VOL. XL.IX XO. 15,131 PORTLAND, OltEGO.V, THURSDAY, MAY 27. 10O9. ntici: FIVE CKXTS. OUTLOOK BETTER THAN IN 10 YEARS MRS. TIMMONS IN DANGER OF FINE OREGON WOMAN IS NO CONFIDENCE IN WIRELESS USED TO PRINT MESSAGES NOHWEGIAX NAVAL OFFICf.lt IN. VENTS NEW SYSTEM. TEMBLOR SHAKES CENTRAL STATES CHOSEN PRESIDENT MISS LUEI.LA CARSON TO BE HEAD OF MILLS COLLEGE. LORIMER CHOSEN ILLINOIS SENATOR Democrats Assist to Break Deadlock. "FRIEND OF POOR" FAIRBANKS' DAUGHTER BREAKS NAVIGATION' LAWS. Conditions Are Ideal in Wheat Country. ACREAGE LARGELY INCREASED Exceptionally Good Crop Is Looked For. RESEEDING NOT NEEDED In Scattered Spots, Grain Was Fro zen Out During Winter, but This Will Xot .Affect Total Crop. Cool Spring Mas Helped. CONDITIONS IX WHEAT fOCXTRT . Inland Empire CroD condition beat In decade. Northern Idaho A crease HO per cent more than In ISO. Eastern Washington Increase In acreage amounts to 10. to 25 per cent over last year. Snake River Valley Predictions of I.Vrwxi.OOO. bushel crop made. Palouse crop of over 30.eon.000 bushels expected. Wasco county Conditions normal and yield of l.ooo.ooo bushels pre dicted. Crook County Dry Spring has hurt wheat and decrease of 30 per cent la announced. Whitman County Conditions nor mal and crop of 10.000.000 bushels estimated. Moscow Crop conditions never better. Gilliam County Full crop not ex pected. SPOKANE. Wash.. Slay S. (Special.) Crop conditions in the Inland Empire are the best at this season in more than a. decade. The ground in all the vast grn'n btlts is soaked to a depth varying from three inches to a foot and a half, while for more' than a week warm sun shine, with light showers, has furnished ideal growing weather. The grain is tooling better than for years, due largely to the cool Spring, which has driven the roots deep and held back the growth of the stalk. In one instance a field of over 200 acres was found to run from 3p to SO stalks to the stool. In Northern Idaho the acreage this year is fully 30 per cent larger than in 1908. this being particularly true on Ca mas and N'ex Perces prairies, where every available inch of soil is in wheat and barley. In Eastern Washington and Northeast ern Oregon the increase over last year is from 10 to 25 per cent, much Summer fallow being seeded this Spring. So. great is the seeded area that In many places wheat fields are being pastured, as there is nowhere else to turn the cattle. Practically no reseeding waa necessi tated through freezing out. though in scattered spots, small, isolated fields were Injured by the high Spring winds and were reseeded. The proportion was un usually small, however, owing to the mild Winter. Estimates of the coming crop are un available, though farmers of the Idaho prairies and Snake River Valley are as serting they will ship a strong 25.000.000 bushels of grain this Fall, while the Pa louse and Central Washington grain growers are claiming 20.000.000 bushels or better, if the annual rains come late In June. OUTLOOK BRIGHT IX PALOCSE Indications Point to Good, if Xot Bumper Crop. STATE COLLEGE. Pullman. Wash.. May SS. (Special.) Indications at pres ent point to a good, if not a bumper wheat crop. In the Palouse country this year, according to Professor George Severance, acting head of the State Col lege Agricultural Department Right around Pullman, that is. rn the eastern half of Whitman County, in the greater part of Spokane County and in the ad jacent Idaho wheat country, the out look is unusually bright. Professor Severance being of the opinion that un less the weather turns unusually bad it will be an exceptionally good crop. "The present wheat condition is ex cellent throughout . the entire wheat belt of the Palouse country." he said. "The acreage Is somewhat rreater than last year. I think. I am unable to give the exact proportion between Fall and Winter wheat, but I think that the Fall wheat is about the same, or perhaps less than a year ago and the increased total acreage is due largely to a con siderable Increase In the amount of Spring wheat. The latter la probably due to a marked rise In the price of wheat during the latter part of the Winter. The wheat has wintered well, with practically no re-seedlng. "The crop estimate In the Palouse country I would place at about 30 bushels to the acre. I haven't been in the Big Bend country since early Spring, but I looked good around there at that time. In the Palouse country the weather conditions have been rath er favorable. While the soil has been In good condition to date, the amount of reserve moisture stored In the soil la not great and If hot weather should a Fase So By Changing Mind About Trip to Japan, She I Liable to Fine of $200. HONOLULU. May 2. (Special.) Mrs. J. w. Tlmmons. daughter of ex-Vice-Presldent Fairbanks, will proba bly have to pay a fine of 1200 to the United States Government for viola tion of the coastwise navigation laws. She came here with her father and mother on the Chlyo Maru. a Japanese steamship, with a through ticket to Japan. The party stopped o-rer here, as Is allowed under" the navigation laws. But at the last moment before leav ing for Japan. Mrs. Tlmmons decided to return home. This! broke the con tinuity of her voyage. she was no longer a layover passenger, but had made this the terminus of her home ward Journey and. having come on a foreign bottom, that bottom is liable to a fine of $200. which she must pay. It Is doubtful whether either an American or Canadian line will give her return passage. DIVORCE RATIO IS 1 TO 4 Ixs Anseles County Shows Alarming Increase In Wedded Unhapplness. IX)S ANGELES. May . The first five months of the year 190 show a startling Increase in the relative pro portion of divorce to marriages In Los Angeles County, figures which were footed up today Indicating that a di vorce had been granted since January 1 for every four marriages that had been performed. During 10. the ra tio was 1 to . In San Francisco It was 1 to 7. In the United States it waa 1 to 12. In the five months of the present year 460 Interlocutory divorces and 192 final decrees have been granted In Los Angeles. The reason of the Incresse Is unexplained. BRIDEGROOM IS ARRESTED Taken Into Custody After Wedding on Charge of Murder. BAT CITT. Mich.. May 26. Married this morning to Annie Kaiser. Roland Rich. 23 years of age. was arraigned this afternoon on the charge of having mur dered his grandmother. Mrs. Christine Coreyon. Mrs. Coreyon was found dying In her bedroom today, with wounds on her head Indicating that she hsd been beaten with a club. The bridegroom prisoner was first to report the discovery of his grandmother's plight. The aged woman was taken to the hospital, where she died later, and the wedding was car ried out as planned. UNKNOWN SENDS MONEY Letters Containing $100 Bills Re ceived From Portland In Iowa. rES MOINES. Iowa. May I. Post office inspectors today were asked to unravel the mystery surrounding the receipt by a number of residents of Panora. Iowa, of letters containing 1100 bills. No signature is attached to the letters, one of which bears the postmark of Portland. Or. Five persons admit having received money totalling 112S. Mrs. Viola Lapeglett. a widow received S225. mostly in 110 bills, with a note signed "your friend." HOT TIME IN PORTO RICO Labor Leaders Defend United States. Unionists Shut Them Out. SAN JUAN. P. R.. May 2. The local branch of the American Federation of Labor Is holding a series of meetings throughout the Island to defend labor Interests and refute the attacks made on the American Government by the members of the Unionist party. Fed eration orators have been denied the use of the plaza in three different towns by the Unionists and have appealed to the Attorney-General and the Gov- FEAR TROUBLE AT ADANA Young Turks and Armenians Do Not Like Relief Commissioner. WASHINGTON. May 2. The Times Constantinople correspondent says appre hension has been caused among the Young Turks and Armenians by news that the new Valt of Adana. who is de scribed as a fanstical Kurd, has "en trusted the Important task of the dis tribution of the government relief fund to Bagdad, a Turkish landowner, who was the first to lesd a band of armed men into the bazaar at Adana and began the slaughter of Armenians." ROGERS' PLACE IS TAKEN Head of Transportation Department of Standard to lie Vice-President. NEW YORK. May 24. James A. Mof fatt. a director of the Standard OH Com pany of New Jersey, will succeed the late Henry H. Rogers as vice-president of the company. It is understood on good authority. Mr. Mofratt has had active charge of the transportation problems of the company for the last two years. He is 67 years old. BECAUSE PEOPLE DEMAND IT Exciting Scenes Mark Decisive 95th Ballot LORIMER IS FOR REVISION Republicans End Struggle With Aid of Democrats and Retire Hop kins lorimer Is lions of Packlnglown. SPR1V:FTEIJ. III . May ! -Congress, man William lrtmer. of Chicago, la the Junior United Stales Senator from Illinois. He was electej on the Cth ballot of the Joint assembly today by a coalition of Itetnorrats and Republicans to fill the va cancy from Illinois existing since the term of Albert J. Hopki, ,I(,lrM March 4. The deadlock had continued since last January. Mr. Lo rimer . total vofe was IflR. Kxoitlng Incidents characterized the election. Ex-Ueutenant Governor North cott. a Hopkins leader, now United States District Attorney. a a. dragged from the mam floor of ,he House by policemen, who would have thrown him through the main door had not a doorkeeper Inter, fered- Mr. Larimer. In an address to the As sembly after his election, said ha favored a revision of the tariff downward. PEOPLE DEMAND ELECTION Democrat Join Republicans In Ending Intolerable Situation. SPRINGFIELD. May 2tThe Toga deadlock that was brought to Ita termi nation today by the election of William Lorlmer through a bi-partisan . alliance ret ween Democrat and Republicans, waa the most protracted and complex In the history of the Illinois Legislature. It .tail ed January . and lasted until May & and during that time S Joint ballots were taken before the smash-up was brought about through a "halfbreed combina tion. The deadlock had Its origin In the Sena torial primary last August, when Hop kins, Foss and Mason were candidates, before the Republican electors. Hopkins got a plurality of all the votes cast, but did not csrry enough district to get the toga at the outset when the Legislature convened, the lawmakers taking the posi tion that they were Instructed by their districts and not by the entire vote of the state. The election came as the result of a widespread desire to end a situation which was fast becoming Intolerable to the peo ple of the state, regardlers or party, and it was on this account and in answer to this demand that so many of the Demo cratic members were willing to Join with the Republicans to break the deadlock. Concluded on Pas t SOME WILL THINK IT EASIER TO VOTE NO THAN TO STUDY UP ON MEASURES. I s ill jl : v iV .A u-HrA,y Ji Selected by Mrs. Mills and Accepts Hlfil. Honor 1 Well Known Througltout West. AN FRANCISCO. May 2.-"per!al Mlw Luella Clay Carson, bead of the Kngll.h department of the Cnlvcrslty of Oregon, today wired to the board of trustees of Mills College accepting the presidency of ' that institution, left va cant by the recent resignation of the founder. Mrs. c T. Mills. The new head of Mills College, who I the choice of Mrs. Mills. Is a Western woman, and has been connected with the University of Oregon for 22 years. She Is a noted educator and a woman of great scholarly attainments. being possessed of degrees from the univer sities of Oregon ami Washington, and having taught In the Summer schools of ChHt. Harvard and Cornell. She la ihe author of several textbooks for use In high schools and universities, one of which Is The Handbook of Eng. Iih Composition." Her work at Wtk will begin with the opening of the school J ear In August. BUILD TWO COURTHOUSES Chrhalla County Compromises on County Seat War. ABERDEEN. Wash.. May 24 -P.pertsl.) To settle the old Question of county di vision and courthouse removal from Mon teaano. the county scat, the County Com missioners announce they have decided to build two courthouses, one at Xante. sano and one at a point between Hoqulara ami Aberdeen, ea-h building to he simi lar and to cost fXoo each. The build ings will be after plans of A. Warren tiould. of Heat tie. and will be either re inforced concrete or bnrk or a combina tion of boih. Hlus are lo be called for June 1. BRIBER SENT TO PRISON Two Yeara and $500 Fine for Csmrran, of Pittsburg. PITTSBURG. May IX -Char lea 8, Cam eron, president of the Tube City Rail road, convicted of offering a bribe to ex-Counrl!men Martin, who is now serv ing time In the penitentiary, was sen tenced that afternoon to two yrars in the penitentiary and a fine of . DISCOVER DYNAMITE PLOT lake Steamer From Strike Area Is Found "Primed" With Explosive. QIFFALO. N. T.. May I. Four sticks of dynamite were found today stuffed In the discharge pipe of the steamer Frank T. Heffeinnger. lying at the Erie coal docks. The Heffeinnger arrived yesterday from Superior. Wla, with grain. RICH PLUM FOR JOHN BULL Will Get $10,000,000 Tares on Dead Millionaire's Fortune. 1iNDOX, May :. Charles Morrison, whose estate Is estimated at between Ii0.000.000 and 7S. 000.000. died today near Rending. The government win receive from the estate more than 110, ono. ono in taxes. Jerome Hissed Down at Gotham "Accounting" POLITICAL AMBITION JOLTED District Attorney Is Refused Vote of Audience. RYAN GIVEN WHITEWASH Public Prmecnlor Explains Reasons or Failure M Proceed In Many Casew. Satin No Crime Committed. NEW TORK. May N-An attempt to register a vote of confidence In iHstrtct Attorney Jerome was hiaaedl down tonight st a big Oooner Union meeting In which Mr. Jerome gave sa account of his stewardship. What effect this will have on Mr. Jerome's political ambitions Is problematical. He bea been dcelrous for some time. It la understood, of obtaining Ih renom'.natlon for IlslrU-t Attorney on an Independent uckl. Mr. Jerome. In hks sddreee. declared thsl Thomas V. Ryan, chanr-d with I rer lloa manipulation, had not committed aey crime. Referring to the life Insurance Investigation. he satd there waa no evidence whatsoever to srarrsnt aa in dictment of John A- McCalt, rs-prvsidrnt of the New Tork Ufa Insursnce Com pany. He next took up the so-called tc trust Investigation. He said: 'Flngy Connors started after the Ice people, but they could not get a grand Jury to find any Indictment." Then Mr. Jerome put aside bis carefully prepared memoranda and devoted his entire atten tion lo replying to Questioners, who arose la every ptrt of the hall to demand why he had fnlled to do this or that particular thing. MAY PUT ABDUL ON ISLAND Turkish Rulers Plan lo Exile- Him on Rhodes. CONSTANTlNOPI.fl May 2 -The mili tary authorities sre considering the re mot ai of the place of residence of the ex Sultan from Salonkra to one of the-Islands In the Mediterranean, probably the Island of Rhodes, which lies off the southwest coast of Asia Minor. , HUNDRED DROWN IN SPAIN Tempest on Bilhoa Coast Sinks Over Sixty Fishing Vessels. PIL.ROA. Spain. May 2. A violent tem pest has been raging on the Bllboa coast. More than vessels of the fishing fleet hsve foundered and It Is estimated that not less thsa loo fishermen hsve been drowned. Captain How land Perfects Maclt'ur Like T pew r Iter That Send and Prints Aerograms Ky Code. OHRISTIANIA. Mar M ..pe-, Certain Howland. or the Norwecisn Nay; ras inverted a remarkable stem of sutomattcal'y recording wtreicae t'le gfsph messages In pr-nt Hva spparataa has Just been ehewn the representatives ef the Norwegian government sr.d IV P'ess at Melsomvtk. On this occasion messages were ex changed between a station erected after the Inventor's own desires and a Norwe. gtan wireleaa station lr-v miles away at TJotr.o. Csptstn Hiwland demonstrated hew. br his strm. the absolute wecrvor ef wireless telegrams could be preserved snd how the or 1 nary a gnsls could be automatically transformed Inta secret written characters With the s!d cf a "tabulator." ccn. struct much on the plan v.f an otMin.-y ,rwnter. the s'cnals are .rerat.-hcl. and the telegram arrives printed at tee receiving station either In ord nary or secret characters, ao-ord'.r.g to t!e eend s'a wish. The N-ewe'n cava! author. Ittee. at whose dwnsal Captain Howiar.3 has placed hia Intention, have asreed to support It Financially ACID BURNS FIREMEN Choking Fames Fill Dalle City Hall. Prisoners In Panic. RUTTK. Moni.. Msy St-Csptatn Frank Murphr and Firemen William Paul. pal. rvfc tVnners an4 !un-,n W-Uae srere seriously burned im, afternoon hr an ex. pin ion of cnemh-ala In Ihe City Hal:. Re sponding la an alamv. ine nr-men a at tention was directed to a solution of potsealum, which had become United, and. when they attempted lo remove the burn ing arid, they were scorched about the face and hanos. The prisoners in the JaU became terri fied and made a mad rush for liberty, but none eeewped- ln the cuy Hall chok ing runws filled the corridors and drove the occupants lo the street. KILLS WIFE FOR BURGLAR Indianapolis Man Mistakes Malcb for llulls-Fe. INDIANAPOLIS. Msy 24 Mistaking her fr a burglar. Oeorge Thompson shot and killed his wife tonight. Ac cording lo his story, he hsd retired early, leaving his wife downstairs sew ing. When she entered their room later she carried a lighted match Thompson ssld he swoke with a start. He thought the light was from a burglar's buileeye lantern, and." act ing upon first Impulse, drew his re volver from under bis pillow snd fired twice at the form which followed the light. BOAT SEEKS FOR WHALE Advance (em Vp and Down Coast After Elusive Specimen. A. "TORI A. Or.. Msy 24. i Special VThe little steamer .Advance arrived here late last night under the command of Captain Robert Jones, formerly of Ihe schooner Delia, and left out again early this morn ing. The eteemer Is making a cruise along the coast In search of a whale, the object being lo kill one and embalm It for exhibition at Ihe Alaska-Tukon-Pa-c;nc Exposition In tssttle. Only one whale was sighted on the way down from .Flattery and It could not be cap tured, but better luck la looked for on the return trip JAPS GIVEN EQUAL RIGHTS Cannot He Denied License to Trade Under Treaty. NEW TORK. May 2 -According to an opinion handed down today by the Cor poration tunel. Japanese subjects In New Tork sre entitled by virtue of Ihe recent treaty entered Into between this country and Japan to all trade privileges held by American dtlaena The que, lion was rs'.aed by the rats of th rlureeu of IJcensos concerning the re newal of iKvnsea of Japeneee to engsare In business la iney Island. FOUR WOMEN ARE KILLED Gasoline Usnrh Capelaes and Oc cupants Carrtevd Over Dam. ORAND RAPIDS, Mich.. May 9C -FVvm-pereons were drowned and four ethers rescued, from a rat.ed fao!me launch which was carried throuab ir aiuic gates of the dam of the Mteohdsted Water Power Ounpany. ef this city, last n-'ght and dsuihed to the rocks below. The drowned wee: Wm Iie, Anderson. Miss R. Preiser. Miss Msy Fares sr. 4 Ralph Anderson. OLD SEA LORD TO RETIRE British Admiral Does Not Like CrtU r$m of (fOverstttest, UlNr. May 5U la reported that Admiral Ftr Jrt.a Fisher. Senior Naval Lord of ihe Admiralty, will retire In v tober as Flmt Sea I-rrd it la an open secret thst te Admiral has been much annoyed by reornl criticisms of Ms sd-ministration. Panics and Fires Fol low After Quake. ACTUAL DAMAGE IS SLIGHT But One Shock Felt in Most Sections of Area Affected FIVE STATES REPORT JAR S hool Children lire In Alarm From Swaying rtulldlngs and People Seek Refuge In Open Plac ni unoi f-laee lfU . . . . Averts, lit. . J. let HtMt. Ill Keasnee. :l Kins. I. ... iWfl.it. 111. . Peoria. 1 .. iMiMihitfiA II Steeatoe. III. . . . , t'fsea. t?l. , lele.a. Ill -kfml. 111.... epnnsSeia, ,, SltleaaSe. Wis . leWt. Wla nsniestea. la t'edar !arl3. la ataa-e. Mich At I bees pi, fell. 1UCA;0. May 2 -tSoecml k-All of Illinois and fowr other Middle Western states experienced severe earthquake shacks thla morning. Thst the quake was general n thla section of the coun try Is ahosn by reports from Iowa. Wis consin, Missouri and Michigan. While no serious dsmage was reported beyor.d a number of fires due lo. destroyed chim neys, the shock spresd terror la many places, and a number of psn.es In schools and other buildings resulted from efforts to flea from what seemed to be Impend ing disaster. D;ahcs and small articlra were thrown from tables, dressers In the houses trem bled and chlmnej. were shaken don. but In no case was the property loss greet. People Rush to Street. People rushed from their homes where the shock wss more severe and sought safety n ppe places, and many refused for hours lo return to the buildings The lime of the earthquake at various f Concluded en Paste a ) INDEX OF TODAYS NEWS sn4 9Yafeeawl'B4' TESTKTtnAT-a M.tlsnuTT, lemneratura. ass minimum. :. 7 d.ereea TOIiAT Khoaers; south to vest winds ' seeres- Beokaae i. Port land : V.nrmiw i. Tacoma i It. Jo . 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