V . PORTLAND. OREGOy 'sAT PxO PRICE FIVE CENTS. t-rT T. n. 1 J.G-J. . - . " COMPROMISE MAY YET AVERT STRIKE Neill Stays Hand of En-; gineers1 Chief. . RRQTHERHOOD IS EXASPERATED Mediator's Plan Has Chance of Acceptance Today. ARBITRATION TRIED NEXT f fccone I In Mood to Call Strike When H1 Starrs Off Crisis au Lines West or Chicago on Both Sides of Boundary Involved. what wrr.jtnrjfo strik MKAX. Xinnbn of rallroa-l. Involved, 81. M1M of track. 13S.OMH Pvrr.nt.co of railroad mllrof . ta In I led main, M por ml - . Knnbn of tnflnvtra Involved. . oo. Demand, of mens 12 to IS per cut waso Increase. Incmn offered by railroads, t-Vj p.r cent. Annual IncrasM offers by rail roads. t3.ano.ooo. 4 CHICAGO. Dee. SL (Special.) At mid night tonight, after hope of peace had been virtually abandoned by all con cerned In the threatened strike of en gineers on a 'Western roads. Dr. Nelll. the Government mediator, offered a final compromise and irashed Ms hands of the entire matter. This compromise Is said to make notable concession on both sides, but the engineers are given the long end of the bargain. That It will be accepted by the general managers Is said to be almost certain. It was offered too late for the committee to act upon It, but the decision peace or gigantic war will be rendered before noon tomorrow. If It Is rejected. Dr. Nelll will formally offer arbitration, a required under the Erdmar.n law. and Immediately take a train for home In "Washington. The Indications at midnight. Jjowrver. are that peace will prevail. Exasperated with the attitude of the general managers committee, which has refused to take the strike threat seri ously, the engineers have reached a point where they are ready to go out at a moment's notice. If the order Is Issued, It will strike every railroad west of Chicago at the same hour. final Conference Is Held. & Since December 1? Commissioner of Labor Nell has worked day and night to avert the strike, and neither side has Fielded an Inch. Early tonight the Gov ernment mediator declared that he feared there would be a strike, though he called Grand Chief Stone, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and his assist ants Into the nnal conference. Before going Into the conference, which was In session at midnight. Mr. Stone declared that he saw no chance of settlement and that a fight might be expected within a very short time. The members of the engineers' committee from the various systems were making preparations to leave the city early this evening, and It is probable that, if a strike order is Is sued, It will be set far enough ahead fo allow each officer to get to his post, which will require about three days. Although the general managers have professed to regard the strike vote of the men as a mere bluff," the repre sentatives of the engineers assert that they never ware so much In earnest In ' their lives and that they are ready to ge. the limit. They have placed them selves deliberately In a situation where. It la said, they cannot back down, unless they wish to see their organization go to pieces. Demands Loos; In Preparation. The movement for a wage Increase on the Western roads began at the conven tion of the engineers In Detroit last May. In accordance with the convention in structions, the chairmen on the various systems met and formulated new wage schedules, which were submitted to the rank and file for a vote last July. When the demands were ratified by the men. they were presented to the managers In August and negotiations began Septem ber 2 last. The conferences lasted until November . when they were broken off while the labor officials submitted the question of a strike to the men. During the negotiations the original demands had been scaled down to such an extent that many of the men were dissatisfied and. when they were asked whether they would agree to a further scaling down, or strike to enforce the modified de mands, the vote was S7.JJ in favor of a trike. ' Leaders Pare Not Hack Down. Tnder the circumstances the lesders ay there is no way far them to back down, without Incurring the displeasure of the members and making the organlsa tloa a laughing stock among the other fcrotherhoodsv it wso said that, should the officers attempt le settle on the basis offered by the managers, the men would -kluk over the traces" and not accept the settlement. Representatives of the engineers, who )tave been In conference with the man gfersv asoert that they have not been . iCacIutl.d ea Tass - I r " i i DISASTER FEARED WHEN DIVA SINGS VAST THRONGS WILL HEAR TETRAZZIXI IX OPEN. Clubwomen Ask Mayor to Prevent Concert In San FYanclsco Street, bnt He Fears Nothing. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8. (Special.) A delegation of clubwomen today ap- ta Mavor McCarthy to stop Tet- raxlnl from singing at Lottas Tountaln In front of the Chronicle building to morrow nights because of the danger to life from an Immense crowd, and .. rfi...t.r in Stockholm 20 years ago, when Christine Nellson sang In the street In that city. The Mayor decided that the police could control any crowd that might gather and he refused to order the unique openalr concert transferred to Golden Gate Park, as the clubwomen desired. It Is estimated many thou sand people will come In from neigh boring cities, as oldtlme English Christmas carols are to be sung from the stage before the opera singer ap pears. Chief of Pollre Seymour thinks -0.-900 people will be massed within sound of the divas voice, and that 100 000 will crowd Market and adjacent streets, as they did at the Fortola Fes tival. The weather la like New Tors. May weather and everything promises a pleasant evening tomorrow, when the first openalr concert of this kind in mid-Winter In the streets of a great city will be held. Every newspaper In Christendom will contain a report on Chrlstmaa morning of this unique Christmas eve celebration. $1,800,000 GIFT IS MADE Affiliation Between Columbia rttl vcrslty and Hospital Purpose. NEW TORK. Dec IJ George L. .h.iman of the board of di rector, of Columbia University, and Robert W. DeForest president ox i Presbyterian Hospital, announced to night that l.S00.OOO had been pledged to perfect an affiliation between the hospital and the medical school of the university. The name of the donor Is not announced. The gift comes through Edward B. - .n,hee of the wealthy 2 1 ar K n r 3, m m- family of New York and Cleveland. who adds 1300.000 "lor mo "u on a site belonging to the hospital of a surgical pavilion coniaiuma Edward S. Harknees was graduated from Tale with the class of -97 and is director of several banks and cor porations. Ills brother. Charles W. Harkness. Is a director of the Standard Oil Company, and It Is commonly believed that some member -of the Harkness family also makes the larger gift. THUG'S LEGACY KILLS MAN Mtro-GIycertne Left In Safe by Cracksmen Explodes. CHICAGO. Dec. M. (Special.) Nitro glycerin left between me j.io -Z' ....i door by burglars three months a so caused the death of a safe repairer In the shop oi in. . T-.it rvitnn.nv this afternoon. The deadly explosive had .withstood the tars of a railroad trip rroro inuuu.. the shocks of riding over rough Chicsgo The man. who died almost instantly after being struck by a 100-pound steel plate which was burled from the door by the force or tne es.piu.iu". a. txviitek. 4S years old. The safe in which the explosion oc curred was a large type, weighing 7500 pounds and was five feet high. Recent ly It waa accepted by the Trumbull com pany from the banking firm of Grow- v a. vi-Mia- of Klmmell. Ind in trad. The safe was shipped from Klmmell to Chicago and placed In the safe company's shop today. Pavlltek waa put to work repairing the doors. MIXED MARRIAGE BLOCKED Jap and White Woman Find Reno Justice Opposes Mlsccgeny. RENO. Nev Dec . Not until the County Clerk here had been Instructed by an authorized attorney that there was nothing In the statutes of Nevada to prevent their marriage would he grant a marriage license to H. H. Tackawa. a Japanese, and Miss L. A. Frederick, an American girl. Teckawa gave his age aa 24 and that of Miss Frederick as IS. Both told the Clerk they were from San Francisco. Thla afternoon Teckawa and Miss Frederick appeared before the Jus tice of th Peace and asked to be mar ried by him Sunday. The official re fused to perform the ceremony and told fh.m tn aee a minister. Miss Frederick recently sold a room-Ing-hoose In Seattle. POSTAL BANKSARE READY Vfw System Will Go Into Effect on Third Day of January. WASHINGTON. Dec 3. All Is now ready for starting the mschlnery of the postal saving bank throughout the country on January . The 4g postmasters who have been In W'aahlngton acquiring Information con cerning the management of the postal saving work have finished their training at Postmaster-General Hitchcock's office and the last of them departed for home tonight. All are -postmasters at second class offices. - ' , WOMAN INDICTS BALDWIN'S GOLD Witness Says She Is Helpless Against It. LETTERS DECLARED FORGERIES Mrs. Turnbull Says She Never Plotted With Advertiser. PICTURE IS INTRODUCED Witness Declares Portrait Is Not of Her, but Says It Nearly Cost Old Turfman His Life When Sister fjiot Him. LOS ANGELES. Dee. 21 Lucky Bald- wln'a gold could do anything against a defenseless woman. This waa one of the parting shafts launched at the opposing attorneys by Mrs. Lillian Turnbull before she ended her testimony In the contest of her daughter. Beatrice for" nearly a quarter of thf, millions Via old turfman left when he died two years ago. The record of the woman's testimony In her suit against Baldwin has been de stroyed and the attorneys for the estate were endeavoring to secure her present version of that testimony preparatory to Introducing evidence for her Impeach ment, when she shot the above retort In reply to a query as to what reason there might be for so many forgeries of her letters. Letters Declared Forgeries. More of her alleged lettera were Intro duced and she declared every one of them "base forgeries, perpetrated by a villain In the employ of that treacherous man. James R. Wood." Wood Is the Boston detective employed by Colonel Albert Pope, whom Mrs. Turnbull pre viously declared "sold me out to Bald win." One of the letters contained this sen tence: "I resisted Lucky Baldwin more than I did Colonel Pope, for J loved Colonel Pope. I shall never betray his name. A woman never betrays the man she loves. Never." Authorship Is Denied. Mrs. Turnbull declared she never wrote this or anything that la quoted as part of the evidence. In the decision rendered by Judge Slack, who presided In the se duction case. Mrs. Turnbull said she did not testify regarding her alleged marriage by con tract to Baldwin In the first case becaus she had not been asked. "Did you testify there had been a prom lse of marriage T" was asked. "No," Mr a. Turnbull replied. "I did not so testify. I did say there had not been a promise of marriage, which was true. Mr. Baldwin married me without making a promise. He did It out of hand, aa quickly as he could write tne contract" Contract Is Repudiated. Mrs. Turnbull also denied that she had ever admitted an alleged contract be tween herself and A. H. Anderson. Bald win's former advertising agent, to give Coneluded on Paso 2.) LONGEST DATS i ' - Wiiv.' joat 1 ; I ClL EVER L X? v I ; t - ........ .... ... . ..as........ -- - . - INDEX OF. TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 83 degree: minimum. 41 aegret.. TODAY'S Occasional rain; aouthweaterly winds. t Fore Ian. Trial of Count and Countess d'Aulby in France becomes drama or pasuuii. -3. Mexican rebel scout, m.ke daring ride through City ot cnlhuanua. Page S. No trace found of Orare. the aviator, and death at sea Is probable. Pass National. Tran.portatlon of mall cost Uncle Bam bis urn. pax. 4. Power .It. bill Is drawn by Emoou rw - Politic Multnomah County will demand equitable California politician. e plan to put Heney t- u rianl. If. Par. 13. Wets' Initiative makes position of Oregon- unique. i i AlleVlut ssr American hustle cause. In- Wben hop of avertlnr engineers strike - j l. a vj a 4 1 1 v. r n rfi Urg compromla which may b accept a. 1 1 x. Vt crowd! eipwted to har Tetraxi.nl . . . mnA WAMAn r in . in nan rranniw pn. fear dlu.ter. Page JU On. of Injured In Chicago flro die., maklnc total dead 24. Pas. 3. . . Colonel Ooethal. man of srest ability. Pa.. 7. Mrs. Turnbull ssts defen.elee. woman eould do nothing- again.i xjuiuwm Pag. 1. Washington County still demand, eats. Pag. 1- Snorts. Interschnlarrtle Athletic league disband.: re organisation, mmu. LJ' page 4. Stanford Rugby team goes through Portland on way to Vancouver, rage rorret ' Smlth.oa will become aviator. Pare H Chrlstmaa swim arouses Interest. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. T. R. Ell.xson found guilty of murder In --i t o, r Grande. Pag. O. Bride clasp. Kirk a. Jury free, him of mur- aer casrie. i-.g. w Kidnaper of Seattle child must serve SO to 40 years In prison. Page 6. Seattle Council revoke, traction franchlss following restraining order. Pag. 1. Commercial and Marine. French bark may be first crop ship ef new season. Pag Id Further advance In Oregon hop market. Pag. 17. World', .hlpments of wheat are decreasing. I's-g. 17. New York stock market stagnsnt. Page IT. Brisk holiday trade at all points. Page 17. Demand for apples limited. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. Transfer of Harrlman line, to Oregon-Washington Railroad Navigation Company fleeted last night- Pace 10. Dismissal of Williamson case would have hurl Judge Hunt's chance of appointment to commerce court. Is contention. Pag. 13. , Teachers demand voles In selection of text books. Page 13. Woman me. to re-establish will aet aside for faulty witnessing. Page 10. H. E. Weed, landscape architect, tails of plan, for beaut if icatlon of Lone Fir Cem etery. Page . City Attorney, citing "ethic of profelon refuse, to obey .treet committee .In set tling Ksrl street dispute. Page 12. Barer applicants for permit, to build swamp Inspector Plummer. Pags 10. Angora goat breeder, to hold convention In January- Pac. 14- Ex-husnand ot bride eau.es stormy dl version at Dltchburn-Mend. wedding. Pag. 4. . . MAN GIVES AWAY HIS EYE Friend Losing False One, He Fills Gap With His Own. COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., Dec. 23. Frank Vanneck, a well-known min ing man of the Cripple Creek dis trict, tonight proved how strong West ern generosity Is when he took one of his own eyes and gave it "to Sam W. Vldler, a mining and newspaper man, who had broken his own optic xtntv. men wear artificial eyes. Vld ler's eye got frostbitten, and when he tried to thaw It out it expioaeo. un able to secue another In the camp, he was saved further discomfiture when vi. e,i.nri nroceeded to take the glass eye out of his own head and turned It over to Vldler. Until another eye arrives, Vanneck Is using an old one he happened to have laid away. IN THE YEAR F0 E ONE MEMBER POWER SITE BILL DRIJHMOOT Advocates of State Con trol Concentrate. MEASURE MAY BE PRESSED Interior Department Aids- in Drafting Measure. ALL ADVOCATES AGREED Icreas Set Forth by Secretary Bal- linger In His Report Are Em bodied In Bill Submitted by Ttah Senator. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec 23. Advocates of state control of waterpower sites will con centrate their efforts on a bill recently Introduced by Senator Smoot, which embodies the Ideas set forth by Secre tary Balllnger In his annual report This bill was prepared Jointly by Sen ator Smoot and officials of the Inte rior Department and has proven ac ceptable, in the main, to all Western Senators and Representatives who be lieve that water-power development should be regulated by the states rather than by the National Govern ment. It Is too early In the session to de termine whether or not there is any for the Dassaite of the Smoot bill before adjournment on March 4, but if opportunity presents tne meas ure will be pressed to early 'considera tion in the Senate, In the hope it may be taken up by the House after the appropriation bills are out of the way. The Smoot bill recognizes the fact that the control of waters Is vested in the states, and this right can never be taken over by the Federal Government. Therefore It Is proposed to transfer to the states all public lands abutting on streams that may be used in power development,- the states, however, to guarantee to the Federal Government that such lands shall not fall Into the hands of any monopoly or be used in n wav that will make the public pay an exorbitant price for Its power. Plnchot Theory Ditched. The Plnchot plan of National regula tion Is based entirely upon the fact that the Government owns much of the land that must necessarily be used In the development of powers, and pro poses to control the water by control ling the land. This theory Is set aside by the Smoot bill. Senator Smoot's bill is substantially the same as that which he introduced In the last sesion of Congress, but con tains slight modifications which, it Is understood, have been approved by the Interior Department. The bill author izes the President to withdraw from entry or other disposition any public lands, reserved or unreserved, which are or may become chiefly valuable for the development of water power, and which are not required for Government irrigation projects. Lands so wlth- (Concluded on Page 2.) OF THE FAMILY. SECOND APPEAL IS MADE FOR CATS OKAXOGAX FARMER ASKS LOS ANGELES TO SUPPLY 5000. Request Sent to Humane Society fof Felines to Kill Gophers Causes Much Excitement. LOS ANGELES. Cat, Dec. 23. (Spe cial.) Members of the Humane Society In this city were considerably excited today when they received from Albert J. Randall, of Okanogan County, Wash., a request for 6000 cats. Randall Is neither starting a cat farm nor a canning factory. He wants the cats for eminently legitimate and re spectable purposes. No doubt when the average cat; hears of this she will say: "Me for a tlncan alley, no fur muffs for mine." If you should ask any gentlemanly Thomas if he cared to migrate to Wash ington, he would ask you with Injured pride if he looked like a sealskin collar ette. Cats are so suspicious, you know. However, the alarm of the kittens and of the Humane Society does Randall and hie associates a great injustice. The Washington farmers desire the cargo of cats to assist them in driving gophers from their ranches. They want the cats as hunters. Gophers are making Inroads on many Okanogan County farms and Randall has hit upon the idea of saving the gardens and farm lands by Import ing household pets from those cities that may be overstocked. No definite ar rangements have been made for the col lection of the tabbies, but this Is con sidered a golden opportunity for Los An geles to ingrate Itself Into the lasting favor of a great Western state. S. S. Gilbert, of Sharon, Pa., received a letter from A. J. Randall, of Okano gan County, a few days ago, requesting that a consignment of 1000 cats be sent him for use in exterminating gophers, and, according to a dispatch, residents of Sharon were preparing to ship the felines in the near future. PASTOR GIVEN MOTOR CAR Congregation Makes Gift to Retain Services of Preacher. STOCKTON, Cal., Dec 23. (Special.) To retain his services as pastor of the Manteca. Congregational Church, Rev. R. H. Sink, prelate in the grand lodge of Masons of California, was to day presented with an automobile by the Manteca congregation, much to his surprise. Mr. Sink has been pastor of the Stockton Congregational Church for years, and at the request of the Manteca Congregationali3ts, accepted a call to preach there at least two Sundays a month. The train service was such that the minister could not reach there until late in the afternoon following his services here. The progressive people of Manteca made up a subscription at once, and today purchased the minister a fine automobile. He will now be In a position to make the trip In short time and meet all of the engagements of the two churches. One of the mem bers of the congregation today said: PORTLAND LEADS IN GAIN Bank Clearings Again Show Increase Over Period of Year Ago. Bank clearings for the " week ended yesterday showed an Increase over the total for the same week in 1909 of 18.8 per cent according to Bradstreefjs report The total Is S9,970,000. With this substantial increase, Port land again takes the lead over the principal Pacific Coast cities, Los An geles getting second place with a gain of 17.8 per cent Seattle's total clearings amounted to $10,485,000. Compared with the volume of business for the corresponding week of last year, there was a marked fall ing oft for Seattle, the loss being 18 Der cent Tacoma held even in amount of clearings and Spokane showed a loss of 4.1 per cent . Tacoma'a totals were (4,661,000 and Spokane s Were s4, 668,000. YOUNG M'LEAN RECEIVES "Twenty Million Dollar Baby" Has Birthday Party. "WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. In contrast to the usual social functions of the National capital In the holiday season was the first birthday anniversary party today of Master Vinson "Walsh McLean, the "2O.OOO,O0O baby," grandson of John R. McLean and the late Thomas F. "Walsh. Beneath a large Christmas tree, near the golden cradle presented to him by the late King Leopold of Belgium, Master McLean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. "McLean, received half a dozen of the little folks, some his junior. Among others to wish the little host happiness and long life were his grand parents and Mrs. U. S. Grant III. Baron ess Hengelmuller and Mr. and Mrs. Jo seph Letter and his great-uncle. Admiral Dewey. INDIAN ' TRIBES TO FEAST Tntnilla Mission Provides Christ mas Tree and "Big Feeds." PENDLETON, Or., Dec' 23. (Special.) Umatilla, "Walla "Walla. Nes Perce, Cayuse and Yakima Indians are gather ing at the Tutullla Indian mission on the Uamtllla Reservation, near this city, for the annual mid-Winter campmeeting. Features will be the Christmas tree ex ercises Saturday night and the big feeds on Christmas and New Tear's days. Most of the Indians are encamped In tepees. The meeting will last until Jan uary 4 or 5 and will be attended by near .ly 200,.., . " " SEATTLE HITS AT TRACTION COMPANY Franchise Revoked by City Council. ACTION FOLLOWS INJUNCTION Angered by Restraining Order. Gill Urges Drastic Move. , FIVE-CENT FARE IS ISSUE Warfare Against Seattle, Renton A Southern Held to Be Effort of Stone &f Webster Interests to Gobble TJp Rival Line, SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 23. (Special.) Calmly Ignoring the fact that Federal Judge C. H. Hanford had just signed an Injunction restraining them from doing anything to Interfere with the operation of Its cars, the City Council, In commit tee of the whole, late this afternoon passed two ordinances revoking the fran chises under which the Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Company Is operat ing Its lines between this city and Ren ton, a suburb 12 miles south of here. The meettlng of the Council was sen sational. More than 200 citizens of the Rainier Valley, who had complained against the company, charging that It had given inadequate service and had attempted to collect a double fare Inside the new city limits, were present and cheered to the echo Mayor Hiram C. Gill and Councilmen who spoke advocating revocation of the franchises. Mayor Gill took an active part In the meeting and spurred the Council to ac tion by declaring that if the ordinance was not passed he would go out within a week and tear up the tracks. Plea for Delay Made. The feature of the meeting was the speech of Councilman J. W. Bullock, who pleaded that a great majority of the holders of the $850,000 of bonds of the corporation lived In Chicago and the Middle "West and that since their hold ings' would be depreciated In value at least 75 per cent by a revocation of the franchise, the Council, to preserve the city's credit, would best hesitate. Bullock Is known to be extremely friendly to the Stone & Webster Company, which con trols all carlines in Seattle other than the so-called Renton line, andi his speech therefore caused something of a surprise. Nevertheless the ordinances were passed and signed) on the spot by "William H. Murphy, president of the Council, and Mayor Gill. A. L. Valentine, superintendent of Pub lic Utilities, ' filed the formal charges against the company and, in view of the fact that the attempt of the company to collect a 10-cent fare In the territory re cently annexed by the city had resulted in rioting and destruction of the com pany's property, asked that the Council sit as a Judicial body. The revocation today was the result. Action Held Illegal. The company alleged that the hearing today and that heretofore held by the corporation's committee were Illegal, since the Council had no authority to administer oaths or corroel the attend ance of witnesses and consequently was not able to obtain testimony that would have upheld the streetcar company. "The Council's action is utterly without Justification," said "William H. Thomp son, attorney for the Renton line, to night "The Injunction signed by Judge Han ford this forenoon absolutely prohibited the passage of the ordinances and, inas much as copies of the Injunction were served on Mayor Gill and President Mur phy, of the Council, before the committee of the whole took action and distributed among members of the Council by Coun cilman Bullock at the same time, we consider that the whole proceeding is null and void. In diefense of the rights of Innocent bondholders and to uphold the name of Seattle as a city In which Investments are safe, we shall treat the Council's action as nulL" Gill Defends Move. "They merelyi enjoined us against doing , anything to interfere with the operation of the road," sold Mayor Gill tonight "This being the case, we think that we had an absolute right to pass the ordi nances revoking the franchises. "It ls a legal question that Is Involved and the operation of the road Is not at present Involved." . A strong movement is on foot to have the city seize the Rainier Valley line and operate 't under municipal ownership. "W. R. Crawford, president of the road, and his lawyers regard the entire fight as an attempt of the Stone & "Webster Inter ests, which virtually control the street railway situation In Seattle, to gobble u the only line now Independent. NEW .TRIAL DENIED RUEF Only Supreme Court Remains aa Hope of Escaping Prison Term. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 23. The peti tion of Abraham Ruef, the former politi cal boss, under sentence of 14 years for bribery, for a hearing of his case before the District Court of Appeals, was de nied by that tribunal today. Ruef now faces his last resort the Su-m-emfe Court, '