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VOL. M-XO. 15.011. PEACE BANQUET WILL AVOID SNAG Pending Treaties Not Down for Action. COLONEL REMAINS UNMOVED "Absolutely No," Answer to Second Invitation. GAYNOR DECLINES PART 4 arnecie nrfne. Comment. F.TfB When Told That Topic He Sup posed Waa Paramount Will j Tats iiaeagrounii. NEW TORK. Dee. 27. Although rreldent Taft l to tha gueet of honor an) Andrew Carnegie Is down "n the proiramma a honorary presi dent, the pending arbitration treaties with Great Britain and Franca for w hl-h Mr. Taft haa labored and which Mr. rarneitte haa Indorsed are not of ficially to be brought before the cltl-r-n.. peace banquet to be held at the UaMnrf-Astorta Saturday ntght- At Itaet thla la the plan of a mi jorltv of the executive committee aa oi-e. tiay by Millard J. Illoomer. the -e-utlve secretary. The committee ; ..! reached thla decision, aald Bloomer, nfter he had Informed Its in ember a of the receipt eeveral weeka ago of a let ter from Theodore Rooaerelt declining. an opponent of certain phaaea of the lerllnc treatlea. to attend the banquet. R.mt.ll Devil i Aaala. Mr. Illoomer then laid the'queatlon hefore the committee and It waa decid ed, he aald. that the aense of the body waa that tt waa not t.ie apeclflo pur Pae of the dinner to Indorae the aarree ment. With thla understanding Mr. Bloomer railed on Colonel Roosevelt again to day and again the Colonel declined flatly to attend. -Absolutely no." ha aald. "I ehall at tend no dinner." Colonel Ilooeeveit added that the cor respondence between hlmaelf and Mr. Hloomrr on the aubject would be made public Saturday. But. aa Mr. Illoomer aald. thla would not chan. the attitude of the pro motera toward the acope of the Cather ine In other word It waa for the purpoee of promoting; "world peace la general, without reference to any treaty In particular." rarwearle Wltnkolaa Ce-aaaaeaC Whether Freaident Taft and Mr. Car. neele understood Cils when they ac cepted Invitations to the banquet. Mr. tlmer could not aay. That Issue, he explained, had not been raised at the time Die Invitations were sent out. At Mr. Carnegie's residence It was said he had accepteu an Invitation to Hie affair with the Idea that the arbi tration treatlea were to be the para mount topics and that be had heard nothing of the change of plane) until to day. Notwithstanding" thla. It waa said later that Mr. Carnegie had no com ment to make. Mayor Gaynor declined today to serve on the reception committee at the din ner. LOS ANGELES BANKS UNITE Combined Capitalisation Will Be 2.000.000. With, Like Surplus. I.OS ANGELES. Dec. 57. By the mer ger of the Security Savings itank. the Kiultabl Savings Bank and the South ern Trust f'ompany Into thai Security Trust . Pavings Bank. I -on Angolxe !1 havo one of the largest banking; Institutions west of Chicago. The capitalisation of the combined banks. It Is said, will ba 82.0O0.000. with a surplus of 81.000.000. The re source are placed at 144.000.000. with .l;x'Slts of thai 10.000 depositors amounting to more than 140.000.000. SINCLAIR DENIED DECREE Judge Deride That Author's Salt for Divorce Be Retried. NKW TORK. Pee. IT. Justice Pavls in l'ie Suorwne Court today followed up his action of a week ago In re fusing to confirm the report of Wil liam S. Klely. the. reforee who recom mended that Upton Sinclair, the author. h granted aa Interlocutory decree of divorce from Meta Fuller Sinclair, by directing that the case be re-tried. The justice appointed SI am hall B. Harden as referee to hear tbe testi mony. MILLS GO ON FULL TIME Klghteen Cotton factories In New England Increase Output. PROVIDENCE. R. I.. Dec. IT. The 11 totton mll'.s of the B R ft R- Knight I'ompnny In Rhode Island. Connecticut. and Mas.achusetts will go on full tlm. cnedule neat Tuesday. The mills have een running 4 hours a week for 20 weeka The company said the change waa for "the benefit of the help" , , ff I OREGON TRUNK TO CROSS RIVER SOON .000.000 CELILO BRIDGE READY JAXCART 6. Y-shaped Vlartut Building Two Year span to Permit Faster Time to Central Oregon. Trains will begin operating over the Oregon Trunk's T-shaped bridge across the Columbia River at Celllo. January . according to the reports of engineers made to Carl R. Gray, preatdent of the road, yesterday. It is probable, they aay, that the bridge can be used January 4. but reg ular service will not be Inaugurated until two days later. Workmen now are engaged In placing ralla across the last span. More than two rears have been re quired In building the bridge, which cost approximately 8J.000.000. Its total length. Including the 'T at the north ern end. Is 417 feet. It Is built "of solid masonry and steel, every one of the concrete piers resting on a rock, foundation. A draw span Is provided for. but it will not be used until after the Government canal at Celllo. which now Is being built Is completed mak ing possible navigation through that portion of the river spanned by the bridge. Completion of the bridge will en able the Oregon Trunk to make faster time between Portland and Central Ore gon points. The usual time required In crossing the river on the ferryboat now used In that service Is 35 minutes. The traffic department now la working on a new schedule that will reduce the running time between Portland and Bend. Through paaaenger aervlce to and from Central Oregon may be attempt ed within a short time depending largely on the development experi enced In that portion of the state. If the business Justifies It officials of the Oregon Trunk are sure to put through trains Into service. It Is probable that President Gray and other offlclala will make an early Inspection of the new bridge after Its completion. LOADED GUN DOES WORK The Pal lea lad Shoots dram in Temple With Christmas Present. THE DALLES. Or, Dec JT. (Spe cial.) Tm going to kill you." said Douglass Wheeler, aged 11. as he picked np a 22-callber rifle and aimed the weapon at his playmate. Nicholas Mason. agd . ae." t r"" " inner. lie thought the run was not loaded, but It was. and his aim being true, young Maaon fell, serleualy Injured, but will recover. The accident happened today when the Wheeler lad was play ing with the gun, a Christmas present. He did not know his brother had been using the rifle and left It loaded. Toung Mason waa silting on the steps of the home of bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Mason, and the Wheeler youngster was at his own home directly across th street. The bullet struck his churn on the right temple, slightly fracturing the skull. The Injured boy was taken to the hospital, where a small part of the skull waa removed. The Mason family says the shooting was an accident and will make no com plaint against young Wheeler. WORKERS MUST EARN WAGE Tacoma Takes Steps to Pnt End to "Soldiering" by City laborers. TACOMA. Wash, Pee. 17. (Special.) Laborers In the city employ who have been In the habit of soldiering hereafter, according to a new salary ordinance the Commission passed to day, will be paid only what they are worth. Heretofore the pay of common laborers haa been $2.(10 a day. James B. Agner. superintendent of the water department, haa reported trouble on account of some of the laborers not do ing as much work as others. On recommendation of Commissioner Weeka. the pay hereafter la to be from tl to 12 60 a day. The new ordinance adds about $:00 to the payroll and by Increases In salaries allowed today an other $1200 la added to the coat of run ning the city government neat year. Only one aalary waa cut. that of E. O. Helnrlcb, the City Chemist, from $160 a month to $7&. It Is understood Heinrlch may resign In consequence. BIG SHOE FIRMS - MERGE Consolidation at St. Louis Has Capi tal of $25,000,000. ST. LOUIS. Pec. 2T. The Interna tional Shoe Company, representing lie consolidation of the 1'eters 4 Roberta. Johnson A Rand companies, filed artl les of incorporation today with a cap ital stock fixed at 1:5.000.000. The as sets Include factories In St. Louis and Springfield. Jerseyvllle and Belleville. IlL The incorporation waa for the larg est amount ever recorded In St. Louis. "PHANTOM" SHIP SIGHTED Steamer Wi linden Parses Strange Vessel Which Ignores Signals. VANCOUVER. B. C, Dec. IT. Whether the steamship WlUesden. which arrived from Honolulu today, saw a phantom steamer or a real one In distress 200 miles off Cape Flat tery ChrUtmas eve. Is pussilng Cap taln C. E- Cox. The WlUesden was forced to alter her direction by the stranger, which did not acknowledge any signals and waa finally lost to view. ivii.Tt.in. nnmnx. TIIITRSDAY. DECEMBER 23. 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. - - I 1 TARIFF ISSUE HAY UNITE FACTIONS Taft Welcomes Choice of Battleground. DEMOCRATS PLAY POLITICS Some Would Ignore Report as to Wool Schedule. HOUSES ARE FAR APART Senate Meaaure In Long Ttnn Is Likely to Come More Nearly to PrevailingCampaign Pros per Improving. BT HARTtT J. BROW V. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec 27. Democratic leaders in Congress have expressed a desire to make the tariff the paramount Issue In next year's National campaign. This Is entirely agreeable to President Taft and other Republican leaders, for If there Is any issue on which the war ring factions of the Republican party can reunite. It Is the tariff, now that the tariff board has submitted Its first report. Politicians who have been giving some attention to the situation brought about by the presentation of the tariff board's report on wool Incline strongly to the opinion that Insurgents will join with regulars, when the wool bill Is under consideration, and will vote almost solidly for a revision of schedule K In accordance with the findings of the board. Moral Obligation Plain. Strange aa It may seem, there Is reasonable prospect that the Repub lican factions will get together before the adjournment of Congress on this one Issue. If on nothing else. The In surgents, havlifa demanded a tariff board, and being largely responsible for Its creation, are morally bound to ite findings, and be glided thereby In revising those schedules upon which the board reports. On the other hand, "stand-pat" Republicans, having learned a lesson from the elec tion of 110. are now In a mood to make such reductions In the Payne Aldrlch law as the report of the board may Justify. Therefore, there at last appears to be a common ground upon which insurgents and regulars can unite. The Democrats, on the other hand, do not find the situation simplified by the report of the tariff board. The Democratic House made a record for Itself at the special session, which record bore the approval of most Demo crats of the Senate. It was then as serted, and will now be contended, that the revision proposed by the Demo crats was based on reliable Information better Information. In fact, than that gathered by the tariff board. Tot the country knows that the wool bill and all other tariff bills psssed by the Democratlo House, and demo-Insurgent Concluded on r(i 2. WHAT IjZJ. i . 1 -n Win INDEX TO TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTE RD AT B Maximum temperature. S decrees; minimum, 40 degrees. TODAT8 Occasional rain; southerly wlnfla Forels. Monaolla to proclaim Independence: Rueela sales upper hand. Pace 1 Rum la will punish perjM-tratore of attacks on Ciafi subjeiia in Persia- Page a. Russia will punUh thou who tortured wounded In Persia. Pas. Tariff issue likely to reunite Republican faction. Ta. 1. Original packars- merger to hav been $.- ooo.OOv concern. Pas. 2 Presldent nalvelv wlhes he mtsht contlnu. to ll. in washlneton. Pa 1. . Domestic. Proprietor, of .hlrtwalst factory in which many Uvea were tost ar. acquitted. Pace 3. Dynamite grand Jury bears evidence sa to Mc.Namaras- work la BeatUe. Fae J- WaJla Walla man. erased by pain, lost near Han Francisco. Pass . Bartlllon ayatem aupplanu eupld In scien tific match-making. Page ft. Peace banquet to avoid action m treaties, but Roosevelt still will not attend. I.llllanRusell will be bride of Pittsburg publteher. Page 4. Baroneea d. Meyer rhallenaee American women to fencing bout. Page 2. Great r.atun dam la wonder of Panama Canal. Faiee 6. LaK.iUette talks In Ohio on evil of truats. Puna S. Sport. Flsht for umpire placea in Pacific Coast League begins. Page 7. Harry Wolverton may play third basa for New Tork Hlghlandera. Page 7. Berg confident of defeating Demetral In wrestling championship. Page 7. Flynn knocka out Caponl in third round. Page 7. Pacific Northwest. Chief Juatlce Eakln see. establishment of rtparlan rlghte In Bumetfa decision In L Grande cm. Page . Rlster of Weber girl, slain In Spokane. h.I4 In Juvenile Jail. Page S. Baker County celebrates centennial today. Page . Forger. arrested at start of honeymoon, freed through pleadlnga oi brld. of day. Page 4. JTommerclal and Marine. Onion market, on Pacific Coast are advanc ing. Pag. 17. Wheat higher at Chicago on rust reports from Argentina. Page 17. Large buying of International mercantile marine for London account. Page 17. Claim of oanera that echooner William Not tingham la total lose halta repairs on craft. Pag. 16. Portland and Vicinity. City appropriates $10,000 to provide work for needy. Page 18. Louie J. Wild, accueed of .mbesalement. following conversion of bond. In bill of partlculara tiled. Pag. 0. . City Council approvea mill . tax levy. Page 11. Deilgn of poster by Lute Pease wins Rose Featlval prli. of $100. Page 10. J. B. Ooddard. sentenced to from three to twenty yeara. la at once paroled by Judg. Pag. 10. Oragoo Trunk-a bridge at Celllo to ba ready for tralna January 0. Pag. 1. Offlclala of Southern Pacific and Oregon Llectrlc -to wage fight ' before Newberg City Council tonight for track franchisee through city. Page 10. T. W. Graham, of Graat Northern, decries Oregon failure to eanlblt at all big land ahowa Page 16. Bchool Board proposes appointment of auper- lntendent of propertlea at $8000 a year. I'atfQ 12. Hop. for commission plan seen in movement to tus. four rival charter draft. Pag. 12. R. W. Foster, of Burlington line, promoted, page 0. Ad Club membera give money for "Oolden Girl" company. Page 10. Coroner's Jury exonerates Patrolman Hew- alon of all blame In killing Ryan. Page 4. BOYS UNEARTH $150,000 Guided by Ancient Spanish Chart, Lads Find Hurled Treasure. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Dec 27. Oulded by an ancient chart found In the ruins of a Spanish shellhouse In Fort George Island, two boys of this city say they have unearthed treasure worth about $160,000. They say gold, silver and copper coins were found In a strong box. Those who have seen the coins say they are more than a century old. WILL TEDDY DO IF IT BITES CHINESE EMPIRE TO LOSE MONGOLIA Independence Will Be Proclaimed Today. RUSSIA GAINS UPPER HAND Protectorate Also Will Extend Over Turkestan. GRAND KHAN TO BE NAMED Construction ot. Railway Across Mongolia, Sow Assured, Will Bring EtLrope Several Days Nearer to Pekin. PEKTN, Deo. IT. Mongolia, which almost equals China proper In size, will be proclaimed independent tomor row, simultaneously with the cutting off from China of the vast dependency of Turkestan. Both will pass under Russian Influ ence and will practically become Rus sian protectorates. Russia at any time will be able to annex them. A grand khan will be named as monarch of Mongolia. The construction of the Trans-Mongolian Railway, for which Russia has long r sought permission from China, will now be a matter of time, Europe thereby coming nearer to Fekln by three or four days. Russian influence will flank the Japanese sphere perilously In Man churia, and a Japanese alliance for the sake of preserving Japanese In terests sooner or later may be ex pected. Russian officers and officials, if not the Russian government proper, bava Influenced this action In Mon golia, MOVE OX PEKIX IS PLAXXED Dr. Son, Proposed President, Xot Impressed by Peace Conference. SHANGHAI, Dec 27. It Is reported that the delegates of the 1$ provinces of China proper Intend to meet at Nankinr on December 28 to re-elect Dr. Sun Tat Sen president of the pro visional government of the united provinces. The arrival of Dr. Sun Tat Sen has Injected an entirely new and forceful element Into the ranks and councils of the revolutionists. There Is every evi dence that Dr. Sun la is receiving more consideration than other leaders of the revolutionists here. His residence Is crowded from morning until night with representatives of all the prov inces. Generate and Governors with whom he has continual consultation. Delegates from the provinces of China proper who have been attending the Nanking' convention, cams In a body to Shanghai, where they met Dr. Sun, later returning to Nanking. There la reason to believe that they will meet on December 28, and elect Dr. Sun president of the provisional f Concluded- on Page 2. HIM? WASHINGTON LIFE APPEALS TO TAFT PRESIDENT XATTEIT WISHES HE MIGHT STAT THERE. Hearers, Members of Scientists' Or ganisation, Receive "Confession" With lond Cheers. WASHINGTON, Dec 2T. President Taft naively admitted to the delegates of the American Society for the Ad vancement of Science tonight that he would welcome an opportunity to re main In Washington. His confession was received with an outburst of cheer ing. The President, who was welcom ing the delegates to the capital, quickly saw how his declaration had been In terpreted and Joined In the laughter. "Ton have the freedom of the city," he said, "and It Is a beautiful city. In which you cannot stay too long. "Indeed," he added hurriedly, "the longer you stay, the longer you want to stay." The President would. If he could, he said, bring to the Government bureaus more of the active aid and co-operation of scientists In private life. REYES ON WAY TO DOOM General Heavily Guarded on Trip to Mexican Capital. ON BOARD REYES CAR, Monterey, Mex, Dec. 27. Heavily guarded on his way to the. capital to answer to the charge of sedition. General Bernardo Reyes Is being hurried southward to night through towns the Inhabitants of which, have been kept In Ignorance of his passage. So nicely was his departure from Linares timed that only a small por tion of the population was aware of !t, and In Monterey, his old home, possible trouble was averted by routing his car around the city. That President Madero probably will not Insist upon the death penalty for Reyes and his followers was shown in the capital today, when the father of David Reyes Retana obtained execu tive clemency for his son. Toung Retana was a prominent lawyer here until he took up the fight with Reyes. Retana's life will be spared. BUDDHIST STATUES FOUND South Sea Carvings Similar to Those Uncovered in. Yucatan. VICTORIA, Dec 27. Dr. Frederick Starr, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, . who returned today from a scientific mission to Corea, made the discovery at a deserted semi-subterranean temple on the south eastern seacoast of Corea of Buddhist statues and carvings remarkably simi lar to the carvings discovered In Yuca tan and Southern Mexico. He Is bringing 40 negatives which tend to prove the theory held by some American anthropologists that Buddhist tendencies are shown In the ruins found In Yucatan and on. the Southern Mexi can border. He considers that the origin of the famous Buddhists of Nara and Kamalaura are due to suggestions brought by Buddhist monks from this little temple, now fallen Into decay and abandoned. BOXING IS NOT FOR GIRLS Combative Disposition Xot Calculat ed to Make Happy Homes. . Lbs ANGEL.ES Dec 27. Boxing among the girls of the Los Angeles High School was put under a ban to day, but two devotees of the art. Miss Lauretta Davlln and Miss Fern Powell, declared, despite the edict, that they were still infatuated with the sport. Dr. Everett C. Beach, physical direc tor of the city high schools, said It was not the aim of the Instructors to turn out a generation of feminine fighters and that there was no desire to devel op an unnaturally combative dispo sition, "which would Interfere with the natural laws of the home." "Suppose a pretty girl's nose was broken when boxing," said Dr. Beach. "It probably would mean permanent disfigurement and might seriously In jure her social prospects." ABERDEEN TO CELEBRATE Washington and South Dakota Towns to Have Railroad Day. ABERDEEN. Wash., Dec. 27. (Spe cial.) Following out a proposal made yesterday by Albert Johnson, of Ho quiam. before the Chamber of Com merce, at Its luncheon at the Hotel Fairmont, steps have been taken whereby Aberdeen, Wash., and Aber deen, S. D., the two extremes of the new Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road will unite in the celebration here next Fall of railroad day, which It is hoped to make an annual feature for Grays Harbor. Steps have been taken to send a party of young women from this city to the South Dakota town and the other Aberdeen has been asked to Ini tiate a like excursion. RAILROAD TO DIE QUIETLY Ex-Senator George Turner to Let His Montana Line Disappear. SPOKANE, Dec 27. A Montana rail way will pass out of existence next Sunday at midnight. For 11 years the Northern Pacific has leased and oper ated the Yellowstone Park Railway, 11 miles long, .extending from Chestnut to Cooks Mine. This contract expires December 31 and ex-Senator George Turner, the principal owner of the little road, has been notified that the Northern Pacific will not renew the lease. OF TOLD McNamara Connected With Explosion. LYONS BUS MADE TEST Infernal Machine Taken to Ex pert for Repairs. "UTOPIANS" ARE CALLED Los Angeles Grand Jury to Hear Testimony of Members of Anar chist Colony at Lake Bay. Indictments Delayed. LOS ANGELES. Dec. 27. Coincident with the appearance of H. W. Pohlman. business agent of the Seattle Ironwork ers' Union, as a witness before the Fed eral grand Jury, which resumed its in vestigation into the alleged National dyanmlte conspiracy today, it became known that another resident of Seattle, Dr. G. D. Wagner, had appeared before the Inquisitors and had given Important testimony. Dr. Wagner, who no longer ' practices medicine, but who devotes himself to managing an electrical sup ply oompany, was aald to have told the grand Jury of a meeting he had with James B. McNamara in Seattle in the latter part of August, last year. Dr. Wagner's place of business was near the Intersection of James street and Third avenue, Seattle, almost di rectly across the street from the Lyons building, which was damaged by dy namite to the extent of 85000 August 30, 1910. McNamara Ideatined by Picture. The Lyons building explosion was credited to James B. McNamara, who at that time was said to have made his first dynamiting expedition to the Pa cific Coast. According to the testi mony, it was asserted that Dr. Wagner gave to the grand jury, a man whom he afterward ldentilied through news paper pictures as James B. McNamara took a part of one of his destructive machines to the electrical supply com pany of which Dr. Wagner was the manager for repairs. Another witness who has given th'e grand Jurors important testimony was William Brown, of Los Angeles, who haa been an employe of the Los Angeles Times for 12 years. He testified that the morning before the Times building was destroyed, October 1, 1910; he met James B. McNamara In the basement of the structure near the spot where the actual explosion occurred. According to Brown, McNamara declared he was looking for work as a newspaper mailer, whereupon Brown told him he was in the wrong part of the building and directed him to the manager of the mailing department. Identity Kept Secret. It also developed that Brown was one of the witnesses whose Identity was kept secret by the District Attorney, and who quietly crept Into the court room where James B. McNamara's trial was in progress to Identify him. Ten subpenas, it Is understood, were sent north last week, and so carefully were they guarded that it did not be come known until today, when Pohl man reported. Haley was not served, owing to the fact that he is at present In Canada. It is asserted that six of . the ten subpenas sent to the Seattle Federal officials for service were for members of Jay Fox' colony of Utopi ans at Lake Bay. After examining one witness, Paul Scharrenburg. of San Francisco, gecre tary of the State Federation of Labor, today, the grand Jury adjourned until tomorrow morning. The Federal Court adjourned until Saturday, and as any Indictments would have to be presented In that tribunal, the adjournment pre cluded any possibility of return of true bills before that date. It was believed that there would be no indictments re turned here at least before the arrival of new witnesses from Seattle. HOME COLONISTS ARE WASTED Prosecutor Guesses at Names of Five Most Likely Ones. TACOMA. Wash.. Dec 27. (Special.) Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Nolte, in charge of the numerous prosecutions of Home Colony folk for nude bathing, gave five names today as those of the probable men who would be summoned. He named as what he called merely a "pretty good guess," Jay Fox, editor of the Agitator, anarchistic organ of the Colony, who has long gray hair and a kindly face, who says he Is opposed to violence and desires a peaceful . Utopia for his followers; Lewis Hal men, secretary of the Home Colony co-operative store, a barber by profes sion, a lean-faced catarrhal man who is an advocate publicly of peace "at any cost;" George Allen, a school teacher, who was in trouble a few weeks ago when he refused to fly the American flag from a flagpole of his school; Hampt, a swarthy-faced anarchist leader in the Colony and among the rabid faction, and Laaari, another rabid anarchist. In company with David Caplan, it has been alleged, Fox bought a large supply of explosives from r (Concluded on Page 2. SEATTLE END CP