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Wttittt PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. ; V r HEIGHT BETTERED Honor Held But Short Time by Drexel. JOHNSTONE SOARS 7303 FEET Aviator Battles Snow Storm High Up in Clouds. LATHAM CRASHES DOWN Omni Think He Is Volng Aerial Flip Flop for Their Entertaln- merit, bat Bird Man Is in Real Peril He I Cnhnrt. SETT TORK. Oct :5. The American altitude record that J. Armstrong Irexel so proudly brought down out of the clouds yesterday afternoon In his JUerlot monoplane was snatched from his grasp today by Ralph Johnstone. In a headlrxs Wright climber. trexct (cached "10S feet, but John Stone topped him by 1st feet with a new mark of 7103 feet He came down chilled to the bone and his frogitlea rimmed with frost. For half an hour he battled with a snowstorm above the clou. Is. seeking still higher levels. The undemonstrative Wilbur Wright danced with Joy when he glanced at the baro graph. -It's- better than 1000 metres." he cried. He knew then that the fourth day of the International aviation meet at Belmont I ark bad brought him his share of the honors , I -at ham Does Hip-Flops. Hubert Latham. In an Antoinette monoplane, did aerial flip-flops under the edge of a nasty-looking storm cloud half a mile up In the air. He lighted and then shot to earth In a teep-rushlng shoot The limbs of a tree punctured one of his wins, but he landed with only minor Injuries to his machine and none to himself. With the hourly compilation for dis tance that regularly opens the day's programme, the banging of the bomb found Grahame-Whlt out for his dally promenade around the track. Latham was his competitor, and when engine trouble forced White's Farmu biplane off the field, it looked as if Latham In his Fly-fish Antoinette would have the vent to himself. Bat White saw that the scantiest score whatsoever would bring Mm second place, and late in the hour tinkered up his colllcky engine to last two rounds, and took down the easiest f 100 of the tournament Barograph Is Forgotten. j Hoxsey and Johnstone both went up for altitude. Johnstone had entered for 1 distance, but Just before he Wt the ground Wilbur Wright Instructed him to go ef.rr altltade. In the haste of the moment they both forgot that he was without barograph, and when he came down from the upper levels he had noth ing to show how high he had gone and wss left untfeced. Count De Uii'51 started out last and. pouring above the others, brought down the prize for the first hour. The second hourly distance event was a pursuit race. Grahame-Whlte tried his Farman again, found it unreliable, took it off the Held for repairs and dur ing his absence saw the lead he gained by hie watchful promptness steadily cut down by speedier rUais who bsd started later. Wlilt Vses Blerlot Craft Hopeless of getting his Fsrman into running order again. White took out hi fast Blerlot monoplane, the first time he has been seen In It here In competition. 1 gained steadily on McCurdy. in a Curtlss biplane, but the latter finished first with a lap to the good. It turned out however, that McCurdy had fouled Cr.e and the forfeit cost him first place. la tne meantime iioxsey ana Johnstone had gone up for altitude a$ain. accom panied by Latham In his Antoinette The Antoinette began to caper like a buck and wing dancer. The history of the Antoinette, however. Is Latham's history. li boasts that he has broken every part of It at least 12 times. Once he fell 100 t- et. perfectly hclplees, ' but his planes parachuted and saved him. " The crowd thought I-athsm was only doing some suits, to please them, but ho was not; Be was in real .peril. Aviator Tossed bjr Wind. He had started to descend, when he frit the rain, and wss caught In a wind flaw. Tossed to one side and then the r-ther. first up and then down, he tilled kl planes and shot down In a swoop. In a matter of seconds the rusk of 1 descent had eaten np the half-mile between him and earth, and he was hidden behind a clump of trees. Ely, In a Curtlss biplane, went out to recon nolter and found Latham with nothing worse than a punctured wing and a broken skid. The last event of the day ws; full ef uncertainty and suspense. With very little preliminary maneuvering jr. w. Fadley. of the British tesm. flashed over the line In a Blerlot and vanished Into the east before It was known to anyone bat the Judges that Jie had started in the cross-country .rare of 10 miles to a captive balloon ' ' Concluded ea pas 4.) . AMERICAN RECORD ALEUTS N EARING EXTINCTION FAST WHITE PLAGUE, ALSO MEASLES. PXETMOXIA. KILLING THEM. Kevenne Cutter Tahoma Reports Disease 1 .Frlllns Islanders Rapidly Help Asked. PORT TOWXSEXO. Wash.. Oct. 25. The natives of the Aleutian Islands are threatened with extinction because of th ravages of tuberculosis, measles and pneumonia, according to a report brought today by the revenue cutter Tahoma. flagship of the Bering Sea seal patrol fleet Captain J. H. Quin tan, of the cutter, declares that reme dial action la Imperative. . Captain Qulnlan advocates the as sembling of all the tribes and elans, now scattered In Isolated camps at some point where they may receive medical supervision. He says condi tions In the archipelago are pathetic The natives would undoubtedly re sist concentration, still they witness t k. ,Tiiititinn of their race. The Aleutians are famous for the beau tiful baskets which they weave from grasses. TK. T.hnma will make a renOIt tO the National Geographic Society on the new eruption or Mount ttogosiov. , tie Rock, one of the largest of the Bogoslov Islands, was greatly reduced In size during the year. Perry Island, which disappeared in an eruption two years ago. has reappeared and a new i.i. v.- hnvn tin The new Island freak has been named Tahoma Island. UNBORN ARE MURDERED Virginia Doctor Denounces Women of Society for Race Suicide, NORFOLK. Vav. Oct 55. Dr. E. T. Brady, of Abingdon. Vs.. president of the Virginia Medical Society, in his an nual address before that body tonight aaid: There are exactly J.'.O cold-blooded, premeditated murders of defenseless In nocents for every 600 children brought Into the world. Think of It And the large majority of these horrible crimes are perpetrated by so-called Christian and Intelligent wives, who thus -from their vaunted social height give an ex ample for a doctrine of convenience and selfishness. "Vanity, social aspirations, fashions. Ignorance and fads all conspire against the on born. CADET GETS OFF EASY Taft Commutes Sentence of Son of Senator Clay of Georgia. WASHINGTON. Oct 25. Frank JX Clay, flrst-cjasa cadet at the United States Military Academy, eon of Sena tor Clay, of Georgia, has been court martialed and sentenced to dismissal from the Academy without pay and al lowance until August SI. 1911. and then to Join the then first class. The sentence wss commuted by President Tat so as to require Clay to be confined to barracks until May It 111. and during that period to undergo disciplinary tours every Wednesday and Saturday. Toung Clay was found guilty of ab sence from his tent between tattoo and revellleand going beyond cadet limits. WILL LEAVES PROSPECTS Woman With $100 in Hand Makes Bequests of Million. BOSTON. Oct 25- Believing herself a beneficiary to the extent of some million dollars In the will of a rich man In New Tork. whose name Is not dis closed. Miss Cora Johnson, who died here a few days ago. left a will dis posing of such property, although be ing possessed herself of only $100 at her death. iiaa Johnson, of whom little is known, made several public bequests af l&oa each to hospitals and homes. and leaves $500,000 In trust for the benefit of Charles Edward Holbrook. son of Henry W. Holbrook. of Newton. Mass, the boy to receive the principal at the age of 25 years. "DRY" CHRISTENING HELD Forest Grovo Criticises Fse of Grape Juice Not Made at Home. FOREST GROVE. Oct 23. (Special.) Considerable amusement has been caused by the christening of the new equipment of the local municipal electrical plant with a bottle of grape Juice yeMerday afternoon under the direction of the City Council. The majority of the Councllmen repre sent the. "dry" element and would not assent to the use of a bottle of effervesc ing champagne. Criticism has been heard on the streets because the grape juice used was not from the Davids Hill vineyards as many of the growers pro duce Juice that la superior to the pro duct of the New Tork vineyards. FALL FROM BED IS FATAL Woman Recovering- From Typhoid Meets Mortal Accident WALLA WALLA. Wash, Oct (Special.) Falling from the bed where she had lain sick with typhoid fever since September $. Mrs. A. F. Ford, of this city, was Instantly killed last night Her daughter, worn out with watching at the bedside of her sick mother, had gone Into an adjoining room for a nap. her mother appearing to be asleep and rent In c comfortably. She wss awakened by the noise of her mother's fall and. upon rushing Into the room, found her dead on the Soon EIS England Teaches Les son in Justice. AMERICA SLOW IN CONTRAST Prompt Disposal of Charges Surprise to World. CHICAGO CASES ARE CITED England Finally Disposes of Cases In Few Days Murderers in This Country Spar for Tears, Then Escape Gallows. f CHICAGO. Oct 25. (Special.) Crippen quick conviction in . England teaches America a lesson. The rapid trial, con viction and death sentence of Dr. Hawley H. Crippen for the murder of his wife. Belle Elmore and the speedy hearing of the charges against his sweetheart. Ethel Leneve and her prompt acquittal fur nishes some noticeable comparisons in the way Justice is administered. As In England: Crippen Case. July 12, 1510 Crippen suspected of mur dering hi wife, disappears with Ethel Leneve. July 30 Crippen and Leneve girl ar rested In Canada. August 29 Crippen and Leneve girl ar raigned and held for trial. October IS Trial of Crippen br-glns. October 22 Jury finds Crippen guilty and sentences him to hang. October Si Ethel Leneve placed on trial. Three hours later acquitted. Aa in Chicago: Lnetgert Case. June 3. ISO? Indicted for murdering his wife. October 10, 1897 First trial begins end ing In disagreement February. 1636 Second trial lasting near ly a month, ends In verdict of guilty with life sentence. Hoch. Case. February 15. 1906 Indicted for murder of Mrs. Walcker Hoch. April 19, 19rtfr Murder trial begun. May 19, 1905 Jury convicts, sentencing Hoch to hag. February 13. 1906 Hoch hanged. Clemlnson Case. May 30k 1909 Mm. Haitians Clemlnson found dead. September 2K, 1MB Trial is begun. November 21, 1?09 Convicted and sen tenced to ltfe. October 25, 1910 9U11 in Jail. O'Shea Case. September 10, 1503 Victor Roland O'Shea. first convicted for killing his wife October 25. 1910 After eight years' delay fourth trial Is pending; meanwhile he hs married another woman and has a child a year old. Billck Case. January. 1907 Herman Blllek held for death of wife. August 1. 1907-entenced to nang. i.nii.i-r n. 1909 After five reprieves death sentence commuted to life. THE GRIPPEN MARKED BY SPEED I " T INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS . The Weather. tESTERDAY'8 Maximum temperature. 68 degrees; minimum, 63 degrees. TODAY'S Fair, northwesterly winds. Foreign. Islands In Bay of Naples swept hy tidal wave, storm and eruption of Vesuvius. I'age 2. rolltlrs. Representative Hawley reviews campaign issues In Bcaverton speech. Page 7. Roosevelt declares fea of him by business men is caused by Wall street alarm, rase 4. Astoria. West's "home town." li enthuslastle (or Bowennan. Pane 6. Eastern Oregon strongly supports Bowennan. Page 14. Martin w. Littleton delivers scorching de nunciation et Roosevelt. Page 4. ' Domestic Cotton Jumps 13 a bale on bullish Census Bureau estimates. Page 5. Hog prices drop, and bacon cost reaches highest in years. Page 1. Fate of crew of America II still Is mystery; Marchers find nothing. Page 6. Johnstone breaks American altitude record. - in Wright airship. Page 1. Special grand Jury ts Impaneled to prone dynamiting of Los Angeles Times build ing. Psge 2. American methods of Justice show poorly in comparison with Crippen case in Eng land. Tags 1. Sports. Faclfln Coast League results; Portland 2. J.oa Angeles O: San Francisco U. Sacra mento 8; Oakland 2. Vernon 1. Page 8. Testimonial fund for Portland baseball team Is growing. Page 8. Vancouver High will play Jefferson here this afternoon. Page 8. ' Faclflo Nortbwest. Slayer of Isador 6t Martin on trial for man slaughter. Page .2. Revenue cutter captain reports disease' at tacking Aleutian Islanders, race Is fac ing extinction. Page 1. Forgotten prisoner In Boise Jail released, blind and demented. Page 8. Central Oregon Irrigation Company escapes tax. Page T. Ring In bull's nose saves man's life. Page L Portland and Vicinity. Club officials will confer today on plana for removal of Port Commissioners. Page 1. Commercial Club's convention bureau work ing to have convention parties stop here. P! 12. Federal grand Jury begins probe of white slave traffic Page 12. Checking of census figures completed by Special Agent Heater. Page 18. Deputy District Attorney Fitzgerald declares he never promised Guilford "immunity bath." Page 9. Mrs. Kersh trial Jury still Is wanting. Page 9 Portland will not see Nelson fenders on streetcars this Winter says President Jouelyn. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. Deadlock In the Oregon hop market. Page 19. Wool la selling freely at Boston. Psge 19. Small advance in Chicago wheat prices. Page 19. Call money advances to 4 per cent at New .York. Pare 19. Ten ships aggregating 20.622 tons, await grain cargoes in harbor. Page 18. TACK IN SKULL EYE CURE Atlanta, Ga., Negro Arrested for Hammering Blind Patients. ATLANTA. Ga.. Oct 15. William Wil liams, a negro. Is in Jail here today charged with swindling, on account of the peculiar cure for blindness which he devised. His remedy consisted in driving a tack Into the back portion of a blind negro's skull and charging $2.60 for the opera tion. Robert Ward, the victim, told the police Judge that the tack process was not very painful, but that Williams' manner of taking the $2.50 "hurt con siderable." ELECTION NIGHT TO BE DRY Mayor Gaynor Refuses Applications for' Special Permits. NEW TORK. Oct 25. Election night will be dry after the regular closing hours. More than 200 applications for all night licenses to hotels and restaurants were refused by Mayor Gaynor today. MAN WHO DELIVERS THE GOODS." HOG PRICES DROP; BAGQN 50ARB HIGH Highest Figure. in 10 Years Is Reached. PACKERS CRY FOR PORKERS Yet Market Reports Say Hogs Standing in Pens. MYSTERY BACK OF DEAL Chicago rays Highest Price In Tears, 3 5c Per Pound for Salt Meat Reason Given Lack of Bacon-Producing Pigs. BACON'S trWARI) T1JGHT IN THE LAST TEN YEARS. 1900 $0.1 1 .15 .18 .22 .26 .35 lr2 1904 .. 1908 .. 1905 .. Today CHICAGO. Oct 25. (Special.) In the face of a steady decline in the price of hogs and the corn on which they are fed, Chtcagoans. who desired to eat bacon, discovered today that they were compelled to pay the highest price ever obtained for the salt meats In times of Deace 35 cents a pound sliced. If the housewife was willing to cut it up herself she might have reduced this figure to three pounds for $1. but tht was the best she could do. It was up and. to all appearances, would stay at this record-smashing figure for some months. For a number of mysterious reasons that still are unexplained, the forces that usually result in hammering the price of hacosj down seemed to have an opposite effect upon the food. Demand for Hogs Great The packers Insisted that they could not get enough hogs to supply the de mand; that they were losing money be cause the porkers weren't being re ceived at the stockyards. However, the market report showed that the demand for live' hogs was weak and that they were left standing In the pens daily. It showed also that the prices today are much lower for the live hog than six months and a year ago, when no retailer would have considered asking 35 cents for a pound of bacon. The average price paid for hogs at the stockyards Saturday was J3.49 per 100 pounds, as against an average of slightly more than 110 six months ago. Market reports for a year ago show that from 10 to 25 cents per 100 pounds more was paid for porkers than is being paid by the packers to day. Corn, the pork -producing cereal, also has been falling consistently but with out any effect on the price of the (Concluded on Page 2.) RING IN BULL'S NOSE SAVES MAN KCRIOCS ANIMAL ATTACKS ITS OWXER IX PASTURE. Proebstel Farmer's Presence of Mind Saves Him From Death. Neighbor Goes to Rescue." VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 25. (Spe cial.) To the fact that there was a ring inhis Jersey bull's nose, Richard Admiral, a farmer living near Proebstel, owes his life. He was severely injured and he has been removed to a hospital in this city. Admiral was walking through his pasture this morning when he was at tacked by his Jersey bull. Admiral dodged several times but was knocked down. The enraged animal jumped on Admiral and pinned him to the ground with his head, and continued doing this until he had fractured three ribs, broken a collar bone and dislocated the other, and severely bruised Ad miral's whole body. Admiral grabbed for the iron ring in the bull's nose. He held to the ring with both hands, struggling for his life, and though it caused him excruci ating pain, he yelled for help. The bull struck' him with his front feet and dragged him around the pasture. A nelghbbr. passing by on the road, saw Admiral's danger, rushed with all speed to his aid, and with rocks and sticks drove the bull away. Admiral Is 50 years old. SWEETHEARTSOF '65 WED Woman's Psychic "Hunch" Results In Finding of Playmate. LOS ANGELES, CaL, Oct 25. (Spe cial.) Three months ago Mrs. L. A. Robinson, a prominent local club woman and long a widow, began to think deeply of F. J Fordham, sweet heart of her girlhood, and of whom she had not heard for 45 years. The thought brought an intense longing to see him and of the wish was born a "hunch" that she could find him by going to Brooklyn.- She went The result was an almost unexampled ro mance. The second day after she reached the Eastern city Mrs. Robinson met her first love, now an old man, on the street and they instinctively recognized each other. Precisely as in her case, life had brought and death had taken the mate of Fordham, leaving him free, and his memory had been bringing up visions of the woman he had adored as a lit tle girl. Today announcement was re ceived here that they will be married In Brooklyn In December at the home of Mrs. Robinson's daughter. Another daughter, Mrs. Alice M. McCarty, resides here. The bride-to-be is a student of psychology and a leader In the First Church of Emerson, of which Mrs. Margaret La Grange is pastor. RECORD APPLE PACK MADE 3139 Boxes Prepared for Shipment In One Orchard in Day. "WALLA WALLA, Wash., Oct. 25. (Special.) Forty packers set a new Northwest - record Saturday for the number of boxes of apples packed, com mercially, in a day in one orchard, when 2139 boxes were prepared for shipment at East Pomona. The ap ples were of the Rome Beauty variety and every box passed the inspector as packed O. K. Already 86 cars of apples have been shipped from this hundred-acre or chard, 82 of them going East, the other four cars being sold for local consump tion. The lowest figure received for Winter apples was 1.20 a box f. o. b. Pomona, which was for a lot of small Jonathans. The average price received is $1.40. Twenty-four cars of Yellow Newtowns brought $1.73 a box f. o. b. Pomona. DR. PECK SUES DR. BUTLER Ousted Columbia Professor Wants $50,000 From President. NEW TORK. Oct. 25. (Special.) The first person to meet Nicholas Mur ray Butler, president of Columbia Uni versity, as he touched New York soil tonight after an absence of several months in Europe, was a process server employed by Harry Thurston Peck, the ousted Latin professor. He handed Dr. Butler-the summons to appear In a suit for $50,000 damages brought against him by the ex-member of his faculty. Dr. Peek's lawyers, Dennis & Buehler, said today that the suit is for slander against the Latin tearher, alleged to have been uttered by President Butler after letters of Esther Qulnn. the sten ographer who . is suing Dr. Peck for breach of promise, were printed last Spring. The summons is returnable in 20 days. CENTENARIANS FLEE FIRE Three Women, One Man, Over 100, Rescued From Flames. XEW YORK. Oct 23. Three women and one man, each reputed to be more than 100 years old, were among those rescued when a Are broke out in the cel lar ' of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob tonight. There were 110 old women In the home and in the annex were 80 old men. Mr?. Esther Davis, who is reputed to be 116 years old. was one of the first rescued by two policemen. . Mrs. B. Mar cus, said to be 106 and donor of the home, and Mendel Diamond, who is recorded as being 103 years old. also were carried out E ON TO OUST MEMBERS OF PORT MassMeetingProposed by City Clubs. CONFERENCE CALLED TODAY Commissioners Criticised for Bridge Opposition. HARSH CHARGES ARE MADE Discussion hy North East Side Club Brings Statement Port Is Self Perpetuating Body Lawyers Advise Initiative Petition. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the North East Side Improve ment Club, held in the offices of M.'G. Munly, Wells-Fargo building, yester day afternoon, it was decided to Invite all other improvement clubs of the city to participate in the calling of a mass meeting of citizens to protest against the action of the Port of Portland Commission in seeking to obstruct the building of the Broadway bridge and to consider ways and means of accom plishing the retirement of the present members of the commission. Seneca C. Beach was asked by Coun cilman Menefee, one of those at the meeting, to prepare a strong resolu tion condemning the Port of Portland Commission for its attitude and deny ing the right of the commission to in terfere. He Instructed that it be made as strong and denunciatory as possible, announcing that it is his intention to Introduce It at the meeting of the City Council today. Mr. Beach laughingly said that Mr. Menefee would not have "nerve enough" to present the resolu tion he would prepare, but the Coun cilman declared positively that his heart would not fail. All Club Officers Invited. Tomorrow morning at 11:30 repre sentatives of all improvement clubs in the city are requested to attend a con ference in the assembly-room of the Portland Commercial Club, at which final arrangements for the mass meet ing will be made. ' Mr. Munly said that he would reach as -many if the club officials as possible, but the committee Is anxious to have a full representa tion, and with that end in view re quested that the newspaper articles announcing the conference be consid ered invitations for-as many club offi cers as may find it possible to attend. Members of the Port of Portland Commission were denounced individu ally and collectively at yesterday after noon's meeting. They were flatly ac cused of using in this instance their official positions to further their pri vate interests or those of their friends, and of having been guilty of similar, indiscretions in the past. M. G. Munly announced that details of questionable ' acts on the part of commissioners will be laid bare at the mass meeting. At tention was also called to the fact that, the books of the commission have never been audited, and it was decided to. take un with the club's attorneys the question of compelling an audit. Port Bids Defiance. Seneca C. Beach told of having met C. F. Swigert, president of the Com mission, and of the latter having ridi culed his statement to the effect that a way will be found to get rid of the men who at present constitute tne Port of Portland Commission. He defied me to point out a way in which it could be done," said Mr. Beach. I told him that no official Is outside the pale of the law, that we are deter - ' mined and that some way would De found to pry him and his fellow-mem- ' bers loose from their positions in case they continued to oppose the Broadway ' bridge. The next day I met him again. He took me aside and requested spe cific information as to our plans for accomplishing the recall of the Com missioners. He seemed to be consider ably worried, it was my turn to laugh. I asked him if he thought I was fool lsh enough to give away our powder." Mr. Beach's statement was prompted , by a discussion in which It was brought out that the Tort of Portland Commis sion is a self-perpetuating body. Members Mil Vacancies. Any vacancy caused by removal, death or continued absence may, ac cording to the organic act, passed in March, 1901, by the State Legislature, be filled by the remaining members of the Commission. Nowhere in the act Is a term of office designated, and It Is . contended that the Commissioners are not subject to recall under the initi ative and referendum, as they are ap pointed and not elected. Mr. Munly and his associates of the North Eaet Side Improvement Club are etill at a loss to ezy just how the dis charge of the Commissioner?? can be ef fected, but they maintain that the Com missioners are public officials and as eiuch must in some way be amenable to . the will of the people. This matter will be put in the hands of the club's attor neys, C. W. Fulton. Martin L. Pipes and H. H. Riddell, for solution, and they will he asked to report at the mass meet ing of citizens, which will probably be held at the Armory. "The Port of Portland Commission is iConcluded on Page 2 1 .'1 t