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84 Pages
Section One
Pages 1 to 16
KlRht Sections,
Including
SemUMoithljr Jlacn
VOL,. XXXIII xo. 5.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1914.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
m
COUfWS EASTERN
HALF STORMBOUND
Chicago Cut Off From
East and South.
TRAIN SERVICE IS CRIPPLED
Wires Down in Every DirectioA
Owing to Sleet.
FATALITIES ARE REPORTED
TTnempIoyed Men. Find .Blessing In
Blizzard, for Thousands Are
Immediately Put to Work
to Raise Embargoes.
CHICAGO. Jan. 31. (Special.)
Sweeping up from the Oulf of Mexico,
the worst blizzard of the year struck
the country from the Mississippi Valley
to the Atlantic Coast and from the Gulf
to the Great Lakes last night and to
day. Its severity was noticed most,
however, in Illinois. Indinana. Ohio and
Bouthern Michigan. The storm cen
ter was In the vicinity of Cleveland
a d Is proceeding eastward along the
Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Riv
er. The storm center did not pass west
of the Mississippi River. No snow
whatever fell In Iowa tonight, but a
report is the blizzard had touched the
Wisconsin state line. Chicago got only
one corner of it, but that was plenty
for all practical purposes.
Two Killed, 20 Hart In Chicago.
Two persons were killed, 20 injured
and transportation lines damaged to
the extent of fully $50,000 here. Five
thousand dollars worth of electric
lights were put out of commission and
the telegraph and telephone companies
estimated their damage at $50,000. Chi
cago is practically isolated from the
Rast and Southeast. The . telephone
company has only one wire east, out of
more than 100. Each of the telegraph
companies has a straggly wire east and
nothing to or south of the Ohio River.
This Is said to be due to heavy sleet
over Northern Indiana and Ohio, which
beat down hundreds of wires.
Indications are that the brunt of the
stcrm will not strike New York, but
Boston and the New England states
and Eastern Canada will probably feel
Its full fury tomorrow. One remark
able feature of the storm in Chicago
Is that it came from the southeast,
while a stiff wind was blowing from
the north. Fully a foot of snow fell
and where the wind had action It drift
ed from four to seven feet in depth.
Unemployed Are Benefited.
The storm was a blessing to the
thousands of unemployed men in this
city, who were immediately put to
work at $2 and $2.50 a day. Ten thou
sand men were put to work today and
there are calls out for many more. All
energies today were devoted to dig
ging the heart of the city out of the
drifts and keeping the transportation
lines open. In the suburbs transporta
tion was dead. Steam trains were hours
late coming and departing.
Indiana received the brunt of the
sleet storm. Two persons were killed
in Indianapolis. The sleet storm was
. also especially heavy In Northern Ohio,
and this accounts for the loss of hun
dreds of telegraph and telephone wires
from Chicago to the East, which are
massed in the vicinity of Cleveland.
The average snowfall In Indiana was
ten Inches. The snowfall was unusual
ly heavy In Michigan. Snow has been
falling in that state almost daily for
two weeks, and the fresh supply last
night filled railway cuts and ravines.
stalling trains and interurbans. In
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'SKY DINNER' GIVEN
ATOP STEEL TOWER
BERKELEY STUDENTS TIIEAT
WOItKMEX 2-10 FEET UP.
Completion of Campanile lYame at
University of California Marked
by Aerial Banquet.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31. (Special.)
A sky dinner, hoisted In buckets 240
feet to the top level of the university
campanile at Berkeley, was this noon
served to the .50 steel workers have
completed their work on the giant
needle.
Joe Kobloth, the chef, who on several
occasions has been forced to postpone
the spread, superintended the serving
of a turkey banquet from a safe posi
tion on the ground.
The workmen received a regulation
"Thanksgiving" dinner, with turkey
and cranberry sauce as the main ob
jects of attack, and on the aerial plat
form, 35 feet square, they enjoyed the
repast with a nochalance not possessed
by the few invited guests.
The work of covering the steel struc
ture with California stone will start
within a few days. An elevator and
staircase is to be included in the in
terior and an observation platform and
clock tower will be features of the
completed campanile.
ANIMALS WILL BE LISTED
Pedigrees of Zoo Inmates Are to Be
Compiled by Zoologist.
The task of "interviewing" each ani
mal at the Washington Park Zoo, from
the bull snake up to the African lion,
will be undertaken this week by M. W.
Gorman, a Portland botanist and zoolo
gist, who has been engaged to take a
census of the zoo.
He has been engaged by the city to
find out the age and pedigree of each
animal, as well as a history of each
from the time of birth or the time of
leaving the Jungle up to the present,
"Yes, It is quite a task," admitted Mr.
Gorman yasterday, "but I guess I can
get the'informatlon quite accurately by
Interviewing the animals and their at
tendants." GIRL KEEPS "HER0" BUSY
Spring Hold, Mo., Miss Turns in
Alarms to See Fireman Pass.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Jan. 31. A
young woman's desire to see her "he
ro," a fireman, rush by her home on a
fire engine, it developed here tonight,
has been ,the cause of. repeated., false
alarms from the residence district.
Six alarms have been turnd In from
this section in the last week, and W.
D. Price, chief of the fire department,
placed detectives on the case. Today
the young woman admitted her guilt.
She will not be prosecuted.
BRIDGE BILLIS PASSED
Portland-Vancouver Jfeasure Sow in
Hands of President.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Jan. 31. Representative John
son, of Washington, today called up lit
the House and secured the passage of
the Chamberlain-Johnson bill author
izing the construction of the Portland
Vancouver bridge across the Columbia
River.
The bill has passed the Senate and
now goes to the President for signa
ture. AGED PAIR DIE SAME DAY
Man Once Wealthy Passes Away in
Hovel in Springfield, Mo.
SPRINGFIELD, Tlo Jan. 31. Re
duced to poverty. Jesse M. Kelly, 83
years old once one of the wealthiest
men in Springfield, died in a hovel on
the outskirts of the city today. His
wife, who was 80 years old, died an
hour later.
When she learned several days aso
that her husband was sinking gradu
ally she refused all nourishment and
prayed that they might die together.
CARTOONIST REYNOLDS COMMENTS IN
j"'
HIGHWAY TO AID
DOUGLAS FARMERS
Ricker Wends Way Via
Beautiful Valley.
ROADS' ENTHUSIASM GROWS
Camas Valley to Rock Creek
Route Full of Holes.
MYRTLE POINT IS ACTIVE
Petition Now Being Circulated for
Bond Issue of $445,000 in 20
Year, 5 Per Cent Bonds to Con
struct In Southern County.
BY DAVID SWING RICKER.
MYRTLE, POINT. Or.. Jan. 31. (Spe
cial.; .every evening at twilight a
handful of men and women, limping
laboriously, heads wabbling on wab
bly necks, quarreling with themselves,
out of sorts with the world and with
everybody in It, hats awry, hair ffying
or hanging, travel-bedraggled and rain
bedabbled, slink into the Grand Hotel
at Roseburg and make a bee line for a
bed.
In this bed they linger for many
hours nursing grouches and peeves of
small or great size, bruised muscles.
stretched ligaments,
and rattled bones,
everything on earth
low it
strained nerves
uninterested in
above It or be-
At 3 o'clock, or thereabouts, every
morning another handful of men and
women, bearing their peeve in silence
and their aching ribs with admirable
fortitude limp Into Joe Schilling's Illi
hee at Myrtle Point and drop into
chairs pulled around the bljr open fire,
silently, always silently, the deadly
calm that expresses complete surren
der to long suffering. Too mad to at
tempt the use of words, are they; too
tired to cry; too sore to sit down, stand
up or lie, yet compelled to do all three,
and trylng to grin and . bear. -Scene
Vividly Focoacd.
Now it is. important to know, be
fore the eye is capable of fully en
compassing these two tableaux, that
the Grand Hotel in Roseburg is a
one end of the Roseburg-trans-moun
tain-to-Myrtle Point stage line and
Schilling's Illihee Is at the other end
Between these two ends are 61 miles
of fluid of mud and muck . through
which the stage, sunk to the gunwales,
sallB and rocks, dips and careens for
something like 18 heart-breaking
hours. Also between the two ends are
9.999 boulders, rocks , stumps, crev
a3ses, holes and pits which the stage
driver is instructed to hit with all four
wheels or else lose his reputation as a
daredevil.
It has not yet been recorded that any
of the stage drivers have been called
upon to hang up their reputations and
retire to the less hazardous toll of Bit
ting on a shingle and being hauled
down a flight of marble stairs by a
runaway horse.
A lumberman, mild mannered but
built like a giant, who managed to
say between Jolts this name was Carl
Gearing, turned to the driver after he
had ridden in silence for half a day,
the silence that follows resignation.
"It may not interest you," he said
mildly, "and you may not believe it,
tut, sir, that was the nearest I have
v- " oiii"'o
here quietly making my peace WitbJ
God."
Bis Happy-go-lucky Ira Cornelius,
who knows every rock on the road bo
well that he never misses any of them,
turned to the old man, looked him
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OUS7VVG-
IKDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Ibe Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 51.S
degrees; minimum, 44.8 degrees. -
TODAY'S Generally fair: westerly wind.
Plot to depose Huerta nipped in Mexico
City. section 1, page 1.
National.
Senator Lane is all but ejected from floor
of Senate m parliamentary sense. sec
tion l, page 4.
Burleson committee reports In favor of
Government ' monopoly of wire com
munication. Section 1. page 2.
While House committee holds trust hearing
Senators will investigate by mail. Section
1. ge 6.
Hous3 omits Asiatic exclusion from Burnett
Immigration bill. Section 1 page 4.
Movement to make suffrage party Issue
developing in Washington. Section 1,
page 5.
Domestic.
Packers and railroads indicted for rebating.
Section 1. page 0.
Youth who murdered messenger for - $70
expects to escape hanging. faectlon l.
page 5. .
Ex-Senator Cullom's body lies in state In
Illinois CapitoL Section 1, page J
Friend of Murray I. Diggs. arrested, refuses
to tell where other two men wan tea can
be found. Section 1, page 3.
Whole eastern half of country stormbound.
Section 1. page 1.
Aerial banquet given by Berkeley students
to workmen. Section 1, page l.
Bride of Judge Lindsey to help husband In
court. Section 1. D&ge 2.
Insane woman who long watched over sis
ter's dead body Is heiress to &w,uou,
Section 1, page 1.
Monroe's captain files libel on TCan tucket
for 5i,H0,lXK lor collision. section
page 3.
Sports.
Dugdale predicts good season for Seattle
team. Section 2, page 2.
Sale of Boise baseball club and Union League
entry please fans. Section 2. page B.
Interscholastic league soccer season opens
Tuesday. Section 2, page 4.
Oregon University fans fear defeat in first
conference basketball series, faectlon
page 8.
Portland ' ball fans of 1901 recall personnel
of team. Section 2. page 3.
Turn Verein classes to meet in new home
tomorrow. Section 2, page 4.
California, voters may prohibit boxing at
November election. Section 2; :age 5.
Ballplayers take care of arms. Section 2,
page 2. -
Federals take business manager away from
Chicago . Cubs. Section 2. page l.
McCredie threatens to send Krapp to Kew
Orleans. Section 2, page 1
Campi knocked out in' 12th round by Kid
illlams. Section 2, page 4.
Majority of old-time boxers are on easy
street. Section 2. page o.
Defamation suit Is sequence to Vancouver
ballot scandal, section 1, page n
Pacific Northwest.
Idaho politicians consider prohibition plank
tor Diatrorms. faectlon 1, page i.
Campaign for Columbia County road bonds
ends Willi facappoose meeting. toection x
page 8.
Ricker, reaching Myrtle Point, tells hofl
highway would benefit Douglas farm
ers. Section 1, page 1.
Six Willamette Valley counties unite in
Good Koadi Association. Section 1, page 8.
Labor member may be ousted from Wash
ington Industrial Insurance Commission
place, faectlon l, page 7.
Washington commission carries cost of room
ana boara xnrougn mytnica-i gin s ia
qulry. Section 1, page 11. -. ..
Dr. James Withycombe. of Corvallis. an
H ounces candidacy for- Governoihi
U Ef.minatloiu.v feecvion 1, paga w.
Gale tears and tTiUi Seade. . tction 1,
page 7. -
Automobiles and Roads.
Day of survival of fittest near in auto In
dustry. Section 4. page 6.
More auto-racing urged. Section 4, page 6.
H. C. Bradfleld takes optimistic view of
situation. Section 4. page 6.
Winter auto trip made to Mount Rainier.
Section 4, page 4. ' -
Auto show proves to be financial as well
artistic success. Section 4, page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Higher prices paid for wheat in country
markets. Section I, page la.
Northwest millers believe flour will take
leap skyward. Section 2. page IS.
Ample snow covering weakens wheat v
Chicago. Section 2, page 15.
Stock and bond prices in Wall street con
tlnue to advance. Section 2, page IB.
Portland ships 2,056,994 bushels of wheat
during month. Section 2, page 6.
Portland and Vicinity,
Northwestern Electric Company to complete
street work by February 30. Section 4,
page 9.
W. D. "Wheeler lauds President in schol
arly address here. Section 2, page 6,
Mrs. Gerllnger acquitted by iitry after ad
mitting she la a bed Lawyer Brown. Sec
tion l, page is.
Dissolution of Central and Southern Pacific
seen as commercial injury to Oregon In
te rests Section l .page 13.
Mr. Stover's legal coup questions power of
Mayor or any city official to discharge
employes. section x, page xz.
Carl Rochet, carrier for The Oregonlan, wins
Harvard Ciuo scholarship. Section 1
page 12.
Tiger trounces leopard for snoring. Section
i, page i.
iionai meeting, section l. nave in
Maccabees tents and hives to entertain head
of order tomorrow. Section 4, page lO.
January trade in many lines shows gain,
although start Is - conservative. Section
2, page 16.
Weather report, data and forecast. Section
J. page e.
John Manning formally enters race for Gov-
ernor. Beet ion l, page 12.
PTCTTTFES ON SOME
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PLOT TO DEPOSE
HOERTA IS NIPPED
Friends of Felix Diaz
Thrown Into Prison.
HUNDREDS OF RIFLES SEIZED
Chief of Police Does Not Be
lieve Conspiracy Is Rife.
BLANQUET GAINS EVIDENCE
Recent Candidate for President Said
to Have Dropped Hint of Plans to
American, in Havana Agent
Sent to Paris Is Missing.
MEXICO CITY. Jan. 31. With the
arrest today of Jose Luis Requena,
chief of the Felix Diaz political organ
ization, and two or three other men
who were also orominent in his sup
port in the latssrace for the Presidency
and the discovery of several hundred
rifles stored In the capital, the War
Department believes It has well In
hand a new plot which, it Is alleged,
had as its object an attempt to over
throw the government tomorrow.
The case has been handled entirely
by agents of General Blanquet, Min
ister of war. Colonel Francisco Chavez,
chief of police, many of whose men
are alleged to be Implicated in the
treasonable plan. Is Inclined to doubt
the accuracy of the War Department's
information.
Detective I'Ihj "Double Cram."
The arrests were determined on after
the submission to General Blanquet of
evidence discovered by a detective who
had represented himself as Juan Or
tega, an active rebel operating in the
State Nichoacan and the territory of
Teplc.
The detective went to the home of
Francisco Serrano, a civil engineer liv
ing at Tlalpam, a suburb of Mexico
City, with a- letter, purporting to. be
from rebePfriend3 of Serrano. " " "
The detective, on Serrano's confes
slon and offer to contribute $500 and
500 guns, promised that 1000 men
would join the new cause.. Serrano, it
la alleged by the Intelligence depart
ment of the War Office, sent a note
to Requena, asking his opinion regard
ing acceptance of the offer.
ZUflea Brongkt to Arsenal.
At the department there Is a letter
supposed to have been written by Re
quena to Serreno In which Requena
advises acceptance of the rebels' of
fer. As if to corroborate the genuine
ness of the invitation, 600 rifles have
been brought to the government
arsenal wbich, it Is said, were dis
covered where Ortega said they were
hidden.
Pedro Villar, an attorney who Iden
tified- himself with General Felix Diaz'
political fortunes, went to Havana to
meet him and accompanied him to
Vera Cruz in November, remaining
with him until the night of his flight,
has also been arrested.
Enrique Fernandez Castello, son-in-law
of Requena and prominent in po
litical affairs of the capital. Is sought
by agents of the War Department.
Details of Plot Unknown.
The exact development of the plot
and the exact form of the new gov
ernment was to take are things on
which General Blanquet is uncommuni
cative nor do his agents profess to
know the details. They say they have
evidence to indicate that the plan was
either to Install as temporary Presi
dent General Fernardino Gonzales, an
army officer of repute, who 13 now in
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OF THIS WEEK'S CHIEF
iAAy THAT CAKB!
LEOPARDTROUNCED
IN CAGE BY TIGER
SNORES OF BIG BABE ANGER
Ql'KKX, ROYAL BEXGAL.
Battle Is Waged While Animals Roar
in Menagerie at Country Club
Until Trainer Calls Time.
Despite the recent order putting a
lid on prizefighting in Portland, there ,
was a real scrap at the Country Club '
Friday night. It waged for more than
30 minutes, until Louis Roth, trainer
for a circus that is wintering In Port
land, reached the ringside and . called
time. Queen, a royal Bengal tiger, got
the decision over Big Babe, a trained
leopard.
It has been current gossip about the
menageries for several days that trou
ble was brewing between Queen and
Big Babe, but there was no open breach
until Friday. Then Trainer Roth did
not think the trouble serious enough
to change their adjoining apartments.
Mr. Roth says Big Babe snores in
her sleep. Queen resented this and
knocked down the inch board partition
separating her room from the boudoir
of Big Babe.
When the battle started all the ani
mals in the menageries set up a roar
that awoke the circus employes sleep
ing in cars a quarter of a mile from
the animal barn. Trainer Roth was
the first to reach the ringside. He
found Big Babe wedged into a corner.
with the tiger on top. Queen had cut
the face, neck and side of the leopard.
and Big Babe had gone down for the
count when Mr. Roth Interfered.
Queen had several scratches on her
neck and side, but neither is seriously
injured. Big Babe sulked about her
cage all day yesterday and refused to
leave it in the afternoon when it came
her turn to train in the arena.
Big Babe fights in the featherweight
class. She weighs Just one-fourth as
much as Queen.
CARDINAL GENNARI DIES
Number of Vacancies in Sacred Col
lege Increased to 16.
liOMU, Jan. 31. Cardinal Casmlr
Gennarl, prefect or the Congregation of
tne Council, died today. His death was
due to heart disease. He is the third
cardinal to pass away in the last two
months, the others being Cardinal
oregiia and Cardinal Rampolla. He
was 7.4 years old.
There are now 16 vacancies in the
Sacred Collego and the holding of a
consistory at an early date Is thought
to be necessary. The report, repeated
ly circulated that the consistory has
been delayed owing to the 111 health
of the Pope is emphatically denied at
the Vatican.
MANY SPELL PERFECTLY
Lane Contest Shows 111 Pupils Have
'Scores of 100.
EUGENE, Or., Jan. 31. (Special.)
Results of the second spelling contest
for school children in Lane County,
announced this morning, show that 111
pupils spelled all 50 words correctly.
In six grades, every member of the
class attained a perfect grade. In the
sixth grade, districts 60 and 134 are
tied on the 100 percentage, and in the
seventh, districts 25, 83 and 174 are
perfect. In the fourth grade, districts
145 and 153 are tied, with a standing
of 97 per cent.
RAINFALL NEARS RECORD
Total for January, 11.5 Inches, Is
Way Above Xormal.
January came near oelng the wettest
January in the "history of Portland.
The total rainfall for the month was
11.5 Inches.
In 1883 January broke the record
with a total of 13.71 inches and Jan
uary, 1880, comes next with 12.27. The
total of 11.13 made In January, 1890,
ranks it as the fourth wettest Jan
uary. The normal rainfall for January is
6.5 inches. During the month just
passed there was not a day in which
there was not at least & trace of rain.
NEWS EVENTS.
WOMAN
BEREFT OF
IS HEIRESS
Finding Sister's Body
Reveals Secret.
MYSTERY SECOND IN FAMILY
Father, Who Accumlated For
tune, Drops From Sight.
GEMS DISPROVE POVERTY
Strange Spinsters, Believed to Be
Hiding to Conceal Financial Dis
tress, Are Rich in Jewels,
Found In House.
DOS ANGELES, Jan. SI. Without
having made connected statement of
any kind. Miss Nanette Warren, who
was found last night keeping & lone
vigil over the body of her sister, Misa
Mary Warren, was placed In the in
sane ward of the County Hospital to
night. No one here knew until tonight that
she was the daughter of a former pio
neer business man and manufacturer
of Toledo, O., or that she was heiress
to a fortune of $500,000. It was be
lieved the sisters were in reduced cir
cumstances, keeping to their apart
ment to avoid revealing their poverty.
The finding of jewels and costly
gowns in the room where the corpso
of Mary Warren had remained for
three weeks today disproved their pov
erty. Motive Rmulns Mystery.
The cause of Mary's death, or her sis
ter's reason for hiding the body, keep
ing everyone out of the apartment and
stuffing the window and door cracks
with rags may never be learned from
the women now in the hospital.
Nanette Warren will be taken before
the lunacy commission for examination
Monday. In all probability an autopsy
will be held over the body of Mary,
as the Coroner's office said it was too
decomposed to reveal any of the causes
of death.
TOLEDO, O., Jan. 31 The finding of
the body of Mary Warren in her apart
ment in Los Angeles, and the discovery
that her sister, Nanette, had been liv
ing in the same room with the dead, re
vives one of the mysteries In local po
lice annals. The sisters lived here at
the Warren homestead, 365 Fourteenth
street, until they went to Los Angeles
nearly two years ago.
Mystery Second in Family.
The mystery is the second in the
Warren family. In 1S78 Samuel War
ren, father of the two girls and a. re
tired manufacturer, disappeared. De
tectives scoured this and many other
cities, searched the home and even
dragged the cistern at the rear of the
residence. He had apparently dropped
from the face of the earth. Five years
later the wife of Warren -dropped dead
of apoplexy. She had formerly been
Mary von Groton, of Eerne, Switzer
land. Through the death f her sister
Nanette becomes heir to approximately
toOO.000 in her own right. The prop
erty Includes Warren Place in Toledo,
farms on the Maunice River, planta
tions and beet sugar Interests in Cali
fornia and plantations in the South.
Samuel Warren was one of the pUi
neer business men and manufacturers
in Toledo. He was born in Tecumseh.
Mich., in 1818. An orphan at 18, with
out a relative, he came here and be
gan working in a livery stable. Ha
became owner of the barn and later
was noted in Northern Ohio as a. breed-
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