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TOE MORNING OREGONIAX, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1910. LOS ANGELES TRIM FDR AIRSHIP MEET NULLNUHSES IRATE DAUGHTER OF FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, WHOSE DIVORCE CASE MAY BE REOPENED. Annual White Carnival Aspersions Cast by Women of Profession Stir Up Storm. Grandstand to. Seat 25,000 Well Under Way, Aviation Course Ready. COUNTER. CHARGES MADE A 200,000 VISITORS ARE DUE Many Aviators Assemble Craft to Perpare for Contests -Curtiss Machine Arrives All Types of Plane There. LOS ANGELES, Cel., Jan. 2. With work on the grandstand that will seat 25.000 persons, and on the course at "Aviation Camp" at Dominguez well under way, and with several of the aeronauts and aviators who are to take part in the contests of the Los Angeles meet already here, the city has made iinal plans for the coming- event Estimates made by the committee to day from data received by railroad of ficials in different centers of the coun try place the number of visitors who will come to Los Angeles to witness the flights at from 150,000 to 200,000. The aeroplane, wht.ch will "be entered by Glenn II. Curtiss, arrived yesterday in charge ofa mechanic, and is now be ing assembled. Willard Is Ready. Charles F. AVIllard, of New York, who has made many flights in a Curtiss machine, is here with Curtiss machine No. l, which has already been set up. Roy Knabenshue and Lincoln Beachey are here with two dirigible balloons which will be seen in flights during the meeting, and will be entered in the competitions for altitude and distance, J. H. Classen has sent two aeroplanes to this city in charge of George Dues - ler. They will be entered in several of the prize competitions. Frank Johnson, of San Francisco, who has just brought a Curtiss machine from the East, is on the way here with it. Clifford B. Harmon, the New York aero naut, is held "on the Santa Fe train at Selisman, Arizona, by washouts. His machine arrived yesterday. He ateo has sent here the monster balloon New York, holder of the United States duration record made at the St. Louis- meet, of 48 hours, 26 minutes, and also holder of the altitude record for the United States of 24.200 feet and winner of the Lahm bal loon cu-p for distance flight of 697 miles. Boston Aeroplane Waiting. Hillman Beachey is also here with the aeroplane built in Baltimore by H. N. Gill. Members of the French aviation syndi cate, headed by Louis Faulhan, and con taining also Mme. Paulhan, Masson, Mas carol and half a dozen mechanics-, will leave New York Monday morning on a special train, according ro information pent to the aviation committee tonight. Four machines, two Farmons and two Bleriots, are being brought by the party. A. P. Lambert, of Beloit, Wis-., is ex pected to arrive during the week with a Curtiss biplane. Louis Be red oil, of Phll- adfclphia, will bring a Bleriot monoplane, From San Francisco two monoplanes and a biplane, manufactured by local invent ors, are to" arrive during the week. Cap lain A. E. Mueller has assembled his im mense monoplane, which has a spread of 75 feet, and will sail to th,e "aviation camp" from Venice, a distance of 20 miles. Los Angeles Inventors have en tered six aeroplanes in the competitions. A permanent aviation course of 1 miles is being laid off at aviation camp. It 1 intended to hold othen.meets here at frequent interi'als. The total entries in the three divisions have now reached SO and the committee expects that by the end of the week all of the machines and aviators will have arrived. BLIND READER PLEASES iMlwardPAbner Thompson Recites Famous Indian Poem. -The Light That Failed," Kipling's pathetic story, came vividly back to one last niffht -while listening to Edward Abner Thompson's recital griven before a circle of invited guests at the Mansion, on Sixth and JefferBon streets. Here was a man in the prime of life, vigorous, capable of, strong intellectual work, robbed of his eyesight by an accident. A man of handsome and winning per sonality condemned to inaction and lone liness. And yet a man who lives in a world he actually seems to see, or else how could he so vividly digest nature's sights and colors in his superb render ing of "Hiawatha?" While he spoke accompanied by-the music of old, old In dian melodies, his hearers surely saw the drama of the famous Indian poem with his eyes. Now and then tho re citer sinprs between his readings, as he possesses a very fine bass voice. Mr. Thompson is ar New Englander, a graduate of Bowdoin College, and at first studied law. When first his sight began to fail he studied oratory at .the Currle School of Expression in Boston, and be came a teacher at the same school until his sight failed him completely. His only resource left seemed his oratorical power. Ills readings, songs from Shakes peare and Drowning, to the rendering of comic Irish songs, he includes, too. his fine dramatization of Holman Day's novel. "King Spruce." "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" are still ringing in our ears, and the radiance of the Christmas star as well a.s the brightness of the many Christmas candles, seem still to be shining on our dally work in homes and churches. It is In these places that we should welcome this stranger within our gates and gather to listen to his mes sage from the land of poetry and art In which he lives and hears and sees! ELIZABETH TAUSC1I. POLICE SUSPECT PARTNER Clothing Miinufjuturor Fdunil Iead, liound Hand and Koot. NEW YORK. Jan. 2. Morris Nathan son, a real estate holder and clothing manufacturer, was found dead today in the loft of his factory, bound hand and foot. The loft wasi filled with es caping gas. There were no marks of violence. The Coroner does not believe that a man with only one free hand could have tied the knots. The police detained Isaac H. Gold, his partner, on the strength of what the police say is a. disagreement" be tween his own story of his movements last night and that told by his wife. Uold was released on II 000 bail. San IMego Has Heavy Kain. SAX rIKOO. Cal., Jan. 2. Nearly half an Inch of rain fell today, mak ing 1.62 inches for the storm. I . ., . : T ........ fillillff - - -: - i - ' v RUTH BRYAN LEAVITT. SUIT MAY REOPEN Leavitt Dissatisfied With Di vorce Given Wife. ARTIST STILL IN -PARIS Friends Returning- From Abroad Say He Chafes Under Present Status of Affairs and May Seek Recourse Before Court. NEW YORK, Jan. 2. (Special.) Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt may find herself with a husband after all. It was reported that W. H. Leavitt, from whom she ob tained a divorce, will ask to bave tne suit reopened. Mrs. Leavitt has been living in Colorado since her divorce was ob tained, while her husband remained in Paris. It Is from friends of Leavitt who have Just returned from abroad that the in formation comes of his supposed inten tion. The report is that Leavitt never has been able to rest under the implied reproach of being a divorced husband. He also resents the fact that his chil dren were awarded to his mother's custody. Following the divorce of the Leavitt couple, which was conductedaiost quietly, reports got abroad that their troubles while married had been jArgely the re sult of Mr. Leavitt'a emotional tempera ment. In short, is was wtiispered that Leavitt could have produced evidence that the trouble was by no means one-sided. However, he made no contest and Mrs. Leavitt got all she demanded In her suit. Since her divorce Mrs. Leavitt has kept herself well in the public eye. She is a suffragist and has taken a somewhat prominent part in work for that cause. She also Is a worker for prohibition. She has several times made herself conspicu ous in tho Presidential campaigns of her distinguished father, and at the last Na tional Republican convention drew at tention to herself and Alice Roosevelt Longworth -by introducing herself pub licly to the then President's daughter. MARKETOUTLOOK BRIGHT HEAVY PROFITS AVAILABLE FOR NEW ENTERPRISES. Wage Question, Complicated by Higher Cost of Living, Only Obstacle to Prosperity. NEW YORK, Jan. 2. The last week of the old year in Jhe stock market was taken up with preparations for the annual money settlements and needs to be supplied In that way restricted the resources available for stock mar ket operations. The tone was cheer ful and hopeful. Money on call rose to a higher rate than had been touched since the re laxation in January, 1908, from the after-panic stringency. Compared with average rates for that period, the 7 per cent rate that was reached was moderate. Unprecedented disbursements to be made In January were accepted as a measure of profits and heavy demands for new capital which lie ahead of the money market as a measure, of productive enterprise. The drop in foreign exchange rates, the lowering of foreign discount rates and the easing of time money rates are symptoms of the adequacy of prep arations for the year and money strain and of prospects for relaxation after the turn of the year. Expectation is almost universal that the coming year will see the industrial records of last year eclipsed. The speculative significance of this outlook is interpreted In the light of the heavy accumulation of securities believed to have been made by the cap italists and still held by them., their probable purpose being to distribute the holdings at profitable prices. The wage question being forced on the railroads, the hi?h cost of living which complicates that problem and the political side given to the financial prospect In the legislative, judicial and executive treatment of corporation questions are the possible obstacles to a prosperous course of the stock mar ket speculation. Heavy Steel Is in Demand. NEW YORK. Jan. 2 Specifications on contracts for finished steel prod- ucts were heavy in the last week of the year, notably for structural mate rial, steel sheets and wire products. Orders for small buildings in various parts of the country have been placed, calling for 25,000 tons of fabricated steel, making the December total 125, 000 tons. Contracts for 1909 aggre gated almost 1,500,000 tons. Orders for heavy section rails ag gregated 15.000 tons. Rail contracts now under consideration call for 130, 000 tons, including the Baltimore & Ohio, the Jersey Central, Panama, De' aware & Eastern and Albany & South ern. In billets and plain structural shapes an easier tone prevailed. Specifications for steel bars, plates, shapes and axles aggregating 25.000 tons have been placed. Wire products have- been ac tive, new orders for December averag ing 7200 tons a day,and specifications 6100 tons. Specifications for the year have averaged 6000 tons daily. Pig iron contracts for the month have ag gregated 173,000 tons in all districts. CHINA DEMANDS MACAO EMPIRE TELLS PORTUGAL IT HOLDS ISLE ILLEGALLY. Arbitration Declined, f Orientals De claring Kingdom: Has Right Only to Town. PEKIN, Jan. 2. Negotiations extend ing over five months between China and Portugal on the question of the Macao boundary, have failed, and toda' the Chinese government sent a formal mes sage to the Portuguese government that under no circumstances will it consent to arbitrate. It is pointed out that only China and Portugal can settle this ques tion between themselves. Macao is on an island of the same name at thej mouth ofylbe Canton River. China holds that for soiird years all de pendencies of the city of Macao have been occupied Illegally by Portugal and that the only concession of territory ever made to Portugal was the town or Macao. China insists that the adjacent Island be evacuated by Portugal. At the Hongkong conference the Chr nese delegates refused to recognize Por tugal's claim in Macao or to submit the question to arbitration. Later the Por tuguese government sent General Mache do to China in the hope of reaching an amicable settlement of the dispute, but he failed in this mission. 10AHO COURT TERMS SET Judge to Hold Four Trial Tr-tods to Expedite Cases. MOSCOW, Idaho. Jan. 2. (Special.) Judge Steele today made an order fix ing the terms of the District Court for the counties of Nez Perce, Idaho and Latah for 1910. Court will be held as follows: Lewlston, Nez Perce County, January 17: March 14, May 16 and October 3; Grangeville. Idaho County. February 14, May 26 and Sep tember 1; Moscow, Latah County, April 11, August 22 and November 14. Heretofore Judge Steele has been holding only two terms of court in each county. To expedite court busi ness and to avoid holding persons ac cused of crime In jails for long periods, he decided to make his terms shorter, but more frequent. LOGGING DAM IS FAVORED South - Bend Business Men Favor Willapa Company's Petition. SOUTH B15XD. Wash., Jan. 2. (Spe cial.) At a special meeting of the South Bend Commercial Club, a resolution was adopted requesting the state's representa tives in Congress to use their influence to secure permission for the Willapa Log ging Company to rebuild its dam on North River. The dam was carried out in th high water of December 6. and logging operations have been at a standstill evcr slnce. A resolution was adopted urging the representatives to secure, if possible, 'be appropriation TJT $218,000, recommended by the Secretary of War. for the dredg ing of a channel IS feet deep and 200 feet wide from the mouth of the Willapa River to Raymond, on the Willapa. Heater Asphyxiates Woman. EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 2. Mrs. Ethel Irwin, wife of General Manager H. H. Irwin, of the Southwestern Bell Tele phone Company, who came here recent ly from Salt Lake, was found dead In her bathroom today. She was asphyxiated accidentally by gas from a heater. Women as Well as Men Attendants Sample Patients'- Liquor, It Is Said, but Masculine Nurses All , Declare They Are Good. When the women nurses of Portland ventured to back up Dr. S. Means Greg ory, of Bellevue Hospital, New York, when he said, "No man becomes a male nurse unless there Is something the mat ter with him," they stirred up consider able of a storm. The men nurses of Portland are exceedingly Irate. They don't think much of women nurses, and have not hesitated to express their opin ions. Most of them admit, with S. A. Gilson, a graduate man nurse, that many men nurses do look on the wine when It is red and do perhaps use "dope," but they say there are some who do not, and every one interviewed declares he is of the lat ter number. Some of them even hint delicately that women nurses sometimes sample pa tients' liquor, just to see if it is safe for the patient to touch, of course, and they all declare that while the woman nurse ought to be better than the man, as a rule, but she really Isn't. Men Nurses Not Alone Bad. "My sister nurse says if there is a good male nurse she has yet to meet him," declares M. B. Rutherford, a graduate male nurB. "I have yet to neet a good woman nurse." When this remark was conveyed to several graduate female nurses last night they expressed a fond desire to pull Mr. Rutherford's hair. They strong ly resent any suggestion of their infe riority. Mr. Rutherford inferred something personal was Intended in the remarks of the woman nurse quoted last Tues day in The Oregonian. "I do not know who the woman nurse is who calls me lazy, a drunk ard and ungentlemanl-y," he 'continued. "I know as a rule male nurses do drink and use 'dope,' so are short lived in any .one place, but my record is open to the public and my patients and their friends will stand by me. "I do not charge more than women nurses myself, but I do not vouch for some male nurses who I know charge J7.60 a day. As to being lazy, can a nurse be lazy and still be a success? No. I take only those cases my sister nurses cannot handle, and when I have been called upon to help one out, I bave, as soon as only one nurse was needed, left the case to her and never sup planted her." Women Not Convinced. "We never thought of Mr. Rutherford." declared a pretty woman nurse. "He probably Is everything he says and there are others like him, but most male nurses are simply horrid." George E. MacLafferty takes issue witn Dr. Gregory. Mr. MacLafferty said he was at Bellevue when lDr. Gregory had charge of the insane pavilion. "There were no male nurses there, only order lies," said Mr. MacLafferty. "The .habit of taking 'dope' and drinking the pa tients' liquor is not entirely confined to the ranks of the male nurses," said Mr. MacLafferty. "It sometimes extends into those of the female nurses. "The woman nurse makes a machine of herself, following the orders of the doctor. Nothing more, nothing less. The male nurse is more apt to fall back on his own knowledge in a crisis." Mr. Gilson declares he is thoroughly reliable, and while admitting there are. many "who fight the booze," he con tends they are in reality the exception. But the girl nurses won't bo persuaded. They say they don't like the male nurses Just because they don't. And that's the end of it. COHESION NOT LIKED MEMPHIS CITIZENS ENJOIN NEW PLAN OF GOVERNMENT. Eiglit to Finish Promised by Men Who 'Declare System Arbitrary and Despotic. MEMPHIS, Term., Jan. 2. (Special.) Alleging that the present commission plan of city charter, which went into effect today and under which E3. H. Crump was sworn in as Mayor at ljoon, is unconstitutional, seven taxpayers, within two hours from the time Mayor Crump took the oath of office, filed suit and secured a temporary injunc tion, restraining- him from performing the duties of Mayor. The charter is branded as illegal in the petition to the court, and it is asked that on a hearing of the case, the act establishing the new city government be declared unconstitutional, null and void. The seven petitioners state that the new governmental instrument con fers arbitrary and despotic powers on the commission, and takes from the people of the city the rights they should have in their own governments In support of this allegation the bill states that tbe office of City Judge, which was elective under the old law, is now within the power of the com mission to bestow. THOMPSON Eye Sight Specialist -1 - - - ' i iis;; TNI !,:?; Tea Yetrs In PorllsnA and the Largeiit Prartlrc In tbe Pa cific Northwest. Second Floor Corbett BJdg. 5th and Morrison Sts. Member American Aoclatlon of Optome-trtfttw. 1 i ! " MERCHANDISE OF ME Our prices fall to the very lowest level in this sale. Un biased and disinterested comparisons prove that most pro nounced economy and best values are to be found here. BHD MEAT MENACES Danger to Public Real, Says Bureau Chief. ATTACKS CALLED UNJUST Diseased Animals, Melvin Declares, Are Diverted to Establishments Xot Tinder Inspection. Many Condemned. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. That half thal meat eaten in the United States can be called uninspected and that a real and serious danger to the public ex ists as a result is one of the conclusions reached by Dr. A. D. Melvin,-Chief of the United. States Bureau of Animal Industry, in his annual report to the Secretary of Agriculture, made public today. Inefficiency of the Government in spection because of its lack of author ity to reach business done . entirely within a state is given as one of. the causes, and Dr. Melvin points out the great need of supplementing th'e Gov ernment Inspection of meats with state and municipal inspections. Suspected Meat Diverted. "One result of the Federal inspection is to cause the diversion of diseased and suspicious looking animals to the uninspected establishment, where they are slaughtered for the local market," says thereport. Notwithstanding the efforts to give competent inspection, the Federal serv ice has been unjustly attacked, the report asserts. The incidents at East St. -Louis are . recalled and Dr. Melvin says the charges there had their foun dation in animus and not in fact. Million Animals Condemned. More than 36,000,000 animalswere in spected at the time of slaughter in the fiscal year just closed and more than 1,000,000 were condemned in whole or in part. On re-inspection there were condemned more than 25,000,000 pounds of meat and meat products, which had become unwholesome since Inspection at the time of slaughter. The inspection service had an appro- It Is a K Air when heated becomes drier, but it is the heating of the air and not the method by which it is heated that dries it. 'Do you know that some of the finest residences in the city are heated by warm-air furnaces, installed by us? And.it is a fact that we install most of the heating plants usually without competition because people know we're fair and give SATISFACTION.' . ' . The W. G. McPherson Co. 328 GLISAN STREET, HEATING ENGINEERS. priation of $3,000,000 and spent $2,884.-000. RATE CUT CANNERY AID Tariff From Lewiston to Coast Re duced 25 Cents a Hundred. LEWISTON, Idaho, Jan. 2.--(Special.) The canning Industry in the Lewiston country received a big boost yesterday when the new Union Pacific tariff be came effective. - It provides a reduc tion from 65 to 40 cents a hundred for canned fruit or vegetables from Lew lston to Coast points. One of the Lewiston canneries is completing its pack and will have pro duced forty carloads of the finest pro duct since September 1.' The bulk of this pack has been marketed at Coast points. The reduction in freight charg es made by the railroad company is only construed to mean that the trans portation companies intend to lend their assistance in building up such in dustries In the Inland Empire. The business created by the cannery is largely new as but little of the raw products used at the canning factories their way to the markets in green fruits and vegetables. The Lewiston Blant this Winter shipped second-grade apples from the Yakima and Palouse sections and as far south as Dayton to be used in- the preparation of pie ap ples, apple butter and other similar products. The operation of the plant has not only provided a payroll of $500 a week during the Winter, but also provided a market for the fruitgrowers' products that was otherwise unsalable, creating considerable tonnage for the railroad companies. CHEHALIS NOW GETS NEWS Altered Train Service Will Bring Oregonian in Early in Morning. CHfoHALIS. Wash., Jan. 2. (Spe cial.) The new train schedule whereby the people of Chehalla and other South western Washington cities will be enabled to get The Oregonian at an early hour in the forenoon will be much appreciated in this city. For years the morning newspapers have been unable to reach this midway point until the noon hour, or later. The Ore gonian has a splendid patronage here as it is. owing to its excellence as a news paper, and the new schedule ought to enable it to materially extend its business all along the line in this section. Under the new schedule Chehalis will receive The Oregonian shortly after 10 o'clock. x Bryan Starts for Panama. COLON, Jan. 2. W. J. Bryan arrived today on the steamer Magdalena. He immediately took a train for Panama. Fad To Talk About Furnace Heat as "Dry Heat" HELEN BOYLE SICK Kidnaper of Willie Whitla Has Appendicitis. OPERATION MAY BE NEEDED Attack Comes Suddenly Alter Moving "Picture Show Her Husband, in Same Jail, Notified Efforts Made to Reduce Sentence. PITTSBURG. Pa.. Jan. 2. (Special.) Mrs. Helen Boyle, the handsome wife of James Boyle, one of the kidnapers 'of Willie Whitla, of Sharon, Pa., who is serving a 25-year sentence in Western Penitentiary, here, is seriously ill as the result of an attack of appendicitis. She was stricken yesterday immediately after a moving picture show was given in the chapel and was hurried to the prison hospital. TRe;' attack was diag nosed as appendicitis and a consultation of the prison physicians was held today to determine whether or not an oper ation will be necessary. It was decided to wait until tomorrow on account of the prisoner's condition Word was sent to James Boyle, the wo man's husband, who is also a prisoner in the same institution, serving out a life sentence for his part in the kidnaping. Prominent attorneys are making strong efforts to have Mrs. Boyle's sentence re duced. - 1 EUGENE GETS VERMONTER Arthur Hayes Sargent Takes Charge of Unitarian Church Work. EUGENE, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) Arthur Hayes Sargent, recently rom Vermont, lias taken charge of Uni tarian Church work in this city. The local society is pleased with the pros pects of a strong organization here. Mr. Sargent is a graduate of the Uni versity of Vermont, studied two years at Meadville . and Union Theological Seminaries, and is a graduate of Har vard Divinity School. When President Taft attended Unitarian Church serv ices in Salt Lake last Fall Mr. Sargent delivered the sermon.