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j tf pitttm VOL,. XL.IX NO. 15,302. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. KING OF BELGIUM LY ILL Relapse Comes Close on Convalescence. SPECIALISTS ARE CALLED IN Affection of Abdomen Is Grave .Complication. DROPSY ANOTHER FEATURE Members of Royal Family Gather at Leopold's Bedside, and Physi cians and Archbishop Re main All Night. BRUSSELS, Dec. 12. King Leopold, vho has been seriously ill for a fort night, but who was said to be conva lescent, suffered a relapse today and his condition is considered alarming. The official bulletin says: "The rheumatic pains have disap peared, but the King is suffering from a disquieting affection of the abdomen." Supplementary information Indicates that the affection is obstruction of the Intestines. There is present also a dropsy of the leg. KingTold of Grave Situation. Two specialists called into consulta tion did not disguise from the King the gravity of the situation, although they do not regard it as desperate. Prince Albert Leopold, heir presump tive, and Prince Albert and M. Schol laest. the Premier, did not leave the bedside of His Majesty tonight, and Princess Clementine, his third daugh ter, is expected soon. The physicians later held another consultation, at which Baron Gofflnet announced the King was somewhat better than in the morning. He suf fered less pain, his pulse was suffi cient and there was no fever. Archbishop Stays All Night. The physicians and Archbishop Mech leln remained in the bedchamber all night. King Leopold's condition remained unchanged at midnight. Cardinal Mercier, archbishop of Mechlin, will administer the sacrament tomorrow. The King had a light sleep in the early part of the night. His physicians will hojd a consultation at 7 o'clock in the morning to decide upon the advisability of an operation. . "mad old King" - is on his deathbed. Kor many years Leopold has been the strangest figure on any European throne. His excesses, his extravagances, his cruelties, .his passions for women, for fine houses, for money, have fur nished an endless amount of gossip and t..e world has become so accus tomed to his vagaries as to be willing to credit the wildest tale about him. He is a man of contradictions, but through all his characteristics the love of self runs as an undercurrent, shaping his policies of state, governing his business dealings, even permeating his love affairs. The business acifmen that has made him the richest monarch in Europe and a power in the money markets of the world is the characteristic that stands forth most prominently always. Close to a point of parsimony in a business deal, niggardly with allowances to his family, for himself he has been, willing to spend vast sums to gratify his love of luxury and to satisfy the whims that with advancing age have In creased in. number and peculiarity. Tet with all the Inroads hio prodigality has made on his fortune, his wealth Is counted in' the tens of millions. King Begins to Show Age. During the past two years signs of Age and mental derangement have In creased in Leopold. He Is now In his 74th year, and the handsome face, with Its long, flowing, prophet's beard and the upright figure are showing inroads from dissipation. At one time Leopold ALARMING a was accounted tne nanasomest mon arch In all the world. His manners matched his appearance, for he . was cultured, even-tempered and courteous. Now ho has become irritable, careless of appearance and prone to such fits of passionate anger as to make official intercourse with him almost an im possibility. Added to this, he has become utterly indifferent to public opinion, disregards the respect and good will of his fellow sovereigns and also of the reigning houses of Europe, by whom he has been ostracized, and Is glaringly defiant of ill the conventionalities and even the proprieties of life. He seems to desire to be a despot and an autocrat, a feel ing altogether out of keeping with the spirit of the times in hi? country, for Belgium has become permeated ' with socialism, so much so that it is a de batable question whether the monarchy will be allowed to contiue under the King's nephew, Albert Leopold, or whether a republic will be formed. In t Vi a hnvhnnil nf T attTA il cold-blooded selfishness was strongly marked. It turned his father against him in Indignation, which grew to such an extent that at the death of the old King he left the greater part of his property to his younger son, Philip, Count of Flan ders, and to his daughter, Charlotte, to AVIATOR HITS WALL; LIVES; CAR WRECK M. BLERIOT HAS ANOTHER NAR ROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH. . Sunday Flight at Constantinople, Made Not to Disappoint People, .. Has Serious Ending. . CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 12. M. Bleriot, the French aeroplanist whose flight across the English Channel was one of the most remarkable achieve ments OF the year, arid who has had more narrow escapes from death than any other aviator, met with another serious accident here today. ' He was giving, an exhibition in the presence of an immense crowd when his aeroplane collided with a wall. The force Of the impact turned the machine' completely over and Bleriot fell to; the ground. He was injured on the left side and, it is feared. Internally hurt. His ma chine Was wrecked. Bleriot, who was using an aeroplane of the cross-channel type, did not wish to disappoint the crowds that had gath ered to witness his exhibition, although a strong wind was blowing. Jo sooner had he "ascended than he was carried away a mile and a half by the wind. He endeavored to tack and return, but was unable to do so. His machine was driven against a wall and overturned, falling 25 . feet.' Bleriot remained, in his seat and was caught in the wreckage. He was con veyed to the -French Hospital. His wife reassured the crowds that be sieged the Hospital. She reported the condition of her husband to be fairly satisfactory, but said that nothing definite could be known until tomor row. DOUBLE TRACK IS PLANNED Union Pacific Improvement to Cover ' Whole System. OMAHA, Dec. 12. Announcement Is made by the Union Pacific Railway that all future orders for passenger equipment will be for steel cars. Recently these cars have had a trial by the road and it has been decided to do away with wooden cars. Extensive orders for new steel cars have been placed. In adopting this policy officials of the road declare that It is in line with the general policy to do away with equip ment which is susceptible to easy destruc tion in wreck or fire. The new steel ca'rs". it Is asserted, will afford greater comfort to passengers. Simultaneously comes the announce ment that within two years virtually the entire line of the Union Pacific will have been double tracked and equipped with the block signal system. COGS DRAW MAN TO DEATH Workman Caught In Machinery at Globe Is Mangled. SOUTH BEND, -Wash., Dec. 12. (Spe cial.) His hand caught between cog wheels of mill machinery at Globe yes terday, Joseph Sietofi was drawn toward. the machline, his head being ground to a pulp before the machinery was stopped. At the time of the fatality Sietofi was the only workman at the end of the shop, and his cries ' were not heard until too late. A widow and child survive him. - 689 BOYS, GIRL FOR EACH Every Laddie Can Have His Lasaie Now In Albany. ALBANY, Or., Dec. 12. (pecial.) There are exactly as many girls in Al bany as boys. . The enumeration of school children in the Albany district reveals this co incidence. It shows there are 1378 school children, 689 of each sex. RULER OF BELGIANS, WHO 0 MARINES ARRIVE IN CANAL ZONE 700 Men Now on Way to Panama. HURRY CALL FOR MORE Washington Issues Orders for Cruiser Prairie. i - ZELAYA RIDING FOR FALL Panama Report Made' Public to Effect That - Nicaraguan Has Been. Working Deliberately for United States Intervention. COLON, Dec. 12. Jhe United States transport Dixie, with 700 marines aboard, which sailed from Philadelphia December 6, arrived at 6 o'clock. this morning. The Dixie proceeded to dock 11, CriBtobal, where cars were in waiting to transport the men, provisions and ammunition immediately to Panama. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. A hurry call for marines to proceed with the cruiser Prairie on her interrupted trip from Philadelphia to Colon was made upon the three New England' Navy yards today. ZELAYA WANTS INTERVENTION President of Nicaragua Prepared for Fall, $20,000,000 to Good. -PANAMA. Dec. 12. It Is the opinion here that President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, Is riding for a fall; that he is deliberately working to bring about Intervention by the United States, hav ing chosen this form of humiliation in preference to the greater one. of suffer ing defeat at the hands of the revolu tionists. For the 16 years In which Zelaya" has been in power in Nicaragua. It is .said. Nicaragua has been ruled by a group of eight daring and conscienceless men who have looked upon the country as their own personal property. This group has grown enormously rich by a systematized pillage of the revenues of the state and of individuals. It is esti mated that Zelaya is worth about $20, 000.000 gold, most of which he has In vested in Brussels and London. It is said to be well established that the chief cause of the present revolu tion was the failure of Zelaya to dis tribute among his seven asociates a loan of $5,000,000 obtained recently in Europe. Thia is the view of the situation as taken on the Isthmus where, to be sure, there are many Nicaraguans naturally opposed to the present administration In their country. They are of the opinion that Zelaya's game Is ufiand is anxious to make his. departure in safety. He would rather stand ifi the eyes of the world as having been forced out by the United States than by his own people, and this is why he has pro voked reprisals by the brutal shooting of Groce and Cannon. The statement Issued by Zelaya to the effect that the revolutionists had employed the two Americans to mine the San Juan River, and that they were captured after they had planted one (Concluded on Page 8.) NEARS DEATH'S DOOR, AND NEPHEW, WHO IS THOUGHT TO BE tTMMi .11 Mill li I Kl.VG LEOPOLD. NEW YEAR'S NUMBER, 1910. Central Oregon, the great district that is soon to " have railroad connection with the outside world, is to be made a feature of the New Tear's edition - of The "Oregontan, which will be issued January 1, 1910. Preparation is being made to ,. publish the most complete de scription of this largely unde- veloped section that has -ever-. been compiled. The race of ' rival railroad systems Harrl--- man and Hill for this empire, '. the character of the land to be developed, its products and possibilities, will be considered in this number. There will be articles on dry farming, xn irrigation, on op portunities for entry under the homestead laws, and on many v other phases of 'conditions there. Staff writers and pho tographers have followed rail - road construction up' the Des chutes and visited the Central Oregon towns in order to ob- tain for this edition data that could be secured in no other way. The New Tear's Oregonfan, however, will not be confined to Central Oregon. There will be the usual complete review of the steady progress made by the state as a whole and by Portland, the metropolis. T ! AVIATOR BRINGING FLEET Paulhan to Tour Orient After Dos Angeles Meeting.. PARIS, Dec. 12. Louis Paulhan, French aviator, accompanied by his wife, two pilots. Mason and Miseraol, who recently distinguished themselves at Pau, and four mechanicians, will sail for the United States on December 18 with two Bleriot across-channel machines and two of the latest type of Famara machines. Edward Gieary, who is managing the aerial combination, announces the party will leave New Tork by special train for Los Angeles January 2 and will arrive there the day before the opening of the aviation meet, which will continue from January 10 to 20. After participation In this meeting the combination expects to give exhibitions at San Antonio, Galves ton, New Orleans, Birmingham, Atlanta and a few Northern cities. A tour of Japan, China and India then will be made. RAIL PIERCES CAR, 2 DIE Track Rips' Through Smoker, I De capltates One, Injures Four.-' CHICAGO, Dec. 12. Two Immigrants were killed and three men and one woman injured in a peculiar accident to a northbound Chicago & Northwestern passenger train in the northern part of the city today. " The . track had been elevated recently, and, as the train passed, a rail was torn loose. It ripped through the floor of the baggage-car and : through the smoker. In the smoker the torn-up rail decapitated one of the immigrants, and killed an other. The engineer and fireman were in jured. An immigrant woman and man were also injured. TAFT PLANS BUSY WEEK President Goes to New 'l'ork Today; Tuesday at New Haven. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. President Taft will leave Monday morning for' New- York, "where he will speak at the dia mond Jubilee of the Methodist -Episcopal Church. Tuesday morning the President will go to New Haven 'to attend a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Yale Univer- ity. He will leave New Haven at mid night, returning to Washington Wednes day. 1 f V;JV f : PitlSCB ALBERT LEOPOLD. THEFT OF JEWELS REACHES $300,000 -V ". .' New York" Apartment - Scene of Robbery. POLICE CAN FIND NO TRACE Most. of Booty in Room Only a SKort Time Before Stolen. DONE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT Mrs. John William Jenkins Absent From Fiftli-A venue Rooms Only Few Hours False Key May Have Aided Thieves. NEW YORK, Dec. 13. (Special.) Dia monds and otlier jewelry valued at $300,000 were stolen from the apartments1 of Mrs. John William Jenkins on the eighth floor of the Lorraine, Fifth avenue and Forty fifth street, Saturday afternoon. The robbery is the largest of the kind that has occurred in this city in years. Police and detective agencies have been unable to obtain trace of the lost prop erty or the proof against any persons suspected of having stolen it. Few Trinkets Left. Since Mrs. Jenkins and her husband went to live at the Lorraine, July 1, her diamonds have been regarded as the most valuable collection of gems owned in the hotel. Except a diamond bracelet and two diamond rings, all of the jewels, in cluding a brooch which had been added to the collection by Mrs. Jenkins a few hours before the robbery, are missing. The lewelst were stolen from the apart ment between 3 o'clock and half past 5 o'clock. Mrs. Jenkins was absent from the hotel between those hours and her companion. Miss Russell, also was1 away from, the apartments part of the time. When Mrs." Jenkins returned at half past 5 o'clock she found drawers in a dressing table in disorder and jewels which had been In them. Including the most valuable pari of her collection, which had been in a black, leather Jewel case, were gone. . " Detectives Are Baffled. Inspector McCafferty, head of the detective bureau, took charge of the case as soon as Mrs. Jenkins and the manager of the Lorraine reported the robbery. Mrs. Jenkins also called in private detectives. It is thought that the thief gained entrance to the apartment by means of a false -key, or that Miss Russell in leaving the apartment in the absence of Mrs. Jenkins, inadvertently left the door unlocked. The clerk on duty In the office of the hotel and the other employes, told the police they had not seen any stranger Saturday afternoon in the part of the hotel in which Mrs. Jen kins lives. Eighteen Gems in One Necklace. Mrs. Jenkins left her gems in a jewel case in the safe in the office of the hotel every time she left the building, but after Mr. Jenkins left New York on business, November 1, she ceased to deposit her jewels there, believing they were safe in hr apart ment. One of the diamond necklaces that was stolen contains 18 large perfectly matched diamonds. It was this neck lace in which Mrs. Jenkins took most pride. HI!? PROBABLE SUCCESSOR. i COMET THRICE AS LARGE AS EARTH DANIEL- TELLS ABOUT LATEST VISITOR HE DISCOVERS. Gases and Vapors, However, Make Up Large Part of Body Now 56,000,000 Miles Away. PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 12. Fixty-six million miles away from the earth, 146, 000,000 miles from the sun and more than three times as large as the earth in diameter these are the facts that have been determined by Zacchus Daniel, 190S, a graduate-student of Princeton, about the new comet discovered December 6. Mr. Daniel holds the. Thaw fellowship in astronomy, the annual income of a gift of $10,000 by Mrs. William Thaw, of Pittsburg. The comet discovered by him last week was his third. The first, dis covered in June, 1907, is the most famous of the three. Regarding the new comet, Mr. Daniel said: "Of course, while the new comet ap pears about three times as large as the earth, according to measurements esti mated from the computation of its orbit, it does not contain one-thousandth part of the amount of solids which the earth does. Gases and vapors, appear to make up a large part of it." COPPER COMBINE DENIED New York Lawyer Declares No Con solidation Is Planned. NEW YORK. Dec. 12. Samuel Unter myer. who has been credited with con ducting negotiations for the proposed merger of great copper interests as coun set for. the Boston Consolidated Copper Companyand others, said tonight: "There is no basis for the report that the proposed purchase by the Utah Cop per Company of property of the Boston Consolidated Copper Company, or its re ported merger with the Navy Copper Company iff part of a general merger of copper properties. The properties of the Utflfi and Boston companies adjoin one another. This negotiation to put them together has been under way for three years. Although it is said that the an nual copper production of the enlarged company -will .be about 200,000,000 pounds that reorejents less than 15 per cent of the domestic production without taking into account the large foreign' output with which the company must compete. DEATH BARS LAST G00D-BY Aberdeen, Wash., Boy Dies Before He Readies Home. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 12. .(Spe cial.) Alone, save for the hope that he might reach his home in Aberdeen, Wash., to greet his loved ones once more, William C. Betz, 26 years old, died at the Arcade Station yesterday, just after being carried from a South ern Pacific train. Betz, had been in Phoenix, Ariz., where he had gone to get relief from tuberculosis. When he knew that he could not hope to live much longer, he expressed a desire that he might be permitted to die among his relatives. He was without funds, but sympathetic strangers bought him a ticket and gaVe him money for the incidentals of his trip. As the train pulled into the station here, it was seen that he was at the point of death. A physician was sum moned but death called first. Relatives In the Northwest have been notified. TIDE CREEPS, MAN SAVED Unknown Caught in Slough, Veils, Found in Nick of Time." 1 ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec 12. (Spe cial. )-rWith his feet stuck ' fast in the mud at the bottom of a slough In which the tide was rising rapidly, an unknown man was rescued in the nick of time early yesterday - morning by residents living in the vicinity of 'Jefferson and Hume streets. The man's cries for help roused the residents from their beds and broug.it them, bareheaded and in scant attire, to the rescue. The tide had almost reached the man's neck when assistance ar rived. SPIRITS' ADVICE OBEYED Viscountess Churchill Disappears With Two Children. LONDON. Dec. 12. A sensation has been caused in society by the mysterious disappearance of Viscountess Churchill, sister of the Earl of Lonsdale. Lady Churchill arrived at St. Pancras station with her son and two daughters November 28. She has not been seen since, although advertisements have been published to trace her. According to rumors Lady Churchill re cently consulted a spirit medium, who assured her it was her duty to leave her husband. Viscount Churchill, and take her children away. FIRE CRY FATAL TO THREE Women Crushed During Panic in Cleveland Theater. CLEVELAND. O.. Dec. .12. A cry of "fire" that started when a woman fell downstairs from the balcony of the Ma jestic Theater tonight caused a panic in the crowded house and the death of three women. Mrs. William' Richter, Miss Mary Corri iran and Miss Mary McCafferty were crushed in the crowd and died in ambu lances. Many other women and a number of children mis-tained minor injuries. It took the efforts of squads from nearby police stations to stop the strug gling of the mob. FflUR DROWN IN COLUMBIA Launch Turns Turtle Near Rainier. Or. THREE OF PARTY RESCUED Survivors in Water Seven Hours; Saved by Tugboat. JOY TRIP ENDS IN DEATH After Enjoying Xight at Roller-Skat-lng, Young People Start for Home In Launch Iu- quest on Today. . RAINIER, Or., Dec. 12. (Special.) Four young people, residents of Maygers, Or., met terrible deaths by drowning in the Columbia River early Sunday morning when a launch in which they were riding turned turtle at Burton's Landing, spill ing the party of seven into the icy cold water. Three of the party were rescued after hanging to grim death for seven hours, which to them seemed like cen turies. The dead are: Miss Selma Hendrickson, aged 17; Anna Hendrickson, aged 19; Grace Waud, aged 16. and Lee Barber, aged 20. The rescued are: Pearl Proctor, aged 30; Frank Kasper, aged 20. and Amos Card, aged 19. Evening Spent In Skating. A party of 10 or 12 young people from Maygers, 10 miles west of Rainier, came here Saturday to spend the evening at tho ekating rink. After the closing of the rink at 10 P. M. a party of seven left Rainier in the gasoline launch Hend rickson for Maygers. The launch in the ; property of John Hendrickson.' the father of two of the drowned girls. The craft was manned by Amos Card. The seven clung desperately to the over turned boat.. Barber Gets Sleepy and Drowns. Lee Barber, who hung on for nearly an hour and a half, was first to let go. "I'm getting sleepy." he said. '.'I'm going to sleep." and he slipped back into the water and did not rise. The next to drop off was Miss Selma Hendrickson, who held on perhaps ,a half hour longer. Soon after Anna Hendrickson, her sister, went to a watery grave. The survivors clung to the boat until S A. M.. making just seven hours in all. when the tugboat Burton came along and answering their cries rescued them. They were brought to Rainier and left for their home in Maygers Sunday morn ing. The trio were all in good health (Concluded on Page 3.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 5S degrees; minimum. 50 degrees. TODAY'S Rain, breaking away during tho day: moderate nouth wind. Nicaragua Situation. Mexico's Envoy. Senor Creel, declares his '- country disagrees with Knox' Nicaraguan views. Page 3. More marines ordered to canal zone by Government. Page 1. Zelaya institute's reign of terror in Mana gua, where 500 are In chains, rage 3. Foreign. Illness of King Leopold takes alarmln turn. Pago 1. M. Bleriot, noted French aeroplanist. has an other close call to fleam, rise i. National. Oregon irrigation projects well under way. says reclamation rpon fast. . Secretary MacVeagh issues directions to corporations covering im vu (jwhib. Page 3. Secretary of Commerce and 'Labor TCagM predicts seal will soon be extinct. Page 2. Congress to hurry appropriation bills, but let anti-trust measures wait. Pago 2. lomestlc. Union Pacific to extend double tracks over whole system and supersede all wooden passenger cars. Page 1. Eastern railroad employes take steps to ward coalition of unions. Page 2. Consumptive, on way to Aberdeen from Ari zona, to see family for lajt time, dies at L-os Angeles depot. Page 1. New comet discovered by Daniel Is three times size of earth. Page 1. Mrs. Roberta Corwin-Hill said to have caused Astor divorce. Page 4. Thieves steal $300,000 in jewels in Fifth avenue hotel. Page 1. Nine men from lost Lake Erie ferry found frozen to death In yawl. Page 4. Two factories of -Racine, Wis., burned, loss J650.O00. Page 4. Sports. Steam car wins 6-hour race at Ascot, spills many, two injured. Page 8. Mucklestone and Eakins to rlay football with Washington another season. Page 8 If Ward heads American League, six-club circuit is probable. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Trial of John D. Roselalr, confessed wife slayer, to be begun at Hllisboro today. Page 5. Vessels making Puget Sound ports report many disasters in storms. Page 5. Bridge over Santim at Stayton falls, lust missing carrying down five children. Page 5. Four Oregon young people drown in Co lumbia River near Rainier. Page 1. Industrial. Buvers estimate 1909 hop crop at 80.000 bales, J4.i27 unsold. Page 13. Oresron apples In New York widely adver tise state. Page 13. Portland and Vicinity. Vai couver Barracks troops may be called to go to Nicaragua. Page 9. Portland Y. M. C. A. opens week of cele bration. Page 1-. Dr Cudlipp favors establishment of b:g down-town Methodist church. Page l'J. Oregon suffragette. Mrs. Colby, champions women's cause at forum meeting, pass 12. 1 1