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Newspaper Page TextVOL. L. NO. 15.542. PORTLAND. OREGON. MONDAY, SEPTE3IBER 19, 1910- PRICE FIVE CENTS. CHINESE THRONGS TUFT ALONE L AEROPLANES TO BE USED AS SCOUTS MOTOBBOflTfllDES T DAILY BATH ORDER AROUSES JACKIES COVER GREET DICKINSON ANALYZE UNREST MILES IN DAY GUIDE MEX IX ATLANTIC FLEET MIST "CHANCE" OXCE A DAY. SECRET All Y CARRIED TO PEKIX NAVY. WILL NOT BE . AFFECTED IX" WAR, SAYS MEYER. PALACE IX SED AX CHAIR. BALLOONS 1 LEADERS GANNQ 40 BALL NGER NIAGARA RAPIDS i Republicans Puzzled by Political Drift. w Rule I to Prevent Blood-Pol- coning From Contact of Soiled Clothing With Wounds. TAFT NOT PARTY ORGANIZER Desire to "Do Right Thing' Without Leadership. Three Pass Pittsburg; One Descends. Curiously Garbed Populitce Lines Rail' way to Welcome Visiting . American Official. ROOSEVELT MACHINE GONE Insurgency in West Not Inimical to Republican Prospects, but Dem ocrats Count on Gain la District! of East. FT HARRT J. RBdWS. OREGONIAN NEWS BI REAl'. Wajh- Ington. Sept. 1 I-eadrs of the Repub lican Congressional fight are all at sea over the political situation a It Is devel oping. They realize that something Is wronr: that discontent srlth Republlcan lim Is rampant, and semlnly spread- tr.g: that the trend of voters Is away from ths Republican party; and yet. realizing all this, the Republican mana rera are unable In the first Instance to dtacnoa satisfactorily tha prevailing sen tlment among the votera. and falling In this, sre at a lose to apply the proper remedy. Thks unrest or dissatisfaction seeming ly extends from ocean to ocean. It was at first believed tt would be confined to the so-called "Insurgent" states of the Middle West, little serious thought be ing given such rock-ribbed Republican strongholds as Maine on the one coast and California on the other. And yet Maine, to the surprise of every one. rolled tip a surprising Democratic majority, while California Republicans, operating under their new primary law. split their own party wide open and Invited defeat at the bands of he Democrat in N'ovem ber. Causes Are Varloas. It can not be denied that this wide spread unrest has shaken the confidence of the Republican leaders and has alarmed men closely identified with the Administration. But It is the more alarm ing becanse it Is not understood. Mani fest Ir. It is the result of various causes not the same In Maine as In California, nor mm In Iowa or Wisconsin. And the very fact that the dissatisfaction pre vails tn various states from various, cause la the more perplexing to the men charged with the direction of the Con gresalonal campaign for the Republican party. It baa been demonstrated by the elec tion recently held in Maine that the prevailing unrest was Inlmloal to Repub lican prosperta. And yet It Is the optn ion of shrewd politicians who have per son ally studied the situation In the so called 1nsurgent" states that the unrest In the Middle West will not be helpful tn the Democrats, but rather have the opposite effect. If this be true, then the term "Insurgency" can not properly be applied to the apparent unrest In all sections of the country. Democrat Must Look to East. It Is the opinion of an experienced political writer who made the trip through the MHdle West with Roosevelt that the Democrats have no ground for elation over the situation In the Insur gent stsfs. He gives It as his opinion that straight Insurgency will not ham per but help Republican nominees, and that the Democrats. If they hope to rap ture the next House, must look to the East for their gams. Tbts writer dis tinguishes between the Insurgency o(J the Middle West and the prevailing dis satisfaction in the East. I'nouesttonably the Republicans are handicapped In the campaign this year because they have no organization. As a matter of fart there has been no Repub I ran organisation worthy of the name since the present administration opened. President Taft 1 not Instinctively or by training a politician. He has not a poli tician In hie cabinet. His inclination Is to avoid playing politics and to do the right thing, as he sees It. And that la all be !s asking the members of his cabinet to do In their respective spheres. But that Is not building up a political organization. Republicans Not Organized. The Republican party Is without an or ganization th'a year for the first time since I. And by the same token, the Republican party Is threatened more seri ously at the present time than In any year since McKlnley was first elected to the Presidency. The disruption of the party organization may. tn a measure, account for the discontent, for It Is a faying among politicians that the voters J are like sheep; they must be led. or they will stray at random, and perhaps stam pede. A practical politician of the regular tpe. holding an Important government at rice In Washington. In commenting on '.he present situation, expressed the view -ha', the lack of organization, was re sponsible for the predicament In which the Republican party finds Itself today. -In 1S- said this official. "Mark Hanna was head of a powerful Republican or ganization and McKlnley was made Pres ident. That organization remained In tact; McKlnley gave need to the orga clratlon leaders and was renominated and re-elected. -When Roosevelt, throlsh the death of tCtfaduaea ea Fags 2-1 V. 8. S. KANSAS. AT SEA. (via Ports mouth. Va..) Sept. IS. Continued rough weather kept the Atlantic fleet inactive on the Southern drl!! grounds today. Consternation was created yesterday among the officers and crew of the Kan sas when orders were flashed through the fleet by wireless from the flagship Connecticut for every man aboard to take a bath and change his underwear every morning before the ships went into action.. The complete absence of blood poison Ing among the men aboard the Japan men of war during the Russlan-Japanei war was attributed to the fact that tht'; Japanese took precautions to prevent the Infection, of their wounds through sollei clothing. This morning, the Jacktes. cla In Immaculate duck were drawn up on the quarterdeck and closely Interrogated by the officers: 'Had a bath. Murphy?" "No. sir; didn't have time, sir." "Well, get the hose and take one.' Only two men aboard the ship had failed to comply with the order anil these were subjected to the treatment. CITY LOSES SHIP WORK Schwab Will Xot Build Chinese Navy In San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 18. That the dozen or more battleships for the Chi nese navy which the United States Steel Company expects to build will not b built at the I'hion Iron Works, the com pany's plunt in this harbor, was the statement made today by Charles M. Schwab, president of the company who arrived from the East to meet Prince Tsal Heajn. Chinese Minister of Naval Affairs. The prince will reach here to morrow from the Orient. Mr. Schwab declared that San Fran Cisco was "obsessed with unionism," and for that reason the local plant would not be considered In the event of the secur ing of a contract to construct the war vessels. RACE CONTINUES AT NIGHT People of Three States Watch for Aeronauts. on ''HE- ALARM TURNED . IN TAFT STARTS FOR HOME Slay In Cincinnati to Re followed by Brief Washington Visit. WASHINGTON. Sept. 18. President Taft left Boston on the 12:01 express this morning for New Haven, over the New York. New Haven tt Hartford Rail doad. Secretary Norton will Join the President at New Haven tomorrow and go with him to Cincinnati. The Presi dent will reach Cincinnati Thursday af ternoon and will remain there' until next Saturday, when he leaves foi Washington for a week's stay. He will return to Beverly on October 1 for a fortnight, after which the Sum mer White House will be closed and the family will return to Washington. POSTAGE PAIDBY WILSON Secretary Declines to Make Vte of (government Frank. WASHINGTON. Sept. 18. Declining to make use of the Government frank under .which the Department of Agri culture sends out mall matter. Secre tary Wilson sent to the Poitofflee De partment his personal check to pay for mailing to newspapers throughout the country advance copies of the speeh . which be delivered today at Kenton. O. This had been sent out under Gov ernment frank. Tok Int,"' It Which Alights Xcar Wash- Pa., on Account of Rain, ' t Most of Balloons "Raveling In Flock. PEKIN, Sept. 18 A curious throng of Chinese, wearing blue skirts and queue in Innumerable carts, on horses, don keys Hnd camels waited an hour, las evening behind the Chinese troops lln ing the route from the railway station through the great Cheln-Men, th front gate of Pekin, to the American legation. :W. J. Calhoun, the American Minister, the other members of the legation and many Chinese officials In picturesque costumes, the legation guard and a' de tachment of imperial guardsmen me the train which brought Jaco M. Dick lnson, the American Secretary of Wa and party from Hankow to this city. Secretary Dickinson . was borne through the gates into the legation In a sedan chair, while he was -neartiiy greeted on all sides. The programme for his entertainment Is said to be the most elaborate -ever arranged In honor of a foreign official visiting the Celes tial empire. AIR NAVIGATORS ON TWO CON TINENTS DARK ELEMENTS. Nine contestants for the National Championship of the t'nlted States and four free-fnr-aU entrants ascend ed from Indianapolis Saturday. They were: , National Championship H. E. Honeywell. St. Louis. St. Louts: Wil liam T. Assman. St. Louis, Miss Sophia; Louis von PhuL St. I.ouis. Million population Ciut: J. H. Wade. Jr.. Cleveland. Buckeye; Clifford B. Harmon, New York, New Tork: Allan Hawley. New Tork, America It; Ar thur T. Atherholt, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Charles Walsh, Kings ton. N. Y.. Hoosler; G. Fisher. Indianapolis. India II. Free-for-all Captain John Berry, St. 1,outa. I'niversity City; H. W. Jacobs. Topeka. Kan.. Toneka; Albert Hols. Cincinnati. Drifter; Dr. I, E. Custer. Dayton, l.uzerne. The five aviators who will try to cross the Alps from Brig. Switzer land. Into Italy, are: Chavez, Cat taneo. Pailetts. Winzlers and Way-mann. DOGS TRACK -INCENDIARY Man With Grudge Accused of Burn Ing Poorfarm Matron's House. CHEHAL1S. "Wash., Sept. 18. (Spe Iclal. ) 'Mrs. Dunstan's house at the Lewis County Poorfarm. three miles south of Chehalis, was set afire last night. Harry Draper, of Tacoma. ar I rived today with his bloodhounds and w-ithin an hour a man named Campbell was run down In the woods by the dogs. Campbell will be held for arson. He formerly was an inmate of the county home and had threatened a week ago to burn the place. Mrs. Dunstan's barn was destroyed by fire and a quan tity of hay and two calves were burned. Campbell Is declared to have a grudge against Mrs. Dunstan, who Is matron at the institution. DETROlt GIRL WEDS DUKE Mis Julio Dncharm and Neapol itan Married Saturday. DETROIT, Sept. IS. Asgello Var'g- llano. Duks iDelmonte of Naples, and Mlas Julio Dncharme, second daughter of Mrs. Alfred J. Ducharrnr. of Detroit, were quietly married at Gross point Saturday. Only Immediate relatives witnessed the wedding ceremony. After a wedding trip the Duke and Duchess will spend a brief time In De troit before sailing for Naples, their future home. PITTSBCRO. Sept. 18. At least three of the 'T3 "balloons' that ascended from Indianapolis between & and 6 o'clock Saturday afternoon passed over the en virons of Pittsburg lute this afternoon and at dusk tonight were reported still pursuing a course east by north at the rate' of from 10 to 12 miles an hour. In the 24 hours since the ascension the aeronauts have covered about 400 miles. Tim only landing reported was from Washington, Ps, tonight. The Topeka had come down at I o'clock this after noon seven miles south of Wasnlngton, on account of a shower. Balloons Travel In Flocks. R. S. Cole, the pilot, and his aide, F. M. Jacobs, of Topeka. Kan., reported that most of the night they had traveled so close to the others of the big aeronautical party that they conld talk from basket basket. The Topeka was entered In the free-for-ll event. Eastern Ohio, Western Virginia and Pennsylvania were balloon hunting. All afternoon local newspaper offices mere advised from outlying districts that three 1 Concluded on Page 2. t VETERAN LEGISLATOR DEAD McOrcw, of W,?t Virginia, Aged 98, Served In 41st Congress. KING WOOD, W. Vs., Sept, 18. James. Clark McGrew. who claimed the distinction of being the oldest ex-Rep-resentatlve in -tha. United States, died at his home here today in his DSth year. Death came unexpectedly from heart failure, following the celebration of his 97th birthday anniversary last Wednesday. He served in the 4 1st and 42d Congresses, and was one of the 55 Unionists in the famous Richmond con vention who opposed the secession of Virginia. BIG STEAMER IN DISTRESS After Sounding Signals, Vesnel Disap pears Off Carolina Coast. WILMINGTON. N. C. Sept. 18. No trace was found today of a large lead colored steamship which anchored two miles off Beaufort yesterday In a gale and sounded signals of distress. At the time the weather conditions were so unfavorable that boatmen could not venture out to Inquire the reason for tlie signals. In the night the vessel disappeared. Secretary Will Not Con sult Colleagues. QUESTION NOT FOR CABINET No Offer Made to Abide by Verdict of Members. FORMER DECISION STANDS Nothing to Add to Statements Here. tofore Made on Subject of Res ignation Payette-Boise Project, Is Visited. BOISE. Idaho, Sept. 18. "It is true that I am going to Washington to at tend a series of Cabinet meetings which will last about one week. But all of the members of the Cabinet have been called by the President to discuss various matters pertaining to all of the departments. I do not know that any thing affecting me personally will be discussed at all." In this way Secretary Bellinger this afternoon flatly denied the report re cently sent out from Washington, and supposedly from an authoritative source, to the effect that lie was has tening to the National Capital to attend a meeting of the Cabinet September 26 and on the three days ensuing, when le would demand that his Republican colleagues either sustain or condemn him. When asked whether he had read the dispatch referred to, Balllngcr said: Yes, I read every word of it. But It is absolutely without foundation so far as I am concerned. Such a pro posal has never even occurred to me. The report Is silly. It is absurd and" I Imply laughed at it." When asked whether he had broached he subject to any of his Cabinet col leagues regarding the submission " of he question of resigning or remaining In the Cabinet to the Republican mem bers of the Cabinet, Mr. Ballinger said: That is all rot. and I won't discuss It any further." "Do you intend to resgn?" was asked. What I have said before along that line still stands. I shall not resign so long as I am sustained by the President. I cannot see what connec tion the other members of the Cabinet can have with this question. Certain ly I have never made any such sugges tion and I am Ignorant of such a sug gestion's having been made by any of the members of the Cabinet, If such a suggestion has been made, which I am wholly disinclined to believe." Secretary Ballinger spent several hours today looking over the Payette Boise Irrigation project, inspecting the concrete canal lining and visiting or chards in the vicinity of Boise. He left tonight for Salt Lake, and will then proceed to Denver, staying a short time at each place. He will go direct to Washington from Denver. Secretary Believes Airships Will Be Valuable In Determining To- -sition of Enemy. BOSTON, Sept. 18. (Special.) Secre tary of the Navy Meyer, one of the most interested onlookers at the Harvard-Boston aviation meet, believes that the advent of aeroplanes in war fare will not affect the Navy, but will give material aid to the Army for scouting purposes. "I don't believe aeroplanes are going to put our battle fleet out of commls slon, certainly not .at once. But. they are unquestionably going to prove o great service to the country in time o war, as observers. "Now, just imagine what we could have done with a fleet of aeroplanes or even two well-handled aeroplanes, in the Spanish War. Do you remember when our fleet was scouring the Cuban coast, our scout ships cruising for weeks at a time from one end of the island to the other, hunting for news of the Spanish fleet, and all the time Cervera's fleet lay tucked away in San tlago harbor? That is where It seems to me the aeroplane corps of future wars will perform its best service. No army of the future can travel without such a corps. When that time comes. our Army will probably be as well equipped as any other." Tiny Craft Shoots Dan gerous Whirlpool. CENSUS MAY AFFECT FAIR New Orleans Disappointed at Poor Showing in Population. NEW ORLEANS. La.. Sept. 18. (Spe cial.) Disappointment was the feel ing engendered by the announcement of the official census figures yesterday showing the population of this city, according to the returns of the census enumerators, to be 339.073. General expectations were that the census fig ures would show a population of at least 350,000, inasmuch as the reports of the City Board of Health, the school census and the city directory had in dicated an estimated population of 360,000. Some fear the disappointment in population figures may Injure New Orleans' prospects for the Panama Ex position. In commercial and financial circles of the city the census figures for New Orleans were widely discussed - and, while disappointment was generally expressed, a most optimistic view as to the future growth of the city pre vailed everywhere. BEAR . IS KILLED WITH AX California Hunter Saved From-Prob able Death by His Dog. PLACERVILLE, Cal Sept. 18. (Spe cial.) Ebcnezer Ramsey, 82 years old, killed three bears near his home in Long Valley on the line between El dorado and Placer Counties a few days ago, and escaped possible death from one of them through the Interference of his dog. Ramsey's dog traced a large bear and her . two cubs, and Ramsey with ar. antiquated single shot rifle went tu In vestigate. He shot all three but tne mother bear was' not killed and on tail ing to the ground she pursued Ramsey before he could reload. His dog. how ever, pounced upon the animal and kept It busy until Ramsey ."eciired En ax with which he killed Hie bear. INTREPID MAN MAKES TRIP Boat Turns Over When Engine Stops, but Rises Safely. BOLD CAPTAIN BATTERED Stout Little Vessel Bumps Boulder-. and Gets Banged by Waves, Reaches Shore Larsen Third to Live in Rapids. but Is 18. little PARTICIPANTS IN TWO EPOCH-MAKING AERIAL EVENTS NOW IN PROGRESS. TV ..$ VI i-;y,y- - ' -lv ,; r, S IWIW I -rusjsjsjs.sjsarMjaCT fr . . p " . ? ,S. jj NIAGARA FArJLs. N. Y.. Sept. Captnfn Klaus Larsen, in his motorboat. the Ferro. late this after noon made a successful trip from the foot of the cataract through the Whirl pool Rapids to within a mile of Lewis ton, a distance of 4 H miles. Re start ed from the Jlaid of the Jlist dock at 4:45 o'clock and ran on a rock near the American shore at 5:30. Despite the buffeting of the Whirl pool Rapids, he went through safely, but his boat was leaking badly at the finish and throughout the trip. Police Threaten Interference. larsen had intended to start at 2:30 o'clock, but he was delayed by engine trouble. Besides the police threatened to interfere on the ground of attempt ed suicide. The Ferro swung under th? cantilever bridge, the engine running t top speed, and was caught in the swift drift where the river begins its rush down to the Whirlpool Rapids. Larsen held to the middle of the chan nel and in less than three minutes had made the great pool. Boat Shot Twenty t'ect in Air. In the trip through the rapids the little boat was lost from sight most of the-time, but at Great Wave It was shot 20 feet out of . the water. The boat landed right and continued to the pool. Larsen kept to the outer edge and passed down without accident. Just a he left the pool the engine stopped working and he was at the mercy of waters hardly less violent than those above. The little craft swung around stern first and turned completely over, Larsen coming up with it, badly battered. Hero also his leg was injured. Muii Plaything of Haplds. After that the man was a mere play thing of the rapids, swinging from one. side to the other. After going through the Devil's Hole, the Ferro swung toward the rocks on the American side of the river, rolled over one boulder and went fast between two other?. There Larson stayed for five minutes, forty feet from shore, work ing desperately to release the craft. Getting free he was hit by a comber and went careening towards the middle. At the bend with the Lewlston bridg; In sight, the boat drifted toward the Ameri can eide again and was then caught la the shore eddy. Captain Catches Rope. The Ferro grounded egaln, this time, near enough shore to be caught by Roy Rockwell of this city, who waded Into the water and caught a, rope thrown by Larsen. Larsen wanted to continue the trip, but having accomplished the worst part of the Journey, he was persuaded to board a trolley to Lewlston, setting the boat adrift. "The trip was worse than I thought It would be," said Larsen, "but I am not hurt and I will do it ugain some time with another boat. My leg was jammed when the Ferro tipped over but that's all. The engine worked through tha rapids and I could have made the trip In half an hour If It had not stopped after leaving the whirlpool." Only Three Shoot Rapids and Live. Except the old Maid of the Mist, sent through in 1861 to avoid seizure, Larsen'a Is the only engine-propelled craft to have, gone through the rapids. Peter Nissen, of Chicago, l'JOO. and C. A. Percy, li-7 and 1001, went through tlja rapids safely In barrels. No one else has ei-er passed through the rapids and lived. ABOVE. CLIFFORD HARMON, EXTRACT IX AMERICAN NATIONAL, CHAMPIONSHIP BALLOON RACE, AND WVJIAX, WHO ' STARTS IN CROSS - ALPS AEROPLANE CONTEST BELOW, WiMAAS BIPLANE, MO.OPLAE OF TVPE ISED BY ALL HIS COMPETITORS, PORTRAIT OF J. H. WADE, JR., ANOTHER BALLOON-CONTEST ENTRANT. WARD WORKERS UNIONIZED Milwaukee Water-Wagon Drivers iu Municipal Employes' Local. MILWAUKEE. Wis., Sept. 18. (Spe cial.) One of the first unions of city employes in the country was organ ized last night by ward workers of tha Seventh, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Fourteenth wards, and sponsored by Socialist municipal officials. There were 30 present, waterwagon drivers. ward teamsters, steamroller men and street-sweepers". ' There was some suspicion on the part of the ward workers as to what position they would be in if the pres ent administration would be ousted at the next election. They were willing enough to be union men if that would raise the wages and give them better working conditions. They did not wish to be union men if that meant their jobs at the end of the next two years.