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K 74 Pages Section One Pages 1 to 16 Six Sections VOL,. XXXIII NO. 6. PORTLAND, DREGOX, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Y EXEMPTION PLANK PASSED UNAWARES Democrats Only Now Discover Existence. DOCTRINE TO BE REPUDIATED Spokesman for Wilson Pre pares Way for Debate. CRY OF "HERETIC" RAISED Representative Adamson at Baltimore Knew of tton, Which Is Not Says Few ing on Membership. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. The provision favoring free passage for American ships through the Panama Canal was Injected Into the Democratic platform without the knowledge of the majority of the resolutions committee at the Baltimore convention, according to the assertion today of Representative Adamson, of Georgia, chairman of the Interstate and foreign commerce com mittee. Ho had met only two or three members of the convention, he said, who knew of the existence of the tolls plank before the platform was promul gated. Mr. Adamson will Introduce the Administration bill end Is regarded as the President's spokesman on the subject. Branding tho tolls exemption pro vision as "heretic doctrine," he Issuea n. statement today paving the way for Congressional debate on a repealing bill to be Introduced In accordance with the determination of President Wilson that the United States should recognize the claim of Great Britain that exemption for American ships Is In violation of tho Hay-rauncefote treaty. Bryan's Constat Not Given. Senator O'Gormnn, who will fight the repeal provision in the Senate, and Representative Broussard, of Louisiana, the Senator-elect from that Btate, were members of a sub-committee at Balti more which wrote the tolls exemption plan Into the platform. It was done, It was said today, without the consent of a majority of the full committee or Secretary o State Bryan, chairman of the resolutions committee. "I am not at all troubled about the cry," Representative Adamson said. "that repealing the exemption violates the Democratic platform. A eubBidy Is not a cardinal doctrine of the Demo cratic party. In fact, that exemption Is a contradictory interjection Into an anti-subsidy plank In the pl&Uorm and la void. Method vf Insertion Explained. "The method oi .ts Insertion In the platform is generally understood among well Informed people. Under a general Idea of approving what a Democratic Congress had done, certain members of the House and Senate who were on that committee were permitted to In terject that heretical provision, on the Idea that they were asserting approval of the work of Democrats In Congress when in fact a majority of more than SO Democrats In the House vote against the exemption. 'Before honest, unflinching Demo crats can be bound by a subsidy pro vlBlon It ought to be shown that the members of the - convention knew It was in there and the members at least understood and approved It. I have never seen a member of that conven tion, outside of two i.' three gentle men, who knew It war In there before It was promulgated, ant" I am Informed that a large majority of the platform committee was opposec to exemption.' i. MAN WINS IN RACE FOR POSTMASTER FORMER PORTLAND SCHOOL TEACHER IS SECOND. J. P. Cooley, Popular Choice for 4-Year Position at Brownsville, Gets 2 7 Votes Over Woman. ALBANY, Or., Feb. 7. (Special.) J. P. Cooley was elected. as the popular choice for postmaster of Brownsville lor tho next four years In an election held by the patrons, of the office today. Cooley won out by a majority of 27 votes over Miss Lelore Powell, the only woman candidate, - who ran second in the race. All of the patrons of the of fice, whether residing In the city or on rural routes, were allowed to vote and total of 751 votes was cast. The election was hotly contested and evoked more interest than the usual general election. The total vote received, by each can didate was as follows: J. P. Cooley. 204; Miss Powell, 177; J. W. Bolin, 153; Henry Blakely, 136; B. S. Martin, 81. This election to determine the popu lar choice for postmaster was suggest ed about a month ago. At that time there were four candidates Cooley, Bolln, Blakely and W. J. Moore, who later withdrew to become a candidate for Sheriff of Linn County. These four candidates met and agreed to submit the question to the people, the winner to receive the indorsement for appoint ment. Miss Powell, who Is a former teacher in the Portland schools, and B. S. Martin became candidates later. MIXED JURY "STAYS UP' i.Jgit Women on "Stubborn" Body and Only One Room Available. ABERDEEN, Wash.. Feb. 7. (Spe cial.) No verdict had been returned tonight at a late hour in the case of Joseph Pert and John Brown, accused of robbery, though tire Jury has been out since 5:30 o'clock last night. There are eight women on the Jury, but there were no beds for them last night and no way of segregating the men and women, so that they might rest. There are only two Jury-rooms, Cots are provided for 12. Since the mixed Jury system went into effect it has been the custom when a Jury was out all night to allow the women to use one room and the men the other, but last night there were two juries out and both rooms occupied. PH0NE0WNERS STRIKE, TOO When. Patrons Refuse to Call by Number Operators Walk Out. GENESEE, Idaho. Feb. 7. (Special.) The telephone girls of Genesee went on a strike here Thursday, but the manager soon had them back at their places. The trouble started over a phone di rectory. The business men of Genesee held a meeting Wednesday night and decided that they would not call by number and refused to use the books. jn account ox una tne gins went on a strike. Manager H. A. Morgan Is trying to effect a settlement. HISTORIC DESK RETIRED Furniture Used by Washington's First Governor Gets Rest. OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 7. (Special.) A desk, used by Isaac Stevens, when first Governor of Washington In 1S53, has been pensioned after more than 60 years of active service. , The State Historical Society in Tacoma gets it now. The desk was brought around Cape Horn in 1853, when Major Stevens was sent as first Governor of Washington Territory. It finally came into the pos session of Mrs. Lou G. Dlvens. The desk is of walnut and shows little sign of wear. Wilson Abolishes Vice District. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. President Wilson Blgned today the Kenyon bill, abolishing Washington's segregated district. SOME OF THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS EVENTS ARE REVIEWED PICTORIALLY BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. STORY OF HAVOC BY VOLCANO IS RETOLD Island Villages Literally Swallowed Up. PEOPLE OVERCOME BY PANIC Animals Trample Inhabitants in Mad Rush for Sea. DEAD NUMBER HUNDREDS Immense Outpouring of Lava Bridges Gulf and Makes Peninsula of Island Destruction of Sak nraj ima Is . Entire. . SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 7. The first detailed account of the terrible erup tion of Sakurajlma. on the southern coast of Japan, as received here today by mail from the TokIo correspondent of the Associated Press, places the loss of life, conservatively estimated, at "several hundreds." Not only wj.s the Island of Sakura- l JIma Itself, with its dozen villages, flooded by a torrent of flaming lava and burled tinder a hall of incandescent rocks, but the beautiful city of Kago- shima, overlooking the Golden Gate of Japan, was destroyed partially, several towns and villages on the mainland to the east were much damaged, and the villages of Akamldzu, Yokoyama and Koike were literally swallowed up by the molten lava. Until they are dug out, no specific count of lives lost ever will be possible. Eruption Compared With Vesuvius. The account follows: "While a Toklo audience of Japanese was assembled at the Imperial Theater, viewing moving pictures of the Last Days of Pompeii, the subterranean fires of their own empire, Imprisoned for more than a century, were surging up ward beneath the Isle of Sakurajlma, in the southernmost part of the realm. Soon began an eruption so fierce and terrible as to take place at once with the historic demonstrations of Vesu vius.' ."The 22,000 Inhabitants of Sakurajlma fled wildly In all directions, in a piti ful quest for food and shelter. Shrieks of terror filled the air from one end of the island to tha other. From thickly settled villages and from houses em bosomed in groups of oranges, peaches and plums, the farmers ran to the shores of the bay. "Horses neighed and snorted in. ter ror and all manner of domestic Cattle bellowed and cried to be loose. Many freed themselves and began a wild stampede through and over their hu man companions. . Old Men Dragged to Safety. "Many old men refused to try to save themselves and had literally to be dragged along by the younger. Women and - children were sent off first, the women carrying their infants slung, Japanese fashion, across their backs, their hands filled with portable household goods. Some shielded them selves with mattresses; others wore metal and earthen pots for helmets. It was a wild hugger-mugger; a pell mell rush; a flight of indescribable panlo and confusion. "For all that the final catastrophe was so overwhelming In Its sudden de scent; there had been preliminary warnings. Two months before a trav eler reclining leisurely on the summit of the long mountain ridge of Yoshi nogahara, which plunges abruptly down into the water of Kagoshlma Gulf, was surprised to see smoke drift ing from new gullies in the sides of (Concluded on Page 6. H7L A J, THROUGHOUT TVF CPJSTZ V INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 43.4 ' degrees; minimum, 32.7 degrees. TODAY'S Probably occasional rain; vari able winds. Foreign. First detailed account of eruption of Sak u raj ima received. Section 1, page 1. Six Americans on missing- train smothered in tunnel fired by bandit. Section 1, page 6. Norway to honor her liberation with big exhibition. Section 4, page 7. Vegetable sex Is latest hygiene of French. Section 4, page 1. Mongol warfare not yet In sight. Section 4. page 7. Princess starts drug maniac club. Section 4, page T. National. Administration spokesman on canal tolls says exemption plank in Baltimore plat' form was inserted unawares. Section 1. page 1. Senator Chamberlain asks advice of Cham ber of Commerce on dredge proposal. Section 1, page 2. t Domestic Ten thousand attend suffragists' annual ball in New York. Section 1, page 6. Tales of heroism, in Nantucket-Monroe dis aster, read like romance. Section 1. page 2. Girl kills wife of man she loves, then com mits suicide. Section 1, page 8. Southern Pacific specifies uses for $55,000, OOO issue of bonds. Section 1, page 2. Northwest apple proves popular in New York; market this Winter. Section 1, page 5. California Republicans plan for coming campaign. -Section 1, page 4. Gaby, piaued by burlesque, asks court to enjoin dancer. Section 1, page 6. Cold wave widespread In Middle West. Sec tlon 1, page 4. . Sports. Interscholastie League to have busy week. Section 2. page S. Federals to keep Toronto In circuit and may put club In New York. Section 2, page 1. Changes In football rules adopted. Section 2. page 4. Buddy Ryan signs Portland contract. Section . 2, page 1. Earl R. Goodwin picks all-star basketball team. Section 2. page 4. Tennis players object to proposed changes in rules. Section 2, page 4. Portland boy calls out track squad at Berkeley. Section 2,. page 4. Baseball free of gambling, says Mathewson. Section 2, page 2.. Sailor Flanagan, man with career, goes to Hob Brown. Section 2, page 2. Professional baseball umpires are hard to find. Section 2, page 2. Miss Dorothy Sanford coaches boy athletes. Section 2, page 8. , Pacific Northwest. George C. Brownell. Oregon City man, enters race for Governor, with National prohibition chief plank of platform. Sec tion 1, page lu. Farmers, numbering close to 15.000, hear addresses by demonstration train travel ers. Section 1, page 7. Candidate crop in Coos County promises bumper. Section 1, page 8. Coos Bay country is pictured as land of op portunlty. beetlon 1, page 7. Tax levy in Waahlncton highest on record. Section 3, page 8. Hood River Valley orchardlsts plan to form municipality as step toward gettinrr lowe: raies. section l. page v. Man victor over woman in popular-choice race for Brownsville, Or., postmaster?ulp. Section 1, page 1. Government agent marooned on Island eats - sea-lion and watches volcanoes. Station Son of Baker man kills half-breed Indian in Grant County, Ort-gou. Section page 8. Trl-State Y. M. C. A. convention at Van couver is big success. Section 1. page Douglas "County road supervisors meet Roseburg. Section 1, page 7. Commercial and Marine. Course of mohair prices at opening of mar ket la uncertain. Section 2. page 13. Weather conditions check buying and sell ing in Chicago market. Section page 15. Stock trading is small and price changes narrow. Section 2, page 15. Alliance likely to be obtained for Alaska fleet. Section 2, page a. Portland and Vicinity. State Game Commission to be used as po litical pawn to aid Mr. West's candi date. Section 1, page 1. Engineering courses abolished at university and State Agricultural College. Section page 9. Knights of 'Pythias to celebrate Jubilee. Section 1, page 12. Goods of world threaten to invade Coast trade. Section 1, page 12. First of series of tax articles shows steady increase over decade. Section 1, page 14. W. S. TJ' Ren to enter race for Governor as independent. Section 1. page 10. Proposed traffic law changes explained. Sec tion 1, page 15. Arrest follows In United States Cashier Com pany suit. Section 1, page 1. Mr. Cookingham seeks formal ruling on car rency law provisions. Section 1, page 13. Reed College professors do stunts at rally. Section 2, page 16. Programme arranged for celebration of Lincoln's birthday. Section 2, page 16. "Seeing East Burnside" trip set for Thurs day to accommodate Commissioner Dieck. Section 1, page 11. Portland restaurants score high In 153 places Investigated. Section 2, page 10. Names of 40 delegates to Irrigation Congress received. Section 1, page 11. Directory estimate places Portland's popula tion at 270,527. Section 1, page 14. Mineral output of Oregon gains. Section 1. page 14. D. O. Lively returns from South America after 22.000-mlle trip. Section 1, page 10. 3f r nnHRHiinninii t b Willi PAWN OF POLITICS Juggling Is Plan to Aid West Candidate. DR. SMITH PROBABLY IS MAN Yanking Offices to Salem Is First Move in Scheme. DISTRICTING STATE NEXT Campaign of Rough-Riding by Gov ernor and "Harmony Trio" Pro vides for Ousting Mr. Finley as State Warden. When three members of the State Game and Fish Commission, without consulting the other two members of that body, took summary action a week ago and removed the offices of the State Game Warden and the Master Fis Warden from Portland to Salem, a shadow somewhat larger than a man's hand arose on the political horizon of Oregon. The three inembers who, secure In possessing a majority of the Commls sion's membership, took this high handed action, were: Floyd Bllyeu, of Portland, chairman; II. H. CTTTford, of Baker, and H. C. Evans, of Lostine. These men were appointed to the Com mission by Governor West on the res ignation, recently, because of dissension in the body, of J. F. Hughes, of Salem; B. E. Duncan, of Hood River, and C F. Stone, of Klamath Falls. Portland Men Not Told. The two old members of the Commls slon, who were not consulted nor ap prised of what their fellow Commission ers nrorjnsed to do.' were George H Kelly and M. J. Kinney, of Portland. The shadow assumed more definite proportions yesterday when, following a visit to Salem of Chairman Bllyeu, it was decided to divide the state into four districts for the administration of mat- tcra relating to fish and game. It is anticipated that the present number o dnnutv fish and game wardens. 40, will not be decreased by the new plan, bu rather increased, with head district wardens drawing larger salaries than ordinary deputies do at the present time. But the West-projected shadow is confidently expected to assume still more definite proportions next Thurs daV. when the regular session of the Commission, deferred from next Tues day, will be held at Salem. Appointment of Deputies I'p. Chief among the matters that will coma before the Commission will be the appointment of the 40 deputies to the entire state, with whatever new officials may be mado necessary By the new district scheme. The action, of the three "harmonious' members of the Commission in yank ing the headquarters of the State Game Warden and the Master Fish Warden tn sclera from Portland, where the greater part of the business that comes before these offices originates or where it is most convenient to handle it and the districting plan, give rise to th belief that the executive machinery of the fish and game warden service of Oregon Is to be delivered over bodily to the uses of any candidate for e-ubernatorlal honors chOBen by Gov ernor West. Dr. Smith Likely to Be Man. That candidate, because of Mr. West avowed preference for him, togethe with the fact that the three West-mad Commissioners seem to be working in perfect harmony with the chief execu (Concluded on Page 4.) SEA-LION IS FOOD, VOLCANOES AMUSE MAN JUROOXED OX ALEUTIAN ISLAND FOR MONTH. Government Agent Studies Language of Natives and Transcribes Legends of Their Tribe. SEATTLE. Wash.. Feb. 7. (Special.) John W. Barker, a special agent of the United States Land Office, who reached Seattle during the week Irom Alaska, after an absence of nearly three months, was marooned for more tnan a month on a remote volcanic island in the Aleutians, with only na tives for companions, sea-lion steaks for food and the occasional rumble of volcanoes and the quiver of earth quakes to furnish diversion. The Island on which Mr. Barker spent his Christmas holidays is known aa Akutan. It Is 1000 miles west of Sew ard and off the line of travel for steam hips in the chain of precipitous vol canic peaks forming the Aleutians. His leisure was occupied in duck and fox hunting trips, Journeys to photo graph smoking volcanic peaks and doing scientific Investigation work. He took down the alphabet of the natives and in shorthand transcribed a number of quaint and curious Aleutian legends to be transmitted to the Smithsonian Institution. Christmas day he attended a native dance. A phonograph supplied muslo and the "Merry Widow" waltz was the most recently acquired record. A day before the new year the Dora hove in sight around the point of the island and 10 days' buffeting through stormy seas brought Mr. Barker to Seward. AERIAL CRUELTY SHOWN Wife of Rope Walker Says Husband Kicked Her Before Audience. CHICAGO, Feb. 7. Unusual cruelty was recited, in the divorce courts here today by Mrs. Vivian L. Cahill, a tight rope walker. Mrs. Cahill said her hus band was in the habit of kicking he off the wire during rehearsals and In view of audiences. "He threw me from the wire in. Con ventlon Hall, at Kansas City, on Jan uary 12, 1912," she said. "He also kicked mo off the, wire on October 29 at Pled niont. Ala., and. again on November 1912." Mrs. Cahill says she had to crawl between her husband's feet as he bal anced himself and that he would then kick her Into the net beneath the wire, THREE - LIEUTENANTS GONE Army oncers When Found to Be Treated as Deserters. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Three off! ciais ox tne unnea states Army are missing from their commands, an when found will be treated as desert ers. They are Lieutenants Clarence H. Farnham, Fourth Infantry, and Spen cer M. Smith, Nineteenth Infantry, sta tioned at Texas City, Tex., and Lleuten ant Frank C McCune, Eleventh In fantry, stationed at the military prison at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco. ssmitn ana nacuuno nave oeen gone three weeks and Farnham two week Lieutenant McCune had sent in hi resignation, it was said, at the War Department, but disappeared before It was acted on. All three officers came up from the ranks. ADULTS ATTENDING SCHOOL Many Night Students at Roslyn Seek Citizenship Qualifications. ROSLYN, Wash., Feb. 7. (Special.) With 50 - men and three women en rolled Roslyn opened the first free night school In Kittitas County. The school is supported by public sub scription azd the instruction Is given by teachers of the grade school. Nearly all of the students are men and women past middle age. Many of them are foreign born and are striving for the qualifications necessary to obtain citizenship papers. Beside the regular school work Instruction la given In manual training CASHIER COMPANY OFFICIAL ARRESTED Edward C. BakerTaken on Contempt Charge. RECEIVER HUNT IS IGNORED Sheriff Forced to Act to Get Property Turned Over. BOOKS NOT YET LOCATED Auditor of "United States Company Until February 1 Gives as Reason That Factory Is Now Property of Indianapolis Concern. Following the order issued at mid night Friday by Circuit Judge Davis restraining the United States Cashier Company from removing any of its property from Its plant at Kenton. Edward C. Baker, until February 1 auditor of the company, and at pres ent representative of tho International Money Machine Company, was arrest ed last night by Sheriff Word on a contempt of court charge for refus ing to turn over the property of tho cashier company to James E. Hunt, re ceiver, appointed yesterday by Circuit Judge Gatene. Mr. Baker was brought to Portland by Sheriff Word and relesed on ?200 cash ball. The hearing of the contempt charge probably will be had tomorrow before Judge Gateus, to whose depart ment tho suit brought by James S. Birrel, a stockholder of the company, asking an accounting of and receiver for the company, has been assigned. Ownership Changed, He Says. Mr. Baker refused to turn the prop erty over to Receiver Hunt, asserting that nothing in tho factory is owned by the United Slates Cashier Company, all of It having been transfered to the International Money Machine Company of Indianapolis, by virtue of two con tracts made between the two companies, the first under date of January 9 and the second January 23. He said that his action in loading the property Fri day night was on instructions from the Indianapolis company, and his action yesterday in refusing to turn the prop erty over to Hunt was for the protec tion of property he believed to belong to that company. Though the factory and all the ma terial in the factory and cars were re leased by Mr. Baker to Mr. Hunt, fol lowing a conference between Mr. Baker and Sheriff Word about 8 o'clock last night. Receiver Hunt had been unable to locate the books or the company. He said that two steel cases and the safe were locked and that he had not been able to gain admittance to these, and for that reason was not able to say whether the books would be found In the office, packed In the cars or any where. Drawers Found Empty. Besides the books of the Cashier Company, Receiver . Hunt said that seven or eight dynamos used to run the big stamp presses have been moved. Several hundred cabinet drawers in the office were empty when Mr. Hunt took possession of the premises yesterday and he believes that dies which were kept in these drawers have been re moved. Because of the delay in securing pos session of the premises yesterday Receiver Hunt said he was not able to take an inventory of the property, but probably would begin to check up the material and machinery tomorrow. Much of this, he said. Is packed In boxes, ready for shipment, nnd two cars (Concluded on Page 4.)