ggk S)mroman. ill VOL.. LIU. NO. 16,393. PORTLAND. OREGON. TrRsniv .tttx-p m. noio " ' - , - PRICK FIVE CENTS. KING OF FESTIVITY ARRIVES IN REALM Fun and Frolic Week's Programme. LANDING MADE AT HIGH NOON Guns Boom and Sirens Whistle Welcome to Royal Craft FLAGSHIP CARRIES GUESTS Oallfomians Divide Honors 'With Blaokfoot. Indians and Mies Spo kane, While River's Kdge la Thronged! "With Humanity. ROSTB I-'KXTTVAT, moi.lUlfMK FOR TODAY. Ten A. M. Excursion ot xvosarians ana guests up Colum Hf. nn . . . n . tT 1 Ten A. M. Rose exhibit at the Ten A. M. Decorated motor eycle parade and pushmoblle races. Riutc of motorcycle parade Starts at West Park and Harrison streets at 10 A. M. : moves on West Park to Columbia, to Twelfth, to Taylor, to Fourteenth, to Morrison, to Fifth, to Wash ington, to Broadway, to Ankeny to Fourth, to Madison across brfds-A tit f.-r q 1 . . , " - - ......... "no, iu ourn ubo imra, Pine, to Fifth, to Morrison Broadway and disband south Broadway. to to on Ten A. M. Band concerts serenades. On. T AT T- . and and " snow ana flower exposition at the Armoi-v One to five P. M. Reception on board United States cruiser St Louis In harbor. Two P. M. United Artisans' u-wueuue on council Crest Ktarht-thlT-t w T u t. j . . ... . xvox sronus Kii i. r i.. .... i . Ore- will appear at the head of his electrlo parade. Title. "Flowers and Oems of Oregon." Route of electrlo parade Starts from "Den" at Lewis and Clark Exposition grounds on Thurmi n street, will move to Slxteento. Sixteenth to Glisan, Glisan to Fifth. Fifth to Morrison Morri son to Kiev e nth, Eleventh to Hall, Hall to Thirteenth. Thir teenth to Washington. Washing ton to Fifth, Fifth to Morrison. Morrison to Nineteenth and thence return to "Den" via Glisan. Twenty - first. Northrop. Twenty-sixth, etc For the seventh time In Its history Portland i in the grip of the Festival king. Re Oregonus. they call him. but that is only another name for the god cf mirth, innocent fun and unconven 1 locality who. reincarnated, has come to rule over the city for a week. He arrived at noon yesterday. He win remain until midnight Saturday. During his stay the people of Portland and their numerous guests from near and far will be under his absolute Jurisdiction. Drill Care Warned OfT. What matters It who was elected Mayor last week? What matters it who governs this favored common wealth or who presides over the des tinies of the Nation? Portland people and their visitors have become willing subjects of the merry monarch who comes to rule over them once every year. This Jolly potentate Is personified each year by a different Individual, but Individuality doesn't count for much until the close of the week It is what this individual stands for that Is of im port and interest. Not until the end of the week will people begin to care much about who happens temporarily to be Kins;. Identity Well Concealed. When Oregonus first made his ap pearance In the marine parade yester day morning there was more or less speculation as to hla identity. Nearly every prominent and near prominent man in Portland was con nected with the honored position, but many of them proved alibis right there and then, for they appeared in citi zens clothes even while the royal ruler was In sight. The mystery surround ing his identity is one of the choice traditions of the Festival, and will re main a subject of speculation and com ment until the final unmasking Satur day night. Even before the arrival of Rex Ore gonus at noon, when the week of holl- V the h 11 n ii re.i ITi-.rv Incnmlnv train ........ .v . ..:iu luo previouj nays, soon welled the attendance to proportions never before equaled on an opening ipetai aay, Indiana Share Steamer. Most conspicuous of all the visitors arriving yesterday were the organised delegations from Pasadena and Oak land. Cal. They arrived early In the morning on two special trains. But they wera not too early for the Royal Rosarlans of Portland, who were at the Union Depot In force to meet and to greet them. Headed by the School boys' band of Oakland, the visitors iA-aed to the Multnomah Hotel, where their headquarters had been established. After that their movements were en tirely in the hands of their happy hosts (Coaduilcu on Fags aT) BUMPER CROP OF WHEAT FORECAST RECORD HARVEST OF WINTER GRAIN PREDICTED. Acreage Is Third Largest Ever Planted and Conditions Are Fa vorable for Abundant Yield. WASHINGTON. June 9. A bumper wheat crop, sufficient to mill more than 160,600,000 barrels of flour and which may reach the proportions of the record wheat harvest of 1901, if conditions from now on are exception ally favorable, was forecasted today by the Department of Agriculture in its June crop report. Government experts estimated this year's harvest would be 744,000,000 bushels, of which 492,000,000 bushels will be Winter wheat a record for this crop and 252,000,000 bushels will be Spring wheat. The third largest acreage ever planted, and favorable growing conditions account for the prospect for j.n abundant yield- An increase of more than 1 per cent over last year's acreage was planted to oats this year, but the condition of this crop on June 1 was below the 10 year average and officials estimate the production will be 1,104,000,000 bushels, or more than 800,000,000 bush els below last year's harvest. The acreage planted to barley was less than that of last year and the produc tion Is estimated at 177,000,000 bushels. GOLD BRICK USED IN JOKE Jim Xjogan Sinters Grants Pass Un concerned as to Riches. GRANTS PASS. Or. June 9. (Spe cial.) Jim Logan, who possesses some of the best plaoer properties in the county, came to town, today for the purpose of making his week-end de posit from the Osgood placer. In his outside coat pocket he carried a gold brick weighing pounds, with aa much unconcern as n man would carry his very-day handkerchief. At the garage Jim's big slug of gold was used, to play Jokes upon unsus pecting friends, by placing the bar of gold In the friend's auto and then ask lng him what he had. The bar of gold, small in space size, but large in the eye's mind, ran along toward. $1000. At the Logan headquarters, near Wal do, the home place Is fully equipped with electric lights, sewer and all mod ern conveniences, yet the place la 40 miles from Grants Pass. BALKAN WAR NEAR AGAIN Bulgaria's Answer Expected to Arouse Servia and Greece. LONDON. June 9. Both sides refus ing to make the slightest concession, war between the Balkan states is hour ly growing more Imminent. If Bul garia sends a negative reply to the Servian ncte and nothing Indicates that she will answer otherwise, Servia and Greece will proclaim the annexa tion of the occupied Macedonian terri tories, thereby establishing a definite casus belli. The only hopeful feature of the situ ation consists in the belief that Bul garia Is lacking the sinews of war. Servia and Greece are not only better situated In this respect, but also oc cupy superior strategical positions. These facts probably account for the calmness with which Servia apparent ly regards the prospects of war. MATE-SHOOTING UNDER BAN Chicago Judge Says Season tor Wives to Fire on Husbands Ended. CHICAGO. Juno 9. Municipal Judge Mahoney declared a. closed season on husband shooting today, so far as his Jurisdiction extends. "Too many wives are shooting and wounding or killing their husbands and going free," declared the Judge. "It will not be tolerated In my court at least," whereupon he fined Mrs. Dora. Dwyer $100 and sentenced her to serve six months in Brldwell. Early In the day the defendant ad mitted Jealousy as tlie cause of firing on her husband. The latter pleaded that his wife b"e held guiltless, but the court declined. BIG TOLL PAID TO REBELS Americans ajid British Pay $1(2. 500 to LeaTe Mexican Zone. SALTILLO. Mexico. June 3. More than 100 refugees, chiefly Americans and British, arrived here today on a special train from Conception Del Ord"1 in Northeastern ZacAscaa, abou? S7 miles from here. The party inc.' jded Mr. Clapham. a mine manager who was erlously wounded in a recent bruah with the rebels. The refugees were compelled to pay the rebels $12,500 for the train and for permission to pass out. They said that apparently no effort had been made to repair the National railroad, running- to the north. WALDO'S OUSTING URGED ?"ew York Aldermen Recommend Dismissal of Poliee Head. NET" YORK, June 3. By a vote of five to four a special committee of Al dermen adopted today the Curran com mittee report on police conditions, car rying with it a recommendation for ! the removal of Police Commissioner Waldo. The report was submitted in ; five sections, one of which charges ' that members of the detective bureau j were in league with thievea The last section, submitted today. dealt with the appointment to the po j lice force of men alleged to have been proved unfit for service. DISPLAY OF ROSES FINEST ON RECORD King and Royal Suite Pay Homage. YAST HALL BOWER OF BEAUTY Thousands View Exhibit and Express Admiration. SINGLE BLOOM IS 8 INCHES E. B. McFarland and Charles F. Min er Garry Off Honors With Sev eral Winning Entries and All Awards Are Announced. In all her sweetness and her splendor, In the high noon of her perfection, the Rose has come and has re-established her Summer sovereignty in the city that, above all others, delights to do her honor. Other seasons have their blossoms, but this Is Junetlme and rose time. The Rose is queen in Portland. Thousands of people yesterday paid their tribute of wonder and delight at the court that has been set up by the Portland Rose Society at the Armory. The great hall is filled with roses. In all the myriad of regal blossoms there is not one pampered product of the hot house. These rich and hardy Portland roses grew and blossomed in the open air. Perfection Is Noted. With fully 100 more entries than were made last June, with a greater variety than has ever been shown in any of the 33 preceding annual ex hibits, the rose show this year Is pro nounced by those who have grown roses In Portland for a quarter of a century to mark the high tide of the success of the society, whose members make it their pleasant business to provide a rose show each June. The propitious weather conditions of the past three weeks have brought the blossoms to unbUghted maturity at this particular time. To the court of Queen Rose last night came Oregonus. King of the Rose Festi val, with the liege lord of the Pasa dena Rose Tournament, with all his knights, and with Miss Spokane, queen of the Enakops fiesta. All paid their respects to the flower that Portland celebrates. The Glacier National Park Indians also fell Into the train of the queen, and danced their celebrated grass dance In her honor. President Currey Gives Welcome. This programme followed an address of welcome made in behalf of the Rose Society by Its president, J. A. Currey. CConcludea on Pass 4.) ; ' j S1 Njl : ,, i I i . i i i . . INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The M wither. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, TO degrees; mn.iznum. 52 decrees, TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. Rose Festival. Hose show declared, finest in city's history. Pa.fr 1. Festive Kins; arrives, greeted by boom of sruns and siren whistles. Page 1. Iasadena, too, pays tribute to Portland and Rose Festival. page 9. Roiarlans welcome California guests with armloads of roses. Page S. Oakland to plant 100 rose bushes and live oak here. Page 8. Klnr Oregon us arrives at Summer King dom. Page 8. Two parades features of today's programme. Page 9. Merry monarchs see subjects revel at Ar mory. Page 0. Visitors greeted with showers of roses. Pate 8. Three press Club members become "new white Blackfeet," Page T. News from every home town for Festival visitors. Page 2. National. Senate lobby inquiry committee bear ex Congressmen tell of interests they repre ent while at Washing-ton. Page 5 Government forecasts bumper wheat crop. Page 1. in revenue through Underwood bill more than offset by Income tax. Page 6. Minnesota wins big victory In state rate case. Page -. Domestic. East in grip of sudden cold snap. Page 3. Government sues to bring about dissolution of "Eastman kodak trust." Page 3. Pacific North. weet. Block signal saves train when cloudburst hits railway in Blue Mountains. Page 6-Attorney-General Crawford surveys Day bill, which he believes unconstitutional. Page a. Port Ian a couples refused marrlagv licenses at Vancouver. Page 1. Stefansson ready Thursday, but will not sail into Arctic Sea tin Ice breaks. Page 3. Sports. Northwestern Jeague results: Portland 2, Vancouver 5; Taooma 0, Spokane 1; Seat tle 7. Victoria 2. Page 12. Coast League results: Sacramento fi, Venice lO. Page 12. Early season prediction of Coast League goes glimmering. Page 12 American tennis team wins and will take on Germans next. Page 12. Denver motorcycle pilot goes mile In 49 seconds at Country Club. Page 18. Commercial and Marine. Japanese buying reduces wheat stocks on Sound. Page IS. Wheat higher at Chicago on big reduction in visible statement. Page 18. Government's June report indicates record wheat crop. Page 3 9. All financial markets under selling pressure Page 18, Several thousand persons visit cruiser St. Louis. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity., Maccabees of Oregon and Washington In annual Interstate session. Page 14. Portland Art Association reports favor ably on museum. Page 4. Architectural League of Pacific Coast holds third annual convention. Page 14. Chicago woman smothers Von Klein with kisses ; prisoner bound over. Page L Weather report, data and forecast. Page 14. CHINESE WOMEN CONSPIRE Educated' Orientals Arrested at Tieu Tsin and Pekln. PEKM, June 9. Some women of modern education were among- the al leged antl - government conspirators who were placed under arrest at Tien Tsin and Pekln in the last few weeks. It is reported that 200 conspirators al ready have been executed after sum mary examination. It Is difficult to determine whether President Yuan Shi Kal is winning or losing In the political campaign now being waged for the presidency, but Important movements of troops are continually being made. THE FESTIVITIES ABE ON CLUTCH OF COLD SNAP Overcoats Popular in Chill Blasts. DAMAGE TO FRUIT IS HEAVY Frosts Extend Over Wide Area in Great Lakes Region. GARDEN PRODUCTS RUINED Bitter Winds Extend as Far SoutU as Atlanta. Ga. Snow Reported at Montreal Missouri Apple Crop Is Menaced by Rains CHICAGO, June 9. (Special.) Chill blasts, more befitting the end of No vember than the month of June, which struclc Chicago Frliay night, and still linger, have now spread generally over the East. Overcoats, redolent of moth balls, and straw hats axe the pre vailing costume everywhere east of the Missouri River. The cold wave has now reached as far south aa Atlanta, Ga., where tem perature of 58 above, with cold rain, was recorded last nlgnt. In all the Eastern states tempera tures of 40 to 64 above prevailed last night, but rose slightly today. In Chicago the minimum last night was 47, but It rose to 51 today. Cleveland, O., with a minimum of 40 and a maxi mum of 52, may be taken as typical of the Great "Lakes region in that direc tion. It is colder In the Great Lakes region and in the Eastern group of states than it is in Canada. Stiff Breeie Prevail. In nearly all the Middle ' "Western and Eastern, states a stiff breeze from the southeast at an average of 18 miles an hour prevails. Much alarm is felt in the Michigan fruit belt and the great fruit fields In Middle New York. Frost is predicted tonight In Michigan. Reports tonight from Lower Michigan points indicate heavy damage to fruit crops in the latt two days. In many sections the ther mometer registered 40 above Sunday night. In Kalamazoo County aspara gus and lettuce beds were utterly ruined and the potato plants seriously damaged. Kent County reports frost on low lands, affecting corn, tomatoes, lettuce and other crops. Jackson, Thumb and Saginaw Valley districts also report much damage. Experienced fruitgrow. era say the real extent of damage to the trees and shrubs cannot be estl- EAST IN SUDDEN (Concluded on Paze 5.t CUPID DEFEATED THRICE IN PLEAS WITHOUT WITNESSES PORT LAXD COUPLES LOSE. One Hoped-to-Bo Husband Arjrues SO Minutes With Official Asking Law Be Set Aside for Him. . VANCOUVER, Wash.. June 9. (Spe cial.) Three counleft In Ml mmmlnmt from Portland, today were refused mar riage licenses here by William N. Mar shall, County Auditor. beciisi th.v did not have witnesses. One wanted- to-be husband argued for 30 minute? with the auditor, saying that in his particular case that the law should be set aside, and that the license should be granted, because he did not know anyone here. The new law in Oregon is throwing a large amount of money into the coffers of Clark County in marriage license fees at $4.50 each. June promises to be the largest month's business in Cupid's line, in the history of the county. When a couple are compelled to pay $2.50 or more for a health certificate in Oregon in many cases they laugh at the law and come to this city and are married here. The ministers are profiting somewhat by the new regime and the Justice of the peace turns more fees into the county. Marriage licenses were Issued to: Joseph O. Venden. of Battleground, and Miss Anna K. Mickleson, of Camas; Charles W. Murray and Mrs. Lola E. Lovelace, of Seattle; D. Perry Trulling er and Mrs. Belle Pheasants, of Yam hill. Or.; Isador Zimmerman ark Mrs. Annie Verdlex, of Portland; Mar .in W. Sims and Mrs. Grace L. Gates, of Cam as. Wash.; A. S. Potter and Lena Orms bee, of Raymond. Wash., Jacob J, Ostc-r and Ltll!?n M. Robilard. Henry A. Krueger and Miss Katherine Block, all of Portland, and Carl Johnson and Miss Florence M. Bills, of Brush Prairie, Wash. SUITS FOR REBATES DENIED Supreme Court Reverses Decision Against Pennsylxania Road. WASHINGTON, June 9. Holding that one shipper cannot sue for rebates as demanded because competitors re ceived rebates, the Supreme Court re versed the decision of the Pennsylvania courts awarding to the International Coal Mining Company, of the. Clear field region of Pennsylvania, a Judg ment of 12.000 against the Pennsylva nia Railroad. Justice Pitney dissenting, declared the decision practically annulled the right of shippers to sue for damages conferred by recent legislation. leaW a right to sue only In the almost ineli gible instances, where the goods of a shipper came into competition with competitors who received rebates. CANAL OPEN JAN. 1, 1915 Goethals Says "Anything That Floats Can Go Through by Then." NEW YORK. June 3. "By January 1. 1315. anythins that floats can pass through the Panama Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans." declared Colonel George W. Goethals, chief en gineer of the Canal Zone, who arrived here tonight on the steamer Pastores from Colon. "I shall send a vessel through the canal just as soon as we get water into it." continued the chief engineer. "I promised that the Fram, used by Amundsen in discovering the South Pole, should go first, but the initial passage probably will be made by a smaller craft." FLOWER DAY IS OBSERVED Temperance Workers Distribute Bo quets to Hospitals and Homes. .'esterday was flower mission day with the Woman's Christian Temper ance Workers. Hundreds of bouquets of flowers were distributed at the hos pitals, homes of poor families, homes where there is sickness, and In other places. The day is celebrated each year by the temperance workers in honor of Miss j'ennle Casseday, of Louisville, Ky., originator of the movement to supply the unfortunate of the world with flowers. MITCHELL LOSES IN APPEAL Appellate Court Finds Sulzer Ap pointment Illegal "as to Law." ALBANY. N. Y.. June 3. The decision of the Supreme Court declaring illegal Governor Sulzer's appointment of John Mitchell, former president of the Unit ed Mineworkersi. as State Labor Com missioner was affirmed by the appellate division today, "as a matter ot law and not as a matter of discretion." The case will be taken to the Court of Appeals. MOTHER 0FJ5 IS KILLED Lightning Takes Toll During Storm in Palouse Country. SPOKANE, Wash., June 9. (Special.) Mrs. Bert Howell, mother of 15 chil dren, wife of a prominent farmer who lives three miles east of Palouse, across the Idaho line, was instantly killed by lightning between 6 and 7 o'clock last night during a severe electrical storm which was passing over the Pa louse country. Bank Statement Is Called For. WASHINGTON, June . The Con troller of the Currency today issued a call for a statement of the condition ot all National banks of tb United States at the close of business on Wednesday, June 1. VON KLEIN GREETED BY WOMAN'S KISS Mrs. Rena Morrow May Aid in Release. PRISONER UP TO GRAND JURY Miss Newcomb Withstands Terrific Grilling. CHICAGO DEATH RECALLED Latest Entrant in "Diamond Bro ker's" Case Recently Acquitted in East of Murdering Her Hus band Von Klein Protests. With a rapturous embrace and a doz en kisses, Mrs. Rena B. Morrow, re cently acquitted at Chicago of the mur der of her husband, and who provided the $14,000 bond given by Edmond K. C. Von Klein while he was awaiting extradition from Chicago, greeted the prisoner in his cell on the third floor of the C'ty Jail yest-jrday afternoon. The pair conversed privately for 15 or 20 minutes and rumors were abroad last night that the release of Von Klein under bond of $10,000 or $5000 cash would follow the arrival of tha woman. This and the binding over of Von Klein to the grand Jury to answer to the charge of stealing $3500 worth of diamonds from Miss Ethel Newcomb were developments yesterday in the celebrated case. Miss Newcomb with stood a terrific grilling by Attorneys Fitzgerald and Johnson for the defense, and emerged triumphantly. Her charge that Von Klein, after par ticipating in an illegal ceremony with her in San Francisco, fled with her diamonds, was corroborated by the tes timony of Detective Day, who identified Von Klein as George B. Lewis, who was here at the time, posing as Mies Xewcomb's husband, and by that of J. H. Marble, a barber at the Portland Hotel, who said he had known "Lewis" for 1 2 years and saw him the day of his flight with a handkerchief full of jewelry. He positively identified Von Klein. The defense offered no testi mony. Woman Heavily Veiled. While the fact that Mrs. Morrow i in the city is nowhere admitted and even is diplomatically denied by At torney Logan, of the defense, there is no question that the woman in blue, who Interviewed the prisoner yester day, is she. She has veiled her face heavily and moves in secrecy, but per sons who have seen her identify her picture. Just before the time set for the hear ing in Municipal Court yesterday, a middle-aged woman, dressed in a blue gown and wearing a heavy veil, applied at the station desk for permission to speak to Von Klein. She was ap proached by Patrolman Coulter, but as he was wearing a khaki motorcycle uniform she refused to talk to him and later asked Patrolman Thatcher if he was not a reporter. When the woman was admitted to Von Klein's cell he threw his arms about her and they kissed heartily. The officer courteously withdrew while they conferred, but he saw her shake her finger in Von Klein's face and say. laughingly. "Don't tell me; I know what sort of a fellow you are and what you are capable of doing." Woman Eludes Pursuer. After the interview Mrs. Morrow left the station and was followed, but be trayed at once her knowledge that she was being shadowed, and led her pursuer a chase which lasted an hour and then ended in her escape. Later it developed that she had made head quarters in the lobby of the New Hous ton Hotel throughout the day. confer ring with friends and attorneys for Von Klein. Late yesterday afternoon a woman called The Oregonian office by tele phone, saying that she was here from Chicago to attend tno Rose Festival and witshed to protest against the newspapeis giving credence to the charges of Miss Newcomb against "that nice boy. Von Klein." She said she knew of improprieties committed in Chicago by Miss Newcomb. The story she told was recognised by Detective Day as Identically the same as one told him in Chicago by Mrs. Morrow. The acquaintance of Mrs. Morrow and Von Klein began through the fact of their having the same attorney in Chi cago. Mrs. Morrow was charged with killing her husband. Dr. Charles B. Morrow, who was found on his porch with bullet wounds in his brain and heart. The couple were somewhat prominent and the case caused a great stir. Mrs. Morrow was acquitted prin cipally through the testimony of three women who said that they were pass ing the Morrow home when a man rushed out with a revolver in his hand. Mr. Morrow Aids on Bond. Mrs. Morrow was persuaded by her attorney to furnish the $11,000 bond for Von Klein and thereafter became bis devoted champion. - She talked of coming to Portland to assist him. but later asserted that she could not spare the money. With another mysterious veiled woman, "Mrs. Webber." alleged victim : of Von Klein to the extent of $12,000, as a mute spectator, and pretty Ethel Newcomb as his accuser, the defendant (Concluded on Page S.1