GOAL Passenger Agents Urged to Further Western Travel. WONDERS NOT DUPLICATED President of Northern Pacific, In Address to Convention, Declares Pacific Northwest Offers Home to City Oppressed Throngs. ST, rACI Minn., Sept. 10. (Special.) Urging a greater diversion of home seekers and tourist travel to Oregon and the other North Coast states. How ard Elliott, president of the Northern Faclba Road, tonight addressed the American Association of General Pas senger Agents, in convention here. "Oregon Is a state of Immense extent, containing 61,817,360 acres, or a greater area than all Denmark, Holland. Bel glum, Alsace-Lorraine, Luxemburg and Switzerland, with the state of Maine added," said Mr. Elliott. "Until recently Its development was confined chiefly to the eastern, west ern and northern edgea of the state and the great Interior, an area of 65.000 square miles, was virtually without rail transportation." be continued. Roads Take Reafoa. . "Within a year, the Northern Paoiflo, Great Northern and Union raciflo lines have all built Into the central portion of the stats, a region nearly as large as the states of Ohio and Illinois, con taining rich and fertile lands, capable of heavy grain production, tha raising of fine fruit and garden vegetables and one which for many years haa been an Important producer of livestock. "This great area Is about to be given the means by which to obtain a large population prosperously engaged In the development of Its rich resources. Port land, already a metropolis of great beauty and attractiveness. Is sltuatod at the northern end of the Willamette Valley, a rich and beautiful district flaiked on the east by the beautiful Cascade Mountains and richly favored In soil and climate. "Plowing may be done any month in the year -and stock grazes throughout the Winter. The Columbia River is one of the scenlo gems of the West. "Passenger and immigration men (Conclud.d on - Portuguese folk fiercely defend ehurah prop erty. Fag 8. jack Jonnson's boisterous eonduet In Eng land makes Brltocs haartlly Urad of him. Pae 1. Inland threatened with famine as result or great strike. Pace 1. Canadian voters to ballot today on reci procity. Pare L Warship stoves la lanrest lines, Olymplo, which, however, makes port. Paae 1. Howard KlUott, president of Northern Pa cific, pictures Oregon as place for home seekers In address to paasensar asanta Pae 1. Six persona hacked to pleoes with ax. Pass 1. itr. Belmont's suffragist farm for girls as failure. Pace S. Wttneaa In McNamara aynamltlnr case eludes agents of prosecution and dis appears, Pace S. m Iflchlcan woman loath to aoeept "lost son. Page ft. Btubbs levaee Harrlmaa lines service en January 1. Pace 2. Polities. Retirement of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Is expected. Page . Governor Harmon makes political capital at Spring Lake meeting. Pace .B. Sport. Results in Paclfle Coast I.eague yester day: Portland S. Oakland 2; Vernon . Sacramento 2; 6an Francisco 5, Los An geles 4. Page 8. Results In Northwestern Learue yesterday: Portland 4. Tacoma 2: Victoria 9. Spo kane 8: Seattle-Vancouver same post poned, rain. Pace 8. Cold In pitching arm puts Vean Gregg on shelf and stops Naps winning streak. Pace 8. be Attell up acalnst Impossible task In trying to whip heavier Mat Wells, and loses. Pace V. Parlfle Northwest. Methodists at Salem conference elect of ficers, pace A. Homestead land fight In Boise court is of aensational order. Page 2. Vancouver policeman shoots down fleeing prisoner. Pace 0. I .an n County fair opens with better show ing that ever before. Pace T. Commercial and Marine.. Sugar prices may have reached top limit. Pace 18. Chlcaco traders buy wheat on belief reci procity will fall in Canada. Page 19. Stocks drop on heavy sales, due to fear of Government action acalnst corporations. Page 19. Port of Portland Commission takes two hours to decide to build dredge. Page IS. Merry rate war in towace service predicted by which Portland may be winner. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Representative Clemens attacks Governor Wesfs stand on special session for good roada Page 13. Bend will celebrate advent of railroad Oc tober 6. Pace 11. Chief of Police 8Iover urges preservation of sanctity of home before county Wo- man's Christian Temperance Union con vention. Pace 9. White slave trade centering In Portland Is revealed to federal authorities by girl. Page 12. Administration determlntd to reward Po lice gergeant Keller although ha pasted, eighth In ezc-nlnailpb fur captaincy Pace 12. Selectlou of hotel headquarters for Flka and meeting place now most vital Questions. Pace 13. Social Hygiene Society of Portland elects of- f cars and outlines work. Page 4. OH tank legislation threatens to disrupt Council's organisation. Page 4. MICHIGAN J5REETS TAFT President Is Warmly Received on Upper Peninsula. MJLRQUETTE, Mich, Sept. 20. Presi dent TaTt. tha first President of the United States to set foot on the shores of Lake Superior, ended his two days' visit to the Upper Peninsula of Mich igan today and tonight Is retracing his line of travel. He Is due in Grand Rapids early tomorrow and will deliver there one of the most Important speechea of the trip a defense of the vetoea of the wool, free list and cotton tariff bills. The Upper Peninsula Is about as sol idly Republican as any part of the country, and the President has found cheering throngs everywhere. Mr. Taft's principal address today was an appeal to the public for the support of the arbitration treaties with Great Britain and Prance. He listened, however, to an old fashioned Republican campaign speech from Representative Young, In which (he Representative made some pointed remarks about different brands of progresslveness. Senator Townsend al so denounced Mr. Taft's critics as be longing" generally to a class of "selfish politicians." Mr. T&ft, he said, was a statesman, not a politician. RAILROAD HAS BIG DEFICIT Missouri Paciflo Faces $5,282,539 Loss in Tear's Expenses. NEW YORK. Sept. 20. The annual report of the MIesoutI Pacific Railroad Company for the year ending; June SO, 1911. shows a deficit of $5,232,539. Gross earnings decreased only 1242.544, the total being 152.776.592. Operating ex penses Increased 15.782,561. Net income shows a decrease of SS.C57.216. with a decrease In the net surplus of .7,981,950. The surplus, which was 216.655.587 a year ago, has been reduced to J9.148.253 for the Mis souri Faclflc. In the case of the St. Louis & Iron Mountain road, an Im portant part of the Missouri Pacific system, the surplus Is cut from 11.425, 297 to 2111.968. DETROIT CAR STRIKE ENDS Carmen, by Arbitration, Get All but Half Cent of Wages Asked. DETROIT, Mich.. Sept. 20. The strike of the Detroit United Railway employes was settled by arbitration late tonight. The employee accepted a new wage rate echedule of 22 cents an hour for the first six months. 17 H cents for the next year, and 29 H cents thereaft er. The rate was within half a cent of that originally demanded. Olympic in .Collision, but Makes Port. PASSENGERS ARE ALL SAFE Ram on British Cruiser Cuts 40 Feet Into Big Vessel. 2000 ON SEA GREYHOUND' White Star Steamer, With Big Hole in Starboard Qnarter, Limps to Southampton, Eng., Under Her Own Steam Warship Hurt, SOUTHAMPTON. Eng., Sept. 20. The groat steamship Olymplo, of the White Star line, largest liner In the world, which left Southampton shortly before noon today crowded with returning American tourists, lies tonight off Cal shot Castle, at the entrance to South ampton water, with a gaping hole In her side as the result of a collision with the British protected cruiser Hawke. Fortunately no lives ware lost and of the 2000 or more pasrengers and crews of the vessels none was Injured. The accidont occurred a few miles from the spot where the American liner St. Paul and the British cruiser Gladia tor collided nearly four years ago, and as In the previous case, the warship came off second best. The extent of the damage to the liner,' however, can not be decided until It la docked. Warahlp Made to Ram. The Olymplo left her dock at 11:25 o'clock this morning for Cherbourg to pick up continental passengers. It already had on board nearly 1100 pas sengers in addition to the crew. The first cabin passengers were Just an swering the call to lunch when atten tion was attracted to the Hawke, which was undergoing steam trials. The warship, moving at great speed followed the liner, but apparently was clear. Suddenly it swerved and before the passengers could realise what was happening, struck the liner on the star board quarter near the stern, tearing through a section about 40 feet in ex tent. The miracle Is that the Olympic was not sunk, as the Hawke Is fitted with a ram specially designed to sink a vessel In spite of Its watertight compart ments. The liner's frame stood the shock well, and the watertight doors. (Concluded on Pajs 4.) GEEATEST STEAMER IN THE WORLD, INJURED IN COLLISION WITH BRITISH WARSHIP. '"h,. c rfy-iT -vl ABOVE, OLYMPIC COMIT VP H.IBBOR. BELOW, STERN OP OLYMPIC AT FOOT OF WAYS AFTER LAUNCHING. World's Champion Puncher Misbe haves So Sadly That Sporting -Chaps Get Badly Vexed. NEW YORK. Sept. 20. (Special.) Dislike of large proportions has settled on England against the world's heavy weight pugilistlo champion. Jack John son. 1A1 Arthur has been leading a frivo lous life since his arrival on foreign shores, and the popularity he first ac quired has flittered away on account of his nnathletio behavior. When John son came to England he was received with acclaim. One of England's boasta is that there Is no color line or prejudice .among Englishmen. Consequently, the world's champion found himself In a position to conduct himself unrestrainedly. After that, the London press says, he grew careless, ditched dates with news paper men, slighted Iondon newspaper photographers and plunged Into a life which would have put an ordinary man under the weather In 'a short time. In France, too. Johnson's actions have made him anything but a popular hero. LOVE IS WORTH $10,000 Parents Deemed Guilty of Alienating Woman's Affections. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 20. (Spe cial.) C. H. Kealiher, a prominent mining man ' of Coeur d'Aiene, Idaho, today in Judge Myers department of the Superior Court, obtained a judg ment of 110.000 against Charles Ross and Miriam Ross, parents of his wife, for the alienation of the affections of Mrs. Louise Ross Kealiher. Mrs. KeaJlher's parents made no defense. Ross for many years operated near Nome and has yet to defend a $15,000 damage suit brought by Kealiher, who alleges that Ross Injured him while in Alaska. Attorney P. "V. Davis, for Kealiher, told Judge Myers that he did not know the present home of the defendants, who have Mrs. Kealiher with them. He read several letters from the young woman In which she expressed a desire to return to her husband, but said that she was being persuaded by her parents lb keep away from him. "DRUNKS" MUST WORSHIP California Justice ' of ' Peace Will Sentence Them to Church. REDLANDS. CaL. Sept. 20. Church once a week for six months is the sen tence hereafter to be Imposed by Jus tice of the Peace Mclver on Inebriates. Justice Mclver decided today that the jail did not do these unfortunates any good. He paroled several of them with the admonition to attend divine services every Sunday and offered to escort them to church himself. ' a - n - 2 Women, 3 Children, Man, Victims. BODIES HACKED TO PIECES Neighbor on Social Call Finds First Group of Dead. KILLER CAUGHT, IS REPORT Denial of This by Colorado Springs Police Said to Be Prompted by Fear of Lynching Murder er's Ax Is Found. COLORADO SPRINGS. Sept. 20. Murdered in their own homes by some unknown person, the bodies of six per sons, three in each of two neighbor ing houses, were found here this aft ernoon. The heads of all the victims had been smashed with an ax. The appearance of the bodies Indicated that they had been dead several days and that death came while they slept. A report says that the murderer has been caught and that he has con fessed, but that Is denied by the police officials who. It Is Intimated, fear a lynching might follow such an an nouncement. An ax, which had been loaned to Mrs. Henry F. Wayne, one of the vic tims, by J. R. Evans, a neighbor, last week,, was found by Mrs. Evans on Monday near the back door of the Wayne home. The Implement was bloodstained. No attention was paid to this fact, however. It being thought that the ax had been used for killing chickens. Two Families Slain. The dead: Mrs. Alice May-Burnham, wife of A. J. Burnham, cook at the Modern Wood men Sanitarium. Their two children, Alice, aged t, and John, aged S. Henry E. Wayne, a consumptive, un til recently a patient at the Wood- ' men's sanitarium. Mrs. Wayne and their 1-year-old baby girl. The Burnham home is back of the Wayne home and close to It Is that of Evans. The discovery of the bodies was made by a neighbor who called at the Burn ham house to spend the afternoon sew ing. Not getting any response, she forced an entrance. The bodies of Mrs. Burnham and those of her two children were found in their beds, which were covered with blood. The walls and celling were also spattered. Woman Gives Alarm. The woman rushed to the street and gave the alarm. Instinctively a dozen persons went to the Wayne house, where there had been no signs of life since Sunday, and the same terrible scene was presented. In their beds were the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne and their babe, all horribly mangled, as in the case of the bodies in the Burnham home. Not even a footprint was found on the floor of either house and not a person could be found who had seen anyone about the premises since Sun day afternoon, when all the murdered persons at different times were in a neighboring grocery store. There Is no known motive for' the crime. Both the Burnham and Wayne families were of moderate means. Burnham Is Arrested. Burnham, who lives at the sanitarium where he is employed, about ten miles from the city, was placed under arrest, but there seems to be nothing to im plicate him In the tragedy. His em ployers say he was at work when ths crime must have been committed. He is a member of the Colorado Springs Camp, No. 7226, Modern Woodmen of America, and is a native of Michigan. He was last seen at his home Sunday afternoon and Is said to have left there about 5 o'clock. . Little is known of the Wayne fam ily here except that Wayne came to the Modern Woodmen Sanitarium about ten months ago from Indiana as a pa tient. One month ago his term In tha institution was up and he brought his wife and child to this city and rented the house In which they were mur dered. Neither has any relatives here. When brought Into the morgue the bodies were almost unrecognizable. The head of every one of the six vic tims was either cut or mashed open and In almost every case the number of wounds Indicated that the murderer had cut and smashed until bo was sure he had destroyed life. FATHER SHERMAN INSANE General' Son Makes Attempts at Suicide In San Jose. . SAN JOSE. Cal.. Sept. 20. The Rev. Father Thomas E. Sherman, son of General Tecumseh Sherman, who led the march from Atlanta to the sea during the Civil War. was committed to the State Hospital for the Insane at Agnew today, following an attempt at suicide this morning at the Jesuit Novitiate, at Los Gatoa, iOeejuaAad ea Peae S-J