HIE MORXING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JULT 19, 1910. TflTT vrrnr unMnn I PRESIDENT'S YACHT AND THREE MEMBERS OF PARTY WITH HIM ON CRUISE GR1PPEN ELUDES POLICE OF WORLD SALE OF SUITCASES AND TRAVELING BAGS inn iLLra nmiuu OFF OHIO POLITICS President Expresses No Pref erence for Governor in His Home State. All Clews to' Whereabouts of American Prove to Be Without Value. Silk Braided Dresses at $2.48 ii : n-1 CRUISE ON YACHT BEGINS Executive, Accompanied by Wife and Few Friends, Will Spend Ten Days Along Coast of Maine and Forget Politics. BEVERLY, Mass.. July 18. There will be no Beverly label on the Ohio Repub lican ante-convention situation. This much was decided upon at the Summer White House today when. Just previous to his departure on a ten-day cruise along; the coast of Maine, President Taft had as hi luncheon guests- Senators Burton and Dick and Republican Chairman Wade Ellis. It Is understood that none of the three Ohio visitors today urged upon the Pres ident (he preferences of any one candi date for the Republican nomination for Governor. While it is known that the President may have, some personal prefer ence in the matter, he will not declare in favor of any of the candidates named. President to Forget Politics. The President's guets left at 2:30 and five minuteB later, the President, Mrs. Taft and the other members of the cruis ing party started for the boat landing to board a launch which took them to the Government yach Mayflower, on which the ten-day trip is to be made. The cruise In Maine waters on board the Government yacht Mayflower, which began shortly before 4 o'clock, will afford the President a complete rest, although the trip Is taken primarily on Mrs. Taft's account. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beek-. man Wlnthrop, who is one of the party, hoarded the yacht shortly before the President and as he stepped over the side a white flag was run up and the guns boomed out a salute In his honor. Salute Greets President. Half an hour later, when the President boarded the Mayflower, the white fiag gave way to the blue Presidential fiag. a saltue of 21 guns was fired, the crew was drawn up on deck and the band on board played "The Star Spangled Ban ner." Thos who accompanied the President were Mrs. Taft, Charley Taft. Horace D. Taft. the President's brother; Professor and Mrs. Louise T. Moore, of Cincin nati; Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Beekman Wlnthrop. Miss Ma bel Boardman and Captain Archibald W. Butt, the President's military aide. The President will make three speeches during his trip, one at Eastport tomor row, one at Bangor next Saturday and the third at Rockland, on Tuesday, July None of these addresses will touch upon politics in any way. The President will reach Beverly on his return on July 28. President's Yacht Is Located. Portsmouth!' n. h.. juiy is. The wireless station at Portsmouth Navy Yard was In communication with the Presidential acht Mayflower at 8 P.' M.. but the operator aboard the yacht had been Instructed not to divulge the exact location of the boat. President's Yaclit Sighted. ROCKPORT. Mass., July 18. The Pres idential yacht Mayflower was sighted off Thatcher's Island at 5:40 o'clock this evening. headed northeast, with the President's fiag at the masthead. The boat disappeared about 6:20 in the direc tion of the Maine coast. COMMISSION MAKES RULING No Free Passes for Commercial Clubs or Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. WASHINGTON. July 18.-A set of ad ministrative rulings" was announced to day by the Interstate Commerce Com mission supplementary to rulings made heretofore. All of the rules laid down are Important to interstate carriage, and some of them are of general public in terest, as follows: "An interstate, excursion for certain commercial clubs, the members of which are to be carried at the expense of the railroad companies as their guests, cannot be sanctioned. "Free transportation cannot be issued to employes of a bridge company which makes annual reports to the Commission, but flies no tariffs and collects no charges from shippers or carriers. "Free or reduced rates of transporta tion may not lawfully be accorded to traveling secretaries of a Young Woman's Christian Association. "There Is no warrant in law for ac cording free transportation of the body of an ex-employe of the carriers, who resigned from the service some time prior to his death." The Commission holds that It has ex clusive jurisdiction over claims for dam age arising from the mlsrating of freight. DEATH FOLLOWS QUARREL Returning Fishermen Disagree Over Expenses; Shooting Begins. SPOKANE, July IS. A special from Valley, Wash., says: Elmer Hyatt and Charles Wilson, mem bers of a Ashing party from Addy. Wash., who had been spending today at a lake about three miles distant, quarreled over expenses oh the return trip and Hyatt pulled a gun. but on the first attempt to siioot. It only snapped. Wilson then Jumped behind a telegraph pole and tired three shots from a re volver, the first going through Hvatt's body and another through his arm. Hvatt tried to continue the battle, but others In the party put him In the wagon and look him to the nearest physician at Valley, Wash. He died in a few minutes. MEEKER NOW IN COLORADO Pioneer Retracing and Marking Old Oregon Trail. GRtiKLEY. Colo.. Juiy IS Ezra Meek er, one of the few surviving ' -titers ana who attracted attention by driving an ox team across the country to New York last year, is here in the Interest of hav ing the old Oregon trail appropriately marked with monuments. An appropria tion for this Is now pending in Con gress. Mr. Meeker is traversing the old trail which began at Kansas City and ended at Tacoma. He is SO years old. ; v . - : ' ' ! . , r : '", ' . I . . - V ' - ' , a? - . - - : t - J ' . - . - Lr7T :z-1 - jj a XA l. ,-4jjjr,mm Above, AxBtxtant Secretary of the IVavy Beekman Wlnthrop, Mlm Mabel Bonrdnian, the Mayriovrer. Below, Charlie Taft, the President's Son. girl swept my Rancher's Daughter Drowned by Torrent in Canyon. WATERS CARRY BODY MILE Destructive Cloudburst In Nevada Carries Away Bridges, Flumes and Headgates. and Damages Ranch Properties Greatly. CARSON, Nev;, July .18. During a cloudburst in Woodfords Canyon, 30 miles south of this city, last evening. Miss Neva Parks, daughter of David Parks, a prominent stockman of West ern Nevada, was drowned. With some companions, she was driv ing down the canyon when a torrent of water swept the team down the mountain-side. Mr. firockliss, one of the party, res cued his wife and two small children, but Miss Parks went down stream with the team. Her body was found a mile below the scene of the accident. Both horses were drowned. Much damage to ranch property is re ported as the result of the unusally heavy rains that have prevailed during the last few days. Many bridges, flumes and headgates have been carried away by the rushing waters. BAD . STORM SWEEPS NEVADA Longest Drought of Years Broken by Terrific Cloudburst. RENO. Nev., July 18. The .worst storm Nevada has experienced in years at this time of the year started late yesterday afternoon and is continuing today, breaking the longest dry period the state has ever known. The precipitation has been nearly two inches, which exceeds the total for the five preceding months combined. Streetcar traffic was demoralized by a flash of lightning which burned out the transformers. The cars were put out of commission all night and traffic was not resumed until nearly noon to day. No fatalities have been reported, but James West attempted to clear the street of a live wire, and when he put hi foot in a pool of water received a shock which rendered him unconscious for some time. Gale Blows on Lake Erie. PUT-IN BAY, Ohio. July 18. Drive to shelter by a heavy northeast gale which broke over Lake Erie late Satur day afternoon and was still blowing today, numerous racing yachts that will participate in the annual regatta of the Interlake Yachting Association this week are scattered along the south shore of Lake'Kne from Toledo to Port Clinton. The catboat races on the pro gramme for today have been .post poned. No serious damage has been re ported. Kentucky Has Cloudburst. HOPKIXSVILLE, Ky., July 18. A cloudburst last night caused 8150,000 damage to Christian County crops. Sev eral stables were destroyed by light ning and the stock therein killed, but no person was injured. FOREST FIRES TAKE LIVES (Continued From First Page.) and Charles Sedar, whose places were completely destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of timber is being destroyed and there is but little hope of' checking the flames until rain falls. George Thompson, the Pine Creek homesteader, driven road by worry over the safety of his wife and children and by the heat encountered in fighting forest fires, ran away from the flames Sunday afternoon, and haa not been seen since.- He started toward St. Joe, but at last reports had not reached that town. . ' The homes of five settlers In the Pine Creek district were destroyed by flames - Sunday afternoon and night. Four' square miles of the best white pine were destroyed. Thirty men are making an almost hopeless fight against the fire, while homesteaders' families are racing to escape the flames. Fifty more fire fighters are being rushed to the front. WARDNER SECTION RAVAGED Rich Mines and Valuable Timber Fall in Path of Flames. WARDNER, Ida., July 18. (Special.) . Ten miles of bleak, blackened timber that yesterday was of the finest white pine In the entire Coeur d'Alene district, to night marks the trail of the district's greatest fire on Pine Creek about nine miles from town, that is continuing Its devastation along the south and east forks of this little mountain, stream, promising no rest for the 100 men fight ing day and night to check It. All buildings of the GaJusha Mining Company were burned today, with the homes of dozens of settlers in that vicinity.- Seven men cut off by the flames yes terday while fighting the Are, under the leadership of B. J. Langloia, forced their way through walls of fire to the east fork of the creek and by circling the flames came around on the Kellogg side to continue the battle. George Thompson, whose home and all lies in an ashen heap in the forest, was found this afternoon wandering de mented in the forest. He was brought to safety still delirious. Wrord brought to Wardner at 11 o'clock tonight Is that the tire has a seven-mile front and is burning toward the south. Fire has again broken out in the Gra ham Creek district and is said to be burning with a seven-mile front toward the ridge where men have been sent to begin ditching. Twenty men were sent here today by the District Forester. The Pine Creek Are is not on the reserve, but because of the great danger the crew was loaned to prevent spread to the National forest. Section 48 and 48 have been swept clean of timber. FLAMES RAGE IX SKAMANIA Fire Breaks Out In Mount Rainier Forest Reserve; Beyond Control. STEVENSON, Wash., July 18. (Spe cial.) With all the Government rangers called out and a cry for help extended by Deputy Fire Warden Will Goepel to the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Rail road for all the men it can spare, one of the hardest battles in forest fire fighting history In this section of the country has just begun. Word reached here today from Cooks that the flames had started in the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve and Dep uty Goepel at once mustered all avail able men here, at Cooks and at Cas cade, and started for the scene of the conflagration. Though several fires have been burn ing about Skamania County for the last two weeks, this new one is probably the worst yet reported and may mean thou sands of dollars' worth of damage unless a heavy rain falls, which seems unlikely, or the fighters are .able in some manner to stop the progress of the flames. Deputy Goepel has Just returned from the Wind River forest fires, which de stroyed much property along the river. This fire is now under control. A fire at Four Lakes, near the Four Lake Lumber Company's plant and standing timber, is still burning, but no great danger is re ported from this section. It is believed here that practically all the recent forest fires have been caused by passing locomotives, and the agitation for oil-burners on all roads has been given an added Impetus in this wooded section of the country. Owing to intermitent communication with Cooks tonight, it is impossible to determine the extent of the blaze now ravaging property in the Mount Rainier reserve. This will not be kqown be fore tomorrow. FORESTS BLAZE NEAR HOQULAM Dry Timber Causes Apprehension to Camps in District. HOQUIAM. Wash.. July 18. (Special.) A force of 1000 loggers is engaged In pa trolling the logging districts north, of Hoqulam tonight to prevent forest fires from breaking out anew. No damage has been done yet, with the exception of SSO0O worth of timber destroyed Saturday. Hot prevailing weather has tendency to dry out mosses and brush, making timber easy prey to the flames. At Coats' logging camp on the Wishkah River the men are watching, having been successful in fighting fire for the past three days. The West camps are not in danger, unless the fire breaks out again. The territory burned over is es timated at 4000 acres. Forest fires 'which broke out tonight are raging in Little North River country, located 16 miles southeast of here, and a large area of land is burning. All camps are In danger should the fire ajr&in a-aln control. -n.y-nnv (t itT. i vir-hr"-ym"r WHEAT PRICES SOAR New High Level Set for Crop Year by Bullish Reports. HEAT DAMAGE IS GREAT Large Winter Grain Receipts Hold Market Steady, but . Fear of a Worldwide Failure Is Gaining Great Strength in' East. CHICAGO, July 18. (Special.) Wheat values, buoyed up by heavy buying In futures and Northwestern markets, to day touched new high levels for the crop year when the July delivery sold up to n.ll4, September at 81.09 and December at $1.10. The new levels were established on gloomy reports from the Northwest Spring wheat country, which told of a deterior ate and deteriorating crop. These ad vices were reeclved at the opening of the market, and before the first hour of trading prices had advanced over a cent. The buying was overdone, however, and later when receipts of new Winter wheat were reported as abnormally large, longs began to transform paper profits into ready money with the result that July wheat broke to J1.10. Alarm Is Growing. Other months slumped from 2 to 1 cents, closing at about the lowest points of the day. Notwithstanding the tem porary bearish effect of the heavy re ceipts of Winter wheat the trade is alarmed over the general crop situation. Conditions which have been the basis of this feeling of alarm still exist, and reports from the affected districts are causing it to become more widespread each daj That there is some basis for all the serious crop reports is now a certainty. Unless there is a change soon in the general -situation for the better the ground for alarm must become absolute rather than speculative. The roseate prospects of this year's world's wheat crop of only a few, weeks ago have been shriveled by the hot suns and by the lack of moisture. Every day this condi tion continues simply aggravates and in tensifies the alarm. Condition Not Local. This is not only a local condition but a world-wide one. There is no manipula tion of the wheat market here or else where, the price advaneing on bad crop reports. From almost everywhere comes the echo of crop deterioration, of crops going backward instead of forward. While there have been no rains of con sequence where moisture is needed, the situation in . France is reversed. Heavy rains in France, which have created ap prehension that her moderate crop would be seriously damaged, have resulted In a 5-cent advance in the Paris market since the close of last Thursday's business. Luckitow boasts of the larsret room in the world without column. It la built of a kind ill concrete. HE MAY BE ON KR00NLAND London Detectives Base Hopes of Capture on Possibility He Is "Aboard . Steamer Inquest on Body of Supposed Wife. LONDON," July 18. Notwithstanding circumstantial reports that Dr. Hawley H. Chlppen has been seen at widely separated points, all the supposed clews have proved to be valueless and the Lon don police are still without any tangible evidence that would" be likely to lead toa his arrest. The Coroner's inquest began today over the dismemoered body which was found buried In the cellar of Crippen'fi Hilldrop Crescent residence and which the police have associated with the disappearance of Crlppen's wife. Belle Elmore. The testimony today proved of small service in establishing the identity, as the mass of flesh was so mutilated as to make it Impossible even for the experts toj fix the sex -of the victim. After several witnesses had been ex amined, relative to the finding of the" body, the domestic relations of Dr. Crip pen and his wife, the occurrences at the Crippen house on the night of January 31, - when - Belle Elmore was last seen alive and the Interrogations to whichi Crippen later was subjected by friends of the woman, the inqtiest was adjourned for one month. The Scotland Yard officials now are of the optnlon that Crippen and Ethel Leneve, his former stenographer and be lieved to have been his companion when he disappeared from his home on July 9. may be aboard the steamer Kroonland which is due at New York tomorrow night. TRACK RIGHTS GRANTED North Bank Will Build Spur to Vancouver Dock Sites. VANCOUVER, Wash., July 18. (Spe cial.) A franchise down Ninth street to the city limits was granted to the North Bank road tonight by the Council. This is a move toward building a spur three and one-half miles down the river to a 250-acre tract owned by the railroad com pany and on which It la proposed to build a dock and wharves to transfer grain from trains to ocean-going vessels on the Columbia River. The company also asked for a fran chise to lay tracks from Ninth street to Franklin street, but this was laid on the table. Northwestern People In New York. NEW YORK. July 18. (Special.) The following persons from the Pacific Northwest registered at New York hotels today: From Portland At the Seville, O. M. Singleton; at the King Edward, G. C. Henriot; at the' Manhattan, H. S. Wooley, A. C. Whldden; at the Welling- NOT YET TOO LATE Still Time to Benefit by Club Piano Buying If You Act Promptly. TWENTY-TWO JOIN MONDAY Eilers Piano Clubs Almost Filled Only Few More Member ships Available This . Week Will Surely See the Finish Act Promptly. The past few weeks have witnessed the greatest record in piano selling Oregon has ever had. In organizing Eilers Piano Clubs, only three clubs were at first inaugurated. But so great was the clamor of pianoless homes that the same magnanimous buying privi leges be given them on our highest grade pianos, too, that two more clubs were added a Player Piano and. Baby Grand Club, also a club embracing the very finest uprights. Never bofore have Player Pianos and Bahy Grands been procurable on such easy terms and low prices. EVEN PLAYER PIAXOS ON CLUB TERMS, Just think of it a Player Piano that you can't duplicate In quality under $1000, and which Eilers sells regularly at the very low net price of J850, Is ob tainable by Club Members for just $586, and can be paid for at a rate as low as $2.50 a week if desired. Members also receive free with each player piano a handsome music cabinet to match and a complete selection of music. Nearly every home can now afford a fine piano player on these terms. choice: not restricted. No matter what your preference may be In make or price, you can surely be suited, for these five piano clubs in clude five different grades, ranging from the most moderate price depend able pianos to the most artistic and highest-grade makes including such well-known and celebrated makes as the glorious Chickering, the time-honored Decker, the always popular Lester, the famous Kimball, and twenty more standard and established makes. ( TERMS LESS THA!f RENT. The Eilers Club Plan effects a bona fide saving of at least $113 and up to $264 on each piano. Payments as low as $1.25 weekly will place a fine rlano In your home actually less than you'd have i to pay If you rented the same piano. Members also secure free de livery, free tuning, free insurance, free music lessons, and a cash premium if payments are made before time re quired unquestionably the greatest and most attractive offer in the history of the piano business. CLl'BS FAST FILLING. Remember, you muat act quicklv now. Less than sixty-five memberships are still available. Twenty-two more mem bers enrolled yesterday. There's not a moment to Jose. Come In today, make your selection, and your piano will be delivered at once. Call at 351-353-355 Washington St., corner Eighth (Park) St. EILERS MUSIC HOISE. Oregon's Leading. Largest and Most Reliable These dresses are new. They -are shown jor the first time o day. Made in rep and pop lins with tubular braid yole and belt. The shirts are full plaited in a variety of differ ent styles. - They come in new b!ue. natural, leather, lavender, p'nki fan, while and gray. We know that they are the lowest priced dresses that have style and quality offered at such a small figure. The steady .demand Jor thesr dresses prcves that their popularity is uni versal. Today $2.48 25c to 50c Wash Odds and Ends Sale H ere's a bargain opportunity if you need wash goods. We have accumulated enormous numbers of lengths in wash goods, and despite the many special sales and the great quantity sold we find ourselves with hundreds on hand. Being bound to dispose of these we place them all on sale at one price , 12 1-2ca Yard They include colored lawns, colored dimities, col ored linens, colored batiste, colored poplins, colored jacquard suitings, colored zephyr tissue, colored fancy Swiss and other novel weaves which happen to be in 10 yard lengths or less. ton, J. Shenrauski; at the Cadillac, J. W. Casey. Mrs. J. W. Casey. 1 From White Salmon, Wash. At the St. Denis,- Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Jewett. FORTUNES WILL BE MADE IN AY UNITED RAILWAY'S TERMINAL ON TILLAMOOK BAY The announcement from President John F. Stevens that it is ex pected express trains can handle people to and from BAY CITY to Portland in TWO HOURS, assures present investors in Bay City, property big profits. . The man or woman of moderate means is afforded an excellent op portunity in BAY CITY, the only possible townsite on Tillamook Bay. The Government has appropriated a large sum for the improvement of the bay in anticipation of the immense business -which will naturally find its way through this advantageous harbor on the completion of 'the Panama Canal. . "With the P. R. & N. Railroad and the UNITED RAILWAYS already assured BAY CITY will always be the COMMERCIAL city and the METROPOLIS of the Tillamook country. LOTS $65, UP Present prices subject to advance without notice. If vou cannot call, write for full particulars of our FREE TRANSPORTATION and EXPENSES to BAY CITY and return. Office open every evening except Sunday. LIBERAL. INDUCEMENTS TO FIRST-CLASS SALESMEN BAY CITY LAND CO. Phone M 1116. Alter Aug. 1, UI-'J bpaldinjr Bide. and BAY CITY. NO, OLYMPIA BEER IS'NT HEAVY WITH ALCOHOL Analysis shows that it contains onl;- 31,2 per cent of this ingredient. For beer, this is an exceptional ly low percentage. When you want a beer that stands for drink purity and tempting flavor, look -on the bottle for our famous slogan. iiilp For it is the water that makes Olympia Beer so refreshing - and invigorating not just good drink ing water, but good brewing water, such as can be found in few places. PHONE YOUR. OLYMPIA BEER AGENCY Goods 12 1-2c "From Belllngham At the St. Denis, L. Verstandig. From Spokane At the Holland. W. C. tTfford. CITY Oitices also at Salm .W Aw ORDERS TO Main 67 1 or A 2467 Ill