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K VOL. LIU. NO- 16,52G. T'OHTLAXD. ORECiON. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. r BUZZARD ON LAKES CASTS UP ITS DEAD Shipping Damaged to Enormous Extent. FREIGHTER TOSSES, KEEL UP Unidentified Vessel Believed to , Carry Cargo of Flax. MANY VESSELS ARE LOST Cleveland Hardest Hit of Any of Points on Land Five Are Killed There and Property Loss Will Reach $2,000,000. CHICAGO. Nor 11. The shores of Lakes Superior. Huron and Erie were strewn tonight with the wreckage or a three-day galo and snow storm, which cost the lives of probably three score persons, turned bottom up In nil dlake a 300-foot steel vessel with Its crew, wrecked or. grounded numerous other craft and caused a property loss as yet unestlmated, but which will run Into the millions. The full details of the storm, which swept from the westernmost end of Lake Superior to the eastern shores of Lake Krie, became known only today, when survivors began arriving In va rious ports with tales of hardships and heroic rescues seldom equaled on the lakes. Cleveland Hardest Hit. On land the storm hit hardest at Cleveland, where five persons were lulled and 30 others lost and where $ 2, 000,000 damage was caused to prop erty. The death toll, with many ports unreported, is told thus: Twenty-five or 40 men probably drowned In the overturning of a freighter found floating In Lake Huron. Five bodies washed ashore at St. Joseph, on the Canadian side of Lake Huron (four had belts marked "Wex ford" and one wore a belt marked "London"). Three bodies -washed ashore on the west shore of Lake Huron. Two bodies washed ashore opposite the position of the overturned boat. Lightship Crew Drowned. Six members of a lightship drowned In Lake Erie, near Buffalo, N. Y. Seven bodies washed ashore at Kettle Point, Lake Huron, and seven other bodies rolling on the decks of a. ship wrecked there. The escapes from death were numer ous. After the storm, about Friday midnight, had blown away the forward part of the ship, Captain J. W. Buddie son, of the steamer L. C. Waldo, navi gating by a small, inaccurate compass, ran his vessel on a reef. The crew suf fered intense cold and hunger until their rescue today. The crew of the Turret Chief, when the ship struck the rocks In Lake Su perior, were forced to go ashore scant ily clad. Property Loss Is Ileavy. It was Impossible to estimate the total loss to vessels totally wrecked or damaged by grounding. Shippers In Detroit estimated the loss in Lake Huron and the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers alone to be several hundred thousand dollars. Three of the wrecked steamers increase the loss by $500,000, while the scores of smaller craft driven ashore In Lake Superior and Lake Erie wl'l send the total much higher. The important mishaps to vessels were: Unidentified 300-foot steel freighter, floating bottom up in Lake Huron, a few miles north of Port Huron. Built in Canada. Cargo probably was flax. United States life-saving crew found vessel in such position as to have made It almost Impossible for any of the crew of 25 or 40 to have escaped. Lightship No. 82, In Lake Erie off Port Albino, 15 miles west of Buffalo, with crew of six, believed lost. Steamer Pounded to Piece. Steamer L. C. Waldo, of Bay Trans portation Company, Detroit, valued at 5500,000, torn to pieces by storm Frl uay midnight anu pounded , against rocks on Cull Rock Manltou Island. Steamer Turret Chief, of the Mer chants' Mutual Line, of Ontario, went to pieces on the rocks six miles east of Keweenaw Point, in Lake Superior, be fore daylight' Saturday, bound for Port Arthur. Ont. Blown 60 miles out ot course to the south shore; crew of 17 rescued; loss $100,000. Unidentified vessel wrecked on rocks nt Augus Point, Isle Royal, Lake Su perior. Among the frail craft placed in Jeopardy but saved was the Santa Ma ria, a reproduction of Columbus' cara vel, which Is bound from Chicago to San Francisco. It was driven into a mudbank near Erie, Pa. On board Is what Is cherished as the original an chor which Columbus carried to Amer ica, i The vessels reported aground with slight or no damage numbered more than SO. Reports tonight indicated the storm had ended. CLEVELAND IX . NEW PERIL Drinking Water Turned by' Storm to Color of Coffee. CLEVELAND Nov. 11. With fair and . warmer weather predicted for tomor row, Cleveland is hopeful tonight of a speedy cessation of the difficulties that have beset It since the worst snow (Concluded en Pag 2.) BANK ROBBERS FLEE WITH $10,000 LOOT MASKED MEN SHOOT CASHIER AND- ESCAPE TO WOODS. Canadian Cracksmen Engage in Running Fight With Citizens When Surprised at Their Work.- SEATTLE Nov. 11. A special to the Post-Intelligencer from Hazelton, B. C, says five masked men tonight robbed the safe' of. the Union Bank of New Hazelton, four miles east of Hazelton, obtaining $10,000, shot the cashier, and escaped after a running rifle battle with citizens. Police and Special Constables are scouring the timber. A special Grand Trunk train was sent west tonight in hope of intercepting the bandits, as it was believed they escaped down the Skeena River. - Cashier McQueen, returning from din ner, surprised the robbers at work. One opened fire, the bullet striking Mc Queen between the eyes, glancing downward and lodging below the eye. The wound is painful but not serious. The robber escaped while the cashier was unconscious. Citizens attracted by the shot armed themselves and hurried to the bank Just as the robbers were leaving. The citizens opened fire on the fleeing men, who engaged In & running battle until they found shelter In the timber on the edge of town. Six sus pects were arrested on the road be tween Haxleton and New Hazleton. COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP UP Chehalis Club Wunts Commissioners to Establish Fund. ABERDEEN, Wash, Nov. 11. (Spe cial.) Chehalis Coutfty Commissioners will be asked to establish a scholar ship at the Univers ty of Washington to be awarded ani aally to the most deserving high scK tol graduate. The plan Is the idea of the Chehalis County Club at the unive sity. The club is composed of Cheha is County students. Measures for establishing the schol arship fund were cjlscussed at a meet ing of the club he'll in Seattle yester day, ' but action $ .s postponed .until the meeting in December. Club mem bers hope that tht. 'matter can be laid before the Commissioners during the Christmas holidays. STEAMER ASHORE IN FOG "City of Shelton" Is Badly Damaged Oir Libby's Point. . OLTMPIA, Wash., Nov. 11. (Special.) In a heavy fog the steamer City of Shelton, Captain GustafTson, on the Olympia-Shelton run, went ashore at lobby's Point, a few miles from its destination, last night. Fifty pas sengers were aboard, but their mo mentary fright was allayed by the ar rival, within a few minutes, of the tug Mizpah, which had gone to Shelton after log rafts. Two trips took all passengers safely to Shelton. Today the Sol G. Simpson took off the freight. The ebbing tide left the Shelton cfear of the water except that within her hold. MIXED TICKET VICTORIOUS San Francisco Names Supervisors, Tax Collector and Police Judge SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 11. Ban Francisco's municipal election today resulted in victory for a mixed ticket. Eight Supervisors, a Police Judge and a Tax Collector were elected. Five of the supervisorial candidates who were successful were indorsed by the county committee of the Union Labor party. The three other Supervisors elected are lnoumbents. The vote was light. WIFE OUT; NEIGHBOR IN Husband Marries When Spouse Leaves Home, to Visit. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov.. 11. Arthur B. Carter, son-in-law of Frank M. Nye, ex-Congressman, Is in Jail here charged with bigamy. He is said to have made a confession that he was married to Miss Selma Henderson, . who resided with her mother only a few . blocks from the Carter home on February 10, 1913, while Mrs. Carter was away on visit. GATES ESTATE IS DIVIDED Wife and Mother to Share In Mil lions Left Behind. NEW YORK. Nov. 11. The estate of Charles G. Gates will be divided be tween his widow, Mrs. Charles G. Gates, and his mother. Mrs. John W. Gates, who will get equal shares In the resid uary estate, about $2,000,000 each, after bequests amounting to about $600,000 are paid to relatives and friends. STARING AT "COP" CRIME German Judge Sends Business Man to Jail for "Insulting" by Gaze, BRESLAU, Germany, Nov. 11. Sen tence of a fortnight in prison for star lng at a policeman ma.a imposed on a business man of this city today. The court said the defendant had been guilty of "a most serious Insult to an official." Greeks and Turks Agree. ATHENS, Nov. 11. The Greek and Turkish peace delegates reached an agreement today practically on all points under negotiation. . - GRAFT WITNESS ADMITS PERJURY Syracuse Man in Col lapse on Stand. HENNESSY'S STORY BORNE OUT Scale Turned by Typewriter Expert's Evidence. TAMMANY GUILE EXPOSED Buffalo Contractor Mentioned as Contributor Admits Facts and Corroborates Other Charges Made by Investigator. NEW YORK. Nov. 11. George H. Mc Guire, of Syracuse, who denied under oath last Thursday that he had sent a telegram to John A. Hennessy, who was Governor Sulzer's graft investi gator, relative to political contriuL. Uons, admitted today he was the au thor of the telegram. A threat of indictment for perjury was hanging over him when the ad mission fell from his lips, and he left the witness stand almost in a state of collapse. A physician was called to attend him. McGuire was testifying for the sec ond time in the John Doe... Inquiry instituted by District Attorney Whit man into Hennessy's charges that con tractors of state work had been "sand bagged" into making campaign con tributions to Tammany Hall. Hennessy testified he obtained most of his in formation from McGuire and that Mc Guire had sent him a telegram from Syracuse, signed "M," setting forth that William H. Kelly, Democratic lead er of Onondaga County, had been help ing Arthur A. McLean, treasurer of the Democratic state committee, to "shake down", state highway contractors. . "Typewriter Betrays" User. District Attorney Whitman sent be fore the grand Jury today three wit nesses who gave testimony to show that McGuire had not told the truth. One of these was Miss Ollle Collier, a stenographer in McGulre's office. An other was a typewriter expert, who took with him s typewriter which had been brought from McGulre's office. The stenographer testified, it is under stood, that the machine was one which McGuire himself frequently used, and the expert declared that the letters on the original of the telegram corre sponded in their peculiarities with the letters on the machine. McGuire was informed at his hotel of the contemplated action of the Dis trict Attorney against htm, and soon afterward his friends telephoned to (Concluded on Page 3- HANDS " : . . . ; ...... .................... ............... .i........................ ......... ....... INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 60 degrees; mlnlmumb. 43 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. National. Cabinet thinks "financial Isolation" may bring Huerta to time. Page 2. 'Garrison thinks deep-water vessels can use canal by Spring. Page 2. Four millions to b spent ultimately on Umatilla project. Page 1. Domestic Rev. J. A. Cruian. pioneer Portland minis ter, dies in California. Page 5. Blizzard on Great Lakes cast up Us dead. Page 1. Witness in Tammany graft inquiry admits' perjury. Page 1. Cake for Jessie Wilson's wedding la baked. Page 8. Mrs. Belmont says "Spugs" would give to those lower down Instead ot higher up. Page 4. San Francisco beauty takes lasue with Anna Helds beauty 'Ideas. Page 1. Sports. Washington and Oregon teams fit for Sat urday's battle. Page 8. Football gains favor In East. Page 8. Boxers reach city for Multnomah meet. Page . Venice and Oakland buy new pitchers. Page W. Majors' lineup for Portland game arranged. I'age 8. Vaudeville tempts stranded high school foot ball stars. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Three disputes likely at labor convention in Seattle. Page 6. Sumpter Valley Railroad and employes reach agreement. Page 7. " Pendleton murder case goes to Jury today. Page 5. Portland girl made white slave Is charge against Chinese arrested ' in Seattle. Page 7. New Hood River Judge takes up road issue with O.-W. R. & N. Page 6. Big announcement from Western Pacific head Is expected in .Boise. Page 7. Night session expected to hurry Pender case. Page 6. Canadian bank robbers escape with $10,.00. Page 1. Western Klickitat County fair is on. Page 11. Commercial and Marine. California wheat buyers withdraw from market. Page 19. With wider damaged area In Argentina, wheat advances at Chicago. Page 19. Stocks advance rapidly, but lose part of gain in reaction. Page 10. C. ' Ferd I.aclsz brings first shipment of Oriental goods for East. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Police protection for criminals is rumored. Page 1. Flower show wins visitor in Dainty Dancer Mile. Dazle. Page 18. Portland Woman's Club plans social work. Page 13. Flowers enchant visitors to floral show. Page 12. Masons "at home" s.t temple tomorrow even ing. Page 12. Robert Doilat thinks no boom will follow Panama Canal opening. Page IS. Hill party returns from Central Oregon, visits Tacoma- and starts eastward. Pase 18. School- survey committee "snub" felt by School Board. , Page 4. Statewide conference opposes any ruling against women working nights. Page 4. Weather report,' data and forecast. Page 4. PAYMASTER TO BE FREE Navy Department Orders Release of Arthur Pippin, EmbezzleY. . VALEJO, Cal., Nov. 11. An order from the Navy Department, remitting the remainder of the' seven-year San Quentln sentence of Arthur Pippin, ex Paymaster of the Navy, attached to the receiving ship at Mare Island, con victed two years ago of embezzling Government funds amounting to $3000, was received today. No explanation as to why the order Is Issued is offered. The dispatch also directs that a Gov ernment tug be sent to San Quentln on Friday for the purpose of. bringing. Pippin to Mare Island for discharge from the service. OFF," THERE IS NO MEXICAN FOUR MILLIONS TO BE SPENT ON WORK Ultimate Umatilla Proj ect Huge One. EXTENSION BELIEVED CERTAIN Building of Gravity Unit to Be Begun by Christmas. RESERVOIR TO FOLLOW Negotiations With Private Owners to . Be Resumed and Outlook for Early Settlement Is Held to Be Hopeful. OP.EGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash. Ington, Nov. 11. Four million dollars will be expended by the Government during the next few years in construct ing the West Umatilla irrigation project in Eastern Oregon. Eight hundred thousand dollars of this amount has been set aside and will be expended during the coming year in building the first or gravity unit, and the remainder will be held pending final determina tion of the feasibility of the West Side project and an adjustment of private land titles. It is believed that these obstacles will not occasion any delay once the first unit is finished. For years the West Umatilla project has been awaiting word from some Sec retary to begin work. Secretary Bal linger nearly four years ago viewed this project with favor, but he was beset by so many troubles that It was lost sight of. His successor also had the project under consideration, but took no decisive action, notwithstand ing President Taft ordered the project built. The obstacles raised during the Taft Administration, - so far as they apply to , the first unit, have been cleared away, and the Reclamation Service Is now proceeding under direct orders of Secretary Lane to build the project. Work will be begun by or before Christmas. Secretary Detects Discrimination. Secretary Lane discovered that Ore gon had been grossly discriminated against in the past in the distribution of reclamation funds, and found that, while the state had been the heaviest contributor to the reclamation fund, it" had been one of the least of Its bene ficiaries. This condition, he said, was unfair and should be remedied, and ever since making the discovery Secretary Lane has sought to promote the Chamberlain has been work ing for the West Umatilla project for the past four years, and no sooner did Secretary Lane take office than Sena- (Concluded on Page 2.) PROBLEM! GOLDEN GATEGIRLS FINDOMEDEFENDER BEAUTY AT TSSCE WITH ANNA HELD'S BEAUTY OPINION. Observations of Actress in San Fran cisco Limited to Society Matrons, Declares One Shop Woman. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 11. (Special.) "The reason that Anna Held says San Francisco women are fat and coarse is that she sees only the women who sit in the stage boxes. These women get fat and coarse because they have noth ing to do but ride in automobiles and go to dinner parties. "When you come right down to It you don't find any stunning women In society. The women with the beautiful faces and the beautiful figures are in the middle and the working class. "All Anna Held needed to do was to walk around the shopping district or drop into a smart cafe to see one pretty face after another." Thus does Mis3 Marie Louise Ready dispose of the statement made in Los Angeles by Anna Held that San. Fran cisco women are less beautiful than the .world believes. Miss Ready ought to know, as she is a model here In a big dressmaking shop, and has splendid op portunity to get a close look at the women of the city. Besides, she Is unusually pretty herself. "There is not another city world," she said, "where the are more beautiful. Women more here than other places. In the women laugh In New York they look dissipated. "Anna Held says that San Francisco women drink too many cocktails. Of course she's just jollying Los Angeles. "It's funny that she should say big women are not attractive. She always surrounds herself with the biggest women she can get." Miss Ready spoke with authority. On the last trip out here she was one of the big women with which Anna Held surrounded herself. WINK IS PATH TO PRISON Department Store Mashers Sentenced to Workhouse, NEW YORK, Nov. 11. On evidence that he had winked at a salesgirl in the waiting room of a Sixth avenue department store, Daniel Sager was sentenced to 20 days In the workhouse by Magistrate House today. Two of 10 other young men arrested by Do tectlves at the same time on the charge of flirting were sentenced to 30 days each. Eight other prisoners will be tried tomorrow after passing the night in jail in default' of $1000 bonds. The arrests resulted from the com plaint of a young woman, who wrote to Police Commissioner Waldo that, when on a shopping tour recently, she had been insulted. The detectives were assisted today by several salesgirls, who were assigned to places In the waiting-rooms frequented daily by young men. ROAD TO ANNOUNCE PLANS O.-AV. R. & X. Will Tell Olympin Men About Improvements. OLYMPIA, Wash., Oct. 11. (Special.) Official announcement of the improve ments here planned by the O.-W. It. N-. which will build Into this citv earlv next year.will be made Thursday night at a banquet given by the Olynipia Chamber of Commerce. United States Senator Weslev L. Jones yesterday telegraphed his ac. septance of an invitation to be present. State Senator P. II. Carlyon, presi dent of the Olympla Terminals Com pany, which obtained the local right of way and other prODertv for thn iis.t-t-1- man system, is expected to make the official announcement. OREGON GETS HINSDALE Wusliingtonian Comes Here for Sal ary Snid to Be $3000. OLYMPIA. Wash., Nov. 11. (Special.) F. W. Hinsdale, chief auditor of the Washington Industrial Insurance Coin- mission since Its organziatlon, has been secured by the Oregon Compensa tion Commission at an increased sal ary to fill a similar position. It was announced today. Hinsdale will take up his new duties next month, while a readjustment of the present force will be made to fill his place. It is stated unofficially Hinsdale has been promised $3000 as against $1878, which he received here, WOMAN BUYING UP CALVES North Yakima Typist Would Get Corner on Yonnj Heifers. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Nov. 11. (Special.) A young woman stenogra pher in a North Yakima law office is attempting to corner the market In heifer calves. She has figured out that ranchers are seeking to buy cows and will want more as the time passes. She has rented a few lots north of the city and has the calves corraled there, feeds them, and they are devel oping every day at a rate which prom ises a fine return on the Investment, GUNS OFFERED MILITANTS German Dealer Hears "Stronger Or ganization" Is Contemplated. LONDON, Nov. 12. (Special.) Ac cording to the Dally Mail's Berlin cor respondent a German dealer In arms and munitions of war, understanding that the English suffragettes are con templating a "stronger organization," has offered to sell to the militants an unlimited quantity 0f repeating rifles at ii marks ($1.18) a piece. POLICE PROTECTION FOR CROOKS HINTED Revelations in Depart ment "Surprising. CAPTAIN SLOVER IS INVOLVED Evidence Is Officers Sent to Live With Lewd Women. PLOTTER DOUBLE CROSSED Perjury by Sergeant Is Proved by Companions' Confession After Frameup Riley Loses $100 In Night; Salary $175 Month. STATUS OF SCAXTiAT, IX POLICE BEPA RIMEXT. Evidence in handa of Civil Service Commission, growing out of gambling Investigation, points to sensational revelations of wrong- doing: In police department; dealings to protect crim inals hinted. Investigation brings out testimony accusing ex-Acting Chief of Police Slover with having sent men of de partment to live with disorderly women and of furnishing money to buy liquor and drugs for such women wanted as witnesses. Details of draw poker games amons policemen for large pots. Involving ono captain and six sergeants, are learned. Officers Implicated In gambling cases skurry to confess to their part In these and other scandals and to Implicate others. Out of an investigation of the game of draw poker as played in the Tort land Police Department has grown a scandal likely to smut the .record of more than one police officer, high and low, with charges harder to answer than that of gambling. Hints here and there indicate thfc' the Civil Service Commission, which began investigating the gambling situ ation in the department only about three weeks ago, has uncovered vastly more than it ever dreamed of to begin with. It Is admitted that surprising revelations of poor discipline and of the lax moral character of many members of the force have been made. The In vestigation, however, is understood to have revealed much more than that. Protection of Criminals Rumored. For Instance, there 13 a story, which will not be confirmed by members ot the Commission, who do not deny it either, that evidence in their bands in criminates certain men in the depart ment of having been parties to deals to protect criminals. In this connec tion the scandal that developed early In the administration of ex-Mayor Rushlight, when a "ring" in the de partment for purposes of graft and protection of criminals was declared to exist, la recalled. It Is certain, however, that the scops of the investigation has now gone con siderably beyond the original intention. It undoubtedly will go a good deal fur ther. Some exceedingly interesting developments are certain at the public hearing of the police cases, which has been set by the Commission to begin at 9:30 o'clock Thursday, November 20. The Commissioners expect to devote a whole day to taking testimony and hearing accused members of the force. Big I, onsen Alleged. As the original gambling scandal, which ostensibly Is the subject to be covered at this hearing, now stands, about 12 or 15 men on the force are In volved in the "big" private poker games at which large sums of money changed hands. Probably as many mors are under Investigation on the less serious charge of having played cards for money in the quarters of the Police Athletic Association, across the street from the present police station. The "big" games were those which took place in the rooms of Patrolman IX. Chrlstoffersen in the Trinity Place apartments. Here night after night the evidence and .confessions of many of the participants now in the hands of the Commission show what was prac tically a little gambling club composed of police officers, used to gather for a game. Police Captain Loser. Some large pots changed hands at these sittings. There was one night when one man. Patrolman August Schirmer, alone lost $190, It is said. Harry Riley, captain of police, was a consistent loser. In fact, the captain's losings came so regularly, the evidence In the hands of the Commission goes to show, as seriously to Impugn his abil ity as a poker player. " There were several occasions when Captain Riley's losses were between $50 and $100 for the evening. As a police captain his salary Is $175 a month. The captain himself asserts, however, that, although he did liavo some rather large losses .his game in the long run brought him out about even. Chiefs Cleric Winner. Others of the poker "circle" included Sergeant T. J. Casey, clerk to tho Chief, who generally won; Sergeant C. J. Ru pert, also known for his prowess as a football and baseball player, and likewise a pretty good poker player; Sergeants IL A. Thatcher and R. i-. Hutchlngs and Sergeant A. L. Pressy. who has the distinction of being too last man to be promoted to sergeant (Concluded on Page 6.) in 108.2I