VOL. Ij. NO. 15,349. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WIRELESS AGAIN ROBS SEA OF PREY Steamer Kentucky Is Lost; All Lives Saved. ALAMO HEARS GALL, RESPONDS Distress Signal "S. 0. S." Brings Aid Just in Time. HEAVY SEAS OPEN SEAMS Vepsel on Way From New York to Seattle Regular Operator Yield- " cd to Premonition and Refused to Go Aboard Help Sent. NEW TORK, Feb. 4. Once more the wireless has averted d Isaster, for the "S. O. S." eternal of distress, quickly flashing through the ether, this morning: summoned help to a sinking steamer ana tonight Captain Moon and his crew of 4fi men are safe on board the Mallory liner Alamo, while their vessel, the nteamer Kentucky. Is at the bottom of the sea oft Cape Hatteras. It is another case of a. disaster averted by wireless and told to the world by the same medium. The Kentucky, a wooden vessel of 995 gross tonnage and 03 feet, long, was bound from New York to the Pacific Coast for use between Seattle and Alas ka ports for the Alaska-Pacific Steam ship Company. Message of Distress Flashed. First news of the Kentucky's distress was received at the United Wireless Company's station at Cape Hatteras at 11:30 o'clock this morning. There the operator heard the "S. O. S.t" quickly followed by this message: "We are sinking. Our latitude is 32: 10; longitude 7fi::0. Almost simultaneously the operator heard the steamship Alamo respond to the Kentucky's call for help. In forming Capta'n Moore that the A lamo was making all speed to the sinking vessel's assistance. Ktlier Carries News of Hescnc. Thereafter no message w as received from the Kentucky, Indicating that water had interfered with the power, putting her wireless apparatus out of commission. The Navy Department at Washing ton In the meantime flashed wireless fnessages along the Atlantic Coast, dispatching the battleship Louisiana which was on & 24-hour speed trial cruise, and two revenue cutters, the Tamacraw and Seminole, to the scene, but at 6 o'olock word came from the Alamo that she had arrived first and had taken off all hands in safety. This Is the message as received in New York by the United Wireless Company from its Cape Hatteras sta tion: "latitude 32:46; longitude 76:28 Steamship Alamo has just taken Cap tain Moore and crew of 46 men from the sinking Kentucky. Water had al ready reached the flreroom and the steamer will sink before midnight. The Alamo is now proceeding to Key West Rnd Ltu'k Pursues Vessel. Bad luck was the Kentucky's lot al most immediately after she left Now York, January 23, for her 1 4.000-mile journey. About her only good fortune wm when the wireless instruments were the last thing Installed before she weighed anclior. One hundred and fifty miles off Sandy Hook the vessel began leaking badly, but by working the pumps valiantly. Captain Moore was able to reach Newport News with 16 Inches of water in the vessel's hold. Repairs were made and the ship re ceived a certificate from Lloyds and United States Inspectors that she was sound and seaworthy. Operator l-'eared Iisater. Notwithstanding this assurance, T. A. MrlJirney, formerly night operator at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, who had shipped with the vessel when she left this port, refused to continue on t he voyage because h is parents at Montiello, N. Y., had a premonition that something would happen. They bombarded him with messages to this effect and. In deference to their wishes heNbta!ned a substitute operator, W. 1. McGinnis. who sent out the call which saved the lives of his shipmates today. Heavy Seas Batter Ship. After her departure from Newport News the Kentucky found herself buf feting seas which battered her sides and opened her seams. The weather off Hatteras has been very heavy recently and fears were expressed that the steamer might not successfully make the trip. The Kentucky was build In 1S97 at Bath, Me., and christened the Lincoln. She ran between Boston. Bath and Booth Bay for the Kennebec Steamship Company, which sold her to the Flagler interests for service In Florida, The steamer's name was changed to the Martinique, and after some service be tween the ports of Miami, Nassau and Key. West, she was sold to the Eastern Steamship Company for service between New York and Boston. Shev was then rechrlstened the Kentucky. From the Norfolk Navy-Yard at 2:S0 (Concluded on Page 3 TRADE IN BABIES STARTLES WOMAN CAMFORXIA L.AW LAX, SAYS MRS. BARRETT. President of Crlttenton Mission Com ments on Recent Wilson "Quadruplet Case." LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, of Washington, I. C, president of theNatlonal Florence Orit tenton Mission, who is here on official business, cites the recent Wilson "qua druplet case wherein a woman deceived even her own husband and mother into the belief that she had given birth to four babies, as an example of what may be expected under what she terms the lax laws of California. 'Much ado is made about this case because of iUs unique features," said Mrs. Barrett today. "If the four babies had been taken by as mny women nothing would have been thought of It. "The trade in babies in this state la worse than the slave trade. It has been shown through thi one exposure that more than 300 Infants were disposed of by a single maternity home in Los Angeles. Many of these places are not only causes of suffering to women and children alike, but they make possible a system of blackmailing which often leads to still lower depths of sin." Mrs. Barrett said that many Eastern states had passed laws regulating ma ternity hospitals, and the moral effect had been great. In a petition to the Superior Court which will be presented tomorrow, Will iam W. Wilson and his wife will ask that they be allowed to adopt three chil dren previously secured from maternity homes by Mrs. Wilson. The couple have not yet decided whether they will ask for the custody of the four latest ac quisitions to their household. FEARS FOR FARALLON GROW Absence of News and Raging Storm Aggravate Suspense. SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 4. Fears for the safety of the Alaska Steamship Com pany's steamer Farallon are increasing with the passing of time without the ar rival of news of the missing vessel." Four weeks ago the Farallon left Port Gra ham. Aiaska, for ports to the westward and has not been heard from since. The Farallon has a crew of 27 officers and men and carried a few passengers. The steamship A'ictorla was dispatched from Valdez several days ago to search for. tho FaralloK and was expected to report at Seward Thursday morning. A special cable from Seward says that a fearful storm is racing along the Alaska Coast and that the Victoria probably was forced to put out to sea to avoid the dangers of the rocky coast. BODY FINDS NO TAKERS Opponent of Institutional Marriage to Hare Funeral He Opposed. LOS ANGHIjES. Feb. 4. Contrary to the expressed wish of Moses A. Harmon, as contained in his last will, the body of the free thought advocate will not be turned over to New York or Chicago phy sicians for the Instruction of classes in anatomy. Miss Lillian Harmon, who arrived from Chicago today to attend the funeral of the octogenarian, said that no physician had expressed a desire "to take advan tage of the strange bequest; consequently, funeral services will be held tomorrow and the body will be cremated. Memorial services will be held in several of the cities in the LTnited States to morrow and in Kuropean cities at a later date. Advocates of the abolition of in stitutional marriage throughout the world will pay tribute to Mr. Harmon's memory. MRS. BROKAW PLANS TOUR Iefense of Separation Suit Cots Husband $75,000. XEW TORK, Feb. 4. W. Gould Brokaw's defense of his wife's separa tion suit is estimated to have cost him $75,000, and the court's decision filed yes terday will compel him to pay the former Mary Blair $3250 a month alimony. His lawyers are understood to be preparing an appeal. A report to that effect, however, did not seem to affect the spirits today of the victorious plaintiff. I never really had much doubt about the verdict," she declared, "apd I am equally confident tnat if an appeal is filed it' will meet with no success." According to James Klair, her father, Mrs. Brokaw will go abroad soon with her mother and sister. ( UNIVERSITY ISVEGETARIAN Washington Institution May Make Meatless Iiet Permanent. SEATTLE TVash., Feb. 4. A diet with out meat will be tried at the two dormi tories of the University of Washington for one week. If the experiment is suc cessful, meat will be dropped permanently or the quantity eaten greatly reduced. The 200 students will eat their first veg etarian dinner tonight. ' The domestic science department of the university is assisting in preparing the new menu. MAN FALLS FAR, UNHURT Cornice Worker Breaks Two-by-Four Scantling on Way Down. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4. After fall ing from the third story of a building here today and breaking a two by four scantling on his way down. John Per gait, a cornice-worker, landed on his feet and was not seriously injured. INQUIRY MUDDLED WILL BEGIN AGAIN Counsel for Ballinger Needed in Hearing. GLAVIS HAS HAD OWN WAY Committee Unable to Brjng Out Facts of Importance. NELSON HAS SEEN POINT Mere Personalities Thus Far Have Obscured Issues Public Wants to Know About New Turn to Follow Resumption. OREGOXIAN.NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Feb. 4. Adjournment of the Joint hearing of the Ballinger-Pinchot contro versy and its allied subjects' until Feb ruary 11, which was voted today to give newly engaged counsel an opportunity to become, familiar with the details in volved, oomes as tardy recognition of the fact tlmt the hearing was sadly muddled at the start.. The issues in the begin ning have been clouded by personalities. It has seemed at times as if tho main contentions the principles involved were being overlooked utterly. The Joint com mittee, however keen may have been its desire to ascertain underlying facts, has not been familiar with minutiae. The cross-examination of Glavis so-called "star witness" by members of the- com mittee has been resultory and necessarily so. They have been limited In the scope of their inquiry to issues presented vol untarily by Glavis, in response to ques tions framed by studious and careful counsel for himself and his faackers. Balllngers' Judgment Errs. Secretary Ballinger, it is conceded, was actuated by high motives in taking the position thet. his own conscence being clear, he would be justified In letting the facta come out as they would, without ltt or hindrance on his part, and without the aid or intervention of counsel repre senting his side. But this proved to be not practicable. There are truths that in the nature of things Judge Ballinger must know better, and more in detail, than the members of a committee. "W hat Judge Ballinger knows, and such light as he Is able to shed on facte and motives and circumstances, the committee be lieves it should have an opportunity to learn. The testimony alone of Judge Ballinger obviously would not cover the ground. The committee has wished that he would enter the inquiry actively would instil some life into things in other words, be represented, at least by counsel capable of searching and intel ligent cross-examination .and the direction of rebuttal testimony along proper lines. Nelson Sees Drift. This situation was appreciated by Sena tor Nelson even before the fiasco of the opening cross-examination of Glavis. It developed today at the brief public ses sion of the Joint committee that under date of February 2, Senator Nelson wrote m Conoludftd on Page 5.) (Mm if - INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 4t.fl degrees; minimum, 21.0 degrees. TODAY'S Cloudy and threatening-, followed by raj? or snow; easterly winds. Foreign. Roosevelt party reaches Nrmule, "Uganda. on Trr&y to Khartoum;' plans - return to New York In June. Page a. Bill is introduced for Governmental control of Indian papers. Page 2. Court intimates decision will be against Spanish Sackville claimant. Page 2. Rational. Congress disposed to support 'Administra tion's conservation In part, first ascer taining public sentiment. Page li. Ballinger-Plncnot Inquiry muddled by - ab sence of counsel and unfamiliarlty -of committee with details; new start taken. Page 1. Senators opposing postal savings bank bill declare pending measure is not ma tured ; scandal predicted 12 it becomes law. Page li. Pacific Coast members of Congress organise to press demand for fleet of IVO subma rines for harbor defenses. Page 2. Domestic. Dr. J. Whltcomb B rougher and his fam ily warmly welcomed at lxa Angeles. Page . Miners and operators deadlock results In Toledo conference adjournment sine die. Page 5. Woman stops student doctors as they are about to dUsect her father's body. Page I. Prosecution - characterises Mrs. Jeanette Kord as "human vulture, preying upon men," irv trial of woman on blackmail 'charge; may know fate today. Page X Wireless brings aid In time to save all hancHT of steamer Kentucky, which goes to bottom. Page . Sport. Portland Academy defeats Allen preparatory School In basketball. Page T. Conference Colleges propose to hold big track meet in Portland. Page 1. Pacific Northweet. ' Corrupt practices act involves jrreat added labor and expense for which no appropri ation is available. Page 9. Rosehurg business men's - excursion hos pitably received by neighboring towns. Page 0. Oregon flsh catch decreases SOO.OOO pounds, declares Warden in annual 1909 report. Page 13. Aberdeen police rush Gohl to County Jail; attorney deserts him. Page 3. Commercial and Marine. Mexico will remove duty on Imported wheat on February 15. Page 3 7- Wheat prices at Chicago continue to ' de cline. Page 17. Reaction in stock market. Page 17. Conservative- buying In the Jobbing mar kets. Page 3 7. Survey of French bark Bassuet shows little damage, to cargo. Page IB. Portland and Vicinity. Mayor delays proposed Terwliliger boulevard to ascertain costs of acquiring necessary properties. Page 1 0. Man spits tobacco juice in wife's eyes, lat ter wins divorce. Page 16. Oregon Klectric Road manager goes Bast to confer with directors of company. Page 10. Mayor f'imon argues in court for city against automatic fire alarm company. Page 9 Mayor gives opinion State Dairy Commis sioner may name City Inspector's state deputies. Page 12. Cross-examination of Blnger Hermann com pleted. Page 32. Portland women open war for lower street car steps. Page 12. Republican State Central Committee to meet February 32 to work out assembly plan. Paso is. Quarter block on Washington street aold at J.r.noo profit after being held one month. I'agtt J 8. INDEMNITY LAND UP $3 Slate Board Increases Ir1c to $13, Kf fective at Once. SALEM. Or., Feb. 4. (Special.) The State Land Board today ordered the price of indemnity selection lands- advanced from 10 to $33 an acre. The eanie rulea and regulations as before Trill prevail. Including the payment of one-fifth of the purchase price with the application. The price -was advanced laat October from $8.75 to $10. State I -and Agent Ap ple gate says that there has been no ap preciable falling off in the amount of land sold. Sales since last July have been 32,000 acres. The price of Northern Pacific scrip was increased to about .413 recently. The new price goes, into effect at once. FIGHTING THE MEAT TRUST THE VEGETARIAN. PORTLAND TO GET BIG TRUCK MEET This City Favored for Conference Games. EXPENSE GUARANTEE DESIRED Contests May Be Feature of June Rose Festival. WHITWORTH IS SHUT OUT Taconia School Put on Year's Proba tion Fees of Football Officials Are Limited Dates for Other Sports to Be SeU Portland -will be the scene next June of a chamaplonship track and field meet in which teama from the six leading educational institutions will compete for the first time. If a plan suggested at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Intercollegiate Conference in this city yesterday is adopted. It was practically decided that if such a meet were held at all it would come to .Portland. The Only question is one of finances, and it may be that the Hose Festival Association will be asked to guarantee half of the axpenses. Officials' Salaries Limited. Delegates from the six members of the conference were present when the meet ing was held yesterday at the Oregon Hotel and much was accomplished in ad dition to consideration of the big athletic meet. Salaries of football referees and umpires was limited to $25 and that of head linesmen to J10. thus showing the determination of the colleges not to con tinue the exorbitant fees that have some times been exacted. While considering football, the delegates rejected a plan making it optional with the visiting team to take a guarantee of expenses or one half of the gate receipts. This leaves in efleot the present agreement, whereby the home team pays the expenses of the visiting one. ' Committees were appointed to arrange schedules for other sports, such as ten nis, wrestling and cross-country runs. The baseball schedule for the coming season was adopted at a meeting held last December. Football dates ace se lected by negotiations bet-ween the indi vidual colleges. Committee reports will be made at today's meeting. ' WhitwortH Applies In Vain. "Whitworth College, of Tacoma, applied for admission to the conference. The in stitution was asked to conduct its ath letics under conference rules for one year, at the end of which period it may be voted into membership. Chief interest In the meeting centers in the question of holding a track and field meet, in which all of the "Bix Six" shall compete, instead of deciding the cham pionship, as In the past, by dual matches. Such a meet has never been held, last year's conference track and field sports were announced for the Seattle Exposi- tConchJded on Page 7.) DAUGHTER HALTS DISSECTION ACT college students ready to anatomize: father's body. After IOni, Unceasing Search St. Louis Resident Locates Remains in Operating Room. ST. LOC1S. Feb. 4. "Stop! Thax is my father's body!" This command startled students of the St Louis College of Physicians and Sur geons today as they were preparing to dissert the body of Frank Roth. Turning from their task, they were confronted by Mrs. Rosa Huelfmann. who had learned after a long delay where the body had been taken. She had clftnbed a fire escape to a third-story window and stepped into the operating room. Mrs. Huelfmann had no difficulty In proving her claim and the college surrendered the body. Roth died . In the City Hospital. His daughter read in a newspaper of hls death and went to the hospital and asked for the body. It was not there and she was referred to the St. Iouis Anatomical Board, through which she found the body. Roth lost a IT.S.O0O estate In Germany because relatives had heard he died shortly after coming here 50 years ago. 20 WIVES CLAIM COUNT Girl Chokes Von Miller In Jersey City Railway Station. NEW YORK. Feb. 4. Dr. Karl Emll Xon Miller, or Mueller, the "marrying Count," stood siege today in the Hud son County jail in Jersey City by a small army of women who claim 'him as husband. Miller was brought to Jer sey City yesterday from I.os Angeles. He is said to be so plentifully married that a trial for bigamy on some 19 or 20 counts probably awaits him. He was safe behind the bars and failed to display the nervousness he not unnaturally - had exhibited when two women met him at the railroad station on his arrivah when one of them. Miss Bertha Albrecht, throttled him and created a scene by her screams. Miss Albrecht claims the Count merely as a suitor, who, when rejected, solaced himself with $300 of her money. Miss Reglna Verbelman declares the Count married iter in 1908. and that when he left her he took $760 of her money. Miller denies any acquaintance with Miss Albrecht. HATTERS' UNION MULCTED Damans of $70,000 Awarded Man ufacturer It Boycotted. HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 4. The jury in the famous boycott . suit of D. E. Loewe, of Danbury, vs. 200 members of the Hatters' Union in thie state returned a verdict today in favor of the plaintiff for $74,000. It was in Loewe's suit against the Hat. ters' Union that the United States Su preme Court rendered' the famous boy cott decision, holding' that a combination of labor union men to prevent the sale of the goods of a boycotted Arm was a conspiracy in restraint within the mean ing of the Sherman anti-trust act. The verdict for damages appears to be a sequel to this decision in another suit. DOZEN "UNKNOWN" BURIED Colorado Mine Rescuers Work AH Day With Little Result. PRIMERO. CIo.. Feb. 4. No more bodies have been added to the total of 51 recovered from the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company's mine, although large rescuing parties worked all day. Tonight It is said that -a body lias, been found, but that a passage has not been sufficiently cleared to permit bringing It out. Twelve bodies were buried at Trinidad today, being placed in a grave marked "unknown." Five other bodies are in the Trinidad morgue. One has been Identified. State Mine Inspector Jones said tonight that all efforts are being concentrated to ward repairing stopes end forcing air into remote chambers. He is looking for the point where the explosion occurred, to determine, if possible, what caused the disaster. U. S. SUPPLY DEPOT BURNS Fully $500,000 Wortli of Medical Materials In Danger. XEW YORK, Feb. 4. Tho New York Merlcal Supply Oepot of the United States Army at Veeey and West streets, a. seven-story structure, caught fire today and the destruction of the building and $500,000 worth of Army medical supplies it contained was threatened. The fire started in the passenger elevator shaft. Major Kdwin P. "Wolfe, in charge of the depot, and two veteran Army clerks were taken from the fourth floor windows by means of ladders. Major Wolfe was slightly burned. Several explosions occurred on the fourth Iloor, where Major Wolfe said $10, 000 worth of medical supplies ready for immediate shipment to the Panama Canal zone were stacked. These, it is believed, were destroyed. FARMER SLAYS 5 AND SELF Mi nnesota n , Tern pora rily Insane, Murders All but Son. FERGUS FA LLS, Minn.. Feb. 4. Will iam Ruckheim. a farmer aged 35 years, murdered his wife and four children and shot himself lajt night at Parkers Prai rie, lie was found dying- when his son went to the farm today. Ruckheim is believed to have been temporarily insane. Ruckheim declared he had received a divine command to proceed to a certain graveyard, where he and his family wer to exhume several bodies, using only their bare hand. Unless this command were carried out before Easter, Ruckheim said, h And his family would be dragged to death. - LIS 10 COUNTY JAIL Aberdeen Police Take Precautions. LAWYER DESERTS PRISONER Those Who Feared Gohl Now Tell Startling Stories. SEARCH FOR DEAD GOES ON Accused Man Passes Kervous Xight, bnt With Daybreak He Regains Hi Reckless Demeanor His Wife Remains Steadfast.' ; Mr ; t x t i x. i1svtcixpmt?nts in ooht, mfk ji;k charge at aberdken. Prisoner hurried to Montsano after threats of mob violence are made. Attorney called In refuses to defend prisoner. Despite restless nirht in JalL, pris oner maintains careless air. Men who feared sailor agent now come forward with stories of numer ous crimes. Oohl suspected of smujTKlIng-. Search of harbor fails to reveal body of John Hoffman. HURRIED ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb. 4. (Spe cial.) Muttering a grains t "William Grohl, Sailors' Union a teen t arrested yes terdaj- on a charge of murderlnff Charles Hatbertr. led the police this afternoon to remove the prisoner to the County Jail at Montesano. Rumors that actual mob violence had occurred are untrue. Word received tonight from the Sheriff's office at Mon tesano is that there . is no evidence of any movement to take the prisoner from the jail. The move of the police was purely a precaution. Restless Xlght Is Passed. The prisoner passed a restless nig-ht, but today still maintained an air of carelessness. His wife is steadfast In her belief that he is innocent of the numerous crimes to which rumors hava attached his name since his arrest yes terday. Searchers returned at 6:30 tonight from the Indian Creek shack owned by Oohl, empty-handed. The water near that point was dragged all afternoon, without result. A new outfit has been provided and the work will be resume? in the morning. A searching party sent to Gohl'9 South Bay shack to look for the body of Gus Miller, formerly dogcatcher of this city, has not yet returned. fgly. Stories Spring tip. Springing up like the dragon's teeth, accusations, rumors and stories are flooding in upon the police. Many who are bringing to light tf?e past history of Gohl are men who say their lips were sealed by their fear of him, but. now that the law has at last seoured Gohl in its grip, which hourly appears to grow tighter and tighter, their sense of security has loosed their tongues. Added today to the long list of crimes which Gohl will be asked to explain is the disappearance of a former partner, August Miller, one time dog catcher In this city. The prisoner is also believed to know something of smuggling opera tions which are believed to have been carried on along the waterfront shacks. Those Who Quailed Xow Talk. ' Men who quailed before Gohl during his freedom now seem the boldest in attack, and during last night it was feared that those wno had feared one man would defy the several guards at the City Jail and attempt a lynching. This under-current of riot spread to others of the mora turbnlently inclined and this afternoon, fearing that the finding of another body would light the powder, Gohl was spirited from the City Jail and hurried by auto mobile to the County Jail at Montesano. He made the Journey handcuffed to City Detective K. T. Church and Deputy Sheriff Gus Toungeberg. So far as the man's expression of feeling was con cerned, he might as well have been the host In a little outing instead of a man suspected of almost two-score murders. "Must Be Proved," He Replies. Typical of the man's attitude was tha scene at the County Jail. The Jailer had difficulty in reading the warrant and he was Hold it charged Gohl with murder in the first, degree. "That's a bad charge." the jailer remarked. "Ye-s." said Gohl. speaking in. the slight dialect he could never shake off. "It's a fairly serious charge, all right; but then you know a man is never guilty until you prove it." He spoke in a non chalant voice, and dismissed the subject as if discussing the weather. . Search for the body of Hoffman, be lieved to be anchored in the Chehalis River, near the ' Golil shack, some six miles from this city on Indian Creek, was without result today, as was the investi gation of the six shacks owned by Gohl at Elliott Creek, Grass Creek, James Rock. South Bay, Chenois Creek and In dian Creek. The searchers returned wltn the fall of darkness .thoroughly ex hausted, but equally determined to re sume work at daybreak tomorrow. Wilson Buttner. attorney for Gohl, no tified his client today that he would bart (Concluded on Face .)