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1 Vm WW H IM IS' H fl M H U ii N 3S!5rrjjM&M VOL. LIU.- NO. 16,572. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY o, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS Y V GALE HOLOS SHIPS AT RIVER'S M Winds Lash Sea Into Mass of Foam. DAMAGE IS LIGHT AT ASTORIA "Storm Worst Ever" Verdict of Old-Timers on Coast. MIST ADDS TO HAZARD Incoming Steamers Advise Others to Remain In Port Captain of Break-water Scoffs at Tale of His Vessel In Distress. STORM CONDITION IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST. ASTORIA Wind attains velocity 80 miles an hour; many vessels bar bound: steamer Breakwater cornea In. FORT STEVENS Hammond water front damaged by high seas. RAYMOND Ninety-mile gals at Willapa Harbor; three-story frame building razed. PORTLAND Day's rainfall 1.12 Inches; trains to north delayed. VANCOUVER Rainfall Sunday, l.TS Inches;' slides delay trafflo on Northern Pacific ASTORIA, Or.. Jan. 4. (Special.) The worst In years" is the way every one describes the southeast scale that revived yesterday and continued in unabated fury last night and today. The wind at times attained a velocity of 80 miles an hour. Breakers are running; bo high that the bar at tho mouth of the river is a mass of white foam. The weather is so thick with rain and mist that navigation is ex tremely hazardous. t None of the 15 barbound ships at tempted to cross out today and the Bear la lying at her dock here. In coming vessels report that even should the -steam&rs go: out they could make little headway in the face of the ter rific gale. The steamers Yucatan, Kla math, Temple E. Dorr and Breakwater arrived during the day and all report rough trips, but none was damaged. The Breakwater arrived oft the bar at 7 A. M but as the buoys have been carried away and the weather was thick. It was not until four hours later that Captain Macgenn could pick up the channel and cross in. When told that his vessel had been reported in distress, he replied: "There they go again. Don't they know by this time there was never a gale severe enough to interfere with the Breakwater? She is the best sea boat afloat and a little storm like this one won't bother her.' In Astoria there has been no damage aside from the smashing of a few plate glass windows and the knocking down of some signs and shipping in the harbor has suffered no injury. The train coming from Seaside today was delayed by several trees blown across the tracks. Warnings wenfe hoisted tonight by the Weather Bureau that a southwest gale is approaching. RAYMOND BUILDING TOPPLES Willapa Hurhor Shipping Also Held Vp by Severe Gale. RAYMOND, Wash., ' Jan. 4. (Spe rial.) This city and the entire Wil lapa Harbor district was visited last night and today by the worst wind storm in its history. The gale started early Saturday afternoon and by mid night was blowing at a velocity estl mated to be 90 miles an hour. This con tinued throughout the night and the greater part of the day. No damage has been reported on the Jiarbor, though the new steamer So lano returned to the upper harbor to day with a bad list, occasioned by i topheavyv load of lath and shingles, which absorbed the moisture, weigh ing the vessel down. This deck cargo shifted In the terrific wind, giving the Solano a list. After lightening the deck load she will sail tomorrow with the steamers Santa Barbara, Doris and Claremont, which have been barbound for two days. Although Raymond is well protected from winds, last night's gale razed the three-story frame building under con etructlon In Seventh street for a lodg Ing-house, practically wrecking th structure, wnicn was practically com pleted. The building as it stood cos approximately $2500. The ' wrecked building is but one block from th Woodmen of the World building, which, in a similar stage of construction, was blown down about this time last year. HAMMOND PROTECTION GONE Heavy Tides Carry Out Piling, TJn' dermine Street, Wash Out Track FORT STEVENS. Or., Jan. 4. (Special.) The recent heavy tides, ac companled by violent storms, are caus ing considerable damage to lower river interests. It is assumed that the de flection of the current to the Oregon shore by the jetty construction is the primary cause. Piling put In by tho City of Ham roond to protect the waterfront has - been washed out completely and nearly one-half of the leading business street of the city has been partly undermined by the action of the waters. The rail road tracks below Hammond have been OUTH Concluded on. fag i.x MAN IS LITERALLY SWEETEST IN RAGE AXGER IXCEEASES SUGAR. IN BLOOD, SAYS SAVANT. Other Effects Noted as Reactions to Outward Conditions, and Not Influenced by Will. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan.. 4. (Spe cial.) A lecture on the unusual sub ject "bodily effects of fear and Tags was given at Harvard Medical School today by Professor W. B. Cameron, in the course of which he said, as one conclusion derived from experiment. that "Man la sweetest when he is angry." This paradoxical v statement is allowed to stand because of the fact thatexperiments have shown that emo tional activity caused by rage and fear cause marked Increase of sugar In the blood of the body. Professor Cameron showed that the emotions In humans were similar to those in animals. There are four note worthy results of emotional excite ment caused by rage and fear and these results are evident In both man and lower animals. Most of the tests have been made by means of the X-ray, principally on a dog and a cat. First is the cessation of action in the stomach and Intestines, and the flow of gastric Juices. Second is Increased discharge of adrenalin, a fluid product of the adrenal gland. Third is the clotting of the blood. Fourth is marked increase of sugar in the blood. ThesH are immediate reactions to outer conditions and are reflex re sponses. not those of the will. These involuntary changes caused by emo tional crises have all proved useful in different ways to the body. The same effect as that produced on the nervous system by these emotions can be obtained by the Injeetion of drug adrenalin into the blood. EARLE WOULD "MAKE UP" Friends Trying; to Bring Reconcilia tion "With Wife No. 1. CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Jan. 4. Friends have offered their good offices to bring about a settlement of the do mestic troubles of Ferdinand Finney arte, the American painter, and - his rst wife, Marie Emilie Flschbacher, the mother of the boy, Harold, wno Earle Is accused of abducting from school. Earle says he is ready to submit to rbltration and is waiting word rrom Mrs. Flschbacher. Earle and his companion. Miss Char lotte Herman, known also as "Mrs. Evans," are still in Jail and are receiv ing the treatment of ordinary prlson- rs. The American Minister to Nor way, Albert u. scnmeaeman, is endeav oring to obtain more favorable condi tions for them. PARIS, Jan. 4, Harold Earle, the 8- year-old son of Ferdinand PInney Earle, was brought back to Paris to- ight from Christiania. He was in charge of M. C. L. Steeg, the ex-French Minister to Norway. The boy was met by his mother and his grandfather. 0HN D. SHUNS STOCK TIP Good as Eggs," He Tells Friend, and Somo Eggs Are Bad. TARRTTOWN. N. Y, Jan. 4. (Spe cial.) That J. D. Rockefeller's wit Is keen as ever was demonstrated to day by a story that reached here from Cleveland. Rockefeller was playing golf with some friends, when one asked him how good a certain stock was. 'As good as eggs," Teplled Rocke- feller. 'Yes, but there are good eggs and bad eggs." 'Likewise, my friend, there are good bad stocks," answered who left his friend as stocks and Rockefeller, much in the dark as before. It was Rockefeller's way of turning off a business question, which he always sidesteps when playing golf. GODFREY SLATED FOR POST Salem Man to Be Appointed Income Tax Agent at $7 Daily. SALEM, Or., Jan. 4. (Special.) An nouncement was - made today that James Godfrey, of this city, would b appointed an Income tax agent. He i reported to have the indorsement o Internal Revenue Collector Miller an Will R. King, Democratic national Com mitteeman. .The salary Is $7 a day with $4 a day traveling expenses. The duties are to travel over the state and to see that Income taxes are paid. BOTTLE AND KERCHIEF LOOT Thief Snatches Near Empty Purse From Woman on Street. A one-pint thermos bottle and a small handkerchief was the total of loot obtained by a man last night who snatched the purse of Mrs. H. S. Burtls, who resides at 454 Umatilla avenue.- The man accosted Mrs. Burtls at the corner of East Eighth street ana Uma tilla avenue about 6:30 o'clock. SOCIETY MAN IS SUICIDE C. Howard Gillette Shoots Himself. Widow and Five Survive. HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 4. C. How ard Gillette, well -known socially, com mitted sqiclde at the home of a friend in Windsor today by shooting himself. His widow, who was Miss Marlon Pope, daughter of Colonel George Pope, survives 6,1m, witb. live, children SEA GIVES UP BODY OF JESSIE M'CANN Mystery Partly Solved at Coney Island. SUICIDE THEORY IS CREDITED Physicians Report There Is No Evidence of Foul Play. " SIGNET RING IS CLEW Young Settlement Worker Who Dis appeared From Brooklyn Home Just Month Ago Identi fied by Parents. NEW YORK, 'Jan.. 4. (Special.) Cast up by the hurricane which raged for 24 hours along the coast, the body of Miss Jessie Evelyn McCann was found on the beach at Coney Island early today, with the features battered beyond recognition. Parents of the missing girl, who so mysteriously disappeared from her home in Flatbush, Just one month ago today, identified the body by means of a signet ring bearing her initials. two stick pins, her shoes and her dress. The battered condition of the fea tures was due, the police believe, to the body being swept again and again by the waves against the piers at Coney Island or the stone breakwater. PoUce Theory la Suicide. A . superficial examination of the body by Dr. Charles Dunning, super intendent of the Coney Island Hospital, and Dr. Henry N. Kalvln, one of the visiting staff, revealed no evidence of oul play. The body vof the Sunday school teacher and settlement worker, who was 23 years old, except for the face and hands, was in a good state of preservation. If was found almost di rectly in front of the Shelter House, not far from the municipal baths. The first .clew of her identity . was fur nished by-the signet ring, in the Inner lining of which were found inscribed her initials, "J. E. M." Miss McCann was last seen alive about 200 feet from the spot where she was found. This was the day fol lowing her disappearance. It is de lieved that she either threw herself nto the ocean near the municipal baths or jumped from one of the plera. News Prostrate Family. When the signet ring, her shoes and the stick pins were taken to her horn for identification, her father and mother and sister Ethel collapsed. Mrs. McCann had been In a state of prostration since the young woman disappeared. Mr. McCann, after recov- (Concluded on Page 2.) , . 'EN TOUR. t i t , : -t ,....... s.e.. s essse-eeeei i . ..... j..jJj.M. J.I llJ.t.tAt INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 62 degrees; maximum, 44 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rain; cooler; south to west winds. Domestic. Body of missing settlement worker washed up by sea. Page 1. '. Dr. S. Wler Mitchell dies. Page 2. Kansas widows and spinsters want tax ex emption for themselves, but not for bach elors. Page 1. . "Mother" Jones prevented by troops from leaving train at Trinidad. Colo. Page 8. General strike of miners contemplated as result of failure of Michigan settlement. Page 8. Tactics of American suffragists denounced by woman. Page 8. Federals still hold Ojlnaga, Mexico. Page 3. Man literally "sweetest" when be Is angered. Page 1. Borah arraigns military rule In West Vir ginia coal strike. Page 4. Boycott of free eating-house threatened by San Francisco unemployed. Page 4. Second " "horse-and-buggy bandit" caught has Oregon record. Page 4. - . Sport s. National Baseball Commission to consider players' demands. Page 10. All Pacific Coast League clubs sign no players. Page 10. Sweetland thinks western athletes better than those of East. Page 10. Matty tells of useless efforts to teach veter ans to use fadeaway curve, page lo. Pacific Northwest. Plot of prisoners to escape from Copperfleld foiled. Page 1. Governor West sends more troops to Eastern Oregon. Page 11. Gale holds outbound shipping at Astoria. Page 1. Sixteenth person dies from typhoid in Cen' tralla. Pa are 11. Southern Idaho electrle companies to be in vestigated by state. Page 11. Jetty work on Sioslaw Is promising. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Members of bridge board not dismayed by public criticism at meeting. Page 9. New state tax law may be urged immediate ly. Page 1. O. M. Plummer, back from Olympla, urges agricultural contests for children. Page 14. Seattle musician Is entertained here. Page 8, Portland prepared to show' Its banking po' sltion Is supreme. Page 7. Scientific money" Is plea made by H. I McLura at First Presbyterian -Church. Page 0. Colonel McKlnstry, new harbor engineer, reaches city. Page 14. J. Beduff jailed on charge of killing woman inmate of front street nouse. rage J.-. Weather report, data, and forecast. Page 12. OCEAN QUAKE .REPORTED Disturbance In Pacific Felt dn Board British Steamship. . The Portland branch of the United States Hydrographic Office has advices of two submarine disturbances occur ring in the Pacific Ocean on December 19. Second Officer H. Claydon, of the British steamer Aorangl, made the re ports. The report says that at 12:15 P. M. on Decemben 19, in latitude 6 degrees 20 minutes south, longitude 144 degrees 15 minutes west, a distinct submarine disturbance was felt. Again at 2:24 P. M., on the same day, in latitude degrees 57 minutes south, longitude 144 degrees 5 minutes west, another shock was felt, more severe and longer than the first. MORGAN'S HOUSE FOR SALE London Home of Late Financier Ex pected to Realize $7 50,000. l LONDON, Jan. 4. The late J. P. Mor gan's residence, Dover House, at Ro champton, with grounds of 140 acres, is for sale. This unique freehold property, so near the center of London, is expected to realize nearly $750,000. HEW TAX LAW MAY BE URGED AT ONGE Mayor May Ask Extra Legislative Session. STATE ACT DEGLARED ABUSIVE Provisions of Measure Be lieved Unkown to Many. PENALTIES . HELD SEVERE Matter to Go Before City Commis sion With View to Requesting Governor to Call Lawmakers. C. W. Hod son Also Warns. RESUME OF TAX LAW PRO VISION'S. County Treasurer is made colleotor of all save delinquent taxes; the Sheriff collects on delinquents. . No rebate will be paid on any taxes. (Three per cent formerly waa allowed If paid before March J-) All taxes are due and payable April 1. They are not delinquent until September 1. but penaltlea of 1 per cent a month are Imposed on unpaid portions. On last one-half payment, delin quent September 1, penalty of 10 per cent is charged, also Interest at 12 per cent per annum from date of delinquency. Certificates of delinquency, bear ing interest at the rate of 15 per cent per annum, shall be Issued one month after delinquency. (Formerly six months were allowed.) Old delinquency charge of 10 per cent for failure to pay taxes by the first Monday In April Is eliminated. Mayor Albee announced yesterday that he will call a special meeting of the City Council Immediately to con sider the .advisability of requesting Governor West to convene the Oregon Legislature in extraordinary session for the purpose of correcting what the Mayor declares are gross abuses In the new tax law, passed at the last regular session of the Legislative As sembly. City Attorney LaRoche completed a special report, made at Mayor Albee's request, and turned It over to the City Executive yesterday. It revealed a situation considered by the Mayor to be so serious that he decided to call a special meeting of the City Coun cil, at which he will submit -he facts to the members and he probably will ask consideration! of. it on the basis of making a request of the Governor for an extra legislative session. C. W. Hodson. a well-known resi dent of Portland, also has given- the (Concluded on Page 11.) SPINSTER TAX IS FOUGHT IN KANSAS WOMEN WANT IMMUNITY, BUT NOT FOR BACHELORS. Rebate Now Given to Head of Fam ily Causes Inequality of Favors, Fair Ones Say. TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 4. (Special.) The State of Kansas puts a tax on widows, splnBters and bachelors, and the widows and spinsters want it re moved. Several efforts heretofore made to remove this tax have been blocked because they would also re move the tax on bachelors, and this the state does not want to do. Under the constitution the man at the head of a family receives a tax rebate on 1200 every year. The bachelor, the spinster and the widow do not receive this rebate. A woman and her husband, with two children and $200 worth of personal property and other securities may go along for years exempt from taxation. When the husband diea the widow must immediately begin paying taxes. An old maid school teacher, by work ing hard ' and skimping, managed to support her three brothers and sisters on sso a month, but she has to pay taxes on every penny's worth of furni ture she possesses. Across the street lives a widower with three children and almost a duplication of the spin ster's personal property, but under the Kansas law he is exempt from taxation because he is the "head of the family, A bachelor Is In precisely the same dilemma as the widow and spinster, but as soon as he marries he comes under the exemption. "SWAT ROOSTER" IS CRY Missouri Governor Urged to Start Mateless Hen Movement. ST. LOUTS. Jan. 4. (Special.) At the suggestion of T. E. Qulsenberry, director at the Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station at Mountain Grove, the State Poultry Board has asked Governor Major to proclaim a "swat the rooster"day early next Spring, for the purpose of ridding the state of the "greatest drawback to producing strictly first quality eggs." A special campaign of education is to be carried On in the state previous to the day of slaughter, and already several poultry buyers In various parts of the state have signified a willing ness to pay several cents per pound premium for male birds delivered to them before the hot weather begins, to get them out of the country. - Egg production Is larger and better from mateless hens. declares Mr, Qulsenberry. MAYOR JOINS HOBO CLAN Tacoma's Executive Inducted at Ho tel de Gink by 50 "Brothers." TACOMA, Jan, 4 Standing in line with about 50 unemployed men. Mayo: Seymour, of this city, today took th oath of allegiance and became a charte member of Local No. 23 Hobos of America, which was installed at the Hotel de Gink, an abandoned school building now occupied by unemployed men. Jeff Davis, the Hobo King, in troducing Mr. Seymour, said he was th only Mayor who had ever attended the flrBt meeting of a hobo local. Mayor Seymour In reply said: "No man can tell but that some day I may become an active member of your union, and any one of you may be come Mayor of this city." BEACHEY LOOPS 7 TIMES Aviator Does Corkscrew Twist Over Crowd of More Than 20,00 0. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4. Turning seven somersaults In "a biplane durln one flight today, Lincoln Beachey, San Francisco, established a new avla tion record. One of the loops was exe cuted directly above a crowd ot more than 20,000. In another loop Beachey did what is known as the corkscrew twist while his aeroplane was in a per- pendicular position. A feature of the exhibition was somersault performed in a hydroaero plane. Since he turned his somersault in the air five weeks ago Beachey has done the trick 43 times. LIMIT IS 4 DRINKS A DAY i "Some Fellows Are Hogs and Want More," Says Ohio Saloonman. OTTAWA, O.. Jan. 4. Saloonkeepers have finally "decided what constitutes a temperate use of liquor. This was evident when they posted notices that habitual tipplers hereafter will be per mltted to buy only four drinks a day, one before each meal and one at bed time. "Some fellows are hogs when comes to drinking," one dealer said. "We've got to put the lid on them.' The new state liquor law provides that saloonkeepers must maintain re spectable places. OLD. MASTERPIECE STOLEN Painting of Rubens, Once Owned by Napoleon, Taken From Church TURIN, Jan. 4. A painting- by Ru bens, representing the "Adoration of the Kings," has been stolen from the Church of Novalesa, near Susa. The painting belonged to a collection which was once In possession of Na poleon L Fate of Tanker in Doubt. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. The fate an unnamed oil tank steamer, reported by wireless messages to be In a sink ing condition about 40 miles south of the Ambrose channel, was 1 doubt, at a ite hour tonight- The. LOTTO FLEE FROfi COPPERFIELD FOILED uards Stop Flight of Deposed Officials. NE MESSAGE ESCAPES CENSOR Confiscated Liquor and Bar. Fixtures to Be Shipped Today. COURT IS STILL IGNORED Military Commander Receives Or ders From Governor West to Dis regard AH Edicts From Judge and Obeys to Letter. LAWYER SENT TO ASSIST COLO NEL LAWSON. SALEM, Or., Jan. 4. (Special.) Governor West announced tonight that he had engaged Frank T. Col lier, an attorney of Portland, to go to Copperfleld tomorrow to advise with Colonel Lawion. The Governor said he wished to be prepared for any emergency and determine once and for all whether the Government should be conducted by persons charged with enforcing the law or by "tin-horn gamblers and saloonkeepers." "I am sending Mr. Collier to Cop perfleld because we do not know - what complications may arise and under all circumstances we want to be In the clear. He will be on the ground to assist and advise Colonel Lawion as matters come up and his legal services will be advantageous." COPPERFIELD, Or.. Jan. 4. (Spe cial.) Attempting to flee from this place Councllmen Wiegand and Warner, who were deposed and placed under arrest last week by Colonel B. K. Law- son when he put Copperfleld under mar tial law In order to close the saloons, were captured by members of the Ore gon National Guard today Just as the unseated officials started to speed out of town on a gasoline railroad speeder. Both men had been pleading since their arrest, Thursday, to get to Baker, but their appeals fell on an adamant heart. They pleaded Illness on the part of relatives in Baker, offered to give bond, did everything, but Colonel Lawion acted as though he heard not at all and his only reply was "you stay in Copperfleld." Escape la Attempted. The station agent at Copperfleld has a little gasoline speeder which can go like a bullet and is Just fitted for a ride by two or three men. Mr. Wiegand and Mr. Warner were not locked up, although they were under arrest, and today they strolled down by the sta tion where the speeder is kept. Can you work It?" Mr. Wiegand asked Warner. I can try. If It works anything like an auto I can drive It as far as it will go," was Warner's answer. Mr. Warner then entered the shed and looked the little machine over. A . moment later he came out of the shed with the little car puffing away and shouted' to Wiegand to Jump on. Mr. Wiegand ran, but he ran slowly, ajt he has but one leg and uses crutches. Mr. Warner had to stop the car long enough for Mr. Wiegand to get on and the time which was lost was too much. fiUllttanaesi Appear en Beene, Just when they were about to start two members of the militia came run ning around the corner of a building. They didn't have to level their rifles. The two deposed Councllmen gave up Instantly and got down from the puffing little speeder and left it stand ing on the main track. The members of the militia then pushed it back to the shed and put one of their own locks on It. The station agent here declares he had nothing to do with the attempted flight and says he knew nothing of It until it was all over. Every bit of liquor in Copper field, every bit of bar and saloon furni ture has been seized by Colonel B. Kl Lawson and the militia and all have been packed ready for shipment and now are at the station, tagged "State of Oregon, Baker," awaiting tho train for Baker tomorrow. Censorship Is Maintained. Colonel Lawson maintained a strict censorship today and refused to allow use of the telephones or telegraph and it was only late this evening, and then by a round about way, that messages were sent away from Copperfleld at all. Colonel Lawson has paid no atten tion to the orders of the court despite receipt of a telegram from Circuit Judge Anderson last night that the restraining order Issued by him was genuine. Word has been received by the military officer from Governor West to disregard all court orders and he Is following out this order from the Chief Executive to the letter. Officials Still Under Arrest. No attempt was made by the saloon men to open their places of business today and a real test could not be made of the case on Sunday and the places would be closed under civil law as well as military law. But the city officials were held under arrest all day al though the deposed City Recorder, R. E. Clark, did manage to slip away to send a message to Attorney Nichols at Concluded on page 11-A