i ' .''' t " - . . Jlrititif jj pttm VOL. L. XO. 15,541. . PORTLAND. OKKGOX. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. r . . HASTY WEDDINGS MAY BE DIFFICULT SEAWALL FALLS; HOMES IN DANGER CABINET TO DECIDE ROOSEVELT FISND FLEE TOP- PLACE STILL KEPT BY PORTLAND BALLIN9ER ISSUE TO ESCAPE DEATH CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE RE FORMERS PLAN OBSTACLES. SCORES OF MEN WORK TO SAVE LONG BEACH HOUSES. RANK CLEARIXGS STATEMENT SHOWS VS CP WELL. AMERICANS KfGH IVOMAN DUPE OF CULT, SAYS SOU FRIENDS DIVIDED Secretary Leaves Re suit to Colleagues. DEFINITE ACTION DEMANDED Committee's Failure at Min neapolis Is Embarrassing. TAFT MUST APPROVE, TOO Abence or Dickinson Will Prevent Drawing of Parly Lines De partment Suffers From I-ong-Drawn Uncertainty. WASHINGTON. Sept. 1. Whether R. A. Balllnger's resignation as Secretary ef the Interior will follow Immediately the Cabinet meeting September JS. to attend which he. Is now en route from Feat tie; or whether he will retain his position Indefinitely at least until after the delivery to Congress of the rerorts of the committee that Investi gated his stewardship of the public do main, depends now upon the attitude of his Cabinet associates. Mr. Balllnger Is coming to Washing Ion. his friends say. wholly unconsci ous of any art on his part for which he thould be condemned and has deter mined to force his chief and his of ficial colleagues to be In effect hli Judges. Colleagues to Judge. If they concur In the view at present attributed to Mr. Taft that the accused Secretary shall be sustained as an In nocent and persecuted man. he will re tain his position; If they fall to back Jura up. he will resign. That this Is - Mr. Balllnger' position, was learned iiere today upon authority hardly to be questioned. At the first meeting of the Cabinet after the Summer recess. Secretary Xicklnaon. the Democratic member, will not bare returned from the Phil ippine and will therefore be saved the embarrassment of participation In what Is regarded as largely a problem of itepublican policy. The meeting Is ex pected to last three days. It will sur prise nobody here If the Balllnger case occupies a large part of the time. Rumors have been constant and de cidedly derinlte here during the last few days that Mr. Balllnger' resigna tion would be one of the first devel opments of the Cabinet meeting; but Ills friends. Including his associates In the Interior Department have refused to believe that he would retire, "under fire." and have pointed to his oft-repeated declaration to the contrary and to the recent statement attributed to Mm that he wou d sign only at the peclfled request of tSe president. Some of these, however, today ad mitted that they themselves and the Secretary are alive to the fact that the turmoil and uncertainty Into which the protracted controversy has plunged the Iepartment must be abated soon un less this Important branch of the pub lic service Is to become hopelessly de moralised. Delay Disappointing. Nobody here doubts that a majority -all but one of the Republican mem bers of the Investigating commit: -e will sustain Secretary Balllnger. But Secretary Balllnger and his partisans here were greatly disappointed that the absence of Senators Root and Flint from the Minneapolis meeting left the pro-Balllnger portion of the committee In the minority and permitted the Dem ocrats and the Insurgent Republican member to put forth reports condemn ing him. These reports for many weeks will stand before the country as the only findings of the committee; where as he had relied on the majority for a vindication. It la thla failure of the committee to take final action which. It Is. said, has determined Secretary Balllnger'a course. It was said here today by a close friend of the Secretary that had the majority or the committee been ready to report at the Minneapolis meeting, he would then have tendered his resignation to the President and urged Its acceptance on the ground that the dissensions to which he has been a party were detrimental to the public Interest. Action to Be Demanded. When the committee railed at Minne apolis to take action as a whole, and when there was no quorum at the sub sequent meeting In Chicago It became apparent that no decision could be ex pected for several months. This situation la said to have con vinced Mr. Balllnger that his position. In spite of the President, has become untenable. Unable, aa he sees It. te resign as either vindicated or con demned by the committee, he has de cided. It Is said, to demand of his su perior and his Cabinet associates either vindication or condemnation. Secretary Balllnger left his home In Seattle yesterday and will react! Wash ington several days In advance of the Cabinet session. Ills purpose in thus expediting his return la believed to be to counsel with his Immediate subordi nate and to gain their assistance In preparing for his demand upon the -'- Xur a "show down." I Ten Days Notice) Before) License ! sues Is One Divorce to Be Opposed by Courts. SACRAMENTO. CaL. Sept 18. (Spe cial.) Proposed measures, aimed at marriage and divorce reform, were given discussion and promised support today at the meeting of the inter Denominational Commission on mar riage and divorce for Northern Cali fornia, where it was decided that the next Lerlslature should be asked to enact several new laws. First on the list of bills comes The marriage license measure, which pro vldos 10 days' notice from parties In tending to get married ' before the license will be Issued by the County Clerk. A divorce examiner, whose duty It would be to appear at every divorce trial and contest the action on behalf of the state, would be created. Another would require every defendant to be present at the trial, either in person or substantial affidavit, and that stren uous efforts be made by judges to effect a reconciliation where possible. Francis M. Moody, of Pasadena, field secretary of the commission, explained the bills. The second Sunday In No vember was selected by ministers pres ent as the time for opening a campaign against the divorce evlL DR. BROUGHER BUYS HOME I.o Angeles Property Worth $10,- 000 Is Deeded to Family. LOS ANGELES. CaL. Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) Dr. J. Whltcomb Brougher, pas tor of Temple Baptist Church, who came here a little more tnan a year co from Portland, today set at rest re ports that he was not going to stay In Los Angeles long, by purchasing a beautiful residence on Crown Hill, on Fourth street, near Lucas. Immediate ly after the purchase he made over the deed to the house and the lot to Mrs. Brougher. as a gift to his wife and his children, who returned recently from Oregon, where the family spent the Summer. Speaking of the house. Dr. Brougher said: Mrs. Brougher has wanted a home of her own here for some time, so I hought she might as well have It. She has been especially eager to have a home since ber return from Oregon. whore we lived for some years." . with certain alterations ana im provements Dr. Brougher Is having made, the property will be worth $10. 000. lie expects to move into the house about October 1 CHINAMEN BUY REVOLVERS Mongolians In fctorkton Arm Them selves for Tong War. STOCKTON. CaL. Sept. 1. (Special.) The mniden run on the gun stores of tills city by Chinamen, who are arming themselves In the belief that a tong war Is certain, today resulted In al most every high-priced revolver being sold. The owners were surprised this morning to have Chinamen call In twos nd threes and purchase the best makes of pistols, paying from $10 to 20 each for what they believed to be reliable weapons. , The swarm In the stores Increased and long before the ay waa over, most of the high-class pistols were sold. When questioned this evening, sev eral of the old-time Chinese declared that they would not be aurprlsed at an outbreak at mos. any time, though hey are making every effort to keep the trouble from extending to Stock ton. They have special watchmen at the trains and will not allow strange Mongolians to stop here. PEARS BRING TOP PRICE Rogue River rartletts Sold for 93.00, Buerrc d'AnJous at $5.90. MEDFORD. Or.. Sept. 16. (Special.) Banner prices are being realised by Rogue River Valley pear growers In Kastern markets. Dillon Hill, who received an average price of 13.33 a box for three carloads Bartletts. received as high aa 13.90 box for some of them. George E. Marshall received J5.80 a box for his shipment f Buerre d'AnJous. The prices reported from the East for the late shipments of pears are higher than those of earlier shipments. The reason given is that the California pears are now out or the markets. NELSON IN AU.TO WRECK Rattling- One Thrown 20 Feet Into Field When Speeding. TOPEKA. Kan.. Sept. 16. When en deavoring to make a record run from here to Kansas City today In an automo mile. Oscar ("Battling") Nelson and Fred Lang-ley, who was driving the ear, were thrown 30 feet Into a field this morning when the touring car struck a farmer's wagon and turned turtle. The steering gear broke. ' Neither man was hurt. , ' BOMB IN EMPEROR'S PATH Explosive Found on Railroad Track; Leading to Hunting Lodge. BERLIN". Sept. 1 A special dispatch to ithe Morgcn Post, from Funfklrchen. Hungary, says that a formidable bomb was discovered yesterday lying on the railroad track In front or Emperor Wil liam's train. In which he was going to the hunting lodge. Mohacs. 2Z jnilea aouth- i sl uf Fur.fklrcLt Lionel Meets Leaders V Von Both Sides. CROMVf.'l 'QUITS STANDARD Staten Island Condemns Sup port, Says Committeeman. REPLY MADE TO BARNES 'Old Guard" Leader Condemns "Ap peal to Mob" Indeed Blessed in His Enemies, Is Coolncl's " Prompt Retort. NEW TORK, Sept. 16. County politi cians from all parts of New York gath ered today at Theodore Roosevelt's edi torial offices to tell him where they stand In the fight now on within the Republican party. The Colonel talked from morning till night with leaders on both sides, but as he was leaving at the end of the day the only statement he would make was that he had not a word to say. Some brought back word that the Colonel had been informed of dissatisfac tion within his own ranks, but none of them was willing to go on record by name. George Cromwell, president of the borough of Richmond and member of the Republican state committee, was the only one who did not hesitate to say where he stood. Staten Island Anti-Roosevelt. Tm going to vote against Roosevelt." he said- "I have taken that resolution after thinking It over carefully, and I hear nothing but condemnation from my people In Staten Island." Mr. Cromwell's stand provoked com ment. In that he has often spoken of his friendship for Colonel Roosevelt, dating back to their boyhood days, and that his statement was made today directly aftr a long conference with him. Colonel Roosevelt Is to leave at 7:45 o'clock tomorrow morning for Syracuse. where he will speak at the state fair tomorrow afternoon. Unfriendly Resolution Tabled. After the New York County Republi can Committee had unanimously re elected Lloyd C Griscom as Its presi dent tonight. Adam Gruber, an assem bly district leader, who has finally gone on record against Colonel Roosevelt, offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the New York Coun- y Committee of New York disapprove unjust and dangerous to the liberties of the people the utterance of ex-Prea-ldent Roosevelt In respect to the Judges of the United States Supreme Court and the Court or Appeals." With a shout or disapproval the res olution was tabled and the meeting ad journed. Taft Is Cheered. The committeemen cheered Mr. Grls- Concluded on Pajr 2.1 - "GOSH! HOPE WE KEEP OUR JOBS." I ' - I - t ...111! ......... r I. TTT-T Mile of Concrete Walk Goes Out With Tide, and Light Poles Fall Like Nine) Pins. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Sept l.-Spe-clal.) Scores of men are working un ceasingly to fortify residences along the ocean front at Long Beach against the waters which broke through a protecting cement wall last night and left the houses expored to the fury of the breakers. Many beach houses were left under mined by the washing of the waves, and unless the foundations are reinforced within the next few hours they will fall Into the sea. A half-mile of the break water, as much of the seawall and nearly ka mile of concrete sidewalk were washed out. - One building collapsed from theTorce of the waves. An apartment-house of 40 rooms Is In a most perilous position and there Is every probability that the building will fall. The house is now standing on the sheerest ledge. The dan ger had been threatened for three days and residents were apprehensive of their momentary peril. Electric light poles fell during the night like ninepins. The trouble Is due to the unusually high tides. The waters will continue to increase until Sunday. FLEET PRACTICE DELAYED Atlantic Weather Too Stormy for Prescribed Work With Guns. V. S. S. KANSAS, at Sea on Southern Drill Grounds (By Wireless Via Ports mouth, Va ), Sept. 16. Father Neptune and the weather have been playing their parts In annual Fall battle prac tice of the Atlantic fleet with too much vim. and as a consequence have some what disrupted the plans of Rear Ad miral Seatou Schroeder, commander-in-chief of the fleet. The greatest diffi culty is being experienced by the 15 battleships In securing satisfactory weather for their allotted time at night target practice. Only five of the bat tleships have completed thetr work In that direction since they arrived on the southern drill grounds, 30 miles south of the Virginia Capes, on Tues day. Battle practice, which had been planned for last night, was again pre vented, as on Wednesday night, by the heavy weather. An attempt was made at towing the target rafts in order that the big guns of the battle ships might shoot at the moving ob jects, but It was abandoned, owing1 to the rafts breaking adrift. In securing the drifting flouts, two ren were wnshed overboard and were rescueti with difficulty. Admiral Schroeders plans call for at least four more days of practice, and this can be had only after the weather moderates. No day practice has yet been held. Continuation of heavy weather may. In that case, delay the fleet's visit to New York, where the men and orflcers anxiously are .looking forward to shore liberty. "DRYS" WANT NO ELECTION Attempt to Prevent Vole on Liquor Question In PuyaHup. TACOMA. Wash.. Sept. 16. (Special.) Knit waa filed In the Superior Court today by X. D. Jameisnn. on behalf of "drys" of Puyallup, asking an Injunc tion to prevent City Clerk Laplante calling a special local option election. A "wet" petition with 283 names was recently filed asking- for' the election, which was to have been held with the genera! election in November. The "drys" allege the petition contains many fraudulent names and ask the court to prevent the election. Puyallup Is now dry. Experience in Hon duras Is Exciting. OREGON MAN'S LIFE SOUGH H. C Downing, of Salem, Kep Prisoner for 16 Days. AMERICAN FLAG INSULTED Men Accused of Being Rebel Sym pathizers Take Refuge in Home of Fellow-American, but Place Is Sacked Engine Stolen. NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) H. C. Downing, railroad engineer from Salem, Or., has reached here after a thrilling experience In Honduras where his life was threatened because he was suspected of being In sympathy with the revolution of Marshal Bonilla. Downing and another American, F. B, Miller, were living together at La Guna. near the Government barracks. The -night that General Marin's division was repulsed Downing and Miller started for the marine headquarters to Investigate the situation. Government troops pur sued them and a Honduran officer cried, "Kill the Americans." Reaching Miller's house the American Tag was raised. The flag was torn down by the Honduran soldiers and the two men were forced to flee to the home of Mr. Van Blarcum. Men Prisoners for 16 Pays. There a sentry was found on the front steps. Miller and Downing entered through a rear passage and for 16 days were kept prisoners in the place, surrounded by troops, de manding their surrender before the American Vice-Consul at Puerto Cortez could act and procurte bond for the men. " " Later, in their absence, the two men were tried by court-martial and con verted of being revolutionists. But for the firmness of Mr. Van Blarcum In refusing to give them up the Ameri cans would no doubt have been mur dered. Downing and Miller stole locomotive at night and jra.n down to the port at the other end of the ciy, where they boarded the steamship Hiram. Authorities AH Antl-Amerlcan. Mr. Miller went to Bellas, British Hon duras, while Mr. Downing came here. Mr. Downing says that he does not be lieve the revolution of Manuel Bonilla has really started yet. He says the crowd In authority at Puerto Cortcz Is all anti-American and made up prin cipally of friends who were put In office by the eZlaya revolution that elevated Davilla to the Presidency. As showing the absolute contempt for the American Government felt by that gang of natives. Mr. Downing says that Mr. Miller's house, on which (Concluded on Page 2. Gain or 29. S Per Cent Over Corre sponding Week of Last Year Leads All Competitors. Portland keeps its first place among the leading cities of the country in the bank clearings column. In the statement of comparisons fur nished by Bradstreet's for1 the week ending last Thursday, Portland makes the best showing of any large city, with a gain of 29.3 per cent over the clearings of the corresponding week of last year. When It Is considered that the Fall grain movement has as yet hardly started, this showing Is the more remarkable. Conditions on Puget Sound are still about the same as they have been. Seattle's total Is 14.8 per cent less than It was last year, but Tacoma shows a gain of 6.6 per cent. Spokane reports an Increase of 11.2 per cent. San Fran cisco's weekly clearings are 5.2 per cent less than last year's and those of Los Angeles show a gain of about the same percentage. For the country as a whole there is a decided shrinkage, as compared with a year ago, but this is largely due to Che falling off in speculative activity at New York, where the weekly clearings decreased 38.8 per cent. BOYS' ESCAPE IS FOILED Young Desperadoes Nearly Kill Re form School Superintendent. ALBUQUERQUE. X. M., Sept. 16. In a desperate attempt to escape from the New Mexico Reform School at Springer today three youthful desperadoes nearly killed the assistant superintendent. Ba ron Dekalb Samiell. Sampsell was cut and slashed with butcher knives and beaten with a poker, but it is believed that he will recover. The attack was made in a recreation room, where 23 boys were assembled Without warning the three plotters threw themselves on Sampsell. who was unarmed. He struggled until weakened by loss of blood, when the boys wrested from him the key to the vault where arms are stored. Then the three, followed by several other boys, dashed toward the vault, only to be met by three guards armed with rifles. Seeing their only avenue of es cape cut off, the boys surrendered. They are now closely confined. ARMY PARADES IN MEXICO Dedication of Liberty Shaft Closes Centennial Celebration. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 16. Mexico crowned the celebration of her centennial today with the dedication of a monument to the Independence of the Republic. There was a grand parade from the Na- ional Palace to the site of the monu ment in the beautiful Paseo de la Re forma, between this city and Chapul- tepec, where the ceremonies were held. Ten thousand soldiers, marines, rurales and representatives of other powers were line. The feature of the programme was an address by President Diaz. The monument Is an imposing granite shaft rising to a height of 110 feet. It is topped with a figure symbolic of liberty, and the base is surrounded by bronze figures representing the various phases of the national life. DOG IS WON BY $5 FINE Laura Mitchell Secures Canine De nied in Divorce Plea. OLYMPIA. Wash., Sept. 16. (Spe cial. ) ---Laura Mitchell, divorced wife of Albert Mitchell, of Portland, was fined $6 in police court today for trespassing on the premises of her father-in-law at Tumwater in an effort to get posses ion of a dog. The divorce was granted n Snohomish County last week and the decree denied her plea for possession of the dog. Last niht she came here, secured the animal and left in an auto for Lacey, where she was arrested as she was about to board a train. Following the trial the father-in-law decided to permit her to keep the dog, and she left the courtroom smi.ing. tIAN MAY BE BANKROBBER Denver Police Say They Have Jesse Dare, Wanted in Kansas. DENVER, Sept. 16. Jesse Dare, who rled to hold up a country bank 20 miles from Clay Center, Kan., December and was put to flight by the paying eller and a woman employe, was ar rested today -at a grading camp in the uhurbs of this city. The police say he admitted the at tempted robbery and that he has a rlminal record in Montana and Wyom- ng. OSTOFFICES ADVANCED rass Valley Is to Go Into Presiden tial Class, October 1. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 16. Because of increased receipts, the following fourth-class post offices will be advanced to the Presiden tial grade on October 1: Oregon Grass Valley, postmaster's sal ary $KXj0. Washington Washougal and Black Diamond, $1100; Conconuily, $1300; Maiden, $120.. Idaho Post Falls and Bovill, $1100. HINDS' ELECTION CONCEDED Famous Parliamentarian Is Sure of 4 Seat in House. PORTLAND. Me., Sept. 16. William H. Pennell, the Democratic Congres sional candidate In the First District, today conceded the election of Asher C. Hinds, the parliamentarian of the National House of Representatives. The First and Fourth districts will be represented by Republicans and the Second and Third by Democrats. Man Wants Fortune Given Theosophist. FIGHT BREAK WILL BEGINS $150,000 Legacy Bequeathed by Woman, Charged. TWO INFIRM PERSONS WED George L. Patterson, Son of Mrs, Harriet P. Thurston, Declares Mrs. Kathrrine Tingley Is Not Entitled to Money. SAN DIEGO, Cal.. Sept. 16. Suit was filed in the Superior Court today to con test the will of Mrs. Harriet P. Thurs ton, who died at Newburyport. Mass recently. In her will there is a legacy of $150,000 to Mrs. Katherlne Tingley, head of the theosophlcal organization at the Point Loma homestead. The contestant is George L. Patterson, a son of Mrs. Thurston. The complaint al leges conspiracy and undue influence. Mrs. Thurston was 74 years old. Her estate is estimated, according to the contestant, to be worth from $400,000 to 00,000. Infirm Conple Married. The complaint alleges that in 1907 Mrs. Harriet P. Thurston, then Mrs. Harriet P. Patterson, went to the home stead; that two years later she was married to Clark Thurston, an official of Mrs. Tingiey's organization, and that Mrs. Tingley induced them to marry, both being then Infirm. It is assertd that the will was not signed In the presence of George Butler and Mabel Reutsch, whose names ap pear as witnesses. Mind and Body Affected. " It alleges that for more than five years prior to the time of her death Mrs. Thurston was afflicted with disease oi both' mind and body and was so feeble as not to be competent to transact busi ness or attend to the ordinary affairs of life and that Mrs. Tingley, with the aid of several of her associates, took ad vantage of Mrs. Thurston's condition to induce her to make the legacy to the head of the Universal Brotherhood, ai Mrs. Tingley is styled. Associates Held in Plot. It Is charged that In furtherance of s conspiracy Mrs. Tingley placed thoes associates In constant contact with Mrs Thurston and that they urged her to dis pose of e. large part of her fortune bj leaving it to Mrs. Tlnprley or persons un. dcr her control, and that they Impressed upon the old woman the doctrine that the people of the world should constitute on universal brotherhood; that family tiei were to be regarded as of minor Impor tance; that her three children were nof entitled to the greater part of her for tune and that her son, who is now contest ing the will, was not a fit person to re ceive any part of the estate. Petition Is Presented. The petition was presented in couW this afternoon In the presence of Mrs Tingley and several of her advisers. Her attorney. Senator Wright, said: "There Is not much to say now. The facts will all come out when the case ir tried." COUPLE MARRIED AT FAIR Klickitat County Thousands Witness Ceremony Big Apples Admired. GOLDENDALE, Wash.. Sept. 16. (Spe- -inl.l TThlman J. Sanders and Mary L. Wade were united in marriage yesterday In the presence of several thousand peo ple, they having captured the prize of fered for the ones having a public wed ding at the county fair grounds. Rev. W. H. Jones, of the Presbyterian Church, performed the ceremony. The fair opened yesterday with the largest display of Klickitat County prod ucts ever gathered. The apples have taken the greatest Interest, as people here have just awakened to the fact that Klickitat County can raise"-the finest of non-irrigated apples. Prizes will be awarded Saturday, which Is the closing day. GLASS LENS FIRES FOREST Ranchman Accused of Starting Blaaa Would Prove Alibi. I-OS ANGELES. Cal., Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) A glass lens arranged in a frame so that inflammable material underneath It would be ignited when exposed to the rays of the sun, was exhibited today in the United States District Court, where Henry Clay, a rancher, was placed on trial before a jury on a charge of start ing a fire in the San Diego forest re serve. Harold Marshall, superintendent of the reserve, told on the witness stand of finding the device, which is alleged to have been placed in position by the de fendant with the deliberate Intention of setting a fire and being able to prove alibi If arrested. V 4