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K VOL. I.III.- NO. 16,580. PORTLAND. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS S SERIAL DISASTERS DEVASTATE JAPAN Quake, Wave, Volcano Join Hunger. LAVA AND ASH BURY CITIES Hundreds Are Dead and Mil lions Without Food. REFUGEES FLEE ON BOATS Foisonous Gases In Ashes Add to Horrors Falling Boulders Up set Crart on Which People Try to Flee From Craters. TOKIO, Jan. 13. Japan is heroically meeting a double affliction famine in the north and earthquake and volcanic eruptions In the south. Ten million people are In need of food in the Hokkaido Province and there have been many deaths from starvation. In the south the Islands of Kiushiu and Shlkoku are in. the grip of seismic disturbances.. Craters have suddenly discharged great vol umes of flaming rocks and ashes, carrying- destruction and terrifying the southern part of the empire. Ashes are falling: as far north as Osaka. Although the fate of the inhabitants of Sakura Island is not certain it Is believed that a majority of them have escaped in boats to the mainland. Many of the people of Sakura have escaped from the danger zone in a maimed and burned condition. Dunsrer Zone Evacuated. The -cruiser Tone has sent a wireless dispatch to the effect that Sakura had been evacuated. This morning the for eign office received a dispatch from the ex-Mlnlster to China. H. IJuin, now a resident of Kagoshima, sent from that city only a few hours before, say ing: "Abuot ten persons have been Killed and SO injured. The whole city l.s in great confusion." The foreign office thinks this indi cates that the early reports were much exaggerated. , . A steamer -that succeeded on Mon day in touching the eastern coast of bnkura, reports that it rescued 300 per sons, but was unable to take more. Krnptton Breaks up Festival. Police and soldiers of Kx-roshima made many heroic rescues. Men and women and children partici pating in the festivals to commemo rate the eruption of 1779, did not real ize the extent of the disaster and it is feared many of them were killed be fore reaching the seashore. Thousands, pursued by a rain of fiery stones, knelt on the beach half submerged in water and gesticulated wildly to the steamers and Ashing boats. The heat Is described as Infernal. .Tut'-- report that stones fell hissing Into the bay. Refugees from Kagoshima fled across the heaving land caused by the rapid succession of quakes. The whole southern half of Kiushiu is enveloped in ashes and smoke. Sakura-Jima, however, appears to be the only vol cano dangerously active at present. Emperor Sends Warship. The Emperor has ordered additional warships to proceed immediately to the affected district. He has sent a representative to Kagoshima. The seismologist, Omorl, has departed south. He thinks the greatest danger may lie in tidal waves. The eruption of Kirishlma. in his opinion, would not be so serious as that of Sakura-Jima, because few people live at the foot of the mountain. Advices from Nagano, capital of Na gano prefecture, and Asama-Yama, on the mainland, report great eruptions. Asama-Yama is a lofty volcano about 90 miles northwest of Tokio, with a crater 1000 feet in diameter. The scene is described as sublime. smoke and flame soaring thousands of feet into the sky. In the Utsunomiya district the sky is overcast and every roof is covered with white ashes. Poiaonous Games In Aahea. Many crevasses formed at Kago shima and owing to the snakelike movement of the surface of the earth the fugitives were forced to advance on all fours. Thousands took refuge on top of the famous Mount Shlroyama, fearing a tidal wave. Many of the I10USC3 at Kagoshima collapsed and there are three feet of ashes in the streets. They are said to contain pol 60110U3 gases. A wireless dispatch from the Jap anese cruiser Tone reports the arrival of the cruiser and destroyers at Kago fchima. The eruption of Sakura-Jima continues "with great vilonce, ashes falling on the warships." According to the message Kagoshima has been evac uated by the inhabitants, but the troops remain. Ashes Kali Far to North. The heavy ash fall extends far to the north and had already enveloped the Important cities of Nagasaki and Ku mamoto, as well as many small cities and towns. Of these Nagasaki alone has any considerable foreign popula tlon. There are about 200 Europeans and Americans in Nagasaki. They have r.mple opportunity to escape to sea If a serious condition confronts the city. Ixcal scientists do not believe that there will be much further loss of - life from the constant earthquakes, be tConoluded on Pass &.). RICHES REVEALED . BY WOMAN'S DEATH COOTY BURIES JANITRESS THOTTGHT POOR. Multnomah Hospital ' Mystery Only Partially Unraveled When $5000 VTcllet Is Produced. Money was of little use, apparently, to Lena Carlson, who died at the Mult nomah Hospital Saturday . and was burled two days later by the county, for Mrs. Hulda Shaver, proprietor of the Ideal Apartments, where Miss Carl son lived, yesterday brought a wallet to Judge Cleeton containing $5070.43. The wallet was left with Mrs. Shaver, she said, when the Carlson woman left the house December 24. . Keep this until I come back," Mrs. Shaver said she was Instructed. "You know I am not well and If I don't come back, take the wallot to. Judge Cleeton and tell him half of It Is for you and the other half for the poor." She left Immediately after she had given these instructions, Mrs. Shaver said, with a strange woman, and nothing more was heard of her until the notice of her death. The records at the hospital show that she arrived there December 30. When Judge Cleeton opened the wallet he found Ave certificates of de posit on L&dd & Tilton's Bank, totaling $5070.43. All of this had been de posited since February 6, 1913, when posited since February 6. 1913. Miss Carlson, who deposited her money in the name of Lena Kasman, had lived at the Ideal Apartments, 535 Couch street, since August. 1912, Mrs. Shaver said, during which time she was employed as a Janitress, she said. The hospital record shows that she was born in Sweden November 20, 1853, her father's name being Nel3 Carlson and her mother's maiden name Anna Nelson. J. H. HIGGINS' STORY DENIED Alfred Coolidge, of Spokane, Says Coolcy Case Testimony False. . ' SPOKANE, Wash, Jan. 13. Alfred Coolidge, Spokane banker and mil lionaire, accused in the preliminary hearing of A. R. Cooley at Gold Beach. Or, yesterday, of having offered money to have Thomas Van Pelt killed. today branded the story as false. J. H. Hlggins. formerly a cashier In Cool- ldge's bank, was the witness who tes tified as to Coolidge. 'Higglns Is a personal enemy of mine, but I did not imagine that he would attempt to involve me in Van Pelt's death," said Mr. Coolidge. "My brother was killed 18 years ago near Gold Beach, Or-, after what was then called a feud. Old man Van Pelt and his sons were cleared of the charge of killing my brother. Subsequently Thomas Van Pelt was killed. The story that I hired Coolcy to do the killing is false." . DANSANT NOT TO BE DRY Oakland Suspends Ordinance So So ciety Slay Have Its' Tipple. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13. (Special.) The cafe dansant which society will soon hold at Hotel Oakland will not be a "dry" affair, despite the ordinance which prohibits the selling of any liquor within 300 feet of a dance. The Council today practically suspended that law to permit the sale of liquor to the guests. ' One of the patronesses of this func tion is Mrs. Wallace M. Alexander, wife of the president of the Y. M. C. A. in Oakland. The Oakland Council today passed a resolution giving Chief of Police Pe tersen discretionary power in suspend ing the ordinance. Society folk want to have tables set in the corridors, where the guests may be served with drinks, not necessarily of the soft varieties. CHURCH TO AID LABORERS Episcopalians Plan Mind Uplift and Will Sell Meals at Low Prices. Reading-rooms and a coffee-house In the North 12nd to give laboring men an opportunity for recreation outside of the saloons are to be established by the Episcopal Church, according to a decision arrived at by 100 persons rep resenting the various parishes at a meeting at St, Stephen's Pro-Cathedral at which Bishop Scadding presided. The work is being done by the Social Serv ice League. The directors will hold a meeting tonight to talk over the matter of raising funds. The rooms will be at 88 Third street, and it is proposed to open them next month. It Is proposed to serve food at a trifle above cost. Games .will be provided and plenty of good reading matter. It is also proposed to have occasional con certs and religious services. WILSON DIPLOMATS' HOST First Official White House Recep tion of Administration Held. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. Diplomats of every foreign nation represented in Washington were entertained by Presi dent and Mrs. Wilson tonight at the first official White House reception of the Administration. v While President Wilson has dis pensed with some of the formalities which hitherto have been observed by the Chief Executive, he proposes to observe to the letter the international amenities of his office and the usual series ot official functions will be held during the Winter. The President and members of his Cabinet wore the conventional Ameri can evening dress. In striking con trast with the profusely decorated uniforms bearing the insignia of rank of the diplomats. ALL SOUTH AFRICA RULED BY MARY Trades Federation De clares Big Strike. RAND MINERS VOTE TO JOIN Premier Botha Says He Will Make Strike Unpopular. NATIVES GRAVE" PROBLEM Government Likely to Send 200,000 Black Workers to JThelr Kraals, Which Will Mean Disaster for Many Years. CAPE HORN, Jan. 18. A general strike throughout South Africa was proclaimed tonight by the Trades Fed eration, and the Rand miners by a two-thirds majority voted to Join in the movement. Governmental retalia tion was swift. It took the form of the proclamation of martial law. , This was the only step the author ities believed adequate to meet the sit uation, for the strike of the miners means not only the turning loose of the most turbulent spirits In the Rand, but raises the question of the posses sion of the native workers. If the miners actually obey the strike order the government will. take steps to send the natives under escort back to their kraals. Native Problem Serious. This means that about 200,000 natives must be marched back by road to their homes at enormous cost. It will be most difficult, after the end of the strike, to redruit them again. In brief, such a step would mean . disaster for the Rand for many years. Although official reports from Jo hannesburg show improvement In the train service, reports from other disi tricts are less encouraging. In Natal the situation is of great tension, and It Is feared that the loyalty of -the trainmen will not stand th strain much longer. The men's -temper is 'the action of an engine jjriver who-qult his train on tho veldt and left the pas sengers stranded.' Practically no Information is at hand as to conditions in the Orango Free State, but improvement there is not considered probable. From the gov ernment's standpoint about tho only ray of light today was the assurance from the Indian leader, Gandhi, that the passive resistance movement by the Indians would be dropped during the present trouble. The government remains firm in Its attitude. The premier. General Louis Concluded on Page 2.) 'CvE PLEAOX f GujlTY and U- 1 4SK for MBRCY ) ffL ) f 1 aw some new) Hm WM 9 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 4T degrees: minimum. 43 degree. TODAY'S Occasional rain; variable winds, mostly southerly. Foreign. Vessels unable to find ship reported by wireless to be on rocks. Pago 3. Mexico will default on national debt inter est. Paso 2. Volcano and earthquake cause tremendous damage In Japan. Page 1. National. Business peace to be keynote of Wilson's trust message. Page X. Democratic aid to Nation-wide suffrage tow VbOtnen unlikely. Page &. Business peace will be keynote of President's message. Page 1. John , Ske!ton Williams nominated for Con troller of Currency. Page 2. Four Army reforms outlined by Wood. Page 2. - Domestic. Bread line grows In Chicago as mercury drons. Page 1. Sports. Ritchie again postpones fight with Murphy Page 8. Howard thinks Schaller will fill Johnston's place. Page 8. Kerns soccer team ' wins grammar school championship. Page 9. Skiers plan trips to north flank of Mt, Hood. Page . Federals buy $230,000 park in St. Louis. Page 3. Paciflo Northwest. Tenlno, Wash., is scene of double tragedy. Page 6. Supreme Court upholds State Treasurer Kay and decides against Watson. Page 6. Attendance at farm week lectures at Idaho University Increases. Page 7. Banquet marks disbanding of Albany's vol unteer Fire Department. Page 7. Many initiative, referendum measures likely In Washington. Page 6. Salem officials escort "army" of unem ployed out of Capital City. Page 7. Mrs. Ross tells how mob forced her to walk through icy water. Page 7. Ricker writes of Pacific highway as studied afoot. Page 1. Judge Henry L. Benson, of Klamath Falls, candidate for Supreme bench. Page 4. Commercial and Marine. Improvement In hops at London stimulates local market. Page 19. Wheat is higher at Chicago on export buy ing. Page 19. Wall-street stock and bond markets advanc ing. Page 19. Coast schooners soon may be "dry" zones. . Page 1. Portland and Vicinity. Miss Ellen Fits Pendleton honored at social . affairs. Page 12. Dr. Ellen Fits Pendleton, head of Wellesley College, visits local alumni. Page 12. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. Death of janitress. buried by county, reveals fortune of S5000 left. Page 1, Free Methodist Church folk now champion - plover's cause, following hearing. Page it. Gerllnger case in hands of Jury, which is locked up for night. Page 18. Visiting 'Nurse Association has busy Decem ber. Page 12. Directors of National and stats banks elect ed. Page 18. Mantell. draws and holds big audience In "Richelieu." Page 4. Portland manufacturers decide on more vig orous campaign to push Oregon goods. Page 5. Governor to aid Sheriff In gambling crusade. Page 15. Homes of heroes destroyed, say astounded Portland Japanese. Page 5. Masonic Federation members deny misrep resenting order. Page 14. UNIVERSITY GETS EXPERT Wisconsin College Auditor Comes West as Business Manager. MADSON, Wis..-Jan. 13. (Special.) To become business manager of the University of Oregon G. T. Collins resigned as requisition auditor of the University of Wisconsin. He was con nected with the university several years. . . - He is credited with having devised the best system of university account ing In use in the entire country. UP FOR SENTENCE. BUSINESS PEACE IS WILSON S KEYNOTE Trust Ideas Are Sub mitted to Cabinet. "TWILIGHT ZONE" REDUCED Interstate Trade Commission Important New Phase. HASTE WILL BE ADVISED President to Call in House and Sen ate Leaders Today Emphasis to Be Flaced on Individual Responsibility. WASHING TON, Jan. 13. President Wilson today gave the members' of the Cabinet his Ideas on the Government's relation to big business, the field that anti-trust legislation should cover and the spirit with which he believed the task should be approached. Peace and not war, a feeling of friendly conciliation rather than of hostile antagonism and yet a construct ive programme that will eliminate un certainty about the law and stimulr'e the growth of legitimate business these are the fundamentals of the President's plan of action, to be em bodied In the message which he will read at a joint session of Congress next week. He presented the document to the Cabinet today. Members of the Cabinet spoke of the message as a pro gressive declaration that would reas sure the business world of the sincere intentions of the Administration to deal fairly with it. The President will outline the mes sage tomorrow to the Democratic mem bers of the Senate committee on in terstate commerce and the House Ju diciary committee at White House con ferences. While the President has not revealed his views on detailed legislation, he hope's that his message will be the guiding Influence that will keep the scope of -activity within a well-defined compass, eliminating so "far as possi ble any congestion of radical bills that might be misinterpreted by the outside world. So far as is known, the cardinal features of the President's plan are: 1. Supplementing the Sherman anti trust law to reduce the debatable area around It. 2. The prohibition of Interlocking directorates. 3. Location of individual responsibil ity sJid the fixing of personal guilt for all violations. 4. The creation of an interstate trade (Concluded on Page 3.) COLD FINDS POOR IN EAST UNPREPARED CHICAGO BREAD LINE GROWS AS MERCURY DROPS. , Steel Plant at Gary Puts 3000 Men Back to Work Charitable Insti tutions Taxed to Capacity. 1 CHICAGO, Jan. 13 (Special.) The cold wave that enveloped the East Cen tral and West Central and Northwest ern states Monday appears to be vent ing its fury on the East. The weather map tonight shows tem peratures as low as 20 in some of the New England states and Western New York. Temperatures slowly rose in the Central West today. Chicago's maxi mum was 22. a rise from the low mark of five above zero. The sun shone brightly and the fierce winds abated. Charitable associations w besieged all day with pitiful appee' for food and fuel. The long continued mild weather left thousands unprepared for the sudden cold, and they must be car ried along until conditions improve. Announcement was made today that the steel mills at Gary would re-employ at once 3000 idle employes. This will lift a heavy load from the bread lines In Chicago. Dispatches tonight from Florida to commission firms here Indicate that the freeze was not as extensive, in the orange belt as had been expected. There was little crop damage in the Palmetto state. Some of the cold spots are Albany, N. Y., 14 below; Buffalo, 8 below. Al pena, Mich.. 8 below; Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., 26 below; Duluth, Minn.. 6 be low; Lander. Wyo., 4 below; Montreal, 28 below; Quebec, IS below; Toronto, 22 below, and White P.iver 48 below zero; El Paso, Tex.. 30 above, and Ama rlllo, Tex., 26 above. JUDGE CALLS LAWYER CUR Spokane Jurist Threatens to "Beat Head Off" II. M. Stephens. SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 13. J. Stanley Webster, Judge of the Superior Court threatened today to "knock the head off" H. M. Stephens, Corporation Coun sel of Spokane. Judge Webster ruled against the city in an important con demnation case and had left the bench when Mr. Stephens said: "I have come to the conclusion that I cannot get a square deal in your court" "You have ofTered that gratuitous in sult," replied Judge Webster. "If you repeat It I promise you this, in public or private, I'll beat your head off. You are a cur." , The bailiff and spectators prevented a clash. SAYRES MEET POINCARES French President Regrets His Visi tors Can't Oome to Dinner. PARIS. Jan. 13. President Poincare, on receiving Francis Bowes Sayre and his wife, formerly Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, at the Palace of tho Elysee to day, sent messages in behalf of himself and wife and the French people to President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, to which Mrs. Sayre gracefully replied. The interview was extremely cordial. The president said he regretted that Mr. and Mrs. Sayre were sailing from Cherbourg for home tomorrow, as he would have liked to have them at din ner at the Palace. The presentations were made by My. ron T. Herrick, the United States Am bassador to France. BEDS OF AGATE UNCOVERED High Tides Reveal Valuable Deposits Near Newport. NEWPORT, Or., Jan. 13. (Special.) Not for years have there been so many agate beds uncovered along the beach here as there have been this Winter, and some valuable stones are being found by the hundreds of search ers. Among the successful searchers are: A. W. Peters and R. F. Furbish, of Lockport, N. Y. The prevailing southeast winds and the high tides have uncovered the beach between Nye Creek and Castle Rock, a locality which usually is covered with sand at this time of the year. Agate bearing sand and gravel is ex posed most of the way for ten miles north. WORK OR LEAVE, DICTUM Auditorium Sleepers Shun Work While City Jobs Go Begging. Go to work or set out. This is the ultimatum the City Cora mission will make to the small army of men sleeping in the Gypsy Smith Auditorium. At a meeting of the Com mission last night it was reported by Commissioner Brewster that at the rockpile on Terwilliger boulevard there are many more Jobs than men. There are about 800 sleepers at the Auditorium each night. It was. decided that the men should be forced to go to work. At the rock pile arrangements have been made so that any man willing to work can make 75 cents in a few hours. THE DALLES FIGHT ENDS Compromise Culls for Reorganiza tion of Police Department. . THE DALLES. Or., Jan. 13. (Spe cial.) The City Council and Mayor compromised tonight on the fight over a chief of police, and I. D. Pike re ceived the appointment and was con firmed unanimously.. " The Council agreed to discharge the present police force with the exception of Officer Fox and reorganize the de partment. Gibbons, by resigning today, paved the way for the compromise. ALL WILLING, NONE PAYTOBUILD ROADS Farmers Want Pacific Highway, However. OLD WORK ON ROUTE USELESS Walking Journalist Splashes Over Gravel Lately Placed. CHANGE IS BELIEVED NEAR Pedestrians Finally Forced to Aban don Attempt to Follow Bottom less Thoroughfare Oregon Proves Break in Link. BY DAVID SWISO RICKER. ALBANY, Or.. Jan. 11. (Special.) W have heard frequently enough about good roads. We have got used to hearing about them. Perhaps that is why we have fallen into the easy habit of thinking wo have them. And we have listened to good road appeals with ears half shut. And we hace said the good roads were for automo biles, anyhow, and not for us. We have felt that good roads would be a good thing if we could get them. And we haven't done anything to gut them. We have been convinced that motorists and convicts had a special and common mission to build our good roads for us. So we have sat back In our easy chair, yawned over our newspaper and waited for them to get done with the job. Farmfra Are Waiting?. That was yesterday's attitudo of most of us. It was the attitude of nearly every farmer betwee.i here and Oregon City. And now we and thu farmers are up against it. Had It not been for Pacific Highway signposts, set up at intervals along Its banks, I should have been sorely tempted to have unwrapped my rod and cast a lly into the dark pools of the rippling stream. In the hope of luring a break fast to the hook. State Highway Engineer Bowlby spoke gloomily enough when I saw him in Salem. But I made allow ances. He had Just come back from his New Year's dinner. Perhaps it was dyspepsia. Perhaps tho gloom outdoors had made his optimism gray. It is a theory that people are in fluenced by the colors around them. And nature's color scheme that day was a monotone of grays. Even the white courthouse across the ' street looked gray. The air was gray. Tho sky was gray. And grayest of all was the good road outlook in Oregon as pictured to me by Bowlby, gray-faced, and discouraged. Counties Act DlfTerently. He' told me he had not had his car out of the garage for a month; that $18,000,000 had been dumped into the mud roads of Oregon by Inexperienced, inefficient and near-sighted road build ers. The road between Salem and New Era would have to be rebuilt, he said, and the job would cost $600,000; it would cost $8,000,000 to build a perfect highway from Medford north to Port land. Jackson County had voted a bond issue of $500,000 as its share. Josephine County had voted down a bond issue of $300,000. Oregon was the broken link in the good road chain from Lower California to British Columbia. And it was up to the counties and the County Courts. The problem was theirs. If they failed to solve it the road through the mountains would be impassable Tourists of 1915 would have to get tc Portland by way of Central Oregon or the coast route. And perhaps they wouldn't bo able to get to Portland at all and Portland and Seattle and Ta coma would lose all the dollars that Pacific Highway travel was expected to bring them during the exposition Summer. Rain Impeiira March. It was with this encouragement that my wife and I splashed out of Salem four days after wo had splashed Into Salem. A ceaseless downpour had caused the long stop. Finally, impa tient to be on our way again, we picked up our duds and started boldly south, pushing our way through mud, with a cold drizzle blowing in our faces. Long before we reached Liberty, a village of 100 people, my wife would have made a first-rate allegory of "Dawn Wrapped In Dew.'" Perforce we made our way slowly, like an army overburdened with Impedimenta. But, In thl3 case, the Impedimenta was a wind that constantly urged my wife to walk backwards and rain that double! and trebled the weight of our packs. Ptrt of the time we looked out over the hopfields, beaten down by the rain, barren and desolate- a memory of a crop which last Summer yielded $3,100,000. The rest of the time we looked Into the dark shadows of the woods or across meadows on which cattle and sheep were grazing. Mist Follows Downpour. Now and then we came to hedges of blooming roses, blown In the wind, tossing rain drops playing it was Spring. But for the roses the picture might have been painted from a pal-f ette of deep greens and shaded grays. A few miles out of Liberty, at noon time, the drizsle softened to a mist and we made ready for lunch. It's not called "luncheon" on the road. Just CuuvluLvd ua l'ao .. 4