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VOL,. XLIX NO. 15,314. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAV DECEMBER ' 27, 1909. 1RICE FIVE CENTS. BEAUTIFULTRESSES SNIPPED BY ROBBER PARIS IS COLO TO JAPS AND CHINESE -HAVE FREE-FOR-ALL LOOPHOLE TOO! c SIct FULLMOON STORM MUSTACHE OFF AS BLIifCOOK FLEES Charles Wake Deserts Explorer,IeJls Tale RAGES EASTWARD High Tides Lashed to Fury by Gales. III PINCHOT PLANS 4ST. LOUIS WOMAN ASSAULTED ANNUAL FOOTBALL GAME LEADS TO MUCH TROUBLp. MINNESOTA PRISONER PROVES TO BE SECOND BURBANK. - FOR HER HAIR. B A R 0 rJ E S S VAU G H A N COAST FLOODS LEVEL WIRES Damage on Boston Waterfront Is Estimated at $1,000,000. BIG CITIES" IN DARKNESS Massachusetts Ba Has Experience Not Known Since 1851 Ships Driven Ashore and Cottages Carried to Sea. NEW YORK, Dec. 26. (Special.) The terrific blizzard which swept over the West. Northwest and even invaded the ' "Sunny South," leaving a mantle of seven inches, of snow and intensely cold weather over all the Middle West, has reached the Atlantic Coast, unabated in fury. Coming at the time of the full moon, the stonn lashed the high tides into fury and did damage greater than has been known since 1851. It was ac companied by two Immense tidal waves, .which invaded houses and drowned a man, his wife and child. Telegraph and telephone companies had few wires through to New York. Providence. R. I., had a single wire to the outside world. Large cities, such as Cambridge, Somer vllle, Lynn, Fall River and Newi Bed ford, were in darkness except for the light afforded by the full moon. The gale was accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. The damage to the Boston waterfront Is estimated at J1.O0O.O0O. Hundreds Driven From Home. Hundreds1 of persons were driven from their homes by a flood resulting from the breaking of a dam gate at a place known as "the dykes" in Chelsea, just over the Everett line. Tonight the home less were cared for by municipal authori ties in city buildings and churches. At Ijynn the tide made a clean sweep across the narrow isthmus, which con nects Nahant with, the mainland, and for several hours that rocky peninsula was an Island. The state highway was cov ered four feet deep with seaweed. On' Nantaskct beach, in Hull, the damage to property 1 estimated at $100,000. Beverly, the Summer home of President Taft, was cut off from communication -with the outside world by wire. Ships Driven Ashore. In New York the tidal wave flooded cellars and sent ships ashore. At Sey mour. Conn., two men were drowned when a trolley car plunged into .the river. Here there was an unusually heavy f all - of FWtw, which has crippled all transportation lines and sent telegrapU. Are alarm and telephone wires crash ing down in chaos that will take a week to repair and added grievously to the Buttering of the poor. Nearly 10 Indies of snow fell In the city. More than 10,000 scovelers and 6000 trucks were called out Trains from the South and West bore the worst of the delay, service in these directions being almost cut off nil day. The two 18-hour Chicago trains were delayed to a.n almost record-breaking limit, the Pennsylvania, due at 9:15 A. M-. having failed to arrive at 8 o'clock to night, and the New York Central's Chi cago flyer being; seven hours late. Wave Sweeps Battery. A small tidal wave swept into the har bor anil dashed over the Battery seawall and flooded many cellars. Two vessels were driven ashore in the night near the quarantine station on Staten Island the schooner Lizzie R. Dennison. and a scow. They were pulled off but suffered much damage. The Atlantic battleship fleet, at anchor in the Hudson, Is picturesquely coated with ice and Bnow. Wave Sweeps Battery. A snowfall of 16 inches, which drifted in many places to 10 feet or more in depth, completely tied up for hours all steam and trolley traffic in the vicin ity of Philadelphia. The storm began yesterday and today t-e street railways abandoned traffic Crs were abandoned by their crews in all sections of the city, and passengers were compelled to remain in the cars until daybreak. All railroads entering this city felt the effects of the storm, but the Pennsyl vania probably was the hardest hit. The company tonight abandoned traffic tem porarily between Harrisburg. Philadel phia and Washington. Only one train arrived from Washington since last night. Officials of the road said several trains were stalled between here and Washing ton, while the trains bound from New York for Philadelphia are storm-bound near Trenton, N. J. Passengers are be ing well cared for. Cottages Carried to Sea. At Biddeford. Me., scores of cottages were wrenched from their foundations and swept out to sea. Wreckage of houses is strewn all along the beaches at Prouts Neck. Old Orchard. Ferry Beach, amp Ellis and Biddeford Pool. The wind increased at nightfall along the Maine Coast and the snow became much heavier. At high tide it is feared the remaining cottages will be destroyed. All along the coast from Boston to the (Concluded oa rare 3. 1 Her Crowning Glory Was Five Feet Long and Previous Attack Fol lowed Refusal to Sell. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 26. Mrs. "William X Ehlen, 28 years old, whose five feet of heavy blond hair has been the envy and admiration of St. Louis women for years, was knocked unconscious by an uniden tified man as she was leaving hen home for church today and her hair wajr cut off close to her head with a razopr She was dragged, unconscious, into the hallway of her home, and lay there an hour before she was found. Her con dition is serious. 'Today's attack was the third In, two weeks. She was approached on the street on the previous occasions by a man who first made an offer in money for the hair and then attempted to clip ol'f the two bf-aids with shears. The hair fell far below her knees, and she had refused many large -offers for it. DEATH FOLLOWS THREATS Woman, Fearing Separation From . Children, Takes Poison. ST. JOSEPH. Mo, Dec. 26. Mra. Sarah Crawford died tonight as the result of taking poison Immediately following what her husband declares was a severe sweating process by the prosecuting attorney and two police men. As soon as the officers left, her home Mrs. Crawford took some bichlor ide of mercury tablets. Before dying she said the policemen threatened to lock her up, and that she feared she would be taken from her two small daughters, one of whom was Just re covering from a severe illness. J. O. Crawford, the husband, had been arrested, and it was relative to his ar rest that Mrs. Crawford was questioned. Prosecuting Attorney F. Keller denied that she was threatened. CUP -WINNER IN FLIGHT Curtlss Biplane Soars Far, Not High, at Kansas City. KiANSAS CITY. Dec. 26. Using the same biplane in which Glenn H. Curtiss won the international cup at Rhelms, Cha"rles K. Hamilton made six short ex hibition flights at Overland Park today. In spite of a strong wind and freezing temperature, the aviator flew from a half to three-quarters of a mile at a time, but never reached a height of more than 40 feet. He made several complete turns In the face of the wind. CARDINALSATOLLI WORSE Attacks of Delirium Frequent and Catholic Prelate Sinks. ROME. Dec. 26. The condition of Car dinal Satolli, who is suffering from nephritis; Is growing worse, attacks of delirium being frequent Extreme unction has been adminis tered. """" MICKEY IS NEAR TO DEATH Nebraska ex-Governor's Condition Is Considered Alarming. OMAHA, Neb.. Dec. 26. Ex-Governor J. H. Mickey, who has been confined to his bed for a month, is believed to have little chance of recovery. His condition tonight was alarming.- WOMAN WHO DOMINATED ASKANCE BY rr A BARONESS w--" --I i,:-f"--ri-;-Mi .. 1 ' Her Brother, Cafe Wait er, Only Champion. HUGE BATTLE TO BE WAGED Fortune of $20,000,000 and Children's Future Stake. WOMAN IS 46 YEARS OLD Born of Bourgeois Family, She Met King Leopold Years Ago and Thereafter Dominated His Life to' Exclusion of Daughter. PARIS, Dec. 25. (Special.) Usually consumed with the desire either to hear or to tell some new thing, gay Parls seems to be looking askance at Bar oness Vaughan, the morganatic wife of the late King of the Belgians, who is about to enter upon a colossal struggle to retain the riches showered upon her by the ruler, whom she dominated dur ing the last years of his life. As a general thing a woman of mys tery, especially one wjio is on terms of Intimacy with the great, sets Paris agog. Paris liked King Leopold. His appear ance on the boulevards was the signal for a round of gaiety. Paris excused the monarch's dissolute ways and orgies with a shrug and an apology for the ir regularities his "joy. of life" caused him to commit. Naturally, then, one would expect Paris to be interested in - the woman he loved above all others? Brother Alone Is Interested. On the contrary, her brother alone and he, it is whispered. Is lured by the hope of gold appears to be sufficiently interested In her to take her part. Since she left Brussels great mystery has attended the actions of the Bar oness Vaughan. ' Notwithstanding . the fact that the press has given such pub licity to the story of her deathbed mar riage to King Leopold, public opinion seems not to have accorded her much more respect " than she got in Brussels, when stones were hurled at her as she left from a Belgian railway station. Mme. Stelnheil Got More Notice. The struggle which confronts Baroness Vaughan for the retention of the many millions Leopold lavished upon her awakens' here only cold and critical comment. Baroness Vaughan even appears for Parli journalists and their readers a far less attractive per son than did Mme. Steinheil probably because there is not in her case any excuse of temperament or passion for the characteristic features of her career. - . At the same time, facta In her history which seem to 1 demonstrate that in egoism at least she was fully a match for her august lover have been dug up afresh and the public has received them with -much eagerness. ' The ISth child of a family belonging to (Concluded on Page 2.) LEOPOLD REGARDED PARISIANS. TArGHAX.. as. r - Brown Men Gather Allies and Wlr by 10-0 Score; Yellow Men Start Hot Melee. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26. (Special.) The Emergency Hospital was filled with battered Chinese and Japanese late this afternoon, as the result of a free-for-all fight between the two nations at the Presidio football grounds. Last year the Chinese won the football game, so this year the Japanese gath ered their strongest players from various cities on the Coast' and won easily by a score of 10 to . Then trouble began. When the result was announced, one of the'ehinese players seized the- ball, which was to be given to the winning team for a trophy, and tried to escape. Instantly the Japanese raised a warning cry and the two nationalities were' at arms. Many of the . Chinese players were knocked down and in a few seconds scores of men on both sides were knocked out. A squao. of police jumped into the melee and added a ' numoer of cracked heads to the ' injured list. The Japanese manager of the game called later at the newspaper offices and deplored the oc currence, which he said was precipitated by the bad faith of the Chinese. TAFT AND WIFE TAKE WALK Mistress of "White House Appears in Excellent Health. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. President and Mrs. Taft took a long walk this af ternoon, being gone from the White House more than an hour. The people of Washington are becom ing so accustomed to seeing the Presi dent abroad like any other citizen that his appearance has almost ceased to cause commenf. The sight of Mrs. Taft, . however, was unusual, and those who passed the dis tinguished couple remarked how well Mrs. Taft was looking. Her appearance is a complete contradiction of numerous reports about her ill health. 1 DICKINSON AT SAN JUAN. Finishes Inspection of Santo Domin go, Will Oo to Porto Rico. SAN. JUAN, -P. P.., Dec. 26. J. M. Dickinson, American Secretary of War, arrived today on the converted yacht Mayflower. ' Many persons gathered at the wharf. The-visit of the Secretary has been the occasion of elaborate decorations. Sec retary Dickinson has been on an in spection of Santo Domingo, giving es pecial attention to revolutionary con ditions. He will also make an Inspec tion of Porto Rico. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. - TESTEHpAT'S Maximum temperature, 40 degrees; minimum. 32 degrees. TODAY'S Probably fair; northeasterly winds. Foreign. Paris regards coldly Baroness Vaughn and her light for Leopold's millions Page 1. Russia massing troops In Siberia, second war with Japan feared. Page 9. Kalanianaole. known as Prince Cupid, Ha waiian delegate to Congress. attacks Governor Frear, causing political - sen sation In Honolulu. Page 2. Nicaragua's new president orders arrest of two of Zelaya's chiefs for misapplication of funds. Page 5. National. Taft advises care In proposed statehood leg islation. Page lO. President Tart reverses Roosevelt ruling on whisky;, includes neutral spirit blends under general nomenclature. Page 3. President Taft peeks ejfcctment of Federal . incorporation law. iFge Dome fie. Christmas dinner may be means of free ing Minnesota prison life-convict, a sec ond Burbank. Page 1. Storm of exceptional severity rages In East ern States. Page 1. Virginia mob hangs man who slew enemy on Christmas eve. Page S. Revelations In letters stolen from Charles F. Murnhy's wastebasket, stir refc-rmers. Page 4- Frederick Remington, noted artist, dies after appendicitis operation. Page 4. Comparatively small values of estate left by . Mrs. William Astor is great surprise. Page 8. Portland member of I. W. W. killed by po liceman while resisting arrest In San Francisco. Page 3. Mrs. Ford, to be placed on trial today for receiving- money stolen by Big Four treasurer. Page 3. Annual Chinese-Japanese football game In San Francisco starts fight. Page 1. Champion of Stovalne, new anaesthetic wins somQ skeptics in Chicago -demonstration. Page 5., Charles Wake, former supporter of Cook, deserts explorer; tells how he fled from Tiew York to Europe. Page 1. California posse loses despetado tn running gun -battle. Page 9. Sports. Monty Attell. champion 115-pound boxer of world, here to meet Jimmy Cairo 11 Thursday. Page 8. Lang. Australian heavyweight, knocks out Bob Fitzsimmons in 12 rounds. Page 8. Walter McCredle wants All-Coast league; rugdales admirers scored. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Wireless operator hero of ill-fated seamer Ohio believed to have died trying to save valuable U. S. mail. Page 9. Sppcial session of Montana Legislature called to decide whether Indiana stone will be used in new capitol. Page 3. Great Northern train smashes into buggy at Odessa three hurt. . Pag 9. Farmers in- Palouse say snow on ground means good wheat crop. Page 9. Timbermen take advantage of Pinchot reg ulation, reaping big profits at small risk. Page 1. Industrial. , Inspection of Klamath Lake reclamation project shows great progress. Page 13. Owhyee Ditch Company considers plan te Include .its wet lands in Bolse-Owhyee project. Page 13. Artesian wells are found near ' Klamath Falls. Page 13. s Portland and Vicinity. Any two out of six Portland banks. If com bined, would excel deposits of Seattle banks recently to b merged. Page 14. Edward George Meyer, whnse marriage dis pleases family, is not cast off. Page 14. Distinguished Japanese here to study Ore gon wooigrowtng. - Page 13. - Protestant churches make Christmas music special feature of service. Page 12. Board of Education refers request for pur chase of grounds . to meeting of tax payers tomorrow night. Pag5 9. Jefferson High School Is monument of "art. Pasre 12. Timber Ventures Net Rich Returns. APPLICANT RISKS ONLY $10 Federal Cruise Aids in Borrow- ing-Cash. . SCRIP USED FOR FILING Profit of Many Thousands Reaped From Few Filings, Government . Paying Costs' and Recelv- . -"T Ing " Small ' Return. y . . OLTMPIA, Wash., Dec. 36. (SpeclaJ.) Forester Gifford Pinchot is said to be responsible . for the plan now bing operated successfully by timbermen in the West, a scheme which is making speculation In timber land what col loquially would be called a "cinch," which renders no compensation to the Government.but adds materially to the Federal expenditures. . So far, those who have profited by the scheme . are - apparently such as have some exceptional influence with Federal officials and have received inside infor mation. The advantage of ''the plan is that it requires only $10 of actual cash, the Government paying all the rest, and the returns will run into the thousands. . tThe scheme started when Gifforil' Pinchot induced the then Secretary of the Interior, James R. Garfield, to promulgate the regulation that there after timber lands could be taken up only under Government land laws on the basis of compensation for the timber found actually to exist on such claims. Plan Xets Big Profit. There have been eight timber land entries under this ruling in the Federal Land Office at Olympia, and these have operated the new . scheme - with great profit. - Guided possibly by information from some good friend ,ln the. Federal land departments, an applicant would visit the United States Land Office at Olympia and offer to file on timber lands. This information showed what lands were open for entry v and no one knows better -what vacant timbered lands there are than Mr. Pinchots representa tives in the Forest Service. With this application the applicant de posited J10. Thereafter, the .Federal Gov ernment, under the Pinchot policy,- en gaged timber cruisers and had ' them make a carefully detailed inspection and report on the lands, giving exact figures as to the showing of timber of all kinds. Government Makes Cruises. Some of these cruises showed as high an average as 50,000 feet of timber to the acre. When the cruise was completed the applicant was Informed that he could secure . the lands under Federal laws, only by paying for tt at, say.. II the thousand stumpage, based on the cruise, or about $50 an acre. Securing a copy I of this Government cruise, the applicant went to Tacoma, (Concluded on Page 3.) TIMBER LAND REGULATION LEAVES OPENING v SPECULATORS. L OIFFORD Monster Lemon, Grown by 'Slnbad, ' the Sailor,"" May Be "Means of Giving Liberty to Prisoner. STILLWATER, Minn.. Dec. 26. (Spe LWj cial.) A Christmas dinner given at the Minnesota State Prison has started a movement for a pardon for "Sinbad the Sailor." an illustrious life convict, super visor of everything that grows on the state penal reserves, on a basis of his "services to the State of- Minnesota and general 'scientific knowledge." Among Warden Wolfer's guests was a member of the pardon board, who com mented on the immense lemon, weighing three pounds and measuring 1S'.4 inches, major circumference. i The guests, excited by the warden's story of the presence of a second Bur- bank as a cottvlct. directed him to bring in the creator of the monster .lemon. , He ' took the guests to the greenhouse and explained how lie had grafted tropi cal lemon, and grapefruit. He also showed many other, graftings, producing rare fruits and flowers. ' His roses, for years captured first hon ors." His real name is Charles Price and he was sent up for life for killing a laborer with a pick. RARE METAL TO BE MINED Railroad Opens Way to Rich De posits of Molybdenite. MONTREAL, Quebec, Dec. 26. (Spe cial.) Northern Quebec is soon to yield a new mineral of value. About seven years ago evidences of rich deposits of moiyoaenue were rouna near s.eewa- gama Lake. Little was then done to ward development, as molybdenite is a. heavy metal and there were no proper railway facilities for transportation of ore at the .time of the find. Now the Grand Trwnk Pacific Railway is about to 'open up the country and with the coming of the rallroada-new mining corporation, to be known as the Indian Peninsula Company, is about to oper ate the claim. Molybdenite as raw material is worth about 25 cents a pound. The segregated ' metal ' In its commercial state is known as molybdenite, and is chiefly of value when applied to steel. It acts on steel similar to tungsten. hardening it and developing it so that It will not lose its original strength after It has been welded. ADMIRAL DEWEY NOW 72 Noted laval" Officer's Birthday Is Quiet Congratulations Many. ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. Admiral George Dewey celebrated his seventy second birthday anniversary today. The day passed without any ceremonial, and except for a flood of telegrams and personal messages of congratulation nothing, disturbed the serenity of the household. - - The Admiral has not been In espe cially good health for some time, and therefore all observances wee waived. TOOTHACHE SUICIDE CAUSE Woman Unable to Bear Pain Drinks Carbolic Acid. LOS ANGELES. Dec. 26. Telling her husband 'that she could not bear longer the pain from an ulcerated tooth, Mrs. Louise Molena, 26 years old, today snatched up a bottle of cartolio acid and. drank the contents. TO PINCHOT. HAT CHANGED ALSO DISGUISE Doctor in Europe, Wires Confi dant to Tell Wife. FRIEND LOSES HIS FAITH Physician Dodges Detectives Whilo Making Hasty Exit Then Fails to Rush Records to Copenha gen Mrs. Cook Joins Him. NEW YORK, Dec. 26. "Dr. Cook, on his way to Jersey City, had his mua-. lache sha-ed off and exchanged hia derby for a soft felt hat. Later, la a letter postmarked Toronto, Ont., . h told Mrs. Cook to meet him in Europe ' at once." Culled from a statement made today by Charles Wake, Arctic explorer, mem ber of the Explorers' Club and hereto fore one of Cook's staunchest support"" ers, the following gives for the first time the manner of Cook's rapid exit from New Tork and incidentally records desertion-of the Cook standard by Wake. ' - - Although loyal for several days after the adverse decision of the University of Copenhagen. Wake now says that he was deceived by the explorer. Ha. ' adds that he does not know where Dr. Cook is. except that he is in Europe, although he is awwa of Mrs. Cook's whereabouts, which he declines to re veal. "Cook has had ample time to ex press himself since the records were examined," said Mr. Wake, "but he has not done so.. So. long as I live I shall never forget the nonchalance with which he waved his hand toward the beautifully engraved degree and the handsome gold medal that had beeiv conferred upon him by The University of Copenhagen, and said: There is the best evidence.' Children at School. "I do not know who is caring for bis children In a New Tork boarding school, but I presume relatives are doing it. How much bnoney he made upon his trip and what settlement he has made of this I do not know." ' Mr. Wake says he does not wish hia statement to be taken as an attack upon Dr. Cook, but hp feels impelled to let the facts speak for themselves. He then recites his experience with the explorer, among them the following: "It was finally arranged that Mr. Lonsdale, Dr. Cook's secretary, should sail for Copenhagen on the United States, of the United States-Scandinavian line, with a copy of the type written records, and that the doctor . ' and his wife, carrying the originals, should sail for Genoa under assumed names on the Celtic, leaving November . 27. Lonsdaleand his companion were then to take the originals to Copen hagen and Dr. Cook was to remain within easy distance of a call from the university. Detectives Are Hired. ' "It was understood tHat the doctor and Lonsdale should come to my office on the afternoon of November 24 to arrange some details of Lonsdale's de parture. To allay the anxiety of the doctor and his wife, I had arranged with a detective agenfcy to have him constantly shadowed, and the detective was at my office to pick him up. Cook did not appear, but Lonsdale eventually connected with me on the telephone. and at 8 o'clock he met me and told me the story of Dr. Cook's disappear ance. "He said they came down from Bronxvllle at 2:30 o'clock that after noon intending to go to my office. On their arrival they found the usual array of detectives waiting to shadow them. They hurried through the crowd and saw a south-bound Madison avenue car Just getting under way. On seeing the car the doctor' suddenly exclaimed, "Here is a chance to get away from them, and I am going to take it. Come along.' Cook Removes Mustache. "They made their way to the , Penn sylvania depot by a circuitous route, and vr. Cook took a train for Philadelphia. On the way to Jersey City he had his mustache shaved off and exchanged his derby for a soft felt hat. His nartin , words to Lonsdale were: 'Now, I shall be able to get some sleep. Tell - Mr. Wake I will write-him, using the name of Harper, but tell him I trust him to . keep the secret, along with the rest." "I was greatly surprised and at first highly Incensed, and for the first time . began to feel some misgivings. I con cluded, however, that perhaps his mind might have been affected, and that, there fore, he should not be held Jjxs rigidly responsible. , - - "Lonsdale sailed with the copy of th. records on the United States, on Thurs day, November 25. and on the following day Mrs. Cook, who knew nothing more about her husband's whereabouts than I, moved to New Tork. i Wife j Hears From Him. "The next day, the 27th, we receiveC our first word from Cook. It came In I the form of a letter, postmarked Toronto i i (Concluded on Pas &-)