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PORTLAND, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. -rw T "V sTn "I 0 0 COMMITTEE OUSTS REGULARS Republican Leaders in Progressive Ranks. FOHJIKER OUT; ROOSEVELT IN Garfield Allowed to Attack Policy of "Standpatters." STATE AFFAIRS CHAOTIC Fmrtj Porr Openly K.poue "New Nationalism" In KorvlnjE Korakrr to Retire RooM-rlt Now to Take His Turn on Mump. CINCINNATI. O.. i.x-1. Z7. 5pecial. The Republican State Central Committee, as represented by Its chairman. Lewis C. lAylin and secretary. Malcolm Jennings. through It open advocacy of the pro gre?!ve clement In the Republican ranks. Is h-M accountable for the break In the party in this state. It has developed today that the action In ratlin Senator Koraker from the fKump was a part In the stand taken by the committee for the "New National ism" In Ohio. The move is all the more significant in that the ctate commltte has not only virtually forced Senutor Foraker Into re xiremrrt from the campaign, by de manding that he refrain from mentioning In his rpeechrs anything of the factions within the party, but It has also allowed Fcretary Garfield to cantinue on the stump with revolutionary speeches asainet the regulars and haa decided to rail upon Colonel Roosevelt to amlst In the campaign. Party Affairs Chaotic. The Foraker Incident Is regarded gen erally bere as making more chaotic the affairs of the party. Foraker. In hi Marysvllle speech, while exprewing his) contempt for Hr. Roosevelt and "new Nationalism.' took opportunity to uphold TreslJent Ttft and even went to the extent of praising Senator Dick, and calling upon Ohio Republican to return tin to the Senate. On the other hand. Secretary Gar V id. In bl reply, while lauding Roosevelt, faintly praised Taft. forgot Harding and (he other Republican candidate, and called npoa the voters of his party to prevent the return of Mr. Dick to the Fcnat. Roosevelt to Re Called. In the fare of these conditions, the Ftate Committee has called off Foraker, and GarSeld will continue upon the stump and hla good friend and sponsor. Colonel Roosevelt; will also be called In to help demolish something or some body. The action, while not unprecedented bi Ohio campaigns, la out of the most remarkable occurrences of the present com pa Ign lt Is all the more remarkable ben It Is remembered that Senator Dick Is a can.lld.ite for re-election on a atandpat platform, and that Senator Burton at Galliopolla tonight con demned the progressive wing of the party la no uncertain terms. Sharp Telegrams Sent. Tne story la told In the following brief, but very expressive telearajn: "Columbus. Ohio.. Oct. XC Hon. Jo seph K. Foraker. Traction building. Cin cinnati. Ohio. Tl'i earnestly urge that a3 controversies be set aside until vic tory la achieved. In this we are joined hy local committee and candidates on state and local tickets. Will you not aid ua by dropping from future speeches all snatteca not Involved In the contention between the Republican and Democratic parties In this campaign. 'Republican stat executive committee. "IJ5WI3 C. LA TUN. Chairman. "MALCOLM JENNINGS. Set Cincinnati. Ohio. Oct. I. Hon. L C. Laylln. chairman, and Hon. Malcolm Jennings, secretary. Republican state executive committee. Columbus, Ohio. In view of your Joint note Just received, t rrsct fully request that all my en gagements to speak tn this campaign ba cancelled, and that you notify all local committee. J. B. FORAKER. Retirement Not Demanded. It will bo noted that while the tele gram sen i to Senator Koraker did not demand his retirement from the stump In positive terms, the command to him to refrain from criticism of any members of his oan party waai so strongly ex pressed that it left him no alternative but to retire. That he did so promptly Indicates that Mr. Foraker had mora to say along tha line of hla Marysvllle speech and further, that ba does not propose to be throttled or dictated to is to tha kind of Republicanism he must ipouse. Knox and Mac Teach to Invade Obio. WASHINGTON. Oct 27. The Ohio :ampalgn speaking datea for Secretary Knox and Secretary MacYeagh were definitely announced today. Mr. Knox will speak In Columbia. November I. and at the final rally In Cincinnati. November t. Mr. MaeVeach will speak In Toleda. November 2. and la Cleve land. November a. : STUDENT IS DEAD; FOOTBALL BLAMED SLIGHT IIIRT TAKES STRANGE TCRX FOR WORSE. L. B. Palnc, Cornell Frcliman, Walks Around for WM, Then Dies Surgeons Are Puxzlcd. ITHACA. N. T, Oct. 27. L. B. Paine, of Duluth. Minn, acting captain of the Cornell freshmen football team, died at tba Cornell Infirmary tonight from sup posed Internal injurlea received while playing football. President Kchurmann tonight notified Franklin Paine. Duluth. of hla son's death, extending sympathy of the uni versity. Subsequently he Issued a etatetnent In regard to tha case. He said the boy - . iniured October IS In a practice scrimmage, but the attending physician did not think the Injury dangeroua Young Paine went to the infirmary that evening but left the next day. On the list, complaining of a sore side and chest, he returned to the infirmary, but left again on the 12d and took a two mile walk on .Sunday. On Tuesday he came back to the Infirmary In marked distress from pains along his right aide and with an Intense headache. The pain yielded to treatment and the surgeons thought him out of danger un til lata this afternoon when ha became worse and gradually sank until death oc curred tonight. TONGUE TRIPS SOCIALIST Man Who Denounces Constitution May I.ose Clllxcnr.hlp. TACOMA. Oct. 27. Ieonard Olson, a prominent worker for the Socialist and Independent Workers of the World parties, probably will be deprived of hla citizenship because he denounced the Government while a friend of his was taking out naturalization papers. Papers have been served on him at the Instance or J. S. Smith, chief naturalization examiner of Western Washington, and District Attorney Todd, giving him six dajs to answer the charge or loss hla citizenship. Olson denounced the Constitution and the Federal Government. He la a street speaker for tha local Socialists and was served with papers as ha lay In bed at the Socialist headquarters. NEGRO VOTERS SPURNED Sooth Carolina Republicans Say They Are Tired or "Bondage." COLUMBIA .3. C Oct. 27. There was not a Federal officeholder nor a negro among the delegatea to tha Republican State Convention which met In this city today In response to tha call of John D. Capers. National committee man from South Carolina, to protest against tha regularity of the conven tion, which, composed mostly of ne groes, met hero September 2C Committeeman Capers delivered the keynote speech, declaring that tha del egates were determined that tha South ern 'negro "should no longer keep us In helpless political bondage for tha aaka of propitiating the negro vote North and West." CANDIDATE FLIES; DROPS Kansas Politician Near Death In Aeroplane Flight. JETMORE. Kan.. Oct. 27. George A. Neely. Democratic candidate for Con gress In the Seventh Kansas District, took a flight In an aeroplane with A. E. Hunt here today, and tha two nar rowly escaped serious Injury. While the machine was fifty feet In tha air. tha enginea failed to work and It glided rapidly to tha ground. The heads and shoulders of tha occupants were Injured, and the machine was damaged. . PRISON AFIRE; SEVEN FLEE Convict. Escape During? Confusion at Georgia Institution. MILLEDGEVILLE. Ga. Oct. 17. A panlo among the 207 male prleonera in tha main building at tha state mson Farm occurred tonight when a kerosene lamp exploded and started a blaze which consumed the structure. All the prisoners were hurriedly taken out but seven of the felony convicts es caped. Tha loss Is $15,000. Offloers are aearching for the- escaped convicts. CHICAGO HAS. SNOWFALL Three Inches Reported In Northern Michigan Storm Widespread. CHICAGO. Oct. 27. More than three Inchea of snow, the first of the season, fell In Northern Michigan today and all boats on Lake Superior are seeking shelter. Light snowfalls were also reported from points In Minnesota. Iowa. Kansas and Nebraska. X few flakes fell In this city this after noon. SHOT CAUSES DISGRACE To Fcape Military Service Man Shoots Off Finger. ATLANTA, Gt, Oct. 27.-At, r he had shot off a portion of hla right Inlex finger to escape military service, Prlvata Ym gene Leusser. Company I. 17th United States Infantry, was sentenced today to one year's ImprlKonment at Fort Leaven, worth. Kan., for wilfully disabling him self, and as dishonorably dlsvhsrgod. T SHEAR FRESHMEN Salem High School Is Excited Over Affairs. 3 SOPHOMORES DISMISSED Parents of Trio Will Demand . Their Reinstatement. FAMILIES ARE PROMINENT One Fallicr Is Supreme Court Jus tice. Another Lawyer, and Third I CapitalistMore Pupils Are Likely to Bo Implicated. SALEM, Or., Oct. 27. (Special.) Be cause of their activity in a hazing epi sode In which several members, of the freshman class at the Salem High School were shorn of their locks, very much against their will, three boys, members of the sophomore class at the school and sons of prominent residents of this city, have been asked to leave school. The three boys are Eldon King, Mux Kuney and Joseph Kaiser. It Is said that other member of the sophomore class participated tn the tonsorlal cele bration at which the 'freshlea" were the helpless victims, but so far their names have been successfully withheld. Two Others Implicated. At first King was supposed to be the only one. actually Identified as a cul prit but tonight It became known that young Kaiser and Kuney had not only been Implicated but had received notice that they were dismissed from their classes. How long the suspensions will last is not known but It Is understood that all three, as well as others, will be called upon later to explain things. ' Tha entire affair has aroused the In terest, not only of the school, but of the entire city. Some citizens believe that tha superintendent should expel the sophomore trio and others think the pun ishment already dealt them too harsh. Hair Cut Week Ago. t The contraband hair-cutting Is said to have taken place laat Friday night. Immediately following a reception giv en by the older students to the new comers at the Institution. However. It was kept very quiet until today. The victims of Sophomore wit kept their troubles to themselves and the Imme diate members of their families and the Instigators of the plot sat tight and remained mnm, so that suspicion would not be directed toward them. However, the story leaked out when the dismissal of the throe students be came known. Of course, the Freshmen went to the reception decked In their best clothe and with their hair neatly combed or curled. In ways calculated to Imprest the high school co-eds. of whom there were many at the function. However, some of them were doomed to go home with ravaged pates. Ac- (Concluded on Page 4. ) STUDEN HAZERS eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeesss. esse esss..teessssss.sssssi.stit.. ...... THE FALSE FRIENDS. j i.; ! V i ii n iiwims i ' iiiiiT; g3T I INDEX Of TODAFS NEWS The Weather. - - YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, Q derreee; minimum, a aei. TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds. Foreign. Athena reported to be experiencing revo lution. Page 4. National. ' Preaident Taft lauds work of. Methodist Church. Pace 7. Railways pad" expense showing, shipper Spokane rate eases farther delayed; order will not be enecuve Dei ore jamy x. i - - . Hart II. North relieved from post aa Com missioner of Immigration at Baa Fran cisco, pace 1. a Politics. Roosevelt aazalla Dlx" labor record. Page 4. Bourne to be denounced at Democratic meet ings. Page 16. Alton B. Parker 'criticises Roosevelt's "New Nationalism." Face 6. TVaaeo stockmen solidly oppose election of West. Page 8. Republican leaders in Ohio break with reg ulars. Page 1. i Domestle. Cornell Freshman dies from injury thought to have been received in football game. Page L Hawley and Post tell of remarkable flight. Page 7. Airships driven before heavy wind. Page S. Los Angeiea grand Jury begins dynamite in quiry. Page 6. lper at Stockton. Cal.. brings quarrel be tween citlea. Page 3. Mrs. Smith Holllna McKIm laughs at mar riage suggeatlon to Alfred O. Vanderbilt. Page 6. Sport. paoirio Coast League results Portland 3. I .oa Angeles 2: Pan Francisco 4. Sacra mento 8; Oakland 5. Vernon 1. Page 10. Washington State College team arrives here today to play Oregon 'Aggies" on Satur day. Page 10. Youngsters take place of veterans in raclflc Coast League teams line-up In 1911. Page 10. Seattle man re-elected president of Motor boat Association. Page It. Paclflo Nortbweet. Oregon women's clubs vote for mountain laurel as National Federation flower. Page 8. Railroad scores first Mow In crossings fight at Walla Walla, page 1. Boy witness testifies that Isador St- Martin sta ted fatal quarrel, page 0. Sophomores at Salem High School cut hair from heads of freshmen; Investigation of hasers follows. Page 1. Dynamite blast fired by Army officers opens way to canal for Lake Washington water. I'age 8. Commercial and Marine. Rate war among keepers of sailor boarding houses appears. Page 22. Northwestern Fruit Exchange shows best wine on sale. Page 23. Livestock shows activity In all lines. Page 23. East scrambles for Oregon hops. Page 13. Portland and Vicinity. Investigation of Portland census ends, count reduction may amount to SO00 or 7000. Page IS. Burning school emptied of children in B0 seconds. Page '22. Australian editor contrasts journalism In his country and here. Page 18. Alleged misase of malls leads to Indict ments. Page 17. Cry for Jurors to try Mrs. Kersh, alleged murder accomplice, falls to satisfy. Page 14. Propertx-owners in Proebstel Addition threaten suit; so does ProebsteL Page 18. Big eonrmlttfes will boom mass meeting to overwhelm Port of Portland Commis sion. Psge 11. City boulevard parking system proves pus sier. Page 14. BRYAN ENTERS CAMPAIGN Stump of Nebraska to Be Made at Ills Own Expense.- LINCOLN. Neb., Out. S7. Announce ment was made tonight that W. J. Bryan had engaged U his own expense a hall In Lincoln, at which next Monday night ho will make his first speech In the Ne braska campaign. It was said that Mr. Bryan probably will follow thla programme In other towns and cities of the state. Mr. Bryan a month ago proffered his serv ices to the state commitee for two weeks, but the committee has thus far not ar ranged for his appearance, because It is announced unofficially he had said he could not support the Democratic candi date for Governor,, James C. DaJilman. RATEDEGISIONS MEETNEWDELAYS Spokane Cases Held Up Until May 1. COMPLICATIONS ARE ADDED Amendment of Long Haul Sec tion Makes Difference. FORMAL NOTICE IS GIVEN More Than Tsnal Time May Be Given on Account of Great Num ber of Rates Involved Hear ing Likely In March. WASHINGTON. Oct. 27. Whatever may be the outcome of the Spokane rate cases, the order of the Interstate Com merce Commission will not become effec tive before May L Argument In this and cognate cases will be held early in March. The Commission today, In giving notice of its probable course calls attention to the complication . added to the cases by the amendment, subsequent to the pro mulgation of Its opinions, of the fourth section of the Interstate Commerce law. This Is the important long and short haul provision. Because a determina tion of the effect of this clause upon the case, as heretofore considered, is vital to the determination of the whole series of cases on their merits, the Commission gives notice of the probable delay in the effectiveness of whatever order It may Issue after due consideration. Official Notice Given. The commission today issued the fol lowing announcement: When the Spokane case was origin ally decided, class rates found to be reasonable from Eastern points of or Igln were ordered in effect and are still effective. Later those same class rates were made applicable at Fendle ton. Baker City and LaGrande and are now In effect. In disposing of the vari ous cases Involving1, inter-mountain rates, in June, 1910, It a ordered that class rates found to be reasonable from the Kast to Nevada points and class rates found to be reasonable from Sac ramento to Nevada points, should be made effective October 1. No orders were made In the other cases. Busi ness interests, both upon the Pacific Coast and at Interior points, as well as carriers, are now Interested In the probable date at which the orders of the commission In the Spokane case and cognate cases will be Anally made effective. JKurthcr Delay Necessary. When those cases were disposed of last June it was the expectation of the commission that whatever conclu sion was finally reached could be put into effect not later than January 1 next. Subsequent to the promulgation of the opinions of the commission in those various cases. Congress amended the fourth section of Interstate com merce law and this has Introduced a '(Concluded on Page 5.) ROAD WINS FIRST CROSSINGS FIGHT WALLA -WALLA RESTRAINED FROM ENFORCING ORDINANCE. Temporary Injunction Holds l"p In stallation of GatesNorthern Pa cific Would Cut Out Town. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Oct. 27. (Special.) In the first skirmish of what now appears will be a long and bitterly fought battle between the City of Walla. Walla and the. Northern Pacific Railway Company, the latter won today when the Federal Court in Spokane handed down a temporary injunction restraining the city from enforcing the recently passed ordinance requiring jates and flagmen at certain crossings in the city. The fight -was begun by the. School Board, which asserted the lives of chil dren In the neighborhood of Baker School are endangered by passing engineB. Public opinion ran high and the Coun cil passed an ordinance requiring gates and flagmen at four crossings. The Northern Pacific asked for an injunction and a temporary order was handed down todaj-. The company bases lis fight on the agreement or "compromise" on the fact that the O. R. & N. was not re quired to maintain such gates and on other grounds, among which was that in requiring flagmen to inform on the com pany, a precedent in Jurisprudence was attempted. The School Board has an action In court for $100,000 damages and the re moval of all but ono track within the city limits, which is all the franchise calls for. The company pleads the stat ute limitations in this. It was Intimated in the proceedings to day that the Northern Pacific would drop Walla Walla as a station if the ordi nance was enforced and would claim $100, 000 damages. SHARP CRY UNHINGES JAW Mother Calls Son for School, Her Mouth Stays pen. WHITE SALMON, Wash., Oct 27. (Special.) In giving voice to a long, drawn-out, shrill call to summon her little son from the yard to prepare for school, Mrs. Terry, this morning, dis located her Jaw and was unable to close her mouth. Neighbors sent in a hurry-call to Blngen for Dr. Russell to come to the Terry home posthaste to attend Mrs. Terry for a sudden attack of "lock- Jaw." Instead, the physician found the woman's jaws wide open and an at tack of hysteria enhancing her plight The little Terry boy explained what had happened as best he could, his mother being only able to give utter ance to a guttural sound in her at tempt to relate her experience. In a few minutes the woman's jaw was put In place but it was several hours before she recovered from her fright. ' HEART DISEASE TOLL BIG Next to Tuberculosis of Lungs It Causes Most Deaths in 1909. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. Heart dis ease ranked second only to tuberculosis of the lungs 'as the principal cause of death In 1909 among the gainfully em ployed male persons in the United States death registration area, accord ing to figures issued today by the cen sus officers. The percentage of deaths caused by heart disease was 11.9, being highest among men employed in domestic and personal Bervice, during age periods from 25 to 64, but between the latter age and 64 greater among men en gaged In agricultural pursuits than In any other of the official five classes of occupations. HEIRESS' LOVE WON AWAY Swimming Teacher Sues Rich Mothcr-in-Law for Damages. RPBTNT. LAKE. N. J.. Oct. 27. "Jack" Howland, the young swimming instruct or, who married Miss Helen O Brlen, daughter of a St. Louis millionaire, at Avon last Summer, today filed a suit to recover $100,000 from his mother-In- law for the alleged alienation or nis bride's affections. Rowland accuses his mother-in-law of having taken his wife to St. Louis, and says that he has been unable to see her since. Mrs. O'Brien recently instituted proceedings to have the marriage an nulled. LONG LOST WATCH RUNS After Seven Years, Shake Starts AVeatherbeaten Timepiece. VANCOUVER. .Wash.. Oct. 27. (Spe cial.) Eugene Frailey, of Heissen, lost a silver watch seven years ago on the Hammond homestead. This watch has been found by Henry Hammond. It was much blackened by exposure to the ele ments, but when shaken it began to run and when wound began to tick as strongly as a new watch. The watch case was restored to color again by being rubbed' with kerosene. TAFT HEADS BOY SCOUTS Nation's Executive Accepts Honor ary Presidency Youths' Society. NEW YORK, Oct. 27. A letter of Pres ident Taft, through Secretary Norton, in which he accepts the position of honor ary president of the Boy Scouts of Amer ica, was made public at National head quarters of the Scout movement tonight. The Boy Scout tnk;enicnt now enrolls 150.000 pucilx 1& IS states. i NORTH SUSPENDED AT TAFT'S ORDER Entry of Hindus Held to Be Careless. NAGEL MAKES SECRET VISIT San Francisco Immigration Office Gets Shakeup. STEWART TO INVESTIGATE Commissioner's Suspension Slay Re sult In Dismissal Citizens Com plain at Too Free Kntry of Hindus, Japs and Chinese. ! WASHINGTON. D. C. Oct. 27. (Spe cial.) By direction of President Taft, Secretary of Comerce and Labor Nagel today suspended Hart H. North, Com missioner of Immigration at San Fran cisco, and ordered Luther C. Stewart, the supervising Inspector at El Paso, one of the most trusted men In the service, to, take temporary charge of the office and make a comprehensive report on the conditions as he finds tn em. At the same time Assistant Commis sioner Crawford was ordered demoted to the position of ordinary Inspector, and Harry Edsell, from the bureau here, appointed temporarily to assist Stewart in his investigations. Deported Inspectors Recalled. Next Inspectors Mayer and Strand, whom North had sent away to the Mexican border, were ordered to re port for duty to the Acting Commis sioner at San Francisco. The force there, as reduced by North, In transferring men away, has been In adequate, according to the Immigration bureau here. Preparation for the up heaval have been going oh for a week or more, and the men newly assigned were all, with the exception of Edsell, ready to take charge in San Francisco I'thls morning, when the telegrams were sent from the department. Hindu Entry Meets Objection. Edsell will arrive In a da3' or two. An accumulation of charges are on llle at the department against Commis sioner North, the most important of which probably Is that of Inspector AInsworth regarding too careless an attitude toward Hindu immigration, in that he had been admitting to entry large numbers of Hindus, Chinese, Jap anese and other Asiatics considered by Pacific Coast people to be undesirable. Whether the suspension will result in permanent dismissal for North will depend upon developments from the . conclusions of Stewart and Edsell, de partment officials Intimating today that no conclusion had been reached on this point. Office Is Disrupted. "Our action was based on no specific charges," said Assistant Secretary Benjamin S. Cable. "The dissatisfac tion at the conduct of the office Is general. The force of subordinates were fighting North, and things are generally wrong. As a result of Secre tary Nagel's recent visit to San Fran cisco, it has been decided to have a thorough investigation." NORTH IGNORANT OV CHARGES Suspended Commissioner Says Ho Expects Justice to Prevail. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 27. Regarding his Kuspension from office as Commis sioner of Immigration of this port, Hart North tonight made this statement: "I am this day in receipt of a telegram from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, stating that by direction of the President I am suspended from duty as Commissioner of immigration at the port of San Francisco and that Luther Stew art has been detailed to act as temporary Commissioner In my place. I conse quently turned over my office to him today. I have not been presented with any charges and am wholly unadvised as to the reasons for this action. I am a sufficiently good American, however, to believe that in the end justice will pre vail." HENRY MAKES NEW GIFT Administration Building to Be Given Anti-Tuberculosis League. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 27. (Special.) The announcement has been made to directors of the Anti-Tuberculosis League that President H. C. Henry, out of his own funds, will construct the. proposed administration building for the League on the 34-acre tract of ground donated to the league by Mr. Henry, and lying east of Richmond Beach. While plans for the administration building have not yet been drawn, It was said at the league headquarters today that informal estimates of the cost run to $25,000. The tract donated by President Henry, is rated as worth rlose to $1000 per acre, so that his total gifts to the League when the ad ministration building is completed will amount to upward of J65.O0O. f