. ' . i PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND, OREGOX, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1909 VOL. XLVIII. XO. 15,022. STREETCAR WRECK ENDS WILD FLIGHT TWO AFFINITIES CHAMBERLAIN IS RENOUNCE ALL TO WED MISS ELKINS JAPANESE FAST $1,000,000 GIFT BY ROCKEFELLER ENTANGLE DIVORCE ELECTED SENATOR AMERICAN" GIRL IS LOVE WITH ABRUZZI READY TO BECOME SIMPLE CITIZEN OF ITALY. ADDS TO CHICAGO rXIVERSTTY ENDOWMENT Ft'XD. LORD. GLOOM PERVADES GAMP OF HOPKINS RETURNING ROME Eighteen Injured on St. John Line. JACOB SPIES IS FATALLY HURT Trailer Jumps Track After Air brakes Have Failed. . MANY BURIED BY DEBRIS HrnMn 'Rescne Victims of Accident at Williams ATenue and Cherry Street and All bnt One Will Recover. LIST OF TUB INJURED. Jacob Splot. 415 Plppls tm; fracture at base of skull; will not re cover. Mrsi S. R. Leisure, S First street: badly lascerated arm and probable frac ture of the forearm. 8am Zavtn. Arthur street; gnera!:y bruised, but not wlouily. Tom Klrobrough. 1300 Delaware va ob; brutjwl. Fred Wolfe. BTS Miller aveaue; badly lascerated arm. F. H. Nolte. no aSJre: bruised cheat and sprained leg. Fred Fcrsythe, Peninsula Hotel; cut on arm and about face. Paul Delaney. aged 7, 760 Haves avenue: shaken up. Earn Jeffreys 1200 Delaware avemi.; band cut. Mrs. FTlza Mlll.n. arSUj Washing ton street;, punctured wound of the elbow and scratched about the face. Christian Koch. 441 Pippin street, Gtenwood station; bruised about the eheet. C. O. Pries. 1690 Hearst street. University Park; lascerated wound on right arm. Mrs. M. J. Hatfield. 1605 Flak street: cut abcul ths arms with glass. Mrs. Eantue! McCord. 170 Haven street. St. John; lsscersted wounds . en arm. Mrs H. Remans. 1291 Birch street, Willamette Station; laacerated arm. ' R. L. Eidrldge, 919 Wall street; some contusions shout the hip. Guatave Hale. 61S Newport street: lascerated wound on band. K. E. Lyon. Madrona Hill; sprained back. Eighteen persons were Injured, one fa tally. In an accident at Williams avenue and Cherry street at 2:30 o'clock yester day afternoon when the trailer of car No. 35J. of the St. John line. Jumped the track In whirling around a curve, hurling both the motorcar and trailer a distance of 100 feet. There were 6 passengers on the cars. A few jumped as the cars leaped from the tracks in their wlld'fllght; others were hurled through windows, and still others were pinioned on .the sidewalk and In the street beneath the mass of debris. Both motorman and conductor stayed with the csrs. They were uninjured. Brakes Applied In Vain. Accidental breaking of the air pipes Is said to have been the cause oT the dis aster. The break occurred several blocks from the scene and was discovered by the motorman, R. Gove, two blocks away, as the cars approached the down grade leading to the sharp tune at Williams avenue and Cherry street. Gove spplied tlie breaks to decrease the speed of the cars as they approached the curve. They refused to work, and the cars shot out upon the straight stretch of downhill track. The momen tum of the cars, already running at a rapid pace, accelerated the speed so that they had attained a fearful rate as the motorcar swung Into the curve. The motorman still tried vainly to apply the brakes. Cars Skid for 100 Feet. At Williams avenue and Cherry street the tracks swerve abruptly, the curvature being probably as great as 25 degrees. The motorcar swung Into the curve and had successfully passed a short distance when the trailer, rocking and swaying as It entered tho curve, suddenly raided from the tracks and went careening towards the sidewalk. Its weight car ried with it the forward car which also left the tracks and together the two cars rolled and skidded for a distance of 100 feet, further progress being' checked oy the sidewalk. A telegraph pole and maple tree were snapped by the Impact. Fcr tunateiy there is a wide space of street at the Intersection through which the cars swept. As the cars left the tracks some of the passengers began to Jump, rred Lacey. a butcher at Williams avenue and Russell streets, jumped and was hurled violently for a distance of many feet, but escaped Injury. Many others also Jumped. and how so many of "the passengers escaped with their lives is remarkable. Many Women In Wreck. Most of the passengers were women. few children being aboard. With the roar of the skidding cars as they rolled towards the sidewalk were mingled the screams of women and shouts of men. Smashing of glass and the rumble of crashing timbers sdded to the confusion. Three persons were pinioned beneath te cars as they Anally came to a halt, the motorcar having been thrown completely (Concluded on Page 19.) Scottish Peer Also Had Another Inamorata, According to Cross Complaint. iEDINBURG-H. Jan. 19. The cross-petl tion for divorce between Clara Elisabeth Sterling, who vaa formerly a Miss Taylor, of Newark, N. J., and John Alexander Sterling. Laird of Kippendare. Perthshire, came up for hearing today in the Court of Sessions before Lord Guthrie. Half dozen noted lawyers represented various persons interested-, including Lord North land and Mrs. Mabel Louise Atherton. the divorced wife of Colonel Thomas Ather ton. who has been c.ted as co-respondent In the case. The petition of the wife was heard first. She declared her marriage had been most happy until. In the Summer of 190S, Mrs. Atherton came UDOn the scene, when "everything went to pieces." In the course of cross-examination coun sel for Mr. Sterling suggested that Lord Northland was the cause of the trouble. This Mrs. Sterling denied, but subsequent ly she admitted that she had told her husband last July that she loved Lord Northland. The hearing was 'then ad journed. COSGROVE STARTS TODAY W ill Come 'orth to Be Inaugurated, Then Return South. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. ,19 (Special.) Unless there is a further countermanding of orders. Governor-elect Cbsgrove will start for Washington in the private car California tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. The order was given to the Southern Pa cific train dispatcher In San Francisco tonight that the car would be attached to the northbound Los Angeles coaster. The same schedule will be followed as was at first decided upon, and It Is ex pected that the Washington party -will leave Wednesday night at 8:20 for the north. Railroad officials declare that there will be no delay on account of damage to tracks by the recent storms. This caused Mr. Cosgrove to arrange his departure from the Hot Springs to be accompanied by his wife, and it is understood that Dr. F. W. Sawyer will be with him, at least as far as San Francisco, and he will pos sibly go north with the Governor, who Is to return to California after the inaugur ation. LIQUOR WAR IN TENNESSEE Governor Vetoes State-wide Prohi bition and Senate May light. NASHVILLE. Jan. 19. The bill to pro hibit the manufacture of Intoxicating liquors in Tennessee passed the Senate this afternoon by a vote of to 13. Governor Patterson filed his veto of the state-wide prohibition bill with the clerk of the Senate after that body adjourned for the day. . The veto will be read to the Senate tomorrow and the bill voted on again. Opponents of the bill say they can count on a change of three Senators to their side, and that the fourth member, on whose vote the fate of the measure de- . pends. Is wavering. The Governor, in explaining his failure to approve the bill, tells the Legislature such a law Is against the Democratic platform and the doctrine of self-government; that It destroys property, re duces state revenues and increases tax ation. REED'S SON IS HUMORIST Portland Boy AV1I1 Be Editor of Har vard's Annual "Josh-Book." BOSTON. Mass.. Jan. 19. (Special.) The election at Harvard last night of the new board of editors of the Lampoon resulted in the following personnel: President, R. C. Holloway; Ibis, J. S. Reed, of Portland. The new heads take charge at once. They are JiAiIors, and serve fr one year. Messrs. Holloway and Reed have a care fully picked staff of writers. - J. S. Reed is the son of United States Marshsl Charles J. Reed, of Portland. MAKE ADDRESS AT BERLIN Uoosevelt Accepts Invitation to Lec ture at University. WASHINGTON. Jan. 19 President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation of the University of Berlin to give a lecture to the students and faculty of the Uni versity In May, 1910. The Invitation was brought by Count von Bernstorff, tire German Ambassador. Mr. Roosevelt, it is said, will limit his addresses to one before the Sorbonne in Paris, one at the University of Oxford and the one he has now promised to de liver In Berlin. BRITISH CAPTAIN FURIOUS "Arrests' Chinese Official Who Fires at His Steamer. HONGKONG. Jan. 19 The Chinese harbor guard boat Stamstui fired two shots yesterday at the British steamer Chenpo for fouling a wood raft. This angered Captain Lowington. of the Chen po. who, arming himself with a revolver, boarded the Samstul In a small boat, arrested the commanding officer and turned him over to the captain of the British gunboat Robin. The occurrence Is now being Investi gated by the captain of the Robin and the British Consul. Gets 1 9 Senate Votes; 34 in House. SEVEN PROTEST THEIR VOTES Contest Likely to Be Taken Up at Washington. MEMBERS EXPLAIN VOTES Fulton Shown to Be Choice of Ma jority of Republicans Several Vote for Cake Under Protest. Lobbies . Return Home. SALEM, Or, Jan. 19. (Special.) Republicans In the Oregon Legislature today surrendered to Governor George E. Chamberlain, Democrat, and elected him United States Senator for the six- year term beginning March 4, 1909 succeeding Charles W. Fulton. Cham berlain received 19 votes In the Senate, 12 of them Republican, and 34 In the House, 26 Republican. His seating In the United States Sen ate will be contested on the ground that he received but 29 free votes in the House, or two short of a majority. His Ave additional votes in the House were cast for him by Republicans un der protest, who declared that they were constrained to do. so by their Statement One pledge, and that they were not exercising their constitutional free choice. Protests Recorded In Journal. These protests were entered on the House Journal for use later. In the Sen ate, protests of - two Republicans were entered on the Journal, but they did not Impair Chamberiain's majority In that body, since 16 constitute a majority. The detailed vote was Senate. House. is m 7 11 8 14 1 Chamberlain Fulton Cako , Bean The choice of the majority of the Re publican members clearly was C. W. Fulton, which some of them made evi dent In explaining their vtte. The votes cast for Cake were given by Re publicans who were elected on Repub lican voters' choice pledges. Most of them voiced their preference for Ful ton. Some of these protests entered the journal. In the Senate, .Coffey of Multnomah and Cole of Umatilla so protested and voted for Cake. In the House, Beals of Tillamook, Bonebrake of Benton, Buchanan of Douglas, Car ter of Wasco and Mann of Umatilla did the same. Others voting for Cake, who said that he was not their personal choice were Applegate of Douglas and Speaker McArthur. Tho vote on Sen ator stood: Detailed Senate Vote. Chamberlain Abraham, Albee, Bal (Concluded on Page .) 5 HARRY MtJRPHY PLACES LN T mm V - V 7 BRpTTAiN j;vh'A 3 i HKKi Resign Royal Title'' and Captaincy In Xavjr In Order to Remove Obstacles. PARIS. Jan. 19. (Special.) The Petit Parisian will publish tomorrow a remarkable story about , the Duke of Abruzzl, which .was sent from Turin by a special correspondent. He states that the Duke has given up his naval honors and abandonea all his privileges as cousin of the King In order to marry Miss Katherlne Elkins. "It has been remarked in Italy," says the correspondent, "that alone, of all the Princes of royal blood, the Duke of Abruzzl did not go to Sicily and Cala bria. While the King and all other members of the royal family visited Messina, the Duke remained in Turin in the solitude he nas preserved for months. This lack of action is more strange because the Duke is Captain of the vessel which was one of the first to carry aid to the earthquake sufferers. "The explanation for this was given today. It will be remembered that the King never opposed the marriage of the Dune to Miss Elkins, but wis Majesty believed It his duty to call a council of the family, and the Queen Dowager and Duke de Genoa opposed the match, and many nobles expressed their displeasure over the proposal. So it happened that the King said neither yes nor no. The Duke was asked to wait before announcing the engagement officially until he had served his time as Cap tain in the navy, and could be made a Vice-Admiral. Then the question could be considered. That time came two months ago, but the Duke has received neither the appointment nor the au thorization to marry Miss Elkins. However, I am assured that the Duke has decided to resign his post as Captain In the navy, and even to renounce his royal titles, becoming simply a citizen and overcoming with one blow all the obstacles which would prevent the marriage. The Duke's In tention of resigning is also Known in the navy." The King has refused to accept the Duke's resignation. A number of offi cers conversant with the situation, who asked the Queen aboard the battleship Regina Elena at Messina to intercede with the King for his consent to the mar riage, adds the dispatch, were placed un der close arrest by Admiral Mlrabe-llo, the Minister of Marine. Many high naval officers have decided to resign with the Duke of the Abruzzl in token of their sympathy. TEST GOVERNMENT POWER Colorado Governor Proposes to Con test Right to Natural AVealth. DENVER. Jan. 19. Governor Shafroth directed Attorney-General Barnett today to draft a bill to be presented to the Leg islature ordering the Attorney-General to commence such suits as may be deemed necessary to determine the exact extent of the right of the Federal Government to the natural resources of the state. The bill Is to carry an appropriation of 810,- 000 to meet the Expenses of the suits. The bill has as its object the determin ation of the exact powers of the United land and forest reserves. SPOT LIGHT A LOT OF LEGISLATORS - AND OTHERS j a WE Lt I " r - I i V s ORMbRT rVHRRG Syr cHRTER. Roosevelt's Reasons for No Hostile Action. MAY BREAK UP AGREEMENT Japan Is Already Doing What California Asks. AGITATION DOES INJURY More Japanese Left United States In sii Mnnthfi Than Came and Question Will Soon Solve It self by Action of Japan. WASHINGTON. Jan. 19. President Roosevelt's letter to Governor Gillett, dated January 16, on the subject of anti- Japanese legislation, now pending in the California Legislature, is as follows: "My Dear Governor I am greatly con cerned over the anti-Ja. anese Dills wmcn are amiarently going on their way through the California Legislature. They are in every sense most unfortunate. At last we have in first-class working order the arrangement which with such difficulty we succeeded in getting through two vears ago. The Japanese govern ment is obviously acting in good faith. During the six months ending October 31 last, the total . number of Japanese ' who have come to the mainland of the United States has been 2074 and the total number who have left has been 3181. In other words, the whole object nominally desired by those who wish to prevent the incoming of Japanese laborers has been achieved. More Japanese are leav- ' ing the country than are coming in, and bv the present indications In a very few years the number of Japanese here will be no greater than tne number of Americans in Japan; that is, the move ment will be as normal in one case as In the other, which is Just as we desire. No Excuse for Agitation. There is. therefore, no shadow of ex cuse for action which will simply produce great Irritation and may result in upset- 'XJM,a'MD& OF TODAY'S NEWS These aeitators have themselves to thank if trouble comes from what they do, if there Is any rush or Influx of Japanese hither. They hamper the Na tional Government in what it has now so efficiently accomplished the agreement by peaceful means and through the friendly initiative of the Japanese gov ernment to keep Japanese immigrants out of the United States save as Americans themselves visit Japan. Is it impossible to get the Legislature to realize the great unwisdom, from the standpoint of the country at large, and above all, from the standpoint of California, of what is be ing done? Senators Back President. Senator Flint stated today that the (Concluded on Page 2.) . t t t ? ALU LR FOLi-trJr t Total Gifts Nearly $25,000,000. Institution Self-Supporting for First Time. CHICAGO, Jan. 19. (Special.) John D. Rockefeller today added 81,000.000 to the endowment fund of the University of Chi cago. The university founder's latest benefaction was announced tonight by Registrar Thomas W. Goodspeed after the receipt of a telegram from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The gift, which comes in the form of the transfer of securities' yielding an an nual income of 840,000, raises the total amount of the oil king's donations to the university to 824,809,666.98, of which 815.- 000,000 is for endowment purposes. Of this amount more than 88,000,000 have been given during the past three yers. For the first time on the occasion of a large gift to the university, Mr. Rocke feller did not add a sum. for the pay ment of an expected deficit. The budget for the .coming fiscal year beginning July, 1909, amounting to 81,350.000, will be cov ered by the university income. For the first time In the history of the Midway School the institution is practically self- supporting. CHEERS HIM IN HIS CELL Portland Prisoner Pleads for Cal ensiar From Railroad. CHICAGO, Jan. 19. (Special.)-Thia morning's mall addressed to the general passenger department of the Chicago & Alton rod contained a communication of which the following is a copy: "General Passenger Agent, Chicago & Alton Railway, Chicago, III. "Dear Sir: Will you please send m one of your calendars for 09. I am aware of the fact that you require certain amount of stamps for this, but as I am locked up and cannot get the.se very easy I thought you might waive your rule in this case. Thanking you In advance, I am, yours respectfully. "B. A. LOWNDES, "Care County Jail, Portland, Or. In reply one of the Alton's calendars for this year was sent by return mall to the applicant in hope that It would cheer him In his confinement. Lowndes was recently brought back from Chicago by Detective Joe Day for cashing a forged check at the Meier & Frank Company's store for 8116. He found the check on the street here and signed the payee's name. The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, oB.4 degrees; minimum, 52.3. TODAY'S Occasional rain; cooler: westerly winds. Legislatures. Governor Chamberlain elected United States Senator by Oregon Legislature. Page 1. Congressman Jones elected United States Senator by Washington Legislature. fags 11. President Boa ftrman. of ena.te, maJcea committee appointments. Pie 7. Senator Key sends Hart's resolirtlon to his own committee. Page 4 Foreign. American wife of Scotchman admits In di vorce suit she loves lord. Page 1. Earthquake In Eastern Mediterranean kills eight persons. Page 2. Abruzzl to renounce title and naval cap taincy In order to marry Miss Elkins. Pags 1. National Roosevelt says Japanese are leaving Lnlted States wltbout legislation; Cali fornia bills will be killed. Page 1. Senate passes bill raising salaries. Page 2. House passes bill abolishing pension agencies and sends wiuett a speech to commit tee. Page 2. Government revealed as prosecutor In Ca nal libel case. Page 2. Taft talks to Georgia girls about matri mony, rage 3. Politics. First ballot on Illinois Senator without re sult and Hopkins' chances grow dim. Page 1. Root elected Senator, but will retain Secre taryship till business is finished. Page 5. Domestic, f How Texas will distribute Waters-Pierce fines. Page 3. Colonel Tucker ordered before Retiring Board and may escape exposure of scandal by sacrificing pay. Page 4. Second panel foi Calhoun Jury fast melting iway. page 6. Rockefeller gives 81.000.000 to Chicago Unlveraty endowment fund. Pnge 1. Volcanic eruption In Luzon does much dam age, page 3. Sports. J. H. Raley, of Chicago, duo today for wrestling match with Edgar Frank. Page 14. Burns got all profits of fight with Johnson. Page 3. California racing men win first round In Legislature. Page 9. Pacific Northwest. Severe floods In Inland Empire: railroads blockaded; one life lost. Page 5. Oregon State Federation of Labor hears re ports. Page 11. Missing Oakland school teacher returns. I'age 6. Commercial and Marine. Board of Trade directors named by grain department, page 15. Stock speculation sluggish at New York. Page 13. Smalt receipts cause active wheat buying at Chicago, page 15. Board of survey, condemns the wreck of the French ship Alice. Chronometers at fault. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Eighteen Injured In wreck on St. John streetcar line. Page 1. Oregon hardware dealers will protest against express rates. Page 10. Big deal In North End warehouse district win soon be announced, page . University of Oregon regents vote money to build gymnasium and girls dormitory. Page 10. Nicholas Bonoch, adrift In runaway house boat, rescued by crew of flreboat. Page 10. Shiftless amlly divided by Judge Ganten- beln among various local institutions. Page 10. Charter commission strikes blow at paving monopoly, ragn o. fines. Page 7. John S. Barnes, pioneer baseball manager, drops Into city tor snort visit. Page Is. Count of Noses in Cau- cus Gives Cause. FIND 23 SHORT OF ENOUGH Separate Vote for Illinois Sen ator Has No Result. L0RIMER HAS TIGHT GRIP Chicago leader Keeps Hopkins Hanging on Ragged Edge De- neen May. lie Forced to Don Toga in Spite of Himself. NF.W SENATORS KLF.CTKD. State. New York. , Utah Colorado. . . Oklahoma. Missouri. . . Name. Politics. . . Elihu Knot R. . ..Reed Smoot It. . ,.1'harles J Hughes. l. ...Thomas P. Uore...I. . . ,V. J. Stone D. Pennsylvania. . Boif s Penrose ,...k. Iowa N. Cnrollna. N. T-'akota. . ..A. B. Cummins. ... H. ..Lee H. Overman. .. D. . . M. N. Jonnwon R. Connecticut. . S. Dakota.!. . Arkansas. ". . Orcicon . .F. B. Brnmlgree. . K. . .Coe I. t.'rawford. . .It. . ..lamps P. Clark.... D. . .O. E. Chamberlain. D. ..Wesley L. Jones... H. "Washington. The only change of politics Is a Democratic gain of one in Oregon. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. 19 (Special.) A dismal gloom settled over the Hop kins camp- tonight at the end of a joint caucus of the Republican Assemblymen, at which only 7S votes were mustered and pledged to vote for the Aurora stateti man when the Joint balloting begins to morrow morning. The line-up. 'which was accomplished after a day of frantio action on the part of the Federal leaders. Is some 23 votes short of enough to elect In case there is a full attendance at the Joint session. It Is a revelation of trouble ahead, ti:at lias led the Hopkins men tonight to sound t.ie alarm to every friend who has real or fancied in fluence with the lawmakers to rush to Springfield to keep the Junior Senator from being pushed over the presipice. Caucu9 Shows Shrinkage. At the caucus, which was called in the hope that it would corral enough votes to make victory easy in the morning, only 75 Senators and Representatives were actually present in the flesh. Two others, W. M. Scanlan and Senator Martin B. Bailey, were present In spirit and were voted by absent treatment, while a third Assemblyman, Thomas Campbell, was put on the list as being "absent, but all right." The total number of Republicans who attended the caucus bound themselves to vote for Mr. Hopkins, Inclusive of the three absent, but au right ones. Is r.'ne less than the total vote Mr. Hopkins re ceived this morning when the houses took separate ballots on the Scnatorship. By the Senator's enemies it is regarded as a confession of weakness. Hopkins on Hugged Kdge. By the big Federal leaders who have been here since the Assembly opened, building up the Hopkins f-cs, lt is construed as full evidence that Congressman William Lorimer has something of a hammerlock hold upon the situation. They are down cast and, in confidence, express the be lief that the Senator is almost hanging on the ragged edge of nothing. The main cause for worry among the leaders was the possibility that the Dem ocratic votes would be thrown in a body for Speaker Edward D. Shurtleff. If a deadlock results lt was felt that other things might happen, one of them being the propulsion of Governor Deneen into the Senate in spite of himselt. Vote on First Ballot. The first ballot in separate houses to day resulted: Senate Hopkins, 2fi; J ss, 10; Stringer, 13; Mason, 2; necessary to choice, 26. House Hopkins, 61; Foes, 15; Stringer, 63; Mason, 4: Shurtleff, 3; absent, 5; necessary to choice, 77. IOWA CHOOSES A. B. CUMMIXS Joint Session Wednesday Will Make Formal Announcement. DES MOINES. Ih., Jan. 19. Albert B. Cummins was today elected to a six-year term.in the United States Sen ate!. The two houses in Joint session Wednesday will make formal announce ment of the election. TELLER IS VOTED OUT OF IT Charles J. Hughes Elected to Sen ate From Colorado. DENVER, Colo., Jan. 19. Charles J. Hughes, Jr.. of Denver, was elected United States Senator by the Colorado Legisla ture' today to succeed Henry M. Teller. Mr. Hughes received the full Democratic party vote In both houses. The Legisla ture will meet in Joint session tomorrow for a Joint ballot, when the election will be confirmed. Missouri Picks Stone. JEFFERSON CITY Mo.. Jan. 19. The vote for United States Senator in the Senate today was: Stone. 23; Mr Klnlcy, 11. This was a strict party vote. The Democratic members of the Leg islature who have a majority on joint ballot, last night pledged themselves (Concluded on Page 4.) fF7! IOfi.2