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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1913)
r sittitf ait mm mcmsmmu Pages 1 to 16 : , .nn PRICE FIVE CENTS. ,.TT vn PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 3IORMG, JANUARY 26, 1913. : WEST'S REAL TEST OF PROWESS DUE Governor's Appoint ment Bill Up. SENATE FIGHT IS PREDICTED Measure May Never Get to Final Passage. WEST TO LIMIT CASH DEAL When Red line on Proposed Appro priations Omit Reach $5,000, OOO Mark, Then Work of Ve toing Will Begin, Is Report. BRIEF SESSIONS HELD. STATE CAPITOU Salem. Or.. Jan. 25. (Special.) Both houses of the Leytstaturc adjourned today until Monday, the Senate to meet at tl oclock on that day and the House" at 10:30 o'clock. The Senate was In session only Jrt minutes today, meeting shortly after O o'clock and adjournine at 10:21. The House as In eesaon for nearly two hours and a half. The Senate did but little, while the House rushtd through a grist of J t business. STATE CAFITOL, Salem. Or.. Jan. 25. (Special.) The first real test as to the Governor's prowess as far as liis propramme is roncerned probably will be determined in the Senate Tuesday or Wednesday. It will come In the shape of final action as to the disposi tion of Senator McColloeh's bill, intro duced at the Instance of the Governor, and empowering the Executive to ap point special Sheriffs. District At torneys and Constables for So-day periods. The bill is now In the bands of the Judiciary committee of the Senate and has been for several days. McColloch has secured a definite promise that the bill will be acted on In committee one way or another next Monday night and will be reported into the Senate Tues day morning. Apparently Senator Moser, chairman wf the Judicial committee. Is unqualified ly opposed to the bill as extending too much power to the Executive. As to the other members of the committee, aside from McColloch, who will nat urally be its backer. It is difficult at this time to secure any definite align ment. Moser Prsnlseal Kljrrere. Moser. however, is one of the most prominent figures In the organiiation, as witness his chairmanship of the Judiciary committee, and a slight indi cation is found that the bill will meet with bitter opposition in the enate. In fact a change of Gubernatorial tactics between now and the middle of the week must be developed or the bill probably will meet certain defeat. The fact that it Is McColloch's bill. coming from the Governor, with Mc Colloch in the role of the Governor's chief advocate In the Senate, throws an air of Interest Into the coming con fllct without further particulars. But In addition to these facts the bill Is one of the Governor's own pet measures. It arose somewhat through troubles that he had in his vice crusade when he tried to oust Cameron, when hj endeavored to appoint special agents and when he had difficulties with East ern Oregon officials. It Is considered by outsiders that he is probably more desirous of seeing this bill pass than any other one bit of legislation that he has thrown into the legislative arena. Teat Vote Kot Indicative. So far test votes as to vetoed bills Concluded on Page 7.) i fZZP&eSEH TATISS AXTELL AN a LVA sum G rows r- . r-.C-T I JS. V U tela ckok . Sggr Vlt ?2?w, vat Z JEQSJLA TORS0 o vy NEW IRRIGATION PROBLEM LOOMS DANCER CONFRONTS FARMING ON ARID LANDS. Government Working to Overcome Wearing Out by Saturation, and Alkali Difficulties. .WASHINGTON. Jan. 2S. Deteriora tion of Irrigated lands in the West has resulted in erforts by the Government to overcome wnat threatens to bo a serious danger to all of the lands em braced In the Government's Immense irrigation projects. Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief of the Bu reau of Plant Industry. In testimony v.BmA nubile todav. said that the Department of Agriculture was work ing hard to overcome the recognized dangers confronting farming on irri gated lands. t-- r.iiinnav'i testimony was given before the House committee on expen ditures in the Agricultural uepan ment. He said the department hoped to be able to put Irrigated farming . firm basis for the future. The danger lies not only in the alkali in the soils .of Irrigated lanas. which ashes down into other land, but also in what the experta term "wearing out" by saturation. -I will go so far as to fay, and it may be somewhat startling." Dr. Gallo .oirf i the committee, "that so far- as I know there never has been any long continued irrigation in a sem arld climate anywhere In the world." Congress is expected to apprupr.. additional sums this year to continue the studies in tho irrigated regions, where the agricultural experts are en deavoring to solve the problems con fronting agriculture. SOLONS HAVE SMALLPOX Tx, Idaho Representatives to Pcsthouse in Boise. BOISE. Idaho, Jan. 25. (Special.) The smallpox scare struck the House of Representatives today, owing to the ill ness of Representative Nihart. of Twin Falls, and Representative Edelblute, of Kootenai County, both-of whom now are in the pesthouse here. The House passed a resolution order ing the fumigation of the assembly and cloakrooms during the adjournment period over Sunday. The House passed a concurrent roso nrnviriinr for the appointment and commission of special committees to visit tbe Northern, soutn ana euum eastern Idaho state Institutions. The Senate will be canca upon id i- Drove the constitutional amendment ? !!m,7 for the direct election of nrovldine for the aireci ekcuuu " protiumg wl . I United States Senators, tor mo no, disposed, of the measure, giving its alBp . , unahimous approval. LAUNCH HELEN FOUND SAFE Craft Escapes Y'oundering by p,lt' ting In at Galena Bay. VALDEZ. Alaska. Jan. 25.-The launch I e en which was believed to hav. b."n ?osl : with five men, was found todTy in Galena Bay by the Gov- ernment launcn Laeuieuaui. OX X- W h w.-w .... j The Helen had. sougnt reiuge in i Galena Bay from the furious storm ,. fur the storm and waited seven days ior mo to abate. Tbe vessel narrowly escaped . . . .1 Hmpi before She I smiting . . .,1 t.A tnrmhaund I reached a naven. men arrived here gaieiy TON OF COMBS IS MAILED Manufacturers Using Parcel Post by Way of Experin,enl- LOMINSTER. Mass, Jan. 25. (Spe cial ) Six hundred packages of hair combs were sent out of here today by parcel post by local comb manufac turers. The consignment weighed more than ton and was mailed by parcel post by the manufacturers as an ex periment. If they find It operate sat isfactorily, they trill use the parcel post exclusively. Many other manufacturers are giving close attention and will follow the lead of the comb manufacturers. CARTOONIST REYNOLDS, AT coriEn club NAMES GOVERNORS Prominent Men 6 New Members of Board. FIVE SERVE THREE YEARS Officers of Organization to Be Elected Tuesday. PRESIDENT'S ADDRES READ Polls Close at 1 1 o'clock With Total of 2 03 Votes Cast With Count Continuing Until Nearly Mid night Vote Is Close. Edzar B. riper, C. C. Colt, Albert Fcldcnheinier. II. D. Ramsdcll, C. R. Wrirht and J. Kred Larson were me she new members elected to the board of governors of the Portland Commer cial Club at the annual election held last night hii aervn for three years and one will complete the unexpired term o John Annand, who was recently ap pointed manager of the ciud. int se lection of the member who will com plete Mr. Annands term on the board "jj r h hoard. Tuesday. nmuua 1 ..... - - . moflt nr tn Bras oent. vice-president, secretary and treasurer for the coming year will dc cieciea, and appointment of standing commit tees will be made. o rTT Business Ariaes. Aside from the election of officers and the reports of the officers for the past year no new business arose during the meeting. President Piper called the meeting to order at 8 o'clock and applnted-J. M. Lelter. S. D. Vincent and George Law rence, Jr., Judges of election: A. B. Slau son and C. H. Moore clerks, and W. J. Hofman tellers, after which a recess of half a'n hour was declared in which the members surrounded tile oanoi dox m cast their votes. President Piper's, annual address was n - --- . ,,,, kq Vi u H rcn Kscm rao anr . . . bled in the green room, and after a for announcements the meeting was adjourned and the clubmen went to the dining-room on the floor above where a buffet luncheon was served Vote la Close. t-v, n:i rinsed alt 10 o'clock with a total of 263 votes cast. The count CUnilllUCU Mail.-- vote running very close in the majority of cases so that it could not be deter- mined how the result might be untl nearly three-fourths of the count" had continued until nearly nuanigm, tne Ucu I,., i- measures on the ballot, in voiving roanci" i passed practically without opposition. .it h.dnr heen considered and recom- rolvlng matters of club policy, were ail raving oetn tuua.uu mended by the board of governors m lmA atrn ow... i . . n amendment Drox'ides that the as- ltinn( secretary, in whose hands the actual handling of the club funds is placed, shall give the required bond anA Km re.-nnnaiblfi for -the accounts of tho club, the secretary and treasurer being relieved from tnat necessity. Flam to Protect Members. The swnnfl amendment calls for the adoption of a member's Identicifation card, for the purpose of protecting the members end employes from imposition on the part of non-members of the organization. The third amendment calls for the discontinuance of the Wednesday even ing French dinner, and the fourth amendment substitutes for it a. regular 75-cent dinner, to be served in connec tion with the a la carte bill every week day between 5:30 and 8 o'clock. OLYMPIA, SKETCHES SOME REPRESENTATIVES, COA7A YTJJ COMICSUPPLEMENT SETS TATTOO MODE IN NAVY 53 PER CENT OF SAIL ORS WEAR DESIGNS. Only S3 Per Cent of Marines Are Thus Adorned Feminine Fig ures Selected by Third or Men. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Tattooing still finds favor among the enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, but the old-time designs and their accom panying superstittions are fast disap pearing and giving way to more modern pictures, including figures from the newspaper comic supplements. Surgeon Farenholt. of the Navy, has Just concluded an investigation which disclosed that the sailor after enlist ment acquires tattooing more rapidly than the marine; S3 per cent of sailors having been found tattooed and 35 per cent of the marines being thus adorned. Fully one-third of the men select de signs, of feminine figures. Neptune, mermaids, and the tombstone and weep ing willow were found in diminishing numbers. Several of the deep sea and other time-honored devices were rarely seen. The Jerusalem cross had disappeared entirely. Designs adapted from the Japanese were the most curious found. BRIDGE MEETING ARRANGED AVashington and Oregon Legislators to Confer on Vancouver Site. OLTMPIA, Wash.. Jan. 25. (Special.) Arrangements were completed today for a Joint meeting at Portland. Tues day, of the Vancouver bridge commit tees of the Washington and Oregon Legislatures. The committees will meet at the Multnomah Hotel at 8 A. M.. and fter going over the bridge plans in detail will depart for Vancouver, where the site of tho proposed structure will be viewed. Arrangements were made for the Washington committee' to leave here Monday night by way of Tacoma. Ar rangements for the trip have been made by Senator French, of Clarke County, who is one of the .principal champions here of the proposed bridge. The Washington committee comprises Sena tors Nichols, of King, and French, of Clarke, and Representatives McArdle. of Jefferson; Aagard, of Clarke, and Kennedy, of King. Two more members will be appointed Monday, one to be selected from each of tho appropriation committees. PHONE MAN FOUND DEAD Cathlarnet Exchange .- Manager Thought to Have Fallen Off Pole. CATHLAMET, Wash., Jan. 25. (Spe cial.) Presumably having died from being exposed to cold after being dis abled by falling from a telephone pole, the body of Andrew Aiken, manager of the local exchange of the Pacific States Telephone Company, was found this morning four miles from Oak Point bv a party of searchers. He had been missing two days. Mr. Aiken was last heard from Thursday, when he telephoned another employe of the company to bring him food. The man followed -the line un til darkness set in. without finding Aiken, and on returning to this place a searching party was formed, starting out from here Friday. Deceased was about 35 years of age and is survived by a widow and three children. 32 SKILLETS GO BY MAIL 40 Crates of Baked Beans Also Sent by Parcel Post. SPOKANE. Wash., Jan. .25. (Spe cial.) Forty crates of baked beans and 32 skillets were among the par cels sent by parcel post from Spokane today. The merchandise, consigned by a local grocery and hardware house, went principally to palouse towns. Among other packages sent today were SOJjrooms, six pairs of shoes and a wagon full of laundry. This was one of the busiest days for the parcel post in Spokane. During the morning rush 406 packages were received. TAFT DEF ENDS HIS I ON CANAL POSITION Lower Domestic Rates Still Desired. TREATY QUESTION INVOLVED President Says Impartial Tri bunal Should Decide. ARBITRATION INSISTED ON Administration. Has Done Nothing Unpatriotic or Dishonorable, and He Is Willing to Admit Other - Side Has Claims. BiT.TivnRK Jan. 25. President Taft, epcaking tonight at the annual banquet of tho Merchants and Manu facturers' Association, defended tne Administration's attitude in the Pana ma Canal disacreement with England, declared that fts position was not. un patriotic or dishonorable and asserted there was no reason for anone to oppoFe the proposal for arbitration by an Impartial tribunal. "Whether you call it a subsidy or not. T am in favor of making the rates between the coasts through the Panama Canal lower," he said. "Now the ques tion is. can we do that under our Inter national obligations? I think we can. and if vou read the authorities I think vmni find wa may. But if we are bound not to exempt coastwise vessels we can agree to submit the question to an impartial tribunal. Impartial Tribunal Wanted. "I'm willing to admit there are argu ments on the other side. We are will ing. however, to submit our views to arbitration. There is nothing in the attitude of the Administration, as I have stated it. to show that we have been dishonorable. There is nothing to show a disposition to evade,-and we are willing to rest our case with a tri bunal that Is impartial." The President concluded his speech with an appeal for constitutional gov ernment, endangered in the last few months, he said, by those who proposed remedies but who could not furnish concrete examples of their proposed reforms. Attorney-General Wlckersham was another speaker. The President lelt about 11 o'clock for Wasliington. Stockholders Largely to Blame. Mr. Wlckersham, who took for his subject, "Equal Opportunltj-," said that It was In large measure because of "the gross neglect of the affairs of their companies by the individual stockholders that officers and directors of corporations have in so many In stances lost sight of their trust rela tion, and used their official positions and opportunities to enrich themselves, without regard to the interests of the stockholders, whose agents they were. "After all," the Attorney-General added, "the underlying philosophy of the modern so-called -economic legis lation," of which the Sherman anti trust law is a conspicuous example. Is simple. It is merely to prevent a par ticular group of persons from com pelling others by force, violence, fraud or unfair means from exercising their rights as free men to pursue their vo cations in such 'lawful manner as they think best." Bill for 100,000,000-Peso Loan Fails. MEXICO CITY. Jan. 25. The bill pro viding for a loan of 100,000,000 pesos, already approved by the Chamber of Deputies, failed tonight of passage in the Senate. A substitute bill providing for a loan of 40,u00,000 pesos received its first reading by the Senate. MASCULINE AND FEMININE, AND SOME OTHER House OS EXPRESS WRECKED, HOLD-UP IS FOILED OREGON CITV SCENE OF DE RAILMENT OF Tit A IN. Ties Piled on Track Cause Coaches to Leave Tracks on Trestle of Southern Pacific, OREGON CITY, Jan.. 25. (Special.) An unsuccessful attempt to derail and rob the San Francisco Express of the Southern Pacific was made here to night as the train was approaching Oregon City. A pile of ties was thrown across the tracks at Sixteenth street and Railroad avenue (the tracks). Just within a few rods of the trestle across Abernethy Creek. The train crashed into the ties at a good speed. Dut oniy four of the cars were derailed, the train traveling more than eight blocks ho trestle before stopping completely or before the cause of the trouble was learned. ThA train fa known as No. 13. It left Portland at 8:15 and reached Oregon City at 9:02. A heavy passenger list was carried and many Portland ioik were among them. The train carries ten cars, including one tourist sleeper, four standard Pullmans, baggage and oTnrARn rnrs and three coaches. In stead of Jumping the rails the engine scattered the ties, some 01 wnicn irrii carried in front of the engine eight blocks. Several were carried four ini five hlnckst or entirely across the trestle. Flying ties nearly iaid out Niirht Policeman Griffith, who was walking the track, as is his nightly The train was not damaged when the four ears left the rails. They were re placed In quick time. That a disaster wa. narrowlv averted is declared by the railway officials. That the Idea of the would-be robbers was to derail tne train and send It Into the ditch beneath Did trestle the railway authorities as sert. Detectives are being assembled from Portland and surrounding towns, and the Portland police also are at work. . CATHOLICS TO CELEBRATE Father Caruana"s Spokane Jubilee In October Being Arranged For. SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 25. (Spe cial.l Fifty years ago October 10, 1863 on the spot where the Northern o.ieix nassensrer Btatlon now stands, the Catholic faith first was implanted in Spokane. n that dav Father Joseph caruana. first Catholic missionary to the Indians of the Northwest, baptiied hero 5 In dian children and five aauus, mem bers of the Coeur d'Alene tribe. Later he went to Desmet, Idaho, and there founded tho first Catholic mts In thin district. The mission still stands and the aged missionary, known to the Indians as Soseph, tne patriarcn ..rict of their tribe, widely known and loved by them, is still the leading spirit of the little community. Father Caruana is 79 years old. Al though it is several months until the exact anniversary of the first coming of the faith, steps a.ready are being taken to hold a golden Jubilee celebra tion of the event. Several of the priests at Gonzaga University have become in toroated in the Dlan. Their idea Is to bring Father Caruana to Spokane for tho commemoration. TUG VICTIM OF BIG GALE Buster B Loses Tow Through Part ing of Her Cable. NANAIMO, B. C, Jan. 25. Leaving Nanaimo for Vancouver on Sunday, January 19, the tug Buster B., with a large barge of coal in tow, was caught In a gale, which raged all Sunday and Monday, during which she lost the tow through the parting of her cable. The scow was afterwards picked up by the tug Shamrock, after battling with the elements for hours. The Buster B. was 19 hours running from Nanaimo into Sechelt, where she had sought refuge after losing the scow. Lack of telephone and telgraph facilties caused the delay as to the whereabouts of the tug, the news only reaching Vancouver late this afternoon. TREES ICE IN SLIDES Rotary Plows Unable to Remove Debris. BURLINGTON TRAIN IS STRUCK Big Slide Lays in Wait for Prey Near Snowshed. SNOW MELTING RAPIDLY Great Northern Foreman Instantly Killed In Slide East of Leaven worth Men With Shovels and Wreckers Are Busy. . SF.ATTLli Wash.. Jan. 25. The) slides that are descending upon the mountain divisions of the three trans continental railroads contain Ice, trees and boulders, ui well as snow, and can not be tossed aside carelessly by the rotary plows. Men wiih shovels and wrecking ap pliances must remove the debris. The rain in the mountains ceased lo tv hut the temocrature continued high and the snow melted rapidly. The scene of the Great Kortnern duk.. i hni f.r from Wellington, now known as Tye. where an avalanche struck two passenger trains and killed S3 persona in February, 1910. Slide Wait for Prer- The passengers of train No. 43, the Burlington-Great Northern from Kan sas City, had a bit of excitement last Thursday. Their train had just thrust its nose out of a long snowshed at Alvln, on the west slope, when a mass of snow and earth, which seemingly had been lying in wait for the train, leaped down the mountain-side and caught .v.. ,.in and the baggage-car. The train was stopped and after the engines and car had been dug out the train was backed into the snowshed without anyone having been hurt. The passengers endured no hard ship, there being .plenty of food and water." It had been Intended to send the train back to Spokane, but there were slides behind it also, and this af ternoon the passengers clambered down the steep mountain trail from Alvin to Scenic, which is a Winter re sort with a hotel. They will be brought to Seattle by train. Another Great Sorthera Mm Killed. A snowsllde today three and a half miles east of Leavenworth, on the east slope, struck and instantly killed Joe Teneralli, section foreman of the Great vonhorn. A rotary nlow was also struck by this avalanche and the snow caused an explosion ot tno Doner, frightfully scalding Engineer Andrews. Tbe rotary left Leavenworth about 10 o'clock, ahead of two engines, but only got as far as the Great Northern power house, when a big avalanche came thundering down the mountainside and completely covered the snowplow and one of the engines. The Italian fore man, who was standing on the running board of the engine, was caught by the slide and jammed up against the, boiler, death resulting Instantly. Andrews is not thought to be fatally Injured. That the loss of life was not great was a miracle, as at the place where the slide occurred the river runs very close to the track, and the whole train might have easily been carried into the stream. The fact that there was a bluff 10 or 12 feet high on the upper side of the track no doubt saved the train from going into the river, the major part of the big slide passing over tho train and backing In around the cars. A large gang of men .were set to work with picks and shovels, but up to a late hour Concluded on Page 6.) FOLKS. BOULDERS AND