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" pni?TT A T) ORFOOX. TUESDAY. AUGUST 13, 1913. " PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOLi. I-U J. 10,101. ' ' ' 1 : T CHINA ASPIRES TO LAD OF 16 SAVES REBELS TRAP, SLAY 1ST REFUSES AID HEAVENS-TO 'RAIN GIRL PLUNGES MARITIME POWER FIVE FROM WAVES SHOOTING STARS 3 TO ALICE FEET OFF REPUBLIC'S RULER PREPARES TIDE RIP DROWXS OXE WHILE YOCTH RESCUES OTHERS. METEORIC SHOWERS BEGIX AXT FOR COMMERCIAL FLEET. WILL LAST THREE DAYS. ARBITRATION MAY END CANAL FIGHT SCORE TRAIN RAINIER Seattle School -Ma'am Drops to Death. OTHER WCMEN ARE UNNERVED Iowa Maid, Miss Helen Hunt, Accident Victim. EVERY BONE IS BROKEN Tcoma Y. M. O. A. Party Had bn Scale Pinnacle Peak and De scent Is Begun When Fatal Pinnae Is Taken. TACOMA. Wash, Aug. U. (Special.) Suddenly grow-in dizzy In the rarlfied mountain air. after she had climbed to the summit of Pinnacle Peak. Mount Rainier. M1s Helen Hunt, a school teacher of Seattle and a mem ber of the Tacoma T. M. C A. party that left Tacoma last Tuesday for a ten days' stay In Paradise Valley, fell 500 feet to her death today. Her body, with practically every bone broken, was found In the valley, and on a litter of alpine stocks and sweaters was carried to the camp. It was then ' taken by automobile to Longmlre Springs, where another car was obtained and the body brought into Tacoma. Unnerved by the scene of horror they had witnessed, the other young women in the party of 16. that had surmounted Pinnacle Peak, were unable to con tinue the ascent. Physical Director Carter, of the Y. M. C A., who acted as guide aided by the other men of the party, let the shuddering; girls down with ropes and the remainder of the party reached the valley unhurt. Climb Starts Early. The climb to Pinnacle. 664 feet high, which baa been one of the most en joyable of the regularly scheduled trips with each T. M. C. A. party of the season, made before the final dash, in which the hardiest are taken to the summit, was begun early this morn ing. A number of the young women in the party had made the climb before and it was not considered dangerous. Miss Hunt, who was a large woman, had taken part in the preliminary tramps of the party, one of which, over Nisqually Glacier, was considered more trying than the pinnacle climb. Sunday night she had been one of the merriest of those about the camp fire and was ber Jovial self in the steep pull up to the rocky apex among the clouds. Photographs were taken on the summit by the climbers, and after a brief stay the descent was be gun. No Warning Given. The accident was without warning. About 10:45, not long after the start downward. Miss Hunt reeled and plunged forward, falling about 15 feet. Clinging on the side of the mountain a moment, she seemed to break her fall, and her startled companions had half formed thoughts that an accident had been averted when she pitched forward a second time and In the sight of her horrified fellow climbers tumbled and rolled down the mountain, over and among the rocks, until with a sickening crash her battered, bleeding body came to a stop In the valley. To the men of the party fell the task of getting the other women, un nerved by the fearful experience, down in safety. Ropes were made use of. Carter wedging himself in the rocks and letting the. girls down over the steep places, the other men aiding along the line wherever they could. There was no lack of sameness among the women, as well as the men, and every one but the unfortunate vic tim returned to camp In safety. Every bone of Miss Hunt's body was broken. Her home is said to have been in Tama. Ia. RIVER'S COURSE CHANGED White Salmon Switched to Flume While Dam Is Building. UNDERWOOD. Wash, Aug. 12. (Special.) The White Salmon River for a distance of nearly 1000 feet was turned from Its course this morning, when engineers of the Northwestern Electric Company diverted the swift current into the long flume at Camer on's, three miles above this town. The stream will be run through this flume, leaving the bed of the river dry, during the construction of the 20,000 horsepower dam for the Northwestern Electric Company at Cameron's. The flume is carried underground through solid rock four times in its length by means of four tunnels ranging from 70 to 150 feet long. It Is the heavy nature of the work on these tunnels that has delayed un til the present construction of the con crete dam 400 feet long and 125 feet high, that will hold the White Sal mon In check here.- Five hundred men are working in day and night shifts. . . Woman Soon 94 Years Old. GOLD HILL. Or, Aug. it. (Special.) Mrs. Susie Whitney, who lives In the Foots Creek district, nine miles west of here, will celebrate her 4th birth day on the 15th Inst.. Mrs. Whitney, despite her advanced are. does ber own housework and sewing, and reads as readily with the aid of glasses as do many persons of less than half her years. Absence of Moon to Make Brilliant Phenomenon In Northeastern Sky This Year, Say Savants. WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. Astrono mers at the United States Naval Ob servatory were on the lookout tonlgh k five slvht rtf ft series of mO' teorlc showers due in the northeastern heavens. In the contellation Perseus. They had promised that the appearance or tnis pnenomenon. wuuiu jv i " midnight tonight, becoming more bril liant 1nst hpfore davbreak. This display of heavenly fireworks, to be visible to the naked eye, will con tinue throughout tomorrow and Wednesday nights. Th scinli exnlaln that this phe nomenon is caused by the earth passing through the inicaesi portion ui mc mjtt.nrii nnrHlia -known as Perseus showers, the effect of which is that the heavens abound with swiftly moving shooting stars, darting in all directions. It Is pojntea out mat me aiapi miffht in h unus.ua.llv brilliant this year, as there Is no moon to obscure Its brightness. MAIMED HERO WILL WORK Roundup Champion, Minus Hand, Says He Will "Pull Leather." PENDLETON, Or., Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) John Spain, of Union County, who last year captured the champion ship of the. Pacific Northwest in the bucking contest at the Roundup, re cently suffered an Injury to his right hand when It was caught In a rope so that amputation at the wrist was necessary, but the daring and plucky spirit which won him many admirers. still dominates, and he announces he will leave no doubts In the minds of the spectators at the coming show as to whether he "pullsleather." In the bucking contest this year the rope will be handled by his left hand. Spain says he will be back in Pendle ton to take as active a part as ever. an'd hopes to carry away some worth while prizes. CANAL GOVERNOR PICKED Colonel Judson, District of Colum bia, Probable Choice. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. (Special.) Colonel William V. Judson, United States Army Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, probably will be appointed Governor of the Panama Canal sone as soon as President Taft signs the . pending canal . legislation. Colonel Judson's appointment has been urged by Colonel Goethals, builder of the canal, and by many officials here who have to do with canal affairs. Judson has had a long experience in river and harbor engineering work and is the Inventor of many labor-saving engineering appliances. He was one of the American officers with Kuropat- kln in the Russo-Japanese war and was captured at a Russian division by the Japanese at the battle of Mukden. ALBANY SITUATION CLEAR "Citizens of Oakland" Complain of Liquor Law Violations. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 12. (Special.) In a letter received, from Mayor uuoert, of Albany, today by Governor West It Is said that the Mayor of that city Is now satisfied that the regular civil au thorities will be able to cope with the situation in that city, that several places have been - raided and others have been closed up and that the situa tion is well In hand there. The Governor held a conference with the Mayor several weeks ago and in formed him that If necessary the mili tia would be called out to establish law and order among illicit liquor sell ers in Albany. A communication was also received today by the Governor from "The citi zens of Oakland," with no other signa ture, claiming that the law la being violated in that place through illegal sale of liquor. FRUIT TREES ARE BURNED Spark From Engine at Medford De stroys Fall Barn and Spreads. MEDFORD, Or.. Aug. 12. (Special.) A spark from a passing county road engine set fire to some stubble in the old Gordon place on the Jacksonville road yesterday afternoon and resulted in the burning of a valuable barn, full of hay, and 20 acres of 8-year-old ap ple and pear trees. . lth wet sacks and buckets or wa ter, the train crew fought valiantly, but were unable to check the flames. The loss is computed at 15,000, with no Insurance. J. M- Root and W. L Vawter, prominent Medford men, are the owners. Late tonight the flames spread to a wooded knoll and burned several acres of timber, lighting up the valley for miles around. If the wind does not spring up. however, the fire promises to bum Itself out without further dam age. PENDLETON PAVERS QUIT Five-Cent Increase Asked hy Strik ers Xew Men Is Answer. PENDLETON, Or, Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) The "hot stuff" artists employed In the paving of West Court street by the Warren Construction Company, of Portland, went on a strike early this morning when their demands for an Increase of S cents an hour in wages was refused. The present wage is 25 cents an hour. . The employing company refuses to concede the demands of the strikers and another crew is expected to arrive tomorrow to carry on paving opera tions brought to a sudden standstill by the strikers today. Formal Demand Is Ex pected From England. TREATY BREACH LIKELY BASIS Other Nations Hesitate Pend ing Definite Developments. COMMITTEE IN CONFERENCE Determined Contest Looms as Con ferees Start Day and Night Ses sions Bourne - Reed Amend ments Jfew Problems. WASHINGTON. Aug.' 12. A deter mined fight is to be made in the con ference on the Panama Canal bill against the granting of free passage In the canal to American foreign bound ships. The conference commit tee held its first meeting today and continued discussion of the measure at a night session. Senator Brandegee, who opposed free toll provisions in the Senate, is under stood to stand with Representatives Adamson and Stevens, of the House conferees, In opposing what they con sider a violation of treaty rights and too great a concession to foreign-bound shipping. It Is believed from the pre liminary conferences on the measure that the free tolls provision for Amer ican coastwise shipping will De re tained. Bourne Amendment Lags. Little progress was made In the first session of the conference toward an agreement on the Bourne amend ment to divorce ralroads from con trol of competing steamship lines and the Reed amendment prohibiting trust- controlled ships from using the Pan ama Canal. Both houses have in dorsed the plan to prohibit railroad owned ships from using the canal; but the Bourne and Reed amendments are new matter so far as the House Is concerned. The British . government, according to advices today from the State De partment, has made no representation regarding the proposition to allow American vessels to use the canal free of tolls, since the note of Charge Innes, July 8, last.. It is now awaiting, it is said, the enactment of the legislation and the adoption of regulations to pat in into effect In order to have a suf ficient basis for a more formal pro test against what it regards as a clear breach of the existing treaty. Other Nations Healtate. In recognition of the superior rights of Great Britain to address the United States Government on this subject by Concluded on Pagw 2.) John Cavanaugh Goes to Watery Grave at Benham When Family Seeks Ocean Dip. SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Aug. 12. (Special.) Carried out to sea by a tide rip, John D. Cavanaugh, aged 27, tele grapher, was drowned at Benham. Five other members of a family party wltn whom Cavanauahg was enjoying a dip In the ocean were rescued f.rom a watery grave by Arnold Gutierrez, aged IS, of this city. All six were carried out Into deep water. Three reached shallow water with a little assistance from young Gutierrez, who was a member of the party, but Mrs. SaHna Vavanaugh, wife of the drowned man, and a sister, Mrs. Jessie Classon, were rescued only after a desperate fight. When Gutierres reached shore with them Mrs. Classon was unconscious. Gutierrez was unable to reach Cava naugh, but succeeded in resuscitating Mrs. Classon before medical aid arrived. The body of Cavanaugh. was washed ashore an hour later. BOY SCOUTS SAVE A LIFE Medford Youngster Marshals Com panions to Aid of Injured Man. MEDFORD, Or.. Aug. 12. (Special.) Floyd Hart, 13-year-old son of Dr. Henry Hart, of Medford, member of the Boy Scout encampment at Colestln, with his comrades' assistance, carried an injured man several miles yester day, helped to bind his wounds, walked a mile through a tunnel, caught the Southern Pacific train and coming to Medford secured an automobile into which the injured man was taken to the Sacred Heart Hospital. The prompt attention saved the young man's life and the doctors feel sure he will recover. J. Lane, the man injured, was walk ing on the track at night with his college chum, C. M. Schock. They were on a walking trip from their home in Pasadena. A train suddenly ap proached while they were on a trestle and Lane stepping too far from the track fell 25 feet to the rocks below. Schock secured aid from the Boy Scouts nearby and under the direction of L. S. Beverldge, director in charge, the injured man was carried to camp, his wounds dressed and stimulants ap plied. MOTHER IS 11 YEARS OLD Iowa Records Earliest Accouchement in Medical. Hl6tory IOWA CITY, la.. Aug. 18. The youngest mother recorded in medical history is an 11-year-old girl from near Davenport, who gave birth today to a healthy 8 -pound child. The hospital authorities did not make public the girl's name. Fire Loss Is $250,000. CLEBURNE, Tex., Aug. 12. Fire starting in the Santa Fe Railroad shops here today caused an estimated loss of $250,000. A lighted candle in the hands of A. V. Campbell, a boiler maker, set an oil tank ablaze. Camp bell was fatally injured. LOOK WHO'S SULKING AGAIN. Women Shown No Mer cy by Mexicans. VICTIMS BURNED WITH GARS Soldiers as Guard Die Vainly to Save Passengers. PUNITIVE FORCE SENT OUT lu0tO Library Acting on Information Brought by Conductor, Authorities Dispatch Men to Catch Zapatistas and Aid Survivors. MEXICO CITT, Aug. 12. Thirty-six soldiers and more than 20 passengers were slaughtered yesterday by Zapa tistas in a canyon one kilometer north of Ttcuman, 110 miles southeast of Mexico City, when a passenger train southbound from this city was at tacked from ambush. Only meager de tails have reached this city. So far as known only a part of the train crew escaped. The first news of the attack was sent to 'Mexico City by Conductor Marine and Collector Dominguez, who, al though wounded, had managed to make their way to Yautepec, 12 miles away. They were forced to steal through the Zapatista lines, and did not arrive at the telegraph station until late today, After the murderous rifle fire had ceased the rebels swarmed down the hillside and set fire to the three cars composing the train. A few of the wounded had crawled out of the right of way, thus escaping the fate of those unable to leave the cars, who were burned. According to reports, the leader of the rebels made absolutely no effort to restrain his men from acts of brutality greater than any that has yet marked the campaign in the south. The wounded, pleading for their lives, were struck down without pity, and even looting was held in abeyance until the slaughter was complete. Not satisfied with robbing their vie tlms In any ordinary manner, the fingers of men and women were chopped off with machetes that rings they wore might be more quickly obtained. Orna ments were torn from ears of women and their bodies were otherwise muti lated. Newspaper Men Are Slain. Among the ' passengers were two newspaper men and they were among those killed. They were on their way to Interview Miliano Zapata, the chief of the rebels. One of these, H. L. Strauss, a native of Uruguay and con- (Concluaed on Page 8.) Railways to Connect Interior Points With Ship Ports Foreign Cap ital to Be Invited. WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. (Special.) China is expecting a maritime awaken ing, according to consular reports re ceived here. Some of the foreign steamship companies, notably the North German Lloyds, it is stated, are beginning to feel the effect of this in creased activity. It Is reported that Dr. Sun Yat Sen has put himself to the task of com mercial reform and that steamship lines and, railways connecting the in terior provinces of China with coast ports will be the first consideration. Large numbers of motor boats are to be emploved to open up trade on the " 0y2 'aterways. Many vessels of 'e already in commission. " According 'to Dr. Sun Yat Sen there Is ample Chinese capital available to start the needed enterprises, but for eign financial assistance will be wanted as the movement expands, and this, he says, will be readily obtained through the liberal terms which will be extend ed to all who seek investment. It is said that Chinese in the United States, Mexico and South America have already subscribed half of the capital of $10,000,000 for the organization of a new line between San Francisco and Hongkong to compete with the Japan ese lines. BABY VETSCH WINS PRIZE Star Theater Baby Contest Closes Purses Awarded Friday Night. The winners In the prize baby con test which has been conducted by the Star Theater for several weeks were announced last night: Ruby Vetsch, 612 East Market street, won first prize, fia In cash. Gennie Bell, 539 East Forty-seventh street, won second prizes $15 in cash, and Capitolia Beatrix Rotay, 266 Clay street, secured third prize, $10 in cash. The prizes will be awarded from the stage of the Star Theater Friday night, and the films of the babies will be presented to the parents to be kept as souvenirs. The contest closed last Sat urday night. Ruby Vetsch received 14,625 votes. Gennle Bell 12,250 votes, and Capitolia Rotay 5625. Other contestants who received a large number of votes were: Gwendolyn Robinson, 5505 East Thirty-seventh avenue, 1050 votes; Joe B. Gates, Jr., 3225 votes; Phllomene Maiden, 1038 Vernon avenue, 2025 votes; Bernlce Polousky, 882 Alberta street, 1406 votes; Beatrice II. Chllson, 1175 East Twenty-seventh street, North, 1300 votes; Wila McDermltt. 8S North Thir teenth street, 1225 votes: Snookle Lundburg, 925 Yeon building, 1425 votes; Charlotte Wolf, 334 Sherman street, 1150 votes. DISEASE FIGHTER STRICKEN Dr. McCIintock Becomes Infected With Spotted Fever. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. Dr. Thomas B. McCIintock, of the Public Health Service, who has been fighting Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the Bitter Root Valley all Summer, has been in fected with the disease and is being rushed to Washington for treatment. Dr. McCIintock stuck to his post when the danger of infection was greatest, and it is thought he con tracted the disease while doing labor atory work. Rocky Mountain spotted fever exists only in America and has puzzled scientists. HELENA. Mont, Aug. 12. Dr. Thomas B. McCIintock had been engaged for two years in the study of measures to eliminate the spotted fever from the Bitter Root Valley in Western Mon tana, All the livestock in that section was dipped last year and the rodents exterminated in an area eight miles square. These measures were repeated this year with the result that for the first time In 24 years not a case was discovered in the area covered by the operations. The average number or cases or spotted fever in the lntermountaln re gion is 750 a year with 75 deaths. DESPONDENT MOTHER GONE Portland Man's Former Wife Deserts Daughter at Moscow. . MOSCOW. Idaho. Aug. 13. (Special.) After having put her. 11-year-old daughter, Viola, to bed Saturday night and then reading for a while, Mrs. Fred J. Damon, wife of a former O.-W. R. & N. brakeman at this place, but now at Portland, disappeared out the back door and has not been seen since. The little girl says her mother lived with her alone and she beard her mother leave the house at the time, but turned over and Immediately dropped off to sleep. Sunday morning when she awoke the lamp was still burning and Mrs. Damon's clothing, all In place ex cept the light dress and slippers she was wearing during the evening. The Sheriff and police were appealed to after the little girl informed the neighbors of her mother's disappear ance. Mrs. Damon was said to be despon dent at times over domestic affairs. BOY SCOUT MAN PAROLED W. H. Lindsay Is Vigorously Up braided In Court by Judge. Few men, probably, have been forced to listen silently to as strong an up braiding as W. H. Lindsay, a leader in the Boy Scout movement and a spe cial deputy Sheriff, received from Cir cuit Judge McGinn yesterday after Lindsay had entered a plea of guilty to contributing to the delinquency of minor. "I do not believe it would do any good to send you to Jail, so I shall sen tence you to one year and give you a parole," the judge said in conclusion. "You must report regularly to Chief Probation Officer White. If I ever hear of your coming in here again you may depend upon It that, even If the case does not come before me directly, I shall use my influenre to have the maximum penalty Imposed." Governor Grants Extra dition Papers. BITTER SESSION IS ENACTED Charges Fly Lie Is Passed Between Contestants. WOMAN'S PLEA IS FAILURE Though Talc of "Sick Mother' li Told Oregon Executive He De clines to Be Moved and Says California May Decide. SALEM, Or., Aug. 12. (Special.) With an echo of the Louis J. Wilde requisition case entering into the fate of Mrs. Alice Brown, alias Mrs. Mont rose, alias Mrs. Newman, alias Mrs. Winters, who is wanted in California for alleged grand larceny of $3900 from David Nappln, a rich Farmington, 111., farmer. Governor West today granted extradition papers for Mrs. Brown after one of the most stormy extradition ses sions that has been held in the execu tive chambers. Attired In a neat black suit, offset by an elaborate hat, Mrs. Brown smiled sweetly when she was Introduced to Governor West and settled back to face the executive and his decision. At torney John Manning, of Portland, ap peared for Mrs. Brown, while Deputy District Attorney Collier represented the California officers. Manning declared that the requisition papers failed to show that Mrs. Brown had committed a crime, that the com plaint stated specifically that Nappin had "given" Mrs. Brown J3900 to buy a lodging-house with and that she ac cepted the money. Manning Puts Ip Fight. "I want you distinctly to under stand that this woman, while she may have made a misstep In Portland,, is no scarlet woman," declared Manning to Governor West. " "I also can see by looking her over that she is no Virgin Mary," retorted the Executive. Under questioning of the Governor Mrs. Brown told her story. "I am 23 years old," she said, "nearly 24 years. "I came West with my parents and sisters and I was married about two years ago to Mr. Brown, who was a newspaperman in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He deserted me In San Francisco and I went to Long Beach to live with my mother. She was very sick and I had to take care of ' her. It was there I met Mr. Nappln. He was about 70 years old and seemed to take a kindly Interest In me. ife said he wanted to help me out. From time to time he gave mo a little money. I told him I didn't like to take the money because folks might say bad things about me. He proposed a trip to the East and I consented. We went as far as Denver, where he stayed and I went on to Kansas City. When I came bac,k to Denver, we made up a party of four, the others being my coulns and we stayed there for a month. Mr. Nappln being the host and we had a royal time automobiles, sup pers and a splendid month altogether. I.odglng-House Aid Proposed. "He th-m told me, when we returned to Long Beach, that I should have some way of taking care of myself and he suggested giving me a lodging-house. I didn't want a lodging-house because mother was sick and I still had to take care of her. So he gave me the money and told me to do what I wanted to with It and I bought a house, where mother lived until she died. I then wanted to give the house back to Mr. Nappln, but he refused and I wanted to sell It and give him the money, but he told me he would never think of taking anything back he had given me. Even these two diamond rings I am wearing he would not take back. "So I sold the house and kept the money. I came north with Mr. Mont rose. Mr. Nappln had asked mc to marry him, but I had been divorced but recently and couldn't marry him If I wanted to. When I wouldn't marry him that made him angry and ha wanted to have me arrested." Declaring that Nappln was an "old fool," Manning again vigorously pro tested against the woman being re turned. Governor West stated he was con victed that Nappin was a fool, but stated he was unable to determine what connection that had with the catv. Manning Takes iMur, "I am satisfied that the District At torney of San Francisco knew what he was doing when he drew up this in formation and we should not question It here," said Deputy District Attorney Collier. "If he know what he was doing when he drew it up I will question him." declared Attorney Manning. "If the District Attorney of San Francisco thinks the information constitutes a crime then I declare that he is a 'mutf on the same grounds that the Gover nor of California called your man Cam eron a "mutt' when Cameron could not tell why he thought Wilde was guilty of a crime." From then on the extradition hear ing took on the nature of a series of recriminations. Detective Vaughn and John Dolan, of San Francisco, "passed (.Concluded on race S ) V