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VOL.. LIV. NO. 16,652. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BALLOT OF WOMEN CHANGES RESULTS Beaten ChicagoansMay Appeal to Courts. DEMOCRATS CHIEF SUFFERERS Majority on Board of Aldermen Is Affected. VOTE BIGGEST IN .HISTORY Number of Ballots Far Greater Than Even In Presidential Year, and Greatest Ever Recorded by 1, Any American City. Si. GIRLS! MARRY AT 44, CAVALIERI ADVISES HAVE OXE BABY IS NEXT SUG GESTION FROM BEAUTY. GOVERNORS. LEASING OF LANDS 0lur0aUSSS.1. EX OF TODAYS NEWS In Downcast Mood Diva Says Wed for Love if You Can, but Don't Fail to Look for Convenience. NEW YORK, April 8. (Special.) Lina Cavalier! and her now husband, Monsieur Muratore. sailed for Paris to day on the steamship La France. The famous singer and beauty was In melancholy mood when approached by interviewers. Her utterances were pessimistic. particularly those pertaining to mar riage. She said: "Married life is not so good. Girls ought to wall until they are 44 before they marry. Then they should have one child. I have had more than 800 proposals of marriage. I think: that International marriages are very good. "My advice to girls is to marry for love, if you can, ibut never fail to have an eye for convenience. Sweet words and kisses won't pay the chauffeur. "New York girls should never marry. They are too frivolous, too fond of dancing. They make poor wives." State Rights Asserted in Conference. FERRIS BILL IS OPPOSED ICY WAVE STRIKES EAST CHICAGO, April 8. (Special.) What, would have happened if the women had not voted? This question, asked speculatively to day, is one which is likely to he pre sented in all earnestness to the Su preme Court of Illinois. Seven candidates for Aldermen who went down to defeat at the Aldermanic elections Tuesday are the men who are considering asking the question. They want tha court to decide whether they are entitled to seats in the City Coun cil instead of the seven men who were elected in their place because women have votes. Legal Situation Complicated. In what form the question will be asked of the Supreme Court has not been decided. One case seeking to test the validity of the suffrage act is already before the court and a de cision is expected within two weeks. By the time the decision is given, the . men who were elected because women voted may have taken their seats in the City Council, and there may be legal obstacles in the way of their being re moved. Several of the candidates who were defeated yesterday because of women's votes have already consulted lawyers, and various suggestions have been made. One Is that the defeated candi dates should apply for an injunction to- restrain the counting of women s votes until after the validity of the women's suffrage act has been passed on by the Supreme Court. Alternative Plans Presented. Another suggestion is that the can didates await the decision of the Su preme Court and present their claims to seats in the Council only in the event the decision is against the suf frage act. Still another is that the men defeated by women's votes pre sent contests to the City Council at once and allow the Council to act in accordance with the Supreme Court de cision. Seven candidates for Alderman were defeated by the votes of women. Five of them were Democrats, one was a Republican and one was a Socialist. The successful candidates in these in stances were either Republicans, Pro gressives or Independents. No Demo crat was elected as a direct result of the votes of women. Democrats Suffer Most. If the women had stayed away from the polls the Democrats would have had five more seats' in the City Council and would number 43 instead of 38. The Democratic majority in the Coun cil would have been 16 instead of 6. The Republicans would lose ne seat in the City Council and would have only 20 members , instead of 22. The number of Republicans elected Tuesday would have been reduced from 12 to 10. Instead of having elected three Al dermen and aided in the election of two Independents, the Progressives would l ave elected only one Alderman, and their strength in the City Council would be four instead of six. Instead of there being four Independent Aldermen in the City Council there would be only two. The Socialists would have had one Alderman, while now they have none. Another result of the women's not voting would have been to deprive Chi cago of the distinction of casting the greatest vote ever recorded by an American city. The monster -ote of 487. "S3 for Aldermanic candidates, far Kreater than ever cast in a Presidential election, would have been cut to 324,322. hOOALISTS LOSE IX MILWAUKEE Fnrs and Overcoats for Easter Are Now Indicated. ' WASHINGTON, April 8. An ice chilled wave direct from the frozen fields of Alaska is bearing down on the Southern and Eastern states to night,- bringing what promises to be record-breaking fall in temperatures. Weather bureau experts were inclined to think furs and overcoats would be popular in Eastern parades Sunday. From the Lower Mississippi Valley states east to the Atlantic and as far north as the Ohio "Valley the temper ature records reported tonight ranged from 20 to 50 degrees. At Pensacola, Fla., the thermometer registered 50 de grees and was expected to drop further by morning. By tomorrow night, the reports say. the northern portion of Florida would be in the grip of heavy frosts. Forestry Bureau Declared to Have Fostered Trust. 'SERFDOM" TO BE FEARED Oregon Executive Alone Expresses Approval of System, Until Some body Shows Him Something Better, at Any Itatt. WHEELER, Or, April 8. (Special.) Dr. V. L. Hamilton, Dr. Swennes. At torney Tarn ill and George Kuhn had an exciting experience and a narrow escape from being taken over the Ne- halem bar Into the sea last night. Dr. Hamilton was called to attend a patient at Brighton and the others ac companied him In a launch. On the return trip the gasoline engine ex ploded and set fire to the boat. While fighting the fire the craft and occu pants were rapidly carried out to the bar. All were rescued, by Charles Schofleld with a gasoline launch Just n time. 4 IN LAUNCH FIGHT FIRE Wheeler Quartet Has Xarrow Escape Near Xehalem Bar. FINN GOES TO CLAIM BRIDE Logger Saves $10,000 In 20 Years, While Woman Waits. ABERDEEN. Wash- April 8. (Spe cial.) When Victor Johnson left Hel slngfors, Finland, 20 years ago and kissed a lassie good-bye there, he told her if she would give him 20 years to make a fortune in the land of the free he would return to claim her hand. He will sail from New York April 1 just 20 years to the day after he left the old country. Wedding bells are expected to ring in far-off Finland be fore the .end of the month. Johnson is now wdrth about 810,000. His sav ings have been due to hard work and thrift. . DENVER, April 8. "If the Govern ment is going to make money out ot the public lands It should pay taxes and obey the state laws." "Under the fostering care of tha for estry bureau has grown up the great est trust I know anything about the lumber trust." "The only difference between lease hold and ownership of land is that you can monopolize cheaper under a lease.' "Assistant Secretary Jones' hands are tied; he's In bad company." "The .cost of the average battleship, if applied to irrigation, would furnish homes for 4000 people." Easy Acquisition Demanded. These are excerpta from an address by Governor Ammons, of Colorado, be fore the Western Governors' confer ence. The states' rights advocates at the conference thundered today against the Ferris bill for leasing various portions of the public domain. Governors Am mona. Spry and Oddie, of Colorado, Utah and Nevada, respectively, states in which huge areas of Government land make the controversy of vital im portance, demanded a return to the old system of easy acquisition. A. A. Jones, First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, defended the policy of the Department. He was backed by Oswald West, of Oregon, the only dele gate to the Governors' conference who expressed approbation of the leasing system. Resolutions to Come Later. The conference adjourned late today, to reconvene at the close of the lrri gation conference, which opens tomor row. At that time It is expected the Governors will adopt resolutions to be submitted to Congress and to the De partment of the Interior. The Governors indorsed a- project outlined by Mrs. Belle Van Dorn liar- bert, of Manzanillo, Colo, president of the International Congress of Farm Women, for a model farm home on the Tha Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 7. S decrees; mlulmum. 49.8 degrees. TODAY'S Showers, southerly winds. foreign. Belfast suffragette cause scene in court room. Face a. National. RebeU' expulsion of Spaniards Is problem Washington. Page 2. Domestic Chicago results detlnliely changed by bal lon ox women. fase 1. California, heiress reweds In Hawaii on dl- vorce granted by wireless. Page 1. Young heiress reputed victim ot white slave plot. Page a. New Police Commissioner of New York sets back "system" as urst move. Page 6. University explorers encounter perils In British Guiana. Page 4. Governor Glynn refuses plea of Jewish cler gyman to reprieve "gunmen." Page C Governors oppose leasing of lands. Page 1. Married life not so good, says Llna Cava lieri In downcast mood. Page 1. Sports. Coast Learue results Portland-San Fran cisco game postponed on account of rain; Sacramento S, Oakland s; juos Angeies xi Venice . Page a. . Lincoln and Jefferson high schools divide honors at first Interscholastlo wrestling meet. Page University or Southern California discards Rugby In favor ot American xoutball. Page . ' Dugdale's boys say they're ready. Page S. Helena beats Portland Colts 7 to 1. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Dismlrsed Qutncy teacher and eight ot her champions bound over to grand Jury. Page 7. Secretary Olcott says delay Ttiry cost can didates place on ballot. Page a. Master Masons of Oregon hold annual meet. ing at Albany. Page 6. Blg steam shovel explodes dynamite charge onThe Dalles-Celilo canal. Killing zour. Page 1. Commercial and 31arine. Oregon mohair growers holding for high prices. Page 10. Chicago wheat market strengthened by cold weather reports from southwest. Page 1. Wall street shorts sell stocks at lower level. Page 19. Five of Beaver's crew, practicing drill, come near death In harbor. Page 14. Four ships chartered to carry new grain crop to Europe. Page 14. I ARBITRARY RIGHT, SAYS LOUIS HILL New Steamers Not to Cut Existing Eares. Portland and Vicinity. Judff McBrlde. of Supreme Court, testifies for claimant In wlntenr escheat Page 7. Latest political newt, Psg-e 18. Co-operation between employes of big stores for robbery now asserted. Pajre IS. Louis mil says new steamers will not cut ex 1st Ing rates. Face 1. Ad Club has "electrical" luncheon. Pave 13. Feast of Passover starts tomorrow. Pace Is. Weather report, data and forecast, Pays 1 (Concluded on Paso 2.) UNDERWOOD 30,000 AHEAD Clayton Also Elected to Congress From Alabama, by 4 000. BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. April 8. Re turns tonight indicated that Oscar W Underwood's majority over Represents. tlve Hobeon In Monday's Democratic primaries for nomination as United States Senator would probably reach 30,000. B. B. Comer has a decided lead over Charles Henderson, with whom he wii: contest for the nomination for Governor in a second primary May 11. Frank S. White defeated his opponen for the short term in the United States Senate. In the Third District Representative Clayton's majority over H. B. Stegel, his opponent, will reach nearly 4000. Writer of Chinese Stories Dies. MONTREAL April 8. Miss Kdith Eaton, writer of Chinese stories under the pen name "Sin Sin Far," and a sister of Mrs. Bertram Babcock. ot New Tork, who writes under the name "Oneto Watanna," died today. EXTRA RATE IS JUSTIFIABLE Northwestern Tour Held Worth ' All It Will Cost. TILLAMOOK STORY DENIED Steamers for San Francisco Will Make Astoria Northern Termi nus, as Announced Front the Beginning.,, HEIRESS REWEDS0N TCDDICIPCVDI nClflU WIRFI FSS niVORCF ; ILIIIIII IULAI LUUIUil KILLS 4 AT GtLILU CALIFORNIA DKOREE WAFTED TO HAWAII ON ZEPHYR. "One thing Is certain," said Louis W, Hill chl.f executive of the ureal Northern Railroad Company, who ar rivori in Portland vesterday. "we are not going to smash any rates with our new steamships. "Neither are we going to absorb tne Southern Pacific's "arbitrary on tne Portland-San Francisco hauL It Is worth something to see this Northwest country, and travelers will be willing to Day for it-Ot is worth something to carry people between Portland and San Francisco, and the Southern Faciric la entitled to Its revenue. "The rates are going to be low enough next year to attract an tne business that the railroads can handle. We don't propose to make them any lower. We would rather not have the business at all than carry passengers at prohibitive figures. "It is Impossible for the lines north and east of Portland to absorb the Shasta route "arbitrary" and no one with, any business reason" can think otherwise. "So far as the Great Northern is concerned, we expect to do our part, as wn alwivi have done, in encouraging travelers to move through the North- banlana. west. All. our interests are here, nd I we shall take full advantage ot next year's exposition to get people to come here. But the railroads must not be expected to carry passengers through the Northwest at the same rates that will prevail to California direct. "Our steamers will be In operation for the Exposition and we expect to get our share ot the business, but we expect to be paid for It. We are spending $5,000,000 for those two ves sels and we cannot afford to operate them for fun." Mr. Hill Luncheon Curat Teday. Mr. Hill has accepted the Invitation to attend a luncheon at the Commer cial Club, at noon today, for the pur pose of discussing plans to influence travel through the Northwest next year. Representatives of the various In Capital City of Island Home Rich Divorcee-Bride Takes New Mate as Radio Gives Sanction. SAN FRANCISCO, April 8. (Special.) Mrs. Marie K. King, a beautiful Hawaiian heiress, now in Honolulu, is the first woman wno ever obtained a decree of divorce by wireless. " She got It today in order that tonight in the capital city of Hawaii she may be married to another man. Mrs. King was tha wife of S. G. O. King, secretary of the Junction Oil Refining Company. lie Is also man ager of the Panama Banana Planta tion Company, of San Francisco, and well-known figure In San Francisco financial circles. Mrs. King Is rich In her own name. She Is a member of tne well-known Pllloi family of Hawaii and owns prop erty on the Island of Kauai worth sev eral hundred thousand dollars. Mr. and Mrs. King were married at Kealin, Kauai, and have a son, Ralph, 15 years old. They were separated in 1909. and Mrs. King sued for divorce, charging desertion. The interlocutory decree was granted April 1, 1913. by Judge Waste, of Oakland, and Mrs. King returned to her island home. In Honolulu, she met a wealthy man. whose name is withheld by her at torneys. They decided to be married. but at the last minute Mrs. King re membered that the final decree of divorce from King had never been granted, fene sent wireless messages today to her attorneys. McClanahan & Derby, and as a result Judge Donahue. of Oakland, today signed the final decree. . Giant Steam Shovel Explodes Dynamite. BODIES AND DEBRIS FILL AIR Many Workmen Miraculously Escape From Flying Rock. CRANE BENT AND TWISTED Accident Occurs in Pit Now Kicaral lug- for The Dallcs-Cclllo Canal, 1 1-2 Miles East or Bis Eddy. Scenes Are Harrowing. CHRISTIANS ARE SLAIN Massacre by Albanian Mussulmans Officially Reported at Athens THE DALLES, Or.. April 8. (Spe cial.) A terrific explosion, which shook the earth for a wide radius, letc dead and mangled bodies in its wake and wrought partial destruction to nearby surface works, occurred at The Dalles-Celilo Canal works, one and a half miles east of Big Eddy, at 11:40 o'clock this morning, when the Gov ernment's mammoth "40"-steam exca vating shovel struck what is be lieved to have been an immense charts of dynamite which, it is thought, had missed fire" In blasting operations. Four men, Edward Kendler. Alex Lind. Ed Ryan and C. Odrlch. were In stantly killed by the terrific Impact ot the explosion or died immediately fl.rwtrtl while other workmen were An official com-1 frightfully cut and bruised, though none of them, it is believed, will dte. The exact quantity of dynamite ex- ATHENS, April 8. munlcatlon says that Mussulman Al banians yesterday entered Koritsa, in the vilayet of Monastir. and. with thelploded is not known, but it must have aid of the gendarmerie, who had previ ously disarmed the inhabitants, today began a massacre of the Christiana. A Vienna dispatch on April 3 said it! waa reported from Avlona that Greek been of considerable proportions. Judged by Its death-dealing force and the havoc it wrought. A. large number of pitmen were at work In the face ot the excavation. going ahead of the steam shovel. drill- Irregular forces had fiercely attacked ,, ,h hoi.. ih. x.mit- hl.t xvunisjft. Hut were repuisea oy tne Al SPELLING RECORD IS MADE Clackamas Contestants Go Through J 02 rages of Book in District Bee. OREGON CITY. Or, April 8. (Spe lal.) All records for spelling bees In this county were broken Wednesday with the contest held at the Monte Crlsto School, when 103 pages of the spelling book were gone through before I .tartled the crews working a short dis- tne winner was decided. tance from tha steam shovel. Unfor Gertrude Kylo, a student in the Rural Dell School, IS years old, was declared the champion speller. Monte Crlsto Rural Dell. Evergreen. Oaklawn. Elliott Prairie and Glad Tidings each had four representatives. (Concluded on Pane 8.) - NEXT! FISHERMAN BOUND NORTH Wheeler Seaman Starts Alone ou l00-MUe Trip to Juneau. WHEELER. Or, April 8. (Special.) Isaac Hanson, an experienced seaman and fisherman, left Wheeler this morn ing for Alaska in his 26-foot fish boat. He has provisions aboard 'to last him until be reaches Juneau. Mr. Hanson rays he will average seven miles an hour. As It Is about 1200 miles to Juneau it will take him. with average luck, about 18 days to reach that place. Hanson will make the trip alone. He Is -the first to go over the Nehalem bar this season. Major Bading. feats l.lllil MILWAUKEE, He- Non-Partisan, eldel by 8554. April 8. Complete returns from yesterday's municipal election give Mayor Bading, non-parti san, a majority of 8554 over Emil Seidel, Social Democrat. Bading re ceived 37.701 and Seidel 29,147 votes. Mayor Bading will be backed up with a Board of Aldermen, consisting Of 29 non-partisans against eight Social Democrats. J he Social Democrats won one of the chief city offices, that of City Attorney. GIRARD REJECTS SOCIALISTS Independent Candidate Beats Incum bent In Kansas Stronghold. GIRARD, Kan, April 8. Richard Houghton, Socialist Mayor of Girard, was defeated for re-election by Henry Sauer, Independent, according to re- (Concluded on Pace 2.) MAILING COST IS TREBLED Recent Parcel Post Law Increases Publicity Literature Expense. The recent parcel post rulings affect. ins: mail once sent third class have caused dismay at the Chamber of Com merce, for their provisions raise the cost of sending out the literature of the Chamber to more than three times what it was before. The Oregon Album and other books are sent out in great quantities for ad vertising of the state in the East, and this item will In the future add a con siderably greater expense. KING ENTERS HOSPITAL Queen Attends Swedish Ruler, Who Will Undergo Operation Today. STOCKHOLM, Sweden. April 8. King Gustave entered Sophia Hospital tonight, where he will undergo an op eration tomorrow for ulcer of the stomach. The Kins was accompanied by-the Queen, who will remain at the hospital. VV: ' V CU0AANP J SlgyV0'Qv: lng. while other numbers were en gaged around the steam shovel loading tha loosened dirt that had been scat tered by the dynamite blasts or not picked up by the steam shovel. Just how the accident occurred will not be known until the Investigation by the Coroner's Jury, which Coroner Burget has called for tomorrow-. Explosion Catches A I. nt Work. Without warning and while all men were at work at their various stations terrific roaring, a trembling of the rth and a mass of flying rock OPERA BOUFFE DISPLEASES tunate workmen were seen to fall in their tracks or be forcibly thrown In various directions. Small debris filled the air, the Immense crane and tho "dippers." or scoop at tha end of It. were twisted and wrecked. roiK cars were lifted bodily from their tracks, while a cloud of dust tilled tha air for considerable distance. The startled workmen who had not Pendleton Pustors Reprove Church been injured hurried to tha assistance of their less fortunate brothers and a hurried appeal for medical aid was sent. It was at first thought that the number of casualties would be much larger than actually proved the case. Kendler, the engineer and one of tha dead men. was seated In thedoorway of the engine-room which furnlshe-d power to the steam shovel. The blast hurled him through the door and into tha engine-room, where he was caught In the coga of a big wheel, his body being ground Into thousands of pieces. It was several minutes before anyone could reach the shovel to stop the en- BRIDE'S FOOT SIZE SECRET U'""" dur,n wnlch t,m lh" machinery was grinding nis Doay into Dits. it Eleanor's Slippers for Wedding Or- was necessary to reverse the engine to lioerate mo nornoiy nunKicq uuuj. Members lor Greeting Singers. PENDLETON. Or.. April 8. (Spe- lal.) Warm condemnation of the Wild West show put on here Sunday for the benefit of the members of tha Chicago Grand Opera Company Is carried In set of resolutions adopted by tha Pen dleton Ministerial Association. The ministers explained that many members of their flocks were on hand o greet the operatic stars, who were Pendleton during church servlec hours. dercd but Maker Keeps Mum. LYNN, Mass.. April 8. (Special.) The slippers which Misa Eleanor Wil son will wear when she becomes the bride of Secretary McAdoo will be the product of a Lynn factory, an order having been received by tha manufac turer today. They will be white satin, but the manufacturer refuses to make known their sise. They will be completed in less than a week and sent by special messenger to the White House. WELLESLEY GETS FIRE GIFT $'50,000 Given Stricken College- on $2,000,000 Condition. WELLESLEY. Mass., .April 8. Wel lesley College has received a gift ot $750,000 from the Rockefeller Founda tion toward restoration of facilities lost In the recent destruction of Col lege Hall by fire. In announcing tha gift today the board of trustees of the college said It waa conditional upon the raising ot 32.000.000 before the first of next Jan uary. CHIEF'S' POCKET IS PICKED Toledo. O., Police Head Loses $14 and Theater Passes to "Dip." TOLEDO. O, April 8. Police Chief Murphy reported today that his pock ets had been picked of two purses, con talnlng 314. theater passes and offi cial documents, when riding on a streetcar. The pocketbooks were taken from a hip pocket, the flap of which was but-tuned. Craaeaaaaa'a Kacaax: Miraculous. Lester, the cranesman. was seated at his regular post on the crane arm. almost directly over the "dipper." which is presumed to have struck and exploded the dynamite. Only the tact that the arm of the crane waa between hdm and the full force of tha blast saved his life. As it was. his escapo from death was little short of mirac ulous. The force of the explosion hurled the luckless cranesman entirely over the shovel-house, but the only in juries he received were minor lacera tions and bruises, caused by his vio lent Impact with the ground when he fell. Odrich. a pitman and another of the dead, was found lodged under one of the rock cars of the train, which stood next to tha steann shovel. The forco of tha blast lifted the car bodily from the track, and at the same time drova Odrlch under its wheels. When the car settled back into ita position it broke every bone In the unfortunate pitman's body and literally crushed him to a pulp. After tha car had been pried free it waa necessary to place a stretcher on the ground alongside of Odrich's body and to roll him onto It There, was not enough of it Intact to stand lifting. Ryan, another of the dead pitmen, was hurled Into the side of tha pit. filled with broken rocks, and practical ly every bone in hla body waa broken. Lind, the fourth dead, man terribly lacerated and cut 1y tha flying rock, one of which crushed his skull and was wedged tightly In tha bone, which could not ba removed until ha was taken to the field hospital, where he died a few minutes later. Krkermen Mont Seriously Injured. Arthur Eckerson. one of the powder men worklne In tho face of the pit. 2& iConUudcd! oa fax 3.)