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PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NEGLECT RETARDS BRIDE'S '.'AT HOME" 1111 SCARCITY OF FAT HEAT IS DEADLY TO FAMOUS ARABIAN HAINS ASSURE BIG i 1 CATTLE IS MENACE TH0R0UHBREDDEAD DAY OF MOURNING NEW POST OFFICE AROUSES FRANCE SCORE IN CHICAGO YIELD OF WHEAT ELEANOR GATES," AUTHOR, IS cold caugh.t ox hoxevmoox exds ix death. EXPERT "GIVES IT AS REASON GRIEVED OVER LOSS. - FOR HIGH PRICES GERMANY'S AGTION Increase in Northwest 5,000,000 Bushels. ALL SECTIONS OPTIMISTIC 60,000,000 ' Bushels Is Crop Now Expected. GRAIN IS CONSIDERED SAFE Little Vnelnc Now Fell by Per. lona Acquainted With Situa tion That Harvest Will Xot Be Record One. The weather that ha prevailed In the past two weeks has addeJ about 5,000. f00 bushels to the wheat crop of the Tactile Northwest. Timely rains In sec tlona that were beginning to suffer from Inadequate moisture have assured fair outturn, and In other parts of the country, where rain was not seriously needed .the crop has been enlarged. The breaking of the drouth means an increase In the value of the wheat crop lone of about tl.000.000. It Is still too early to form a very close estimate of the crop of the three states. Oregon. Washington and Idaho, but with favorable weather from now on tne wheat output of the Pacific Northwest will probably be sO.000.000 bushels. Condition Favor Growth. The crop. In some sections of the Northwest, can now be called entirely safe. In other portions unfavorable weather may yet do Injury. On 'the whole, however, the weather of the last fortnight has been extremely favorable for crop development. In only a lim ited area did the rain come too late to do good. The feeling of uneasiness that has xlsttd In the grain trade for several weeks past has vanished. There waa at all times belief In a large crop, but dis couraging reports came from a few sections and It was feared the harvest might not be as successful as promised. Now It Is clear that the crop of the three states will be an enormous one and close to the record. Estimate Ilellrvrd Conservative'. In the Palouse country and In Idaho the harvest Is too far off to permit of safe flgurea on the yield, but In the southern sevtlona closer estimates can be formed. It Is believed that the pre llctlon of a tO.OOO.OOO-bushel crop, made by most well-Informed grain men. Is a conservative one. ASOTIX FA1CMKKS OPTIMISTIC Greatest Crop Kver Harvested 1 Expected There. LEWISTON. Idaho. July 2. (Special) As a result of the heavy rains In this and Idaho counties, the grain, which ss tlia tallest ever seen In this section at this time of year, has been damaged somewhat, owing to lodge ment. At Grangevllle. an Inch of rain fell within an hour, while In other sections a rllghtly lighter fall was registered. In those areas, where the rains were not so heavy, the grain waa ben efitted to a great extent. In Asotin County the farmers were never so optimistic as they are thte year. The lea ting ranchers of that county affirm that they will have by far the' great en crop ever harvested on Washing ton lands. Benjamin Avers, one of the largest Asotin County ranchers, said today: Tn looking over my grain. I find that we will have not only the biggest crop this year that we ever had. if the favorable weather continues, but we will have grain which mill be equal In quality to any that we have ever bad. Smut seems to be absent to a very large extent. However, there Is a chance for It to creep In yet. but I believe that with a ehort continuance of the weather we have had. Asotin County wi:i reap a banner harvest In every particular." lanlel and Wallace. Xe Perce County's most extensive grain pro ducers, l ave a similar report to makt. " find that our wheat Is now In a better condition to withstand any ex treme change In weather conditions. The stalks are strong and In shape to hold up for a long period of hot neather. The hcuds are filling uni formly, which la a splendid Indication that the grain Is In a healthy condi tion." CHOP IS ALMOST PERFECT Yield In Walla Walla Valley Will Be Heaviest Known. WALLA WAIXA. Wash.. July I. - Spe cial Wheat In the Walla Walla Valley la now estimated by the most careful grain men at per cent of a perfect crop. A few weedy fields, and a little grain that fell with the hard ralna this week, are responsible for the I per cent short of perfectionC Never before has tho grain had such ideal weather, and with the heads ripening, the weather continues cool and rainy, nillr.g them iCoBcluded ea Face i-i la Likely to Be Case for Some Time, Last Tear's Dronght Blamed. CHICAGO. July J (Special.) M. F. Horine. statistician of the Union Stock yards 4 Transit Company, made the following statement, today regarding high prlcea In the cattle market: "A remarkable cattle situation x Ists In the United States. Until re cently all markets were full of fat rattle. Now the supply situation shows a radical change. Ohio. Pennsylvania and Kentttcky have marketed their crops of fat cat tle and Eastern points are not getting enough good cattle to supply their local needs. The character of receipts at Mis souri points shows the Western supply of fat cattle has been cleaned up, and that Is likely to be the case for a long time to come. The present situation had Its origin In the drought condi tions of last Summer, which forced all the regions west and southwest of the Missouri River to market prematurely young and growing stock, which was largely absorbed by Illinois." COURT IS HELD IN AUTOS Judge, Lawyers and Experts Visit and Inspect Water Sites. SAN BERNARDINO. Cal.. July 2. (Special.) A three-day session of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County In automobiles In San Bernardino. River side and Orange counties Is the novel proceeding over which Judge Conroy, of Ixs Angeles. Is presiding. With lawyers, water experts and engineers. Judge Con roy Is inspecting the water rights in volved In the suit brought by the water users of Orange County against similar companies In San Bernardino and River side counties. Judge Conroy and his party yesterday completed the Inspection along I.ytlo Creek and the Santa Ana River, .where many water projects have been devel oped at their expense, the Orange County people allege, for the water supply of their county. On the outcome of the suit rests the possibility of further development of the artesian basin of San Bernardino Valley, which provides the water for the Irrigation of hundreds of thousands of acres In the three counties. YELLS WORSE THAN BELLS "Respectful" Cries of I-os Angeles Peddlers Arouse Dwellers. LOS ANGELES. July I. Tho gracious favor of a Cly Council In the assist ing of vegetable venders by permis sion to yell their wares. If they do It "respectfully" wss Invoked for the first time today and as a result the residence districts are again up In arms on the street-crying question. It appears that the peddlers of cab bage and oranges "do not agree with either the Council or the householders In their definition of what respectful means. They assert that so long as horns and bells are muffled by -city ordinance. the expect to make the most of their present privilege. Po lice Judge Chambers, who rose to prominence In the question through the number of peddlers he fined for street nololneos. says that the yella are worse than the bells. C0RVALLIS MILL BURNS Insurance Lapses Short Time Before $20,000 niaxe. COKVALLIS. Or July 3. (Special.) fire here today destroyed the mill of the Garrow Lumber Company. The work of the fire company saved the lumber yards and dry kiln. The loss Is estimated at.$2S.00O. There was but $6000 Insurance on the entire plant, which until a few months ago carried tfO.000. The fire U supposed to have been started from smoulderlcg sawdust fanned by a sudden breese. "YEGGMEN" STEAL $10,000 Stamps Front Postoffk-e Carried Away by Robbers In Auto. GREELET. Colo, July I. Yeggmen last night broke open a safe In the Greeley postofflce. stole $10,000 In stamps. $100 In cash and several reg istered letters, carefully closed the strong box. loaded their loot Into an automobile and escaped. The theft was not discovered until t o'clock this morning and tt was six hours later before experts could open the safe. The safe robbed was an old one. for merly In the postofflce at Colorado Springs, when several thousand dollars In stamps were stolen. No trace of the robbers has been found. RURALES ARE MOLLIFIED Promise of Pay Checks Movement to Seise CusloniA-House. JUAREZ. Mex July S. Former tn surrecto soldiers numbering about loo and serving as rural, who threatened to take forcible possession of the customs-house today, unless supplied with money by General Blanco to buy supplies for themselves and their horses, dispersed tonight when assured by Blanco that they would receive their pay tomorrow morning. The misunderstanding arose when the practice of paying the men out of customs receipts was discontinued on Instructions from Mexico City. Supply Cleaned Up and Such Mercury Ranges From 103 to 110. HUNDREDS ARE PROSTRATED Police Wink at Attire Extreme ly Negligee. PEOPLE SLEEP IN YARDS Night of Suffocating Temperature Finds Tcoplc Poorly Prepared for Stress of Day Other Cities Are Sizzling. CHICAGO. July 2. (Special.) With street thermometers registering from 103 to 110 degrees, Chicago panted and staggered its way through deadly heat today. Up to 9 o'clock 14 deaths at tributed directly to the heat had been reported officially. It Is believed the total mortality growing out of he ex cessive temperature Is at least 20. Pros trations were numbered by hundreds. Men and women dropped in dead fainta In the streets, on cars, in the parks. and even on the lake front where a breese afforded the one bit of relief during the day. In the Government weather tower, where a breeze tempered the heat, the mercury registered 98, making the hot test July 1 on record In this city. Down among the skyscrappers the day was stifling. Negligee dress that would have Invited police attention on or dinary occasions excited only passing comment. Night Is Suffocating. Chicago arose from a night of in tense heat. Sleep was almost Impos sible. With broken rest and weakened. perspiring bodies, citizens got out of bed poorly prepared physically to with, stand the stress of the midday hours. Houses and Tats were like ovens. Open windows brought no refreshing breeze, but plenty of superheated atmosphere. In. the ghetto and other foreign col onies whole families are sleeping on front steps and In backyards, after a day of suffering. It was in these con gested communities most of the deaths occurred. The mercury tonight Is still well above 90 and another day of dis tress seems In store. The dead are: Mrs. Bessie Raker, 4i' years old. found dead In bed; Michael Burke. 27 years old. dropped dead In his room; George Cendeownskl, 23, overcome while visiting grave of a friend in a cemetery, died at his home several hours later; John Dyka. 37, In swim ming, sunk before help could reach him; Christopher Hanson, 38. dropped in front of his home, died later at hos pital; Velestiona Mlelone, IS, over come while In swimming; Joseph Ryan, 41. dropped dead; Andrew Kublstow. 35. died In ambulance on way to hos pital; Cecelia Rouchert, 83. found dead in bed; William Seaman, 24, sunstruck while fishing and fell into lake; Thomas Whlteland, 54, overcome while In swimming; Adele Llvermore, 80, dropped dead when sitting near a win dow; unldentiriea man. sdoui zv. over come while bathing; John Schlewltt, 49, fell on street. Marquette. Mich., led the state or U'oncluded on Fsze 2.) THE UNPOPULAR PEER ' ' CHEER UP, OLD TOP ! THAT'S NOTHING K I 1,..T..JI I I 1 ' 1TTT One of First Horses of Kind Import ed Goes at Age o' 20 Others Slain by Keepers. SAN FRANCISCO. July 2. Eleanor Gates, author of "The Biography of- a Prairie Girl" and "Cupid, the Cow puncher," Is mourning the loss of Obeyran I, one of the first Arab horses ever Imported Into thla country. The old horse, who had seen 29 years, died of spasmodic colic following a chill. He was brought to this country with 27 other Arabian horses for the exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair, and It was stipulated by the Sultan, of Turkey that these horses should be re turned to the desert. Instead, the man who financed the exhibit failed and the horses were seized for debt, but before they could be sold, their Arab keepers burned nine and cut the throats of five. Obeyran waa bought by Homer Davenport and by him sold to Richard Walton Tulley, Eleanor Gates' hus band. The horse has been a show ani mal on the Tulley ranch at Alma In the Santa Cruz Mountains for several years. CANNING PLANT ATTACHED Associates of Missing Portland Man Seek to Recover Notes. LEWISTON. Idaho, July 2. (Special.) Following the mysterious disappearance from Portland a few days ago of Ktn neth Gordon, president and manager of the Kenneth Gordon Preserving Com pany, of Lewlston, E. H. Kllham and other business associates have filed suit in the District Court to collect promis sory notes and have Instituted attach ment proceedings against his interests In the preserving plant here and at Brownsville, Or. Gordon opened a tea, coffee and spice house here in 1905. Last Summer he or ganized the Kenneth Gordon Preserving Company. Early this year he interested Portland capitalists In a scheme to In vade the Oregon, field In competition with the California Preserving & Can ning Companies, and secured control of the plant of the Brownsville Canning Company. Letters received by Lewlston friends this morning say that Mrs. Gordon is not expected to live. INDIAN BONES EXHUMED Brldgcbtilltlcrs Near Grants Pass Encounter Gruesome Relics. GRANTS PASS. Or.. July 2. (Spe cial.) M. A. Wertz, ex-County Com-. mlssloner. while working a crew ,of men on a new bridge that Is to span Jump-Off-Joe Creek, ran Into an old Indian graveyard, while excavating for the approaches to the bridge and six skeletons were exhumed. No weapons were found with the bones. In the top of one skull a jagged hole furnished presumptive evidence that the warrior had been slain by a white man Nearby lay a quantity of shells and beads. Jjimp-Off-Joe Creek in early days was the scene of many Indian barbari ties. NOISELESS CANNON FOUND Silencer Reduces Recoil and Makes Flash Invisible, Too. WASHINGTON. July 2. The Army has tested successfully a new three inch field piece fitted with a "silencer," which not only eliminates the noise of discharging but - greatly reduces the recoil and makes the flash invisible. The result of this may be revolu tionary as far as the use of field artil lery Is concerned. , Opportunity to Hasten Work Missed. ECONOMY THREATENS BILL Democrats Aim to Reduce Federal Expense. ARCHITECTS MAY BE AID Plans by Portland Designers Would Secure Action When Appropria tion Is Made Congressional Liberality Is Factor. BY HARRT J. BROWN. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. July 2. Two years or more will elapse before plans are prepared for the now Portland Postofflce build ing, unless the Oregon Congressional delegation can bring to bear more In fluence than It has yet exhibited In Washington, and Portland may count Itself fortunate if the new structure is ready for occupancy before January 1, 1916. , While final steps are now being taken to acquire block S, which is to be the site of the new Postofflce, nothing can be done at this time towards the prep aration of plans, for Congress has never authorized the construction of the Postofflce building nor fixed the limit of cost. It has merely appro priated $500,000 for the acquisition of a site. This, of course, commits the Government to the erection of a new building, but specific authority must be had from Congress before plans can be prepared, and Congress must also fix the limit of cost of the building. This has not been done and will not be done until another omnibus public building bill passes. Oversight Causes Delay. Jt was an oversight on the part of Senator Bourne and others that the appropriation for the site failed, at least to fix the limit of cost of the building, for-had this been done there would have been ample surplus left from the site appropriation to pay for the preparation of plans. The failure to make this provision has delayed construction at least two years. It is not yet determined whether an omnibus building bill will be passed next session or deferred until after the election. The Democrats want to go into the political fight next year with a record for economy, and in view of that fact the House leaders may de cide to stave oft public building bills until the short session a year from the coming Winter. Public building bills are never passed separately by the House, though they frequently pass the Senate as separate measures. An om nibus bill, big enough to receive the support of a majority of the members of the House, must carry somewhere from $40,000,000 to $80,000,000, and by hiHinr back the omnibus public build ing bill at the next regular session, the Democratic House can reduce Its expenditures by this great amount. Portland Must Walt. Therefore it is a reasonably fair (Concluded on Page it.) TO WHAT'S COMING TO ME tt J Friends of Childhood, Calling at Houw on Day Set, Find Only Sorrowing Husband. CHICAGO. July 2. "At home July 1." So ended the formal, engraved ann ouncement which told the friends of Miss Anna Louise Dougherty, grand daughter of the late Judge Dougherty, that she has become the wife of Walter O. Muller. But those who called at 1035 Thorn dale avenue, where the home of the happiness to have been found, only a desolate household and a sorrowing husband. For on the day on which the bride had planned to receive the friends of her childhood for the first time after her change from a girl to a woman, she rested In a newly-sodded grave In Cal vary Cemetery. All that Mrs. Mueller ever was able to see of the home furnished by her husband and parents was the four walls of a dainty bedroom. The bride con tracted a cold when touring the Pacific Coast on the honeymoon trip. This de veloped into pneumonia, and caused her death. MAN SAYS HEIS ROBBER He Calls Officers "Boobs" and Of fers Reward for Own Arrest. In The Dalles is a certain citizen named Jack Cummlngs, who has been reading the newspaper accounts of the chase after the Cow Creek Canyon train robbers until he has become con vinced that he Is one of the gang him self. In-a letter to The Oregonian he unburdens his mind and casts scorn upon the officers conducting the chase, calling them a lot of "boobs." Cummlngs asserts that since the rob bery of the mail train he has walked across country, arriving at The Dalles on June 28. The distance as the crow flies is about 250 miles. Cummlngs says he had to wind about, seek mountain passes to elude observation and declares he undoubtedly covered 400 miles between the time of the rob bery and his arrival upon the Colum bia. The writer says that he has been in the train-robbing business for 15 years, having been driven to It by the influx of foreigners who take the bread out of the mouths of the native born. He says he has accumulated enough money to retire. He offers a reward of $1000 for his own capture. CYCLONE PICKS OUT STORE Single Building In Town Unroored and Flooded; Farmers Suffer, tMITCHELU S. D., July 2. (Special.) A cyclone which struck this city to day unroofed the Mitchell Furniture Company's establishment, flooded the store and caused $25,000 damage. Farm buildings near here were also wrecked. That It struck in only one place In that city Is considered remarkable. The wind and funnel-shaped clouds were accompanied by heavy rains, which have been general throughout all nf Central North and South Dakota to day. The crops were badly in need of the additional moisture and have been greatly benefited. A dozen barns near Mitchell were carried away by the storm and the front Jt A. C. Peterson's residence was shattered by flying debris. Telephone and telegraph wires were put out of business and several persons were hurt. On the farm of N. Goodwin lightning struck the barn and burned it to the eround. with 20 head of horses and cattle. Goodwin's leg was pierced with a piece of flying debris. GUAM MAY BE GIBRALTAR Mahan Finds Island Ideal for Im pregnable Base. WASHINGTON, July 2. A "Gibraltar of the Pacific" to maintain American supremacy is what the lonely island of Guam will be. If plans now under consideration by the United Staters are carried out. These plans were ad vanced by Rear-Admiral Alfred T. Ma han. V. S. N.. retired. They are being considered by military and Naval ex perts of the Government. Guam is considered by Admiral Ma han as an ideal location for an impreg nable base In the Pacific for the Amer ican fleet. Properly guarded by ade quate fortifications, the Admiral be lieves, , this Island could be made as strong as Gibraltar and defy the fleets of the world. DRIVERS' StRIKE AVERTED Teamsters Accept Offer of San Fran cisco Draymen for Shorter Day. SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. Danger of the threatened teamsters' strike in San Francisco was averted today by the agreement of the Teamsters" Union to accept the terms offered by the em ploying draymen. The teamsters are to be given a working day reduced by one half hour, another half hour to be cut off January 1, 1912. There will be no reduction of pay. The reduced day will be 10 and nine and one-half hours. About 1000 members of the union at tended the meeting today at which the draymen's terms were accepted, and the vote in favor of the agreement waa unanimous- Morocco Situation Is Viewed Gravely. OTHER POWERS ARE SOUNDED Advantage Taken of Minister ial Crisis, Is Averred. DIPLOMATIC REPLY WAITS Ambassador Told by Foreign Minis ter That Course Chosen by Ger many Will "Seem Strange" to FTench Opinion. . PARIS, July 2. The sensation caused by Germany's action In sending a war ship to Agadir showed no signs of abat ing today and diplomatic circles are. In a ferment. At the President's garden party, the Moroccan situation was the sole" topic of conversation. Premier Caillaux conversed with most of the diplomats present, particularly Baron Von Schoen, the German ambassador, on the sub ject. The Premier and M. De Selves, Min ister of Foreign Affairs, had a long conference tonight at tho foreign office and later It was announced the For eign Minister would not accompany President Fallieres on his visit to Hol land tomorrow, as originally planned. Russia and Britain Sounded. It Is said that an unofficial reply will not be made to Germany's communi cation before Tuesday. The cabinet will meet and decide the terms, and the Government also wishes to have in its possession beforehand the views of. the Russian and British cabinets. Paul Cambon, the French ambassador at London, received a dispatch last night, instructing him to place himself in communication with Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, but his instructions arrived too late to bo carried ' out immediately. Jules Cambon, French ambassador at Berlin, had a lengthy conference with M. De Selves today. Frecisc Statement Awaited. Public opinion, as voiced by the French newspapers, does not appear in clined to be alarmed, in the belief that it will be necessary to await calmly and coolly a more precise statement from Germany. The reply of Foreign Minister De Selves to Ambassador Von Schoen, as reported by the Temps, is generally considered as expressing effectively the sentiments of the French public. Ac cording to tho Temps, M. DeSelves said he could net conceal tlie surprise and regret which the action of Germany had caused him. Without exaggerating the gravity of affairs, he pointed out that the manner chosen by Germany to man ifest its anxiety for German interests in Morocco was likely to seem strange to French opinion. Action Called Untimely. Attention was called by tho Ambas-' sador that he was always ready by tem perament and office to confer amicably foreign powers, that he continued ready to confer, but that perhaps the dis patch of a warship to Agadir, where no trouble had been reported, was not cal culated to facilitate an eventual con ference. Briefly, the French Foreign Minister conveyed to the German ambassador the Impression that the decision of tho Imperial government communicated to France after its execution, at the mo ment the new government was taking office and n the eve of the departure of President Fallieres and the foreign minister for Holland, seemed not neces sarily of a nature to create a grave sit uation but hardly was in conformity with the intention of the two powers. as consecrated by the agreement of 1909. to treat each other with mutual confidence and cordiality. GERMAXY JUSTIFIES COURSE More Warships May Be Dispatched, Is Implication. BERLIN, July 2. Germanw In send ing the gunboat Panther to Agadir and staking a claim in southern Morocco in anticipation of the possible partition of the country, according to the gen eral interpretation of the German press, will take its share in the prov ince of Sus, with its rich copper and -mineral deposits and Its great agri cultural possibilities, unless France and Spain withdraw from the present adventure and respect the integrity of Morocco. This is confirmed by the semi-official statement which appears in the Cologne Gazette, pointing out that France and Spain, under assurances of purely temporary and benevolent ac tion, both landed troops and occupied territory in violation of the Algeciras act. Germany, says the statement, is Jus tified In taking steps to protect her interests. She has no Intention of remaining permanently in Agadir, but will not leave that town before regular conditions are restored in Morocco. This phase evidently means that until the retirement of the Franco-Spanish expedition the troops will remain. 1 V