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irr. tt. Z7. l'oitTuvn oherox. moxdat. December 23, 1912. price five cents. f II-. ll 1- w iu,ov. 1 i ' !rl WILSON REVISITS MILEAGE PAID, FOR ATTENDING SCHOOL KLICKITAT DISTRICT 2 GIVES MONEY TO. PARENTS. WASHINGTON 5EIS SANTA ANA OUTLAW STEAMER IS LOST WITH 22 OF CREW NATION 15 DEEPLY NOT JOE MATLOCK ex-mayor of ecgexe goes socth to' see body. DORMITORY ROOM CABINET FORECAST RULE OF 0B0Z00 SE GOVERNOR ACTS AS GUIDE AT PRLXCETOX AGAIN'. : 1 1 FAVOR CBEfflE WAR Censors Keep Corres pondents in Check. REAL NEWS IS TOLD BRIEFLY Balkan Allies Waste Few Words on Victories. WRITERS ONES BESIEGED 'Observers" of EvenM See Long Ox Trains, Carrying Munitions to Front, Hear Distant Can non and Iittl More. r.T FREDERICK PALMEK. . 6pe!! Correspondent of the New Tone a-i . Th Oreconlan. with tne T . 1 L- AlltM. MUSTAPHA PASHA. Nov. 19. We are within 20 miles of Adrlanople. Around Adrlanople Is a ring of Turkish runs and soldiers. Holding them in Is a ring of Bulgarian guns ana soiaiern. There is still another ring. This ex tends some three miles around the lit tle town of Mustapha Pasha. recenti taken from the Turks and now head quarters of the Second Bulgarian army. Here the correspondents are In a state of siege. We are not concerned with the west ern half of the circle. That Is in the direction of Sofia, of Paris, and of New York. Anyone who crosses the east ern half and is not in uniform and in good standing in the army is stopped by a solider. who Is particularly on the lookout, thanks to a general order, for men wearing the red armband of the press. The offender is turned over to an officer, who starts him back to Mustapaha and sends another soldier with him to make sure that he does not lose his way. People Wame Not Tell. Tou may feet the pulse of the army through Its transport. Watch the re turn of wounded soldiers, the going and coming of officers to the front, and Jrear the gossip of tha town. . If you ride out the three kilometers, more hills hide. Adrlanople and the gun posi tions from your sight. . If you knew Bulgarian you could read the notice as you enter the post off ice warning soldiers and Inhabitants against giv ing any information to correspondents. Cannonading becomes as commonplace as blasting to anybody who lives in the neighborhood of a stone quarry. At times you envy the driftwood on the Marltsa. It may go right past Adrlanople. What Is the use of staying? There is none, except that you have come DOO0 miles and you hate the thought of re turning until you have at least wit nessed a shell burst.. Then there Is the promise of the Major who Is chief of the censorship. He has given his word that If there Is a general attack, or if Adrlanople capitulates without a general attack, we shall have full op portunity for observation. Patience be come! more Important to a "war cor respondent" than a good horse. I remain because I think that the Major will keep his promise. Mean while military secrecy prevents It; and the Major certainly knows how to maintain military secrecy. He is up stairs In the former Turkish City Hall with his aides, who know the different languages and who read all the Euro pean newspapers. Here, also, the Gen eral of the Bulgarian army has his headquarters. In the yard a big ton neau car is la attendance to take him out to the front. --But if you had let ters from an the Premiers of Europe you might not accompany him that Is. If he were going very near Adrlanople. Other automobiles are at the service of the staff. Some way or other they are kept in order despite the roads, which seem about the only thing Turkish which remains terrible. Many Rumors Sent Out. Twice a Jay we go to the cenaorate. asking for any news In general, or. par ticularly, about the nature of the heavy tlrlsc we heart last night, for exam ple. Another sortie, you are told. If you get news from other sources and put It In a wire, you are Informed, per haps, that it is not true, but you may end it If you like. Indeed, you may send all kinds of wild rumors. A great many are sent. The offered telegram is read by one of the assistant censors, who under stands the language in which it Is written. Then he takes it up the rick ety old Turkish stairs and returns with what has not been eliminated stamped over with the censor's stamp. For a while, at least, it was not certain that this via the end of the blue penciling. All telegrams were forwarded on to the supreme censorship at Stara Zagora, where another hack might be taken at them. The correspondent who held a receipt for a certain number of words might not find that anything like that number appeared In his paper. In Ser vla thla was altogether the rule. At Belgrade you were not even shown the first lesions. Tou paid for your wire, and It was cenaored after it waa turned in. which must have led many a for eign editor to wonder If the sender had merely taken to the drink habit or had gone mad. When the Sen-Ian cen sor was asked If this were a commer cially honest proceeding, he answered: "It la the regulation. We ire at war.' It Is Winter In the Balkans and the Maritsa flows on under the old (Concluded on Fag. k Coming Week Will Be Spent Mostly at New Jersey Capitol, Con ferring With leaders. PRINCETON. X. J., Dec. 22. President-elect Wilson became "President Wilson of Princeton University" again v..,. fnr a few minutes. IVUd i UWfc J J - After a five-hour walk through Princeton, during which the Governor ...,. . ,m fnr half a dozen corre spondents, he turned Into Seventy-nine Hall, a dormitory donatea oy io .f ibto f n-hlch he was a memDcr Tl .- ..hi. nf thA fact that the Gov ernor of New Jersey is ex-officio president of the board or trustees oi Princeton University, I suppose it's still proper for me to go in here," said Mr. Wilson, as he led his retinue up a night of stairs. At the- entrance to .,. euito nf rooms in the dormitory which were especially fitted for the president of the University, ne pausea. t .tin hv th key." he remarked as he drew a bunch of keys from his Docket. ODened the door and turned on an electric light here and" there. It Tie ,h first time the former presi dent of the University had seen his old office in two years. Th. mminr week Governor Alison will be for the most part at the State house in Trenton, where he has con ferencea scheduled with Speaker Clark, Representative Underwood. Senator Hoke Smith and other Democratic leaders. SAILOR SCORNS LIBERTY Deserter Given Freedom Over His Objeetion Xow Being Sought. Unwillingly recipient of the greatest possible Christmas gift, , his freedom. Harry Rego, a sailor and deserter from the United States Navy, is at liberty today, while the Navy-yard authorities t Bremerton are clamoring after Act ing Chief of Police Slover for his rea sons for freeing the sailor. Fifty dol lars, the reward for deserters, was waiting the chief or the police and firemen's benefit fund, if the man was returned, but where he is now the police do not know. Rego walked into the Police Station the night of December 14 and gave himself up as a deserter to Patrolman Blair. He said that three years ago In Yokohama he deserted his vessel, the Galveston, and" that after dodging the agents of the Government during that time, part of it aboard the. transport Thomas.-he had become weary of the deception and wished to ''face the music." He was locked up. No information was received about him for several days and finally, wish ing that Bego might enjoy a free Christmas. Chief Slover ordered him released. This was done, in spito of lie go a protests that he wished to re main and that circulars were out from the Navy Department, asking for his return. The day after his release word came to the chief from iremarton that Rego was wanted, and that $50 would be - given to anyone who would deliver him at tne Navy-yard there. Now he is being sought. CITY RECORDS In PERIL Fire in Los Angeles Municipal Hall Burns Xear $6,500,0X10 in Paper LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22. (Special.) Six and a half million dollars in cur rency, bonds and- paper securities and an enormous mass of invaluable muni cipal records and documents were placed in jeopardy this afternoon when Are broke out on the top floor of the City Hall in a room occupied by the Fletcher Suspended Auto-Motor Rail waxCompany, a concern which is seek ing to secure a city franchise for its device. - It Is believed that wires used to feed tho model became crossed. The model, coding about $7000, was de stroyed, the room was gutted and con slderable damage was done to the quar ters of the playground commission and the city engineer, immediately below. The Immensely valuable contents of the building' made the fire one of great excitement to thousands of persons massed on Broadway and with difficulty heW in check by the police. Armed men were stationed In the cor ridors of the building and outside the city treasury and no one was allowed to approach the rooms where the city's cash Is kept. OSBORN TO TRAVEL AFOOT Michigan Governor Gives His Anto mobiles and Horses Away. LANSING. Mich., Dec. 21. Governor Osborn announced today that so desir ous is he of getting "back to nature" he has given his two automobiles and his horses to friends and will hereafter ratcreation as a pedestrian. He expects to start soon on his seventh globergtrdllng trip, after he r.iir. from 'office, and during the course of his travels, he said, he hopes to spend many hours wanting in ior eign lands. HOOKWORM IS WIDESPREAD Every Pupil Afflicted In Some of Breathitt County Schools. LEXINGTON, Ky.. Dec 22. The first report of the commission appointed un der the terms of the Rockefeller fund to devise means for the eradication of the hookworm in tht. mountain dis tricts of Kentucky was made here to day. The report Is for Breathitt Conuty and shows that out of 1785 persons ex amined. 1265 were affected. In some of the Breathitt County schools every pupil was found a sufferer Committee Report Is Against Madero. STATE OF ANARCHY FOUND Country Upset , by Armies That Seldom Fight. fc SITUATIOM GROWS WORSE Investigation Will Find Madero Has Failed to Cope With Situa tion and That State of Anarchy Exists. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. (Special.) A summary. of the testimony taken dur ing the past four months by the Sen ate committee of which Senator Wil liam Alden Smith, of Michigan, is chairman, and which will be the basis of its report' to the Senate on conditions in Mexico, became known today. The testimony shows that a state of anarchy exists throughout Mexico; that the Madero government has been un able to restore or preserve order; that Americans have been killed and their property destroyed, their horses and cattle confiscated and that ' federal troops and Insurrectos are living on the "fat of the, land." '- Having exhausted the $67,000,000 of government funds which they found on taking possession of the national treas ury, the Madero government has squan dered all the customs and revenue taxes and in addition is running in debt $3, 000,000 a month, according to evidence before the committee. Committee Favors Oroxco. While the whole force of the United States has been exerted to aid the es tablished government, enforce the neu trality treaty and keep down talk of Intervention, all efforts, have proved in effective. The Senate committee has reached the conclusion that. while the Madero government has failed, Orozco could do more if placed in power. His fol lowers are said to be disorganized and not under authority or amenable to discipline, and the country to be at the mercy of two opposing forces who, never engage in battle.. President Taft's decision last week to send another note to Mexico Insist ing that something must be done, fol lowed an interesting interview with Senators Smith and Fall; H. S. Steph enson and Trice McKlnney, American citizens living in Mexico. The des perate situation of Americans living in Mexico and tho indignities which they had already suffered were represent ed to the President. Mr. Madero, pres- Concluded on Page a. ) OLD SANTA y . . . ........ . Ilk - v"' "" ' Directors Solve Problem of Inducing Children to Be Regular In Their Attendance GOLDENDALE. Wash.. Ded v22. (Special.) The directors of schood dis trict 92, In Eastern Klickitat County, have solved the problem .of getting children to attend school by allowing mileage to the parents for each child that attends. In many of the large', thinly settled districts in the new ter ritory being opened In the Columbia River basin a conveyance is maintained by the district for the transportation of the pupils to and from the . school. These vehicles have been dubbed, "kid wr.gons.7 The directors of school district No. 92 found this plan impractical, owing to the hilly nature of the district and so a schedule was arranged by which the parents of the children are allowed mileage for each child. Nothing is al lowed for the first two miles; but for the third mile 15 cents a child Is al lowed; for the fourth mile, 10 cents a child; for the fifth mile and each ad ditional mile, 5 cents a "child. 'A record Is kept ty the teacher and warrants are issued each month and charged to a transportation account. The plan has been in operation for two months and the-expense to the district has been less than one-half the amount that would have been required to main tain a wagon, and driver. The attend ance has been much larger than ever before. In a letter to County Auditor Gun ning, James R. Shephard, one of the school directors; says: "We don't care how the children "come, by pony, ve hicle or shoe leather. We want them to come to school and come they do." In addition to the saving effected for the district, the danger of a careless driver running off a grade with a wagon load of children and possible damage suits In consequence against the district. Is avoided. The directors of school district No. 92 are Mr. Shep hard. R. D. White and W. M. Counts. KATSURA PLANS ECONOMY Xevr Premier Promises to Save S 2 5 ,- 000,000 for Japan Xext Year. . , TOKIO, Dec. "22. Prince Taro Katsura. the new Japanese Premier, in the course of an interview today, said: "T anv ffot yet in a position fully to outline the policy to be pursued by the new Cabinet.. I hope, however, its policy will follow the principle guid ing my government; which is already familiar to the foreign public "My efforts so far have been directed to cultivating amicable relations be tween Japan and tho treaty powers. There shall - be no change in this respect. . "As for home politics, my financial policy will bo more direct and more comprehensive than it was during my last tenure of office. Owing to the lack of time In which to compile a new budget that of the current year will be presented to the diet, with an as surance that $25,000,000 will' be saved by the end of the next fiscal year. Economies in finance will receive my utmost consideration." SAVES MANY A MAN FROM HIS Bryan Down for Port, folio of State. MOBGENTHAU FOR TREASURY Texan Thought Probable Suc cessor to "Tama Jim." ALABAMAN SECOND CHOICE President-elect Said to Prefer Judge Blount, of Georgia, for Gov ernor of Philippines to Succeed Forbes. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. (Special.) Although President-elect Wilson has said that he will not announce the per sonnel of his Cabinet much before March 1, it is believed here in Wash ington that he has almost. If not fully, determined who hla. advisers will be. It comes from a . source exceedingly close to Mr. Wilson that the following are most likely to be chosen. Secretary of State, William J. Bryan, Mt ri Tn n ten. Secretary of the Treasury,- Henry Morgenthau, Now lork. Secretary of War, Representative Mitchell Palmer, Pennsylvania. Secretary of the Navy, Harry St. George Tucker, Virginia. Aftnrnev-General. William F. Mc- Combs, New York, or W. A. Glasgow, Jr., Philadelphia. Postmaster-General, Josephus Dan iels, North Carolina. Secretary of the Interior. ex-Governor Osborn, Wyoming. . Secretary of Agriculture, Representa tive Burleson, Texas.- Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Representative Redfield, New York. Acceptances Not Determined. This list is subject to change, but is roirarrieri as substantially correct so far as offers of places in the Cabinet are concerned. Whether, all ox tne men will accept is problematical. tu mama Informant sava that should Representative - Redfield decline to serve as Secretary of . Commerce ana Labor, the place will be offered to Sen ator Gore, of Oklahoma. If Repre sentative Burleson should decline tne position held for . so many years by "Tama Jim". Wilson, it is said Governor Wilson has resolved to offer the port folio to a young Alabama business man who has been engaged in constructive work of a National character for some time and who is a personal friend of the Wilson family. The name of this man is not announcedv Illoant May Succeed Forbes. That either Judge James H. Blount, of Georgia and Washington, or Repre- OWN EGOISM. California Authorities Convinced Dead Man Is Ira Jones and Not Eugene Lad. - SANTA ANA. CaL. Dec. 22. The young man who shot and killed one man and wounded three others during a battle against a posse near here after he had attempted to assault a young woman. Is not Joe Matlock, for merly of Eugene, Or. J. D. Matlock, ex-Mayor of Eugene, accompanied by his son, E. D. Matlock, arrived here today and on viewing the body declared that it was not that of his son. The local authorities are now. con vinced that Ira Jones and Joe Matlock were not the same person, and the body will be buried tomorrow under the for mer name. EUGENE. Or.. Dec. 22. (Special.) E. D. Matlock,, who, with his father, ex-Mayor J. D. Matlock, left here Fri day morning for Santa Ana, Cal., to seo the body of the dead outlaw iden tified as Joe Matlock, today tele graphed his wife here saying positive ly that the dead desperado is not his brother. ROBBERS REPROVE VICTIM When Detective Is Called, Thieves Refuse to Return Loot. Mrs. Benjamin Buck, assistant secre tary to Acting-Chief of Police Slover, came within an ace of having returned the property stolen from her the night of December 19, when Saturday the thieves, calling up on the telephone, said that they would return the goods if they were allowed to do It quietly, and without police action. But after Detective Glenn Howell had stayed un til 3 o'clock yesterday morning near the Buck home at 898 Dunckiey av enue, without catching the thieves, Mrs. Buck failed to get the property, and a telephone message informed her that her action in putting a detective to catch them would lose her prop erty forever. Two guns, a purse and some silver ware were stolen from the Buck home Thursday night. The next day she re ported the robbery to Acting-Chief Slover, and it was published in the newspapers. Chief Slover said last night that he thought it was a joke, but the oppo site Idea is held by. Detective Howell, after six cold' hours of waiting. SUFFRAGE "ARMY" GROWS Fifth Member Enlists In Pilgrimage. Party Plods 1 6 Miles. POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y., Dec. 22. With its marching forces augmented by another private, "General" Rosalie Jones' little army of suffragettes con tlnuod today the march to Albany, and reached Rhlnobeck shortly before 6 o'clock tonight after, a 16-mile hike. The new member of the army is Miss Gladys Coursen, of this city, who will "stick through," she says, until the state capital is reached. The suffragists, now numbering five, left Poughkeepsie escorted by a num ber of local supporters of the cause. Many witnessed the departure of the party and one young woman on the curb yelled: "What do you think you are doing?" "General" Jones turned about and replied: "We are trying to help your future," and amid the applause of the crowd, continued on the way. At Rhlnebeck the suffragists made several addresses and attended church In the evening. WIFE RESCUES HUSBAND Watchman Dragged From Tunnel Overcome by Gas. SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Dec. 22. Overcome by gas while Inspecting the Santa Barbara water tunnel, B. F. Dod son, watchman at the north portal. was rescued by his wife. The Dodsons live in an isolated part of the country and when Dodson failed to return from his trip, Mrs. Dodson went several hundred feet Into the tunnel and dragged out the unconscious form of her husband. The tunnel was completed Saturday. It is four miles long and cost $600,000. It will be used to bring Santa Bar bara's water supply from the moun tains. OIL KING TO PLAY SOLOIST John D. and' BuKlmell to Vic on Links With Trophy as Prize. TARRYTOWN. X. Y., Dec. 22. (Spe cial.) John D. Rockefeller will play a match game of golf tomorrow with Eric Bushnell, soloist in the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. In the two trial matches, each has won a game. It was while playing a game with Bushnell that Rockefeller made his rec ord score of 43 last week. It is said that the trophy is to be a Christmas present of some kind, and that Is why the match is arranged for tomorrow. LUDWIG TO RETAIN THRONE Clerical Party Objects to Abolish ment of Regency. MUNICH, Dec. 22. According to well-informed circles the governmejit has abandoned the proposed amend ment to the constitution by which the regency would be abolished and Prince Ludwlg, the new regent of Bavaria, would receive the title of King. The Clerical party strongly objected to the amendment. Men, Once Ashore.Com pelled to Reembark CLIFFS AFFORD NO ESCAPE Tide and Gale Make Position Impossible to Hold. SCOUT CREW FINDS HAVEN Volunteers Who Brave Perils Can. not Aid Shipmates on Xew Foundland . Coast Captain Goes Down With Vessel, ST. JOHNS, X. F.. Dec. 22. Twenty two of the 27 members of the crew of the Furness line steamer Florence, from Halifax, N. S.. for St. John, lost their lives In the wreck of the vessel on the ledges west of St. Shotts in a northwest gale last Friday. Ex hausted survivors who reached land in a boat brought the news to Trepassy tonight. The steamer carried no pas sengers. Captain Barr, of the steamer, and all his men readied shore after the vessel struck, but the'lofty. Inaccessible cliffs of St. Shotts prevented their escape. The big tide, backed up by the north west gale, made it impossible to re main there and all hands were obliged to pgt back to the ship, which was pounding heavily. Volunteers Seek Way to Safety. Captain Barr felt confident the wind would go down, but the second mate, J. Hedley, volunteered to take four men In one of the ship's boats and seek a more favorable landing pluce further along the coast. In the heavy seas then running the captain was unwilling to risk more lives and gave his consent to the second, mate's expendltlon with re luctance. With great difficulty Hedley piloted his small boat along tho coast until he saw a break In tho rugged line of cliffs. Pointing the nose- of the boat directly into the surf, he avoided the outlying rocks and on the crest of a great breaker ran his craft in without being upset. Help Found Impoaalble. Tumbling out hastily to avoid being sucked back by the undertow, tho mato and his four men dragged their boat up the beach out of reach of the aea and made their way back along the cliff to where the steamer lay. The wind and sea in the meantime had increased. The combers broke con tinually over the decks of the vessel, which was grinding heavily on the jagged rocks. Hedley and his men searched in vain for some path by which the cliff might be scaled or the crew of the Florence helped. The coast In that vicinity was uninhabited. The few fishermen's huts were deserted for the AVlnter and Hedley had to take refuge for the night in one of these abandoned shacks. No Sign of Vessel Seen. At daylight Saturday Hedley found the wind had been steadily Increasing. Hurrying back to the point off which tho Florence lay he could see no sign of tho steamer. Considerable- of her cargo of lumber was floating along tha shore, but no small boats were visible. The five ajarvWors made a thorough . search along the shore for their ship mates, but no trace of them was to bo found. They then started for St. Shotts, the nearest inhabited place, sevorul miles distant. Two of them were so exhausted from cold and exposure that they had to be assisted. These two were left at St. Shotts to recuperate, while the others passed on to Tre passy, whence they sent word of the disaster to this city. They are not ex pected to arrive before the middle or the week. The steamer Florence was of 160D tons burden and was built in Sunder land, England, in 1889 NEW PARACHUTE SUCCESS Automatic Contrivance for Aviators Tested at Eiffel Tower. PARIS, Dec. 22. An ingenious auto matic parachute for aeroplanes was demonstrated from tho Eiffel tower to day. The contrivance, wrucn consists of a vast umbrella, u zeei in niamnicr, has a system of springs operating In stantaneously and automatically when the fall begins. The irachute was cropped toaay from the first platform of the tower, with a sandbag to represent an avia tor. The apparatus opened fully be fore It had fallen 60 feet. It landed gently, taking 16 seconds to drop ISO feet. 1 DEAD, 3 HURT, IN PANIC Fire Starting in Missouri Opera. House Spreads Rapidly. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec 22. Earl Cun- niff was fatally burned and three per sons, a man and two girls, trampled and injured last night in a panic which followed a fire in the opera-house at Maysvllle at a performance. Tho flamca spread rapidly and destroyed tne opera house, three stores, a livery stable and several small buildings. Several buildings wese dynamited to stop the progress of the flames, but not until the greater part of tho business portion of the town had been destroyed. , r