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VOL. L. '0. 1.1..1.J0. PORTLAND, OKIXJOX, -MONDAY, SEPTE3IBER o, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GERMANY DESIGNS NEW WARSHIP TYPE TAILOR MADE RICH BARON OVER NIGHT COAST CITIES TAKE HIGHER OF STATES MISS DROPS INTO OIL KING'S YARD IS LEADING TOPiC TIDES ROOSEVELT DROPS AT MIDDAY SA.MK VFSSEL TO Hllil. PHO JIXTII.K OF THREE TONS. G CARDS CONFUSED WHEN GIRL. AND PARACHUTE LAX P. W AGE-EARXER FALLS HEIR TO ESTATE IX RUSSIA. ' STRENUOUS SUNDAY FLAMING METEOR ML BBHTS 7 Relative Gain Is Larg est on Pacific. PORTLAND NEAR 20TH PLACE Denver and St. Paul Likely to Be Left Behind. LARGER TOWNS MULTIPLY I -cad of San Francisco Will Be Re duced Because Other Communi ngs Have Grow n--e F.ng land Holds Its Own. BT HARRY J. BROWN. OREGONIAN NEWS BCRE.W.V.ash- ington. Sept. 4. When the tabulation of the returns of the 13th census Is completed no section of the country promises to hor In more favorable Itgnt than the Pacific Coast. Other state will ahow heavier pains in pop illation and cities elsewhere will show greater actual crow I h during the past ten rears, but considering the popula nun mx n noon in una, no naty are expected to show larirer percentage rains than those of the Pacific Coast, ft la also believed, judging- from re turna thus far available, that the lead Irg cities of the Pacific Coast will dis tance all others in their proportional a-aln since the i;th census was taken. San Francisco's I-ad lied need. Ten years ago there was only ons really large city on the Pacific Coast; the new census will show sis. Pan Francisco will continue to be the me tropolis of the Pacific Coast, though how graat will be Its lead over the other cities of that section Is not yet known. Certain It Is. however, that this lead will be a-reatty reduced, not through the dwindling of San Fran cisco's population, but because of the enormous strides made In the compet ing cities, north and aoutn. The com petitors. In most Instances, at least, are expected to show greater percent age gains than the city by the Golden Gate. The Pacific Coast cities did not oc cupy a conspicuous place on the list of ntles enumerated in the 12th cen sus. Fan Francisco with a population f 141.7 s:: stood ninth among the cities f the In i ted States, but Its nearest empctltor on the Coast mas I.os An teles, with a population of 101.479. Ixs Angeles stood 2i on the list. Tort land, ranking next on the Coast, with a population of a.4;s. was the 4Jd city In size In the United States, while Seattle was 4th! Ta-.-oma tood 101 nd Spokane lv. I Portland Moves t"p. j In adtante of the announcement of the orncial count, no definite statement can be made as to the present rel ative rank of the cities of the Taclfic Coast, but. If preliminary estimates re approximately correct, all of the cities named will move up on the list, passing many that stood above them ten years tgo. For instance. If Portland shows a population of :i3.00. aa has been esti mated (though the estimate Is not of rV!nt nor confirmed by the census bireaui it is likely to stand In about -'to place among the cities of the ITited states, instead of 42d. as it was In lana. it cannot be said that Port land will actually be :th; It may be little above or a little below that point, but It wlil he in that neighbor hood, and w!:i oceupv a much mora conspicuous place than It held In the lM census. This calculation is based partly upon results thus far announced by the cen sus burea-j. It Is brlteved that Port lands population will be in the neigh borhood of I2J.0)O. If that be true. Portland will be practically the same sise as Providence. R. .. whlcb. on final count, showed Uenter and St. 'Paul Outranked, likewise. If that estimate be cor rect. Portland will pass Ifpver and St. Paul, both of which ranked it by many thousands In the ICIli census, for Den ver has shorn n a present popu'a'.lun of -13.JM and St. Paul III 744. There are Tiny other cities, yet to be tabulated, which will be passed by Portland In .Is race for position. Tn aaalgnlng Portland a plate some where around Ith rank stress Is laid upon the supposed proximity of Port land's population to that of providence. R. I. The experience of the census bureau has been that the cities of New England have moved ahead at a slow, steady par, making Increases in al most exact proportion to the normal gain of the country as a whole. It ts presumed that the percentage of gain for the United States will be in the neighborhood of 3 per cent; the gain made by the city of Providence dur- Ing the pat decade was approximately tl per cent. Ten years ago Providence 'ood 20th on the list or cities, and will not be many points above or be low that p'ace this year. If. Indeed. It changes at all. Therefore, assnmlns? mat Portland will show about IJJ.tMio people, it is to be presumed it will rand close to Providence, and hug the Z'h mark closely. Kansas City was -2d In sixe ten years Carlude4 oa ' 1) Armor Will Br Light, hut S-pccd Will lie lllglt treadnousht to lip Made Obsolete. F.ERI.IX. Sept. 4. German naval signers are at work on k small typ o, battleship which the Ynrwaerts learns is expected to put the great Dreadnoughts Into the obsolete cla.'s. The rem- vessels will be lightly armored and very speedy. In g.-iieral design they will he similar tn the old Monitor. Their length will be 20 feet, breadth 4 feet and draiicht 13 1-3 feet, while the bull will extend 53 inches above the water line. The armaments will consist of two M.7 ineh guns, each capal.le of throwing a projectile' of 591 pounds from one great turret amidships. For explosives, gas motors, each of horsepower, will give the vessel a speed of IS knots an hour, and under forced draught 27 knots. Ordi narily heavy plate will be placed on the dcok-s turrets and sides of the new ves sel. I Speaking theoretically, til? designers as sert that it would require only a three ton projectile to penetrate and explode to tear up any- Dreadnought, while the low freeboard and heavy armor of the new vessel would make damage by II inch guns difficult. EUGENE . IS PROSPEROUS Commercial Club Shows 25 to 100 Per Cent Business Increase. KlilFXE, or., Sept. 4. f Special. V The publicity department of the Com mercial Club, through Manager Free man, has compiled a tabular statement of midsummer PUBiness conditions in Eugene. In comparison with July and August. !?"!. They show- in nearly every local line 25 to loo per cent nor mal increases in volume of trade done In Eugene. The gain in trade is accounted for on no other hypothesis excepting lhat Eu gene's population is increasing this year at the rate of from 25 to 35 per cent. In tne report, made up from a careful canvass in various lines, are leveled abnormal developments of the past 30 days. This Includes the throw ing on th local market of a $2S.n09 stork of harness, hardware and leather goods, at cut rates a stock that had been in ..ligation and the only' line that does not show average Increases. WAGON THR0WS FOUR OUT Quartet Trie to Occupy One Seat With Disastrous Results. MuSCOW. Idaho. Sept. 4.r-iSpec!al.) Four men rode on I he front s'at of Un dertaker tieorpe Steltz s wagon coming from the cemetery today, with the re sult that, going down a hill, the vehicle rolled oer. throwing the occupants on the horses. Richard Ferguson. Die driver, sustained broken leg and C.Ien Grlce's ankle was sprained. 1 3 jT r:r- VT-7V3? Irv . - '. a vat, i I 'Sv I " vv ,vA ! r lifer Azrv h ' jj W-y':.S f- V'ff :-'--wy;'! If Mmr v AB K. Cut FHOR - TI BHt, K K T PKCMIIIONT TAFT, .4 RCHBI SHOP IKKI.ANU, .OVi:flOll i;BKH HlltOT. OF MINK(tTt DEI.OW, TIIHKH OF OIIFXiOVS DKl.WiATKJ, WILLIAM HANLKV, UK. J. I. KEK.VB, It. f. ATWEIX Line Drawn at Conser vation Congress. ay vq,lLY REPRESENTED o . QrJer StateS Not SO Keenly, ! Interested in Subject. TAFT WILL SPEAK TODAY Governors to Hold Conference and Announce Views, Pincliot Indl' catcs by Dumb Show That He Expects Fight. ST. PAUL. Minn., Sept. 4. Politics for and against "states rlght3" in the con servation of National resources held sway today among the delegates gath ercd licre to attend the second National Conservation Congress which, begin nlng tomorrow, will continue until Fri day night. , , There will be adresseg deal'ng with everything from water-power sites to conservation of bird life plenty of them but the real Interest of the con vention Ilea In the expected fight of the public land states for control of their own natural resources by them selves, rather than by the Federal Gov ernment. West Fully Represented. Predictions are that there will be a fight In the resolutions committee and again on the floor of the convention. As to the relative strength of the two factions, nothing definite is obtainable tonight. The public-land states. It Is said, will be represented by full dele gations. Less interest is said to have been shown in the older states, where public lands are not a local Is3ue. According to present plans, the friends of Nat'onal control of public resources will proceed a If there had never been a thought of stale control. Thev do not intend to- start anylliing. They admit that It will not be necessary. California Is Divided. Governor Hay of Washington and s legion of others will attend to that at the first opportunity. On the opposite side from Governor Hay Hands ex-Governor Pardee, of California, who held an im promptu reception in the lobby of the hotel tonight. "About ) per cent of California'1 waterpower, developed or otherwise, has (Concluded on Page MEN WHO WILL BE PROMINENT IN I John D.'s Rules Fall to Cover Case, Especially as to Red Tights, so Minions Bundle I.n?s Out. CLEVELAND. O.. Sept. 4. (Special.) Falling In her parachute, after a bal loon ascension from Luna Park at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon, into a copse in Cue Forest Hill estate of John D. Rockefeller. Miss Gertrude Thomas brought confusion to the guards of the Oil King's little army. The rule book, with which the mas ter ot Standard Oil provides each guard failed to disclose any injunction as to the treatment of "girls in red tights," "girls in tights of varying color," or visitors from the air." So Miss Ger trude, though dazed when the guards came . upon her. was handled without ceremony carefully, it Is true, but still bundled beyond tiie Iron palings which surround the .woods of Forest Hill, and was leff outside to find her way to consciousness and to Luna Park un assisted. '.A long, thin man found me," Miss Gertrude explained tonight when she finally returned to Luna Park. "I was too dazed from my landing to care what he did. Ik turned back when he ,got the first glimpse." Miss Tbomas blushed here, for she herself suspected that the apparition of a pretty young girl, dressed only in red tights .lying in the copse of John D. Rockefeller, migirt be enough to startle any watchman. JUDGE NOT TO 'SCRAMBLE' Vancouver Candidate for Re-election Will Not Make Campaign. Vancouver, wash., Sept. 4.-cspe- cial.) Judge Donald McMaster of the Su perior Court of the district comprising "!ark. Skamania. Klickitat and Cowlitz Co-.inties. who if a candidate for election will not "campaign" for the position, al though three other candidates are report ed to be making active canvasses. He paid he did not think the judgeship was an office to b ""Scrambled for." Judge McMaster was appointed by Gov ernor Hay to fill the unexpired term of Judge W. W. McCredie. The three other candidates are F. E. Vaughan and E. M. Green, of Vancouver, and E. C. Ward, of Goldcndale. PRINCESS MAYJS SALVED Ship Hijsh Out of Water on Reef Makes Work V'fflcult., 4 .ICNF.AC Alaska-Sept. 4. The Can adian Pacific steamship Princess May. which grounded on rocks of Sentinel Island early In the morning of August o. was launched from the rocks yester day and was brought to Juneau by tha tug Jolliffe today. The Princess May will be taken to Esquimau In tow of the Jolliffe Tues day. The salving of the Princess May was a difficult feat on account of the peculiar position in which the vessel was held high out of the water on the reef. FIRST DAY'S EXERCISES AT CONSERVATION CONGRESS AT ST. PAUL. People Refuse to Go Without Speeches. ENDURANCE IS ASTONISHING Likens Himself to Weller': Thanksgiving Turkey. SHORT SERMON PREACHED Savlrg Grace of Common Sense Extolled "You Can t Do Much With Natural Born Fool," He Tells Hearers. Is FARGO. N. D.. Sept. 4. After an all day ride through purts of South Dakota Minnesota and North Dakota. ex-Presl. dent Roosevelt reached Fargo early 'to night. The people of Fargo were wait. Ing at the station for him and gave him a welcome. In spite of the fact that it was Sunday. It was after midnight when Colonel Roosevelt got to bed last night. "Like Weller's Thanksgiving turkey. t am old and tough," said he. just before he retired, "but there are limits." Endurance Is Amazing. Those traveling with him on his West ern trip have been astonished at his en durance. He has attended breakfasts before .7 o'clock and dinners that lasted until late at night, and he has made so many speeches since lie left New York that he. cannot estimate the number. But last night he admitted that he was tired. He instructed his secretary to send telegrams to towns through which he was to pass today, saying that as It was Sunday he would make no speeches whatever from the train. The special train scooted across the eastern edge of South Dakota and Min nesota and, for the first part of the morning Colonel Roosevelt enjoyed hlm- j self sitting In an easy chair and read ing -a duck. J lieu iiie engineer-siuweu down for Marshall, the first stop. Col onel Roosevelt continued to read his book. There was a shout outside. A crowd closed around the rear, platform. Crowd Is Insistent. The Colonel's telegram had arrived, but the people had paid no attention to it. "Teddy, Teddy, come out!" the crowd shouted. "Let's fee you." The Colonel hesitated a moment. The shout3 grew louder. He laid down his book. Some of the people saw him through the window and cheered. He arose and there was another cheer. He walked to the door and thrust his head through. The cheer developed into a veil of greeting, and the Colonel could not re sist. He walked out to the platform and in an instant men and boys were scramb ling upon the railing, trying to shake his hand. After he had shaken hands with every one within reach, the Colonel stepped back. The crowd grew quiet and lis tened expectantly. The Colonel did not open his mouth.' "Speech! Speech!-' Is Cry. "Speech! Speech!" the crowd shouted. Colonel Roosevelt took another step aa though about to go back Into the -car, but the cries of "speech, speech," grew louder and he capitulated. The same thing happened at . every place at which the train stopped. At no time did the people pay attention to the Colonel's telegrams and after hi first few vain struggles. Colonel Roose velt surrendered unconditionally and spent the rest of the day In making speeches at every station at which the train stopped. The people came out with bands and flags, dressed in their Sun-d.-v clot'nes. End swarmed on the tracks behind the train. They stayed there un til the train started and followed it down tConcluded on Pace 2.) He Plans to Go Into Real Estate Business on Large Scale; But Not Cntil He Gets Cash. CHICAGO, Sept. 4. (Special.) From the hard bench on a "West Side tailor shop to an elaborately furnished real estate office with mahogany desks, real carpets and a corps - of stenogra phers at his beck and cell, is the sudden transformation In the life ot Harold Price Donn, who came to Chicago two years ago. practical'y penniless. His salary as - tailor was J1S a week and he had to toil early and late to make it. Under the new arrangement. Donn will have the income from $1,000, 000 and the profits of the real-estate business. He proposes to engage on a large scale. Today he received word from the State Department at Washington that a baronial estate In Russia C' had been inherited by his mother, now de ceased, would be placed in the hands of reputable attorneys, and through other sources Donn learned tie had been made pdncipal heir to his mother's property, which is estimated to be worth In excess cf $1, 000, 000 after all claims have b- . met. As for the baronial estate, Donn docs not care for the title and ha no desire to return to Russia. Donn tonight, In an Interview, said he would not buy the mahogany desk and the carpets -jntil he had his hands on the actual fortune. He will be at work on his bench promptly on time Tuesday morning and will hang to his i-a-week job until his "?hip comes in." GRAIN MOVEMENT IS SLOW Buyers Refuse to Pay Prices, Though Below Last Year's. DAYTON, Wash.. Sppt. 4. (Special. ) Because buyers for Portland export ers refuse to stock up under present market conditions, few sales of grain were made here last week, although farmers are anxious to sell at existing prices, which are 3 to 5 cents below last year's opening. Yesterday's quo tations here are given at 00 cents for barley. 77 for club and 85 for bluestem. Not over 5000 bushels of wheat changed hands last week, and shipping receipts to Por'lan : will not reach 10,000 bush els. .... Conditions are exactly reversed from what they were at this time last year. Then prices ranged 10 cents higher, dealers were anxious to buy and farm ers were holding. Now dealers will not buy. farmers .want to sell and the buyer is the master of the situation. WEST POINT'S CREW SAFE Men of Burned Steamer Picked Up After-Much Suffering. CAPE RACE. N. F., Sept. 4. After much suffering the 32 men comprising the crew of the British freight steamer West Point, Glasgow for Charleston, S. C, which burned to the water's edge in mid-ocean Sunday last, are safe. News that the rescue of the West Point's crew had been completed by the picking up at midnight on Friday last of Captain Pinkham and 15 men who had been with him for five days in an open boat, and the last few days without food, by the Cur.ard liner Mauretania, .was received here today by a wireless relay from that steamer. An' equal number of the crew of the ill-fated steamer, headed by the chief mate, is approaching Boston aboard the Leland liner Devonian, from Liverpool, which accomplished their rescue Thurs day morning. They will arrive in Bos ton late Monday or Tuesday. Tonight each party was Informed by wireless of the fortunate delivery of the other. BEES CAUSE OF SHOOTING After Firing Fatal Shot, Man, Heav ily Armed, Flees to Woods. SEATTLE. Sept. 4. George Aulf ley was shot and fatally wounded today by Charles Smith, an ex-forester and woodsman at Aulfley's home at Sultan, a mountain village northeast of here. The shooting resulted from-a quarrel over the ownershln of a. bee tree found j by Smith In the woods. Following the shooting Smith fled to the mountains. He is heavily armed. Aulfley was pre paring to leave tomorrow with h's family for his old home In Kentucky. Oregon Cities Wonder at Phenomenon. OCEAN IS ITS PROBABLE BED Body Last Seen Near Horizon West of Astoria. PORTLAND VIEW IS CLEAR Scientist Thinks It May Have Been Larger Than Any Meteorite Ever Found by Man Observers Agree as to Details. . What is believed to he a meteor larger tlian man has ever found was seen whiz zing in e northwesterly direction through the skies at 12:20 yesterday afternoon. , From many points in Northwestern Oregon' it appeared with great brilllano, despite the noonday glare of the sun, ap parently wavered as? It swept through the air, scattered a shower of flames in its path and left a trail of smoke that was descernible- for at least a niinuta after the meteor had passed frjm view. The meteor is believed to have buried Itself in the Pacific Ocean at some point west of Astoria, where II was last seen shooting westward and approaching the. horizon closely. From Portland tho meteor was seen in the southwest, ap parently passing between Portland and Salem. Salem t-aw the great body in lha northwest. Autoists Think It Xcar. Mount Angel reported seeing t lie body first in the north. From there it rushed westward until it was northwest of tlift town. During its flight it appeared to drop from an elevation of SO degrees above the horizon to 30 degrees. A party of autoists at Helveta on, North Plains, just west of Portland, thought it passed clot to them, as it first was seen in the southwest, passed apparently over their heads and disappeared over the horizon to the northwest. It is a report from Astoria which, seems to fix the striking place as some where in the ocean. This report says that the meteor appeared in the southern sky shortly after noon. It came from the east and passed about midway between the sun and the horizon, disappearing in the west. It is said to have appeared even larger and brighter than an arc light, despite the sun's glare, and was in sight fully 10 seconds. All reports agree as to the appearance of the body. D. D. Delcamp, living at the Westphal apartments, said that at 20 minutes after noon he saw what ap peared to be a drop Oi fire passing across the sky in the southwest. It left, be said, a trail of smoke which lasted mora than a minute after the meteor had dis- ; appeared. It appeared- to hirn to be al--muet a foot in diameter. Head Emits Flames. P.1 L. Ambler, posimat-.-r at Mount Angel, reported seeing Ihw same phe nomenon.. He said that the tail appeared' about a rod long and the head seemed to! shoot forth flame He first saw it dl- rectly in the. north, at an elevation of; 60 degrees-. Then it moved apparently ' weet until it was in the northwest and' had declined to a poinf above the horizon at a height of about 30 degrees. Mr. Ambler could sec no smoke owing to the already smoky condition of the skyi around Mount Angel. Scores of residents of Salem eaw tho same sight. The brilliant meteorite swept across the sky and seemed to disappear in a northwesterly direction, it is de scribed as having a great brilliancj,' despite the noonday glare. N. W. Clark, who saw it. from the Craig ranch, ad joining Salem, described it as appearing In transit about the size of a peck meas ure and he believed that it was almost as brilliant In the bright daylight as if seen at night. A long streak of fire was seen in the wake of the body. A party of autoists consisting of J. E. Webb, Max Hagerstein and two oth ers, all connected with the Ruth Trust Company, and Jack Harrison, chauffeur, reported seeing the meteor from the sta tion of Helvetia on the United Railways ' on North Plains, west of Portland. They eaw the great body as a ball of fire of indescribable beauty. It apepared in tlm southwest, passed apparently over their heads and disappeared to the northwest. They declared that the smoke was visi ble fully three minutes and that til meteor itself consumed several second! in its transit. Height Estimated Five Miles. This meteor is believed to have. beer: less than five miles above the earth hi It swept over Oregon. Professor J. W, Daniels, head of the department of a, tronomy at the Hill Military Academy, made this calculation from the various reports as to its appearance. He said that it must have been of immense size, possibly weighing thousands of tons and being hundreds of feet In diameter. "It must have been one of the largest meteors which is known to have struck; the earth," said Professor Daniels. "In the first place meteors are rfsually so diffused by the time they have passed through the earth's 500 miles of atmo sphere that they are not discernible In the day time. That this was so plainly iConeiuded on Pagtt 2.) nn 1 10.2 v -v -