HIE MORXING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JULT 19, 1910.
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PRESIDENT'S YACHT AND THREE MEMBERS OF PARTY WITH HIM ON CRUISE
GR1PPEN ELUDES
POLICE OF WORLD
SALE OF SUITCASES AND TRAVELING BAGS
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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
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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.
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Bonrdnian, the Mayriovrer. Below, Charlie Taft, the President's Son.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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