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Pages 1 to 12 VOJL. XXIX. NO. 5 PORTLAND, OREGON,' SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY .30, 1910 PRICE FIVE CENTS. BALLINGER TELLS HOW TO CONSERVE SYNDICATE READY TO TAKE HOLDINGS STATISTICS-SHOW NO-LICENSE FAILS BOISE PRICES ARE SCANNEDNARROWLY LEADERS OF PARTY DESIRE ASSEMBLY HOTEL PLANS FOR AEROPLANE GARAGE PARIS GIVES PRAISE, FLOOD FUR, ROCKEFELLER AND MORGAN AWAITING MERGER DECISION. GRAND JURY TO DELVE INTO ALLEGED TRUSTS. - NEW CHICAGO HOSTELRY WILL FIT VP 20TII FLOOR. 70 Pages l v v v y v Nr q ' 1 -" rr'v V "Jr-V Vy 1 : r- Bottling Up Resources Is Not Purpose. WASTE MUST BE PREVENTED Government Favors Use Under Federal Regulation. ALASKA IS PRIZE PACKAGE Secretary Says. Private Enterprise Must Have Reasonable Inde pendence, but Kesources Must lie Perpetuated. PROVIDENCE, R. I.. Jan. 29. Alaska to a prize package, the full value of which no man can estimate now, said Secretary Balllnger before the Conserva tion Club of Hliode Island and the Econo mic Club of Providence tonight. In declaring the natural wealth of the land should be conserved, the Secretary made no reference to the controversy with Gifford. Plnchot. He announced his willingness to answer any questions after he had concluded his address, but no questions after he had concluded his ad dress, but no queries were put to him. The Secretary said tha .homestead statute signed by President Lincoln was one of the most beneficient ever enacted for the upbuilding of this country and was of especial value in relation to the farms of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and other places in the West, but was an absmrdity in the forest lands of Oregon, which were so thickly timbered as to be almost Impenetrable, and almost equally absurd when applied to the valuable min eral lands of Alaska. Reriourees Not to He" IJottled Up. "Somo people, I fear," declared the Secretary, "have a notion that to con serve our natural resources we must , .1 .: " -'fH-'i.-ai-AfM jMinie Liiem ur uuliib meiu up. All Rinus of exrteme notions are likely to be ad vanced by those who take an Imprac tical view of the subject. I was con fronted by the suggestion that the Gov ernment build homes on the remaining public lands, stock them and rent them to applicants and become the landlord of the public domain. Business Must Not He Hampered. "It is all right to place reasonable re straints upon the use of our natural re sources to prevent the mischiefs which result from monopoly and greed and ex tortion, but when you attempt to regu late a man's' private business or declare hod he shall use his property, so that he can no longer exercise a reasonable in dependence over it, he may as well sur render his business and his property to the state and let the state operate it. - "Individuality and Incentive for In dustry will certainly disappear under any system of public regulation and control that Imposes a strictly govern mental guardianship over the citizen. The American system of government contemplates the freest possible exer cise of Individual liberty consistent with the public good, and In discussing the conservation of our natural re sources and the supervision, regulation and control that is proper to be ex ercised by Federal or state authority, this principle should be constantly recognized. Waste Must He Restrained. "After all, the question of conserva tion Is a question of practicing with our resources frugality and economy. Profligacy and wanton waste of our Inheritance in this particular, of course. Is to be restrained whenever and wher ever the power exists, and particularly when the loss affects the future hap piness of mankind. "Our Nation's future in the highest degree Is involved in the perpetuation of our wealth and the ability of our people to live in happiness and pros perity in all generations to come. (Therefore we can justly say that no man can gratify his lust for wealth or his ambition for power by destroying (Continued on Page 2.) If Government Says Union Pacific Holds Southern Unlawfully, Bonds Will Be Gobbled. NEW YORK. Jan. 29. Wall street today heard an unverified report that if the Government wins its suit to dis solve the Union Pacific-Southern Pa cific merger, a syndicate composed of John D. Rockefeller, through the Na tional City Bank; J. P. Morgan, through the First National Bank, and Kuhii. Loeb & Co., will take over the Union Pacific's holdings of Southern Pacific bonds and stock." . These are said to amount to $125,000,000. Judge Lovett and other representa tives of the Harriman roads declined today to comment on the decision -f the Government to proceed with the suit against the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific systems. It Is learned, however, that the de fendants will open, their case in this city February 15 and that witnesses will be called. The Government has practically finished its case. It is expected the case will go before the United States Circuit Court of the Eighth District early In the Fall and a decision ought to follow toward the end of the year. U.-S. IS TEMPTING JAPAN Diplomat Fears Un preparedness Is Provocation of Conquest. KANSAS CiTY, Mo., Jan. 29. That the United " States in its unpreparedness for war is Unwittingly tempting Japan to attack her was the declaration of Horace Newton Allen, of Toledo, O., former Min ister to Corea, in an address before the Knife and Fork Club here last night. "Prior to the Japanese-Chinese war," continued Mr. Allen. "Japan had spies all through China so that she knew the lat ter' weakness better than did the Chi nese themselves. The same is true of the Russian conflict. In both cases it was the weakness o'f her antagonists that led her to war. Shall we offer such teniptatlqn? It looks as if we were bent on doing so. "When Japan has taken Hawaii, as military authorities say she could do over night, as were, she could land a quarter million men on the Pacific Coast in 20 days, while we could not get 100,000 there in three months. But if Japan did make war on us it would be the end of Japan, for we would sacrifice every son and spend every dollar, if necessary, in -Feao.ui'-hJjr our country." Mr. Alien believes that should Japan decide to make war on the United States she will do so In the next five years be fore the completion of the Panama Canal and the expiration of the Japanese-English, treaty. COAL AND OIL SOUGHT Portlanders Lease Tract Near Eu gene and Will Prospect. EUGENE, Or., Jan. 2& (Special.) J. W. Perkins, of Portland, was in Eugene today in the interest of Port land capitalists who are leasing large tracts of land along the route of the proposed Roseburg-Coos Bay Railroad. Mr. Perkins' stop in this city was for the purpose of closing a contract with E. J. Crow, of this city, who owns a 1000-acre tract of land 15 miles west of the City of Roseburg and on which appear abundant indications of -. botH coal and oil. The -object in securing a lease on this tract is to develop the coal beds and prospect for oil. Mr. Crow has leased his land to a company, whom Mr. Perkins represents, on a royalty basis and wlH receive a money consideration in proportion to the amount of coal or oil produced on the land. There are numerous coal cropping? on the Crow tract. Mr. Perkins went on. to Roseburg this after noon. PUBLIC WORSHIP AT EBB Moral Wave, Suys Pauncc, Reacts Against Devotions. CHICAGO. Jan. 29. William H. P. Faunce, president of Brown University, thinks religious sentiment, as measured by the standards of worship and church going, is on the wane. In the current American Journal of Theology, issued at the University of Chicago Press,' yester day, he says: "Moral awaketiing, which has taken possession of the country, has had a re actionary effect on devout religion. A wave of social consciousness is now sweeping over our land, and at the same time there is obviously a wave of reces sion from public worship. The tide of cor porate endeavor Is at the full, but the tide of corporate devotion mysteriously ebbs. This disinclinatidn exists not alone among the irreligious or immoral; it exists most obviously among the devout and the HARRY MURPHY MAKES Worcester . Quits Plan After Fair Trial. TWO-YEAR .TEST SUFFICIENT More of Drunkenness and Ex cess Liquor Sales Shown. YOUNG MEN DEMORALIZED Lack of Ability to Place-Any lie - strictions Upon Sale of Intoxi cants Pointed to as Great Fault of Dry Regime.. BY W. BOYDEN WORCESTER, Mass.. Jan. 29. (Spe cial Correspondence.) The fallacy of prohibition in a city large enough to cut a figure in the commerce of the country has been demonstrated by the City of Worcester, Mass. The popula tion of Worcester Is considerably over 100,000; it is a busy, enterprising city, and the first of Its size in the world to have the temerity to apply the pro hibition doctrine. The peculiar fea ture of the Worcester object lesson Is that the local liquor Interests are credited with actually placing the city in the dry column for two years from which it will emerge on the first of May to accomplish a purpose of their own. There is the best sort of reason for believing that in holding up this Massachusetts municipality as one of their notable, victorious battlegrounds, the Prohibitionists are but deceiving themselves. Because no-license proved a failure, in a trial of two years, and because the Interests which decreed no strong attempt for license in the two years past should be made, had won their point, the city went back to the' wet col uiPA- t,4jwftfaUjfeU't.i toy.i. large majority. No-License Regime Kails. The recent experiences of not only Worcester,- but "other Massachusetts cities, Salem, Lrnn, Lawrence, Lowell and Haverhill, have 4 provided the strongest sort of argument to uphold the statement that no-license in any city of more than 50,000 inhabitants is not alone unpractical, but is harmful. In Worcester the question offers a good opportunity for study, and for the gathering of statistics: and this opportunity has been improved by a very considerable number of investiga tors, whose personal feelings in the matter take both sides. The statistics, however, show an increase in immoral ity and law-breaking, rather than the decrease so confidently predtr-fed by the Prohibitionists when the no license regime began; and there has as yet been no argument presented seriously affecting this conclusion. The late Carroll D. Wright, a resi dent of Worcester, by the way, said: ."Statistics, candidly and intelligently studied, with care to include all the factors and relations In analyzing them, constitute the best evidence. Handled any other way they furnish a highly efficient means of hiding the truth." Liquor Sales. Increased. It has been the truth which I sought to obtain, and from statistics, three glaring defects in the no-license , system stand out beyond dispute, namely, that in Wor cester under no-license arrests for drunk enness have increased; more liquors have been consumed, and kitchen dives have Increased in such a proportion that the police have found themselves practically powerless to cope with the situation. But getting back to the primary cause of "Worcester going dry, it is learned that the liquor dealers were responsible for it. If we take their word for it, the brewers were crowding them beyond the point of endurance, and to retaliate the dealers turned the city over to the "dry column." The first year, however, was not enough to convince the voters that Worcester had made a mistake; so they again tried (Continued on Page 2.) ANOTHER WEEK'S-END Probers to Meet for Ten Days' to Find Why Cost of Fuel and Meat Is High. BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 29. (Specials Petty complaints and "spite complaints will be eliminated from the probe of the special grand Jury which will convene here Monday morning and probably re main in session for 10 days. County At torney McCarty is angered over anony mous letters sent him by consumers re questing that their troubles with local merchants be aired. It is believed that the investigations of the Jury will result in the indictment of local merchants who have combined to restrain and control trade. The coal trust will first be taken up and evidence will be introduced inan at tempt to show the existence of a com bination known as the Union Feed, & Fuel Company to control the sale and supply of coal -and to boost the price. The Boise Meatmen's Association will also come into the limelight for a prob ing. It being alleged this trust controls all shops in the city and dictates the price of meats, raising it at will. The milk, butter, dray and other smaller trusts of local prominence will be inves tigated also, says the County Attorney. BRISTOL URGES DIVISION Free Courthouse Offered In Klickitat County Seat Fight. BRISTOL. Wash., Ja'n. 29. Sentiment in favor of the division of Klickitat County is growing stronger. Commercial organ izations in the western end of the county are taking the subject up individually, but at the same time, there is a disposi tion to await results of a movement in the eastern end of the county, fathered by S. W. Hill, for the removal of the lounty seat from Goldendale to Maryhll' As an inducement for the change in that section of the county, Mr. Hill, has agreed to erect a new Courthouse at Maryhill of reinforced concrete, fire and sand proof, and present it to the county free. Meantime Secretary George D. Mor ris, of the Bristol Development Club, is preparing a circular letter to be sent to commercial organizations in the western end ofthe county to crystallize senti ment for division. The Bristol Club is unalterably for divi sion, and In this stand is backed up by public sentiment in White Salmon and Bingen, nearest home, and Hueum and other towns in the northwestern part of the county. Lyle is expected to fall Into line. All unite in saying the time is ripe for such a move. OREGON GIRL DIES ALONE Epilepsy, Not Poison, Believed to Have Been Cause. SEATTLE, Jan. 29. Miss Helen Brad bury, of Jefferson, Or., aged 22, who died suddenly in a hotel here last night, and was supposed to have taken poison with suicidal intent, succumbed to a chronic trouble resembling epilepsy, the Coroner earned today. JEFFERSON, Or., Jan. 29. Helen Bradbury Is daughter of C. Bradbury, a farmer 'who has been living a mile north of this place for about JO months. Mr. Bradbury left for Port land at "2 o'clock this afternoon and will go on tonight to Seattle. He says Miss Bradbury was subject to attacks during which she became unconscious and thinks she may have died during? one- of these. NANAIM0 FUGITIVE CAUGHT Man Wanted . for Embezzlement ' Found In Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Jan. 29. (Spe cial.) Charles Bisco, a fugitive from Nanaimo. B. C, was arrested In the Los Angeles-Redondo Railway ticket office to day. A tourist from his home city recog nized him and told an officer he was wanted in the Canadian town. Nanaimo authorities in response to a telegram sent a dispatch stating he was charged with embezzling J200 and that they will send an officer for him. Widows Make Best Wives? NEW YORK. Jan. 2S. "As a 'rule sec ond marriages are the happiest," said ex Judge A. J. Dittenhoofer, of New York, in an interview published here, today. "The woman who marries for a second time is more apt to make a happy home, because she is more settled, more domes tic, more prudent.' She has profited by her mistakes." Seumas McManus 111. ANN". ARBOR. Mich., Jan. 29. Seumas MoManus. Irish story-teller, who ap peared here last night in a lecture to the students at Michigan University, was un able to finish his address owing to illness. He was taken to a hospital, where physi cians diagnosed his case as incipjen-t pneu monia. , CONTRIBUTION OF HUMOROUS PICTORIAL COMMENT ON CURRENT EVENTS. Outof 143Republicans, 1 1 AloneOpposePlan. PARTY UNISON IS AT STAKE With but Few Exceptions De mand Is Statewide. CROOK COUNTY IS OPPOSED Clackamas County, Hotbed of Radi cal Ideas. Is Favorable to Plan, but No County Assem bly Js Likely. The Oregonian today publishes the fourth of a series of interviews with Republicans of the state on the as sembly question. Interviews were not obtained from members of the party In the following outside counties. Ollliam. Wallowa. Washington and Wheeler. The result of these Inter views, not Including Republicans in Multnomah County, who have not been quoted. Is as follows: Counties represent, ed ". 2t Republicans interviewed '. ' I 4:t Favorable to assembly 132 Opposed to assembly... . 11 Elect delegates by precincts " . Elect delegates by mass meetings or otherwise 12 No suggestion as to eleotln'n " delegates 75 Summarizing the interviews with representative Republicans from 29 of the 34 counties of the state, outside of Multnomah County, which have been published in The Oregonian, including those presented today, 132 out of 143 interviewed on the subject have de clared themselves unqualifiedly In fa xe of the proposed assembly plan, both state and county. Only 11 oppose the .flgsembl&JVhUe OFiy 6S of the total number suggested a plan for selectin..' the delegates, 56 recommended that delegates be elected by precinct pri maries. The other 12 would have the delegates selected either by precinct or county mass meetings; or by the mem bers of the County Central Committee. Th'e purpose of The Oregonian in compiling these expressions was to ob tain the., sentiment on the assembly plan from the Republican voters of the state. The Interviews gathered by The Oregonian are representative of the party in the state, outside of Multno mah County, which is not included. They were obtained from men repre senting every walk in lifethe logger, farmer, business man, banker, an occa sional state and county official being quoted. r Plan of Action Outlined. Fully two-thirds of those interviewed Indorse the following plan of proced ure: Election by precincts of dele gates to the county assembly; county assembly to suggest candidates for county offices and elect delegates to state assembly, the state gathering to recommend candidates for all state offices. A large majority of those ex pressing themselves favor holding the county assemblies early in May, or not later than June 1. The same Republi cans propose that the state assembly be held between. July 1 and July 15, or at least 60 days before the direct prim ary nominating election, which will be held September 12. Of the26 interviews submitted today from the counties of Benton, Clacka mas. Crook,. Lake and Polk, not one Republican opposes the assembly. While members of -the party in Curry County are not quoted, it Is , under stood that the assembly does not meet with ! the approval of Republicans in that, county. - Grant County- Pro-Assembly. The Oregonian correspondent in Grant County failed to interview Republicans, but in describing political conditions in that section oUhe state indicates a pro-assembly sentiment.' In Benton Couoty, 10 of the 12 men questioned in- (Concluded on Page 8.)- First Building or Kind Actually to Make Ready for Travel of Future Bays. CHICAGO. Jan. 29. (Special.) The Biackstone Hotel, an exclusive host elry for millionaires, now nearing com pletion in this city, will have tne twentieth floor fitted up as an aero plane garage. It is believed this is the first seri ous attempt in this country to provide for the coming method of travel. Man agers of the Biackstone say they feel Confident that aeroplane travel will be general in the course of a few. years at the outside, and that the majority of their patrons will own airships. For this reason it is preferable to prepare now than to remodel ihe house. Engineers are now consulting the most successful aeronauts for ideas as to the proper equiprr-mt of the garage. The hotel overlooks Grant Park and Lake Michigan and plans, as far as de termined upon,, are to have entrances to the garage from four sides, so that ingress and egress -.'ill be easily made at all times. It Is also planned to have large and small aeroplanes tdf rental for use of guests and sightseers. GATZERT REACHES DALLES Sleamer Succeeds Cutting Through Ice First Time This Year. THE DALLES. Or.. Jan. 29. (.Spe cial.) The steamer Bailey Gatzert reached The Dalles dock at 12:80 to day, the first through trip from Port land since January 1. She started from Portland Friday at 7 A. M. and tied up at Kiindt's, a mile en- two below Crates Point, last night and started bucking the ice in the bend at 7 this morning. In some places she cul through cakes piled 25 feet high. The Columbia Is clear of ice for two or three miles both above and below The Dalles' but the ferryboat, which is tied up in Hungry. Harbor, will not re sume service until the Ice is out of pig Eddy. The open river line steamer J. N. Teal will make her first run since January 1 between Portland and The Dalles on Tuesday. LAD PLEADS OWN CASE 12Y"ear-01d Successfully Resists Sentence to School. . CHICAGO. Jan. 29. Every boy his own lawyer Is the ideal of Charles Willis, 12 years old, who appeared in the Juvenile Court yesterday to resist efforts to place him in the Parental School for Truancy. He won the sup port of the prosecutor, Superintendent W. L. Bodtne of the Compulsory Edu cation Department, and won his case before Judge Pinckney. "I have come down to face the music alone." he said, when asked where his parents were. "No, I don't want no parent, no officer nor nobody to show me the way to this court, Judge. If I am sent to the Parental school I'll 3-0 and give myself up there and won't run away, either."1 The lad's case had been continued to see what record he would make at the Mount- Ckrmel school. "And I made good,", said Charley, drawing from his pocket the credentials signed by the authorities of the Mount Carmel school. FRUIT JV1EN PLAN UNION Clackamas County Growers Limit . Number of Varieties. OREGON CITY, Or.. Jan. 29. (Spe cial.) Spitzenbergs, Roman Beauties. Yellow Newtowns, Grimes Goldens and Baldwins are the five varieties of apples recommended to the growers of Clacka mas County as being the best adapted for the soil and climate by the Clacka mas County Horticultural Society this afternoon. . It is the purpose of the so ciety eventually to form a fruitgrow ers' union and ship carloads of apples East, and they realize the impossibility 4af carrying out a such - a plan unless there is a limit placed on the varieties grown. The society held an enthusiastic meeting this afternoon. The main ad dress was given by H. M. Williamson, secretary of the State Board of Horti culture. In future the members of the society will not accept trees from nur serymen unless they first pass the in spection of the officers of the society, who are A. J. Lewis, president: c. W. Swallow, vice-president; M. J. Lazelle, secretary-treasurer. Buildinds,Undermined, in Danger, Though. EPIDEMIC IS ALSO FEARED Conditions Pitiful in Districts Below City. -NEED OF CHARITY GREAT' Red Cross Active as Are French So cieties and Contributions to Re lier Fund Pour in From AH i'arts of the World. ' PARIS. Jan. 29. Slowly the swollen a ters of the Seine, which reached their i high mark at 2 o'clock this morning, are) subsiding, and at midnight the fall meas ured four and one-half inches enough to) bring a sense of relief to the desolated and distracted city. The danger of some great calamity, such as lias been predicted, now seems over, although the situation continues critical, particularly near the St. Lazare) station, where whole streets 'and solid blocks of buildings threaten to sink through the crust into the waters beneath. ftuilding Foimadtious Weakened. The effect of the removal of the wa ter pressure has been to weaken founda tions greatly and this causes the greatest anxiety. Besides, there will be thousands of acies to be cleared or repaired when the water has receded and there is also the possibility of an epidemic. It is believed the breaking of the dam at Gennevillieres apapreciably has has tened the climax by releasing an immense) amount of water, but the consequences below are appalling. Helovv Paris Condition Had. (5.;iiiiviliere! and Colombes have 30.0o inhabitant?. These sections are complete- ly submerged, the water reaching the tops' of houses In the lower section .while the Hood is backing - up into the center ot Asnieres. Certainly 4o,00 people have been driven, from their homes in the valley of the Seine to hospitals and other buildings' placed at the disposition of refugees. Dispatches from the provinces Indicate a general improvement except in tho lower valley of the Seine. Stale of Siege Unnecessary. Premier Briand today gave a. categori cal denial to reports that the government contemplates proclaiming a state of siege in the city. He said there would have, been no hesitation to do this if the neces- j sity had arisen, but that the public had manifested complete tonfidence in the j government and was co-operating in such, j splendid fashion that France might welt be proud before the world. A number of deplorable incidents) i have been reported. Several shopkeep- i era who attempted to charge quadruple j prices have been mobbed, while a grro- ceryman who was driven to the upper j story of his house by an angry crowdi ; fired a revolver, wounding a woman. ; Rowdies have attempted to pillage i many houses, and at several towns they j have been driven off by the military. Flood Has Geological Cause. Explanations of the floods given by! French scientists are of especial inter- j est. Ktienne Stanislas Meunier, an eminent geologist, considers the phe-; nomenon to be more of a geological j than a meteorological nature. He de- ' clares the soil of the entire basin of the Seine has become imperceptibly j filled to the point of complete satura- ! tlon in the preceding three" months of general rains, -with moderate tempera- tures, which retarded evaporation, j When the heavy rains came last week the ground was Impermeable and the water ran off as If from a cement floor. M. Heunier concludes the power given j to an area of country to take care of i the water, outside of considerations as i to natural soil, is measured by the evap- j (Continued on Pagre 2. : 1 1