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VOL. LI SO. 15,833. PORTLAND, OREGON. 'HI DAY. OCTOBER 27, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. YOUNG MEN JOIN 20 JAPS HALTED BY SHAVE TOWELS TO SUIT TO BREAK UP TAFT BACKERS ARE TEACHERWITHFLAG rDER SCHOOL'S OLD GLORY COST DIME EXTRA COOKING CLASSES STEELTR U ST B EG U N UNDER AWFUL FIBE- MHSTEH SHEN G GITS CRUMPLE ONE FROM OUTSET Committee Named to KNOWLEDGE SO GAIXED YVIIiL SAVE TAKIXG WIVES. SHOP'S MAY, HOWEVER, IGXORE SECTION "BOSS IS SAFE. FXIOX PRECEPTS. Outline Campaign. 14 OF 18 LEADERS ATTEND Organization Through State Under One Plan Aimed. BEN SELLING IS. CHAIRMAN John F. Logan Heljrn From County Central Roily to Accept Sccro taryhlp Cheer firrr-t Step. Direct Primary to Role. Perfect harmony and genuine enthu- lasm. a combination which bespeaks accomplishment, and an avowed pur poae of complying strictly with the spirit of the direct primary law, marked the meeting- of the Fortland Taft committee at the Commercial Club yesterday afternoon when per manent organization was effeeted by the election of Ben Selling-. State Sen ator and president of the People's lower Lea cue. aa chairman. John F. Ufin waa elected temporary secre tary. Fourteen of the II members of the remittee were In attendance. D. O. Lively, W. M. Kllllngsworth and Wal lemar Set on. nnaroldably detained. nt elther'a letter or a telegram as suring the committee of their Indorse ment of the movement and declaring; their Intention of taking; an active part In the campalg-n for President Taft'a renomlnatlon and re-election. W. p. Woodward, the other member of the rommlttee, la In the East, where he waa railed by the serloua Illness of his mother. Ilaa Im Be Oatllaed. After general discussion of the scope of the work to be undertaken by the committee and the programme . that should be adopted to Insure beat re sults. In which the members of the committee generally participated, thta subject was referred to Mr. Selling; and Secretary Logan with Instructions to formulate a plan of action and submit the same at another meeting;, some time next week, to be called by the chairman. In determining; upon this plan Mr. Selling- and Mr. Logan wtTe inst-tirted to confer with Individual ir. ' era of the committee. When the report has been submitted. It will be considered by the full committee of the whole, preliminary toadoptlng defin itely a plan of campaign and appoint ing the necessary subcommittees. This Is a meeting of patriotic citi zens; friends and admirers of Trest- dent Taft." said T. B. W ilcox, in call ing the gathering to order. "Although I do not know anything about politics. I have alwaya considered that a politi cal campaign Is not necessarily a quarrel or a fight. It properly should be one of education la which the op posing sides Inform the people of the lasues for which they are contending. The purposes of this cornrolttee will be largely educational." Belllag Naaaed Ckalrsaaa. Mr. Wilcox suggested that Senator Selling would make a satisfactory chairman. On motion of Dr. Andrew Smith, seconded by Dan J. Malarkey. Mr. Selling waa unanimously elected to head the committee. "It would be a great mistake to make any change In our National administra tion at this time and turn the Presi dency over to a Democrat, declared Me. Selling. In acceptlrg the chairman ship of the committee. "The only avail able Republican candidate la President Taft and he should be retained. lie Is the only Republican who ran win and he Is deserving of our indorsement. For some time I have been known as a progressive Republican and' I shall con tinue to be such. But In declaring for President Taft and accepting the chairmanship of this committee In be half of the President's Interests. I am not giving up or compromising any of the progressive principles for which I stand. " In accepting the secretaryship. John K. Logan explained that because of press of business which would make It necessary for him to be out of the city for two months, he could only ac cept the place temporarily- At the same time, Mr. Logan announced that to remove any question as to his eligibility to serve on the Taft com mittee he had addressed a letter to W. K Apperson, secretary of the Repub lican county central committee, tender ing his resignation, not only as chair man, but aa a member of tha commit tee. This announcement received a round of applause from the committee. Heart ssl Seal far Taft. "Believing my action might cause criticism to be directed against me." aald Mr. Logan. lf I continued to serve as county chairman and at the same time serve on the Taft campaign rom mlttee. I tody decided to resign the county chairmanship and have done so rather than to withdraw from this committee. I am heart and soul wltt the Ideals and purposes of this rom mlttee. "President Taft Is not only the most available man for the Republicans to iCoocluded oo page 1S. I Nipponese Worker. Angered 0r" dor Pursue Foreman Ml. Edna Merchant Is Heroine. HOOD RIVER. Or Oct. !. (Special.) Hoisting an American flag In the face of a shrieking mob of Japanese) seo- Hn nmnila- Mini fidna Merchant, the plucky little Columbia schoolteacher, yesterday morning saved from rough hand ling and possibly from death James O'Brien, an 0.-W. R. 4 N section boss, who had fled before them into the building. As the girl tugged at the halyards and Old Glory fluttered aloft.' the Nipponese raced up. The girl silently pointed to the flag with the Implied warning of what would happen If they dared to at tack a man under Its folds. The flag awed the yellow men. As they halted O'Brien climbed out of a rear window. However, he was seen after he had gone a distance of about 100 yards from the achooihouse and the pursuit was again taken up. O'Brien, thoroughly frightened, climbed into a cottonwood tree. Miss Merchant telephoned to Sher iff Johnson, who. accompanied by Mar shal Lewis and Deputy dinger, found the Japanese recovered from their anger and dancing a kind of war dance be neath thk tree. The Japs were taken Into custody. Before Justice of tha Peace Buck, threw of the leaders were fined :S apiece and a fine of ISO was assessed Jointly against tha other IT. The Japanese had become Infuriated over orders the section boss had Issued. LAWRENCE T00PP0SE HAY Samuel Uill and Labor Head Among Backers for Governor. SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 1. (Special.) John C Lawrence, public service commissioner, will be a candidate for the Republican Gubernatorial nomina tion. An official announcement of his candidacy will be delayed, but It prob ably will be followed by tha Indorse ment of G. R. Kegiey, master of the State Grange, and C R, Case, president of the State Federation of Labor, both of whom have pledged support to Law rence. The Lawrence Gubernatorial cam paign will have the personal and finan cial backing of Samuel Hill, organiser and ex-presldent of the Washington Good Roads Association, who hss been an advocate of La wrtllK s nomination ever alnee ha broke with Governor M, E. Hay over the good roads policy of tha state. S. A. Perkins, now presi dent of the Good Roads Association, Is supporting Hay. From two of Lawrence's closest friends comes the story today that the publlo service commissioner has pledged himself to make the Guberna torial race. BEACH SAND GROWS WHEAT Redondo Experimenter Produces 64 Heads on Single Root. REDONDO BEACH. CaL. Oct. Is. Sixty-four four-Inch heads of wheat are produced from one root as the result of experiments conducted by J. G. Bux ton, of this city. Buxton desired to prove that good wheat could be grown In beach sand. The sand he used was treated In no unusual way. and wheat planted In It was grown without water, fertiliser or cultivation. CHINESE MINISTER OF WAR, WHO IS REPORTED ASSASSINATED, MINISTER OP POSTS AND COMMUNICATIONS, WHO IS IMPEACHED AND DISMISSED, AND VIEWS IN CITY REPORTED TAKEN BY REBELSr. - v-- :. - -Jf i Jr. u,r ; . k : S?- A - . ' r .f til -. -. : ?&yV - " f -"Av LEFT, MADE SACRIFICE Dynasty Yields to De mands of Assembly. YIN TGHAG REPORTED SLAIN General Chao Ehr Feng Also Believed Assassinated. CANTON MAY HAVE FALLEN More Cities Taken by Chinese Rebels and Fleet of Imperial Gunboats Is Said to Have Been ' Surrendered. PEREC. Oct. 20. The answer of the reigning dynasty to the demand of the National Assembly that Sheng Hsuan liusl. Minister of Posts and Communications, be dismissed from of fice, has been a complete surrender to the Assembly. The Minister has been dismissed and Tong Shao Yl has been named as his successor. The Assem bly charged that Minister Sheng had sacrificed the Chinese Interests !n the negotiation of foreign railroad loans. An imperial edict was responsible for the plan to nationalise the Chinese railroads. In consequence tf which the present rebellion arose. The government thus sacrifices the man considered by foreigners ss the strongest member of the Cabinet, In order to avoid an open rupture with the Assembly. m Rebels Make Charges. The rebellious elements In the prov inces of Sse-ehuen, Hu-peh and Hu-nan formulated charges against the Minis ter and the aubject was taken up by the National Assembly yesterday. Sheng sis not present, but his secre tary attempted to read a written state ment from his chief. The members refused to hear him and cried, "decap itate Sheng." . .. Tang Shao Tl, who formerly held the post, sveoeeds Sheng. The edict further released from cus tody the president of the Sxe-chuen Provincial Assembly and other leaders In the riot at Cheng-to. ' Punishment is ordered for General Chao Khr-Feng (reported assassinated) and Wang Ter Weh. the present and past Viceroys of Sze-chuen. (eaerale Reported Asaaaalaated. Reports have reached here, but are not verified, of the assassination of the War Minister, General Tin Tchang, and General Chao Ehr-Feng by their own troops. General Tin Tchang was pre sumed to ' be conducting the advance of the Imperial army, and Chao Ehr Feng was at Cheng-tu, In the province of Sze-chuen. The troops In the latter Instance are reported to have gone over In a body to the rebels. It is also reported that Canton baa been seixed by revolutionists, and that there has been great bloodshed there. The rebels sre reported to be prepar ing for an advance on Pekln. A dispatch from Hongkong says that (Concluded i Pass It. TCHA.VG. RIGHT, SHE. G HMA Barbers Say Sanitary Precautions Prompt Additional Tax on After Shave Steamers. Hereafter a . hot Turkish towel ap plied before or after a shave in all union barber shops In Fortland will cost the recipient a dime In addition to IS cents for the shave. At a meet ing last night of the barbers', union the towel question was discussed pro and con and the meaning of the term "hot towel" decided upon. A hot towel is a heavy Turkish towel or three linen towels. If the barber chooses and the boss of the shop does not object, the barber can use the hot towel without an additional charge, but the additional charge will be per fectly legitimate, according to the union scale. The barbers took decided action in the. matter of the use of a Turkish towel on more than one face. It was reported that some of the barbers were giving the "hot towels" and making no additional charge. With a Turkish towel restricted to one face, the addi tional dime Is necessary to pay the cost of laundry it Is said. The action in the matter of the use of a Turkish towel more than once was taken by tne barbers, they say, as a sanitary precaution. SMOKING BAN OFF AT LAST Walla Walla Commissioners Legalize Cse of Weed In Council. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Oct. 26. (Special.) Lifting the ban against smoking in Council chambers. Imposed by Mayor Tauslck three years ago. City Commissioner Dice today pasted a piece of paper over the first word of the "No Smoking" sign, and a tacit under standing that has been In effect ever since the Commission took office was legalized. ' Commissioner Dice does not himself smoke, but the haze that drifted from the pipe of Mayor Glllis, the cigar of Commissioner Struthers and the less expensive but more odorous tobacco of the reporters prompted him to take the action. He evidently could not con form his Ideas of obeying laws with the sign and the actions of those In the chambers, so he removed the ban. This Is in line with several other moves of tua Commission, which has made the meetings much less formal than those of the old Council. RICH GOLD STRIKE MADE Bine RItct Prospector Reports Find on Quarts Creek. EUGENE, Or., Oct. 26. (Special.) Ore samples assaying from $52 to 133. 671.50 to the ton were brought down from the Blue River district by Leslie Furlong, a miner 'of 25 years' experi ence. The claims were located by a piece of float, exceedingly rich In free gold, which he found In Quartz Creek and traced back. One piece of ore, which was taken from the center of a lead which he had traced for soma distance. Is almost a solid mass of the yellow metal. Tha vein Is only two or three Inches wide as traced thus far, but Is wonderfully rich. Mr. Furlong has located a number of mines. Mr. Furlong came to the Blue River district some time In May from Ari zona, where he had been prospecting unsuccessfully. In working the placer claims which he has located, he has taken out from $4.50 to $18.25 per day. Bl'AI. THREE SCENES IN CAATOX Government Is Sweep ing in Demands. SUBSIDIARIES ARE ATTACKED Gary and Frick Declared to Have Deceived Roosevelt. ORE LEASES QUESTIONED Voluntary Cancellation of Great Northern Contractu In 1915 Xot EnoughEminent Financiers Are Made Defendants. TRENTON. N. J.. Oct. 26. The Gov ernment's long-planned sult4to break up the so-called "steel trust" was be gun here today In the United States Circuit Court. It is the most sweep lng anti-trust action ever brought by the Department of Justice. The Government asks not only the dissolution of the United States Steel Corporation, but the dissolution of all constituent or subsidary companies, which are alleged to. have combined in violation of the law to "maintain or attempt to maintain a monopoly of the steel business." Thirty-six subsidiary corporations are named as defendants. Big 3 1 en Made Defendants. J. Plerpont Morgan, John D. Rocke feller, Andrew Carnegie, Charles M. Schwab, George W. Perkins, E. H. Gary, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Henry C. Frlck, Charles Steele, James Gay ley, AV. H. Moore, J. H. Moore, Edmund C. Converse, Ferclval Roberts, Jr., Daniel J. Reld. Norman B. Relm, P. A. B. Wldener and William P. Palmer are named individually as defendants. The United States Steel Corporation. the Carnegie Steel Company, the Car negie Company of New Jersey, the Federal Steel Company, the National Steel Company, the American Steel- b Wire Company of New Jersey, the Na tional Tube Company, the Shelby Steel TubeCcmpany, the American Tin Plate Company, the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, the American Sheet Steel Company, the American Steel Hoop Company, the American Bridge Company, the Lake Superior Consoli dated Iron Mines, all of which were or ganized under the New Jersey laws, and the IL C. Frlck Coke Company, the Tennessee Coal Iron & Railroad Company and. the Great Western Min ing Company are named as corporate defendants. One Lease Declared Illegal. Louis W. Hill, James J. Hill, Walter J. Hill, E. T. Nichols and J. H. Gruber are named as trustees In connection with ore companies. The Steel Cor poration's lease of the Great North ern, Railway ore properties, which the directors of the steel company formally decided today to cancel, is alleged to be Illegal. The action of the direc tors was taken only a few hours be fore the filing of the bill. The Gov ernment acknowledges that it was ad- ( Concluded on Pare Two.) Intending Homesteaders Propose to Carve Fortunes in Desert With out ' Feminine Aid. LOGAN, Utah, Oct 26. The domestic science classes at the Utah Agricultural College no longer are sacred to women. Harley Greaves and John Short, two students prominent In college affairs, have enrolled themselves in the cook ing classes. Uniformed in the regu lation immaculate aprons they wrestle dally with the educational gas range, making copious notes on kitchen waste, food values, marketing for profit and other kitchen mysteries. "We Intend to homestead 3l0 acres of desert land apiece," said Greaves, "and we're not going to starve to death while we ore doing It. We intend to eat often and well and we don't Intend to get married or hire a cook." The cooking range is still a baffling mystery to them, although both are good camp cooks." They were highly complimented on the first loaves of bread they turned out. but It was dis covered that they had built a camp fire In a sequestered corner ' of the campus and baked the bread" in a "Dutch oven." NEW LINE FOR GARDEN CITY Robert Strahorn Files Incorporation Papers at Olympia. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Oct. 28. (Special.) Articles of Incorporation of s railroad line which at last will pro vide Walla Walla with transcontinental train service have been flled In Olympia by Robert E. Strahorn, president of the O. W. R. & N., and formerly president of the mysterious North Coast Railroad during Its "construction before it was known to be a part of the Harrlman system. This line will be a continuation of the North Coast Railroad, which Is now built to North Yakima and will connect direct by way of North Yakima, Walla Walla and Pendleton with the Oregon Short Line and the Union Paciflo to Omaha and Chicago, thereby putting the Garden City in direct touch with all the big centers In the East. COAL IS SCARCE AT NOME Lack of Ship Facilities Blamed for . Shortage in North. SEATTLE, Wash, Oct 26. (Spe cial.) That Nome faces a coal famine Is news brought to port by the steam er Eureka, which arrived here this morning from Bering Sea ports. Ac cording to those on the Eureka, coal has now reached the price of $40 a ton at Nome. They declare that there is a shortage of 7000 tons at the Nome bunkers. There Is little hope for re lief, for the season Is so late it is Im possible to dispatch another steamship for the Northern city. The shortage of coal is said to be due to the unusually heavy trade between American Pacific Coast ports and Pan ama. Three steamships originally in tended to carry coal to Nome were chartered at a higher price for this trade. 7 CHILDREN HURT IN AUTO Little Patients Out for Airing In Col lision in Golden Gate Park. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 26. Twelve persons three women, seven children, patients from the Children's Hospital, and two men were Injured today in head-on automobile collislqn in Golden Gate Park today. The machine in which the children were out for an airing, a limousine, remained upright but Its windows were smashed and the children were cut by flying glass. The other car turned over, throwing its Ave occupants to the ground. Ed ward Chase fell beneath the car and was pinioned across the chest. The life-saving crew from, the ocean beach station finally got him out after almost tearing the wrecked machine to pieces. DR. BLUE GOES TO HAWAII Surgeon of Rat-KHllng Fame Take Charge of Islands. to SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26. Dr. Ru pert Blue, of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, who has been staatloned in this city for some years, will sail for Honolulu November 4. to become chief quarantine officer of the Islands. Ho will be ac companied by Assistant Surgeon G. W. McCoy, who will relieve Dr. Donald Currie at the leprosy laboratory on Molokai. Drs. Blue and McCoy came to this city several years ago. at the time of the bubonic plague scare, and inaugu rated the rat-killing crusade which re sulted in the extermination of hundreds of thousands of rodents before the med ical men were sure that the danger was passed. PURSE FOUND, MONEY GONE Centralia Man Discovers Wallet Be neath Pile of Boards. CENTRALIA, Wash., Oct 2S. (Spe cial.) While moving boards behind the Rose Theater here today J. E. Langdon found a purse that was stolen from the apartments of W. B. Kelr Tues day. When stolen the purse contained" nearly 300 in cash, besides valuable papers, but only the papers were in the purse when recovered by ilr. Langdon; Athletics Take Cham pionship by Batting. NEW YORKERS FAIL 121 -CRISIS Silent Treatment Most Fitting for Game, Says Matty. 13 TO 2 IS DOLEFUL STORY Better Team "Won, Declares Losing Team's Star Pitcher Extreme Youth Is Conquered by Experi ence and Own Errors. BY CHRISTY MAIHEWSOS. (Copyright. 1BU. by the New York Kerald Company; an rights reserved.) PHILADELPHIA, Oct 26. (Special.) Perhaps the silent treatment would fit the game today as well as any other. In the first place the Athletics put over everything they tried and got all the "breaks," and then they hit the ball all over the lot besides, a combina tion that was never known to be beaten in baseball. When the game started, both clubs were up against it for pitchers and the selection was bound to be a sort of lottery. Connie Mack had Bender and Plank as his possibilities. The Indian had pitched on Tuesday and had used a lot of curves, which kills a man's arm. He has the reputation of not being able to come back in one day. 1 Plank Used I'p. Plank had worked for one inning yesterday at the Polo grounds and had warmed up most of the afternoon. That tenth inning was a strain on him, and he is not a robust man. Like most left handers. Plank seldom can repeat under four days. Would Mack work Bender or Plank? He had both of them warming up and from indications he was uncertain about his choice himself up to the very minute the game started. Then he picked Bender. McGraw had Ames. Marquard, Wlltye and Crandall as possibilities. Marquard, Ames and Crandall had all pitched yes terday, and of the trio Ames Had done the best work, holding tne Athletics scoreless for four innings. But he, too, is a curve pitcher and four Innings did a great deal to kill his arm. McGraw apparently took the best chance thai he had by picking Ames. Bender la Magnificent. Then the game settled down Into the question of which man would waken up. The answer was discovered in the fourth inning. It was Bender. He pitched a wonderful game and de serves all the credit in the world. After delivering a victory in Tues day's contest, when he virtually had to pitch himself out, he came back strong today and held the Giants to four hits. The break of the game came in that fourth Inning, although the Athletics had counted one In the third. An error by Ames in the fourth took the team completely off its balance and started It on the road to defeat. Baker, who has been a great trouble maker in the series, started It by sin gling and on the hit-and-run play Murphy hit to left field and Baker went to third. The hit-and-run play worked for them there. Hesitation Is Costly. Davis smashed a hard grounder to "Larry" Doyle, who was playing in close, and he made a gooa siop, out hesitated for the fraction of a second to glance at Murphy starting for first base. He had a double play within his grasp right there, but tried the right thing when he threw tne pan nome. The score was a tie at the time, and Doyle realized In that one Instant he had to think that the run coming" home might mean the game. The play at the plate was close and it looked to me as if Meyers had Baker blocked off, but Connolly called him safe. It was one of those plays that could have been called either wayC If Doyle had not taken the time to glance at Murphy on first base, the run would probably not have been scored. Fan's Cry Breaks Tension. But the real crisis of the game came on the next play and it was the one which broke the back of the New York club and gave the Athletics the championship of the world. With Murphy on second base and Davis on first. Barry laid down a little bunt In tended for a sacrifice. Ames fielded the ball In plenty of time to get the runner at first, but hit Barry In the head with the ball. It bounced far out into right field. As long as I remember anything I shall re-, call the remark some fan ehouted above the din on that play. "Nice headwork," this "bug" cried at Barry as the ball caromed off into the outfield. And in spite of the fact that I felt that the championship of the world was going away from the Giants with that ball, notwithstanding that I knew It was the crisis of the game. I laughed out loud. Perhaps it was the snap in the tension that we all had been under for 24 hours. Ball Is Tossed Far Away. As soon as Murray got the ball he threw it away to left field and against the fence and Barry came all the way (Concluded on Page 10.)