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PORTLAND, OREGON, f 'RID AY, OCTOBER 13, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TARIFF ON SWEETS LANDSLIDE UNDER LATE FIGURES GIVE PAROLE AGAIN (MEWS SCENERY WINE-WARMED MAN FUG OF REPUBLIC SEA SNAPS CABLE DODGES WALSH LEAFS INTO RIVER AMAZES PRESIDENT IS CALLED SUFFRAGE VICTORY IS RAISED IfJ CHINA BANKER'S NAME NOT OX LIST OP COOL WATERS LOOK GOOD TO LABORER OX BRIDGE. MEN FROM ALASKA TELL OF SUBMARINE DESTRUCTION. THOSE FAVORED. W CKED Widespread Revolt Is On in Earnest. MOVEMENT IS WELL FINANCED Protection to Foreign Interests Promised by Rebels. ASSEMBLY HAS SECEDED 1T. Sun Yat f-en Probably Will B Flrewd Prnldrnt Trrurlr aad Bank Confiscated, Paper Money laaned. HANKOW, Oct. 11. The revolution that haa been hanging over China for months, and of which the rising In the province of Baa Chuen iru only A mall part, haa begun In earnest. It la a concert movement to take the empire and declare a republic If plana do not mlacarry. th noted exiled revolutionist. Dr. Kua Tat Sen. leader of the antl-Manrha party. Is to b lected president. Ha waa th dele irate of the revolutionary party to th United Plates In 111. And Is believed during that tour to have mad ar rangements for financing the move ment. Sun To. a brother of Ir. Sun Tat, who Is now In Hankow, has been elected president of the provincial as sembly, and Yang Hun Lunc. th retir ing president. Jaa been elected gov ernor of Hu-reh. Treaaarera Are Caagseated. Th whole assembly has seceded from the Imperial government. TJ rebels are well organised and finan cially strong. They have confiscated the local treasuries and banks, and are Issuing their owa paper money, redeem ing the government notes with this, as foreign banks axe refusing government ote. The revolutionaries have captured Wu Chang, th native section of Han how and Han Tang, all adjoining cities la Hu-reh province. Chang 8 ha. capital of llu Nan. Is re ported to have risen In revolt, and Nanking, capital of th province of Xlaag 8u Is en th verge of a rising, several public buildings having been destroyed. Thousands of soldiers have Joined the mutiny In Hu-reh, Many XIanrhus have been killed and the terrified people ar fleeing from th cities to th country, carrying their be longings. r'arelaaer Ar Protected. The prisons have been opened and criminals hav been liberated. There haa been fighting In the streets, and th most stringent orders hav been Issued that Uvea of foreigners and their property shall be respected. An American expedition, dispatched from Hankow to Wu Chang to aid the missionaries there, returned her with all th missionaries, with the exception of Mlas R. A. Kemp, of th EptscoaffJI Society, members of th Roman Catho lic mission. Including the sisters, and th London mlselon. who decided not to depart. There wss a brief exchange of shots between th Wu Chang forts and a local Chines cruiser. The firing ceased after British and Frenrh officials pro tested that It endangered the foreign possessions. Kang T Wei. who was adviser to th late Empress until 19. when th coup of th Iowager Kmpress restored her regency and drove th Km per or' s adviser Into exile, has arrived here on an Important mlealoa. It Is said. MTSS-IOXAKY MKKXDS KKIUXS Yoang Progressives'.- May Over throw Manrhn T) nasi). OMAHA. Oct. li. Kev. A. W. l-ana-hlrst. In Omaha on a vacation after spending St years In China as an Inland missionary In th , province of Hu-peh. stontly champions th cause of the revolutionists In the civil war now rag ing In the empire, and savs Ihey are the proresj!:ves ' and seek Justly to overthrow the Manchu dynasty. He sld today: Thry hare gained a signal victory In the capture of Wu Chang, and If they ran hold It. It mat mean success. The rebels are compo.e4 of the young and active men of the empire. They want a new government that will In sure Justice to poor as well as rich. IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT AWAKE Two Ittvlstons Ordered lo front and l"lee Is Aaeentblril. FEKIX. Oct. li' T!-e Chinese gov ernment has awakened to tee danger of the revolution In Hu-Peh Province. Oeneral Tin Tcheug. the Minister of War. departed hurriedly I Vj for Hao Ting r'u. 10 mi.es south of Pekln. where the sixth division of the army Is cnaklnr hasty preparations to depart tomorrow for Hankom. An Imperial edict today ordered the Immediate dispatch of two divisions to th disaffected provinces. About 10. leiwdd a Page Wk-kcrsham Said to Contemplate Personal Investigation, and May Visit Prison. LEAVENWORTH. Kasu. Oct. 12. The hope of John R. Walsh for a parole from the Federal prison here Is dimmer tonli-Jit than ever before. The first list of paroles granted-at the last session or the Federal parole board haa arrived, and Walsh's name la not on the list. Attorney - Oeneral Wlckersham, In whose hands Walsh's case now rests, may visit the prison within a week. Many believe the delay In passing on the banker's case Is occasioned by Mr. Wlckershsm's desire to make a per sonal Investigation. About a doxen prisoners have been ordered paroled when "first friends" vouch for their future conduct. Two of them are ex-Indiana bank employes, F. IL Nicolal. of the City National Bank of Auburn. Ind., and J. H. Phillips, of the Terr Haute Nstlonsl Bunk. PRESIDENT PENROSE HURT Whitman College Executive Injured When Auto Strikes Hut. WALLA WAUL A. Wash, Oct, 1 J. (Special.) Thrown against the back of the front seat and then hurled back against the side of the machine, when the automobile In which he was rid ing struck a rut. S. B. L. Penrose, pres ident of Whitman College, wss badly Injured yesterday and Is confined to his bed as a result. He was riding near Milton, Or, with Pr. N. O. Blalock. one of the trustees of the college, when the automobile struck a rut at the aide of the road on a turn. Both Pr. Blalock and Presi dent Penrose were thrown about the tonneau of the automobile, but Dr. Blalock. although a venerable man, was not Injured. President Penrose was brought to the city and taken to his home. In juries to the spine were discovered but are not thought to be serious. GREAT NORTHERN GROWING Addition In Past Fiscal Year Ex ceed All Previous Record. ST. PAUL. Oct. 11. J. J. Hill. Fred erick Weyerhsousvr and Louis Hill were re-elected directors of the Great Northern at the annual stockholders' tnettng today. The annual report showed that the gross operating revenues for the last fiscal year were, f 41.2ST.iJ2.t3. a de crease of fl.207. 73. St. compared with a year ago. Th operating expenses were- I J7.400.JH. T. a decrease of $1. 77.704.21. Revenua from outside op erations decreased fi.44X.44S. Operat ing Income aggregated I20.S42.441. 17. a decrease of !1.21.4l 14. There, wss paid $14. 49. SI. SO In dividends, leaving a surplus of f M1I.JJ7.7. The amount expended for additions was 14. 404 017 13. the largest ever ex pended In one year for that purpose. In addition, about 113.000.000 wss spent for new construction, additional equip ment, etc. CHINESE RULERS REPRESENTING ABOIR. K U WKk tUt 1 Kit TO SL1JI Elt:rl3. BtU.Ov. IT, tE vA,rp v :: - gP; La v i i ' .Vv .a , vmv II f ' i!.. - ' II r. 1 v. a i' r ?r - '"iii ' " r-fi'Ar..' 'v .J.-'. II . J vr ..... . -..2r- cA t Lse-V'i "-v A - V III Taft Gets First View of Mt Hood. YALLEY FOLK PAY TRIBUTE Executive's Car Transformed Into Shop Like Florist's. . VOICE HUSKY BY SPEECHES Prosperity of Willamette Country Through Which Nation's Head Travels Inspires New Plea for Arbitration Treaties. ASHLAND. Or.. Oct. 12. Hie voice husky from constant use but strong, President Taft "spoke" his way up the Willamette Valley and across the State of Oregon today. For hour after hour his train trav eled a land that blossomed In flowers and fruit and the folk who came to the little towns where his train pause for a minute or two brought tributes of all sorts to the Chief Executive. Tonight, with the California line only a few miles away, the Presiden t's! train passed through Ashland. The President's car resembled the Interior of a florist's and green grocer's shop and the steward haa accumulated enough fruit to garnish the President's table for days to come. Scenery Caasea Aasascaaeat. The scenery today was almost as pleasant to look upon aa the fruit and the flowers. . A few miles out of Salem, the first stop of the day. the President got his first look at -Mount Hood. For two hours the snow-capped peak, miles away, seemingly only 20 feet above Its neighbor, ' delighted the eyes of the President. Mr. Taft (poke on many subjects durtng his various short stops. He de clared several times that the old bat tleship Oregon should be the first ves sel to enter the Panama Canal, an an nouncement that brought forth cheer ing. He spoke on peace and arbitra tion and a half doxen other topics. The strain told a little on his voice. but preaent Indications are that by the time he reaches -fan Francisco to morrow the President will be speaking again with his full power. Oregaa Preaperlty lasplrea. The prosperity of the country through which he traveled led the President to make a new plea for the arbitration treaties. "God haa not given us all this pros perity, all these happy people and all these conditions In which life Is ao comfortable and la which we are mak (Concluded on Pase 11.) DYNASTY WHOSE OVERTHROW IS SOUGHT, STATESMAN PROMINENT IN SITUATION, AND CHINESE TROOPS. I.4TK KPRK'", MHO IIA RKACHFO WKXR OP TROfBI.E AT J"?"'' TBOOI'I OSi MARL il A.-l riU.lLL, Bystanders Aid In Rescue and Wet Penitent Goes to Police Station for Night's Shelter. A plunge into the Willamette River aa a cure for Inebriety waa tried last night by Tom Hendrlx. aged 41 years, a laborer, who applied to the police sta tion for aid in conquering the drink habit after kind persons had hauled blm out of the river. Hendrlx was placed under the care of Charles Be Iff. himself arrested for drunkenness. . Hendrlx told the police that he be came Intoxicated early in the evening, and In passing serosa the river on the Burnside bridge, decided that a good way to become thoroughly sobered waa to dive Into the river. So he mounted the rail and plunged over. Horror stricken bystanders pulled him out, and learning from' his lips the reason of the act, turned him loose, cold and dripping, to wander about the streets. After being discouraged in several other attempts to regain his poise Hen drlx came to the police station, his clothes still wet from hie Immersion, and asked to be locked up. Chajles Keiff, alias "Dutch", who was re-arrested yesterday when it waa found that in his services as trusty be had gained possession of a bottle of whisky and become intoxicated, was assigned to take care of Hendrlx and promised Jailer Webster that he would allow Hendrlx to get no liquor. HORSE KICK IS SERIOUS W. B. Stafford Has Not Recovered Consciousness but May Live. OREGON CITY. Oct. 12. (Special.) W. B. Stafford, a well-known farmer of Mount Pleasant, Is In a critical con dition as a result of the kick of a horse. His physician. Dr. C. H. Me'lslner, said tonight that be thought Mr. Stafford gradually was recovering consciousness. His skull was fractured and the physician has removed several pieces of the bone. Shortly after supper Wednesday eve ning Mr. Stafford went out. When he did not return bis wife and daughter went to the barn and found him In an unconscious condition. He was lying near on of the horses, and they sur mised that he had been kicked by thn animal. There was a long gash on his forehead. Mr. Stafford was removed to the house. It was at' first thought he wss dying." but after the Injury was treated his condition showed improve ment. SWISS SWEETHEARTS WED Girl Travels From Europe to Cen Iralia to Become Bride. CENTRALIA. Wash., Oct. 11. (Spe cial.) Traveling all the way from St. Berna. Switzerland, to marry the sweet heart of her schooldays, Marlanna Hu ber arrived In Chehalis Saturday and was yesterday married to Ulrlch Steudler. Steudler Is a prosperous farmer liv ing a few miles from Adna, who came to this country several years ago to prepare a home for the girl of hla choice and being successful In his venture, sent for her to join him here. SUU .--" - ArbUckle Will' Fight for v Free Sugar. BEET PRODUCT MADE DEARER Refiner Says People Should Save $150,000,000. COMFORT OF AGED TAXED Uncle Sam Accused of Taking Can dles From 'children, Which Is Proverbial Height . of Mean ness High Toll Exacted. NEW YORK. Oct, 12. Just before sailing for Europe : today, John Ar bUckle. the sugar refiner, and coffee manufacturer. Issued a statement strongly attacking the tariff on raw sugar, declaring It to be a "wicked tax" for the benefit of the beet sugar Interests. In his statement Mr. Ar buckle said: "I am going abroad to rest and recuperate in preparation for the fight to be made in Congress at Its next session, for free, sugar. I propose to devote all my time and all my ability and all my strength to the abolition of all Import duties on raw sugar, a most wicked tax on a food necessity of all our people. It taxes the man who works for a wage of a dollar a day as much as it taxes Mr. Astor or Mr. Morgan or Mr. Rockefeller, td feel the cost of sugar. "Just look at the figures showing how the price of refined sugar to the consumer is made up. I disregard the abnormal price lately prevailing for the raw product and take a normal price. "Price paid by New York refineries for raw sugar 1.4 cents. "Duty per pound 1.685 cents. Tax Almost One-Third. "With the raw sugar costing the refiner 4. 085 cents per pound, his price to wholesale grocers for granulated sugar is about 4.90 cents per pound, snd the wholesale grocer's net price to the ' New Tork retail grocer per pound Is about 4.95 cents and the re tall grocer's prices to consumers are about 5.15 and 5.25 cents per pound. So that for every pound of sugar going Into a household in New Tork City at 6.25 cents per pound, the Government of the United States has exacted 1.685, or almost one-third of thevtotal price. "It means that every household that now buys three and a half pounds of sugar could, with the same money, buy five and one-quarter pounds. If this tax were removed. "As some one has said, sugar is the comfort of old age and the delight of (Concluded on Page B.) JL ART1XLERT AT . Forest That Thrived When Primor dial Human Used Hambone as Weapon Is Exposed. SEATTLE, -Wash, Oct. 12. (Spe cial.) Arrlvala from Valdes declare that the seismic disturbance which snapped the Alaska cable was not an earthquake, as waa at first supposed. The break .was caused by a submarine mountain changing its position. It is believed by geological experts. It burled the Alaska cable beneath a tre mendous tonnage of mud and rock and the remains of a forest that existed about the time prehistoric man was chasing his breakfast with the hambone of a "dipodoccus." One of the cables showed that it had been cut off sharp, as though the In cision had been made with a gigantic pair of shears, while the other was burled so deep that it could not be dragged to the surface. Attached to the end that was pulled up were sev eral tree trunks and limbs of trees covered with encrinites and in a state of petrification. A further indication of the terrifl subterranean disturbance is that mil lions of fish were killed by the concus sion beneath the waters of the' bay. DUMBWAITER KILLS WOMAN Electric Device In Fashionable Apartment Starts Suddenly. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12. (Spe cial.) Miss Eva Fotherlngham, wealthy daughter of a pioneer phy sician and an active Christian Scien tist, was killed last night In the fash ionable chesterfield apartments by the sudden starting of an automatic dumb waiter, which struck her as she was peering into the shaft in an effort to find the carrier. Mrs. E. H. Richardson, wife of a San Mateo contractor and niece of Miss Fotheringham, had been helping her prepare dinner for her brother. When Miss Fotheringham had been absent from the kitchen ten 'minutes, Mrs. Richardson stepped into the rear hall and found the dead body hanging limply from the shaft, the head and neck pinned, to the wall. Mrs. Richardson screamed and the men who responded chopped away the cage. It required 20 minutes' work to release the 'body. Just what started the dumbwaiter may never be known. An automatic device was supposed to shut off all power whenever the gate on any floor was raised. The Cor oner's deputies hold the theory that someone on another floor pressed the button and that the safety arrange ment failed to work. 'AGGY" SCHOOL IS DONEE 200 Pieces of Student Work Given by Chicago Institute. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis. Oct. 12. The art de partment at Oregon Agricultural Col lege announces the gift of about 200 pieces of student work from the Chi cago Art Institute, of which Ralph Holmes is the director. The collection which comprises some of the very best work, both in art and in architectural drawings, which has been done by the institute during the past years, will be hung in the studios In the Agricultural building and will be open for public view about the first of November. Inasmuch as the Chicago Art Institute Is considered one of the leading schools of its kind in the coun try the collection will prove of great value to the students and the public alike. The studies are both In oils and water colors. There are good types of line and wash drawings and a large number of architectural subjects. There are six courses offered under the con trol of the art department in architec ture alone for the coming year, and the part of the collection which deals with this subject will be of great use in this work. Several former students of the col lege are carrying on advanced work at the Chicago Institute and are making records for themselves there. INTERNATIONAL HENS VIE Egg-Laying . Contest Has Entries From Seven Countries. NEW TORK, Oct. 12. (Special.) Arrangements are complete for an in ternational egg-laying contest under the supervision of the Connecticut Agricultural College. This contest will last one year., beginning November 1. There will be 300 hens in the race, four to each team, and each team is to be housed by Itself in a separate pen. A fifth hen will be permitted as a sub stitute in case of sickness. One hundred small frame houses have been built for the contestants. Entries are recorded from the United States, Canada. Mexico, Cuba. South America, Europe and Japan. GARFIELD CONSULTS T. R. Ex-Secretary to Attend Meeting of La Follette Men in Chicago. CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 12. James R. Garfield, Secretary -of the Interior un der President Roosevelt, returned here today from New York, where he had a meeting with Mr. Roosevelt. , Asked If the visit had anything to do with the La Follette "progressive" Repub lican meeting at Chicago on October IS, he replied that he never gave out anything regarding his conferences with Mr. Roosevelt. He added that he would attend the Chicago meeting. Majority in California May Be 2700. WOMEN GIVE UP TOO SOON Remaining Precincts Will Add to Affirmative Vote. - TIDE CHANGES SUDDENLY All of Amendments Believed to Be Carried One Providing Passes for Peace Officers Comes Nearest Defeat. ' SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12. Woman suffrage has triumphed In California. Straggling returns late today from hitherto unreported precincts finally wiped out the majority previously re corded against the amendment and since this turn in the tide the mar gin in favor of amendment No. 4 has increased ateadlly. Complete official returns from 2877 precincts out of S121 in the state give these figures: For woman suffrage, 119,830; against, 117,779; majority for suffrage, 2051. The remaining precincts are in re mote mountain districts and their re turns are not expected to change this majority greatly, although In the ag gregate it may bring the majority to 2500 or 2700. They are virtually all' in counties that have given majorities for suffrage. Women Lose Heart Too Sooa. Not in years have early returns from an election in this state proved so baffling of interpretation- as those upon which hingedthe fate of amend ment No. 4.. Unfamiliar with methods of analyzing these returns, women leaders in the movement for the right of franchise gave up in despair when the populous precincts of San Fran cisco and Alameda counties rolled up their adverse-majorities early Tuesday night. Despair gave way to hope throughout Wednesday, when returns from south of the Tehachapl and from the interior counties of Central and Northern California began to cut down the margin against the amendment. For a time the totals see-sawed, first showing suffragist gains) then veering in the opposite direction. Finally, in the early evening hours, the tide set in steadily toward a suf frage victory. Precinct after precinct reporting thereafter cut down the anti suffrage lead until early today it had disappeared and in Its place 'was a steadily growing margin in favor of the amendment. Setback Quickly Overt ome. Only one setback gave fright to the supporters of the amendment in the course of the day, when an error in the count of Santa Barbara County was rev-ealed and 1000 votes were, added to the "against" column. This was quickly overcome, how ever, and by night the majority for suffrage was safe beyond the perad venture of error. Delayed realization of their triumph, after all had admitted defeat, only" added to the enthusiastic delight of the suffrage leaders. No , campaign headquarters maintained by "mere men" were resounded with more ex ultant rejoicing than waa heard at the rooms at the women's campaign com mittee. Interest in the close vote on amend ment No. 4, coupled with the over whelmingness of the majorities for the other more important amendments, relegated the latter amendments to the background today. The verdict of the people apparently has been favorable to all of the 23 propositions voted upon, the closest vote being upon amendment No. 19, providing for rail road passes for peace officers. On the latest count, the majority in favor of this was still beyond the 2000 mark, with little likelihood of a reversal. Works Pleased With "Victory." United States Senator Works made a statement to the press today in which he declared the outcome of the amendment election to be "one of the biggest victories ever won at the polls in California." "These are extraordinary remedies, to be used only In cases of extraordi nary necessity,", he said. "I believe the people of California are wise enough to use them fairly and Justly. By these changes in Its organic law, California places itself in the front rank of pro gressive states." OREGOX SEXDS GREETIXG9 "Righteousness Triumphant," Mrs. Duniway Telegraphs Mrs. Watson. Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway. presi dent of the Oregon State Equal Suf frage Association, last night sent the following telegram to Mrs. Elizabeth Lowe Watson, president of the Equal Suffrage Association of California: "Righteousness triumphant; greet ings to California's patriotic men. Our turn next-" I. 3U