- VOL- XMX.-XQ. 15,086. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1909. , PR1CE FTVK m-TS HIGHER T IS 3000-MILE RACE: FLQWERY6REETIN6 NOTE DESIGNS TO SELBYS- TO OPEN FIGHT THIS WEEK WEDSSWEETHEART AFTER 33 Y.EARS MONTANA MAN USES CLOTHES HE BOUGHT IN EARLY 70'S. CLIMAX TODAY IN PAYNE TARIFF BILL DEATH AT HOME BE SYSTEMATIZED PATTERNS FOR SERIES TO BE CUT FROM 19 TO ." POPULAR BELIEF WHEA i : , . AWAITSRDOSEVELT Naples Adorns Herseif for Noted Guest. EX-PITTSBCRGER DIES SOON" AFTER LEAVING TRAIN. Despite Conditions, Price Keeps Up. VALUES LOOK FICTITIOUS Supply and Demand Offer No Basis for Quotations. NEW GOVERNMENT REPORT Estimates on 1009 Crop Will Be Made on AVednesday Specula tors Believe Patten Will Carry May Deai Through. CHICAGO, April 4. (Special.) Popular sentiment Is now as confidently com muted to a belief In still higher wheat values as It was to the contrary propo sition some six months since, when values were about 30 cents a bushel lower for May and 10 cents lower for July. It Is apparently oblivious to the fact that May wheat closed Saturday just 29 cents, July 20'4 and September 14 cents higher than at the corresponding date last year. leaving out the fact that the bullish forces of the world now have an able, resourceful and well-equipped leader, there is nothing in the legitimate demand and supply propositions, either domestic or foreign, to warrant such a vast dif ference between the values current at the respective periods. Annual Increase Kapid. Going- back to the Letter year, 1S9S, for a parallel case, reveals the present situ ation still more at fault. For the five years previous to the Lelter year, the average wheat crop of the United States was 456.000.000 bushels. In the last five years it has averaged 642.000.000 bushels. The average Winter wheat yield for the Ave years previous to 1898 was 291,000,000 bushels, and for the last five yeare it has averaged 410,000,000 bushels. The average acreage harvested for the five-year term previous to the Leiter year, 1SW!. was SS.622,000 acres, of which the Winter wheat proportion averaged 33.117,000 acres. In the last five years the average acreage has been 48.400,000 acres, and the "Winter wheat area has averaged 2S,fK2.000 acres. The acreage officially re ported in December last as having been seeded for the 1908 harvest of Winter wheat was 29.8X4.000 acres, or nearly l.OnO.AOO acres more than the previous five year average. ' Last year's wheat crop was 665,000,000 bushels, or about 23,000.000 bushels more than the five-year average. While sta tistics do not always tell the story, the above vital facts cannot be ignored, in a weighing up of the present situation. In the speculative field the situation is different. It has been demonstrated be yond the possibility of denial that the believers in less sensational values have been routed in the open market arena and that until their ranks are recruited from fresh and strong forces they cannot hope to fight with an even chance of success. Forces other than speculative are likely to chape wheat values In the future. The last quarter of the crop year has been entered upon, a period that usually sees small wheat demand, particularly In years of high nrices and wimn tv i month of the year Is devoted by millers to preparing to erlnd the oncoming new crop of Winter wheat. Shorts Not Yet Out of Danger. It Is hardly In order for millers to become excited and overload with high priced old wheat at this time and It is almost a certainty that the. bulk of them will work from hand to mouth until the new wheat is available. Their policy then will be determined by circumstances then prevailing. With the speculator it is different. He Is quite generally convlnpod that Patten will carry his May deal through to ma turity and this may make a situation which obviates the necessity of his run ning through to the last day of next month and exposing himself to the pos sible delivery of a great deal of high priced wheat. As a finished campaigner, the big bull leader knows well the possi bilities involved, and he may rind It easier to turn his deal over to the July specu lator and Investor and wait for a more suspicious opportunity in which to re nMate property If he so desires. Never theless it is quite probable that shorts In wheat will be lven a lively time be fore they have an opportunity to see lower prices and most of these that have, not yet covered may be forced to do so before the tide turns. Government figures showing the first of ficial estimate of tiv condition of the crop as It emerges from Winter quarters 111 be Issued at noon on Wednesday. While little growing weather has been wn. except in the far Southwest, and the condition as of April 1 will not be a fair estimate of the actual condition of the crop, the trade will, nevertheless, place a deal or store on it. HITCHCOCK JS VERY SICK Kcara for Hecovcry of rx-Set-rctary of Interior. WASHINGTON. April 4.-Ethan Allen Hitchcock. ex-Secretary of the Interior, Is critically 111 at the home of his son-in-law, Commander siuis. I". s. N and Brave feara for his recovery are en-tenainid. Taken Sick In I.os Angeles, Doctors Give Him l"p, and He Asks To Be Taken East. PITTSBURG. April 4. (Special.) Harry V. Van Norman, formerly of Pittsburg, died here this afternoon in the arms of .Jits family, after being carried across the continent by his young wife In one of the most exciting races with death." Van Norman married Miss Jenks. daughter of Frank Jenks. city editor of the Gazette-Times of Pittsburg, five years ago, and went to Los Angeles as manager of a Rochester, N. Y.t house. He became ill some months since, and one week also he was told by physicians that he had no-chance to live. He asked to be taken home, and his wife raced with him to Pitts burr, reaching here 12 hours before he died. For six days and nights Mrs. Van Norman did not sleep stopping off for a few hours at Houston, but the physi cians there urged her on, saying there was no hope. Mr. Van Norman, who had been worn practically to a skele ton, from 195 pounds to 108, insisted on trying to carry their grips from the train in Pittsburg to the cab, but col lapsed. He was insistent that he would again be well In the Pittsburg air, but while talking to his wife this afternoon he collapsed and was dead in a few minutes. BOYS SMOKING START FIRE $2,000,000 Blaze In Fort Worth Attributed to Cigarettes. FORT "WORTH, Tex.. April 4. To a party of small boys and a carelessly thrown cigarette is credited the fire of yesterday, which destroyed property to South Fort Worth valued at $2,000, 000; caused the death of J. J. Newton, a bank employe, and the serious injury of six others, and rendered 300 families homeless. - Today and tonight the burned dis trict was under guard of state troops to prevent looting. A mass meeting of citizens was held and relief com mittees were 'named. The fire originated In a barn, where boys were smoking cigarettes. SITUATION NEARS CRISIS Diplomatic Relations With Nica ragua Are Badly Strained. WASHINGTON, April 4. Indications are that diplomatic relations between this country and Nicaragua are nearing a crisis, resulting from the failure of Presi dent Zelaya to adjust the Emery claim. The reticence of the State Department in regard to the case indicates that the situation is grave and that there is lit tle probability of any settlement on the basis proposed by Secretary Knox. A significant fact is that J. H. Greg ory, the American Charge d'Affaires, who Tecently reached here from Nicaragua, Is not expected to return to the Central American Republic. (Concluded on Page 2.) MAP SHOWING ROUTE OF ROOSEVELT'S HUNTING TRIP, AND SSHOTTX-PRESIDENT ON DECK OF STEAMER. "'"'' . aoBBocnm1 ?223 ; cPSis-' cSlMxmiMrk jgr as i SAHjira -ifc-SKiLT L'a ,'--.-.. j IV r L -i :f -fW jxi' -t ri - i rJ A iW W i ' r F rmm&wA a - - w-.'ji-.iii . . fc x.. J 1 " iaiiwwM.-Li!' ' ' ---1TTSSSS ...... . ........... --- . .............,..,. ....................... WOMEN WILL STREW ROSES German Consul-General to Give Carnation From Kaiser. DECORATE HARBOR CRAFT Steamship Admiral Waiting to Carry ex-President on Next Stage of Journey to Africa Stay In City Is to Be Brief. GRISCOM ARRIVES TO ROOSEVELT. MEET NAPLES. April 4. (Special.) Ambassador Griscom arrived this afternoon from Rome, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Garrett and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Dodge, to welcome ex-President Roosevelt. The steamship Hamburg, with. Colonel Roosevelt and party aboard, will ar rive tomorrow morning. They will leave for Africa at 10 o'clock In the evening. Mr. GrLacom sleeps tonight on the American converted yacht Scorpion, on which he will leave for Massina tomorrow. Colonel Roosevelt tomor row morning at 10 11 o'clock will pay a visit to the Duca d'Aosta, at Capo dlmonte. Later ha will visit relative at the hotel De Londrea and make a. tour of the museums. ....... NAPLES, April 4. The steamship Admiral, which Is to carry ex-President Roosevelt to Mombassa. is lying in the harbor, decorated with flags and with special quarters set aside for Mr. Roosevelt and his party. Numerous gifts of flowers have been sent to the ship, and tomorrow the remembrance of the German Emperor, in the shape of great masses of carnations, typical of the German colors, will be placed in Mr. Roosevelt's cabin. The Hamburg is expected at noon, and Mr. Roosevelt will be greeted on board the steamer by representatives of the City Council, who will extend to him an official greeting, and a party of women who will strew his path with roses. Greetings From Kaiser. The German Consul-General will ex tend the personal greetings of the Em- New Plan Expected to Do Away With Confusion and to Hamper Counterfeiters. WASHINGTON. April 4. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coolidge has approved a plan for systematizing de signs for United States notes and coin certificates, thus securing uniformity in portrait and general design. At present there are 19 different de signs for United States notes and coin certificates of. various denominations, leading to confusion and uncertainty. Under the new plan there will be but nine. The 1 silver certificate will carry the portrait of Washington, the 2 sil ver certificate the portrait of Jefferson. The . J5 -note, whether silver certificate or greenback, will carry the portrait of Lincoln. The $10 gold and silver certificate and United States note, that of Cleveland; the $20 that of Jackson; the 50 that of Grant; the $100 that of Franklin; the 1500 that of Salmon P. Chase; the $1000 that- of Alexander Hamilton. The portraits of Hillegas, Monroe, Silas Wright. Lewis W. Clark, Mans field and others will be eliminated. The eagle, the buffalo and the Indian head, which have proved to be easily counterfeited, also will disappear. All duplications will be done away with. The new system, it is believed, will discourage counterfeiting. HEINZE RESUMES MINING Wallace Excited Over Report He - Will Seek to Recoup Fortune. SPOKANE, Wash., April 4 (Special.) Announcement which has reached Wal lace, Idaho, that F. Augustus Heinze is to return to Couer d Alene after an ab sence of almost three years has created intense interest in that district. It is taken for granted that Heinze is com ing back to recnun his miiiinno ,v,tnu sufTered seriously in the earlier stages of the depression in New Yora. a year and a half ago. A large crew has been put to work in the Stewart mine at Wardn'er, his most valuable property, and it is understood that active operation with a full force is to be ordered. Big things are expected to be happen ing when Heinze gets into harness again, for he is a man who deals in big figures, and mining history records no more dar ing plunger. AH of the tunnels at the Stewart have been' ordered cleaned and the yards cleared away- ready for in spection on his arrival. ST. PAUL OPERATES TRAINS First Locomotive Passes Through Tunnel at Taft, Montana. WALLACE. Idaho. April 4. The first train to pass through the St. ' Paul Pass tunnel at Taft on the line of the Chicago. Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad, made the trip at noon today-. Work trains are now run from the Coast to a point near Missoula. First Skirmish Due in Probate Court. OTHER HEIRS STAND FAST All Profess to Feel No Anxiety as to Outcome. SECRETS MAY COME OUT Identity of Mrs. Selby Mother Like ly to Be Revealed If Suit Is Car ried on and New Sensation Is Promised as a Result. PROVISIONS OF BALDWIN WILL. SAN FRANCISCO. April 4. (Spe-" cial.) Under the will left by the late Lucky Baldwin, the bulk of the vast estate, estimated in value at S23.OO0.0O0. was left to his . two daughters. Mrs. Clara Stocker acd , Mrs. Anita McClaughry. The famous Santa Anita ranch was' bequeathed to the two who, all told, were to re ceive J20.000.000. The balance was to be divided between Mrs. Lillian Baldwin, the widow, who was to re ceive one-third Interest in the Bald win annex property In San Francisco, valued at $500,000, Zelda Selby. the third daughter, was to receive $70. 000; and smaller bequests to Mrs. Elizabeth Rush, grand-daughter, and H. A. Unruh. for many years Bald win's business manager. The will was satisfactory, save to the widow, who. it Is said, brought about the compromise and. now to the mysterious daughter. Zelda Selby. who is threatening action if she Is ignored. SAN FRANCISCO, April 4. (Special.) The threat of David S. Selby, husband of Mrs. Rosella Selby. who was recog nized by 33. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin in his last will as a daughter, and remembered with a legacy of 200 acres of land, valued at $50,000. to embroil the Baldwin estate in endless litigation unless a more gen erous provision was made for his wife by the other Baldwin heirs, is on the eve of fulfillment, according to Selby. The Baldwin will is to come up for probate in the Los Angeles court this week, and the opening gun in their fight for a larger share of the Baldwin estate will- be fired at that time. Other Heir Remain Calm. The ultimatum of Selby, however, Is Fond or Pies, He Seks Out Cook and EInds She Is Woman He Had Won and Lost. SPOKANE. Wash.. April 4. (Special.) His wait of S3 years for the woman he loved was rewarded today, when Alonzo Newton, attired in the wedding garments made for the near-wedding in the '70s. and using the wedding and engagement rings purchased for the girl sweetheart of his youth, took to his heart and home Mrs. Eva Drake. The wedding ceremony was celebrated at Taft. Mont. Mrs. Drake came to Taft from Texas, made pastry and sold it to the eager searchers for home cooking. o tond aid Mr. .Newton become of it that he asked the boy who delivered the pastry if he could meet the cook. The boy escorted him to his mother, and they discovered in each other the sweetheart of years ago. UNKNOWN SHIP IS SUNK Spars Seen Sticking Out of Water by Steamer Dominion. BOSTON. April 4. Tidings of disaster to an unknown ship at sea were brought to this port today with the arrival of the Dominion Coal Company's steamer Dominion, Captain Northcutt, from Louisburg, C. B. About 200 miles to the eastward of Bos ton Light late in the afternoon the steam er passed the lower mast andtopmast of a large "vessel. The spars were sticking out of the water and apparently were attached to a sunken hull. FEET WASHED BY ALFONSO Spanish King Will Celebrate Tradi tion of Holy Week. MADRID. April 4. The roval fnmllv has returned to the canitat for Hniv Week, which will be celebrated with the traditional religious solemnity bv the Spanish court. King Alfonso, assisted bv the Grandees. will wash the feet of 12 noor Thursday, in Imitation of Christ, and subsequently will 3t before them with his own hands a mammoth feast. THEOLOGS HINT AT STRIKE Princeton Students Demand More Modern Curriculum. NEW YORK, April 4. The differences which have existed between Dr. Francis L. Patton, president of the Princeton Theological Seminary, and the under graduates culminated today when reso lutions were adopted by the students in which the ultimatum is set "forth that either Dr. Patton is to be made to pro vide a more modern curriculum or the entire student, body will resign. PAY MAY BE ADVANCED Rumor That Western Union Has Given 15 Per Cent Increase. NEW YORK. .April 4. It is rumored here today that the Western Union Tele graph Company has granted its employes, Including operatois and subrchiefs, a 15 per cent increase iu wages, beginning April 1. The increase Is explained by the offi cials as due to the general increase in business and the reductions in the copper market. TAFT WELCOMES ATHLETES Enthusiastic Reception to Yale's Track Team in White House. WASHINGTON, April 4. Yale's track team, including a large number of Old Ell's stalwart athletes. Invaded the White House today and was ac corded an enthusiastic reception by President Taft. The athletes came 'to Washington early in the day on their way to Charlottevllle, Va.. where they begin training. The reception was in formal. WOMAN DIES AT 112 YEARS Leaves Large Property and Boasted She Never Had Doctor. NEW YORK, pril 4. The death of Mrs. Fanny Friedman, aged 112, was reported today. She was born in Hun gary, January 3, 1797, and had been ill only a few days. It was her boast that she never had a doctor in her life and one was not called In until Friday. Five children, 64 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren survive her. KING EDWARD GODFATHER Will Stand Sponsor for Son of John Hubert Ward. IXJNDON. April 4. It is said that King Edward will be godfather to the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hubert Ward, who was born on March 24 last. Mrs. Ward was Miss Jean Reid, daughter of the American Ambassador. CLOSING ON CRAZY SNAKE Troops Get Orders to Stay In Field L"ntH Chief Is Captured. HICKORY GROUNDS. Okla.. April 4. Colonel Hoffman, in command of the state troops hunting Crazy Snake and his troublesome Snake Indians, received orders tonight from Governor Haskell to remain In the field tillhe captured the chief. Date for Vote to Be Set for April 10. DEBATE TO BE SHUT OFF THEN Those Who Asked Free Lum ber Will Not Oppose. TAFT APPROVES COURSE Opportunity Will Be Given for Vole on Various Disputed Schedules ' and Chance Exists Bill May Pass In Some Shape. WASHINGTON, April 4.-The climax in the House consideration of the Payne tariff bill, will be reached in all proba bility soon after the House convenes to morrow, when the committee on rules will bring in an order fixing the time for taking trial vote on the bill and providing regulations for introducing and discussing amendments. The rule which will be brought in tomorrow sets April 10 as the date for a vote on the tariff bill and pro tects the measure. It is said. ' from all amendments except those recommend ed by the ways and means committee and offered on the floor of the House, which will give an opportunity for a vote on the question of free lumber, protected barley and protected hides. Rule to Be Adopted. A majority of the 26 or more Re publicans who drafted yesterday's pe tition to the tariff framers asking for protection on lumber, coal and Iron ore have been prevailed upon not to oppose the Payne bill. This Is re garded as Insuring the adoption of the rule. It is said also the dissatisfied Republicans have been assured that matters in which they are especially interested will be given careful at tention when the bill reaches the Senate. Chairman Payne. Representative Dalzell, Representative Dwight and other House leaders conferred with President Taft yesterday, and the President is said to have approved the tariff programme. General Debate Shut OIL The rule will shut off general de bate automatically, and from .the time of its adoption until the bill is sub mitted to a vote discussion of the tariff will proceed under the five minute rule. ' In view or the probability of the early adoption of this order, both sides are pre paring to consider the bill in its final stages. The matter of the time that will be given for amendments will be fixed by the committee on rules, but that com mittee will be guided entirely by the wishes of the committee on ways and means. No one doubts that the fate of the bill will be known before the end of the week and" there Is Just a little doubt that it will be passed in some shape. There are very few members who would (Concluded on Pace 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Th Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 00 5 degrees; minimum, ;t7.2 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwesterly winds. I'orelaTn Naples makes preparations to glvo Hooit velt flowery welcome. Page 1. French watch American tariff bill with great! interest. Page 4. Industrial. Spokane prepares to receive 40,000 visitors to National Irrigation Congress. Page 12. WlUapa Harbor cities start active campaign for deeper channel. Page 13. Domestic. Popular belief Is that wheat prices will continue to rule high, notwithstanding logical conditions to the contrary. Page 1. . Boise broker arrested in Washington oa fraud charge. Page 4. Standard OH goes on trial for Its life today. Page 2. Calhoun cane has broken all records in. length of time taken. Page 3. Senator Hopkins, of Illinois, threatens tn put primary choice up to voters of state Page 4. New England bartenders propose liquor reg ulatlon. Page 4. f National. lively scramble is being made for places on rivers and harbors committee. Page a. Fate of Payne tariff bill to be known this week. Page 1. New designs of currency to simplify series. Page 1. Sport. Shortstop Olson protested for spitting run ners. Page 13. Casey's band forced to quit game with Jacksonville- by hall at end of fifth; score. 3 to 0. Page 13. Judge McCred-e maintains his stand on con troversy with Swing over Shortstop Shinn. Page 13. Pacific Northwest. Mrs. Nelwn. whose husband Ist life trving to find her. said to be in hiding in p- kan; lively scramble made for dead man's estate. Page 5. Whole peninsula below Astoria said to bt slowly sinking. Page o. Spokane lad kills himself trying to scars girl with "unloaded" revolver. Page 4. Portland and Vicinity. Five candidates In race for recommendation by Republican Assembly. Page 9. Portland women will not do without gloves and hose, despite higher tariff charges. Page 8- Clerk Thomas declares latest school census Is incomplete. Page 14. Judge Morrow will decide St. John liquor case today. Page 14. Vnlversa lists break ground for church on East Side. Page ft. Evangelical conference makes assignments of pastors for coming year. Pace 7. New bills open at Portland theateis. Page T. Official list of Rose Festival events given out. Page 12.