TIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1909. 0 ' i i" . - " ...... WILL BE i PLAGUE GOS6B0VE- WILL ' NOT GOME NORTH WASHINGTON GOVERNOR-ELECT, WHO CANNOT COME NORTH TO EE INAUGURATED AT PRESENT. earance Stringent Measures Are Taken at Messina. Postpones Trip For Inaugura tion Because of Severe Weather at Olympia. SHOOT LOOTERS ON SIGHT General Mazza Issues Drastic Orders American Relief Ship and Supply Ship Calgoa Arrive and Stores Are Distributed. SPECIAL TRAIN READY ' - - - ' - - - -.--. II ne (U On Postponement Made at Last Minute On Ad-rice of Son Iloward Who Insisted Trip North at Tula Time Would Be Suicide. PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS. CaL Jan. 10. Although Governor-elect Sam- .. .1 2 r.aci-nVA " fif W SLShl Tt l OD. IS very much butter, he will not leave for the North tomorrow morning for his Inauguration at uiympia ukjli iuui. . t-i i .in. In Vazhlnflr QBT. A 11 n or r i d ... "- ton has .caused Governor Cosgrove to postpone nis ueiiariuia iiui" " definitely. Preparations had been made for the Governor to leave here tomorrow mora las; on a special train, but a. telegram from hi aon today caused him to change his plans. ' Governor Cosgrove said that he hoped the weather In the North would moder ate so he could, with safety, leave here by the latter part of the week. MAKES ALL IlKADY FOR TRIP Cosgrove'a Private Car On Hand But Son's Message Decides. SAN" FRANCISCO. Jan. 10. (Special.) Governor Cosgrove has been in receipt of many telegrams today from fritids In the State of Washington advieing him that on account of the severe cold wea ther that is being experienced In the Northwest, he would do well to delay his departure until it has moderated. From the Southern Pacltio officials it was learned that the private car Cali fornia, belonging to the O. R- & N. Com pany, had been sent from the Oakland Mole this afternoon to San Jose, there to be attached to the Los Angeles limited and sidetracked at Paso Kobles. Tha railroad people had been instructed that Governor Cosgrove and his party would be ready to leave the Springs at 8:45 o'clock Monday morning, at which time the private car was to be attached to the Los An-eeles coaster northbound. In communication tonight with Ir. Sawyer, head of the Springs and hotel at Paso Kobles. be said: "As I have stated before. Governor Cosgrove is well able to make the trip and the only question Is the weather In Ms own state." TRIP 6 CI CI D AX;, SAYS SOX Iloward Cosgrove Wires Mother to Postpone Trip North. OLTMPIA. Wash., Jan. 10. (Special.) Telegraphic information from Paso Kobles received toaay by Howard G. Cosgrove that his father would leave tomorrow morning for Olympia caused the former to send a strongly-worded message urg ing a postponement of the trip. Yester day Howard Cosgrove wired his mother at Paso Robles as follows: "Two feet of snow throughout the Northwest. Weather very bad. Great danger of blockades or washouts. Every one advises postponement of trip. Every thing working right. No need for haste. Lot-ton here; Wire me today what you decide. If you postpone will wire further suggestions." Mrs. Cosgrove replied: "Start at S o'clock on morning of 11th. Will wire you Tuesday at Hotel Oregon, Portland." - This caused young Cosgrove to send the following urgent message and in the fear of down wires to send a similar message by relays of long-distance telephones: "It is suicide to attempt trip now. Every friend we have is In arms against such foolhardiness. Blizzard worst ever known and growing worse." 24 DIE IN LEITER MINE (Continued From First Pa.) James Patterson. James Phillips. Obe Puckett Stephen Roanoff. Joseph Richardson. Charles Smothers. Joseph Tate. Willis Warner, foreman. Joseph Walla No Sign of Damage in Mine. The explosion was remarkable In that except foi the many dead it left scarcely a trace and the Interior of the mine to night shows no sign of damage. A spark from a trolley pole f an elec tric motor coming Into contact with a pocket of gas is assigned as the cause of the explosion. The lone survivor of the explosion was an Italian youth who escaped harm. An expert who had been experimenting with the gases m the mines at Zelgler said he had placed the mine In safe con dition to be operated. The men caught in the explosion were engaged in clearing away the debris caused by the recent fires in the mine. Bodies Badly Burned. The bodies taken from the mine are badly burned and Identification is dif ficult. Twenty-slx men entered the mine on the night shift and the names of the victims are taken from the payroll. The explosion was peculiar. No noise or shock was-heard or felt at the open ing of the shaft only a puff of smoke was seen. The engineer noticed the smoke, and realizing that an accident had happened, summoned aid. The flames of the recent fire had been sealed and confined to workings which were not in the vicinity of the present explosion. Mrs. Letter assisted her husband in quieting the widows and orphans who crowded about the mine. She also fur nished coffee and sandwiches to the men attempting to recover the bodies. The coroner has adjourned a hearing until tomorrow. Joseph Husband, an Intimate friend of Mr. Leiter. who has been the tatter's guest at Zelgler for the past week, was overcome by gas in attempting to rescue bodies, and was with consider able difficulty revived. MINE HAS SEEN STORMY TIMES Many Disasters and Much Labor Trouble at Zelgler. CHICAGO, Jan. 10. (Special.) Mr. Letter's experiences with the town and mine of Zelgler, since he founded what was Intended to be a thriving industrial community, have been scarcely less stren uous than his spectacular attempt to cor- In 1 v-i vhleh cost him xlAfhrfV- tfO. Almost from the first there was strife la tha sew town, eirutei S. O. with the state authorities and a series of accidents beginning with an explosion in lSuo. which cost 61 lives, and ending with today's disaster, have made his effort to conduct a big business enterprise any thing but a continuous round of pleasure. Mr. Leiter founded the community in 1S01 as a one-man town, and a one-man town it has remained. Joe Leiter was its creator and is its czar. a T,wini the largest coal shaft in Illinois was sunk. Mr. Leiter also built a railroad of his own to connect his own town with the outside world. Thinm rn alone flourishingly at the new town until 19o4. when there was a strike there which attracted general at tention. The matters in dispute affected ,. ra hH..! Tha miners took an aggressively hostile tone and Mr. Leiter was obliged to police the town with a large number of armed men from Chl trl marked with much bitterness. Mr. Leiter won out. Since then the Zelgler cas Deen opcrawu nonunion enterprise. n...... tnn in .par or bo Mr. Leiter has been before tha publio a good deal. first because or nis marnaga mu men because of the suit against him by Hugh "mkko firmpr ennfldential man of his father, in which secrets of the strained relations between Leiter and Lord Curzon. who married Mr. Letters sister, were ui i,i i.. liin Mr. Leiter married Miss Juliette Williams, of Washington, D. C, daughter or joionea J - n. U. 8. A. ONE-MAN-RULE MIED VENEZUELA GREW TIRED OF GOVERNMENT OF CASTRO. Fall Brought About by Necessity for Averting Revolution, Says Envoy to France. PARIS. Jan. 10. Jose de J. Paul, spe cial Envoy of Venezuela, arrived here this evening from Bordeaux, and was warmly greeted by a score of Vene zuelans. M. Paul declared Castro's downfall was the result of a conflict between the coun try's ambition to carry on peaceful In ternal and foreign policies and the poli cies of Castro, which were rapidly Jeopardizing Venezuelan independence. "What was the real cause of Castro's fall?" M. Paul was asked. "It was brought about," replied the Envoy, "by the necessity of averting a revolution. It must be remembered that Holland practically abrogated the proto col of 1S4. whereby , she had undertaken to prohibit traffic In arms and prevent filibustering expeditions and revolutionary outbreaks. Having thus abrogated the treaty, the presence of Holland's war ships would have rendered us Impotent to stop filibustering." "Castro's present standing in Vene zuela," M. Paul said, "is that of a man opposed to his country's aspirations. Venezuelans are weary of one man's dom ination." M. Paul ex-pects to open negotiations wKh the French government within a few days, DES MOINES GETS TS MOTION Leaven WUIcmstad to Talk to Id Guayra by Wireless. WILLEMSTAD, Jan. 10. The United States cruiser Des Moines left here to day to get into communication with La Guayra by wireless. BANQUET FOR NEW CONSUL Goon Dip Given Elaborate Welcome By Seattle Chinese. SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 10. (Special.) Seattlo Chinese merchants today greeted Goon Dip, the newly appointed Consul for Washington, at a banquet. Thirty members of the local Chinese colony, representing nearly every mer cantile house in the city, and T. Klku taka. reprejentlng the local Japanese, sat down to one of the most elaborate Chinese banquets ever served in Seattle. HARRIMAN CONTROL DENIED New York Central's President Gives Out Positive-Statement. NEW YORK. Jan. 10. W. C. Brown, president of the New Tork Central Rail road, today positively denied In toto the report from Omaha that E. H. Harriman had gained a controlling Interest In the New York Central lines. j Mr. Harriman refused to be interviewed on the subject. Woodruff Goes to See Taft. AUGUSTA, Ga.. Jan. 10. President- j elect Taft attended St. James' Metho dist Episcopal Church this morning and went for an automobile ride this after- 1 noon. Timothy L. "Woodruff, of New York, arrived tonight. COSGROVE. RECORDS FDR COLD BROKEN MERCURY GOES TO 44 BELOW ZERO IX MONTANA. . Nearest Approach Is 42 In 1893. Stockmen Are Alarmed, Over Prospective Losses. GREAT FALLS. Mont," Jan. 10. All records for cold weather in this region were broken this morning when the weather bureau thermometer went to 44 below. The only record approaching' this Is 42 below, on February 1, 1893. Today the mercury grot up to 10 below, but tonight Is down to 20. Stockmen are becoming alarmed over prospective losses. , COLD EXTENDS FURTHER EAST Disturbance Over Lower Lake Re gion Reaching Northeast. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Weather conditions and general forecast for Monday and Tuesday: A disturbance is centered over the Lower Lake region, which has been causing precipitation in the northeast ern quarter of the country. The North west cold wave has developed still fur ther, and Its frost now reaches Illinois on the east and Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle on the south. The temperatures are very low over the entire Northwest. BLIZZARD IN MIDDLE WEST Zero Weather and Heavy Snow In Kansas and Oklahoma. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Jan. 10. Early this evening the temperature- was zero here. Reports from Eastern Kansas and Southeastern Oklahoma show a severe blizzard is raging and death of livestock is feared. The storm is accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. Blizzard In Colorado. COLORADA SPRINGS, Colo, Jan. 10. Following a drop in temperature of 20 degrees, a blizzard set In tonight, with no signs of abatement. Zero Weather In Kansas. TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 10. Zero tem perature is prevailing generally over the entire State of Kansas tonight. KERN AND SLACK IN LEAD Fight On Among Democrats to Elect Senator in Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 10. With the legislative caucus to choose a suc cessor to United States Senator James A. Hemenway two days away, six as pirants for tha place are making a stubborn fight. John W. Kern and L. E. Slack are making claims qf a heavy vote on the first few ballots. B. F. Shlvely, Ed ward G. Hoffman. G. V. Menzles and John E. Lamb hold that Kern or Slack must win on the first two or three ballots if they win at alL The Legislature Is. Democratic on Joint ballot and . the Senator chosen January 19 will be the first Senator of that political faith from Indiana in 18 years. LABOR DENOUNCES COURT Denver Trades) Assembly Pledges Financial Aid to Gompera. DENVER, Jan. 10. The Denver Trades and Labor Assembly at Its meeting today adopted resolutions denouncing the recent decision of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia sentencing Gompera, Mitchell and Morrison, of the American Federation of Labor to a One and im prisonment. The resolutions also pledged the finan cial and moral support of the local as sembly In continuing the fight. LIVING AS WOULD JESUS Ten Thousand Volunteers In Cleve land Views Are Varied. CLEVELAND, O, Jan. 10. The move ment begun last Sunday by 1800 young people of this city to live for two weeks as Jesus would, has assumed a scope far beyond the expectations of its promoters. Fully 10,000 volunteers have unofficially joined the movement. The arguments of those Interested center about the theater, card playing, dancing and baseball, with supporters on either side. Get busy; save money; Rosenthal's shoe MESSINA. Jan. 10. General Mazza has adopted stringent measures to pro tect people and property. In addition to establishing a police service around the city, he has issued orders that any person found excavating without a per mit shall be shot. General Mazza declared that under the guise of rescuers, many thieves were committing robberies. Sanitary conditions have greatly im proved, and it is now believed that there is little danger of the spread of The American relief ship Bayern, fly ing the Red Cross flag, arrived Friday. A small amount of clothing was sent to the American consulate and the re mainder of the stores are being dis tributed to ports along the south ooast. The United States supply ship Cul goa, which arrived from Port Said Fri day, carried 130 tons of provisions and was well stocked with blankets and wearing apparel. The stores were sent ashore and distributed. . The body of Madame Ogston, wife of the British Consul at Messina, who, with his daughter escaped from the ruins, was found today. The British Consul is re ported from Palermo as recovering from bis injuries. The living are still being taken from the ruins. Ten days ago it was thought that all buried under the wreckage must have perished, but several persona taken out Saturday were found to ne in ex traordinary srood condition. A nartv of sharpshooters rescued an old man. Their attention was called to the place where he was lying by tne whlnlna- of a faithful dog. They suc ceeded in removing a great quantity of debris and there they came upon the dnc-s master alive, but unconscious. They carried the sufferer to the hospital and the officer In command of the party took the dog under his care. Soon after their arrival here on Satur day a detachment of sailors from the Yankton was set to work at the task of recovering the bodies of the American Consul, Arthur F. Cheney, ana nis wne, hiiriM under the ruins of the American consulate. Soldiers have been engaged in this work under the direction or Major Landls. RELIEF MEASURES ARE PASSED Italian Chamber of Deputies Passes Bill 406 to 5. T?xrm Tot. In TIia RT.ee.ift1 rn e f1 1 1 1I IT of tka rhnnilviF nf Demitles. Which Was called to consider measures of relief for the devastated provinces or soutn itaiy, were marked by expressions of sympathy and grief. The government relief meas ures, which were entrusted to a parlia mentary committee, were adopted by a vote of 406 to 6. The dissenting votes , - m,r.,maiw yv nula unit hisses, while prolonged applause followed the an nouncement or tne result. nf tha memherA who narticlpated in the rescue criticized the relief organiza tion, especially tne aecision oi mo bu ernment to entrust it to the military authorities. pram ninlnrtl declared that the mili tary have never asked that a state of siege be proclaimed but that It was only done when the prefect of the city of Mes sina had informed him that looting had begun on a large scale. WORK FOR AMERICAN SHIPS King Will Greet Admiral Sperry Personally at Xaples. DrwAjr-CT To.. In ThA r"riv3ll of th 9 American squadron under Rear-Admlral Sperry has been anxiously awaited. The nun heen ordered to notify the King when the squadron reached port, as nis majesxy is auiiuu. to meet the American Admiral, Ambas sador Griscom having already arranged an audience. It is expected that the King will pro ceed at once to Naples, as he wishes to ..Trfiilnat. Mnnnnllv In RHV fiJTanfiTe- menta which may be made for the recep tion of the American warships. Admiral Sperry will place nis snips at tne uia- nnool TIT1 ,A K inV StTfl CO VTTl TTI PTlt HJld it is very likely he will be asked to pro ceed, to tae Btriiixa, wiiejro mo wot.b can perform most useful services in the relief work. The United States supply ship Yankton nn-lved nt Meeslna Saturday, following close on the Culgoa. POPE CONVEYS HIS THANKS Receives Archbishop Ireland In Farewell Audience. ROME, Jan. 10. Pope Plus today re ceived Archbishop Ireland in private farewell audience. His holiness ex pressed to the Archbishop his gratitude to the American people for the promin ence they are taking In giving aid to the earthquake sufferers, saying: "America always Is first." The Pontiff authorized Archbishop Ireland to convey the apostollo blessing to the American people The soap one finds in most hotels and sleep ing cars is the kind one finds in most sleeping cars and hotels. Highly scented? Yes. Colored ? Of course. But you need not use it, if, before leaving home, you have had the fore-thought to slip a half cake of Ivory Soap in your toilet case. Ivory Soap 994ioo Per Cent. Pure. S7 In full force, and it's the best in point of big values of fered as well as the number of them that we have ever held. This is the time to supply all wants, Clearance Sale prices rule wherever you look and the most dependable merchan dise obtainable is the sort which these low prices are on. GOODS REDUCED IN EVERY DEPARTMENT SAVINGS IN EVERY AISLE GOOD MERCHANDISE FOR LITTLE MONEY Now as the sale swings into the second week see to it that you come and shop. Further delay is to your own disad van tage, for some shopper that comes early will buy at a bargain price the very thing you wanted so come early. PORTLAND AGENTS FOR ROYAL WORCESTER CORSETS, LADIES' HOME JOURNAL PATTERNS, LIBBEY CUT GLASS s- ; Ask to see the "Sheathbocker," the new combination garment for wear with the smart, close-fitting gowns. 0cfeo Wortman&King ,.1i..,iMssjsssMssssjsssssstsysts ILmJmJmmm BRDUEHER MAKES BIG HIT CROWDS HEAR PORTLAND PAS TOR AT TKEMONT TEMPLE. Between Efforts at Spreading Gos pel of Religion, He Speaks Gospel of Big Boost. BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 10. (Special.) Boston knows where Portland, Oregon, is now, if it has never known before. Dr. J. Whltcomb Brougher, of the Walte Temple, Portland, has been in Boston the past week arousing interest In the West. That he has succeeded is evi denced by the" crowds that have flocked to hear him at Tremont Temple. At the service this morning 1200 peo ple stood pledging themselves to per sonal work In the Chapman revival cam paign, soon to be inaugurated in this city. A prominent deacon of the Temple said: "Tremont Temple has neyer been so aroused by any man since the days when Dr. Lo rimer was at the height of his success." Another declared the demonstration to night was greater than anything seen during the Gypsy Smith meetings in the Temple. The young preacher from the West swept the Temple people off their feet and as soon as they catch their breath it Is understood that a determined effort will be made to get Dr. Brougher to come to Boston, although he has thus far declined to give the oommlttee any encouragement in that direction. Dr. Brougher has been Interviewed by the newspapers and his stories of the West and Portland particularly have been given large circulation. He has ad dressed the Boston Baptist Preachers. Jthe Boston Baptist Social ' Union, com posed of 400 prominent business men, and the Dudley-Street Baptist Men's Club. Committees have been appolhted further to arouse Interest in the Northern Bap tist Convention to meet In Portland next June, and Dr. Brougher says he expects a large attendance from New England. He left for New York City tonight and will speak there and at Philadelphia. Cleveland and Chicago before reaching home. G0MPERS CRIES INJUSTICE Says Not Even Judge's Sentence Can Put Stigma Upon Him. BALTIMORE, Jan. 10. Concerning the recent sentence of himself and other offi cials of the American Federation of La bor. Samuel Gompera today said to the local federation : "The granting of the injunction and the sentence imposed by Judge Wright were grossly unjust. Not even a Judge nor his sentence can put a Btlgma upon my colleagues nor myself, nor make criminals of us. The injustice of it is shown by the fact that the very things we are forbidden to do, every other citi zen has the right to do end it is this that we are 'protesting against." Seal , of . Pmi tv TURKEY JSJWPPT FAMILY AMBASSADOR SAYS ALL FAC TIONS ARE UNITED. "Work, Peace and Progress" is Hie Motto, and Sultan Has Be come Democratic Sovereign. WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. "Work, peaoo and progress." That is the motto of tha new Turkey, according to the message that Hussin Klazlm Bey, the first TurkiKh Ambassador to the United States, and the first envoy of a constitutional Ottoman Empire to this country, brings to Amer ica. Knthusiastic over the conditions whlrh have given his country a constitutional form of government, the new Ambassa dor, who arrived yesterday, will endeavor to convince America that his nation has begun on a new and permanent era of prosperlay. "The people In Turkey were so ready for the constitutional form of govern ment that the ease with which they pro cured It has astonished the world," stated Kiazlm Bey to a representative of the Associated Tress today. "The Sultan," he said, "not only In vited the whole membership of the Parlia ment, consisting of about 300. to the palace to dine, but also mingled with his guests in a democratio and unusual man-