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PRICE FIVE CENTS. HIGH SCHOOL BOYS WIFE OF COLONEL BOTH HOUSES AIM YEARLY 35 KILLED WHEN TURKISH PEOPLE FOREIGN SHIPS NOT STORE COLLAPSES WEAR SIMPLE TOGS TEACHERS FROWX OS OVER ALLS, JUMPERS, HIGH BOOTS. FAILS TO DICTATE IN STAMPS STOLEN REPUDIATE PEACE ME , IS REPLY UECTEXAXT'S WIFE TO HEAD , SUFFRAGE PARADE. 3IAXT BOtXED TO DEATH IX FIRE THAT FOLLOWS. . . " 7 : PORTLAm OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 24, 1913. VOL. I-II-MJ. 16,377. . i I MILLIONS GUNS AT GOVERNOR NAGED t V Knox' Answer, to Brit ain Made Public. . TOLLS NOT TO BE INCREASED Secretary Reduces Disputed Canal Issues to Two. COMMISSION IS SUGGESTED Arbitration Declared Unnecessary In Case Where Diplomacy Can Reach Settlement Appre hension Premature. WASHINGTON", Jan. 23. Secretary Knox" reply to tlie British protest against the exemption" of American coastwise shipping from Panama Canal toils assures the British government that domestic coastwise trade will not be permitted to extend operation Into foreign competitive fields. The reply also gives assurance that Increased tolls will not be laid on foreign shipping to balance the remis sion to American ships. If Great Britain is not satisfied with these points America proposes a special commission of adjustment. Iwoea Are Reduced. The communication is devoted to the purpose of reducing to the smallest point and number the issues upon which the two governments failed to agree and as to these only two it is contended that they are entirely sus ceptible of adjustment by diplomatic means and without recourse to arbi tration. If this course should not prove ac ceptable to the British government. It is suggested that the whole contro versy be referred to a special com mission of Inquiry, provision for which waa made in the unratified Knox-Bryce general arbitration treaty. That con vention was approved by the Senate with an amendment which curtailed the power of the special commission of Inquiry to merely Investigate and re port, and refused to permit the com mission to bind cither country to a course of arbitration iu its findings. Treaty May Be Revived. Because of this amendment, Presi dent Taft so far has declined to con summate the treaty by exchanging ratifications with the British govern ment. " To meet the needs of this present Issue. Secretary Knox now offers to give life to the treaty by an immediate exchange of ratifications, which would Insure the existence of a general arbi tration treaty between America and Great Britain after the lapse of the existing Hay-Pauncefote treaty June i next. As an alternative, the Secretary is willing that a commission be created Tor the special purpose of according the facts In regard to the effect upon British shipping of the Panama Canal tolls act and the President's procla mation fixing tho tolls. Apprehemaloa Declared Premature. Much of the Secretary's agreement rests upon his contention that Sir Ed ward Grey s protest, being made in advance of the Issue of the President's proclamation fixing the tolls, is en tirely inapplicable to the controversy in its present state, and that as a mat ter of fact the British contention rests upon apprehension of things that may happen in the future to the injury of British shipping, which in all prob ability never will occur. Secretary Knox begins his note. w-hieh was delivered to the British foreign of fice through Mr. Laughlin. the Ameri can Charge at London, by the flat state ment that he cannot agree with the British interpretation of the canal treaties, ao far as they limit the free dom of action of America or Infringe British territory rights. Pointing out that the Grey note was issued without consideration of tho President's toll proclamation, the Secretary ays that Sir Edward deals chiefly with the pos sibilities of what the President might do under the canal act. whereas the proclamation has entirely changed the situation. British Objectloma Dlaeuiuied. Taking up the three objections made by the British Government. Secretary Knox first discusses that which applies to the exemption from tolls of the Gov ernment vessels of Panama. This he declares to be a great and complete surprise to the United States, which always had asserted without challenge that the status of the countries Imme diately concerned by reason of their political relation to the territory In which the canal was to be constructed was different from that of all other countries He does not believe, therefore, that the British government Intends to pro pose arbitration of this question. In regard to a second British objec tion that the Panama Canal act might be thought to confer upon the Presi dent the power to discriminate In the use of tho canal in favor of all ships belonging to the United States and its citizens, even In the foreign trade, ty granting them reduced tolls, the note quotes from the memorandum attached to the canal act by the President when it was signed as follows: "It Is not. therefore, necessary to discuss the policy of such discrimina tion until the question may arise in Concluded on race Five.) Lincoln Students Are Sen,t Home by Authorities to Change Their Weird Apparel. Not to be outdone by their sister students in the matter of drefcs reform. a dozen youthful believers In tne uie .iTT.ni.. on,! th riresn unadorned yes terday showed their readiness to carry to extreme the principles for lack of which the girls baa Deen aaraomoue-. They appeared at Lincoln High School in attire which might have been con sidered a credit to the wild man from rj k.. wr. hsirdlv the "dernier cri" among the smart set of scholastic circles. Snf hirts shoestringr ties of radiant hue. Jumpers and overalls, time-hon ored shoes and high, boots, saori trous ers, and, in one case, an exceedingly small coat, borrowed for the day from a younger brother, and too tight to be fastened across the' chest of the wearer, caused consternation among the teach ers. When the teachers had recovered ,hiT m An in i .miiMhHum. the boys were sent to the principal. By him they were sent home, with orders not to come back until they were properly clothed and in a right frame of mind. The soft shirts prevailed, but the Jumpers and overalls were discarded. It Is declared that the word has gone forth for soft shirts to be worn today by every boy in the achool. Develop ments are expected, as the boys are to meet tonight to discuss the situation. J. K. SMITH DIES SUDDENLY Funeral Will Be Held at Chnrch of Magdalene Tomorrow Morning. J. Kingston Smith, manager of the Pacific States Rubber Company, died suddenly yesterday at his home, 499 Kast Twenty-fourth street North, from heart disease. His death was wholly unexpected. For the past 10 days he had not been feeling well, Dut neither himself nor his physician considered his condition at H serious. He re tired as usual Wednesday night, and, h earl tin a noise after 12 o'clock hia son ltlehard went to his bed, finding that lie had passed away. Mr. Smith was born in Montreal. Canada, 65 years ago and lived In Port land 22 years. He was traveling sales man for the Goodyear Rubber Company and afterwards manager of the Gorham Rubber Company. He organised the Pacific States Rubber Company and was its manager. He is survived by a widow and three children Illchard, Mildred and 1'hoeue Smith. Mr. Smith was a member Of the KnlKhts of Columbus. The fu neral will be conducted at the Church of the Magdalene, Kast Twenty-third and Siskiyou streets, tomorrow morn ing at 9 o'clock, and interment will be In Mount Calvary Cemetery. MAYOR SNUBS DR. COOK To com a Executive Refuses to Sit at Same Table With Explorer. TACOMA. Wash., Jan. 23. (Special.) Mayor Seymour today snubbed Dr. Frederick Cook, the explorer, and re fused to sit at the same table with him. The Mayor received an invitation to meet Dr. Cook and take dinner with bim at a little banquet given for Dr. Cook at the Commercial Club. A num ber of prominent Tacomans and sev eral newspapermen were the invited guests. Seymour emphatically declined the invitation telephoned to him and said: "I don't believe in him and don't want to meet him. I am not an expert, but I am with Dr. Cook just like I am with the Green River microbes. I will leave It to the experts and they say that Dr. Cook Is a monumental fakir. I think this great attack he is making on Ash ton and his whole game Is one of ad vertising for the vaudeville bouse." NEW LINE TO BE SHORT CUT Harriman Road to Clip -175 Miles From Spokane-Los Angeles Run. LOS ANGELES, -Jan. 23. (Special.) Fully 475 miles will be clipped from the distance between Los Angeles and Spokane by the proposed railroad to be built by the Harriman interests in the north. Los Angeles officials of the Southern Pacific Railroad declare that the sur vey for the new road has been prac tically completed. The length will be 1170 miles. This is only 100 miles longer than the shortest route between Spokane and San Francisco. According to the latest information, the proposed line will extend from Spokane to Lewlston, along the Snake River to the Oregon Short Line, from Nampa to Winneniucca. to Hazen. to Owenyo, to Mojave, thence to Los An geles. LOSSES AT AURORA HEAVY Telephone and Electric Light Com panies Making Repairs. AURORA. Or.. Jan. 23. (Special.) The electric light and telephone com panies have ascertained that damage to their lines, caused by the recent storm. Is exceedingly heavy. - The United Telephone Company is probably the heaviest loser, as it Is finding difficulty in making repairs. The company's affairs are in the bands of a receiver and providing funds is no easy matter. The mutual lines have brgun the work of repairing and service will soon be resumed. The Aurora Electric Company has its lighting system in fairly good con dition again. Its field extends over the towns of Canby. Aurora, Barlow, Hubbard and Donald. The worst damage was at Hubbard, where many poles went down. Wholesale Veto Threat to Be Put to Test. SENATE TAKES UP BATTLE Four of Upper Branch, Who Were With West, Bolt. THOMPSON BILL IS BACKED Land Board Measure to Go Over Ex ecutive's Head Is Indication. West Tries to Regain Friends Lost In Wednesday's Storm. ' STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or., Jan. 23. (Special.) The defection against patent activities of the Govornor in declaring that he will exercise his veto ax and ride like the car of Juggernaut over all the bills of House members who do not line up behind him and his vetoed bills, had. crept Into the Senate and apparently ooth houses of the Legislature are now squarely against bim. Six Senators, four of whom voted with the Governor on every proposition that came before that body two years ago. bolted from fhe ranks today. The Thompson bill, giving the State Land Board the power to handle submerged and swamp lands in connection with Oregon lakes, will be passed over the Governor's veto In the Stats Senate. This will be the result whatever the Judiciary committee may decide on. This much was learned definitely from a sufficient. number of Senators to show that It Is the Inevitable result of West's policy pursued yesterday, unless a gi gantic change of heart takes place. Effort to Dictate Reseated. Up to today the question seemed to be somewhat in doubt. A number of Senators were laboring under the be lief that tto bill should pass, but were Irclined to ibe jipiblon rhat this ses sion of the Legislature should do everything within Its power to keep unharmonlous factional feeling at a distance. Now, however, the factional feeling and the unharmonlous conditions have arisen from the executive offices. Sen ators who have been counted in the column of the executive on all occa sions have beard members of the House recount their harrowing experiences under the lashing tongue of the Gov ernor's venom and declare that they will tolerate no dictation. One Senator told the Governor point blank today that the state government consists of three branches the legislative, the Ju- (Concluded on Pare 8.) - - r xtcr a II II 111 s2 Army Women, at Fort Mjer Stirred by Advice From Commandant's Home to Give Up Office. ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-(SpeciaL) Army women at Fort Myer are stirred because Mrs. Joseph Garrard, wife of Colonel Garrard, commanding the fort, had advised Mrs. Burleson, wife of Lieutenant Richard C. Burleson, not to act as grand marshal of the great suf frage parade here on March 3, a posi tion which had. been tendered Mrs. Burleson and which she had accepted. Mrs. Burleson will act as grand mar shal despite Mrs. Garrard's advice. Mrs. Garrard called Mrs. Burleson over the telephone recently, It was said today, and advised ber to give up the office of grand marshal of the parade. Mrs. Burleson later wrote to Mrs. Gar rard and asked whether, as the wife of the post commandant, or in a private capacity Mrs. Garrard had made this suggestion. If the request came from the wife of the post commandant in official position, Mrs. Burleson said, she would .give up the marshalshlp, but if Mrs. Garrard was merely making the suggestion in a private capaclty she felt at liberty to continue as mar shal. Mrs. Garrard replied that it was not as the wife of the commandant that she made the suggestion, but merely as a woman who has had longer expe rience in the Army. It was denied today that there Is ill-feeling over the matter or that Mrs. Burleson is being socially disciplined at the post. The Treasury Department today granted the suffraggists the use of the southern portion of the Treasury for presenting of tableaux at the pag eant. TENNESSEE GETS SHIELDS "Regular" Democrat Sent to Senate, Breaking Deadlock. NASHVILLE. Tenn., Jan. 23. The Tennessee Legislature elected today Chief Justice Shields, of the State Su preme Court, United States Senator for the term beginning March 4. Justice Shields is a "regular Democrat." CONCORD. N. H., Jan. 23. The dead lock in the Legislature over the choice of a United States Senator continued today. ; DOVER, Del., Jan, 23. The Demo cratic maioritv In the Delaware Leg islature again failed to agree upon a United States Senator today. . - PIRACY BECOMES COMMON Outlaws in China Beyond Control of . Local Authorities. AMOT, China, Jan. 23. Tbe disorder ly elements in tho province of Fu-Kien have become so formidable that the au thorities are unable to cope with them. In the neighborhood of Hlng-nwa trai fi,c has become unsafe except for strong parties, and these are compelled to keep to the principal roads. Piracies are frequent on the river Dragon, even large vessels being at tacked. A junk chartered by an Amer ican OI! Company was boarded by pi rates today and the captain was kilted. SKETCHED IN LEGISLATIVE HALLS AT OLYMPIA. Confessions Disclose Illegal Traffic. BROKERS BUY BELOW VALUE Employes in Large Business Concerns Involved. 3 INDICTED AT NEW YORK Clerks and Office Boys Encouraged to Steal From Employers Frauds Unearthed In Almost All Big Cities on Large Scale. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Illega traf ficking in stolen postage stamps aggre gating several millions of dollars an nually, has been disclosed by postoffice inspectors, whose Investigations were reported today to Postmaster-General Hitchcock. . They Involved so-called stamp bro kers and confidential employes of large business concerns throughout the Unit de States. Through confessions secured by the Inspectors from some of the brokers whose operations were investigated, it was leurned that stamps of all classes and denominations, stolen by burglars from postoffices and embezzled by em ployes from great business houses and manufacturing establishments, were purchased and resold by the brokers at prices far below their face value. Stamps Known to Be Stolen. The postal laws make it a crime punishable by imprisonment to sell any stamp issued by the Government for less than its face value. Investi gations disclosed the fact. that, in ad dition to selling the stamps for less than the price for which they could have been purchased from the Govern ment, the brokers knew that the stamps were stolen when they purchased them. tnmilriea showed that brokers. in some instances, entered into" a caaT splracy witn employes or. uuaiuuM houses to buy at prices agreed upon all the stamps the clerks could steal from their employers. The first of a series of indictments ...iiitincr frnm tTiA investigations was handed down sealed in New York City yesterday. The men indicted were Richard Fred aTt.irs Irvine fizzv". Scvel and John Frank. District Attorney Whitman has informed the postoffice department that other indictments will follow. Bis; Cities Are Involved. sumn frauds aeainst the Govern ment ami various husiness concerns aggregating hundreds of thousands of (Concluded on Page 2.) STZBAM OP JLOOHMG Of . Hundreds of Men In McKinney, Tex., Work at Rescue in Relays. . Only One Woman Survives. M'KINNET, Tex., Jan. 23. Thirty persons are believed to have been killed hero today when a building oc cupied by tho Checves Brothers' depart ment store collapsed. The ruins im mediately caught fire. Eight bodies have been recovered. Thirteen are known to have been injured. Verie Graves, said to be the only oc cupant of the store when the crash came who escaped unhurt, said posi tively that SO persons were in the place when the walls fell. i Smouldering ruins prevented the searchers from digging far into the debris tonight Two persons Teached by the rescuers lived only a few minutes after they were taken from the ruins. An emerg ency hospital was constructed hastily in a nearby building. A specal Bale was in progress at the store when the building tumbled. One of the victims, N. R. Presley, di rected the firemen how to release him although he could not see them. He was dead when they reached him. Mrs. Mary Stiff, who was taken out alive but died within an hour, begged the fremen to kill her, as the flames were slowly cooking her to death. L. W. Bush, a capitalist of McKinney, is believed to be pinioned beneath the wreckage. Presley had told those try ing to Tescue him that Bush was on the opposite side of the counter from hint when the building fell. A few moments after the department store fell, the two-story building ad joining cracked and swayed. The in mates barely escaped. Hundreds of tho male population joined in the rescue work, digging in relays. The loss is estimated at about J75.000. McKinney is a town of 9000 inhab itants. MOVIE HERO REALISTIC Actors Join in Rescue Work at Fire; Police Interfere. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23. Fire, which started in a paint establishment on Main Btreet, between Fifth and Sixth, this afternoon did damage estimated at 100,000. All of the occupants f the Brennan Ilotei, a five-story building which was badly damaged, had warning in time to escape, but many of them lost their belongings. There were several thrilling Tescues, which were cheered by thousands of spectators. An exciting, dramatic tone prevailed, as moving-picture actors came early and played in realistic hero roles. A police lieutenant, who arrived on the scene just as a movie hero was carrying an apparently unconscious girl from the second story of the ho tel, after one look at the evidently overcome hero, forcibly took posses sion of the rescued one, thereby ne cessitating a repetition of the rescue scene. NEW OFFICIALS APPOINTED Lebanon Council Makes Charges in Filling City Offices. LEBANON, Or., Jan. 23. (Special.) The new Lebanon City Council last night elected the appointive officers. With the exception of City Attorney, they selected an entire new set of offi cials. N. M. Newport was re-elected for the sixth time as City Attorney; John Cur iam. City Marshal; G. W. Loomis, po liceman, and Dr. C. W. Ross, Health Officer. The street committee recommended that the city purchase a steam roller, road grader, rooter and road drag, and that the city macadamize some of the streets outside the paving districts. Mayor Wennersten gave to the Coun cil his annual message in which he recommended several improvements, including the enlarging of the fire Unf its for wooden buildings and extending the cement sidewalk district to include all the principal streets. TILLAMOOK MAIL DELAYED Wires Crippled and Slides Damage Railroad Track. TILLAMOOK, Or., Jan. 23. (Spe cial.) Tillamook citizens are complain ing over the delay In transportation of mail for this county. No mail has ar rived here on the railroad since De cember 2S. A thrice-a-week sen-Ice has been maintained, via Willamlna, but it is thought that all mail Intended for this section has not arrived. A large amount of newspapers, which have been expected, have not arrived and the daily papers are usually a week old on their arrival here. Wires are still down, and the Pa cific Railway & Northern is still troubled by slides. 50 CARRIELMJN ICE FLOE Fishermen Swept Across Lake Es cape in Boats and uy Swimming. LITTLE STURGEON. Wis.. Jan. 23. Fifty fishermen, more than half the male population of this village, were swept out in Lake Michigan last night when a laree floe of ice from which they were fishing cracked and floated away from tbe shore. Some ot the men were rescued in small bot-ts, some swam to shore and two remained on the floe all night, burning their r.ets to keep from freez ing. They landed at Pilot Island, 11 miles from where the ice floe parted. Crowds Force Ministry to Resign. ARMY COMMANDER IS SHOT Country Determined Adriano ple Shall Be Retained. OLD CABINET UNDER GUARD Council in Act of Preparing Xoto Acceding to Powers' Demand Interrupted by Populace With . Angry Demonstration. , CONSTANTINOPLE. Jn. 23. A crisis In Turkish affairs came today with dramatic suddenness. The Grand Vlzlei-, Klamll Pasha, and the Ottoman Cabinet resigned, and Manmoud Shefket Pasha, formerly Minister of War and com mander of the constitutional array which enthroned Slehmed V as Sultan, was appointed Grand Vlzior. In a great demonstration of the peo ple here tonight In the streets. Nazlni Pasha, former War Minister and commander-in-chief of the army, was shot dead. Enver Bey and Talaat Bey had given explicit orders that no blood should be shed. But Nazlm Pasha's aide-decamp fired from a window of the porta at Enver Bey and his companion, and they returned the fire. Their bullets killed Nazlm Tasha himself. In spite of this trage.lv- there was no disturbance of order elsewhere. Crowd Overawes Mlnlntry. Testerday the grand council pro nounced in favor of peace almost at any price. Today a vast crowd, drawn from all classes, declared Tor wee rather than peace without Adrlanople, Because tho crowd was backed by gen eral public opinion, the government surrendered and rellniiinhed ifftce, making way for the same men whom the popular movement brought to the top after the revolutions of 1908 and 1909. The resignation of the Cabinet was announced in the following official statement: "The decision of Klamll Pasha's Cab inet, taken in response to the note handed to the Turkish government by the European powers to abandon the fortress of Adrianople and part of the Islands in the Aegean Sea, and the convocation of an extraordinary assem bly of the Grand Council of the Otto man Empire, to which the Cabinet's decision was submitted a course con trary to the prescriptions of the con stitutional charter, and violating the sacred rights of the people roused the indignation of the Turkish nation, with the result that the people made a demonstration before the Sublime Porte and brought about the resignation of the government." People Gather at t.ates. The Council of Ministers met shortly before noon to give final shape to the note accepting the proposals of the powers. About S o ciock people iram all Quarters began to gather In tront of the gate to the grand vlzlerate. Enver Bey, one of the leaders of tne Young Turks, who was identified with the campaign in Tripoli, and Nadje Bes a prominent Unionist, arrived here about this time and were deputed to Inform the cabinet that it must re tire. Enver Bey soon issued from thee vlzlerate and announced that he held the resignation of Klamll Pasha, which he was taking to the palace. This waa greeted with tremendous cheering. which was frantically renewed an hour and a half later when he returned front the palace with an trade appointing Mahmoud Shefket Pasha grand vizier. Preconcerted Move Denied. Talaat Bey assumed provisionally the portfolio of the. Ministry of tho Inter ior, and Izzet Pasha that of war. In an interview Talaat Bey said the move ment had not been planned, our was the outcome of popular feeling, owing to the attitude of the government with regard to Adrianople. If Adrlanople were abandoned, he said, disturbances would break out over the length and breadth of the empire. "No compromise is poj.sible, he con tinued. "Tbe change in the caDinet means that we are going to save the National honor or perish in the at tempt. 'We do not want a continuation or the war, but we are aeicrmuiea in keep the fortress of Adrlanople at all costs. That is an inaispensaDio con dition of peace." Klamll Pasha and the other mcmDers of his cabinet remain in their resi dences under guard. A nroclamation nominating Mahmoud Shefket Pasha as grand vizier was read at the Porte at 7 o'clock tonight. On Mahmoud Shefket Pashas arrival he was greeted enthusiastically by the great assemblage outside. Tbe portfolio of foreign anairs n. been offered to Hasseln Hilmi Pasha, the present Ambassador at Vienna, and a former grand vizier. 311 LIT ART REVOLT PROBABLE Powers Think Move May Further Show Turkish Kcsourccfulness. LONDON. Jan. 25. To the Ambassa dors of the powers who were congratu- (Concluded ua Pag 3.)