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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, I90S. AERONAUTS PICKED UP IN WORTH SEX Wreckage of German Balloon Plauen Keeps Them Afloat for Five Hours. RESCUED NONE TOO SOON Hackstetter and Schrledcr Had Abandoned All Hope Latter In teerious Condition at Hull. Hergesell Is Still Missing. BERLIN. Oct 16. The North a still continue to Klve up its balloon victims Word reached here tonight that the Ger man balloon Plauen and Its occupants had been picked up by a nailing vessel 240 miles from Spurnhead and landed tonlgnt at Hull. Kngland. The Plauen was one of the balloons that started from here in the endurance test Monday, with 23 others. The Hergexell. under command of Lieu tenant Koertsch. is tlie only one of tiiese now unaccounted for, but a message from tills balloon was Diclced up near Oster- wanne. In Hanover province, which it is believed, was written Tuesday. It was as follows: Message From Missing. "Herrexell. 9 A. M.. height 1100 metres: direction and place uncertain, probably near the coast. "KOHETSCH." Meteorological observations show that the wind at ihat time was blowing in the direction of the sea and it is certain that the Hergesell was driven to the north west, the direction taken by the majority of the other contestants and that If she Is found at all she will be found like sev eral other balloons in the two contests. In the waters of the North Sea Search Still Continues. TVir vessels are still searching the waters and all outgoing ships have been notified at various porta to be on the out look and it is possible that the two men who ascended in the Hergexell may have been rescued by some vessel. The escape of other balloorilsts during the pas' week Is considered little- short of miraculous. The Helvetia, the Swiss representative; the Castitla, Spanish; the Busley. German, and the St. Louis, American, all were forced to descend In the sea. but the crews of these balloons were picked up. ABANDONED HOPE OF RESCUE Hackstetter Tells tSory of Plauen's Perilous Voyage. HL'LU Eng.. Oct 16. The German bal loon Plauen. which left Berlin Monday, In the endurance contest, was picked up on Wednesday night In the North Sea by a trawler. Clinging to the balloon were the two aeronauts, Hackstetter and Schrelder, In an almost exhausted condition. The men were brought here and Schrelder Is now in an infirmary, where his condition is said to be quite serious. The rescue was made about 240 miles from Spurnhead. Hackstetter. who is little the worse for his thrilling experience, said tonight that neither he nor his companion ever ex pected to survive. After the start they Journeyed for 12 hours overland, and then lost their bearings. Eventually they dis covered that they were sailing over water. The extreme cold affected the gas and tha balloon dropped into the sea on Wednesday night. Tli-y kept themselves afloat on the wreckage tor five hours before they were rescued. CODY AF.UOPLANE WRECKED Trial Flight on Aldershot Coarse Knils in Disaster. ALDER PHOT, England, Oct. 16. Cap tain F. Cody, the American ac-oplanlst, who has spent several years in the British service In charge of the kite set tlon of the army, made an attempt today at a flight in his army aeroplane. After reaching a height of 20 feet, how ever, the machine fell to the ground and was wrecked. Cody escaped uninjured. TWENTY-TWO LOSE LIVES (Continued from Frt Fa.) the crossfnff this forenoon and brought rark the bodies and those of the refugees w ho wished to come here. Some of them nere 90 hysterical from fright that they refused to ride on the train, fearing another accident. The survivors of the frightful experience seemed daxed from the perilous surround ings. They seemed to think of nothing but the necessity of running to escape the menacing flames. It was difficult to g-t any coherent statement from them as to loss of life in the wreck or as to whether any people had been left behind In Met. Survivor's" Thrilling: Story. R. S. Richards, a Bay City traveling" salesman, when he arrived at Posen, said: "As the train left the track, the heartrending cries of women and chil dren sent a chill over my body. I did not wait to see the outcome, as I knew It would' he of no avail, and every minute was precious. Ceorge Boston, also of Bay City, myself and another man started together. AVe walked down the track toward Posen. In some places the flames forced us to run, and Mr. Boston was burned about the face before he reached safety. Several other men left the scene about the same time we did. but when I reached Poen they were not to be seen. They may have perished In the flames. "There was absolutely no chance to save the women and children from the gondola car. The time wa too short. Many Cremated at Mots. "It will probably be a week or more before it is known definitely how many rf ople perished in the village of Met a. The tire had gained a foohold In the town before the train left and in all probabil ity many of the citizens were cremated." Others stated that when the relief train4 left Metz it carried all the inhabitants of the village, except George Cicero, the sta tion ajrent. who stayed to handle the railroad wire and escaped through the ploughed fields when the fire reached the station, .only to find his wife and three children cremated In the wreck of the relief train. A fourth child, a boy of about 11 yr are. had Jumped from the burn ing car and escaped with but slight In juries. - Six Iead In One Family. Iate tonight it was reported that in stead of two fatalities in the Nowickl family there were six, namely: Fred Nowickl, Jr., and his wife and Mary Nowickl, Fred's niece, and Mary's three children. Mary Nowickl and her three children are reported to have bsen cremated in the Ill-fated relief train. BURX THROUGHOUT MICHIGAN Forest Fires Destroy Many Lives and Several Towns. ALPENA, Mich., Oct. 16. Every report received tonight from the forest fires that swept the whole northwest of this city increases the extent and gravity of the fire situation and the death list, which started today with the cremating of 15 paople in the Met relief train, fe steadily growing. Presque Isle and Cheboygan counties are all aflame and 75 miles between this city and the City of Cheboygan are re ported to be almost a solid mass of fire. Alpine County is ablaze in every direc tion. Reports of fatalities are coming In from many places, but it has been impossible as yet to compile anything like an au thentic list of the lire victims in the burned district. From Metz township to right the cremation is reported of Henry Kemp, his wife and two children, in their farmhouse, with a third child miss ing and probably burned to death in the fields. Bolton. South Rogers and Metz are among the destroyed villages. La Ftoque Is threatened tonight and It is expected that it will be destroyed before morning. Only one church Is left at Cathro and it fs crowded with refugees. A report brought In tonight from Alcona says a strip 20 miles wide from Hubbard Lake to the Au Sable River Is burning. More than 50 farms are reported tonight to have been swept by fires today and other buildings destroyed. At Presque Island, on Lake Huron, Keeper Garrity was compelled today to abandon the Government signal station and flee for his life. Sixty passengers on a southbound De troit & Mackinac Railway train, which left Cheboygan last night for this city. spent a night of horror at La Roque, Flames surrounded the train and it was Impossible to proceed or retreat from them. - Huddled in their cars, the terrified passengers spent the night in momentary expectation that the train would be con-' turned. It was saved, however, by hard work, and the passengers came on to Alpena this afternoon. It was at first, reported tonight that Bishop Charles D. Williams, of the Pro testant Episcopal diocese of Michigan, was either on the ill-fated Metz relief train or in the danger zone about Metz. Later it became known, however, that he went on to Onaway, without stopping at Metz. Both the Cadillac and Traverse City re ports say that the nres In the northeast ern part of the state have started again with great force and are threatening those cities. The fire is only a quarter of a mile away from Traverse City on the southwest. From the Upper Peninsula come reports that the tires in Chippewa and Houghton counties are very dangerous and spread ing rapidly. Lipman--Wolfe's Saturday Mews Bulletin Saturday Is Children's Day opium SuteHte go Nemo and C. B. a la Spirite Corsets SAVED BY BELIEF TRAIX Sixty People Spend Terrible Xlght In Burning Forests. ALPENA, Mich., Oct 16. Sixty people who spent a night of horror on a south bound train from Sheboygan, which waa hemmed in all night by nres at La Roque, have Just arrived here on a relief train. Fire this afternoon is reported to be dangerously near Rogers City. La Roque also seems to be doomed unless rain comes within a few hours. Women and children have been sent away from thts village. This afternoon's arrival from La Roque came in on train No. 10, which was re ported last nteht to have returned to She boygan. Instead, the train was held up at La Roque by the fire, which raged on all four sides. It was saved, however, and the passengers boarded the relief train, whiclf went early today from here and returned this afternoon. Farms be tween Met and Rogers City have beeen ravaged by' the fire. XIXE TOWNS ARE IX DANGER Change of Wind Saves One Settlers Camp on Beach. SAL'LT STE. MARIS. Mich.. Oct. 16. Forest tires tonight are burning around nine small- towns in Chippewa County. West Neebiah was saved today only by a shift of the wind. The lighthouse crew at - Point Iroquois has asked for help and the tug Aspen has gone to its relief. It is reported that settlers along the shore of Lake Superior are camping on the beach. "Cast tracts of hardwood have been burned. As yet there is no indication of the heavy rain needed, to relieve the. situation. So far no fatalities have been reported in this section. TWO TOWNS ARE WIPED OUT Forest Fires Again Rage in Mari nette County, Wisconsin MARINETTE, Wis., Oct. 16. Forest fires are once more raging in Marinette County, and last night serious (testruc tlon resulted. The town of Pound was wfped out and the little town of Packard was destroyed. FOUR CREMATED IN HOME Forest Fire Wipes Out Michigan Farmer's Family, HURST. Presque Island County, Mich.. Oct. 16. Henry Kemps, his wife and two children were burned to death In this township tonight, or last night. Another child is missing. The four bodies were found today in the ruins of the farmhouse and it is feared there is little possibility of the child having? escaped. Fight Flames in Michigan. SAULT STE. MARIE. Mich.. Oct 16. Forest fires have again broken out in Chippewa County and are threatening in the extreme. Fire, in the woods between Paltic and, Tri-Mountaln assumed such proportions last night that men fought the flames all night. TAFT FRIEND OF LABOR (Continued from Frst Page.) flee a stancher friend than Mr. Taft. The attack upon him by certain self constituted political leaders of organ ised labor, for these men are trying to persuade the people of this country that organized labor has interests apart from and hostile to the interests of the great mass of the American people, and sucn an attitude, if persisted in. would inevi tably in the end result disastrously to organized labor itself. I believe they will fail in this effort to misguide their followers and to do wrong to the Ameri can people; and It Is above all things for the interest of organized labor that they should fail. "If Mr. Taft were not elected, the chief sufferers from the chaotic business con ditions that would follow would be the worklngmen; all of our citizens would benefit by Mr. Taffs election, but the worklngmen most of all. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Canada's wheat Top In her three prairie provinces la officially estimated at 110. 000.000 buahein: oats. 13S.000.000 bushels, and barley. 30.000.000 bushels. Plant Sibson roses. Phone Sellwood 930. $1.50 1-Clasp Cape Gloves, 87c The Year's Greatest Glove Value Portland's Best Glove Store offers Friday another sensa tional Glove Sale the lowest price yet quoted this year on the season's most fashionable gloves. One-clap Cape Glove. Dent style, gusset fin ger t, made by one of the leading glovemakerg, who is famous for thejfjjandquality of all hit glove. Every size in light and dark tans, browns and mahogany. These gloves are sold for $1.50 a pair everywhere. Every pair perfect. There are no seconds or inferior qualities among them, such as we notice some stores 3 offering in order to meet our sale prices. f Year's greatest values at $4 Cape Gloves $2.89 Full 12 and 16-button-length Relsem London Cape Gloves, for which we are sole Portland agents, finest quality cape gloves. Dent style, every size in the lot. Regu- frry OQ lar $3.50-$4.00 values ?.OZT mm imart Trimmed Hats $4.95 to $10.00 The above illustration, drawn from life, gives a fair idea of the beauty of our many hats on sale Saturday at $4.95lo$l&. Hun dreds of new hats have just arrived in all sizes and every color felt, satin and velvet shapes. Robinson & Wells' London Tailor Hats A new importation of these famous London hats is shown this week. Not only is each design exclusive, but the ideas are ENG LISH -quitedifferent and Paris hats you see in every shop. Women's Sweaters, $4,50 Values, $2.95 Over 00 women's New Mannish Coat Sweaters, for outdoor sports, walking, etc., mostly in white. The low price is the result of a manufacturer's overstock and because some are slightly soiled. On the bar gain table while they last at only $2.95 Owl" Cut Rate Drug Store Here is another of the great sales that has made Lipman Wolfe's "Owl" Cut Rate Drug Store famous. - No goods will be sold to druggists at these prices. All are for our customers and we will limit quantities. Ef 35c Witch Hazel, 18c fB50c Bay Rum, 33c Jia50c Br. Seltzer, 36c 2ic Cream of Tartar. pound, sale IT 25c Dloxyg-en. Owl cut rate..-19 a.")C Castoria, Owl cut rate 5I3 SI Beef. Iron and Wine, sale 62C $1.25 Effervescing Sodium P h o s- phate 89 $1.00 Iron and Manganese Pep tonized 78 60c Olive Oil, 37c !25c Grove's Laxa tive, Br. Quinine, 14c 2'ic Mandrake Llver Pills, i for 25 6;c Pure Norwegian C o d 1 1 v e r OH 39d 4-oz. Wyeth's Effervescing Vichy Salts. . 344 85c Blaud's Pills, S-grain 24 60c Sugar of Milk. 1-pound carton .29 Ml5c Porous Plasters, ft9c, Three for.. 25c 3 15c Pepsin Tablets, 8c M 60c Fairy Soap,39c dz fj25c Espey's Crm,14c Jg25c Frostilla, 14c 15c Cutlcura Soap, Owl cut rate 14 25c Woodbury's Soap, Owl cut rate 14 2ic Lyon's Tootli Powder, sale 14 2Sc Dr. Grave's Tooth Powder for. . 12 10c Hand or Scour ing Sapolio, cake, 6c 25c Cuticura Soap, 14c 2ie Roger & Gallet Talcum Pow der 18 25c Roger & Gallet Rice Pow rler. . 7 18 25c Roger & Gallet Soap, all odors - 19 lgf$l Coke's Dandruff a Cure, sale 67c j5c Epsom Salts, 3c 50c Syrup of Tar and Wild Cherry for 34" 5c 1'kg. Soap Bark. 2 for 5 5c pkg. Senna Leaves, cut rate 3 l.ic Cardamon Seed, Owl cut rate .S Today Is Children's Day j - . Special values arranged for today in Chil dren's Dresses, Coats, Hats, Hosiery and Underwear. It will pay you to buy today. Children's Coats at $4.47 Children's Coat--;, full length,' ages 6 to 14, made of melton cloth, m-navy and brown, trimmed with buttons. Children's Coats at $5.86 'Children's Lonjr; Coats, ages C to 14, trimmed with fancy buttons and velvet collars. , ' . Children's Coats at $8.89 Children's Coats in semi-fitted and box effects, very smart ; come in brown and navy, trimmed with red velvet collars and cuffs. Children's Suits at $4.95 French serge children's Dresses, Busier Brown style, ages 6 to 34; red and navy, trimmed with, fancy braid and but tons, new-style sleeves. r . W LLV SIT E London Times Secures State ment From Roosevelt. OXFORD TO HONOR HIM Arranges to Confer Title of D. C. Ii. on piMing-uished . American After African Hunting Trip Is Ended. LiOXDON. Oct. 17. The Times is in formed that President Roosevelt will visit England after his African trip early In 1910. He will deliver the Romanes lec ture at Oxford and on the occasion of the university commemoration will receive the honorary title of D. C. L, which Ox ford has already bestowed upon Emperor William. According to the Times, President Roosevelt will also visit Paris and deliver an address at the Sorbonne. Neither the dates nor the subjects of the lectures are yet known. The Times further states that according to the present plans. Mrs. Roosevelt will Join the President at Khartoum on the Journey northward. The Times in an edi torial says that the whole British public will welcome President Roosevelt with the sincerest pleasure, and adds that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to name a truest who would be assured of a more hearty and genuine welcome by all classes of the people. "Our pleasure will be all the greater," says the Times, "if Mrs. Roosevelt can be induced to accompany him. Roosevelt's reputation here In this country Is as great as hat of the greatest American Presi dent since the time of President Lincoln." KOOSEVKLT ADMITS TRUTH Says Story Published in London Is Entirely Correct. WASHINGTON. Oct. 16. The report from London as to President Roosevelt's movements following his trip to Africa is substantially true. The elaboration of the President's plans, it was admitted at the White House today, has been in pro cess of arrangement all along, but had not reached a stage of completion desir able for publication until Wednesday, on which day Lord iorthcliff. part owner of the London Times, was the President's guest at luncheon. It was on this occasion that the Presi dent made known his intention to visit London and Paris on his return trip from the African hunting grounds, accom panied by Mrs. Roosevelt, who is to Join him at Khartoum on the Upper Nile. It is explained that the Itinerary of the social side of Mr. Koosevelt s trip has not been worked out as yet, the time being too distant to permit of more than tentative arrangements. It was further said that the reticence that has been observed was owing In part to the President's disinclination to have his plans discussed so far in ad vance. the Associated Press. Dr. D. TV. Moore house, of Drake University, Des Moines, la., reports that a wonderful change has occurred in the comet discovered by him some time ago. A photograph of" the comet shows a great condensation in the tail. WIRELESS RECORD BROKEN Signal Corps Men Achieve Triumph With Field Apparatus. CAMP ATASCADERO, Cal., Oct. 16. The most successful wireless work during the present army maneuvers resulted today, when the semi-permanent station erected by First Lieuten ant Paul W. Beck, chief signal officer, heard messages exchanged between Bremerton Navy-yard and some other station signing "On." This is the record for long-distance receiving with the field pack set. Brem erton is over 1200 miles distant and the sets are designed for use over less than one-twelfth that distance. When questioned about the remark able results. Lieutenant Beck said they were obtained by simply doubling the antenna spread, adding 15 feet to the height of the mast and grounding on a water pipe. Tonight sending tests are being made and It is confidently expected that Goat Island will be reached. The previous receiving record for similar apparatus 1b 1100 miles, from Nantucket to Havana. Cuba, made in 1906 by the Bignal corps, under Cap tain George Gibbs. Captain Gibbs still holds the long-distance sending record for pack sets, 130 miles, from Camp Columbia, Cuba, to Key West. If Goat Island is reached from here both the sending and receiving records for portable wireless apparatus will come to the Pacific Coast. the evening of Saturday, October 31, in Selling-Hirsch Hall. The rally will be In the nature of a smoker. The principal speakers will be S. A. Lowell, of Pendleton; and L. R. Webster, of Portland. This will terminate the Pres idential campaign in Portland. tonight caused $500,000 damage in the yards of the Hock Island Lumber Com pany and the Door Works. Rock Island . Sash and SHERMAN GETS SETBACK Comet Changes Its Iiorra, CHICAGO. Oct. 16. In a telegram to Strikes First "Frost" on Alleghany Indian Reservation. OLEAN, N. Y., Oct. 16. There was a dramatic moment today in the Itinerary of James S. Sherman, on the Alleghany Indian Reservation,- when the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate came face to face with the- political "boss" of that territory, a full-blooded Indian. When the "Big White Chief," as the Indians called Mr. Sherman, swept up In his automobile to the little group of houses and halted before the dozen or more Indian women and men. there was little curiosity displayed in regard to the visitor. W. C. Hoag, treasurer of the Indian Reservation, stepped forward to greet Mr. Sherman. "I am very glad to meet you. Mr. Hoag." said the candidate. "How do," laconically grunted the only genuine American political boss in the United States, as he slowly extended his hand, with not a suspicion of a smile of greeting coming over his swarthy fea tures. - That closed the ceremony, not a cheer, not a handwave by either - "brave" or "squaw" as the big car disappeared in a cloud of dust down the highway. "And I've fought every move to deprive them of their snap here, too," sadly re marked Mr. Sherman, who Is chairman of the committee on Indian affairs in the House. - Twelve hours hard campaigning closed here tonight with an old-fashioned Re publican rally. Republican League Rally. Members of the Union Republican Club are planning for a final rally on Rock Island P.OCK ISLAND. II Mill Burns. Oct. 16. 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