PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER
1910.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
VOL. L. NO. 15.5G4.
TUFT WILL VISIT
STHI1
CANAL
Important Problems to
Be Settled Soon.
COAL MONOPOLY THREATENED
Tolls Must Be Fixed Before
Shipowners Meet.
OPEN ON NEW YEAR'S, 1915
Canal Will Be Finished Long Be.
fore That Iate Rates to Be High
Enough to Pay Interest Work
men Ask for Higher Wages.
BEVERLT. Mass.. Oct. IS. President
Taft will sail or the Isthmus of Pan
ama Njrember 10 from Charleston. &
C. on the cruiser North Carolina, con
voyed by her sister ship, the Montana.
The President mill be (rone shout 11
days. The North Carolina and Mon
tana ran make the Journey In each di
rection In four days. This will give
Mr. Taft about four days on the Isth
mus. The President had practically given
up all Idea of visiting the canal this
year unttl Colonel Goethals. chief en
gineer, called upon him this afternoon.
At the end or the visit Mr. Taft had
"been convinced that the problems con
fronting the officials at Panama require
Ms presence.
Some of the problems to be dealt with
In the Immediate future are:
Tolls Must Be Settled.
The extent and character of the for
tifications; the fixing of tolls: a pro
posed Increase In wages; the future
management of the Panama Railroad;
the form of government of the canal
zone and the regulation of the sale of
coal.
The Government may go Into the
'business of selling coal Itself. In order
to prevent the possibility of extortion
or a monopoly.
Mr. Taft had thought that several of
these questions mould not require set
tlement for a year or more, but Colonel
Goethals put matters In a different
light. The question of tolls, which It
was thought could wait until the canal
is much nearer completion, was ex
plained by Colonel Goethals to be one
f the most pressing for Congress to
meet. An International conference of
steamship owners and shipping Inter
ests Is to be held in Berlin In the Bum
mer of 191 1. It Is believed to be high
ly Important that Congress should have
fixed the rates of toll by that time. The
authorities believe that the influence
the canal mill have upon shipping
should be felt at this conference. The
canal must be made to attract shipping
and at the same time an effort mill be
made to have the toll charges m.-et the
Interest on the 1400.000.000 Investment,
which the canal will represent.
Opening Set for January 1, 1913.
The date for opening the Panama
canal has been set as January 1. 1515.
The President and Colonel Goethals be
lieve It wll be completed and open Ions;
before that time.
The proposed early opening of the
canal Is already having an effect upon
shipping Interests, especially in the Fe
rine, and Inquiries are coming In as to
the estimated rates of tolls. The
President was Informed today that one
line supplying the Hawaiian trade
m-ould have 4 ships In commission by
the time the canal Is opened. This line
now has Its freight transferred' across
Mexico by ralL If the toll through
the canal mill make the cost of ship
ping lens, the company m-ill use the
waterway, otherwise U will continue Its
present method. The canal, first of all.
It Is declared. Is a business proposition
and must be so treated.
It will be for Congress to determine
whether the canal sone .shall have a
military or civil form of government.
The present authorities on the Isthmus
are strong In their recommendations for
the former.
Workmen Want More Paj.
Colonel Goethals reported that the
higher, classes of workmen are asking
for Increases In pay In keeping with
Increases recently granted their fellow
artisans In the United States. At the
same time report comes from Panama
that the cost of living on the Isthmus
has not Increased as It has In the
I'nlt.d States.
The tiurstion of regulating the sale
of coal on the Isthmus Is an Interesting
one. Colonel Goethals believes. It Is
said, that if private Interests are al
lowed to build pockets, opportunities
mill be opened for extortion and mo
nopoly In supplying vessels which ar
rive In want of fucL
Mr. Taft will go to Cincinnati to
vote on November 1 and proceed from
Cincinnati to Charleston to take ship
for Panama. He may stop over In
Washington a few hours on the way.
RAISING OF MAINE APPROVED
Taft t;ies O. H. and Work Will Be
Completed la February.
BEVERLT, Mass.. Oct. 11. President
Taft today finally approved plans for
raising the wreck of the battleship
Maine, which call far the completion of
iCoadudcd a 1 l ,
NOTE WITH OREGON
APPLES WINS MATE
JOBS DAY LASS GAINS HVS
BAND BY MISSIVE.
Message Received by Jersey City Girl
Leads to Wedding of Writer ;
in Los Angeles.
NEW TORK. Oct 13. (Special.) An
Involved romance, born in Oregon, has
Anally ended as good romances do. In
a marriage.
Bertha Luce, an orphan, of John Day.
Or, put a note in a barrel of apples.
The message was found by Minnie
Pletromsky. of Jersey City. A cor
respondence started and the two girls
(they were then each about 14 years
old) became warm friends, although
they have never met.
Another resident ot Jersey City. Mrs.
Stosser. heard about the Oregon girl
from Minnie, and also began to waste
Mnn on nostaae stamps. Then the
Stosser family moved to Los Angeles
and Bertha Luce also went there.
The Eastern woman has six sons, and
naturally one of them fell In love with
Bertha. Now they are married.' In a
letter to her friend In Jersey City the
bride declares she owes all her happi
ness to the note which she put In a
crate of Oregon apples seven years ago.
CORNELL WOMAN ACCUSED
Columbia Professor Barred From
Statins Case to Grand Jury.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11. Accompamea
by an attorney. Professor Harry Thurs
ton Peck, recently dismissed as pro
fessor of Latin at Columbia University,
called at the District- Attorney s office
today and asked permission to present
to the grand Jury charges against the
m-lfe of a professor In Cornell Univer
sity. His accusation was based on al
leged threatening letters, mhlch he
said were sent to him several years ago
by the Ithaca woman.
When District Attorney Whitman
that the statute of limi
tations covering the case would ex
pire tomorrow, he denied the request,
then Professor Peck Intimated that he
would make his charges before a mag
istrate tomorrow.
The name of the woman was not
disclosed.
rw.ii was made bv Professor Peck's
lawyer that the charges have any con
nection with the 150.000 suit for breach
of promise Instituted against the pro
fessor by Esther Qutnn.
MINERS STEAL GOLD ORE
Twenty-Two Discharged at Midas for
Taking 180,000..
HARRISON GULCH. Cel.. Oct. 11.
Special.) Twenty-two miners have
been discharged from the Mldss mine
here during the past two weeks be
cause of hlgb-gradlng. This la the
first Instance known In Shasta County
here the practice of stealing high-
grade gold ores has been carried on.
Two of the miners m-ere caught In the
act early this m-eek and their discharge
led to the discovery that high-grading
had been going on for months and
In the neighborhood of $80,000 worth
of gold has. It Is believed, been taken
from the mine since July.
This week, two of the men were
caught stripping the ore from a lead
and placing it in a box. When con
fronted with their crime, they did not
deny they had been taking the ore.
Many of the miners seem to labor un
der the Impression that the gold be
longs to whoever takes It out.
HIGHEST MOUNTAIN FOUND
Engineer Thinks Alaska Discovery
Eclipses Mount McKinley.
a
SSATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 13. Thomas J.
R'ggs, Jr., a Government Engineer who
has been at work on the Alaska boundary
survey, today reported the discovery far
north of the Arctic Circle of what he
believes to be the highest mountain on
the continent, exceeding Mount Mo
Klnley, the famous Alaska peak, by
nearly 5000 feet.
Rlggs and his party discovered the
mountain while at work near the Por
cupine River, north of latitude 67. The
mountain is east of the 141st meridian.
Rlggs estimates its) distance at 40 miles
from the Pcrcuplne River, In a little
known country.
The party was unable to get close
enough to make measurements, but Rlggs
estimates Its height at 22,000 feet. The
height of Mount McKinley is 30.34O feeu
JAP FRAUDS UNEARTHED
Scandal In Mikado's Navy Results In
Arrest of Six.
VICTORIA. B. C Oct. 11. Naval
frauds have been unearthed at Toklo
and S. Shimamura. younger brother of
Rear Admiral Shimamura. who com
manded one of Togo's squadrons, the
widow of the late Admiral Shimamura
and four officers of the Naval Depart
ment have been arrested, and T. In.
ouye. eldest son of Admiral R. Inouye,
has fled to avoid arrest.
Toklo papers do not disclose the na
ture of the frauds.
LA FOLLETTE NOW SITS UP
Wisconsin Senator Fast Recovering
From His Operation.
ROCHESTER. Minn, Oct. 11 Senator
I.a Follette has so far recovered from
his recent operatlpn for gallstones that
he now eats his regular meals and today
mas allowed to lit up.
ROOSEVELT SEES
T
NDIANA
Colonel Sheds Coat in
Aid of Beveridge.
"DECENCY" ISSUE IS" DRAWN
Republican Agreement on Tar
iff Policy Predicted. '
PARTY IS "PROGRESSIVE'
Others, Says Speaker, Will Catch l'p
. In Time Alaska Coal Ca-.es
Discussed at Length in In
dianapolis Speech.
RlrtfMOND. Ind., Oct. 13. When the
Roosevelt special train rolled across In
diana today, Theodore Roosevelt pulled
off h's coat, rolled up hie sleeves and
plunged tnto one of the hardest fights of
his political career. He came to Indi
ana to do what he oould to send Albert
J. Beveridge back to the United States
Senate for six years more.
Early In the day he started in at the
western boundary and as he approached
the eastern boundary tonight he said
that there was "victory In the air.'
Excitement Follows Step.
Colonel Roosevelt talked of the hon
esty, good cttlxenehtp. and other good
.qualities of Mr. Beveridge. The issus
In Indiana, he said, was one of decency
In public life as against ' crookedness.
Everywhere the Colonel went there was
in the air the excitement of a red-hot
campaign.
Colonel Roosevelt asserted that the
whole Republican party would be solid
ly In line on a tariff programme before
the next Presidential election came
around. Senator Beveridge voted against
the Payne-Aldrlch tariff bill. Senator
Beveridge presented a bill for a tariff
commission three years ago. Colonel
Roosevelt defended his action In regard
to the tariff and his words were fhe
nearest thing to an expression of an opin
ion in regard to the new tariff law
which he has yet made.
Senator With People.
"Senator Beveridge did not split from
his party." the Colonel said In his
speech at LaKayette. "He merely stood
by the bulk of It, because the real party
consists of the mass of "people. The
mass of the people wished to see done
just what he did. And before the next
Presidential election comes around the
platform will be fairly and squarely, the
platform on which Senator Beveridge
stands."
Colonel Roosevelt said that the Repub
lican party was progressive and always
had been. . Senator Beveridge and the
bulk of the party, he said, at Crawfords
vllle, were a little ahead of some repre
sentatives of the party In Washington.
"But the others will catch up," he
added. "They're a little late In start
ing, but they're all right."
The Colonel made his speech t In-
(Concluded on Pajre 2.)
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 59
degrees; minimum. 46 decrees.
TODAffe Fair; westerly winds.
' National
Government prosecutor contends Union and
Southern Pacific are competitors, rase -
Railroad presidents plesd for advance in
rates. Pace 2.
Taft will visit Panama Canal alter elec
tion. Pas" 1.
Foreign.
Arrests dampen ardor of French railway
strikers. page 0.
Politics.
Roosevelt stumping Indiana for Beverlds.
Page 1.
Oregon Democrats In revolt against Bourne
Chamberlain machine, rat;e IS.
Bowermaa in Pendleton insists normal
schools should be free from politics.
Page 8.
' Domestic.
Note placed in apple barrel by John Iay
girl goes to Jersey City. N. J., and leads
to her marriage In Los Angeles. Page 1.
Oevernor Olllett signs call fr Pacifle Coast
Congress. Psge 6.
New York art dealers accused of $1,000,000
. customs frauds. Page 4.
Episcopalians would call conference of
world's churches of Christian faith.
Pae 5.
Western Pacific secures Harvard and Tale
to tply on Coast and -compete with
Southern pacific. Page 3.
Manager of Redeemable Investment Com
pany and noted preacher accused of using
mails for extensive frauds. Page 1.
Sports.
McCredie challenges Graham to Justify Het
ltng decision. Pace 10.
Pacine Coast League results: Portland 1. Los
Angeles 0; San Francisco 6. Oaklsnd 0;
Vernon . Sacrsmento 0. Page 10.
Commercial and Marine.
Farmers capture local apple market. Page
23.
Wheat prices slump badly at Chicago.
aPi.ge 1!3.
Speculative campaign launched In Wall
street. Page 23.
Differential on towage rate on lumber ves
sels Is removed. Psge 22.
Pacific Northwest.
State Land Agent's report shews large rev
enue from sales. F-se 8.
Alleged murderer Kllngenberg sneers at wit
nesses in trial at Montesano. Psge 7.
John Harvey, wealthy Vancouver citizen,
killed by train near Felicia. Page 8.
Army test ride of 00 miles starts from Van
couver Barracks. Page 17.
Speaker at development convention calls es
tablishment of present forest service gi
gantic fraud. page 1.
Many hear Sidney Storey's address against
prohibition at Baker. Page 7.
State land agents' sales for two years bring
t)29.e7. Page 9.
- Portland and Vicinity.
Garbage franchises would mesn tfto.000
profit snnually. Page Id.
Tsx Commissioner puts ban on "public
policy" exemptions heretofore granted by
boards of equalization. Page 17.
Webb declares confession was extorted by
third degree." Page is.
Annual horse ahow eclipses all former ex
hibits In Portland. Page 14.
Marv Adele Case Beam and her husband not
estranged, he declares. Page 7. -
Couple seeking divorce settle property rights,
wife taking four lots. Page 17.
Order of Moose parades through Portland
streets. Page 4.
Oregon Trunk to complete tracks to crooked
River within 70 days. Page 1L
Port of Portland Commission not unit on
opposing bridge. Page 14. ' '
OREGON WATER POWER BIG
State and Washington Generate One
Third of Union's Energy.
SKATTLB, Oct. 13. The States of
Oregon and Washington contain one
third of the available water power
entrgy In the United States and be
tween six and seven million horse
power can he generated in the two
states, according to Fred H. Renshaw.
hydrographer of the .United States
Geological Survey, who has had charge
of measuring the flow of Paclfio
Northwest rivers during the past two
years.
Two years more will be required to
complete the survey of Washington,
but the results so far obtained will be
published December 1 by the Geologi
cal Survey.
"HE'S GOCD ENOUGH FOE ME."
CONSERVATION IS
.- DEGLARED FRAUD
Establishment of For
est Service Scored.
SPEECH CAUSES SENSATION
League Plans Development of
Southwestern Washington.
VANCOUVER IS SELECTED
Home-Makers Who Will Build Vp
State to Be Favored by Employ
ers, Instead of Foreigners Who
Send Their Cusli Abroad.
BT MARK WOODRUFF.
GOLDENDALB. Wash.. Oct. 13. Sp fe
cial.) The sensational feature of the
meeting of the Southwestern Washington
Development Association here was the
epeech delivered tonight by T. D. Rock
well, a member of the State Tax Com
mission, and who came to the meeting to
represent Governor Hay, who was unable
to be present because of a death in his
family. .Commissioner Rockwell entered
into an extended discussion of the ques
tions of conservation and declared that
the establishment of the present forest
service was attended by the most gigan
tic frauds ever perpetrated on the peo
ple. He referred to the operation of the law
under which railroads were enabled to
exchange their worthless mountain lands
for script and by the application . of the
latter, secure some of the most valuable
lands In the United States.
Taxation Is Escaped.
He charged that the odd-numbered sec
tions com posing the grant were in large
part In unsurveyed townships, that many
of them had been sold to Weyerhaeusers'
timber corporation and that the present
owners were escaping taxation by falling
to have the land surveyed.
The speaker charged that the conser
vation lid had been screwed down upon
a third of the area of the State of Wash
ington and that with more water power
than any other etate In the Union, It had
been commanded by Glfford Plnchot that
the rivers flow untrammeled to the sea.
The only right left the people In the
four great resources, he said, was to
fish.
- Plncliotlsm Called Stagnation.
Commissioner Rockwell . asserted that
conservation was backed by Eastern
sentiment becauej of selfishness and that
the further exploitation of the Northwest
by Plnchotism meant stagnation.
. The speech created a furore In the
Opera-house, where more than 600 peo
ple had assembled.
Vancouver had been selected as the
place for holding the next meeting of
the association, which will be some time
in February, to be selected by the Van
couver Commercial Club.
The Portland delegates held a meeting
In the parlors of the Central Hotel to-
Concluded on Psge 7.)
TO STOP GAMBLING,
ACT, SAYS MITCHELL
GAYXOR'S SUBSTITUTE REPLIES
TARTLY TO LETTER.
Rebuked by Executive for Activity,
Recent Acting Mayor Stands
His Gronnd.
NEW YORK. Oct. 13. "The way to
eliminate gambling in New York is
not. to write letters to 'Sister Mary,'
Little Dog Spot and James Creclman,
but to take action."
This is John P. Mitchell's tart state
ment made tonight in reply to a let
ter sent by Mayor Gaynor to Police
Commissioner Baker, in which the
Mayor deplores the anti-vice crusade
recently undertaken by Mitchell as
Acting Mayor, during Mr. Gaynor's
convalescence. ,
A list of alleged disreputable resorts
sent by Mitchell to the Police Commis
sioner has been called to the Mayor's
attention, and he brands the list in
his letter of today as -similar to a
list "made up in a wholly untrust
worthy newspaper office for scandal
and sensation," and too inaccurate to
be made the basis of official action.
As proof of the inaccuracy, the
Mayor cited that five of the addresses
mentioned are In sight of the new
Pennsylvania station, and ordered
Baker to apologize to the owners of
certain houses "stigmatized."
Mr. Mitchell said he had sent two
lists to Commissioner Baker, one con
taining addresses which had been ver
ified as undesirable, the other with ad
dresses made in complaints which were
submitted for verification.
CYCLIST, ABLAZE, RIDES ON
Man Does Not Know He Is on Fire
. Till Boy Sounds Warning.
Astride a motorcycle, J. R. Rlsmer went
up East Burnside street yesterday after
noon from the Burnalde bridge uncon
scious of the fact that his machine was
afire and that his coat tall was being
burned off.
With the fire flaming out from under
neath and behind, Rismer sped across
Grand avenue going eastward, when a
small boy called out, "Mister, yer on
fire." That was the first intimation
Rlsmer had of the blaze. He Jumped off
just In time to escape being seriously
burned. As It was, his hands were
scorched, but otherwise he was not in
jured. " The fire enveloped the motorcycle.
Rismer drenched It with water and anal
ly succeeded in extinguishing the Are.
The saddle was burned off and every
part of the motor was blackened by
the are, but the engine was not damaged.
Mr. Rlsmer said that the fire) must have
started from a leak from the engine.
PUSH "OFF TRAIN. FATAL
Glcnns Ferry Jury Finds Attack, Not
Accident, Killed Passenger.
BOISE, Idaho, Oct 13. (Special.) A
Coroner's jury sitting today at Glenns
Ferry in the case of the death of a man
supposed to be Edward Hager, whose
body was found 500 feet east of the rail
road tracks at King Hill Monday, night.
Just after Oregon Short Line passenger
train No. 6, eastbound, had passed,
brought in a verdict holding the deceased
had met his death by being' deliberately
pushed off the train by an employe of
the road. Criminal proceedings will fol
low the verdict.
It Is claimed Hager was a passenger on
the train and had alighted at King Hill
when the train stopped there to exercise.
When he started to climb back into the
coach an employe pushed him off and he
fell, striking against a stone curbing,
the blow causing death.
Hager was between 28 and 30 years of
age. A letter in his pocket bore his name
and was postmarked Lyon, Neb.
SENATOR ALDRICH RETURNS
Legislator Back From Europe Re
fuses to Discuss Politics.
NEW YORK. Oct. 13. United States
Senator Nelson W. Aldrlch who, with
members of his family, has been In Eu
rope for a month, returned today on
the Adriatic.
T went away for my health, with
good results," said the Senator. T also
did a little work for the Monetary Com
mission." .,
Senator Aldrlch would, not discuss
American politics.
MANY PUPILS DEFECTIVE
More Than Half in Kansas -'City
Schools Need Treatment.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 13. Accord
ing to the report of Dr. W. S. Wheeler,
Health Commissioner of this city, 9304,
or 36 per cent, of the pupils in the Kan
sas City public schools have been recom
mended for' treatment because of mental
or physical defecte found.
Of the number, 1292 -were mentally de
ficient and the others were suffering
from malnutrition, hypertrophied ton
sils, defective eyes and defective teeth.
DAVID B. . HILL IS SICK
Condition of New York Politician
Not Regarded as Serious.
ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 13. David B.
Hill is ill at Wolfert's Roost. . his
country home here, but his condition
is not regarded as serious.
'About a week ago he suffered a bil
ious attack and this has been com
plicated with a cold.
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With Him Is Involved
Noted Minister.
REV. NORMAN PLASS SOUGHT
Letters From Ballinger and
Others Recommend Him.
MINES AND RANCHES OWNED
Redeemable Investment Company I
Means of Drawing Money From
, All Hands to Secure Visionary
Riches in West Indies.
BOSTON. Oct. 13. Federal authori
ties visited the office of the. Redeem
able Investment Company, at 85 Dev
onshire streeti today, and came away
with Manager Charles H. Brooks, the
books of the company, and several
thousand dollars In cash, all taken
under a warrant charging the com
pany with the use of the mails in a
scheme to defraud. .
Officers tonight were hunting for
Rev. Norman Plass, president of the
company, who has the alleged endorse
ment as an individual of Secretary of
the Interior Ballinger, the late Asso
ciate Justice Brewer, of the United
States Supreme Court, Senator Curtis,
of Kansas, and several local Congrega
tional ministers.
Rev. Mr. Plass for seven years was
president of 'Washburn College at To
peka, Kansas.
The Redeemable Investment Com-,
pany was organized three years ago .
as a holding company, with a capital ,
of (10,000,000. Circulars found In the
office say that the company promotes
only those properties of which it Is
the owner, or of which it has control,
and that the stock is not listed, aa
the company's redemption fund fur
nishes a market for the stock on de
mand at a price not less than the
price paid the company, with at least
6 . per cent interest, for the time it
has been issued.
The circulars also say that the com'
BURTON
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pany controls ,r.h Santo Domingo Min
ing Company, which Is said to own 85
per cent of the mines of Jallsso, San
Domingo, and a ranch of 70,000 acres in
the same country; the Norman-Plass
Lumber Company, which claims to own
356,000,000 feet of timber in British,
Columbia; the Boston and Canada
Wheat Land Company, having 20,000
acres of land in Canada and the Okan
ogan Development Company of Wash
ington. John P. Feeney, counsel fofl
the company, said tonight that the of
ficers welcomed the fullest Investiga
tion. Rev. Mr. Plass, president of the com
pany, Is a graduate of Williams Col
lege and a Yale Divinity School grad
uate. He held pastorates at Detroit,
Lincoln, Neb.; Cincinnati and Barring
ton, R. I. In 1897 he was state super
intendent. of the Rhode Island Anti-Saloon
League and later agent of the
Congregational National Home Mis
sionary Society. He became president
of Washburn College, Topeka, in 1902,
and resigned two years ago.
The literature of the company con
tains the following alleged copy of a
letter from Secretary Ballinger:
f'l have known Mr. Norman Plass for
many years as a gentleman of high,
character and Integrity. He possesses
a high degree of energy and ability in '
anything he undertakes. He is worthy
of confidence and respect and has had
experience in the West in the investi
gation of timber lands. I am sure he
would not knowingly present any mat
ter untruthfully or unfairly in business
connection.
"Richard A. Ballinger, Secretary of
the Interior."
Mr. Brooks was born in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, 39 years ago. According
to the Federal officials, he was ar
rested in St. Louis six years ago, tried
and convicted In connection with the
land frauds of the Rialto Investment
Company of St. Louis.
The officers of the Redeemable In
vestment Company are: President, Nor
man Plass, Boston; vice-presidents, J,,
Austin Parach, Worcester; George A,
Vlevult, New York; William A. Bryan,
New York; secretary, George B. Graff,
Boston; treasurer, J. I. Traphagent,
Boston.
Brooks was released on giving $3000,
bond.
Rev. Norman Plass, president of the
Redeemable Investment Company, left
Boston two weeks ago to go to Van
couver Island to investigate timber
lands in which he is Interested, ac
cording to a statement made by Mrs.
Plass tonight. . . .
BALDWIN AIRSHIP WRECKED
Aviator Slightly Injured When 51a-
chine Descends on Barn.
IOWA CITY, la., Oct. 13. In his see
ond flight here late today In a biplane.
Captain Thomas S. Baldwin circled the
field several times, but In making a de
scent the machine struck a barn and
was wrecked
(Baldwin was slightly Injured, - -