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: : ; 1 VOL. LII-XO. 16,176. PORTLAND. OREGON, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER .28, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. : " I " I . I . . r umir r r" P M IM IniAaiiiM ii SICKLES' LETTER WAR MOVE SEEN IN AST0R ATTENTIVE HERGES CHOSEN TO REPAIRS TO LINER TO WOMAN PRINTED TO LAURA WEBB IOCXG PEOPLE SMILINGLY AD PROTECT BROTHERS y SOX . DECLARES GENERAL- HAD ENGLAND PREPARING FOR HOS TILITIES IS IMPRESSION. "AFFINITY" FOR YEARS. MIT THEY'RE FRIENDS. POISON CASE BARES HUSBAND'S 'AFFAIR' U S A PUH MAT REFERENDUM LIGHT COMPANY'S RETORT NEW Public May Vote On Competing Grant. PETITIONS ARE CIRCULATED Joker Seen in Call for Special Council Meeting. THREE COUNCILMEN BITTER Maguire, Daly and Clyde. Outspoken In Favor of "Straphangers' Ordi' nance" and Will Be Sup ported by the Mayor. Two moves calculated to give the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company relief from the effects of ad verse city legislation of the past few weeks were Initiated yesterday. A referendum petition was started . to place the Northwestern Electric fran chise before the voters at the city elec tion next June for confirmation or re jection, and a special meeting of the City Council was ' called for Tuesday to pass an ordinance rescinding the so called "straphangers' " ordinance. In the absence of B. S. Josselyn, pres ident of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, who is at Pendle ton, no official statement could be se cured last night regarding the cir culating of the referendum petitions, but one official acknowledged that the petitions were being circulated "with the consent of the company." Gener ally accepted report is that the com pany is causing circulation of the pe titions. Between 20 and 30 men bearing copies of the referendum petition were sent throughout the business district yesterday morning with the intention of securing 5000 signatures, halting the granting of the light and power franchise to the Northwestern Electric Company and placing the question be fore the voters of the city at the reg ular June election. Macnlre en Defensive. At the same time a petition calling for a special meeting of the City Coun cil, signed By 10 of the 13 members now in the city, appeared in City Au ditor Barbur's office. Investigation showed that the meeting for 10 o'clock Tuesday morning Is ostensibly for the passage of an ordinance for the pur chase jointly by city and countv of 100 voting booths, but it Is said, in reality, it is for the purpose of re scinding Councilman Magulre's injunction-stayed ordinance proving a 3-cent streetcar fare for the "straphanger." But while the Portland Railway, Llcht & Power Company seeks relief tlirough a referendum vote on the fran chise granted to a rival organization. Councilman Maguire, the father of the "straphangers' " ordinance, declares that he will prevent the nullification of his law by also, appealing to the voters through the referendum. Counter Move Is Planned. Before the rescinding ordinance can .become a law, the passage of the leg islative act r-.n be stayed for two weeks by the objections of one Coun cilman. Within 30 days of the final passage of the ordinance an appeal can be made from the councllmanic de cision by invoking the referendum and giving th9 voters a chance to express themselves. Councilman Magulre de clares that if the Council attempts to pass a rescinding ordinance he will ef fectually block the move. "They can't make a rescinding ordi nance stick In 1000 years," he asserts. But, regardless of the reported will ingness of the ' Councllmen to revoke the "straphanger" ordinance. Mayor Rushlight is considered an. Important factor in the situation. It would be practically impossible to pass a re scinding ordinance over his veto, and lie intimates that to veto the measure is exactly what he will do if the Coun cil attempts to reverse iself. The Mayor expressed the opinion of Councllmen Daly, Maguire, Clyde and Joy. in addition to his own, when he said yesterday afternoon: "We have a chance to decide now, once and for all. Just how far the city may go in at tempting to regulate its public service corporations. I signed the former or dinance, calling for a 3-cent fare, for those unable to secure seats, and do not think that I would change my at titude at this time." Of the Councilmen approached re garding the object of the special meet-. Ing. only three spoke outright in cham pionship of the Maguire ordinance. These three, Maguire, Daly and Clyde, are the only three whose signatures do not appear on the petition for the special meeting. Magulre Barkers Outspoken. Mr. Clyde goes so far as to declare that all Councilmen who vote to re scind the ordinance should be made the subject of a recall vote. Mr. Ma guire says that Councilmen voting against his measure cannot style them selves representatives of the people, while Mr. Daly predicts a hot time at the meeting and promises to force the opponents of the Maguire measure well Into the open. "It is evident to me that unless we regulate the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, it will continue to regulate the City Council," was Clyde's Easiness Career Looms for Vincent, Who Will Go to His Work Regularly In Future. vttw YORK. Sent. 27. (Special.) i'For years I shall lead the life of a business man," said Vincent asioi-, when he arrived from Europe aboard the Mauretanla today. ""I shall occu py my new home in Fifth avenue oppo site the Metropolitan Museum and go to my( work regularly. My business win be. of course, real estate manage ment. That is about all I can say about my future." it was ld aboard the vessel that he had been attentive to Miss Laura n-.hh nn the vovaare. Both smilingly admitted that they were. good friends. Miss Webb was with her latner ana m'nih.r Mr. jind Mrs. F. Egerton Webb. Mr. Webb is a brother of Dr. W. Seward Webb. i.ini- rienieri the recent story that he will Join the English Life Guards for a term of military service. tie said ho had no Idea of doing such a thing. He also said that his duties in New York would prevent his finishing his Harvard course. Mrs. Ava Willing Astor. his mother, will come to this country soon, he said. 'MOONSHINE' PLANT FOUND Revenue Officer Destroys Still Dis covered in Woods Xear Albany. ALBANY, Or., Sept. 27. (Special.) A .till, which was discovered 'within h.if mile of Albany a few days ago by Officer Catlln, of this city, was de stroyed by Herman Shellenoerger, a United States revenue officer from Portland, today. The still was in heavy timDer acrooa th. Willamette River from this city and about 600 yards north of the Cor- vallis & Eastern Railroad Drioge. u was out In the open when discovered, but indications are that there had been a tent over it. The still was deserted when found, but from all appearances considerable moonshine whisky had been manufactured there ana ii uma been used not long ago. h.v no clew to the owner. Catlin encountered It while searching through the timber for hobo camps in an effort to find a criminal wanted in another city. ROUND-UP RIDERS MARRY Auto Violates Speed Laws to Make Couple Happy at Walla Walla. iv-AT.T.i WALLA. Wash.. Sept. 27. e ui vinintlnar speed laws, an automobile from Pendleton at noon to day brought two Round-Lp riders 10 be married by Rev. C. O. Kimball. Hardly had the words been said when they jumped into the machine again j rinwn the street, headed for Pendleton, 50 miles away, where both were scheduled to ride this aiternoon. Th. nonnle were Roy De Hart and Miss Lillian Deshon, of Benge, Adams Coun ty. Washington. The marriage license oath in Oregon has residence clause, so they came here. The hride a native of Cuba, wore a striking Western gown, with cuffs of Indian bead work and a necklace r-Atn The hridesrroom wore chaps, bandana handkerchief, som brero, etc.. of the cowboy. BOY SHOOTS HIS BROTHER Imnaha Park Lad, While Hunting;. Is Victim of Accident. ENTERPRISE, Or., Sept. 27. (Spe cial.) Chester Kstes, the 11-ycar-oid son of James Estes, or Imnalia rum, probablv was fatally shot by a younger brother" while the boys were out hunt ing last Sunday. Chester and his father were brought to Joseph In an auto mobile by Dr. J. H. Tnompson. une lad seemed to be improving at first and on Tuesday gave every promise, but that night a turn for the worse came and on Wednesday his condition was reported very grave. The boys went out isunoay morning to shoot a cnicKen. i ney mu 1 caliber rifle, which was carried by the younger of the two. They became separated In tne Drusn ana wueu iur .mniior hov caught sight of a chicken and raised his rifle to shoot, he did not notice that his brother, Chester, was in range. TREE MISSES PRINCESS Canadian Pacific Secretary &iep Backward Just In Time. NANAIMO, B. C. Sept. 27. During the reception to the Governor-General, the Duke of Connaught, here today, an evergreen tree, which formed part of the decorations in front of the Court house, tpppled over. It would have fallen on Princess Patricia had not O. W. R. Baker, secretary cf the Canadian Pacific Railway, who is a memoer oi the royal party, happened to step back ward, with the result that the tree fell on him instead. He was not seriously hurt. J. P. MORGAN COMING WEST Wife and Daughter to Accompany a. Financier on Journey. SANTA BARBARA. Cal., Sept. 27. (Special.) The J. Pierpont Morgans in unonH the coming winter in iion- teclto, Santa Barbara's fashionable sub urb. A prettv home has been reserved for them and" they are expected to arrive shortly after Thanksgiving day. Mrs. Morgan and Miss Anne Morgan will accompany Mr. Morgan, who always seeks a temperate climate during the Saratoga Convention Makes Nomination WADS WORTH IS RUNNING MATE Six Candidates Placed in Nom ination at Outset. SCHURMAN NOT MENTIONED Candidate for Governor, Distin guished as Witty Orator, Has Seen Service Under Roosevelt and Refused Proffered Place. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. The Republi can state convention today on the third ballot nominated Job E. Hedges for Governor of New York. Mr. Hedges has been distinguished In the past for the unfailing good humor of his ora tory in many campaigns, for his pun gent witticisms, for his service under Governor Roosevelt as a Deputy Attorney-General, and for his declination to accept the lucrative and honorable Federal position of Assistant United States Treasurer at New York when it was tendered to him by Roosevelt when President In 1908. Wadsworth for Lieutenant-Governor. The convention named James W. Wadsworth, Jr., for Lieutenant-Governor without opposition. There were six candidates for Gov ernor before the convention at the out set, but as the balloting proceeded oth ers drew votes. James Gould Schur man, president of Cornell University, was not among those named. In quick succession, speeches were made pre senting the merits of ex-Speaker of the Assembly James W. Wadsworth, Jr., Hedges and ex-Representative William S. Bennett, of New York; William H. Daniels, of Buffalo; P. W. Culllnan. of Oswego, ex-State Excise Commission er, and Edgar T. Brackett, of Saratoga, ex-State Senator. Scattered votes were cast for State Senator Harvey S. Hlnman, of Blng hampton, and Egbert Woodbury, of Jamestown. Candidate la BO Tears Old. Mr. Hedges is 60 years old, and a lawyer, first a graduate of Princeton and then of the law school of Colum bia University. He was appointed pri vate secretary to Mayor Strong, of New York. In 1895. resigning in 1897 to become a New York city magistrate. As Deputy Attorney-General of New York when Roosevelt was Governor he took out of the hands of District Attorney Gardiner the prosecution of many men charged with election frauds. This action caused a wide-spread sen sation, as Mr. Hedges was a Republi can while Mr. Gardiner was prominent (Concluded on Page 2.) J&szA : ) ALL THE ) )TAXES, tHOW j - L ., ' ' One Happy Vision or Old Man's Life, "Without Blemish or Fault," Described In Missive. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. (Special.) Stanton Sickles today made public an other love letter from his father, Major-General Daniel E. Sickles, to the mysterious "woman prominent in so ciety," with whom he is alleged to have had an affair from 1878 to 1897. Stanton Sickles declares the woman was his father's "affnlty" for many of the 27 years during .which General Sickles and his wife have been sep arated. The letter is alleged by trie son to have been written by his father to the woman in question while Mrs. Sickles was in Madrid in 1897. Young Sickles' reason for making public these rather Intimate documents of his father is that the General has given as his rea son for refusing to live with Mrs. Sickles the nresence of a son in Spain. Mrs. Sickles and Stanton declare that the boy. Miguel, was the posthumous son of a friend, and they deny the charges of the old soldier. Young Sickles declares that the at tachment between his father and this woman continued 18 years and that it had been broken in 1896. The letter given out today reads In part: "I love you, as I have always loved you, and, believe me, you will find that love such as mine Is not to be thrown aside with disdain or indifference. "I am holding off death with one hand, while I am writing my memoirs with the other. ' In the chapter in which I shall describe you I want you to appear as I have found you, tne one happy vision of my life, without blem ish or fault. If this be an illusion, let me keep It to the end. Be your self, dear, as you have always Deen to me; be my friend; I ask no more. Fondly, DAN." UNITED STATES BLAMED Australians Protest at Sending of " Criminals to Country. SYDNEY, N. S. W., Sept. 27. Follow ing the recent condemnation from the bench of the United States of the prac tice of sending criminals to Australia, the residents of this city are blaming the United States Government for what the newspapers are calling "Sydney's crime wave." Robberies are numerous and the cit izens are alarmed. It Is thought not improbable that a strong representa tion will be made to the United States Government to stop the practice of granting parole to convicted prisoners on condition that they migrate to the commonwealth. ' SWINDLE IS INVESTIGATED Victims Are Asked to Pay to Prove Heirship to Church Lands. DENVER. Sept 27. Special United States District Attorney Drake, of New York, is in Denver investigating the operations of New York swindlers said to have fleeced Colorado residents out of thousands of dollars. The swindlers sent letters in which the recipients were informed that they are heirs to valuable land held by the Trinity Church Corporation In New York City. The victims were solicited to send money to prove their heirship. GET BUSY, YOU LANDOWNER. Chorus Girl and E. C. Dickes in Jail. HEAVY BONDS ARE IMFOSEO Wronged Wife Would Save Mate From Behind Bars. PLEA FOR SPOUSE MADE On Stand Passion of Defendant Act ress Changes to Hatred, While Injured Woman Asks Len iency lor Untrue One. While Margaret St Clair, chorus girl at Fritz' Theater, accused of attempt ing to murder Mrs. E. C. Dickes by putting arsenic in her medicine, was held by Justice Olson yesterday to answer to the grand Jury under bond of S6000, Dickes, the injured wo man's young husband, piano player at the same theater and confessed asso ciate of the woman, was required to give, sureties in the sum of 810,000 for his appearance. In default of them both were consigned to the County Jail. The order of the court followed a bitter castlgatlon of both man and woman, and of the official negligence which, the court said, made such things possible. "I wonder," said Justice Olson, "whether Mayor Rushlight and our pi ous Chief of Police, who goes around"! preaching in churches, know what sort of things go on down around Second and Burnslde streets, and in such places as Fritz'. I can't picture a more disgusting scene than this young hus band on the witness stand, testifying boldly of his relations with this wo man, while his pretty and decent wife is" present. I don't believe his story. but the law should give this Injured woman protection, and I therefore send the whole mess to $he grand Jury. ... -pjje' peij. fox Husband. "Your bail, young man," continued the court, "will be $10,000. The Cir cuit Court can turn you loose - if It wants to, but I won't." Mrs. Dickes made an effort to go on the witness stand, but her" testi mony was refused. "I am a mother: my God, man, pro tect me," she cried. Later on, when she learned that her husband must go to Jail, she went to his side. "Good-bye. hubby," she said. "I lived with you six years and I thought you were a good boy, but you broke the bond that held us for a low street walker." . "I will give him a divorce if only (Concluded on Page 7.) White Star Officials Say Putting Battleship Stern on Olympic Is to Protect Propellers. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. (Special.) The liner Olympic, which leaves here tomorrow for Southampton, will not appear In New York harbor again until 191S is well under way. The big liner has been ordered to the shipyards at Belfast, where she will be laid up for six months and reconstructed, accord lng to the new rules of the British Board of Admiralty. The battleship stern is to be built upon the liner and a new Inner hull constructed for her. Militant persons who heard this news today refused to accept the explanation offered by White Star line officials to the effect that the battleship stern has been or dered to protect three 25-ton propel lers from the terrific backward suc tion produced by their speedy revolu tions. Militant ones declared that the re construction merely is the first step In a complete conversion of England's merchant marine for war purposes. Many passengers returning . from abroad recently have declared that war talk is common in England and that plans are being matured quietly there for the equipment of many of the big gest and fastest merchant vessels for naval auxiliary service. BOARDER OF OLD PROTESTS Bricks 4000 Years of Age Bear Complaint of Food. CHICAGO, Sept 27. (Special.) That there is nothing new under the suu wa shown today when Professor F. G. Eislln translated the writings from some bricks taken from Babylon. The inscriptions dealt with current events 4000 years ago. Among other things, there is a love letter from a youth to his best girl. and It does not vary much from the present-day missive. Another inscription deals with the causes of toothache and prescribes a cure. The Babylonians attributed the toothache to a worm. Dried bones and scented wood were considered good remedies. Another letter is from a youth to his father, protesting against the qual ity and quantity of food at his board ing-house and imploring his parent to send him some fresh fish and other provender, for which service he in closed a third of a shekel. ' In those days letters were written on a soft lump oi clay, wnicn was then baked and transmitted to the re cipient One of the proverbs on the cuneiform announces: "A drunken man hath the strength of a worm." WATTERS0N IS BETTER Editor's Condition for Time Regard ed as Serious. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. (Specials- Colonel Henry G. Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, has been seriously ill In New York for the past week. His recovery . Is now fully assured, it is thought Ty his physician and his friends, and it is expected he will be able to return to Louisville Monday. Colonel Watterson came to New York last week with Mrs. Wat terson. . His coming was unheralded a.nd few of his friends of the Demo cratic party knew that he was here. A physician found, Saturday, that the Colonel had inflammation of the blad der, which was a grave matter for a man of the Colonel's age, and for a few days his condition was regarded as serious. SCULPTOR WEDS SINGER T. Waldo Storey, Quietly Divorced. Now Husband of Bessie Abbott. NEW YORK, Sept. 57. (Special.) T. Waldo Storey, the sculptor, admitted tonight that he had married Miss Bes sie Abbott, the prima donna of "Robin Hood." He refused to say where the marriage took place or who officiated. "I'm not a public character," he said, and aside from this would say noth ing. Friends of Mr. Storey were sur prised when they read of the marriage, for no one seemed to have heard of the divorce of Mr. Storey and his for mer wife, Mrs. Broadwood Storey. Mr. Storey, however, told the(reporter that he was divorced. SEATTLE BONDS ARE VALID $8,100,000 Issue for Port Improve ment O. K.'d by Court. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept 27. The State Supreme Court today declared constitutional the Legislative act pro viding for the creation of the Seattle Port Commission, thus validating J8,- 100,000 bonds voted last , Spring for harbor improvements. Plans and specifications have al ready been prepared for work costing 13,100,000 and bonds for this amount will be offered for sale at once. CRAWLING AIDS DIGESTION Specialist Says Stooping Position Eliminates "Gastric Pocket." PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 27. Crawl ing on all-fours after meals, the latest treatment of digestive ailments, is recommended in a monograph by a French specialist He explains that the stooping posi tion . eliminates the "gastric pocket" and thus prevents the stagnation of food at this point. McNicholas Pair Flee, Think Authorities. . SOUTH AMERICA MAY BE GOAL Promoters Who Face Charges "Tipped," Is Belief. THREE SUBPENAS SERVED Trio From Portland Go Back to Tcs tify James Given Credit for Brains" In Alleged J. Rufus Walllngford Operations. James and R. F. McNicholas, of this city, wanted by the Federal authori ties at Cleveland, O., for alleged fraud ulent use of the malls in promoting worthless mining properties in Ore gon and Idaho, are believed by the au thorities to be well on their way to South America or other distant port. James- McNicholas, who was the moving spirit In the operations of the two brothers, was last seen' In Port land ten days ago. R. F., the brother, left several days earlier. It Is sus pected that the brothers received an intimation that their operations In Ohio were being inquired into by the Federal authorities and lost no time In leaving Portland. Statements Are Conflicting. Conflicting statements have been made by Frank McNicholas, brother of the men whose arrest is desired, and Mrs. James McNicholas, both ot this city, aa to the whereabouts of James. The brother informed the authorities that James was in Montreal, Canada, while the wife declared he had gone to Central America to look after some "mining operations" for a group of London capitalists. These contradic tory statements led the Government officials to suspect that James may yet be in Portland or vicinity and Is In hiding, but the theory that he actually la making for South -America, finds the most credence. In the meantime, E. C. Clement, pout office Inspector, who returned from Cleveland Thursday with warrants for the arrest of the McNicholas brothers, assisted by United States Marshal Scott and deputies, is making a thor ough search for the missing men. United States District Attorney Mc Court yesterday issued subpenas for a number of Oregon and Idaho people who were either associated as employes with the two brothers in their opera tions or knew of the properties being promoted end their actual value. Among those served with subpenas yesterday were: L. B. Millers, of Glen- dale, a distant relative of the McNich olas brothers and secretary of ono of the companies they organized and pro moted; R. E. Butler, at one time em ployed as superintendent by the broth ers, but now a member of tho Portland ' police force, and John Nestor, who waa at one time employed by the two "op erators." These witnesses and Postal Inspector Clement will leave tomorrw or Monday to appear before the Fed eral grand Jury, which will be con vened at Cleveland Tuesday, October 4, to make an investigation into the op erations of the McNicholas brothers. Walllngford Role Played. From the investigation that haa been made and on which the arrests are sought," said Mr. Clement last night. "the two brothers operated cleverly. James furnished the brains of the com bination and by putting up a good. front and generally assuming the Rufus "Walllngford role, succeeded la fleecing numberless residents of Cleve land and vicinity. The net results ot their operations in that city probably never will be known, because of the reticence on the part of somo of the purchasers of stock to admit that they were victimized. But we have in our possession what appears to be a list of stockholders. It consists of nearly 600 names and shows the Bale of ap proximately 5,000,000 shares of stock. James laid a gooa lounoauon m Cleveland for future operations by pro moting a legitimate placer mine prop erty in that, city about 1902 or 1903. At that time he established offices in Cleveland and disposed of stock In the Oregon property, which paid handsome dividends for three or four years, the stockholders realizing as much as 250 ner cent on their investment. Having thus gained the absolute confidence ot the people of that city. It was not ditn- cult for him, on his most recent ven ture, to dispose of stock in the worth less property in large installments. Government Is Handicapped. The two brothers opened offices In Cleveland the last time in the Spring of 1908 and did a thriving business for several months. Month after month passed, but no dividends were forth coming. James managed to 'stand off' the Insistent stockholders until early n 1910. when the offices were closed. The mails were used extensively for distributing a prospectus and other lit erature, which represented the mines to be of fabulous wealth. In working up this case, the Govern ment has been seriouHly handicapped. The attention of the Federal authori ties was not called to the operations of the McNicholas brothers until a few months ago, nearly two years after they had abandoned Cleveland. If the promoters had managed to escape this (.Concluded on Page Winter months. i L '-eluded on Pare 5-