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' , . , . ... . . 1 - . VOL. XLVIII. NO. 15,004. PORTLAND, PRECOX, WEDNESDAY, DECE31DER 30, 19Q3. PRICE FIVE CENTS. EARTHQUAKE HAS 100,000 VICTIMS Messina and Reggio Overwhelmed by Great Convulsions. WHOLE PROVINCES WASTED Almost Entire Population Reggio Exterminated in Instant. of MANY TOURISTS PERISH Sicilian Hotels Crowded With Foreigners at Time. KING AND QUEEN TO RELIEF Hasten to Southern Italy on AVar- shlp Pope Leads Subscriptions With $200,00 0Forelj?n War ships Hasten to Rescue. THE KARTHQFAKR. Dlaeaard nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions: oft the teemtnr earth la with a kind of chollc pinch'd and vex'd By the Imprisoning- of unruly wind Within her womb: which, for en largement striving, Shakea the old beldame earth, and topples down steeples, and mott-a-rowa towers. King- Henry IV. Scene 1. Act . J J -4 ROME, Dec. 29. One hundred thousand dead; Messina, on the Island of Sicily, ' and Reggio and a score of towns In Southern Italy, overwhelmed; the entire Calabrian region laid waste that is the earthquake's record so far as at present known. Reports are coming slowly Into Rome on account of the most complete destruction of lines of communication to the stricken places. The death total in Messina ranges from 12,000 to 50.000; that of Reggio, wnicn, witn its ad.acent villages num bered 45,000 people. Includes almost the entire population; at Pali. 1000 are report ed dead; at Cassano, 1XX; at Cosenza, oio, and half the population of Bagnara, about 4000. The Monteleone region has been devastated and Riposa. Semlnara, gan Giovanni. Scllla, Lazzaro and Can nltello and all other communes and vil lages on the straits are in ruins. The King and Queen of Italy are now on their way to Messina, having sailed to-night from Naples aboard the battle ship Vittorio Emmanuele. The Pope has shown the greatest distress at the ca lamity and he himself was the first to contribute a sum amounting to J200.000 to the relief of the afflicted. British. French and Russian warships are- steam ing toward the south and already several of the ships of Great Britain and Russia have performed heroic service in the work of rescue. It Is feared that many foreigners have been killed, as a 'number of hotels at Messina and doubtless all other places were crowded with tourists. Little Is known of the fate of the diplomatic rep resentatives of the powers stationed at these posts, although the Italian govern ment Is using every effort to relieve the anxiety felt on this account. mere is the gravest danger that a pestilence will follow the destruction of the towns. On account of the vast havoc wrought, bodies will lie unburled for days and weeks. Those who escaped death, many of whom are badly injured. are making their way by the thousands to the nearest place of refuge. Their sufferings even now must be intense, as they are without food or clothing. Stunned at the magnitude of the cala mity which has overtaken fellow-countrymen, all Italy mourns tonight for the stricken province of Calabria and the Island of Sicily. Accustomed for centur ies to earthquakes, Italy stands ever in dread, but none was prepared for the disaster which In the fraction of a minute yesterday devastated cities and towns, and caused the death of thousands. Messina in Ruins and names. Messina, whose tragic history has been marked by tidal waves and war, and which was the center of yesterday's ter- restial maelstrom, was shaken to ruins. Flashes hurst forth to complete the city's destruction, and to burn alive untold numbers helplessly pinioned toeneath fall en walls and broken timbers. The Strait of Messina was shaken and twisted by the earthquake's trembling, for mariners ROOSEVELT AND HIS SON QUARREL REPORT PRESIDENT OPPOSED TEDDY'S XEW VOCATION'. Embryo Carpet-Weaver Is Major on Governor's Staff, but Can't Af ford Gaudy Uniform. WATERBURY, Conn., Dec. 29. XSpe clal.) "Teddy" Roosevelt. Jr.. Is not on good terms -with his father, accord Ing to a story printed "on good author lty" in today's Issue of the Waterbury Republican. He accepted a position as a carpet weaver In the Thompsonville mill despite the objections of the Pres ldent, and was informed when he left home, so the story says, that he could expect no assistance from that quarter. The story is printed under the heading "Major Teddy Saving Money for a Uni form." It occupied a prominent place on the front page. "It leaked out today, the story reads, "why young Roosevelt, of Gov ernor George Lllley's staff has not ap peared at numerous gatherings of that party. He has been saving up his pen nies to buy an expensive uniform and has not yet accumulated the money, After he has paid his board and clothing out of his salary as a weaver in the Thompsonville carpet mill, the story goes on to say, he has very little left. The uniforms worn at receptions cannot be hought'for less than severa hundred dollars, and "Teddy," Jr., the story says, could not raise the "where withal." It Is not true, the story says, that the young fellow ate his Christ mas turkey at the White House. He went out of Connecticut so as not to cause any suspicion, but never reached Washington. PRAYERS SAVED NEW YORK So Says "Prophet" Spangler in Ex plaining Why World Still Exists. SEW YORK. Dec. 29. A special dis patch to the World from York, Pa. says that "Prophet" Lee J. Spangler, who created mixed wonder, fear and amusement at Nyack, N. Y.. by declar ing that the world would -come to an end at high noon Sunday last, then sud di-nly disappeared, has arrived here and s preparing to make more prophecies when he recuperates. The dispatch adds that Spangler denies that he ran away from Nyack and said that If any war rant had been issued there for his ar rest he was Ignorant of It. He is cred ited with making the following state ment regarding the skepticism with which some receive his prophecies: "It only serves to show how few people will be watching when the time does come. God has only deferred tne end a little longer. The real reason for thu Is that New York ministers and people learned through my prophecies that the time had come and they all got down oh their knee and prayed so hard that thev saved the city like Nineveh, for the time being." REBEL WINS BOSTON BRIDE Sarabia, Mexican Revolutionist, Marries Rich Miss Trowbridge. TUCSON. Ariz., Dec. 29. Manuel Sara bia, an alleged member of the Mexican revolutionist Junta, was married here yesterday afternoon to Miss Elizabeth Trowbridge, a wealthy Boston girl. Sarabla's acquaintance with the young woman commenced when she paid a visit to the Los Angeles Jail, where he was confined. Sarabia was transferred to Tucson and she followed him here. Sara bia is out on $1000 bail at present. The bride visited Ixs Angeles with her mother, the widow of a prominent hy draulic engineer of Boston. She was at tracted to Sarabia by her interest In So cialism. FLEET ENTERS RED SEA American Battleships More Than Half Way Home Again. SUEZ, Dec. 29. The American battle ship fleet under Rear-Admiral Sperry, passed Perim at the entrance to the Red Sea at noon today. All on board the fleet are well. The vessels are due here the morning of January 3. It is expected that they will make a quick passage through the canal and then will disperse to the various Mediterranean ports, according to their Itinerary, with the least possble delay. Christmas was fittingly observed on board the IS ves sels of the fleet. ROB COUNTY TREASURER Masked Men Get $5000 and Lock Officer in Vault. fWOONSOCKET. S. D., Dec. 29. County Treasurer Michael Meier was held up in his office last night by two masked men and robbed of $5000 in cash. The rob bers locked him in a vault, but the door was not securely fastened and ha wae able to escape and give an alarm. The robbers escaped. C0SGR0VE MUCH BETTER Washington's Governor-Elect Able to Be Vp and About. PASO ROBLES. Cal.. Dec. 29. Soe- clal.) Governor-elect Cosgrve shows re markable Improvement. Yesterday after noon he Interviewed friends In the sun parlor and last evening he chatted with the guests in the hotel lobby. His gen eral condition is better than for many months. Anaconda Dividend Same. NEW YORK. Dec. 29. The direc tors of the Anaconda Copper Company declared a quarterly dividend of 50 cents per share to-day. This Is unchanged from the last previous quarter. i LOVED AII5 E Story of Hains' Grief Told in Court. WOULD NOT BELIEVE GOSSIP After Hearing of Scandals, Hains Denied Them. INVITED ANNIS TO DINNER When Details Were Later Told Offi ccr His Control Vanished and Ho Acted Like Man Demented, Says Colored Cook. FLUSHING, N. P., Dec. 29. The marital troubles of Captain Peter C. Hains, Jr., and his story of the estrangement with his wife, Claudia Hains, came out in the trial of Thornton J. Hins today, when Samuel C. Reld, a Government building inspector at North Chicago, related con versations he had last June with Captain Hains, making krown the causes that led to the separation of the Captain and his wife. The testimony of what Captain Hains said was permitted by Justice Crane as having a bearing on the mental condition of the Army officer at that time. Mr. Reld stated that Captain Hains told him that his wife had confessed that she loved Annls. Captain Hains evinced signs of great mental distress in the uarration of his troubles, the witness said. Mr. Reld Is said by counsel for the de fense to be a brother of Princess Kos plglosl, of Rome, and comes ffom Ken tucky. He Is a grandson of S. C. Reld, who commanded the privateer General Armstrong In the battle at Fayal, Azores, during the War of 1S12. Mr. Reid said: Alarmed at Gossip. "Captain Hains told me he went to Fort Hamilton and found hte wife, who wanted to know why he had returned home. 'Why, Claudia, your reputation Is t stake. I have come from the utter ends of the earth to save you. I have heard gossip of you and Annls,' the Cap tain said. His wife told him that the gossip was ridiculous." Mr. Reld said that the Captain stated that he Invited Annis to dinner to show that he did not believe the gossip. Wit ness said that Captain Hains said his father told him there were things to be Investigated and that he (Captain Hains) again spoke to his wife and she replied: I do love Billy Annls." Mr. Reid testified further: "The Cap tain said that his wife then told him all; that she loved Billy Annls and not him. 1 'I could not understand it,' said Captain Hains. "The night before she gave me her caresses and told me that it was not so.' " 'GEE! THAT OLD SPORT'S SLOW! ',' MESS t ANNUAL NUMBER OF WIDE I t - INTEREST. t A? a resume of the varied ac- I tivities of the State, - the New Year's Oreronian will be found of great value. You will want it for reference, for data will be given that are valuable. This in formation may be always avail able if you keep the number. The issue will mirror the industrial progress of Oregon to a remark able degree. It will show what is being done, the great oppor tunities that exist and what may be accomplished in the years to come. Avenues that are open to the newcomer will be emphasized and the edition is profusely il lustrated.x You will want to send copies of the New Year's num ber away to your friends in the East. The price is 5 cents a copy and postage to any point in the United States, Canada, Mexico or the Insular Posses sions' is 4 cents copy additional; foreign countries, 7 cents. DOLPH SET FREE AGAIN Tennessee Man Released From Jail After Much Red Tape Was Spun. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2D. Wil liam A. Dolph, against whom an Indict ment accusing him of embezzlement from the Memphis, Tenn., lumber firm of which he was a member, caused his ar rest In this city, the sending of an officer here from the East to take him back for trial, and the institution extradition proceedings, was discharged from cus tody to-day and the case against him dismissed by Police Judge Conlan This was done on a motion made by his attorney, Samuel Shortrldge, after It had been shown that the Chief of Police of Memphis had wired the police of this city that the Indictment against Dolph here had been dismissed. SON OF NOTED NATURALIST Actor Killed in Denver Came of Ex cellent Family. CINCINNATI, Dec. 29. Charles Cuv ler Dury, Jr., who was shot and killed by C. Burdette Bell In Denver yesterday, was the son of Prof. Charles Dury of this city, an ornithologist who has a na tional reputation.. Prof. Dury Is taxi dermist of the University of Cincinnati and has- written many books on bird lore. Dury was 25 years old, and before leaving this city was regarded as an amateur actor of ability. He was mar ried four years ago and left with his wife for Denver two years ago. Bell, who is charged with the shooting of Dury. was married In Cincinnati two years ago. MAY HAVE BEEN MURDERED Clerk of Colorado AYoodmcn Dead Under Suspicious Circumstances. COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec. 29. Charles P. Essick, the aged clerk of Pikes' Peak Camp No. 5, Woodmen of the World of Colorado Springs, was found dead in his bed this morning. The trag edy at first was supposed to be the re sult of having brooded over the confine ment of his son. Charles Essick, a boy scarcely out of his teens, who was sen tenced to a life term In the penitentiary In 1905 for the murder of Frank Scott, a prominent real estate man, whom he shot and killed In this city early in that year. Later, however, it was intimated that he might have been murdered. jiiiiisiiiisil i, - TARIFF FRAMERS TALK ABOUT POTS Take Up Second Sec- tionofScheduleWork. SUGGEST CHANGE IN VALUING v- In Order to Prevent Perjury New Plan Is Offered. FEW INCREASES ARE ASKED Some Reductions Wanted by Im porters, and Other Cringes De sired Include Duty on Fire Clays and Crude Gypsum. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. The tariff framers todav becan work on schedule B of the tariff law, which deals with earths earthenware and glasasvare. The changes sought in this schedule apply particularly to the tariff on pottery and the testimony of the witnesses who appeared before the committee when the subject was under consideration, was very Interesting. A suggestion to change the method of col lecting ad valorem duty on an article which Is being seriously considered by the committee, was brought out during the discussion on pottery. While Jerome Jones, of Boston, Mass., was on the stand, Chairman Payne explained a plan to collect ad valorem duties based on the wholesale selling price of the article in the United States, instead of on the sale price at the place of manufacture abroad. The object of the suggested change is to avoid undervaluations, which result In a loss of revenue to the Government. Appeals for Honesty. Mr. Payne explained that the whole sale market price here can be easily obtained. "The Government calls your people be fore the appraisers," he said, to the im porter on the witness-stand, "and puts them under oath as to what the whole sale price Is, and if your competitors should make a false oath they would be amenable to the law oi the United States for perjury; but as it is now, there is no one to call before the- Board of Apprais ers who knows the actual market price abroad. We cannot eend' and get these witnesses here. If we take their state ments we cannot punish them if they make false ones." Two Increases Asked. The manufacturers of pottery in this country asked for few Increases in the present duties, but urged the commit tee to protect them In some way against undervaluations on the pot tery and china Imported from abroad. Reductions in the duties on pottery were asked for by the Importers. Other changes In the schedule on earths and earthenware which have been asked for are Increased duties on firebrick, clays, crude gypsum, and that manu factured pumice stone be placed on the free list. There have been several re quests to place gypsum on the free list, where it formerly was. i BAY STATE TRIES FOR CABINET JOB WANTS MEYER OR WEEKS IX TAFT'S CABINET. Senate Will Insist Hitchcock Resign Chairmanship and Crane Crges Meyer Be Retained. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (Special.) Repeated assertions by President-elect Taft that only one member of his forthcoming Cabinet has been selected to date, and the positive Information from leaders of the Senate that Frank H. Hitchcock 'will not be confirmed by that body for a Cabinet position until he has resigned his post 93 chairman of the Republican National Committee, have led Massachusetts political lead ers to re-enter the field on both of the other Cabinet possibilities from that state. Tremendous pressure is being exert ed by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and his friends . to have George von 1. Meyer, the present Postmaster-General, either retained in that position or made Secretary of the Treasury or Sec retary of the Navy. Representative John -IV. Weeks, of the same state, is, it is understood, being pressed with equal vigor by friends of Senator Mur ray Crane for Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Weeks is a graduate of Annapolis and present commander of the Massa chusetts naval militia, as well as power in the House of Representatives. ERBS TRIED FOR MURDER Widow and Sister Charged With Slaying Captain Erb. MEDIA, Pa., Dec. 29. Mrs. M. Florence Erb and her sister, Mrs. Catherine Beisel, were placed on trial in the Delaware County Court here, today, -charged with the murder of Mrs. Erb's husband. Cap tain J. Clayton Efb, at his country home, "Red Gables," near Village Green, on the night of October 6. Caotain Erb.- who was secretary to Israel W. Dunham, the Republican lead er, of Philadelphia, and who was a well known National Guardsman, was sho during a quarrel in which Mrs. Erb and Mrs. Beisel DartlciDated. Mrs. Beisel is charged with having fired the shot tha killed the Captain, but both she and Mrs, Erb have been Jointly and separately in dieted on a charge of murder. Mrs. Beisel admitted firing the shots, hut declared she did so in salt-defense and that will .be her plea. Since the shooting Mrs. Beisel has been in latl. hut Mrs. Erb has fceen out on bail, having secured her release on na be-as corpus. Mrs. Erb was wen Known to patrons of horse shows, where she rods and was recoenized as a clever horse woman. DISASTER IN COAL MINE Betwen 40 and 6 0 Men tteporieu to Be Imprisoned. ROANOKE. Vn., Dec. 29. Meager re nmta of a coal mine disaster at j,ick Branch, Virginia, reached here tonight. Between 40 and SO men are said to have heen imprisoned and up to 6 o'clock tins evening rescuing parties have been un able to get into the shaft because of the fire and smoke. Lick Branch Is the name of a coal mine in operation on the Pocahontas divi sion of the Norfolk and Western Rail road. It is without commercial teiegrapn facilities. A message received at 10 o'clock at the general offices of the Norfolk & Western Railway in this city says that 14 men have been taken out of the mine ana that four of this number are dead. It is practically settled that 50 miners were at work in the mine when the explosion occurred and that there yet remain 36 In the death pit. The rescue work is very slow. The damage to the mine is reported to be great. The cause of the explosion has not yet been determined. REFERS DEATH TO COURT St. Louis Business Man a Suicide Rather Than Face Charges. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29. David F. Ma loney, a wealthy business man and prominent in eiub life, killed himself here today. Maloney's suburban home was destroyed by fire last Sunday and the fire is said to have been of Incen diary origin. While viewing the ruins of the place. Mr. Malonev was arrested on complaint of his father-in-law, F. E. Nelsen, a real estate dealer. Maloney was to have been tried on January 6. ORPHAN WEDS CHINAMAN Beautiful Southern Girl Violates Mississippi Laws. MERIDIAN, Miss., Dec. 29. Miss Ollle Patton, granddaughter of the late W. S. Patton, a Confederate General and past grand master of the Mississippi Masons, it developed today, married a Chinaman here last Sunday. The marriage violates the state law forbidding intermarriage between whites and persons of negro or Mongolian blood. MUs Patton is young and beautiful and an orphan. DEPRIVE NEGROES OF VOTE Leading Oklahoma Democrats Pre pare Bill to Disfranchise. MUSKOGEE, Okla., Dec. 29. Several of the leading Democrats of Oklahoma met here this afternoon for the pur pose of preparing a bill to be intro duced in the Legislature next week to disfrancnise the negro. Governor Has kell was represented by J. E. Wyand, of Muskogee. . FOURTEEN YEARS RUEF'S SENTENCE Maximum Term Given Deposed Boss. TAKES HIS MEDICINE QUIETLY Lawyers Use Technicalities In Effort at Delay. NOTICE OF APPEAL GIVEN Transfer to Penitentiary Delayed Till Final Decision Climax of Long Struggle Marked by Several Dramatic Events. SAN FRANCISCO, Doc. 29 Fourteen years in the penitentiary, the maximum. Is the sentence meted out today tn Abra ham Rtief. who for four years directed the political destinies of San Francisco as adviser of the administration of Eu gene E. Schmitz, Mayor of the city. Judgment was pronounced at the close of a day devoted- to legal battle, wherein the defense sought to Introduce many reasons for a new trial. When Judne William P. Lawlor had denied this anl othpr motions involving delay, the de fendant arose at the court's command and stood unmoved through the recital of Judgment. There was no demonstra tion on the part of the spectators during the proceedings in the courtroom, nor later, when Ruef, having entered the prison van in tile custody of a deputy sheriff, started in the dusk on his long ride to the County Jail. Before the adjournment of court no tice of appeal had been tiled on behalf of the defendant and the court had signed a writ of probable cause, which will act as a stay of execution. In a trial that was prolonged through a period of nearly four months Ruef was convicted, December lo, of bribing John J. Furey, un cx-Supervisor, to fa vor the award of an overhead trolley franchise to the United Railroads. This was one of 114 indictments returned against Ruef by the Oliver grand jury, which heard 16 Supervisors confess tho acceptance of bribes in several matters Involving public service corporations. One of the many incidents that tended to make the trial of Ruef remurkahlo was the shooting of Assistant District Attorney K. J. Heney by Morris Haas, an ex-convict, whose past record was exposed by the prosecutor after the. would-be slayer had been accepted as a member of the Jury. JIaas subsequently committed suicide in the County JaiL. BOYLE'S SHAMEFUL CONDUCT Head of Education Board "Fired"' for Associating With Schmitz. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29. President Thomas F. Boyle, of the Board, of Edu cation, was removed from oi'tice this afternoon by Mayor Taylor for conduct characterized by the latter as "bold, gross Indiscretion and shameful," and "not to be borne with tolerution by t lie Mayor of San Francisco." INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The went Iter. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 41.1 degrees ; mijiimurn, ;;1. S. TODAY'S Fair, northeasterly winds Rurthquako in Italy. Latest estimates of loss of lifu reach 100,010. Page 1. King and Queen hurry to scene and Pop heads reiler futm with enormous sub scription. Par 1. American Red Cross stnrts relief movement in every city. Page o. American Consul al Messina and his wi fa killed. Page 7. Description of the scene of disaster. Page 1. Record of historic earthquakes. Page 8. National. Senate may fnree Hitchcock to resign chair manship ana Massachusetts wan is Cain net place. Pa?e 1. House committee discusses pottery tariff. Pago 1. Domestic. U1I1 nf CLaus Spi-ockel filed. Pace, 2. Kentucky rioters flee to Tennessee and ramp In mountains. Page Ruef sentenced for 14 years. Page 1. Young Theodore Roosevelt ss hi to havs ijuarreled with his father. 1'age 1. Trial of Mrs. Erb and her st-ter begins. Page 1. Local." National Guard Association discusses im portant Legislative problems. Puge 14. Port of Portland Conimi.HsIon plans to have pilotage law anicnu;u. rage l if. Lighting question has assumed serious aspect. Pate 1 1. Highest bid on record offered for Portland Park bonds. Page 14. lucitif; Northwest. Defunct I-a Grande bank to pay first div idend March L Page Witnesses establish sanity of Caldwell when he made peculiar will in Albany. Page -. Meeting to frame watr code bill to be held In Salem, January It. Page 5. Supreme Court decides state bus no Wain on $100, (MX) in fees collected by Dun bar. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Eastern eugar markets demoralized, crop damaged In Argentina. Page l.. Strengthen wheat markets. Page 15. Realizing sales cause decline in stock prices. Page l,"i. -Balfour, Guthrie & Co. charter Norwegian steamship Selja for lumber to China, Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Finch trial does not go to jury. Page 11. Two of O. R. &. N. train robbers plead guilty and are sentenced. Page 9. Methodist conference on missions is held. Page 14. Fight against McArthur for Speaker is or ganized. Page 10. Insurance companies expect to oppose or ganized labor at next Lvgislati ve ses sion. Page 10. CConcluded oa i'M