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,.TT vn PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 3IORMG, JANUARY 26, 1913.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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