U4y VOLi. XLIX NO. 15,294. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1909. FRCE FIVE CENTS. U.S. HURRIES SHIPS TO FLUNK ZELAYA PROBE OF PINCHOT PLAN'OF CONGRESS WHITE PLAGUE GETS BLOW AT BAY CITY EQUITABLE LIFE IS RUEF IS LET OUT ON $300,000 BAIL TO BUYS MORE POWER J. P. MORGAN'S PRESIDENT TAFT WILIi INTER SAN FRANCISCO HEALTH BOARD BONDS GIVEN AND PRISONER IS POSE NO OBJECTION. WINS FIGHT ON DISEASE. RELEASED AT MIDNIGHT. PORTLAND RAILWAY 0 000 MEN NOW DEMAi MORE PAY Marines on Two Coasts Ready to Strike. FLAG OFFICER IN COMMAND Navy Anticipates Raising of Delicate Questions. 700 MEN SAIL ON PRAIRIE Commanding Officer of Marine Corps Denies Forces Have Yet Been landed trill Be Held in Readiness Close By. FtEET RF.U1T FOB ACTIOX AGAINST ZEtAIA. Ready for Action, re Moines, mt EI Cart ri no, 2S0 men. Cruiser T aroma. 29 men, ordered to El Cutrillo. At Corinto: The Vtoltatrarg, with 1.5 marines; cruiser Albany, with 280 men; Yorktovn, 385 men. WARSITTPS AVAITAR.T.F. Cruisers. Tacoma. third class; bought from Italy in JMtS; K4.10 tons; 10 four inch runs. 15 smaller runs. res Moines: third class; 8200 tons; same armament as the Taooma. Gunboats. Marietta, 9fH tons; 6 four-Inch guns and smaller weapons. Princeton, now oft Paelfla Coast of California; 1100 tons; six 4-inch, suns, eight smaller. Vicksburg-. 11X tons; six 4-inch guns, eight smaller arms. Torktown, ITIO tons; six 4-lneb, suns, ten smaller. Transports. Buffalo, enoo tons; six 4 -inch guns, eight smaller; capacity, 29 officers. BOO men. rralrle. eA20 tons; 13 amm.11 sun, all under 4-lnch; oapacitjr. 23 officers. 3000 men. WABHIXGTON, Dec. 2. Naval forces of the United States arc being- moved forward tonight to both coasts, of Cen tral America to protect American life and property in Nicaragua, by force of arms if necessary. With the departure this afternoon from Philadelphia. of troop ehlp Prairie, with 7O0 marines aboard, for the Isthmus of Panama, and, if It be so decreed, Nic aragua, and with the sailing from Mag dalena Bay of the protected cruiser Al bany and the gunboat Torktown, for Corinto, on the Pacific Coast, activity of the Navy Department was , becoming manifest on both oceans that wash the NIcaraguan Bhores. Besides, the cruisers Des Moines and Tacoma and the gunboat Marietta, are ly ing oft Port Limon, Costa Rica., ready for any call upon them, and guns of the little gunboat Vicksburg are pointed to ward the Custom-house and town of Co rinto. Delicate Questions Involved. The gunboat Princeton also is endea voring to make her way from the Bre merton Navy-1'ard, Washington, to Co rinto. With the probability of many delicate questions arising In Nicaragua, the Navy Department decided to send a flag officer to Nicaragua to take command of the American Naval forces. Rear-Admiral William W. Kimball was chosen. He sailed for Colon today on the Prairie H will make his way from there to Co rinto. Admiral Kimball Is a member of the Naval Board of Examinations and Retirements and the Bureau of Construc tion. T.Hnding of Men Denied. rso marines have been landed at any point in. Nicaragua. That statement was made to the Asso ciated Press tonight by Brigadier-General George F Elliott, commanding the United States Marine Corps. "Neither are there any marines on board any United States war vessels now in NIcaraguan waters," said General Kl liott. "The marines nearest Nicaragua tonight are at Panama." "Have they been ordered to Nicar agua?" General Elliott was asked. "Not yet," replied the commander. ZEIiAYA WOULD ADD TO NAVY Consul's Plan to Buy and Equip Schooner Probably Balked. PANAMA, Deo. 2.-The NIcaraguan Consul-General here Is negotiating for the purchase of a schooner named Herald for the use of the government of Nic aragua. It is planned to equip the vessel with rapid-fire guns obtained from the Government of Panama. Tho deal is hardly possible of comple tion, as the Herald is. American-owned and the Republic of Panama is not likely to furnish artillery to a country that is not on friendly terms with the United Slates. The onJy schooner Herald reported as in the vicinity of Panama sailed from Phil a delphia on November 17 for St. Thomas. X. W. I. This vessel has not been re ported from Panama. It Is of 475 tons, (Concluded on Fag T.) Evidence Accumulates That Forestry Officers Were Pernicious ly Active. v OTtBGONTAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Deo. 2. Senators who have talked with President Taft about the advisabil ity of holding & Congressional investiga tion into the Plnchot-Ballinger controver sy, particularly with a view of showing the extent of the activities of Forester Pinchot and his subordinates, have come away from the White House satisfied that the President will offer no objection to such an inquiry, provided it is thorough. Only recently the President has had doc umentary proof. In the form of affidavits. that A. C Shaw, law officer, of the For est Service, under instructions from Pin chot, had met I W. Glavis by appoint ment in Chicago and there collaborated with him in the preparation of the tet ter's elaborate report to the President, assailing Secretary Balllnger. In fact, the President has evidence showing that the report was almost en tirely written by Shaw and that Glavis had little to do with its preparation. It is understoood also that proof of similar activity on the part of other subordinates of Pfnchot Is in the President's hands and knowledge that this evidence is extant has caused great uneasiness among For est Service officials. Senator Nelson, of 'Minnesota, is pre paring a resolution calling for this inquiry. FAMILY'S 6TH VICTIM DIES Crippled Infant Alone Snrvlves Au tomobile Accident. liOS ANOELB3, Cal., Dec 2. (Special.) Mrs. Nicholas Jacobs died at the Crocker-street Hospital this morning, as a result of Injuries received Thanksgiv ing night, when the Jacobs family was almost eliminated by a Santa Fa flyer at Iatln Station. Jacobs and four chil dren were killed Instantly, Mrs. Jacobs and her 2-months-old baby were badly Injured. It is more than probable that the sev enth member of the family, the 2-months-old baby, will be added to the death list. The baby is suffering from a concussion of the brain, a broken arm and possibly Internal Injuries. Jacobs was a wealthy retired Cleveland, Ohio, contractor. WHEAT IN FINE CONDITION Crop Outlook Par Ahead of What It Was Tear Ago. CHICAGO. Dec 2. (Special.) B. W. Snow's crop report for December 1, esti mates the Winter wheat acreage seeded at that date at 29,914.000 acres, against a harvested area this year of 27.538.000 acres. with seeding not yet completed on the Pacific Coast and Eome yet in progress in Kansas. The seed bed was in excellent shape. Fall weather has been highly favorable. germination full and prompt and early growth strong, and the December 1, con dition is reported at '96.2, against 78.9 at this date a year ago. The crop is evidently going into Winter Quarters in little short of perfect con dition. DEAD MUST LEAVE "MARK" California Judge to Insist on Tomb stones In Adjudication. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. Z In adjudi cating the estate of -an intestate today, Judge Graham, of the Superior Court here, ordered that 10 per cent of the prop erty . left by the decedent should be used for the purchase o'j a tombstone to mark his last resting place. In making the decree. Judge Graham declared that in all similar cases which may come before him in the futurel he will make the same order. ANTI-BETTING LAW VALID California Supreme Court Passes on Test Case. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2. The State Supreme Court, sitting en banc, sus tained the validity of the Walker-Otis anti-betting law today, when it re fused to issue a writ of habeas corpus for the discharge of Charles Brown, who was arrested at the Emeryville racetrack on November 22 for accept ing a bet. The law in question makes betting a felony. PRESS INVITES ROOSEVELT Milwaukee Newspaper Club to Cele brate Sllvter Jubilee. MILWAUKEE.. Wis., Dec 2. The Mil waukee Press Club today extended an in vitation to Theodore Roosevelt to be the principal speaker during the silver jubilee exercises next year following his return from Africa, tne date to be selected by Mr. Roosevelt. Colonel Roosevelt has been a member of the Milwaukee Press dub for several years. THIEF HURRIED TO PRISON Begins Sentence Twelve Hours After Robbing Store. RAWMNS, Wyo., Dec. 2, Twelve hours after he had - robbed a store here last night. Paul Jones, alias Duke Graham, began serving a four-year sentence in the penitentiary. Site on Clackamas Is 1642 Acres. WORK TO BE BEGUN AT ONCE Sawmill, Included in Purchase, Will Be Operated. FUTURE NEEDS CONSIDERED Additional High Tension Transmis sion Lines Will Be Needed Es tacada Dam' May Be of Hol low Concrete Construction. Through the purchase yesterday by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany of property owned by the Portland Water Power & Electric Transmission Company and the River Mill Company, concerns controlled by Morris Bros., the local street railway company becomes one of the largest power -developing prop erties in the United States. Including the purchase of yesterday. which makes possible the development of 15,000 horsepower, this local corpora tion now owns property which is capable of developing in the aggregate 110,000 horsepower. Yesterday's . transaction comprised 1642 acres on the Clackamas River, in Clackamas County, a bridge across the Clackamas River and a saw mill plant. While the consideration was not stated, it is understood to have been more than $200,000. 15,000 Horse Power Designed. This Is the property Morris Bros, in tended to develop as a. water power, but ite situation on the line of the Oregon Water Power, which is owned by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany, and near the Cazadero plant of the latter corporation, makes it a desirable property for operation profitably by the railway company In connection with its other properties, as compared with its operation by an Independent concern. The railway company will proceed at once with the development of the water power plant on the property acquired near its Cazadero plant and expects to have it In operation by September 1, 191L The plant will be designed for an ulti mate 16,000-horse power capacity. A new steam plant will be installed on the East Side andi a fifth unit will be added to the Cazadero plant, all of which will be ready for use by September 1 1310, so that a year later the company will have in operation about 90,000 horse power in water plants and 35,000 horse power In steam plants, a total of 95,000 horsepower, which. It Is estimated, will be entirely adequate for the needs of the city for six or seven years.. Bigger Station Being Built. In addition, work Is being prosecuted diligently on what is known as the upper Clackamas property, about three and one half miles above the Cazadero plant. (Concluded on Page 13.) YOUNG AMERICA "IS WHAT THAT SIGN SAYS SO?" j if IS THEBEST 1 WlM I -1 ' W'GrtT WHITE Ij I1 XvW- Vt-S"t ' I AAJ NEGRO- -cwVT r' I I t t I l " jnS' . ; I ...... ..-,., Ordinance Imposing Stringent Regu lations Is Passed Victims Can Be Taken From Homes. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2. (Special.) An ordinance framed by the Board, of Health, imposing regulations upon per sons afflicted with tuberculosis, was passed by the Board of Supervisors yes terday. Under It physicians are required to report within 24 hours every person coming under their notice who shows symptoms of tuberculosis. A complete record of every case will be kept by the Health Department. When a case Is reported, it Is made the duty of the physician to make im mediate report if the patient vacates the quarters he was then occupying, or if there is no physician, then the duty de volves on the landlord. The apartment must be disinfected and renovated be fore they can again be occupied. The cleaning or renovating must be done at the expense of the landlord, and if it is not done to the satisfaction of the health authorities, then the following notice will be posted at the door of the room: "Tuberculosis Is a communicable dis ease. These apartments have been oc cupied by a consumptive, and may be infected. They must not be occupied un til the order of the health officer, direct ing the disinfection and renovation, has been complied with. The most radical feature of the new law is that which gives the health author ities power to remove a victim from his own home by force, if it is believed that his presence there menaces his children or the other members of his family. The health officer becomes clothed with un limited power in his campaign against the disease and there is no appeal from his order. Another section bars children showing symptoms of the ; disease from the private and public schools. TAFT GIVES HERO MEDAL Second Honor Badge Conferred on Naval Veteran. WASHINGTON, Deo. 2. President Taft today, pinned a second medal of honor on Water Tender John King of the Navy, besides the medal King al ready possessed. The ceremony took place at the White House. The medal was conferred upon King for "extraordinary heroism" on the oc casion of an -accident to one of the boilers on the Salem on September 18, 1909. King entered a flreroom filled with flames, hot gas and steam and turned open the valves to admit water to the boilers, thus preventing a more serious accident. Then he carried sailor, overcome by gas and steam, to safety and was about to return when prevented by those who noticed his own burns and injuries. The first medal was awarded King for heroism displayed In an accident on the Vicksburg. KANSAS AFTER SALOONISTS Pittsburg City Officials to Be Taken Into Camp. TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 2. Commitments to the Shawnee County Jail were issued today by the State Supreme Court for 14 city officials and ex-saloonlsts of Pitts burg, Kan. This is the result of the efforts of the Attorney-General to stop the sale oPl liquor in Pittsburg. He BuysStock Formerly Held by Ryan. DEAL GIVES MAGNATE CONTROL Transfer Means Banks Will Guide Insurance Destinies. NOTICE OF SALE POSTED Trust Company May Be Allied With ' Croesus Holding Subject to Cleveland'-- Agreement Mor ton Professes Ignorance. NEW YORK, Dee. 2. Control of the Equitable Lire Assurance Society by Thomas F. Ryan soon after the insur ance scandals a few years ago, has passed to J. Pierpont Morgan with the $472,000,000 of assets which the company declared in Its last statement. . The transfer marks a complete re versal of the old order under which in surance companies controlled destinies of banks and trust companies. News of the transfer was contained in the following brief statement from the offices of Mor gan & Co.: Bare Statement Made. "Mr. Morgan has bought the majority of the stock of the Equitable Life As surance Society, formerly owned by Thomas F. Ryan.. This purchase is sub ject to the trust under which Grover Cleveland, Morgan J. O'Brien and George Westlnghouse were made voting trustees for the benefit of the policyholders and It covers all Mr. Ryan's Interest, includ ing all the stock purchased by him from James H. Hyde." New Owners Silent. Beyond these bare facts, Mr. Morgan and his partners declined to give any details. Nor would they name any other Interests allied with them, although it is believed -that at .least one large trust company may take a hand in the deal. . Under the terms of the trust agree ment referred to in Mr. Morgan's an nouncement, the Ryan stock could not be sold without the consent of the surviving trustees, whose term of power held until June 16, 1910, if they saw fit. Both are busy men and have served the society without pay. Prior to confirmation of the transfer, neither Mr. Westlnghouse nor Mr. O'Brien would discuss either Its details or its possibilities. Harriman Sought Control. Mr. Ryan's holdings in the Equitable were bought, in large part, from James H. Hyde, although Edward H. Harri man had laid plans which, as he sup posed, were to assure 4 him the control that went Instead to Mr. Ryan. It was at hearings of the Armstrong insur ance investigation that Mr. Harriman, when questioned on this point, coined what subsequently became a national (Concluded on Page 6.) Cnder 1 4-Year Sentence for Bribery, Former Boss Is Given Freedom Pending Appeal. . SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2. Abraham Ruef, former political boss and for a number of years the dominating power in San Francisco politics, was released from the County Jail at 12 o'clock to night on bonds aggregating ISC'1, 000. Ruef had been in the County Jail since November 13 of last year, when he was ordered into custody a few min utes after Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney was shot down in the courtroom during & brief recess In Ruef's trial. Ruef is under a 14 years' sentence on a charge of bribery, and is released pending appeal. The petition for bail was filed several days ago when 20 physicians signed a statement asserting that the incarceration of Ruef was undermining his health. Before considering the peti tion the court appointed a board of three physicians, who examined the prisoner and reported today that he was suffering from a complication of maladies which would In time endanger his life. CREW WRECKED, NOW SAFE Rescne of Party Effected in Terrific Nortbeaster. SI A SCON SETT. Mass., Dec. 2. The crew of the waterlogged schooner Bugen Borda, from Nova Scotia to Philadelphia, was rescued off the Massachusetts coast to day by the steamer Vaderland of the Red Star line. It is believed that all on board were saved. The wrecked schooner was a small ves sel of 177 tons and carried a crew of five men, and also the captain's wife and child. They were saved. The rescue was accomplished In a ter rific northwest gale. Captain Barman brought the Vaderland near the craft and one of the Vaderland's boats was low ered. It slowly made its perilous way close under the lee of the schooner. Mrs. Bigelow. wife of the captain, and her chlld''wcre the first taken off. The four men in the crew then followed. Captain uigelow being the last to leave. CABINET EDITS MESSAGE Taft Finds Blue Pencil X'sed Vnspar Ingly on Document. WASHINGTON. Dec. 2. For four hours today cabinet members dis cussed the final text of President Taft's forthcoming message to Congress, and when they emerged from the cabinet room left a literary wreck behind them. President Taft sat staring at a big bundle of proof sheets of his message on which the executive editors had used the blue pencil unsparingly. The message was rushed to the public printer and a big force of compositors is at work tonight. The document will be ready for dis tribution tomorrow, but it will not be made public until it is read in Con gress next week. WED 54 YEARS; BOTH SUE Californian, Aged 75, Brings Orig inal Action; Wife Aged 74. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2 Samuel Shep herd, 75 years old, appeared in the Superior Court today as an applicant for divorce from Lucinda Shepherd, one year his junior. They were mar ried in 1855. One of the allegations in the com plaint is that Mrs. Shepherd compelled him to cook his own food and eat at a separate table, "after the style of slaves prior to the abolition of slavery in the United States." In a cross complaint, the wife alleges harsh -and cruel treatment. COUGAR LEAPS AT DEER Wild Animals of Forest Invade Farm in Grand Ronde Valley. LA GRANDE, Or.. Dee. 2. (Special.) A scene suggestive of the days of ' the frontiersmen wasenacted a few yards from W. J. Spears, a homesteader living on Rock Creek, a few miles from this city, today, when a cougar sprang from a clump of underbrush and barely missed his grasp at a deer feeding nearby. The deer soon bounded out of sight over the hill, closely pursued by the cou gar. WIFE BLAMED FOR TROUBLE Young Soldier Insists Extravagance Led to Passing Bad Checks. DENVER. Dec. 2. Betah Smith, for merly a lieutenant in the regular Army, was arrested here today, charged with passing severe! worthless checks. Smith, who served in the Philippines and then marrriert in Boise, lays' his downfall to his wife's alleged extrava gances1, saying tney got him hopelessly into debt. He has been courtmartlaled and dismissed from the Army. Elks Visit at Haines. . BAKER CITY, Or., Dec. 2. (Special.) Baker Elks are spending this evening as guests of Haines. At 7:30 o-clock a spe cial train of three coaches on the O. R. N. carried the party to Haines, where an elaborate programme baa been arranged for them. Eastern Railroads to Feel Strike. TEN PER CENT RAISE ASKED Votes "in Various Districts Are Taken by Trainmen. NOTICE NOT YET GIVEN Agreement With. Companies Is That Contract May Be Terminated Within 30 Days by Either Party Statement Is Issued. NEW TORK. Dec. 3. Representatives of trainmen on all the Eastern railroads of the country, comprising 300,000 em ployes, issued a statement today declar ing they would soon present a demand to the railroads for a 10 per cent increase in wages. The statement reads in part as follows: "The votes in the various districts have all been takes-, by members of the Broth erhood of Rarfway Trainmen and soon will be presented to all Eastern railway companies. Everything possible will be done to avoid a strike. Though the Switchmen's Union of North America believes in radical measures, the Broth erhood of Railway Trainmen does not. The agreements with the Eastern rail roads stipulate that they may be ter minated upon so days notice by either party. No such notice has as yet been given." DULTJTH MEN WILL- GO BACK Eighty Per Cent of Them Vote to Resume Work Today. DULTJTH, Minn., Dec. 2. As a result of a meeting of the Brotherhood of .-Bail-., way Trainmen this afternoon, SO per cent of'the striking trainmen here will return to wort tomorrow, most of them for the Northern Pacific. It was decided that the order to switchmen to strike was un constitutional and all were advised to hold out no longer. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha announced to night that they are ready to receive freight. One hundred strikebreakers will (Concluded on Pace 4- INDEX OF TODAY'S PAPER The leather. YESTERDAY'S .Maximum Temperature, 41. G degrees; minimum. 84.7 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; cooler; frost In morning. National. President acquleaes In Conprensionai in vestigation of P.nuhot-BaUlnger contro versy. Page 1. Foreiirn. House of Commons fixes up for struggle with peers. Page 0. Crisis With N tcaragjua. President Zelaya plans to resign, retaining power by placing henchmen in charge. Page 1. United Rtates hurries warships and marines to ports on both coasts near Nicaragua. Page 1. Transport Prairie, with marines, goes ashore near Philadelphia. Page 7. Domestic. Girl found unconscious In 'Chirago park found to have spent night In hotel mado odious by Ella Glngles. Page 6. Ruef released from Jail on bail of $300, 0O0. Page 1. Ex-wife of W. J. Erder. of St. Iouis, ac cused by his sister of poisoning him. Page 5. San Francisco passes ordinance to fight . tubercutosis. Page 1. Three hundred strikebreakers are imported In St. Paul; Police !htef fears clash; break in strikers' ranks at Xuluth. Page 4. Eugene. Or., man duped by woman now tinder arrest at Pittsburg. Pa. Page 6. J. P. Morgan buys controlling interest of KQui table Life Assurance Society, Page 1 Sports. Boxing tournament of Catholic Young Men's :iub Wednesday to have Interesting bout. Page J- San Francisco draws big fight prize. Page 16. Pacific Northwest. Sale of Eastern Oregon copper mines prom ises construction of huge smelter la Snake River Canyon. Page 8- Attorney-General flies reply brief in Supremo Court Issue. Page 9. Ex-Governor Moore denies any prior agree ment In Cunningham coal-claim case Page 17. Storm loss is 12,000.000- Railways In North west alone suffer Injury of (1,000,000. Page 8. Flood carries out entire grade of Union Pacific line between Rochester and Cosmo-polls. Page 8. Commercial and Marine. Hop prices not affected by inactive market. Page 21. Shorts bid up wheat prices at Chicago. Page 21. Stock market affected by rumors of rail road deals. Page 21. Local Inspectors investigate the loss of the steamship Argo on Tillamook. Bar. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. City administration ill advance water rates. - Page 14. Minister sa ys foreigners rule cities and. will soon rule country. rage 20. Competition in field, bids for city paving drop 40 cents; several contracts awarded. Page 12. Portland Railway. Power and Light Com pany buys 13.000 more horsepower on Clackamas. Page 1. Whole -block, site of Chapman street car barns, Is sold for $15,500. Page 33. County grand Jury scores Juvenile Court Ietention Home as filthy, condemns City Jail and terms Kelly Butte a disgrace, p ge 1 :i. Merrill perjury trial delayed by absence of attorney. Page 12. Grace Methodist Church ce'ebrates - 2Mh anniversary in first of five meetings. Page 14. Clerk aecuiftd ef f hloreloriuing wemn tOB fesee. Pare !.