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n " PORTLAND, OKEGOX, SATURDAY, APIUL 13, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LII NO. lit.V'M. , " -. 1 I ... . . r-. r-r- 1 ' TURKISH PRINCE IS HILL SCORES STATUE, SLIGHTLY CLARA BARTON, WAR REDUCED RATES Oil DRESSED, DRAPED SPOKANK STCDKXTS MODESTLY APPLY CLASS COLORS. THROWN INTO JAIL QUOTES E, DIES AT 90 EDIBLE A3CERICAXS RUN" AS THEY GLIMPSE BIG KETTLE. LECTURER BROKE WHEN XABBED AT PITYALLCP. i . . n n vt i v i u i v n1 l im l. i L i iiii i nnnnm t n H t Mis rkur nn, H LL &) . n.: I III! V I I 1 aW I bbsst w w aasr a v m m i a v-a a a a a i - HUSBAND AND WIFE LINCOLN US WOOL ARE ORDERED Roads Are Required to File New Schedules. DECISION FAVORS INDUSTRY Maximum to Be Paid Near Eastern Line of State. COAST RATES WILL STAND DlMam-e on One Side, Water Com petition on Other, Complicate Situation Waiving of Short Hani Clause Justified. OREGONIAN NEWS EVRKAl. Wash ington. April II. Radical reductions In freight rates on wool, both In sacks and In bale's, transported from Western points or origin to Eastern destinations were prescribed today by the interstate Commerca Commission. The present rate of $1 on wool from Pacific oCa.it terminals to Boston and other points on the Atlantic seaboard will be continued In effect, notwith standing that this rate Is materially higher than the rate from Intermediate points Inland. The commission spe cifically declares that this rate of II ls forced upon railroads by actual wa ter competition, and that if the rate were advanced railroads could not han dle wool from coast to coast. latrrter Rates Exr"slve. While sustaining the coast rate, tha commission finds that rates from In terior- points are excessive and orders reductions, but gives the railroads un til May 1 to file new schedules which comply generally with the terms of Its decision. Under this decision, maximum rates will be paid by points along the east ern border of Oregon.- California and Washington, the rates diminishing east and west of that line aa necessitated by distance on one side and water com petition on tha other. Huntington. Or., which is near the high line, will get slight reduction from 2.2 to 12.01. Points west of Huntington will get a lower rate, grad ing downward as they approach the Coast, where the dollar rate will con tinue. Short-Haul Clause Waive. The commission finds that this Is one instance where the long and short-haul clause can properly bewalved, because of the fact that water competition ac tually exists and cannot be overlooked. At the same time, the commission de clines to make this water-compelled .jots the basis of rates from interior points to the Atlantic seaboard. Thee opinion holds that the present rate of 11.15 a hundred pounds of wool In sacks from Colorado common points to St. Louis should not exceed to cents, and that from points west of Cheyenne. TVyc on the Union Pacific and Trini dad. Colo., on the Santa Fe. the rate to St. Louis might be 3 cents higher for each 2S miles. Rate Basla la Drflard. On the Inver Rio Grande a rate of 90 cents Is authorized from the first Ktation wwt of Tueblo with a similar 1-cent Increase from points further west. Concerning the rates to be ap plied on through shipments from West ern points to BoMon and New York, Chairman Prouty said they should be contructed "by adding to the rates prescribed to St. Louis, in the case of sacked woll. 12 cents to Boston and 4 cents to New York; in the case of baled wool. 47 cents to Boston and 41 cents to New York. In thj Judgment of the Commission, trans' t privileges should b allowed at Intermediate points on a direct line by payment of cent I a hundred on the condition the shipments originated west of the Mississippi River. The decision will be generally favor ible to the wool Industry. WATKR GRADE RECOGNIZED Oregon Growers Benefited by lc rllon of Commission. Oregon wool growers will be greatly benefited by the rate reductions or dered by inn Interstate Commerce Com mission. Heretofore the abnormally hlgh rates have cut deeply Into the margin of profits enjoyed by the wool men of the Northwest, and to a cer tain extent have plated the Interests of the entire Industry In Jeopardy. The decision of the Commission Is regarded as a further recognition by the Commission of the water grade en- Joyed by the Oregon growers, aa in some Instances the new rates irom tais stale will be lower than those from the lntermountain region. A graduated acale of rates, rather than the old blanket system, will be applied by the new tariff following the Commission's announcement. Hlat Injures Uorkmcu. OREGON CITT. Or April 11. (Spe cial.) Otto Stryker. of Eldorado. while employed on the road work near Molalla. was painfully injured by a Mast today. He is now in the Oregon City hospital- Mr. Stryker was in the act of lishtinc a fuse to some dyna mite, when the fuse exploded. mall pieces, of rock lodged In the young man s eyes, out u is not oeiieveu oe will lose bid eyesight. Gift to High School la It 06 Goes Through Fire, but Becomes Victim of I)res Reform. SPOKANK. Wash.. April 12. (Spe cial.) David, victim of notoriety, fire and dress reform, has attained new honors. Early arrivals at the new Lewis ami Clark High . School this morning found David modestly and tastefully draped In royal purple and gold, colors of the senior class. David Is a statuette about three feet high, the gift to the High School of the class of J90. He is technically known a the Capronl cast of Marcte's David. He la but slightly dressed.. This fact caused much stir when he waa first presented to the old South Central High School nearly si years ago by the class of 1906, then about to gradu ate. The cast represents the biblical cast ing in victorious pose, a dagger up held, with his foot upon the bead of a lion. The notoriety that beat about the heads of the two Davids. David ... .. nrinplnal of the SChOOl. and David, the plaster cast, came to a climax when David, the statuette. was found one morning arrayeu in oat and trousers. t . . -1 ..- . - Ka .nl. mirtvr of the fire of June. 1910. His remains were but fragmenta or plaster among ino pile of debris that workmen raked up a few hours later. MA IGNORES PA'S POLITICS Wives of Republican Are Delegates to Democratic Convention. SEATTLE. Wash- April II. (Spe cial.) Mrs. George B. Simpson, wife of a prominent attorney at Vancouver. Wash, was at the New Richmond to day. Mrs. Simpson will be one of the six women delegates to the Democratic state convention at Walla Walla se lected by Clark County Democrats. "Four of those six women delegates have Republican husbands," said Mrs. Simpson, -which proves that Washing ton women are doing their political thinking Independently. Why. Mrs. Lloyd Dubois, whose husband is one of the most prominent Republicans in Southwestern Washington, will go to Walla Walla as a Democratic dele gate. , "Our delegation is unlnstructed, but a private poll shows that it stands 11 for Woodrow Wilson and five for Champ Clark. I am for Wilson myself and am proud of It." COLD SHOULDER FOR COAST Navy Department to Send No More Battleships Till Canal Is Built. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. April 12. The Navy Depart ment will send no more battleships to the Pacific Coast until after the com pletion of the Panama Canal. This an nouncement waa made today by As sistant Secretary Wlnthrop to Repre sentative Humphrey, who called to nrge the department to recommend the building of an additional submarine on the Pacific Coast, or for a station on the West Coast. Wlnthrop also said the department would not urge the construction of more submarines for station on the Coast and otherwise Indicated that the department would not favor the Coast In any way. REGIMENT TO BE IMMUNE Even Women and Tots With First Infantry Must Bo Vaccinated. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Was, April 12. (Special.) Every officer, en listed man. servant, woman or child going to Honolulu with the First In fantry must be vaccinated and have a certificate to show the transport sur geon that they have been protected against smallpox, according to an or der received by Colonel McGunnegle. Commander of the First Infantry at this post. All of the new men Joining the regi ment are vaccinated, and they are also made Immune to typhoid fever. OFFICIALS FORGET HOLIDAY Clark County'' Courthouse Closed When Fact Is Discovered. V VANCOUVER. Wash.. April 12. (Special.) About an hour before noon today several oounty officers received telegrams from Olympla saying that today is a legal holiday, and that the Courthouse might close at noon. The county officials did not know that they were to close the Courthouse until the telegram was received. Arbor Day and Good Roads Day were celebrated' Jointly today by the schools, the pupils setting out trees and clean ing the 'school grounds. PORTLAND CLEARINGS GAIN Total for Week S 1 3,3 1 9.000 Against SI 1,394.000 In Seattle. Portland's bank clearings for the week reached a total of $13,319,000, with a gain of 1.4 pec cent over the j iwm tor lue corresponaing wees: -last year. The clearings at Seattle were J 11.5? 1.000. or ll.T25.000 less than the total clearings in Portland. Seattle showed a loss of 1.3 per cent. The clearings at Tacoma were 34, !9.0P0. the Increase being T.7 per cent. Spokane's clearings amounted to i, 7S4.000, with a loss of CI per cent. Red Cross Founder Is Brave to Last. SICKROOM PLACE OF CHEER Great Regret Is That Autobi ography Is Unfinished. WORK WAS INTERNATIONAL Burial to Be X04 :iAOxll AMajqro O ford. Mans. Friends Are RctU cent Concerning Retire ment From Work. WASHINGTON. April 12. Miss Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross and probably the most widely known American woman of her day. died this mornlng-t 9 o'clock in her borne. Red Cross. In Glen Echo, Md. She was SO years old. Miss Barton suffered an attack of pneumonia In February, 1911, had a relaps and the case became chronic. She went last Summer to her old home In Oxford, Mass., and returned to Glen r.cho In feeble health last Autumn. Muscular weakness of the heart de veloped and for weeks the condition of the great nurse was such as 'to cause grave concern. Her vision was uu- dlmmed almost to the last and her ready ait and quick repartee made her sick room a place of cheer. With her when the end came were her nephew. Stephen Barton, of Boston, and Dr. J. B. llubbell. Autobiography Left Incomplete. The great regret of Miss Barton was that her enfeebled condition made it necessary for her to suspend work on her autobiography. She had brought this work down only to the beginning of her public career as a Civil War nurse. A woman whose whole training fostered precision, she -left- behind virtually" the entire correspondence of her public career, as well as other data bearing, upon her international hospital work and the work which she herself began will be completed by other hands. She had outlined to ' her nephew Stephen Barton, the salient points of her public life. Last Years Sprat la Retirement. The Inst years of the great Red Cross nurse had been spent in retire- ironcludrd on Far 3. i r t j MAKES 'EM SWEAT. Evasion of Head Tax at Canadian Line Held by Trisoncr to Be Cause of Arrest. TACOMA, Wash., April 12. (Special.) -j-Gustav Dlkran, Prince of Albania, a province of the Turkish Empire, who has been in Portland, Seattle and- Ta coma lecturing on. conditions in the Turkish Empires was arrested tonight at Puyallup by Chief Immigration In spector Fulton, of tha Tacoma bureau, on a warrant sent out from the De partment of Commerce and Labor at Washington, D. C The nature of the charge against Prince Dlkran is not known, the war rant stating that the papers in his case will arrive Saturday. Trlnce Dlkran lectured last night at Central Methodist Church, in Tacoma. and tonight was to have lectured In the Puyallup Mctho- - Church. He was at a hotel In the J 11 rban town when the inspector found him and lacked even money for his hotel expenses, leaving his over coat as security. The lecture was called off and Dlk ran was brought to, Tacoma and lodged In the detention station at the Munici pal Dock, a real live Turkish Prince among the common horde. The Dlkran warrant bears date of March 27. He says he evaded the $4 head tax when he came Into this country from the British side a few weeks ago and thinks this is the reason for his arrest. He went first to Portland, to which olty the warrant was sen but mean while Dikran had shlted to Seattle, where he says, he lost HOC Ho has declared he Is a political exile and wears the white tunic and red cap of his peoplo while lecturing. BODY OF YOUTH IS FOUND Son of Chicago Alderman Long Is Knocked by Train Into River. NORTH TAKIMA, Wash., April 12. The body of Carson Long, son of Alder man T. K. Long, of Chicago, who dis appeared from here March 6, waa found tonight in the Yakima River, five miles below this city. Both legs and one arm were broken and It is believed that Long was knocked off Pomona bridge into the river by a train. Nearly 1200 and valuable papers were found on the body,, eliminating the theory of foul play. -- Long's relatives', have spent 110,000 in searching for him, and Lawrence Sanford, the boy who found the body, probably will com In for the reward of 15500 which was offered by the old er Long for information as to the whereabouts of his son, dead or alive. A body was sees floating In the swift current of the river here yesterday, but as darkness came on It could not b recovered, and it disappeared. Rela tives were notified toni;'it of the re covery of the body. Half Sister and Half Brother Divorced. COUPLE WED IN IGNORANCE Each Tells Judge That Love for Other Remains. HUSBAND GETS CHILDREN Mother, for Private Reasons, Had Led Couple to Think That Girl Was Adopted Child Decree Is Formal Necessity. CINCINNATI. April 12. A strange story that resulted in the granting to Joseph P. Ruch, Jr.. aged 22 years, of a divorce from his half-sister, Helen Hoffman Rnch. 24. was related In court here today. The half-brother and half-sister were married October 25, 1910, neither at the time .knowing of the blood relationship between them. The discovery of the relationship was disclosed a few weeks ago and the action for a divorce followed. It was explained to the court that the mistake had been mado possible because of the fact that the mother, for a private reason, had hidden from the children the. fact that they were brother and sister, allowing them to believe that the girl was only an adopted child. The couple's two chil dren were given into the custody of the father. Divorce Complaint Formal. The petition for divorce, filed by the husband, was on the formal grounds of neglect. The divorce was granted on that' ground to protect the young peo ple so far as possible in the record. The father and mother of the young couple were not in court wen the hearing was held. " --' The relationship of the Ruchs was disclosed to the young husband and wlef by Judge William Lenders, of the Probate Court, a few weeks ago In the presence of their mother. Mrs. John P. Ruch. Neighbors of the Ruch family In formed Juage Leuderus they believed the couple were half-brother and half-sister. He learned after investigation that the two had grown up together under (Concluded on Page 3.) Cunning Savages of TIbnron Extend Hospitality to Travelers, With Culinary Intentions. SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 12. Mem bers of a party of excursionists who made a six months' cruise in Southern waters on the yacht Paxlnoza, which arrived here today, tell the story of a narrow escape front Serl cannibals in Tlburon Island. The party, which con sisted of Colonel C. K. F.ader, Captain Jack Ross. John Llndquist, E. M. Hom bahl and Vernon Smart, left here last November on the yacht in search of ad venture. Two months ago the Paxlnoia dropped anchor off Tiburon Island and all members of the party except Col onel Rader went aBhore, whither they were Invited civilly by Indians who came out to meet them in small boats. The four men proceeded a considerable distance Inland, when suddenly they found themselves in a thicket swarm ing with yelling Serls. They ran for their boat and had the advantage In the race, as the naked Serls could not move swiftly through tile dense, prick ly shrubbery. At a clearing- the hunted men found a great fire under a stemming kettle large enough to hold a man. Then they ran all the faster, with the Serls In pursuit firing at them with rifles. Tho white men had no weapons. Reaching their boat, they began rowing for the yacht. The Serls pursued In their ca noes and the bullets continued to fly, but Colonel Rader began firing upon the Indians from the yacht. The four pursued men finally got on board and the yacht was speeded away. . Tlburon Island has the reputation of being Inhabited by cannibals. It is on the eaat side of the Gulf of California. MAN FINDS NAME HE LOST Alfred Xehring Bad Guess; He Was ' Really Frederick Sparer. LOS ANGELES. April 12. (Special.) The Milwaukee man who does not know his name, but who guessed Al fred Nehrlng as the nearest he could remember, will now find the correct one. It is Frederick Sperer, and he was named for his father. His mother, whose name he did not know any more than his own, lives In this city. She read about his predica ment in the newspapers and called on the police today, asking to be put in communication with him. She has been looking for him many years and had finally given him up as dead. Her story fully corresponds with that told by the Milwaukee man in his let ter to the chief and there is no tloubt of the relationship.. . FAN IS HIT BY FOUL BALL Veasey Drives Sphere Against Eye of Spectator at Albany. ALBANY, Or., April 12. (Special.) While watching the baseball game here today between the Portland North western team and the Albany Colts, J. F. Cook, of Halsey, was struck in the eye by a ball and suffered a se vere Injury. A number of spectators had gath ered about 20 yards beyond the catcher, and while Pitcher Veasey, of Portland, was at bat in the second inning he converted a swiftly thrown ball into a foul which struck Cook under the left eye, splitting the flesh and inflicting a severe wound. RICH AUTOIST STRICKEN Wyoming Millionaire Found Dead In Road Beside His Car. CHETENNE, Wyo., April 12. Sup posedly stricken with an acute attack of heart disease, J. Bevan Phillips, a prominent sheep ranch owner and oil operator of Congress County, fell from his automobile In which he was riding today. His body was found lying in a mud puddle near the highway leading into Douglas. His automobile stood a few feet away In a ditch beside the road. It is believed Mr. Phillips was dead when he fell from the car. He was re puted to be a millionaire. WILL CUTS OFF PREACHERS Legatees to Get Xothing If They Be come Ministers of Gospel. BOULDER, Colo.. April 12. The grand-nephews of John L. Church, a mining man who died here recently, will not share in his estate of 340,000 if any of them become ministers of the gospel. This was the unusual stipula tion In the will, which has been filed for probate. The testator's own sons were cut off In favor of his grand-nephews and grand-nieces. Election Proves Cosily. VANCOUVER, "Wash., April 12. (Special.) The Port of Vancouver Commissioners, George McCoy, Will iam B. DuBois and George W. Lampka, who were elected at a special election held last Saturday, will begin their of fices with no salary, and as Commis sioners they will be in debt to Clark County for the cost of holding; the spe cial election. A meeting of the Port of Vancouver 13 to be held soon, when proper steps will be taken to levy a small tax to create a fund with which to work. ' Roosevelt Thirsts for Distinction. PROPHECY IS NOW FULFILLED Nomination of ex-President Would Be National Calamity. MOVE HELD SOCIALISTIC Speaker Declares Nation's Alarmists Are Not Students, hut Men Who Have Surrendered to Self ish Ambitions. CORVALLIS, Or., April 12. (Special.) Speaking of the splendid achieve ments of .the Taft Administration in home affairs and of its great success in , our relations with other nations. Dr. John Wesley Hill tonight addressed the citizens of Corvallis. He declared Taft to be a great pro gressive, moving along lines that are worth while; and that to check the movement at this time would be an ir reparable calamity. He quoted from Lincoln's speech at Springfield in 1837, wherein he said: "Towering genius disdains a beaten path, it seeks regions unexplored. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It thirsts and burns for distinction. Is it reasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambi tion, will at some time spring among us? Distinction will be the paramount object and although he would as will ingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm, yet that oppor tunity being past and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, ha would boldly set to tho task of pulling down." -. , - Prophecy Is Fulfilled. "We are now witnessing," said Dr. Hill, "the fulfillment of Lincoln's prophecy and I thoroughly agree with Theodore Roosevelt when he said in a letter to Editor Moore, December 11, 1911, 'my nomination for a third term would be a National calamity.' "We are now," continued the speaker, "facing a grave crisis in our history. This no one can deny who is an ob server of the signs of the times. The question now confronting the American people involves the stability and per petuity of representative democracy. To no one with the slightest knowl edge of the history of the ages is it necessary to speak In praise of our representatlve system. "All arguments for it are summed up in one great, unquestionable fact, viz: it is the only system under whicli men have been able to attain orderly liberty, or under -Q-hich, having cast off tyranny and attained liberty, they have been able to preserve liberty. Danger of Socialism Seen. "All human history may be chal lenged to produce an exception to this proposition. The apparent exceptions, such as some of tho Swiss cantons, either were not pure democracies in the sense ot the term, or were able to maintain their freedom only because their poverty and ouscurity defended them from conquest, or because their powerful neighbors united to restrain aggressive designs upon them. "We are confronted today with a per sistent, insidious, undermining attempt to change our form of government. Let there be no mistake at this point. The revolution to which I refer la a deep seated conspiracy to overthrow our rep resentative form of government and uprear on Its ruins a socialistic democ racy. "The movement is not evolutionary, but revolutionary. Understand. I am not defending our representative sys tem against the charge that it has de fects. Its s' ortcomings are manifest, its limitation.' and deficiencies are ac knowledged. Conspiracy Not Justified. "But this does not justify tho con spiracy to destroy. It is not neces sary to overthrow in order to uplift. It is poor policy to burn down the barn in order to disperse the rats, and it is a more serious and perilous pol icy to tear down our flag and offer the substitution of another, the red flag, for instance, because the Government represented by the Stars and Stripes does not at all times work with fric tionless precision. , "The proposition, therefore, to change our form of government, to de stroy its representative character, should be carefully considered before accepted as a practical working rem edy for those minor defects which al ways assert themselves In the move ments of large bodies. The framers of the Constitution were not ignorant of the past. They were thoroughly familiar with the history of the ages. They had discovered the failures of absolute democracy to preserve lib erty, justice and equality. - Ariaiatle'a Worda Recalled. "They remember that Aristotle had pointed out that 'democracy has many points of resemblance with tyranny." that he had told as how a democracy. as woll as a tyranny, may become a despotism and that he drew a striking picture of the likeness between 'a (Concluded on Fgs C) 1