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jflfaromqr ill PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. L NO. l.,.4. SENATE PUTS OX ON HIGHWAY BILL Road-Building by Com mission Wins. CONVICT LIBOR IS APPROVED All Prisoners but Stovemakers to Break Rock. BOTH MEASURES FOUGHT Good Roads Men Yk-tors, IS to 14. Mronjj Opposition Dne in House. Eastern Oregon Is Main Foe. County Courts Rule. STATE CAriTOL, Salem. Or.. Jan. t. (Special.) Place all ronvlrta on the roads when not needed for other pur r pesea at the State renltentlary and create a State Highway Commlsalon. These are the moves carried In two bills that passed the Senate this afternoon after a prolonged fight. Something of the conflict waa pre saged when MeCuIloeh. of Baker, ob jected to creation of a State Hlghwar Commission, as Joseph's Senate BUI No, 42 cam op for consideration.' This bill vii passed upon favorably by the Sen ate, Tuesday, while sitting a a commit tee of the whole to hear the pleas of men representing 300 leading Portland citizens. Then only eight rotes were' re corded sgalnst It. Passage of the meas ure was thought to be comparatively eaay today until unexpected opposition appeared. Eastern Oregon light. McCutloch declared that from the sagebrush country In Eastern Oregon there had come down the line the word that they do not want the Highway Commission, and that .he would be com pelled to vote against It. He sug gested a plan for Eastern Oregon and another plan for Western Oregon In good roads development, but said that In Eastern Oregon they are not ready for Intensive road building and that 'In the last six weeks meetings bad been held generally all over that section against the association bills. "If I represented & more thickly pop ulated section." he stated. "I might be In a position to favor such bills, but It Is Impossible for roe to do so In face of the cry (hat bas come up from my constituency." Federal Envoy Speaks. Benjamin F. Heldel who has been sent to the Capitol by the Department or Agriculture at Washington as Highway Engineer to aid In lobbying through the good roada bills, spoke, aa did ex-Judge Webster, of Portland. Barrett, of Umatilla, said that he found the counties of CmatiUa. Morrow and Union, which he represents, op posed to the bill. "I do not expect the state-aid bill to pass." he said, "and thla bill Is worthless unless the stste-ald measure Js successful. If the state-aid measure passes, the referendum will be Invoked and the act defeated. Consequently. I see no object In creating the Commis sion." Nottingham retreated from his posi tion of Tuesday and said he could On! no opposition to the bill in Multnomah and that he decided to stand for the measure and vote yes. Oliver said he personally favored the bill, but found there was opposition In Eastern Oregon and cast his vo'te adversely. Bill Wins by Two. On vote the Commission bill carried by the narrow margin of IS to H against. Stronger opposition is promised In the House. The voting stood: Teas Abram. Albee. Barrett (Wash ington). Bowerman, Calkins, Carson. Joseph, Kellaher, Lester, Locke. Malar- key. Nottingham. Von Der Hellen. Wood and Selling. Noes Barrett (Umatilla). Burgess, Dlmlck. Hawley. Hoekins, McCuIloeh. Merrlman. Miller, Oliver. Parrlsh, Patten. Slnnott. Miller's S. B. No. 9. providing for con vict labor on the roads, developed heat ed discussion throughout the remainder of the afternoon, holding the Senate In tessslon until ( o'clock, the latest ad journment since the Legislature has con vened. Stove Contract. Main Point. What to do with the contract under whli-h the Lowenberg-Golng Company hires convicts for use In the penitentiary stove foundry was one of the most vltsl points at i'sue. The bill provides that all convicts not needed about the prison farms and grounds may be sent out on road work on requisition of the County Courts In the respective counties. The Lowenberg-Golng Company holds, a 10 year contract, dating from 1W7, for use of a minimum number of 1M convicts in the foundry at the rate of cents a day. and legislators were a unit in declaring that the Legislature could not honestly abrogate this contract, but believed that amendments might result In the courts construing such moves as legislative ac tion which might result In Impairment of such a contract. Foundry Convicts Excepted. Final amendment, however, eliminates stove foundry convicts from the provis ions of this road bill. Warren E. Thomas, (Conduasd oa rai T.) CURTISS AIRSHIP SOARS LIKE GULL AVIATOR RISKS FROM WATER, ALIGHTS OX SAME ELEMENT. Problem Necessary to Make Aero planes Isoful to Navy Solved on San IMejco Bay. PAN DIEGO. Csl.. Jan. :. For the first time. It was declared, in the his tory of aviation, an aeroplane rose from the surface of the water today, sailed about and. returning to the starting point. landed on the water as easily as a gull. This fest was achieved by Glenn IL Curtlss In hla specially equipped aero nlane on San Dleso Bay. The machine covered a distance of about two miles and the flight was made after almost two weeks of experimenting. Both the Army and the Navy were nrM.nid at these experiments on North Island. When the aeroplane was brought out at noon today and floated on the shallow water between Coronado and rortn Island, it was equipped with hydro planes and a new arrangement of front surfaces. Curtlss climbed Into the seat and started the powerful motor. The aeroplane scudded up the bay at a 40- mile clip for a quarter of a mile, then lifted out of the water and rose to a height of 60 feet. Curtlss brought it down on the surface easily, after flying half a mile, and turned around as easily as a motor boat. Putting on hla full power, he again rose, this time to a height of 100 feet, sailed out over the bay a mile from the start ing place, circled around near the rev enue cutter Bear and the repair ship Iris, and landed lightly on the water in front of his hangar on shore. "I have succeeded in solving the one problem the Secretsry of the Navy re garded aa the most difficult and the one necessary to make the aeroplane of value to the Navy." said Curtlss, aa he stepped ashore. "I can now start an aeroplane from the water alongside a war ship, make my trip and returning, light alongside and be hoisted aboard. This, I believe. Is of great importance to the Navy." $1000 OFFERED TO FUND R. II. Thompson Subscribes to His torical Building- In Portland. SAN J09E. Cal- Jan. 36. (To The Ore-gon!an- I will give $1000 to the Oregon Historical Pioneer Association and Mu seum building; fund provided legislative act passes and balance of the $110,000 Is subscribed within IS months. R. H. THOMPSON. R. H. Thompson Is one of the heirs of the R. R. Thompson estate. The Oregon Historical Society bill provides that $100.- 0u0 be appropriated from the general fund for the erection of a suitable build ing In Portland In which to house the boo'is and records of the society, the building to be used also as) a museum. The JlvaOOO Is not to be available, how ever, unless another $100,000 la secured from some other source for the purchase of the ground. Thi last 1100.000 may be either In cash or In solvent securities. payable on demand, and available for use for building purposes at any time. The directors of School District No. 1 are authorized by the bill to provide a suitable eiite. Before the appropriation becomes avail able the City of Portland must pass an ordinance providing for the care and maintenance of the building. If the site Is not secured la IS months or if the city pssxes no ordinance in 18 months for the maintenance of the building, the bill provides the building fund shall not be available. IDAHO IS SWEPT BY. FLOOD Rivers Rise From Banks, Destroy ing Tracks Streets Are Awash. BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 26. (Special.) What is considered to be the worst flood In years haa congested traffic, damaged property and stock and placed many Southeastern Idaho cities under -from one to three feet of water. The flooded area is confined to Southern Bingham and Northern Bannock County. Water stands in the streets of Pocatello, Black foot, Ross Fork and Bancroft. A warm wind rapidly melted the heavy snow and was followed by'a rain storm last night, turning streams and rivers Into raging torrents and soon flooded the country. The marooned trains transferred pas sengers to flat cars to take them safely over the washed out tracks. GUNBOAT SENDS NO WORD "avy Department Hears Nothing; of Wheeling, Reported Crippled. WASHINGTON. Jan. 26. No word was received up to midnight tonight by the Navy Department from the gun boat Wheeling, reported to have met with an accident off the Carolina coast. Navy Department officials are not apprehensive, however, and do not ex pect to hear from the vessel until to morrow night, when she nears Guanta namo, Cuba, her destination. NEVADA TO BAN CIGARETTE Senate Parses Bile, Which May Now Go Tlirough House. CARSON, Nev.. Jan. !. The State Senate today passed a bill making It unlawful to sell or give cigarettes or cigarette papers to any man. wom an or child In the State of Nevada. 4- Aecordlng to expressions from mem bers of the lower house, the bill will go through without amendment. TUFT PROGRAMME AS OUTLOOK Congress Can Do Little Legislation. FACTIONAL QURRELS BLOCK Tarif Commission Will Cause Long, Bitter Fights. CONSERVATION MUST WAIT Diversity of Opinion on How to Open Western Land Renders Action Impossible Subsidy ' Bill Doomed, to All Seeming. BT HARRY J. BROWN. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash.. Jan. 26. The outlook for the Taft legis lative programme is anything but en couraging. Only Ave weeks of the ses sion remain, and In that brief time the Senate must pass practically all of the large appropriation bills; the House must pass four or five of the remaining big supply bllh. and the two houses must reconcile their differences after these bills have been sent to conference committees. It is conceded that the ap propriation bills must take precedence over everything else, for. If any of them fail (unless It be the river and harbor bill) an extra session will be necessary, and everyone Is striving to avoid an extra session in the Spring. Ordinarily ten weeks would be neces sary to consider and pass as many ap propriation bills aa yet remain to be dis posed of. and if this essential work Is to be concluded before March 4. Senators will be obliged to curtail debate and the House will be obliged to dispense with Its wrangling over methods of procedure. It is true the House made a good start in December, but since that time fac tional and partisan troubles have been Injected Into the Houtc proceedings, with sud results, se far ss the transaction of business is concerned. Rnles Fight Blocks Action. The situation In the House would be less, discouraging If the House had not amended lta rules out of all semblance to reason. But under the rules, as modi fied by the, Republican insurgents and Democrats, only three days out of every week are available for the transaction of Important business. Including appro priation bills, the remaining three work ing days being set apart for buslnesa that could readily, be dispensed with un til next session. Were the appropriation bills out of the way. the five weeks remaining of the present session would be none too long a time to dispose of those measures In which the President Is most lntereted. But the aoDroDriatton bills are not out of the way, and there comes the rub. Tariff Commission Outlook Bad. Foremost. In the eyes of the President. Is the bill creating a tariff commission. That bill must pass the House before It can be considered by the Senate, and It has strong and determined enemies In both branches of Congress. There was a dispute aa to the merits of the two commission bills before the ways and means committee, one Introduced by Representative Dalxell. Believers In a tariff commission were divided, some fa voring the Longworth plan which was (Concluded on Page 3. 1 SHIPPING FACILITIES IM PROVED. Interesting articles concern ing the, improvement of Ore gon 's facilities for commerce by river and ocean will be printed in the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition of The Oregonian, which will appear February 4. The deepening of Coast harbors and betterments under way and in prospect for Portland's channel to the sea are subjects that will be covered by officers of the United States. Engineering Serv ice. There will also be pictures and a description of the Celilo Canal, on which work is going ahead more rapidly than ever before. The building of new railroads will also receive considerable at tention in the Anniversary Edition. The construction of two railroads up the Deschutes, electric and steam lines to Til lamook and smaller projects are not only important to Ore gon, but advertise Ihe state as a district in which the big rail road systems have complete confidence. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. . IESTEHPATS Maximum temperature. 43 degrees; minimum. 34 decrees. TODAY'S Occasional light rain or mow; sllchtly colder: winds mostly southerly. Legislature. Ilalarkey eaustlo In denying conference en public service bill. Face . Washington lower house orders strict Inves tigation of National Guard. Pegs 6. Oregon Senate passes Highway Commission bill and convict-labor measure after pro longed fight, page 1. Both Senate and House order strict Investi gation of management of asylum at Sa lem. Fage 6. Foreign. Nearly all railroads in China eeass opera tion on account of plague- Page 4. National. Delay In printing report oa Bellinger case causes hot debate In Bouse. Page 2. Prospects bad for passage of Tafta legisla tive programme by Congress. Page 1. Taft sends Canadian reciprocity agreement to Congress. Page 5. Conant denies truth of Dodsworth's story about fopanlsh bribe. Page Z. Taft proposes new treaty with Japan remov ing restrictions on immigration. 1'age o. Senate committee provides for two dredges for Portland s au-foot channel. Page 4. Politics. Judge Klmhrough, at Danville, admits HI Sk ills; inps lu ytavuida, w r J jiuua. Page 2. Domestic Curtlss In aeroplane rises from and alights on water of San Diego Bay. Page L. steamer Queen returns tg Ban Francisco with burning hold and flreboata extin guish blaze, page 8. Countesa de Beaufort has leg broken by surgeons to be reset. Pare 3. ' Handwriting expert says forgery of. all Turn- bull letters not possible. page a. Mrs. Francis J. Heney dies In 'New York. Page 1. Sport. Women attend auto show. Page 18. Pacific Northwest, Klamath Falls cheered by prospects for Irri gation oevelopment. page 7. Oregon Retail Merchants' Association plans new net weignt Dili. i"ge i. Cottage City sinks off Cape Mudge In storm; many passengers missing, rage i. Commercial and Marine. Steamer Tahoma held in Ice at Big Eddy for five hours is released alter smiting cargo. Page IS. Turpentine selling at highest price since civil war. fage in. Large Argentine shipment weakens wheat market. Page is. Strcks firm, but not active. Page 19. Liberal run of livestock at North Portland. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. City Engineer and contracting firm charged wltn conspiring to aeirauu prupny ou ers. Page -12. Metollua to be division point on Oregon Trunk; work progresses rapiuiy. rago iv. Hardware men approve denunciation of "catalogue houses." Page 10. School directors threaten to resign if new bills are passed. Page 12. Grand Jury. In pity for Bailey, may advise mild action. Page 9. Railroad fares from East to be reduced during tourist season. Page Id Portland to have 2.000,noo factory, employ ing 500 men. Page 1. William Haney and J. F. Adams freed from timber trespass charges. Page 12. Robbers hold up restaurant, desperate con flict ensues with holdups victors. -Page 4. "EASY ON THE EXPENDITURES I ' BIG FACTORY WILL EMPLOY MEN $2,000,000 Plant Will Come to Portland. MANUFACTURERS HEAR NEWS Details, Dr. Wetherbee Says, Are Nearly Ready. LIABILITY LAW FAVORED Speakers at Convention Discuss Pro posal to Adopt German System by Which State, Workmen and Kniployes I'nite. That a $2,000,000 factory which will employ 500 men on the day It opens Is about' to be located In Portland; that a paternal compensatory law of Ger many for injured employes should be adopted in Oregon,, and that eternal vigilance In freight matters Is the price of trade extension was the substance of the addresses delivered at the 16th annual meeting; of the Manufacturers' Association of the Northwest in Allsky Hall last night. More than 100 manu facturers were present. Dr. J. R. Wetherbee in his address announced that there were five new factories on their way to Portland, and the president of one of the largest manufacturing concerns in the United States would be in the city in a few days to make final arrangements for coming to this city. He refused to name the concern. This law provides that the state shall appropriate 130,000 for the fund to he created, the working-man is to give 1 per cent of his wages and the employer 2 per cent. This fund; Is to be disbursed by a commission." Money "ow DlTlded. Fletcher Linn, of the Oregon Furni ture Manufacturing Company, in a speech declared that he was in favor of some law and that he had given the subject considerable study. Hs had found that during 1910 Oregon had paid out In liability insurance $178,000. Of this sum $70,000 had come back to the state in the form of Judgments, but of that $70,000 only $15,000 had been paid direct to the injured. It was this condition, he be lieved, that was constantly causing strife between employer and employe. There was no doubt that the employer was pay ing dearly for his accident Insurance and paying it in the hope that the injured one would get the money. J. F. Carroll, In response to calls for speech, said that he was highly pleased by the discussion. "There exists in this country," said the speaker, "a condition of altruism. But that altruism is nothing more nor less than one form of the manifestation of equity. There is no doubt that the state is interested in the welfare of its citizens. Where life is taken away in the industrial pursuits, there are fre auently left a widow and children. The state's interest, its asset, is in the bring ing up of these children, for if they go wrong the state has an extra burden on its hands, and if It encourages them to do right it . enlarges Its capital and has an asset worthy of the greatest con sideration." J. N. -Teal, of the Manufacturers' (Concluded on Page 10.) MRS. F. 1 HENEY DIES IN NEW YORK WIFE OF PROSECCTOR VICTIM OF SUDDEN ILLXESS. Going East to Attend Publishers Dinner, She Is Attacked by Tubercular Meningitis. NEW YORK. Jan. 26. Mrs. Francis J. Heney,- of San Francisco, whoso husband was formerly special prosecuting at torney in San Francisco, died tonight of tubercular meningitis at the home of '"harles P. Crane. She had been ill about ten days. Mr. and Mrs. Heney came here Jan uary 6 to attend the dinner of the Perl odlcal Publishers' Association, and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Crane. Short ly afterwards Mrs. Heney fell ill and her decline was unchecked. The body will be taken .to San Fran cisco, but no plans for the burial were given out tonight. Mrs. Heney was 50 years old. She waa a daughter of John McMullin. a pioneer who figured in the Texas Revolution Before the gold rush to California he emigrated to that state. McMullin died when the daughter was a child and flie was educated with her mother's rela' tlves In Kentucky. Returning to California, she met Mr. Heney In 1906 and was married to him In the midst of the graft prosecution. MAN OWNS 1,000,000 ACRES Henry Miller Buys Lui Interest in $5,000,000 Estate. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26. (Special.) Arrangements have been completed whereby Henry Miller, head of the multi-millionaire corporation of Miller & Lux, will purchase all Interests in the concern owned by the estate of the late Charles Lux and his heirs. As the first step In this direction a deed of trust to all of the property of the company worth $5,000,000, has been recorded In accordance with an agree ment signed last March. The deed is to secure first mortgage bonds issued by Miller & Lux, which will be used to pay off the Lux Interests, which are dis tributed among 37 heirs. The corporation of Miller & Lux owns approximately 1,000,000 acres of Cali fornia and Oregon land. Henry Miller, who la now the largest Individual land owner In the. United States, Is 85 years old. The deal now being negotiated under the agreement will close years of liti gation. SNOW TRAPS MEN TEN DAYS Storm Fighters Tell How Stagedriver " Carried Woman t- Safety. MEDFORD, Or.. Jan. 26. (Special) J. K. LIppet returned this morning from a trip to Crescent City and other coast points. He and a companion, George Brlnker, a mining engineer of Los Angeles, were snowed in for ten days at the Raymond stage station on Patrick Creek, Josephine County. . The two left Medford on January 2, with Llppet's team and buggy. It was on the return trip that they were forced to turn back to the shelter of the Raymond stage station. The worst storm was encountered In the .Illinois. "Valley between CoKs Range and Crescent City. While try ing to cross the valley through almost four feet of snow the two men came upon the stage from Grants Pass, which was held solid in a drift. A woman passenger was carried by the driver for over half a mile and then placed on a horse and taken through to the station. MEDFORD SEES LABOR WAR Work Slay Halt on Two New School houses as Result. t MF,DPORD, Or.. Jan. 26 (Special.) Because the school board let the con tract for the plumbing of the two new schoolhouses to W. A. AHken, union men may refuse to work on the building, as Mr. Aitkin has no agreement with the plumbers union. It was reported today that the carpen ters of the city, nearly almost all of whom are union men, would notify Al fred Trey, the contractor, that they would not work on the buildings. They have not yet notified him, however. HEAVY FLOODS ARE FEARED Fourteen Inches of Snow at Glendalo Followed by Warm Wind. GLESDALE, Or., Jan. 26. (Special.) Fourteen inches of snow have fallen in the last forty-eight hours, and more is threatened. Telegraph and telephone communication Is paralyzed. A freight wreck at Hugo delayed traffic on the Southern Pacific for twelve hours. The Shasta Limited, due here at 5 A. M., did not arrive until noon today. As the temperature Is rising and the snow turning to rain, floods and washouts are feared. NEPHEW IS LEFT $150,000 Oregon City Man Remembered When His Uncle Dies. vnrrrtXT PTTV T 9fi Tamo jrvxjrv.i x-la, petty,' one of the well-known residents of this city, who resides on tne ciacaa mas river, has become heir to $150,000, part of an estate left by an uncle. There are five heirs. The total value rf ' thA ..tuta la IT.'A ODO. Pettv has been receiving remittances from the es tate durln'e the last few years. He will leave soon for Now York. WIRELESS FLASHES AS SHIP FOUNDERS ! . Cottage City Sinks; Many Missing. BUNDING SNOWSTORM RAGES One Boatload of Seamen Fail to Reach Safety. SUFFERING IS INTENSE Women and Children ITurrlert OfT In Boats as Captain, Crew and Wireless Operator Stick by Posts Till Driven Off. SEATTLE! Wash., Jan. 26. (Special.) Wireless tonight clicked in broken flashes the story of the fight for life of the 38 passengers and crew of 60 of the wooden steamer Cottage City, which sank off Caps Mudge, B. C, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. One boat's load of the crew Is reported missing. The remainder of the 98 lives) are reported saved. The hidden rocks at the entrance to Seymour Narrows pierced the bottom of the Cottage City and she sank, it is reported, within 50 minutes. There was slight warning. Half speed had been maintained because of a heavy snowstorm that made it impossible to see two ship lengths ahead. She was picking her way cautiously through the narrow channel when she stopped with a terrific jar, trembled violently and be gan to founder. Dramatic Scenes Enacted. Dramatic In the extreme were the en suing 50 minutes. The passengers had finished lunch and had assembled in the. social hall. One of the women was p'ay lng the piano and a group about her sing ing when the ship's death tremor threw them to the floor. The boom "of the water as it rushed into the ship's hold was drowned by the shrieks of women and children. It waa then that Captain A. C. Jansen ap- peared. and In a measure calmed the panic as he and the officers swung the passengers over the ship's side and into the boats. The children were taken off first and then the women. The men were taken in the second boat. In the third boat was that part of the ship's crew which is re ported missing. Captain Jansen, who. with the wireless operator, was the last to leave the ship, took the fourth boat. "Good bye," was the last word to come by wireless irom tne ouaga City. It was the heroic farewell of the wireless operator. He had started out strong and clear with the "S. O. S." when the boat struck on the rocks. Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle ans wered his call. "Steamer Cottage City sinking." he had answered. That waa when the boat first struck. "Rush Aid," Is Call. , "Rush aid," was his next call. "Coming," had answered Victoria, Then came a break in the sending of the Cottage City operator. 'Goo d by e," came the final words. That was the last use to be made of the wireless equipment on the Cot tage City, for she sank within five minutes. Captain Jansen hlmseir too his wireless operator from hla post. The other three boats had put well i 1 v. i run away from tne ainnniB onii wuc. .v- tain Jansen and the wireless operator went over the side and Into the fourth and last boat. They had rowed not ore than 40 feet when the Cottage City sank. Suffering among the women ana cnn- dren was Intense during the fight in the open boats to reach the. shore. The sea was running h'.gh and the strong wind and heavy snowstorm handicapped the men at the oars. Before the boats had gone 100 feet from the Cottage City the women and chil dren had been drenched. They were a pitiable spectacle when shore waa reached. Boats Row Four Miles. The boats rowed four miles to Camp bell River, a small settlement on Van couver Island, where all except the missing boatload had arrived late to night, i Second Mate O. Anderson's boat, in which there were several passengers, has not been reported at Campbell River, but It is believed that Ander son put In at one of the small settle ments where there is no wire commu nication. The United States life-saving steamer Snohomish and the salvage steamer Sal vor has gone to Cape Mudge to assist the shipwrecked victims. The Cottage City Is the property of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. She left Seattle last night bound for Skagway, Alaska. Cliff Is 230 Feet High. Cape Mudge is the southern point of Quadra Island and forms the east side of the entrance to Discovery Passage. It is flat and wooded and terminates in a broad earth cliff, covered here and there with vegetation, facing southeast. The cliff Is 230 feet high at Its highest part and gradually decreases to the (Concluded on Fags 4.)