PIP AND E SORDID MOTIVE OF ANTI-JAP CRAZE LITTLE CORPORAL'S PEOPLE ACCEPTED JUDGE APPRAISES KISSES $10 EACH W HAT IT COST JOHX FAIXOX TO CARESS HIS LANDLADY. MERRY WIDOW HAT HORSE IN CELLAR F5 BILL WITH JOKER THEME OF JESTERS DECLARED "XOT THE MODE CORRECT." UNSUSPECTED TREASURE IS FOUXD IX LOUVRE. MILLINERS BAN LOV MURGAiJ ACCUSED OF GAUSiFJG PANIC VVIF UNDOING Shipowners Fear Loss of Coolie Traffic. LABOR LEADERS NOT ACTIVE Agitation May Step Negotia tions With Japan. FOR COMPLETE EXCLUSION Japan May Abate Zeal to PrCTcnt Emigration if Hostile laws Are Adopted Anti-Alien Bills Cannot Offend Japan. Washington; Feb. 2. No other question is absorbing the concern of the administration at this moment to the same extent as are certain phases of the anti-Japanese agitation in California. The President has been in communlea tion with many persons who should bo thoroughly informed as to conditions on the Pacific Coast. It Is admitted that a systematic agitation has been in progress on the Coast, but a significant feature of its lack of strength was the fact that the labor leaders had taken no promi nent fart In it. It even has been stated to the administration that the main spring of the agitation was to be found in fome of the great corporations that hart fnund their' profitable business of eoolle transportation threatened with de struction by the success attending the efforts of the administration to stop this class of immigration. Agitators Injure Own Cause. For tin- fact .is that, in the opinion of administration" officials, the negotiations with Japan for a practically complete closure of American ports to the entry of Japanese laborers are jeopardized by the excitement and utterances of certain persons in California and by the mere consideration of such resolutions as were entertained yesterday by the Nevada Legislature. Kven agreements already reached, which are being carried out in good faith by the Japanese government, are regarded as endangered, in the sense that the present agitation might very naturally tend to abate the interest of the Japanese officials in the execution of their obligations. It Is these, considerations that have Influenced the President thali everything possible should be done to prevent leg islation by any state that would dis criminate, against the Japanese as1 a class distinct from other foreigners en tering America. Alien Land Laws Innocent. There is no objection whatever by the administration to laws prohibiting all aliens from holding land In America. For this Is now, under the revised stat utes, the law in the District of Colum bia and the territories and in some of the state?. Indeed, there is a similar law In Japan, and the government of that country consequently could not re gard It as anti-Japanese legislation if adopted in California. . The President has entire confidence in the people of the Pacific Coast and Is curtain they will do right In this matter. The administration Is much pleased with the tone of the speech of Premier Komura in the Japanese Diet today, so far as it touches upon the relations be tween America and Ja,pan. AXTI-JAP BILLS UP TODAY Supporter Claim Majority for AH Measures Proposed. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. ;. All of the anti-Japanese bills introduced in the California Legislature have been made the special order of business in the As sembly for tomorrow, and lively debates may be anticipated. The bill prohibiting aliens from own ing land in the state has been amended bv its author. Assemblyman Drew, of Fresno County, so as not to specify "aliens who .may not become citizens." which made it apply only to Japanese and Chinese, and now Is general In its provisions. This change was made at the sugcestion of President Roosevelt and in its present form is not likely to meet with the disapproval of the Na tional Administration, should it become a law. That it Is intended to bar the Japanese especially from becoming the owners of realty Is frankly admitted by Mr. Drew, and this will be fully brought Oiit in debate. Antis Claim Majority. The bills introduced by Assemblyman drove I. Johnson, to prohibit aliens from becoming directors in corporations In this state and segregating the Japan ese with Mongolians in schools and com munities, will be rressed by their au thof.- .who is tr of thrt House, favorably repor thor,' .who Is the Republican floor leader The latter measure was ported by the judiciary com- mUtee today. The attitude of the Assembly In regard to these various measures Is uncertain. A majority is claimed by those in favor of anti-Japanese legislation, who predict that all of the bills will pass. Those opposed to the enactment of such radi cal laws, however, declare that none will get through, except possibly the alien land bill. Xevada Kven More Radical. The resolution of the Nevada Legisla ture approving the proposed legislation hostile to the Japanese passed the As sembly of that state today, after the (Continued on Fage 5.) Aapoleon's Famous Charger, Vizier, Stuffed AVlth Straw, Is Found In Museum. PARIS, Feb. 1. A straw-stuffed white horse, which has been found in the cellar of the Louvre, turns out to be Napoleon's famous charger Vizier, presented to him by the Sultan of Tur key. An examination of the records shows that the horse died in 1826 on the estate of De Chaulaere, the Em peror's equerry. The latter was forced to flee for a political crime and his ef fects were sold. Napoleon's horse, which had been stuffed, was acquired by an English man, D. W. Clarke, who presented it to M. J. Graves, of Manchester, who in turn donated it to the Manchester Nat ural History society. At the dissolu tion of . the society In 1868 the horse was forwarded to Napoleon III and was relegated to the cellars of the Louvre. It was forgotten during the critical period preceding the downfall of the Becond empire. BLACK HAND IN PORTLAND Italian Grocer In Terror From Threatening Letter. Belief that the dreaded "Black Hand" Society, feared among Italians, has be gun operations in Portland was estab lished yesterday by a threatening let ter received by Vito Vlttl. an Italian grocer, at 294 Sheridan street. The let ter was dated January 30, 1909, and said 'You must give $500 or we will kill you and your family." It was signed X. It was written in Italian and contained no instructions. The police believe this is merely the first of a series custom arily sent to intimidate the Intended vic tim. Two men of suspicious actions and mysterious demeanor called on the gro cery merchant yesterday afternoon and asked him If he had received the letter. One of these men, Mr. Vitti said, was a native of Sicily and the other was a Calabrian. He had never seen them be fore, but recognized their dialects. After he had replied to their inquiry the men went out immediately and the grocery man became so frightened that he went out on the street and sought out Patrol man Lytle, to whom he appealed for protection. Plans are to be made to, entrap the writers of the threatening letter. DUST STORM AT PENDLETON Wheat May Be Damaged by Wind That Tears Out Roads. PENDLETON, Or.. Feb. 2. (Special.) One of the worst dust storms tlrat has visited this section of the country in years has been raging for the past 18 hours, and it is feared that considerable damage has been done to the wheat. Ac cording to reports from Pilot Rock and McKay Creek country, much growing wheat has been uprooted or buried. The extent of the damage will not be known until after the storm ceases. Considerable damage has also been sus tained by the roads, great holes' having been scooped out in places, while In other places the dust drifts are piled high. Tho storm was unusual in that dust storms at this season of year are rare and In that the wind was blowing from the mountains instead of toward them. TAX NEVADA BACHELORS Woolcock Would Make AH Over 28 Pay $4.50 Yearly. RENO, Nev., Feb. 2. (Special.) Assem. blyman Woolcock. of Lander County, to day gave notice in the Legislature that lie will tomorrow introduce a bill pro viding for a tax upon bachelors. The bill will specify that any man who has attained the age of 28 and lias not as sumed the marriage vow will be subject to a state tax of ti.M a year. The notice was received with some sem blance of humor by the House, but Mr. Woolcock insisted that he was in earnest, and that when the bill wns Introduced It would receive hearty support. DYING, HE SEEKS REVENGE Paralyzed Man, Shot by Friend, Sues for Damages. BUTTE, Mont.. Feb. 2. (Special.) Al though he cannot possibly live more than a month and Is completely paralyzed, Eric Hamry today brought a 127.000 dam age suit against Dick Hopkins, who shot htm through the back during a drunken orgy. After shooting Hamry, Hopkins lay down beside his victim and went to sleep in which state officers found him. Hopkins owns much valuable mining property. Hopkins shot his friend to show him, he said, that he was afraid of nothing- BOOM PRICES FOR WOOL Eastern Buyers Pay Almost Record Figures In Wyoming. CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Feb. 2. (Special.) Eastern buyers already have purchased 3.000.000 pounds of the 1909 clip of wool in this state, yet on sheeps' backs, at prices ranging from 16 to 18 cents. A million pounds of Casper wool that sold for 94 to 11 cents in 1908 sold three days ago for 17 cents. Dealings to date indicate that prices for the 1909 clip will now near or exceed 1907 figures, the highest in the history of Wyoming. Legislature Must Re district State. LAWMAKERS' HANDS ARE TIED But One Member Allowed to Each District in State. LAW'S WORDING SPECIFIC Misunderstanding In Proportional Representation Amendment When Placed Before the Voters for Their Sanction. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Feb. 2. (Spe cial.) That the voters of Oregon were misled regarding the contents of the pro portional representation amendment and that it will be absolutely necessary for the present Legislature to enact either a proportional representation law or a Legislative appointment Iaw apportion ing one member for each district, appears from an examination of the amendment adopted last June. The deception consisted in this that the authors of the proportional represen tation amendment told the voters that this amendment did not make the enact ment of a law necessary but merely gave the Legislature power to enact such a measure and also that the amendment left the Legislature free to adopt any plan of proportional representation it may deem best. It now appears that the proportional representation amend ment precludes the adoption of any plan of proportional representation except that under which each voter votes for only one person under the title for each office. The provision upon this subject came in the middle of the section submitted for adoption and its purport and effect were not realized nor understood by the voters. Not much attention was given to the subject for the reason that it was re peatedly asserted and generally under stood that the amendment left the Leg islature free to adopt any, plan of repre sentation it might desire, or none at all. Amendment Held Joker. Following is th proportional represen tation amendment with the joker clause in heavy type: Section 18. Tn all elections authorized hv this constitution until otherwise provldec. by law, the person or persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected, but provision may be made by law for elections by equal proportlotml repre sentation of all the voters for every office which Is tilled by the election of two or more persons whole official duties, rights and powers are equal and concurrent. Kvery qualified elector resident In his pre cinct nnd registered as may be required by law. may vote, for one person under the title for each office. Provision may be made hy law tf the voter's direct or Indi rect expression of his first, second or ad ditional choices among the candidates for any office. For an office which is filled by Cue election of one person it may be re quired by law that the person elected shall be the final choice of a majority of the electors voting for candidates for that office. (Concluded on Page 12.) B0TH-'IF YOU MAKE I BOTH "IF YOU MAKE ANY LAWS THAT I DON'T LIKE, I'LL REPEAL 'EM!" j i ... m. ' Very Bold and Sassy, He Hugs Her, Overpowers Her, Steals Three Kisses and Is Slapped. CHICAGO, Feb. 2. (Special.) Kisses are worth $10 each, provided they are stolen from one's landlady, who hap pens to be married. This value was placed on a. caress today by Judge Newcomer at the Harrison-street sta tion, who fined John Fallon, who said he was the son of a millionaire real estate dealer of New York, for steal ing three kisses from his landlady, Mrs. Edna Caramelll. 19 Eldridge Place. Fallon said his real name was Julius Levy, and that his father was S. A. J. Levy. The family residence is at 15 Beekman Place, New York City, he told the court "He hugged me, too." declared Mrs. Caramelll in court. "Besides he was very bold and sassy, too. "My husband was away Sunday, and after I had talked with Mr. Fallon he attempted to embrace me. Finally ho overpowered me and Kissed me three times. I tried to stick him with a needle. He got mad, and he called me names. Then I slapped his face and he called me names. Then I slapped his face and he struck me, and I fainted." SACRAMENTO RAGING AGAIN River at Flood Level and Bridges In Great Danger. REDDING, Cal., Feb. 2. The severest storm of the season, so far as flood waters are concerned. Is raging along the headwaters of the Sacramento River tonight, with no indication of a let-up. Traffic through Sacramento Canyon has been suspended for the night, owing to the danger of landslides and washouts, but will be. resumed at dawn if the tracks are still clear. The Sacramento River is within a foot of being over -its banks at several points, and Is filled with driftwood and uprooted trees of such size as to be a serious menace to bridges. Already the approach to one bridge, that of the Sac ramento Valley & Eastern Railroad, at Pitt, has been carried away by the battering of the logs, and traffic on the De Lamar has beeji brought to an ab rupt halt within a .few miles of the end of the road. BACK GOVERNMENT LAWS Eastern Canners Indorse Pure Food Requirements for Fruits. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Feb. 2. "Govern ment pure food standards for the canned goods." The National Canners' Asso ciation and allied trades raised this cry of fh first session of their second an nual convention In this city". In addresses it was urged that every fruit o vegetaDie which goes into a can ehould first be proved up to a stated Government stand ard. FAVORS PULLMAN PORTERS Bill in Colorado Legislature Exempts Them From Anti-Tipplng Head. DENVER, Feb. 2. A bill was Intro duced In the Legislature today making It a misdemeanor to give, accept or so licit a tip, except on a sleeping car. Of fenses are punishable by a fine of from $10 to 20. ANY LAWS THAT I DON'T LIKE, I'LL REPEAL 'EM!" Took Revenge on Gates for Old Grievance. SQUEEZED OUT OF MILLIONS His Turn Came When Gates Put Up Tennessee Stock. THEN HE DID SQUEEZING Democratic Senators Allege Gigan tic Financial Plot Was Made to . Force Tennessee Crowd to Sell to the Trust. WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. (Special.) A demand that John W. Gates be summoned before the Senate committee which is in vestigating the absorption of the Tennes see Coal & Iron Company by the United States Steel Corporation, will be made by the Democratic members of the com mittee. The Democrats believe that Mr. Gates can reveal one of the most gigan tic plots ever conceived in finance. In volving the Inception of the panic of 1907, which, according to their allega tlons, cost Mr. Gates and his associates millions of dollars. According to the etory told today, J. Pierpont Morgan in the purchase of the Tennessee Company, wreaked summary vengeance on Mr. Gates for the Louisville & Nashville coup of 1902, which, it is said, cost the Morgan interests $15,000,000. Mr. Gates accomplished this coup while Mr. Morgan was perfecting control of the Atlantic Coast, Seaboard & South ern Railroad, with a view to controlling the railroad situation in the South. The net result was that Mr. Morgan was compelled to buy out Mr. Gates at his own figures. This stock, when bought, was turned over to the Atlantic Coast Line Company of Connecticut, the hold Ing company of the Atlantic Coast Line .Railroad. It is now alleged that this deal rankled in the breast of Mr. Morgan until 1907, when it was found that Mr. Gates and the syndicate associated With htm con trolled the Tennessee Coal & Iron Com pany and had hypothecated their hold ings with interests in New York. It is Intimated by the Democrats that certain financial conditions were brought about which resulted In Mr. Gates and his friends being squeezed out of the concern The retaliation of Mr. Morgara and his friends is likened by the Democrats to the Gould corner in gold in 1873, which resulted in "Black Friday' and the Hill- Harrlman fight over the Northern Pa cific road in 1901, which brought on "Blue Thursday. SCHLEY TELLS OF MERGER Banks Rejected Tennessee Stock as Collateral and Forced Sale. "WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Grant B. (Concluded on Page 4.) Banished by Czarina of Association to Give Place to Inverted Flowerpot. CHICAGO, Feb. 2. (Special.) The Merry Widow hat, beloved by rhymesters and Jokesmlths, has been dethroned. The National Association of Retail Milliners has saidi the word that banishes the monarch of millinery creation to the limbo of last year's hats. What the Jests and the sneers and the pleadlnss of benighted mankind failed to do, the milliners have accomplished. Mme. Maerle, . head of the reception committee for the National Association of Retail Milliners, which met tonight in the Palmer House, sounds the death knell of the broad-brimmed hat. "It Is not the mode correct," says Madame. And femininity, subservient ever to the edict of the milliner, humbly bows to the decree. The newest models in Spring hats look like inverted flower pots. They are said to be copies of the fez-shaped hats of Servian officers. From Hungary to Servia Is not as long a Jump as is that from the 18-inch brims to the brlmless shapes that will be in favor. These hats are of rough, highly finished-straw. A Jaunty military medallion of braid, from which two gilt tassels droop below the edge of the hat, is the sole ornament. COSGROVE IS AT SPRINGS Exhausted by Long Journey and Must Shun Business. . SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2. (Special.) The private car California, with Governor S. G. Cosgrove, of Washington, on board, reached San Francisco yesterday after noon and was immediately sent south by way of San Jose, to connect with the Los Angeles Coaster. The California reached Paso Robles Hot Springs at 4 o'clock this morning, and later in the day Mr. Cos grove was once more in his apartments at the hotel. It is said that he stood the long Journey remarkably well, considering all things, but he is glad to be at the springs again. The baths and the diet will be resumed, under the supervision of Medical Director Sawyer. PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS, Cal., Feb. 2. (Special.) Governor and Mrs. Cosgrove arrived here early this morning. THe Governor was quite exhausted from the Journey to Olympia, but will no doubt Improve after a few days' baths and treatment. His condition is not as criti cal as it was during his first visit here, but he must not attempt to do any busi ness for some time. F. W. SAWYER, . Director. COSGROVE'S SOX IS VERY ILL Friends Fear Sickness Will Develop Into Typhoid Fever. OLTMPIA, Wash., Feb. 2. (Special.) Howard Cosgrove, son of the Governor, is sick at his rooms in this city and there is fear his illness may develop into ty phoid fever or typhoid-pneumonia. MILLION F0R DIVORCE Mrs. Lemp Says Husband Offered Her That Sum. ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Feb. 2. (Special.) Mrs. William J. Lemp, Jr., known as the "Lavender Lady," filed an amended divorce petition today against her mil lionaire husband. William J. Lemp, Jr., president of the Lemp Brewing Com pany. She sets up new allegations, to which Lemp will tomorrow file a gen eral and complete denial. Among the new allegations are, that in 1904 her husband knocked her-down twice in the bathroom and bruised her face; that she suffered a severe nervous shock as the result; that in 1908, while she was absent at Newport, Lemp rode with women in nls automobile at night. caressed them while driving through the Btreets and took them into his home; that Lemp is worth Jl, 500. 000, with an annual income of $50,000; that he asked her if she would accept 50.0Uu, then $100,000 or $1,000,000, for a divorce. TWO AERONAUTS CRUSHED Sudden Gust of Wind Dashes Them Against Mountain Heights. SAINT PONS, France, Feb. 2 Two Bordeaux aeronauts, in a balloon which drifted over the city last night, were Instantly killed early this morning, when the basket in which they were riding 'was dashed to fragments on a rocky pinnacle. The men tried to descend, when a sud den gust of wind caught their balloon and carried it against the mountain side. SEVENTEEN DEAD IN MINE Explosion at Alabama Colliery Due to Carelessness. t BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 2. Seven teen men are dead as the result of an explosion in the i o. 2 Short Creek mines of the Birmingham Coal & Iron Company, this morning. Five of the dead are white and 12 are negroes. The explosion occurred between 11 and 12 o'clock and is thought to have been caused by a windy shot. CHAUFFEUR J0 "DO TIME" Sentence for Killing Girl With Au tomobile Affirmed. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2. James Watson, chauffeur for H. Clay Pierce, must serve his sentence of 12 months' imprisonment and pay a fine of $1000 for the death of Christine Musick, 12 years of age, the sen tence having been approved by the Mis souri Supreme Court today. Mrs. Stirling Tells of Regard for Northland. WAS THROWN AT LORD'S HEAD Defendant in Divorce Case Is Forced to Leave Court. SAYS HUSBAND CONSPIRED American Woman Tells Pitiful Slorj of Abuse In Scotland and De clares She Once Contem plated Suicide. EDINBURGH, Feb. 2. The Stirling di vorce case today entered upon the third week of Its hearing. Mrs. Stirling con tinued to deny the allegations made by her husband's lawyers. Several times s!i broke down as she unfolded the story of her married life. The objectionable at titude of Douglas Stirling, her husband's brother, so irritated the witness that she broke out into a heated denunciation, and at the suggestion of the" presiding Judge, Douglas -Stirling left the room. Mrs. Stirling characterized as "dreadful lies" all the allegations of misconduct with Lord Northland, and she flatly de nied that she had promised to give a con fession to an attorney for Mr. Stirling, who talked with her after her return from America in August of last year. Nothing to Confess. "There was none to confess," she de clared. Continuing, the witness said that the statement made by Mrs. Atherton last week that she had purchased a revolver and declared she would shoot Lord Northland unless he married her, was a fabrication. She admitted having pur chased a pistol after she had left her husband, and said she was so miserable that she had contemplated taking her own life. Says Conspiracy Was Planned. "There has been throughout a con spiracy to" get rid of me by hook or by crook," she declared. "There Is abso lutely no foundation for the stories of Improper conduct with Lord Northland, but even if I had been guilty no one would or could have blamed me, for if ever a woman was thrown at a man's head I have been thrown at the head of Lord Northland." In tho cross-examination. Mrs. Stirling admitted driving and dining alone with Lord Northland. She said this was dun in a measure to her love of him, but largely out of pique aroused by the neg lect of her husband. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S J'axlmura temperature. o3.0 degrees; minimum, 46.5 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; southwesterly winds, legislatures. "Washington Senate expected to pass anti racetrack gambling law. Page 12. Salary raisers break on party lines at Sa lem. Page 6. Proportional representation law passed by people contains joker which ties hands of Legislature. Page 1. Bill Introduced to maintain party lines at primaries. Page 7. Bill legalizing state aid for railroads intro duced. Pago 6. Foreign. Mrs. Stirling says conspiracy made to throw her at Northland's head. Page 1. Tour of Emperor of Cjrea great success. Page 5. Skin of Napoleon I's horse found in Paris. Page 1. National. Roosevelt suspects corporations of stirring; an ti-Japanese agitation. Page 1. An ti-Japanese hills to her considered In California today. Page 1. Minister Komura declares Japanese policy towards America. Page 1. Report of Commissioner Smith on trusts. Page 6. HouKe insists on buying Taft autos and ruts down airship appropriation. Page 3. Taft's engineers propose big breakwater at Colon and lower dam at Gatun. Page 4. Panic of 1H07 attributed to conspiracy of Morgan to take revenge on Gates, page 1. Domestic. Witnesses tell of Dustin Farnum's visits to Mrs. Howard Gould. Page 5. Helen Maloney marries Osborn .again. Page 2. Mrs. Dunphy cays Giles tried to force her to elope with him. Paga 2. Novel proposal of Standard Oil to Missouri court. Page 4. Chicago Judge values kisses at $10 each. Page 2. Mrs. demp accuses husband of cruelty and offer to buy divorce. Page 1. Mlnc-rs condemn Iewis for calling off Ken tucky strike. Page 11. Milliners put ban on merry widow hats. Page 1. Sport. Judge McCredie explains why Portland gets no holiday dates in the Coast .League. Page la. . Pacific Northwest. Oregon Supreme Court upholds validity Of Initiative and referendum. Page 12. Coroner's Jury releases Nathan Hamilton, who killed Dan Flyr.n. Page 3. Commercial and Marine. Extreme prices for potatoes not obtainable at San Francisco. Page 17. Port of Portland advertises for bids en two tugboats. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Alleged affinity, accused of alienation of affections, does not look part. Page 10. Employers form association and announce objects. Page la. Indications that Harriman will build soon to Puget Sound. Page 10 President Josselyn says company will pay una re of Madison bridge repairs. Page JO Institute Club holds election of officers and hears reports of work. Page 1Q. Designer of East Twenty-eighth-street bridge declares city should accept it. Page 9. Health Board drops two school inspectors from service. Page 0.