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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, JULY i7. 1911. . -r.nn i-n It nrninnnniTi nun UBN AHfalU SETTLE PROBLEMS Vulnerability of New York to Attack From Sea Is to Receive Test. 300 ATTACKERS EMBARK ! Militia of Nine State and DIMrlrt of Colombia Ready for War Cam to Be Plajed Wholly on Water. NEW TORK. July !. With th m barkattoo. of approximator 1004 landa inn tar, romrriln th naral mtlltla of nln tat and the District of Co lumbia, and the 1r.artur of a flret of IT battlehl: and auxlliarln to a point n Bill off Sandy Hook, preparation for the irreat naal attack on Nw York by way of ln Island Sound. New York' back door, were completed tcxir. , The defendlnK force. eonltln- of flotilla of the .Vary- fleeted torpedo boats and mont modern auhmarlnea. !a In readiness It repulse the Inradera. Tn bsttle will be foucht near Gard ner's Bay. at the extremity of Un latard. some time between mtdnlcht July It ard mldnlcht July SO. It has been the contention of many naval experts that It Is Impossible for a powerful fleet to reach New Tork by way of the eastern ena 01 uini ! and "the battle of Gardner's Bay" will therefore be watched with the areatest Interest, t'ondltlon of actual naval warfare will b closely simulated. The enemy, rrf'clally deslined a the -blue fleet." Is la command of Rear Admlral oeterhaus. the r-w commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet. De fendlne ths city will be the "red fleet under Commarder K. E. Kberle. Ti land defenses will not partici pate. The war him will last t o days nd two nihts. The battleship Connecticut will be Admlrsl Osterhan flahlp and the cru's-r Dixie fom marder Kberles. The National mllltla partlclpatlnc tn the maneurers are from New York. Massachusetts. Maine. Rhode Island. Connecticut. New Jer sey Maryland. South Carolina. Penn sylvania and the District of Columbia. HAY PICKS DELEGATES Disposition of Public Land to lie Convention Topic. OUT MM A. Wash.. July l.-(?pe-elaL In response to the call Issued by Oovernor John F. hafrotb, of Colorado, detecatts for the tfublic Lands Convention to be held In Ien vr September Z and !. are beln selected by Governor M. K. Hay. of vv. ashlnctnn. The convention will In clude delevtes from "thoee Western states and territories hvtn l.oM0' oe more acrea of public lands reserved or unreserved within their borders." The list of states and territories to be represented follows: ArUona. Arkan sas. California. Cvlorad". Idaho. Min nesota. Montana. Nebraska. Nevada. New Mexico. North Iakota. Oklahoma. Oregon. !out! I'akola. I'lah. Washing ton. Wyomlnar and Alaska. The aatherlrjt called for the pur pose of dslrrnilnlna the sentiment of the stvtes most to oe aticcieo, as to what tNa National polity hall be In rird to these tandv v-overnor Hav d'slres to have Wash Inaton represented bv a stron deleaa tlon and unless those lhn are con sidered will be able t ) attend In fea sor., others will be named. The vin ventlon Is revarded as the most Im portant ever held, as It means t!ie ex pression of the sentiment of the West as to how the puollc lands are to be handled. TWO RECENT SNAPSHOTS OF AMERICAN AVIATOR WHO WILL COMPETE FOR RICH STAKE IN 1010 MILE RACE IN BRITAIN. P7 J ; (: f t t ABOVE I.OU C S-eeeeeeeee r" a- y i " ' - ' . A : .... - 1 '.x Hxm.ra t. wevman in his farmaji bipuaxk. be. LUKK VIKW OK HEIN.tSi AT STKEKIX WHKEU Ilfil IN ICE American to Compete In Note worthy British Event. WINNER TO GET $50,000 L0RIMER LEGISLATOR DIES Sammnn to Trstlfy pet-ted Before flenioval to Hospital. "T. UOCIA July I. Joseph Clark, ef Vandalta. III.. ex-Representative In the Illinois lalslature from Kayetle County, died here to.lay In the l:e. hekaii Hspttal. following- an operation Friday for tamer. Mr. Clark was a Iemot-rat. As a member of the legislature he cast Ms vote for William Iirlmer for L'nlted states Senator. It was said that when he was removed to the hospital he had been expe-tlne? a summons to tes tify before the Senate committee In Washington Investigating Uortmer'a election. 3500 PESOS AVERT RAID Intarrerlos Mollified by Kevelpt of (ash front MeUti Cltj. v JCARKZ. Mi, July 1 A raid on the custom house by former Insur rectos to get money for the mainte nance of the military hospital was eerted by the re-elpt of 1S0O pesos telegraphed from Mexico City. Judce Felipe oljaa. of this city, to day announced his candidacy for Gov ernor of Chihuahua sTninst the present Incumbent. Abraham Gonxales. EXPLOSION KILLS MINERS l'rtfiMra.t Frrtrn first P. t. brought to the foot of the shaft today, but y were kept there until all were recovered. Four bodies were burled beneath a cave In a heading and were sot recovered until late. The state police from Punxsutawnejr were called to guard the vicinity of the shaft and w.i.n the bodies were brought out there was little excite meat. Neither mine officials nor mine In spector were able to assign cauae for the explosion, a there ar no sur vivor from whom tog-tln an explana tion. b"t It Is the general belief that some tt the men drilled Into a pocket of gas. The shaft Is known a a non gaseous one and the fire boss. John Brown, report he was through the heading where the explosion occurred an hour before and found no trace of (as. hlx men working In another heading ct the mine at the time of the acci dent knew nothing of the explosion until the compreeaed air drills stopped. They realised something bad happened but did not know the nature of It until they met a party of rescuers com.ng f (,r them Stability of Machines to Be Put to Test. Term of Contest In quiring Important Part to Be- Kept Intact. UONDON. July 1 F.ngland Is to witness this month one of the most am bitious attempts at long-distance aero planlng yet seen a circuit of the Island over a course of lold miles, for a prise of IJO.ooo offered by the Dally MalL The chief point of Interest to Amer- i Irani will be the appearance of Charles T. Weymann. who won the Internatlon- ; al cup at Kaatchurch. July 1. He Is the only American entrant. Din la rirerF to make a noteworthy showing- against the best flyers of Europe. The coarse Is divided Into section, ranging from 10 to 112 mile In length. The race will start Saturday. July it. at Brooklands. but the day's task will be only a sort of tunlng-up flight of 10 miles to Hendon. where the competitor will rest over Sunday., frequent Stop Made. They will start the second stage of 111 mile from Hendon to Edinburgh Monday morning. Kn route they will halt, after US miles, at Harrowgate. and after another tt mile at Newcas tle: thence make a flight Of 3 mile to the Scottish capital. The third stage I from Edinburgh to Olasgow. and thence to Bristol, alto gether IIS mile, with top at Stirling. Ill miles). Olssgnw III miles). Carlisle (X miles). Manchester 101 miles) and Bristol (141 miles). The fourth stage, from Bristol to Brighton. Is Hi miles. Stop are to be made at Exeter (tt miles) and Salis bury t3 miles), the final stage to Brighton being Tt miles, and. lastly, a short flight of 40 miles will be made from Brighton to the starting point at the Brooklands Motor Racing field. Conditions Hard to Meet. y k.ih.. . n v nf the competitor will complete the race I doubtful, a the condition, in tne opinion oi me ea pcrts. are almost Impossible of fulfill ment. More depend upon the stability of the machines than has been required In any prevloua race. The men must do the circuit of more than 1000 miles vir tually with the machine Intact. The most Important part of each machine are to be marked, and these parts are to be kept together through out the course. (rations In the National convention to satisfy the most casual observer that no other candidate has a chance against the President. New Tork. Pennsylvania. Ohio. Mich igan. Indiana and Missouri may be counted already a absolutely certain to be found listed In tha Taft column. To 'these. In all probability, may be added Nebraska and Minnesota, al though the farmer of these states ex press some trepidation regarding the effect upon their fortunes of the oper ation of reciprocity with Canada. Eastern Sontlmcnt Growing. In the Taft column It Is fair at this time to play all the New England States, so far a nomination Is con cerned. A the month go on after reciprocity treaty la agreed to the Eastern sentiment for the President will grow steadily stronger, accord ing to those who hare made a study of actual and prospective conditions. Probably all the Southern State will have instructed delegation for Mr. Taft. The President hn strongly In gratiated himself into the favor of the South. The leaders of the party In that part of the country are for him almost to a man. WHY PIDXT RUE STOP ME?' riUfKIUXG XIRSK ASKS. TAFT CERTAIN TO WIN (Continued From First Ps prejudices of a few chronic kickers, to put the success of the party In Jeop ardy in 111 At the same time It I admitted that the Insurgents would be willing to see the elevation of the Democratic party Into National control rather than con tribute anything to the support of Pres ident Taft. Insurgent Can S Change. The course of the opposition lead er In the present session of Congress Justifies this statement regarding the Insurgents. Every day I bringing Mr. Taft nearer to renomlnatlon. Every day finds more voter alienated from Ua Follette. Cummins, Bristow, Bourn and the rest of that camp. Nobody ob serves thl phenomenon more than the Insurgents themselves, although they are not publishing the. fact from the housetops. It needs only a hasty survey of con dition in the states with th big del- Planrt Coating $7800 Sent to Em ployer Home Restitution Made, Will Be Defense?. KANSAS CITY. July It It devel oped today that Ml Harriet Bylngton. former nurse and companion to Mr. 8. B. Armour, will aet up a a defense to the charge of stealing 1141. 000 from her employer that she ha returned an amount equivalent to everything taken from Mrs. Armour. Mis Bylngton say she hus returned th most valuable of her wearing ap psrel and Jewelry. Including valuable heirlooms she owned long before she met Mr. Armour. tn an Interview the accused woman vu Inclined to criticise Mr. Armour for falling to Investigate whence came all the money her companion spent. Mis Bylngton says Mrs. Armour knew that her companion could not afford to spend a much, money as she did on her small salary alone. "A piano which I bought for S7800 and a phonograph which cost t-'i'O were sent to the Armour home and are still there." she said. "On my dressing ta ble at the Armour home Is Jewelry valued at IS000. I bought and had de livered to the Armour home hundreds of dollars' worth of books. I paid the household expenses with my own checks. I paid the grocers' bill and drug bill. I doubled th wages of some of the servant and paid them with my own check out of my own fund. "Mr. Armour never returned any of that money to me. I spent all of my own salary a, well a the rest of the money I obtained for these things. Why did she not stop me" AERONAUT DROPS - IN SEA lialloonlst found I'nconM-loii After floating Ashore on Plank. A3BlRY PARK. N. J.. July It. N. J. Roberts, an aeronaut, who started In a dirigible balloon to go from New York to Philadelphia, was found unconscious near Peal. N. J.. today. When revived he said that In the night he was forced to pull the rip cord of bis gas bag when his gasoline gave out and he found he was being csrrled out to sea. lie dropped Into the ocean half a mile from shore and by the aid of a plank he swam or floated sshore. The dirigi ble was swept off shore by the wind. Robert had made a landing 15 miles from New york and he lost control when he was hit by a squall. His trouble were augmented by a fog which caused the gas In the bag to cooL RECIPROCITY Y HAVE TWO-THIRDS Advocates in Senate Heart ened by Recent Votes on Amendments. ADJOURNMENT IN SIGHT House Will Put No Obstacles In Way of Programme Revision of Cotton Schedule Not to Cause Any Delay. WASHINGTON. July 16. All legis lative paths now lead to adjournment of Cnrgrfw quickly after the vote on i.mi.A'nw Mftvfro statehood bill Is taken in the Senate on tha legis lative day of August i. The t-enaie probably will he ready to adjourn then ricsnlte the general tariff revi sion threat of Senator Cummins, of Iowa, and other insurgents, and tne House will not Interpose any fresh leg islation to disturb the Senate's pro gramme for winding up the extra ses sion. lnl rl -i v rmaln hfnrA the v.a.j " - final fill. l roBrhAil nn th. Hani. l!en reciprocity biJl In the Senate. Its passage by a two-thirds majority Is confidently predirted by donate lenders, who have peen many Important amci:('ments voted down in the past f.-w riavs bv majorities larger than they had ventured to hope. Debate Continues This Week. Stone, of Missouri. Shlvely, of Indi ana, and other Democrats will advo cate the bill this week, while Sen ators Bniley. of Texas, and La Kol lette. of Wisconsin, will oppose it. The other Mils upon which dates for votes hae been set will be debated as soon as reciprocity is out of the way. A conference on the resolution for a Con stitutional amendment for direct elec tion of l'nlted States Senators prob ably will be held Monday by the Sen ate and House conference to adjust differences over the Senate's amend ment looking to Federal control of elections. Hcuse loader agree there will be no opposition to tho adjournment pians of the Senate. The House committee on ways and means Is working on a revision of the cotton tariff, which will be taken tip In the House next week. About 10 days' debate in the House is expected, but the bill will mt bo pressed on the Senate so as to cause atiy delay, and. if necessary, will he put ahead m a rider on the wool or free list bills when the Senate votei upot them. Cotton revision, however, may be pressed at the regular session con vening In December. InveMigadoiis Will Go On. The Investigating committees will be active during the rest of the extra session. The Senate committee which Is iniiuXng Into the election of men tor I.orimer will resume tomorrow, prohaMy with several witnesses who are expected to testify regarding the alleged IliiO.OOO Lorimer election fund. louse committees will continue in vestigating the Controller Bay. Alaska land claims: the Attorney-Oeneral's recommendation for the removal of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley: the alleged failure of Attomey-deneral Wlckersham to prosecute alleged frauds by the Alaska syndicate," and the charges of travel-pay it regularities and favoritism of Major H. B. Kay, an Army Pay master. The House "sugar trust" Investlgat ng committee will meet In New York Tuesday. The "steel trust" investigating com mittee will resume work here this neck. BIG CITIES GET BANKS Check on foreign Remittances Is Kx peeled to Result. WASHINGTON. - July 1. Postmas- er-Oeneral Hitchcock today desig nated the main postofflces In New York, Chicago. Boston and St. Louis as postal savings depositories. They will begin to receive deposits on Au gust 1. Having Installed successfully more than a thousand postal savings banks in second class postoffices, Mr. Hitchcock decided to extend It to some of the first class offices. These cities were named because of their great pop ulation and commercial prominence and because in each one Is located a nlted States sub-treasury which will facilitate the heavy banking business hat I likely to result from postal savings transactions. As In the smaller cities, the system probably will be popular with the for eign-born residents, many of whom now send their surplus savings to heir home countries. From New York City alone last year he money order sent abroad by for- lgn-horn residents aggregated 9,- 000.000. proposal of organizing the Port of Port Orford and improving tne naroor i this point. The Commercial Club has appointed a committee to present the matter to the County Court. Secretary W. H. Meredith was made chairman of the committee, and he will confer with Judge Peck, of Marshfield. the attor ney for the Coos Bay Commission. The .sentiment of the community is favorable to the organization of the port district, and it is anticipated that it wllll cary In the election. It Is not generally known that Port Orford Bay was recommended by Government engrl neecs In 1878 as the best harbor be tween San Francisco and the Columbia River for a "harbor of refuse," and that a breakwater to cost $8,000,000 was then recommended. In 1879, Con gress appropriated 150,000 to start the .work and 110,000 of this was spent in surveys, but nothing further has been done. On the recommendation of .Cap tain Thomas W. Symons, In 1898, Con gress authorized the construction of a seawall at Port Orford costing $200,000, "if in the opinion of the Secretary of War the Interests of commerce de manded such expenditure." Realizing that with the opening of the Panama Canal all available harbors on the Pa cific will be needed, the people here propose to tart;the work that will make Port Orford harbor safe during Winter storms. With 30 feet of water at low tide, the largest boats can now come to the wharf here nine month of the year, and .with the construction of the seawall as recommended by Cap tain Symons at a cost of $200,000, the harbor would be safe at all times. GERMAN TREATY LIKELY fOREIGX OFFICE XOW ADMITS PROBABILITY. HIGH LAWYERS TO SPEAK Spokane Convention Will Include Address on Conservation. OLYMPIA, Wash.. July 16. (Special.) Preparation for the annual conven tion of the Washington State Bar As sociation to be held In Spokane July 27, 8 nd 79, have been completed by President C. W. Howard of Bc-lllngham, Secretary C. Will Shaffer of Olympla nd Lester P. rJdge of Spokane, tho atter being head of the Spokane Conn- y Bar Association. Topics of more than ordinary Inter est have been assigned to various speakers. Russell L. Dunn of San Fran isco will speak on "The Ownership of Property In the States by the Federal Government, Whether as Sovereign or Proprietor." "The Delays of the Law" will be handled by Judge S. J. Chad- wlck of . the Washington Supreme Court, while "The Recall of Judges" Is be the theme for a discourse by T. J. Walsh of Helena. Mont. Numerous social affairs have been rranged so that the members will be busy from the time they assemble and re called to order on Thursday until he convention ends with a big picnic. PORT ORFORD SEES BOOM Completion of Canal Expected to Af fect Port Trade. PORT ORFORD. Or.. July 1. Spe- lal.) Cltixens of Port Orford and northern Curry County will vote on th Pact Similar to That Between l'nlted Slates and England Xo Longer Discussed Guardedly. BERLIN, July 16. The modification of the Anglo-Japanese treaty of alli ance caused no surprise In authorita tive German quarters, where It Is con sidered as a natural recognition of a new situation In the East. Conditions, it Is pointed out, have changed com pletely since the Russo-Japanese war. and there is no danger of Russo-Japanese or Japanese-American friction. Russo-Chlnese relations aro now the only critical point, and a crisis will be delayed. The official reserve heretofore main tained regarding the chance for a German-American arbitration pact similar to the Anglo-American treaty was re vised bv a spokesman from the For eign Office, who said he thought the treaty probably would be negotiated. Press comment is that Anglo-Japanese friendship will continue, though the obligation of either to support her ally In case of war disappears, as either party is at liberty to conclude aroitra- , tion treaties with third parties. Great Britain is credited with a great dlplo- j matic coup in inducing Japan to assent j to a weaaening or me auiance. AUSTRALIA GLAD OF TREATY ' I i Ten Ycnrs Instead of Four Given to Prepare for Defense. MELBOURNE, Australia. July 16. The acting Premier, William Morris Hughes, said today that Australians might congratulate themselves upon i the tenewal of the Anglo-Japanese ; treaty. ' This will give Australia 10 years in- ' stead of four to prepare for the defense of the country agajnst imminent danger. The Business you can get to-day by wire may be gone by the time that letter gets . there to-morrow. "Day Letters" should be on your selling force. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY Pullman Couple Wed In Milwaukee. MILWAUKEE. Wis., July 16. (Spe cial.) William E. Letterman. aged 23 years, a real estate dealer of Pullman, Wash., and Minnie Brytsprak, aged 22 vears. also of Pullman. Wash., were HEATING mm) THAT'S ALL THE W. G. McPHERSONCO. 19th and Wilson Sts. 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FOUR DAILY TRAINS Leave Portland: 7:10 A.M. 10:30 A.M. 3:30 P.M. 11:15 P.M. Arrive Seattle: 2:20 P.M. 4:50 P.M. 10:25 P.M. 6:50 A.M. Parlor Cars, Dining Cars and Excellent Coaches on All Day Trains. Standard and Tourist Sleeping Cars on Night Trains. Electric Lighted Throughout. And our DINING CAR SERVICE famous for its excellence. POTLATCH WEEK JULY 17-22 PORTLAND DAY JULY 21 y Tickets and Sleeping Car Berths at City Ticket Office, Corner 3d and Morrison Streets. Union Depot Ticket Office, 6th and Irving Streets. A. D. Charlton, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Portland. There is just one best way and that is via Santa Fe through California You have the privilege of stopping over at Grand Canyon and Yoscmite Valley on your way. We are always tickled to talk tickets. Our folders are really picture books of the wonderful country through which you pass. II. E. Vernon, G. A., 252 Alder St., Port land, Or. Phone Main 1274. GO SANTA FE