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VOL. XLIX NO. 15,316. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 190O. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SECOND BUZZARD GUTS FUEL SUPPLY Coal at Doors, But Cars Cannot Move. CH1CAG0ANS ARE ALARMED. Previous Work of Clearing Away Debris All Undone. WHEAT ON TRACK CHEAPER Buyers fear Inability to Make De cember Delivery or Grain Vir tually on Hand Express Matter Long Delayed. CHICAGO, Dec 28. (SpeclaD Slow ly and painfully emerging from two previous heavy snow storms, followed by extremely cold weather and Inter mittent snow for two weeks, Chicago ' and contiguous territory tonight was swept by another fierce blizzard, which nullifies all the work of clearing away the debris of the earlier storms and leaves the transportation companies aghast at the task facing them. With 9000 cars of coal at its doors, on sidings and terminal tracks, Chicago Is on the verge of a fuel famine. Railroads and dealers admit tonight the condition is alarming. Kcsene Fuel Runs Low. The city already has consumed 60 per cent of Its reserve fuel, and by the most rigid economy will be cold within five days unless the situation is relieved. The railroads had hoped, with good weather, to get in some of the ooal. but tonlghfs storm means that they will be unable to move a pound for two or three days at the best. The snow tonight Is driven by a high wind, which means heavy drifting and Increased trouble for the railroad. The storm blockade Is felt seriously in the grain and provision trade. Thla t was made apparent today when wheat that was good enough for December delivery sold on track here at three cents under the December price. The buyers were unwilling to take chances on get ting the wheat Into elevators and avail able for delivery before the close of business next Friday. This was for grain actually within the city limits. Nearby Grain at Standstill. It was asserted on the Board of Trade that one of the Western roads leading a out of Chloago baa more than 8000 loaded cars of grain on its various sidetracks, which it is totally unable to move in either direction. The condition applies to other roads, perhaps, in a lesser de gree. Express matter, shipped at Chicago a week ago to points less than 100 miles distant, has not yet been deliv ered. This shows the serious complex ion of the blockade. , VESSELS SriS'K ALONG COAST Five-Master May Have Been in Col lision With Unknown. BOSTON, Dec. 2S. The discovery today of the wreck of the five-masted schoon er, Davis Palmer, wnlch sank with 13 men Sunday morning at the entrance to Broad Sound, was followed by the report of another wreck In the outer harbor. The eecond victim of the great storm that swept New England Saturday night and Sunday was reported by Captain Kemp of the tug Ariel, who. asserts that he saw three masts of a schooner project ing above the water near the shoals known as "The Graves." Probably the last person to see the Palmer before she sank was Captain Bookamp. of the barge Hopalong, which docked at Lynn today from Hoboken. He reported passing the Palmer off Cape Cod late In the afternoon. At that time the Palmer's sailors were on deck sing ing and celebrating the holiday in true frea fashion. Testerday's toll of wrecks was in creased today. The schooner Ada K. Damon, sole support of her aged master. Captain A. K. Brewster, of York, Me., went ashore near Ipswich. She probably will be a total loss. Her crew reached Hhore safely. In Chelsea, where a tidal wave broke a dyke and flooded the houses of 3000 per sons, a high tide today opened two new breaks. Many cellars that had been pumped out by fire engines were flooded again. It will be weeks before people on the SO acres of tide lands will be able to .return to their homes. MINISTER'S FEET ARK FROZEN" Farmer Refuses Aid to Pastor Ex hausted in Storm. CHICAGO, Dec. 28. Rev. W. P. Bos tick, a post-graduate divinity student at the University of Chicago, will prob ably suffer the amputation of both feet as the result of his courageous effort to walk li mis through a driving snow storm last Sunday night. In or der to reach the Christmas celebration of the Little Baptist Church at York vllle. The attending physician at York Mile says there is but slight hope of saving the patient's feet. A pathetic feature of the minister's misfortune lies in the fact that he (.Concluded on Face 3.) AURORA B0REALIS IS CAUSED BY GAS TTXrVKRSTTY SCIENTIST RE VEALS PHEXOJIEfOX. Neon, Newly Discovered, Is Acted X'pon by Magnetic Currents at Poles, Says Chemist. BOSTON, Dec. 28. Neon, a- newly discovered gas, is the cause of the Au rora Borealis, according to a state ment made today by Dr. W. L Dudley, head of the chemistry depart, ent at Vanderbilt University, befose the di vision of physical and inorganic chemists, at the session here today of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science. Dr. Dudley showed what he claimed to be the only sample of neon in this country. It required more than 100 tons of air to get a pint of neon. Dr. Dudley has discovered that the friction of neon against mercury in a Crookes tube produces a yellow light, and. held near a wireless coll, Hertzian waves illuminate the gas. Dr. Dudley's conclusions are that at the magnetic poles of the earth, neon, under high pressure because of " the cold, is acted upon by magnetic cur rents, thus producing the Aurora Bo real is a phenomenon that has always puzzled scientists. DICKINSON GETS OVATION Secretary of War Greeted by Porto Ricans at Reception. ' SAN JUAN, P. ,R.. Dec. 28. Governor Colton's reception last night In honor of the American Secretary of War, Jacob. M. Dickinson and General Clarence Eld wards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs, was unsurpassed even by that given to President Roosevelt in 1906. Del egations from all towns on the island and from all branches of society were present. The Republican and Unionist parties, which have united to urge citizenship, an elective -Senate and other reforms, have appointed a committee to confer with Mr. Dickinson. The committee will present a petition to Congress requesting that these proposals be carried into effect. DAVENPORT IS SICK MAN Cartoonist Suffers Serious Nervous Collapse at Point Loma. SAN DD3GO. Dec 2S. (Special) Homer Davenport, noted cartoonist, suffering a serious nervous collapse. He came here' last week in the hopes of building up his shattered nervous sys tem. He has not been feeling well for some time, and felt the pressing need of change of scene and climate. He accepted an Invitation to visit the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Spalding, at Point Loma, where he Is now under the care of a physician, by whose advice no visitors are receivad and ail correspond ence l left untouched, as It Is necessary that Davenport shall not exert himself In any other than along lines calculated, to rebuild his shattered nervous system. BELGIUM REPUBLIC DUE? Socialists Oppose King's Civil List for $660,000, but Latter Wins BRUSSELS, Dec. 28. Socialists in the Chamber of Deputies today opposed the civil list of the King, which amounts to $WO,000. and reaffirmed their allegiance to a Republic M. Royer declared that the royal chat eaug had been turned into sanitariums. The appropriations. however, were adopted by a vote of 100 to 29. The King's civil Ust is the same as that granted to Leopold, the new sovereign declining the Catholic party's suggestion of an in- TAXICAB WEDDING SCENE Honeymoon of New York Couple Passes in Hospital. NEW TORK, Dec. 2S. C. H. Smith a convalescent patient at Bellevne Hospital, and Mrs. L. R. Rotzell were married in a tazicab in the courtyard of the hos pital today. The odd ceremony was made necessary when Smith collapsed in the cab after a trip to the city hall for a marriage li cense. The honeymoon trip consisted of a Jour ney from the hospital to his residence, with his wife acting as nurse. TREATING SUICIDE, HE DIES Aged Physician Expires With Apo plexy Beside Girl. WILLOW SPRINGS, Mo., Dec 28. Miss Johnny Preston, 17 years old, shot herself through the head tonight because she had incurred some small debts at a store. Dr. Abraham Mullinix, 72 years old, was called to attend her. Just after yhe had told the girl's parents that she was fatally wounded, he exclaimed: "I am going, too," and fell dead across the bed, from apoplexy. GUARANTY BANK TEST DUE Haskell Asks Shallenberger to Join . in Legal Fight on Statutes. LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 28. Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, today appealed to Governor Shallenberger, of Nebraska, to Join Oklahoma and Kansas in a legal test of the guaranty of deposits acts of the three states. FOOTBALL HEADS VOTE OUT DANGER Intercollegiate Athletic Body Speaks CHANGE OF RULES IS DECIDED Minimize Chance of Physical Injury, Urges Resolution. PRUNING COMMITTEE MADE Revision Decided Upon After Long, Sharp Discussion, Only Three Dissenting Consideration Al lowed Yale and Others. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. The Intercolle giate Athletic Association adopted and submitted to the rules committee tonight a resolution calling for a modification of the football playing rules to reduce in Jury to contestants to a minimum. The resolution, introduced by Professor K. K. Hall, of Dartmouth, and adopted after three hours of acrimonious discus sion, follows: "That the football rules committee of this association be instructed to use every possible endeavor to bring about such a modification of the rules as in its Judg ment shall tend to reduce to a minimum the danger of physical injury to players and at the same time retain as far as possible the most desirable and whole some features of the game." Negative Votes Three. Only three votes were registered against the resolution, but nearly every college in the West had something to say concerning it Professor Alonzo A. Stagg, of the Uni versity of Chicago, made a motion that would prohibit all officials of a football game, including umpires, referees and participants from talking to newspaper men after the game. Stagg made a strong appeal for this motion, saying he had been grossly misquoted at times. Th convention defeated the motion by an overwhelming vote. The revision of the game was ordered, it Is understood, with due consideration of Tale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Cornell of the association and a few other institutions that' are not members of the intercollegiate organiza tion. Harvard has Joined the association, hut Its representative let it be known that his institution would not be bound by the new football rules of the asso ciation, although it would recognize its regulation of other minor sports. A letter was read, from David Starr Jordan, president of Lei and Stanford University; asserting that the American game had been abandoned there and that the English Rugby game had been found satisfactory, not only to the students but to the spectators. West Point submitted a resolution which called for a radical change In the playing rules, but this, with other resolutions, was substituted by the resolution offered by Mr. Hall, of Dart mouth. It became apparent that the larger (Concluded on Page 2L) OREGON OPPORTUNITIES. In nearly every industry there is a field for profitable invest ment in Oregon for the man of small or large means. For the agriculturist, reasonable prices of land, rich soil, ideal climate and ready market combine to offer unexcelled advantages. In wheatraising, dairying, hop growing, gardening and kin dred pursuits profits are cer tain, while the production of apples and other fruits holds out tempting rewards to the orchardist. The mineral re sources of the state have hard ly been touched, and large tracts of land are available for stockraising. In no state are to be found better openings for capital than are held out in commerce and real estate, both in Portland and throughout Oregon. The New Year's Oregonian will tell what is being done in these industries and will give a clear idea of what others may do who cast their lot in this state. Opportunities that are opened up for the first time by railroad construction into Central Oregon will receive special attention, and numer ous articles on Portland will review the most prosperous year in the city's history. The Annual will be printed next Saturday. Price 5 cents. Postage in the United States, . Canada and Mexico, 4 cents. Foreign postage, 8 eentsi ! SOUL FOR MUSIC LACKING i Americans Are Musical Barbarians, Professor Harris Says. CHICAGO, Dec. 28. 'The - American people are musical barbarians and the function of the American musician is to civilize the people." This declaration by President A. W. Harris, of Northwestern University, was the keynote of the 31st annual convention of the Music Teachers' National Asso ciation, which met here today. "It is regrettable " that music plays such a little part in the education of the people," said President Harris, "and It is a shame that college graduates know so little of the subllmer works of music. INSANE FUGITIVE DEAD Man Who Dashed lYnm Boat Into Woods Drowns in Slough. HOQUIAM. Wash., Dec. 28. Dick Stone, an insane man, who escaped from a boat yesterday' and dashed into the woods, was found dead early this morn ing In Preachers' Slough, near this city. The body showed bruises the fugitive had received in his Insane flight through the brush In the woods. Following foot prints to the edge of the slough, the searching party succeeded In hooking the body out of about 14 feet of water. HORSE IN PLAY RUNS AMUCK Untrained Animal Charges Scenery and Tram ps on Su p posed Dead . ST. JOSEPH, MoH Dec 28. An un trained horse in the scene of "Sherl dan's ride," the play "Shenandoah," be came frightened tonight and charged the scenery. It stepped on several supposedly dead soldiers, who ran yelling from the stage. KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PROFESSOR. NEWYQRKLEADERS YIELD TO HUGHES Agreement Reached at Raines' Funeral. DIRECT PRIMARY AT ISSUE Concession Goes Further Than Governor's Friends Hoped. STRONG LEADERS SCARCE Republicans. Fear Alliance Between Hughes Men and Democrats. Invest! gating Committee First Opposes Plans. BT T,TXYD-F IjONERGAS. XEJW TORK, Dec. 28. (Special.) A committee of the New York State legis lature traveled all over the United States last Summer and Fall, "Investigating"' the subject of direct nominations. It was an open secret before its members left town that they would report against the plan, and when they came home they made no bones about declaring that the election and primary laws would remain as they were at present, with perhaps a few minor alterations. But as for direct nominations why, the suggestion was absurd. All of which naturally leads up to the statement that New York Is going to have direct nominations. In a partial form, at least, before the time irolls around to elect delegates this Fall. State Chairman Timothy L. Woodruff has said so. after a consultation with the men who are supposed to run the G. O. P. in the Empire State. Minor Officers, Only, Included. Woodruffs proposal is that Aldermen, Assemblymen and minor officers gener ally, shall be selected at direct primaries, together with all delegates to conven tions. But- he .is not willing- to, concede a direct vote oiv Governor or other state candidates. Even the most ardent advocates of di rect nominations admit that Mr. Wood ruff makes a good argument against ac ceptance of the plan in every case. The state chairman points out that in the Re publican party, the rural districts have a majority, while In the camp of the Democrats, the countrymen would be at a decided disadvantage. It would prob ably result,, he says. In Democrats from the city running against Republicans from the country, which would cause sectional feeling and be a bad thing all around. Woodruff and the other leaders did not make these concessions because they be lieve In direct nominations. They are as bitterly opposed to them as they were a year ago. The fact Is that they realise that they must conciliate Governor Hughes and the men who fight with him, or the results are likely to be disastrous. The recent election made the Hughes men more powerful than they have been at any time since the Governor flret took office. ' This was followed by three (Concluded on Page 3.) WIRELESS PLANS ALL ARE STOLEN GREAT BRITAXV MOTJRXS LOSS OF YEARS OF W ORK. f Theft of Sketches From Schoolship Vernon Charged to Richard Know lilen, Who Is on Trial. LONDON, Dec. 28. The wholesale theft of "wireless plans, medals and sketches. which In the hands of an expert would reveal all the workings and innermost secrets of the wireless service of the British Navy is charged against Richard Knowlden. who was placed on trial at Portsmouth today. . Knowlden is a draughtsman attached to the torpedo schoolship Vernon. In his room were found no less than SO plans for wireless improvements and cod-, ing books- of the most confidential char acter. The authorities attach the greatest Im portance to the arrest, for they contend if the documents abstracted from the Vernon had reached foreign governments all the labor of recent years given to the perfecting of a wireless system for the British Navy would have been rendered practically fruitless. 'PURE FOOD' WILEY TO QUIT Government Expert Chemist, Turned Down on Decisions, Takes Action. WASHINGTON, D. C-. Dec. 28. (Spe cial.) The "what is whiskey" discussion is said to have resolved Dr. Harvey W. Wiley that he will not fool any more with a Government that does not appre ciate his earnest pure-food efforts, and it is said that he has decided to offer his resignation as chief of the Bureau of Chemistry. The ruling of President Taft in the whiskey question was in a sense the culmination of a series of upsets for Dr. Wiley, a review of the record showing that he has been overruled on every im port ant proposition since the enactment of the pure food laws. Opportunities in private employment by food manufacturers are abundant for the doctor and the Government need not think it can trifle with him in the belief that he has to hang on to his Job. FANG GLAD HE'S LEAVING Kx-Minister From China Says United States Worried Him. r. NEW TORK, 5ec. 28. Declaring that the United States hardly knew- ww to deal with violators of the law as a result of the two murders committed here in hhe toner war, ex-Minister of Qhina Wu Ting Fang, who was a guest of a dinner hero In the heart of China town tonight, said: 'In China we know how to deal with such people. When I read in the news papers of such things as occurred last night, of the wanton murders committed by these tongs and of their crimes I am ashamed of my nation and I am glad that I am no longer ite Minister, and I am glad I am leaving here. Tou people' you gentlemen of the United States come and ask me about these things, and you worry me. For that reason I am glad I am going away." . BOBCAT IS CHICKEN THIEF Albany Resident Slays Wild Animal With Random Shot. ALBANY, Or., Dec. 28. (Special.) A bobcat was killed within the city limits of Albany last night, being the first wild animal killed close to the city in a great many years. It was shot by D. B. Speer, Chickens have been disappearing re cently and all wondered why. Last even ing P. F. Altermatt heard a commotion In his chicken-house. He and Speer, his neighbor, secured guns, thinking a cat had been stealing chickens, and located It under a barn close to the chicken house. Speer, fired, killing the Intruder, and . when the animal was dragged out It proved to be a bobcat. It had taken five chickens under the barn before it was killed. CHAUFFEUR IS HELD UP Lone Highwayman Gets $7.50 at Fourteenth and Couch. Fourteenth and Couch streets was the scene of a hold-up at 2:15 o'clock this morning, when James Dolen chauffeur for the Studebaker Company, was relieved of $7.50 by a lone high wayman who wore a mask. Search of the neighborhood by a squad of police failed to find any trace of the robber. CONGRESSMAN'S SON KILLS Youth Commits Suicide in Club. Cause Vnknown. ST, LOUIS, Dec. 28. Jerome M. Coudry, 18 years old, son of Congressman Harry M. Coudry, shot and killed himself to night in his apartments at the Bucking ham Club. Congressman Coudry is en route from Washington in a special train. No cause for tho suicide Is known. MINERS RACE FOR LIFE Fifty Men Tunnel to Save Comrade Entombed by Explosion.- MOLESTER, Okla., Dec 28. Fifty men are tunneling into the Bolen Darnel mine near here ill an effort to rescue Angelo Ascinar, a shotfirer, en tombed by a ' premature explosion tonight. SUNNYSIDE LOSES BY RULE OF ORDER Blunder Costs New Schoolhouse. DISTRICT MEETING EXCITING. Motion to Buy More Land for Jefferson Voted Down. TAX WILL BE FIVE MILLS Report of Board of Education Is Adopted Without Debate Levy Ordered Will Raise Fund of $1,108,800 Next Year. Residents of Sunnystde properly ay charge Robert's Rules of Order and the impatience of the peopl of the. Rose City to secure a school build ing for the defeat of their request for a tax of one-tenth of a mill for ad ditional school grounds at the annual meeting last night of the taxpayers of school district number 1. Aa it was, the meeting ratified the rec ommendations of the Board of Education which included a levy of 5 mills for school purposes and authority to hold a spe cial election in the near future when there will be submitted to the legal 'voters of the district the proposal of voting J360.000 of 20-year 4 per cent bonds for an additional high school on the West Side. Board's Report Is Tabled. The meeting, which was attended by less than 250 of the 20,849 legal voters of the district, had accepted an amend ment to the report of the directors author izing the levying of an additional tax of one-tenth of a mill for the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Sun nystde school. In the meantime, the requests of the friends of the Jefferson and Washington high schools for an (Concluded on Page 5.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 33 degrees; minimum. 6 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds. National. Quartermaster-General will permit Oregon bidders on lumber contract to furnish. freight rate guarantee. Page 3. Taft' s special message on trust law changes goes to Congress next week. Page 0. Reclamation Service considered safe from abolishment. Page 5 Anny engineers recommend improvements for Columbia River. Page 23. Senator Carter believed to be after Newell's scalp. Page 13. Foreign. All wireless plans of British navy stolen. Page 1. Turkish 'Cabinet driven out of office, and military premier may result. Page 4. Zelaya asserts that he still is President of Nicaragua. Page 4. Politics. Republican leaders in New Tork agree to Governor Hughes plan for direct pri maries. Page 1. Domestic. James Gordon, once accused of conspiring with Booth to kill I,1ncoln, named United States Senator by Governor Noel, of Ten nessee. Page tS. John T. Murphy, Jr., son of millionaire Mon tana stockman, wants divorce and ali mony. Page 4. Aurora Borealis caused by gas. says South ern, chemist expert. Page 1. New York Supreme Court justice s&ys pa triotism age gives way to graft age. Page 3. Brokaw gives his definition of drinking man on stand. Page 3. Missouri Telephone Company testifies Amer ican owns 65 per cent of stock In local concern. Page 2. Second blizzard threatens Chicago with fuel famine, with 900O cars of coal at doors. Page 1. Union officer hints influences are at work that will end strike soon. Page S. Hundred fifty-ight largest cities spend. billion dollars annually. Page 6. Father becomes Deputy Sheriff to return erring; son from Los Angeles to Chadron, Neb. Page 7. Henry C. Ostermann, who dazzled Walla Walla by lavish spending, dropped, as president of firm. Page 6. Sports. Intercollegiate Athletic Association adopts resolution to revise football rules to min imize danger. Page 1. Danny O'Brien to meet Frankie Ed wards, in place of Ned Whitman, who fractures wrist when draining. Page 7 Commercial and Marine. Grain market relaxes with holiday dullness. Page 17. Reaction in Chicago wheat market. Page IT. Rock Island episode does not affect, general stock market. Page 17. Ship Foxley experiences trouble because longshoremen break 190S contract. Page 16. Pacific Northwest. Fully 500 men are engaged In surveying for three railroads on the Clearwater, page Oregon girl, deserted by husband at Aber deen, is ill and in want. Page 4. Warrant asked for Seattle prosecutor on charge of threat to kill. Page 6. Idaho sheepherder slays homesteader after Quarrel. Page 0- Portland and Vicinity. Multnomah Bar Association charges that corporations bribe jurors in damage suits. Page 12. Water Board recommends 75-eent minimum rate on water. Page 18. Mayor Simon refuses to give consent to Las- relburst Park projectors' proposition. Page 18- Be ginning January 1. freight service between Portland and Grays Harbor will place lo cal jobbers on equal footing with Sound merchants. Page 16. filletz settlers file demurrer- and ask eject ment of squatters. Page 11. Husband, answering wife's divorce com plaint, accuses her of spitting in his face. Page 11. Southeast comer of Alder and Seventh sells for J200.OOO. Page lu. Irvington residents raise futd to equip play ground, to be open to all children. Page 11. Permit for new Heillg Theater swell total for December to large figure. Fags 12.