PORTLAND. OREGOX, THURSDAY, MARCH 16. 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. L.I- NO. 1j,69j. 1 1 ) 4 V RQDSEVELTSGQRES UNFIT OFFICIALS Lorimerand Haskell in Fierce Limelight. DOUNTRYDECURED DISGRACED New Mexico Warned Good Citizens Must Back Laws. STATEHOOD IS INDORSED Em-Prmldcnt Say Coneres Broke Faith In "ot Admitting Terri tories Roosevelt Family to See Grand Canyon Today. ALBUQCERQUE. N. M.. March IS. Colonel Roosevelt paid Ma respects by nam to Senator Lorlmer of Illinois vnd Governor Haskell of Oklahoma to night. He denounced both as "unfit to hold public office." Their election, be said, was a disgrace to the communi ties which elected them. The denunciation was made In the course of Colonel KooseTelfs address to an audience which crowded the opera-house and left hundreds stand Ins; outside. In opening hla talk, the Colonel declared that in Its failure to arrant New Mexico statehood during the last regular session of Congress, the National Governor had committed a breach of faith. Arlsona. he said, might hare offered ground for ques tion, although he favored Its admis sion, but with New Mexico there was no question. Com! Laws Need Cood Cltlxens. Turning to the duties which the citi zens of New Mexico must take up when the territory did become a state. Colonel RKscvelt warned his bearers that, while good laws are necessary, good citizenship must back them up. He sad that unfit men had been elect ed to office by popular and represen tative Tote. 1-uch a man remained un fit for office, he said, -whether he la uofi:. as Mr. Lortmrr Is unfit, who was elected by the Legislature of Il linois, or as Mr. Haskril Is unfit, who was elected by popular vote." The Colonel recommended a drastic corrupt practices law for New Mexico when It becomes a state. He also de clared for direct election of United Btates Fenatora. In this connection, be aid. New Tork offered an object les son. With direct election. "Somebody" would have been elected tvnalor from that state, he concluded. He also declared that Justice toward corporations must characterise all dealings with combinations of capital and after an explanation of bis Tlews on this subject, devoted the rest of a, long address to a plea for good cltlsenshlp. Family Is Reunited. The Rooeorelt family became reunited tonight when Colonel Roosevelt" car stopred In front ef the hotel where Mr- Roosevelt and her daughter. Ethel, looked from the wtnJow. The Colonel was chrd as he stepped from the car. The Governor's staff and full military regalia helped force a way for the es-PrrsMent through the dens crowd that had gathered to wltnrss his arrival. The Coions-t went to the rooms re served for him in the hotel and dined tonight with M.-s. Roosevelt and hi daughter. Miss Cornelia Ijindon. a friend of Miss Roosevelt, and Judge and Mrs. Cooley. f Silver City, with whom Mrs. Roosevelt has been staying, were also of trie party. Colonel Roosevelt's stay In Albuquer que was limited to the evening hours, but they were not MIe.onea. His pro gramme included an address to a public meeting and the reception of many friends, former members of tils Rough Riders regiment and his frontier days. His special car was att.ichrd to the regular train f.-r Grand Canyon which passed through Albuquerque after mid night. Mrs. Rooewvelt. Mins Ethel and Ml- Landon continuing the Journey with the party. lie Seen Grand Canyon Today. Williams. Aria.. Is the first stop to morrow. The stay will he only for an hour, however, as the train will pull out for Grand Canyon at 1:30 P. M-. arriving late In the afternoon. Archie Roosevelt, the Colonel's fl-year-old son. who Is attending school at Mesa. Arts-, will ln the family at Grand Canyon, going as fjr as Thoenlx. Colonel R-Kevelt was well received through New Mexico and his repeated declarations that the territory shout have been granted statehood long ago brought che-rs everywhere. II spoke for a few minutes every time the train topped and usually the whot popula tion of the towns through which he passed gathered at the depot to greet him. ARIZOXA WANTS I?OOMVF.LT Political Significance I Attached to Visit to Fhornlx. niOENTX. Aria. March IS. Ex-Art-sona officeholders under the adminis tration of President Roosevelt attach a political significance to bis coming visit to this place. Tnere was a meeting here last nlsht tCoauaMsd ea saae 3.4 J : i EVERY WOMAN TO DON HAREM SKIRT SCCH IS PREDICTION MADE BY FASHIOX EXPERT. .Mrs. Whitney Tells Dressmaker Garment Will Have Great Vogue. Paris Women HaTe Big; Feet. CHICAGO. March IS. SpeclaL) "Eve ry woman In this country will be wear In soma varletr of the so-called Harem or Pasha skirt within a very short time." says Mrs. Belle Armstrong miner, consulting fashion expert In Paris. She has Just returned from France, and ad dressed the Chicago Dressmakers Club at It convention at the Palmer House. True to her convictions, she wore a bisected skirt of the new sort through the streets of the city, and according to her own statement It was so quiet and inconspicuous that not one passerby even noticed the new garment. "Every dressmaker of note In Paris, with the exception of one. Is making some sort of a skirt that Is divided." she said. "These garments are not be ing made for the professionals, who are anxious to be exploited on the stage or elsewhere, but for well-dressed women In all countries." Mrs. Whitney spoke of the wide vogue In Paris of the extremely short skirt and she said, with a twinkle In her eye, "It's not so very long ago that no Paris house would mske any gowns without trains. Sometimes they displayed a few with the apology, these are for the American trade.' "The reason is very easy to find out. French women have the homeliest feet I ever saw In my life, and their shoes look like violin cases. They discovered that American shoes made the feet look trim and small, and find It very con venient to have their skirts made short er. Now they are turning out skirts for evening, opera and dinner wear all cut extremely short. In that respect they are outdoing the American women." ROAD BILL SBIG MUDDLE Six State Officials Admit Inability to Meet Situation. OLTMPIA. Wash, March 15. (Spe cial.) Six state departments have thrown up their hands and confessed that for the time being- they are un able to straighten out the highway muddle. The Attorney-General announces that he does not want to consider even any of the effects of the general road laws until ho gets the commlsslonershlp so that he will be able to tell who Is who; the Auditor .Is hesitating about draw lng warrants on any of the highway funds, as the Legislature switched the funds about; the State Treasurer rushes to the Attorney-General for advice every time any one presents a warrant on the highway fund: the highway de partment frankly admits Ita Inability to get things straightened out; the Board of Control Is undecided as to where responsibility starts or ends, and the State Bureau of Inspection Js labor ing diligently to find out how much money each, county has coming to It under the bill which transfers the un expended state road money back to the counties through the permanent high way fund. The courts may be called upon to de cide the exact status of the law, as the state officers declare they cannot tell anything about the proper disposition of funds as the result of the deadlock In the legislature when the lawmakers adjourned. FIREWORKS FIRM "BROKE' Sane Fourth of July Drive Pain Into Bankruptcy. NEW TORK. March IS. (Special) Four of the live directors of the Pain Manufacturing Company, one of the best-known fireworks firms In the country.-filed a petition la the Supreme Court today asking that the corpora tion be dissolved because the National movement for a sane Fourth of July made It unprofitable to continue busi ness longer. The fifth director of the company Is Henry J. Pain, the president, who owns 47S of the S00 shares of stock. The other dlrectors"say he Is In Lon don and refuses to return to help the company out of Its financial difficul ties. Justice Guy signed an order direct ing all persons Interested to show causa Muy 10 why the corporation should not be dissolved. The filing of the petition was hastened by a Judg ment for Sill returned against the company March 10 In suit for damages. The directors say the company cannot pay the Judgment and that it has only I2J In cash oa hand. SCHOONER CAST ON ROCKS Cxartna Founder In Alaska Waters, but Crew Escape. SEWARD. Alaska. March 15. The codflshlng schooner Cxartna. en rout from San Francisco to Shumagln Is land, was wrecked on Kenal Island during a terrific gale oa the night of February 15. Th vessel pounded to pieces on th rocks and the ship and cargo are a total loss. The crew, which was shipped at San Francisco, managed to get ashore and was rescued by the mall steamer Dora, which arrived from the West tonight. The Shumagln Islands form a group In the North Pacific near the western extremity of the Alaskan Peninsula. SO miles southwest of Seward. The Cxarlna was a schooner of 230 tons gross, she was built at Falrhaven. CaU In 1M1. and carried a crew of even men. She was owned by the Union Flab Company, ut 6aa i'lauclscu. RUSSIA EXPECTS CHINA TO YIELD Foreign Board Weak but Tricky. ULTIMATUM CAUSES CHAGRIN Manchu Statesmen Try to Conceal Imperative Tone. METHODS VERY EVASIVE Diplomats Say China Appeared to Concede Russian Demands, but Emboldened by Foreign Comment, Denied Tbem. I'EKIN. March IS. The Russian legation here expects the Chinese gov ernment to yield reluctantly, first of fering to compromise, but finally ac cepting In full the demands of the Rus sian ultimatum. The Chinese foreign board, chagrined over the situation, is arguing that the Russian note was not peremptory, but, on the contrary, waa most friendly. The capricious behavior of the for eign board Indicates to lookers-on her an Incapacity on the part of th gov ernment to deal strongly with the situ ation. The legation quarter appears to consider that the legal aspects of the case are more favorable to China, and there seems to be no sympathy with the Russian contention that Russian traders should be exempt under the free-trade clauses from even local taxation In Chinese territory. At the same time there is criticism of China's diplomacy In that she seeks to gain by trickery points which she Is In no wise able to dispute with arms. When intimidated by the threat con. talned in the original Russian note, China replied apparently acquiescing: In th demand that she keep more closely to the treaty of 1S81 affecting Russian consular and commercial privileges In III province and In Mongolia Russia thereupon etated that the re ply was generally satisfactory, but asked for more explicit declarations In the meantime the Chinese govern ment. enconra;w by comments in foreign press, had grown bolder, and Ita second note stated thst the Rus sian charge were groundless In de claring that Russian trader did not enjoy the treaty right to trade freely except In foreign ' goods; contested other points and declined to permit th establishment of th consulate which Russia demands. Russia's many grievances arouse the suspicion her that she possibly Is playing for time, and la also preparing th world' opinion for an act of ag gression when the snows have melted. Foreign Policy Denounced. ST. PETERSBITRQ. March IS. The Duma today discussed the budget of I IConcluded on Page I.) I - ., ------ ; TAKETHB RIGHT ROAD. j OREGON ! i E LAND. ; X nAMilFACTUngyj. i ; . t : ' sav' , , , - . . i J r " ' ' ' 1 V ' INDEX OF TODAFS NEWS The Weather. TESTKRDAY'S Maxlmjm temperature. 6S degrees; minimum, 40 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; easterlv winds. Mexic. , Mexican commander promises that Ameri can rebel prisoners will not be shot. Page 5. Carter's division of army now In camp, ex cept one battery. Pace 6. General Reyes predicts that revolution In Mexico will soon be over. Face 5. , Foreign. Russian legation expects China to concede all demands. Page 1. Politics. Immense Increase In Chicago reslstratton forecasts Merrlam'a election. Pace 4- Beveral candidates waiting to see what Mayor Simon will decide. Pas 12. SIngle-taxers doubt own success In cam paign to try system on counties. Pas 15. Roosevelt denounces Lorlmer and Haskell as unfit officials. Pace J. Domes! xe. Ensign's romance halted when fleet Is or dered to southern waters. Page 2. Roads await commerce Commission's de cision before adjusting rates to Coast. Pace 3. Burns, or., man to wed girl he rescued from mlllpond as child. Fsxe 1. Taft worsts Littleton in game of golf. Pace 2- Fashion expert predicts that all women will wear Harem skirt In short time. Page 1. Boss Cox relieved of contempt charge, though court says his statements were false. Page 3. Feek-a-boo waist leads to divorce. Page Sports. Beavers defeat Coyotes at tralnlns camp. Pace 8. Western Bowling Congress at Spokane elects officers. Pace 8. Oldneld's suspension . arouses aute racers. Pace 8. Pacific Northwest. Acents of Secretary of Interior assemble at Seattle to wage coal-land fight. Page 7. W. C. Knighton Is named State Architect by State Board. Pace 8. University of Oregon debaters. Including three Portland girls, are regarded as ex ceptionally strong team. Pace 7. State Penitentiary guard at Salem dls- charced for crltlclslnc warden. Page . Coronefs Jury at Roseburg excuses Mo- Clsllen In part for shooting Mahan. Page 8. Commercial and Marine. Oregon mohair market opena firm at 82 cents. Page 21. Mar wheat shows slight gain at Chicago. Page 21. Stock values rest on sound foundation. Page 21. Oood prices paid for prime cattle at Port land yards. Page 21. Captain Astrup. of steamer Anvil, dis charged after misunderstanding with owners. Pare 20-, Fortlaad and Vicinity. Two thousand women to sell shamrocks In Portland tomorrow, St. Patricks day. Page 4. United Railways plans active work on ex tension to coast. Page 14. Chief witness against physicians to be ex amined is to sanity. Page 20. Colonist travel to Oregon far exceeds ex pectations. Page 1. Paclfle Northwest Livestock show exhibits are arriving. Pace 12. Flve-year-old girl tortured and killed by abductor. Page 1. Bonding contractors and material men will organise exchange. Page 14. Medical Club Indorses physicians In contro versy with Baby Home. Page 4. Milwaukee announces through service to East will begin soon. Page 14. SOLDIERS OFFERED BONUS Mexican Insurgent Agent Seek to Hire Vncle Sam's Men. BAN FRANCISCO, March IB. Colonel J. p. Wlsser, commanding officer at the Preeidio here. Is Investigating to night a rumor that Insurrecto agents have been endeavoring to persuade Pre sidio troops to desert and Join the rebel forces In Mexico. According to the rumor, soldiers are being offered large bonuses to ally themselves with the Insurrecto agents In their secret work. Colonel Wlsser and other army offl rera here attach no Importance to the rumor. TO SETS NEW REGOHD Railroad Men Amazed by Great Numbers. 2500 WILL ARRIVE TODAY Desire of All to See Portland First Is Noted. MORE THAN 30,000 COMING Visitors Have Definite Ideas of What They Want Heavj- Advertising by Railroads and Communi ties Has Effect. Every state in the Mississippi Valley contributed to the band of colonists that poured into both Portland passen ger stations in a continuous procession yesterday from the time the first train arrived in the morning until the last one entered last night. Officials of the railroads and attaches of the depots estimate that fully 2000 homeseekers and sightseers arrived in Portland yesterday. More than 2500 are on the way, due to arrive today. The dally number will increase through the rest of this week and is expected to remain over the 2500 mark for several days. But the greatest Influx will be during the last week of the low-fare period, when 3000 dally arrivals are looked for. The remarkable rush to Oregon has surprised even the officials of the rail roads and of the commercial bodies who advertised extensively to bring Oregon to the attention of people in the East. They estimate now that more than 30,000 persons taking ad vantage of the cut rates will visit Ore gon In March and April. Of this num ber fully two-thirds should remain and become permanent residents. The others may drift back East, having come merely out of curiosity and the desire to travel. - Visitors Know What They Want. One thing that impresses the ob server of the Incoming crowds is the fact that there Is no hesitancy on th part of any of them as to what they want to do or where they want to go. All seem to have a fixed destination. But nearly all first want to visit Port land. Among yesterday's arrivals wer several who Intended to take up resi dences in Hood River and The Dalles. While they passed - through thoBe places, they first same to Portland to see the wonder of this remarkable city. We ought to do something to show these people that we are glad they came," said William McMurray, general passenger agent of the Harriman lines. "It semes to me that the commercial bodies ought to have representatives at the passenger trains to advise the visitors and tell them where to go. Every city in the state ought to have (Concluded on P4ge 12.) OREGON WEDDING SEQUEL TO LIFE-SAVING GIRL HE RESCUED FROM POXX TO BE OIIEGONIAX'S BRIDE. John Dovr, of Barns, Wins Hand of Milwaukee School Teacher Who Owes Life to Him. MILWAUKEE, Wis.. March 15. (Spe cial.) The romantic sequel to a heroio rescue of one child by another came to day when Fred L. Dow, aged 23 years, of Burns, Or., secured a license to wed Etta Marie Hess, of South Milwaukee. Dow formerly lived at South Milwau kee, his family being farmers in the town of Oak Creek before a manufac turing city sprouted in what was once a rich farming country. South Milwaukee has a mill pond and a grist mill of the old-fashioned sort, and on this pond the young people of the village are accustomed to skate in Winter. Twelve years ago, when Miss Hess was a girl of 12, she went skating before the Ice was solid enough to bear her weight. Dow was crossing the dam on his way to school, when he saw the girl break through the ice. Getting a rope from the grist mill he tied one end about his waist and the other to a post, and swam out to the girl. As he feared? his Btrength gave out In the bitter cold water before he could swim ashore, and he pulled his . way through the water by his improvised lifeline, saving the girl and himself. Miss Hess is now a teacher in the high school which Dow attended at the time of the rescue, and her resignation takes effect with the Easter vacation, when the ceremony will be held. ARABS SLAY SCIENTIST Herbert Decou, of Archaeological Institute, Killed in Africa. BOSTON, March 15. Meagre inform ation that Herbert Decou. official exca vator of an expedition of the Archaeo logical Institute of America on the North Coast of Africa, was murdered recently by Arabs has been received in a cablegram by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The dispatch did not say whether any other members of the party were attacked. Gardiner M. Lane, president of the arf museum, immediately requested, through Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, that the State Department mah a thorough investigation. Mr. Decou was a graduate of the University of Michigan. At one time he was connected with the American School of Classical Studies, in Athens, and later was private secretary to James Loeb in Munich. WASHINGTON, March 15. Repre sentations have been made by the American Government to Turkey re garding the murder of H. F. Decou, an American archaeologist, by Arabs at Cryene, Africa, March 11, and the American- Embassy at Constantinople has cabled that soldiers have been dis patched to arrest the known perpe trators. CANADA HAS DIAMONDS Gem Are Small, However, and Chiefly of Scientific Interest. VANCOUVER, B. C, March 15. The director of the Geological Survey an nounced today that diamonds have been discovered by the survey in British Columbia, the first recorded discovery of the kind in Canada. The rock la peridotlte. of the variety known as danlte, consisting of olivine and chromlte. The specimens were obtained on Olivine Mountain, near Tallaneen River, by Charles Cassels, of the survey. Because of the small size of the dia nliHa nnni belnsr much larger than a plnhead, the discovery would seem to be of scientific rather tnan commercial importance. WOMAN SUES FOR FORTUNE Mrs. Stafford, of Spokane, Would Break ex-Husband's Will. PTjATTSBURG, N. T-. March 15. Mrs. P. T. Stafford, of Spokane, Wash., has begun in the courts here a contest on behalf of three of her children over the will of her divorced husband. T. .P. Stafford, a wealthy banker of Atlantic la. The latter died while on a visit to his brother, here, last October, and by a will made a few days before his death, his daughter, Ruth, was named as his sole beneficiary. The estate is valued at $150,000 and is entirely in Cass County, Iowa. At the time of the divorce, three children went with their mother and Ruth stayed by her father. Stafford then settled $50,000 on his wife and three children. RUINS CRASH ON 30" MEN Twelve Bodies Recovered From Debris of Collapsed Hulk. NASHVILLE, Tenn' March 15. By the collapse of the walls Of the build ing of the Fall Hardware Company, which burned about ten days ago, about 30 men were buried under tons of bricks, mortar and lime this morning. Twelve bodies have been removed, but it Is believed at least one more is buried in the ruins. Seventeen persons were more or less Injured. Ralph McCallum was the only white man known to have been killed and Edwin Hart the only white man injured. The others were negroes. High winds were responsible for the collapse of the walls. McCallum was superintending a salvage corps., CHILD ABDUCTED, TORTURED SLAIN Five-Year-OId Barbara Holzman Is Victim. GIRL'S BODY FOUND IN ROOM Description of Assailant Only Clew Police Hold. METHOD OF LURE MYSTERY Man Six Feet Tall, About 50 Years Old, With Sunken Face, Is Sought Autopsy Reveals Mo tive of Double Crime. i DESCRIPTION OF FIEND. Description given by Mrs. Nelson of man wbo killed Barbara Holz man. Height, six feet. Wore neutral-colored mustache. Had sunken face, as If suffering from tuberculosis. About 50 years old. Wore gray overcoat and black, soft hat. In a bed In a rooming-house at Rus sell street and Mississippi , avenue the tortured little body of Barbara Holz man, 5 years old, was found yesterday morning by Mrs. Bertha Nelson, pro prietor of the place, and the police are looking for an elderly man who en gaged the room where the body waa found, at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning-, and was not seen afterward. He mur dered the child shortly, after 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and disap peared. An autopsy yesterday dis closed the motive of the murder. . , Child Never Returns. , Barbara Holzman left her home at T63 Borthwick street at 2 o'clock .Tues day afternoon to go to a nearby mar ket and buy 15 cents worth of meat. She never returned to her home and when a reasonable time had elapsed, the alarm was sounded and a search was begun. Inquiries were made at every place where it was thought that she might have gone, but without throwing any light on her disappear ance. The police and the newspaper offices were appealed to and the pa rents spent the whole night in making fruitless efforts to find their daughter. Not until yesterday afternoon, when the body was in the custody of the Coroner, did they learn her fate. , Body Found in Room. Mrs. Bertha Nelson, who has con ducted a lodging-house at Russell street and Mississippi avenue for the past five years, went into room No. 10 at 10 o'clock to make up the bed, and found that it was occupied. She said yesterday that she first thought some mischievous person had put a doll in the bed to frighten her. The bedding was drawn up about the chin. Going closer, she found that the thing which had startled her was the body of a dead child. Without disturbing any thing, she notified the Coroner, who at once took charge. Mrs. Nelson said that the room had been rented to a stranger, about 10 o'clock the morning before. She had no conversation with him except about the room. She asked him 50 cents for a night's lodging and he in turn asked whether, providing he rented it for a week, his money would be re turned if he left sooner. He closed by paying "50 cents for the one night. Description Is Weak. This was the only time that Mrs. Nelson saw him, and her description is weak in. many details. She heard him enter again shortly after 1 o'clock and thought that he dropped a bundle, but no other sound came through the partition. The bed showed yesterday that it had not been occupied except By the body of the child. Evidence accumulated yesterday by Detectives Day and Hyde make it ap pear that the stranger had rented the room with no relation to the assault upon Barbara Holzman, though be might have had some general project of the kind in his mind. The child was a regular attendant at a kindergarten conducted by Mrs. Gil bert and Mrs. Bowman, at Russell and Delay streets, but she ate no break fast Tuesday morning and her mother kept her at home. She said at about 11 o'clock she wanted some cookies, and was allowed to go to a bakery on Rus sell street to buy them. She was sent at 2:10 to a neighboring meat market on Mississippi avenue to buy meat but never reached there. The 15 cents given her for the purchase was found by the Coroner in her stocking. - Neighbor Sees Barbara. Mrs. Lydia Matthiesen, living at Mor ris street and Mississippi avenue, saw the child, pass her house between 2 and 2:30 o'clock, walking slowly and' with no Indication that anything was wrong. This fact reduces to a narrow radius .of a few blocks, the space in which the man found and enticed his victim, yet a thorough combing of the vicinity by the detectives failed to dis close anyone who had seen a man and a child. The officers are Intensely puzzled to account for his method of tConoluded ou fage l- "