VOL. XLIX XO. 15,121- PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HEAL PROSPERITY RETURNS TO LAND HERO OF NEW NAVY DYING FROM FEVER OREGON LADS WIN SHUBERT ASSURED OF AN "OPEN DOOR" UNCLE JOE HAS NO FEAR OF DR. OSLER JAIL SENTENCES T SPREADS FOR TRUST HEADS TRI-STATE MEET ON PRAIRIES EXSIGN GREES GAINED COMMIS SION FOR BRAVERY. TWO GET THREE-MONTH TERMS FIGHTER OP SYNDICATE SAYS HE HAS BOOKING ROUTE. AS WELL AS FIXES. ORNADO RUIN Railroad Orders Prove Trade Barometer. NEW EQUIPMENT IS SOUGHT Pullman Company to Spend Over $3,000,000 on Shops. HEAVY DEMAND FOR RAILS Dull Times of Past Eighteen or More Months Hare Passed and Busi ness Shows Steady In crease in AH Lines. CHICAGO. May 14. (Special.) Slns multiplied today showing the return of prosperity. Believing that the busi ness condition of the country will soon become normal, the railroads have be gun to order equipment and material more grenerously than they have done since the tremendous falling- off In ton nage nearly IS months ago. Reports from equipment and supply companies show that the present has been the record week for that pe riod In orders placed, and in inquir ies by railroads' for equipment and materials. Many millions of dollars' worth of cars have been ordered, and generous inquiries have been made for additional equipment and for steel rails. Ivong Iilst of Orders. Among the orders given or contem plated during the present week are the following: The Pennsylvania 1s In the market for 600 refrigerator cars; the Western Pacific, which is the latest to como Into the Gould system of roads, is ask ing for bids on 1500 freight cars to be used in the West; the New York Central has ordered 3000 gondola cars of large capacity; the Santa Fe has placed an order for 600 automobile and furniture cars: the Great Northern has placed an order for 500 refrigerator cars: the ' Missouri Pacific is in the market for more than 2000 freight cars of all kinds; the Cotton Belt is going to build BOO freight cars In its own shops; the Lioulsville & Nashville has ordered material for 300 freight cars which It purposes building In its own shops; the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day ton Is to order 10 switching engines the Pacific Fruit Express has .ordered 1500 steel under-frame refrigerator cars, each of 40 tons capacity, and the Hock Island Is contemplating an order of 22.000 tons of 85-pound steel rails in addition to the 18,000 tons which have been received this year. Big Change at Pullman. Work was today begun by the Pull man Company on a 13.000.000 improve ment of the shops at Pullman, which will make them the largest car con structlon plant In one unit in the world. The expenditure was decided upon by the board recently In the belief that by the time the additions to the work are completed, which will be In ' Septem ber. the company wul be able to pro duce an output of between 40,000 and 50.000 freight and passenger cars year. The capacity of the plant Is to be Increased two-thirds, the Increase being entirely in the line of steel car con structlon. Jobs for 10,0 0 0 Men. One of the first orders which will be turned out by the new shops will be that of the Pennsylvania Railroad for 300 all-steel passenger cars. This means the employment at Pullman of between 10,000 and 12.000 men practi cally under one roof. The maximum number heretofore employed at the shops was 7000, during the banner year of the company, when 25,000 cars were constructed. All the roads centering in Chicago report a steady improvement in traffic conditions since the beginning of May. The movement of general merchandise has increased greatly, the West being a free buyer of almost everything that is classed under this head. The only lines that have shown no Improvement are grain and coal. Hold ers of the former seem to fear a scaro ity before the next crops can be gar nered, and they are unwilling to mar ket their property at present. South western lines report that the movement of cotton has Increased. It Is universally expected that this improvement will be permanent. Noth fng short of & crop failure can inter fere with It, and, taken as a whole, crop conditions at the moment are highly satisfactory. BRYAN AT M'KINLEY TOMB Nebraska n Pays Silent Tribute to Ri val of Former Days. CANTON, O., May 14. Standing today In the mausoleum where rest the remains of the late William McKlnley and his wife. William J. Bryan paid silent tribute to the memory of the man who twice de ad him in the Presidential race. Served Through Many Battles, Won Four Medals and lied Career of Extreme Daring. LOS ANGELES, May 14. (Special.) Ensign " Benjamin H. Green, IT. S. N, is dying at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. E. Redmond. For 14 years Green, now only 31, has served his country, and earned four medals and a commission by bravery. He enlisted In San Francisco when 17; was in the battle of Santiago, and through the West Indies and Philip pine campaigns. An ordinary seaman on the U. S. S. Independence he, with others, was captured by the Moros. He and a comrade escaped and lived & week on snakes and frogs. Once he carried Lieutenant ' Wood, wounded, on his back and swam a river to save him. Stricken with malignant fever, he was long in the Mare Island Hospital, but was brought here re cently. POWER WIRE KILLS MAN Derrick Falls on 4 0,000-Volt Line and Two Deaths Result. SALT LAKE. Utah, May 14. Two men were killed and another seriously injured today when a large derrick employed in plledrtvlng collapsed and fell across the high-tension wires of the Telluride Power Company. The accident occurred at the Jordan River transformer station of the Utah Light & Railway Company, In this city. The derrick fell to the ground, carrying with It a wire of 40,000 voltage. This wire fell upon Morton W. Wheeler,' em ployed at the station as assistant oper ator, and burned him to death, while the frame of the derrick caught William D. Freckelson and Andrew Weston, engaged In driving piles. Freckelson sustained a fractured sknll and died a few hours later on the oper ating table. Weston escaped with seri ous injuries. S0L0NS OBJECT TO NEGRO Presence of Black In House Restau rant Resented by Southerners. ivASMiwiTuis, May 14. The pres ence today of William T. Vernon, the- negro Register of the Treasury, in the restaurant of the House building aroused . the ire of several Southern Representatives In the House, who complained to the management. There Is talk of filing a protest with the Speaker. , The members who noted the pres ence of Mr. Vernon and a companion of his in the restaurant were Repre sentatlves Chandler of Mississippi, Dies and Garner of Texas, Stanley of Kentucky and Sims of Tenessee. Feeling Is running high, and It is possible an effort will be made to have negroes excluded from the res taurant. MAN WANDERS FIVE DAYS San Francisco Merchant Stricken With Peculiar Lapse of Memory. LOS ANGELES, May 14. William Paul, ex-superlntendent of the Union Ice Com pany, of this city, who left home on Monday last, and for whom a vigorous search of the surrounding country has since been prosecuted, was found today three miles from Anaheim, wandering In the fields hatless and almost naked, and suffering intense agonies - from hunger and sunburn.. He had had nothing to eat since he left home, and could not tell where he had been. Paul said he had been ill for two years as a result of an injury to his head. REVISING SPOKANE RATES Hill and Harriman Officials Confer With Commission. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash Ington. May 14. Representatives of the Harriman and Hill railroad systems are here In conference with the Interstate Commerce Commission, with a view to framing a schedule of rates from Chicago to points between Pendleton and Spokane In conformity with the decision of the Commission, announced yesterday. J. A. Munroe, trafflo manager of the Union Pacific system, is looking after the Har riman Interests; J. G. Wood worth and J. M. Hannaford. the Hill system. No con elusion has been reached. "PIRATE" SHOOTS "INDIAN" Children's Game Comes Near Having Serious Termination at Bay City. , SAN FRANCISCO. May 14 While im personating an Indian maiden being pur sued by a band of pirates, Annie Brown, a school girl, was shot in the head by little Johnny Metcalf, leader of the pi rate gang. The weapon used was an air rifle, and the wound Is not serious. TAC0MA SALOON HELD UP Masked Man Gets $50 From-Cash Drawer and Escapes. TACOMA, Wash..' May 15. While seven or eight customers were In the Jefferson saloon, 1914 Jefferson avenue, this morn ing a masked man entered and held them up. He took $50 from the cash drawer and made his escape. loast Relay Record Is Smashed. HUSTON GOES 100 YARDS IN 9 n Points Won Oregon Gets 63, Idaho 33, Washington 26. TEAM MOSTLY FRESHMEN Moon, With Broken Foot, Makes i Nervy Rnn In Hundred Mont gomery Idaho Star Several Oregon Records Equaled. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, Or., May 1 4. (Special.) Oregon 63, Idaho 33. Washington 26. This is the result of the triangular field meet held on Klncald Field this afternoon between the three big state universities of the Northwest. One Coast record was broken, one Northwest record was tied and one college record broken and three tied. Huston Goes 9 4-5 In Hundred. Huston, captain of the Oregon team. tied the 100-yard Northwest intercol legiate record of 9 4-6 seconds, estab lished by Dan Kelly three years ago while representing Oregon. The five timers and several spectators all took but the one time, 9 4-5 seconds. Mont gomery, captain of the Idaho team, with a good start to help him, ran Hus ton a neck-to-neck race, and was de feated but by a few inches. The Coast record mile relay race of 3:30 1-5. established last year by Whit man, was lowered to 3:29 4-5 by the Oregon team, composed of Lowell, Johns, Reed and McDanlels. Lowell led off for Oregon, and with his beau tiful long stride distanced his rivals by about 25 Jards. With this lead to aid them his team mates won, with Washington eight yards in the rear. Freshmen Star Athletes. Benjamin F. Williams broke the col lege record of 11 feet 3'. inches, estab lished by Heater in 1901, going 11 feet 2 inches in pole vault. Davis, a Portland freshman, did fine work, for Oregon, winning both the mile and 880-yard runs. In the 880 be tied the college record of 2:02, established by Ralph Dodson last year. Hawkins, an other Portland freshman, also showed himself equal . to Oregon's former champions by tieing Heater's college record of 16 second flat In the 120-yard high hurdles. Ivellogg. an Eastern Ore gon freshman, took the shot-put with a put of 39 feet 2 inches. Second and third places in this event were taken by Mclntyre and Means, both Oregon men. For Idaho, Captain Montgomery was he star performer, winning the 220 yard dash, the 220-yard hurdles, the quarter mile, and taking second place In the 100. Bantza was the only first- place man for Washington. He took both the hammer and the discus. Huston was the biggest point winner for Oregon, taking first in the hun dred, second in the low hurdles, and the broad jump, and third in the high hurdles. Huston lost his stride in eoth the high and low hurdles. Moon, with a broken Instep, ran beautiful race in the 220-yard dash. (Concluded on Pass Three.) I PORTLAND BUSINESS MAN RS J HE LEFT ON THf WHbHlNGr t TON EXCURSION. Aside From Theaters That Agree to Receive His Shows, He Will Build House in Portland. NEW YORK, May 14.-J. J. Shubert, who recently declared unrelenting war on the theatrical syndicate headed by Klaw & Erlanger, , despite the announce ment that David Belasco, long an Inde pendent, had cast his lot with the trust. Is back in New York after a trip through the West, with the declaration that "the theatrical open-door is at last an accom plished fact." ."The 200 houses controlled by the As sociation of Western Managers are how ready to ' receive the Shubert attrac tions," he declared. "In the larger cities between New York and San Francisco we shall control and operate new thea ters. Where I have not obtained houses under my . personal management I have made booking arrangements. Several new theaters are on our list houses un der construction or soon to be. "For instance, we shall have new play houses in Portland, Or., and Los Ange les, two new theaters in San Francisco and new. houses in Indianapolis, Colum bus and Boston. 'Among the theaters pledged to the open-door policy are four in Arkansas, nine in Indiana, 23 in Missouri, 20 in Iowa. SS in Illinois, nine in Minnesota, six in Nebraska, 24 in Kansas, five in Oklaho ma, three In Utah, one in Wyoming and 11 in Colorado." GIRLS REBUKE SNOBBERY When Officers Exclude Jackies From Ball, They Leave Also. PLAQUEMINE. La., May 14. A run up the river of two hours and a half brought the battleship Mississippi from Donald- sonvllle to Plaquemine today. At the ball last night at Donaldson- vllle there were not enough officers to go around among the girls, who ' there fore sent the same form of invitation to the enlisted men as to the officers.- When the officers arrived they found the jackles in possession of the ballroom floor, also of the girls. The Jackles were ordered to leave. They left, followed by many of the girls. TRIAL MARRIAGE FAILURE Woman of "Intellectual Atrinlty" Fame Is Divorced by Husband. EMINENCE, Ky.,. May 14. A divorce decree entered in favor of Charles A. Caldwell against Jane Parks Caldwell, today, terminated the famous "trial mar riage" find "intellectual affinity" case that startled New York last December. Mrs. Caldwell went to New York with another man and stated that her mar riage to Caldwell, solemnized but a few days before she left him, had been of the "trial" variety, and that the man who accompanied her to the metropolis was her "Intellectual affinity." No defense was offered against the pe tition of the husband, who is one of the wealthiest men in Kentucky. BOY PERISHES IN FLAMES Three-Tear-Old Starts Fire Which Destroys House at Scappoose. SCAPPOOSE, Or., May 14. (Special.) Three-year-old Raymond Adams perished In a fire here this morning, which de stroyed the residence of Joseph Adams. The Are was started by the little boy In his bedroom, presumably while play ing with matches. The Are had gained great headway up stairs before the frantic mother discov ered it, and her heroic endeavor to save the little one was of no avail. WHAT WE MAY EXPECT. HIS OR Speaker Defies Sixty Year Theorizing. HAS FAITH IN PLAYGROUNDS Cannon Addresses Tuberculo sis Convention in East. BOVINE PERIL BELITTLED National Association Members Be lieve More Children Contract Plagne From Parents Than From Poor Milk. WASHINGTON, May 14. Speaker Can non is not a bit afraid of Dr. Osier and his old-age theory. He told Dr. Osier so today during an address before the Na tional Association for the Study and Pre vention of Tuberculosis. 'Dr. Osier, I have reached the age of 61, and I shake my flst in your face," he said. Dr. Osier laughed heartily at this defl. ine Speaker hearkened back to the days of his childhood, when bathtubs were almost unneara or, and the snow would sift In and cover those lying in bed. "We had plenty of fresh air then on the Wabash and everywhere on the frontier before the railroads," he said. Favors More Playgrounds. Mr. Cannon favored more playgrounds for children, but urged that the legislator be dealt with gently If he did not do everything wanted - of him. Dr. Osier in his address said tubercu losis no longer was a problem of the doc tors, and that it probably would take two or three generations to reduce its ravages to the present rate of typhoid. Dr. Osier congratulated the association on having awakened the public. Legisla tures, philanthropists and physicians. Three Lines of Effort. Three things remained to be done, said Dr. Osier. The first was to keep the pub lic awake, the second to obtain more money, and the third to arouse the in terest of more men and women, because the campaign was no longer one entirely for doctors. "Whether tuberculosis will finally be eradicated," he said, "is ever an open question; but when we think of what has been done in one generation, how the mortality in many places has been re duced 100 per cent. It is a battle of hope, with victory in sight." ' Milk Danger Belittled. That there is a tendency to overrate the danger to children from milk from tuber culosis cattle was " the decided view ex pressed today. The subject was exhaust ively -treated in a joint paper by Doctors Henry Shaw and Arthur T. Laird, of Albany, N. Y., who took the position that the attention of the public should not be diverted from the great and real danger of human contagion. If, they argued, tuberculosis milk was so virulent as so many declared, it was difficult to conceive how any children at all escaped infection. The association of the - child with tuberculosis parents or other consumptives, they said, was a matter of such Importance In the diag nosis as well as In the prevention of the disease that every member of a tubercu losis family should be examined as a (Concluded on Page Three.) RETURN AFTER A WEEK. SO OF IMPROMPTU ORATORY Officers of; Naval Stores Company to Be Punished Under the Sherman Law. SAVANNAH. Ga., May 14. Judge Will- lam B. Sheppard sentenced today five men found guilty of having violated the Sherman anti-trust law in the naval stores cases. Spencer P. Shotter. chair man of the board of directors of the American Naval ' Stores Company, was sentenced to serve three months In Jail and to pay a fine of 35000. Edmund. S. Nash, president of the same company, was fined $3000. J. F. Cooper Myers, vice-president of the American- Company, and president of the National Telephone & Terminal Com pany, was sentenced to three months in jail and to pay a fine of $2000. George Mead Boardman, of New York treasurer of the American Naval Stores Company, was fined $2000. Carl Moller, of Jacksonville, Fla., agent of the American and general manager of the National Telephone & Terminal Com pany in Jacksonville, was fined $5000. The cases will be appealed. NEW TACK BY HILL MEN Surveyors In Clearwater Valley Slove to North Fork. LE..ISTON, Idaho, May 14. (Spe cial.) .The Northern Pacific Railway Company today established a new base of operations in the north fork of the Clearwater River today, thereby throw ing more mystery about unsettled con ditions, but further emphasizing the fact that the Hill road is earnestly seeking a cut-off from Missoula to Pacific Coast terminals. The Northern Pacific has. three camps in the middle fork section between Kooskia and Missoula, and word reached here yesterday that crews are now at work on the cross sections. That the Hill road has not abandoned the proposed line through the north fork survey is indicated by the estab lishment of a camp above Ahsahka. JAP MOBBED IN NEW YORK Fights 'White Man Who Refuses to Sit Beside Him. NEW YORK, May 14. Funaubiki Lenklchi, a Japanese restaurant-keeper. was badly beaten by a crowd near the Grand Central station late today. The trouble started in a subway car when a white man refused to allow the Jap anese to occupy a seat with him. When the two left the car hot words passed and a fight followed. A crowd quickly gathered and took the white man's part. The Japanese was faring badly when the police In terfered. The Japanese was arrested on the other man's complaint. BAKER BURIED IN DOUGH East Side Women In Gotham Bald Nonunion Shop for Revenge. NEW YORK. May 14. Max Alheim, baker, who did not close his bakery when the bakers recently went on strike, was dragged from his bed today by wom en and thrown Into a vat of dough. First, however, he was so badly beaten that his removal to a hospital was necessary The women raiders meanwhile attacked Mrs. Alheim and threw pailfuls of dough at. her. The police dispersed the raiders STUDENTS ABANDON FRATS Oakland Boys and Girls Snbmlt to New Law. OAKLAND, Cal., May 14. Preferring the right to enter the- University of Call fornia to that of membership in fraterni ties and sororities. 201 out of 215 students of the Oakland High School who are members ' of the secret societies have agreed In writing to obey the command of the school authorities to give up their society affiliations. The announcement was made tonight by Charles H. Keyes, principal of the school. RARE DISEASE IS FATAL Cowboy With Buffalo Bill Show Dies of Paralytic Stroke. NEW YORK, May 14. Harry Beebe. cowboy with Buffalo "Bill's show, died to day. Beebe's great toe was severely bruised last Monday, being stepped on by a. horse ridden by a fellow-cowboy. Par tial paralysis developed, and death fol lowed. Surgeons at Bellevue Hospital said tonight that they believed Beebe died of paralytic rabies, a rare form of the dis ease. AT LEAST THREE KILLED Seven Hundred Pounds of Dynamite Explode on Railroad. , KEY WEST. Fla., May 14. In an ex plosion on the Quarter Boat No. 3, at Codjoes Key, about 20 miles from here on the Key West extension of the Flor Ida East Coast Railway, three men were Instantly killed and 12 badly In jured. It is believed that others were blown to atoms, as 700 pounds of dyna mite went off. At Least Five Known Dead, 55 Injured. HOLLIS, KAN., IS DEVASTATED Santa Fe Train Is Blown Into Ditch by Fierce Wind. PROPERTY DAMAGE GrtEAT Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma Feel Force of Series of Storms That Unroof Houses and Maim Many Persons. KANSAS CITY, May 14. A series of tornadoes in Kansas, Missouri and Okla homa late today killed at least five per sons, injured 55. laid waste one town, wrecked a -train and did great damage to property. Twenty-five persons were injured by a storm that swept over Mount Washing ton and Fairmont Park, suburbs of Kan sas City. At' least two of these are thought to be fatally injured. Hollls Swept Away. The town of Hcllis. Kan., near Con cordia, was swept away. Here three were killed and 10 injured. The dead: ' . Fred Jeardoe. John Cyre. George Eckert. The Eckstrom family, consisting of five persons. Is missing. Their house Is in ruins, and it is thought they are dead. Near Great Bend a tornado killed two and Injured 20. Wires All Paralyzed. All wires are down in that vicinity, and it is feared the death list may be greater. William Ackerly, a Santa Fe engineer, and Frank Nicholson, a conductor, were killed -while -with; -a bridge gang between Great Bend and Kinsley. The tornado wrecked the work train of which Ackerly was engineer, and blew It into a ditch. Several members of the crew were blown 100 feet. The piledriver toppled over, crushing Ackerly to death in his cab, where he remained with his hand upon the throttle. Many Are Injured. Following are those injured in the Great Bend storm: Lester Preston, Ransom Middaugh, Porter Thomas, R. E. Rucker, R. M. Brown, T. B. Fulkerson, Clarence (Concluded on Pass 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Heather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 56 degrees; minimum, 46 degrees. TODAY'S Probably fair; westerly winds. Foreign. British House of Commons passes bill to abolish Catholic disabilities. Page 3. French strike on verge of collapse, but if pledged aid of labor unions. Page 3. National. Senate rejects amendment to tariff bill reducing- Iron duties. Page S. Taf t adopts new method of buying Gov-. eminent supplies. Page 3. Domestic. Farmers of Grand Valley, Colo., protesl against Ballinger's suspension of irriga tion work. Page 4. Cannon defies Dr. Osier at tuberculosis con gress. Page 1. Plan of church unity discussed at Episco pal Church Congress. Page 4. Huge railroad orders portend return of prosperity. Page 1. Heney offers evidence In Calhoun trial to i ispro ve charge of conspiracy by rival company. Page i!. Navy officer who rose from ranks and won four medals for bravery, is dying. Page 1. Emma. Eames sued for allentating affection! of Gorgosa. Page 4. Tornado in Southwest kills five. Injures 55 and destroys one town. Page 1. Wabash train goes through bridge In Kansas and several trainmen are missing Page 4. Sport. Coast league scores: Portland 1, Vernon 2; Sacramento 4. 1-os Angeles 0; Oakland 2, San Francisco O. Page 7. Travis leads in Chevy Chase golf tourna ment. Page 3. Northwestern league scores: Portland 7. Tacoma 2; Spokane 3, Seattle 2; Aber deen 1. Vancouver 0. Page 7. Oregon wins tri-state meet at Eugene. Page 1. Facifle Northwest. Portland business men see Irrigated dis tricts of Eastern Washington; home to night. Page 5. i Grange convention adjourns after heated debate. Page 6. A Washington Legislature will probably hold 'extra session during Sunrmer. Page 5- Blooded stock shown in parade at Rose burg. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Local flour prices will be advanced again. Page IT. Rain does not affect Eastern wheat markets. Page 17. Heavy selling of stocks carries prices down. Page 17 Continued improvement In Iron and steel trade. Page 17. Barks Jordanhill and Marechal de Noallles added to' lst of grain vessels en route to Portland. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Exemption of Union Pacific from Spokane rate case decision hits Interior towns. Page. 16. Mother-in-law is blamed in Justice Court' for troubles of young couple. Page 11. Council comfmittee begins draft of new. liquor ordinance. Page IS. A. G. I-ong answers charges of Seattle fire apparatus dealer. Page 18. Court decides signers of initiative measures need not be registered. Page 10. Masher is lined heavily, although encour aged by girl In case. Page 16. Dan Kltaher will run for Mayor as inde pendent. Page 11. City wil! try to collect 25 cents for each car of gravel hauled for Pacific Bridge Company. Page 10. ,1