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TwnTT.Avn. nnKnoSATTOPAY.' DECEMBER 16. 1911- ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. V SENATE CAUTIOUS IN RUSSIAN AFFAIR Effect on Trade With Orient Considered. JAPAN ENTERS AS FACTOR Czar and Mikado Would Com bine, Is Fear Expressed. DELAY SEEMS POSSIBLE l'nles IJesnlullon for Abrofrron Rrarhrs rrwldent Ilr fore Holi days. Whole Year Will Be Vett for Plseosslon. PHIXGTON. Dee. I- A report at tae Cjipltol today that the of the State Department to pro ore liberal treatment for Amer- wish citizens in Russia had re- n a tentatlv3 agreement for a ation of the r.ussian resirle- whlch might prove a satisfactory on of the vexed question. Opposition to the Senate programme for immediate action on the Sulzer House resolution, looking to the term inating of the treaty of 1SJ. is developing- among some Senators. It Is based Imrirely on the theory that any estrangement between this country and Itussla would hare the effect of bring ing- Russia Into alliance with Japan, with the result of Injuring the Oriental trade of the Vnlted States. Oppwaea'fa Telearrass"- Many telegrams advancing this Idea were received during the day. In most of these communications the Senate was urged net to pass the resolution. Senator LoilKe has Given assurance that the resolution will be considered after Monday, but even then it may not succeed in going through the Sen ale so promptly. Senator Cullom has Issued his call for the committee to meet at 11 o'clock Monday morning, and he said today he felt there would be ample time for the consideration of the resolution. Suggestion has been made .that Sec retary Knox be invited before the com mittee, but as the committee's course was virtually prescribed by the refer ence to it of the Russian resolution, it has been decided that it would not do to Invite possible opposition to the mmedlate action contemplated. I Itlmate Delay Fsreaeea. There is a possibility of ultimate de lay on account of the clause in the res olution which would require the con ;urrence of the House. Most of the Senators believe the notice of abroga tion provided for by the treaty must run a year after the first of January ant, succeeding action upon It. Sen ior Lodge has Intimated his intention of offering an amendment making dear the language of the 5ulzer res olution to cover this point. If the committee and Senate accept his view It will be necessary to send the resolution back to the House. If this should prevent action by both bodies before adjournment for the Christmas holidays, there would be no further necessity for haste, as an en tire year would be left In which Con gress might express Itself. The House, however, will be disposed to act quickly so as to expedite the resolution to the President for formal approval. BAKER PLANS CENTENNIAL Celebration Will Honor Coming of Flrt Wblte Man. BAKER. Or.. Dec. 1$. (Special.) The Centennial of the coming of the first white man to Baker County will be celebrated here December I. T. G. Elliott, of Walla Walla: George H. Hlmr. of Portland, of the Oregon Historical Board, and Judge S. A. Lowell, of Pendleton, are to take part. The exercises are tn be directed by J. Nellaon Barry, rector of St. Stephen's 'huroh. of Baker. There will be many t.ther visitors from all parts of Kastern Oregon. A visit to the Beaver Spring. which Is mentioned In Irving s Astoria, a banquet at the Gelser Grand Hotel and public eer.lses In Nevlus- Hall have been planned. BREECHES BUOY SAVES 60 Delhi Paj.engrr W Ith Broken Leg Will Require Special Tackle. TANGIER. Iec. IS. A moderation In the weather late this afternoon permit ted the rlgclcg of a second breeches buoy from the steamer buoy to the and and 0 members of tke crew of 100 ho had stood by the vessel since she rrnt aground Wednesday were taken - ff. The passengers, except one with a broken leg. previously had been taken ashore. A special t k'.e Is being pre pared for the rescue of this man. The captain and members of the crew of the Delhi stl!l remain on board and. when stormy weather abates, will make an effort to save the specie the veaael carries. 1 J SUFFRAGISTS WANT TO SERVE IN ARMY a GKKMAV WOMEX WOCI.D FIGHT AS WEJLIi AS VOTE. SuRsestioii of Compulsory Militia Service With Ballots Arouses IMscussion In Europe. BSRL1N, Dec IS. (Special.) What part women will play in the next great war Is a question that Is the subject of lively discussion in Germany as the re sult of suggestions advanced by the Dusseldorf Women's Club, recommend ing compulsory military service of the weaker sex. According to Frau Privy Councillor Witzler and other leaders of the Dusseldorf organization, the time has come when women might be re quired by law to fit themselves for duties in the military hospital and com missary departments. Frau Von Leyden. wife of the famous surgeon, and a leader in women's move ments, thinks there are many difficul ties In the way. "But." she adds, "friends of the com pulsory service idea can show good rea sons for their position. They can say, for Instance, that it is a logical conse quence of the demand for equal rights. If suffragists want votes they, perhaps, ought also to perform military serv ice." " ASSESSED VALUES GROW Increase In Oregon Over' Last Year More Than $35,000,000. SALEM. Or. Dec. 15. (Special.) The total assessed valuation of the State of Oregon will probably be $900. 000.000, as compared with X844.000.000 of last year. The final report from the County Assessors was received by the State Tax Commission today when Malheur Coun ty reported In. showing an assessed valuation of 19.678. 390, an Increase for that county over the preceding year. This makes the total assessed valua tion for the states as shown by the rolls of the County Assessors to be 1783.040.217. Last year the total as assessed by the County Assessors was 1747.6:4,404. or an Increase of $35,416.- S1J. for this year, the percentage of Increase being between 4 and 5 per cent. The assessments as made by the County Assessors do not Include assess ments for public service corporations. The assessment of these corporations by the State Tax Commission will probably total about $90,000,000. BEGGARS ASK $120,000,000 Mrs. E. If. Harrlman Swamped With Requests for Cash. NEW YORK. Dec 15. If Mrs. E- H. Harrlman should answer favorably every letter that she has received in the past year and a half asking for financial aid. the widow of the railroad king would have her fortune reduced $120,000,000. That was the deduction reached after compilation of Mrs. Har rlman's letters to the Bureau of Muni cipal research. In all she turned over 6000 begging letters to the bureau. The fortune left to Mrs. Harrlman" by Tier husband was $149,000,000. Dr. William 11. Allen, head of the Bureau, said the writers of 380 of the letters from American addresses alone wanted 169.781,400.37. I . Some months ago Mrs. Harrlman took 6000 letters to Dr. Allen for analysis. She had been overwhelmed by appeals and several private secre taries could not keep trace of them. TAFT GETSPENSI0N DATA Preparation for DolIar-a-Day Bill Is Sought Through Statistics. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. President Taft, in anticipation of having to pass on .the "Sherwood dollar-a-day" pen sion bill today directed Pension Com missioner Davenport to make a thor ough Investigation of the bill and to report as soon a possible. Estimate of the Increased expenditure from the Capitol range as high as $75,000,000. but the President Is not content to see the figures without an investigation by pension authorities. It frequently has been stated that Mr. Taft. although his political friends affect to see danger in such action, would refuse to approve the Sherwood bill. If he does disapprove the measure the figures obtained through the Pen sion Bureau could be used in any argu ment he wished to make to Congress against the bill. The measure passed the house, but haa not yet come up to the Senate. MOTHER. JAILED FOR SON Seattle Woman Would Save Son, but Latter Confesses Theft. EVERETT. Wash., Pec. 15. (Spe cial.) To save her eon from arrest. Mrs. Kva Norton, a hair dresser, al lowed herself to be lockcl up In Jail last night on a charge of burglary In the S'cond degree. Today Willie Norton. 13 years old. confessed that he. and not his mother, had been guilty. Mr. Norton was accused of having taken a bracelet from the homo of Mrs. Minnie Marre. Mrs. Norton said she had found the bracelet and returned It to Its owner, but did not know that an additional theft, the taking of $i0. had occurred. The boy confessed that he alone had robbed the home twice, taking the $.".0 one t:.e and the Jewelry the other. Norton was turned over to the Juvenile C urt, ' JURY IS QUICK TO FREE SHOW GIRLS One Sobs, Other Hys terical at Acquital. "THANK GOD," GASPS ETHEL Stokes, Victim of Shooting Players, Is Recovering. PRINCIPALS ARE GRILLED Prosecutor Spares "Neither Million aire for Lust Xor Lillian Gra Iiam and Miss Conrad for Money Grabbing. NEW YORK, Dec 15. A verdict of "not guilty" was returned late today, freeing Lillian Graham and Ethel Con rad of criminal charges on which they had been ' held since last June for shooting .the millionaire sportsman, W. E. D. Stokes. The Jury reached Its verdict in slightly less than one hour. "The shooting show girls" were tried on an Indictment of three counts, the first charging an attempt to murder Stokes. Of consideration of this count, however, the Jurors were relieved by Justice Marcus at the request of the District Attorney. The court restricted the Jury to the second and third counts, which charged, respectively, assault In the first degree with Intent to kill and assault In the second degree with In tent to do bodily injury. Glrla Are Unnerved. When summoned to hear the verdict. Miss Graham appeared unstrung and waa assisted Into the courtroom, trem bling. The more spirited Miss Conrad came unassisted, but nervous. When the glrla faced the foremen, he announced the words, "not guilty." Miss Conrad gasped, "Thank God!" and went Into violent hysterics. She sank to the counsel table, then Jumped up again, shrieking and tearing her hair and throwing her arms about wildly. It was a surprise to the spectators. for Miss Conrad had kept much the better nerve of the two girls through out the trial. Dtlas Gnuham Comforts Friend. On the other hand. Miss Graham, who continually wept during the trial, and sobbed the more when she heard the verdict, recovered hi,rself when sne saw her companion so affected, and acted as the comforter to Jier younger friend. , It was at first thought Miss Conrad had misunderstood the verdict and her companion tried to assure her that they were free. "Oh, I know," she said. "Tell mother we are free. Tell her we are coming home." The glrl' hysteria continued ten min utes. The Jury arrived at Its verdict after four ballots. On three of them, the Jurymen voted each time 11 to 1 for acquittal, the one man dissenting being In favor of a conviction of second-degree assault. The arguments which Assistant DIs- (-Concluded on Page 3.) MR. CAKNEGIE "I DON'T THINK I CAN BACK THAT GAME, WOODROW." J I. I X .XPsi?.! A SA -l V: A- r ; ; euW"v; I I T I J JHLLI0NS SPENT IN .OREGON Construction work under way in Oregon during 1911 is cause for gratification to every citizen of the state. In the year that is closing many millions of dollars have been spent on big projects in every section of the state. This development is especially signifi cant when it is considered that capital elsewhere has shown a tendency to retrench. The big things that are being accomplished in Oregon will be featured in The Oregonian An nual, to be issued January 1, 1912. The activities of the rail roads, for instance, are well worth reviewing. Construction of two trunk lines into Central Oregon has progressed ; ' a new railroad, has been completed from Port land to Tillamook; work has started on a line to tap the rich. Coos Bay district; electric rail ways have been under' construc tion from Portland to Mount Hood and from Salem to Eugene. These railroad extensions, . as well as other big works, such as the Celilo Canal, the erection of power dams, immense grading and reclamation projects, will have their place in the AnnuaJ. It will be a paper that the Oregon citizen can read with satisfaction and take pride in sending to his friends The price of the Annual will be 5 cents. Postage in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the insular possessions, 5 cents- Tor eign postage, 10 cents. NEW .YORK JSUN IS; SOLD? W. C. Reick Said to Ijaxe Bought , Mrs. A. M. Laffan's Stock. NEW YORK, Dec? -16. William C. Reick has purchased of Mrs. A. M. Lai fan a, .majority of the stock of the New York Sun, according to a well-authenticated report, the Tribune eays this morning. The Sun, in its issue of Sunday next. It is said, will .announce the transfer of control to Mr. Reick, who since 1907 has been one of the owners of the New York. Times and the Philadelphia Public Ledger. William M. Laffan died in 1909. YOUNG VANDERB1LT IS ILL Cornelius Will Undergo Operation for Appendicitis Today. , NEW YORK, Deo. IS. Cornelius Vanderbllt Is to undergo an operation for appendicitis some time today, ac cording to a story published here this morning. After two months" of 111 health the young millionaire's Illness reached an acute stage within the last 72 hours, it is stated, and after a consultation it was decided that an immediate opera tion was necessary. ' DRUG WAR INTERNATIONAL Opium Conference Puts Ban on Habit-Fornring Narcotics. THE HAGUE. Dec 15. The Interna tional Opium Conference today adopted a resolution submitted by the British delegates, restricting the import or ox port of morphine or cocaine in the countries represented at the. confer ence. It was decided that all resolutions concerning morphine should be ap plicable to opium and similar drugs. FORT RILEY HAS OF Fires, Bombs, Threats of Death Figure. ARRESTS BARE CONDITIONS Sixth Soldier ' Charged With Dynamite Outrages. OFFICERS AS MARKED MEN Army Men Are Unwilling to Tell of Series of Depredations, Result ing In Loss of $1,000,000 to Government. JUNCTION CITY, Kin, Dec IB. Trumpeter John Crlle, of Battery E, Sixth Field Artillery, was arrested late today in connection with the dynamite explosions and fires at Fort Riley, which cost the Government 11,000,000. Crile Is the sixth soldier placed un der arrest since the Investigation of the explosion became public, on Private Michael Quirk's confession that he caused the .explosions at the Instiga tion of the Rev. Charles M. Brewer, ex-chaplain at the fort. The arrest of Crile and the release of Mrs. Anna Jordan, of Kansas City, before Deputy United' States Marshal Meed arrived here for her, were the developments In the case today. Com missioner Chase said he would have a warrant Issued at once for Mrs. Jor dan's arrest and would have" it served through the United "States Marshal'! office at Kansas City. Iot Haa Reign of Terror. The few Army officers who could be Induced to talk privately of the ex plosions today declared that Fijrt Riley Jor nine months has been as near, a state of terror as a well-disciplined Army post can be. Not only were there numerous Incendiary fires, but the commanding officers of the post had received frequent letters, threaten ing them with death and the fort with riAsrnlctlon. Night and day, since . early last Snring, Fort Riley has been under more ..an riAiihla cruarri. sentries have been posted constantly at the homes of the commissioned officers and guards have spent each night In the cellars of those homes in order to frustrate threats of the destruction of the house by dyna mite. Fire Damage Great. The hla-trest loss of the series of re cent losses was sustained when the quartermaster's storehouse, apart from other buildings, was burned on the night of March 14. The structure, which cost approximately $250,000, was a total loss. 'Innthnr fire followed on March 20 the cavalry ordnance building being Ignited, but the loss was small. But on June 3 an attempt was made to burn a. bulldintr- containing soldiers. Mattresses, soaked with kerosene, were placed against the messroom door and (Concluded on Page 2.1 REIGN TERROR . . - NEWSPAPER HOME NORTHERN PACIFIC GRANTS PASS SCEXE OP DAMAGE BT TERRIFIEJJ HORSES. Office Demolished, Plate Glass Scat tered Far and Editor Barely Es capes Injury In Mixup. 4' GRANTS PASS. Or., Dec. 15. Spe- cial.) Printing office wrecked, two horses maimed and 30 feet of heavy plate-glass crushed to fragments is the sum total of damage done by a runa way team at the noon hour today. A handsome team of blacks hooked to a farm wagon in charge of Harry Orr, delivering apples for Christmas in the northern part of the city, took fright and sped for the business sec tion, where they tore down Fifth street in a reckless manner, threatening de struction to everything in their path. Attempting to enter an open livery stable door, one horse fell and was dragged by Its mate, together with the wagon. Into the office of the Rogue River Courier. Just inside the heavy plate-glass front through which they crashed sat Editor C. G. Coutant, who barely escaped death from the shower of glass that fell around him. Both horses are badly mutilated and the wagon is ruined. Had It not oc curred at the noon hour the runaway would have endangered the lives of Tom Hanley, telegrapher, and Miss Louise Birdsall, stenographer, who were a few minutes previous at their desks but two feet from the large window. The same team ran away six weeks ago and broke the driver's leg. The Courier office was damaged In the sum of $300. . BANKS HERE STILL GAIN Portland's Clearings, $11,603,000, Show 8.7 Per Cent Increase. nonir MeArfne-K for the week made a good showing In the principal Pa cific Coast cities. mruaDQ s cienns amounted to 111,603,000, with . a gain of 8.7 per cent over the totals for the corresponding week of last year. The clearings at Seattle were $11,880,000, while the percentage of gain was only 4.4. San Francisco and Los Angeles showed substantial Increases, the gains in those cities being respectively 8.9 and 18.7 per cent. The total at Ta coma was $4,579,000 and at Spokane $4,566,000. The decrease at Tacoma was .2 per cent and the loss at Spokane was 5.4 per cent. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS r The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, SI degrees; minimum. 41 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rain; southwesterly winds. Foreign. German suffragists would go to war as well as vote. Pace 1. National. Monetarv commission seeking to meet ob jections to Aldrich plan. Page 2. Possible complications with Japan loom In Russian treaty abrogation. Page 1. Soldiers may have bayonet drill at beet carcasses. Page 3. Domestic. Indianapolis investigators get dynamite evi dence Implicating new men. Page 5. Striking Jury wins; Judge accepts verdict. Page 2. Roosevelt denounces apologists lor McNa- maras as "monstrously wicked." Page 5. Western Governors organise, with Norris, of Montana, as president. Page 2. Jury acquits Lillian Graham and, Ethel Conrad of crime for shooting Stokes. Page L Spokane woman deserts her husband; latter says fear of what neighbors would say Is cause. Page 3. Fort Riley has reign of terror. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Uniform plans for state fair grounds will be drawn. Pasje 6. Northwestern road now believed to hold control of Northern Pacific.-Page 1. Defeated Sheridan party declare election was Illegal. Pege 7. "Bold, bad man" of 19 years terrorises Ta coma by hold-ups. Page 7. Idano Penitentiary overcrowded, sadly in need of financial aid. Page 7. Willamette T.'niversity students appeal to' "parents, patrons and Methodists" to aid 'in completing $500,000 endowment. Page 14. Court takes land grant case under advise ment. Fage 3. Bankers of New York to finance big Oregon Washlngton sawmill combine. Page . Runaway team wrecks Grants Pass news- paper'offlce. Page 1. Sports. Lincoln and The Dalles high schools will play for state interscholastic football championship today. Page 8. City basketball league scheduled to start about January 13. PagiTTjs. Joe Tinker comments on DTBspect of 1912 httsehall season. Page 6. Seattle Athletic Club eleven, which is to play Multnomah, Is strong on weiguu Page 8. Commercial and Marine. Sharp advance in canned tomatoes on Pa cific Coast. Page 19. prosperous trade conditions reported in lead ing lines. Page 18. New York stock market Irregular and pro fessional. Page 19. All wheat markets affected by Argentine crop news. Page 19. Christmas cattle bring high prices at Port land stockyards. Page 19. Lighthouse Inspector Beck says listing of tide tables at Astoria is not slur on Co lumbia bar. Page 18. Portland and Ticinlly. Taft committee to open headquarters soon and complete plans for organization of clubs throughout state. Page 14. Harrlman railway officials praise livestock show at Lewlston. Page 12. C. Alnsworth. following visit to canal sone, foretells advantage to fortiana. Page 18. Eaj-t Side delegation makes urgent appeal for docks before commission and expert engineers. Page 14. Fourteen railroad-shop strikebreakers appeal to Executive Board for police protection. Page 9. Three hundred persons attend brilliant re ception at Portland Press Club. Page 4. Two persons say Leond Lochard. suspected of Holzman murder, is not man. Page 1 Foreclosure suit against Northwestern Long Distance Telephone Company alleged to be scheme of Bell interests to acquire control of Portland Home Phone. Page 4. Kast side charter committee delayed In report- Page 14. San "i explains needs of Christmas reason in VarUuud. f age IN NEW HANDS NQVV Northwestern Believed in Control of Road. HILL BUSY WITH BURLINGTON Milwaukee's Activity Leads Hughitt's Road to Awaken. MERRY WAR IS PREDICTED For Mon tills Chicago & Northwestern Has Been Attempting to Get Foot hold in. Pacific Coast Country. Did Harrlman Yield? SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 15. (Special.) That the Chicago & Northwestern and Northern Pacific have formed more than a traffic agrement to run through, trains from Portland and Seattle to Chi cago, and that the Northern Pacific line " is now, or shortly will be, the North western's own outlet to Portland and the Puget Sound country, was the declaration tday of traffic officials of all lines who have been watching the movements ot the two companies for the past year. Color was given to the belief by the" announcement on Tuesday by President Howard ElliotA, from Newfork. of the traffic agreement in regard to passen ger service inaugurated on Thursday. James J. Hill, chairman of the board of directors of the Great Northern, last week sold a hetavy issue of Burlington bonds in London. Hill Roadl Active Recently. Financiers on the Inside said that Mr. Hill negotiated the sale largely because of his disposal of his Northern Pacific. stock, which he liad already determined to unload. For some time the Great Northern has been building parallel lines and branches in Northern Pacific territory, and thje announcement that Mr. Hill had ceased to hold a fiscal interest In the rival line would cause no surprise, it Is said. In railroad cir cles. For more than sUx moVths the North western has been . endeavoring to se cure a foothold on the Pacific Coast country, but the project "was resisted by the Harrlman eytem. Whether the latest deal between the Coast line and the. Northwestern was accomplished with the consent of the Harrlman officials is not known, but several of the Seattle traffic men took it to indicate that the Harrlman inter ests were aet at defiance. Vigorous PoHey Moving;. A more vigorous -policy was inaugu rated on the Northwestern system through the elevation of W. A. Gardner to the presidency. The Milwaukee, the strongest competitor of the Northwest ern, completing its own line to the Pacific Coast, stimulated the plans of the Northwestern to reach into similar territory. "Although I am not on the Inside of the deal, I am satisfied that the North western has secured control of the Northern Pacific," said R. M. Calkins, general traffic manager of the Mil waukee, today. "We sSiall welcome the new road. For 35 years we have been, fighting them in the Elast, and shall be prepared to carry on the battle out here." It was freely predicted in high rail-? road circles today that jvlthin the next six months, as the result of the new agreement or sale, in which the two lines are Involved, that solid Northwest ern through trains would be running from Chicago to North Pacific Coast points. SEALSKIN . SUPPLY WANES Only 6000 Sacques Available Tills Season for 'Women. VICTORIA, Dec. 15. Only 6000 seal skin sacques are available to the world's women this year. Cable ad vices say that today's sales In Lon don brought out but 25,000 skins, the price showing a decline of 1. the aver age being $27 per skin. Of the total the United States Government sent 12. 482, taken from the Prlbyloff rookeries, and pelagic sealers sent 12,500, of which 2700 were from Victoria, the catch of four schooners, the lowest catch of the smallest fleet ever sent from this port. Next March 300 skins frdm Copper . Island will be offered by the Russian government. The fact that Russia ha only 300 pelts to offer from a grou of islands which less than ten years ago had 60,000 skins show the Inroads made by Japanese. PAROLE DENIED WARRINER Big Four Embezzler Unanimously Refused Freedom. -COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 15. By unani mous vote the State Board of Adminis tration, setting as a parole board, to day rejected the application of Charles L. Warriner, former treasurer of the Big Four Railroad Company at Cincin nati, who confessed to embe?Jzlements aggregating $643,000. Warriner has served about two years of a, six-year; sentence, j rnn i oq.O