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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1912)
THE MORNING OKEGOSIAK. FRIDAY DECEMBER 13, 1313?. MANY IGH 'till their lungs were fit to burst. But they won the six-day Marathon PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY MATRON WHO RECEIVES GUESTS J IN BARROOM OF HOTEL. they reached the city first. A tale that points a moral. Most any one can see c"fjercHandiso of cJ Merit On(y" OPENS IN BARROOh ; i OFFICER'S VERSES That it's time to disregard the ways of Jackson. Grant and Lee; For the sacred Scripture tells us. "Ye shall know them by their works So we lift out hats to Von der Goltz, the man who trained the Turks. And now while Europe trembles on the Stotesburys, of Philadelphia United States Army Man Is Told by Wood to Refrain From Criticism. verge of deadly fray. The dove of peace is cooing in the good Achieve Novelty in Second of Big Receptions. old U. S. A. For. you bet, the foreign powers will leave Uncle Sam alone While our highbrows down at Leaven worth are studying Von Rohne! ORES i BACHELORS ON EXHIBITION ElgtbJes Kept Conspicuously Separ ate at Table by Themselves Gold Monognmmed Cigar ettes In Evidence. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 12. (Special. Regal splendor characterized the second of the Stotesbury functions here tonight, and while the hostess provided her guests with cigarettes with her monogram In gold upon them, the eligible bachelors who had been invited to the affair were not seated with the maids and matrons or society, as is usually the custom, but were Isolated at table number seven, so that all might see what a fine looking lot of men they were. Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury produced another sensation when they received their guests In the bar-room of the Ritz. Such a thing was never heard of before in this city. Beauti ful palms, ferns and green bays were so arranged as to maKe tne glass mir rors fade into oblivion, and old rose royal Wilton was spread over the bar room floor. But It was sun a oar room, and young men and women stood side by side while two orcnestras ais coursed music After the dinner all of guests were taken to the ballroom, where the floors hud never vet been used. Tde iiiiz Carlton Orchestra augmented the other two and the guests danced all the popular waltzes and trots of the srason. while Mrs. aiotesDury wno careful not to taboo. On dainty tables In the retiring rooms cigarettes were again in evidence for both men and women. 24-HOUR PROTEST IS BEGUN Anti-Capltal Punishment league Holds Continuous Meeting. SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 12. Crowds jammed a downtown street Intersection here until a late hour tonight at the 24-hour meeting of the California Anti Canital Punishment League. The speakers began their addresses at 6 o'clock at night and will continue un til 6 o'clock tomorrow night. About 60 persons, men and women, were on the programme. The meeting was first planned as a protest against the hanging of Manuel Bombela. who was to have been hanged at San Quentln prison tomor row. When Governor Johnson re prieved Bombala yesterday, represen tatives of the league said the meeting would be held according to the plans, the protest being directed specifically against the hanging of the four men who will be executed at saiem, ur to-morrow. Members of the San Francisco Rad ical Club, the local Socialist political organizations and many writers and clergymen are included in the list of speakers. William McDevitt, formerly Socialist candidate for Mayor of San Francisco, delivered the opening ad dress. The addresses are being delivered in half-hour relays. COREANS TELL OF TORTURE Barbarous Cruelties in Effort to Ob tain Confessions Charged. SEOUL. Corea. Dec 12. Harrowing details of their treatment by the police were told by the defendants examined to-lay at the resumption of the trial of thd 106 Coreans charged with conspir ing against Count Terauchi, Japanese Governor-General of Corea. The prisoners have now outlined al most every torture conceivable and many of which are unspeakable. One prisoner said he had been hanged by his hair, which pulled off his scalp. The prisoners assert that the police endeavored especially to secure the in crimination of foreigners. One man who was educated In America and who returned to Corea In 1908, dwelt on this feature. Many of the prisoners have named witnesses to prove an alibi. Up to the present nearly all of them have in cluded the names of Dr. Samuel A. Moffett, president of the Theological Seminary at Pyen Tang Si; Rev. George S. McCune, head of the Presbyterian Mission School at Syen Chun; Dr. A. M Uliarrocks. head of the hospital at Syen Chun and Dr. J. Hunter Wells, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who, they said, could prove their Innocence. TOWNSITE FIRM IS SUED Burlington Promoters Misrepresent ed' It Is Alleged. In a complaint filed in the Justice Court yesterday W. E. T. Matches charges the Ruth Trust Company with mlsreDresentlng facts In connection with the promotion of Burlington, a harbor site on Willamette Slough. about 13 miles from the city. Matches was one of the early purchasers of sites at Burlington. It is alleged in the complaint that the defendant company, in publishing advertising literature about three years ago. issued a prospectus containing pic tures and descriptive matter of Bur lington, conveying the impression that Willamette Slough was navigable for large ocean-going vessels- li the literature originally issued by the company appear the names of the following as directors of the company: H. Wittenberg, W. B. Glafke, A. E. Em mons. H. MeGuIre. T. L. Greenough. M. Thompson. C. J. Wellman. W. D. Hofius and O. W. Taylor. It is understood that the Ruth Trust Company Is now under new ownership. STUDY OFJLANDS URGED Effort Made to Check Arbitrary Re jection of Homestead Entries. OREGO.VIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Dec 12. Representative Haw ley today urged the House agriculture committee to insert In the agricultural appropriation bill an item of $20,000 to enable the bureau of soils of the De partment of Agriculture to make a study of lands believed suitable or de sired for homestead entry in forest re serves, in order to determine positively whether the land Is better adapted to agriculture than other use. This work will check the practice of the Forest Service of arbitrarily reject ing proposed entries by asserting that suitable for farming purposes. i I y 9 V MRS. EDWARD T. STOLESBl'RV, CANADA ASKS IC E Laurier Upholds Liberals' Of fer of Battleship. CUBA USED AS WARNING Party Loader Says United States Has Exncted High Price for Assist ance Australian Theory Is Approved. OTTAWA. Out. Dec. 12. The posi tion of the Liberal, party on the propo sition laid down last week by Premier Borden that Canada should vote J35,- 000,000 for the cost of three super- dreadnoughts to be added to tne Brit ish navy, subject to recall by Canada, was upheld today by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, lt leader. No emergency was facing Great Brit ain, he said, but changed conditions ka AAmnAiiii hAr t n alter her stra tegic'" line, hitherto essentially one of security. His remedy for the situation was that wherever Great Britain wis , 1 1 J n ramnVA TCritlsh fthlns f TO 111 the colonial waters to allow concen tration in Europe, the ships snoura oe replaced by ships DUlU, mainiaiueu equipped and manned by the colony It was the Australian policy that Au stralia should take charge of home de fense and it should also be the Ca- Discussing the effect of the Monroe doctrine. Sir Wilfrid said some one had remarked that Canada couia reiy t , v, 4 AnntiAPtinn he held ud the position of Cuba as a warning, saying the United states naa m i nv .Aaviiv fnr Assistance bv un dermining their Independence. "This example, acraea oir miiwu, 'shows that we have to take our share in the -defense, not only of our native shores, but in the defense of the em pire as a whole, and we can do so only by the assistance of the mother coun try." LEET IS AT VERA CRUZ AMERICAN WARSHIPS BOOM OUT SALUTES AT MEXICAN' PORTS. Mrs. Lang, Mr. Lang was boarding an Oregon City car for Portland, that he was neither a friend nor enemy of her husband, but that he Intended to mur der him before the first of the year. Mrs. .Lang answered him by slamming the door In his face. Officials were Informed but search for the man, supposed to be demented, was unavailing. H. C. PIERCEMUST APPEAR Order Remitting Written Testimony Is Overturned. NEW YORK, Dec. 12. Henry Clay Pierce, head of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, of St. Louis, against whom Mrs. Alice G. Rycroft, of this city, re cently obtained a judgment of S171.000 t6 cover securities which she alleged Pierce had appropriated to his own use, was ordered by Justice Page, of the Supreme Court, today to appear in court In person for the retrial of the Suit. In the first trial Mrs. Rycroft won by default when Mr. Pierce failed to appear In defense of the suit. In seek ing a reopening of the case counsel for Pierce obtained an order permitting Pierce to be examined before the case came to trial, the testimony to be of fered in written form. Mrs. Rycroft's attorney characterized such proceedings as "cowardly in the extreme" and secured from . Justice Page an order that Pierce appear in court, not only for direct testimony", but for cross-examination. Squadron Remains Outside Harbor While Gale Blows and Depth of Water Is Ascertained. -. -T- n idit7 rv t-r Tifr 12. The VZjIUI a . v. .j, , booming of the big guns of the Amer ican warships announced today the ar- , v.a f m i rf thn huttleshiUS nviu uu tc, -- Minnesota, Kansas, Michigan and South Carolina, under commanu ui i ., mlral Fletcher. a strung 'ui li .i with fwnncinTiAl showers. was muniuft, v.. . The salutes of the American squad ron were answered oy tne mmm" gunboats Zaragaza Bravo and Vera rnii. lvine In the harbor, and the shore batteries. Whether the oatticsnips are to en - . i uHn will mat at IhA discre tion of Admiral Fletcher after he has hH o n(i.ri.n with William W. Can ada, the American Consul, over the oeptn OI water iwi ciiiHiiuic,. The American oatiienip ruuc n the mouth of the harbor, apparently i i nn an ai.lBm.nt ftf Ihft wind. which had Increased to a gale by noon, .,,njn- an nffirlnl launch to IftUI ouv.u9 ... convey the American Consul on board. he waterxront was mrunsea wilii irlous townspeople. II D , . .. . " c been made for official recognition of the visit of courtesy, further than the iibiiaI xnhanee of calls between the naval commanders and between the mmanders of tne American vessels id General- Valde. military com mander of Vera Cru. The Mayor and other oniciais or vera z are expected to pay visits 10 tne fleet commander. DEATH THREAT IS MADE Evergreen Women Accosted by Man Supposed to Be Demented. OREGON CITY. Or., Dee. 12. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Henry Lang and her daugh ter. Mrs. R. Kelly, of Evergreen station. on the Oregon City line, today filed complaint with the District Attorney ere against an unknown man, who threatened Mr. Lang with death before the first of the year. The complaint says that on ednes- day morning the man knocked at the back door of the Lang home and told RABIES MOVESNORTHWARD Four Hundred- Receive Pasteur Treatment in California. SACRAMENTO. Dec. 12. That the California rabies epidemic Is steadily moving northward Is Indicated In a report made today to Dr. W. F. Snow, secretary of the State Board of Health, by W. A. Sawyer, director of the state hygiene laboratory. Dr. Sawyer's report shows that the heads of 390 dogs, cats and other ani mals have been examined at the hy giene laboratory since the epidemic be gan and that of this number 290 showed positive testp. . ! Four hundred persons bitten by rab id animals have received the Pasteur treatment since the epidemic began. BALKAN WAR IS THEME WAR ON BUGS CONTINUED Nurserymen Discuss Importation of Pests From Foreign Countries. KANSAS CITY. Dec. 12. War on alien bugs which immigrate to this country In the folds of imported nursery stock was continued at the final session today of the Western As sociation of Nurserymen. D. J. Tighe, Development in the Northwest." G. H. Webber, of Nursery. Mo., --as elected president of the association, of Billings. Mont., spoke on "Nursery Captain Steanenberg's Verses Re flecting; on Work or Soldiers ' Trained Under German Sys tem Not Officially Noticed. WASHINGTON, Dec 12. The Ger man Embassy wants it known that it has taken no notice in any way of any ,,n lv nxhllfihArl TflniPS Attributed tO United States Army officers reflecting on the Germany military system. xt., tn.r.pnornl Wnnfl chief of staff of the Army, sent a private note to one of the authors, Captain Steunenberg, at Leavenworth, Kas., advising him to refrain from criticism of another pow- to' have it known that this action was taken without any representation on Its part. Former Veraes Cause Talk. p.nf.in a AtmAnhpror was trans ferred several ' months ago from Fort McPherson to the Northwest following Y,a nuklUatlAn nf a ROt-lAV fit letters In which he attempteo to Dring riuiuun lanta, which he compared unfavorably with Pnte Triahn soutnerners leit tne slight at the time and there was an et-tnr-t annAKiniiv In Atlanta where Steun- K r. .ntPdfl tn thA lAAdinGT ClUbS, rt havA thA nfflner renroved by the War Department. Nothing came of the affair, however, uaptain Bieuneiiuers throughout the controversy, stood his ffvinn nni riAnifirpri he had told only the truth about the Southern cities. Array and Navy officers say tnat tne ...ontlv nnhl Uhpfl bv CaDtaln , t 1 f - Steunenberg about the German Army are a close parallel to tne -nocn uer Kaiser" sensation of Admiral Coughlan, which ended without anything serious happening to tne navy omcer. Cood-Natured Fun All RlBht. r n tt,A TnATnhArM of the sreneral A vwr xr .talf ,Q 111 ItlHI 1 M I (' Mil U1I n-rutdn law that Armv and Navy of fleers, and in fact, all officers of one government, shall not appear puDiiciy in the attitude of criticising another power or Its people or officers. "Sometimes, however," saia tne 01- ficer, "when It Is patently a case ol only good-natured fun, no narsn meas The title of the Steunenberg verses Is "Our Object Lesson." The verses are based on the following excerpt from the Literary Digest: The fighting In Macedonia is a sore subject with Germany. The Tarkish army was trained and Its omcers edu cated under the German military sys tem." Oh, hark ye, Yankee soldiers! From far across the sea Comes the news that Turkey's fighting men were trained by Germanee! That she faced the Bull-Conalles single-handed and alone With a simple faith in Allah and our Deified Von Rohne. And they say that on the morning that the miehtv Battle DroKe, That German tutored army vanished in a whirl of smoke: That their swords were all unsullied and their guns were all forgot. As they sought the dim horizon in a hasty turkey trot. A Montenegrin Major gave the flying foe a glance. Then rolled a cigarette and scratched a match upon his pants And spake unto his gunners, "Let 'em have a few more Jolts , That is. If your shells can catch 'em they've been trained by Von der GoltJi!" , A Colonel of Bulgarians then tossed aside his coat And yelled, "Come on, my hearties! Looks as 1 we had their goat. Just follow Uncle Fuller to yon battle's merry whirl While we show them how to do it they've been reading Griepenkerl!" Away from Constantinople the hosts of Allah sped. And the only ones that halted were the ones that stopped the lead. Quoth a Servian Lieutenant then, " 'Tls evident to me That yon army has been studying the books of Von Molt-kee." " Said a panting Turkish corporal from German teacher freed "We ain't much on formation, but we sure are h 1 for speed!" So they sprinted night and morning. And while the German eagle soars above the Balkan storm It strikes us as a fitting time to change the uniform: Let's get one of those shiny things they wear across the breast And add a gleaming helmet with an eagle on the crest. And down at sunny Leavenworth let Dutch professors rule: And build a model brewery an annex to the school A marble bust of Von der Goltz re splendent in the hall. And photographs of Kaiser BUI adorn ing evry wall. And he who seeks promotion must sub sist a solid year On pretzels, cheese and Wienerwurst, and good old German beer; And notify the Colonels sound the warning near and far! That they've got to sing "Die Wacht Am Rheln" before they get the star. Then here's luck to the Fatherland let's follow In her train . And all take up the goose step when we march to war again. Our motto "Made in Germany," trium phant over fear Our slogan "Hoch der Kaiser!" and the countersign "Swei beer!" . George Steunenberg, Seventeenth United States Infantry, Fort McPherson. GENERAL'S NOTE NOT RECEIVED Captain . Steunenberg Says Order From Wood Has Not Reached Him. SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 12. Captain George Steunenberg, Twenty-fifth In fantry, who has returned to Fort George Wright, near here, after a special detail at the school of musketry at Monterey, Cal said today he had not yet received a communication from Major-General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, recom mending that he refrain from criticis ing another nation In his verses. Captain Steunenberg is a brother of ex-Governor Steunenberg of Idaho. School Board in Controversy. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Dec. 12. (Special.) Superstitious people may see some connection between the num ber of a school district in Swan Lake Valley, 23, and its troubles. Some time ago he people voted bonds with which to build a new schoolhouse. They con tracted the work, but when it was fin ished the directors refused to receive if, alleging that It was not according to the specifications of the contract. Now a farmer near by has filed a Hen upon the building for board and lodg ing furnished the contractor and his men. In the meantime, the children go to school in the old building. There Is no street in London named after aW of Dickens' characters, but in Stepney, there Is a Copperfield place, and near are found a Dora street and an Agrnes street. An Appreciative Present for the Old Folks The Kryptolu are the only glasses that give absolute satisfaction for distance and reading; combined as one glass. They don't collect the dirt or allow the seam. And posi tively do not come apart. If you combine our Comfort mounting, and Kryptok lena for your present you have given them the most useful present that could be given. All my work carries a guarantee and grinding is done under my own supervision. Ask to see my shop. J. D. 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You Must Visit This Store For an inspection alone is necessary to impress upon you how radically uncommon is this mens wear section . how refreshingly novel and new exclusive and distinc tive are its goods. Of course for those men who fancy American fashions best they will find the choicest productions of the best American makers. As an example we are showing Christmas neckwear made from silks the designs of which were taken from the British Museum and represent Celtic ornaments of the Eleventh Century. Other cravatlings designed from Italian Moorish art of the Fourteenth Century. For your holiday shirts we present "the MANHA T TAN," better than which no shirt is made. That is why we have no other makes to offer. The Manhattan shirt is found here at every price and in every style. Found here in greatest assortment. 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