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r. i ; i I T V'lr :j) y v r rwv VOL. LI-Q. 15,913- -PORTLAND. OREGON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V LEADERS PLANN 10 PLACATE BRYAN Charge of Favoritism Causes Concern. TARIFF MADE PURE POLITICS "Popgun" Bill Offered With No Hope of Passing. TACTICAL BLUNDERS SEEN Attack on Tariff Board Bused on Flimsy Grounds, and Data Will Be Ignored in Framing Reduced Sclied ales. BY HARRT J. FROWN. OREGOXIAX NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Jan. 4. The Democratlo House of Representatives Is preparing one mora to p?ay polities with tha tariff. There ara many indications of this, but the most conspicuous elrcumstanrs Is the determination to revise tha stool hedule ahead of tho wool schedule, net withstanding thera Is a mui of In formation at hand on which to revise tho wool schedule and no Information v hatever on which to reduce tha duties on steel. The hlef significance of the new I'rmocratlc programme llos In tha fact that tha steel revision Is undertaken first In the hope of placating; William J. liryan. Not that Bryan la mora in terested In this than other schedules, however, but because of the failure of tha House In tha special session to make any effort whatever to reduoe tha duty on steel. a'avarttiasa fa He Desire. This omission. It will be recalled, le.l to a clash between Bryan and t'halrman I'nderwood of the waya and means committee. due In a large measure to the fact that I'nderwood haa hla money Invested In the ateel busi ness in Alabama. Bryan charged that because of this personal Interest. I'nderwood h. held back tha steel revision, a charge which I'nderwood denied. The other Democratic members of the ways and means committee came to Underwood's support, and explained that the steel revision had been post poned on account of the Inquiry Into the steel trust, then being made by the Stanley tommittee. Bryan, however, stood by his charge that favoritism had been shown the steel trust, and it Is to put at rest this charge that the House will first tuke up the ateel schedule. Bryaaa Opposition Slleaeea. Ky taking up and revising the steel schedule ahead of everything else, the Democratic House will silence Bryan In one direction at least, and at the same time relieve Underwood of the suspicion aroused by the Bryan critic ism last Summer. This criticism, by the way. while directed at I'nderwood personally, waa In effect a criticism of the entire Democratic membership of the House and was regarded as a slap at Speaker Clark among others. Under wood and Clark are both active can dldatea for the Presidential nomination this year, and while neither may receive the hearty support of Bryan, neither wants to Incur the further opposition of the "Peerless Leader, if such op position can be averted. Among Democratic members of the House, Speaker Clark and Chairman I'nderwood are both popular, and the nomination of either man would be personally gratifying to most mem bers, though many prefer some other man for this distinction. Therefore, in the Interest of Clark and Under wood, as well as In the hope of bridg ing the chasm between Bryan and the present House organisation. It has been determined to rush through the steel b 11 ahead of all other tariff measures. Tartleal Blander, Sense Believe. There are some Democrats, how ever, who think the House la making a tactical blunder In placing ateel re vision ahead of wool, especially if the Demo.-r.iis have any Intention what rcr i'f contending that they wore tuidd In any degree by the findings of i lit tariff board. For they point out that th-re are today ample data avall Me upon whw-h to frame a wool-re-tiun bill, combining the report of the t.irift l.oard with the facts already In lh- hands of the committee. It will be necessary to hold hearings in onler to make some defense of the committee bill before the House, but It is evident the ways and means com tnit:ee does not Intend to go thoroughly into the steel question before submit ting Its report to the House. Naturally the House lrad-Ta believe that any bill, bastily thrown together, and railroaded tt.rough the House, will be redrafted by fie rrmte. They have no notion what tirr that the .Senate will concur In a Ix pgun steel bill. All they want Is to prupoe radical reductions In the steel schedule, and they will depend upon the unpopularity of trusts generally to Justify whatever reduction they may suKgest. sio far as the tariff board report on a oil Is concerned. It will cut little figure in the House, notwithstanding the fact that Democrats were largely in-trumental In having the board .rested. Under the leadership of M-eakrr Clark. Democrats are busy j.i.t now endeavoring te discredit the iioalw4l wa J S.J ING GENEROSITY DIES AS ILLNESS GOES 31'GRAX REPEXTS LIBERALITY, WOCLD RECALL $S000 GUT. Idaho Man, Thinking Himself Dy ing Hands Check to Neighbor. Recovering, Tries to Stop Pay. BOISE. Idaho. Jan. 4. (Special.) Believing that death was near and that a great injustice would be done If he failed to remember a friend who had often cared for him, Philip Mc Gran. a wealthy, retired business man of this city, called Mrs. R. C. Coo. a neighbor, living In one of his bouses, and who had shown him many a kind ness, to his bedside and gave her a check for $3000. The next morning he had recovered from his illness and repented hla act. Although he wished to recall the check. Mrs. Coo had deposited it in her name, the 13000 had been transferred from his account and the check stood against him. Its recovery is now one of uncertainty. Mr. McGran. who is fairly well along In years, has had aeveral spella of ill ness in the past year and had been cared for by Mrs. Cos. A few days ago he waa taken violently 111 and believed he was going to die. His first act waa to call Mrs. Coe. request ing her to call two lawyers and a priest, as he wished to make til will, and he Informed her he Intended to remember her in the document. Mrs. Coe told him she had rather not be mentioned In the will, not being a rel atlce, but if it was hla wish to remem ber her in any way. he might do so. He then declared he would give her a check. After the will waa drawn, McGran wrote the $3000 check in favor of Mra. Coe. thanked her for her services and many act. of kindness throughout his Illness, and sank back on bis pillow to die. The next morning he awoke feeling as well as uaual. THREE CITIES FIGHT FIRE Louisville, Cincinnati and Aberdeen, S. I., Ablase In Bluer Cold. LOUISVILLE, Ky, Jan. 4 Four hundred thousand dollars is the esti mated loss caused by a Ore tonight which destroyed three retail wearing nnarel establishments, damaged the Baldwin Piano Company's store and allgbtly damaged the Courier-Journal building. At midnight the blase was under control. The night was the coldest of the Winter and the firemen suffered considerably. ahfrdec.' tV. D- Jan. 6. Fl:c, which broke out at 10:0 octock last night, haa destroyed a large portion of one buainess nioca, tne ioes rescu ing nearly $100,000. The fire broke out In the Poulict building, over a sa lpon. A heavy northwest wind and the ihamnmiitr 20 degrees below xero made the work of the firemen hard. The flames were under control at 1 o'clock this morning. ctvcivv ITT Jan. 4. Fire which started in the fourth floor of the Com mercial Tribune tonight caused consia- V.1-. Aarnatrm Oulck WOrk by the fire department prevented what ap peared to be an ugly Ore in the very center of Cincinnati's business district. The paper got out the usual editions . . .... ,. v. . .f-ariv heen wun tne iTim'ri iui ... put into the press. The loss, includ ing the damage tjy water, is at II5.000. VANCOUVER KNOWN AFAR Newspaper In Florence. Italy. Tells How Woman Sat as Judge. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Jan. I. (Special.)- The news that Miss Mildred Henthorne sat as the first woman Judge in the State of Washington haa been read in Europe. Governor Hay, of the State of Washington, enclosed a clipping In a letter to E. E. Beard, of Vancouver, which read: "Enclosed find a clipping from a Eu ropean paper which my daughter picked up in Florence, Italy. From this it is evident that Vancouver, Wash., is on the European map. Yours respectfully, 'M. E. HAT." The clipping was: "Vancouver. ' Wash. For the first time in the State of Washington, a woman has Just sst as a Judge. Owing to the absence of O. U Davis. Justice of the Peace, for the trial of a civil suit involving a small debt. Miss Mildred Henthorne was ssreed upon by the attorneys to sit In his "stead. After hearing the case. Justice Honthorne took the matter under advisement." STATE WINS LAND CONTEST Washington Supreme Conrt Rules Agaln-t United Slate. Ol.YMPIA. Wash.. Jan. 4. The State Supreme Court decided today that the act of Congress granting to the State of Washington sections 1 and 3 In each township of Federal land for, school purposes became effective In November. 1SS. on the day the state was admitted, and that the 100.000 acres of lsnd In those sections which the Government after that day allowed to be settled on and patent belongs to the stste. The decision today was In the caae of the State vs. E- R- Whitney, a settler In one of the sections S. In Skagit County, permitted to gain title aa a homesteader because he waa a squatter when the land was surveyed by the United States, in 10. If the Federal Supreme Court sustains today's decision, the United Males will be called on to make com pensation to tl.e state for lands taken up after admission to statehood. CUSTOMS ARE HELD FOR MORGAN DEBT United States Takes Hand in Nicaragua. COMMISSIONERS ARE LANDED Mission to Readjust Finance of Republic Admitted. ACTION IS TAKEN OPENLY Britain Represented on Board Sent to Accomplish Reform Corlnto, . Blueflclds and Managua Are Taken Over. SAX FRANCISCO. Jan. 4. (.Special.) The United Stales Government has taken over tho Nicaraguan custom houses and Colonel C. G. Ham. of New Tork. has been placed in charge. Ac companied by Francis Capel Harrison, representing Great Britain, and Charles A. Conant, representing the United States, who are commissioned to re adjust the currency of the Central American republic. Colonel Ham was landed by the Pacific Mall liner City of Sydney at Corlnto. December J3. Colonel Ham took immediate charge of the custom-house at Corlnto and will also take charge of the customs at Blueflelds and Managua. The movement was made, it Is said, to secure the $10,000,000 loan recently made to Nicaragua by J. Plerpont Mor gan. Ira rasas Gives ton.es t. It is understood that the taking over of the customs service of Nicaragua to secure the $10,000,000 loan and the movement to readjust the currency of the qountry Is with the acqulescense of the Nicaraguan government. A rep resentative of the latter government will co-operate with the British and United States representatives. Colonel Ham, Harrison and Conant were accompanied by James W. Whlt aker, the latter representing a big New York syndicate which has ex tensive plans for railroad building in the republic. They took passage on the steamer City of Sydney at Balboa They made the trip from New Tork to Pan ama by steamer. Mlaaloa Is not Secret. . Through the New York connections of the Paclflq Mall Steamship Com pany all of the men had letters of In troduction to Captain George Yardley, of the City of Sydney, which arrived here this morning. There was evi dently no secrecy about the mission of the party, aa they talked freely of their (Concluded on Psse 2. INDEX TO TODAY'S NEWS Tb4 Weather. -TESTE RD AT" S Maximum tf mpertvtur, 29 degree; minimum. 2-4 degrees. TODAY'S Snow turning to rain; warineri southerly winds Nation!. Democratic tariff programme designed to appease Bryan. Page 1. Monetary com m! Mi on plan curbs Wall street Influence. Page 2. Witness says packers made chier profit from by-products. Page 5- Domestic. Priestess of theosophy finds courtroom ordeal iuu f ferabl e. Pago 1 . Lawyer assistants la McNamara caso ex amined by grand Jury. Pago 2. President of Outlook Company says Roose velt Is not candidate. Pago 4. United mates takes over Nicaragua enstoros tiouses to secure M organ . debt. Psge 1. McManlgal on way to Indianapolis to testify. Pago 2. "Other man" witness apralnst woman held aa husband's slayer. Page Tooth held by fire worshipers cannot bo found. Pago 5. Thomas W. Lawson writes 'frenzied com mandments' for clergymen. Pago 0. Sport. Pacific Coast League becomes class AA or ganisation. Page S. Football season gives Multnomah Club profit of S.000. Pago & Roy W Collins. Boston Red Sox pitcher, on visit to Portland. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Vancouver girls Invito young men to leap year ball. Page 1. Idaho man. thinking self dying, gives $3000 to nurse, on recovery wants check back. Page i- ProsecuTor Mulkey at Mdford advises father to take back abducted child despite Cali fornia ruling. Page 3- Oregon City Mayor and Council oach declare stand In municipal plit. Page 6. North em paclfc plans to spend $4,000,000 In Inland Km p Ire country Pago 9. Governor West sets aside day for hangings If people vote In favor of death penalty. Page 7. Idaho Governor and Senator play part of cupfd In romance of two continents. Page T. Commercial and Marine. Shipping season for potatoes slow in open ing, page 19. Flurrr In wheat markets due to Argentina storms and threatened strike. Page 19- Trade in bonds large at higher scale of prices. Page 1. Work of Government on Celtlo Canal beset by depleted ap propria lion. Pago 18. Royal Mall agent here in connection with proposed establishment of direct steamer service from Europe via Panama CanaL Page 18. Portland, and Vicinity. Portland la visited by four-inch snowfall. Page J. Mrs. J. B. Ho ton. nee Krebs. says former husband gained divorce by trickery Page 8. Temple Alexander. O.-W. R. A X. purchas ing clerk to return today; charges may be placed. Page 4. Wilde's attorneys declare any money re covered from Oregon Trust directors will go to Germs n-American Bank. Page 1 Mayor In annual message I lets city's needs . and extols Portland's marvelous progress. Page it. Lumberman Is arrested as alleged slayer of homesteader at Sprlngdale, Wash., last August. Page 11. Councilman move to abolish public dance halls In city. Page 12. Reports from Great Northern exhibit car predict groat Influx of colonists to Ore gon. Page IS. Both Milwaukee Road and Hill Interests now said to figure in East Side deals. Page 14. Unarmed woman foils robbers and captures them. Psge 14. "BABY BLISS" DIES AT 45 Man Wbo Weighed 550 Pounds Kx liihited on Two Continents. BLOOMINGTON, In, Jan. 4. Leonard Bliss, aged 45. was found dead in bed here today. He weighed 530 pounds and as "Baby Bliss" waa exhibited in America and Europe 1n bicycle races and museums. HE'S GOING TO MAKE A RUN FOR ORDEAL IN COURT CHAFES PRIESTESS "Purple Mother" Finds Place "Awful." LOAN OF $80,000 EXPLAINED Money Used to Finance Isis Theater Venture. PROPERTY GIFT REFUSED Aged Testator Declared to Have Begged Mrs. Ting ley to Found Raja Yogi School at Golden-Hlll-on-Hnd son. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 4. (Special.) "This is insufferable. The place is awful and the experience is almost un bearable." This was Mrs. Kathcrino Tlngley's emphatic comment as she left the courtroom tonight after three days on the witness stand and with the knowl edge that more testimony will bo de manded of her tomorrow. Mrs. Tlngley Is so far the star wit ness In the Thurston will contest wherein George L. Patterson, the New castle, Pa., banker, and son of Mrs. Clark Thurston, is trying to recover the quarter million dollar estate left by bis mother to Mrs. Tlngley and tho theosophlcal institute of which "the purple mother" is the high priestess. Relatives Are Cat Off. Patterson and his invalid widowed sister, Mrs. Quinn, with Mrs. Qulnn's two children, were cut off from the estate without a cent. Mra Tlngley was cautiously led over the ground of her direct examination todayby her own lawyer. State Senator Wright. She told of her dealings with Mrs. Thurston. She was asked con cerning the 180,000 she admits having borrowed from the aged woman. She told of its use in financing the Isis Theater. She said that Mrs. Thurston was .interested in music Senator Wright asked her if "ragtime" were Included In the repertoire of the Point Loma institution's music. Mrs. Ting ley stiffened In her chair and replied, sharply : "No." Gift of Property lief used. Then she told of Mrs. Thurston's de sire to have Mrs. Tlngley found a Raja Yogi school at Golden Hlll-on-the-Hudson. "She tried to give me the property, but I refused it." said Mrs. Tlngley. While Mra Thurston was building a new house on her estate on the Hud son she invited Mrs. Tlngley to visit her there. Golden Hill, it was ei (Concluded on Pace 8.) IT. GIRLS BID MEN TO LEAP YEAR DANCE CAR3IEXCITAS TO CALL FOR BACHELORS WITH AUTOS. Tanconxer Ellgibles to Be Given Choicest Bonbons and Asked for Waltzes at Xovel Ball. VANCOUVER. Wash., Jan. 4. (Spe cial.) The first leap year ball to be given in Vancouver for more than four years will be held by the Carmeneita Club, a young woman's society in Van couver, January 12. It will be on Fri day evening In Columbia Hall, which will be decorated with hearts. Two hundred invitations have been sent out to 200 young women of the city asking them to take men to the ball. The invitations carry the fol lowing verse: Twelve Cannencltas sitting in a row. Each Carmeneita waiting for a bean. Four years they've waited, beau dlin't come Poor Carmeneita.. it wasn't any fun. Now that it's Leap Tear by hook or crook Twelve timid bachelors have sot to be took. The patronesses of the evening will be Mrs. W. P. Connaway, Mrs. Lloyd Dubois. Mrs. E. K. Beard. Mrs. S. W. Thompson. Mrs. Arthur H. Fletcher and Mrs. Charles Kirch. While it is not known, it is said that the members of the Carmencitas have ohartered automobiles for 'the evening, and are going to take the beau they will invite, that they will each pre sent a box of the choicest bonbons at the psycholog'cal moment, and invite the men to waltz Just reverse the cus tom for the night, for the novelty. The affair promises to be the big event of the Winter and it is definitely known that a number of young men of the city are obtaining dress suits and kid gloves and are looking with favor up on members of the Carmencitas. TINY MAN SQUEEZES OUT 90-Pound Jockey and Boxer Crawls Through City Jail Bars. C. D. Wilson, four feet, five inches tall, weighing 90 pounds, crawled be tween the bars of a cell in the City Jail last night and was walking about in the outer corridor when Jailer Web ster entered the jail and found him. A cell with spaces smaller than five Inches was found for him in one corner of the jail and he was locked up again. Wilson, an ex-jockey and a pugilist of some note in the North End in spite of his diminutive size, was arrested last night for drunkenness. Wilson was rearrested several days ago because when being released after a night spent in Jail repenting a fight in the North End. he Jumped a foot off the floor of the police station and punched Patrolman Thatcher, one of the biggest men on the force, in the eye. Wilson's previous arrest was on the complaint of an 180-pound logger whom Wilson whipped. MADMAN TRAPPED BY RUSE Touchet Tarmcr Lured to Walla Walla by Officers. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Jan. 4. (Special.) After holding two Deputy Sheriffs at bay yesterday at the point of a gun, John Herman, of Touchet, through a subterfuge today was in duced to appear at the Courthouse, where an insanity commission declared him insane and ordered him committed to the insane hospital at Medical Lake. In order to secure his appearance in court here without causing any vio lence, Herman was told by Deputy Sheriff Barnes that he was wanted on the charge of driving some boys, who had been hunting on his place, away at the point of a gun. The evidence produced showed that he was laboring under the delusion that his neighbors were seeking to in jure him, a delusion which made him dangerous to be at large. It was also shown during the hearing that he has been in the Insane asylum on a pre vious occasion. POINDEXTER MAKES CHOICE Senator Comes Out for Lawrence for Governor of Washington. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Jan. 4. Senator Poindexter to day came out in favor of the nomina tion of J. C. Lawrence, ex-Railroad Commissioner, as the Republican can didate for Governor of Washington, and expressed the opinion that Law rence not only will be nominated, but elected. Poindexter comes to Lawrence's sup port, he says, because Lawrence is "progressive" and has demonstrated, while Railroad Commissioner, that he is not subservient to the power of the railroads or other great interests which In the past have sough to control pub lic affairs in the State of Washington. $1 IS BAR TO MARRIAGE Young Man With Girl and $2 Meets Check In Path to Altar. Lacking $1 of the amount necessary to pay for a marriage license A. W. Leuhers, of 654 Washington street, yesterday left ?2 and the license in charge of Deputy County Clerk Noonan while he scurried around town to raise the cash necessary to redeem the document. The license gave him the right to marry Margaret Loken, aged 18. who gave the same address aa her husband to be. The young man gave his age as 12. He told Mr. Noonan that ho had understood a license costs only 12 and that he would have to borrow the other dollar necessary. SHOW ALL CITY Fall Is Steady for Sev eral Hours. DAY COLDEST OF SEASON Traction Company Has Diffi culty Operating Cars. HOOD RIVER FERRIES STOP Rivennen Declare Condition Unusual for This Season of Ycar Many Take Advantage of Sleighing Possibilities in City. CITY AND COUNTRY FEBX EF FECTS OF FIRST SNOW FAM. OF 1915. Fort land. Snow fall, 4 inches; day season's coldest. Streetcar servloe demoralized by unexpected storm. Several pedestrians hurt by falling on slippery streets. - Padfle Nortlrnesc. Columbia River freezes at Hood River. Walla Walla reports 6 above sero. Snow fall heavy throughout Washing-ton and Oregon. As if fully conscious that the snow fall for 1911 was seven-tenthsi of an inch below the average. Dame Nature yesterday afternoon sent the vanguard of her feathery cohorts on Portland. Beginning shortly after 2 o'clock with dry, crisp flakes that were in marked contradistinction to the wet snow of last year, with a steady fall, more than four inches had been re corded by nightfall. Absence of wind prevented the snow from drifting. The weather forecaster says the snow will cease today, with a change to warmer weather, but he did not at tempt last night to prophesy what de gree of fall would be registered during the night. Looked at in the light of a storm, the snow cleared at 9 o'clock, and at 10:30 o'clock there was not even an isolated flake dropping, and at a still later hour indications pointed to a clear night. With the exception of the suburban routes, on which the electric rotary brushes were put to work, the Port land Railway. Light & Power Company found itself able to handle the traf fic. Although the snow made vehicular traffic difficult, a steady service of streetcars was successful In bucking the obstruction, and the rush-hour traffic was handled with little, if any. delay. The Cazadero line was partially suspended. ' Sleet May Block Cars. C. , J. Franklin, general superin tendent, does not make any promises for service today. "If the rate of fall does not increase we can handle the situation," he said. "If the snow changes to a damp, moist one, we shall have difficulty. I hope to have all lines open for communica tion tomorrow morning. Up to the present we have not been inconven ienced at all." Difficulty was experienced by the cars later in the evening, the Sixteenth-street route being stalled for a time at Jefferson street but relief was rushed to the scene. Several East Side lines were delayed after the rush hour, but by 11 o'clock there was full service on all routes. Mr. Franklin was par ticularly pleased with the manner In which his men had handled tho emer gency. In several cities throughout the Pa cific Northwest the snowfall and mer cury have marked a record. At Walla Walla the thermometer registered 6 above zero, with indica tions of falling still lower. Thl. passes any previous record in the past three years. The Columbia River at Hood River is frozen near the shores and ferry traffic has been suspended. River men say that they do not remember like con ditions at this time of year heretofore. At Oregon City the snow changed to rain early in the evening and a rising temperature bid fair to clear the ground before this morning. Heavy Fall Expected. The mercury at Castle Rock. Wash, ranged around 30 above zero last night, but a heavy snow was falling and indication- pointed to a deep fall before dawn. The first cutter appeared on the streets at 4 o'clock and made capital progress along Washington street. One hour before children got their sleighs out and were coasting on Twenty-first street, Portland Heights, and Twenty fourth street. In front of St. Vincent's Hospital. Considerably earlier, Washington and Morrison streets proved dangerous to pedestrians, the Iron doors set in the sidewalk being veritable fall traps, scores of persons falling heavily. In at least three cases elderly persons were injured, severely enough to be assisted to the offices of physicians. Concluded on Pago 12.) FOUR-INCH WHITENS X