Jftot uwg Jjj VOL. Li. NO. 15,382. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAR CDC 16, , 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MEDIATION OFFER HALTS BIG STRIKE Firemen Heed Plea of Federal Officials.. "NO WALKOUT," SAY MANAGERS Rail Chiefs Appeal to Govern ment in Time. TWO ARBITRATORS NAMED Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman and Labor Commis sioner to Hasten to Chicago. Union's Edict Withheld. CHICAGO, March 15. Danger of an immediate strike of 27,000 locomotive firemen, the throwing out of employ ment of more than 125,000 other em ployes and the temporary suspension of business on practically every railroad between Chicago and the Pacific Coast, was averted today through the accept ance of offers for mediation from the Federal authorities. At the request of the general man agers of the 47 railroads Involved, Chair man Knapp, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Commissioner of Labor Neill telegraphed an offer of mediation to the union officials. This offer was accepted, W. C. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Englnemen and Firemen, stipulating, however, that ac tion must begin at once. Step Is Timely. The appeal to Washington was taken as an eleventh-hour move to prevent a walkout, which, it was declared, threatened the greatest railroad strike since that of 1894. Thirty-seven mem bers of the Western Federated Board of the Brotherhood last midnight form ally voed for a strike. The hour for striking had been set for next Monday morning and the members were pre pared to start for their homes and put the strike into effect when the media tion steps were taken. It is stipulated that the mediators come to Chicago. According to Mr. Carter, their function will be, not to arbitrate the points in dispute, but to Weiwnlug- KnafETramre "arbitrated-." Three Questions Involved. The questions involve wages, which both sides have agreed upon as arbitra ble, the two other technical points. In volving promotion and representation in the union, which, the brotherhood contends, are arbitrable, but which railroads- say are not. "If the mediation falls through the strike will go right on as planned," said Mr. Carter. The accepance of mediation was con tained in the following telegram sent by the brotherhod to Messrs. Neill and Knapp: Strike Order Withheld. "Matters in controversy involve con ditions of employment and increase in wages. Committee preparing to leave city, but if assurance is given that mediation will begin immediately and in the City of Chicago, authority for the men to leave the service of the companies will be temporarily with held. The fact that we have proposed arbitration on all matters in con troversy and the fact that the man agers' committee has rejected our proposition does not lead our men to expect a settlement from mediation, but as evidence of our fairness, will accept your friendly offices under the con ditions named herein. Please answer promptly. "W. S. CARTER." The committee sent the following let ter to the general managers: Mediators Offer Aid. "W. C. Nixon, chairman of managers' committee: Dear Sir Your letter of March 15 has been received, in which you communicate the information that the managers have invoked the aid of the Erdman act and the Honorable Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Honorable Commissioner of Labor had been requested by the managers to tender their good offices. This is to advise the managers' committee that the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Iabor have tendered by wire their good offices in an endeavor to settle through mediation the pending controversy. Mediation. Plan Accepted. The proposition of our committee that matters in controversy be submitted" to arbitration is the evidence of the. regard that we have for the interests o the public, and after giving the matter fur ther consideration. our committee in structs me to notify the managers that It has accepted tlie good offices of the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor in an effort to arrive at an' amic able adjustment of the matters in dis pute provided that such mediation shall be conducted in the City of Chicago; and without delay. "Our committee again insists that aside from the interests of the public there are no other parties concerned In this dis pute except the railroads represented by the managers committee j and the em ployes represented by on I cominitee." "No Strike," Say lanagers. In a statement given ut tonight the general managers satd: "All prospects of strike are over. There Concluded, oa Pag S. CHORUS GIRL SLAPS HER FIANCE'S FACE RESENTS SHOW OK JEALOUSY OX BUSY STREET. Young Man Angry Because Girl Tells of Marriage Plans, but Quarrel Is Patched Up. SAN FRANCISCO, March 15. (Spe cial.) Following a Quarrel with his fiancee. Miss Emily Wilson, a member of the chorus of Kolb & Dill's show, playing at the Princess Theater, Charles Loring Roberts, son of the Humboldt County Treasurer, was last evening given a sound and vigorous face-slapping by his bride-to-be before a large crowd of pedestrians in Fillmore street, near Sutter. Roberts, who only secured a lie en we in the afternoon to wed Miss Wilson, quar reled, with her because she told several members of the company of the contem plated wedding, which he was endeavor ing to keep secret. After the row she was walking up Fillmore street with one of the chorus girls and. a gentleman friend, when Roberts spied her and grabbed her by the arm, endeavoring to make her return to him. She resented this show of Jealousy by slapping him vigorously. Later the quar rel was patched up and the couple expect to be married this week. Roberts is a graduate of Stanford Uni versity, and was an honor man. His parents live in Eureka and know nothing of the present stage of his imminent matrimonial affairs. PENCILS CAUSE TROUBLE Vancouver Officials May Have to Pay $151 Bill From Own Pockets. VANCOUVER, Wash.. March 15. (Spe cial.) A clever German salesman recent ly induced officials in the County Court house to buy several dozen gross of pen cils, amounting in all to $151.56. With each three gross he gave a pencil-sharpener worth about $10 retail, and the County Assessor. Treasurer, School Su perintendent. Auditor and Clerk of the Court bought enough pencils to last some time. In due time the pencils arrived and all but the County Clerk opened the pack ages and began to use them. Today the bill for the goods was received by the County Commissioners. who at once pigeon-holed it. saying that the county officials had no right to go Into the pur chasing business without first notifying the Commissioners. The Clerk of the Court did not open his pencils, so when the Commissioners refused to approve the bill he shipped them back. It was the fancy pencil-sharpener that caught the offi cials. CORPORATIONS WIPED OUT Delinquents of License Payments Rapidly Passing Away. OLYMPIA. Wash March 15. (Spe cial.) Hundreds of Washington corpor ations were wiped out of existence today and have been daily passing away for some weeks past and still only those whose names begin with lettters from A to K have been reached. Under the new state law, the Secretary of State is au thorized to cancel records in his office and thereby prohibit from doing busi ness all corporations which are three years or more in arrears in payments of the annual state license. For weeks past, the office force of the Secretary has been checking up license payments and for some days Just past has been going through the Index and stamping the notice of dissolution of the corporation opposite the names of the de linquents. It is estimated that one-tenth or more of the corporations organized under the state laws will be wiped off the rolls In this manner. NATIONS TO MAKE TRADE Mexico and United States Negotiate for Boundary Deals. WASHINGTON. Maroh 15. Regard ing the published statement that the Department of State was considering a proposition to cede San Ellzario Island, in the Rio Grande River, to Mexico in consideration of the relinquishment of Mexico's claims to the Chamozal zone, it was stated at the department today that a number of propositions had been made by Mexico looking to the settle ment of the Chamozal zone contro versy, but none of them had received consideration. The department officials, however, will have a conference tomorrow with the Mayor of El Paso and other citi zens representing the interests- in volved, but no conclusion is likely to be reached soon. It is probable that the acceptance of Mexico's proposition would Involve Congressional action. NAVY SCANDAL RECALLED Dr. E. S. Cowles Arrested; Alleged Practitioner Without License. BOSTON, March 15. To his own testimony given at the recent court martial of Paymaster: George P. Auld, United States Navy, and Assistant Sur geon A. H. Robnett, U. S. N., at the Charlestown Navy yard. Dr. Edward S. Cowles owes his arrest to'day on an indictment warrant charging him with practicing medicine without being: registered. He surrendered to an officer today and when taken before the Superior Court pleaded not guilty and was held in $500 bond for trial. NEGRO CONFESSES MURDER Kobbery of Woman Storekeeper Was Intent of Slayer. KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 15. Man uel Taylor, a negro, today confessed that he killed Mrs. Mary Albert, proprietor of a grocery store in Kansas City, Kan., yesterday. Taylor lived near Mrs. Albert's store and he said he had learned that she re fused to put her money in a bank and carried a large amount in her pocket. To, get this money, he said, he killed her, . PORTLAND ARTIST STEALS PAINTING Young German Con fesses $1 0,000 Theft. FAMOUS MILLET RECOVERED William Kunze Now in Toils in San Francisco. WANTED TO MAKE ART COPY Love for Beautiful Possesses Youth ful Painter, He Explains, and He Becomes Thief Source of Clew Real Mystery. SAN FRANCISCO, March 15. De claring that he took the picture mere ly to make a copy of It, William Kunze, a young German artist, recently from Portland, Or., was arrested this after noon in possession of the $10,000 Mil let painting "The Shepherd and His Flock," which was stolen last Sunday from the Golden Gate Park Museum. Kunze was arrested In his studio after a search of the city which has been prosecuted with the utmost vigor ever since the valuable painting was cut from its . frame by an unknown thief last Sunday. Detectrre Sergeant i-award Wren re fused to divulge the clew which led to the arrest. Immediately after book ing the prisoner on a charge of grand larceny he left the city prison ac companied by several detectives and it is believed that they went in search of possible accomplices. To the questions of Sergeant Wren the arrested man answered that he was led to take the picture by his love of the beautiful and a desire to make a copy of it. The painting which was lent to the Museum by Miss Sarah Spooner, of this city, was the work of Jean Franoois Millet in 1832. It was found in the room used as a studio by Kunze and it is now In the custody of the property clerk of the police department. The theft occurred last Sunday morn ing shortly after the Museum was thrown open to visitors. While the curator -was absent for--tt short time the oanvas was cut from the frame and carried from the building without the slightest clew being left behind. Detective Sergeant Wren, assisted by two detectives, was assigned to work exclusively on the case with the ar rest of Kunze late this afternoon as the result. Kunze came here from Portland six months ago. KCXZE CASUALLY KXOWIf HERE Art Store Proprietor Held German Artist In Distrust. A painter answering the description of William Kunze, arrested in San Fran cisco for the theft of Millet's "The Shep- ( Concluded on Page 2.) r . . ....... ................................... " . ll """" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Foreign. Roosevelt rides camel to scene of historic battle. Page 1. National. Standard OH Company scored by Govern ment attorney as danger to business world. Page 3. President in special message urges measure to protect Alaska seals. Page 5. Senator Cummins opens tight on simin 1st ra tion railroad bill. Page 1. Supreme- Court curbs authority of forest service. Page 3. Oomestic Portland artist confesses to theft of famous $10,000 Millet painting in San Francisco. Page 1. Spokane man Identifies members of May bray gang by handwriting. Page 2. Chorus girl slaps her fiancee's face on crowded San Francisco street. Page 1. Sport. Mxe. Oorg Kadderly wins swimming race in M. A. A- C. tank, page 8. Portland plays Chicago White Sox to stand still, neither team scoring in nine in nings. Page &. DorancJo of Marathon fame may run here March 27. Page 9. Pacific Northwest. Idaho State Grange angered at University faculty: will demand segregation of agri cultural departneent. Page 0. Portland loses appeal to Supreme Court in franchise case of Portland Railway, Light & Power Co. Page 8. Fourteen O. A. C- students arrested for al leged violation of "move on" ordinance. Page S. . Hill engineers running line from Hammond to Seaside; scenic beach line thought probable. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. British parliament declines to aid Eng lish hopgrowers. Page 21. Hogs sell at $ 1 1. 15 in Portland market. Page 21. Wheat stumps at Chicago on report of rain in Kansas. Page 21. Strike order has had effect on stock mar ket. Page 21. Ship Arctic Stream arrives at Astoria, 1 37 days out, after hard passage. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Government sues Oregon Lumber Company for timber alleged to have been illegally cut. Page 13. Sullivan & Considine to replace Grand Thea ter with bigger house; also to improve Orpheum. Page 12. Sale of shamrocks for Oswego Orphanage to begin at 6 A. M. tomorrow. Page 1-t. Empaneling of jury to try W. H. Moore begins. Page 12. Slide last Saturday at Wellington in Cas cades causes travelers' strike. Page 12. Louis Blanch ette found not guilty of mur dering countryman. Page 11. Warehouse to be built on Bast Stark street at East First. Page 14. Harrim an lines to expend J 4, 630,000 for new equipment in Northwest. Page 0. DENMARK DOUBTS PEARY Surprise Expressed at Refusal to Show Proofs. COPENHAGEN', March 15. (Special.) Commander Peary's refusal to place proofs of his North Pole achievements before Congress has caused surprise here. The explorer's declaration that a con tract with his publisher prevents him from making the data public at this time is not taken seriously. It is pointed out by local explc.ers that scientific and astronomic observa tions, such as were demanded by Con gress, could be of no interest to any publisher. Experts say that Peary has more right to seek an acknowledgment that he is the discoverer of the North Pole before submitting his proofs than had Dr. Cook. The circumstance has made many peo ple here skeptical and Commander Peary will get no Invitation to lecture before the Royal Danish Geographical Society. Austrians Form Fruit Colony. OREGON CITY. Or., March 15. (Spe cial.) It is probable that 60 Austrian families from this city will form a colony near "Wilhoit Springs and engage in fruit growing. Frank Mahkovc has Just pur chased an 80-acre tract from Mrs. Miller and five Austrian families have already settled there. It is the intention of the Austrlans to purchase additional land in that secion. which is three miles north of Wilhoit Springs. ROOSEVELT TAKES L Soudanese Cavalry Is His Escort. SCENE OF CARNAGE VISITED Knowledge of Tactics Amazes Inspector-General. DINNER GIVEN AT PALACE Coming: Wedding of Son Will Pre vent Return by Way of San Fran ciscoAssouan and Luxor Will Be Visited. ' KHARTOUM, March 15. Colonel Roose velt's second day Khartoum was given up largely to sight seeing. The most in teresting place of all to the ex-President was the battlefield of Kerrerl, which lies seven miles north of Omdurman. It was here that the advance of the Anglo Egyptian army under Sir Herbert Kitch ener was contested by the Khalifa and 40,000 men and it was here that the bodies of 11,000 dead Dervishes were counted the following day. Colonel Roosevelt, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ethel and Kermit, Slatin Pasha, inspector-general of Egypt; Major Wilson, Governor of Khartoum;" Prince Auerspert. Mrs. Asser, an intimate friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, and others went to Omdurman on the Sirdar's yacht. Elfin, and from there on camels to the scene of the great battle of September 2, 1S9S. Camel Ride Is Novelty. An escort of Soudanese cavalry was waiting when the yacht came to her dock and Colonel Roosevelt Immediately became interested in the horsemen, who were picturesquely attired. He Inspected the squad and then the party mounted camels preparatory to the seven-mile trip over durty roads. Innumerable cameras were focused on the Americans, who seemed to enjoy their unusual experience no less than did the crowds who had gathered and who cheered the ex-President as he mounted a "ship of the desert." The cavalcade started with the escort In front and In the rear. The first halt was made at the monument erected to the Twenty-first Lancers, who here re ceived their baptism of fire. In this bat tle the lancers made a desperate charge, but fell into an ambush at . one of the dry watercourses seaming the plain and many were speared by the Dervishes. Scene of Rout Visited. The guides took the party to the Donga, where the spearmen were concentrated, and described the annihilation of the lancers. Thence they went to a hill over looking the battlefield. Slatin Pasha explained the positions and plan of attack: and graphically described the operations'. Colonel Roosevelt aston ished the inspector-general with his (Concluded on Page 2.) JQURNEYQN GAME CHICAGO DRYS GAIN IN REGISTRATION HEVTEST VOTE IX CITY'S HIS TORY IS INDICATED. Opponents of Temperance Sow Ad mit There Is Possibility They Will Be Defeated. CHICAGO, March 15. (Special.) That Chicago is stirred from center to cir cumference by the possibility of becom ing "dry" was1 shown today when regis tration for the April elections was in ex cess of 100,000. This is three times the normal registration for similar occasions and indicates, clearly that practically every voter has been hunted, down and certified. It also indicates that the. largest vote in the history of Chicago probably will be polled in April, not excepting the hot test Presidential campaigns. The real significance of the enormous registration lies in the fact that only those who have moved since the last election were re quired to register today. Both sides appear confident tonight, but it is admitted that the heaviest gains are shown In the better wards, where church and temperance societies, have been putting in strenuous work to get registered hundreds of men who never go to the polls. The "drys" admit that there had been a movement on foot to colonize 30,000 ho bos in the river wards and these were closely watched today for evidence of frauds. Although increased registration was unusually heavy in the "wet" dis tricts, it did not compare with the tre mendous gains in the "dry" districts. To night for the first time opponents of temperance admitted that there was a possibility the city would gq "dry," and they came out with broadsides of figures calculated to show that the city would be bankrupt and that 32,000 persons would lose employment if the city voted out the saloons or restricted them to strictly "wet" wards. HYMEN NOT FOR WQLGAST "XIx on the Wedding Bills," Says Anti-Matrimony Pugilist. MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 15. (Spe cial.) "No wedding bells for me" is the song that Ad Wolgast sang in an inter view with a local newspaper woman, which was not to be printed until he had left town for his vaudeville tour in the West. Incidentaly he denied there was any prospect of his marrying a certain California girl who has been mentioned in the Coast newspapers as having won the heart of the lightweight champion. "Me get married?" he said. "Say, put out your pipe. I'm too busy putting away money for the old folks to fool around with skirts. I am tired of this girl business. They all want to shake your hand, and the minute you get beaten there .wouldn't be a skirt within a mile. Nix on the wedding bells." BOTTLES ROUT ROBBER Highwayman Flees When Victims Turn and Leaves Hat as Clew. MEDPORD, Or., March 15. (Special.) An attempt was made to hold, up the Moore Hotel bar at 1 o'clock last night. Three men were in the barroom when a masked man entered, ordering them to hold up their hands. Jack McGynn did as he was told, but he held in one hand a bottle which he threw at the robber. The men in tho room, gaining courage, grabbed other bottles and soon had the robber run ning from the flying missiles. He escaped, leaving his hat behind, and the police believe that they will land their man. POLICE CHIEF SUSPENDED SU Louis Official Charged With Re vealing Inquiry Secrets. ST. LOUIS." March 13. Chief of Police Edmond P. Creecy was suspended by the Board of Police Commissioners today on charges of divulging secrets of the in vestigation into an alleged shortage in the police relief fund to John M. HeoJy. who was indicted last week on the arge of embezzlement. Lieutenant Thomas J. McCormack, president of the Relief Association, was also suspended. The charges against him were not announced. Chief Creecy is ill at his home. The full list of charges against him was1 not made pub lic. CABLE FOULED ON WRECK? Whaler Believes Obstruction Was Lost Sloop-of-War Condor. VICTORIA, H. C, March 15. A report has been made to the Marine Depart ment by Captain Heater, of the whaling steamer Orion, that the steamer fouled her cable when taking a whale six miles south of Uclulet on what some assert to be a submerged rock. Captain Heater is of the opinion it may prove to be the British sloop of war Condor, which foundered in Decem ber, 1901, with 104 officers and men. The supposed wreck is in 50 fathoms of water. Merry Party Goes to Jail. VANCOUVER. Wash., March 15. (Spe cial.) Luther Reynolds, J. Van Duyn, Edith Campbell and Emma Niles, arrived from Portland yesterday and took rooms in the Ferry Rooming-house. The place was raided by the police last night and the quartet was arrested. The men were fined $25 each and the women $15 each. The women said they live in Eugene, but had been living in Portland recently. Being unable to raise the money to pay the fine, the party was committed to Jail. FIGHT IS OPENED ON RAILROAD BILL Cummins Resents In terference of Taft. PRECEDENT FULL OF DANGER Conferences at White House Regarded With Suspicion. SENATE IS KEPT IN DARK Iowan Declares He Will Oppose Measure at Risk of Incurring Presidential Displeasure. Long Debate Promised. WASHINGTON; March 13. That he would oppose the Administration rail road bill even though it might result in an effort to read him out of the party. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, in ef fect, declared In the Senate today, in the initial speech on the railroad bill. He commented especially upon the history of the measure, which, he said, had originated in the executive branch of the Government rather than in Con gress. After occupying its place on the Hen ate calendar for 18 days, the bill was taken up at 2 o'clock, and thus was laujiched the discussion of what the members of the Senate resrard as the most important legislation before Con gress. The Iowa Senator had spoken about two hours when he asked leave to suspend until tomorrow. Bailey Predicts Delay. The leave was granted, but Senator Hale, chairman of the Republican caucus, gave notice that hereafter the bill would be kept constantly before the Senate. In language just as posi tive Mr. Bailey declared that the bill could not be rushed and declared that Congress was liable still to be consider ing it when the "dog days" arrived. In the main Mr. Cummins' speech was devoted to a, general recital ot the proposed legislation, in which he criticised the course of the President and declares his intention of opposing the bill in its present shape at the cost of the displeasure ef the Chief Executive. "I recognize the President is quite within his privilege and duties in ex pressing his views upon such subjects as often as he likes and as emphatic ally as he pleases," said Mr. Cummins. Taft Is Criticised. "Whether he is within his privilege or his duty when he undertakes to pre scribe the precise form that legislation shall assume may well be doubted. His great predecessor thought that execu tive propriety did not permit it, for when ho was dealing with the same subject in his message at the begin ning of the first session of the .Fifty ninth Congress In 1905, he said, 'It is not my province to indicate the exact terms of the law which should be on acted, but I call the attention of Con gress to certain existing conditions with which it is desirable to deal.' "I would not, however, be inclined to attachi much importance to the prac. tice which now seems to be very gen eral, were it not that such a course in the very nature of things must be disastrous. Although a Senator may be in full sympathy with the broad purposes which the Executive proposes to accomplish, the moment he asserts his Independent view of the best way to accomplish the. purpose he finds himself in direct conflict with the President and he must choose between losing the Presidential favor and doing a thing in a way his conscience tells him it ought not to be. Congress' Power in Danger. "I fear that in a slight instance or during one Administration the independ ent will of the member? in Congress can be overcome, but if upon subjects like the one before us the practice of having a bill prepared In the executive offices and presented to Congress for passage, accompanied with an Implied message that punishment follows disobedience, is continued from year to year, in the end Congress will become a mere form In organized society. "With the- utmost respect for the exalted office of President of the United States and for him who occupies it at the present -time. I record my protest, here and now, against a practice which I believe to be full of dangers and disas ters." Declaring to be extraordinary the cir cumstances surrounding the origin of the bill, the Iowa Senator detailed the meet ing, hist August, of Attorney-General Wickensham in New York, with others who, he said, had undertaken to put into ehape for enactment the various recom mendations of the President on railroad legislation. The report as made to the Chief Executive was supposedly confiden tial, he said, but as a matter of fact, long before it reached the President it had fallen into the hai,ds of the railroad men. Kailroad Influence Seen. Discufwlng the progress? of the bill after it readied the President, Mr. Cummins declared that it had been vastly changed. Indeed, he declared, but for the birth mark of commerce court, no one would recognize ' the measure born In the "dog (Concluded on Page 2.) a i A